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4ra Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY APRIL 24, 1919. NO 28. Covenant Of The League. The following oflicial summary or the covenant or the league of nations has been issued: UJ lhe league of nations is rounded in order to promote in- ed into new ownership at ' a pur ternational co-operation and to se- chase price of $200,000. The new cure peace, lhe league will in- clude: (A) The belligerant states named in a document annexed to the covenant; (B) all the neutral states so named, and in the future any self-governing coun- try whose admission is approved by two-thirds or the states al- ready members of the league. A state may withdraw from the league, providing it has kept its obligations to date, on giving two years notice. (2) The league will act thru an assembly comprising not more than three ; representatives or each of the mamber States, each btate having only one vote, and a council comprising for the pres ent one representative of each of the five powers and each of - four umci jAiwcia oa ocicicu uum time to time by the assembly. "The number of powers of each class represented on the council may be increased by the unam- mous consent of the council anda Campbell, who will be connected majority of the assembly. Other with the new management, esti powers have the right to sit as mates that this can be done with- members of the council during the decision of matters in which they are especially interested. "In the council, as inthe ass- embly, each btate will have only one vote. Both these bodies are to meet at stated intervals (the council at least once a year) and at other times if required; both can deal with any matter that is of international interest or that threatens the peace of the world; the decision of both must be un- animous, except in certain speci- ned cases, matters of procedure, - for instance, being decided by a majority vote. "The league will have a perma- nent secretariat, under a secre- tiry-general. The secretariat an? all other bodies under the league may include women equally with men.'1 A permanent court of in- ternational justice -and perrua nent commissions and bureaus are also to be established. ''(3) The member states agree: "(A) To reduce their arma ments, plans for such reduction being suggested by the council. but only adopted with the consent of the States themselves, and thereafter not to increase them without the concurrence of the council. (B) To exchange full infor mation of their existing armies and their naval and military pro grams. "(C) To respect each other's territory and personal indepehd ence, and to guarantee them a gainst foreign aggression. (D) To submit all interna tional deputies either to arbitra thn or to enquiry by the council, which later, however, may nol pr jnounce an opinion on any dis puti whose subject matter falls sj.ely within a State's domestic jurisdiction; in no case to go to war till three months after an a ward, or a unanimous recommen dation has been made, and even taen not to go to war with a state which accepts the awartt or rec ommendations. "(E) To regard a State whicl. has broken the covenant as hav- 1 ig committed an act of war a gainst the league, to break off all economic and all other relations with it, and to allow free passage through their territories - to the troops of those States which arc contributing armed force on be Lalf of the 1 ajue. lhe council is to recommend what amount oi Railroad Changes Hands. (Lenoir News-Topic.) The Watauga & Yadkin River railroad and equipment has pass owners are the Elk Creek Lum ber Co., the town of North Wil- kesboro and the citizens who live along the line of the railroad Fifty per cent of. the purchase price' was put up by the Elk Creek Lumber Company, while the balance was subscribed and is being subscribed by the other parties. This information was brought here Monday by Mr. G. M. Icenhour, who lives at Gran din. Mr. Icenhour is connected with the new ownership, Tho deal was consummated by Mr. C. C. Smoot of North Wilkes boro for the parties named. The deeds are being made out now by Mr. Frederick Pair, of Oil City, Pa., who bought the road at the receivership sale last Decem- ber. j ust as soon as the deeds are delivered the new owners will be- gin immediately to make the re pairs necessary to put the road in operation. The engineer, Mr. in three weeks. EngineerCamp bell, General Manager H. C. Lan- don and Mr. Williams agent at North Wilkesboro are retained bv the new owners. It is also reported here that Mr. G. L. Hadlock will be connected with the management. The fact that the Elk Creek Lumber Company is putting up 50 per cent of the purchase price of the Watauga & Yadkin River railroad is taken here as an indi cation that the lumber company will develop their interests at Grandin. No announcement has come from the recent meetings of the owners in Chicago, howev er, but their financial interests in the purchase of the railroads leads to this conclusion. force, if any, should be supplied by the several governments con cerned, but the approval of the latter is necessary. (States not members of the league will be in vited to accept the obligations of the league for the purposeof par ticular dispute, and if they fail to comply may be forced.) (F) Not to consider any treaty binding till it has been communi cated to the league, which will then proceed to publish it, to ad vise the reconsideration of trea ties and international conditions which do not accord with present needs, and to be bound by no ob ligations inconsistent with the covenant. "A State which breaks its agreements may be expelled from the league by the council. '(4) The covenant does not af feet the validity of international engagements, such as treaties of arbitration or regional undertak ings like the Monroe doctrine, for securing the maintenance of peace. "(5) The former German colo nies and the territories of the Qt toman empire are to be adminis tered in the interests of civilizat ion, by States which are willing to be mandatories of the league, vphich will exercise a general supervision. "(6) The member states nc 3ept certain responsibilities with regard to labor conditions, the treatment of natives, the white slave traffic," the opium traffic, the arms traffic with uncivilized and s?iiii-civilized countries, tran sit and trade conditions, public health and Red Cross societies. "(7) The league is recognized Watauga and Yadkin' River Governor Bickett Pays Tribute to 120th Regiment and 30th Division. Following is an address pre pared by Governor Bickett to be used in welcoming the 120th in fantry regiment on behalf of the state but which he was prevented from delivering by the rain which interfered with, the celebration in Charlotte on April 17th: "General Faison, Colonel Mi nor, Uolonel bcott and all olhcers and men of the 30th division: "It is said that every roa1 in Italy loads to Rome. ' Today, ev ery road in North Carolina leads to Charlotte. Along all these highways, those have come here today to give a royal welcome to the men it delighteth the state to lonor. "You have seen the gladness shining in our eyes, you have heard our shouts of praise, you have felt the beating currents of our lives; and bade or the vast multitude here assembled there are 2,(X)0,000 loyal, loving hearts all quivering with a single emo tion 'Thank God our boys are here again!' "One year ago we saw you gird ed for the fray; with anxious hearts we watched you cross the sea to register a, blood-red chal lenge to the tyrant who had made for himself and his subjects an iron image and called it God. The Hun was drunk with victory and pride: nothing seemed able to halt his triumphant advance. Tie allied armies quivered on the verge of ruin, the heart of Chris tendom was shrouded in despair then came the Thirtieth divi sion, and glory to uod, what a coming was that! Cradled in land where disloyalty is a monstrosity and cowardice a crime exalted by a consciousness that around the home-fires every man was counted a hero; suppor ted by an undying faith in the justice of your cause inflamed by the arrogance and insults of an enemy who boasted that it was a superior race, you leaped to the attack with the divine scorn of cast and the Hindenburg line was not. Men, our men, how proud we are of you: would that I had the gift divine to write for you a fit ting hymn of praise; but lam op posed with the sense of iuade quacy that amounts to pain, when I contrast the most I can say for you with the least you have done Tor us. Pitiful is the poverty of the language in the presence of battles, and wounds and graves, and all the blood-red drama of war. Powerless is any tongue or pen to portray the record y o u wrote with flame and carved with steel that record is its own eu logy it declares its own glory While all the world with words emblazon your valor, and all the world wonders. - I want you to know that North Carolina "rises up and calls you blessed;" that your children and their children will treasure your memory as their richest inheritance and in your fortitude and valor find their greatest inspiration. "The name of the Thirtieth di vision is forever linked with the grandest chapter of human his try and in the whole world wi live fragrant as the flowers and as 'glorious as the stars forever and forever. as the central body interested in co-ordinating arid assisting inter national activities generally. "(h) Amendments to the cov enant require the approval of all .the States on the council and a simple majority of those in the assembly. States which signify their dissent from amniendments thus approved are not bound by them, but, in this case, cease to be members of the league." udge Boyd fioes For "Col. Bill" With GlomOff. Judge James E. Boyd in open ing Federal court in Charlotte not long since paid his respects to "Colonel Billy" Hohenzollern, the Turk, and Bolshevism, accor ding to a news story sent out from the Queen City. He ex pressed regret that "Colonel Bil- had not been captured and brought to America as an adjunct to Ringling's circus; that the Turk had not been completely ex pelled from Europe, and that the Stars and Stripes had not been eventually planted over Berlin. Judge Boyd made a wondrous summary, it is said, of the migh ty forces that are at work in the world today, constructive and estructive. He declaivd that the world's crisis is not yet over, and that it behooves true Ameri cans everywhere to be watchmen on the towers of liberty looking out for the first out-cropping of anger. As to bolshevism, the story goes, he warned his an- ience that this evil is trying to gain foothold in America. 'It is here," said he, "because of the great pre-war influx of foreign immigration. But I believe that there is enough real American blood left in the country to save it from this evil. Especially in this section is this danger at a minimum because we are nearly all descendants of the men of co- onial days, of the pure English stock. This has been a provi dence-favored land. Even when they fell out and brother fought brother in the Civil war, they fought as Americans. It is not necessary to send a true Ameri can to a war college to make a soldier out of him. Just show him that his country has been wromred, or that his riidit have been trampled upon and he shoul ders his gun and is ready to fight." In Memoir of Sister Rosa Hayes. It is with sadness that we at tempt towrite a few lines in mem ory of our friend, Rosa Hayes who departed this life April 5, 1919. She was born May 9, 1895 She professed faith in Christ at Willowdale Church Sept. 18, 1916 and unit9d with said church and was baptised into full fellowship of the church bept. so by Kev. M. A. Adams. She was married to Orris Hayes Feb. 25. 1917. Ro sa lived a devoted christian life and always had a kind word and a smile for ail she met. She was a kind and affectionate wife and leaves a husband, father, mother, one brother and four sisters and many relatives and friends to mourn his departure; There is a vacant chair at the fire side that can never again be filled, How very sad it is to think that we can never hear her voice again nor see her, yet we have the con solation that all was done for he that willing hands and loving hearts could suggest. Rosa was a good girl, strictly moral and dutiful in the full sense of the t3rm to her parents. She had large circle or mends and ac quaintances, among wrhoin she was highly esteemed and those who knew her best loved her most. A goocLwoman has gone (.from among us, another one of the faithful of earth has been called up higher, earth has lost a jewel and heaven gained a star. Dear friends and kindred, let us ever follow Rosa's example and we will meet her where there will be no more farewells. The husband father and mother and relatives have our sympathy. . EmmaHenson ' May Smith Com. Illlons Of Germans Would Enter Mexico. A recent Berlin dispatch says: housands and thousands of Ger mans are preparing to emmigrate to Mexico. From there they expect to fil ter all through America. President Carranza has but to et down the bars and 6,000,000 will flood his country, the secre tary of the Mexican consulate in Berlin says. His office has been swamped with Germans who want to get into America. Germans anticipate restrict ions on immigaation by the Unit- 1 States which will set heavily oft the people of the powers that fought the allies. They expect still stronger bars to their entry into Canada. There are millions of Germans who see greater . opportunity in American institutions than in so viet Germany or in any other kind of a Germany with trade restrictions set up by the powers and a huge war debt to be paid. These Germans are determined to get out of the homeland as soon as they can. They believe they can easily make Mieir way across the border from Mexico into the U. S., thoso who do not find opportunity in Mexico. South America and Mexico are the only doors of opportunity open to the German emigrant. Germany's most skilled and best trained technical experts see small chance for development at home. And there are thousands of these men. The best brains of Germany were kept behind the hghtinff ines in the workshops and the experiment stations and the gov ernment departments. These men see no more future for them than for the leastcompeten work men if sovietism becomes the government of Germany. The prospect isn't pleasing the German industrial magnates who lope to retain their works and make Germany a great inanufac turing center again under a com putative industrial system. They are doing all they can to hold these men. We are miles ahead of other countries in technical education" says one of the leaders, "but if our trained men slip away from us before our country settles down, the loss will be one it will take years to repair." WHAT'S THE REASON? MANY BOONE PEOPLE IN POOK HEALTH WITHOUT KNOWING THE CAUSE. There are scores of people who drag out a miserable existence without realizing the cause of their suffering. Day after day they are racked with backache and headache; suffer from ner vousness, dizziness, weakness languor and dopression. Perhaps the kidneys have fallen behind in their work of filtering the blood and that may be the root of the trouble. Look to your kidneys assift them in their work give them the held they need. You can use no more highly recco mended remedy than Doan's Kid ney Pills. Below is a grateful testimony from a sufferer in this locality N. G. Deal, wood worker, Hick ory, N. C, says: I suffered a lot from kidney trouble. My bac was lame and sore and I had to stop work. At night I was rest less and sometimes had to walk the floor. Doan's Kidney Pill' gave me prompt relief, removing the pain in my back and makin me feel better in every way." Price 60c, at all dealers. Dont simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills the same that Mr. Deal had. Fos ter-Milburn Co., Mfgrs. Buffalo N.Y. Electric lamps, Westinghouse electric irons, and double sockets at J. S. Wiukler's. ad-4 919 Wheat Crop Will Cost Nation ' Mill ions. Forecast by the department ti agriculture last week that the na tion's winter wheat crop would total 37.000.000 bushels, tho laV- gestrop ever grown, aroused immediate speculation as to the cost to the governman of such an enormous yield. Under the bill passed by congress in theclosing ays of the last session the gov ernment is obliged to pay the dif ference between the guaranteed price of $2.29 a bushel and the orld market price for every bushel not only of winter but of iring wheat produced. The total value of the winter wheat crop on the basis of an 837,000,000 bushel crop forecast ould be $1,891,620,000. The spring wheat crop soon to be 1 anted, cannot be estimated but department of agriculture .offi cials predicted it would range be tween 225,000,000 and 300,000,-t 000 bushels, which would increase io total value of the nation's wheat crop to approximately two . and a half billion dollars. The part of this two and a half billion dollars" that the govern ment must pay to maintain the guaranteed price was a matter upon which officials in Washing ton declined to comment. It was said the factors influencing the world market price such as pro duction in Argentine, Australia and the European demand were too numerous to make any pre diction at this time. Official expressed the belief, it is said, that there would bea good foreign demand for American wheat which would take care of the nation's surplusand while the oss to the government through its price guarantee may mount ar into the millions of dollars, so far as the actual wealth of the country was concerned, it simp- y will be taking money from one packet and putting it into anoth er, 'lhe money, it was said, will go into the pocltets of the farm ers of the country and officials believe the the forecast indicates farmers will be more prosperous and possess greater potential buy ing power than ever before in the history of the country. The enor mous suras farmers will receive for wheat, it is said, should find its way back quickly into circu- ation, thus adding to the gener al prosperity of the nation. The forecast also indicated that America will have a greater sur plus thanever before. Dispatch, DOLLARS AND CENTS. Counting it only in dollars and cents, how much did that last cold cost you? A man may not always stop work when he has a cold, but perhaps it would be bet ter if he did. It takes about 10 days to get completely rid of rf cold under the usual treatment. Tnat time can be much shorten ed by taking Chamberlain Cough K?mcdy and proper care of your- sjlf, in fact, a bottle of this rem- e ly in the house is a mighty good . investment in the winter and spring months. . $1(10 REVyARD, $100 ' The readers of this paper wilK bo pleased to loam that thwe is at least one dreaded disease that science has Itccn able to cure in all its stages and that is catarrh. Catarrh being great ly influenced by constitutional condi tions requires constitutional tmatmnt. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken in ternally and acts thru the blood and mucous surfaces of the system thereby iesiroying tho foundation of tho di tease, giving the patient strength y building up the constitution and as sisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have so much faith in tho cura ive powerj of Hall's Catarru Medicine that they offer ono hundred dollars for any case that It fails to cur Send for list, of testimonials. A ldress F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggists, 15c F0LEYTUDNEY PUIS l U(Cr SHI It ... k v :'t'. .'
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