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to '.3 .48 4 f3- . , ' . . - , ,. . Advertising Rates on Request, r DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND. WATAUGA COUNTY. . . $1.00 Per Year VOL. XX;X. BOONEi WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, 'THURSDAY MAY 29, 1919. . NO 33. i i n : : n r r ! : : ' J -mis UlU WtTUAIIT I rnilHTDV niinuui n vuumnit Writing from San Francisco, Calf a correspondent says'. ' A bit of human jetsam on the . lonely Pacific Ocean a modern "Man Without a . Country"-is Paul Freeman, exile. ' Like Philip Nolan in Edward . Everett Hale's immortal romance, Freeman is disowned by the land of his birth becauseof words that he uttered during wartime. Australia has twice sought to have him deported to the United States, say ing he is not a British er. ,LAmerican immigration offi cials declare he is no American and have twice refused to admit him , . . ' A shuttlecock of late, he has erossed the wide 'Pacific three times in four months and jour neyed 25,000 miles as far as around the world. He is still a journeying.. Three months , ago Freeman was sent to this port from the Antipodes, He was sent back without being permitted to land f rom'the liner Sonoma, on which Australian officials had placed him, a prisoner. Whenhe reach ed Australia he was not allowed to land. The Sonoma brought him back to SanJTrancisco. V" Now when the liner next sails for Australia, Freeman again will be aboard, under confinement in the steerage, still a man without a country, j "t The steamship company is in a quandary. While Freeman trav . els' to and fro between two stone walls, the Oceanic line is rebel liously paying his grub bills. Freeman says he is a Britisher. He claims he is the victim .or a frame-up on the part of the Aus tralia's moneyed mining men, For ten years, through the hills and bush-country of Australia, he followed the lure of gold. For tune, after eluding him for a de cade, came his way. According to his story, he stumbled on a rich vein and staked outsomeval . uable claims. Mining interests, he alleges, itched to get those claims away from him. It is to these interests that he ascribes his deportation as an alien. . Freeman admits he made speech . in a mountain mining camp. What he said isnotknown. Australian military authorities, seized him after the speech and ""thrust him aboard the Sonoma, where he has been ever since ex cept for two sojourns at .the Uni ted States immigration station on An ?el, Island. Freedman claims to be a labor leader in a small way, and a mem ber of the Australian miners' un Ion. He has appealed to the un M ion to take up his case, and de glares his arrival In Australia will b3 the occasion of a strike thru out the mining industry, possi Mr involving 25.000 men. His claims are supported by twomem b3rs of the parliament of Rueens laud, -James Dooly and Thomas D. Iutch. These men say he was a victim of imusualmihtary meth oda arising from the war, An appeal to Washington has been made by the Oceanic steam ship company to help them get rid of their unwelcome boarder, America doesn't him-rsays he is a british citizen. Australia doesn't want him hfi is an American citizen. She steamship company does nnt. want him say s he eats too mnrh. It isn't altogether, convenient, beitg a "man without a country. . '3 For a Weak Stomach. As a general rule all you need k An fa to adoDt a diet suited to yoiix age and occupation and to ; r jceep your bowels regular. When tatA that vou hove eaten too - : much and jrhen constipated, take Operating School Liw. The Raleigh correspondent of the Greensboro Daily News has obtained from the Attorney Gen eral James S. Manning, his opin ion of the operation of the school aw as it relates to six months schools and the county budgets. First the attorney general points out that under the s i x menth's schooUawthe State lev ies a tax of 35 cents oiveach $100. property valuation and 96 cents on each poll. From this fund is to be apportioned annually to each county in the State "a sum suffi cient to pay one half of the annu al salary of the county superin tendent, and three months' sala ry Jof all teachers of all sort em ployed in the public schools of the county including the teach ers of city, town, township and special chartered districts; one third of the salary of all city su perintendents; provided, that no part of this fund shall be used to pay the salaries ol teachers that receive appropriations from oth er State funds. ' , Then the county budget must set forth the amount of money needed to maintain the public schools, the number of teachers employed, and the salary fixed for each teacher. Thecounty bud get is to provide three separate school funds, these being a tea chers' salary fund, an incidental expense fund and a building fund. As to teachers' salaries the at torney general finds that the county school board is ; vested with board discretionary powers. Material salary increases areper mitted. But, says the attorney, the going from the basis of a four months' school term to a six months' school term, as required by the recent amendment to the State constitution, will result in a large increase in taxation. The six month's school law and the budget act are, to some extent, exyerimental. The machinery pro vided therein is, to some extent, at least, new and in our opinion should be administered at mod ertely as is consistent with the terms of the act. The Legisla- ure has expressly, as'quoted- a bove, made the minimum teacn era' salary the basis of its appor tionmentfrom the State public school fund." . Continuing, J u d g e Manning says: we nave tnen auvisea tne department of education as a practical . administrative . ques tion to make at the outset, at any rate, the minimum salary of tea chers the basis for these county budgets, particularly as the Leg islature has made it the basis of the State's apportionment.' The county board has, however, as matter of law, a very large dis cretion in fixing the salaries ot its teachers. This discretion is not limited by the body of sec tion 2, nor by the proviso attach ed to it. If, therefore, it should fix the salaries of its teachers at a higher figure than the board of county commissioners thin right, the later body has no con trol over J;he matter, where such increased salaries do not require a levy in excess of the 35 cents limit, provided in the statute, and even this general statement is, to some extent qualified by what is said under the next head." . The next reference is to the expense fund and Rnd tne build ine fund. The statute authorizes that poll taxes, fines, forfeit ures and all public school reve nuesjother than those drrived from the State publicschoolfund and and the special county tax prove insufficient, the county board of education may provide in. the buget for an additional amount not to exceed 25 per cen Uncle San in Debt twenty-fife Billions. . The Public debt of the-.Uuited States Government was reported ast week by the Treasury as $24,824;345,000. ; Most of this represents Liber ty 'Bonds of the first, second, third and .fou rth issues, but the Victory Loan is not included to any great extent. The addition of Victory Loan Bonds willbelarge- couhterbalanced by redemp tion of outstanding certificates of indebtedness. No deduction is made for the $8,852,000 loaned to foreign governments. Consequen tly the net debt would be ap proximately $16,000,000,000. The treasury plans tuissueoth- er bonds later this year and next year to meet the fag ends of war expenses, but in the aggregate these are not expected to am ount to more than $5,000,000,0110, so thaTthe gross public debt of the United States is expected by Treasury offieials to be in the neighborhood of $30,000,000,000 when the period of war financing ends. The treasury now has a work ing balance of $1052,000,000, of which $657,546,000 is on deposits with banks throughout the coun try on account of bills or certifi cates of indebtedness and Victo ry notes. The Treasury holds $2,568,599,000 in gold, but a lit tle more than half of this belongs to the gold settlement fund of the Federal Reserve Bo&rd. Silver dollars in the Treasury, which a ittle more than" a year ago am ounted to $490,000,000, had been reduced to $299,711,000 by melt ing down approximately sou, 000,000 silver dollars for export to India, ' of the teachers' salary'fund and the county tax may be increased sufficiently beyond themaximum evy of 35 cents to provide this amount, if itjshall appear neces sary to tho county board of edu cation and the county commis sioners. As to tha county tax levy, ac: cording to the ruling obtained at the attorney general's office, in counties where the poll tax, un der the levy for general State and county purposes, amounts to $2, no poll tax . can be levied when tho 25-cent property tax is evied. ''For instance," says the attor ney general, "if the county levies a tax for general county purpo- ses of 10 oents, it is required to evy at the same time a poll tax levied by the State is $1.43, and these' two sums make $2, It is further to be noted that no coun ty shall be compelled to'levy a special county tax of more than 35 cents. If, after such levy of 35 cents, there are not funds en ough in the county to run the schools for six months, then the State is to apportion to that coun ty from the 'State public school fund' an amount sufficient, when added to the proceeds of t the county special tax, to run the schools of the said county for six months." . ' " - It is no secret that some coun ty officials have been somewhat bewildered as to the best method of procedure "under the school laws. One of the basic ideas in the attorney generals opinion' is that, generally speaking, the 85 cent levy should not be exceeded, The levies are to be made during the first week in June' and it is contemplated that other compli cations" may arise within the next few weeks. . . WANTED: ' YQUNG LADIES f to enter the training school for - nurses, 2!4 years course. Me morial Hospital, Johnson City, ' Tenn. ,8t-c In June. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh divisions of A. E. F. have been released for early debarka tion to the United States, so says General Pershing. The four di visions are to sail from France in une and ftie 90th and 81st will also sail during that month. "The sixth and seventh divis ions were released May 8 and the 'ourth and fifth divisions were released May 10, to be prepared for return to the United States," said Gen. Pershing's cable mes sage. . 'Following is probable order of departure of divisions already released, but not yet embarked: May-80th, 36th and 88th; June 90th, 5th, 81st, 4th, 6th and 7th. "Schedules of departure, based upon length of service and time of release, have been necessarily modified due to increase in third army; to necessity of avoiding de- ay in utilizing ships arriving -at differant ports, and to necessity of utilizing rail facilities to each port as these facilities become a vailable. 'These considerations may modify order of departure as an nounced above," Gen. Pershing's order concluded. The release of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 36th and other divisions men tioned will leave in France and Germany only the 1st, 2nd and 3rd divisions and some units of the 8th, 41st, 83rd and 39th. Secretary Daniels has announ ced that the navy expects to be able to release from active ser vice' by Aug. 1 all -officers and men of the reserve force who de sire to return to civilian life. . "At the present rate which the navy is bringing the army home from France we will have all of the expeditionary forces, except 400,000 men, back in the United States by the first of Ju- y," said Secretary Daniels. "If necessary we could bring back 300,000 of the men remaining- in France during the month of July." Tift on League of Nation. The person who opposes the eague of nations because he (lis- ikes President Wilson is actua ;ad by a "small potato motive" that is not worthy of the dignity of Jthe Tpact," declared William Howard Taft in an address at Cleveland, O., last week. "I, as a Republican, believe that party government is the best agency for administering a Re publican form of governmenbut when such isssues a the league of nations are brought up forcon- sideration we should go outside party limitations' said Mr. Taft; Civilization needs some such measure as the league to prevent wars, and the issue is too vital to the world's welfare and to our own to be made a party measure. "Men who object to the. clause eliminating armaments, and I dp not attack their motives, assert that under such an arrangement we would be naked to the attacks of ruthless foes," he continued. "But I want to assure you the other nations would be naked also." Do Your Best. . Everyone should do all he can to provide for his family and in order te do this he mustkeep his physical system in the best con dition possible. No one can rea sonably hone to do much whenhe is half sick a good share of the time. If you are constipated, bill ious or troubled with indgestion, get a package of Chamberlain's Tablets and follow the plain prin ted directions, and you will soon be feeling all right and able to do Six Divisions To Return From France a day a work. ; , He Was Tie Richest Baby In The World, Poor Roy. Vinson Walsh McLean was known as the richest baby in the world. He had got to be about nine years old. From infancy he had been surrounded by guards. He was wheeled in the streets in a steel cage affair, which was kept locked. Guards, tutors, nurses and hired playmates sur rounded him always, and no princeling of yesterday when princelings flourished had a more elaborate 'scheme furnished for his protection. There was or at least appeared to be, sufficient reason for . this. Whoever first circulated the ex pression, "the richest baby in the world," may. have been main ly responsible. The child inheri ted some $40,000,000 from his grandfather. Threatening letters were received from time to time and the danger of kidnapping was supposed to be great, and probably was. The child could not give away his money during his minority, for anyone else to have done so would have been a felony; he was bound to the con dition that made him interesting to predatory characters, and so, no doubt, his parents, iriends and the custodians of his heritage did the best they could in spend ing many thousands of dollars to protect him from the menace of violence and crime. But the re sult that Vinson McLean was vir tually a prisoner; that also was a part of his grandfather's legacy, Not having the freedom that oth-' er children have there were cer tain things that other children learn that Vinson did not; his tea cher either could not or din not teach them. Jus't as do the young of Jjungle beasts, savages and frontiersmen, all the young of mankind learn from infancy how .... to mrotect themselves irom one thing or another. Keep" a child immured in a cago from birth to the age of 7 to 10, or any age, turn him loose in the average community and he would proba bly be killed before, night. The multi-millionaire child having al ways beon protected from tho perils that seemed worth consid ering, had developed what may be called the street sense, which is the old jungle sense. This igno rance was another part of the grandfather's legacy. Playing in front of his home in Washington the other day the richest child in the worl d ranout into the street unnoticed by his guards. He was hit by a Ford car driven by a woman, and died within a few hours. Greensboro Daily News Ronort of the condition of The Watauga County Bank at Boone, N. C at the close of busl ncss May 12, 1919: resources: Loans and discounts t340.lfU.53 Overdrafts spcured 1,198.10 Overdrafts Lusocured wsl.d U. 8. and Liberty Bonds 29,900.00 Banking house 2300.00 Furniture and fixtures . 1000.00 Sheriff Avery County 87.50 Duo from national banks 50,090.73 Cash iunns held over 24 h'rs 155.00 Gold coin 3,157.00 Silver coin inciudine all mi nor coin currency ; z.uh.ob National bank notes 5,380.00 Total $440,258.31 LIABILITIES ; Capital stock paid .in .47,600.00 surplus 'und 8,770.w Undivided profits, less cur- ' rent expense , taxes paid 11,178.49 Deposits subject to check 203,025.0 Time certificates of deposit 135,183.50 aavinirs deposits 3U,H4U.H3 Cashiers c'ks outstanding 9,670.72 Total $446,258.31 State of North Carolina, county of Watauga. I, G. P. Hagamah, Cash ier of the above named bank, do sol emnly swear that the above statement is true to the best ot my knowledge and belief. G. P. Raqauak, Cashier, Correct-Attest: F. A. LlNNEY B. B. DOUGftVBTY , J. W. Horton, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23rd dav of Mav 1910. W. K. Cbauo, Rcjr. of Deeds Francs Te Celebnti Jily 14. A recent Paris dispatch states that France's national fete day, the 14th of July, will witness scenes of patriotic fervor probab- lyunparalleled in the history of the republic, for that is the date provisionally agreed upon es most appropriate for the grand, march of the victorious French army through the streets of the capital. The program is already begin ning to assume definite shape. he route will be from the Porte Maillot, at the main entrance to the Bois de Boulogne, through the Arc de Triumphae, along the Avenue des Champs Ely ses, the lace de la Concorde and the Rue de Rivoli to the Place de la-Re-- publique a distance of some eight miles. , , The general outlines of the scheme of decorations have been arranged by a body called the French Federation of Mobilized Artists of the war 1914-1918, and festival committee of 40, ap pointed by M. Laferre, minister of public instruction, has appro ved the scheme submitted. Atthe Porte Maillot, between huge pylons, tribunes will be er-. ected where the city fathers will welcome the heroes of Verdun an theMarne. Along the Avenue de la Grande Armee, decorative plaques ' will commemorate bat- ties, the names of which are household words throughout the world. No superfluous decoration will mar the architectural beauty of tle Arc de Triumphs, but the vast circus where 12 noble aven ues converge will be made into one vast amphitheater for thous ands of spectators. v Docked with a profusion - of of flowers and flags, the Avenue des Champs Elyaces will no doubt offer a magnificent spectacle. A monument representing the lea gue of nations, symbolizing Vic tory and Peace, will be erected on tli Terrasse. des Feuillants, while lialf way, at the Rond Point another monument will recall the glorious dead, resurrected, and joining in triumph of the living. The Luxor obelisk on the Place do la Concorde will form the cen-. ter of an immense decorative scheme extending to the famous statues representing the chief cities of France. The decoration of other streets through which the pageant will pass, will be left in the hands of the authorities of the different city wards. V - Regret is felt in some quarters that by July so many of the ac tual participants in the great bat tles will have been demobilized. This will, however, not detract from the fervent homage that will be paid to the colors of the famous French regiments which covered themselves with glory. Suggestion for a Camping Trip. Buy a bottle of Chamberlain a Colic anc Diarrhoea Remedy be fore leaving home. As a rule it cannot be obtained when on a hunting, fishing, or prospecting trip. Neither can it be obtained while on board the cars or steam ship and at such times and places it is not likely to be needed. The safe way is to have it with you. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ssi Frauk J. Cheney makes oath thathe is senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Che ney & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and ev ery case of Catarrh that cannot be our-, ed by the use of Hall's Catarrh Medi cine, FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and . subscribed in my presonce, this 6th of December, A. D. 1880. A. W, GLEASON, v (Seal). Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken In ternally and acts' through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O." Sold by all druggists, 75c. x? 1 Hall's Family Pills forconstipation. :4 riS Hi i '8 i i Hi c J 1 II:: 1 ; & 1 v . i'.fva 4 V. .'X ,.,;.f...j,.,.
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