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Advertising Eates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XX. BOOM: WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY JULY 3, 1919. NO 38 American Casualties in the Meuse-Ar gon.io Drive 120,000. American casualties duringthe 47 day Meuse-Argonne offensive aggregated 120,000 men or 10 per cent of the total of 1,200,000 en gaged, according to a "statistical summary of the war with Ger many" prepared by Colonel Leo ' nard P. Ayres, chief of the statis tical branch of the general staff, . and published recently by the war department. "Of evry 100 American sol diers and sailors who took part .in the war with Germany," the report said, "two were killed or died of disease during the period of hostilities. In the northern army during the civil war the number was about 10. Among the other great nations in this war, between 20 and 23 in each 10 J called to the colors were kill ed or died. Best information obtainable by the general staff places the total battle deaths for all belligerants at 7,450,200, divided as follows: Russia 1,700,000; Germany 1, 600.C00; Fi ance 1,285,300; Great Brituin '100,000; Austria 800,000; Italy 830,000; Turkey 250,000, Serbia and Montenegro 125,000; Belgium 102,000; Rumania 100,- 'OCO; Bulgaria 100,000; United. States -1,900; Greece 7,000; Por tugal 2,000. American participation is sum marized in the report in the fol , lowing table: Total armed forces including army, navy, marine corps, -1,800,-000. Total men in the army 4,000, 000. Men who went overseas 2,00, 000. Men who fought in France 1, v 390,000. Tons of supplies shipped from America to France 7,500,000. Total registered iii draft 24, . 234,021. - Total draft inductions 2,810, 233. Cost of war to April 30, 1919, $21,850,000,000. Battles fought by American forces 13. Days of battle 200. Days of duration of Meuse-Argonne battle 47. American battle deaths in war 5),000.' American wounded in war 230, 001. American deaths from disease 53,991. Total deaths in the army 112, 422. Under the head of "Sources of - t'le Army," the report shows that Kl per cent came from the regular army, 10 per cent from the national guard and 77 per cent from the draft. A concise history of the mili Ury operations in which Ameri can troops took part is given in a chapter headed "Two Hundred Days or Battle." Attention was called-to the fact that "two of every three American soldiers who reai-hod France took part in battle." Do Your Best. Everyone should do all he can to provide for his family and in order te do this he must keep his physical system in the best con uition possible. No one can rea sonably hope to do much when he is half sick a good share of the time. If you are constipated, bill Iws or troubled with indgestion, get.a package of Chamberlain's Tablets and follow the plain prill text .lit Pi'tiiins. and von will soon be feeling all right and able to do a day s worir. IF YOU WANT AN AUTOMO bile got a Buick. A. F. Ham by, A?ent for Walaugi County, Borne, N. C. The Northwestern Counties, The people of northwestern North Carolina are North Caro lians. Indeed, it may be said they are still North Carolininians- none better. And. if the great tide of good roads enthusiasm does not without undue delay res cue this rich region, economical ly speaking, from Virginia and Tennessee, it will be a circum stance greatly to be deplored, from every consideration. Ex cept, indeed, that of Virginia and Tennessee. State attention to the high ways of this splendid region is properly one of the threw fore most phases of road construc tion, the two others building of an east and west lateral road and the building of a north and south lateral. Those trunk lines would be of direct use and value to the great majority of the peo ple of the State, but the encour agement or road building in the group of counties now estranged from North Carolina, commer cially, by reason of westward railway constructio, would add vastly to the volume of the Slates commerce, and while thex com mercial benefit would bs most of all to the people in this grip of counties, this benefit would not be conferred without return. In addition to the produce of thair rich lands the mountain people have other wealth for the use and enjoyment of the people o? all North Carolina and the world. The price is a go got-it the Jscenie beauty and invigora ting climate. It is not to be supposed, sura- I, that the highway commission is neglecting' to consider this group. These counties have man ifested the strongest disposition t) do their part. The Daily News questions whether they have b?en equally emphatic in putting thair case before t'.ie source of State and Federal aid. Greens boro Daily News. "C!d Time" Again A!!er Get. 26. Those farmers and others op posed to turning up their clocks will on October 20 be able to run their time-pieces according to the old custom and at the same time according to laws framed in Washington. In other words, the doom of the daylight saving. practice, inaugurated as a war measure, was pronounced last week by Congress, both Senate and house adopting by overwhel ming votes measures to termi nate operation of the law when the period of summer time ondsl next October 2(5. The house followingthroolioiirs' lebato, says a Washington dis patch, by a vote of 233 to 432, passed a bill to repeal the law on the last Sunday in next October, but rejected an amendment to make the repeal effective at once. The Senate by a vote of 5i5 lot;, after brief discussion, adopted a rider to the agricultural appro priation bill providing for repeal of the daylight measure on the daylight measure on the same date fixed by the house bill. The senate measure now goes to conference with the agricultu ral bill and the house bill is to be sent to the senate. It is consider ed likely tliatsonateainondiiionls will be finally substituted for the house measure. Action of Con gress therefore -means cent inn ance of the present linvi thin summer and early fall will re turn to sun time Oct. 20, ending two years' operation of the day light saving plan Members of both Senate and house in advocating repeal of the law eiacted March 14, 1918, it is, state:!, said they were guided How Uncle Sam Cares For the Disabled. I Hint rating the way Uncle Sam cares for his wounded boys, a did patch from Washington gives the following case, which is one of thousands who are being helped to overcome their handicaps: Away baelrearly in the warone of the boys got a frightful wound in the leg and was carried to the hospital half crazy witli the pain. After the ether effects had pass ed, he was told that his right leg had been taken off just five inches below the hip. "Were they to let his mother know, or his father?" He shook h's head. You see he didn't happen to have any father or mother. In fact, it developed that there wasn't a single soul that that boy knew who would' be interested to make life worth while for him, after he got bacTi to his town with a wooden leg and shattered future. There were lots of complica tions too. He had been so anxious to get an education that he had borrowed the money to go thru high school, because he had hopes of entering the banking business later on. With no right leg and no money, it looked for a while as though there wasn't any heart cither to go on and tight it out. But it was there, and the only tiling needed to discover it was the exercise of a little intuition on Hie part of a special agent of of the federal board for vocation al education. These special ag ents are endowed with a kind ol super sense. They know when a man has some possibility hid den away that even he himself doesn't know about. The possi bility they found here was a good enough bet to stake a pretty fair sum of money on, and that is what the board did. He was sent after hisdischarge to a commercial school, and com pleted a course in commercial subjects. And then the possi bility didn't seem to be at an end for he was found to have made such good progress that he was given a collegiate course in bank ing and economics so that his field of activity could be consid erably widened. Sometimes, he says, he -stops and thinks of that first day when he wished so hard for somebody to care, and 1 hen .of today when lie is doing the one thing that he has always wanted to do, and hardly dared to hope for. This is just one of the thousands ol cases on tile with the federnl board. Suggestion fora Camping Trip. Buy a bottle of Chwmhevlnin'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 hot likely to be needed. The siife way is to have it with you. largely by wi ilies of farmersand 1 1 boring men wlio oppose the rid v need hours during Ihe apring and summer season. Opponents of the repeal legislation declared the clra hour of daylight was a boon to city dwellers and assert el that others easily could ad just 'th"ir affairs to conform to t i; advanced clock scheifulf. M'-re than two scores of house m milters parlkip-ited in the de bate but as most spdecnes weie limiti dtoji few minutes, all ob-t-.iin-'d p"niiissi ti to extend their lomnrks. - Fx. For a Weak Stomach. As a general rule all you need to do is to adopt a diet suited to your age and occupation anil tc kooir.vour bowels regular. When you feel that you "hove eaten toe much and when constipated, take one of ChauibvTiainY. Tab.'ets, The Salvation Army. In his report to the Secretary of War on the activities of the welfare associations serving with the American Expeditionary For ces Mr. Raymond B. Fosdick pays a particular tribute to Sal vation Army endeavors and inci dentally reveals a fact of which the general public had not been aware. The impression has been that, the Salvation Army organi zation was one of the largest in France, but it is revealed mvMr. Fosdick that in fact it was one of the smallest, "a great deid small er," he says, "than most neonle think." He credits it with lmv ing easily gained the greatest popularity of the six organiza tions over there. Admiration for the Salvation Army must be in creased by reflection over the fact that with so small an organi zation it has been able to make itself of such great value to hu manity and the country. Mr. Fosdick relates that where the M. C. A. has 0,000 represen tatives in France and the Knights of Columbus 800, the Salvation Army has less than 200. Its work is limited to a few divisions so that a comparatively small number of the troops have actu ally been in contact with the or ganization. Its fame, however. has spread far beyond its work and it is difficult to find a dough boy who does not speak it3 praise. Its success is not due to any ma te-rial equipment or any external policy. Contrary to general be lief, it does not give supplies a way free except in cases of need. Its policy is to sell its canteen supplies-even its far-famed doughnuts and its prices, due to the fact that it has no exten sive buying machinery, are gen erally higher than those of the i . M. C. A. It is the inner spir it of service," says Mr. Fosdick, that has endeared this organi zation to the heart of the soldier. Its personnel has been carefully selected from trained workers in the Salvation Army men and women who knew how to meet their fellow men on a common plane and no task has been too humble and no service too small for them to perform for the troops The Salvation .Army wisely limi ted its activities to a size that could lo carried on by its small but highly trained personnel and its reward is the genuine affec tonoftheA. E. F."-Charhtte Observer. Lee's Moral Courage. Soon after the fall of the CW foleraey there occurred through out the South an attempt, mark eJ by much heated controversy, to fix the blame for the loss of tliv) battle of Gettysbu rg. Many writers claimed that this ciitical struggle, and with It the war, would have been won had it not been for the disobedience a-nd lardine vs of General Longstrcot. in order to settle the matter le pealed appeals were made, to General Lee for some statement on the subject. For a long while these efforts were in vain.. Lee would say nothing. Finally limv. ever, broke his silence with just on'e .sentence: "1 alone am to blanv." What a contrail between the chief figure of tin- Lo.st Cause in America and the fallen lender o! die lost Di.'Utseht urn! How much mure dignified would Wilhelinap pear before the world if he, in stead of shifting the responsibil ity for the great war upon his minifters, his generals, aponRtis sia, upon every one save himself, would repeat the words of tin great American: "I alone am to olaine.-N. Y. Evening suU. PROHIBITION The effort of t he prohibitionists in Congivs is to have matters so arranged that what is known as "war-time" prohibition may be come effective at the end of the month, taking chances on a pres idential proclamation that would save wine and beer from the wreck and leaving responsibility for action of thokindon theshoul ders of the President, banking strongly on the coming of com plete prohibition in due time un der constitutional amendment. There is at best but a small tip of the whiskey tail left of the hide that is gone. The whole country. (except the small corner represen- ted by Rhode Island, New Jer sey mid Connecticut has shut the door against liquor, and these will be shortly dry everywhere except along the shore line. It would appear to matter but lit tle that wine and beer should es cape for the present the final edict has been pronounced. That iheoe could be no possibleescape for the wets, so far as congres sional vote is concerned, is estab lished by the sentiment of Con gress, itself, where, in the Sen ate it is .'-0 per cent dry and in t he House 80 per cent. For intelli gent comparison, that the reader may have a clearer idea cf just what Congress may propose in modification of the war time act, The observer will give the main provisions of the law as original nally enacted, viz: After June 30, 1919, until the conclusion of the present war and thereafter until the termination of demobeliza tion, the date of which shall be determined and proclaimed by the President of the United States, wine or other intoxica ting malt er vinous iibnor shall be sold for beverage purposes ex cept for export. The commission er of internal revenue is hereby aathorized and directed to pre scribe rules and regulations, sub ject to the approval of the secre tary of the treasury, in regard tithe manufacture and sale of distilled spirits hela in bond after-June 30, 1919, until this act shall cease to operate, for. other than beverge purposes, also jn regard to the manufacture, sale and distribution of wine for sac ramental, medical or other intox icating liquors shall be imported into the United States duringthe continuance of the present war and period uf demobilization. Charlotte Observer. Some Rat Story. Mr. J. L. Thomasof Mabel this county, relates the following rat story: "The other day I saw some rats in a lumber pack. I took a sledge hammer and knocked the planks together. What n squeak ing! Upon examination T found twenty-two dead rats. In a short while I saw something in the cherry trcs. To my surprise, I saw the nils were building a Slim IT1"C residence. I p, my K'.lli and let down at tliem. If am al most, blind, 1 killed thirteen on' of sixteen shots. A little later t he jld lady and I inMed thd corn and destroyed twenty -one more. Not being ( i mi ien t with the day'.'. '.v-r, I sM .sbf:,l tiMn-is and just it night one I rap caught two In the head nMhe stmc time. By morning wo had two more, "Souk; p.-ople in iv not ln-lipve this, butevery word is the truth.1' NOTJCK OF A MM IN1STR Th)N. NltOCC is lli'l r!iV v i v I'll Id. 'it. Iln mi 1'Tsiyucd Juiv 'iiiniilii.ii m iifiniini-i ';tinr o )). r.niiu, d.ri'a and ill ivrtoiH Iwn any i liiis'Hj(;iiii-l :.,iiri jsi h to are hero'iy notified lo present tit' same, duty h utlieuiicatratl lo tin 'iivii-i Mjrned wulur. 12 month frorr 'be flute hereof, or tins nolKC vill be tileiid in I'lir of Itir ir, reeovery. Ai; iitTi'iiis indebted lo said esliiie an witit'ed to make immediate iiavmen'. Muv If. laid. T. C. RAIKl) U. C. MAST, Admiuislratoiv. TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT. Be it remembered that a meet ing of the commissioners of the town of Boone was held on tha seventh day of June, having been adjourned on June the second to meet on said dale, .when and where were present I. G. Greer M. B. Blackburn, and F. A. Lin ney, commissioners, and T. B. Moore, mayor, when and where the following proceedings were had. It was moved by M. B. Black burn, seconded by I. G. Greer, said motion being put by the mayor and carried by a unani mous vote of the commissioners that the following ordinance be adopied: 1. That it is necessary for the town of Boone to construct con- erofe sidewalks in the said town and to construct and maintain a macadamized street through the said town and on the streets lead ing to the depot, and to build bridges, and that it is necessary to defray the expenses of said street improvement to issue bonds in Ihe sum of $10,000.00, 3,000.00 of which to be issued for sidewalk improvement, SI,- 090.00 for bridges, the remainder for macademizing the streets. 2. It is therefore ordered by the board that coupon bonds in the sum of $10,000.00 be issued by the said town and sold as the law directs to defray the said ex penses afore'said. 3. That the said bonds bear a rte of interest, not exceeding six per centem per annum. 4. That the said bonds be is sued in denominations of $1,000 each and shall be due and paya ble as follows: The first bond on June the 1st, 1929, and the remaining bonds payable one each year thereafter on said date, until the ten bonds are paid off and discharged. 5. That a tax sufficient to pro vide for the payment of the prin ciple and interest of the bonds be annually levied and collected. 0. That a statement, of the present indebtedness of the town and the assessed valuation of the property, subject to taxattion by by t he municipality fQr the three fiscal years in which taxes were last levied, bo filed with board and sworn to by the treasurer of the town. 7. That the form of the bond shall be determined by the board at a future meeting; but the said bond shall be a coupon bond, signed by the mayor of said town and the secretary thereof and sealed with the corporate seal of the said town; the coupons to be signed by the mayor of the town. K This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage. Passed in regular meeting by a unani mous vote of the commissioners on this the seventh day of June, 1919. T. P. Mookf, Mayor. M. H. Hi.,u'im H, F. A. Linnt.v, J. (I. (;k :k:, Commissioners. The foregoing ordinance was passed on the seventh day of June. 1919, find it waa ftnt' pub lished on the I J day of June 19i9v .Any action or pror eeling"pa tiordng the t.ilidity of 'said ordi nance must ti commenced with in thirty days nfter its last pub lication. F. A. Lix.vrv, Clerk. Jt is ino'.cd nnd carried that the treasurer of the town be au thorized to borrow the stun of Si Oiio.oo to be used on street work at n rate of interest not exceed ing six per cent and to bj paya ble in twelve m inths out of the funds derived from the bond sale. T. B. Mooiie, Mayor. F. A. Lin ney, M. H. Bt.ackbi'RN', I. G. Greek, Commissioners,
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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