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1 ,"' If ,?"'.'V Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE IIJTERESTS OF BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. 1.00 Per Year . , ;: VOL. XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1919. NO 48. lie W9- THE WEEK. In Charlotte the so-called strike1 ends by the recognition on the part of the street car company, of ' the ight of any employe to j in any labor organization he likes. It will be recalled that the Charlotte trouble was due to the company's dismissal of employes for joining a union. The lock-out in the various fac tories in high Point continues. Both the manufacturers and the laborers have issued statements. The manufacturers contendthat everything in the relations of capital and labor in the furniture city was i perfectly lovely until the "outside agitation" struck the town. ' But for the foreigners one infers from this statement, the laborers would not have thought of organizing, and the . manufacturers could have con tinued torun things their own way The laljorlers' statement calls at tention to the fact that the trou ble resulted from fact that the policy of the manufacturers of dismissing every laborer who had joined the union. Re sult: The factories are idle, and the laborers of practically every industry in High Point are or ganized. Six weeks have passed, and the trouble became acute, and the end is not in sight. The President has called a con ference "between labor and those who direct labor." This confer ence will meet between the fifth ami the tenth of October. The conference is to find a solution of the various phases of the labor question on which employers and employe can unite. It is hoped, we are told, that the conference may bolt the development of the idea of social revolution which, it 'is feared, is making considerable headway among the masses. One of the first instances of the recognition of the revolution ary principle of democracy as ap plied to the manuiactunng in dustry is to be founcHn the gov ernment Rock Island , arsenal harness shops. "Actual control of the production activities," a news item from Washington in forms us "including appointment of foremen and the distribution of prices to paid workmen has been turned over to committees of employs;" The new system has worked so well that it is to be extended to other depart joentsofthe Rock Island arse nal, and probably to all United States arsenals. President Wilson is touring the country, speaking in the interest of the peace treaty and league of nations. The senate continues to debate th? treaty. The attempt of a mob of white men to take from jail and lynch a negro, in Knoxville, Tenn., pre cipitated a" race riot in which seven persons were killed. The ' negro who was charged with as saulting a white woman had been removed to another city before the mob broke into the jail. Robin J. Cooper, a Nashville, Torn. attorney, who was tried in 1908 for the murder of United States Senator Carmack, was . murdered Aug. SO.His body . was found in a creek." Two ar rests have been made in connec tion with the murder. Ixjnoir county will advertise immediately $000,000 of its $2, 000,000 road bond issue, voted a few months ago. The town of Hickory finding contract work "too high, is pre paring to lay sidewalks itself. FOR SALE: As the season is now over at Blowing Rock, wo hftv for immediate sale 10 or la . fhnif-ft milk cows. Green Park Hotel Co. -The Menace cf Militarism. "If the warstops now, wrote a distinguished son of Watauga Jn a private letter in October ' 1918; "we shall not have received the chastening that can come only with suffering, but I believe we shall have gained in that we shall not have absorbed the attittido of the conquered. It is one of the paradoxes of life that the con queror tends to become like the enemy he has conquered, There is a good chance that we may es cape such a fate this time. In fact we who are in the prime of life must see to it that we do es cape." But are we escaping the fate feared by Professor T? . The pe culiar curse of Germany wasmil itarism. Have we escaped? Do we face the future without dan ger? Let us see. The majority of the soldiers, it is true, have had enough of war. "No other victorious army ever came homo with such a feeling of disgust," said one Watauga soldier, a col lege man. So far, good. But this is not all. In a remarkable sermon recently in the Baptist Church in Boone, Reverend M. A. Adams declared that the ef fect of the war on the average soldier lias been decidedly evil. The majority come back with their finer feelings dulled. To use Mr Adams' own words nine out of every ten returns with their spiritual lives in eclipse" A persistent and in large measure successful effort has been made he said, to replace in their minds the Christian with the Mahome tan philosophy of life. But was not just such a; dullness of the finer sensibilities, just such a lack of appreciation of things spiritual one of the gravest de fects of the German civilization? But this is not the worst ef feet of the war. These young men are perhaps only bewilder ed by the counsels of aChristktn ity that is not Christian, 'stunned by contact with a world spirit ually bankrupt. If given achance they will find themselves. Grav er dangers confrout us. Sucre tary of War Baker, formerly a pacifist, a charter member of the league to limit armaments, is asking Congress for a standing army of half a million men awl, what is more alarming, for the military training of every boy in the United States. ueneral Ansell has shown us the evils of militarism. The offi cers of the American army are not by nature bad or crucj men. Yet the atrocities committed by these officers against their men, as exposed by Ansell and others, make one shudder. Thousands of boys have been sentenced, practically without a trial, to long termof imprisonment for petty violations of military regulations. And these are not the worst crimes that have been committed in the name of military discipline. The army is a relic of the dark ages; its methods are therefore mediaeval. The bill before Congress was prepared by these same mediae val-minded army officers. Its passage means the beginning here of the system that destroy ed Germany. If we want to be come like these we have conquer ed, we have pnly to sit still. If we want to make this war indeed the last war, those of us who are in the prime of life, the young men and the young women, must bestir ourselves. Those, who fatteiron war are not idle. We have talked much of a nobler civ: ilization to arise from the wreck of the world of yesterday.. Such a civilization cannot be built upon a militarist foundation. The heart of the masses is right School Attendance Law. The North Carolina Depart ment of Education is taking steps to enlist the co operation of the patrons of the public schools in the enforcement of the compul sory attendance law. It seeks to enlist the aid of those parents who send their children to school the first week of the term. To these will be furnished blanks which the parents are asked to fill and return to the teachers-, concerning children in the dis trict who are not in school, to the end that through the co-operation of the teachers and those par ents who themselves are from the first obeying the law, obser vance on the part of others may, in as many cases as possible, be obtained without resort to dras tic measures. This seems to be a wise and diplomatic course. Much should bo accomplished through the en listment of the co-operation of those who are in sympathy with the law and those charged with the responsibility to enforce it. The blanks to be distributed to parents tell what the law is and what it requires. It is explained that the law requires all children between the ages of eight and fourteen years to attend school for the entire term unless excus ed by the teacher or the county board of education for one or more of the following l'easons: Sickness of the child or sickness in the family; physical or mental incapacity; severe weather; dis tance of two and a half miles or more from the school; poverty; demands of the farm or home. It should be borne inmindthat the mere statement of the parent regarding these excuses cannot be born under the law. Provis ion is made for the probation offi cer, who is usually the superin tendant of welfare in the various counties, to make a complete and thorough investigation of every case in which a child is out of school for any of the $hose rea sons, and the decision is lejtwith the probation officer to a large ex -tent to determine the validity of the excuse offered for keeping the child out of school. Common sense, of course, will be expected to be exercised by the officer in the enforcement of the law.. Sini pla negligence and earelesness however, on the part of the pa rents in sending their children to school will not be tolerated by the department. It is noted that the State law does not require children be tween the ages of six and eight to attend school, but the State Department urges that the child should begin school atthesixth year and attend as regularly as iKJssiblc in order that it may se cure full advantage of theschool. Reports from many communi ties telling of the opening of the school term indicate that the law is being very well complied with, as crowded conditions and record-breaking attendance are no t id in many instance. Jn Char lotte the buildings are overcrow ded and holding double daily ses sions in some of the schools, part of the children attending in the morning and a part in the after noon seems to be the only pres ent solution. Charlotte Observ er. ; The common people long for the end of war, and the common peo ple have only to exert themsel ves to make themselves heard. The farmers forced Congress to repeal the daylight saving law af ter the bill had been twice vetoed by the President. A few hun dred letters from a Congress man's district will make him hes itate befere voting for. universal military training. Tho Narrow-minded Man,. Whenever you see a narrow minded man, get out of his way. He is a miserable creature and he'll make you miserable if you give him the chance of associa tion. Whenever a man insists that his side of the question is tho on ly side, write that man down as an ass with a Gothic. A. In this world of wickedness and woe and lemon sherbet and corn likker, there are several and many sides to every question. And the broad man and the liberal man is one who accords to other men the right to an opinion. But the little, narrow-soulod two by-oncana-quarter fellow, no matter what his profession or occupation, who has an earning capacity "of what he can get from the people on the hand-out theory and who stands up and says that ho has the one and only Real Thing-well, he makes people very tired. The "e are all sorts oj religion in the world, and there is as much reason, ( may -be, for one as the other. One man may interprethis Bible differently from another, but if he is honest in what he thinks ho finds in it and acts ac cordingly, that man should be given the right, without quetion to practice what he thinks. If one man is a Republican or . Pop ulist, or. a prohibitionist, it is that man's privilege but it is not the privilege of another man, of a different faith to come and pro nounce his neighbors a fraud be cause he does not believe as he believes. The great overshadowing sin of the world is intolerance. It be longs to the class df men who )ok through a knot hole and im agine that they are seeing t h p whole universe -but itAe.ists, and it exists everywhere. For our part give us the broad mind ed, liberal man who' can see vir ine aim oeauiy in other things bssides his own narrow creed, and we will show you a man who aids to the sum of human joy. And, as wo go down the dark lunes and by-ways', we' occasion' ally find such an one - and it is joy to meet with them.-Ex. Public Welfare. T ho moaning of public welfaie needs an iinni'jnsj enlargomvmt in the public mind. Tho stupidest man among us must bo brought to see that it cures the curse of illiteracy and near-illiteracy, community recre ation, preventable disease and postponable death, focble mird edness and its cause, insanity, poverty and its manifold rela uonsmps, orpnan ciuuiren in poor.nomea wnose lathers are dead, and orphan children in un I It 1 t . sine uomes wnose lathers anu mathers are alive, the placing- out of chi'dren and their guardi anship, wayward children, chil dren maimed and lame in body and broin, the families of con victs inprison, returned convicts, prisoners on parole, men want ing jobs and jobs wanting men that it concerns jail and chain . . ... . gang conuiuons, poor house anu pauper conditions, juvenile courts and the overnight of juvenile pro bationers, fallen men and fallen women alike, and the whole sub jec oi social nygiene; mat it con 1 i. I LI . .1 . cerns tho conditions, causes, con sequences, and cure of social ills of every sort; that it sweeps the whole immense field of social science, theoretic and applied To build a meaning of this ado quato and needful so'rtin thepul. he mind, to stir tho consciences and-wills'of men and women into activity," and 'to erect suitable in A Message From The Mayor of Boone. Only a short time remains for le people of Boone to comply ith the sanitation law enacted by the last Legislature and avoid e penalties provided under the iw. livery home that is not con nected with a water sewerage system is affected. Discussing tho new law and its enforcement Mayor Moore says: "It is the duty of every good tiztm to heartily join in the ef- orts boin made to rid the com munity of typhoid fever and sim- ar disease. Tho health authori ties have pointed out the source f these diseases, and haveshown le method of controlling it. With such knowledge available lore is no excuse for the pres ence of a case of typhoid fever, uul it is the plain duy of every esident to 'see that he and his family are protected by having lis own home sanitated. The the authorities have etnonstrated that typhoid fever, iarrhoea, 'summer complaint" imong tho babies, and similar iseases are excrement bourne isease. There is no guess work ibout this; it has been conclu sively proven. It therefore fol- ows, as the healeh authorities oint out, that the proper dispo- il of human excrement means io removal of the source, of these iseases. in the face of these ad mitted facts I do not believe that iiore is a man in this town who will deliberately endanger the ves of his own loved ones and the lives of his neighbors by fail ing to take the means provided and advised for safety. "Unfortunately every homo can not be connected with a water sewerage system. But every unno can, and must, have a sani- ary privy. Self preservation is the first law of nature. In provi ding a sanitary privy this natu ral law, as well as the State law, will be fulfilled. Full information of the vari ous types of sauitary privies that wili be approved by the State toard of Health, which is eharg ed with thedutyof enforcing this act of tho legislature, may bo ob tained from my office, or a spec d bulletin will be mailed direct t) the interested person upon Application to the State Board of lealth, Raleigh. Sanitary inspec tors r epresenting the Stat e oard of Health, will begin their hil.io.s the first, of OetnhOr. tirwl t is time for those of our peoplej who haw not already taken ac tion to get busy. "The necessity for full compli ance with the law is'a doubleone. Both a moral und it letfal duty rests upon the head of each one. I believe that all our citizens will see the matter in this light, and will act accordingly. It will bo a splendid record to have this town rated as one hundred par cent sanitary by the State Board of Heaithth, and it Is a record that wo may easily attain." You can do some things next week, but some you cannot. So don't wait, act now! Insure your house before it burns. Insure your health before you get sick. Insure yeur life before you die for then it is everlastingly too late. I sell the best policies at. uni veral rates. GEC. K WjAIR, Blowing Uoclc, rf C. stitutions in North Carolina, county by county, is tin exceed ingly difficult but an exceedingly necessary task. E. C. Branson, address before the North Caroli na Social Service (Xmfoivucu. - NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of an order of tlie superior court of Watauga county nortn Carolina, mado in the cpeciiu proceeding entitled Smith Hajraman, . Adininisii utor vs Roy Reese mid ifo Julia Reese, non residents, Mae Reese Manly Williams and wife. Bruce Wi: liunis, whose maiden name was Brms Rei'se, Asa Reese, all of full age, and Lewis Reese, age 18 years and Dean Reese whose age is 16 years and who tiro represented by their guardian ad liioui, tho same being No , upon the special proceeding docket of said court, tho undersigned commissioner, will on the sixUi day of Oct. it being the lirst Monday thereof, 1919, at as nciudy 12 o'clock m. as possible and certain between tho hours of 10 oclock a. in. and 2 oclock p. m. at the court house door in Watauga county North Carolina, offer for sale to the'highest liKlih'i' on six months time, approved neeurity four certain tracts of land, yingand being in Beaver Dam town-. ship, Watauga county and slate of North Carolina. First tract beiriiw on a chestnut corner of tho heirs of Thomas J. Farthing and runs east 00 noics to a chestnut oak, then north Hi- poles to three red oaks, then east .'() poles to a chestnut, then north H1 polos to a red oak, then .east (10 poles to a maple, then north 2H) poles to u slake in tho state line, then west with the state line 170 poles to a stake in the state line, thence to tho beginning and contains 150 acres more or less. Second tract lying and Iwing in tlv same township county and state and ml joining the lands of C. S. Farthing heirs and Jas. Cable's heirs etal, und begins on a chestnut corner of Thom as Farthing's heirs and runs cast with. Cable's line 30 poles to a maple, C'a- ile s corner, then north with I able s ine !l. polos to a Spanish oak, Cable i corner, then east with Cable s lino 40 poles to a sarvis tree, Cable s corner, then west 5 poles to a spruce pine, then no -ill with Daniel's line 138 pole to a st:ike in Ihe state line, then soum 57 degrees west with the state lino 72 poles to a stake, then south with Greene's line 21K) poles to tho begin ning and contains 120 acres more or less. Third tract lytng and being the same township, county and state of tlie former two tracts and begins on a red oak and runs north 31 degrees w 50 poles to a slake and chestnut poin ters, then north 38 1-2 degrees east 22 poles to a chestnut corner to Ward i5ii s in tho state line, then with the stale; line to B. H. Farthing's corner, then with his line east 92 poles to a stake and pointers, then south 45 de green w 1 15 poles to the beginning and contains 25 1-2 acres moro or less. Al so a one half undivided interest in tho following described land lying and being in same, township, county and state of the aforesaid tracts of land which is designated and known as tho Thomas Love Tract, aud being situ ate between tho Locust Gap and Bak ers Gap of the Stone Mountain, and adjoining the lands of ROah Greene anil Jesse Huffman et aP and bound ed us follows, to wit: Beginning on u chestnut in the state lino and runs east nil poles 'to a stake, then north 5K poles to a stake, then west 10 poles to a chestnut in tho state line, theu with ih, .stale line to the beginning mill contains 25 acres moro or less. This September 1, 11)19. KM I t'll HAGAMAN. Commissioner. NOTICE. North Carolina, Watauga County, .hi the superior court, before Ihe clerk. R. K. Kwift, Administrator of T A. Cable, deceased vs. Geo Cable, Ru by F, Cable and others, heirs at law ol T. A. Cable, deceased, l'lir-ii'iinl lo an order made in the above entitled cause by the clerk of the superior court of Watauga coun ty, I. Ihe undersigned commissioner, . will on the (1th day of OcIoImt llilil, at the court house door in Boone, at the hour ol 1 o clock p. m., sua to tho highcl ladder the following described jiiece or parcel of land, lying and le ing in lienvcr Dam Township, and de scribed as follows: Beginning on a chestnut oak, Conley Green's corner In l'ress lHshinan's line; runs unst 4 poles is a ivey in a branch, then south 27 poles to a spruce pine, theu south 24 poles to a stake in the branch then .south! 1-2 west 20 poles to stake in Hie bank of the road; then south 25 K 5 poles to a slake; llieu S (XI east 15 poles to a stake in Campbell's mud; then south 0 poles to the creek; then south 25 west with ths creek 55 poles to u poplar on the bank of the creek, Hoe Campbell's corner, then noun Cl west to a stako on the bank ol the pub lic road; then north 3't poles to a ma- dIo, Bossio .Swift's corner, then west 21 poles with Swift's line to a st&ke, Conley Green's cornrr; then N 103 poles with Conley Green's lino to tho beginning. This land is sold subject to the widow's dower right, terms of sale one-half cash, the remainder in six months. This August 30, 1019. F. A. L1NNEY, Commissioner. BURLESON DRUG CO, NKWLAND,N.( Drugs & Druggists Sundries X complete liife of toilet articles. Mail orders piven prompt atten tion. (JIVE Iffl ATRIAL. IQllsrSts and mice -that's Rat-Snap, the old reliable rodent destroyer. Conies in cakes-no mixing with other food. Your money back if ft fall?. 25c size, 1 cake, enough lor pantry, kitchen or cellar. 50c size, 2 cakes, enough for chick en'house. coons, or small buildings. H sl.-e, 5 cakes, enough for nlmtra and outbuildings, storago 'buildings, or factory buildings. Bold andguar- I anteed b$L L Crtchcr. . 8 Si a f Ji 'It .' " fc . '';f ?'Ua'-$ ' m&MMkmmM&m sm coim ug htvr int V.-N-' " ''-. -..V.A.V.' '.' t : M.,1. ' u ..