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W.J1 'f Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO .THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1919. NO 50. 1 ...-ji- a- 'u. x I All Men Must Have the Right to Work. Manufacturer's Record. . The New York 'papers of last week told of how one man had been murdered by a gang of la borers who attacked because he was at work while they were on " a strike, and from various parts of the country come reports of riots and blood shed and the kill ing of men who have dared to as sert their right to work, untrain meled by union labor regulations. This is a situation thai mustbe faced squarely and fairly, or else this country is doomed. When the law does not 'protect every man who desires to work, but permits murderers to go unhung because as union labor men they beat and murder those who pre fer t: work without the collar of the union around their necks, this country is headed straight for destruction. Human liberty cannot live where men can freely murder and go unpunished. Civi iialion cannot exist where men are not protected in the right to work; 'as against the murdering campaign of any organization of ay kind whatsoever. Many editors and preachers freely and justly denouncelynch ing, even when it is for the black est crime on earth, but how ma ny denounce with equal energy the crime of murdering and lyn ching a man merely because he wishes to work without being a member of a union. One community lynches afiend, the vilest on earth, and the pul pit and the' press ring with the denunciation of the whole com munity and the State itself. In another community a whol ly innocenfman is coldly mur dered by a diabolical gang of cut, throats simply because he works while they strike, and the pulpit and the press are as silent as the grave. Why? Do they lack the moral cour age to denounce the criminals in labor unions who murder men for no crime whatever while denoun cing the criminals who murder a liend by lynching him for the most fearful crime known to hu manity? The Mollie McGuires of the Pennsylvania coal regions w h o for years tilled that section with riot and .bloodshed and death, were not more guilty of crimes which fitted them for the gallows than is every man, whatever may bo his occupation, or whatever organization he may belong, who beats, with the intention of mur dering any laborer who demands the right to work, unshackled by labor unions. We would not for -' one moment say that laboring men have not a right, legally and morally to organize into unions and to use these unions for the betterment of their own condi tion whenever and wherever this can be done by legal and morals, but the moment that union labor overrides the law and becomes murdering power, all human lib erty demands that it be suppres ,sed. . Lincoln said that this govern ment could not live part free and ..nart slave. If Lincoln were alive y today he would say that this go,' - ernment andcivilizationitselfcan not live partly free and partly controlled by themurdoringpow er of men who are taught t n a crime is not a crime if commit 1 ted in the name, of union labor The American people will have to meet this situation. - We're All Guilty. Speaking of profiteering, every Mrs, Ketch Tells How She Got to Know Rat-Snap. "Have always fean'd rats; lately no ticed munv on my farm. A neighbor said he just got rid of droves with Hat Snap. This started mo thinking. Tried IUSnap myself. It killed 17 and seared the rest away. Hat-Snap comes tmtvi! sizes, 2ijc,iVlc, $i. Sold ' guaranteed ty L L ditcher. . doggone one of us will take the last red cent of profit the trade will stand for. If an article cost -j cents to produce and it can be sold for a dollsr, there is not a mother's son of us that would not take the dollar. Suppose any commodity now selling on the market for 2a cents a pound, or by any given measure, should on account of its scarcity or on ac count of speculation or for any other reason go to a dollar, how many would refuse that dollar, although at the price of 25 cents there was 100 per cent profit? Why yqu could count on one fin ger every one who would refuse to take the dollar and then have one left over. Yes, we all want all the profit we can get and then some. The only reason we do not get more for anything that we have to sell is that the oth er fellow who has a' like commod ity to offer will not let us. Mon roe Enquirer. While the foregoing is a triile extreme, possibly, we all know that is substantially correct.' The most common failing in the world probably the one failing that is responsible for more evil results than any other, is. selfishness greed. We can all talk glibly about the other fellow; from our viewpoint the fellow who exacts a stiff profit from us is a great scoundrel, and yet the people who are not guilty of some similar wrong are few not so few as Bro. Ashcraft seems to think, for there are more strictly hon est and unselfish people ;han we imagine. But the other crowd is so much in the majority that its conduct stands out and over shadows. The trouble is that selfishness is so imbred that we can see clearly the mote in the eye of the other, the beam in our own obscuring our vision only when it, is turned on ourselves. t is amusing and tragic as well, to hear folks talk by the hour (and we're all guilty here) about the failings of their neighbors, the shortcomings of society, etc., when eacn ana ail or tfiem are equally guilty in some respect. hit of this they seem blissfully unconscious. Hut to get back to tlicfirsl pro ositioii: All this does not excuse anybody exacting an nnroasona ble profit, and especially in this time of stress. Exacting an un reasonable profit no, because conditions enable one to do that and get away with it, is a greater wrong, morally, than it would I o in normal times, for even a legit imate profits makes prices a bur den. It is no use to say the peo ple are willing to pay it. Robbing a man when he is unconsc i u s'sa greater wrong, morally, than to hold him up after the manner ( t the highwayman. The most com mon excuse, as it is the most coir.mon for all evil practices, is to say that "others do it and I might as well get my share." That is no excuse at all, for that snrt of logic would justify t li e commission of any criine. But one great wrong in connec tion with the talk of profiteering is to make reckless charges. Pe cause high prices are charged does not of itself mean profiteer ing, but the average man will go ahead and glibly charge the deal er with making enormous profits when he has no definite or prac tical knowledge of the cost to the dealer. Some figures appeared in The Landmark recently, leaving the impression that the eiior mous profits are made in certain lines, but not one word was said about the expense of carrying on t'.ie business. There is profiteer lig enough, the Lord knows, for True Americanism. 1 What is true Americanisn and where does it reside? Not on the tongue nor in the clothes nor a- mong the transient social forms, refined or rude, which mottle the surface of life. True American ism is this: To believe that the inalienable ights of man to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness are given of God. To believe that any form of pow er that tramples on these rights is unjust. To believe that taxation with out representation is tyranny; that government must rest upon the consent of the governed, and that the people should choose their own rulers. To believe that freedom must be safeguarded by law and order and that the end of freedom is fair play for all. To believe not in a forced qual ity of conditions and estates, byt in a true equalizatian of burdens, privileges and opportunities. To believe that the selfish in terests of persons, classes and sections mustbe sobordinate to the welfare bf the commonwealth. To believe that the Union is as much a necessity as liberty is a divine gift. To believe that a free state should offer an asylum to the op pressed, and bo an example of virtue, sobriety, and fair deal ings to all nations. To believe that for the exist ence ana perpetuity 01 such a state a man should be willing to give his whole in labor and in life. Henry. Van Dyke. The Soldiers' Cede. The soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces were not strong for "orthodox Christiani- ty" but they had u "natural reli gion, 'according to Dr. Elmer T. Clark, who, in his "'Social Stud ies of the War", says: The welfare workers who had been preaching and moralizing to the boys had concerned them-" selves with what they had resi ded as the cardinal sins: profani ty, (gambling, drunkenness and S3xual immorality. But w h i le they harped on these things con stantly they secured little inter est "on the part of the soldiers themselves. At last cards were How the Famous Poem Was Written. Admirers of of Sam Walter Foss's poem, "The House by the Side of the Road" are many. The Flu Will Return Says Surgeon General Blr. Will the 11 u come back this year?" This question, being asked by thousands of scients and millions story of his writing it is known of laymen throughout the world, to few. He was an enthusiastic traveler, and on one of his trips through England he came at the top of a long hill, to a little un painted house set almost in the road, so near it was. Iear one side was a queer constructed sign post finger pointing to a well-worn path and a sign "Come in and have a cool drink." Fol lowing the path, he found in the bank, some distance from t h e house, a spring of ice-cold water is discussed"by Surgeon General nine, of the health service, in an official bulletin in which it is said that the plague probably will re appear, but not as severe as last winter. "Probably, .but. by no means certainly, there will be a recur rence of the influenza epidemic this year," says Generai Blue. Indicotions are, that should it occur, it will not be as severe as the pandemic of the previous winter. City officials, state and city health boards, should be pre pared m the event of a recur rence. The fact that a previous into which a barrel had been circulated among the multiplied sunk and above which hung an attack brings immunity in A cer thousands of the men and they old-fashioned eon rd dinner: and lam percentage of cases should were asked to designate W h a, t Ln n hone), none hv-n. wnn.W- allay Oil the part Of those af- rhnv r.,..,l.1 tho H,mu. i,,n,,l. 1.1m , W "k't(tl 1,1 tlW PVIOUS epidemic. sive sins. The answers were illii- wit i another sum Jen lour- initiating. Neither drunkenness self." . Seeming a story he went back to the house, where he found a childless old couplein straighten ed circumstances with the rocky Calf Swallows Watch. Snakes are not climbing trees, and alligators have cut out jig- dancing in tins uryuonn section. but there's evidence of warm- weather influence on the weather reporter of the Mascon City nor gambling nor profaity nor vice figured in the replies. Head ing the list was cowardice. Then came selfishness. And t he other three in order were farm as their only source of live- 3 "p" ffo "J 1 . J ' ""', " 11MUWU' uuu 11 w,w 11LU , u" Seven years ago a farmer liv- n.'ss. licious snrimr water andan abun- ,..r.of v,ia w k,,.. i,:- inis is an i ne more interesting uianco of fruit; so the sign was vest on a fence in the barnyard. because. the soldier's code thus placed guiding to the water and A calf chewed up a pocket of the spt. fourth in vnrv simila r to flip rmnn dm I! fiul garment in which was astandard .......... ... - - V" '"v I) V1H 111- LI II IV. V J. 1 1 I 111 I V H'V code of the "gentleman or man of first purple plum to the harvest honor, who makes no claim to intr of the last apple a basket of religion in the orthodox sense, whatever fruit might be in sea- Like the soldier, this type of son. was placed near. Ihat every tt .i if I gentleman or inanoi Honor 0ne passing might rest upon the scorns eowaruie, hypocrisy, tlis- lo11K hm ftnU refresh himself, loyalty, seuisnness ana mean- T, , , ,rontiem.vn ..villained . . ... , X , . . , ness, uuimoreoriessioieranioi ui,..t thpv wepe too noor to L'ive The Waitress' Revenge. This girl doesn't pretend to be in the statesmanship class. But she showed a telephone manager a thing or two in simple justice. She had had occasion to do s.ime long distance telephoning from Slillwater, where she is a waitress in a restaurant. She did not. get the party with whom she wished to talk. Nevertheless she had to pay for the message under the Burlesonian station to station, person-to-person system A day or two later the manager of the telephone company at Stil water to whom she had protested in vain for charging her merely for "t'he report" that the party she wished to talk to was not a 'artablc f ir conversation, was wailed on by this waitress. A mong other things he ordered a niece of cherry pie. . He was ad vised that the larder was inno- c?ntof cherry pie .at that time. As he came up to the cashier he noted on his check that the pie was charged to him just the same. He protested somewhat vio bntly just how violently one may imagine by picturing him s )lf in his place. But the wait ress was there with the quick re ply that the charge was for "the r .'port" that there was no cherry pie to be had. Thhi pie story ought to travel t le length and breadth of the laid. The charge the waitress made was exactly as legitimate a t the charge she had been com pelled to pay. Sioux FallsPress. profanity, gambling, drunken ness and sexual immorality. To the reflecting mind it is ob vious that hypocrisy and disloy alty are very interior and seri ous evils, and that selfishness in proportion to its deep sealednoss partakes of the same quality, 10Ult.: money, so took this way to add their mite to tho world's well-do ing. The beautiful thought and its real helpfulness so impressed Foss that he immortalized with his pen the spirit of the ideal while cowardice, though extreme ly offensive anywhere and abomi nable in wat may at times be rooted in bodily infirmity rather than in culpable weakness of the Lot me live in tho house lSy the side of the road, Whore the race of men go by: They are good, they are bud, they are weak, they are strong, Wise, foolish; so am I. spirit. Meanness in the sense of Then why should I sitinthescor stinginess may also be less cul pable when tracabte to the hab its of grinding poverty. Of course it is a mistake to suppose that such evils as hypocrisy, disloyal ty and selfishness are neglected in the true christian code, which, on the contrary, condemns them utterly.- Winston-Salem Journal ner's seat Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by side of the road And be a friend toman." the' Sel. and Gr.d Roads arid Prosperity. uoja roads agitation is very old. Julius Caesar was a good r.iads fanatic, and some of his hi m way are still in use in Eng land and France. Today there isii t a ino.'o vita subject than that ot transporta tion, and the great bulk of food products and raw materia Is of in dustry are at some stage of the distribution process, hauiedover country roads. Now that the motortruck is be ing utilzed to speed up distribu bution; to link producers a n d consumers wherever possible good roads are of paramount iin portance. in older countries than ours, all roads are good roads. They have to be, to feed the popa lation troin crowded acres. Bad roads have been accepted the average man, as said at the outset, is so greedy and selfish and the opportunity is so great, that to resist "the temptation takes more than the usual cour age. But lying is morally as bad as stealing if evil results there from, and to circulate false re ports that damage reputation steals one's good name no mat ter how honest one may be in the matter, is as bad as robbing through the exaction of unjust charges. - btatesville Landmark. Two Notable Suggestions. Two notable suggestions ha been made lately, both bearing upon iirgentecoiiomio conditions One was the declaration that higher wages are less desirable than lower living cost. That comes from one of the railroad brotherhoods It is in deed sound. The other was the suggestion that, pending an adjustment of conditions upset iy tho war, thorp be un armistice of at least months within which laboi would pull no strikes That came from the New York State Federation of Labor. It is a sane, timely, patriotic idea It is a good id:a to remember uitjst: sugi;esiiuiis wneu you ueai some extremist on tha reactiona ry skle denouncing all labor or ganizations as revohitionay and destructive. They signify a sens ing of the situation and a spirit that demands cordial, sincere co operation. Those timid souls who are afiliid of what may happen as a matter ol course in unset tied comp unities, and good roads Und ,who crawl into their holes Have been luxuries. nA null 1 heir hnW in nf Uir thnm li.. im.n..M mu won la ao iar oetier to come out, i.,Uiwiunuv;u.,wuj) in tI- open meir eyes ana their ears ery part of the United States. The Federal Government, .the State, the County, the township, and every one who eats food and wears clothes are vitally concern ed in good roads. The question is not 'Can we af ford 1o build good roads?" it is, can we atiortt to sup port bad roaur bcattcr Star. and improve the opportunity that is offered them to co operate in solving the problems of the day. Minneapolis News. FOR SALE: As the season is now over at Blowimt Rock, we have for immediate pale 10 or 15 choice milk cows. Green I'ark Hotel Co. ' gold watch. List week the animal, a staid old milk cow, was butchered for beef and the time piece was found in such a position between the lungs of the cow that the respir ing- the closing in and the filling of the lungs kept the stetnwin- der wound up, and the watch had lost but four minutes in tho sev en years. Exchange. NOTICE OF SALE. Under und by virtue of an order of tin' suwrior court of WotauL'acounty North Carolina, mado in the special in oiccdin? entitled Smith Uagaman, Administrator vs Hoy Uoose and wife Julia Horse, non residents, MapReoso Manly Williams and wlfo bruee Wil liams, whose maiden name was Urueo lU-ese, Asa Hee.se, ail of full atfe, and U-wis Koese, ago 18 years and Dean ltee.se whose atfo Is 1& years and who arc represented by their ffuardian ad litem, the same being No. , upon the siieeial proceeding docket of said court, thu undersigned commissioner, will on the sixth day of Oct. it Iming the first Monday thereof, 1919, at at nearly 12 o'clock m. as possible and certain between tno nours ol iu ociock a. in. and 2 ociock p. in. at the court house door in Watauga county North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest iiiuler cm six months time, approved security four certain tracts of land, lying and being in Ueaver Dam town ship, Watauga county and statu of North Carolina. First tract begins on a chestnut corner of the heirs of Thomas J. Farthing and runs east l!0 poll s to a chestnut oak, then north Itvj poles to three red oaks, tiien east ;o poles to a chestnut, then north o poles 10 a rcu oan, men easnm poie to a mnple, then north 2i)(i poles to a stake in tho stale line, then west with the state line 11(1 poles to . a stnko in the stale line, thence to the beginning iiul contu ins l.V) acres more or less. Second tract lying and - being in the same : township county and state and ml joining the lands of C. 8. Farthing heirs and .la. -4. Cable s heirs etui, and begins on a chestnut corner of Thom as Farthing's heirs mid runs cast n i ll Cable's line :!0 poles to a maple, Ca ble's corner, then north with Cable's line li.'t pules to a spnnish oak, Cables corner, then east with Cubic' line 40 poles to a sarvis tree, Cable's corner, ! hen .vest li poles to a jruco pine, thou north with Daniel's line 'Vi nte to a siake In this stale line, then south 57 degrees west with the state line 12 pole:, to a st.ike, then south with Ureene's lino 'AW poles to the begin ning ulfd contains 120 acres more or less. Third tract lytnj and being tho iHiim township, county und state of the former two tracts and begins on a red oak and runs north 31 degrees w iH I ooles to a stako and chestnut poln- :ers, then north 3 1-2 degrees cast '22 poles to a chestnut corner to Ward h.Virs In the statr? line, then with tho stute line to U. H. Farthing's corner, then with his line east W poles to a . stake find pointers, then south 45 de crees w !! poles to the beginning and contains 25 1 2 acres more or less. Al so u one half undivided iutcrest in ti e follov.iny described land lyinif nud lining in san e towiiship, count r and state of the aforesaid traets.of land which is designated and known' as lh Thomas l.ve Tract, and being situ ate between the Jjocust Gup and Bak ers Cap of tho Stone Mountain, and adjoining the lands of Koah (it-cent and Jew Huffman et a), end bound ed B.i follows, to wit: fginning on n che'itout in ihe'stato Hue and ruiw east 10J poles to a slake, then north. iW poles to a stake, then west 10 polcj to u chistiiui in the stnto line, thed with th.! ita'-o line to the beginning and co i'ains 2"j acre more cr les. This ! eptember 1, Ym. QU1 111 IX-iVVJ.lU. , VUIUUUJ.1.VUV ... . ,. 1 -st.v.i w i . 4 : "vv .iv "' V--, fit-. .v J', ''S: Ji II
Watauga Democrat (Boone, N.C.)
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