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a, rr . Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXXI. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. G, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1919. NO 6. Revolution in America? (Charlotte Observer, Novcmbor 13. ) That revolution is being ser i w.ly attempted in this country there is left little reason to doubt.. Congressman Johnson of Wash ington, iu the House of Repre s?ntativps, doubtless was stating only a startling fact when he de scribed as "an attempt at revolu tion with bullets and rifles, which the country had long feared," tne shooting and killing of our ex-service men, members of the American Legion, in an Armis tice Day parade at Centralia, Washington, Tuesday. Members of the I. W. W. are said to have done the shooting. One of them was later lynched. Nearly a score of others have since been jailed. A drive is said to have been launched to. clear up the town and community of the I. W. W. The town is under patrol of N i. o '.a! Guardsmen. While the American publicwas ren -,;i of i'ip outbreak at the far Noi ah western town, Qfficers were seizing a quantity of arms and ammunition sent by express tj a miner at Dawes, West Vir ginia, under suspicious circum stances. The shipment included nine. rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, and many of cart ridges were found to contain bul lets of the dumdum variety. About the same time came the report from Oakland, Cal., that a raid had been made upon a com munist labor headquarters near t re aud much revolutionary lit erature eued. ' The communut labor party is said to be a new radical organization. The raid is said to have been made by sever al hundred members of the Am er legion. These events follow right cn the heels of the great coal strike which would have paralyzed Am erican industry and transporta tion and caused untold suffering for millions of people; the closing down of thousands of plants and the enforced idleness of millions of workers all in Ihe Winter s aoon when coal is needed worst a id hen living costs are at their h;ghest, when the maximum of suffering would have been cans ei by a general coal strike. The strikers even defied the Govenv msnt of the United States, in vio lation of the law, until thev saw their finish if they persisted in their course. m The coal strike, followed right on the heels of a Nation-wide s'rike of steel and iron workers which failed of its purpose, like the coal strike, because public s mtiment was against the action ' of the workers, whose course had forfeited for them the support of p iblic opinion, the most power ful factor in this country. Prior to and along with these twogreat strikes; numerous similarstrikes oicurred. They were, in fact, the outstanding features of an epidemic of strikes that spread throughout the country, while others were threatened and are still threatened, Earnestly and anxiously the public is beginning to ask what 'is the cause for an epidemic of strikes occurring simultaneously ..with the outbreaks of radicalism and anarchy. V 4 ; ome light on thequestion may be containhd in a printed circu lar received yesterday by the The Observef.in a plainenvelope pwt marked New York, Novem ber 1Q, and which evidently was sent broadcast over the country. - It is headed "Proclamation! The CaU-toa General Strike!" . The only signature it bears is print- ed in bold type at the bottom of the sheet: "American Anarchist Federation Commune Soviets." It calls upon workers of every iudustry in the country to go on general strike and exhorts them to violence in defiance of the Uni ted States Government, State and municipal Governments, the overthrow of which is advocated. It refers to Samuel. Gompers, president of the Aiperican Fede ration of Labor, as "the spokes man of labor (?) and banqueter with exploiters" and charges Mr. Gompers and President Wilson with having "betrayed" the rail road workers "into making for tunes for the railroad robbers while youarestrugglingtoexist." - Evidently money is being cop iously spent to send out this sort of propaganda. Somebody is presumably being paid for writ ing and mailing it out. Who can say that the same elements, the same forces, the sameinfluenoes, the same funds back of the dis tribution of this propaganda lias not been behind the coal strike and the steel strike and a great many of the smaller strikes that have constituted a veritable epi demic all over the country in re cent weeks and months? Who can say that the same forces and influences and funds are not back of the radical and and anarchistic outbreaks and the general red activities in this country in re cent weeks, including the shoot into the Armistice Day parade at Centralia, Washington? Who can say that all these rad ical outbreaks and the discover ies made in recent raids on anar chists in many cities and even many of the recent strikes donot bear close and vital relation to the orders which Trotzky gave to his associates and followers when he teff New York for Russia to bring about a revolution in this country and overthrow the "dir ty, rotten government?" Who can say that that circular was not written and printed and sent out to workers all over the coun try by loyal followers of Trotzky, carrying out as best they can the orders lie gave them uion his departu re? These are serious questions. It is high time that the American public' became aroused to what is oing on in this country and there is no class that should be more concerned than organized labor. Who knows that in many instances unionism has not been made the tool and "cat's paw of these, anarchists without the knowledge of the members of the Congressman Johnson gave ut terance yesterday to what should be the sentiment of every patri otic American, when lie tele graphed Mayor Rogers, of Cen tralia, in the Congressman own state fliat the country 'must be purged of seditionists and revo lutionists to the last one, and if this means war, the quicker it is declared the better." Who can say that this country does not face as great a menace at home today as ever it faced when German militarism sought to dominate and overule the world by force and butchery? 'These Rale Wouldn't Eal My Best Grain," Says Fred lamb. lis hard to keep rats nut of a foed store. Tried for years. A neighbor in stnre sold ino some Rat Snap. It winked wonders, Gathered up dead rats every morning, uuuxm " Kat Snap. Haven't a rat now. Ihey wouldn't eat my best jrrain when I threw Hat Snap around." 3 sizes, .A 50c T.(H Sold and guaranteed ly L. L. Oitcher. Wickedness may prosper for a while, but in the long un he that ses all knaves at work will pay them. L'Estrange. '". Some of t h 3 War Actiiltlss of the Ford Motor Company. . Without going into particulais the following items willgivesome idea of the value the Ford Motor Company was to the Government of the United States in its call for the sinews of war: More than 2,000,000 steel hel mots. Order for 5,000 12 cylinder Li berty Motors. Over 1,500 had been delivered when the armis tice was signed, and wo were just striking our producing ca pacity. 10,000 Caissons, mainly for 155 ram. guns. Something over H, 000 delivered. Order for 112 "Eagle" boats, 200 feet long, 23 feet beam. Some thing like 25 delivered when the order was reduced to 02. The balance will be finished by the 1st of August. More than 8,000 trucks. More than 25,000 regular Ford cars. More than 6,000 ambulances.. 400,000 cylinders for Liberty Motors. Because of the superi ority of the work on this article the government placed the order with the Ford .Motor Company to make all the cylinders for all the Liberty Motors made in Am erica. The original order was practically completed when the armistice was signed, and a new order for ;j(X),000 had just been entered. 700,000 bearings for the Liber ty Motor. Here again the Gov ernment recognized the superior quality of the bearings made by this company, and placed the or der with us for all the bearings for all the liberty motors made in the United States. On this order over 400,000 bearings had been delivered. 700;(XX) cylinder forgings for Liberty motors. Oiice again the Government recognized the su periority of Ford work and plac ed orders with the company for all the cylinder forgings for all the Liberty motors made in Am erica, uver 4ixj,uuu Had been de livered. A large vohimeof experimental work was done in building three t n military tanks, and the Gov ernment had just placed orders for 15.000 of the small, two men military tanks, and 3,000 of the six ton, military tanks. Cancel lation. came before more than a dozen or so tanks had been deliv ered. But the fomdation:i had been laid andthe s ; r strict m almost completed for a:i enor mous building in which we inten ded making tanks alone. Of course, this building comes in mighty useful in the enlargement of our business. Motion picture reels in behalf of Liberty Loans, Red Cross, and Patriotic Fund work were made by the company and supplied to the Government in sufficient quantities to serve the entire II S. !n'-Mo';ion Pi' tire?. Motion picture re 's in volumes sum -ient to serve tV armies of the Unite States in 7nnc;e, Italy and Pales tine were furnished by the Mot ion Picture Department of the Ford Mo'.i'i' Co. We also A more than $1,000, 000 of work in the pr vl'iction o special" (1ft vices for the Naval Department of the British Gov ernment. We also furnished the Govern ment with 275 skilled mechanics for work in France. We also, through our Chemical Laboratory, co-operated with the manufacturers of gas masks for the U. S; Army. . An average of 84,000 men and women were employed by the main factory at Highland Park; 1 6,800 men at the Ship Building Sixty Years Afire. The recent coal strike lias re vived discussion of the horrib'e destruction of coal by tire. Much s heard of forest tires. Our State 'Wester has not permitted us to orgot for a day the damage wrought by these. But few poo' K'l are aware of the fact. that the great coal beds of this country are susceptible to the same sort of destruction. It is said that fire has for sixty years been slowly but surely des troying one of the richest coal ems in Pennsylvania. That is bad enough, but think what would happen if this fire should ever reach an underground lake. It would undoubtedly produce en ough compressed steam to blow off a mountain top, and in that ase we would be offered an en tirely new theory of volcanic ac tion not too bad a theory, eith er, to compare favorably with same of those that have followed each other in succession. Picture an enormous coal vein unning deep through the bor ders of an underground lake. maginc a generated steam pow er sufficient to blow o!T a moun tain top, a heat sufficient to dis solve even solid rock, and you face a volcanic eruption or a pret ty good imitation of one. It may be answered that there are no underground lakes, but there are., in that a deep coal vein an not burn for lack of air, but tois Pennsylvania vein is deep and has continued to burn for sixty years, devouring unac countable tons of coal. Many schemes to chock this underground fire, have been tried, we read, at great cost, in cluding flooding, but it burned right on. ' The latest scheme is to tunnel through the vein in ad vance of the bhwe and remove the coal, thus stopping the fire for lack of fuel. But the heavy undertaking may not be complo tod in time, and even if it should e there may remain veins still m lire. And some day, if it was to reach water, the explosion like ly to follow would cause a mighty disturbance and perhaps be fol- owed by an int.oresl.ing scientific discussion. winsum Journal. Are not all true men that live, or ever lived, soldiers of thesa'n e army, enlisted under heaven's captaincy, to do battle against thn same enrmyf tin empire o darviiess and wnvtg'' Vh,v should we mistake one another, figlitnot against th? enemy, but ag-iinst ourselves, from- mere difference of uniform? All unifor ns shall be good, so they hold in them true, valient men. Carl.yle. "The difference between tal ent and character is adroitness to keep Hie old and trodden round, and power and courage to make a nc;w road to new and bet ter goals." ,God, like th sun which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. Rivarol. Rat-Srai. KaU are on in xt fsr'.u ;. ii;v they ijet inside 'h i ho i w l k on'. IU kill lnf in s 'mi nr .ion is ut unus ual. Nursin' io,,Iim attract rat lirascn a '-a o l( it Sn,u ana tlirow it aro.ind. It will smvlv rid you o rati ail ml 'e. T.ir.v) s.i.e iTie, 5 k' $1. S.)ld aid L'uai'antc: 1 by L. L. Oltehcr. Plant on the River Rouge; 4,' 000 men employed. at the new Blast Furnaca in course of. con struction on the Rouge; 250 men employed at the Car.burator Plant or an average of 45,000 employes practically all. on 100 per cent Government work, under a stan dard eight hour day and a mini mum wage of $5 a day. ad. FOR THE MASTER'S SAKE. Tlu; mother was dead: jierhaps the father might better have been. The two children were oh! so little, so dirty, so world wise, so starved of happiness, so mani festly destined to become all that Jesus Christ died to save them rom becoming, that it really would have broken your heart ould you have seen them. They were children of poverty and neglect, children with but w allusions as to this world and probably with none for the next. The boy, in the course of time, would become an associate of riminals. The Ril l God help us all and have mer- y on our souls! Aifd yet there are homes for just such children as these poor astaways these future threats to your girl's happiness and your own boy s safety. There- are mines where these forgotten bits f humanity may know what a bath means -clean clothes. abun- ant food, education and traili ng for useful lives and greatest boon of all where they may learn what Jesus Christ means in this world where we stay but a short while and in that other world where we shall stay a long, long time. And it requires so little so pitifully little to take these waifs front the high road to ruin and set their little, feet firmly upon a path leading to other things to ligh attainment, perhaps to com - lot happiness and eternal sal- ation. So little, indeed, tliathard y can there be a man or a wo man in North Carolina but is a b!e to aid in saving these chil dren iroin ml that is vile, ana in saynig to iioa, This l do in riiy name." Be sure the Record- ng Angel will note carefully the act, and on that great final day of ill time it will be counted to your red it. And so you, a father or a mo iher with children ol your own who are not in the streets, you are asked to contribute one day's ncome to aid in placing the waifs ot the State in any one of the or phanages you may yourself se ?ct. But one day 's income, mark you And yoa, a husband or a wife whoso home God has not blessed with children, are asked to coiV tribute one day's income to aid in giving a home to some unfortu nate child without mother or fa ther. Tlie North Carolina Orphan Association asks the business man, the professional man, tin t laborer and the salaried man, the farmer and the shop worker, the boys and the girls, to devote but one day's income to a cause ap proved by the Master, who char ges you", personally, to care for the fatherless ones. There are many orphanages in North Caro lina and there are countless North Carolina children without other hope of home than these orphanage8. ' "And what doth the Iml re quire or thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" ' 'Are you doing justly unless you aid in saving these children who come into th world through no win of their own and who can never make a safe, harbor with out your aid? Do you really love mercy un less you show msry to those tits without homes, without f riends, without food, without knowledge of God's Word?. And do you walk humbly with thy God ..unless vou t arry out His command: "Even so,r it is Sugar to Cost More. The Slatesville Landmark thus writes editorially of the sugar situation: Following the scarcity of sugar comes the rise in price, and neither the wholesaler nor the retail dealer will benefit by the rise. The sugar division of the food administration has ffxed the price of New Orleans sugar at 1 cents to the consumer. The wholsaler pays the refier 17 . . cents, sells to ' the retailer sells to the consumer at 18$. Ttie pro ducer the farmer who grows the cand and rhe refiner -(man ufacturer) of sugar get ehe bene- . fit of the increase. Naturally the producer and refiner can show and evidently have shown to the satisfaction of the food adminis-; "t tration vhat the cost of growing - and refining sugar hasincreased, : , even as cost of production has in- '.. crease in other lines. Notwith- ' standing theexplanaion, the mass of the people, who have suspect- ; . ed that the sugar shortage was framed for the purpose of profit". . coring, will bedisixiscd to regafd , the 'rise in price as evidence of that belief. While that suspicion ' V is natural, considering the in- -C creased cost of production in all lines of business, it is reasonable , to suppose that it is costingmore to grow and refine sugar; and un less the profits have been excess, si ve, the cost must bo increased to the consumer. k -i The Landmark holds no brief for the sugar trade. Its interest is in the lower price. But it is " suggesting these matters for consideration before we go off half-cocked and denounce the whole business. In any event it is v' , clear tlmt the merchants, who are usually made the goats, are not the beneficiaries of the rise in price. ' not the will of your Father which is in heaven that one of these lit- 1 ' tie ones shall perish." f And perish they surely must .' unless you are merciful ajid- give . of your abundance give, tahe ' day's income if you will, more if you can, less if need be. But ' give - give for yourownchildrens ... s ike, be they living or dead, and, , give for Jesus Christ's sake thptS..' Hi may not have died in vain for- such as you and I and these street waifs. ' U v. Lot this offering be givcn with . a heart filled with gratitude arid , joyi that you are privileged to serve your God and humanity in so acceptable a manner. L3t it -come, as is most fitting, on or near Thanksgiving Day. The need is urgent, and the. cry of the orphaned children rings loud and insistent. You cannot shut your ears to that. ;' cry. Should you try and do so, should you fail to accept this op portunity of rendering service to these helpless ones mostneeding it, to these innocent ones most deserving, ierhaps in years to come that cry will still ring in the secret chambers of your hsart, and wlien the long journey begins you will see that inspired text written in letters of fire "Inasmuch as ye did it not un tj one of the least of these" For our Master's sake GIVE! M. L Shipman, " Jas. E; Young, Livingston Johnson,, JohnD. Bekry, WF, Evans, Of publicity Committee North , Cirolina Orphan Association. 'Tiie pastors of all churches v and the superintendents of all Sunday schools are requested to ; direct, attention to the Thanks- j I gi via g'pife ring at their service -on Sunday ,'November 23. i'r ie'; be in i J' i ,'V-r- i .'iifci- V? .'"c-w-' . 4 Visi-"
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