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VOL XXXI.
BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C., THURSDAY MAY 6,1920.
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TIOSI WIO DO HOI HITS 10 tCOMOIlZO
Should Sot the Example.
Springfield Republican.
Whatever may be the fate of
the overalls movement, it forci
bly calls attention to the possi
bility of meeting the high cost of
living by voluntary retrenchment.
To meet the objection that there
are fnot enough overalls to go a
round and that the initial cost
is considerable, a patched clothes
movement has already been be
gun in New York is said to be
getting some vogue. A movement
quickly carried to such extremes
is not likely to last. It may amuse
people to masquerade as raga
muffins for a few days, but the
fashion will quickly pass and
those who take it up may go by
a natural revulsion ro the oppo
site extreme.
Yet everybody recognizes that
a general retrenchment, consci
entiously kept up long enough to
allow depleted stocks to be made
good, ' would be of benefit to all.
In New Orleans even the shoe
dealers are cordially advising the
public Jnot to buy shoes unless
they are absolutely needed; the
price is too high, and even so the
profit is small. Prom Viena not
long ago came a report of a move
ment for going barefoot till next
winter a practice so contrary to
modern urban etiquette thateven
in the midst of famine it has to
be inaugurated by organizing a
barefoot society. Yet 'till quite
recent times a great part of the
population of Europe habitually
went barefoot in warm weather;
in a century the expenditure
which has come to appear neces
sary has greatly increased.
To go barefoot much as small
boys enjoy it would be rather ex
treme for a civilization not yet
quite bankrupt, but short of that
there are any number of gradua
tions in economy. It is to be fear
ed that the Dutch manufacturer
who was recently said to be on his
way to this country to show Am
ericans the advantage of the
wooden shoes will find us rather
conservative on this point; the
wooden shoe is delightful in pic
tires but for actual use some
what alarming to people not
brought up to it. Yet there is no
lack of other substitutes for
leather when leather is scarce;
the sensible thing would have
been for half or two-thirds of the
by this time to be wearing shoes
of canvas or some other servicea
ble material; the trouble is in get
ting such a movement started
and in getting the supply pie
pared to meet the demand. Man
ufacturers cannot force people to
accept some economical substi
tute.
If organized effort to bring
t!own the cost of living is to sue
ceed it must have a toierably
broad and flexible program, and
its fundamental principle ought
, t3 be making the utmost of the
existing stocks. Materials and
manufacturers have in modern
times been so cheap that expense
has come mainly from the fre
quent changes in fashion in which
even people of moderate means
could afford to indulge. They
might buy rather cheap things,
but this mattered little because
they did not wear clothing very
long. When materials are scarce
and labor is dear this modern
practice becomes an unwarranted
extravagance even ior tne wen-io
do; it needlessly consumes what
the wor. 1 needs. There is much
to be said, therefore for a united
effort to save Wherever a saving
can be effected and whatever hap
pens to- encourage, people to do
. their parti is a clear gain. The
greatest ally of extravagance is
snobbery, but a few people who
Food Famine Feared.
Alarming reports are being
carried to Washington of the pros
pects for decreased food produc
tion, due to the scarcity' of farm
labor. Senators and members of
the house who have recently re
cently returned to the capital,
says a Washington dispatch, are
very pessimistic t over the food
situation.
Senator Ellison D. Smith, of
South Carolina, who is just back
from atrip through the South;
predicts that the country will
soon be face to faco with the
most serious food famine in its
history. Thousand and thousands
of acres hitherto given over to the
production of food stuffs are ly
ing idle and ' unfurrowed in the
states he visited.
Similar reports have been made
by Senator Cooper,, of Kansas,
and Senators from others of the
great food producing states. '
Senator Smith declares that
while the amount of farm labor
last year was 84 per cent of the
normal, this year it is only 72 per
cent of normal, and is of an age
and character which are not con
ducive to the highest productivi
ty.' The only remedy, in Senator.
Smith's opinion, is for the manu
facturers of articles not classed
as necessities to suspend opera
tions for a time and permit the
labor to go back to the farms.
He has found that out of the
thousands of farm boys who went
into the military service during
the war only a small percentage
liave gone back to agricultural
abof. The bulk of them have
found in the cities work which
is more attractive and more re
munerative. If work of this kind
could be dropped for a short per
iod, Senator Smith believes that
many of the farm boys would go
back to the country.
Senator Smith intends to ad
dress the senate on the subject
some day this week. Discussing
the situation today he said:
'I am having tabulated the fig
ures showing the percentage of
farm boys who went to war and
the percentage who returned.
he figures so far are simply
startling. In the states of the
south, which I visited, especially
Georgia and South Carolina, not
a furrow has been turned in the
fields which have been depended
on heretofore for big crops.
An Old-fishlonod Workor.
A man has been at work on our
disreputable old back fence late-
y, replacing the rotted posts,
substituting new 2x4s for those
whose usefulness is 'purely his
toric and putting in new upright
boards where' they are needed.
This man has a regular job down
town and is in a position to re
pair fences only after 5 o'clock
in the afternoon. At that hour
he appears and works away with
hammer and saw and right good
will until darkness puts an end
to his labors. He is doing an ex
cellent job and seems to enjoy do
ing it. We never knew a more
cheerful worker, though he has
not time to talk much with gen
tlemen.of sedendary pursuits.
He is ambitious to make all the
money he can and he is getting
ahead in the world by doing ex
tra work whenever he can find it,
He seems to us far happier now
and far likelier to be happy in the
future than if he were idling a
bout, holding out for 20 cents
more an hour or for a six-hour
day. Charlotte Observer.
obviously are not obliged to econ
omize can do a great deal toward
setting an example which the
less fortunate would be glad to
follow. - .
Doctor Says Liquors Are Not Essential
Dr. Howard Kelly of Baltimore
appeared before theylegislature
of Delaware and issued the fol
lowing statement opposing the
move .to repeal the Klair law,
which forbids using whiskey in
tilling prescriptions:
"First, that when I wasayoung
practitioner, alcohol was univer
sally given in almost all diseases;
that in practically every one of
these it has been finally abandon
ed as a routine treatment; that it
was in realty a relic of the bar
barous blood letting age of medi
cine. Most of the far-sighted
and best men in the profession
declare against it, notably Frank
Billings of Chicago and Charles
Mayo of Rochester, Wis., the lat
ter declaring that the only field
of alcohol today lies in the arts
and sciences. It has been pro
nounced against in the American
Medical Association and whiskey
and brandy have been deleted
from the pharmacopoeia.
"Second, that even though use
ful in rare pccasional cases, the
dangers of abuse of the privilege
of prescribing these alcoholic po
tations vastly outweigh any pos
sible problematic good. The per
mission given by the United
States government of a pint ev
ery ten days is, in my view, folly
and degrading to the medical pro
fession, as this act has no possi
ble relation to medical use of al
cohol. The act simply turnsdoc
tors into bartenders. The abuse
is illustrated by the citation of
one doctor who wrote 1000 whis
key prescriptions in 24 hours.
"I insist, therefore, it is bet
ter for the few to suffer than, for
the whole nation to run the sligh
test risk of losing out in the bat
tle with the greatest national foe,
John Barleycorn.
"One of the leading physicians
present at the hearing declared
that we might just as well pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of
razors because men sometimes
cut their throats with razors. I
replied that if each year 100,000
men cuts their throats with ra
zors, then the gorernment would
rest , under the moral obligation
to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of razors.
"Third, the Delaware law was
read and it was shown that it ac
tually allows the prescription of
alchohol. Now, if 90 per cent al
chohol is diluted to the alchoholic
strength of whiskey or brandy
this drug can then be used ex
actly as these potables and with
the same psycological effect. It
is the alchoholic content of the
fluid with which the doctors are
concerned in their treatments. 1
closed with the most earnest pe
tition knew how to address to the
medical prefession to suffer an
apparent wrong in order to elim
inate this great nation-wide ini
quity, that we might devote our
selve to the higher constructive
problems in medical statesman
ship and in the broad paths of
preventive medicine."
Magazine Advocates Negro for Pranldent.
Two important negro move
ments are on in this country,
says H. E. C. Bryan, Washington
correspondent to the Charlotte
Observer. The one has for its pur
pose the juggling of delegations
at the Chicago convention and
the other the inciting of the bad
element of the colored racd to
raist the whites.
North Carolina, South Caroli
na, Georgia, Mississippi and Ala
bama negro delegations will go
to the Republican convention to
make troubb for Hiram Johnson
and other candidates the old
guard do not want.
Lots of money is being used in
the Republican pro-convention
campaign. Every contest like the
one now going on results in two
sets of Republican delegates
from the South. At, the present
rate this will be the prize year
for contesting colored delega
tions. The attention of Jthe depart
ment of justice has been called to
a very bitter article in the Chal
lenge magazine, a negro publica
tion of New Yoak. The editor of
the periodical advocates a negro
for President. He talks about
"powder boxes" and asks "Is it
a solemn fact that in free Ameri
ca a black man alone because he
is black must wade in blood to
obtain title to what ho has won
by right of franchise?
The department of justice sus
pects the reds of backing someof
the outbursts of the Northern
negro. The Challenge Magazine
says: "Even the negro is learn
ing the battle hymn of struggles.'
"Hecondemned Russia once be-
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cause he am not quite unuer
stand. He never knew the truth.
As it creeps out he is seizing it
bit by bit, learning to look on Le-
nine and Trotzky as empire and
civilization builder. Fight on, ye
struggling masses; let your prop
aganda bolts strike every s p o t
where one black man abides. Ye
white under dog and black must
mount up together."
Mexican Sugar,
Some people in the U. S. ' have
been invariably inclined to lustily
cuss out Mexico ana an tilings
Mexican, but hold! Here comes
news that 300 car loads of sugar
from Grease Hand is coming into
our country for relief of the situ
ation. It had been sent here
months ago, but was brought
back into Mexico by order of the
gentlemanly Carranza', but now
that the anti Carranza crowd has4
regained jurisdiction over the big
store of sweet stuff, it has been
sent back to us. If nobody else
will take off his hat to the Mexi
can rebellionists, The uoserver
will do so, if only in behalf of the
crying babies, and say "thankee!'
But seriously, 300 car loads of
sugar might prove immensely
helpful if the profiteer can be
beaten back. Charlotte Observ
er. '.-.
Price Mark Thing of Past.
How many people enter a store
today and ask the price of the
commodity wanted before they
actually make the purchase?
Isn't the tendency rather to se
lect the goods, then hand out a
bill in payment? We' are more
concerned now with getting what
we want than in saving in our
purchases. The Raleigh News
and Observer notes that the
price mark has disappeared with
in the past five years, since it is
apparent that the people gener
ally are notinterestedin the price
so long as they can get what
they want. Speaking of this The
News and Observer says:
There is but one conclusion.
The people .are less intent on sa
ving the pennies by less buying
than they used to be, and it isn't
a good sign. We may argue as
long as we like that it is because
money to buy with is more abun
dant, but as long as we complain
of high costs it is apparent that
money is not abundant enough
to let it get aAay from us until
we are sure we have received the
value. The owner of the big cor
poration does not buy that way.
He will figure over the IGth of a
cent a pound on a shipment of
cotton, or ten cents a ton on phos
phate rock, and earn his salary
by getting that ten cents cut in
two if not thrown off, and be hap-
Dr. M. F. Morphew Passes. '
Marion Progress, 22.
Dr, M. P. Morphew, who died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
FredPaxton, in Savannah, Ga.,
on last Friday, was brought to
Marion for burial. The funeral
was conducted at the Methodist
church Sunday afternoon and at
tended by a very large number
of friends of deceased. Rev. W.
L. Hutchinson, assisted by the
other pastors of the town, con
ducted the services, the Masons
conducting the services at the
grave.
Dr.. Morphew was one of the
most widely known citizens of
McDowell county. He came to
this section in young manhood.
He was held in high esteem by
the people of the entire county
fir his skill and ability as a doc
tor. It is said that the weather
was never too bad nor the trip
too long for Dr. Morphew.
Dr. Morphew. was a man of
a very kind disposition and loyal
to his friends. He was never
known to refuse aid to any onebf
his friends applying to him for
it.
Mrs. Morphew preceded her
husband to the grave a number
of yeas ago. The couple was
greatly devoted and Dr. Mor
phew had never been quite the
same man since his wife's death.
Besides a host of friends and
distant relatives, Dr. Morphew' is
survived by two sons, Frank and
Robert, of Marion, and one dau
ghter, Mrs. Paxton, with whom
he spent his last days. The sym
pathy of the entire community is
extended to the relatives in their
hour of bereavement.
Dr. Morphew was for quite a
while a resident of Boone. He
Mar.ried Miss Julia Bryan of our
town, who died some years ago.
He leaves many friends and rela
tives in Watauga who will hear of
his death with sorrow. Dom.
' Seventh Grade Examination
The following are the students
that passed the county seventh
grade examination:
Eula G. Fletcher, Odell R. Ben
field, Dora A. Shell, Gladys Swift,
Blanche Williams, Alfa Ruth Nor
ris, Ona Farthing, Leota Sue
Norris, Hazel Norris, Allen Ash
ley, MaudeGragg.HowardGragg
James Tugman, Donley Bumgar
ner, Victor Cooke, Elsie Farth
ing, Gordon Winkler, V e r n a
Gragg, Ruth Cottrell, Mary Nor
ris; Hoy Norris, Edna Norris,
Pearl Cowles, Stuart Beach, Ad-
die Coffey, Joe W. Cowles, Mary
O. Triplett, 'Grady L. Michael,
Eftie Baird, Alma Texie Davis,
Mattie Mao Williams, Earline
Greene, Lee Roark, IjoydEggers
Lula Austin, Annie Haynes, Ed
na Winkler, Collis Austin, Edna
Slier rill, FlorenceG reene, George
Cooke, Naomi Vines, Fonso Tes
ter, Dixon Rowe, Grady Tester,
Cloy Harmon, James Shipley
Phil Mast, James Taylor, Gor
don Taylor, Anna Mae Sherwood
Mary Lizzie Horton.
All the above student will re
ceive a diploma of graduation of
seventh grade work completed
These diplomas will be signed by
county superintendent, county
board of education and teacherin
charge of the school that gave
the several examinations. Satur
day, May the twenty-ninth, is the
date fixed for this graduation
and the awarding of these diplo
mas in Boone. These students
will roceive their grades within
the next few days.
WILEY G. HARTZOG
py when he has done it. But to
the average buyer, a lew cents
The Bloving Rock Country In Pictures
One of the most wonderful pie-
c?s of photographic art a pano
ramic picture of the rugged
mountain country west of Blow
ing Rock is being displayed in
the window at Hardy's studio.
his picture surpasses anything
ever made, before of this moun
tain section. Mr. Hardy made
the picture several weeks ago for
Mr. Alexander, who is develop
ing the May view Park property.
'he picture was made from May-
view itself. It forms nearly a
half circle and takes in Hanging
Rock on the left, then next to the
ight is a magnificent view o f
Grandfather and Grandmother
mountains. Then it takes in
Hawk's Bill, Table Rock, Big
Cnestnutmountain, Brown moun
tain and Adam's Knob. On the
extreme right is shown Rockv
Knob. The picture shows the
entire view in the closest detail,
and as distinct as the natural
view to the natural eye. The
Dangerfleld home can be sfcen,
and the wood-covered mountains
and the deep valleys.
There are many other pictun s
of the Blowing Rock country and
a picture of the Rock itself. Tl e
entirccollection is a wonderful
piece of work and it has been ad
mired by many lovers of moun-
tun country who have passed
Hardy's window.
For some time Mr. Hardy has
been working on the collection
'or Mr. Alexander, who is. using
them in booklets and folders, ad
vertising the Mayview property
and the Blowing Rock country.
Last week the National Geograph
ic Society sent a representative
to Blowing Rock to gather ma
terial for an article for .the Na
tional Geographic Magazine. The
article will be illustrated with
Mr. Hardy's photographs. Le
noir News-Topic.
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WHAT IS THE
MATTER WITH
THAT CHILD?
WHEN CHILDREN GROW PALE AJ D
LISTLESS THEIR BLOOD .
; MAY BE WEAK
iPTO-HANSAK MAKES RED BL00P,
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS IN LIQUID AND
TABLET FORM -BOTH THE SAME
IN MEDICINAL QUALITY
When your child loses color.
acts and talks without spirit and
does not play like other children, .
act quickly.
If the condition is not a deep-
soated disease .but merely dua to
poor blood, give Pepto-Mangan.
Glide's Pepto-Mangan is just the
t nic for pale, thin children whose
blood needs rebuilding. It is a
pleasant tasting, simple combina
tion of exactly the ingredients
that increase and enrich the
blood. '
Beneficial results show almost
at once in brighter eyes, bloom
ing cheeks, a sprightly step and
the whole system uieLde more vig
orous.
Pepto-Mangan is obtainable in
liquid or tablet form, whichever
proves moat convenient. Both
forms possess identicaj medici
nal qualities. 4
There is but one genuine Pepto-Mangan
and that is "Gude's.''
Ask your druggist for "Gude's"
and look fr the name "Gude's"
on the package. If it is not there,
it is not Pepto-Manga'n.Adv.,
count for nothing. Money is too
easy to get.' Therefore it is too as
sy to let go. Concord Times. .
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