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jL j. -11. . it1. f ? Advertising Rates on Request. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP BOONE, AND WATAUGA COUNTY. fj.uo yb VOL XXXII. BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, N.C. THURSDAY AUGUST 18, 1921. NO 43 Mlsslonirj Blajlock Wrltis. Editor Democrat: The first day of June was about the hot test day we have had.' ' Brother Lawrence and I started for an extended tour in thecountry.vis iting groups of Christians and preaching as we had opportuni ty to people along the way. On the second day out the wind changed and the third day we had a good rain and a northeast blow which made it very cool for June. It was nearing wheat har vest and the people generally busy, and at night when they got through with their worlr they were very tbed. But notwith standing we wanted to make our remarks and do what we could to encourage the Christians and in quirers, and in addition we wan ted to explore some new territo ry in the hills along roads we had never traveled before, and this we could do when the people were busy as well as at other times, even though we would not have so much opportunity to preach to them. Soon we found urselves in the midst of a silk raising district, and in addition to the wheat harvest they were busy with their silk worms. It would take too long to go into de tails of this silk raising, but it is truly an interesting process, and I learned more about it this trip than ever before. This province produces lots of silk, and in ma ny places, especially in the hills, it is their money crop. As a rule the scenery in this section of China, especially in the winter, even in the mountains and hills, is dull and barren, but in June th elandscape looks its best. I had gone over most of the region we had passed through in the winter and in it all I saw little to interest and attract, but this time I never tired of looking. It all seeinsd glorious, "and ev ery prospect pleased and only man was vile." I will never for get one view from a prominent peak in these hills. It took about two hours for us to walk from the town where we were stop ping a day or two in the home of one of the christians to the top of this hill. On our way up our vision of the surrounding coun try below broadened and on a shoulder of this hill before rea ching there we rested and had a season of prayer together, then walked to the top of the moun tain, where we got a view that oeggars description, ana 1 can only call attention to what fell under our vision south and south west. All that lay before us as far a3 we could see were fields and towns and villages. The scene was like one vast sea of golden grain ready for harvest, with clusters of green trees a bout the towns and villages and green growing fields of millett and kaffir corn interspersed with the . ripening wheat. I thought not only of the beauty of t h e scene before us, but of what a wonderful amount of grain rea dy for harvest. A great harvest indeed it was, but nothing to stagger, for there were many, many laborers who in a few days would come out from the towns in throngs and swarms like bees and soon gather the last straw, and in most places even dig up the roots for fuel. No lask of laborers in this harvest, When all was harvested, thou sands of poor gleaners stood with mouths watering for more harvest from which to glean more crumbs. Who could look upon such a scene and not think of another harvest without labor ers? Under our eyes were hun dreds and hundreds of towns and villages with millions of peo pie in them. , And in all that re gion scarcely as many as one hundred Christians. And the vast majority of these towns were not only unevangelized but had scarcely heard the first word of the gospel. The harvest, the harvest, how shall I depict it? To what can I compare it? This sea of humanity, this ocean of ost souls, who can fathom it? Where are the laborers? Who is crying to the Lord of the h-vrvest for them? Who is saving "Here I am; send me?" Don't let us push this aside and say !t is none of our affair. Are you a Chris tian? Are you saved? Then you have a part. Come if you can. You can do nothing greater for the Master who died for you. If you can't come then do what you can to send others. I am not able," some one may say. "I have no money and no way of making it " Then pray! Pray now for the Lord of the harvest for those now in the field. God forgive us for excuses, for not having a part in this harvest. 0, if we really want a part God will give it to us. Try and see if he will not, and new springs of joy will break out in your life. There is nothing on earth like having a part in saving lost souls. It is by no means all smooth sailing with the Christians, for they are just fallen human beings like our selves, and have their weakness es from within and trials and persecutions and temptations from without. Our hearts ache for them at times we see what they have to meet. When we think of their environment and of the ' pit from whence the.v have been digged" we marvel that any of them stand against the forces of darkness about them. They need our prayers more than we think. I n one town where we had a few Chris tians a dear old Christian woman 65 or more years old, seemed a!- most driven to the wall by false theories, ridicule and persecution After talking with her a while and having prayer with her and her son and a few others we id. more encouraged for this dear soul. But I must cut short my story of this trip because my journey was cut short and my plans bro ken into. Brother Abernathy came for me and found me forty six miles away from home. My wife had suddenly fallen very ill with plurisy. I took Brother Abernethy's bicycle and rode ia the day after he arrived. It was a long 46 miles to me, and I was tired enough when I arrived at home, for I had not ridden wheel for over twelve years. But I was glad to be at home by my wife's side, doing what I could to comfort and help. After about a week the pleurisy began to break up, but pneumonia devel oped and my wife has now been in bed three weeks. We are tru ly thankful that the crisis has past and she is on the road to re covery, but she is still in bed and very Jwealt, and it will be many days before she is strong again maybe until the end of the summer. It seems I have had my share of afflictions and illness in my family in China, but God forbid that I should complain, for oat of these very sorrows and afflic tions have come blessings tha money cannot purchase. God has been doing the best He could with His obstreperou child. Pray for us all and our work T.L. BLALOCK. TaiOnFu, June 30, 1921. Will Repatriate Hungarlah. Budapest. An agreement between Hungary and Soviet Russia tor the repatriation ot the Hungarian pris oners in Russia was signed July 31 at Riga, It was announced here. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENUVENTS America Undertakes the Relief of Russia, Stricken With Famine and Pest CHOLERA SPREADING FAST Supreme Council Aseemblss In Parle President Harding Attends Pilgrim Tercentenary Fete 8weet BUI for Disabled Veterans Finally Passed by Congress. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Americana who have long been held prisoners by the Russian Bolshevik! have been released, unless latest re ports are misleading, and America, un- officially but energetically, has gone to the relief ot the starving, pestl- lence stricken Russians. Agents of Mr. Hoover's organization already are distributing food and medicines, and the American Red Cross and other agencies are co-operating in the tre mendous task. Walter L. Brown Is directing the relief measures from Riga, and there ia no lack of volun' teers for the work In Russia, for cores of persons of many natlonall ties have offered their services, some being actuated by curiosity, some by altruism and some by the desire to get into Russia to find out what has become of relatives and friends. Premier Brland of France has sug- gested that the supreme council, In session this week in Paris, consider allied co-operation with America In the Russian relief work. Famine conditions, it appears, ex ist mainly in the great Volga valley, and the inhabitants are moving from it In vast hordes. The Russian au tborltles are trying to direct the flight of the refugees toward Siberia and the Ukraine and to keep them away from the cities. It ia the swift spread of cholera that is alarming the na tions bordering Russia on the west Some of these, notably Poland, have mobilized large numbers of troxps along their frontiers to turn back the hordes that are carrying the pest along with them. Despite these pre cautions, Berlin papers say cholera al ready hus appeared In Warsaw and that there is danger of an epidemic of the disease In Danzig and other sea ports. The soviet commissioner of health says the task of fighting the pestilence is made terribly difficult by the horrible sanitary condition throughout virtually the entire coun try, aucl by the "mass migration, as It had been maliciously planned, dis tributing; the infection from one place to unother for thousands and tens of thousands of versts. The starving population of the Volga is moving to the south as an avalanche, sowing on its way Infection and death." Help from the outside world, though besought by Lenin, is looked on with suspicion by some of his more radical colleagues. They declare the plight of soviet Russia will be taken advan tage of by the enemies of Bolshevism who will plan new counter-revolutions. That suiue of the latter have the snme Idea Is indicated by the fact that Alex ander Kurensky hns been conferring with the French government It Is re ported that he expects the downfall of Lenin and Trotzky, and that France might proffer him support and indorse Russia's claim to possession of Con stnntlnoplt! If he could establish a sta ble government which would guurun tee the payment of Russia's old debt to France. Italy, too, might favor thla; hut Great Britain wants Greece to have the Turkish capital. Moscow on Wednesday sent out a wireless message asking all other gov ernments to evacuate their nationals froru southern Russia as soon as pos sible because there was no food for them. The foreigners, "it is said, were to leave from Odessa, but as all trans portation has broken down there is seemingly no way for them to reach that city from the interior. It It not only transportation that has broken down. The present crisis has brought to light figures that show the almost absolute collapse of Industry and pro duction under tha soviet readme. Pa per and coal are the only industries showing in 1920 an output of as much as 20 per cent of the pre-war produc tion. At has been said, the Interallied su preme council la now In session In Parts. The main topic for discussion is the Upper Sileslan question, 'which Is being bandied by the represents tlvea of Great Britain, France, Italy nd Japan. Colonel Harvey, Ameri can ambassador to England, also was Invited to attend, and If the question of war guilt comes op the representa tives of Belgium will be asked to par ticipate. In conciliating France, the other allies ha v admitted the possl billty or probability of sending 'rein forcements for the Sllestan garrison and have told Berlin to provide for their transportation across Germany which Berlin probably, will do, though with bad grace. Germany continues to accuse the Poles of committing shocking outrages on the German in habitants of Silesia, and the French of giving the Poles support, abd Ber lin has Issued a White Book to sub stantiate these charges. It was announced in Washington that soon after the President's re turn from his New England holiday, the formal Invitations to the confer ence on limitation of armaments and far eastern questions would be Is sued. Mr. Harding still favors No vember 11 Armistice day for the opening date, and the other powers may agree to this. Great Britain has abandoned any Idea of a preliminary conference on Pacific matters sinew the American government has ex pressed Its entire willingness that the agenda for the conference shall be ar ranged upon in advance. Conversa tions in regard to the program will begin Immediately after the Issuance and acceptance of the formal invi tations. Speaking at the tercentenary cele bration of the landing of the Pilgrims, In Plymouth, Mass., President Har ding declared hit belief that the dis armament conference would bring to the whole world a new era of peace and freedom. Said he: The Inter national prospect la more than prom ising and the distress and depression at home are symptomatic of early re covery. Solvent financially, sound economically, unrivaled in genius, un excelled In Industry, resolute In de termination and unwavering In faith, these United States will carry on." President Harding went to Ply mouth by water, and after attending the Pilgrim fete he had several days of rest at Secretary Weeks' country Wme In the mountains near Lancas ter, N. H. During his absence the congressional conference committee, after long and seemingly Inexcusable delay, agreed on the Sweet soldier re lief bill, and Its report was adopted by both houses. It was a certainty that the President would lose no time In affixing his signature to this law, which will reorganize and consolidate the various government agencies for the relief and care of the veterans of the great war who through wounds or illues8 or lack" of employment are In need of assistance. The unempfoyment situation as It affects the ex-service men, Is decided ly serious, especially of course In the large cities. It is said that In Chi cago, for Instnnce, hundreds of them are walking the streets, jobless and homeless, and one post of the Amer- lean Legion has asked the governor of Illinois to have the National Guard armories thrown open to them, and some arrangement made for giving them plain food until they can find emiiloyment. David H. Blair, commissioner of In ternal revenue, has been prying Into the conduct of affairs In his bureau and has made such discoveries that he hna ordered Assistant Commission er Matson to make a thorough Inves tigation. The serious charges against employees that are said to have been made, Include the giving out of In come ta: statements, In violation of law, to persons who desired them for profitable purposes; collusion between persons within the bureau in a posi tion to divulge confidential Informa tion with representatives of eorpor atlons with cases pending before the bureau; collusion ef employees and outside persons in business ventures dependent upon secret Information within the department, and charge-, that some employees have accepted money In assisting corporations and Individuals to reduce their tat of one character or another. Other charges relate to employees in the prohibition enforcement . wing, involving them In aiding persons to get possession of liquor for Illegal purposes and in suppressing evidence that might lead to detection and pros ecution of offenders. British shipping interests sad those of America as represented by the fed eral shipping board are entering a war for cargoes that may have far reaching results. It all started with the efforts of some American ship op erators to get a share of the cotton carrying business from Egypt They were told the British ship owners would fight to the finish to hold on to all of that business, whereupon the London representative of th board warned the British that retaliatory measures would be adopted. Both sides have cut rates, and the Ameri can board has reduced Insurance val uations to meet the competition. The question involved, says a statement from Chairman Lasker's office. Is whether British ship owners are go ing to keep the American merchant marine from getting Its fair share ot the business on the seas. "The world may at well know that we rc going to' establish what American right are I and then eet those rishta." ! The seven former members of the Chicago White Sox ball team and two alleged accomplices who were charged with conspiring to throw games In the world's series of 1919, have been ac quitted by a Chicago jury, apparently because the jurors did pot think the specific Intent to defraud the public and the baseball owners was estab lished by the prosecution. At once the question arose whether or not the players should be reinstated In or ganized baseball. Judge Land, high -commissioner of baseball, replied promptly and decisively that "no play er who undertakes or promises to throw a ball game, no player who sits In a conference with a bunch of crook ed players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are planned and does not promptly tell his club about it will ever play professional baseball." As to the moral guilt of the accused hall players, the American public has had little or no doubt, and Its belief will not be altered by the verdict of the jury which probably was made necessary by the technicalities of the law. Death stilled forever the magnificent voice of Enrico Caruso last week, and all the world mourns. The great op eratic tenor, who was stricken with a serious Illness In America last year, sewined well on the road to recovery and had returned to Italy to recuper ate. But an Interior abscess accom panied by severe peritonitis devel oped and he died in Naples before the surgeons could operate. The fu neral services were most Impressive, and were attended by representatives of the royal family and the govern ment of Italy and by officials of-the United States, In which country he achieved his greatest triumphs. The last requiem was rendered by 400 singers. It looks ns If the federal authorities were on the point of clearing up the long series of big postal and bond robberies in various parts of the coun try. John W. Worthlngton of Chica go, well known to the police of this end other lands, has been arrested as the "brains" of the gang, and others have been taken Into custody or are being hunted. The authorities de clare that they have evidence to prove that Worthlngton and his associates engineered the $3,000,000 Sinclair Oil company robbery In New York, the Dearborn station mall robbery In Chi cago, the Council Bluffs (Ia.) mall rob bery and numerous other Important re cent crimes. The prosecutnfs also have proof that the accused hare been dealing largely In "doctored" Liberty bonas and washed savings stamps. tarand Encampment of . 0. 0. P, The Grand Encampment of the Inde. pendent Order ot Odd Fellows North Carolina met in Its 74th annua session August 9th in the hall of Bu ena Vista Lodge, No. II, la the city ol Greensboro. At the afternoon session the Grand Encampment degree was 'conferred on new members, the re ports of the grand officers submitted various committees appointed anc matters of routine business trans acted. On Tuesday night the degree, stall of Asheville Encampment No. conferred the Patriarchal, Goldei Rule and Hoyal Purple degrees on number of candidates. This is prob ably the best encampment degree staff in North Carolina and a large number of members of the Patriarchal branch of the .order were present to witness this exemplification ot the encamp ment degrees. The officers of the Orand Encamp ment are as follows, Grnnd Patriarch, C. H. Peine, Raleigh; Grand High Priest, A. C. Melvin, Durham; Grand Senior Warden, J. C. Wright, Shlioh Grand Junior Warden, D. W. Pavte, Goldsboro; t;iand Scribe, L. W. Jean eret, Asheville; Grand Treasurer, J E. Wood, Wilmington; Orand Marshal, H. A. Ballard. Asheville; Grand Senti nel, D. R. Aiken, Greensboro; Grand Outside SenMnol, H. G Godfrey, Eliza beth CIy; r.rand Representative, Tone D. Berry, Raleigh. Decrease In Pellagra. - Dr. W. 8. "Rankin, secretary of the State Board of Health, has rr-turned from Washington, where he hrs hem in conference with other public huulth officials from the South and represen tatives of the Federal bureau ef health and Red Cross officials. ' Dr. Rankin has stated that so fat as the records of his office show then has been a decrease in pellagra. The Coming Legion Convention. "Hendertonvllle and her environs will be turned over completely to t former service men when they gath ered there for the annual eonventloi of the North Carolina state depart ment of the American legion on Au gust 20-27," was the statement of Wat ter B. Smith, of Hendersonville, chair man of the entertainment features ' M wan mam RECEIPT FOR THf ' MMTbr OF JULY REACHED, TOTAL OP 1N,4liB. iutcdcct inn ov dicm HC Chairman of. the Highway CosmrMoJi ays Sum Celteoesd Will fet Spent Before End of Preeent Mount. . ROM.. I Automobile tax collected ; by tho itate for the month ot July amounted o tl,4S8.43.2S nad the gasoline tax lor the same period, aaouaUag to 1ST. 177.81, ran the state's meaie from two sources alone well above the attf don and a halt mark. The arasolae tax Is In excess of the collections tor Juae while the autosae bile tax is a little under the month pre vious. Then? are ninny licence yet lo e renewed and the total tax on auto mobiles tor the season, Independent of the "floating" collections at other periods of the year, will raa the imount well above SI.OM.OOO. The gasoline tax gees to pay the in terest on the outstanding notes for sohstructlon funds while the bigger rams are being used exclusively tor construction purposes. Chairman rrank Pago, of the state highway com nlsslon. hi s Informed State Treasurer Lacy that the sum collected during the rush reason wtU he spent before !he end of the present month. With these expenditures on the roads, the state will then touch for the second time its $10,000,000 allow tnte for the year. Postmaster Examinations. Washington, (8peclal)-Examinations will be held September 10 for aoetmaate-s at the folowing JMape' Angler, Badln, Banners Bay ftoro, Black Mountain, Candler, Can tor, Caroleen, Clarkton, Cleveland, Cliff side, Connolly Springs, Cooleemee, Council, Elon College, Fletcher. Frank-' tin, Garry f burg, Hope Hills, Humors-' vllle. Lake Junaluska, LeaksflUe.1 Lowell, Mayodan, Moacnre, Meapteat, Morvea, Newport. Parkten, P!ueto?s, Polkton Pomona, Priaeeton, ftlchlands, Rural Hall, Sanatorium, Seaboard, Bparta. Stony Point, Trenton, Vaas.j Weaverville, West Jefferson, Whlta-' kers, Whittler, Woodland. Chalmers L. Sims has been appoint? ed postmaster at Harrisburg, Cabarrus county, vice Dwright L. Morrison, re ilgaed. Probable Compromise en Power. Negotiations looking to compro mise of the differences over power rates now existing between the cotton mills and the Southern Power com pany are well under way, according to reml-offlcial Information given out here. It Is expected here that an agree ment will he reached within the next few days hy which all litigation save that involving the North Carolina Pub 11c Service company, will he tnnrrd. Charter for Peanut Crowe. . The pea-iut growers of Virginia and North Car llna have secured the char ter for their nw and enlarged organi zation, which will bear the short and expressive name "Peanut Growers Kx change, Inc.," The minimum capital stock Is r aced at SU1.000. Ot this amount tl 0,000 is common and I1.00O preferred f-toek. The Southern Training tehoel. The Sot 'them Training School for Christ! leadership will be hP?d at Pine Ridge the week cf Anwet 23 it September 1. It will be under , the auspices ot the Snnday School asse rlatlonK of South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee. Florida and Oar- gla. Th U the first year tor tru tiainh.4 ''. which pro-jjlics to be come an annual institution. New Chaplain ef N. S. U. C- V. General James I. Metts announces the appointment ot Rev. Edmond Joy ner. of Edgemout. as chaplain of the North Carolina Plvlsion of the United Confederate Veterans. Meeting ef Guernsey Breeders. Th mU-summer meeting of the North Canllna Guernsey breeder soelation .rill he held at .'Belmon', Farms," F H. and J. L. o'-" i Linwood. Davldvm county, T'ir-d.1. August 25th. according to announce ment made by T:'D. Brown secretary. Among the ooakers are R. H. L. Chieester. of Fredertcksbuwr, Va R. M. Hoope. of Wlsacky. 8. CL. W. TV. Fltspatric cy. Clemson Collets- 8- C. snd J. A. Arey. dairy d' vision. Depart ment of Agriculture. Pllgh. There Till be two sessions dally.- -.-
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