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ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY ONLY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN WATAUGA COUNTY ESTABLISHED IN 1888 VOLUME XXXIII BOONE, WATAUGA COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA,1 THURSDAY JULY 13, 1922 , NUMBER 37 a- '-V4 h ".'; S 1 V'. ABOUT ISO PENIS OVERCOME BY G1S WHEN NEW YORK SUBWAY EX PRESS CAUGHT FIRE NEAR LEXINGTON AVENUE PULMOTERS PUT IN OPERATION flue la Quickly Quelled But Mem- fcer of ReMue 8quad Are Forced to Use Oat Masks. New York Abort 160 persons wen jorercome by smoke wbea a north Jerome avenue express on the East Bide subway caught lire near Lex ington avenue and Sixty-first street pocens of ambulances were sum moned from nearly every hospital In the city and Mayor Hylan arrived to direct the rescue. The accident oc curred about 75 feet underground. 1 The lire started In the motorman's box after a fuse had blown out. There was a flash of flame and the smoke wept through the crowded train. ! When the emergency brakes were applied and the train came to a grinding halt, guards threw open the doors and passengers made a mad scramble to escape. Those unable to walk were carried from the cars to the Fifty-ninth street station. Fire ladders also were dropped through Iron grating at Sixty-first street and unconscious women lifted to the street. The Injured were stretched out on the sidewalks for several blocks. A temporary hospital was organized and 14 pulmoters put In operation. The crowd of spectators soon became so dense tkat police reserves had to be rushed to the scene, ' Men, women and children filled the Jen-car train. Guards attempted to ight the flames with hand extlnguish art, but iaUeU-When the Bremen ar rived, however, they soon succeeded In quelling the blaze, which in itself Was small. Many of the fire-fighters were overcome. Relief work soon got under way. Besides the doctors who hastened to the scene in ambulances, many other physicians Jumped into taxlcabs, in many cases bringing their office nurs es with them. Blooniingdale's department store at Fifty-ninth street and Lexington ave nue, promptly organized a fire brigade of 76 employes who dashed Into the subway to aid in the rescue work. The store's drug department was raid ed for supplies and pulmoters. : Many firemen were overcome as they tried to descend the subway steps. Members of the rescue squad donned their &as masks to attack the flames. ; Mayor Hylan, one of the first city officials to arrive, was driven back by fumes when he attempted to enter the subway. , Good Progress Made by Cotton. Washington. Progress of the cot ton crop during the week was de scribed by the weather bureau In Its weekly weather and crop report as Very good to excellent In Texas, very good in Oklahoma. Tennessee and fiouth Carolina, fair to very good In Arkansas and North Carolina, gen erally good In Louisiana, fair in Geor gia and Florida end fair In Missis sippi and Alabama. 1 The temperature was not far from normal throughout the cotton belt,'' the review said. "Showers were fair ly frequent and while rainfall was rather heavy In parts of Eastern Ok lahoma, eastern and southern Texas, outhsrn Arkansas, northern Louis iana, and a .few places to the eastward the fall, was not heavy or frequent enough to prevent satisfactory field work, except In a few localities. Cultivation made good progress In Texas and the fields were well cul tivated In most of the northern and eastern portions of the belt This work was hindered somewhat In Mississippi and Louisiana and a few locations in Florida. . "While cotton was late and rather small in many southern fields, the condition was from fair to excellent In southern and western Texas, from poor to very good elsewhere In that state, very good in Florida and Ten nessee, fair to very good In North, Carolina, generally fair la Alabama, South Carolina and Oklahoma, bat only poor to fair In Georgia. , Many Hurt In Crash. .) I Chicago. Seventy-five persons were Injured, only one seriously, when Chicago-bound Marquette passenger train crashed Into a New York Cen tral engine on a siding near Porter, Ind. The train proceeded to Chicago after (he injured had received first 141 I DE VALERA II TEN BUILDINGS INCLUDING THREE HOTELS ARE i AFLAME. SIE6E IS VIRTURLLY ENDED Success of National Cause Purchased at Cost of Terrible Destruction In Dublin. London. The Daily Mail says it U reported that Eamon De Valera has been wounded and captured by Irish Free State forces. The newspaper adds that the report so far cannot be confirmed. Dublin. The siege of the strong holds of the lnsurgeut Irish forces Was virtually ended with the sur render of small groups of the men who have been fighting for the past week behind the barricades, and the capture of one of tho principal lead ers, Catahal Brugahs, former minis ter of defense. But the success of the national cause has been purchased at the cost of blazing buildings and terrible de struction in O'Connell, to say nothing of the loss of life and the many se riously wounded. There Is still no Information as to the whereabouts of Eamon de Valera, who has apparently escaped from the free staters' net. In the afternoon, when ten buildings Including three hotels, were aflame, the remainder of the irregulars, driv en into the Granville hotel, with fire on all sides, still maintains a desper ate resistance with automatics and li lies, but it was already seen that they could not long delay the inevitable end. The final attack by the free state troops commenced at midday after a lull during which the firing slackened greatly. , ... The regulars then began' a "desper ate plan of bombarding the insur gents. A bomb was hurled into Hainan's hotel and soon faint wisps of smoke crept through the shattered windows and suddenly a burst of flames, fol lowed by dense volumes of smoke. The flames spread swiftly and the fire brigade hurried to the scone. But a fussilade from the irregulars In the Granville hotel compelled them to retreat. The fire attacked the Bhops adjoining the Hamman and In less than two hours the roofs had col lapsed. Three buildings were com pletely destroyed, their ruin being has tened through the flames reaching stores of bombs and ammunition caus ing numerous explosions and throwing up great clouds of smoke. Still the battle raged, the Irregulars firing fussllades from the windows of both the Gresham and the Granville, while the national riflemen, replied vigorously from their positions oppo site and from armored cars. Committee Approves Reductions. Washington. Continuing its work of rewriting the tariff bill, the sonata finance committee majority has ap proved reductions in the duties orig inally proposed on cotton cloths and some cotton goods, including hose and half-hose and underwear and other wearing apparel. Some attention also has been given to the woolen sched ule, but It is understood that the com mittee will make few if any changes In the rates In that schedule. Under the changes In the cotton schedule, duties on cotton cloth would not exceed 45 per cent ad valorem as compared with original duties in some cases of 00 per cent and more. It the place of rates on hose and half hose ranging from 15 per cent ad valorem and 70 cents per dozen pairs to 80 per cent ad valorem, the majority, has fixed a straight duty of 10 cents per pound and 60 per cent ad valo rem. On the underwear and all other wearing apparel of every description finished or unfinished, the majority fixed a duty of 50 per cent ad valorem in place of the original sliding scale ranging from 40 cente per dozen and 12 1-2 per cent ad valorem to 40 per, cent ad valorem. Booze Goes Begging. Philadelphia. Genuine Gordon Gin aad "Johnnie Walker" whiskey Is go-, lag begging at less than a dollar a quart, It became known here. The federal district attorney and the Unit ed States marshal have mot wkh little luck In their efforts to peddle a car-' load of liquor which prohibition agents had seized. A bill of S500 is due the railroad for freight and Ice and It Is up to the government to pay It. The parties to whom the car was consigned had no idea who shipped the liquor O taem. They waived Interest in it. Mil HD HIED WE POURS III S250 PER HIE MOTOR LICENSE DEPARTMENT RECEIVING $120,000 DAILY FOR TAGS. $10.D0QAHEAD OF LAST YEAR More Than a Million Dollars Hat Come Into the State Treasury During the Past Ten Days. . Raleigh. Money flowed across the coun ters at the rate of $250 per minute down at the motor license de partmena on East Morgan street when more than eight thousand peo ple, either by letter or In person, stormed the place to secure license plates before the statutory time limit expired. When the office was closed a few more than 85,000 licenses had been issued. - -ir Somewhat more than a million dol lars has poured Into the State Treas ury during the lust ten days and still more than halt the people in the State enter the new motor year without new license plates for their cars. It is estimated that there are now 160,000 passenger cars in the State, and about 18,000 motor trucks. The probable Income from license sales will be about $2,500,000 this year. The inspectors of the department will take to the roads to round up the thousands in the State who have not vet nald their fee and got the- green-and-whlte tags in place of tif5 b!ack-and-white that have decorated the ttzr ends of their cars for the past 12 months. J. E. Sawyer,, head of the license bureau, expects to hava a new tag on every car to the Sfete before July. 15. .Sales, at the cjose of the yeas ft tales on the closing day of last year when 75,000 had been Issued on June 30th. The office was swamped as UBUtl with the late hour rush, but practically every application that came through the mails was han dled and everybody who came to the counter with his money got a tag and went away. An hour after the office closed at 5 o'clock the throng was still crowd ing about the entrance, many making application through the window for their tags. Many "people from out of the city undertook to purchase In person before returning to their homes. The special session of the General Assembly authorized the employ ment of Inspectors to enforce the license laws, and since their appoint ment, hundreds of evaders of tho ,law have been apprehended and made to buy license. Routine Work For Farm Board. Increased appropriations amount ing to $3,500 for fighting tuberculosis among cattle, and $400 for distribu ting reports of the crop census were authorized at the semi-annual meet ing of the State Board of Agriculture here. Routine business, and the consideration of departmental re ports and work, consumed moBt of the day. In connection with his report, Commissioner W. A. Graham called attention to the legislative act changing the end of the fiscal year from December to June, and submit ted the financial report for the period beginning January 1, .1923. He suggested a. change In the law that would allow the main report of the department to be made in December as usual. Receipts from various sources from which the department draws its revenues showed a grobs Income of $238,019.63, covering the six months period. The bulk of the In come, amounting to $172,834.83, cam from the sale of fertilizer tags. Disbursements, Including pay of employes and officials .upkeep of experiment stations, amounted to -167,274.81, leaving a balance on hand of $87,480 with which to complete the years work. Appropriations were made tor some improvements at the several test farms, and transfer of a part of the Jersey herd at the Edgecombe farm to the Buncombe farm was ordered. Major Oraham reported satisfac tory progress in agricultural work In the State, and the expectation that North Carolina would maintain Its standing for the production of agri cultural wealth during the yean Members attending the session were F. P. Latham, J. J. Harris, R. L. Woodward, Dr. Clarence Poe, R. W. Scott. A. T. McCallum, C. C. Wright. H. Q. Alexander, L. B. McClelland and A. "Cannon. lEML IIIET FOR ROAD M MANY MILLIONS TO BE 8PENT FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION DURING COMING YEAR. i i 10 DISTRIBUTE AMONG STATES Under the Conditions of the Aid Each State Must Match the Sum Allotted It . Washington. Approximately $100, 000,000 will bo spent for good road construction throughout the country during the fiscal year which began on July 1. This will bo brought about by the continuation of federal aid for roads under ' recent authorization of an appropriation of almost fifty mil lion dollars for distribution among that several states. Under the condi tions of the aid each state must match the sum allotted it. , At the same time the postoffice ap propriation bill signed by President Having June 18, authorized appro priation of $50,000,000 for the same pufpose, to be expended during the flajtal year, beginning July 1, 1923, and 171,000,000 for tho succeeding fiscal fear. The conditions are the same for all three years, and will bring the to taj Amount expended during the pe riod to $380,000,000 If the state ad heres to the stipulations and expends like. sums. The fundswill be admin istered by the Secretary of Agrlcul- through the Bureau of Good 'ffmated that the $190,000,000 prlated will result In the con- tctlon of more than 25,000 miles d, which, added to the 46,000 that are expected to result from lotfj .federal appropriations, makes jjl 71,000,, or nearly 40 per cont -estimated 180,000 miles of good V-A --- j ft . I A mm tib rsyBiBUfm nnald nnur finlnrr siit11nAt With tho aid of $350,000,000 prev iously appropriated by the govern ment, 17,000 miles of road had been completed on last May 31 and in addi tion, nearly 14,500 miles were under construction, involving more than $287,500,000 of federal aid. To match this fund the states have appropriated approximately $380,000,000, making a total of $667,500,000. Industrial Conference at Blue Ridge. Charlotte, N. C The program for the Southern Industrial Conference on Human Relation in Industry has Just been Issued. This conference is pro moted by tho Induptrlul Department of the Young Men's Christian Association with the co-operation of a group of tho leading Southern manufacturers. It will be held at Blue Ridge, N. C, July 14-16. The purpose of tho con ference Is to afford an opportunity for both employers and employes to come together in one meeting and frankly diBcuss together tho problems relat ing to that most important factor lu industry the human element. It Is designed to dovelop a stronger spirit of good will, friendliness, loyalty and co-operation In the Industries of the South. This is the third of these annual conferrnces and the prospects are that the attendance this yoar will bo larger than during any previous year. Al ready delegates have registered from Virginia, North Carolina, tenth Caro lina, Gborgla, MlsstABlppt, koaistana, Tennessee and Kentucky. Included In the registration are delegates from the following industries: Textile, lumber, coal, furniture. Iron and steel, paper and pulp and tobacco. . "Relations Between Employer and Employe," "Vocational Education in Our Southern Industries." "Some Phases of the Human Element In Southern Industrial Development," "New Relationships to Fit New In dustrial America," "Spiritual Value in Industry," are some of the Interesting and timely topics to be discussed. There will also be sectional confer ences for executlvsi, for foremen and for personnel managers. In theso, (such questions as "Present Day Problems of Management" "Improv ing Foremanshlp" aod "Fitting a Man to His Job" will be discussed. These timely topics will be dis cussed by such prominent men as Stuart W. Cramor, textile manufac turer, Charlotte, N. C; Charles Green, lumber manufacturer, Laurel, Miss.; R. B. Wolf, prominent engineer, of New York City; Frank Cushman, of the Federal Board of Vocational Edu cation, Washington, D. C; E. J. Robe son, Newport Newt Shipbuilding and !Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; jCharles R. Towson, of the Industrial 'Department of the Y. M. C. A., and Dr. George R. Stuart, pastor of the First Methodist Church, Birmingham. WClldi ftrt-o 4 ft IT THE WORLD'S GREATEST MEN. Last Sunday, says the Wins ton-Salem Journal, wo comment ed at some length on tho list of the world's six greatest men sup plied by H. G. Wells, famous his torian and author of many books on divers subjects. The six he named were Buddha, Asoka, Ar istottle, Jesus, Roger Bacon and Abraham Lincoln. Since giving our own impres sion of Mr. Wells' list, wherein we expressed serious doubts that it would stand or ought to stand, we have read with inter est an editorial on the same sub ject by Arthur Brisbaen, one of the country's best informed and most entertaining if not greatest editors. Mr. Brisbane thinks that Mr. Wells made his choice careless ly." He insists that in lists of great men divinities that men worship cannot be included. This being true, the Wells list of the worlds greatest is reduced to four. And Brisbane declares with good reason, too, that only Aristoslo could be prophrly in cluded in a list of the worlds six greatest. Mr. Brisbane insists that grea test means doing something, pro ducing something; that a man re ally to be great must show some thing to prove greatness. In se lecting the world's six greatest men ho would first choose the world's six chief lines of achieve ments and then namo tho great est man in each line. Since war is a relic of barbarism, he would exclude war altogether. And in that he is unquestionably cor The American editor then pro ceeds to give a list of the various ways in which human greatnesss is expressed. These are: Philoso phy, meaning love of wisdom, or knowledge, science, art, painting and sculpture, writing, music and highest of all, study of the universe, to which this tiny plan et with its so-called 'great men,' is an insignificant grain of sand Having listed the six great ness, Mr. Brisbane then name his super-six. They follow; Aristotle, greatest philoso pher. 2 Archemides, greatest sci entilio mind. 3 Michelangelo w, greatest in painting and sculpture. 4 Shakes pear, infinitely the greatest in writing. 5 Bethoven, greatest in mu sic. G Newton, discoverer of the law of gravitation which rules the universe, greatest mathe matical mind ever born on earth and a simple child outside of mathematics. In concluding his discussion, Mr. Bisbane gives an interesting discussion of greatness in gener al, saying- "Wc appear our little hour or second upon the stage, disappear and are forgoeten like fireflies. You name your six greatest men, knowing well that they will be come more and mo.'e faint as his tory advances. A great human race, thousands of years from now, beyond our comprehension, will look upon Michelangelo, or L'hidias as we look upon the un known cave artists of the stone age. Language and music will change completely. Shakespeare and Beethoven will go to join in oblivion the man who made the first wedgshaped writing, or tho man who first beat rythmattcal ly uion sheep skin dressed '.to make a drum. "One hundred thousand yea rs hence children will be bom'know ingmore than' Archimedes and Aristotle knew at the end rof their THE KAISER At DOORHE. (SprlngSold Republican.) More than usual weight may be attached to the interview giv en by William II at Doom to Ba ron Clemens von Rodowita-Nel, an account of which has been given to the New York Times. Barton von Rodowitz was former- ly a member of the German di-. plomatic service, but is now neu tralized in Austria. He is well ac quainted with the former emper or, and his uncle was head of the German delegation at the Alge c i r a s conference. His report should be more trust worthy than some earlier interviews, passages in which have been challenged. No very sensational utterances are attributed to William II, ex cept that he is for the first time quoW as definitely renouncing l f . . . 1 a 1 uupu oi returning to me in rone. This passage is of interest: "What does the new genera tion think of me?" he asked. "It knows nothing about you," I answored. The ex-kaiser sighed. "I want nothing," he said, "ex cept to hide myself. But tell me, has the new gene ration forgotten ita monarchical ideas and the glory of its Hohenzollerns?" "There is a good deal ef mon archist sentiment in Germany," I told him. "The monarchy will come back he said then. "Not now after some years. I don't know how or when. But I shall not come back." "Who will restore the monar chy," I asked. But he did not an swer; only asked me more about the public's orrfnfo'n" of the Ho, hen7iOllerns. The prediction that the mon archy will come back need not be interprited as more than a firm conviction, and indeed it would be surprising if so tirm a belie ver in the divine right of kings were to express any other view. But William 11 can hardly be so remote from German politics as to be unawaro of the growth in Germany of antagonism to the republic, coupled with tho belief that he himself destroyed h i s chance of restoration by aban doning his people in panic and running off to Holland. For the rest, the former em petor spoke sensibly and moder ately on present day conditions in Europe, predicting a reconcil iation between Czecho-Slovaks and Germans in Bohemia, and a friendly alliance of Czecho-Slo-vakia with Austria. In regard to the war he was taciturn, but he still holds Pen. Ludendorff to have been the greatest genius on the German side, the adding, auuivuuivs ins luuits uiuu u tt- greo with mine." Which ideas? It would bo interesting to know. CapO tATiniley Killed In Crash. t,Mlch. OeorgaC. TinsleW Detroit, 'aged M, of the army aviation corpaj 'and aft'everseaa veteran, was killed at iselfriq Fleld, Mt. demons, seal here , whn his plane crashed to the i ground from a height of ISO feet, and burst Uto 4 flame t. 1 WltntoMeaWd Captain Tlnsley bad turned iharV when the motor went dead. arid tha plane dropped. As the craft jhttthV v ground It burst lata flaasi, UseXheatA temporarily forestall line tte aMtanpta otg spectator (mch Uo.Hjis'a. b ja, long lives. "Of your six, that leaves New ton, who gave to men the yard stick with which to measure the univorse,' tine other five will fade, philosophy, art, music, litera ture, but tho name of Newton, who wrote directly as tho mass and inversely as the square of the distance, -vyill last as long as the earth lasts'. Cosmio science endures forever.". ' .11
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