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li JANUARY 25. 1923 BIGGEST .PRINTING PLANT TO BE BUILT AT KINGSPORT TENN In the heart of the mountainous Tennessee wilderness, at the center of the book-buying population of the United States, one of the World's greatest printi ngpiants has been completed. Soon its presses will begin to hum with their first run, and the product will be the New Testament, for the Bible is still the "brst seller.'* Ford methods of efficiency in quantity production will be applied there, and books will be supplied at price? within reach 01 the poorest. Behold the literary f "liver! So remarkable is the enterprise that it merits an introduction to the public somewhat more sedate. Its daily capacity, including the output of specially made machinery, will be 100.U90 volumes. Moreover for the first time in history the business of book manufacturing has beer, integrated. The Kingsport Press is the core of what Hugo Stines would call a "vertical' industry. It is not within single management, but friendly groups own it units. They own forests near at hand which will supply paper pulp for the next ninety years. They own abundant coal fields forty - miles from the printing plant. They * control the railroad running through King'sriort on Which t hi. < <?- ?! -?n.J I books must be moved?the only rail-. 3 road which crosses or punctures?' the Appalachians*. i'hcy paper and pulp mills, giue and ink factories, a cloth finishing plant, bookbindery, and plate making and shipping departments. The things which go to make a volume need no longer be assembled from many diverse quarters. In effect, the physical book is l to be brought out of the earth itself, j with the source of power and raw material close at hand. Let us go back to the dream .and see how events shape themselves f'.ir its realization. Back in 1909 a Wall Street Banking house, Blair &. Co. financed a group of men in the purtain, in Tennessee .To get that coal chase of 500,000 acres of coal fields on what is known as Clinch MounI tain out to the country on both sides A of the range they built the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio* railroad, .'140 'miles through the Appalachians; and the difficulties of the task will be realized when you are told that thereare sixteen tunnels in one stretch of fifteen miles. Thus they opened up an almost virgin country and built (two towns, Kingsport in one and Irwin, N. C. the other?which tare not satellite settlements, but municipalities with their own charts and their own city government, says an aiut.-v in mi- ?cw iorK limes. Adams, through his acquaintances with men already interested at Kings* ~ort, saw the possibilities for supplyfig to the public inexpensive books lanufactured there, in association 'it h pulp and paper manufactures. "That is the place where the thing Scan be done/' he said. "Everything "we need to make a hook is there. We can get gray goods from the South and finish it for the bindings; we |hace coal, forests, transportation. ! |Why not do it? [f I And so he awoke from his dream find it almost come true. And b of ike first things he did was to tid out how cheaply the clasica jld be produced. "Thcasure Island" will be the first a series of twenty classics, and nple volumes are already at hand; t owing to the time required to tnufacture so many volumes, disbution to the public cannot begin fore April. It is a neat littie volle for hte side pocket, a fiction ire than four inches wide, a littie ire than six and half inches long, d it if* bound not in Daoer but in I Hw " " - -- | gjcloth; not in an imitation, but in real mloth; it is printed on book paper not , jgpaper with a wood fibre; it is printed iofrom new plates, in type agreeable ; to the eye. Its binding is red and 1 gold. "By using special machinery/' said Adams, "we can produce this book to sell to the public at ten cents, but only if we print millions. Fall Output in Spring But who would order so many gbooks? The Wooiworth Company/ with its chain of a thousand stores, Jwas the only concern capable of ordering and absorbing at a single stroke |snd distributing throughout the country so stupendous an output. And so the deal was made?not as quickly and easley as it is set down here, but after many conferences. And along in the Spring when the fancy of a certain age turns lightly not to | love but to adventure, every sm?*U boy may even, if he chose, travel ww SfllHPWPl TURKISH ! SMBiB E HwPBCAiiTO^a>^?LV/*^J| i ii WHAT IS NEDDED?MORE j EXECUTIONS r (Greensboro Daily News.) r Editor of the Daily News: j Capital punishment should be re- 7 taine?l on the statutes of the states ^ for the four crimes now named with ^ tra;:. a.td bank robbery added to the p list. The state and nation are too 0 sax in making and executing laws, t. hence the amazing number and character of cr-mes committed through- jj out the nation. Captain Laughing- | house ha.-* convincingly shown that j, murders increased at a*: enormous n rate in the United States and Europe where the death penalty was aoolisk- e ] ed a:ui declined accordingly when it s, was restored. 1 Life, liberty and property are not j adequately protected in the greatest a cities ijor in the most distant rural ^ i section. The criminal class are bold -j J and defiant because penalties are so p I light and uncertain. Bank robbers c I when convicted receive a penalty of j, I perhaps ten years, which generally l; means in a short time jail-breaking j or a pardon. o A gang of crooks often take $100,I 000 or more in one raid, whereas [} ' it takes a splendid business man to I accumulate this ? sum in a life CJ time. Robbery in all its forms be- 4., comes "a profession to the vicious a c-a.-, because ;t pays such large r. dividends. It is a habit with the professional crooks to take new names ;i after a short term in jail, by this means some have as many names as C4.ii* rujiiMM.. v upiuii pumsnmeni would i.'nd ail this hide and seek ^ business and s?.ve the state and na- *] tion millions of dollar sa eb.ssideaa ,f tion mil I i os of dollars, besides giv- ei ing a!! the people peace and security of life and property. By lax laws and poor enforcement, ^ both the makers and administrators o of law become a particeps criminis? ai an aid and abettor of crime. One s< olfense of this nature would close \ tl a career. j !; 1 am unalterably opposed to the d with Stevenson to a fabulous island I J. and traffi cwith pirates, and sing' j of fifteen men on a uead man's cheat c all for a round trip car fare. j d< Sixty thousand of these books can! t< be produced daily by the Kingsport tl Press, in addition to 40,000 volumes by the ordinary process. No other tl single plant in this country probably can turn out more than a third the total. Ford produces 100,000 automobiles and tractors a month; at Kingsport they will produce 100,000 books a day. xx And Tennessee mountaineers, many S1 of them illiterate but sure to absorb ' in time something of what they pro- Ll duce, will help tc lurn upon the country this Niagara of print. 1 Th ekingsport program calls for a minimum annua! output of 3,500,rtrtn i 1- - * ' I r .i- i- . uvv uuoK&, uui'-iunn 01 inr puip to; p be used will b cmadc from a by- n product of tilt tanning factory?chips W from which the tailing has been ex- Qj tracted. Identical trucks will he used throughout the entire plant, and in ^ many of the processes the material ^ will not be handled by men, but will (U he lifted by machinery from the S] truck, put through a process and ^ delivered to another truck. The first ^ ''run" calls for 50,000 Testaments, jO but the usual order will be for 500,- jj 000 bocks; and since orders for such quantities can be obtained for die- *= tionarics, primers, gram me r school E textbooks and certain classics, the ^ plant will be restricted to work of = that character. It is doubtful whether the short runs to which most current IL fiction is restricted can be under- ^ taken there. ^ The size of the printing plant may ? be gauged from the fact that its E concrete foundations are a mile and jf a half around. The building covers = three and a half acres and is so | large that a photograph conveying E and adquate notion if its size has [u yet been taken. Adams intends, how- j= ever, to have pictures made from an h atrplane. 5 In connection with the enterprise j? there is a 2,7000 farm acre where J there are blooded horses and kennels ; P of fine dogs, and where the supply. fi of vegetables and dairy products is j E used not for sale to the population j g of the town, but for its protection; ft it will be sold there only if merchants c= in Kingsport betray an inclination ? of profiteering. Otherwise it is ship- j [L ped to other markets. There is an | old mansion on it where guests and ^ visitors of the plant mey be enter- j p tained. Primarily Kingsport was planned to j supply additional tonnage to the rail- ? road, which vas an expensive enter- ^ prise. The co intry is rich in natural E recources, kaolin and stone aside ^ from the coal and timber and it has ^ the advantage of cold, pure moun- ^ tain water. But it developed into an ft extremely interesting civic experi-^J ment where healthful was encourag- E ed because he<hfulness makes for k efficiency and contentment and where ft spotlessness was encouraged because Q it makes for kealthfulness. ? It was an interesting town even c before Little and Ives decided to 0 build there a printing plant of unpre- {j ceaeniea size, i ne new unaerxaiuiiK jj makes it still more remarkable. Its population is wholly American-born. That the town 13 as a center o? the book population of this country is a coincidence which makes it a little the more remarkable. r-Tutfs Pills?I Enable Dyspeptics to eat whatever they wish. Cause food to assimilate. Nourish the body, give appetite. DEVELOP FLESH I THE WATAUGJ ife sentence. It is worse than death, t only makes a life of misery and egret for the criminal, and piles up huge debt on the taxpayer. It everses the burden of crime from t| he guilty to the innocent. As a citi- ( en I cheerfully pay taxes for every onorable cause, but protest against c, iving money to feed and clothe and p uard the vilest and most diabolical a f earth to lie in idleness till death nu.-> ail. o This class of society, created in the mage of God, endowed as you and \y, with faculties for protecting and a leasing themselves and theiir fellow- w 1 en, prostitute all these attributes an pients to rob and slay their broth- jr rs in the flesh and so descend in the , eaie beneath the wolf .and hyena <. 'hose brutal animals creep out in the n arkness of the night for njeat to ?j ppease their ravenous appetites with tl hich their creator endowed them, he arch fiend dreams by night and lans by day, crosses land arid sea. p arrying with him all the death-deal- k lg instruments possible, in order to p ike the money sought, whether from { lie most saintly widow or poorest ^ rphan, matters not. | tl Fanatics and sentimentalists say ti bey are too good to receive the oath penalty, though they may have v pmmittcd all the crimes in the ten r pmmandmcnts. Over five million s, lies died that liberty and t-lirhheous- I ess might be preserved; surely they s ;tve their lives in vain if anarchists -xV nd incarnate demons are permitted | , . feast and fatten on the fruits thi. c, -'deemed. oi President Harding did a wise thing { hen lie ordered all mail clerks on -n ie railroads to go armed, and shoot 0 ' necessary. Train robbing decreasi at once. | c Capital punishment is neither v gruesome" nor "revengeful." More , n ruesomc sights occur in hospitals all j ^ ver the nation than can be seen at I 11 electrocution. At the former per- j, ins have their limbs amputated and j( icir bodies cut open, while at the ^ alter, not a hone is broken, not a | rop of blood is shed. i a There is no malice in the law. i ^ neither the law, nor the judge, nor j c ury are guilty in any fair trial. The! \ riminal is the author of his own ' y eaih, as the old prophet Ilosea said i a ? the idolatrous Israel, "Oh, Israel. j j, lou hast destroyed thyself." The Almighty has sanctioned all t >is law and order in His own word. W. II. TOWNSEND. 1 g NOTICE v Notice is hereby given that, a bill ^ ill be introduced in the present ses- k on of the Legislature to amend the s r.arier of the town of Boone so as P ? extend the boundaries of the said * ' >\vn. Edw. N. Haliii, I fc his Jan. 1 1923 Mayor ! j ^nJant^nETiJ, ^ i 1 1 l CO-OPERATION We are still using oui ^ patroniing home folks P stoves, RangesT Machii | on from folks who do tax to the county and c P you or the county exce p ira earned cash off into s< ^ state, and then when y? p are yop going to get th Think it over now f !if 1 BOONE HARI PP / P^nfcanEBEnEnlanla^ t DEM. THE CASE OF DR. PEACOCK ci in (News and Observer.) in The case of Dr. Peacock discloses b? (iree things which reflect upon North cs arolina justice. They are: St 1. 1: failure to convict Dr. Pea- se ock of premeditated murder of the hi oliceman of Thonia;-viile. He was In n efficient officer and the cruel nuir- ~ er caused the righteous indignation , f thi whole State. This was not ssser.ed ty the failure of punishment ecun he was declared insane. The \v verago layman did not believe he as isane when ho committed the ^ eed, ' lit of course- had to acquiesce i the action taken upon the testan?ny ; 'nigh and honorable medical ? xperts. lie was sent to the departlcnt of the criminal insane. It was n ; cee'y predicu-d by the doubtful lat after a time he would be declar(1 sane and escape punishment. 2. The second event that made the eople feel the miscarriage of justice eenly was when D*-. Peacock was ermitted to escape from the State Visoe. He had not been put at !:ork. Many people felt that the auliorities had not exercised the coninuing watchfulness necessary, and her was found that he effected his scaj by means of five sheets in his oom there was much criticism and Din- ispicidn that be had been aid-* d : employees of the prison or <;ui ide parties who were in collusion j itn :?Jo. rhc superintendent and I 5 board ordered an investigation but! (?J no ovicicm e implicating anyj fticfa! -?r employe, flis escape has h ) re remained a mystery. It iow? j caused more diligent watch 1 . u h prisoners and a rccomendaion by the superintendent that the rimir ml insane be cared for else-11 hen than in the state prison. That latter will come before the" lcgisla- I ure. The third lamentable chapter i the miscarriage was the failure to nv the escaped doctor and hppreenri him. When the president of he bank at Thomasville defaulted nd escaped to Mexico the banking eteefve force kept on his trail loateu him in Mexico and brought him ?ack to North Carolina for trial Vlu u Dr. Peacock escaped there was n attempt to locate him at first ut evidently tho attempt was not ept up diligently. The first thing he i.horities knew of his wherehoi:t-> was when he was located at he home of hir> sister after he had one mt?? the courts anil obtained a erdiii lhat he was sane. It wouid ave been comparatively easy to have ept in touch with the home of his later in Florida. It is indeed surrising that, such obvious precautions o locate the escaped man wore not liken. Any detective who knew his cib would have seen to it inat an es- ? rm^3| 4 I1 LJ Ns jl IS OUR WORD i| n u slogan. How about 2hi instead of buying ijfe lery, Fencing and so pjj'ipl not pay one cent of jgj >ne worth nothing to ?| pt to take your hard jyj )me other county or || u want repairs where jgj yg as em* ii ^ 3WARE CO. J Pafe Seven ipedfprisoner could not unbeknow-1 K to the state authorities openly live nne ba *% r?f% the home of his sister in Florida. rUSCcaCS irin proceedings in a court and irrjr them to a decree adver-c to this ^ Vacations are often ate s judgment with noon, r-pre- ik^j b s(,rcness rc_ r.ting North Carolina, having no - - I suiting licm outdoor nt ,.f it until the decree was issued. ^ A ^ I!lassage _the < of the i hum., v He ,.an- , .h V..> . often gives r. he had only used r-ioney that surprising relief. \ 1' tnged to ? : lu-r . i . 'he caM- _ the rhomas- il!c doctor he had in ? ' r; "* w * nsciertious officer. Is more diH- *' V"?ORub faul ie hank officer thai: an es- o,. ,7 j,r, tw Wr ped murderer? We Are Strictly , 1 uujicrvisea We are required to report six times each ! vear to the Banking Department ol the Corporation Commission. These reports are , \er}' exhaustive and convey such inforinal on regarding our financial condition as will enable the supervising authority to determine whether our business is being carvied on with proper regard for safety of funds entrusted to our keeping. W e are also subject to examination by the bank examiner or t uditor who calls without giving any notice or warning, whatever. The examiner goes over and proves all our hooks and securities and inquires into every ph ase of our operation. We have always welcomed the strictest supervision and shah continue to do so. The Peoples Bank & Trust Company [r^iUPyefuey^^jt^^iay^^j^iPiycjQj^a^^^yay^pry^ aiu^^nfenBnJafira^nenfe^ j The Store of 1 j Quality & Service" | We are back to normalcy from the sale, |l fl | , *.1 ? * * * * " = anu greet you with possibly the best line of y| j everything to be found in town. Clothing, pi i . ' gj y Dry Goods, Notions and Groceries being SoPi p |j our main lines. We don't handly shoddy merjj chandise, and if you want that sort, it will do pi I . I ? you no good to see our line. ?3 I i = The Famous Godman Shoes rys 3 || IAre selling fast. There's a reason, they'er jHHi the best in America, Ask a wearer. A great variety of styles and prices. ys Full Line Ball Brand Rubbers. p| Watauga Supply Co. f
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