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FOOD WILL WIN WAR DON'T LET IT BURN HOOVER'S SLOGAN IS BACKED UP BY ANOTHER BY JAMES R. YOUNG. GOULD FEED 136 SOLDIERS Fires in America Mean Deaths in France. American Food Loss By Fire is $12,274,050. "Food will win the war," says Food Commissioner Hoover. "Don't let it burn," says Insurance Commissioner Young. A recent fire prevention circular is sued by the National Board of Fire Underwriters carries the head-line: "Fires in America mean deaths in France." It points out that from May 1 to October 16, inclusive, this year enough food has gone up in smoke in the United States, every minute, to ifted 136 soldiers. Multiply this $50.45 by minutes and hours in the 169 days In five and one-half months and you ihave the stupendous sum of $12,274, jG50, which is the known food fire loss pt the country during the period under consideration. The circular appeals to the people to look out for the small fires as well as the large ones. You know they ars All small at the start and the fact that the government has gained so much in the sale of liberty bonds to raise funds jfor the prosecution of the war through ae small subscriptions of millions of ieitlzens emphasises the necessity of those same millions of citizens keep ing eternal vigilance toward the pre vention of the small fires which grow into conflagrations carry enormous loss of foodstuffs. It is Indeed saving At the spigot and wasting at the bung when loyal citizens will give money to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. war work fund, buy liberty bonds, observe meatless and wheatlees days and then eit complacently in their place- of business and homes and allow the ac cumulation of rubbish to grow and en danger the property of themselves and their neighbors with the ever present hazard of preventable fires. If you would seek a prime duty to your country, look about you. DANGER FROM OPEN FIRES The open fireplace is responsible for a pretty fair share of the preventable fire waste of our State and of the loss of life by fire. During the year 1916, over $10,000 damage was caused by this menace, and from present indica tion the loss from this cause will be much larger in 1917. Statistics are not available for showing how many PREVENT FIRE AND WIN WAR Every Year Fires In United States Destroy Enough Material to Win the Big War. Aeroplanes will win the war. It has been said by military experts that 25,000 American aeroplanes would win the war and force Germany to her knees in a plea for peace. Put ting the average cost of these at. 57, 500 each, America burns up in a ;.ear the value of 30,000 aeroplens. Destroyers will win the war. Naval experts tell us that an added force of a hundred and fifty destroyers would put a definite end to the sub marine menace and win for allied ship ping the undisputed open traffic on the Atlantic that would put troops and supplies on -the battlefields and speed ily conquer the Huns. The Nation s fire bill for one year would bal.d these hundred and fifty destroyers and equip them. Food will win the war. From May 1 to October 16 this year enough food was destroyed by fire every minute to feed 136 soldiers. Dur ing the period under consideration $12. 274,050 in food alone was destroyed by America's worst enemies Fire and Carelessness. Money will win the war. The greatest financial scheme ever undertaken by the citizens of a natton was the oversubscription to the First and Second Liberty loans of the Unit ed States Government. Tbe interest on the two loans is annual approxi mately $254,000,000. America's annual fire bill will pay this interest. Adequate hospitals will save, count less thousands of our soldiers. 4 An investment of $60,000 will equip a base hospital, capable of caring for 400 sick or wounded. The amount of waste in America for one year from those same enemies Fire and Care lessness would build and equip 3.600 such hospitals. This would approxi mate one to each half-mile on all European battle fronts. Destitute orphans in France must be saved. In destitution in the bereaved homes In France are multitudes of the chil dren of those who have given their lives on the battle fields. Appeals have. been made to American benevo lence upon the basis of ten cents per day per child to provide for their immediate necessities. Six million such little ones, or far more than the total number in need could be support ed for the cost of America's senseless destruction. The answer is up to you. Destruction of property by fire is a matter of individual responsibility. Each one must take it to himself as a personal matter. There are fifteen hundred fires each day in America, or more than one to the minute. What right has any one to assume that all of these will occur on the premises of "other people?" From wnaUyer stand point it is examined it must be realiz ed that every preveotoble Are, little or big, is to some degree 'an aid and comfort to the enemy." Usiese each eltiaea resolves this day that there shell be w suck occurrence ia prop GEM ALLIES 111 THE UNITED STATES EFFECTIVE OPERATIONS OF POW ' ERFUL TEUTONIC ALLY IN f i AMERICA. FOE IS NOT "ALIEN ENEMY" But Comes From Good American Stock Is Preventative Fires and Cause Is Carelessness. . Germany has a powerful ally work ing within the boundaries of the Unit jed States, is the warning contained in ;a recent bulletin of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. Its operations are very effective.1 It enters oiunitiou jplants and causes explosions. It crip ples hundreds of factories which are 'laboring to produce war time necessi ties. It waits until the grain in the (fields is ripe for the harvest, and thn 'destroys overt thousands of acres, or else it bides its time until the bar rest ed crops have been stored in elevators, and obliterates them by the hundreds of thousands of bushels. It operates In every city and town, and in the country districts. It is unceasing in its activities, working by night as well as by day, and for every hour of the twenty-four. It enters countless homes bringing devastation and sor row; and last but not least, it causes heavy loss of life. This foe is not an "alien enemy," but comes of good American stock. It ,is encouraged by millions of people who believe themselves to be patriot.!:;. Without their help it would soon be overcome; for the name of this great enemy is Preventable Fire, and its principal cause is American careless ness. Putting their average cost at $7,300 apiece, America in a year burns up tha value of 30,000 aeroplanes, and 30,009 aeroplanes would win the war; or. to put it another way, the nation's fire bill, if it could be applied to their con struction, would supply our navy with one hundred and fifty destroyers, and such an added force would end the menace of the submarine. The two liberty Loans carry annual interest charges of $254,000,000, but the United States burns up each year enough property to pay this interest. In destitution in the bereaved homes of France are multitudes of the chil dren of those who have their lives on the battlefields. Appeals have been made to American benevolenee upon the basis of ten cents per day per MOT'S THOUGHT SAVES HUMAN LIFE OBSERVANCE OF THE SIMPLEST RULES OF SAFETY CON SERVES THOUSANDS. CARELESSNESS CAUSES DEATH North Carolinians Should Be Careful During Wartime Stop 1 Lookl Listen I Fire child to provide for their immediate neccessities. Six million sueh little rwoman should be emblazoned ones, or far more than the total nam-! slogan. Stop! Reason! ' (By T. Alfred Fleming, State Marshal of Ohio.) A moment's, thought may save hu man lives ; the observance of the sim plest rules of safety may mean the conservation of thousands of dollars iin badly needed commodities. And yet the newspapers are full of harrowing, heart-rending accounts of men, women and babies, burned to death through the thoughtlessness of others. "Babe perishes in fire : Mother visit ing neighbor," reads one headline. ; "Explosition kills two; boy and mother fatally burned when lad at tempts to start fire with gasoline," reads amother. "Burned when gas explodes," is still another headline. Death and carelessness are allies; and carelessness is the barrage under which death makes the charge. Wartime is the time of conservation. Are We Conservative? Are we conserving life and property when such horrors as are headlined dally, occur? The government orders our food con served; we give gladly and willingly to the. sacred cause for which our own sons are fighting; we are denying, and we will continue to deny ourselves, things thought indispensable to our lives before the clouds of a world's storm covered the glabe. Is it conservation that a babe, who might in the time to come, be the man or woman who would turn the sphere of Destiny, dies through carelessness? Is it conservation that through not properly inspecting vacant property, a lighted match and an open valve makes for a dangerous explosion and possibly kills or maims for life a hu man being? Stop! Think!! Reason!!! The railway crossings are guarded by the sign "Stop! Look! Listen!" It is true that this- does not elimi nate all accidents but it does a vast Dumber. ; In the brain of every man and this EASY MATTER FOR MEN OR WUMttlN TU BU1L1J UP STRENrj According to This Lady Who Regained Her Weight p Strength and Vigor In Just Ordinary Iron Rem? Highly Concentrated, It is More Powerful, Cheaper Too, and Goes Twice As Far. "I suffered for years with various troubles. I seemed all run down and failing fast. I imagine it was stonv. NOTICE OF TION OF NEW P.?r"tun F0RJ T" I ci .- . Shu IT J . -1 in once is hereby V9n , tete of Wilson & 5 ! the U 4- U1 nA K,r r.T.in;nallv Vlaf nr -it. i , UCUU Lesll t u ' .n uuuuic am Fi uwi.., w. rreaencKs and uluu6"vu T j 1 t"e partnership here i came later. I tried several doctors ing. amone- them "etore J and sent away to , Buf- and stvle of KRtt e ? id me rmifDAMv -7, .f-K. Tt' A street, Boston, Massacht With tjirmeTioe T - i .""Sette cylvania, Johnsonburs- SJVen P Elkins, West Virginia North Carolina, St. MaWsV yama and Mt. Jewett, PJj is dissolved by mutual coSlv: uecemoer 31, 1917. 'sasi Notice is hereby 'further a new partnership under name of KISTLER, LESw Je BANY and composed Sf a CO: Kistler and H. Frederick LeTJ been formed as of Jan: Jt1 i and will from and after a i !5kS. "TK a.nd the Z uj. liic uiu iirm at ivio her in need, could be supported for the cost of our senseless detraction. Aa ia vestment of $60,000 will equip deaths were chargeable to the open srate in 1916, but the number ia con-' controlled by Win, and aclass he siaerawe. me tats resolve efleettro by bama- Many farm houses have largo flr-; inspection aad correction of all piaces in which the smaller logs and j tro fcasards, be caanot cooattared a fcrae patriot no matter what may bo bis eosfeeslo&s. sail one mm lists (Other wood found about the farm are (burned. Duo to the shortage of coal this year, the use of wood for fuel will jbe evea more general. Wood, whom burning;, has a tendency to .pop aad throw spark In every direction. Oft entimes these flaming particle of wood are conveyed to surrounding: in flammatory material, and fire results. Then there is always the possibility! that children, playing about the ope&j 'fire, may get so close to the flame that j clothes are ignited, and the loss of lira or serious injury is likely to result. Not all the casualty Mats printed hi To conform to all the rules of safety, these days of war are the result of open fireplaces should be provided ' boH fire or poison gas oa the battle with good substantial metal screen., ! tmtl in France. The uncertainty of which should be arranged so aa to ! borne existence is brought to mind in encircle the exposed portion of the ' recent report of a well known acci tie AM Are Rasutt of &he Fire or Gae Hem Bxfetenoe Mae Proven ttaoerta&n. fireplace. In addition to the screen, extra precautions should also be taken to see that a brick flooring extends a aufficient distance away from the grate so that any burning wood which may fall from the fireplace will do no damage. WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR IS YOUR ENEMY. If you had reason to believe that! your neighbor was an alien enemy spy and might rise up in the night and burn your home while you slept yod would take prompt and effective steps to protect yourself, says a writer in the Southern Construction News. How many people concern themselves se riously, as to whether or not their neighbor may. be responsible for a fire that will wipe out house and home over night? And what's the differ ence in the loss of property, or possi ble life, whether the neighbor is real ly an enemy or a careless friend. If your neighbor is harboring a defective flue, trash-ridden attic closets or cel lar; if his electri9 wires or stoves are so installed as to endanger the wood work or if his family or servants han dle gasoline or oily rags either ig norantly or carelessly so as to in vite fire-disaster if your neighbor is doing any of these things or others equally careless or dangerous its your move. In matters of fire-protection it ps strikingly true that "no man liveth to himself alone." Our only safety Bos in public sentiment awakened tSreufh education. dent company showing clatma paid by the company. The following item from the Kan sis City Times toils the story well: If the soldiers m the trances should read the recent report of a certain ac cident insurance company they dig have seme such feelings as the sailor whose ship was threshing about ia a great storm at sea. '1 pity the folks on shore tonight, with chimney pots falling, gutters blowing off the eaves of houses aax) trees falling. The report gives the record of acci- ' No one eaa tell when property has jbeen vacant for months, what con dition the gas pipes and fixture may S i 1 . m . a oast nospiis, capaMe oi earwig ror be in. As a matter of self protection 400 sick or wounded; if American : and for peblie safety throw open doors peopls would change their habits to and windows before striking a light those of carefulness, 3,600 such hos- J Examine all gas connections and be pifeals might be supplied by means of em every thing hi as it should be. the money thus saved from Are de-j Cellars are the eubteTraaean galicr struetion. This would approximate m where the noxious gases love to one to each hatf-miia aa all Saropes ; mi Air out tfte cellar before stop battiefronte. I there long. From whatever urandpohit it is ex amined, therefore, it must be realised Gasoline a Menaea. G&eottae is always dangerous, la a that every preventable fire, Httfe or ! harry or in the darkness the aaeoRxte big, is to some degree "an aid and ' eaa is too oftea mistaken tor the eeal comfort to the enemy. This is a nat ter of individual responsibility. Each one must take it to himself as a per sonal matter. There are llfteem hun dred fires each day, or more than ene per minute. What right has anyone to assume that all of these will occur on the premises of "other people?" Unless he resolves this day that there shall be no such occurrence ra prop erty Controlled by him. and unless he makes this resolve effective by means of an immediate inspection and cor rection of all fire hacardsfi he cannot be considered a true patriot no matter what may be his confessions. WATCH YOUR STEP! The record of accidents due to eoto mobiles shows plainly the need of ped estrain regulation, says a writer in the New York Evening Post. According to the report of the New York city police department for 1915, etghtysev- oil receptacle. Have distinctive types of cans so there ean be no mistake is jthe dark. If necessary wrap sane pa per about the wooden grasp of the gasoline can. In that way no mistake can be made. Paint the gasoline can red; have a certain place to keep it in and when not in use see that it is kept there. In the cold months thee is always danger in the heating appliances for the house, whether coal, gas or elec tricity is the agent employed. Never leave children alone hi ths house where fires are going. This may seem needless advice, but read the papers. Tots will play with fire; wrH get to the match supply. Follow fires and death 8ave Years of Aoeny. A moment's thought oa the part of parents will save years of agony, re jmorse and grief. : America is at war; conditions wifl falo. N. Y, but their medicine did me no good. Indigestion, sour, bitter eruptions from my stomach. Flatu lence, billiousness, torpid liver, weak and nervous feeling, headaches, poor blood and catarrh of long standing", head noises and aches and pains until honestly when I look back at those months and months of suffering I won der how I stood it all. Trying to keep store and look cheerful with such ail ments tugging and pulling you down is awfully hard. I owe my relief to a salesman who walked in one day when I was suffering particularly bad and he told me about Acid Iron Min eral. He had been troubled the same way I was until he took Acid Iron Mineral and so on his recommenda tion I started taking this great rem edy. I took three bottles and it did me a world of good. I felt better than I have in years. I am blessed with wonderful health and strength, thanks to A. I. M., and I now weigh 150 pounds, while before taking it I had almost given up ever being well and strong again. I praise it because I'm sure there can be no medicine on the market today that will beat Acid Iron Mineral," enthusiastically states Mrs. E. Short, of Van Dyke, Va. Anyone, by taking a few drops of Acid Iron Mineral mixed in water two or three times a day can be ben efitted wonderfully. It is just plain, highly concentrated natural iron. It is more powerful and cheaper than weaker prepared pills or preparations containing iron as the chief medicinal element. Everyone knows iron is good for the blood and whole system, building people up almost like magic. The reason is plain. To make rich blood you must have iron. Without rich, red blood your strength leaves you, blood gets clogged very oftea with uric acid causing rheumatism troubles and the whole system becomes weakened and run down. Being very powerful a few drops in a glass of water r slices a dose. It is sold only in original bottles under "A. I. M." trademark on the bottle and carton. This is your guarantee of full strength and quality. Most druggists have it and a twelve ounce bottle costs but a dollar and is a splen did investment if the reader is in search of something to cleanse, build up and strengthen the system. Pal lid, yellow complexions soon disap pear if the thousands of users of the past thirty years are to be believed. Get a bottle today. Carolina, St. Marys, PenmhLH ' as " Jurke " St. Marv's TannpW t ol vr "J ana " Mt. Jewett- Ppn r c a u . ler, Lesh & Company BnJL V nerv." "Kistler. T.v. . 5ke h ' ... 5 -"Oi-l tV Lesh & company Mt. j nery," respectivelv. li Notice is hereby furt.W all notes, account - e?t!j , .-"""u mioses lion Deioneine' r.n Km-L- t. iur-. T.f. .T?.c ery. es m Mary's Tannery and Mt tJ:7: nery aforesaid have he ?Ji hv and arp ravoWa t 91 ""j- iu luc new ... Kistler, Lesh & Comnan ni?1 of. Andrew M. Kistler and H T a v u-vi: . , au the de emu jjauiuucc Ul biXHl i5Ul'kP Ton, Yxaij a xaimery and Alt. Jew, xxxijci iwvc ueen assumed and be discharged by said new firm posed as aforesaid, in due This 26th day of Decern 101' KISTLER, LESH & COMPUv ESTATE OF WILSON KISTLFP H. FREDERICK LESH BENJAMIN W. FREDERICK ANDREW M. KISTLER. SPECIAL NOTICE Advertisements inserted under M head at the rate of 5 conts per m each insertion. Try an ad. in tl; department for quick returns. sons were injured or killed, and the causes of which were given, were the dents to the company's policy-holders r fault of the injured. One-third of all en per cent of all vehicular accidents in the streets of the city in which per-; become more and more active, this is bound to be; but with the increased activity must come also an increased the last three months. It shows that a those killed or injured in New ork person , doesn't have to go to war to' city were under sixteen years of age. Stamp out ths Red Plague. stairs at home and were injured ten slipped on floors and were hurt;, seventy-nine sprained their ankles; three slipped in bath tubs and one died from that hurt; three were injured getting out of bed ; seventy were hurt while at play; three were hurt while dressing, and thirty-seven were hurt while work ing about the house. In one case a soldier went through the fiercest battles of the war unin jured, and while home on a furlough fell and was seriously injured., A noted economist makes the follow ing startling comparison : "If we should open the doors of our penitentiaries and turn loose all our jeonvieted thieves, thugs, forgers and murderers, the depredations of those undesirable citizen would probably not eost any more life and property than would be saved by the elimination of the moral hazard ia fire iasurasee. jThis would indicate clearly that any material reduction of street accidents must be brought about by educating both adults and children to observe jproper caution, by regulataing pedes train traffic, by providing adequate playgrounds for children and forbid ding playing and skating in the streets and stealing rides. Every reasonable means having been taken to prevent the reckless and care less driving of vehicles and operation of street cars, it remains to regulate the pedestrian to protect him against his own carelessness. If all the acci dents due to faults of drivers and oper ators of vehicles were eliminated it would reduce the total number of street accidents only one-tenth. Com parison of the records of New York city with those of Germany for the year 1915, as shown by a report of the t Association of Administratioas of Ger man Street and Interurban Lines, proves that eighty-six per cent were due to the fault of the injured.- mental capacity. The brain in these high tension times must be mentor of the safety of the commonwealth. ; "We, as a Nation, we, as individuals, must think as we have never thought before, as well as work as we never labored before. ! As a community, as a state and a? a nation, we cannot afford to lose cn ounce of commodity; neither can we afford to lose a single human life, heedlessly, needlessly and unneces sarily. Conservation does not alone mean the gathering and husbanding and dis tribution of foodstuffs, munitions, Iclothing, boots and shoes, but it means also the safeguarding of the live? and health of our people as a nation. - To. accomplish alj of this our brains (must be kept at hight tension voltage. : We must Stop! Think!! and Reason!!! From Bridgewater, Route 1. Correspondence of The News-Herald. The Sunday school of Morrison's chapel enjoyed a Christmas tree Tues day morning. Miss Bessie Seals, of Raleigh, is spending the holidays at home. Miss Gertrude Neill, who is teach ing in the high school at Woodruff, S. C, is at home for several weeks. Miss Bertie Taylor returned to Am herst academy this week after spend ing the holidays with her parents. Miss Bessie Crawley, of Morganton, wa sa week-end visitor at the home of Miss Ruth Cowan. Miss Beth Neill is at home from her school at Rutherford College. Mr. James Morrison, of Shelby, will visit homefolks this week. Mr. James Williams, of the U. S. Navy, is on a visit to his mother. Miss Bertie Taylor delightfully en tertained a number of her friends Fri day evening from 7:30 to 10:30. The "parlor was tastefully decorated with evergreens. Various games were played, after which delicious refresh ments were served. Miss Donnie Hall, of aRleigh, is spending some time at home. Mr. Judge Bowers, of the U. S. Navy, spent Christmas at home. Miss Maggie Neill reopened Mt. Olive school this week. Miss Ruth Cowan returned to Mis sionary school Sunday. Mr. Oscar Bradley and Miss Celia Ballew will begin school at Dry Ponds this week. Miss Bertie Taylor spent Christmas with Miss Beth Neill. Miss Docia Bridges has as her guests her cousins, the Misses Bridges of Ellenboro. Miss Hattie Cowan visited the Misses Neill Christmas. Mr. Gus Morrison is quite sick with measles. Miss Beth Neill visited Mrs. T. A. Simpson, at Glen Alpine, Monday. Mr. Henry Hall, of Greenville, S. C, spent several days during Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cowan. Mr. B. L. Morrison and Mr. N. J. Morrison were in Morganton on busi ness last week. W. H. WAKEFIELD, M. D, Charlotte, will be in Morganton, J Walton House, on Tuesday, Jamiarf 15th, one day only. The Doctor li; its his practice to the medical a: surgical treatment of eye, ear and throat diseases and fitting gla; es. Ask your physician about coJ suiting Doctor Wakefield. ' WANTED Hickory Logs -Hi? est . prices paid. Send for price li and specifications. THE IVEY MF CO., Hickory, N. C. WANTED Peas at highest pric I pay cash. Write me what you hav Large, fine, gentle, brood mare sale chaeap. Easy terms. J. COULTER, Connelly Springs, X. WANTED HICKORY LOGS Will nav $13.00 per cord for be: quality. THE IVEY MFG. CO, Hit ory, N. C. WANTED 500 to 1000 bushels crnnrl white earn. f. 0. b. Morgai ton. E. McK. GOODWIN. FURS FURS Will buy sll of green furs. THE BUSY bim food in the znoirSbs of ' our allies means shelH in . the mouth of our fcaeny. Careleis fires which burn food K&ean shells in th mouths of cuf tlHes. WOOD'S Poultry Foods To get Eggs during the months, when tney are twice as much as Eggs ; in Sang it is necessary that the hens g the proper food. Our HOLLYBR00K LAW FOOD, a specially prWfJJJ containing alLthe elements fe sary for Egg production, wot. most satisfactory results. a mash food, properly bstog and ready for the nioriung HOLLYBROOK SCRATflg FOOD,-which is a gS4 containing a large assorting cracked and small grams, i , used as an exercise fod'.V in the pens to make the s fi enj , for what they get, will also m increase Egg Producao"TAT0G. WrifA for nrices and CM a f . giving lniormawu" POULTRY FOODS PLIES. Mailed free and l on reqtf-' T. W. WOOD & S0 SEEDSMEN, juciuuv It is kinder to say that a man or woman is ignorant than that they are so selfish as to disregard the pitiful cries of starving humanity on the other side. . ' MULES FOR SALE. Always from 00 to 306 head of Horses and Mules of all description for sale at my stables in York, Pai JOR KINDIG. n W. P. SPEAS, J. Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose, Thr HICKORY, N- C' Office over Hickory Drug Co. "TrTa7 in The NeHeraW f f Rrke COW'' every secuon Join the Thrift army Savings Stamp. get a 5
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