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T X YTednesday, January 271913J PAC3 i CiiiiTi"l'Xi-l t i 4 TIE GAZETTE-HEWS PUBLISHED BT Evening News Publishing Co. ASHEVILLE, S. C W. A. Hlldebrand. Wm. M. Brtcken.. Bdttor , .General Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATESl ' Ashevttle and BUtmoi One Week ..,... .JJ Three Month . . Six Month Twelve Month 00 BT MAIL. IN ADVANCE nm Month ........10 War Month .............. Twelve Months .4.00 Any matter offeree- for puDllcation that 1 not classlflsd a new. givinK notice or appealing or project Br an admittance or other fee t charged I advertising and will be aeoepted at regular rate only. The aaroe applies , t sard of thank, obituary notices. , political announcement and the like n w tm H "' H The Gasette-Newa 1 a msm- at - Th. Annotated Presa v.. nt. nun in tnere- for complete and reliable. j K t Ot K S W Entered at the Postofflce !n Ashevtll ; aa eecond-claas matter. ! Wednesday, January 27, 1915. tera of population aa the power of Niagara Fall, for example, la avail able for Buffalo. The solution, it 1 pointed out, eon 1st In "finding commodities which can be produced In the slectrio furnace at such low cost that the markets of tha world caa bo entered." The com mission thereto) augweata that the state Investigate opportuixtie for the! manufacture of fertilizers. There are I plenty of matertej available for the production of potash, nitrate from the air. The bis; element of cost is the power, and there U almost limitless power waiting to be harnessed. The present war demand for nitrates to make explosives, and the Increased call for fertilizers in the domestic mar-; ket aa a result of our tailed Imports, ! create unusual opportunities in these Industries, Eventually, no-doubt, the nation wffi learn to use most of the great, wasted forces of nature hi some suoh way to make products of high value and world-wide use whose manufacture re quires a vast amount of cheap power. Not only the water power can be used thus, but the fuel deposits whose transportation is difficult (such aa the immense lignite coal bed of North Dakota and Montana), the wtnd and wave power at convenient places, and possibly the Interior heat of the earth In such regions as the Yellowstone Park, where the cold outer crust Is easily pierced. "BUILD NOW." SEEING SOUTH AMERICA, The Red Star liner Kroonland " (memorable as the ship that saved ' most of the crew and passengers of the I Volturno when that vessel burned at i sea) has started on a historic voyage. She is going to circumnavigate South America with SOO passengers on an i eighty-two days' cruise. She will stop 1 at nearly all the principal ports of the West Indies and the east and west ! rnnxts of South America. She will pass through the Strait of Magellan ' and the Panama Canal, being the larg est vessel thus far scheduled to make the canal passage. This steamer, the first to encircle the great South American continent, opens a new era of travel and trade. For many years wo have had "circular tours" to Europe, and even around the world. Now, with Europe barred to pleasure-seekers and the Far East less hospitable, the southern hemisphere beckons. Those 300 pasitenciers of the Kroon land are pioneers of a great stream of tourists who will visit the southern lands and people and return full of enthusiasm They will be warm!y welcomed by our Spanish and Portu guese neighbors. They will be ambas sadors of good will and harbingers of trade. They will be Interpreters be tween the latin-Americans and the North Americans. The sailing of the Kroonland is a nearnest of the time soon to come, we hope, when all the American republic Including our sis ter Canada, really as much a republic as any of us will acknownedge the new spirit of a greater Americanism, and present a united front to the. Old World. The firms engaged In the building trades in Augusta, Qa., have adopted a practical and sensible method of stimulating business. They need em ployment for their men)' and their money, and the city needs houses and business structures. But everybody I has been holding back because well, because everybody else was holding back. The problem faced by the builders Is simply the overcoming of their fellov. citizens' Inertia. So they have all Joined In an appeal to the public of Augusta, pointing out the advantages of "building now" Instead if after a while. The firms explain that they can build today for $3,900 a house thai In ordinary time would cost $4,700. They show that reductions for con struction work range from 10 to J 5 per cent compared with the prices that prevailed before the business depression came. They are not cutting under market prices for such work; they are simply pointing . out the great economy of building now, while market prices are low. The situation is much the same ,ta most other citlea Not for many years have bulTdlng materials been so cheap. It is the strategic time to erect houses and stores and factories and public buildings. With the inevit able wave of prosperity, prices will rise again and the money won't go so fur. Meanwhile, by Judicious expendi tures In constructive work, those who have the money cannot only get more for It but can relieve unemployment and hasten the good times. MM of eaaoer bad occurred, Buoh an inquiry can be only preliminary to aa accurate determination. Of wheth er cancer 1 really more freqnent to one house than in another. T reach the true ooocluelon it would be neeea sary to consider all the detail pi the population, not only ot the "-cancer house" but also of the other tuyaeea la the same neighborhood aa to age, sex, nature and site of the disease, duration of stay, occupation and hab its. Some houses might be sought af ter by old people because of low ren tal or a house might be let to cou ples without children or it might be frequented by aged lodger. Even If it were scientifically established that cancer 1 more frequent in certain houses, it v would be falladou to jump to the conclusion that cancer la Infectious. In all euch Inquiries we must not overlook the great fre quency of the disease, especially in adult life, and the part which ordinary chance would play in counting up cases in certain houses and certain localities. Aa Dr. Bashford point out, the British statistics for 1911 show that out ot a total of 145,703 deaths ot males over 35 years of age, 14,963 died of cancer, and out of 146,270 deaths ot females over 35 years of age, 19,683 died of cancer. It is easy to calculate therefrom that the chance that a man over 36 will die from can cer la one In 9,7, and for a woman over 36 one in 7.4. It would indeed be strange if this large number of deaths from cancer were distributed evenly and it I perfectly natural to suppose that some houses and some families would exhibit many more cases, and might even by the laws of chance continue to exhibit a high rate oner long periods of time. The conclusion that cancer is either In fectious or hereditary would on such evidence, be unwarranted. Sir Thomas Oliver In a recent address refered to one street in which between 189$ and 1908, nineteen persons and one dog had died of cancer. Careful examina tion shows that the death rate of this street was only a little above the av erage for the whole country. Journ al of American Medical association. Mi' RIPPLING 3 RHYMES 1 . SLUMBER. For all your worry and your weep ing, for all your pain and woe, just try some good old-fashioned sleeping the finest cure I know. "Ah, yes," you say, "such talk is easy, well men may hand it out; but when with asthma one Is wheezy, or when he has the gout, or when black care with him is drilling. all sleepless are his eyes; he cannot slumber for a shilling, no matter how he tries." So speaks the timid human rabbit, filled with forebodings dire; yet sleep, like kicking, is a habit that sick folks may acquire. When I am sick I travel bed ward, and lock my chamber door, and say, "So help me Albert Edward, 1 11 sleep or bust a snore!" - I count some sheep lmagl nary, cavorting o'er a stile; such an! mals are flip and merry, and always make me smile; I watch those mut tons, soiled and frowsy, their long pro. cession keep, and pretty soon I'm feel ing drowsy, and then I am asleep. At first I counted seven billion before I got repose, but now, when I reach half a million, I nearly always doze. You watch your ewes and lambkin mounting the stile, a deluge deep; you keep on counting, counting counting. until you fall asleep. WALT MASON. . Copyright 1916, by The Adams News, paper Service. THE DECAY OF LYNCHING. s Lynching fell off In 1914. There were only 62 cases In the United Mates, the smallest number In any year since the records have been kept Aside from this general indication of a growing respect for law and order, scrutiny of the records develops some less gratifying facts. First of all. tt should be noted that If "the usual crime" were ever re garded as a blanket justification for the Institution of lynching, It must new bs definitely discarded. Relent less statistics declare that only seven lynching out of the 62 rame within tha category of chlvalric murders for the protection of womanhood, and only five of the victim In these cases were colored. Looking Into the motive for the other 45 killings, we find that men and women three women were lynched for mutder, for assault and battery, for robbery, for stealing mules, for burning barns, for assisting other men to escape and for being discovered un der a house. Booker T, Washington point out a growing tendency "to lynch for any cause, however trivial." We are forced to the conclusion that In a typical modern lynching the orig inal crime is the factor of least im portance. The chief cause appear to be a criminal desire for blood on the jart of an Inflamed mob. Nearly any ciffenss will servs for a pretext A New York manufacturing firm has paid the city $750 by way of compensation for the extinction of a fire for which the company wa held responsible because of neglect to obey a fire department order. If this meth od were applied generally, after a while theTe would either be mighty few fires or the fire departments would be self-sustaining. The Idea Is recommended to all other, cities. ttKKKKKttKIt! Unit"!! l st A MODEST GREAT MAN. Two thousand persons stood In line nearly all night to pay several dol lars apiece for ticket to one ot Caruso' farewell performances In the Metropolitan Opera house. Just an other evidence of hard times In New York. This wnr I just one name after an other. No sooner do we begin to get used to Prenk Bib Doda, the Alban ian rebel chief, than we are con fronted by B. Koker Jin, burgomas ter of Krlmpen-on-the-Yser. 1 1'TlMNfS ENERGY INTO WEALTH. The Oregon Conservation Commis- n reports that there I $0,000,000 niial horse-power In the Columbia . r basin, one-third of all the "white l ' In the United Bute and nearly f It going U wast. r ran this power be utilised f A smtii part of it will iufflc for of the local population. Klec- s t generated there cannot bo f direct use to far distant cen Speaking of Hone Shows how's this for horse sense4? ,You need a newweninty-suir for- tXMtiight. Your tailor out of the tjttestion. "... v. " Yotrve known that our fab rics are identical with those of the highest priced tailors. You determine to droo into one of our stores. You see the fit before you order. You find that pur prices are about half roar first-rate tailor's. Need weqr morel Our smartest young men's dress suits are shapely, with soft rolling lapels, silk faces some with edges silk piped all around. Strange as It sounds More motor liveries are seen at the Horse Show than car riage liveries. . Correct livery for any man servant and every occasion has been our specialty for years. For carriage, motor or house. Rogers Pket Company Thro Broadway Store t at at Warren St 18th St 84th St M. V. MOORE &CO., 11 Fatton Ave, CONSCIENCE aad oar enter Into every pair of Klaea w make for you.. W are at all time conscious ; of the responsibilities placed ' ee ua whan yon oom to us for gins n and that I why we are ma careful la our examination ' aad la rpfkl"t aad fitting your ' CHAELE3 H. HONESS, OPTOMETRIST aad OPTICIAN M Pattoa Ave. Op p. Post office Henry Ford, the automobile man, may be reckoned some day as one of the greatest benefactors of the race. The fact that this modest mechanic- millionaire doesn't know he is a great man makes him all the greater, - The man himself is lo.it In his Work.. He Is not a dominant or compelling per sonality he Is one of the most shrinking persons I have ever met, embarassed almost to speechlessness by a word of praise. But he seems to ! a sort of lndustrlan force, working out automatically along new lines, rather than a person, lie represents a new industrial age. And the ideas with which he recently startled the world of Industry may soon seem as natural and Inevitable as steam and electricity. I talked with Mr. Ford a year ago. Just after he had announced his great profit-sharing plan, by which the humblest laborer In his factories was to get a minimum wage of $5 a day. Other captains of Industry were du bious of Its success, but Ford bad no doubts. "Of course it'll work," he said. "I don't know anything about economics and socialism and such things, but I know that the men who earn the money for us ought to get more of the profits than they're getting, and that they'll make good use of all the money we pay them. And we can afford to double their wagea Most Industries could. If they'd do aa V have done, and standardize their output and sys tematise everything, and treat their employees as individual human be ing." Well, that eiperiment has been go ing on now for one year and lust the other day Henry Ford went to New York and reported the results to the Commission on Industrial relutlona In the first year of this amazing profit-sharing arrangement the com-, pany had not only added about $10, 000,000 to It men's wages, but had made a ne profit of more than $2S, 000,000. On a capitalization of 12, 000.000 It had earned a much money for dividends aa the greet Pennsyl vania railroad, with It I4G0.000.000 if capital, earned In 1112, a fairly good year, when It paid six per cent Obviously the Hun bus paid the cor poration In sond nurd dollare, al- no thought of benefitting under the new system." But the figures seem to show that you can't pay workmen more wages without getting back more than you pay them in increased efficiency. Any how, the Ford employees In the past year have turned out from 15 to 20 per cent more work, In spite of a re duction of their working time from nine hours to eight "We have to hold the men back." says Ford. Formerly 10 per cent of the em ployees were absent every day for some cause or other. During the past year that idleness was reduced to three-tenths of one per cent And yet there are those who say that the working classes won't work unless they're hard up and need the money for Immediate purposes! In March, 1911, the company had to discharge 1,2 7 1 men; in March, 1914, It only had to discharge ltt out of its 18.000. In March. 191J, 870 employees quit; In the same month last year only 116 quit The same stimulating profit-sharing arrange ment decreased the "floaters," or "five day men," In the same period of time, from 6.160 to 1. Evidently those employee have worked for their money. . But what have they done with ltT Squandered it In riotous living, as many prophe sied they would , Ford reports these facts: 8,000 families, In one year, have Useful . in the Home OtrrBternau Stove for use with, solid alcohol. Price 50c Eaoh,s Brown, Northup & Co. 33 Fatton Ave. V J moved out of their old home Into better ones. The bank accounts carried by em ployees Increased 180 per cent In six month. The life insurance carried Increased 86 per cent In six months. Homes owned outright by employ ees gained 87 per cent in six months, and building lots gained 86 per cent Police justices say that although Ford employees appeared often in the prisoners' dock formerly, since Janu ary, 1914, they have been consplcu ously absent. Apparently they djm't need to get drunk now to have a good time. Mr. Ford sums up his theory In these few words: "No man can bring up a family and hope to own a home on the ordinary rates of wages. "I do not think that any man can do good work mentally and physical ly for more than eight hours a day. "In my Judgment the other factors are not so very Important" Battery Park Bank ASHEVIliLE, N C. Capital .$100,000 Surplus and Profits . ..... .:. . . ... . ..$160,000 . . ' OFFICERS: ' ' James P. Sawyer, Chairman of the Board. , T.tJ. Coxe, President 3. E. Rankin, Cashier. . Erwin Sluder, Vice-President j C Rankin, Asst Cashier. No Loans Are Made by This Bank to Any of Its Officers ;- . ' - or Directors. : . ' ' . . j LEADING HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES FIREPROOF ASHEVILLE, N. 0. iwannianoa-BcrkcIcy Hotel POPULAR PRICE American and European Plans HARRY L. LANGEL, Proprietor. Turn About. Mr. KlpUnc, while oa a visit to Mr. Hardy, went to see a bouse which the author of "Life's Little Ironies'' thought would stilt him.' When Mr Kipling moved out of earshot Mr. Hardy observed to the occupant: "I may mention to yon that thla gen aman la no other than Mr. Budyard ElpHng." "Is that aor she replied. "I sever heard the nam before." Presently Mr. Kipling; in tarn, found himself 'alone with tha lady and re marked : "Possibly you may not be aware that I we genueraan wuo uruuut ma ucir today 1 Mr. Hardy, tha eminent au thor." ' "Oh, indeed." waa ber reply. "I don't know his name." London Express. WHY HAIR FALLS OUT Dandruff cause a feverish Irrita tion ot the scalp, the hair roots shrink, loosen and then the - hair come out fast To stop falling hair at once and rid the scalp of every particle of dandruff, get a 26-cent bottle of Danderine at any drug More, pour a little in your hand and rub well into the clp. After a few ap plications all dandruff disappears and the hair stops coming out TELEPHONB 7CTJR WANTS TO SOS it it at tt tt It at tt it t it l at tt at at a tt at . tt PRESS nOTvTrVTRTIT It It ItltltttttatitiieittltBtttltltttaitilt Mythological Cancer Ilousea, There ha been considerable dis cussion recently of th old question of cancer houees" and "cancer streeta" statements by eminent in vestlgators, which have been given wide eurrency, have tended to strengthen the lmpresalon that there are houses and atreeta where the dis ease occur with anusual frequency. the Implication being that a relation of some kind exist and that cancer is In some wsy an infectious disease. This view and the alleged evidence to support It were vigorously attack ed by Dr. E. F. Kashford, the gener. at director of th work of the Impe rial cancer research fund, held in London In July. According to Dr. Kashford, cancer houses, In the sense that people living In them become In recteo, are as mucn or a myth sa "cancer cages" In th case of animals, snd bs hopes that them fancied d"u gers "will eeaee alike to alarm Pie puhllc and divert the energies of In ventlgntors from fruitful line of In. qulry." Accord In to Ir. P.afthford the though, ss Ford explnlns, 'The com public la misled by statements bused , psny iUid ln-en entirely sutlafli-d with no dimple enumeration of hiiiwe lnWi Individual snd cnllnrtlve output which one, two, or three or more and efflckiiry of Its men, and we hnd Daddy's Goodnight Story. By , George Henry Smith. Mv TWht- Readers: While I was! writing the story .about why a cat ha whiskers our dear old oat Boul Boul came and walked over my desk and I wanted to ask If your est cam and walked over your desk while yo were writing a story sdoui u siii thing? i '.' . i want tn tell vou a secret snout cat and dogs: A cat will always be a friend to whoever feed It while a An alwava lowaa his. master! Ask some of your friends If they know thla Tomorrow nla-ht there Wiu be a story for my boy reader. Of course girls may read It too. Her I my tory for tonight: Why the Cat Has Whisker. . "Daddy, before I go to sleep will you tell me why the eat ha whls jcerT" saked little Ethel a her father tucked her In. "Ye, my dear. It happened (his way. "Many years sgo cats could run about in th woods and then they had no need for whliker.- Hut Iher oame a flued upon the earth and Mr. and Mrs. Noah took all the animals Into the ark to keep them from Ileitis I drowned. Mr. and Mrs. fat went Hilong with the elephants, the monk ies, faf, ostriches, horse, and THE BATTERY PARK HOTEL Under New York Management - . ' Eefurnished Redecorated Modern Kitchen Cuisine and Service Highest Standard. C. E. RAILING, Proprietor. v Formerly of Hotel Plaza, New York. VISITORS TO ASHEVILLE Are invited to luncheon or dinner at Grove. Park Inn, the finest resort hotel in the -world. Luncheon served from 1:00 P. M. to 2:30 P. M., and dinner from 6:30 P. M. to 8:30 P. M., at $1.50 per plate. Finest Orchestra in the South afternoon and night. THE ST. JOHN Hendcrsonvllle's Largest and Best Hotel Commercial Tourist t The only steam heated hotel, in the town. Hot and cold water. Private ! hatha Large Sample Room. ' St., John and Son, Props. Commercial UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Transient THE KENMORE HOTEL COMMERCIAL HEADQUARTERS. Large, Well-Lighted Sample Rooms Open Throughout the Year A. R. Spears, Prop. Waynesville, N. 0. TTYPl7 r "D 17 a" A T MCBPHY, NORTH CAROLINA. IXVJ JL EjLj M.EjKJlLi C L Gnahaaa, Leasee and Manager Hot 'and Cold Water. Telephone In Every Room. Private Bath Steam Heat Larg Sample Rooms, Special Attention to Traveling Men. RATES: 13.00 and fS.M per day. Special Rate by tha week. Headquarter tor D, OT and T. P. A. CANTON, N. C. FREE SAMPLE ROOMS BTEAJd HEATED THE IMPERIAL HOTEL & U. GKIER, Prop, RATKS 11.00. fiLSCTRIO LIGHTS VREB BATH cow, and all the other animal and blrda "Every morning Mr. Noah Hied to call all the living thing together and have a talk with them. One morning they were all discussing things, when Mr. Cat said: 'Mr. Noah, when we were In the wood w were free to go where we pleased, but now, when w try to go through some 'of the hole In the ark our head and bodies get stuck. Can't you do something about that?' "At thla th monkey began to laugh and almost fell oft the window sill. The old cow wa to Interested that he stopped chewing to listen to what was going on. "'Why. certainly, I can,' ald Mr. Xoah . " 'I think tt would be a good Idea for you to have aome whisker Juat aa long a your body I wide, to that when you Mart through a door er through a hols your whiskers will touch and then you en back eut Hello, there! Will yoti, Mr. and Mr. Pig, let Mr. and Mfs. Cat have some of your bristles for whlskersT' " 'Surely, purely, equealed the ptga 'Let Ir. Hear pull them out, the por euplne make th holes In ths cat's fare, with his stlckar-qullla, and the elephant will poke them In with his trunk.' " 'Let' do It now!' roared th ele-phanL-'I want nmi fun." tub jARRrrr strings hotkl Cesamercial aad Tourist. Rates 11.00 per day. Bot and eel a Batlta Special Rata by th Week or Moata. v R. T. JARRKTT Manager Dtnabera, It. C Tmnks, Bags - AND SUIT CASES H. L. riNKELSTEET Loan OSes 23-23 South Main Street Phone 37 HOTEL ENTELLA BRYSON CITY Headquarter U. CT. and T. V. JC and Lumbermen. Rates f per day. Bath room. Free sample room. Railroad eating house fronting South ern depot Livery In connection. W. W. WHEELER P. B, FRY, : Proprietor. HOTKL BREVARD Brevard, N. C, Under new management. All eon venlenoe. Bpeclal attention to trav eling men. Table excellent Rate 13.00 per day. Special rate by week i or month. . V ! MRS. J. E, CLAYTON, Proprietor, j THE GAZETTE-NEV3 By Mail, $4.00 Ter Year. t ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF Nona but high-class factory mechanics employed. Our. supplies are thraper and all work is Guaranteed, ENTERPRI23 GARAGS J. F. rtumbmirh, (Ion. Msr. i! fi . I- L V , 1 I
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