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Wednesday, January 12, 191&) fPAGE FOUK THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS The Asheville Gazette-News i, . ' PUBLISHED BY EVENING NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY .V ' '? : ' - ASHEVIIXE, K. OL W. a. Hlldebrand I R. Duvall - SUBSCRIPTION RATES AshevtUe and Bllunora One Week f .10 Three Months .. i.ti Six Months ........ J.5 Twelve Months ......... 6.00 Any matter offered for publication that Is not classified as news, giving notice or appealing or. project where an admittance or other fee la charged. Is advertising and will be accepted at regular rates only.. The same applies to cards of thanks, obituary notices, political announcements and the like. The Gazette-News is a member of The Associated Press. Its telegraph news is therefore complete and reliable. Entered at the Postofflce In Asheville as second-class matter. ednesday, January 12, 1916. IHE TRIUMPH' OF SUBSTITUTES. We are urged in America to "ac cept no substitutes." As a trade mot to that may be well enough. But there Is another side to the substitution business, which makes for thrift aal efficiency and Germany has given a remarkable demonstration of it. When the war began, Germany at once turned its attention to the fool supply. The government mobilized its scientists and put them to work fig uring out ways anil means of making .'' Germany economically independent of the outside world. The people en tered into the plan with hearty co operation. The women of Get-many undertook to apply in their h.oms what -the : scientists -; learned- In their laboratories, The first' lack felt or feared was the lack of wheat. Immediately the first and most famous' substitute ap pearedflour was made from pota toes. It looks whiter and is not so nu tritious as wheat flour, but it serves the purpose. And t'.iere are plenty of potatoes. When the lack of animal fats re came serious. Geinianv turned to raisin?: sunflowers, and using the oil made from them as -a substitute ? olive oil. The seeds, too, senc as chicken and rattle food. Nuts are an other source of supply. Sc hoolboys In country districts have been given hol idays, to'.-gather nuts. Acorns, beech nuts, maple seeds, linden seeds, '.ill , are made to take the place of oil, butter, lard and grain for cattle. For butter the Germans re -usins jam. German housewives have put up more jam and preserves this year than ever before. Chocolate has taken the place of coffee and tea. The lack of rubber has been met partly by making over old rubber, and largely through the invention of a new "synthetic rubber" which Is not rubber at nil. Gasoline has become scarce, and sr 'automobiles are operated with wool i alcohol, and with "benzol," an Inex Jperslve fuel made from coke and pe troleum. The tireless cooker has become the 'great substitute for fuel in the home. 'Nearly every house has one now. The government told the housewives how to make them from newspapers anj old cloth, and they work nearly as well as our costly ones. Newspapers, by the way, are :he great, general all-round substitute material. With the stiffness rubbed or -wrinkled out of them, they are used to line clothing and to fill "comfort ers," anpd shredded to fill pillows and bed ticks instead of feathers. Special ly made paper serves innumerable uses, one sort, made waterproof. Is used Instead of cotton sheets on rick beds, and costs less than the soap that would be needed to wash ordi nary sheets. Soda, by the way, Is '.he common substitute for soap. The drug stores are crammed with substitutes, and druggists print lists to Inform the public regarding their uses. All these thii, are merely a slight hint of the transformation of the eco nomic life of Germany. The thriftiest of nations Is today incomparably more thrifty than ever. And the Vnlted States, the most wasteful of 'nations, is today mora wasteful than ver. It l.easy enough, to say that "Ger many has to be economical," and then rejoice because we do not hav to, and go. straight out and spend ex travagantly all the money ,we have got just to celebrate our good for tune. But America needs nothing imore at this time than to taka t ! heart the lesson taught by Germany, ,' Iean may come after our fat 'years. In prosperity or adversity, I what Americans need most Is thrift. We need to utilize to the full the forces of nature, to apply scientific knowledge and effort to the creation ot wealth In all fw-ms, to develop very possible product for human usi, and then use It without waste. Germany will not forget after the wr what, she has learned. And If we 1 nt to compete with the Germans, we shall have to follow their example. 1 unbind today Is using the "war eoik a d;" that the women of Germany t out a year aso. A lira may coms'rlao tud his work ar crowded to ltu - Editor Business Manager By Mall, In Advance Three Months 11.09 Six Months ......... .vi . 09 Twelve Months ..... 4.09 when we will be glad to use It. (And by that time Germany will have a better one). . . MORE REPRISALS. George Harvey, In an article In the North American Review, tells an as tonishing story of reprisals committed by an American officer -serving in the British array, . According to the young officer's own account, he stood twenty-four German prisoners up in 9 row and shot them one by one, with his own hand, before the eyes of his men. Their offense was the. alleged use of "reversed, bullets." The reversing process converts the bullets into a Sort of dum-dums. Another feat "mentioned.' with: modest-pride was firing on a German am bulance. The Germans, explained the officer, had been banging .away for days at the British ambulances. Kin ally the officer's own pal, . wounded, was just being lifted into an ambu- ; lance by two soldiers when a German shell blew the three to pieces. I That settled it. The officer "bided ; his time." There came a day when a I score of Germans lay writing in a Ihfap. after an assault, lie trained an I eighteen-pounder on the spot, and I waited. Out ame a German ambu j lance, with a dozen soldiers. They j filled t lie amloilatve with wounded, I thert ho "blew the whole lot to hell." And he was reprimanded for it that was all.- tf these tales are true, they discredit both American and Great Britain. ; Sue h' conduct cannot be Justified mor I ally with the argument of retaliation. (And merely us practical measures, re prisals almost invariably defeat their j own purpose. This war has gone from reprisal to reprisal, until nominally j civilized warfare has degenerated to I savagery. . . I The way to make warfare humane is to wage it humanely. In spite of the protests of hot-heads, theer Is no force so powerful as the force of moral ex ample. l ! 5 l : It i StS t st X X PRESS COMMENT X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X TIh Triumph of the War. The war in Europe comprises the greatest victory in the history of the human race. Victory has bren with every great army from the first: a triumphant condition has been maintained from day to dav and from mon'h to month. It has been the mipremest test in hu man history of knowledge and skill in a certain field; and the meeting of tnat t-st has bren the most impressive exhibit ever made. As !r. XV. A. Kvans, professor of hygiene In the Northwestern univer sity, puts if "This ! he prent out standing fact no epidemic of any sort has paralyzed any of the great armies." Typhus has been one of the worst enemies the Serbia bns met. but the Serbian Is not Included In the list of great armies. There la always cholera In Hussis, and no army could be assembled from the various pans ot the empire with out the inclusion of men Infected with cholera bacilli. Many of the great armies have been In close touch with Serbia, and all have escaped tbo rav ages of typhus. Bmallpox Is no lon ger even respected as an enemy by tho medical administration of an army organization. In the last war in which the United mutes participated, typhoid fever was by war the most potent danger. Beyond the routine of vaccination, army administration no longer takes thought of typhoid Ot course, the general scheme of army sanitation would in Itself go far to hold typhoid In check. Nothing Is aid ot malaria In the armies. An dent enemies of men massed for fight. ing, including plague, trachoma all have been held In abatement through out the Immense area over which the hordes In Europe havs fought and maneuvered Boasting Is hardly In order, for we know not what peril, old or new, may yet spread death and horror amongst the armies. Living In the open is sup posed to imply immunity from eolds, and we supposa that pneumonia and tnnuenxa havs but little dunce. The conditions of modern warfare have Imposed extreme exactions upon the mortal frame, terrible tests of tho limitations of these frail structures of nerve and tiMue. Innumerable human wrecks must be counted up in the sum total when there (a final accounting of Profit and loss. But so nisny of the old eoldemlrs . a bni conquered that the saalta perishable glory. Much more to the point here is a new and impressive demonstration of the possibilities of sanitation for those p,f us, and for the generations to come, who may have no personal interest in war, but whose scheme of life is and will be within the confines of peace. Greensboro News. H :' Great Prosperity Wave. Hundreds of buyers, ui riving here daily from all parts of the United States, are bringing unimpeachable evidence of the great general wave of prosperity which has been sweeping the country for several montha greatly increased orders in every line of business. The ' buyers who have already ar rived are only the vanguard of a great army which will be here in 15 Jays with orders for the spring, summer and even fall trade. They have come from the Pacific, front the south, from the middle west, as well as from points in the east near to New York. The premature rush of buyers to this city is taken as an Indication ti.at an unprecedented trade is looked for this year, and that, therefore, they are coming here early In order to be able to get the goods. Many of them, have hastened here as a result of re ports that there will be a shortage of merchandise in many .-.lines. This shortage is due largely to the remark able increase in the demand, to the dye shortage, and to many other minor causes affecting certain branches of trade. Despite reports to the contrary there will be goods enough for all who wish-to buy. a well known resi dent buyer told a New York reporter yesterday. He represents more than SO different concerns, all over the I'nited States, dealinar in every branch of the department store trade. "The buyers w ill find that they can get all the goods they want," he sal 1, provided that they are willing to pay the prices. Prices are bound to in crease, but the larger prices will be met without objection. The Christmas tiade was so remarkable that the business concerns throughout the country are going at the new season s buying with the greatest confidence. There : Is nut the feeling of specula tion,, which so often has. been the cause of a rising market, but, a safe and sa he view that prosperity is her. That the buyers are willing to pay the Increased prices is Illustrated by mi incident which came to my attention recently. A dress goods concern with which I deal had a very small surplus of a certain piece of goods. They rais ed the price several cents, thinking that the new price would be prohibi tive, but they continued to receive large orders at their new price. "The shortage of goods is more gen eral in the men's trade goods than In the women s trade. The reason for It, in my opinion, is the greatest in crensed export trade to South Amer ica. That is particularly true with cotton goods." The head of a large concern which represents many dry goods houses throughout the country said that the buying this season would bp larger t'ran ever before. "t"p to November," lie said, "reports of a business depres sion had been more or less general. Whether they were justified or not, I am not sure. At any rate the Christ mas trade was astonishing. Instead of n cessation of business after the holidays there has been a steady con tinuance. The stocks of most con cerns are depleted ns they have not been for many months. "In my opinion this wave of pros perity is going to continue for three or four years, at a conservative pre diction. Tho wpring and summer trade is likely to Increase from 30 to '0 per cent ever last year. In my lino there will be a shortago of some classes of goods which will result In rising pricer. Print goods particular ly will be scarcer than usual. The dve shortage has a great effect on tho trade." A representative r many large con cerns in the clothing trade said that he had had buyers from the concerns which he represented come on several days earlier this year to be sure that hey would be able to buy goods. Some of the classes, of goods which he said were In great demand it would be almost impossible to buy. Most of the buyers who are nlready here are representatives of the mil linery houses. The textile buyers and representatives of dry goods concerns will be here the latter part of next week. The influx will continue for two weeks more, when the city will be crowded such as it never has been efore with the representatives of trade from all parts of the country. The hotels are looking- for an un usual rush. Very few rooms are to be had In any part of the city. Heserva- ions have been made so early tni year that tuyers who have stayed at some of the large hotels along llroad- way have found that the best thev could do for lodgings this year wr small rooms In boarding house up town. New York Times. Publicity. The Ashevlll health department Issues a monthly bulletin In wnicn the activities of the sanitary and no. lies departments aro mad Known to the people. The Inspection of the r taurants Is regularly mads and the results published by pplnla. The tests of the dairies are also mad and pub' tlnhcd. The people of ths city ire mad familiar wilU th work of th police department and It must be In teresting to know Junt how many "dead" street lights wer noted dur Ilia; th month, or how many pint of whlnkey wer Mlsed; how msny ssni tary nuisances wer reported, how many unlocked doors and how mny dansernus places In ths streets. The publication of suck activities serves to glvo th ptiblle n spproslmste Ides as to th faithfulness of th ser vlr for which th officers ar paid and It nutiwally Inspires to greattr Jgilatir and endeavor on th part cf th officers. Publicity a good In till business, but It Is particularly desir able In municipal matters. Charloits Observer. Drear Basketball Tomorrow Night. :I0; V. M- C, A, Vs. Davidson rot leg. tll-lt "Did that alienist prove that you wer craayT" "No," replied th defendant, "hut hi admitted that h waa nearly so befora 'ills fiawa OF UNITED STATES IS BAD Judge Carter Says It Is Going Some for a Country "Too Proud to right." Charlotte, Jan, 12.- Judge Frank Carter, of Asheville, In a charge to the grand jury that lasted an hour and 20 minutes, and that was one of the most forceful and Impressive ever de livered in Mecklenburg? court house called special attention to the preva lence Of homicide in this country, and especially in North Carolina. He recalled that he saw In a Char lotte paper recently facts showing the high homicide record in this and other nations. He said the census bureau estimat ed the population of the United States at about 100,000,000 and that the homicide record in the United States for last year was about 8,000, which is about 86 homicides yearly per million population. If the rate were as high for the United States as a whole, as It Is In North Carolina, there would be a yearly homicide rate of about 11,000, or 112 to the million. The records, he said, showed that the number of homicides in the United States was from 10 to 11 times as many as in Germany and England combined, andthe record approxi mately S.000 homicides in the country last year aggregated more, by a con siderable margin, more people killed than were killed in action on the American side in the American revo lution, the war of .'1812,. the Mexican war and the Spanish-American war. "This array of facts would not be so alarming," said Judge Carter, "if it were not that they show our civil ization Is for a frontier country to Views Of ' ' It Pays To Advertise TThex Canada recently undertook to float a purely domestic loan of $50,000,000 the amount was over-subscribed more than twice, and this result was attained by advertising. Five-thousand-line contracts were made with all the daily newspapers of Canada. The advertising began, on November 22 and the full space was used by November 80, when the subscription list closed. The Canad ian Minister of Finance has stated that to underwrite tlte loan In the or dinary way would have cost the gov. eminent 1625,000. This was not the first xperlment Jn advertising conducted by the Ca nadian government within the last year and a quarter. In the fall of 1914 a 5,000-line campaign in sev enty dallies -and a few national weeklies resulted in a remarkable In crease of the domestic demand for Canadian apples, and thus prevented to a very great extent the heavy loss with which the growers of Canada had been ' threatened through the sudden shutting off of the foreign demand. It pays governments, as well as individuals and firms, to ad vertise la the newspapers. Xetcark Star. : The Words Of A True American Them 'words breathing the loyalty ot a true American were epoken in New York at a banquet of the Penn sylvania Society by the mayor of Philadelphia, Rudolph Blankcnburg, a man bora la Oermany but a nat Vest Pocket Essays BY GEORGE FITCH MATRIMONY MATnraoNT is States of Lots. the United It is a union the settled state, th con tented state, ths busted state snd th slat of rsptur, resignation, dlstrsction and many others. Matrimony is si so a very peculiar form of arlthmetfc, in which one and on mak on and later on nine or ten. As soon as a young man and a young womsn find that one parlor, one chair and on name ar quit) enough for both of them, they are made on by law and are then privi leged to get along on one Income for tho rest of their live. Matrimony is th origin ot th home, th ball mark of civilization, and tb hop ot ths enus bureau. .Without matrimony man Is a useless eumbrr of boarding bouses and worn a losely antique. But ther Is such a thing as being too snthu Sisstlo about matrimony. It I vry sally carried to stesss. To marry two wives without a vacation be tween U considered wore than to ot twlc at ths asm el act I on. la nclylllsad astlons, snra frequently bar half a doles wtvas at th sam tlm and support tbm In luiury. This Is called polygsmy. Polygsmy Is a very pecullsr form of misplaced bravery. When a man marries, swears to love, cherish and protect bis wlf and to endow her with all his worldly goods. Men ar so wlrksd, however, that a great many of them persistently hold out cigar and lunch money. When ' a womsn marries, h swsrs to love, honor asd obey bey bnabsnd. However, th word "obey" Is being cut out ot many ceremonies ss a dead letter lsw which shows that th married stst is mor csrfil snout 4cd letur laws thsa most thor stats. Getting married Is a sartous mat ter n 4 yet Hung pcopl tack! ths Our New Years Wish. Msy Tou See Better i Our Ce-Rite Toric Lenses Correctly fitted and properly ground will help you. CHARLES H. HONESS Optomcrlst and Aptlctan, 54 Patum Are. Opp. P. O. manifest a certain amount of lawless ness and disregard for human life In its first stages of development it may be expected to show Improvement In this respect as It develops from a frontier country into a settled country. The facts, however, show in six years the homicide rate has increased 69 per. cent. " .... "That is going some." said Judge Carter, "for a country that boasts it is too proud to fight.' "In 1909 and 1910 the indictments for homicide in North Carolina brought before the superior courts amounted to 329 in number. Judge Carter said, while In the last two years they amounted to 522, -. Great Basketball Tomorrow Night, 8:30; Y. M. C. A. vs. Davidson col lege. 28t-lt Patriotic belligerent How are you going to describe and comment on this affair? Press writer I am going to tell all Important facts and put the blame where it belongs. See, winter conies to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising .train; Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Thompson. A distant manner doesn't lend en chantment to one's view of friendship. The Press uralized American citizen who has been trusted and honored in bis borne city, as thousands of natural ized citizens have been trusted and honored throughout the country for their worth and loyalty as citizens. "To me neither German-Americans nor Irish, Scotch, French, Italian or Russian-Americans appeal. If we tol erated the growth of any unnatural division, we would encourage dissen sions that might eventually lead to most disastrous results in any con flict that might arise between our country and foreign nations. "Let us therefore prepare to abol ish all distinction that may lead to ill-foeling, and call ourselves, before the whole world, Americans first, last and all the time. "Let preparedness bo our watch word preparedness against any and every foreign foe, so that no power cn earth may ever succeed in over throwing our Republic or in restrict, ing its growth and development. But let preparedness also be our watchword against the visible and invisible domestic foa. "I am f peaking of the thlck-and-thin partisan, the shouter whose ar dent appeals to patriotism are used as a cloak for the promotion of his personal advantage and that of bis fellow-partisans, to the undoing and at the expense ot bis fellow-country, men." These are words worthy ot com mendatlon far and wide and ought to be read by native and naturalized, Tolcing as they do the sentiments of patriotlo people without respect to land ot birth, and placing loyalty where too many have put the hyphen. Job with th utmost Intrepidity. A young man who does not earn nough money to keep himself la fuzzy bats will rush boldly and cheerfully into matrimony with a young woman who has never bad to Thert U sack a thing ci leing lea tnthutUutie aih to consecntlr dishes and would stab herself to death with th asdl tf sbs trlsd to darn a sock. Naturally a greet msny sueb mar riages ar failures, but nowadays ths motto In matrimony Is: "It at first you don't succeed, try, trr agsln." Matrimony I blessed With ehll. dren, good home cooking, pleasant bom vsntngs, golden weddings, and Is at other times s mi at ad with green yes, soggy bread and hslr trlgger tempers. When a selfish pof son mom, the victim Is to b pitied, but when two sal flab parsons msrry ach other, grcst good re sults. They ar not only rtmovtd from Circulation, but they got what bss bssn comlcg to them (rota tbelr . youth up, , BATTERY PARK BANK - ASHEVUiLE; N. O, Capital ... ... ..t ... .. .... ... .r ...$100,000.00 Surplus and Profits ... . ,. ... . ... 135,000.00 OFFICERS: James P. Sawyer, Chairman of the Board. T. C. Cose, Pres Erwin Sluder, V.-Pres. C. Bankin, Cashier. Loans are made by this Bank to any of Its Officers or Directors, v LEADING HOTELS AND FIRtfPROOf Keport of the Condition of the WACHOVIA BANK AND TRUST CO. at Wlnaton-Salem, Asheville, Salisbury and Hieh Point, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business, De cember 31, 1915. KKSOfJRCES. Loans and discounts. ... $6,390,705.3.1 Overdrafts unsecured..... North ' Carolina State Bonds . . .. .... ... . . . All other Stoclts, Bonds and Mortgages . . . . . . . Pankinc Houses, Furniture and Fixtures . . . . .... All other real estate owned Demand loans . . ...... Due from Banks and 698.11 25,000.00 233,1)07.00 S14.412.00 44.892.72 383,868. 62 ( 1.560.013.40 96.770.SS SS.175.00 Bankers Cash Items Gold Coin Silver coin Including all minor coin currency National Dank Notes other U. S. notes. . , 52.S47.S4 and 232,208.00 Total . .. $9,417,88.40 I.l.ir.II.ITIKK. Capital Hock paid In $1, 250,000.00 Pndlvlded profits, less cur rent expenses and taxes paid . . 603.104.1.1 Dividends unpaid ...... 134.00 Deposits subject to cheek. 2, 319, 477. 56 Demand Certificates of De posit ......1,200,034.85 SavliiRs Deposits 2,280.450.02 Due to Banks and Bank er 1,788,187.1T Cavhler's Checks outstand ing '. 72.181.28 Certified Checks 4.329.30 Total , State of North , $9,417,898.40 Carolina, County of r orsyth. ss: I, James A. Gray, Jr., treasurer, of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that tlje above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. JA3. A. GRAY, Jr., Treasurer. Correct Aet: , T. BROWN, K. NOR FLEET, W. 0'HANl.ON, HENRY E. FRIES, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 8th day of January, 1916. W. I. BROOKS, (Seal) Notary Public My commission expires October 22, 1917, It Patriotic belligerent There; I knew all the time that you were bitterly prtjudlced against us! Longvilio leader. I live not In myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture. Byrsn, 8 $33 Garments at $19.50.. $25 at $12,50 . . $20 at $10.75 . $18 at $9,75 .. $15 at$7.90 . .$12.50 at $7.00 . . $9.75 at $6.50. , Now is the time to got a Ladies' or Child's Coat veryi very cheap our beet and newest styles. Suits as follows: $45 at $19.50. . .$33 at $16.50. . .$23 at $15. . .$20 at $12.50. . .$15 at $10. . .$12.50 at $9, Ac . . AV'c nre Boiling a lot 'of them naturally.? Many buy ers have postponed buying until now and they are reaping their reward. 1 And w are selling; Ilea's and Boys' Fine Clothes freely. The colored foods are pow at a Big Discount although the prices next Autumn will be much higher. H. REDWOOD & CO. BOARDING HOUSES ASHEVILLE, N. 0. HOTEL 3E NT ELLA BRVSON CITV Rates 1 2 per day. Bath room. jpa sample rooms. Livery in connection W. W. WHEELKR and P. E. FRY PROPRIETORS. n n y ,. . . ' STOP AT HOTEL BREVARD Bre vard, N. C MRS. J. E. CLAYTON, Proprietress. Under new manage ment. All conveniences. Soeclal at tention to traveling men. Table ex cellent Rates $2.00 per day. Special rates by week or month. THE BRYSON HOTEL COMMERCIAL HEADQUARTERS Well Lighted Sample Rooms, Free S. E. RRVSOX, Proprietor, $2.00 Per Day Andrews, X. C. CANTON, N. C. ,. THE IMPERIAL MOTEL .. E. M. GEIER, Prop. Steam heated. Free Sample rooms. Electric lights. Free baths. Rates 2. TO THE TRAVELING MEN. "When in Marion Stop at THE MARIANA Marlon's Leading Hotel. Full Equip ped with all Modern Conveniences. CENTRAL CAFE. HENDERSON VILLE, N. O. Only Restaurant In city with private dining rooms. Under Blue Rldg Inn. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT ra -i WHEN IN WAYNESVILLE STOP AT THE KENMQRE HOTEL Tbo Leading CwiuiicitUI Hotel A. It. SPEAKS, Prop. Free Sample Room. OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR HOTEL REGAL MURPHY, N. C Only Modem Hotel In Wcstrrn Norlli Carolina. FREE BUS MEETS ALL TRAINS. Hot and Cold Water and Telephone In Every Room. Private Baths Steam Heat. Largs Sample Room, SPECIAL ATTENTION. No man who hasn't been tempt:.! Is sure of his honesty. Be mo people csn best make their presence felt by their absence. The-last step In a questionable un dertaking may b a lock-step. Evsn a prohibitionist make no kicks about th horn of plenty.