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Saturday, January 22, 1916. THE ASHEVILLE GAZETTE-NEWS The Asheville Gazette-News PUBLISHED BY v EVENING NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY ASHEVILLE, N. C 1 W. A. Hlldbranl I R. Duvall ..... - a SUBSCRIPTION BATES Asheville and Biltmore One Week .....1.10 Three Months .......... l.ts Six Months ......... .'. 2, SO Twelve Months . 8. 00 Any matter offered for publication that Is not classified as news, (riving notice or appealing or project where an admittance or other fee is charged. Is advertlsini? and will bs 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. SaturdayJanuary 22, 1916. AZTEC SQUASHES. John G. Allen of Cherry, Ariz., has ft vegetable wonder that is probably entitled to as much admiration as any produced by Luther Burbank. Instead of creating a new species he has re vived an old one. It is a squash that was cultivated by the old Aztec cliff dwellers and is supposed to have be come extinct -with the extinction of their civilization. Mr. Allen found some squash seeds ' whjlo looking for relics amid the ruins of one of the old cliff cities of the Verde valley. He broke into a room that had been sealed so tightly that not even a mouse had been able to enter it in ail the centuries since its ancient tenants forsook It. There ho found some articles of pottery, a few corn cobs and a dozen seeds. He planted the seeds last spring. One of them came up, and from it he obtained a single squash, large, green and very warty, weighing about 25 founds. From that he can renew and perpetuate the species. It's strange to revive life out of the (lusty "eca'y of a forgotten epoch. It may be a thousand years since the parent of that squash was eaten by the cliff-dwellers. That the germ of life can survive such a vast period reems almost as miraculous as if one of the old Aztec chiefs should be found, "preserved from decay by Ari zona's wonderful climate," and re stored to llfo in the midst of a new civilization. And who knows what other strango plants may be brought to light, after untold ages, from seeds found in dead cities and tombs in many quarters of the world? PKOTECTIXG CRLUIXALS. . A New York detective, himself an Italian, explaining the difficulty the police usually experience in Hunting an Italian murderer, says: "We have more than 200,000 Ital ians, and there ia not a chance In iho world of really getting a man If lie really tries to hide, for none of the same nationality will tell on a fellow- criminal in a case like this." This is a serious Indictment of the Italian race. H represents a type of "hyphenism" just as objectionable as any that has to do with war Issues. ! It it Is true, it means that Italian Americans In get. oral attach more Im portance to pi- iteting their fellow Italians, no matter what their crimes, than to acquiescing in the laws and , Institutions of their adopted country. Such a trait Is pretty strongly de veloped among immigrants of several nationalities. It would be unfair, of course, to Indict Italian-Americans as a class because of a weakness which Is con demned by all Italians of the better classes. But the tendency exists; and the inclination of any group of Im ported Americans to place any other loyalty ahead of loyalty to American laws and Institutions must be over come at all cost. Immigrants must learn that law is supreme in the United States, that the vendetta has no place on Ameri can soil, that the clan spirit is incon sistent with American citizenship, that whoever condone or conceals a crime Is unworthy of America. CENTIGRADE. The United States weather bureau Is trying to arouse general Interest In the use of the Centigrade thermometer to replies the Fahrenheit; There Is every reason why the Centigrade sys tem should have ths preference. The Fahrenheit thermometer sets the freezing point at 31 degrees and the boiling point at 212. There may once have been soma esoteric scientific reason for this, but to common mind Ihese points sre simply confusing, and the zero point doesn't seem to mark anything In particular. On the Centigrade Instrument tero la the frecrlng point, 100 degrees the boiling. This Is simple and logical. AIao, a decimal System I easier to work with thnn any other, as la lirnved by the ease with which C.ir innny Is reckoned and the trouble we l-.me wllh Inches, ounces, srruples and t ill'in", Jl.il. I Iruy nulla people rtsiiit th -... Editor Business Manager Br Mail, In Advance Three Months .......... .$1.00 Six Months .- 1.00 Twelve Months ........ r 4.09 innovation at first, but those who In stall the Centigrade thermometers will soon And the change justified. -' It is safe for Senator Sheppard of Texas to propose that federal salaries be cut 12 per cent as an economy measure. He probably knows that no legislative body in America ever con sented to having its own salary re duced. The " most cruel thing about the proposed tax on automobiles is that it will make Henry Ford contribute to the armament fund. ; : " ' i ' t ? k : s r. : ft. gg X PRESS COMMENT W n P. KIIKItllktltieiCKK Progress of a Great Highway. When the Southern National high way plans were laid, at a meeting held In Asheville February 13, 191?, it was estimated that it would taka thirteen years to build this highway between Washington, I. C and San Diogo, Cal., via Greensboro or from Quebec to Vancouver, via Greens boro: for the Quebec-Miami prnlect on the east and the San Diego-Vancouver road on the west, were the starting points of the idea formulated In a conversation between Col. Kene han Cameron and Col. Dell M. Pot ter, of Clifton, Ariz., October 12, 1910. Now the completion of the road is in sight as Colonel Cameron says in an account of the first tour of In spection, made this winter, and duly noted by the Dally News. Any day now one may start from Little Rock, Ark., for San Diego, or from Old Fort for Washington (or Reaufortl with assurance of getting to either destination over a good road. Between Little Rock and Memphis there are some bridges to be built. A bridge over the Mississippi at Mem phis, is to be finished by the first of Tune. There are some gaps between Memphis and Knoxvillo, one between Newport and the Tenneesse line. There Is a short gap In Virginia, near Dumphrles. We have two remaining in North Carolina, one between Hot Springs and Marshall and one be tween Swannanoa gap and Old Fort more accurately, between the An drews geyser and the cap. The con vict camp Is now at the upper end of the little Round Knob valley. Here Is the bit of history as Colonol Cam eron relates It, In Southern Good Roads: Answering your Inquiry about the Southern National highway, and the recent trip of the first official tour over If, would say that the incep tion of the Idea of Its establishment was on October 12, 1912, at Atlantic City. When I was addressing the di rectors of the Qeubec-Miaml inter national highway, which had been organized the year before by myself and others. Col. Dell M. Potter, of Clifton. Ariz., heard my talk, and af ter I had finished said to me: "W have a great highway up the Pacific coast, from San Diego to Vancouver now; if you get your Atlantic coast highway built, why wouldn't It be a good scheme to connect these two great highways together by a route sufficiently far south to avoid the snow. Ice and sleet In the Rockies, that block the Lincoln and other more northerly routes?" I replied that It would be an excllent scheme, and In fact, we In North Carolina had al ready started the Idea. For we had begun to build the Central highway from Morehead City on the Atlantlo through Raleigh, our capital, where It Intersects the Quebeo-Mlamt inter national highway, and through Ashe ville to the Tennessee line. And the Tennessee people are building the Brtstol-to-Memphls highway and we can join that at Knoxvllle, so we will then be at the Mississippi river, where you ran meet us. He replied," Agreed." He therefore want home to work on the proposition and I did the same, In December 1111, I received from him a letter saying he had organized the Trl-Stats route, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico) form San Diego to El Paso, and that he thought he had best rest there and see what eon nee tloh could be made with the two routes. Bo I asked Governor Kltchln If t.s would call a convention of all the Southern states to select a route, He agreed to do so. But there was some anlay In my correspondence with Colonel potter. Ho 1 aakeit Oovernor Cralg If he would make the call. He also agreed to do It. and one of the very first of his official acta was this call. Erery state In the south except Maryland sent delegates to the convention at Asheville on February II, li, wh,n tn, org. Hon was affected. It was nr..niu by the selection of Colonel Potter as preildent. ai.d I as vice president. The route that was selected was voted for bT the congreulonnl reprearnatlv. mn nn to make It perfectly fair. A gr.t many routss wars proposed. Jjut ths one selected served more congression al districts than any other could pos sibly serve. For passing through Vir ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ar kansas and Texas it divided the south in half, with Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma on the north, while on the south are the states of South Carolina. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. I got resolutions through the legis latures of North Carolina at sessions of 1913 and 1815, sending greetings to the states through which it passes, asking their cooperation for an early completion, and each responded hand somely and the counties through which it passed did the same. With the mountain stripped of their verdure by winter one gets a vivid impression of the mountain pass road work from the railway. Here one views the accomplishment of the im possible, just as the Impossible was accomplished when the railway pene trated this gap. It is a major battle that has been fought and Is still to be fought out between the grim old mountain and the little army of the state an army recruited by force, impresed in the war because of care lessness toward the statutes in such cases made and provided. The de tachment toiling along like listless ants for your convict army never fights with spirit and Is pronouncedly conservative in the expenditures of energy the yellowish-red gash In the landscape has been stretched out mile after mile, a four-per-ccnt grade, In another defiance of nature's barrier betwen the headwater of the Catawba and the Swannanoa. Greensboro News. ; "Time Prices" the Worst Usury. Twelve per cent a year Is too much to pay for money; 10 per cent a year is too much to pay, and to have 72 banks in the south outside of Texas and Oklahoma, and 617 in these two states, averaging 10 per cent on their loans this shows the need for reform. And yet the shameful, damnable fact faces us that credit at even 12 per cent would seem like a veritable godsend, a veritable deliverance f am heaven, to the thousands and thou Views Of Thb Attorney-General wants laws to punish traitors. How about send ing them home to fight for their sov ereigns? -Philadelphia Xorth Ameri can. Now that winter Is here It mar not be amiss to offer the customary ad vice that exposed nations be particu larly careful of their war-chests. Washington Post. The Government. Is rnnndlnr nn the spies so rapidly now that it is ex pected an wm Be in cusody by the time our last remaining factor? la blown up. -Boston Transcript. Russians claim capture of 49,874 in one month. Tendency of Russian and German population to change Places seems to call for mora notice from economists.- Wall Btreet Jour nal. The man who says that Booker T. and1 T. R. are the two greatest leaders America has produced fulfils the prophecy that Roosevelt's name would go down in history linked with Washington's. Washington Pott. Well have to admit this. Henry Ford's project was not much more foolish than the war Is. SL Louis Qlolte Democrat. O. B. Shaw says that the Allies must not crush Germany. Latest ad vices from the front indicate that the Allies are taking his suggestion very Seriously. Macon Evening Xewt. Health Talks BY WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. Soap And Water Disinfection rtmioAWDit with malodorous or pot- ouuus gu ana the direct application of druggy chemicals to the woodwork, floor and walls of the sickroom after scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuber culosis, Is rapidly becoming obsolete. Soap and water, open air and sun light are proving more efficient, more available and a whole lot mora eco nomical. After all, it li persons, not things, that carry moat contagious diseases. It can control the human, animal and Insect carriers of disease germ w need not worry much about so called fomltea or contaminated ob jects. Of course such personal ob jects as dishes, toilet articles, cloth ing and bed-clothing must be boiled, team sterilised or otherwise disin fected after contagious disease, but the old Idea that ties room itself re quires fumigation or chemical treat bent la no longer upheld by cut fare tnost sanitarians. Dr. Cbapfn, the famous Baottarp Superintendent of Provldeaee. R. whose pioneer work In modern sani tation la now recognised all over the world, proved years ago that It was unnecessary and unscientific to fuml gate or disinfect premises after scar let fever and diphtheria. Mora re eently severs! boroughs of Greater New York CKy have discontinued terminal disinfection relying liy. stead upon soap and water, ventila tion and sunlight to taka ears of any possible infection left la a room after auch diseases. Aa Chapln'a Investigations have so elearly shown, there Is strong doubt that walla, woodwork, draperies aid furniture In the sickroom caa harbor any Infection It the patient receives reasonably Intelligent nursing during sands of struggling men and women who now bear the burden of our ao cursed crop-Hen and "time-prices" system of the southern states, a system which is nothing less than a disgrace to any people who call themselves civilized, much less Christian1. Mr. Williams denounces banks that average 10 per cent on their money, and he does well, but when we come to compare the charges of even the most vicious banks with the charges made under our "time prices" system, we are reminded of the impudent re ply made by young King Rehoboam when the people asked that he lighten the tax burdens imposed by his father Solomon: "My little finger," he re plied, "shall be thicker than my fath er's loins." Verily the little finger of the time-prices crop Hen is thicker than the loins of the 10 per cent banker! As a matter of fact, It will be seen that few bankers In the south average even 10 per cent on their loans, and while we believe we must enlist in a tight to compel all banks to obey the legal interest laws, the important fact to remember now is that the banker offers the surest present way or escape from 70 per cent time prices. Let every farmer who can do so put a de posit In his local bank, keeping as big a balance as he can from now until spring, and it will be a strange bank that will then refuse to lend him rea sonable amounts to escape "time prices" in summer.' The Progressive Farmer. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS C. W. McCormick and others to J P. Oudgor, 'property on Carolina ave nue; $10 and other considerations. E. W. Sharp to Thomas L. Mann, property in Asheville township; con sideration, $500. C. A. Hammer and wife to Mrs. Adelaide Rurch, property on Haywood street; $10 and other considerations. 1. A. Brown and wife to Alice E. Walsh, property In West Asheville, and on Arlington heights; consldera lions, $250. If all the world's a stage It's up to each of us to contribute something to ward the elevation thereof. The Press The Germans are said to he sur prised that the Allies have not asked for peace already. The reason prob ably is that the Allies don't read the German newspapers. Chicago Her ald. Mr. Ford can point to the fact that Sir John French, at least, was out of the trenches before Christmas. New York Evening Pott. "Germany has such immense stores of copper as to suffice for years to come," says the Chancellor in the Reichstag, and the cheers that greet ed this statement almost drowned the .sound of the workmen's hammers stripping off the copper roof. Wall Street Journal. T. R. can't take his hat off now to cratch his head without making the favorite sons shiver. Boston Trans cript. Another pathetic little feature of very-day life is the way, the minute the President announces that crea tures of passion, disloyalty and an archy must be crushed out, a great many of our citizens become violent ly angry at him for getting bo per gonal. Ohio Elate Journal. "We congratulate the President on his novel vigor." sneers the London Chronicle. Perhaps In time we shall be able to congratulate the British Government on some novel military vigor in the Balkans and at the Dar danelles. New York World. the course of the Illness. For In stance, hundreds of tests of such articles made by various competent bacteriologists in the rooms occupied by diphtheria patients tailed to ehow diphtheria germs on a single article, but did show the germs present upon glasses, handkerchiefs and similar things which are obviously mora or less saliva-contaminated. The disinfection of premises after the removal or death of a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis ta a :fro" ..AU th aaar passes with the pstlent If the patient la danger. f0!:,,.1 l.' "ot nwoua If be takes Intelligent precautions, or If hla nurse takes precautious, to prevent the oontamlnaUon of things with hla putum. Any on who may bay lived la Intimate contact with the patient for a considerable period snnst watch out lest he be Infected. But If Infected at all It must have oo earred while the patient waa present --not after hla removal er death. Hence the rtte of renovation and die Infection of tha vacated premises be comes a mere farce. Worse, It fo cuses popular attention upon a neg. llglble source of disease. Soap and water and brains are tha afflaleat dUinfeotanta for routine ass. QCE8TIOK8 AKD AHSWKRS What Is Biliousness T Caa yon odvUs m toAof win pre- A sior "Biliousness"1 Is a term which covers many different all menfa. Often It Is a rebellion on tha part of an outraged metabolism agsinst Intemperance or over-eating. It ia not a definite condition. Our New Years Wish. May Yon See Better: Our Ce-Rite Toric Lenses Correctly fitted "and properly ground will help you. CHARLES H, HONESS Optomerist and Apticlan, t Patton Ave. Opp. P. a STRirmM!fiH i iriwsJ mm a a mvim - -afa - w - - - i Real Courage Don't talk to me of soldiers gay Who calmly face tho belching mortar. I've got so I can walk away Nor ever fee a Pullman porterl Don't boast to me (expecting .-i : praise; y3t him who snoops around a i : - crater. It has been many, many days Since I have tipped a hotel waiter! ; That hero totters on his throne (Just watch him bow you sea him slipping?) Who calls his sturdy heart his own Yet coward-like goes right on tipping. Finnigin Filosofy : We want t' know if anny trusted frind is skinnln' us, but we'll al wez hate th' feller that puts us nixt. , v Huh? y (Riverside Clipper) . , Joe Russi will leave Monday even ing for Northern Minnesota, where he will do some hunting. Joe says he will bring us back some vision. This Is Getting Serious Dear Offagln: Warden Sanders, of Ft. Madison, Ia., is preparing a book Jet concerning all the prisoners who have run away from that institution. Could one properly call it his "Blew Book"? A. M., Joliet, 111. Our Puzzling Language "Father, I want to go into busi ness. I've found a chance that re quires an investment of $3,000." "Well, I'll put up the money." "Yes, but he says half of it must be down!" Hard Cabbage To Get A Head Of The Panora Vedette claims a man living near that place brought to the office two heads of cabbage that weighed nearly eighteen pounds apiece. Some cabbages those, or cab bage story. Dallas County, &, Bet ori- - - 3000 Pairs Ladies Have Been Put on Sale Special for T RAD E I E EI JANUARY 22 to JANUARY 29 Beginning today you will find in our store the following makes of Shoes: FOR LESS MONEY , Howard & foster Stronir & Garfield Slattpr-Morall WplKn,. Hannan Kins: Qualitv LOT 1. Will consist of one lot of Children's Sample Shoes, black and tan, button and lace, regular price $1.00 to $1.75 Special for Trade Week 79c LOT 2. Will consist of one lot of Children's Scuffers, but ton and lace, black and tan, regular prico $1.75 to $2.25 Special for Trade Week $1.45 LOT 3. Will consist of a mixed lot of Men's Sample Shoes in nil leathers, makes and styles. Regular price from $3.50 to $C.OO Special for Trade Week $1.95 BATTERY PARK BANK ASHEVILLE, N. G . Capital . . . . . , ..: . . . . . . . . . . .; . . . $100,000 W Surplus and Profits ........ .... . v . - 185,000.00 A ' OFFICERS: James P. Sawyer, Chairman of the Board. T. C. Cose, Pres Erwin Sluder, V.-Pres. ... C. Ranlrin, Cashier. No Loans are made by this Bank to any of Its Officers or Directors. . - ". "'vl "VestPo BY GEORGE FITCH THE Thb m a a dbmcatb and Ingenious organ, by which man ia enabled to see. The normal man has two eyes which are placed Just beneath hla lofty brow and this number enables him to see enough to keep him mad moat of tha time. The -eye la composed ot a largo number of parts, including the Iris, the retina and the optic nerve. The eye is not detachable and la more ex clusive than our best American so ciety, resenting the Intrusion even ot foreign bodies. The optic nerve con nects the eye with the brain, thus en abling tourists not only to see new countries, but to remember them briefly. A good many eyes, mostly owned and operated by chorus ladles, have entirely too much nerve, how ever. There are msny colors of eyes, In cluding brown, MacS and blue and sometimes, in ese of trouble, red, green and yellow. The color of tho eye hasn't anything to do with Ha capacity to see, although sometimes when an eye is red enough. It can see snak8 in Ireland and pink ele phants in St. Louis. But some col ors of eyes are a good deal easier to look at than others. Eyes are used in a vast variety of ways of which the most popular are reading, sight-seeing and husband getting. The eye is supposed to be used for seeing only, but many young women have trained their eyes to talk in the most eloquent and per suasive fashion. Eyes are so useful that men who have no eyes are considered most un fortunate. They must make their liv ing by weaving baskets, tuning pianos or by acting as chiefs of police in a wide-open town. This latter Job is a very fine one for a blind man, as a chief of police who can go through lies' & Children's Hamilton-Brown Red Cross Lot 4. Will consist of a large as sortment of Ladies' High Class Shoes ia black, pat. ent leather with cloth suede and different color tops. Regular prices are from $3.00 to $5.00 a pain Special for Trade Week $1.45 Lot 5. Wil consist of a large as sortment of Men's High Grade black and tan Eng lifih. Regular price $6.00 Special for Trade Week $2.45 GLOBE SAMPLE CO. 14 EILTCOIIS AVTKUH, ' cket Essay EYE an administration without seeing any signs of gambling can frequently make large sums of money. Blind men are happier than deaf men anyway. This Is partly because they do not have to look'at car signs, A blind man a chief of police can iniUM targe turn money billboards, other people's automobiles and women's hats. Byes are very delicate and get out ot repair easily. They must then be helped out with glasses. There are two kinds ot glasses tha kind that hook over tha ears and the kind that straddle the nose. The latter are much more etyllsh and tall off every fifteen minutes at tha rate ot J9.75 per fall. Man Is well protected with eyes In front, but must rely on automobile horns behind. Man's eyes are so placed that he cannot see his own face, which accounts for tho maay '. startling varieties of whiskers which are worn. ' Sample " - I I ChAaA W s Grover Buster Brown" Lot 6. Will consist of a largo as sortment of high grade Ladies', Boots gun-metal with black cloth tops, but ton and lace. Also in bronze, button and lace. Regular price $6.00 Special for Trade Week $2.95 Lot 7. Will consist of Men's high grade -water-proof Shoes, leather-lined and water proof soles. You can buy these shoes anywhere for $6.00. Here you can buy them Special for Trade Week $2.95
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