North Carolina Newspapers

THE ASHEVILLE TIMES. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1917 MARRIED NOW! Fashion and Common PAGE SIXTEEN. Wedded Sense M Common weal will come there fronr'': The "Blue Bloods9 and in fact all good folks have joined the Red Cross Every City and every town and every village has its organization. And the total output is amazing. The housekeepers are getting their suggestion cards. It is not nearly so stylish to wear fine clothes as it is to knit and to sew and to save. "Bread and butter; come to supper" means more than it ever has. If our people will follow the suggestions made by Mr, Hoover as regards economy for five years, we will hardly know there has been a war. Buy a few Liberty Bonds, take out a little Building and Loan stock and pay for both out of what you can save by ECONOMY. You need not lose any flesh and you may save yourself the loss of sleep. There never has been fashioned such a sensible 'FASHION. We all want to be up-to-date. Our 5 per cent semi-annual dividend bearing stock is selling right along. S::-;;'Cv ; Non-taxable. :;:;:;;; C Series Now Open. Come in Now. There Never Was a Better Time to Save BLUE RIDGE B J. E. RANKIN, President Stock Now Selling. ROBERT S. JONES, Vice-President EDWIN L. RAY, Secretary-Treasurer "WE BUILD HALF THE HOMES ERECTED IN ASHEVILLE" No. 1 Haywood St. THE MEN WHO CAME FIRST Americans at French Front, Short On Uplift, But Long on Americanism Filled With . Youth of IS etc Country. Bv ARTHUR GLEASOiS arm, do you?": he risked, baring the forearm, bleep and trieep. I did not. He asked for a wooden plank, and For the last -week the writer has been with the American army where it is nearest the (front. He has eaten mess, . -watched the pas practice, and ' generally lived with this section of the army in each one of the vil lages where it is billeted The men who came first are now here, well up toward the front, doing v..i hit In learnlne how to kill. It v.o ... tn write eencral talk i such specialties a breaking a wagon about these many men of many na-jaxlc over his nock by letting eight ' f j0na1itit from all the states. One; men hang on the axio, bonding a bus would then sav that unfatigued youth j pipe on his skull, lifting it man in a i", In their walk, in their eyes, in their , chair with two tinners, lifting a man speech. They fill the villages with and table with his teeth, drawing their slang and swing. They boost j three motor cars full of people with the prices till dinner in a simple coun- his teeth, and lifting a man by a . ,.;ii0 nsts Jl A tinv room, two 1 steel comb in his hair. He has gone A few minutes later a man yelled: "Where's Bob?" A voice from the next shack an swered: "Here." "Can't you hear him breathing?" asked the southerner. The Yonth of a New Country. These are all men whom I have met in our new army. I give their exact talk as it fell and the facts about their (life hist'"y. This is America in the her about 25 per cent, and the other autumn of 191? in the persons of her three-quarters are volunteers who young volunteers.. These men have (nine in on the declaration (if 'war..': come across willingly, even gladly, The , regulars, with their experience, : with a touch of adventure In their inl ine well scattered among the newcom- puise ana more than a toucn ot hero BETTER EXCHANGE SYSTEM E, IS two at once. When he Is feeling nt tie goes through more than one inch. He has offered to give a "Y" exhibition "T" is the army abbreviation for the T. M. C. A. huts for soldiers with Board of Trade Takes Hand in Movement for Improvement QNE LADY HAS DECIDED TO GET THAT MAXWELL' At its next session congress will be asked by boards of trade, chambers of . i- ., i ji v.: AD( waciumg n "i"mKr''" m o as to give a foundation on ism. They want to see great things ana gapping a nan nc io wh(ch to l)Ulld morale. The police Her- to play a part at a moment of history. mrousn wis noaru. mm , . ...... ,. ,,,, a, ,, ,,,.., ,,, .in ,. in. his front upper jaw, which come see home again, for they will be first! commerce and large exporting con nut in a chilly smile, is another old and longest In the trenches. But there tinier. It is his duty to make the life is no foretaste of death in their Jaunty of prisoners uncomfortable with hard attitude, their humorous talk, the vi work. Otherwise the boys would tality that survives drill and punish- break rules und stay out after hours, ing hikes and turns to nine innings of He was speaking of the lumber short-, baseball for recration. They are Tex- age and the difficulty of getting any as, Iowa and Minnesota. They are pine boards for the huts. "I'm between fire and hot water myself," he said. When the War Came to Texas. A cerns to establish a foreign exchange bureau which would afford foreign banking facilities which the American Importer does not now possess. The American importer under the present system, It is claimed, receives only about 80 or 90 cents on the dollar when he buys goods in any of the neutral countries, the rest of the dol- youtli. Tho Young Men's Christian associa tion is being challenged to tho biggest job rf its life out here. Can it catch ' lar going for cost of exchange Texas man strolled Into the hnt'u" tnts tutting Humorous crowd of unncr me aci oi congress or june fliehts ui) nnd cover a stable, costs 80; by the name of tho "Iron-Jaw King" 'where I was spending the night and mvn " their moments and make i 21, It is claimed, tho Federal Reserve rents." A pair of leather gaiters. in local exhibits at home. He is 22ihe began talking about his home and tliel" teel at home? The old methods : board has power to establish such a enlisted for the wan district He lives thirtv miles from "no me oin men won i go at an. ibh (..,mun umwu nmui nomu i-r.i, ,! ui. ,... i.. k,,o.' secretary with the nrofessional Kind give American Importers the. full .,..,, wnrtr ., "miiis. nana ana general smile ana watcnrui i viuue ui mu nuicntnn uuu.ii mi mo On account of the many valuable prizes being given away by The TIMES in its Circulation Campaign, a great deal of interest is being aroused in this section of the state. Candidates are picking out their prizes and are "going after" them. One lady has written that "that Maxwell car" is the "apple of her eye" and thnt she has decided to get down to real work and win it. She declares that she will win the Max well if it "can be done" and she thinks it can. Other candidates have decided to go after various prizes offered, the Nash "Six" being the grand capital prize An Overland and a Chevrolet are ulso being given nway. The list of the prizes with descrip tions and details of how to get them will be found on another page of to day's paper. REPORT RECEIVED ON WEST ASHEVILLE PAYING City Commissioners Are Unable to Aid Salva tion Army arnrth from S5 to ST. costs $14. But cor soldiers "shell out" good natur edly, plav baseball, throw hand gren ades, sing, "Keep the Home Fires Burning," .and eat three good meals a day with delicious white bread on the side. years old ana with Mexico. Sandors Just as was sailing for ed up from his army work France a New York tough saw him in; skinner." He told how th. ilicula- the street and thought he had met a harmless country boy (the one hun dred nnd eighty pounds of fighting tion of the local newspapers jumped as soon as war was declared. "The people thought they might as The trail of white bread left by ourimusule are hidden in "clt's clothes"), j weil know about it as not," he ex- army is the outstanding feature or tne i "it was our last nay in tne unnea i plained. American Invasion. Little Chariot, 12 states," says Sandors, remtnisoently. "The kaiser won't do." was his sum years old, dressed in the uniform of "f was thinking I'll never see Ood'9 , mary of Texas public opinion, and he tho French Twenty-fifth. Is leader ofrnuntry any more. T was thinking of (explained why his state felt that way: tho peasant, children who bring the something else and hit him good. I'm j "it's busting international law made mess around, and pick up, not the crumbs, but slices that fall from the tins of our soldiers. Flaky, billowy white bread, what a comfort to the stomach that has grown sour on the browns of England and France! I believe: that this war will be won by American white bread. .; Th Itecord of Minnesota Panes. ' Mut to come to cases. It Is more convincing to tell of Individual men I have met In this brave little advance army. I have met the 18-year-old boy, whom we nail Bernard Beck, pri vate, a Dane. He comes from Tyler, Minn. This Is a village in Lincoln county. In the southwest corner of the state. It has a population of 700, and on, the first call' for volunteers (long before conscription) it responded with 41 men, of whom 22 are Danes. ' "You Tyler people are good Ameri cans," I said to Beck. "We had one fellow," he answered, "who talked up for the Germans, but he had to leave town." He pulled from his pocket a list of hta friends who had volunteered from the village. There were Joseph Vad heim and Clinton Eriksen of Norwe gian descent. William Schnell and William Reitz, German; Charles Glynn nnd Oeorge Donovan, Irish; Carl OI1 snn, Swede; John Ferguson, Scotch; Hnd the rest all Danes. Seventy per cent of the village Is of Danish descent "no Beck told me, and all good Ameri cans. Then there is Private Daniel San dors, from Homestead, Penn, His fa ther was a Hungarian. "Tea don't And any holes -fri that not the strongest man In the world, j our folks seo the war It was shooting nothing like that. I'll just do the the steamers." show for the soldiers, so they can have j. sat near a group of soldiers in the something new every once In a. while. mlt at . They had come In for Wo used to loaf together. Now we're u cake of chocolate and a smoke. The at war together, well, 1 11 have to heat It. I'm on water call tonight." A young marine of the Battalion of the marines is a professional boxer, stripping at 149 V4 pounds. He Is the son of a horse breeding farmer In Missouri, who bred "Early Reaper. 2:09 fiat." the boy explnined. "I've come four thousand miles to get a crack at the Germans," he added. These hoys are red faced, young. talk ran on to the new army life of the last six months. - "I'd give 'em u hundred dollars to send me back," said one. "I don't want to go back till' I see something," replied the man across the table. fit's nicer to be over where you Can savvy, where you can be with your own people," put In a third man. "Over here you have to make all kinds of movements to make them cough up." with, drive. One meets many boys, 18 "i came Into the urmy to work," as and 19 years old, but the average is sorted a boy; "it makes a man out of about 23 "There's not a touch of 'blueness' among them," said J, U. Edwards, secretary of the hut at . They're you.' "It makes a growler out of most," replied an older man. "Well, you've sot to take It lust as Just hoys, full-grown to be sure, but it comes," advised the philosopher of boys." the group. "I'm getting all the money One man came Into a hut and asked I need. Go back to the States and for a Spanish-French grammar. It You'll not be satisfied. I'll take an-! officer with whom I have talked, from active efforts In getting tho treasury department to establish such a for eign exchange bureau. SOLDIERS PASS THROUGH ENHOUTE TO CAMPS eye would last about a week. The Bi- i goods he buys in neutral countries, ble classes and prayer groups are all ! The board of trade asks those w.io right enough for small selected groups ar9 Interested in makinut the Ameri of ihe men, but the great mass of an dollar full value abroad to write these brave, lonesome, warm-hearted I senators and congressman nsk'.r.g their boys are shy of "up-lift." The core of tho work out here is to give the men one place in each camp of tho war zone where they can feel as free as in their own hhme towns, as free to write letters, play pool, sing songs,- see Charley Chaplin on the screen. It is up o the American peo ple to give their urmy these things to give money freely to the "Y" huts, and to send experienced, men business men, with glee club voices and good stories, to help In the work. Above all, tho hut secretary must have a grent human liking In his make-up, liking for all kinds of men. The men feel it In a minute and respond to It, but they steer clear of anything pro fessional. The "Y" has made a good start Wherever the men are the huts are, and as fast as the men advance under the guns the hut nnd dug-out will go with them. The voluntary helpers al ready over here, like Dr. Robert Free man, of the big Presbytrian church of Pasadena, Oil., and Gerald Reynolds, the New York musician, are packing every hut they visit every evening. But the present year will see the need of hundreds of such leaders. Every s STOFF A party of 30 drafted men from West Jefferson, N. C, passed through Asheville yesterday afternoon en route to Camn Jackson, uivision i-assen gc? Agent Wood made arrangements ! the owners, here to serve luncn to tne men. Last night a train load of colored men, 433 in all, who have enlisted In the stevedores' regiment, passed ( IIIJUUK" III? i:uj I'll uicii naj Hum Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark., to New- Port News, Va. , The canned vegetables, left at the community cannery, when that Insti tution closed last week, are In charge of Miss May Jones, chairman for Bun combe county for the National league for Woman's Service and Clerk John H. Cathey has nothing whatever to do with the disposition of the canned stuff. Mr. Cathey was only concerned with the sale of the empty tin cans, which were ordered by the county commissioners, to be sold to the householders of Buncombe county a ui-iuai cost, It Is understood that when the can nery closed many cans of vegetables had not been called for and It is an nounced that they will be sold at auc tion in a few days, if not called for by turned out that this is his second en- other good taste of tho army. I've got llstment. He first saw service in : a brother, getting on six years in the Porto Rico. You will find, now andth cavalry, says it's the nicest life again, a company of old timers, men ; he ever lived." who have been In service 15 to 20 years. Sergeant Murphy, of the Infantry, has served for 26 years Cuba, the Philippines, all our brushes. These old time sergeants are the key uf tli" army. They are on an equality with the men, but they understand 1lt:ipllne, ? Speaking for the few thousand men whom I saw In this furthest advanced section of the army, the regulars num- The American turq Is in their speech nil the time not only the charming southern slur and the New England twang, but the little surprise in the wording itself. I was sitting next to n Loulsvlllo, Ky., man, and a camion driver came into the shack. The southerner greeted him: "I'm as ylad to see you as I'd be to see my wife. And I haven't got any wife." sergeant to colonel, up nnd down our line, tins expressed his desire for the "Y" huts to be tho center of camp ac tivities and to run at full blast all the time. As our fighting men come across, five hu mired thousand strong, and then a million, we must give ev ery regiment of them a place where each thousand or twelve hundred of them an evening can drop In for a good time. The TIMES' subscription campaign moans an automobile for four for- tunata people. Phone 1051. TENTH DISTRICT BANKERS Bankers of the tenth district, group A, of the North Carolina Bankers' as sociation, will meet nt the Lnngren hotel Wednesday evouiniT to make plans for a big drive in the Liberty loan campaign It Is felt that the en tire district must organize thoroughly to make the sale a success in this sec tion and a campaign w'th ginger in it wltt be mapped out it the Langren meeting. Salvation Army representatives ap peared at the city commissioners' meeting yesterday afternoon and asked the board to grant that organ ization a regular financial donation through the winter season. The com missioners, while expressing regret for the action, refused the request, slating that the condition of the city . treasury did not warrant this grant of aid. Mayor Rankin was authorized to issue vouchers to Harklns Ai Van Winkle and to-Zebulon Weaver for $100 each, for legal services in the lawsuit of Howland versus the City of Asheville. This case is now in the state Supreme court for review, the piaintiti naving won here in Superior court. A request from Water Superintend ent Weaver for additional office space was taken under consideration. City School Superintendent Howell was authorized to appoint Mrs. Mont castle as a teacher at Orange Street school. A request from E. D, Hopkins for permission to preach on the streets was referred to the commissioner of public safety. , The report of City Engineer Lee on total an.d pro rata costs to property owners for paving the following streets in West Asheville was received and ordered to be advertised: Hay wood road from Beverly road to the concrete bridge; Haywood road from the bridge to west end of Beverly road; Haywood from end of car line to the bank; Haywood road from Dill place to car line: Haywood from Dill place to Sand HIU road; Haywood from city limits to Dill property; Hay wood from Westwood place to Smith Bridge; Westwood from Haywood road to end ef pavement; Craven street from Haywood to the concrete bridge; Brovard road from Bartlett's entrance to Haywood road; Brevard road from Hominy creek to Bart lett's entrance. A number of semi-monthly bills were read and approved for payment. No building permits were asked Kir mi yesternnys meeting. Funeral services for Edwin Starkey, aged 27, who died at his home at No. lit Haywood street Thursday, were held yesterday afternoon at the Mc-Koy-Hare Undertaking establishment on - Haywood street. The services wero In charge of Rev. J. S. Williams, chaplain of the Mission of the Good Samaritan. Interment was at River side cemetery. The deceased was a native of Dan ville, Va., and leaves a widow and a small child. The TIMES' subscription campaign means an automobile for four for tunate people, fbono lt&l. finknowi Vixi. Kra a i v. ..7. Ml ft RV noiir.r.KTc rvrrwtmicnc 2S(Rflii!