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v -.; v V .S .-.t! y4 FRED H. MAY Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffice at Le noir, N. C, as second-class - mail . natter.- Sutxcriptioa Price One year .$2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 By city carrier, per month .25 This paper is sent only to sub scribers who pay in advance. Advertising rates on application Telephone No. 54 .FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1917 WANTS MORE ACTIVE WORK AGAINST THE BLOCKADERS Editor Lenoir News: I have for some time been thinking of writing an article in regard to the growing blockade and whisky busi ness in our good county of Caldwell. I will say here that the same can be said of many other counties of the State. Some time ago I saw a state- nent in a newspaper by J. W. Bailey f the eastern North Carolina reve nue district that blockading was on the increase all over the State and that more revenue officers had been or had to be appointed to enforce our "prohibition laws. We have prohibition by law, but what is a law if it is not enforced? Since the State has a hand in the en forcement of the law against illicit distilling the county authorities are largely responsible for the putting down of the blockade business. Our laws were enacted to make it easy for people to do right and hard lor them to do wrong. One doesn't have to be a keen observer to see that there is much blockading and whisky-drinking going on in our town and county, and especially among ;young men. Where do they get it? Shipping it in is practically prohibit ed; therefore we know it is bought from the blockader or his agent a human being void of principle, who is "willing for a little gain to destroy the .rising manhood of the community. The Minister's Association of Le noir ' last winter decided to preach against what they termed the four greatest evils of their town and coun ty. They wisely decided that whisky was the first and greatest evil. I hoped to see some effective results from' this initiative of our Lenoir preachers, but it seems that the lay men didn't fall in line. Let our preachers and all who are in favor of clean government try gain to get our county, town and . revenue officers to do their whole duty. I can only hear from others What is going on in their part of the county, but I know that blockading , and selling of liquor is going on in several localities in the western part cf the county. If we continue to sow the wind we will reap the whirlwind from the nefarious business in crimes and court expenses. 'Our officers are courteous and obliging and destroy a few stills, but capturing a few stills and not getting the blockader is not helping the cause. When our county and revenue offi cers do their whole duty and go at it with gloves off, so to speak, using the proper secret service work, I believe the whisky business can be stamped out I It is a disgrace the part whisky , plays on our election days. In some places, with whisky and a little money, men are led as so many slaves to the ballot box not many, out some and both buyer and seller are guilty alike most of the time . smell alike. fl hope the time will soen be here 'when our women can vote and help fight ttbe evil. They have always 'stood against this evil and we can irust them to do so in the future. I am a Democrat interested in the 'success of my party, and I know there are many others in the county Vof $oth parties who want to stamp out the great curse, so why not lay aside, local party ties, if necessary, in the light of this great evil, and vote for the man who will deliver us. Some 'ySpoliticians and leaders seem to think l that the whisky element has the bal- ' $ asnee. pf power, and they cater to it. fudging by the past under both par V :v' .ties it looks this way, and both par- y lies we gumy. ' v4t the good people who stand for 0 1 temperance show that they have the .i';"" balance- of power, and prove it by i turning and voting the man or party ' j'f, 'who holds highest the white banner . .m.V f -total abstinence. The man who fVf''''"; not deserve the . ! votes of the' good people of the coun ',ty,';':The '-'present party, has another ' - year to make good. The ether party JiManother year to name its ticket. - , : The margin of votes is narrow. Let each party put its best men J forward and we will have officers and ' 1 people alike who, taste not, touch not " imdle not and victory to the man or ' yarty who makes it easiest for our young mei to live sober and clean ;"!-.-''''....- .'H . n. ' a 1 ft tttt w lives n-ff':" ., WORK OF ASSOCIATION IN CAMP OF SOLDIERS (Continued from page one) How successful this effort has been is well illustrated -by the words of Maj. Gerald W. Birks of Canada, who says: 'The Y. M. C. A. is absolutely an essential part of the allied army. Its work is to supply a touch of hcfme; it is a home away from home. It asks for money, not for itself, but to do the work for your boys which you would do for them were they at home.' A spirit of hospitality and home always prevails in a Y. M. C. A. war station. "Whether the soldier is being sold a postage stamp, served with cocoa, given stationery on which to write home, entertained by the piano, pro vided with games chess, checkers, dominos, or furnished soap, candles or matches, a clean, sociable atmos phere is maintained. "Many informal social times are promoted. The great mass singing of several hundred soldiers of well beloved songs such as "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," "Old Black j Joe" and whatever other songs they may want to sing, is one of the most delightful things to be seen or heard at our army camps. Every effort is made to have small groups of soldiers entertained in Christian homes. Sightseeing tours are regularly ar ranged. "This is just some of the activities that the Y. M. C. A. war stations are so successfully carrying' on among the soldiers. The men who are fight ing, the men who have 'Their Rendez vous' with Death' that our own Amer ican soldier, Alam Seegar, so beau tifully wrote about, deserves all the happiness of the home life that the Y. M. C. A. war stations can give them. And the American people real ize this, and this is why the American people are going to freely give next week more than $35,000,000 to fur nish the soldiers with homes on the firing line a sufficient number of well-equipped Y. war stations." CALL TO SERVICE ON "ORPHANAGE SUNDAY "Sunrise and sunset, sunshine and shadows, springtime and autumn, seedtime and harvest, childhood and old age, blend easily and naturally into our humanities." In our fullness of heart we hear the tender words of the Master: "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." Suffer them, citizens of North Carolina, suffer them. And when second childhood comes you will hear the same compassionate voice calling the enfeebled of age. As patriotic citizens of a great com monwealth, we will not realize the full delights of service to humanity until we provide comfort and protec tion to the State's unfortunates. Recently articles have appeared in the newspapers calling attention to the urgent needs of the various or phanages of the State and appealing to the citizens of our commonwealth to set aside one day's earnings out of three hundred and sixty-five to this righteous cause as a Thanksgiv ing offering, to be invested in the greatest of charities our orphan homes. In no other one channel of effort is our response to the com mand, "Visit the sick, relieve the dis tressed, bury the dead, protect and educate the orphan," so vividly and practically exemplified as it is in the work of our orphan homes. Here are gathered the fatherless and mother less children of our State, where they find fostering care and protection throughout the year? of their devel opment. Here they are given the ed ucation and training so essential to success when they go out into the cold world to battle for themselves. It is to one of these splendid institu tions that every citizen of North Car olina is asked to forward a contri bution during the approaching Thanksgiving season. It is an invest ment which promises no immediate' monetary reward, but wfll aid in di recting many little footsteps into the ways of pleasantness and peace. We feel that every patriot, who is such from a zealous and an unselfish desire to serve his country in this world crisis, will cheerfullv answer the call to aid in this needed work at home, thus placing himself (or her self) on record for performing an un selfish, charitable, Christian act, wor thy of a zealous patriot who stands for the conservation of the future manhood and womanhood of North Carolina. If every friend of the cause should enlist actively in .sup port of this movement the home treasuries would reap a bountiful harvest this Thanksgiving and the maintenance of the sixteen orphan ages during the approaching winter would be assured. The newspapers of the State have given liberally of their space in ex tending the publicity of this propa ganda, and the service thus rendered is invaluable. That the movement may be given the widest possible pub licity we earnestly urge all pastors Of churches, of every denomination, to bring this appeal to the attention The Significance of the War : :tt'rv; rtd:Us ;df .'""the :-Aiountaitis' By A MOUNTAINEER A little more than three yean ago the. empires of the east clashed in battle; at first 'twas but a combat be tween two rather remote countries of the earth, but the leaven of the na tions shows ns today its mighty pow er, and the pain and sorrow and death stops not in the valley of "No Man's Land" but has found its way into every nook and corner of earth where man doth dwell. At its be ginning we thought 'twould pass in a few brief days, but as the months and years have plodded on the uncer tainty of its end has become more of a realism than a fancy dream. In fact, we said: "It will close in three months." .They came and we raised our limit to six. Today we are liv- ng in the fourth year of the strug gle and no living man can say when its end will be. Three years ago we saw it as a struggle between clamor ing nations; today 'tis the fight of the nations of the earth for univer sal right. Then 'twas the Germans versus the allies; now the freedom- i i , . . t loving peopie oi every came against Prussianism. Therefore our reason ineviiaDiy ior uie ioaa we now nave to Dear, irue enougn, we nave not forgotten the broken promises, 'the insults, the outrages of every descrip tion. To be sure we still hear the dyjng moans of women and children coming up from the Lusitania and know that Germany has never asked the world's forgiveness. And we re- member the American citizens on neutral vessels drowning in neutral waroro oni uta oaa t-tin KaH f 'vnn aid bound for dying Belgium rriur- dered and destroyed in heathen style. But rather that the nations of the earth be free and that autocracy be no more than that these wrongs be avenged do we fight. Today it is our war and it must be won. " To do it will cost much, much money, many men, much sacrifice, but everything that is worth while always does cost much. No doubt now but that the winning of this world-wide war de volves upon us and we shall do it as we have ever done the great deeds of sacrifice. But I write today to you who have slain the wolds of the forest, to you who were, in the fires at Appomattox, Manassa3 and Get tysburg, to you who went or sent to the struggle of '98, to once more lend your heart and band and sbul to the task that must be done. I re peat it is our war and ours to win. And I shall attempt to, tell you what it will take to win it. The supreme necessities for carry ing on this war to a successful close are men, money and food. None of these we seem to have to spare here in the mountains, and yet when we take a little inventory and review the situation we find we have them all in glorious abundance. Already are thousands of our men of the hills marching to the tap of drums and leraning the story of King's Moun tain, Yorktown, San Juan Hill and all the rest, and many more will we send if need there be. And, too, have we helped to swell Carolina's part of the Liberty Loan beyond the require ment; cheerfully have we loaned our money to our government in this try ing hour, and gladly will we do more when the necessity shall come. Both of these not every one has or will be able to help very materially except in the co-operation with those who send and encouragement of those who go, or of those who finance the great propositions that must be met However, it will be of interest to know that every one can aid with the third of the three great necessities for carrying on the war. That is the conserving and furnishing of food. Of course every one is more or less familiar by now with the plans of their respective congregation on Sunday, Nov. 25 A special sermon bearing upon the orphanage work, from every pulpit in North Carolina on that day, would help mightily in reminding our charitably inclined people of the opportunity to aid in the support of this essential civic and Christian philanthropy. To the pas tors of country churches in which no service may be held on Nov. 25 we would suggest that Dec. 2 be ob served as "Orphanage Sunday." Let every citizen of the State rise to the necessity of the hour and assist in depositing a handsome aggregate in the orphanage treasuries. It will be a prime investment for both church and State, first saving from degeneracy the most exposed children in the world, and then training them for usefulness in the commonwealth and the kingdom. M. X. SHIPMAN, JAS. R. YOUNG, JOHN D. BERRY, A. S. BARNES, LIVINGSTON JOHNSON, worked out by Mr. Hoover," our na tional food commissioner, but I'm taking this opportunity to speak of the significance of some of its details. We have been asked especially to be conservative in the use of three par-" ticular foods. These are wheat, meat and sugar. These are particularly asked for because of portability, du rability, ease of preparation and de sirability of those who are to fight It must be remembered that the gov ernment is not asking any one to. conserve his foods that he may give them to the government, but that he may have them to sell to the govern ment at splendid prices. The plan that has been suggested by the food commission is in every way a very splendid one. It is to the effect that we shall have one wheatless day each week. By means of this conservation it has been estimated that we shall have augmented our amount of wheat to ship by several million bushels. To take the place of the wheat the , flowing are suggested: Oatmeal, : buckwheat, potatoes and corn, any of which makes a splendid substitute The witer recans manv a hannv dav j when corn was his faithful "con- stant," and would no doubt be glad if returning to this splendid cake of the hills might be the major part of his help in the great struggle. But not so, no doubt. Further, that we shall have a meatless day each week. xhis we can easily do for Lord knows the majority of us eat too much anyway. No one can ask for a finer substitute than home-made milk and butter, and this we all have. For the third food, sugar, that we are asked to conserve, it may be said that every one can do with less, and in the meantime conserve his pocket change to some considerable extent, too. A few less cakes and a little less of jellies will make a great deal of difference in the amount the entire country will have to sell. These, in brief, are the foods that we should especially use with thought and care. And I feel sure that when our moun tain people are fully awakened to the gravity of the situation that no more loyal support can be found any where. Surely when we know how very much a single suitable meal to some soldier at the front may mean, and that that soldier may be our own brother or son, we shall gladly comply with tBis regulation that has been asked for. That we may have a systematic notion of what the people will do with this great plan til egovernment has prepared cards and has sent them out to all of the people. One of htem is a pledge card; another an explana tion card, and a third a membership card. Those who sign the pledge cards, thereby showing that they will do all in their power to be conserva tive in the use of foods, are entitled to the membership cards, which they are asked to hang up in their homes. This plan is asking no one to eat less but to eat differently, to give noth ing but to have more to sell, to pro duce and not to waste is the theme, and this every true American will be glad to do. Remember, then, those you love, and show that lov eby hclpnig the government provide for their com fort in every way that is possible. Be not like those "who give a beg gar's bit no more ; while they, those dear repudiated ones, baptized by fire, give of their glorious youth, their splendid manhood, their desire; give hopes, ambitions, yea, the love of wife an dall the rest, and some give life." UNCERTAINTIES IN RUSSIA (Raleigh News and Observer) The Russian situation is full of sur prises. One day it looks as if Keren sky will re-establish himself in Petro grad. The next it looks as if Trotz ky has administered a decisive defeat to the former premier and his forces. Meanwhile the great, stolid masses of Russia are thinking no one knows what. Is there a man strong enough to weld them into anything like a co hesive force? In revolutions in the past such a man has been evolved out of the storm and chaos and confusion that accompany revolutions, and it is fair to assume that such a man will come up out -of the disorder that reigns in Russia now. Perhaps, and more than likely, he will be some man who has not even been men tioned ' yet in the' dispatches from Russia., t - . Fighting in and around Petrograd in all probability has. little to do with what will be the final outcome of the Russian situation. It probably, is merely a surface indication and may have no vital relation, to the funda mental causes which will be found to underlie the final bringing of order THE PEOPLE; OF THE UNITED STATES HAVE SHOWN CONFIDENCE IN THEIR GOVERNMENT BY AG AIN OVER-SUBSCRIBING THE SECOND LIB- ERTY LOAN. . V ) , : , . , . .' r On behalf of the First National Bank," we wish to ex- press ,our . appreciation for the-, liberal way in which the Citizens of this county subscribed to this loan. . - '.-' - ;. v . ','." . The same feeling of security which' is vested in the Government Loans is Jo be felt by the depositors of this bank, whidh iu a member, of the;Federal Reserve Bank and under Government supervision. NEW ACCOUNTS SOLICITED AND WELCOMED First National Bank LENOIR, N. C; A. A KENT. Pr.tid.nt E. F. ALLEN, Cihir E. L. SHUFORD, Vice-Pr.sid.nt J.R. TODD, Au'l ChS "Safe For Your Savings" UNCOVERING HOARDED FOOD (Raleigh News and Observer) The government is doing the con sumer a great service in ferreting out the cases of hoarded food. Food stuffs to the value of approximately forty million dollars have recently been found in New York warehouses. It is held mostly for export to the northern neutral countries of Europe, but as there is an embargo on ex ports to those countries these foods, consisting of corn, wheat, flour,, cot tonseed oil and condensed milk, can not be shipped. Herbert Hoover thinks that loyal Americans are more entitled to these foods than the people of northern i Europe who have been helping main tain the Germans by drawing on the United States for supplies. So these supplies will be placed on the market in this country. By so doing he will deliver a blow at Germany that will be felt Inci dentally the placing of food in that quantity on the market ought to tend to lower the prices somewhat. The government is tackling the food question vigorously. Every warehouse and cold storage plant is to undergo a careful inspection. It is believed that only a part of the con cealed foods has thus far been dis covered. It is work of this sort by the gov ernment which makes the people feel disposed to support the war. Ameri cans are loyal to their government, but they also demand service from its representatives, these being of course their own representatives. HOW GERARD WOULD , TREAT TRAITORS IN U. S. The time for repentance of dis loyal American and pro-German sym pathizers has passed and the day is at hand when every person must de cide whether he is for or against America, declared James W. Gerard in an address at a food conservation mass meeting in Pittsburg, Pa. "Americans are to be congratulat ed on their efforts to induce Germans in this country to be loyal, but there are still many under the protection of the American flag who are snakes in the grass," said the former ambas sador. "We should hog-tie every disloyal German-American, feed every pa ficist raw meat and hang every trai tor to a lamp post, to 'induce success in this war. And our traitors are, not all German-Americans, but some men high in public life are aiding the Prussian cause. There is no dirtier chapter in American politics than the crusade of these men, whose names you know." SAMMIES AND FRENCH TROOPS FRATERNIZING American and French troops are fraternizing about the camps in France in a way that promises well for future joint operations. Private letters from American officers lay stress on the amiable relations that have been established between the men despite the difference in lan guage. The soldiers go about in groups during their leisure hours, Often with a French private strolling on either side of a big American, and all three laughing uproariously over their at tempts to understand each other. The villages where the Americans are quartered are full of such scenes daily. When there is a boxing match or other atrial of strength the.mixeid audiences cheer the victor impartial ly, although each side fhouts encour agement to its own men during the fight., ; o A f ooi , pledge membership, ' card in the window it a sign of a patriotic W. P. SPEAS, M. D. s Practice Limited to EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT HICKORY, N. C. Office Over Hickory Drug Company Hours 9 to 12, 2 to 5 CO TO SHELL'S BARBER SHOP UNDER FIRST NATIONAL BANK W. O. SHELL LET US SHAPE THEM UP I am ready to clean that Palm Beach Suit, Panama and Straw Hat and do all kinds of work in the press ing line : : ; .. ; Ladies' Work a Specialty ANDERSON PRESSING CLUB Phoae 79 FOR THE BEST SERVICE CAROLINA & NORTH-WESTER)! BAJLWAY COMPANY SCHEDULE Effective April 29, 1917. Northbound Daily Passenger No. 19 Lv. Chester 7.43 am " Yorkville 8.29 Gastonia 9.23 Lincolnton 10.20 " Newton - ---10.66 " Hickory 11.40, Ar. Lenoir 12.45 pre No. 64 Mixed Lv. Hickory 8.00 am Ar. Lenoir 9.40 Lv. Lenoir 1.00 Lv. Mortimer 8.25 Ar. Edgemont 4.00 pm Southbound No. 9 Lv. Lenoir 1.40 pm " Hickory 2.35 " Newton 8.08 " Lincolnton 3.45 " Gastonia 6.00 " Yorkville 5.46 Ar. Chester 6.85 No. 65 Mixed Lvi Edgemont 6:30 am " Lenoir 8:80 Ar. Hickory 10.80 Close connection with P. & IT. at Gastonia for Charlotte, N. C. Connects at Hickory, Newton, Gas tonia, Yorkville and Chester with the Southern Railway. With Seaboard Air Line at Lin colnton. Subject to change without notice. E. F. REID, Gen. Passenger. Agent DR. ALFRED 7. DULA EYE SPECIALIST ; rs.TO SEE, BETTER C y SEE DUU - ?SL0$, 7 Yew's Experieaea The Best Equipment Qbtainable. . Glasses Fitted Exclusively. MARTIN BLOCK, UK0IM,& If Ton sot It from DULA. It's All Right, , WATCH PAPER FOB DATES. . v LENSES GROUND ft DUPLICATED Repair Dep't Box 127 Charlotte, N. C HE GOT MAD Lysander, a farm hand that Every body's tells about, was recounting his troubles to a neighbor. , Among other things he said that the wife of the farmer who employed him was "toe close for any fliej . "This very morning," said he, "she asked, me, 'Lysander, do you , know how many pancakes you have et this mornin'f " . - , v "I said, "No, ma'am, I ain't had no ' occasion to count 'era.' ... ; " 'Well says she, 'the last .Ant was the twenty-sixth.' And it made me. so mad I Jest got up from , the table' lur :i i.. i. !it:':'i.. ti t. t 'i-vi,., mm went to wura wiuiouc any Dreax- w ir you waat results try a Newe hi 0S 4t his appeal to the attention ' ' ? Publicity Committee' to the distraught country.';, home.'' s . . ; Wa-rAdA'-,; Af