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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918
COMING ACROSS
Lenoir and Caldwell county are
buying a lot of the war savings
stamps, according to Mr. J. C. Sea
gle, chairman of the war savings
committee for Caldwell county, and
Postmaster V. D. Guire of the Na
tional Defense Council. The banks,
nhe postmasters and the rural deliv
ers have joined thoroughly in this
jrreat campaign and no doubt they
wIH come out in the wind-up with
flying colors. The success of this
Kreat and patriotic campaign is more
or less due to the ease with which
these stamps are purchased. They
.are placed close to the people and
ire as easy to ouy as a postage
stamp. The machinery by which they
.ire to be purchased is made as easy
and convenient as the purchase of
a spool of thread or a pound of nails
m every community in the United
States. Already 350,000 war sav
ings stamp agencies have been estab
lished. In addition to these agencies there
are 1,000,000 "sales stations," which
do not receive direct authorization
Jto make the sales from the secretary
rf the treasury, but obtain their
stamps from authorized agents and
sell them over their counters, at
their cashiers' windows and other
places.
Fifty thousand postofhces now
have war savings stamps on sale and
.-23,000 banks and 8,000 individual
tfirms and corporations have been ap
pointed agents. Nine thousand in
terstate corporations having places
of business in several states will con
stitute 115,000 additional agencies.
An intensive campaign is now on
for the establishing of war savings
societies which can be organized by
3en or more persons in any commu
nity, school, club, church, factory or
office and can tx affiliated with the
national war savings committee at
Washington upon application.
need is absolute. It must be met
The only wayto provide food for the
soldiers is to save, it here at home.
Stand bx and aid the program of the
food administration and obey the
proclamation, of President Wilson
Hotel ajT restaurant proprietors
should stand firm for the wheatless
and meatless days and meals. Tell
the customers they cannot have it
Do not prepare it and do not serve
it If customers demand wheat bread
refer them to the administration or
der. If they demand beef, pork,
mutton on the "meatless days" point
to the proclamation .of President
Wilson.
SOUTH'S FUEL FEEDER IS
OUT OF COMMISSION
Bristol, Tenn.-Va., Jan. 29. No
trains will operate on the Appalach
ian division of the Southern railway
for at least this week ,on account of
the washing away of more than fif
teen bridges and trestles and numer
ous slides and washouts, following
heavy rains and the thawing of snow
in the mountains.
This division operates into the coal
fields and is the main fuel feeder for
the Southern system.
More than six hundred feet of
trackage through the natural tunnel
is entirely washed away. Two tres
tles at this point are gone. At Iron
ton one bridge is gone and a fifty
foot slide destroyed the track. An
other bridge is gone near the Iron
furnace at Big Stone Gap and be
tween Big Stone Gap and Appa
lachia there is a 500-foot slide and
five bridges washed away. Between
Appalachia and St. Charles six
bridges went down and there are a
number of slides.
Work train and men were rushed
here from the Asheville division and
repairs are being pushed. Officials
hope to have part of the line in op
eration by Friday.
There were one or two small wash
outs on the Knoxville division last
night, but they were quickly repair
ed. Two small bridges on the Moun
tain City division were repaired to
day and operation resumed. The
Bulls Gap and Gate City division is
operating after small damage was
repaired. It is reported here that
the Virginia & Carolina railroad op
erating from Abingdon, Va., to
Boone, N. C. has suspended opera
tion on account of the washing away
of two bridges.
GRITS, MEAL OR OTHER
CEREAL- SOLD WITH FLOUR
Few Lenoir folks, perhaps, after
reading the text of the President's
proclamation and Food Administra
tor Hoover's Jatest orders regulating;,
the sale and purchase of foodstuffs,
grasped the real situation. , They are '
apt to do so, however, when they
next order wheat flour from a gro
cer; that is, unless the grocer him-,
self be ignorant and tihen the State
food administrator will soon inform
him. For every pound of flour bought
the consumer must buy a pound of
other cereals; and this is not for the
purpose of enabling the grocer to
sell the other cereals, either. It is
intended to conserve flour.
This regulation is not something
to take effect in the future, near or
distant; it is effective now, at once,
immediately, and any grocer who on
Monday or since then sold a pound of
flour without a pound of meal, grits
or some other cereal to go with it
violated the spirit and letter of the
latest food regulations. This is the
view the State food administration
takes of the matter.
Along with this flour order for the
grocers goes the order for Victory
bread to be enforced among the bak
ers and hotels. It is not improbable
that the hotels found it hard to pur
chase sufficient Victory bread for the
day, and naturally they would be
allowed to dispose of their left-over
stock, but Victory bread must make
its appearance on the hotel tables
without any more delay than is abso
lutely necessary.
The total amount of timber cut on
the national forests in the fiscal year
1917 was 840,612,000 board feet, as
against 714,505,000 board feet in
1916.
-NO TUESDAY'S PAPER
In an effort to comply with the
spirit of the recent Fuel Administra
tion order closing down all non-essential
business places and manufac
turing plants, The News will not be
Ssswed next Tuesday. Since the
greater part of the work on the Tues
day paper is done on Monday it is
thought wise to fall in line with all
other local business houses. To make
jirj for ..Tuesday's paper the Friday
JiJews will appear in double size.
By publishing only ope time a
"week we will be able to deliver pa
pers to all local subscribers through
the postoffice, and for this reason the
ity delivery service will be discon
tinued with this issue.
SAVE WHEAT AND MEAT
(Asheville- Times)
Wheatless days Monday and
Wednesday.
Meatless day No beef, pork,
mutton Tuesday.
Porkless days No pork, bacon,
.ham, fresh or smoked, lanl
"Tuesday and Saturday.
One wheatless and one meatless
meal a day.
ine time has come to get right
down to the business of saving wheat
and meat. With the urging of the
; rfood administration during the past
rfew months some good has come.
There has been a partial co-operation
' with the food conservation idea, but
the time is here when serious con
sideration, must be given the matter.
- Unless the people mora generally
follow the request of the administra
tion bread and meat cards will come,
amd this step is exactly what the peo-
. Jjfl do not want and the administra
tis does not desire it. President
( WUam m his latest food conservation
. proclamation is very distinct in his
expression of the need and the
"remedy. The' plan suggested "is 'sim
pK ykui within the reach of every
family, and, for 'that matter, every
individual.
Two wheatless days each week and
in Addition one wheatless meal each
. 4ay Whole wheat and Graham flour
.; are permissible in ,the wheatless dnyx.
Two porkless' days each week and
one1 meatless meaning beefless,
morkless, muttonless day each week
'-and 111 addition one meatless meal
each day.
' This is the administration program.
The need is food for the American
ttroops In France arid for the allied
Uroops fighting "over there." The
THE ARTICLES ARE FOUND
TO BE BULLET RESISTERS
With the American Expeditionary
Army in France. If you're coming
to France you'd better bring along
a few Bibles, decks of cards, note
books and spectacle cases.
In experimenting to find a bullets
resisting body armor the ordnance
folks found that these articles have
stopped bullets galore in past and
present wars.
The enemy shock-troops are fur
nished a steel body shield made in
leave, Jike the hide of an armadillo.
Sometimes this metal stops bullets
and sometimes it just says "How do
you do" as the bullet goes whizzing
straight on through to cause the
Boche an acute pain in his tummy.
Bibles have saved lots of lives. A
German bullet usually pulls up short
and gets religion about midway
through Revelations.
Three aces have , been known to
defeat a sizeable shell fragment
where the soldier was a man of spec
ulative mind.
And epectacle cases are very use
ful in deflecting richochet bullets.
It is likely that by the time the
American whole army takes the fiefd
the ordnance department will have
r.dopted some kind of armor. It may
I be metal and it may be cloth, but
it is believed that some shield is pos
sible which can prevent many wounds
caused by spent bullets or shell fragments.
SAYS HE COULD NOT
GET WOOD TO CUT
The suggestion on the editorial
page of last Tuesday's News that "we
make Monday a wood-cutting day in
Caldwell" was timely and good, were
it not for the little discrepancy that
the editor overlooked, namely, the
fact that the owners of these forests
would not permit an axe or a saw
carried within chopping radius of a
single tree. Ask some of the owners
;if you are an unbeliever and see how
quickly his color changes. The hold
er of these patches of woods will
gladly give his sons to go to France,
or his daughters in marrigae to any
son of a gun, but his trees are pre
cious. The writer of this tried vainly
to cut some wood on shares or for
cash during our Arctic weather, but
alas for the rarity of Christian char
ity under the sun to find a tree was
impossible. Only one man, so far as
known, consented for a tree to be
felled. He lives near Harrisburg and
his name is W. W. Deal. We feel
like exclaiming "that trees should be
so dear and human flesh so cheap."
One man who lives near Lenoir
was interrogated as to his wood, but,
nay, money would not buy it. We
sneaked away from his presence feel
ing like a tailless dog, especially
when we remembered that he was a
pillar in his church and "says" he
believes that the kingdoms of this
world are very soon to become the
kingdoms of Him who is the first
sheaf of the great coming harvest.
These thoughts come to one and all
as a gentle reminder that some peo
ple had better wake up. We have
plunged into "perilous times'.' with
"perplexity of nations. "The sea and
the waves roaring." Daniel's time
of great trouble is coming. Then
cometh a clash of worlds, and if we
would be sen-ants of God we must
serve our fellow man.
JAMES H. HARRIS.
SURVEYOR GENERAL FOR ALL
ARMY PURCHASES APPOINTED
Edward R. Stettin ius of New York
has been appointed surveyor general
for all army purchases. Mr. Stetti
nius will be in charge of the pro
curement and production of all sup
plies by the five army bureaus
ordnance, quartermaster, signal, en
gineer and medical. It will be his
duty to co-ordinate such purchases
and properly relate the same to in
dustry, to the end that the army pro
gram be developed under a compre
hensive plan which will best utilize
the resources of the country. His in
timate knoweldge of war conditions
m Europe and in the United States
as related to industry, and the prac-
tical means he has used to accom
plish his plans pre-eminently qualify
him for his position, it is asserted.
The appointment of Mr. Stettinius
to the new post, which iR in effect
that of munitions supervisor and di
rector for all war department pur
chases, is viewed as the answer of
the administration to the munitions
ministry bill pending in the Senate.
If it'. PRINTING you want com
If you need Printing see The News.
SEC. BAKER DEFENDS
THE WAR DEPARTMENT
(Continued from page onei
The impatience of the whole coun
try to "do this thing greatly," he .said,
"probably inspired much of the crit
icism. Every one of us wants to see
our country hit like a man at the ad
versary. "We look back over the past and
see that there havq been shortcom
ings; that there have been delays.
There are things that could have been
better done. But our effort ' is to
learn.
"I have no purpose to defend indi
viduals or myself. If I discuss here
individuals . by name, if I refer to
Gen. Crozier or Gen. Sharpe or my
self, it will be only to make it clear.
If any of us should figure in tomor
row's casualties it would be as noth
ing beside the object we all seek. I
am not here to deny shortcomings,
but I think I can say this : That
where we have found such shortcom
ings or mistakes we have made every'
effort to correct them. I must ear
nestly ask that when you have point
ed out to you any shortcoming,
whether it seem well founded or not,
that you instantly refer it to me in
order that the processes of the de
partment may sift the truth."
From Senator -Chamberlain's
speech, Mr, Baker said, it had seemed
to him that although it was not the
Senator's purpose to make it so ap
pear, the eountry got an impression
from the failures and delays that
made them "disproportionate to what
waH going on." . I
The secretary said these might be
"instances of shortcomings, but only
When he appeared previously, Mr.
Baker said, "it was with the inten
tion of being frank," but despite this
desire he seemed "to have left the
feeling that I was fencing in defense
of some of my subordinates." . He
denied ony such intention and said
when he concluded if there wa any
thing else the committee desired to
investigate he would do everything
possible within his power to assist
"without fear or favor" and to effect
any improvement.
The secretary said that when he
heard of the two letters read by Sen
ator Chamberlain concerning bad
treatment of sick soldiers, he imme
diately asked Senator Chamberlain
for all the details.
"I want to follow those through to
the very end," said he, "and find out
who is responsible in order that I
can punish the guilty."
Although more than one million
men are under arms in this country,
Mr. Baker said, the number of com
plaints received have been relatively
small, probably not more than 18. In
each instance, he said, investigations
have been immediately made.
Some reports, the secretary said
have not proved serious upon inquiry
while others had, in which case cor
rections followed.
In the case of the body of an offr
cer who died at an aviation training
school being shipped home in a sheet
Secretary Baker said inquiry devel
oped that the camp was in charge of
a British aviation officer who follow
cd the British method of sending bod
ies home unclothed, the man's clothes
being shipped in a separate parcel.
An American officer was then put in
charge.
Another complaint of neglect of a
patient at Camp Wheeler, Ga., he
said, developed that it was unjusti
fied and resulting from the "distress
ed imagination of the widow."
There still are in the hands of the
inspector-general nine cases being in
vestigated! Mr. Baker told of inves
tigations which resulted in the dis
charge of Lieut. Charles W. Cole and
Lieut. John G. Dye for neglect of pa
tients, as published in the newspa
pers Saturday and Sunday. The
judge advocate general advised add
ing a prison sentence to the dismissal
and that is being considered.
"The department sets its face
against that sort of callous disregard
of soldiers' health," Secretary Baker
sadi. "I want the doctors and the
country to know that their lives and
welfare are a responsibility which I
will not permit to be dodged or han
dled in a cavalier fashion."
While camp commanders are held
responsible for health conditions,
Secretary Baker said, the surgeon'
general's office has daily inspections,
and he has appointed Dr. John A
Hornsby, a hospital expert, as his
personal inspector. A telegram from
Dr. Hornsby regarding camp condi
tions Senator Chamberlain assailed
disclosed them "greatly improved,"
with mortality reduced and "ample
accommodations for all sick."
Secretary Baker read a letter
from Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehar,
the writer, who has a son in the ser
vice, commending hospital conditions
she recently inspected. Mrs. Rine
hart said she was impressed by Sen
ator Chamberlain's "tragic letters."
"But I feel the mothers of the
country should know," wrote Mrs.
Rinehort, "that the number of such
cases is small. It is cruel to allow
every mother to judge the medical
corps because here "and there men
are unwilling or unable to give the
I care that is their duty. There are
conditions to be remedied. The short
age of women nurses is serious. But
of cruelty and indifference I have
found nothing. Ninety-five out of a
hundred boys are receiving better
care than they could afford at home."
"And I wish to point out further,"
said Secretary Baker, "that the very
heads of the medical profession, the
masters of the profession, are in con
stant touch with he surgeon gen
eral." No army could be raised in any
country, the secretary continued,
without danger from communicable
diseases. All that could be done was
to provide every' means of scjence to
meet that danger. Taking up Sena
tor Chamberlain's attack on the ord
nance bureau, Mr. Baker said that
men's minds differed about the types
of guns to be used and about the
quantity. He then disclosed that the
decision to adopt the so-called re
chambered Enfield rifle was reached
late one night in his office at a con
ference attended by Gen. Pershing,
who was preparing to go to France;
Gen. Scott, chief of staff; Gen. Bliss,
assistant chief; Gen. Crozier) chief of
ordnance, and Gen. Kuhn, the head
of the war college, and several other
staff offkers, "experts, in rifles." It
was late in May or early in June.
he American Springfield rifle.
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Both Banks Will Close Each Monday Until the
Government Fuel Order it Rescinded
Features of Safety
There are three things essential to sound banking:
RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT
AMPLE RESOURCES
ADEQUATE SUPERVISION
This Bank is conducted in a careful and conservative
marfner by men of recognized responsibility; it has the
financial strength of a large capital and surplus; as a
member of the Federal Reserve Bank it comes under
Government Supervision
New Accounts Are Solicited and Welcomed
First National Bank
LENOIR, N. C.
A. A. KENT, President E. F. ALLEN, CaahMr
W. J. LENOIR, Viee-Pra.id.nt J. R. TODD, A.t't CatUer
"Safe For Your Savings"
Announcing'
REMOVAL OF
OF WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIR SHOP
I wish to announce to my friends and patrons that I
have moved my watch and jewelry repair
shop to the
LITTLE METAL BUILDING ON WEST TRADE ST.
I will be glad to have you call on
me and bring your work.
W. H. Dingier
Watches and Jewelry Repaired and Sold
WORK GUARANTEED
MirnBes
and
as
We will have over 100 head of mules and horses at
our Stable in Hickory on
Tuesday, February 5th
We will have mules weighing from 800 to 1200 pounds.
Any one wanting to buy or exchange should see this lot
of stock before doing so.
2S
A. S. Abernethy & Son
HICKORY, N. C.
Secretary Baker said, "was admitted-
the best military rifle developed-
by any country," when this decision
was reached. There were in stock
about 600,000 of them. It was not
then known, Secretary Baker contin
ued, whether American troops would
fight beside the British or the French.
The British used a rim cartridge rifle
of one caliber and the French a rim
cartridge gun of another caliber.
HOT IS INJURIOUS '
TO THE H
Tak.
a TaUeapMaful of Salti
Back Hurto r Bladder
Border.
If
We are a nation of meat eaters
and our blood is filled with uric acid,
says a well-known authority, who
warns us to be constantly on guard
against kidney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost to
free the blood of this irritating acid,
but become weak from the overwork;
they get sluggish; the eliminative
tissues clog and thus the waste is re
tained in the blood to poison the en
tire system.
When your kidneys ache and feel
like lumps of lead, and you have
stinging pains in the bak or the
urine is cloudy, full of sediment, or
the bladder is irritable, obliging you
to seek relief during the night; when
you have severe headaches, nervous
and dizzy spells, sleeplessness, acid
'Stomach or rheumatism in bad
weather, get from your pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts; take
a tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast each morning and
in a few days your kidneys will act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of granea and lemon iuice.
combined with lithia, and has been
used for generations to flush and
stimulate clogged kidneys, to neu
tralize the acids in urine so it is no
longer a source of irritation, thug
ending urinary and bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can
not injure; makes a delightful effer
vescen tlithia-water drink, and no
body can make a mistake by taking
n little occasionally to keep the kid
) eys clean and active.