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. V .... I -S. --- N Widest Paid Circulation of any Political Paper Published. BfrWeeMy 25 cts a Tear OOOOCOOOOOOOCOCCOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOO -ww ww WW WWWWWWWWWVWWWWWWW wlWJWWWWWWWWWwwwwwwwwW A STJ BRING ADDRESS. i 3 By J. Gordon Jones. 8 HOMBJSWEET HOME TO DATE. g OCOCX5CXCCOOOCC i r OUR MOTTO, CflV WY 1V1V Cf kv OUR AIM, TO SWAT AMERICA FOR AMERICANS I - DEMAGOGS & DASTARDS VOL, XXIL j MORAVIAN FALLS, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY JO-24, J9J7. NO, 22. ' 1 1 ; ; . t f a j I i : - Soooooooooooooooccoooooooockooooooooocooooo6oocooc Confederate Veterans and Fellow In every land under the sun, are days which stand I apart other days, and tower ! above as the mountains stand apart the plains and look down upon there from them, from them.! Upon the plain, the routine of life1 flows on; and upon its level, spread towns and cities, hamlets and (fields' busy with the humdrum of every day existence. j On the mountains there is a dif ferent world, a different atmosphere ; there is solemn silenqe in those high er regions; there is a rare and ra diant purity in the air and in the sky; and to him who stands upon the summit, there is a feeling which is as far removed from the jsordid thought of the selfseekers ih the plains below, as the snow on the mountain top is from the grime of the streets. I ou, uu uiosc a ays wnicn tne na- tions of earth devote to some Mem ory, the heart is lifted above the dull routine; the soul fills with an emo tion not known to other days. With us of the South, there is no jubilant Festival,, commemorative of the Fall of a Bastile, the destruction of an ancient tyranny, and the birth of "a glorious rebellion, such as they celebrate in France. T j We have in common with the North, East and West the national Fourth of July, which is sacredf to issl as to other section r. and whih re sounds with the ' notes of ! triumph, qt 2oy, or exnaitation; but tne one day which is peculiarly OURS, is Festival, but a Memorial; not not a a day lor palms of victory, but for the im mortelles which betoken failure; for. in spite of immortal heroism and fortitude, Our Causae goes dcwn in history as "Lost. ; j Not for us, on this day, are the trumpets of victory. Not for us, on this day, are the laurels of ccnquer ors. I For us on this day, are th $ tear compelling flags that were fu rled at Appomattox, after they had st -earned like meteors over the battle-lines, all the way from Manassas to Gettys burg. I I For us, on this day, are Jhe re frains of , the martial j music that thrilled the Boys in T Gray," s s they mustered in Virginia, and followed Lee and Jackson and Johnston and Stuart to soldier graves and to never dying fame. With us, on this day, is the blend- ing of the cypress and the laurel tor while the cypress symbolizes the death of . the Southern Confederacy. the laurel is the fit emblem, of the glory of its aim, the heroism of its the re- struggle, and the splendor or surrection of its people from the oeocoocoocoococceopoeec ! FARMING MADE PLAIjS. ' Writing from the sub-soil In the "Will you please tell me how I can reduce the high cost of ; keeping out of war by cultivating my own grub?" Vnn rtf rtl"CO Wi Will. t First, you obtain your farm. You can do this in several wa. You can either purcnase a iai m on the from lUaittlllWUli " T Sears & Roebuck, .or marry) a red headed widow whose first husband ift hpr a farm with a mortgage on it and a large family. If you haven't - AnnillrP 2) I H III U T any of aaa nowor-faiiinp methods, roll tne a r n rvno side. IVOU WOnt need wood in summer and you ooni farm in winter) and cultivate the place where the shed was. You now have your farm. Then break up your farm. -You do not do this with an axe or a hammer, but with a pair of rest- t less refractory mules. Consult Blum's almanac as to tne piuy to begin your Spring plowi lg, and prepare your family for the shock. After a night of careful consi Jeration of the signs of the Zodiac, you rise about the time you are asleep, ana go out and hitch up the muls. You then return to the house ai d wake up your family and kiss tiem all goodbye. 'You then drive ovejr to. the farm, and discover that you fprgot to bring along the plow. You ko back knock around the house most of the morning looking for your plow, put it in the wagon, and return to the farm. By this time you arej-eady to eat dinner and you return to the house. After dinner take an hour s nap to prevent nervousness or a bil ious attack, and you I then return again to the farm. All is now in readiness to proceed You vire the Weather Bureau C. O. D. at Washing ton for particulars as to thje. condi tion of the soil. Not receiving an answer, you return -again) to the house, and send another telegram to the Bureau of Astronomy and also the Agricultural Department at Har vard University,. If they adjrise you that the moon and stars arje lavor able, and yon get a reply from the apartment ax Washington, jrpu tomb In which their foes laid them. Standing upon the elevation of this Memorial Day, and caught up in the inspirations of its associations and recollections, may we not be for given if we look back over the trav eled road of the Republic, i and mark, with pride," the monuments of Southern worth? j It was a Virginia back-wods law yer who first thrilled the Colonies with the daring declaration, "We must fight." It was in the Carolinas that the first overt acts of rebellion against Great Britain occurred; and it was Carolina soil that drank the first pa triot blood. ; " It was Richard ' Henry Lee who first planned an American Confedera tion, the pioneer of all later federa tions. It was a Southern pen that drafted the "Declaration of Independence, and a Southern sword that won its final triumph at Yorktown. Southern lawyers made the Con stitution of the United States; laid the foundations " of national expan sion; sent George Rogers Clark to win the Middle West, and peaceably acquired the vast Louisiana territory, in spite of New England "threats to secede. J Southern Presidents, Cabinets, and Senators so wisely ruled the United States that we never had a pauper class until after the War between the States. No Southern statesman jof the old regime ever went into office poor and came out rich. Almost invariably, if they went in rich, they! came out poor. George Washington had! to borrow money to put his home and his plan tations in repair. j Thomas Jefferson left the Execu tive Mansion heavily in debt. James Madison had to borrow thousands of dollars after his eight year service as President; and James Monroe, was so impoverished, after his two terms, that he left Virginia, and went to New York j where his married daughter gave him a home. Even Andrew Jackson had to bor row $10,000. at the end of j his second term; and his affairs neyer did re cover their former prosperity Everybody knows hbwj long Mr. Calhoun served his country, and how poor a man he remained. It was the same with Alexander Hi Stephens, Howell Cobb, and Jefferson Davis. During; all the years that the 2outh dominated the Union, there vnr never, a time when food riots broke out in cities where the laws of the Federal Government heaped wealth on one side of the town, and i : ' i 1 (Continued Ou Page Three.) again return to the farm. You call in the neighbors and have them as sist you to remove the plow from the wagon. This you set at a given point south by east "in the corner of the farm, and call in the county survey or, who then locates your lines, so as to prevent your trespassing on somebody else's farm. You then go over to the side of the farm opposite the plow, and erect an imaginary line, running parallel of other lines from vour location to the plow. You calculate the distance from the plow to your given location, multiply it by the number of rows you expect to plow, divide by the circumference of twice the diameter of the circle that would be around the farm if it were not square, at which time you dis cover that one of the mules has bro ken loose and vou knock! down forty panels of your neighbor's fence try ing to corrall the derne'dj mule. The mule having exhausted himself in the effort to escape iwork, you lay off an other day and call in a veterinary who informs you that the mule has contracted pneumonia and must be put on a strict diet. Next day you hike all over the county trying to hire an alternate mule, and wind up by mortgaging the farm and your mother-in-law's ? false teeth for a four-legged plug that is j so all-fired skinny that his' hide rattles and his joints screak. Praying that the mule will not die until you reach the farm, you then hie forth to till the soil. You will in all probability turn up a rattle-snakes' nest, and get bit. which will cause the mules to run away. If you live in 4 a snake-bite-remedy zone, you will feel so rich for the next two weeks after j taking the treatment that you won't give a whoop whether corn is $5. a bushel or beans $8. a pound. v By that fima the Spring freshets will have washed away your neighbors'. farSs, and you will be glad that you didn't start cultivating your farm, ! anyway. If you haven't committed suicide by this time, Woodrow Wilson's ! low cost of living wave will be sailing over the country and yon won't need to farm. "The most despicable thing outside perdition is Protestantism; and ; to speak of It truthfully and properly, we .should have to use up all the superlatives of vituperation.0 West ern Watchman, page 10, Dec 10, 1S14. To Onr Many Subscribers ; It is needless to say that this coun try is demoralized from; center to cir cumference. Everything is ont 0f joint. The cry for - money money, money, is heard on every hand. The Nation is calling for money billions of it to run the war. ; The working people are calling for more of it than ever to enable them to meet the exor bitant demands of the ; high cost of living. The railroads are howling or more of it in the ' way of increased rates and fares to enable them, they say, to perform their "bit" in aiding the Government in prosecuting the warJ Already the newspapers had been hit hard by havmir to pay nearly three times as much for white paper as formerly. We have called your at tention to this before, j Thousands of small papers were compelled to quit. This condition forced the Stinger for the time being to consolidate two is sues into one. Now, the Government, in order to raise more money, pro poses to force the papers which have never paid over one cent a pound pos tage, to have to pay parcel post-rates on their papers. This means that thousands more papers will be forced to close down forever. This new rnl first of June, us to do is to ing will take effect the The; only thing left for close our shop or raise our subscrip- tion price. So henceforth the club rate will be twenty cents a year. And we earnestly call upon ievery present subscriber to put his shoulder to the wheel and each get us at least two new subscribers at twenty cents each. That will set the Stinger on easy street. If every subscriber will send us one sub at 25 cents per sub it will enable us to place orders for paper to keep the Insect going right along. But remember we can't run on our old rates and pay the new prices. The Yellow Jacket is 23 years old and it asks every, subscriber who desires to see it continue to visit their homes to come to its relief at once. A word to the jwise is sufficient, i j oobooooOwOwOooobcococoocoo O OPEN LETTER f6 WILSON. 8 I ! O wOOOOOOOOCCOOOCOCOOOOOOCOO Oh, I Woody, dear, and j did you hear The noise that's going round, sir? We are rising by ten thousands And we're plowing UP the ground, sir! Wo are droppin in beans, the corn and We're plantin wheat for all, sir, Wei are mobilizin' taters, too, And answerin' the call, sir! Your Auntie Sam is making jam Forj all the boys to eat, sir, And when she gets herj dander up, Y-oxi know she can't be: beat, sir! She's bossin' all the folks about, The farm's no home at all, sir It's just a mobilizin' camp For answerin' the call, sir! - So Woody, dear, ye need not fear, The- country's coming strong, sir, You can hear the factories' whistles, You can hear the dummy's gong, sir. You can hear the spuds a sproutin', You can hear the truck) crpps say, sir, "We're pushing up forj freedom, too, We'll do our bit today, sir!" I .1 Your Uncle Sam says f'Here I am!" We're marching everywhere, sir; Were planting crops and bayonets, O. We've hayseed in-pUr hair, sir! But we're marchin' to the music , Of a lasting peace for j all, sir With our reapers and our muskets We are answering the call, sir. (XXK390CCCOOOOCCOCCOCCOCCOO 8 1 TAKE NOTE. 8 O I I o OOOCOOOOOOGOOCOOOOOOOOOOOO i ! Please withdraw from, the War Dance, and drop the . pot of Red Paint long enough toj read this ex tract from the officia Report, of our "Industrial Trades Comn-ission": "We have, according to income tax returns, forty-four families with m- A. S wU Utjy X w J -w fciiivu v w . comes ,of $1,000,000 or more, whose members perform little or no useful Kfj-iHrp. hut whose iaersrreeate in- comes, totalling at least fifty millions per year, are equivalent to the earn ings of 100,000 wage earners at the average rate of $500. The ownership of wealth" in the United States has be- come concentrated to a degree which is difficult to grasp. THE "RICH," TWO PER CDMT OF (THE PEOPLE, OWN SIXTY PER CENT OF THE WEALTH. THE "MIDDLE CLASS," 33 i PER CENT OF THE PEOPLE, OWN 5 PER CENT OF THE WEALTH. THIS MEANS THAT A LITTLE LESS THAN TWO MIL LION PEOPLE, WHO WOULD MAKE UP A SMALLER CITY THAN JHICAGO, OWN 20 PER CENT MORE OF THE NATION'S WEALTH THAN ALL THE OTHER NINETY MILLIONS." . I Say, brother, do you stand for such hogging the game as for two per cent 01 tne peopie to owni sixty per cent of the wealth? No you don't, any sul lo'tei? the eyes of. the miiiions by ssLOins us a club for the Stinger twdayi Mid pleasures and palaces tho we may roam, if they reach the-requirements they've-got to go some. A charge from the butcher to follow us there, which, seek thru the world, you'll j not find elsewhere. Home, home; sweet, sweet home, be it ever so tumbled, we still call it home. I gaze on .the moon as J: tread the drear wild, and know that my grocer has on his books piled a . tv rr-n in reach . and - proceed " to go some, i When home, a spectacle greeted me that! knocked me dumb. The ice , man was hot and perspiring as he hove rapidly) nearer my home o'er the lea. The gas man exploded in white heat and said unless I paid up he'd cave in my head. My landlord proceeded much nearer to come, and hence amid pleasures I set out ta roam. Home, home, sweet, haunt me as I roam. . ! i ooeoooooooooooooooooooocco ROMANISM AMONG THE POLITICIANS. wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOw : - ; M i On April 2 a crowd of papists from Pennsylvania visited the capitol of the nation to pay their respects to Joseph McLaughlin, national presi dent of the Ancient Order of Hiber nians, who has been elected as con gressman at large from that state. In the evening they gave a! dinner at the New Cochran, at which Senator Penrose, Representatives J. Hampton Moore, John J. Fitzgerald, Ambrose Kennedy and Martin B. Madden, among other notable politicians, were the invited guests. On St. Patrick's Day Senator Borah of Idaho made an address to. the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Great er New York. i Through George J. Waring, the Ro man Catholic priest, who is chaplain of the 11th United States cavalry at Governor's Island, New York, the ! Pope has recently transmitted his benediction upon the American army. General Francis J. Kernan, a Ro man Catholic, has recently been ap pointed commander-in-chief of the United States army in the. ' Philip pines. j The well-known automobile manu facturer, Henry Ford, is said to be 1 Kmif?iTirr a t-v- ill? ri-n rfnlloK Pmtiqti I Catholic orphan asylum in Detroit. This would seem to indicate that Mr. Ford still cherishes political ambi tions. The first chaplain appointed to our navy since the declaration of war with Germany, is Thomas F. Regan, a Roman Catholic priest from the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C. The two Roman Catholic universi ties that look down upon the capitol of the nation from strategical height; in the District of Columbia are taking steps to organize student battalions, and they are said to have been prom ised the services of a non-commissioned officer of the army to drill their students for that purpose. Roman Catholics of Baltimore on April 9 had a flag raising at St. Wan- i ceslaus' ehurch at which the mayor of the ' City; Congressman Charles "onrlTT ATtnrT.mr llonnmt vntrTo onti Herr von Eckardt, German Minis ter to Mexico, admits employing spies, but explains they are used to "fniard aerainst the machinations: of CJ 1 ... bad Germans who come to Mexico." How, now, to the German mind can : there be any such critter as a "bad" German? 'A civil marriage is only licensed cohabitation. There should be no such legal abomination, andL the j Church should be supreme judge of the marriage relation." Western Watchman, March 28, 1912. j Th: THE RASCAL Every blessed reader of The Yellow Jacket who swears by the G. O. P. needs The Rascal Whipper to help him lay out the mollycoddles. It's got The Yellow Jacket skinned steen blocks as a rip-roaring roaster of rdtten rascals. It goes after them blood raw. It hits the spot going and coming and. take it from us, it makes .'em 'howl. The G. O. P. is coming back dressed in a new suit of clothes and with banners a-nins and The Rascal Whipper tens you now, anu wnen, auu wuy. ana- n set the world on fire ; " YeUw. Jactet- Slne,e snba- 25 J ouu- THE RASCAL THIPPEB, Horavian Fells, K. C. weet,. sweet "home, tho mortgaged and An exile from home splendor dazzles ar there again. The baker is waiting two days to dig up the pay; the milk Ug stands ready to tack a due bill on bme. It may suit some men but It's turns to thinking of home that col- fam; I realize sadly and shed some . handle me rough. The clothes that d pleasures aforesaid, are still owed ut of his cash, and should I return sweet, sweet-home. I'll keen out of last I gazed over the lawn at my sweet home. How oft does its vision COwOwwCXXKdwwwwwwwOwwOwwOOO SEVEN BILLION FLUNKS. g wwwwwOOwwwOOOwwwwwOwwwOOOO A fellow who works about The Yellow Jacket office asked '. iis the,, other day how much seven billion dollars was. He said he read in a paper that Congress had voted bonds to that amount to carry on the war for the next year and he was curious to get . an idea of seven billion plunks. He admitted that he thought it was a good deal of money. Our explana tion follows: If the sum were left to a man in a will, and he were to spend a dollar a minute, it would take him jus 13,318 years to run through his fortune. This is on the supposition that he buried his bulky talent in a napkin Assuming that he loaned it out at six per cent, per annum, the fortu nate possessor could spend $800 a minute, and at the end of eternity have his original fund unimpaired. If he converted it all intq silver dollars and laid them edge to: edge this is one of the favorite methods of the experts the little silver necklace would reach more than four times around the earth, or nearly half tho distance to the moon. If sportively inclined, the heir to this tidy sum could convert it into $20 gold pieces and sit "into" a quiet UiT n 7i "iiEriun ' v Linni to government a m jfc-iMiw-AW aw p i ' wiiibi fairs, the sum is seven times the average amount' that has been spent yearly in the past decade to run the Nation. The interest on the bonds will mount to $245,000,000, which is as much as all the expenses of tho government forty years ago. wOwDOOwwOwwOOwwOwwOCOOCOO o O MOUNTING SKY4Rf; which sold a year ago at $9.80 per 100 pounds, bring today $16.00. Sheep have advanced Irom $9.80 per cwt, to $12.80. Flour that sold for $5.80, now; brings $11.70. Potatoes have risen from 80 cents per bushel to $3,251 Eggs, from 20 cents a dozen to 34 cents, vhich is not as great an ad vance as that made in chicken feed. Corn that sold for 76 cents a bushel, now brings $1.60. And so the story goes. aieanwhile, workers who go on VJ I 1UJJIIIII u X" iuu "ucLusottncs oi lite rush skyward, let the wage-slaves starve "during the war." , Selah! :- "Catholics should band together and show, instead of the teeth of tho lamb, the fangs of the lion." Ex Governor Glynn, of New York, as quoted by the Washington Herald, June 16, 1914. ow WHIPPER. co, iiwscu up, aiou, 6 vuwc uw for Republicanism. Paper same size of cts" G,ub of flTe or more' IFIEEN "K T IN
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