Thursday, June 27, 1918
THE ASHEBORO COURIER, ASHEBORO, N. a
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THE COURIER
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
W1L a HAMMER, Editor.
Entered as exnd-class mail matter
, the postoffice at Asheboro, N. C
. , Asheboro, N. C, June
1918
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2 .The Imperial German Chancellor,
lDr. Von Hertling, has again admitted
Sin the Reichstag, that Germany de-
Eire to open negotiations for peace.
Thi$ is somewhat encouraging to
I America and her Allies, because it has
become a recognized fact that when
Germany talks peace, she is discour
aged by the outcome of operations on
the battlefield or elsewhere.
AS TO VAGRANCY
STATE AND GENERAL XKWS
Go.
that
' At present, there are two kinds of
"orants in this country. One is the
. o -
'iobo who has nothing and will not
work to support himself; the other is
'the rich young man who refused to
t engage in some son 01 productive em
ployment, but still evades the state
law because he has means, i he latter
kind should be branded as a moral
"vagrant even though he cannot be pun-
ished legally.
This procedure is urged by
VBickett, whose appeal follows:
V"T am m-ofoundlv convinced
; the people who do no work, or work
mly half time do not understand that
. their idleness means death to our sol
fdiers in the trenches, but that is .ex
actly what is does mean.
"T anneal to all (rood citizens to
fetop talking idleness and to go
I straight to the man you know is an
'Idler and explain to him in a kindly
i'fcpirit that his failure to work meaus
the prolongation of the war, and this
toeans death to cli-' men who nghc
L To fail to supply our soldiers with
-food and clothing, munitions and im
plements of war is both treason and
murder. Please go to the idle rich
" as: well as to the idle poor. Go to the
j man who drives an eight cylinder as
well ns tn the man who Dushes a
tkwheelbarrow. Neither wealth nor so
position aeords any excuse for
slaughter, and m this hour 01 tne
Nation's peril idleness is manslaugh
ter.
l i "If the idler will not agree to take
a jou ana stay on it, men report tnat
idler by name to the County Council
f National Defense. The County
Council is urged to summons all par
ties complained of before it and ex
plain to them just what idleness
I means to the Nation at this time. Let
the Council further explain that un
Two new department will be add
ed to the course of Churchland high
school, Davidson county. These in
clude a business department and do
mestic science.
The Guilford county Democratic
executive committee and the party
candidates have decided that no po
litical speeches should be made in the
county this fall. Unless the opposi
tion party takes the offensive and its
speakers make political or partisan
speeches there will be an election in
Guilford without a campaign of par
tisanship and political oratory pre
ceding it.
Ten per cent increase in express
rates has been approved by the In
terstate Commerce Commission, and
will add about $22,000,000 to the gross
annual revenues of the American Rail
way Express company, the consolidat
ed concern which takes over the inter
state express transportation business
of the country July 1.
King George and Queen Mary, of
England, will celebrate the 25th an
niversary of their marriage on July 6.
The annual young' people's confer
ence of the Southern Presbyterian
The Great American Farmer
There was a time and perhaps the
time is yet in the more remote South
ern and Western backwoods when
farmers extended their cultivated
acreage by removing only the under
brush, leaving the larger forest tree
after circling around their trunks with
an axe so that they would die and cast
no shade. Then very satisfactory
crops would be harvested on this rich,
rough "new ground," which for some
years would look as much like a
blasted woodland as a held of grain.
But on seeing it a theoretical farmer
from a long reclaimed aned thickly
populated neighborhood would protest
and in a superior manner demand to
know why all those dead trees and
stumps were not cleared away. In
response the local farmer would irrin
contentedly, knowing that he had
achieved satisfactory returns together
with an enormous saving pf labor ur
gently needed elsewhere.
In like manner farming in this
country in general has long been crit
icized by the theoretical agriculturist
BEARD ON THE STREETS
(Continued from page one.)
to have any tent shews this year.
A dry Jane for a good crop year
we have always heard.
Miss Virginia Winningham, of Cen
tral Falls, is visi tins' her sister. Mrs.
W. L Myrkk at Troy.
A larmer can visit his grocer and
purchase 50 pounds of flour at one
time while the city man is only allow-
ea to. xne larmer can blow himself
for 60 cents worth of sue-ar. but the
city chap must content himself with
half that amount. .
From all appearances Irish potatoes
will be a high price this year and next.
So far as this section is concerned the
potato crop will be almost a failure.
This is War Stamp Week. Buy as
many stamps as you are able. They
are a mighty good investment.
Mr. F. M. Trogdon, of Millboro
Route 1, has three sons in the service.
They all volunteered.
The United States Is said to produce
over one-third of the meat consumed
in the civilised world, exclusive of
N unnally's Candy J
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By express and kept in a refrig
erator candy case, : always" coolj.'
and fresh.
Cigars in a humidor case-it gives
them a better flavor. ;
loas ij-llot. nmc r r wnrlr if will
it 1DDQ C&1& lUlti Aft-J MJ K "
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ort the Ground that the Eurooean farm
fr produced verv much more to the China.
acre. From the noint of view of such The ground has dried out -and croos
theoretical agriculturists this everlast- seem to be needing rain more than we
: t.. .4 u Awnwinn. fa-mac I pVpr nntftoff in e atitv-t o 4-i'a
church convenes at Montreal, today, hearing of damnation the There are a few men in Asheboro
lor a session oi ten ciays. shrewd American farmer merelv erin- now beyond the reach of conscription.
Ibe .shipyards oi America wui ceie- kr,wW whnt. h wsi about' who will face a new experience whPn
and what he aimed at the largest the new war order goes into effect.
nnssihle returns from industrious an- They are fellows .who have an inhpr-
plication. "That poor devil in crowded ited antipathy toward physical exei!
Europe has only a little piece of land," , tion, and in spite of conditions refuse
he would say to himself, "and he's to do their bit in relieving the" labor,
got to make every men oi it yieia 10 snonage Dy . exchanging exertion for.
the utmost. But I don't have to. I've , meal tickets. Ask one. of them to'
got land to spare, and can afford to work for a short while, they balk be-1
try for the biggest possible show for cause they can't get $6.00 or $8.00 a;
my available labor. If I can get big- day. Under, the new order of things
ger returns from a larger acreage, they will have to work, or they will!
some of it merely scratched on tne receive attention from federal officials
surface, than from a small acreage in- who will soon go on the lookout for
tensivelv cultivated on the labor-eat- - war loafers.
ing-up European plan, then the less Mr. W. L,-Bray, of Randleman
Standard Drug Company
brate. Independence Day by launching
at least 89 merchant vessels with a
capacity of 439,886 dervdweight tons.
North Carolina will be called upon
to furnish five thousand more soldiers
during July. Three thousand white
men will entrain for Camp Hancock,
Ga., beginning July 22. The 2,000
negro troops are due to go to Camp
Greene, Charlotte, July 2.
Major General Brancker, of the
British air ministry, who is in . Wash
ington to co-operate with the American
aircraft officials, believes that big
American seaplanes should be flying
next summer. He believes thrt a refuy cultivated big a creag e is the Route. 2, has renewed his subscription
pioneer trans-Atlantic flight should thmS fF m!" ' W?rtan for resutta to The Courier. He is a fine fellow
fee attempted without delay. "rS if TeJTT, '"ST and believes in the PJ Reliabl&
Fire of unknown origin swept " iielda ir mm of i5- The wheat,, crop in Randolph this
through the big Hinshaw building, in L arden snots Tn ciowded year ?ertain,y b short perhaps'
Winston-Salem, last Friday morning, I $"rf?L spots in ciowded . ome sections not ove one.half!
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Special Values on Suits
We have a number of suits on sale at practi
cally old prices. ome and get them while they
last N
We are selling a fine lot of neckwear. $1.50
values at $1.00, 75c. values going at 50c
Anything in men's and boys' furnishings, over
aUs, work pants. " " ;
A nice line of summer suits going at cost.
damage being estimated at from
000 to $80,000.
Dr. Raymond. Binford, now profes
scr of biology at Earlham College,
Richmond, Indianaj has been elected
president of Guilford College for the
coming year. The Quaker institution
was operated the past school year
without a president, affairs being
THE WOOD CASB CLOTHING COMPANY
Miller Building, Depot kreet, Asheboro, N.'C.
Secretary Houston of the Departmnt rercy Caudle, who live in. High Point. rAAAAAAA--AA4AAAA444A-444AAAAAA4
died last aaturnav and its remains . r -w .w w " t-
comes lorwara 'asi oa.uraay ana us remains
with the highly interesting announce- were interred in a cemetery near Ran
ment that the American farmer dleman.
"produce two and a half times as' A man who cannot make money
much per man" as any other agri- farming in Randolph county cannot
culturist in the world. After paying succeed anywhere,
a high tribute to our agencies for in-; rr,lv n hlinrf man will t . that
;auc-L, uiiaii ut iuk , . j , , t- . - ------ ----- uv, vv
guided by an executive committee of ,"u""'s mi V tne race 01 John barleycorn is about
the faculty, of which Prof. H. H.',the excellence of our agricultural col- .
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ill wit; vvuiiu. -1.C uvea
not grow as much upon one acre as
some other farmers do. The answer
is he does not have to. But he pro
duces two and a half times as much
American soldiers are now holding 1?
cue liiiLing Hue iui a uiDuauct; ui. oo
miles on the western front, according
to information given out last week.
The county and city food adminis
trators met in Raleigh last week for
of Concord township, were
Monday.
Government to Buy Wheat
The Food Administration has au-
b wucn. iui ii ;n r -I : .. . Z .. . TV
b"4a two days session with State Food ' Ef1 f "f u u" "er" thorizect the attnouncement U:at the
De i ...... . J . . ... That is what makes the point." The VnnA ,tKn r.n.
. - vuu auuuuuu.uuu uiwii vu.uvin-
yids name and address to the Governor
! f the State who in turn will forward
. all such names to the War Department
at Washington. The name of every
. -idler will then be on file with the War
!; Department, and this list will be used
as the basis of an amendment to the
' Draft Law empowering the local ex-
f emption boards to put in Class One all
able bodied men between tne ages oi
f-ighteen and fifty who refuse to do
.regular work, lhere is no desire to
conscript any man to work for ny
private individual or corporation, but
.the people of the country have made
tip their minds that if a man won't
..work he must be made to fight. .
,'11 have instructed all police offi-
-cials. to rigidly enforce the vagrant
laws. AH men, rich or poor, black or
.white, who refuse to v.ork for five
days in the week after having been
given notice by the County Council
National Defense should be prose
cuted for vagrancy.
, .""In some cases such parties will be
able to show that technically under
existing laws they are not leal va
' grants -When the court finds this to
i bo true, then I urge the courts to en
ter a judgment, and have it duly re
corded that the court finds the ac
cused guilty of moral vagrancy, but
owing to the limitations of the statute
It is unable to impose punishment.
This will reach the rich and poor alike.
"The defendants so convicted will
then have their names listed in Was h-
rton as slackers and traitors to our
.Idlers and on the records in the com
lunity' where they live as moral va-
rants.
now beats the iU- tion has been exnandsd hv an exwntive
ropean far and away in the fruits of order signed by President Wilson,
labor per man, and just as soon as its capital stock is increased from
crowding population and consequent' $50,000,000 to $150,000,000, and . ar-
cutting down ot acreage make it nec- rangements have been made Jor the
essary he will beat him also in yield government to buy and store wheat
per acre. The American farmer is all and some other grains and supplies
right. Winston-Salem Journal. j and to hold, transport, sell, or dispose
swhi anu uiatunacu but; liuuicill dull
activities of the Food Administration
in detail.
William J. Bryan, supported by the
Anti-Saloon League, and prohibition
ists of Congress, is conducting a cam
paign for nation-wide prohibition.
Absolute prohibition of the manufac
ture and sale of intoxicating liquors is
demanded.
Turkish forces at Tabriz, last week,
occupied the British and American
consulates and pillaged the American
hospital.
Two hundred thousand American
troops have been sent to France dur
ing the past two weeks.
Senator Henry Berenger, in an ar
ticle in the Paris Matin, says that the
Allies are now fighting with approx
imately seven millions of men against
seven millions.
No horse races will be held at the
Fair of the Carolinas, Charlotte, this
fall, but the $2,400 expended for this
feature last year, will be devoted to
prizes for agricultural exhibits. The following invitation has been
Dr. E. L. Branscome, a prominent received by friends in Asheboro
physician of Galax, Va., committed Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Byerly
suicide by taking poison one day last invite you to be present
week, leaving a note that said trouble at the marriage of their daughter
was the cause of the rash act. Ida Lea Emma
President Wilson has given his an- to
proval to plans of congressional lead- Mr. Jesse Glenn Holt
crs for a brief recess of . Congress ' on Saturday afternoon, June the 29
while the new revenue bill is being I nineteen hundred and eighteen
prepared by the House ways and at three thirty o'clock
means committee. at their home, Lexington, N. C.
Nearly 157,000 negro soldiers are At home after July the first, Greensr
now in the national army. Of these, ,boro, in. C,
of Khe same to any citizen of the Unit
ed States or to any of our Allies, or
to any departmept or agency of the
United States.
BUSINESS BUILDERS
Eugene Debs Again
Eugene V. Debs, three times candi
date for the Presidency of the United
States, addressed the closing session
of a three-days' Socialistic convention
in Canton, Ohio, recently. After, pay
ing tribute to the Socialists who have
gone to jail for the sake of their prin
ciples, DAs praised I. W. W. mem
bers, referred to the Bolsheviki as
comrades, and is said to have-charged
that the purposes o fthe allies in the
war are the same as those of the Cen-! WILLOW. BABY CARRIAGE FOR
WANTED To buy a five passenger
Ford body or-trade two passenger
body.. Would trade or sell car.
Write or phone Walter. Parkft Pis
gah, N. C. It
tral Powers plunder.
Holt-Byerly
SALE Good as new.
at J. M. Betts.
See carriage
J20-tX.
i FOR SALE 15 h. d. nortable Sar
gent Saw Mill or would trade for
first class 1917 Ford. J. L. Brant
ley, Seagrove.Kf. C. - 6-27-3t
i,uuu arc line oiucers, holding com
missions of captain, first and second
lieutenants. There are about 250 col-
"A Indulge in wnoleVale' chkrgi"e" ln the mcdicl and dental
out idleness and vagrancy, but let j :v w'ilt
m go to or point out the individual
ler or vagrant to the end that such
r or vagrant may bo persuaded to
to work if possible, and if persua
n faila that bo may bo sent tp the
mt lino trenches or to the county
t gang.". . :
; Shame
"It makes tne tired to hear people
king about, not being able to get
j or that, a little sugar that they
in the habit of having, or beef or
t bread," said a well known citi
i j trday, "when they know that
! rrirtco must be the soldiers'
- r our gain their sacrifice. We
i without thst they may have.
' f what they have given Oft for
"7 are offering the saeriflc of
v s. What are we offering T A
" sugar, a little lce bctf, a
whrat Writing along this
i out-of-state,: paper syi:
who complain WK-auM ' they
' .!e to srt some little luxuries
member that our forefathers
'.out sugar till the thlrtnth
. v i'l.nut coal till the fotif-
it buUcr till the ,f)f
;hmt tobarro sad potatoes
rtfrnth, without tea, cof-r-np
till the event"nth,
! r "na nd lamps till the
, and without trains, Ip1p
" !(( nnd ga till lb1
' " I ixrhsinge. ...
L. L. Matthews, for many years su
perintendent of public schools for
Sampson county, was found dead in
the bath tub, in his home at Clinton,
at an early hour last Sundav moralnsr.
The doors were locked inside and had
to be forced, while a raxor with which
he had severed the jugular' vein was
round uni a sneu by tne side oi tne
bath tub." Melancholy' resulting from
ill health is supposed to have been the
cause of the suicide.
From 500 to 600 carpenters struck
for a dollar more on the dsy at Azalea,
near. Asheville, last Friday. The men
were union carpenters working on the
government's tuberculosis sanatorium
at Asalea. - - - ;
. The Rv. Walton S. Danker, of Wor
cester, Mass.. chaplain of. the 104th
infantry, died in France last Week, as
the result of a shell wound. . Ken Mr,
Danker was the -first American chap
lain to give his life in service on the
we tern front. - ' v '- -
Mrs. Josrphu Daniels, wife of the
SecrcUry of the Navy, has been
Mies Byerly was for two or three-
years a teacher in tne Asneooro
graded school. v r
, A. and E. College - , r '
We have received a copy of the cat
alogue of North Carolina State Col
lege of Agriculture' and Engineering
at West Raleigh. That great techni
cal college is doing a flne work.- Sci
entific education IBs .in aamirsniy
with the demands of -such time as
these when production in all lines re
quires efficiently trained men. The
college offers full font-year courses in
agriculture, chemistry, civil engineer
ing, mechanical engineering, electrical
engineering and textile industry.
STOLEN One bird dog, nine months
old, white, long oair brown ears,
and a tew brown spots on nla body.
Reward offered for return to J. S.
j Lewis, Asheboro, N. C. - r ,
f BLACKSMITH- COALCar of good
- blacksmith coal. Just received Bet
- ten nut In vmir Annnli nnv -'
. -. Aihebdro !Wheolljarroyr Co. J20-4t
FDR SALE-rOr will change for heavy
' DTules, two 1 younff -. one thousand-
pound marefcwita mule colts. Come
right away and get a bargain. Bob
.Fuller,; Farmer, N. C It pd
"Learn Home -or School, Shorthand.
.- Typewriting, Bookkeeping, on cred-
It. Positions ' Guaranteed. . Edwards
Business College, High Point, C
. and Winston-Salem, R C , .-.. '
Henry C Trott, of Salisbury- has
been appointed deputy United States
marshal to succeed J. H. McKenzie,
deceased. ' ' ' " " - '.' '' r- ' '-.
The University of North ' Carolina
Summer School, Chapel Hill, has al
ready registered more thnn 600 stu
dent and Director N. W. Wajkr
thinks the total enrollmnnt vHll reach
7&0 or possibly go beyond this number.
Mr. John H. King, noted for wore
than 25 years as a leading Southern
editorial paregrapher, and one of the
Ierted.&mong a group ef distinguished, publishers of thi? Moming Horalil,
Washington people to serve on me, Durham, has sojd.ms mterrct-in ue
central committee to arrange Jor the;taper and will retire from artive ott
big International pnant lo be stngfd'Ke in the newppnpar world. '
July 4. KpirsenU- rrivst Davi! S.'Grahsm, or the
Marine Corns. rl''et (m of Prof, end
Mrs. Alexandra Graham, rf Ch.nl"tte,
in wachinfrion, j y ev icfpirsenta
tivrs of eightem foreign nations met
in Waahlntton l9t mmith to lay nre-
f.r'1y, V.C-Cih fp;n
n 1 nt I" ' n finvn -
liminary plans for the event, which 'has been killpd in ftrtion ia Frnnc,
will le a wonderful alTalr tindor Ihejl'rivftt Grnham had rnrn in lh Mv
claatification of "Drmocinry Triumph- rine t'orps fr nineyais, hrvira
Bnt," J ixrvcil fla fiaitrrnai.t' r f ry rut. K in
One hunilr.J lin. t'-xly f v wn frt-m Fantrt 1tiii'.(-i. Wh'rt ti o v r.r tii V
I ' nut-,: i v ! i' 'n:'.'! on July out fnl it a !-; r. 1 t!,;d .. fc't'i 3i-
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Prof. Whitener, of Morganton," will
conduct a school of vocal music at the
Baptist church in Asheboro, beginning
Monday night, June 24, and closing
after the scries of meetings. It is hop
ed that Prof. Whitener can be secured
for an 18-nighU mugie school This
school will be for the entire town, and
community, and everybody who de
sires can go and enroll as a member
of the school lor 18 nights for 12.00.
or ten cents a night for the term :
the tchooL ' v '. ' ''
WANTED To buy a sawmill, 1 fully
errmppfMV inrnMinu noucr and en
:ine..; All must q In good condl
tion," For;-th Mfg. Co., Winston
' falem, N. U . ... . 4t
GOOD OLiJortunity for fcnvone wish
.ing to rrliKate his children and
make a living t hn am time
ICl' MHiriilan, .wHtiM Coplan
.r.rr. &. Co., (jui'.'.Tf OAlrgt, U. C
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The Packer's Bill
for Live Stock
For the first si months of our operations
under the Food Administration, ending .
April 30,' 1918, Swift & Company paid for
DRESSED WEIGHT LBS. - -
live stock 1,558,609,000 $323300.000
For the same ; -
period in 1917 1,338300,000 $210,400.000
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Weight 16H96 220300XXX)
in cost 5496
$113,400,006
Consumer's
BttfoiMeat
' V,; must necessarily have increased
gcoiTesnf Live ; Stock
'prices and meat prices fluctuate
together.
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prices for his live'stock, tha con
X Burner's meat bill , must'tieces
;&arily bei Ig6r,';y.:irT:.&::
.Year Bock of Interesting and
. Instructive facta tent oq requeat,
; Address Bwlft A Company, ,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Xllinolf
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