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Name changed from VISITOR Nov: 19. 1918.
Vol. 3. No. 24
HENDERSON VILLE, N, G, TUESDAY, APRIL 22,1919
Independent
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PLANS SHAPING, NICELY
TO HONOR BOYS OF WAR
Mass Meeting Wednesday Night to
Formulate Plans for Celebration in
Which Whole County Will Parti
cipate. ,
Plans are shaping nicely for a big
celebration for the boys who are re
turning from the . service of their
country. A mass meeting of both
ladies and men has been called for
8 :30 Wednesday night at the city hall,
when a definite plan will be formu
lated for the celebration. People of
all parts of the county are expected
to participate in the big event and it
is hoped that a representative gather
ing will be at the meeting Wednes
day night.
Although nothing definite has been
arranged to date, these matters be
ing left for the meeting to decide,
Postmaster S. Y. Bryson and Frank
Edwards have given considerable time
to the preliminary work and has out
lined a tentative program which calls
for a celebration on May 30, national
Decoration Day. The event will in
clude music by one of the best bands
in the south, a auto parade, a barbe
cue big enough to feed the soldiers
and their people and any one else
who may attend the gathering, and an
address by some noted jspeaker.
t The Fourth of July has been men
tioned as a more appropriate day, but
the Shriners are expected on that day
and the celebration will be such a big
event efforts will be made to keep
, it from conflicting with anything else.
A good attendance Wednesday
night is urgently requested for it is
earnestly desired that Henderson
county do its part well toward the
boys who did well their part in win-l
ning tne war.
PROOF PILING UP OF THE
POPULARITY OF THE NEWS
List of New Subscribers Rapidly
Growing and This Week's Issue
Breaks Record as to Size of Paper
Last week The NEWS gave a list
of new subscriptions which ran the
total new list received since the first
of the year up to 140. The popular
ity keeps up and below is another
new list of those received this year
and. not heretofore published, making
a total of 1.74 new subscriptions re
ceived since the first of January.
The NEWS breaks another record
as to size this week, going to 10 pages
for the first time in order to accom
modate the great amount of loca
matter it carries. Last week it broke
a record in the number of local news
items it carried, there being 171.
That number is .approached this
week in addition to two editorial
pages.
ine iN&wa management is con
vinced from the number of new sub
scriptions received each day that the
local news is what the people prefer,
(this being published to the exclusion
of foreign news), and that they have
learned to look to The NEWS for
this local news. .
Names of new subscribers follow:
Mrs. O. V. F. Blythe, Mrs. S. J.
Harris, Claud L. Hathcock, W. P.
Lane, II. D. Morris, Quality Shop,
U. T. Whitlock, 21. G. Jones, W. S.
Scott, Skyland Hosiery Co., R. M.
Pryor, F. P. Kuykendall, Mrs. Lizzie
Hoots, A. C. Rouse, Rev. W. IL Davis,
Mrs. J. W. Morgan, G. W. Hyde,
Mrs. M. L. Baldwin, J. D. Derxnid,
Miss Helen M. Lance, Rev. A. H.
, Davis, M. W. Grigg, T. H. Williams,
Miss Ruth Camp. F. F. Miller, Miss
Mary Mangum, Mrs. James A. Brock,
Rev. R. P. Corn, Mrs. F, M. Bailey,
Miss Nora Freeman, Mrs. M. A. Cagle,
Corp. Randal McMurray, A. P. Elliott,
T. T. Elliott, W. B. Petted
Smile and Finish the Joh!
SHALL WE PAY THE COST
OR LET OTHERS DO IT?
Have We Finished Our War Job?
Would We Be Justified in Quitting?
We Must Buy Bonds.
(By R. P. Freeze.)
To the Citizens of Henderson County:
t or the fifth and last time we are
called upon to do our part in the
winning of the war.
We . pledged our men, our labor.
our finances two years ago toward
that end. The time has come to
make the last of our pledges good,
to pay the last instalment.
Because we have become in posses
sion of our purchase shall we fail to
finish payment? Shall we let our last
note of honor go to protest. Shall
Henderson county play the part of
the man who lets the other fellow
pay for every good thing - for his
town, yet shares equally in the profit?
Shall the citizens of this county sit
idle while the rest of the country
raises the money?
Do we feel we have done our duty
and that we are justified in quitting?
No man nor county has done the full
duty until the work is finished. If
we cannot buy bonds we can work
or we can at least do our utmost in
that direction.
Our quota in this Victory Loan is
just three-fourths what it was in the
last and with concerted effort we shall
VICTORY OVER SELF FOR
THE VICTORY LOAN
Convincing Reasons Why Henderson
County People Should Subscribe
Liberally for Victory Loan Bonds.
(By Dr. E. E. Bomar.)
Our national government is asking
the people of Henderson county to
lend it $180,000 at 4 3-4 interest
to help pay for the victory we have
achieved over the German tyranny.
I have no doubt that our people
will eventually subscribe this amount
in full. This county has always done
its duty. It will do it in this matter.
But it is painful to be compelled
to observe a tendency to stand back,
to hesitate and to put off serious con
sideration until the last days. When
the committee met last Saturday
night to organize for business there
were Just seven of us present. When
Dr. W. F. Powell delivered his match
less address in the city hall, last
Thursday night, there were not pres
ent more than 125 people to hear him,
including women and children. I
mean no slur on women and children.
They were there, but where were the
business men and heads of house
holds? Outside, .autos were much in
evidence and people by the scores
keep Henderson county on the honor
roll of our country.
It can be donel
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were patronizing the movies or en
gaged in shopping. There were hun
dreds outside, in the streets and in
their homes, and about a hundred in
side. I wish they all could have heard
that speech of Dr. Powell. He made
three points:
Firstwe had to fight.
Second, we had to win.
Third, we have to pay for winning.
These points are compelling. If
there is anyone who doubts them he
ought to go to Hunland, where he
belongs. The man who refuses to
take part in the paying never had
his heart in the fight.
We fought because we had to. We
won because we had to, and now we
must pay because we have to.
Well, if we must we will. But let
us all go about it cheerfully arid
nromptly and not look on this splen
did loan as a small boy looks on a
dose of castor oil, holding back and
whimpering until he is shamed or
spanked.
If you just cannot look on it in
any other way, wake up and take
your medicine.
But it is not medicine. It is a
Victory Loan.
What was it that won the war?
Many things. The incomparable
bravery of our boys for one. The.
prayers and courage of the people
back at home for another. But does
anybody suppose that these alone won
the war and caused the whole Ger
man army to surrender before our
armies had reached their soil and
their cities? No. It was not only
the 2,000,000 men in France, but the
nearlv 3,000,000 almost ready to go
to France and the 1,000,000 more
who were called and were making
ready. It was the immense prepara
tion we had made preparations in
munitions, guns, gas and ships as
well as in men to fight to a finish.
The Germans knew that by necessary
lavish expenditure we had conquered
the submarines and broken their
lines and they had not the courage
to have their cities destroyed and
their country ravished. They knew
that our preparation was so thorough
that we could and would, if neces
sary.' blow them from the face of the
earth.
It is unthinkable that we should
delay about paying for this prepara
tion. All the more should we be
prompt when we consider, that hun
dreds of thousands of our bovs were
saved by this collapse of German
might. If the war had gone on thou
sands of our sons, now at home, would
have made the supreme sacrifice to
save us. - . .
They did save us bur boys and
our preparation and now we are go
ing about the business to lend monev
to the government to pay for our
salvation. That is all the government
asks. To lend it money. I repeat
that I have no doubt we will do it
but let us do it now, freely and cheer
fully and not delude ourselves with
the idea that the banks or some
other part of the country will do it
for us.
There- is nobody to subscribe the
$180,000 but the people of Hender-
sonville and of Henderson county.
l think I ought to say this article
is writen of my own volition at the
suggestion of my friend, Mr. R. P.
Freeze, Just to ask my fellow citi
zens to join with me and all others
in going over the top.
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