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3I;j'S HEALTH : BOFUOST , IMPORTANCE One of the most notable addresses of the war period is the health speech . of David Lloyd George, premier of Great Britain, in which he warns his ' country of the ruin and decay that .will inevitably follow neglect of the people's health and physical welfare. : Lloyd George's warning to Britain is America's opportunity to learn a great lesson. The conditions that threaten her future greatness condi tions affecting the health and happi ness of her people are some of America's greatest problems also. Lloyd George's speech in part fol lows: To Be Ready for Peace "As soon as the unseen hand casts the rainbow of peace on the skies we must be ready. And to be ready is summarized in one counsel We must " profit by the lessons of the war. "The first lesson it has taught us is the immense importance of main taining the solidarity of the Nation. The British empire has rendered a service to humanity the magnitude of which will appear greater and greater as this generation recedes into the past. It helped to stop the onrush of barbarism that was sweeping over Europe. It has held the unfenced highways of the world free for the armies of freedom to pass and re pass. To permit such an organiza tion to fall to pieces after the war would be a crime against civilization. "The next great lesson of the war is that if the State, if Britain, is to be thoroughly equipped to face any emergency of either peace or war the State must take a more constant and more intelligent interest in the health and fitness of the people. If the empire is to be equal to this task, the men and women who make up the empire must be equal to theirs. How does Britain stand in the light of that test? We have done great things in this war. We could have accomplished greater if this country had been in a sound condi tion. War, like sickness, lays bare the weakness of the constitution What has been ours? Let us talk quite frankly. "We have had a ministry of na tional service set up in this coun try, and since then we have had the most carefully compiled, statistics as to the health of the people certain ly between the ages of 18 and 42 That is the age of fitness and the age of strength. What has it revealed? "You have the three gsades your Al, your B2, and your C3 and all I can tell you is this, that the results of these examinations are sufficiently startling I do not mind using the word appalling. I hardly dare to tell you what it is in some parts of Lan cashire. The number B2 and C3 men throughout the kingdom is pro digious, so much so that we have half suspected the doctors. But there was a re-examination, which did not make very much difference, and I apologize to the doctors here for the first time. Human Material Waited "What does it mean? When you look at it, it means this that we have used our human material in this country prodigally, foolishly, cruelly. I asked the minister of national ser vice how many more men we could have put into the fighting ranks if the health of the country had been prop erly looked after, and I was staggered at. the reply. It was a considered re ply. He said at least one million. If we had only had that number this war would have long ago ended triumphantly for us. "But here we are, combing our es sential industries there are ques tions as to whether you should put miners back or keep them in the armv( a few tens of thousands V, whether you should put a few thou sands more into munition works. And vet you had one million men who, if the State had taken proper care of the fitness of the people, would have been available for the war. And the vigor and strength of the workers f this country have been unsatisfac tory even in pursuits where all con ditions are favorable to the develop ment of a fine physique agriculture. The results in agriculture have been almost as disappointing as in almost any other industry a thoroughly healthy occupation of that kind. "Everywhere a virile race has been .wasted by neglect and want of thought for it. It is a danger to the State and to the empire. "And unless this lesson is learned, the war will have been in vain. Our schooling has cost us dear, but if we make the best use of it I believe it will be worth it all in the end, even in the saving of human life. "Care for the health of the people is the secret of national efficiency. It is the secret of national recuperation. With our machinery we take the greatest care. It Is material. The way we look after it if the steel is defective through badly ventilated or iuonstructed furnaces or insufficient : fuel J Jf the machine is inadequately oiled or not looked .after or over , worked, if . repairs are .not done in tLie - and done - thoroughly well, .' ytjar machinery is no use. ;s " "I 'solemnly: warn my fellow eoun- trren you cannot maintain an iAl with C3 : population. fy - i man is the most delicately - i of all adenines. - It ' is "s not , to bok ft?r i!.e men, the women, and, if I may say so, above all the children. - "Now the most important workshop in this land is the home. And the quality of the steel in the national fabric depends upon the home. If it is unhealthy, ill-equipped; ill-supplied, ill-managed, the quality becomes de fective and it cannot bear the strain. Health Need of the Peoplo "What are the influences that make for the health of the people? The first is the houses in which the people live. You cannot bring up a healthy people in unhealthy homes. Why, even those who rear animals will tell you that. The problem of housing in this country is the most urgent that awaits treatment; We have talk ed about it, we have slaved with it for forty, fifty years, but it has never been really taken in hand. It has only been taken in hand in the way an untidy or slovenly housewife takes up the cleaning of her house just that part where the visitor can see. "There has been too much of that in our cities. The. slums, the bad houses they are out of sight. That is not the way to deal with a problem which affects the strength of the Na tion. No government, no party has had the courage to grapple with it in the way a good business man would grapple with some sort of rottenness which he discovered in his business, and which was wasting his assets. ; He would not trifle with it: he would have the thing thoroughly searched out and put right. That is what ought to be done. It is equally true of the whole field of public life. We have had acts of parliament running into hundreds of sections; we have had regulations that would fill a library; we have had the most attractive pic tures of model dwellings circulated, and we have had endless authorities. But you cannot plow the waste land with writing paper, you cannot sweep away slums with paint brushes, and you cannot bind the gaping wounds of the people with red tape, lhat is our first problem. "The next is this: There ought to be a more intelligent organization of the forces which have specially in charge the health of the Nation national, municipal, medical. We have enormous losses to make up. The crippled and the wounded must Come first; but we must also think of the children who are to fill up the gap in the generation that is to come. "The State must see that they are built up into a strong, healthy and vigorous people. There is no surer way of strengthening the country than that. "What more are we to do to im prove the life of the people? Wages durine the war have been raised and we must see in the future that labor is requited with wages that will sus tain life in full vigor. 1 am glad to see that in agriculture wages have gone up. There must be healthier conditions in the workshops. Many of them were admirable; many of them tolerable, many not -tolerable Bad health for the Nation is"" badfbusi- ness for all. The Nation's Hour "There are times in the history of the world when nations take a great leap forward into the light. This is such a time. There is a great river in Eastern Europe which after meander ing sluggishly through hundreds of leagues, finding a great barrier in its road, concentrates the whole of its strength to break through rushes along and then merges into a sunnier land and into more fertile plains. That is the story of the national of this country, before, during and af ter the war. It has taken a great rush forward, and when it emerges from the rocks with which its torrents are now struggling it will deploy into a sunnier and a farier land. "The men who endure the discom fort, the terror, the torture in this mighty struggle have not- gone through it all to re-establish more firmly in this land, for which they have fought ,the dominion of slums; of wages that will not maintain, let alone cheer life; of confusion and disorganization, which create waste, inefficiency, misery and squalor. "But to enable the Nation to bear the gigantic burden of debt which the war will impose upon it, and the still greater burden of recuperation and reconstruction, we must see that the national resources are developed to the full, and that the State renders all assistance in its power for the attainment of that object. Comfort is the surest preventive of anarchy, the best condition of production. If abundance is not. there you cannot distribute it. That is an obvious truth which the Bolsheviks seem to have overlooked. The Bolsheviks began with distribution and ended with dis tribution. Production did not con cern them. That is the surest road to national poverty, and it 1s the Bol shevist method. "The State must help, the State must promote, the State must en courage production; it must remove hindrances to production; it must in sure that confidence and security which is essential to production. There must be no shrinking .from national organization, national pro ductiftn ana national assistance. Storm Signals Appear "In my Welsh home we have an in variable method of ascertaining when the storm is coming. There is a light- nouse behind the western bills. When the weather is fair and settled yon never see its light : But now and again it ilumines the darkness, and you then know that the storm is com ing. I have been scanning the hori zon, and I can see flashes on the sky wnicn indicate to 'me that there are grave atmopsheric disturbances in the social and economic - world. In the natural world you cannot .with- think- ing avert the storm. In the more ar tificial world' of human society you can,, if you take heed in time avert the hurricane. I alve one advice to my countrymen, and I say it solemnly to them take heed in time. And if you do we shall enjoy settled leather for the great harvest wkkh is coning whii t' e fierce heat of Jack HALE CALLS FOR ' AN EARLY PEACE In an address the other day in the Senate, urging prompt conclusion of the peace' treaty and the return of American troops from Europe, Sen ator Hale declared he did not believe the policies for which President Wil son is contending were those of the vast majority of the American, peo ple, and tlat the American fighting man did not share the idea that he fought simply to make the world safe for democracy. ,. . ? "I do not wish to decry the work of the President," said Senator Hale, "but I believe that his policies are not those of the vast majority of the peo ple of the United States. These ideas were expressed during the progress of the war, and because they were not publicly turned down by ; the American people or by their repre sentatives in Congress, the"President considers that the American people are .pledged to their fulfillment. -' "The American people never under stood the meaning or consequence of the policies of President Wilson. They were given out at a time When as commander-in-chief, it was held universally to be an unpardonable sin to criticize the President. The won derful catch words and phrases of the President caught the ear of the people but did not catch the under standing. "That the American people are bound by any of these statements of policy is to me inconceivable. They certainly were not bound by the vast ly different declarations of the Presi dent during the weary months before we went into the war. In War to Fight Hun "There is a class of men in this country who look at this war as some of us in the Senate have looked at it. I refer to the men in the army and navy of the United States. I have talked with- many officers and en listed men who have served in this country and overseas, wounded men, men who have been crippled in their country's cause. I have yet to find one single man who claims that he was in the war for any other cause than the cause of his country and to defeat the Hun. I have found no Crusader spirit amongst any of the men with whom I have talked. On the contrary, I have found a strenu ous objection on the part of these men to being considered Crusaders. "They are not the talkers. They are the men who have done the job, the men who have made possible the defeat of the central powers. All of the glory that comes to us through this war we get through their work and their work alone. They knew for what they were fighting. They fought, and they are entitled to be heard. The men now in the saddle and doing the talking in this country are not the fighting menu Radical at War Front "It is very shraificant that in f ranee, where the army is near the theoretical talk and little time wasted oVer the development of impracti cable dreams. Men who have seen the realities of life get to be very practical. Nor are men from whom we are hearing so much in this coun try the merrwho carried the country along during the war. The theorists, the people especially who never would have had us to go into the war, are now in the front line of trenches and loudly and vociferously are they contending for the millennium. "Now that the war is won, the American people want neace. and they want it without further delay. They want their boys back in this country. They want and expect their representatives at the peace confer ence to close matters up. just as quickly as can be done." NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST ...By virtue of a deed of trust with power of sale, executed by Mrs. H. M. Rae, widow, to the undersigned, trustee, securing certain indebted ness therein named, which deed of trust bears date the 1st day of March, 1917, and is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County, North Carolina, in Book 47 of Mortgages and Deeds of Trust, atj page 247; and default having been made in the payment of the indebt edness thereby secured, I will, on Monday, the 24 day of February, 1919, at 11 o'clock a. m., in front of the court house door in Hender- sonville, Henderson, County, North Carolina, proceed to sell for cash, at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the land described in said deed of trust, for the purpose of satisfying said indebtedness, with interest and costs of sale, to-wit: . . Lying and being in HendersonviUe township, Henderson County, State of North Carolina, BEGINNING at a stake at the intersection of Rose and Ewart Streets, and runs with the south margin of Ewart Street about 86 1-2 feet to J, W. McCormick corner; then -southward with J. W, Mccormick's tine 160 feet to a stake; thence in an easterly direction paral lel with first tall and same course as BcCormick's back line about 101 feet to a stake in the west margin ef Rose Street;, thence with the west margin or, Rose .Street 150 feet to the; BEGINNING Being the same lot conveyed to H. M. Rao by M. II Crozier and wife, Mary B. Crozier; 07 aeea recorded in Book vo page 217 pi the Records of Deeds for Hen- L- TLis January 25, 1919.- ; , i u; V ; G. YALrrrnNCtrustee 4stt ll mi ,' tconoiry in Every Cake STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF HENDERSON -IN THE SUPERIOR COURT May Guice " ' . . vs. George Guice Service by Publication Notice The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior court of Henderson county by the plaintiff for the purpose of obtaining an absolute divorce from the defendant; and the said defend ant will further take notice that he is required to appear at the next term of the Superior court of said county to be held on the first Mon day of March, 1919, at the court house of said county in Henderson- ville, North Carolina, and answer or demur to thefcomplaint in said action or the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said com plaint - This 6th day of January, 1919. C. M. Pace, Clerk Superior Court. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA HENDERSON COUNTY Entry No. 4226. I hereby make application to enter a certain tract of land lying in Hen- dersonville Township, Henderson County, North Carolina, described as follows: On the east side of Stoney Moun tain, beginning at a point in the boundry line of the Stoney Mountain boundary line of the Stoney Moun tain Co., said line being the original boundary of lands conveyed to A. W. Cummings by Wm. Ramsour and L. E. Thompson, Commissioner, by deed recorded in Book No. 11 at page No. 579 of the Records of Deeds for Henderson County and described as a line beginning at a chestnut oak and running "Thence West 182 poles with Brittain's (or Rice) line cross ing the mountain to a chestnut, Brit tain's corner," said point being situ ated at the foot of a large bluff 2066 feet North 86 degrees 15 minutes West from the eastern ex tremity of the above mentioned boundary, and running thence along said boundary line North 86 degrees 15 minutes West 667 feet to the above mentioned "Chestnut, -Bnt- corner;" thence South 3 de grees 45 minutes West 207 feet; thence South 85 degrees 15 minutes East 667 feet; thence North 3 de grees 45 minutes East 207 feet to the beginning, and containing 3.17 acres. This the 17th day of January, 1919. J. F. JUSTICE. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF SUM MONS BY PUBLICATION NORTH CAROLINA, HENDERSON lUUJNTX. IN SUPERIOR COURT Daisy Jtfesser vs. W. H. Messer. The above named defendant, W. H. Messer will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the superior court of Henderson County for the purpose, on the part plaintiff, of securing a divorce a vinculo irom tne aexenaani upon the grounds of fornication an adultry; and the said defendant will further take notice that he is requir ed to appear at the term of the su perior court of said county to be held at the court house in HendersonviUe in said county on the first Monday in March, 1919, it being the 3rd day of said month, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will apply to the court for . . . . 1 J.J ! '. J tne renez uemanaeu in nam com plaint This 30th day oi January, iviv, C. M. PACE, Clerk of Superior Court. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND FOR PARTITION Under and by virtue of the author ity conferred upon me by a dcreee of the Superior Court of Henderson County, North Carolina, in the case of H. D. Hyder and L. S. Hyder against W. D. Brock and wife Brock; Virginia Ferguson and i hus band, Engene Ferguson Janie Keno- ley and husband, James - Kenoley; Laura Clark and ! husband, J. M. Clark; Sallie Townsend, and husband, M. W. Townsend ; Clio Haskins, and husband, F. H. Haskins; Bettie Clark and husband, J. Wi Clark; Neoma Pace and husband, J. M. Pace; T. J. Brock and wife, Lillian Brock; and J. J. Justice and wife, Violet Justice, I will sell at the court house door in HendersonviUe, N C., at 1 o'clock p. am 1a Saul Am A UimIi 1010 U.f VU M4V VU ,W 1UWVM it beinff the first Monday " in - said month, at public auction to the high est bidder for cash, for the purpose of making partition among the ten ants : in common, the .following de scribed pieces or parcebrof land, ly h "and being in Blue Ridge Town s'Ja. Henderson County. North Caro lina, bounded and more particularly tfascribed as follows,, to-wlt.:i a y let Tractr All those 82 acres Jn -""r-n Cossfy"tforessid rrt of I 7 (it i T" ' ' i tf VeaXle C ':,-r-1 I ' V lind eon - ;' ' f - - .7 vr-'-ond, being dated April , 1875 and record edin -Book 80 at page 433 of the records of deeds for I: -! n County, which land is doscii fcy metes and bounds as foIws: Thin ning on a dogwood, Kicks' N. V. cor ner, and runs west 63 poles to a chestnut oak,. Brock and Jones cor-, ner; then south 50 degrees west 118 poles to a hickory stump, originally J. M. Justice's corner; thence' south 62 degrees east 158 poles passing corner, and' Justice's - bluckgum corner, to a Spanish oak in the old Hicks, now R. Fortune line : then north 98 poles with a marked line to a chestnut; then with a marked line north 8 degrees east to the begin ning. Containing 82 acres. Except ing, however, from this boundary, 25 acres sold and conveyed by P. J. Brock and wife M. A. Brock, to J. B. Phillips, by deed recorded in Book .43 at page 382 of the records of deeds for Henderson County, North .Caro lina. 2nd Tract: All that tract of land described in a deed from J. H. Jus tice to P. J. Brock, dated 11th day of March 1874 and and recorded in Book 76 at page 141 of the records of deeds for Henderson County; said land lying and being in the county m The Telephone puts our Store right at your elbow No time is lost when the doctor leaves a prescription or when an accident occurs. All you have to do is call us and our messenger will be right over with what you need. Both Phones 403 HAVE YOU TRIED US? Hunter's Pharmacy EVERYTHING IN DRUGS ELECTRIC LINE CORNER HENDERSONVILLE. N. C. The Man with Money hides his Valuables in Our Safely Deposit Vaults where they are SAFE. He has no FEAR of Fir? or Burglars. New nest of Steel Boxes just installed Come in and it ore all rented 'S7- -':' A: V. t aforesaid bounded as follows: viz: resinning on a stone in J. J. Justice's corner; thence west with a condition- . el line to a hickory, Justice's corner; , then with Justice s line to a black Anl 4 til nM irkr- ri4- da . vno, aitu iuVucu wcob WAbil a tuu" ditional marked line to Monroe Brock's line; then northeast ' to a - -stone on or near the top of the ridge; : thence with F. J. Brock's line to the " beginning. , Containing 8 acres, more or less, lying otf the waters of Tum ble Bug Creek. . , 3rd Tract: Joining the lands of John H. Justice and others. Begin-. ning at a stone on the north side of the road and bears south 85 degrees -east 12 8-11 poles to a stone in the -r original line; thence with the same north 5 degrees east 12 8-11 poles to a stone and pointers; thence, north 85 degrees west 12 8-11 poles to a stone and pointers; thence south 6 degrees west 12 8-11 poles to the beginning. Containing one acre, more or less. Said land will be offered for sale in separate tracts and then as a whole, and the manner of sale in which it brings the most money it will be sold by. 0 - This January 27, 1919. W.' C. RECTOR Commissioner. -o i ,r ;7K , f S 1.11 IviiJ 7 J ' 7 . .. c";t
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