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1 I Victory Liberty Loan Med 'I it J THE CIYIL SERVICE fcl 2.'.. 1LE This is an official photographic reproduction of the Victory Liberty Loan medal which will be given by the United States Treasury Department to all members of hcal committees who render conspicuous service in the loan campaign whreh will be launched April 21. The medals will be about the sise of a half-dollar.. They are made from Gorman cannon captured by American troops at Chateau Thierry. On one side of the medal is a repro duction of tne United States Treasury buildinff with the inscription, "Victory Liberty Loan." On the other side, with a space left blank for the owner's name, Is the certification of participation in the bond campaign. Frankbi's Spring Street HdmehPhyelplsa . j; r If '.itf $ Ism ' S&Sy A Within a, few Meets of the Friends' Barylng Ground in which lies the body of Benjamin Franklin, whose picture adorns the 1S19 issue of War Serines Stamos. is a maint three-story brick dwelling, one of the places where Vkm inventor-nhilOMDher lived while in Philadelphia. The house is in Spring Street, in the enter of Colonial, life in the Quaker City. It Is in excellent tat of preservation. The litth anniversary of Franklin's death wiU be com. nemorated April 17. Franklin's thrifty sayings did much to stimulate among the American people the habits of wise buying, sane saving, secure invest meet and avoidance of waste. i T p ' (Harvey's Weekly.) ' ; . Ferdinand Fochi then, is not. the only gereralissimo. , ;We have a politicalmaster-generali&imo who can see him and go him one better. . As witness the recent turnover clean sweep, debacle or whaf not in the federal civil service commission. That body since the days of GroverCleve land has been supposed to be quite independent of politics. That is what is what it is for, to stand as' a, bar rage, a Verdun, against the 'spoils men. : Hitherto it has done so; But not until the present administration has it had to contend with a political-master-generalissimo. 7 Hence this smash., ,. According to the New York Even ing Post, the authority of which in administration matters no mere mor tal must Venture to dispute,' the President recently demanded the resignations of all three civif service commissioners, and they L beirig men prudent in their generation, stood not upon the order of resigning x but re signed. Forthwith the places of two of them were filled with others, such action in the case of the third being decayed only by .the earnest inter vention of various Senators. The cause of the ruction, we are assured by the same authority, was a dis agreement between the commissioners and the politicalmaster-general. They wanted to run their commission ac cording to law, quite independently of politics, holding examinations im partially and purely on the merits of the candidates. The politicalmaster general, however, wanted to put one of his confidential agents euphem ism for political understrapper be hind the scenes in every examination, presumably to make sure about the political affiliations and activities of the candidates, and to have his recommendations count for four times as much as the actual exami nation in determining the. rating of the candidates. Of course, this was to make the whole business a ghastly farce. The chairman of the commission appears to have acquiesced in this scandalous plan, but the other two members protested. Thereupon the chairman ran things alohe for a time, holding meetings of the commission with only himself present, and at times coming close to physical en counter with his colleagues. The lat ter two carried the case to the White House and appealed to the President. But the politicalmaster-general "in tervened and prevented any actiom" And finally the President "demanded" that the civil service commissioners who would not know-tow to the poli ticalmaster-general should get out and make places for others .who pre sumably would be more compliant. We are told, too, that "trouble has been brewing in the board for two years." Of that we have been well aware, and we have been well aware, too, that it has all been due to the ."intervention" of the politicalmaster-general, backed up' by the President. It was in 1916, a little more than two years ago, that the national civil service reform league, under the direction of Richard H Dana, Joseph H. Choate and other eminent citizens, requested to be per mitted to inspect the reports of ex animations for . fourth-class post-,i mastership. This was an entirely proper and usual request provided for by law, and always thitherto un hesitatingly granted. It was assumed that of course it would be granted under the administration of a Pres ident who had declared that; his hobby was the hobby of publicity for all business. But the request Was refuse dby the chairman of the corn refused bv the chairman of thexohv records were thus opened to inspec tion, "it might lead to such criticism of the administration as would, seri- , ....... - -.. t.?f"-?. ously eiubarress it." Against . t monstrous display of cynical c - tempt for decency the league .i pealedto the President, andthe Pres ident backed up the chairman of the commission in refusing to let .the records be inspected. ? We are -not at all surprised, there fore, to find that the same chairman who wanted public '.records ... kept secret for fear of, embarrassing: the administration,' two years later sided with , the politicalmaster-general in letting political manipulators, dictate the results ' of ' supposedly . impartial competitive examinatibns. V Neither can we feel much surprised a,t finding that the President who sustained that chairman in his former conduct now backs up the politicalmaster-general in his campaign for making the civil service system a third-assistant-deputy-adjunct to his political machine. Great, indeed, is' the ,. political-master-generalissimo ; and Wpodrow Wilson is his President! MAIL CLERK WINS VERDICT OF $50,000 t . W. L. York, a mail clerk in Nash ville, Tenn., has been awarded , a verdict of $50,000 in his suit agains the Nashville,, Chattanooga and St. Loujs Railroad Company as a result of injures suffered in a railroad, ac cident on Mav 21, 1917. As a result of the mishap York has lost all sense of feeling except in one spot about the stomach. "I . .wJ ..v fc-o.., .1..,::lp5 li ifi , ma iv m mm, rv;n -m ill m M WM W ' IU Hi JmtmWmiM roa cuckay::.te,tau AWcDiccD(cAn:ErvOWN)sncis - r ' , ytws M.&AIXS.V OfttMOATioNa cm, eurpAbOj nstT FRESH MEW SEEDS STEEL BARGES ON MISSISSIPPI Forty steel barges and six ow boats will be, added to" the govern ment barge line on the Mississippi river, according to an anouncement made by Lewis T. Kavanaugh, assist ant traffic manager, now in Memphis, Tenn. The new equipment will cost $6,000,000. Our big lot of V ENGLAND SEEKING ALABAMA COAL Negotiations ar,e sairl to be under way whereby an English coal syndi cate will establish a coel storage yard at Mobile, Ala., by which Alabama coal will be shipped to Mobile to await export to England, VICTIM OF HIDDEN BOMB The killing of Mrs. George Green wood, wife of a banker of . Oakland, Cal., by an explosion at her home re mains a mystery to the police. Mr. Greenwood recently reeeived a letter demanding delivery of $&;000 at a certain spot under penalty of having his home destroyed. The let ter was signed C. C of C, which initials also were appended to a threatening letter received by Gov. William D. Stephens before the ex ecutive mansion at Sacramento, Cal., was dynamited a year ago. are in Plant a garden, .watch them grow arid fill your table WE HAVE ALL KINDS 4 Onion Sets, Maine grown Irish-Potatoes, , Flower arid Field seeds in bulk or paper A BOX OF ORANGES Dr. H. H. Carson Dentist Office over H. Patterson' Store . Hunter's Pliamaey - EVERYTHING IN DRUGS ELECTRIC LINE CORNER HENDERSON VLLE, N. C Andrew Carnegie, one of the world's richest men, was the son of a poor. Scotch weaver. He early learned the advantages of economy. At the age of ten he saved a few shillings-enough to buy, a box of. oranges which he promptly peddled at a profit of 100-per" cent. 'At twelve, he was broueht to America and put to work in a mill, His earnings were 20 cents a day. While still a young man, he man- through thrift, to accumulate $500.00 which he invested.. His first dividend served as the inspiration for his achievements and financial power in later years. ,' Z . t. But the seed of his prosperity was first won when he invested the few shillings he had saved in a box of aranges. -y There are boxes of oranges all about us today, "bnly they go under a differerit name. .Wise men see them invest, and reap $he profits in suc cess. :. " : There are men, and .women too, who sense the possibilities of Bmall beginnings, ; even ' as Carnegie. , Get your box of oranges today. Buy W. S. S. and keep . on buying them. Man! street, Hendersonville, N. C, o Office'&fiwcyerfclfc , KSUllfiriC PAE1 ; GO) . after n witn sioan i Unlment More It lets tnU, nifrooa-bv twingel Same fat, ertwipl iC9, rains, trains, stiff neo of JoiiU r fesuacics, lameness, bruuet -O I The Man with Mone hide? his - He has no rmK ot nr or purg New nest oUSteel Boxea i just installed rnmn m nnrl o vmirA hptAri f hfV '.?- mi. ..3:- N. - ! , . t I ' I fo!ed cind ' - f-jwist War year. Lco ,' HENCr-CNVIttE. ' N. 5C r 1 f V D:'?H:.':L;'riEi' ' , ' ' 1 1- - A ,
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