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rT ti vn ii rtsfo-ir rt -rons n n UW MIL &LiL eMJiiia State Library VOLUME XXXIV. NUMBER 5 HENDERSQNVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1919. FIVE CENTS COPY .ft: I. 'I I T01EEIMY19 Pursuant to an official call just issued by the President, by cable, the 66th Congress will convene in ex traordinary session Monday, May 9, at noon. The President will not be present in person on that date. FILLS LONG FELT WANT A new business in this city, which has begun on a small scale but which will, it is hoped, grow into something much bigger, is the Letson Auto Top Works, located' on Third avenue East, in the building formerly known as the City Market. M. C. Letson, expert leather work er, is the proprietor of the business, which started March 1. The shop is equipped to make tops for any kind of car and also to do general repair work not only on tops but also on any of the leather work. Until Mr. Let son started this shop, there was no place nearer than Asheville where such work could be done. The new enterprise reports a steadily growing business; and it is expected that be fore long an additional expert will have to be procured. STILLS CAPTURED i on the assumption that the growtn oi . wjl TRY TO SOLVE On Wednesday night of last week the United States for the next half j TRADE PROBLEM Sheriff Case raided an illicit distilling century will require large numbers of ; plant in a remote section of Crab j common laborers. j Nearly 2,000 of America's leading Creek township and seized the still ; Before the war, Mr. Bowers said, bsuiness men, memoers of the Na-r-'-ich was made of copper, and de-the United States assimilated about tionai Association of Credit Men, will stfoyed the fermenters and other j 1,000,000 imigrants a year. Theyimeet jn uetr0it, June 10 to 13, in articles going to make up the outfit, were mostly used in common labor. tusivt', to devise ways u.:t. mc-uiia of The still was not in operation' and As the country grows, he declares the meetmK the big, vital aim timely no arrests were made. need for labor will increase, and the trad(, probiems confronting this cuun- Wednesday night of this week the only place for it to come from will lry at nome and abroad, sheriff raided and destroyed a still be China and Japan. ,. of the sheet iron variety, near the foot of Baldtop Mountain in Edney-1 vile township. The plant was located ! by residents of the section, and two or three parties stationed themselves nearby to watch tne place witn a view to catching the owners, while others came for the sheriff. Pending the arrival of the sheriff one of the watchers accidentally let his gun fire, when this happened three men ran from the still in such great haste that one of them left part of his belomrinirs. When the sheriff ar- rived he found an army blouse anu some other articles which he thinks will aid in the identification of the j offenders. No arrests, however, have , been made in connection with the operation of this last mentioned plant- ! WOULD SINK GERMAN SHIPS I Josephus Daniels, secretary of the . navy, stated in London last Satur-! day that to sink the entire German ' fleet with proper ceremonies would be a great moral lessen and warning to ' people of the different nations whoi might be inclined to want to settle ; disputes by means of war. J FEEDING POOR BALKAN STATE The United States is sending food the Monte Carlo of America after the SUCceed without the use of printers' to Montenegro, smallest, poorest and. United States becomes "dry" on July j8 like the fellow who tries to most barren of the Balkan states. The 1. The authorities, it is stated, no dimb a greased pole without first put United States food administration not expect to throw the lid off to tmK sand- on jt- He will remain at and the American Red Cross have any sort of lawlessness or vice, but tne bottom. Advertising has built sent hundreds of tons of flour, cloth- they do propose that every town near many a prosperous business, that ing snoes ana meuicmes mm una desolate little country, which has never yielded sufficiently from the soil to support the 300,000 sturdy mountaineers who make their homes in Montenegro. WOUNDED AUSTRIANS BEING AIDED BY RED CROSS Dispatches state that all the hos- pitals of Herzegovia and Bossilla, which are full of sick and wounded soldiers, returned from Austria, and many civilians suffered from typhus and other diseases, are receiving aid from the American Red Cross which has sent doctors and nurses there and a large quantity of medicines and clothing. SITE OF HOTEL TO BE SOLD l j open. The lot upon which the St. John i Calexico and other Lower Califor hotel formerly stood will be sold at nia towns are making like plans to the door of the Henderson county j capture American dollars. Los Ang court house at noon on June 2. "The I eles sportsmen propose to erect an sale will.be made under a decree of i immense casino at.Maxicali or Ensen thi District court for the Western ada, modeled after the European district of North Carolina, entered in the case of C. F. Haynesworth and others, against R. D. Waring and others, which was tried at Asheville last August. The property to be sold is valuable for either hotel or busi- ness houses, and will no doubt bring a good price. CHARLES SORRELLS Charles H. Sorrels, age 76, depart ed this life at his home at Fletcher on. Saturday of last week. Mr Sor rells was one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of Hooper's Creek township, and while his death was not unexpected his passing brines sorrow to a large circle of , frpnds and relatives. Interment was ' made Sunday in Calvary cemetery in the presence of a large audience of the friends and neighbors of the deceased who gathered to pay the last sad rites to a departed brother whom they had long known and respected. Seven children survive their father, and to them the sympathy of the entire community is extended in this "time of their bereavement. J. M. Millikan of Greensboro was here Thursday. W. C. Powell and family of Jack sonville arrived here Wednesday to spend the summer at their home on .Fourth avenue West. According to official figures "just published, the railroad administra tion for the first three months cf this year has incurred a deficit of $192,000,000, which is nearly .as much As the deficit for all of the year 1918. The statement adds that, from such April returns as have come in, there seems to be no prospect of im provement at present. GREAT ARSENAL PLANNED Plans have been approved by the : War Department which will convert the Watervliet arsenal, near Troy, N. Y., into the greatest plant of its kind in the world, not excepting that of the Krupps in Germany. The government has authorized an expenditure of $14,000,000 and the purchase of 35. additional acres of ground. The arsenal will employ from 7,000 to 9,000 men. FLOOD OF YELLOW LABOR : mgton, of Bayone, JN. J., has Been Immigration of 2,000,000 foreign-! convicted in London, of falsely claim ers, mostly Japanese and Chinese, ' ing to be the son of the Earl on every year for the next 50 years, is : Craven. Sentence was suspended predicted by. Abraham Bowers, im-' pending receipt of complete indenti- migration secretary or the i. m. u A. Mr. Bowers based his prediction ; "Chinese and Japanese students, Mr. Bowers said, "now marry our university girls. They will over-ride racial prejudice, literacy tests and every other obstacle." V ORLD PEACE FAIR PLANNED Preliminary steps have been taken to hold a world peace exposition in Detroit, Mich., in 1922 or 1923, it was announced by Mayor James Couzens. Charles M. Schwab, according to ,,,- fv,, ; . nn,9i7l. tJu- corp0ration. Property that would serve for an exposjtjon gr0unds has been tentatively selected. MORCAN.s HOUSEPEEPER BOUGHT HOTEL The housekeeper for the family of the late J. P. Morgan has invested $400,00 in a ten-story apartment hotel in New York city. She was born in Switzerland in 1866, and is a widow. OASES NEAR THE BORDER Lower California, with more than a dozen towns and villages near the California border, is planning to be m uiiciuouuiioi imc ouau ucvuuk paradise oi sports ana an oasis wnere Americans may spent their money on horse races, bull fights, cocking mains, games of chance, dancing, the ters and "moisture." Large Plans in the Making Americans m Mexican pian to maxe dollars to be spent on permanent that city a center of amusement. : roads in five years such is the allot There will be ball parks, race tracks, ment ,,. hv th nf niinnU boxing arenas and other outdoor at-! tractions. Capitalists from Los , Angeles are erecting a large brewery. Pending the time of its completion , they will supply their trade f rom I more than $100,000 worth of "wet" j goods that has been carried across the border. At Tia Juana, horse racing center . on the border, the Lower California I Jpckey club is planning a 50-day race ! meet as soon as the border is thrown Monte larlo but with modifications necessary to please American patrons. TEN YEARS FOR TIREDNESS Washington. Mav 6. Colonel S. T Ansell, former acting judge advocate general? who brought about the in vestigation of the system of injustice by court martial in the army in spite of repeated statements of Secretary Baker that no injustice prevailed, has had called to his attention the case of Charles Grassel, of Ohio, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at the Atlanta penitentiary for no 'other reason than that he was phy- A- J J A? A sicauy unaDie to no aouDie time to supper, Writing from his prison cell, the youth says: "In the terrible hot climate we work at building roads in the broiling sun from 7 a. m. to 5 p. m., and then for two hours drill in the sun with 75 lbs. of stone on our backs. By that time, we are so fatigued we can hardly get to mess. On the eve of May 21, 1918, after a hard day's work, we were commanded to do double time to supper, a distance of about 800 yards. We being in that fatigued condition and not feeling physicalls good, were unable to obey the orders, and for the above and only reason, we were court martialed . and sentenced to ten years in the Atlanta penitentiary, where l am now con fined." ITALY WINS The peace treaty has been licked into some sort of shape. Italy gets Fiume, as mandatory for a while and thereafter as actual owner. This means that Italy has "compromised" by getting more than she originally asked for. Germany loses her colonics; also she gives Alsace-Lorraine to France and part of Silesia and Posen to Po land. Dantzig is permanently inter nationalized; the Saar canal basin is l temnorarilv internationalized, the CQal mines to gQ to France Germany's army and navy are re duced to very small proportions. The league of nations is agreed to, and a vast amount of detailed work is dumped upon that organiza tion. CONVICTED IN LONDON Charles Mirelly, 22, alias Earl Uff- ncation trom the American police. DECREES $13.50 WAGE VOMEN FOR A minimum weekly wage of $13.50 has been established by the California industrial welfare commission fur all experienced women workers in mer cantile establishments in the State. VICTORY BONDS Some of our readers are going to put in most of the summer paying for their Victory Bonds; and when they have them paid for they will be that much ahead. And in a great many instances the fellows who didn't buy any bonds won't have the bonds and won't have he money they would have cost. EVERYBODY DOES IT Some hotel men in New York figure that one-fourth of their guests come to town in automobiles. If their figures are correct, New York has nothing on us. In Henderson ! ville it looks as if most everybody who l comes to town does so In automobiles. PRINTER'S INK A merchant who thinks he can would not nave succeeded without advertising. HIGHWAYS OF TODAY AND TO MORROW Onp fiiinHrAH nnrl fan millinrta ivf ana Pennsylvania in the recent elec- tjonSi wjth similar sums likely to be voted 800n by many of their sister states, says Harten H. Edwards in an illustrated article in the April popular Mechanics Magazine. Sixty mjHi0ns was Illinois' share, to be paid entirely by automobile and motor- truck owners during the next 20 years without resorting to general taxation. This is just one indictation of the great interest in good roads aroused by the transportation needs during the great war just past. Peo ple are now awakening to the fact that the best investment they can make is in he construction, of good roads, permanent roads, and roads wide enough to permit two automo biles or trucks to pass in safety. . Along witn this tremendous increase in popularity of good roads has come the development of new an,d better types of pavement, each singularly adapted to the varying needs of heavy and light city and country traffic. At Detroit, Mich., a new type of pavement particularly adapted for the use of automobiles has been developed. It is called rub ber stone," and is a crushed lime stone varying in size from 1-2 in. down to dust, impregnated with de liquescent or moisture-collecting and retaining chemicals. It is placed loose on the road to a thickness of 5 in., and rolled to a smooth, compact sur face elastic, dustless, noiseless, and weedless, and easy to take up and re place when it is necessary to get at pipes or wires beneath the pavement. With the adoption of efficient methods of construction and main tenance for all the roads soon to be built by the various States, and also for those built by the large federal appropriation for interstate roads under the federal aid act, our roads of tomorrow should be of maximum value to everyoire. They will be built much wider and stronger than many we have now, and of the most durable materials, for they will have to bear a greatly increased motor truck traffic if the growth in use of such trucks in the past few years is any criterion. VICTORY LOAN Henderson county is still far below its quota in the Victory Bond cam paign. Up to date not more than half the amount is reported. There are two things to be borne in mind. 1. This is an exceptionally 'good investment. You will not find a better. 2. If you do not buy, the banks must and will; and the result will be not only that you will suffer by the bank's inability to take care of your needs, but also that the inflation (which is already hurting you) will be increased. OUR CLIMATE Records of storms and other periods of severe meteorological con ditions show that our climate is al ways temperate in comparison with that of places North, South, East, and West of us. The severity of a scorching summer is unknown here; the warmest days bring no ill effects in their train. Sun-strokes do not occur here; cyclones and tornadoes do not visit us. We have cold spells in winter, but they are of short dura tion and their severity is less than in many places which have a higher annual temperature. The average latitude of Tennessee is about the same as the latitude of Henderson ville. .The normal January tempera ture of Tennessee (derived from the records of fifty or sixty stations whose average altitude is about 1,200 feet less than the altitude of Hender son ville) is exactly the same as Hen derson ville 's January normal. Moun tains to the West and Northwest of us protect us from the severity of the cold waves. In summer, moderately warm days and delightful cool nights; in winter, cold nights which purify the atmos phere, and abundance of bright sun ny lays; spring weather which ismild without being enervating; autumn weather which is the finest tonic ever knovwi; this is a summary of Hen dersQnville's climate. Proof of this is obtainable not only from statistics but also from experience. There are numbers of persons who have come here sick and regained their health. Some of them have gone back to their former Homes to resume their former occupations with renewed strength and a grateful remembrance of the benefits derived here, while others have decided to stay with us and make this their permanent home. TAXES Tax rates rarely ever come down. Despite the promise of politicians and the suavity of statistical experts who pretend to give us hope whenever we make inquiries, the pesky tax rates never care to lag. They tell us the re-assessment of property under the law passed by the recent session of the Legislature will iowe- the rate. But tnis will not nai j j.i. The only way to lower the tax rates is to displace extravagant manage - ment by economical management. And that is hard to do. WANT AMERICANS TO HIRE BRITONS British expert army officers, now training in technical and expert pro fessions, are offered to American em ployers by the British government through the appointments department of the imnistry of labor, it has been officially announced. TROTZKY'S FAMILIAR PHRASES (National Republican.) In his recently published book, Leon Trotzky writes that "the war has undermined the foundations of the entire capitalist world and in this fact lies Bolshevism's invincible strength." In his book published for Wilson propaganda in Europe, "Woodrow Wilson and the World's Peace," Prof. George Herron wrote ?hat President Wilson had "delibera tely undermined the foundations up on which capitalist society rests"; "capitalism," in the view of such writers as Herron, being the system of private property and individual ism as opposed to socialism and com munism. In recognition of this work President Wilson appointed Herron a sort of ambassador to the Bolsheviki, later giving similar recognition to Lincoln Steffens, who influenced the administration to release Trotzky for return to Russia after England and France had protested. Trotzky was starting to Russia with the avowed purpose of overthrowing a govern ment that was standing out against Germany, and had made speeches in New York, to the knowledge of the Department of Justice, denouncing the American government as rotten. His comrade Steffens during the war declared in California, in public, that Russia and Mexico had the only de cent governments in the world, and agreed with Trotzky that the Ameri can government was "rotten." Her ron wrote 'in the book which won him revolutionary that the modern social revolutionary that the moder nsocial ist leaders in Europe are reactionary beside him. He did not go so far as to say that Urotzky is more conser vative. But Trotzky seems to have drawn his ideas, and even his pharaseology from the same fountain frequented by the "Reverend" Pro fessor Herron. People who do not interpret recent events in Europe in the light of Ahese things are falling for a pretty deep game. CITY ELECTION In spite of the pressure of other matters, several persons in this city managed to remember on Tuesday mat the biennial municipal election was scheduled to be pulled off on that day. J. Mack Rhodes was elected mayor; and John T. Wilkins, Thomas Shepherd and Raymond Edwards were elected commissioners. NO LET UP ON WETS The Department or Justice will en force national war-time prohibition, effective July 1, according to an an nouncement made by Attorney Gen eral Palmer. The enforcement of the prohibition act will include a ban on production and sale of all beers and wines, whether or not they are intoxicating, the Department of Justice announces. While no steps will be taken to pre vent brewing, pending determination of the constitutionality of the law, a question raised by the brewers, manu facturers will operate in peril of future prosecution. The Department of Justice floes not know and does not care whether beer containing two and three-quarter per cent alcohol is intoxicating, accord ing to department officials. They point out, however, that the law pro hibits the sale after June 30 of dis tilled beverages as well as their manu facture after April 20. It also pro hibits after June 30 the sale and manufacture of beer, wine and other intoxicating malt or vinous liquors. Home Stills Must Go The forces combatting the Anti Saloon league have received -two shocks. Internal Revenue Commis sioner Roper has ruled that persons using stills in their homes will be re quired to submit to the collector evi dence under oath showing the still is not used for the production of liquor. It also has been announced that, as soon as Congress convenes, legislation will be introduced to bar from the mails all publications containing ad vertisements of recipes or mixtures from which to make alcoholic bever ages of any kind. WANTS HANGING PLACES FOR I. W. W. In a recent Victory Loan address at Topeka, Kan., Mayor Ole Hanson, of Seattle denounced the policy pursued by the government toward anarchy and the I. W. W. as "a skim-milk, weak, vacillating and changeable" one. and gave warning of a ''widespread national effort to overthrow the 'government and so ciety by violence. He declared that "the government was on the wrong track in starting conferences instead of cemeteries in dealing with the I. W. W. As to the bomb plot in which he was an intended victim, the mayor said: "I trust Washington will buck up and clean up, and either hang or incarcerate for life all the anarchists n the countrv. n tne government I doesn't clean them up I will. I'll give v.p my mayorship and we will hold jm-eungs and have hanging places. i, .:,jd he believed the I. W. W. was 1 at the bottom of the bomb plot "Any mayor who will permit an I W. W. meeting in his city should be recalled and banished from America He is not an American," added Mayor Hanson. FAKERS ARRAYED IN ARMY UNIFORMS Police chiefs of all cities of the country have been appealed to by Col. Arthur Woods, special asistant to the secretary of war in charge of the employment of discharged soldiers, to aid the government in preventing peddlers and street fakers from wear ing the uniform of the army or navy In a letter sent to the police chiefs, Col. Woods said that he believed many, if not most, of the men in uni form who were peddling in the streets are frauds. Employers who hire men in uniform to peddle for them were denounced by Col. Woods as cooties. GERMAN CONCERN ORGANIZED FOR TRADING WITH AMERICA The American Mercantile Inter change Company was recently organ ized in Berlin for the purpose of facilitating the resumption ot com mercial relations with the United States. The company, which is said to be headed by a number of leading German financiers and industrialists proposes to carry on an exchange of finished manufactured products for raw materials on an extensive scale. The company sharply criticizes exist ing measures of the German govern ment which tend to restrict export activities, and points out that Ger many is in position to obtain large quantities of foodstuffs and raw ma terials in return for commodities now ready for shipment. SUFFRAGE LACKS A VOTE The woman suffrage amendment still lacks one vote in the United States Senate, according to Miss Alice Brown, chairman of the national woman's party. Thus the amend ment is threatened with defeat un less the leaders of the Republican party secure another vote, or Presi dent Wilson gains the support of an additional Democrat. Miss Brown declared that, in spite of repeated statements that the amendment will pass as soon as Con gress convenes, suffragists cannot rest content while one of the neces sary two-thirds vote is still un pledged. KEDRON LODGE The regular Communication of Kedron Lodge, No. 387 A. F. & A. M., will be held Friday nierht. Mav 9, 8:30 o clock, A special Communication is called for Tuesday night, May 13, at 8:30 o'clock. Work in the Second Degree visitW ww ioii ,i .vvv. wtwiaiiji wel comed. 1 P. S. RAMSEY, Master. LABOR DEPARTMENT WANTS NEW SYSTEM With only 20 States collecting com plete vital statistics, labor department and census officials plan to ask the next Congress for national machinery to record such facts, especially births and deaths. The war has shown the great need of complete national statistics along this line, offi cials say, and in this respect the Uni ted States is far behind European countries. PORTO RICAN GOVERNOR CEN- SURED For criticising the legislature on the "lack of experience on the part of most of the members of the actual working of a government of this sort" in his last annual report, Gov ernor Yager has been subjected to a vote of censure by the Porto Rican senate. The governor's criticism was directed against the action of the leg islature in taking a recess at the end of the first session for two months instead of adjourning sine die. MILLIONS IN EUROPE GET FOOD Since January 1, the United States government has shipped to the hungry millions of Europe more than 1,369,- 400 tons of food, the special relief service branch of the United States shipping board has announced. A total of 208 ships are enraged in carry these supplies. They ag gregate more than 1,500,000 tons of cargo carrying capacity. DISEASE TOOK 56,630 YANKS An official report from the surgeon general's office gives the total number of deaths in the American aarmy (luring the war to date as 111,179. Of this total, 56,630, or "1 per cent, were from disease, 43 per cent in battle or from wounds received in action, and 6 per cent from other injuries. Of the deaths from disease, about 12,000 have occurred since hostilities ceased. HUNGER KILLED 763,000 Germany lost 763,000 persons as a result of the blockade imposed upon the country by the allied forces dur ing the war, according to a memoran dum issued by the imperial health ministry. Influenza caused the death of 150,000 others. The fall in the number of births during the war exceeded 4,000,000 for the German empire and 2,500,000 for Prussia. The memorandum calculated the damage inflicted by the hunger blockade at 56,300,000,000 marks. ALLIES ADOPT LABOR LAWS The nine clauses propesed by the commision on international labor legislation for insertion in the peace treaty, as adopted by the peace con ference, have been made public by the State Department in Washington. Among the principles incorporated were a standard eight-hour day, a weekly day of rest, the abolition of child labor, equality of pay for men and women, and workmen's right of association for all lawful purposes. MEDICINE COMPANY MOVED The Garren Medicine Company has moved from the room which it has been occupying on Maple street to the store room adjoining Hous ton's feed store on Seventh avenue East. The company states that the room they vacated on Maple street was not large enough for the equip- ! A Al 1 1 ?A ment tney nave iouna it necessary to install in order to accommodate the increasing demand for their medi cines. The entire building on Seventh avenue, in which the com pany is installing its plant, will be used by it in the operation of its manufacturing business. The com pany is just starting an extensive ad vertising campaign, and it is predict ed tnat tne medicines tney will put up will find a ready sale. T. Lee Drake of Balfour was in town Thursday. Have you discharged your duty toward Victory Bonds? JuU mi- ft Is:'-- lie ' ' "irL' i., ,1 A - TV