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tFiIsVuy, -NOV. H. li 1 7
A DEAD I.ETTEU
The decision ef the United States
supivnu' court in declaring uncon
stitut onal the segregation ordinance
of the- city of Louisville, Ky.. can
not he appreciated entirely until the
full text is at hand. Assuming,
however, that the Louisville ordi
nance was drawn 'tin in a manner
to apply equally to both races to
prevent white persons from buying
property for horn: owning in negro
communities, as well as prohib ting
colored people from living in white
a-tarns it is clear that the court
wtnt beneath the letter of the law
and grappled its spirit.
As long as the members of the
court think us th.y do it is appar
ent that it will be dillk'ult to draw
up any segregation law that W'll
pass their scrutiny. Tlvs applies to
cities, where the problem was
thought to he easier to handle
thi'.n in the rural sections, and it is
mar)A'st that there will be mod'e
or less complaint,
N'orth Carolina has not developed
much interest in segrcgatiwn, though
in nil the towns and e'ties the races
naturally have flocked to themselves.
Some cities have ordinances and they
of course are null and void.
(if greater interest in North Car
olina, however, has been the agita
tion for segregation in the rural dis
tricts, a movement sponsored by the
Farmers' Union, and urged upon the
general ass.mbly, A constitutional
amendment would be necessary to
adopt segregation in North Carolina,
and the law then would be declared
unconstitutional by the highest court
in the land.
Segregation seems impossible for
some time to come.
' It is evident that the allied govern
ments have decided to recognize the
importance of the Italian front and to
make it impossible, if they can pre
vent it, for (Jermany to smash the
mil tary power of the Latin king
dom. Italy has claimed all along
that the way to beat Germany was
to defeat her weak', r allies, and the
Isun;:o campai'n. had it been pushed
vigorously, might have eliminated
Austria in a few more months. The
English and French commanders
have not taken to this theory, but
since Germany has placid a large
number of troop on the Italian
front, the allies logically can carry
on a big campaign there as well as
on the French and Ilelg'an fronts.
The object is to kill Germans, and
one front is ns good as another for
that purpose.. With the help rushed
to Daly, we may expect a slowing up
of the German campaign, even if Ca
dorna should be compelled to retreat
farther 'nto the interior.
The Wisconsin Loyalty Legion has
wired the New York Times that it
will "measure New York city by Hil
quit and kaiser1 sm masked under pac
ifism," and since the east has "im
pugned the loyalty of Wisconsin,"
the league asks "New York to set
Wisconsin an example in patriotism
that it can commend." That was a
center shot and New York should
have .been hit.
The killing, wounding and captur
ing of Americans in French trenches
was to have been expected, though
the news camo as a surprise back
home. It must be borne in mind,
however, that Germany will endeavor
to discourage the United States, and
anyth'ng attempted should not evoke
surprise.
If there are any sincere apostles
of Tom Watson who are not nutty,
we have failed to hear of them.
Watson is unbalanced on pract'cally
every proposition, and to be like him
one necessarily must have some cu
rioiw mental slants.
It would seem that some children
take everything that is not prohibit
ed by law.
The Qulnlns That Does Not Arfoct the Koao
lircnus of it tonic onl laxative effect. LAXA
11 VIC liko.MOOUlNlNKIs letter than ordinary
Vuinine ami cloca not caune nervouanegs nor
rmiflnif in head. Rememhtr the lull name and
look ior the airoturc oi li. W. GKOVJEC. 30c
UEl) TRIANGLE'S WORK
AMONG THE SOLDIERS
The American Red Cross has done
and is preparing to do a wonderful
work for the United States soldiers
and sailors when they are ill or
wounded.
But what about it when they are
perfectly well, husky and full of pep ?
And most of them are in that con
dition all the time. .
Right-o' Well, that's the job of
the Red Triangle. And the Red Tri
angle is the war work of the Y. M.
C. A. They are both red, the Red
Crisis and the Red Triangle. But
they are just as separate and dis
tinct as anything could be. Not on
ly are they entirely separate as to
the class of service they perform but
they are wholly unassociated as to
organization.
.Money subscribed to the Red Cross
is used and used well as soon as
light'ng men get into the hospital.
But before they get there it's up to
the Y. M. C. A. to look after a very
large number of their needs. The
war department provides them with
food, clothing and shelter. It trains
them for their military duties. The
personal influence of the officers is
splendid in developing character, but
the oiliivrs are busy and have little
time to reach the man in large num
bers for this defin'te purpose. The
army and navy chaplains for their
part" but there is much they cannot
do.
The Red Triangle does the rest. It
suppli.s the lighting men with
writing paper, envelopes pens, pen
cils, postage stamps! it mails their
letters for them, gives them picture
shows, provides lectures on vital sub
jects, supplies them gymnastic exhi
b'tions ami musical and other enter
tainments its; its buildings are
equipped with pianos and victrolas for
the use of the men; it conducts class
es in French and English; it issues
books and magazines; it promotes
outdoor and indoor games, baseball,
volley ball, basket ball, football,
checkers, chess, dominoes, it holuY?
Bible classes and promotes a strong
relig ous work program. It takes
care of these strong, well fighting
men's spare time in a way that they
!ik and that is good for them. It
is not only a school, theatre, gymna
sium. 'church and home, but is a sort
of club, as well. It is the thing
that keeps him fit mentally, moral
ly, physically and socially.
And the work is as broad as it is
deep. In the great national guard,
national army, naval station, aerial
serv ce, officers' reserve and . other
camps, the association has establish
ed nearly C00 great buildings in this
country manned by five secretaries,
each. Each building has 90 differ
ent items on its list of furnishings.
"A book of twos," phase;" "May I
have some writing paper?"; have you
got any wrapping paper?;" "Any
twine?"; "Will you wr te a money or
der for me?"; "Can I get a testament
here?" These and a thousand ana
one other requests are filled, always
with a smile and a word of personal
greeting or encouragement, and with
out a charge of a cent to the enlisted
man for any of the things enumerated,
exc:pting of course for the postage
stamps.
This work is to be carried overseas
as fast as the American troops cross
the Atlantic. It is to be placed in the
armies of our allies, France, Russia
and Italy .England already has it,
and it is to go into the camps of
the prisoners of war. To do this a
great nation-wide campaign is to be
waged from November 11 to 19 to
raise $35,000,000 which will be need
ed until July 1, 1918. Not a cent
of this is to be spent on anybody but
the fighting men, the well ones,
which the Red Cross cannot serve.
RAILROAD WSR BOARD 1
RELIEVES COAL SHORTAGE
Washington, Nov. 6. The railroad's
war board is now direct. ng efforts to
the work of insuring an adequate
coal supply for domestic and indus
trial uses of coal in all sections of
the country. Wihile a greater supply
of coal has been mined and shipped
than ever before, the difficulty today
is that the consumption all over the
country is greater than ever before.
The railroads' war board has re
ceived reports indicating that the
efforts of the ra lroads and coal
shippers to prevent the threatened
coal shortage in the northwest dur
ing the coming winter have been
more successful than seemed possi
ble during the summer. With five
weeks or more left before the close
of navigation on the Great Lakes,
23,348,100 of the 29,000,000 tons,
which it was estimated will be re
quired, have already been sent to
the northwest.
ATTORNEYS MUST NOT
SERVE FOR DRAFTED MEN
To all Local Exemption Boards.
You are directed not to sign any
paper prepared by any attorney-at-law,
nor to consider any paper pre
pared by any attorney at law or any
other person in connection with any
registrant or selected man, unless
such paper shall contain a state
ment that the attorney or other per
son is receiving no charge whatever
for services performed in behalf of
said registrant or selected man.
The American Bar Association, has
passed a resolution unanimously that
it is the sense of the association that
no attorney should make any charge
for services rendered a registrant or
selected man, and has taken steps to
have such services trndered in all
worthy cases by reputable attor
neys without money and without
price.
The North Carolina state council
of national defense has taken similar
action arid is prepared to have all
needful setrvices rendered a regis
trant or selected man without cost to
the man ft mself or to any member of
his family. An attorney is a sworn
officer of the law, and his first duty
is to the government, and that duty
requires him to advise a registrant
or selected man that he is not entit
led to exemption, if such be the law,
and it is also his patriotic duty to
prepare any paper setting forth the
exact facts "in any particular case for
a registrant or selected man and
submit these facts, not in the capac
ity of a paid attorney, but as a pa
triotic citizen, to exemption boards.
In every county in the state attor
neys will be called upon by the Am
erican Bar Association, and by the
State Council of National Defense,
to render legal services, and they
will be glad to do it. The attor
neys of North Carolina are intensely
Million Letters In the Mails Today
Bearing Magic Words "With the Colors"
Keynote of the Splendid Work the Y.M.C.A. Does Among
Our Men In Uniform Is Keeping Them In
Touch With the Folks at Home.
STAMPED WITH STARS AND
Multifarious Ways in Which the Association Appeals to Your Boy,
Your Neighbor's Boy, or Some Boy You Know and Love
Creates a Helpful Environment in Cantonment, on Way Overseas,
in Front Line Trench and Beyond First to Aid as He Comes
Tottering Back Give Your Share of the $35,000,000 Required to
Accomplish This "Last Evidence That Somebody Cares."
tt T was evening on the broad
4 Hempstead Plain, Long Island,
where the Rainbow division was
spending its last night before embark
ing for France. It had been raining
hard in the afternoon a cold, steady
autumn downpour and there was
nothing to suggest the rainbow in the
outward aspect of the camp. Lines
and lines of sodden canvas housed
27,000 men, gathered from 27 different
states. The ground was dotted with
pools and quagmires. Under the wet
canvas It was damp and cold, with a
penetrating chill. Lit by nickering
candles, the tents were far from cheer
ful shelter for a man's last night in
his native land.
But there were seven big tents
where electric lights, numbers and
friendliness made the 'night pleasant.
Music, Games, Good Reading and Correspondence Facilities In Y. M. C. A.
Building.
In each of these a soldier was strum
ming on a piano; others were reading
books and magazines; hundreds were
writing letters home. Behind the
raised counter at one end three or four
young men were busy passing out
notepaper and envelopes, selling
stamps and weighing parcels, which
the men were sending home. One of
the soldiers said to me as I etood In
the tent used chiefly by men from
Iowa: "We came all the way here
from Des Moines, and we were mighty
lonely. Then we found this Y. M. C.
A. on the Job, and it's been a home
and more than a home to us. It gave
us what we wanted when we needed
It most. We'll never forget it. The
boys' best friend is the Y. M. C. A."
Fine, Clean-Cut, Upstanding Fellows.
How close those benches were pack
ed with men, bending over the long
tables absorbed in their writing!
What an appeal to the sympathies
those great groups of soldiers make!
Fine, clean-cut, upstanding fellows,
some of them mere boys, one thinks
immediately of the sacrifice they have
made for the rest' of us and how pre
cious they are to some one back home.
Somewhere, in far off farm or village
or city street, there are parents or
brothers or wives who would give all
they possess for one glimpse of those
sunburned faces as you and I see
them on their last night before going
across. And It was with a throb of
the heart that I watched them, bent
over their letter paper, in one after
another of those seven big tents.
These were the tents of the Y. M. C.
A. On that last night in America the
association was serving the soldiers
in the best of all ways giving them
an opportunity to write home. On
previous nights they had enjoyed box
ing bouts, movies, concerts, dramatics
and a score of healthy entertainments
as well as religious meetings. But on
this last night home ties were strong
est. And perhaps that is the keynote
of the splendid work the Y. M. C. A.
:Hs doing among our men in uniform
keeping them In touch with home.
Magic Words, "With the Colors."
In these times there are some let
ters that mean more to us tnan any
we have ever read before.. They are
written on sheets of paper stamped
with the Stars and Stripes and the
red triangle of the Y. M. C. A.," and
they bear the magic words, "With the
Colors." There are many more than
a million such letters In the mails now
while you read this. Perhaps one at
patriotic and ninety and nine of them
will cheerfully perform these ser
, vices and regard it as a patriotic
' privilege to do so.
I I have notified the adjutant gen
, eral of the state not to consider af
j fidavits prepared by attorneys or
; any other person unless these affida
j vits shall contain a statement that
, the attorney or other person prepar
ing the same has done so without
i receiving or expecting to receive any
J compensation of any kind,
j You will please gilvte ithis com
! munication the widest publicity pos
I sible in your county.
I T. W BICKETT,
Governor
, M
STRIPES AND RED TRIANGLE
least Is on its way to you. Each one
of our 16 cantonments, where the new
national army is- being trained, is
using more than a million sheets of
this paper every month. In the draft
army alone that means 16,000,000 fila
ments of love every month reaching
out from the great encampment where
the men are being' trained into the
greatest army" this nation has ever
dreamed and binding tnem to the
hearts at home. Multiply that by
thinking of all the other places where
Uncle Sam has men with the flag In
navy yards, on the high seas, in arse
nals and officers' training camps and
"Over There" in France. In all these
places men are writing home. Those
unassuming little sheets of notepaper
gladden millions of hearts a day.
They transfer more love from one
part of the world to another than sta
tistics can express. Statistics are
pretty poor anyway when It comes to
reckoning in terms of love and human
tenderness. Let's put it this way:
That the Y. M. C. A. is the biggest ex
press company the world has ever
seen, and the parcels it is handling
are the loves and devotions of human
beings.
World's Best Loved Trademark.
This war has made us think hard
and fast Your boy or your neigh
bor's boy or some boy you know and
love has been called to do his share
in the big job of policing the world for
democracy and human liberty. Is it
any comfort to you to know that wher
ever his duty may call him your boy
will nave a friend that will serve him
in body, mind and soul? Are you
glad to know that this friend will place
books and magazines at his disposal,
organize classes to teach him what
ever he wants to learn, give him a
pocket testament and invite him to
join religious meetings of the faith
that he was brought up in? Did you
realize that the association provides
athletic equipment for his favorite
games, teaches him games if he knows
none and holds concerts, lectures,
movies, Bible classes, dramatic enter
tainments and every kind of whole-'
some amusement to keep him interest
ed? Are you glad to know that this
friend will go with him overseas, help
to shield him from a score of difficult
and dangerous temptations and follow
him right up to the front line trench
and beyond it? The last contact the
soldier has with this life he loves so
well is a cup of tea given him by the
Y. M. C. A free just before he goes
"over the top" to a hand to hand strug
gle with the enemy. And as he comes ;
tottering back from No Man's Land, !
wounded, but strong enough and
plucky enough to keep on his feet,
even before his wounds are dressed
the Y. M. C. A. is waiting for nim with j
tea and sweet chocolate, the great com-'
forts of the man in the trenches. Do
you wonder that the Red Triangle is
called "the best loved trademark in
the world?" One soldier in France has
called it "the last evidence that any
body cares."
If every thinking citizen could see
with his or her own eyes something
of the actual work being done for our
men by the association there would be
no question of the Y. M. C. A having
to appeal to the public for money.
Rather rlian let this essential work
falter for an Instant rich men would
sell their motorcars, poor men would
forego coveted possessions or even n
cessitics. The work must go n, be
cause there is no one thing that con
tributes so much to the spirit and ef
ficiency of the troops. The Y. M. C.
A. is working night and day to help
the government win this war. And
every penny that is given to aid the
work Is a direct assistance to the
health, happiness and strength of your
boy and mine.
Snapshots of Kaleidoscopic Work.
In all the big cities in France where
our men pass through in large num
bers, the Y. M. C, A Is operating
hostels, where they can get beds and
(Continued on page 4)
Professional
Cards
. Dr. W. B. Ramsay
Dentist
Office aver Shuford's Drug Store.
Hickory, N. C.
THE HICKORY HARNESS CO.
Manufacturer? of all htucc of
HARNESS, BRIDLES. SADDLES
XNP STRAP WORK.
Repairing a Specialty.
Hickory, N. C.
THE ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
F. M. THOMPSON, Proprietor
First-CIcsa Work liu&ranteod
Phone 106, Work Delivered
1032 14th Rtraet Hickory, N C
Next to f irt Builuin & loan office.
W. P. Speas, M. D
Practice Limited to
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Hickory, N. C.
Office Over Hickory Drug Company
Hours 9 to 12, 2 to 5
DR. G. E. FLOWERS .
Having enjoyed a large coun
try praetive for 32 years, an
now located in Hickory and o
licit a share of the general prsr
tice.
Office at 8th avenue and 15tb
street. . Children's disease a
specialty.
CHIROPRACTOR
DR. E. E. ROGERS
Over
Lutz's Drug Store
PHONE 77
DR. R. P. WILSON
Veterinary Surgeon
Will answer calls day or uiuht.
Resident pnone 301-J.
Dr. Oma R. Hester
DENTIST.
OFFICE OVER BUSY BEB
CAFE AND KENNEDY
SLECTRIC CO
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HICKORY, N. C.
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Statesville, N. C.
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Automobile and Livery
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business career without first making a sound.
banking connection.
This bank will welcome you as it has weicc
many successful men who began their career
opening accounts with us.
Safety, Courtesy and Prompines:
to each depositor alike is our rnoUo.
Consolidated
HICKORY, N.
STATEMENT OF HICKORY
ROAD COMMISSION
The following is the statement oi
Hickory Township Road Commis
sion from January 1st, 1917 to Nov.
1st, 1917:
Balanee on hand Jan. 1st,
1917 22.26
Rec from Countv Treas
7767.2G :
8 Rec. on Subscriptions
. 380.bu I
. 251.75
. 70.G0 '
$8492.37 I
iioaa exemption tax
Rebates for work done
Total-
Paid Out
f For Labor
I For feed
' Supplies
t Damage and fees
$3410 62
. 1448.64
. 410.93
. lOO.ot,
: Sinking fund
1612.50
Interest on bonds 1500.00
Total
$8483.1!
Balance on hand Nov. 1, 1917 9.18
$8492.37
Payments made on sinking fund
carried with the First Building &
Loan Association now amount to j
$7575.00. I
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