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THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT" THE UNION COUNTY PAPER;- VERYBODY READS IT r he Monroe Jourh A PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK - TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL.25. No. 39. MONROE, N. C FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919. f 1-Kft PFR VPID PA Oil i . . THE AIRSHIP CAME ON T1MK MONROE FROM WADKSItOIH III Charge of Lieutenant Brandt mid sergeant lierkshire Ciime Here From WmleslHtrw in Twenly-Flv Minnies Brought Letter to Mayor Site. The aeroplane, "Skull and Bones. from Langley Field. Va.. arrived here from Wadesboro about 3:55 yester day afternoon, piloted by Lt. A. R Brandt, with Sgt. R. 0. Berkshire as mechanic. As practically every resident of Monroe stood facing east with neck craned skyward in an effort to catch the first glimpse of the man bird it sailed out of the azure blue. Numbers of the people from the surrounding country were in Monroe to see the bird man. Lt. Brandt circled his machine three times around the city and then came to earth at the Stewart field on the western edge of the city. In alighting the tall skid struck the ground with such force that it. was broken off. The damage, however, was only minor and was quickly re paired. Lt. Brandt stated that he made the trip from Wadesboro to Monroe in 25 minutes a little better than a mile minute. Most of the trip was made at an altitude of 3500 feet. A letter extending greetings from the mayor of Wadesboro to Mayor Sikes was brought and delivered. This ils the first airship that ever visited Monroe and it was the sole topic of conversation yesterday after noon and last night. As the old bird hove into view a certain man was standing on the courthouse iawn. As he caught a good view of the machine lug r.iouth flew open and he declared "Why It ain't flopping its wings." About fifteen minutes before the airship hove into view an old but' zard had the whole crowd fooled. dark speck came In the eastern sky and immediately it was the cynosure of all eyes and was pointed out as the airship. The crowd was several min utes in realizing its mistake. The plane was parked under the trees in the field where It landed and here It was viewed by hundreds. It is of the Curtlss type and has a spread of 40 feet. On its side is painted a skull and bones symbolical of Its name and the information that it li from Laneler' Field. Va. I:s purpose ip coming to Monroe is to promote interest in the air service and to stimulate enlistments in that branch of the service. The many ad vantages of this branch of service are set forth In circulars which were left at the post office. Lt. Brandt stated to a Journal rep resentatlve who called upon him at his room at the Joffre that considera ble Interest had been manifested in the service by young men of Monroe. Enlistments were expected to follow He asked that The Journal express to the people of Monroe his and Sergt. Berkshire s appreciation for the man ner in which they had been received here. Lt. Brandt and Sgt. Berkshire were the guests of Lt. Andrew Monroe at dinner. Die plane took the air this morn ing about 11:30 and for about half an hour the people of Monroe and sur rounding country were treated to the novel sight of nose dives, loop-the loors and other maneuvers. It was a sight not soon to be forgotten. A crowd numbering several hundred was at the field to see the airship rise and when far In the heavens the plane did a nose dive, darting straight to ward the earth, several in the crowd were heard to exclaim breathlessly, "He's falling." But he was not. It was only a nerve tester. From this flight the plane did not light at the Stewart field but came to earth in a pasture near Mr. Jim Win chester's farm, west of town. Lieu tenant Brandt planned to leave for Charlotte about 3 o'clock this after noon. He will carry a letter from Mayor Sikes to Mayor McNlnch. the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News. ITALIAN CABIN KT RESIGNS. a ChanilKT of Deputies Refuse Vote of Confidence and Thin Crisis Further Complicates Work of the Pence Congress. Associated Press Dispatch, June 19 As an addition to the uncertainty prevailing with regard to whether Germany will sign the peace treaty, has come a crisis In the Italian gov ernr.ient to perplex the peace confer ence. Failing to secure a vote of con- fidence in the chamber of deputies in Rome on a demand of Premier Or lando that the chamber In secret ses sion listen to the government's expla nations of its foreign policy, the Ital ian cabinet has followed precedent in parliamentary affairs and resigned. This action probably will still fur ther complicate the work of the peace conference, especially in straighten ing out the tangle that long has ex isted as regards Italy's claims to Fl ume and the Dalmatian coastal re gion. The vote of lack of confidence dn the government was an overwhelm ing one, being 259 to 70. Prior to the vote the premier in a statement to the chamber had announced that the various economic and financial questions concerning Italy had been solved, or were about to he solved. InilUns Curious Oversight. Philadlephia Record. Miss Frances Dcnsmore, of Red Wing, Minnesota, has for years been studying the music of our Northwest em Indians. She is still studying uow (since 1908) as Bureau of Eth nology. It is unfortunate, we are told, that the inquiry into primitive Indian music was so long delayed. Many of the tribal songs have been irretrieva bly lost. But the Smithsonian Insti tute has for the past twelve years been busy In this matter, employing skilled musicians to dig out and rec ord all the significant Indian music which is still obtainable. At flrst Miss Densmore, a pioneer, worked quite on her own hook. Her studies have been enthusiastically personal and exact, and though she admits the immense difficulties of her task she has already accomplished much. Hhere are several among the high points of her discoveries. She says that all Indian music Alls naturally into two groups. The flrst is that sung mostly by professional singers, seat ed at a drum. This group Includes war songs, victory songs, songs of the exploits of warriors, game songs. dance songs and chidren's songs. The second group, very diflerent, contains all the magic songs. Anybody who has ever been even superficially among Indians knows how the meanest buck treasures and guards his medicine. Well, the magic songs are the songs related to his medicine, as It were, sung each by the man to whom the magical revelation came. As may be surmised, these songs are Intense ly private, and the whiite research people have been able to get at them only infrequent and with much trou ble. For it the Indian parts with his magic song, as with his "medicine, evil is soon sure to befall him. Curiously, until the advent of the' white man, the Indian had no love songs. He bought nts wife, or Btoie her. often; so that a wooing songs was scarcely necessary or worm while. But In the tame times which have come with our later swarmln over hds ancient hunting lands, the Indian has learned some few tricks from us; not merely the drinking of whiskey, but also the Impulse to in dite music-sonnets to his mistress eyebrow. However, out on the reservations it must be on the memory of the chant of .the- buck's splendid deeds in war and tn the chase which matter most to him: those and his intense ly regious magic songs, which tell him about the other world he is to to, and how God has protected him. MISS PIIMjF.ON. SUFFRAGIST. TO SPEAK HF.lt K SAT. NIGHT. BUTLER PltEDHTS BRIGHT DAYS Foit MOMtOF. AM) UNION Is a Woman of Much Kiperienre I Hon. J. N. IVU-e will Preside at Meeting Mayor Sikes to Introduce SHaker. .visa Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon of Noted ConvMiiileiit of the Raleigh News Observer Writes I p fity Says Monroe Ls One of the Com ing Cities of the State, Bion H. Butter, noted correspond- I It is more noble to. make yourself I great than to be born so. , ..i Confide a secret to a dumb man and it will make him speak. Fun Watching People. Statesville Landmark. A brown traveling bag on the floor of the railway station. And a man one of the bystanders, looked at the bag once, then sat down nearby and observed it cloBely. It was not a new bag, and It was travelworn. Made of good leather, Its bruised sides had withstood the wear of many long Journeys. A label of the American and Indian steamship line that sends Its ships from New York to Capetown and Calcutta pasted on one side of the bay testified that the owner had sailed beneath the Southern Cross Then half scratched off was the label of an hotel in Nome. It had been rained upon. The suns had scorched Ye? It held its shape like the thoroughbred bag It was. The man watching the bag was one of those shiftless but happy Individ uals who gets an Inexpensive enter tainment out of Imagining interesting hlngs about folks and things. He began a series of Imaginations about the owner of that travel worn brown leather bag on the station floor. First he pictured the owner as a young mining engineer, one of those men ho accomplished things, who had mined diamonds in South Africa and gold in Alaska. The sturdy handle of the bag was worn a dull brown by the grasp of some strong hand, just such a big hand as the young mining engineer would surely have. Next the owner was a slim girl. It's odd. but It's true that people all have some person to play the part In their reams. One never Imagines any- g about a middle aged person. The outh of this Blip of a girl was won derful. She was of an adventurous turn of mind, and she hunted ro mance and adventure on the seven seas. Oh. she made a deMghtful play of life, sailing on an barkentlne In the South Atlantic. The man could see the sunny blue eyes and the bright smile of a girl like that. Again the bag might belong to a dreamy young man who ever so orten woid yield to the call of the wander lust, toss hts ciotnes ana a lot ot copy paper in his brown bag and go away off to some corner of the world and write stories that made other men see the dreams they had been too prosaic to dream. A careless young man with long slender fingers, who picked the romance out of life and showed it to other folks, surely he was the man who owned this bag. And then an elderly fat man, oh a very fat man, came mooring up wheezing as he walked. He was so plump of face that his little eves were almost hidden. With risible effort he picked up the brown bag and pass ed out of the station. Ae he passed the man he dropped a patnphet in his lap the fat man, the owner of bag, was a vendor of patent medicine. Winchester, a.. will speak in the ent of the Raleigh News k Oberver. .court house Saturday night at 8:30 covered the Good Roads convention ou equal sunrage. Hon. J. N. Price here for his paper. He was so lm- in presiaeai tne meeting and Mayor pressed wiih the future of the citv Mkes will introduce the speaker. and county that he made it the aub- Miss Pidgeon 4s a graduate of Ject of a write-up in Sunday's issue oaiiiiuure ruuege ana a woman orior nis paper. much experience and ability as a suf- In his article he said in part nireaner ana organizer, sne were is a town and a county that will arrive in Monroe Saturday after- present to the eve of the visitm-a th noon from Rochingham and will re- Ult of today and yesterday. Monroe ...aiu urre uiuii Monaay arternoon. ffl strictly in the transition stages, she is employed by the National Wo- One of the finest new hotels in the man's Suffrage Association. An aud- State. A square away, some of the ieuce men win pack the court house I oio-timlest old warehouses In the should greet her. State. More modern hard surface uunng tne isew York suffrage streets than any city its size in the campaign to miss riageon was com- state. I believe, is the way they figure mitted the whole rural and small it. Away ahead of the gameln that town section of Erie county, and also respect. Yet some antimiated old two assembly districts in the city of structures on the main streets that uunaio. v nen tne war came and remind you of the war davs or half a all New York suffragists offered their century ago. Monroe is still between services 10 tneir country, she was hay and grass. But don't think for piaceu in cnarge or tne state census a minute the place Is not coming for one of the Polish Industrial wards Here is making one of the towns that of Buffalo, with eighty-seven assist- North Carolina one of these days will ants to be secured and directed. Later be proud of, for the people are push she directed the suffrage work in ing on the lines. Auburn and Cayuga county, which So they are building new houses won for suffrage. and new stores and new suburban ad Miss Pidgeon has made speaking ditions, and doing JuBt like other and organizing trips for suffrage towns that have felt sting or that through North Carolina and Virginia, thing called progress, and gradually In Roanoke. Va.. she directed a cam- the new is closing in on the old, and paign for enrolling women for suf- before many years the old landmarks frage. which resulted In securing the wil be disulaced hv the modern tv.o signatures of over 2,000 women. of architecture, and ulate-Hass The summer of 1918 Miss Pidgeon I fronts and lawn wln everywhere spent in South Dakota, where she and big porches and houses as big brought into the suffrage column the as castles, and evervhodv win ho ha. eight counties for which she was field py ver after. secretary, beside speaking through- COTTON BRINGS A hiph pimpf out twenty-five other counties, several U JIU'N "KINuS A HIGH PRICE, of which she organized. X n co,,n,y ha8 the reputation of Although so ardent a suffragist, mak'"S a be,ter cotton fibre than al Miss Pidgeon is well versed In house- mo8t, "' other P,ace- For tha' re hold arts. Including cooking. When 80'i u? cotton brlnSs a higher price, conrronted with the old but ever- an the Mroe cotton market is present statement that "woman's unllue in Paying more money Tor cot place is In the home." she replies: on constantly than any of the other "Nobodv believes more than suf- ,ow ln the Carolinas. Buyers from fraglsts that the greatest contribu- f"ewhere come here during the cot- tlon woman has given to society Is lon.season to buy cotton made in this the contribution of the well ordered coujty. but local mills are also alert home. Women want the vote or- tr?'-'l of the staple, so the com- claely because' the strlctlv home In- Petition for the particular grade terests need to be more fullv renre- keel,s lt UP- Aa "nlon a Sood cot sentea in our government. If wo men are to Increase the beauty and healthfulness and value of the home, If they are to make the children of ton county, the Monroe market is a right large and active one. FORM OF PRODUCTION The county is balancing itself. At their communities good citizens of the Henderson mills thev tell me the the future, they must have some dl- local farms make wheat enough to reci control over tne moral, mental, run the mills about six months of the r. ,1 V, .... I I 1 1 ,k I. I . . ... ai.u ,,u.!n.tti mr oi iiiuob I'um 111 u ii i , year aay ana nignt. That means ties; tney must nave some direct catching them coin and rnmin? in snare in maKing tne conditions wtiicn providing the raw material and ln snail surround the citizens of the making the finished nrodunt. ThatU future.' ALL1RD A K.MIES ARE READY TO MARCH "ON TO BRUIN" Tnops are Being Concentrated From Ithliie to Danube Preparatory to Advancing Into Germany. The German National Aseembly will make its final decisions In the peace treaty Saturday. In the mean time Foch has ordered his armies to erativeB will turn'that Increased crop i.r uuiiwicn says. int0 increased finished wares for the a complete form of production. The cotton mills do the same thing. Cot ton conies from the field to the fac tory goes out a finished material. A community that can deliver its finish ed stuff and account its production from the origin of the raw material has come as near to estallshing Itself on a stable basis as anything that can be suggested. That ls one reason why the future of I'mion seems to be one of constant development and prosper ity. More farmers will make more wheat and cotton, and more mill op market. The tendency Is toward more cat tle and more diversification in farm- Inn. Frequent purchases or the bet ter types or cattle are going on, and maiieut as the demand for textiles. Here again he has the advantage of bein? in a buyin; market. The Union county wheat market will always be a liitle higher than the wheat market of the West, for the West sells wheat. I'uion county makes wheat for a home consumption. Her market Is a buying market, and '.here is all the difference in the world bin ween the two. Then comes the corn crop. Union is a corn county, and a good one. Corn will never be cheaD train. Union therefore has three strong lines out on which to tie a permanently profitable agriculture These are substantial, but there Is a still more promising prospect. Mon roe ls a growing market, and will take a constantly Increased supply or larm stuff like milk. eggs, vegeta ables. fruit, and those things that bring money to the tarm everv dav. as tne town grows the production or those town supplies will take on a more systematic form. One of these days the farmers In the tier of coun ties immediately around Mecklenburg are going to find they have been drift ing into the production of stuff tor the towns and cities until they have become specialists in poultry, eggs, milk, butter, truck, fruit and those more profitable lines, made on small acreage. In intensive manner and the revelation will show a revolution. NEW ERA AHEAD With the rood roads that are now starting every rami in Union will be fore long be accessible to Monroe and to Charlotte, and it desirable the towns In the adjoining counties can be reached in a short run troui anv rami in Monroe county. Better schools win continue to come, better houses, improvements ot every sort as money comes more treely, and this new in dustrial era will be felt as forcibly in Union county as in any county in the United States. Three or four manifest Influences in the town and county lead me to make the prediction. The new hotel shows that the town folks have de termined to peg the place on a new lap. Building a house like that 4s an unmistakable sign that the town has decided to start on a different plane. The hotel is a pretentious place, and would be rated as in advance of the town, but for one thing, that the town has concluded to move up. The flrst move is the hotel. The next is about as emphatic as the hotel. An other feature that tells where the town, is foing js the, character of the mills, They are of the progressive type. They show a capacity for man agement and for production. They are going ahead, and are foreshad owing a broader basis or manuTactur ing. Then there is the appreciation that farmers show Tor their demon st ration agent and for the home dent onstratlon work. That may seem a insignificant thing, but it Is not Where the farmers are interested in what the demonstration agents do there Is bound to be farm and home progress, and farm and home prog ress just now in Monroe means adapting the farms to the tremen dously big new Job of reeding the growing population In the progress Ing new industrial centers of the sur rounding territory. Union county farmers have around them a local market ror their local products, an ror their general products. Not thing made on any tarm in the coun ty needs to go forty miles to find Its destination of ultimate consumption and that Is a remrakable situation for a farm to enjoy. It is also a remark able situation for a factory town to find itself surrounded by a communl ty that cannot only make its raw ma terlal but the subsistence ror Its peo pie May be you never thoucht about these things in this light, but If you did not you can see now why a coun tv like Union is walking along a path BLOCKADKItS SENTENCED TO ;o to itoADs or pay fines. knobs of the Delectable mountain. concentrate, The concentration of America British, French and Belgian troops. begun by order of Marshal Foch, pre paratory to advancing further linto Germany, will be completed Saturday, when several hundred thousand allied aome attempts are under way to' lead soliders will stand ready to march toward dairynR on a commercial toward Berlin u the Germans do not sign the peace terms. , ,i. hllttpr f9l,lnru, at R.ioi.rh n,t !"at presently opens Into Easy street Artillery and great trucks carrying i.u here and with MIrinrv- ro. '' st where the street winds about the ukkIaiih MhJ. . .. . I I I I na v I 1. .... I il tVl l.LI. anutio Kiuus vi war material are De- suits. I.nral demanria are atpadilv llg IIHIveu across me nmne ai UOIO- ealllnv fnr mnr n.lllr ond hi.ttor nr. hue, vvuiuii. maenuc aim oiner iH.inta u.ius i,ui.iis wuniii me occupiea Monroe Is a eood factorv town. It area. Ihno beveral hiiav nntinn mllta itA la On the American area there was hniidinr another The miiu ffnrd mariiea activity lo-aay, particularly Umniovment fnr overi hundred among tne nrst ana secona divisions, hands, and make a local market for wnicn are noiaing ;ne Dridgenead. Choii. this maklne II nnsslhle tn sell On the left bank of the Rhine the H. nnttnn th niahod irm nd third and fourth divisions completed ,0 MnK t0 the town and countv the minor details ror advancing if the d nllnt that lha nnttrn nrrn of. word come to go ahead. fnnls. The result ia ahnwn In the ine tourtn amsion. wnicn naa nainn .d in,n,ni-n,.ni r wh y.ur. """lo Br.c,iu wws "i country and town. Intelligent v ulan ned suburbs are building along at tractive lines as well. An organized system is at work to provide homes had turned in all its equipment is be ing re-equipped for possible action. St. Paul's Fplscoal Cluirch. First Sunday after Trinity, June 22 Sunday school at 10:30: morning service at 11:30: men's Bible class at 40. Wednesday at 8:30, Litany, followed by choir practice. Miss Coriana Rogers was asleep and for many peonle. and the system is lone at her home in Durham last keening In mind tastiness as well as a Wednesday night when two white roof and four walls. That means that men entered and bound her hand and Monroe is building along attractive toot and tnen confiscated $75. Blood lines as well as for actual needs, hounds traced the thlevs to the Un- Av ideal farming rnrxTY ion station where It Is supposed they boarded an early train and officers have little hope of capturing them. Miss Rogers suffered no bodily harm. At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the State University- steps were taken to adopt Edward Kidder Graham, Jr.. popularly known , , , ' ...c "'uun.w, me I eSe tn me world In the same area. eight-year-old son or the deceased i. will never see the dav that it ran- President of the University. A com- n mark m- i w. i,.,,. mlttee was appointed to carry out the iate neighborhood than it can make, resolution, adopted without a dissent- That singular natural superorlty of ing VOte. I'ninn Pnilntv rnllnn further fnrtlftea the Union County cotton grower, and Primarily this strikes me as a fanning county. The soil and climate conditions are right, and the location is one that will not break in any in flated boom, but will be underlying stimulus of a big development of in tensive farming. Union county Is within from thirty to fifty miles of more cotton mills than r.re any where All members of the North Carolina he ran eo on Ideflnltelv pertain of hia delegation In the House of Represen- market as long as people wear cloth- tatives voted Wednesday for a repeal es. That is far enough in the future of the daylight saving law, enacted as to relieve him of all need for worrl- a war time measure. The house vot- ment. ed for repeal 232 to 122. Under this But cotton is onlv one of his bow- bill the law becomes Inoperative the strings. The Prnln imsihilitles or the last Sunday in October. Tb Senate cnuptv cive him another root on the adopted a repeal clause In the agricul- ground there, and he will find the de- turai bill. mand for wheat to be about as Der- Navy's Secret Hooks. From Pearson's Weekly. It is scarcely realized by the world ot landsmen that our warships carry over the seas a library of thousands of volumes. inese are volumes in which our naval secrets are recorded, and strict ly guarded lest they sould fall Into enemy hands. They are books full of the mysteries of wireless tele graphy, gunnery: and they are kept under lock and kv. For this purpose special boxes are provided on each ship, and the kevs of them are in th- custody of the cap tain, or, if the vessel be a large one two keys are supplied, one ror the commanding officer, the other ror the second In command. When the ship is put into commission, receipts must be given ror these keys, and when the commission Is at an end they are handed to a naval storekeeper, who locks them securely in a Bare unMI they are wanted again. U a key should be lost, the calam ity Is at once reported to the admir alty, and the responsible officer is likely to get into serious trouble. When one of these secret volumes becomes obsolete or too dilapidated ror rurther use it Is destroyed by fire under conditions or great formality. Its title and number are checked and rechecked, entered In a register and certified by the captain. It Is then placed In a furnace in the presence or a number of officers and reduced to ashes. The ship register is then produced. the title of the volume ls struck out. ni a certificate Is entered that the book has been effectual)- destroyed. Always rise from the table with an appetite and you will never sit down without one. Wiley Funderliurk Apeal More Whiskey Being Made Now Thn Eer Iterore, Sail Mr. Kedwine. "There is more whiskey being made now, and has been for the past few years, in Union county than at any time in its history," declared Hon. R. B. Redwine. aiding Prosecut ing Attorney j. c. Brooks in Record er's court yesterday in the case against Wiley Funderburk. young white man. charged with illicit dis tilling. The case was heard before Sub-Recorder I. H. Blair. He decided that under the evidence Funderburk was guilty and sentenced him to a term of six months on the roads or to pay a fine of 1300. Messrs. Stack A Par ker and J. C Sikes, representing th defendant, gave notice of appeal. Funderburk. along with Roy and Ed Howard and Jim Richardson, were arrested by officers on the night of May 29. Deputy Sheriff Clifford Fowler. Chief of Police C. H. GrifflQ and Officer Clyde Winchester were the witnesses for the state yesterday. Their testimony in the main was th same; that they had gone to a housa in Goose Creek township on the night or May 29 and surprised the four men with a still connected to a cook stove and it in operation. Later Funderburk and his father Elmore Funderburk were arrested on a charge of manufacturing whiskey on April 14. This made the second count against Wiley Funderburk. The cases were st for yesterday but the defendants filed affidavit for removal before Recorder Leniniond and they were set for July 10. Recorder Leniniond some time aeo heard the evidence In the cases against Roy and Ed Howard and re served his decision tin the cases until yesterday. However, as he was ab sent undergoing treatment In a Char lotte hospital, the decision will not be given out until July 7. After the evidence In the cass against Wiiley Funderburk had been heard yesterday, Mr. W. B. Love, rep resenting Jim Richardson, stated that hia client would submit to the charge. &uo-Kecorder Blair placed the same sentence upon him as upon Funder- derburk. six months on the roads or pay a line of 1300. t The case against Sam Rushing, col- orde, also charged with distilling, was continued until July 7 when it was shown by Messrs. Stack A Parker that they had not had an opportunity to consult with their client regarding the rase. WILL RAISE SIX MILLION TO FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS Delegates of Antl-Tuhemilosis Asso ciations at Atlantic City to Launch Bed Cross Seal Sale In December. In order to make possible the greatest crusade against the white plague ever conducted in this coun try delegates representing 1,500 stats and local anti-tuberculosis associa tions in Atlantic City Tuesday night decided to launch a whirlwind Red Cross Christmas seal sale in Decem ber for the purpose of raising $6,000,- uu. ine money raised will be used in 1920 to carry on an Intensive fight for the prevention and control of the disease, the great Increase of which In the Inited States was startlinrly revealed, first by the draft examina tions of millions or men and later by the strain or war. This will be the first national anti-tuberculosis rund ralsdng campaign held in this coun try since 1917. The drive will open during the flrst week ot December and will carry through until the flrst or the new year. In addition to efforts to raise the funds necessary It will afford an op portunity tor a great educational campaign to arouse the people of America to recognition of the econo mic menance of tuberculosis and to stir them to united effort for Its erad ication. At the present time the disease causes 150.000 deaths In this country yearly and statistics show that there are eight active cases ot the diseases for every death from it. Nearly 100. 000 men were rejected at the time of the draft examinations because of unsuspected tuberculosis. The money raised in the forthcoming campaign will be used to build sanatorlums, finance open air schools, furnish vlsltiing nurse service and operate dia- pensarls and clinics, as well as a con- inous education program to make known the fact that the disease ia preventable and curable. hlrteen Sons of Frenchman Killed. Paris Dispatch, June 10. Thirteen sons killed on the field of battle, three discharged with erava Injuries, one wounded four different times, the father and one daughter summarily shot by the Germans for going to ijille to celebrate the centen- lal anniversary of a relative and an other daughter killed bv a German shell at Dunkirk, Is the record of the family of M. Vanhee. a French far mer of Reminghe, near Ypres. M. vanhee had 36 children. 22 sons and 14 daughters, all of whom were living when the war broke out. One of his sons was valet to Pods Pius X. He returned to France to fight and was wounded in earh of four different engagements. One of the sons lost both lees, another m. turned from the front hmh hlind nd - " , ' , IV. KIIU ear. another underwent the trenan- ning operation.
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