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TIIE KINSTON FREE PRESS
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1916 ' r
THE DAILY FREE PRESS
(United Ptcm Telegraphic Report)
H. GALT BRAXTQK Editor ad Manager
Published Erary.Day Except Sunday by the Kinston Free
.. ,Prs o., Ine., KUwtoii, N. C.
Snbscrlpden Rates Payable In Advance:
On "Weak,.... f .10 One Month ......
Thrtt Mnha $1.00 Six Month
One Year $4.00
In a typical Louisiana community: ' ADVANTAGE IN HAVING
'"The Federal Bureau of Entomology Is making AN ARTIFICIAL LIMB
a valuable investigation of the economic loss due to j
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Entered at the postoffice at Kinston, North Carolina, as
MCMtl-clasa matter under act of Congress. March 3, 1879.
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of The Free Press can be aeen.
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ern Union and report failure to get the paper. A copy
will be sent promptly, if complaint is made before Nine
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THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23. 1916
'EARLY SHOPPING AND EARLY MAILING.
The National Association of Assistant Postmasters in
cession at Washington this vrtwk wmt on record urging
early Christmas shopping and mailing.
There are a number of reasons for buying early, and
likewise mailing ibefore the rush. In the first place, (h
stocks of merchandise are better when they haven't been
picked over, and thus the purchaser gets a greater varie
ty and a more comprehensive Une to select from. Like
vise in mailing early assurance is given that the package
will be on band at Christmas, and no disappointment will
be given the Recipient because of delays which are bound
to come in the eleventh hour shipment. Then, there is a
humane aspect which is indued important. The sales
people of the stores are entitlmltte consideration. It is
unfair to them to require them to work long and hard
.hours in the rush of the last week preceding Christmas,
when a, large part of the purchases, then made, could just
as easily be out of the way the first part of December.
The merchants, too, are entitled to consideration. They
can unquestionably guarantee ibstter service to their cu.s
tomers.bo hop before the rush, and who can be wait
ed on by the regular sales forces, and not be dependent
upon supernumeraries, who have to bo pressed Into ser
vice at the wlndup mf the rush season.
For the benefit of .11 concerned, early shopping and
early mailing should be practiced.
LETS PLAN FOR THE
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS TREE.
Christina iiUtflTa few weeks away, and it is not tot
soon to be making plans for a community Christmas 'free.
'Last year Kinsion enjoyed Its first Community Christmas
ree, and Incidentally gave happiness and pleasure to
hundreds of jihos,1 who, perhap; otherwise would not
havfl4iad any participation whatsoever in the joyous oc
casion. But it takes that liiljp! The bugs of confection
ery, that were last year distributed, brought gladness
:?3 and' undoubtedly this year when the cost of living has so
markedly increased the number of those who will 'be
utterly without unless those, who have some and to spare,
provide for them, will be more numerous. Let us he
considering, plans for the second community Christmas
tree.
malaria in the South The preliminary work con
sists of a study of the conditions on a typical
Louisiana plantation of 1800 acres. On this tract
were 74 tenant families with a total of 200 in
dividuals. "During the 11)14 farming season, 138 of these
persons had malaria, with resultant loss ot
14"i7 days of possible labor. To this must be ad
ded 3H.1 days lost by well members of the family
who were attending th?se sick. To this still must
be added about 25 per cent, of losjened tfTiciency
among the recovered cases and among those In
flated but not really sick. Even after subtract
ing from these lost days all the Sundays, 'holi
days, and other days upon which field work was
not posible It still leaves a loss of nearly 20 per
cent of the available labor. The resultant fi
nancial loss in crop production on this one
plantation amounted to more than JjKj.OOO. The
cost of medical attention, etc., is not included in
these figures.
"Ail parts of the South are not so heavily af
flicted with malaria as this section of Louisiana,
but these condition are typical of many thousand
square miles of which every southern state has
some share. Ami over an even larger area the
loss, though somewhat less, is still very considerable."
The provision of a rest room for women shoppers, who
come to Kinston as advocated by Miss Adna Edwards,
the Lenoir County home demonstration agent, before the
Chamber of Commerce directors Tuesday night, should
certainly meet with the hearty approval of everybody in
Kinston. It is needless to say that our country
friends will appreciate having a place to rest and while
away the time after their .shopping business is concluded,
in comfort, and not have to sit around in th3 stores or
in their conveyances awaiting the time to go home. Such
rest rooms established in other places have proven very
beneficial and The Free Press hopes that the plans on
foot for the establ'shment of on here will' be consum
mated at an early date.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
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ECONOMIC LOSS FROM PREVENTABLE
DISEASES.
"It costs too' much money", is tile thought that pops
up in the mind of ihe average fellow when the institution
Kiern health conservation methods is suggested,
same fellows do not stop to consider the cost of
ss and decreased efficiency because of conditions,
whjia modem science pronounces unnecessary.' The
economic loss to the country from preventable diseases
is alarmingly large, it is true that some progress is
being made but the treneral public has been slow to grasp
the lessons in spite of the agitation if prfss and other
health conservationists.
Wkh reference to the loss to the South because of ma
laria alone the University New Tetter quotes the follow
ing eriking statistics gleaned from federal Investigation
"IS A 'PERSON" A 'HE'? AND IF SO. ETC."
Richmond Nen Leader: "Is a 'person' a 'he'? If so,
can a woman be a 'person'? If not, is Miss Jeanette Ran
tiin of Montana, egilible under the constitution to the seat
in the Unltnl States House of Representatives to which
.he has been elected? These are questions now raised
y the literatists mid strict constructionists.
" "TKe constitution of the United States, Article I.,
lause 2, provides that 'no person shall bo a representa
tive who shall not have attained the age of 25 years,' etc.,
But the clause ends with referring to the "no person" as
a 'he.' Up to that point Miss Rankin has unchallenge
ably all tho necessary qualifications, though there is one
which posarbly, alter the manrler ot her kind, she might
prefer not to confess. But that point Is the point. Un
der the clause, obviously, right to a scat ill the body would
seem to hinge on the word 'he' or the construction there
of. "Yet hold on. Another clause of the constitution pro
vides that each House shall be the judge of the elec
ions' returns and qualifications of its own members. It
vould, therefore, appear that even if a 'person' is not a
'no,' the question would, through that clause, resolve it
self into one of persona grata or persona non grata. In
the circumstances, would any committee on privileges and
clec;ions have the tem.-rity, even if they had the ungal
lunt disposition, not to take the former position?
"Again, and outside of all this, there is interesting his.
toiical and dramatic precedent for solving such prob
lems, constitutions or no constitutions. The Hungarian
house of magnates, it will be remembered, cut the Gor
illan knot of a somewhat similar complication, and cir
cumvented tho Salic law by swearing that Maria Theresa
was thujr 'king.' Is it to be presumed that a United
States Ilpus of Kcpvesentalivefi 'vould be or could be less
chivalrous. If necessary? IVrlsh the thought. An I so,
regardless of the merits or demerits of female suffrage,
we feel 'saft in Congratulating Miss Rankin as certain to
iret there."
London, Nov. 23. A wooden leg
.
has Its compensations after all. Bri
tish Tommies wearing artificial limbs
use the hollow part for a kit-bag
when traveling around F.ngland. It
has been discovered that the ordin
ary hollow will hold a hairbrush,
razor, soap and a small bottle.
GREAT REJOICING BY
RHEUMATIC CRIPPLES
If So Crippled You Can't Use Arms
or Legs Rheuma Will Help You
or Nothing to Pay.
If you want relief :n two days,
swift, certain, gratifying relief, take
o TO-half teaspoonful of Rheuma once
a day.
If you want to dissolve every par
ticle of uric acid poison in your body
and drive it out through the neutral
channels so that you wiil be forever
free from rheumatism, get a oO-cent
bottle of Rheuma from J. E. Hood &
Co or any druggist today.
Rheumatism is a powerful disease
Ftrongly entrenched in joints and
muscles. In order to conquer it a
powerful enemy must hp sent against
it. Rheuma is the enemy of rheuma
tism an enemy that conquers it ev
ery time.
Judge John Barhorst of Ft. Lor
aime, Ohio, knows it. He was walk
ing with crutches; today he is well.
It should do as much for you; it sel
dom fails. adv
Dr. George E. Kornegay
SPECIALIST
In Diseases of Women & Children
Office Hours: 10 to 12
Office 212 East Caswell Street
PHONE 118
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
CONGRESS,
NORFOLK. VA., DEC. 11 TO 14.
i M U U hi U W M ) -f H " '
The '.h me of the Congress will be,
The Changed Outlook" and the "In- j
ti-nia-.i-nal Reconstruction Resulting
from the European Wrar." M.my ca-,
Line: officers and otner imporiam
per Jll.u'es of national and interna
tional fame w.K be preset!, and Pres-
;d:nt WiNoii is expected.
Every Southerner should lend a
hand, at least by his presence and-Imbibing
and profiting by what, he will
learn, in helping the nation, through
this irTeiirtatit congress, in its efforts,
to build commercial relations with
the Western Hemisphere, and other
matters of equal importance which
will be discussed.
Co-ordmaHiig organizations which
will meet at the same time are: Wo
man's Auxiliary of the Congress; the
House of Southern Governors, Amer
ican Commission on Agricultural
Orgnni".i.i"n; National Association of
Commi--io.".' :-s of Agriculture and
Southev.'i Commercial Secretaries As
sociat'en. For this occasion the Atlantic
Coast Line will sell excursion tickets
to Norfolk at 4.85 from Kinston and
at co! i e p'jndingly reduced fares
from all points on its line, for all
train- on December 8. ft. 10, 11 and
12, !imi'.e-l returning un'.il December
19.
Sleej'ing car reservations and fur
ther information may be obtained
from I). J. Ward, ticket agent, Kin
ston, N. C. adv.
S-.e the famous Cole line of stoves
demonstrated by an expert at H. E.
Mosciey Hardware Company's Fri
day and Saturday. (adv)
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS
C. OETTINGER, Manager
Kinston Insurance & Realty Co.
Telephone No 182
HOE. Gordon St.
CALL FOR
Sitterson's Pure
Ice Cream
State Analysis Proves it to be
the Best
Made in Kinston
S. C SITTERSOW
Phone 8
You Need a Tonic
There are times In every woman's life when she
needs a tonic to help her over the hard places. :
When that time comes to you, you know what tonic
to lake Cardui. the woman's tonic. Cardui is com
posed of purely vegetable ingredientswhichact,
gently, yet surely, on me weaKeneu womamy organs, .
and helpl build them back to strength and health.
It has benefited thousands and thousands of weak.
ailing women in its past half century of wonderful
success, and it will do the same for you.
You can't make a mistake in taking .
mm
The Woman's Tonic
Miss Amelia Wilson, R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark.,
says: "I think Cardui is the greatest medicine on earth, "
for women. Before I began to take Cardui, I was -so
weak and nervous, and had such' awful dizzy"
spells and a poor appetite. Now I feel as well and '
as strong as I ever did, and can eat most anything,"
Begin taking Cardui today. Sold by all dealers.
Has Helped Thousands. ,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KINSTON
Capital and Surplus $160,000
These are the men that manage this bank. They
deeply appreciate the splendid balances now "
being .carried by their patrons.
X. J. ROUSE, President
D. F. WOM EN, Cashier, DR. HENRY TULL, Vice-Prst
J. J. BIZZELL, Asst. Cashier T. W. HEATH, Teller
W. L. Kennedy
Dr. Henry Tull
J. II. Canady
DIRECTORS:
J. F. Taylor
H. H. McCoy
S. II. Isler,
N. J. Rouse,
C. FeMx Harvey,
David Oettingcr,
H. E. Moeeley
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average: figures J 3
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to $1.00.
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make large hips disappear; bulky
waist-lines more graceful ; awk
ward bust-lines smaller and
neater, and nave the "old corset"
comfort with the first fitting.
$5.00 and $3.00.
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