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JAKES UP SCHOOL GARDENS
' IV^JFlfroliBh Children Enlisted in the Garden
Army by the Junior Red Cross
of America.
Washington. —- Modeled along the
lines of America’s school garden army,
Is the force of Polish children formed
by the Junior lied Cross of America
■when that organization was called
U(Km to carry relief and cheer to the
Children of Kosciusko’s land. With the
first warm spring days thousands of
youngsters in Poland will gather up
their roes, rakes and spades and ad
.varice.-upon vacant lots, determined to
convert them into vegetable and
flower gardens, just as will young
AmeWca. »' ’
Of |he many things which the Junior
Red Cross Introduced to the children of
Poland, community gardens made the
strongest appeal. It not ODly gave the
children a eliance to take up garden-y
lug, but also provided healthful recre
ation for thousands of stunted, under
nourished little bodies fighting an un
equal battle with disease in the crowd
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i The End of a Useful Day. !
ed capital of Poland, Warsaw. In ad
dition it has already helped to keep
the wolf of starvation away from many
a home.
The children enlisted in the garden
array in Warsaw raise potatoes, beets,
carrots, cabbage,and beans.
Their fall crop in 1920 comprised 93
ton’s.
The success of the Warsaw gardens
last^ar was so pronounced that they
will be extended to other centers tills
spring. To stimulate interest in the
garden, they are operated on the com
petitive basis as in America.
CADORNA EXPLAINS DISASTER
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Fortner Italian Commander in Chief
Says Orders at Caporetto
Were Disobeyed.
Rome, Italy.—The hook of Lieut.
Genf Count Cadorna, former com
mander in chief of the Italian army,
which is entitled “The War on the Ital
ian Front,” has just appeared. It is
a history of Italy’s preparations for
the war and the development of the
plans until after the Caporetto disas
ter.
General Cadorna says that when the
European conflict broke the Italian
army was inadequately equipped, both
as to quality and quantity of men and
material. He says that from June,
1915, he bad recommended unity of
Ection by the allle , ..... . a.,
obtained only three years later.
General Cadorna attributed the Cap
oretto disaster, when the Austrians
pushed back the Italians from the
Isonzo front, chiefly to the fact that
his orders to place all. the artillery on
the defense were disobeyed. If the
artillery had been withdrawn on the
- offensive. General Cadorna says, the
disaster would have been prevented,
Or limited. But, General Oapello, be
declares, did not entirely withdraw
the guns, because he planned a coun
ter-offensive, which Cadorna disap
proved. He also says the withdrawal
from the Piave was accomplished by
the Italians themselves, the allies giv
ing them only moral support.
Drank 54,150 Glasses of |
fj Root Beer in Qo&.^ear g
;, '-Because he scheduled $34^.50
Win war tax on root beer during ft
t- 1920, a Lithuanian coal miner <i
i; of Springfield, III., was asked by &
l John Pickering, collector of in- ft
Iternal revenue, to look over his ft
income tax again. After de- <l;j
ducting his union dues, dona- jjj;
tiohs to churches and charities ijj;
!nnd war tax on theater tickets 8
this man still had $1,541.50 for
which to account. His root been ft
| thirst ^ut his income to $1,000. j;jl
ihe said. ' ;!;j
To satisfy his cravings, a.- j|;
cording to his figures, the miner Ijl
had to drink 148 glasses of ronr
beer a day, or 54,150 glasses n
j> a year. l\
BIG DRIVE ON
4. OPIUM TRAFFIC
Nation-Wide Campaign Being
Made to Keep Illicit Drugs
Out of the Country.
FAIL TO BET SMUGGLERS
Authorities Admit They Have Been
Helpless in Preventing Addicts
From Securing Dope—Where
Opium Comes From. .
/ New York.—A nation-wide campaigw*
'Is being made against the sale of il
licit drugs in the United States. Fed
eral investigators have reported that
more morphine, heroin, cocaine ami'
straight opium are being used in New
York city, Chicago, San Francisco,
Philadelphia and Boston than ever be
fore. While the authorities in these
cities have the laws necessary to deal
with the situation, they declare they
cannot stop something they cannot
see.
When it is considered that one man
can cross the Canadian border or the
Rio Grande and, without changing his
appearance in any manner, return
with several thousand dollars’ worth
of drugs, it may he realized how diffi
cult it is for national, state and mu
nicipal authorities to cope with the
situation. Besides this difficulty, the
government has announced that the
illegitimate use of habit-forming drugs
has increased anywhere from 25 to
50 per cent since the Eighteenth
amendment became an appendix to
the Constitution.
Where Opium Comes From.
Virtually all of the opium lawfully
sent to the United States comes from
London and Edinburgh. In these dities
three manufacturers send out, more
opium than all the rest of the manu
facturers in Great Britain. .*yJVhile
some of the opium smuggled into this
country combs from India,' ' .^ifia-ger
portion comes from Tutj£fcjj(^rsia
and Syria.
In New York city the narcotics squad
of the internal revenue bureau has
made frequent raids against the smug
gler, the dispenser ami the addict.
They have discovered that much co
caine and opium are brought in by
sailors on passenger and freight steam
ships.
Easy to Land Drugs.
The authorities realize that it is an
easy matter for a harbor boatman to
load his clothing with “dope” during
the night. He is not subjected to
daily search. So long as be maintain#
reasonable care and observance o'
common'sense in his methods lie can
continue indefinitely. Drugs are easily
concealed. ■ Federal authorities 1 have
found opium in women’s hair, sewed
into men’s hat bands, contained in
artificial limbs, filling the inner tubes
of automobile tires, in consignments
of lumber and vegetables and even in
collars worn by dogs trained to make
daily trips , across the Canadian bor
der. v
The solution of the problem lies in
a federal act prohibiting the impor
tation, manufacture and exportation
of babit-forminsr dru.-v evrr-d ‘n such
-O -JV* i..!*_*> .mIc fot
the legitimate uses of the medical pro
fession, according to Royal S. Cope
land, health commissioner of New
York city. He said every honest
pharmacist should be made an agent
of the government to handle opium
and its derivatives.
POPULAR I’! IRELAND
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a unique fashio: , o:u troubled :
land. As a means -b protection .tigaTT, /
bullets, stray or 0:0-■■-wise, -worker; j
Ireland are wearing ;i protector vest
thin steel with chain obstacles. '
photograph shows a tan with the si ;
vest which he vvt . >t Underneath j'w
working jacket. _/ v.
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STATE NEWS 'i
The R. J. Reynolds1 Tobacco
Company’s plants Cat Winston
have curtailed operations to four
days a week, closing down on
Fridays and Saturdays.
Burlington is making a can
vass 10 raise $200,000 for the
establishing of the Methodist
Prostestant college at that city.
Arrangements are being made
for the annual encampment of
the State National Guard at
Camp Glenn, Morehead City, in
July.
, Charles Cardwell" was shot
aiid killed byfjack Hicks at Pin'
Hall. Hicks claims self-de
fense.
Rocky Mount had a ;$100,000
fire last week whenfa big tobac
co drying plant burned. Thous
ands of pounds of bright tobacco
were burned.
The(*will of the late Judge
Pritchard was tiled in probate at
Asheville last week. ^The es
tate, valued at $30,000, is to he
divided between the widow and
four children. James J. Britt is
named *as executor.
I-R. Collie, former superin
tendent of the state prison, has
been named chief fielu deputy
revenue commissioner by Col.
Watts.
Postmaster J. J. Farris of High
Point has tendered his resigna
tion. He will engage in the
printing business.
Vv. F. Rogers is suing the city
oi Asheville for $30,000 dam
ages to his property by the neg
ligent operation of the municip
al incinerator.
Surry county commissioners
recommend a 25 per cent reduc
t on in land values outside of
‘owns in tnat county. The re
duction in incorporated towns is
12 1-2 per cent.
.The J exington Despatch says
Siat officers destroyed a ‘covey’
ofitmee moonshine stills in a
section of Davidson county last
week.
Itjls expectedjtbat the Watau
ga &jg\aukm River railroad will
be operated this season. The
road has been constructedfrom
North Wilkesboro to Darby,’£a
distance of 27 miles.
W. K. Walton, for|25 years di
Kcting farmer at the State Hos
pital at Morgaliton, died in a
Charlotte hospital last week.
Stokes county will hold an
election May 16th to vote on
1 bonds for road building in that
j county.
Aews is sent out from Mayo
dan that traces of oil have b^en
found in that section.
The license ^numbers for auto*
biles in North Carolina has pass
ed the 132,000 mark, and is ex
pected to reach 150,000 by July
1st. At thefrate of $14 for each
car or truck the owners will ton
July 1st pay into the state treas
ury about £2,100,000 which goes
to build and maintain the highr
ways. 1
State authorities have decided
there will be no penalties on de
linqupni*»;« Vi. s this year A pen
alty of 1 per cen» each month
has been levied heretofore, but
there will bp none this year.
\ horse'hitched to a wagon
!on thrust reefs of ThomasvilJe
1 i-ig:.:eaed at the shots
'[ > ' (if ; .3 C Peacock .at Olfict r
A Taylor Saturday rnorring .and
i ran aw‘a>. h demolished the
j wa ro«i, ;>n nrdombtfv and sever
al windows, and finally ran into
1 a lawyer’s ofoo* ivlice, it wrs
; . N'*> owe was seriously
bust -*
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Thomasviile Policeman
Killed by Dr. peacock
J. E. Taylor, ch ef of police at
Thomasville, was shot and kill
ed by Dr. J. W. Peacock in that
town early Saturday morning.
Peacock first shot Taylor with
a shot gun from his office win
dow and when the officer ran
into a store the doctor followed
with a pistol, firing four shot at
Taylor, killing him instantly.
Henry Shaver, who was sup
porting the wounded man, was
shot through the abdomen by
one of the shots fired at Taylor
and is in a critical condition at a
High Point hospital.
Dr. Peacock, who is a mem
ber of the town council cf
Thomasville, tried to oust the
officer some weeks ago but the
majority voted to retain him.
Peacock handed in his regsigna
tion as councilman next morn
ing after the meeting. Peacock
was arrested immediately after
the murder and iah.cn 10 Lexing
ton jail.
Poiiceman Taylor was a na
tive of the Jonesviiie section of
this county. He was for some
time a member of the Winston
Salem police force
Burial was at Winston Sun
day afternoon.
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General JSewy |
Tornadoes swept through por-!
tions of six southern states, Tex-;
as, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missis
| sippi, Alabama and Georgia,
Friday and Saturday. At least
a hundred persons were killed
and millions of dollars damage
to property was done. Hun
dreds of families aie homeless.
Blizzards and snow7 storms
swept the northwestern states
Saturday. • Freezing weather is
reported from several states and
1 twelve inches of snow fell at
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
j Roy Yates, an overseas sol
dier, returned to his home in a
Nebraska town last week to find
his wife married to another man
and while he and husband No. i
2 were discussing the matter the
wife eloped with the third man. j
A news dispatch from Mexico !
says that peace now reigns su
preme in that country. Presi
dent r',? ^on i Uiiked 1
, fuv. 1 i'.ilij.
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r ujrteeii men are being tried
for plotting to kill all revenue;
ot hours in Colbert county, ,- a- \
bama.
A tornado in the Texarkana
se on of Arkansas Friday did
great damage. Several persons
w killed and many buildings
wrecked.
v*/s dispatches state that the
ne roes ot the country arc or
ga mg a Ku KUn Klan.
V. iess the courts inter ene
Do Id O’Callahan, lord n \o<
of Cork, Ireland, who cam !o
tb - ountry last winter . V a
st« * % way and without a pass
pc *, must return oner b tore
Ju 5.
. vuss:a has put up the hi s t<
immigrants from the United
States. Who wants to go to
Russia anyhow?
The first submarine telephone
cable to connect the U ited
S ates and Cuba was opened
Iasi week.
A naval balloon, missing
| from the Pensacola, Fla., Fir
station since March 22, was
ound floating in the Gulf ot
Mexico last week.-"No trace of
the five men who were wfyli it
have been found.
Timely: Notes On
Boonville Ways
From Daniel Boone’s Coon
Skin Cap to 1921
Once upon a time there was a
man named Warren L. Dull,
who dreamed he was to be a
great newspaper writer—and it
came true—and it came to pass
that Mr. Dull was sent unto the
classic shades of the town of
BoonvilleyYadkin county, and
where he was destined to hear
thatonce upon a time that great
Pioneer, Daniel Boone, once
passed near said town on his
way to his happy hunting
grounds of the far west. Bfeg&jfc
Mr. Dull hies himself away to
a spring near the town where a
large poplar tree hasL grown—
we suppose Daniel planted,* me
tree himself—and proceeded to
tank up -he says it was only
spring waitr— and wiite about
all he could see ana hear be
tween Boonville ana Constanti
nople, including Boone’s coon
skin cap. „ ---
Boonville j is a $ progressive,
wide-awake village and works
together in. everything lor ad
vancement and ls.entiiied to all
Mr. Dull’s imagination has be
stowed on her. _ But hear what
(vYarren L. Dull in, Winston
journal)
Boonvdle, Apiil 16.—What
kina ol a cap did Daniel Boone
weai? Oh, look at the upraise d
liahds! Bvery one seems to
aOiow the answer. Yes, that’s
light; it was a coon-skin eap;and
ami he usually wore it with the
striped tail lassie draped saucuy
over ills leu ear. jL>ui dm wu
know where it was he killed
that c«jou from which his favor
ite cap was mane? jNo? Weil,
sir;, Daniel shot t.iat coon from a
big poplar tree a, out two' hun
dred yards west oi the Boonville
Baptist church.
1 visited tile seK-snme tree the
other day, and di ;nk from the
bubbling spang at the very bus*;
of the tree—, .tne same spring
used D.y Boone w uiie he occu
pied the famous camp from
which the ci y gets its name.
Aad with the cooling waters of
the noted spring i also imbibed
copiously of verbal hisicry con
eruing i . n -a.- / «*•
opricg, ii-ic mm-iocK mie, the
big: coon nnd the coon-skin cap.
Middle* aged men tell of listen
lug to tVii. Hendricks* one of the
pioneers in Boonvilie, in
loose long ago days ns he’d re
late first hand stories of Boone's
camp near the Baptist church.
Mr. Henuncks has long since
gone to iiis reward, but up to the
v cry last aa> -s 01 uis hie, he had
a clear lemembiahce of the
>oone puny camping in me lit
resettle u at uuciwards ,amed
or the n. i.s uouueisim. a and
aoneer.
At firs A wondered why the
eople ki boon v ine c not
lake Hi' tc .uv>, a uiggt oise,
ver its as connected
ith Da. ;. -one; u u > v>on 1
sensed the a. „w ei. Tue Boon
ille peo - ■ O lOO Dlljj king
vowards uc uiure to spend an
verly a juiot dime .. skinp
i the pvt • a’s a city oinor
iow, noiui yesterday. And the
iig facto in Boonvilie’s unde
mable su; cess and progress ia
iity. 'i uev ail woik together
tor the good oi aie enure city.
No social jealousies, do political
bickerings, no religious contro
versies, no business quarrels, n«
back bitings, no slander-heat
i'igs. It’s no boom .city of pu:i
and'jerks, with periods of staff
nation in between. The growth
is steady, constant and perma
nent, with every interest ad
vancing together.
Witness, for instance, the
Boonville high school, unques
tionably tiie be>t in Yadkin
county, and, beginning with the
fall term, the only standard high „
school in the county. The
building, an »im posing brick
structure, would be a credit to a
city of 20,000. Seven teachers ,
are employed at present, and the
eighth will be added for the fall
term. The schodl rooms are
scientifically heated and venti
lated, are equipped with all mod
ern appliances and have every
arrangement for convenience.
The personnel oi the faculty,
from principal to primary teach
er, is the city’s pride.
If there is a city on the map
deserving the best in high
schools, it’s Boonville. Just one
little incident wili serve to show
the spirit of the people of Boon
vine, vv nen me present scnoot
building was under construction
it was found that an additional
$1,000 would have to be forth
coming to finish. You must
bear in mind that the people of
the city had already gone down
in their jeans for large sums of
cash, but when this additional
amount was needed, it took just
seventy-four minutes by Sheriff
Pitcher's watch to raise it. No
biSting ot trumpets or burning
red tire; just simply a gathering
of checks worth iiieir lace value
at the Boonviile bank lor the en
tire amount, and uo fuss made,
J. W. Mabe, ex policeman of
Winston-Salem, was found dead
in the suburbs oi that city Fri
! day morning. He held a oistol
I in his hand and a shot had been
fired through his temples. The
verdict of the coroner’s jury was
that he met death at his own .!
hands.’
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• s-t and Surest Vv..y to hr prove Croj} 1
is for Each Farmer to Select "t
Seed and Gi /c Plant Ccod,
Clean Cultivation ^
'Prepared by the United Stmos Depart*
ment of A-..culture > - • *
•liLo ’• ,as; w' the ex--- *
o-. • a a i* ■•■■ p iu the
-.oathwesteru Unit a Stut iK-cm-CP - -
- »■; to Farmers’ bu'b tin IV v. 11-47, re
cntl.v issued l*y th< Inited .States De
, •inn-iu of Agriculture. This ds
liMvn i>y the rapid increase in its
crease urd value in" the past ID years,
i om approximate ?y 25-,Odd acres in
valued at >' oil the crop hud
increased in IP us o lglO.d'OO acres. .
valued at §21,300|0">n near', iifty-fold .
in acreage and mor< Mian o* hundred
fold in value. The increase- 'U
acreage in the ten years ioni It; u
i ' 1918, inclusive, h s beer mpid ami
] substantial, totaling about 000.00c
j cies, with an an • d vui • ot §J-R
j -Hl: ',000.
| Milo has not yet r* .idled s econom
1 ic limits in either a- reage r produc
tion. These, it i said, -houid in
cr- ase still further as the value and
ihe adaptation of e crop are more
generally understood. Mar y acres of
'And in the distri t. whew ^
; I apted thiit are hew used <t devoted
: other less profit'..bid! on as may be i
j w-ed to advantage- by growing milo.
•he best and surest way- to improve
the crop is for each farme to select
: > seed, prepare a good seedbed, and
give the crop good, clean cultivation.
Milo is used for h eding a1: kinds of
stock. It may bo used eh her as a
wnin ration or a roughage ration for
j dorses and cattle. The use of the
| crop for silage is increasing. The
ruin is also used as food for man,
• ’ iu meal being said to equal com*
iusal either for separator use or in
| c mbination'vsvith wheat flour.
Detailed information concerning the
} varieties of milo and their proper cul
! tlvation, harvesting, storing and uses,
j a *e contained in a new bulletin, which
| nay be had upon request of the
j United States Departmerft of Agri
culture at Washington, D. C.
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