■ I \ volxxvii. “J^r*»KSviiE!rv*SNco7ir^l!!THnS!*>!T35L3riS” " ““ ~ no"is 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 l—.. — ..1 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 n _ 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 If the artillery had been withdrawn on the - offensive.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 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 i-;-! 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. . / -"V ,/ ■ I 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 -* • ■* \ J' * ■ 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. --- 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. I - 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.’ _ ) ! • 4 ' H W A i • • - ' r • .& - .* V,, - .V \^r;z22i in A tno .;ani rv.v Yenrs. m. * - . ~v • 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 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. *'' ; ■ * * _