VOL. XXVII. VADKINVILLE, YADKIN CO., N. CM THURSDAY, APRIL /8, 1921 MLiS
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FUTURE FOR PLANES
Von Tirpitz Considers Airplane
i ' Superior to Zeppelin.
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jp Admiral Doubts, However, That They
Will Become Serious Menace to
War Vessels.
St. Blalsen, Baden.—Admiral Alfred
Son Tirpitz, German naval authority,
In an interview, gave his views on the
Influence of aircraft upon future wars.
He discounted the Zeppelin airship
fcs too much subject to wind and too
Srulnerable for ordinary reconnoiter
Ing.
The airplane, in his opinion, has a
much greater future, as it has an eeo
' comic importance for trafllc which will
tend to perfect it for war purposes.
While the airplane has taken a high
place in land fighting as a substitute
for cavalry, Admiral von Tirpitz said
it had not developed Its usefulness to
the same degree in sea recon nattering,
but that was probably due to the new
ness of the airplane, which water
planes of the future might conceivably
v pvercorae.
The admiral reserved his opinion on
the possibility of effective attacks by
(airplanes upon battleships, but clearly
Showed that he doubts that airplanes
Sriil become a great menace to the
warships, as, he pointed out, the latter
will develop devices for defense, while
heavily loaded airplanes will always
be in danger of counter attacks from
lighter machines.
‘In comparison with ships,” he said,
“airplanes will always have a funda
mental disadvantage in their small
loading capacity, especially when they
are to be used on a wide expanse of
jocean. From a study of the history of
naval warfare, the greatest expohent
Of which was an American, I am per
suaded that the nature of naval forces
Will not change with a jerk, hut will
develop organically, for development
takes some time which only in imag
ination and fancies will be skipped. In
this respect, the late war lias not
Effected any fundamental alteration,
although, of course, the rate of tech
nical development is much faster than
formerly.”
ENGLISH BIRTH RATE HIGH
Vital Statistics for 1920 Show Mortal
ity the Lowest Ever
.Recorded.
London.—Vital statistics just issued
by the Ministry of Health show that j
the birth rate for 1920 in England is j
the highest for the decade and the |
death rate the lowest ever recorded. |
The infant mortality rate also is the J
lowest on record. The number of j
births is the highest ever recorded,
while the number of deaths is the low
est since 1802. when the population
ivas only 20,000,000. The figures are:
For England and Wales—Birth rate
per l.OOt) of the total population, 25.44;
deaths, crude rate, 12.4; deaths under
one year per 1,000 births, 80.
For London—Birth rate per 1,000,
26.8; deaths, crude rate. 12.4; deaths
Under one year per 1,000 births, 75.
The increase in the birth rate is at
tributed to the number of delayed
marriages prevented by the war and
to the remarriage of tvar widows. It
|s suggested that the low death rate
may be due to the rapid strides taken
In ery, medioiue and sanction
during (he war.
AMATEUR “FIXES” GAS TANK
Hot Iron—Then Neighbors Called the
Police Reserves and the Fire
Department.
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New York.—"Now then, doggie, we’ll
have this thing fixed in a jiffy,” said
IWilliani S. Grey to his dog, as he
placed a hot soldering iron on a partly
filled gasoline tank in the kitchen of
his home.
The tank on his auto had been leak
ing and he decided to fix it.
He had scarcely finished the sen
tence when the top of the'tank went
bp to the ceiling.
Tenants on the three upper floors
rushed to the street, police reserves,
firemen and detectives were called and
InsJI'ftor Callahan of tire bureau of
combustibles, who was in the neigh
borhood, ran to the house. ’
The police entered the apartment to
take charge of a corpse, but found
only a l.'-iken window, a dismembered
tank, and a perfectly healthy man.
1'' fu!liBlue” Laws in Jai!.
C§> ^ us, Ind.—Prisoners in the
BartholoWw county jail have laid
dowh - a set of rules for their own
(government which very much resemble
"blue laws" now being enforced in
some parts of Indiana. One rule re
quires each prisoner to vv.dk three
miles , daily in the corridors to keep
himself in good physical condition.
Another forbids card playing on Sun
day. Th<* use of profanity is strictly
fork ;! ... .1. Weber Srai.h, awaiting
on a charge «>f firs: degree mur
der, - is preside:;! of 'lie c'ub.
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NOW HAS “FLYING WARSHIPS*
Great Britain Builds New Powerful'
Plane That Is at Home on Sea
or in the Aif.
London.—Details of an entirely new
type of seaplane, two of which are
under construction, and which can
either fly or cruise as a warship, have
been made public here.
They are larger and stronger than
any seagoing aircraft yet construct
ed, and each will carry a crew of
seven, with implacemcnts for five ma
chine guns.
The vessels are being so construct
ed that, while being light, the hulls
are sufficiently seaworthy to ride out
the roughest waves, and will join in
all navy maneuvers without a parent
vessel, operating from a sea base just
ns the submarine does.
They have a range of 1,500 miles.
FIND NEW LOCAL ANESTHETIC
Substitute for Cocaine Eliminates Ne
cessity for Using a Habit
Farming Drug.
Urban*, lit.—The University of Il
linois announced that it has developed
a new local anesthetic, useful as a
substitute for cocaine and in many
ways superior to cocaine, which will
eliminate the Deeessity of using a
habit forming drug which causes so
much trouble to physicians and to the
government. The work was accom
plished in chemical laboratories by
Prof. Roger Adams and Dr. Oliver
Kamm.
This new product has, by practical
tests by Doctors Suker and Gradle,
eye specialists in Chicago, and In
several hospitals and clinics in the
country proved useful as a substitute
for cocaine in local anesthesia of a
mucous membrane.
A list of the valuable properties of
this new substance as compared to
cocaine, announced by the university,
are these:
This. product may be sterilized by
heating its solution to boiling point
with no danger of decomposition,
whereas cocaine cannot be sterilized
by boiling the aqueous solution.
A 2 per cent aqueous solution may be
instilled into the eye and anesthesia is
produced so rapidly that the operation
can be performed at once. From four
to five minutes arc required where
cocaine is used.
The new substance produces less ir
ritation than cocaine, it produces no
dilation of the pupil and it does not
dry up the secretions of the eye. It
has antiseptic as well as anesthetic
properties.
Procaine, formerly known as novo
caine has, up to this time, been used
extensively in place of cocaine where
the aqueous solution is injected.
Where the anesthesia must be caused
by surface action on the mucous mem
brane in eye, nose and throat opera
tions, however, hovocaine is ineffec
tive and cocaine is generally used. It
seems now that this new product of
the University of Illinois will sup
plant all such uses of cocaine. i
CHICAGO’S STRONGEST COP
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Policeman William G. Fenn, personal
chauffeur for Chief of Detectives
Michael Hughes of Chicago, is the
strongest man in the Chicago police
department. Fenn's policy is to keep
fit so he can deliver the goods when
called upon. He puts first one leg
and then the other around his neck,
as one of his exercises to keep in con
dition.
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URGE NATION TO
SAVE FORESTS
Joint Action of State and Fed
eral Governments Necessary
to Stop Destruction.
FOREST FIRES OWE PROBLEM
.argest and Most Important Field for
Co-operation Is Fire Prevention
Cost of Protection Should bo
Shared by Private Owner.
Washington.—Need for public action
to save the remaining forests of the
United States from devastation, and
to provide for timber production on
lands already laid waste, was strongly
urged by Col. W. B. Greeley, chief of
the forest service, United States De
partment of Agriculture, at the hear
ings before the house agricultural com
mittee on the Snell bill.
The bill authorizes and directs the
secretary of agriculture, in co-opera
tion with the various states or other
suitable agencies, to recommend the
requirements essential for protecting
timbered and cut-over land from fire,
refreshing denuded lands, and cutting
and removing timber crops so that
continuous production of timber will
be promoted. To bring into effect
these requirements, and with a view
to furnishing a continuous supply of
timber for the use and necessities of
the public, co-operation between the
federal government and the states is
authorized, on such conditions as the
secretary of agriculture may deter
mine to be fair and reasonable.
Expenses Borne Jointly.
Federal expenditures under co-oper
ative agreements with states would,
under the bill, have to be at least
equaled by state expenditures derived
either from general taxation or from
owners of forest lands under state re
quirements. The hill also provides
for a survey of the forest resources
and requirements of the country, for
experiments and investigations in re
forestation and methods.of cutting and
utilizing timber, for enlarged pur
chases of lands for federal adminis
i ration as national forests, and for
various other features of a national
program of forestry.
In urging the necessity for action,
Colonel Greeley pointed out that the
essential problem of providing lor fu
ture needs is a national one.
“New York,” tlie colonel said, “im
ports nine-tenths of the lumber which
she requires. Pennsylvania imports
four-fifths, while a large group of mid
dle western states import 97 per cent
of their woodt The bulk of our paper
comes from half a dozen states. The
growing of timber on enormous areas
of land adapted by nature to that pur
pose and scattered throughout 39
states is just as much a national ne
cessity and just as much a matter for
national action as the encouragement
of agriculture or the maintenance of
interstate transportation.
“The growing of timber cannot be
left to private initiative alone. Under
the bill the federal government will
assume the technical leadership of (he
i efor-esiasion movement throughout
the country. While in the prairie
states co-operation would have .to deal
chiefly with tree planting, in other
states it should cover technical meth
ods of fire prevention, of disposal or
debris left in logging, of cutting vari
ous types of timber so as to secure r
new crop of the kind desired, and th
(ike.
“The largest and most iraportan
field of co-operation, however, in all
states containing extensive fores'
areas is in the prevention of fox
fires. This is the first step to a con
finuous supply of timber. Onoe r»
i vast area of cut-over land suitabn
for timber production is really pm
lected from forest fires, three-quarters
«>f our forest problem is solved,
j “The cost of forest protection should
he shared by the public and the pri
vate owner. But fire prevention is
not an epd in itself. The reforesta
lion of. timber-growing land and the
j actual production of timber is the real
j objective. In no instances should fed
j oral funds be expended unless the
•date carries out the requirements
louruJ necessary by the federal forest
ervice to make timber grow.”
I East Is Not West—No i
Bobbed Hair in China \
5 Shanghai.—The Chinese min- >
(■ is&y of edaeution, fearing the ?
> advance of modern ideas ahiong 5
* young girls, has forbidden <
\ bobbed hair and bound feet. No v
l girl- student may be married £
* without parental consent. and ■
* no girls over 14 will hr per
> mitted eo-educatiouni schools. s
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General News
Five youths in an automobile
held up the vice president of a
real estate firm in Chicago and
escaped with $25,000 which he
was taking to a bank.
William D. Haywood, a noted
I. W. W. leader in this country,
and under sentence to serve
20 years in Leavenworth peniten
tiary, has fled the country and is
reported to be in Russia.
Fight men are being tried in
Mitchell county,^ Georgia, on
charges of attempting mob vio
lence in connection with the
death of Jim Roland, a prosper
ous negro farmer.
A dispatch states that 26,000
persons are facing starvation in
the mining regions near Birm
ingham, Ala. They are families
of miners who went out on a
strike last fall aod have not been
taken back by the mines.
Notice to Farmers
By an act of the General As
sembly, session of 1921, each
farmer is required at the time of
listing other property to give
crop acreages to list-takers, in
cluding total number acres in
farm, kind of crops grown and
number of acres in each.
This is not for taxation, but is
to get accurate information on
crops.
T. R. Eaton,
Register of Deeds.
Notice of New Registra
tion.
Tlie voters of the Town of
Jouesville are hereby notified
that’ a new registration of the
voters lias been ordered by the
Board of Town Commissioners.
All persons who exeect to vote in
the Town Election to be held on
the First Monda\ in May, 1921,
will find the books in the hands
of 11. C. Minish, Registrar,
This the 25tli day .of March, 1921
It. C. MIlSTSH.
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AID IS ASKED FOR AUSTRIANS
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World-Famous Physicians Picture
Stunted Growth and Diseases
From Hunger.
Vienna. — Three internationally
known Austrian physicians have
joined in a statement to the effect that
Austrian children will remain perma
nently stunted in growth unless ade
quate relief is given immediately.
'■'lie physician- arc , Dr. WisetlWrg,
unt) brain spe .m.sL a..d one of u.e
leading surgeons of the city, and Drs.
Lorenz and Pirquet, the latter inventor
of tl»e tuberculin test and for two
years professor at Johns Hopkins uni
versity.
“At the end of juvenile growth the
average boys of Vienna are about four
inches below normal height and about
sixteen pounds below normal weight.
Girls are correspondingly stunted,”
they say.
I “We alsoj believe from a medical
: standpoint these children will never
have their normal weight and height,
but will go through life in this stunted
condition.”
I Clerk Burned Photograph l
Enclosing Small fortune |
!; Stephen Nemeth, a clerk of
!| Budapest, Hungary, wasting j!
1; away on the little food his sal- ;!
I ary would buy, appealed to his al- ;!
most forgotten brother, George, j*
who went to America many Jj
years ago and is now in Chi- J*
‘■ago. !;
When, months later, there J|
came from George ‘simply a 1|
large photograph, Stephen, dis- ![
appointed and angry, threw Ills
|| brother’s picture in the lire. The 1|
I next day there came a letter. It ![
read: <!
“My dear Stephen: “If you j!
will carefully divide in two the |!
photograph 1 sent you yester- ;!
day you will find a $5,000 bili j»
concealed between the two ]»
sheets. Enjoy it in good health jj
and don’t forget your loving
brother. GEORGE.” ’jj
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STATE NEWS
Beaufort is to have free city
mail after July 1st.
Catawba county last week
voted $500,000 bonds for roads.
A movement is on foot to es
tablish an Industrial school in
the mountains of Burke county.
Dr. Peacock, who killed Po
liceman Taylor, will be tried at
the May term of Davidson coun
ty court.
Rev. Tom P* Jimison, promi
nent Methodist minister, is a
candidate for mayor of Win
ston-Salem.
A strike is on among the em
ployees of the Mount Airy Ta
ble •& Mantle Co. A cut in
wages Drought about the strike.
The last session of the legisla
ture increased the cost of auto*
moble license, in some instances
being doubled.
J. L. Cowan, aged 61 years, a
prominent business man of
Statesville, died of Brights di
sease at his home there Satur
day night.
John Parker, a man of family,
living at Spencer, slipped off
from his wife a few nights ago
taking with him three of their
children, the eldest a daughter
of 14.
L. C. Bickett, Newton merch
ant, and brother of ex-Governor
Bickett, has mysteriously disap
peared. His business affairs is
found to be in bad shape.
Lexington is planning for a
big Fourth of July celebration
this year. The celebration will
be under the auspices of the
American Legion.
The new North Carolina Or
thopaedic Hospital for crippled
and deformed children of sound
mind, expects to open its doors
at Gastonia about June 15.
Thieves entered the hog lot of
the Piedmont Expeiiment Sta
tion, near Statesville, the other
night and stole four fine Poland
China shoats.
Fork Church Academy, Davie
county, will celebrate its forty
first annual ' commencement
next Monday and Tuesday. Zeb
Long, 6f Statesville, will de
liver the address Tuesday.
Up around Morganton a mo
tion picture concern is making
some pictures with attractive ti
tles. One of them is titled:
■v—1- Is a Moonou,iici t,
ter, But I Love Her STILL/’
The little two-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rowe
was struck by a trolley car
w hile playing in the street at the
home in High Point. She died
a few hours later later in a hos
pital.
Henry Adam, colored, mail
carrier between the postoffice
| and; the depot at Statesville, was
arrested last on charges of re
tailing and transporting whiskey
i He was placed in jail and his
truck seized.
; The Old Hickory, 30th Divi
I sion, are planning for,^ tour to
t Earope this summer, The tour
1 will cover six countries in Eu
' rope. They are to go over all
! the battlefields which thpv
fought over. The party will
leave New York June 12th, and
; will be gone 41 days.
Albert Dameron, a young
. farmer, plowed up a pot of gold
1 on his uncle’s farm near Salem,
Va, a few days ago. The pot
contained $14,90
James Flanagan, aged 84, said
to be last surviving white scout
of Genera! Cu- r\* seventh cav
a ry. died at Miiidan, N. D , last
w e^k.
Hon. David H. Blair
Gets Appointment
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President Harding has ap~ 1
pointed David H. Blair, of Win
ston-Salem, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. This is one
of the nation’s most important
offices and only the best men of
the nation are considered for
this important office.
Mr. Blair is well qualified for
the place. He is a man of broad
business qualifications, strict in
tegrity and executive ability.
The commissioner of internal
revenue is charged with collect
ing all the funds that contribute
to the operation of the govern
ment. There are under the
commissioner sixty-four collect
ors, one for each district into
which the nation is divided, and
each collector appoints lifty
deputy collectors.
Hamptonville, Route 1
Farmers are busy planting
corn. The tobacco acreage will
be cut considerably in this sec
tion.
The school districts of Holly
Springs and Houstonville have
consolidated and a new school
building will be erected near the
line of the two districts.
Measles which has been so
prevalent ia this section has
about died out. But few fami
lies escaped ihe disease.
Edgar F. Haynes, of the U. S.
arm>, spent a tew days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Haynes, last week.
Center New s
Farmers are busy planting
corn these days. Not so muca
arrangements are being made -
for tobacco this year. ,
Our Sunday school is. pro
gressing nicely, w ith a large at
tendance.
There is a lot of sickness here
at present. }
Mr. and Mrs. BlumeCook vis- •*,
ited Mr. Frank Cook Sunday
Dr. V. F. Couch and family ‘
visited here Sunday.'
Quite a number of Winston- 5
Salem people visited here Sun- ,
day. Among the visitors was .
Miss Gladys Whitaker, who
found a loDg table loaded down
with good things to eat and lots
ui fripn.H*' to share it with her.
Our young people l/av& been
attending the Holy Koiler meet
ing at Randolph.
Let us hear from other corres
pondents.
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Sale ol Land
The following described piop
erty seized from John Hutchens,
under Warraut of distr int for the
nonpayment of assessed taxes
due, will be sold as provided by
sectiou 5190, lie\ ised Statutes, at
public auction, on W ednesday,
May 25th, 1921, at 12 o’clock, at -
the county court hous. . Yadkin- /
ville, N. C.
A tract of laud willed to dohn. *5^
Hutchens by J. L. Williams, ad
joining Dayton Williai; s land and
Dooliu estate and otbf % contain
ing 02 acres.
J. W. Hailey, Collector,
by Geo D. Martin,
Deputy Collector.
A huge meteor fell from the
skies ih Wilcox county, Ga., the
other day. Fragments of the
meteor, which bursted in midair,
were scattered around the coun
try 1 >r a distance of thirty miles,
•and people, especially the color
ed population, were greatly ex
cite I fearing the world had
'cone. an end. .