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THE BREVARD NEMfS, BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA Ilf cigarottes 10* TTiey are GOOD/ X5ne AMERICAN LEGION EIGHTEEN HOURS IN WATER FRIDAY AUGUST 4., 1*22 (Copy tui iiii.-i Department Suppllad by the American LeKlon New# Service.) DADDY OF AMERICAN LEGION E. Lester Jones of Washington, D. C., Founder of the Movement Back in 1919. 10 URGE FOREST ^ PRESEmTION Engineers Plan National Cam paign to Save Trees. FOREST FIRES CHIEF MENAGE North Carolina Forest Service Recom mends Strengthening of Forest Fire Laws to Include Protective Measures ' by Railroads and Lumbermen and I Largely Increased Appropriations ■ for Fire Prevention and State Policy ‘ for Acquiring Forests and Parks. A national program of reforestation, to be put^lied by the government, en gineering socii'iies, universities, rail- rosuis, farmers’ organizations, boy Bcouts and moving picture interests is being planned l>y the ^Vinerican En- gineering Council of tlie Federated Kn- gineering societies, the council an- nounceil at Xew York. A forestry committee of the council, beaded by Charles 11. MacDowell of Chicago, is in active charge of the movement, under direction of the pres ident of the council, Dean Mortimer E. Cooley of the engineering department. University of Michigan. The coiiimitree already has received rejiorts ficm most states regarding ex isting forest conditions, with recom- iiieiKi.iiinris for meeting the problems of i(*rest protection and extension in tliose states. Many of these reports, it is ^aid, regard this a critical period in the development of a national pol icy of reforestation. Tells Romance of Forest. The United States forest service and the engineering council Iiave taken steps to inform the public regarding the utility uf forests. The forest Kervice has prepared a scenario depict ing the romance of the forest, as a me- ainm for giving this information. That part of the plans affecting the mov- Sng picture industry will be laid be fore A\ill II. Hays, it was explained. Among the reports of forest condi tions in various states were those sliowing tliat in Maine, Massachusetts and many other states tlie chief prob- | lein was that of forest fires. ■ The North Carolina forest service i recommended the strengthening of for- I :CSt fire laws to include protective I ,inea?ures hy railrojula, lumbermen, i etc., iargely increased approj)riations for fire protection; state policy for ■ ■ficquiring forests and parks, for sup- : plying nursery trees and for educa- j tion and publicity in forestry; in- ! creased federal appropriation for co- I operjition with states, purchase of lands for national forests and for in- ^stigations of f^u-est and wood using prcfblems. New York, Michigan and several other states recommended reforesta tion by planting of proper trees. Many states had problems of excessive graz ing, and urged protection for small .trees. Urged Protection of Trees. ^ The American Engineering coun- •■ouuiiittee is obtaining exact data on the exK'nt of the national forest land. Tiei»orts from state foresters thus far received show the following fifwres: ('alifornia, lo.riiio.OOO acres; Oeorgia, 2u.imm>,(KIi>; Idaho, li8.t)00,0(»; Indiana, ; lowa, 2,500.000; Kansa.s, Maine, 13,000,- ^000; MarylaiM. 2,228.(V)0; Massa chusetts. l,0(K>,0(i0; Michigan, l.'.OOO,- ■<K)0, 3Iinnesota, 2G,000,0(KJ; Mi-;.«ouri, ■10.0(N),(MX>; New York, 12,000.(KH); iKortii Carolina, 20,00<>,0<M>; Ohio, :;;,2(M.of)0; Oregon, 18,7I5.00<}; Wash- . ll.Rf^Kv'n E. Lester Jones of Washington, D. C., because he was the founder of the American Legion movement in America, was called the “dad- l dy” of the or- ganization back in 1919 and the title has stayed with him ever since. Mr. Jones was one of a handful of veterans who met In Washing ton, March 7, 1910, and formed what w^as known as the John ,T. Pershing post of World War Veterans. Later, w’hen the sev eral s(»cieties of those who had fought In the World war combined under the name of the American Legion, Mr. Jones was made commander of the newly-formed George Washington po.st No. 1. When the department of the District of Columbia was fonned, he was made departmental com mander. Legionnaire Jones was an enlisted man with the District of Columbia National fluard prior to the World war. During the war he rose from private to colonel, taking all the grades. Philip Burger, Legion Man of Troy, Wears Decoration From Portu guese Government. Spending eighteen hours holding to the edge of a life raft in icy water after saving a shipmate’s life, made Philip J. Burger eligible for the unusual lumor of a dec oration from the Portuguese gov ernment and the American D i s - tinguisiied Serv ice medal. Burger was a second class gunner’s mate on the American destroyer Jacob Jones, when she was torpedoed by a German sub marine off Lands End, England, in De cember, 1917. Burger and the shipmate whose life he saved were among the few survivors picked up by a British warship after eighteen hours in tlie water. He is now receiving vocational training in his home city. Troy, N. Y., and is a mainstay in the Noble Calla han post of the American Legion at Troy. I f Carrying On With the i I American Legion | 4 ■ A tourist park for tired Fordsters is projected by the American Legion post of Tracy, Minn. « « • To give tlie town a tliorough clean ing and brightening up for the sum mer, each member of the Legion post of Villard, Minn., donated a day’s work. * * * A new definition of the well-known army phrase “S. O. L.” has been evolved by the Douglas county Legion naires of Omaha, Neb. It is “Staying Outa Legion.” * * • At Grant’s Tomb in New ^«rk a tree hat; been transplarit«*d frora the dooryard of the General’s old home in Missouri by the Legion and the American Forestry association. LEGION HONORED ALL DEAD ] GETl . ;rTRAIN RIDE ^Aged Woman Tried an Automobile * ar:l Did Not Like It. I Some 01 ' is always bobbing up to give the b!. -* world a new grip on it self. Mrs. -rah Beauchamp, eighty- three, had lu‘i- lirst train ride recently when she f ir.'.i * to La Craiule, Or<’.. .from her houi ‘ near Ililgard. Mrs. Beaucl iinip come to Oregon T."' ■years ago in a prairie sclioontT with her parents, anti has lived near Hi) gard since that time. Her lirst lidt in Jdi auto!:io; ile came last sumii;er, itiut once w .s enough. Tho “Dev.i’s Stink Wagon.'' as she •iiaiiied the car on ti;e spot, was the livst aiid last vehicle ga‘<o’iine loco- (iiiotii)!, sh(* has ••»Mijoye<l.” Organization Participated in Services at Final Interment of Men Brought Home. j Army transports in which many of i them went across eager for the con flict have carried back the last of the 4r»,000 A. E. F. dead, tliose relatives had requested to be returned to this country for permanent burial. The graves registration service of the army, which had the work of return ing the»e i)odies in charge, did an al most superhuman task. But this service could not give the comradely liuinan touch to ’the handling of the.se bodies after they reached the United States that seemed due them. No organization was so well suited to perform the last rights of honor and respect for these ;soldier dead as was the American Legion. The men of the Legion took upon themselves th^ obligation. Forty ship loads of bodies came to eastern ports during a period of two and a half years. It was not always possible to have an elaborate service, because the arrivals were too frequent, but in every instance there was at least a prayCT by a chaplain qt the Protestant, Catholic or Jewish faith, an address by a prominest citi zen or army officer and a rifle #*alute. A number of times, how^ever, the services were notew’orthy. I^sident Harding delivered an address at services arranged by the Legion, May 23, 1921, when the Princess Matftfka arrived with 451 bodies. Genenil Pershing and Senator Lodge spoke when the Somme and the Wheaton ar rived, July 10, 1921, with 7,000 dead. The iast cargo of bodies arrived In Brooklyn, in April, 1922, on the Can>-' brai. On tl : t occasion, the body of Private Cluu - >s W. Graves, C^mipany M, One-hund ’ *d and Seventeenth in fantry. Thirtt* nth division, was borne* on a caisson through the streets, lined* with silent throngs, to the army base, where simple ceremonies marked the close of the last public demonstration^ for America’s returned dead. PLANES ROUT HOTTENTOTS Air Forces Most Successful in Recent African Uprising. Airplanes did more to strike terror into the insurgent Hottentots in the recent uprising forces, says the Cape Town correspondent of the Cape Argus. The airmen were successful both in spotting the enemy and finding the government’s patrols. Airplanes discovered one body of Hottent«)ts in the mountain gorges, where they sat warming themselves by a fire shortly after dawn. The airmen dropped bombs and opened machine gun Are on them. Scores were killed, and the others fled in all directions, yet ten of them could have held the i)lateau against an army. Herd of Deer Quite Tame. A herd of deer, consisting of two bucks, .six floes and a fawn, have taken up their abode on the farm of Eli Keinboldt, in the Lurytown valley, near Weatherly, Pa., ami are frequent ly seen by pa.ssinjr autiMuobilists. The deer ai>pear to be quite tame and feed in the fields not far from the Reinboldt farmhouaie. WORLD’S GREATEST OAK TREE Are You in Need of Tags Cards Blanks Folders Dodgers Receipts £c?e)opes Statements Bill Hesds ln?itations Packet Heads Letter Heads Call at this office Good Wcffk Is Our Specialty aBSaSSSH5aS?Jj?iiVjES3?^ZSa5SS2S2i Can Shelter 7,000 Soldiers Under Its Branches. The tree t.'iat impressed Gen. Wil liam Tecunuseh Sherman more- than all others he had seen during hiis years of travels was the famous ouk at Chico, Cal., which is, according to the Anierlcan Forestry associatieo, the largest oak tree in the world. This tree is more than 100 fee* high, and has a circumference of 24% feet at a point 8 feet above the ground. The longest branch of the tree is 105 feet, and the branch spread from north to south U 200 feet. The greatest cir cumference of the branches is 450 feet. - General Sherman estimated tftat It would be possible for him to station 7,000 aoldiers beneath the sliado of this fiant tree at high noon. I Balsam Camp No. 116 i W. O. W. 1 Meets Monday and Wednesday ; Nights. Dunn’s Rock Building. I Broad Street, Brevard, N. C. The statement that there are* more bolsheviki in the United States than there are i» Russia may be true, but they are spread out a good deal! Ijhin- iier in this country. Vienna has appointed an efBclal whose duty is to give advice to- alt couples contemplating marriage; The dispatch doesn’t state whether this oflicial is married or not. NOTICE At a meeting of the> D'eTnoeratic nia county held in Brevartf on June 19, 1922, it was- ordered that a primary be held in Transylvania county on Sa turday, August 5, 1922, the pur pose of nominating a caBodidate for the State Senate. This will be a Democrailie Prima^ and all members of the Democratic Party arc urged to come out and vote for the candidate wfeom they wish for the State Senate. The Polling places will be at the usual voting places in each election ’ precinct and the ballot boxes will be open from 9:00 o’clock A. M. 'till 4:00 o’clock P. M. on said date in alT precincts except Brevard and Ros- man, at which two precincts they will be open from 9:00 o’clock A. JVT. until sttEDdcwn. Again all Democrats are urged t® come out and vote. W. E. BREESE, Chairman MARTHA G. BOSWELL, Sec. LAND DEEDS AT THE NEWS OFFICE. RAN TOWARD BERLIN IN 1918 Clarence De Mar, Winner of 25-Mile; American Marathon Race, ln> ! terested in Boy Scouts. { Clarence H. DeMar of Melrose,.! Mass.. winner of the 25-mile American j Marathon race, got some of his endurance as a Ion g-d i s t a nee runner while run ning toward Ber lin in 101?^, and h e undoubtedly aequired a t;ood deal of his a.iril- ity and sureness of foot while dodging Frit z’s ni!> '’'*s. I)e Mar liij! '1 a 1 of f ' . nations Paris. His chief interest, however, does not srem to be in racing, but in the welfare f)f a troop of boy scouts of which he has been in charge for sev eral year; fourth in stance race between tlie men K. F. and the other allied in the Pershing stadium in A speaker at a r<' -cnt parent-teaci.i'^ Imeeting said that ihe abseni-mimled child may be a gen.us but the chances ^are that he is merely wishing diimer was ready or schcjl out, or something bike that. Ten Years to Displace the Blue. It \.ill rc(iuire about ten yt-ars to clothe all French tr(M»i)s in khaki de spite tlu' efforts of the higher council j of war to equip all branches of the j I’reii ;h army in uniforms of that I color. The horizon blue and steel' i?ray ehtili i n hand must be used up ■ jii\il ■ i') lake ten >ears fo do It, ■ tile uiiaisuv oI war dedarca, I Ki See the Goods Before You Buy The one sure way of knowing just what you will get for your money is togo right into a local store and pick it out. When you buy from pictures and descriptions you cannot see the actual value until it is too late to decide you do not want it. Our local dealers would not think of demanding the full price before show ing goods. Yet that is what is required when you buy by mail. Why don’t you deal in known values and get real bar gains? Why don’t you see what you’re getting before you pay for it? TRADE AT HOME WRKIE Juicy Fruit, Peppermint and Spearmint are certainly three delightful flavors to choose from* And WRIOLEY’S P-K_the new sugar-coated pepper mint gum, is also a great treat for your sweet tooth. All are from the Wrigley factories where perfection is the rule* Save the wrappers Good for valuable premiums ^WRIGLEYSi:^ ^ thi perfect GUM rvftg* C31 HOME Real Estate Compaiw 25 acres, garden, orchard, 17 room boarding house completely furnishd. All modern conveniences. One mile from center of town. See it. 10 room residence, two acres of land. Splendid location. Modern conveniences. Fine forest surround ings with four room servant house and good garden. 624 feet fronting on good street, close to center of town. 3 1-2 acres of land suitable for trucking. 5 room house; out buildings. Here is a bargain. Look it over. county Many others. Let us show you. We are nere to help build up our town and Staple and Fancy GROCERIE.S We carry a lull stock in the best grade of Staple and Fancy Groceries. Also canned goods and fancy crackcrs. F. p. SLEDGE I Main Street (Auditorium Building A Warranty Deeds at ihe News Office.
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