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I M V ' ten HW Wad . r t if Hi j I J 3 m - ILii Ms w For the Upbuilding and elopment of Moore County. The News Established Feb. 190$. The Blade Established 1875. CARTHAGE, N. C THURiDAf, NOVEMBER 4, 1920. VOL. XVI. NO; 35. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE PHILLIPS TELLS OF IflS JOURNEY fn- LETTER FROM W. R. PHILLIPS .Editor The News: " . . I feel that letters through the News will reach all more quickly and much better than, writing to each one, as so many of my friends have asked for a report of my trip, w I left home Mon day, September 13th.. .- My father, A. 2L Phillips, and Joseph A. Price accom panied me to Greensboro. ' After spending the night in that city, I left for New Orleans,.' the fare costing : 1111.84, with an extra $8.52 for Pull man fare, . f- Things began to be of interest to me in Cabarrus county at Concord. , The principal crop was cot ton, which looked, much "better there than in Moore county, or at least there was more of it. erywhere. On the railroads sometimet jit seemed three and four feet high. I lin .iron In f Via ifMaf. . tAnma.whan .UU V 1 1.11 u. . I IV o.va V . - they were not paved. The wire'grasi of Moore county , can't be comparer with this Alabama 'and Mississippi grass. These states are more leve. than Georgia where I went to sleep The pine trees near Mobile and or through Mississippi were boxed foi rosin. They reminded me of Mooit county in our Tar Heel State. ' The railroad riins straight for miles and miles through his low,, marshy section," often crossing large bodies of water," lakes, rivers, . bays etc., ton trestles and fills. Wire fences are built all through this section on each side of the railroad. I don't know whether they were built to keep cows maywortn was a nice, clean looKing t and Bneep in or wt to keen-them off iimu coon nun wwp. ion puce,the railroad. .'Anyway I sawhun orew my interest Decause an ine houses-were the same size and color. Gastonia is a real large town cen tered in a good farming section, es pecially for cotton. Most all the cot; ton fields were white, while back in Moore the cotton had not opened at all. ' It was still blooming. ' There we begin to see the Blue Ridge mountains, as back ground for Gastonia. f - :- After crossing into Sooth. Carolina the hills began to get larger and we could see for miles across the eountry. . We passed eome large hills where they were planted in cotton on the south side.; It looked as though it would be very difficult to cultivate! We also saw fields of cane cut and shocked as we would shock corn. I hardly know .what they were going to do with.lt, " because the fodder had not been polled dreds of cows ' and sheep. - Now and then you could see a little corn planted but the soil seemed to be too wet for corn. . The' fodder was all dry and parched in the sun. In places you see large fields of Pecan trees. ; But graz ing is the principal occupation, The houses in. Mississippi are not near so good as in North Carolina,' al though there are some ecnihouses. As we rode along seeing the many different ranches I thought of the Mc Crimmon ranch but did not see it. I make mention of this because Mr. Mc Crimmon left Moore county to take up ranch work in Mississippi. We crossed the Biloxi Bay on a trestle, probably one mile long or more, and saw lots of OUND THE WORLD WITH ,AAJJ 4 JLa I -. a... Iff In the Arctic Circle. W I r r . ilil . j,; s r,v. T Wherever American soldiers went during the war and after, tnere also .went the American Red Cross.-. This policy' carried Red Cross workers to far corners of the globe end here they i are feen near the rim of everlasting Ice and snow In North Russia. Automobiles Were used whenever possible but on many Journeys the reindeer pictured here' proved most effective. GRAVESOR THE BABIES STATE MEDAL TO SERVICE LIEU .-.': .-, ' ' s"': : ' Through tile county units Of Vm fi.lt out in duplicate a blank form whxh Red Cross, the Adjutant General's da- will be furnished by the chapter. Ap nartment will this week begin c:sLrr-u- fPlk-nt must furnish positive evidence The ; t)ctober Bulletin from tn? fever, which kills one tin every ten vic Health Bureau comes to the News tints, that in 1914 tnere were 8,390 With a letter from the editor of th'd North Carolinians attacked by typhoid : BuHetin, and some articles on timely fever and of that number 800 died- ' topics, and they seem to be of such im- Five years later in 1919, 4,270 were -portance that the News runs the whole sickened by this disease. Due to ex thing, letter and all, and advises that tensive free administration of the all. of it be carefully read and remem- treatment preventing this disease and bered. ; 'r-.--y; . the sanitation, throughout the State, To the editor: in six years there has been a reduction The Bureau of Epidemiology is be- of 50 per cent of deaths and amount grinning an intensive drive against of sickness caused by typhoid. ' More preventable diseases, especally diph- striking is the comparison of the first theria. With this in view we have pre-, nine months of 1920 as compared with pared the October issue of the Health 1919. The bulletin says that typhoid Bulletin; We believe the articles in it 1 campaigns, in about fifty counties and will do good if read, and if the public's the installing of sanitary closets over' attention is called to the importance the' State as required by law, have of this number, it will receive the at- given 40 per cent fewer cases this year tention it deserves. than last We know the' good you can-do in If the sanitation in rural communi-' your county toward making this Bui- ties removed from water arid seweraee letin popular and in getting to yotn- show a big improvement in typhoid citizens the lessons we wish to teach, conditions, it is certain that infantile In the news columns and in the editor-j diseases such as colitis, will be great ials of our leading daily papers favor-; ly lessened. And this year will dis- tion of the war service medal to more than 80,000 Tar Heel lads who served in the army or "navy, in America or abroad, during the European war, ac cording to an announcement by Adju tant General Jaroes Van Metts yester day to the News and Observer. . . . , ... These service medals were author ized by the 1919 session of the General Assembly in recognition of the service rendered the State, the nation And the world in the wan. All told there .were 80,003 North Carolinians who entered some branch of the service, and all of on. - I ' The climate began to get lots warm er. lhad to take off-my coat and even ;,.then H seenysd a though ilwoldmelt. " We - passed tthrough the camp at - Greenville; S. C; -'Almost all' the camp" liad been torn down, yet you could see that the boys had lost many drops of sweat from the work that had been ' done to get the camp in order. Land -was cleared up for miles and miles, And blocked off with ' macadamized Toads. '.-' ' ;. i : . ''! r 'r - : ' .' - S ;' v, The soil in South Carolina fa red and terraces are necessary to keep the soil from rolling off the hills.5 Some- times you can see twenty-five and fif t'y terraces on one hillside. It looks like steps. , In Georgia the soil is quite differ ent from South Carolina. This Is a rocky section and we are beginning to ascend the Blue Ridge mountains. We ' traveled for miles and miles up the ' .M of the Blue Ridge before we ar- - rived at the summit Seeing large annioR and Beaches. . It is v. . . " v.;nnir tn vet cooler. - Lots of. ne r seen in Georgia. , We passed one town, and I did not see a single uriiit man. everything was . black. To t the west 'I eould not see anything but . th mountains, while on the &m could see across -the country as far as , va-would let me -Before very long we cut through, the mountain and then I could see to the' West across the country- while on the East nothing u mnnntAtns. Georgia furnishes nod prass for cattleand mules. . I saw large ; pastures of roowi i nd ' ..,i-. .w rrWed in Atlanta at 7:20 and stopped there 20 minutes, leaving . at 7:40. ,1 went ta bed vjst fter " Ati4n4.-and never waked, until if- Next morning, after rousing from; .Wn and looking at my watcn '. . aiixd that I should be out looldhg about, which l aamlreTio huih wnen in a new part oHhe-country. , Get ting out of be3 as quickly aspossibIe and going out on the back end of the car, whal shouTd .'see but a larg body " of blue water which was so beautiful " ' with the sun Just rteing from theEast- 7 'mil inw the water sparkle in the morning sunlight, embellished . with steamers, to my .great surprise .maiemerit beins? the first steam ers" I had ev? gated upon. And on 1 i, V ..Unn where we were I fotffid that we , were at Mo' -le, A" a'B6arh " Gulf of Mr o, on ; -.le Eay. TVs in a ship buH ng ci y and I many ships that were just being built, ' From a map you will see t' at I had left Atlanta and traveled almost all ' ' snaS.tl.e SUte of Al..l ama during the night, so I am not able to tell you very much about t'..i tte except ' that part from T'obile to the Minsis .lnt)i line, wl I h v s very grassy. The i.i . . . .i : nn j is also-grassy. The street cars come look as though they were chasing "V e atound in a meadow. The country .'- Most all the way from Mobile,- Ala bama through Mississippi, Louisiana and on as far as Houston, Texas, 1 could look to the South and occasion ally see the Gulf of Mexico, which looked blue, and seemd as though it rose above the ground. Of course this was'the curvature of the earth, but it looked like a low jfidge of moun tains, serVIce by submitting discharge cer tificate or certified copy of same, prior to; receiving medal. In event it is not possible to appear in person, applica tion blanks will be furnished by mail upon request to the nearest Red Cross Chapter. . No application blank sub mitted by mail will be considered un less accompanied by discharge certifi cate or a true copy of same, or other positive evidence of eligibility. The Adjutant General's ; Office, Raleigh, will distribute medals to applicants re siding outside of the State. Neces- ary blanks will be furnished upon re quest and the medals sent out to those In several communities of the State Z ' - iJLl :uJ arrangements have already been -made UUixporS ...... WW ..u- V" . Bervjce8 Armi8tics day, ness. xou couia not see a nouse out, - ... . .v. " . T-LZ . ' sented to the men of the army and na against it9 aim a owotw vc. vui .- most run over you before you saw It. inese muigB mny bbciu w !ob- , . tn uB prAtid. bv some of the reople, but I P - ii Z v,t h.t if T hd not held in Wilson on tna; aay, really saw things that if I had not mxWtian 'a V niAiiM HAt I . vv v " A "ZZ: prescribedbytheAdjutantGeneralfor doubted my eyes. those who died" In the service, will re Twb1 units of the Red Cross have volunteered -for the distribution of the "medals am'bng:$he seifevice-nien iftthe respective' communities. ' Where the Red Cross has ceased to function in a community, other means of distribu tbn will be" worked out ' The medals will be placed in reach of every service man and the Adjutant General hopes very service man will apply for th.s recognition of his services, vy on that occasion. Adjutant General Metts has accepted an invitation to We crossed Bay St Louis and Lake Ponchartrain on trestles and swing bridges.- This lake was being connect ed with' the Mississippi river by a ca- the distribution of the medals "Each person who served in the Uni ted States army, navy or marine corps between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, la entitled to a medal; pro- nal beng constructed by means oi "u "th. ZhVJ One of the dredges was the State for not less than three months l j v tttnma Miio prior MJ entry mw dt, vi - - Panama. of the regular army, navy or marine Xssd through large" fields L.. tni'volinv for miles and entitled to a meaar, proywea, luruwr, of country, somethnes not a tree in sight, just swamp hd marsh, we are now entering New Orleans. ;u , THE JACK CAME BACK v Thanks upon . entermg . service w ieuircu through the military or naval academy. Cadets at the U. S. military or naval; academy between the above mentioned dates are eligible to receive a medal. "Red CroBS Chapters in praqtically to . Tal Fields, Carried On all counties of the State will distribute tA,,t. 9 .nil to the virtues of a few medals. In eounties where tnere are Mi-ii d 4t. Jw. the naner fa able to I no chapters allotment, of these coun ii wMk as nsuaL for Mr. ties will be made to the nearest Red Fields found the stray jaek that be- Cross Chapter engaged in work. Ap lon'ged to'the' outfit and chased it back! plicants should apply to' the nearest early in the week. He had seen tne i chapter in person u-;pracuioi, ail loriom able comments of it have been made, Your paper reaches the people who need it most Will you not co-operate and serve them? .The enclosed article may be longer than you feel you have space for, but every bit of it is of importance. If you cannot use it all at one time it is, di vided into five sections. One or moit will be suitable for printing in a Bin; gle issue. . You may print such sec tions as you desire at one time and use the others later. It is subject to your usual liberties. i ' , We feel sure you will do an unusual amount of good to your people in this effort we are putting forth by printing jitside of the State as soon as practi- the enclosed. Yours very truly, i i . i.. . . i .- I ' . : . . . . , . BDie alter me receipt oi uuiitu,n. 'P'The chapters may have such exer cises -or ceremonies as they desire in tirtection with issuing or . presents tion of medals," It 4s essential that a proper record on a prescribed form be furnished the Adjutant General's office in Raleigh, of each medal furnished. The blanks should be filed alphabeti cally and forwarded to the office upon completion of the work by the chapter. "There are no funds available for use in connection with issuing these medals, all funds appropriated by the Legislature .haying been exhausted in purchasing-them, and no provision was made for incidental expenses. It is suggested that the chapter give all possible publicity to matter through the press, and otherwise, and make ev ery effort to get the men to call for their medals in person, with a view to eliminate the cost of postage, etc. '"Requisition for medals will be made by the various chapters upon the Adjutant- General's office, Raleigh, as e quired.' It is desired that chapters an ticipate tho number required as near as possible in the inital requisition and limit same not to. exceed two. . "To avoid duplication in issuing the medals, it is suggested that notation be made on discharge certificates that medal has been issued, j; Chapters should, tinder no condition, issue med als to persons residing outside the State, .but said persons should be re ferred to the Adjutant General's office, Raleigh. In the case of those persons killed in action, or died, the nearest of kin will be entitled to Teceive medals upon presentation of evidence. Appli cations submitted to the Adjutant General's Department by persons re siding outside the State should be ac companied by discharge certificate or certified copy of same, said certificate will be promptly returned to the sender by the department" ., - TOLL Tl!!! Ci! I SOFTLY ! ' , i;;L?s:ciifE;o:ijiiEDi blooming thing standing along the street, and just thought tnat a kind hearted man ought to take it in and do something for it, so he toss ed it over in his flivver and packed it abund with him a day or two until he happened to notice that some sorrower at the News office was grieving over if.' onartiirft. And althoueh it does WO wuuww .1 " 1 not amount to much as a jack, he con- The 'election returns were not very eluded it ought to be where it was bet- complete at the hour the News is t. uMiiialnted out at hh place and he nrinted. but apparently the natwnaj rounded it up at the office in time for election has been a landslide for Hard- it to ret to work Monday mornmg. . intr with a prooaoie jvepuoiiean vu- Meantime the News had made a Igress in both houses, Dy a Dig major- AlcVer with Bill Prilliman over, at Jty. Southern Pines for another decrepit in the State the Democratic major (nk not as rood as this one for the lty is one of the biggest In a long one from Prilliman is a one way Jacs. time with the amendments carried by It works eoW up, but the secret of large vote. It looks like a solid e-pRtair it down has not yet been dia-1 Democratic delegation in 'Congress covered. This la a blamed funny world snvwiiy. Cut air this shows it from the State, and the women were out in great numbers. The figures not definite enough to give any totals, but figures do not seem to be needed in either State or Nation to tell the results. V . v t , ; In the county the Democratic ticket has won by about BOO or more, being one of the biggest ever known., This is accounted for by the vote or tnt women. The whole ticket is sue cessf ul. 1 The women were out hvlarge numbers in prat tically every precinct, and enthusiastic in the vote. Hammer for Congress has a safe lead. ' '- - "V 'Sauire Jesse Fry has a large lead over his epponants. 3, S. Mitchener, Epidemiologist ' The Grave Diggers for N. C. Babies, October issue' of the N. C. Health Bulltln which ,discussei the proven? tion of typhofd, diphtheria,r whooping1 cough, measles, and colitis is 'just off the press. It is edited by the Bureau of Epidemiology. Four diseases which take such a heavy toll from infants are vividly presented by spades , labeled whooping cough, measles, diphtheria and colitis. The first in 1918 dug 775 graves, the second 373, the third 252, and the fourth, colitis, the, master grave digger, dug 1,914. Then below the champion killers are two groups of children, the one anaemic, ragged, dirty, and ill-fed, begging the hosts of light, on the opposite side, a group of beauties fed on pure milk and taught bv an enlightened public opinion. "The spirit of two communities ' it is label ed. Below: Which spirit has yours 7 . Diphtheria Being Conquered. In the Bulletin a successful warfare against diphtheria is ihuicatea ' f.i line of statistics beginning with 1915. Then there were 525 deaths in each 100,000 population. In 1916 the num ber was 418. in 1917 it was 308, 1918 the drop was to 252, and in 1919 to 242. Available statistics lor -1918 show that there were 252 deaths in .1,306 cases and in 1919 there were 242 deaths in 3,519 cases, the fatality u the first being 18.47 and in. the sec ond 6.88. Thus there is a marked, a radical reduction in deaths. To anti toxin belongs the credit for this as sault on the citadels of disease. This antitoxin is "furnished by the State Board of Health at 25c. which fa below cost. Appropriations from Lejisla, ture makes up the dinerence. ine bulletin prints a letter from a woman who says her druggist charged her $12.00 for the antitoxin. . The board does not rail at the druggiat. It ap- iwala to his moral sensibilities and asks him if he will co-operate in sav ing lives by selling this medicine at cost The family doctor can get ine medicine, and he is asked to do so as he should look after the financial in terest of his patients as-well at the disease. When results are the same he should save them money. Typhoid and Colitis of Infanta Passing The bulletin gives no figures lor tne current year on colitis which killed 1L914 children in 1918: but it tells oi the sanitary closets installed and asKs that there be waged a great eampaign for clean milk and the screening of windows and doors. 'In a short time results will be forthcoming and the Board believes that these 1,914 deaths will be reduced heavHy. There is corroborating reason for this hope found in the treatment of another great filth dfaease which attacks older nernnn and STOWn-UPS. v.t tic t-llctia tizlH cf tyrhoil close the success of rural efforts. Ty phoid and diphtheria, the dread of both , adults and children, are effectually mitigated by the vaccination whicz baa been so extensively practiced in recent years. What to do for Measles and Whooping Cough. The State Board of Health does not pretend to have found any specific for measles and ' whooping cough, which " -kills so many babies. It does know, aa -shown in the bulletin, hoW to make -less likely deaths from the diseases. The first thing is to avoid having-' these diseases. If measles is abroad in the community the order is to keep the child away from it If the child gets it the thing to do is to send the victim to bed and keep him there. By careful treatment there will be no ; dangerous, r aftermath which . -really v.-.; makes measles highly fatal., ;: Whooping cough does its worst hi - youth. . The baby under "one year stands one chance in eight of dying; from 1 to 2 in every 10; from two. to three the rate is 1 in every 80; from . three to four it is 1 in every 50; and. f from four; to five, 1 In 200 die. The application is inevitable. October Bulletin Great Piece of Work This bulletin, boosting preventable diseases, is a great piece of work which the Bureau of Epidemiology has given to the public this month and it fa worthy , of even wider circulation than it normally has. It shows what the bureau is accomplishing and fur ther what it can accomplish with the co-operation of the people,, It denies responsibility for the 427 deaths from typhoid and the 242 from diphtheria and invites- the State to avail itself of the easy means at the lowest possible cost of prevention by getting the se rum used in the assaults upon these diseases from the State Board of Health laboratory. " One' very excellent .feature of this bulletin fa the short, crisp' sentences which it carries at the top and bottom of each prge, which express thoughts found in lots of long articles, i Each has a health truth. This feature makes the bullet'n unnsual. . .;, ,; ' Copies will be sent upon request to each county superintendent of schools to be used as a traveling library for schools. ' Its use wfft make an excel lent practical' lesson and will likely save lives and prevent epidemics. CARTHAGE STAR ROUTE . Mr. W. A. Matthews , of Hamlet . spent the week-end on this route. Mr. and Mrsi W. J. Harrington spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. W. Davis at Putnam. . - ; Mr. John VL Sinclair and Mr. Mar shal Smith of Hamlet spent Thursday, night at Mr, T. M. Stewart's. Misses Florence and Margaret Bar ber left Friday for Perquimans coun- y9 wild v viicjr iwh. wvmwm Mr. W. I BiacKman openea scnooi at Priest Hill last Tuesday.,. , Misses Myrtie Stewart and Edna Morris of' Carthage graded school, spent the week-end at home. ' Mr. W. C. Willcox of Route Four passed through this section Saturday. Miss Hattie B. Yow opened school at McRae Monday and Mrs. Joe Wilcos at Pinewood last Monday. The Methodist parsonage at CIci don has been completed and is no readv for the f urr.iture. 1s k find almost ev- pays to advertise. Don't it? grass w ar
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