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' TGE FOUR. TUB GASTONIA GAZETTB,' WEDNESEAY, AUGUST 29, 1917. f ' . The Gastonia. Gazette L Issued every Mondays Wednesday ' and Friday by The Gaiette Pubiish- Ins Company. . D. ATKINS. J. W. ATKINS. KdUoriandMtn Admitted Into the mails at the Poet Office at Gastonia. X. C, at the yound rate of Postage, April a nor SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: n..t.ir 12.00 Six months l Three months ou Oae month 20 All subscriptions payable In ad -ranee and discontinued promptly -: yon expiration. ESTABLISHED 1880. NO. 236 West Main Avenue. PHONE NO. 60. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917. 4 SHOULD BE CAREFUL. i 1 Th fiazette learns that considera- . ible recklessness is being indulged in MVby numbers of people in the county In the making of affidavits acpompa . ' nyihg claims for exemption from mil itary service. It is very patent to the county exemption board that in many cases affiants are making oath to statements which the members of the board know to be false and which those making said statements could not substantiate with acceptable proof. CThis is a very serious matter. The, War Department is very thorough and careful in all the work it under takes and it is altogether probable that affidavits such as those referred to above may return ere long to ; .plague the makers. This Is a very serious period in our country's his tory and no trifling with the truth is v going to be tolerated by the govern- ment. ' The Gazette simply mentions the .matter here in the hope that persons -who may hereafter have occasion to make affidavits in matters pertaining to the selective army draft will be ex- ceedingly cautious and confine them- selves to such statements as tbey can prove absolutely If called on to do so by the local or district board or the -War Department. Only by so doing can one be on the safe side. The fact Is it ought not to be necessary ' '.to remind people that they ought to tell the truth and nothing but the , , troth but under the present circum stances it seems that it is necessary. A BLOT OX OUR FAIR NAME. It is a blot on the fair name of Gaston county that she harbors a Ingle citizen who would oppose the holding of patriotic meetings. Yet he Is In our midit. It is a disgrace that we have within the county people who are against the government, against the war and against the army. Some people have never yet been able to grasp the fact that this Is a dead-in-earnest struggle we are In for the very preservation of our lives, our liberty and our democratic form of government. It has to be fonght to a successful finish and the man who would put a single stumb ling block In the road to victory is traitorous to his country and to him self. Let us have an end of such things. Personal Mention. Mrs. W. T. Love and children lave Just returned from a two weeks visit to Lincolnton Lithia Inn. Dr. William C. Boyden, of Chi na Grove, spent Sunday here with his sister, Mrs. J. M. Holland. Mr. John A. Clayton, of Albe marle, is spending some time with the family of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Brumley, at their home, Clay brum, on the Union road. Mrs. John Blum, a sister of Mrs. "W. T. Love, of Liberty. S. C, who has been visiting in Lenoir, will vis it her sister here before going to her home. Rock Hill Herald. 2Sth: Mrs. J. H. Rndisill and children have re turned from a visit to relatives in Dallas, N. C. They were accompan ied home by Miss Rudisill, who is their guest. Mrs. R. H. Lanier and son Mas ter Allison Lanier, of Memphis. Ten nessee, who have been the guests for several days of Mrs. Lanier's sister, Mrs. J. M. Holland, will leave for home tomorrow. Lieut. C. B. Woltz, of Dobson, pent bunday night in the city as the guest of his brother, Mr. A. E. Woltz. He was en route to Columbia, S. C. where he is second lieutenant in tne quartermaster's corps at Camp Jackson. George Galloway, an escaped ne- gro convict, was shot and perhaps fa tally Injured Monday at Wilmington . by Deputy Sheriff Burt Kelley. ' John Houser, a prominent farmer ' Bring about 17 miles north of Cher ryvllle, died suddenly Monday ar . ternoon. The first casualty to an officer of General Pershing's forces in France occurred Tuesday, when Second Lieu tenant Frederick Wahlstrom, of the v marine corps, was killed in a motor cycle accident. No details of the ac cident were, given in the cablegram. SCRIPTURE ON DRESS. V. Minister Lectoree to Women of Co ' lumbia About Their Clothes. "The Bible on Women's Dress" was the subject of the -Rev. Andrew W, Blackwood last night at the First Presbyterian church, says the Colum bia State of Monday. This congrega tion and the Washington Street Meth odist Episcopal church again wor shiped together. In part Mr. Black wood said: "In these last days before the sol diers come, while we are busily en gaged in preparing to make them wel come, we must not fail to set our own houses in order, for we trust that when at last they go away they will be even better men than when they came, and that they will leave us an even better community. Hence we should concern ourselves just now with the welfare of our young women and girls. They must not be led a stray and they must not make it harder for any soldier to be good, or easier for him to be bad. It is be coming increasingly clear that their welfare depends somewhat largely upon their habits of dress, and so we turn to the Bible and listen to its unfamiliar teaching upon this timely subject. "The Bible is strangely up-to-date. Instead of being filled, as we some times suppose, only with stories a bout the remote past, and with visions of the remote future, it is fill ed most largely with teachings for to day. The prophet Isaiah, tor ex ample, writes about women's dress in terms which are quite as strong as those of Mr. Sunday. Isaiah warns his sisters that they will perish if they do not repent, and that they will drag down with them the men oftheir city. Instead of thinking that un seemly dress is only a theme for Jest-' ing, he sees in it a token that his be loved land is about to fall. "Isaiah spoke almost altogether to the women of the upper classes, for tbey set the standards. They alone had the money and the leisure Tor riotous dressing. He enumerated 21 different sorts of gewgaws, some of which have not yet been rediscovered by the artists of today. Scholars as sure us that no woman was required by fashion to wear of these orna ments at once, but even they can not explain how a mere man could be so familiar with such mysteries. Even a fool could see that it was possible for women to squander fabulous sums on their attire only because their husbands and fathers were grinding the faces of God' suffering poor. With blood bought dollars these wo men were indulging to all sorts of vulgar display, not to speak of their shameless indecency. "In such excesses the prophet saw the tokens of two great, black facts First, his city was beginning to rot, and second, ruin would quickly fol low, unless these vain women repent ed. For when woman falls she falls further than man, and faster by far, perhaps because she has further to fall. When the wives and the daugh ters begin to dress so that no one save an expert can distinguish be tween them and the lewd women or the town, the men in their homes will not long remain true. History tells that the women of Jerusalem did not repent, and that their city did not long survive. The women of Colum bia, with certain sad exceptions, have not yet stooped so low, but let them beware. "What, then, does the Christian re ligion demand of her daughters? Are they to cease to think about dress, or to care about their personal appear ance? God forbid. 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever.' The Bible teaches that dress is essential for health and for comfort, that it is a worthy setting for woman's beauty, and that it is safeguard to her virtue, as well as to our own. Dress enables one handsome woman to walk unmo lested through city streets where her more careless sister quickly meets her fate. Drees enables one woman to mingle among men as a messenger of light, making them think of mother and home and heaven, while her fool ish sister suggests little save sin. And yet we often think of dress as naught but a theme for jesting, and say that it scarcely deserves the at tention of the Christian pulpit. "The Bible commands women not to worry about dress, not to let it as sume too large a place in their world. It commands them to cultivate the charm of a beautiful soul, and to dress with all the quiet, pure beauty of the lily of the valley. The ideal dress calls no attention to itself; it is only a means to an end higher by far than itself. Mere cloth and feathers should never for a moment call attention away from a woman's soul, for that alone is made in the image of God? "Will our young women and girls be safe after the soldiers have come? Yes, if they are pure in heart, if they are modest in dress and if they con duct themselves always as the daugh ters of the King. Dr. Kelman told us that Tommy at heart wished to be a gentleman. So let us frankly face the fact that if any of our daughters fall, the blame will lie at the door, not only of the men, but of the care less parents, and of the Christian community. If parents persist in per mitting their daughters to shock the neighbors, if older women vie with each other in indecent display, and if the entire community, including the church, receives without rebuke those who thus offend, all of us must share in that guilt which must ever follow when unseemly dress leads the way towards the bottomless pit." Attending National Convention. Mr. W. L. Walters Ipavoa Innlirhf for Fort Worth. Tma annual meeting of the National Con vention or tne inited .National Asso ciation of Postoffice Clerks, which convenes next Monday, September 3. Mr. Walters goes as the representa tive of the North Carolina Associa tion, of which he in nrsldpnt Ua will be away about ten days. Sigfried Gomieck, a German pris oner interned at Hot Snrines. this State, escaped Sunday night from tne camp at that place. A general alarm has been sent out for him. He was 32 years old. Gomieck was the first prisoner at Hot Springs to attempt to make his escape. A thorough search is being made In the mountains of Western North Carolina for him. COZY THEATRE TODAY WEDNESDAY BUTTERFLY DAY "The Field of Honor" Five-Act Butterfly Feature of War Times THURSDAY VARIETY DAY "THE GREY SEAL" 2-Act Detective Story "THE LITTLE FAT RASCAL" L. K. 0. Comedy HEARST PATHE NEWS FRIDAY BLUEBIRD DAY DORTHY PHILLIES -IN- "THE GIRL IN THE CHECKERED SUIT" 5-Act Bluebird Play SOUTH LEADS. Xow Consumes A Million More Ralen Of Cotton A Year Than All The Other States Wonderful Growth Of Manufacturing Industry In The South. Special to the Gazette. WASHINGTON, D. C, August 2 "Consumption of cotton in Soutn ern mills during the twelve months ended July 31 exceeded that in all other states by more than a million bales," said President Harrison, of the Southern Railway System, today. "The report of the United States Census Bureau for the statistical year shows that the mills in cotton producing states consumed 3,901,- 413 bales, as compared with a con sumption of 2,899,775 bales in the mills of all other states. The in crease for the year in the Southern mills was 373,885 bales, or nearly 11 per cent, as compared with an in crease of 2!,(i90 bales or barely one per cent in the other states. "The growth of the cotton manu facturing industry in the South may be said to date from 1880, in which year Southern mills consumed but 1 88,748 bales, while the consumption in all the ott'e states was 1,381,5-96 bales. A comparison of these figures with those of the year just ended shows an increase of l,96fi per cent in the Southern mills and but 155 per cent in the mills of other states. (adv. ) Gaston's I toads. Charlotte Observer. The Gastonia Gazette thinks that "if Mecklenburg's commissioners could come over and take a look at the new permanent asphalt roads Gaston is engaged in building, they might find a valuable suggestion to ward the solution of their road trou bles, of which they seem to have a plenty just now." In constructing this type of road the authorities or Gaston County are but pursuing the policy which this paper has consist ently advocated as the only type of road construction that pays in tne long run, and which the State is des tined to adopt before long. In build ing permanent roads Gaston undoubt edly takes the lead over other coun ties in North Carolina, and when process of asphalting her system of highways is completed, Gaston will be pointed to as the finest good roads county in the State. Moreover, oth er counties will still be maintaining an expensive repair system while Gaston will be in the enjoyment of finished roads that call for small re pair expense. The hard surfaced road is the economic road, and the sooner county authorities quit considering any other kind the sooner will they come into the class of money-savng counties. Mrs. John S. Cunningham, presi dent of the North Carolina Equal Suffrage league, expresses the be lief that if the papers would cease writing up the pickets and cease giv ing publicity in any form -to their an tics, the pickets would soon be a thing of the past. The National Wo man's Suffrage League is loyal to the flag, obedient to the President and to the law, says Mrs. Cunning ham. Subscribe to The Gazette. wT- Wk. . . i-w-T-TI tiuirwiUiirsii inr Get rid of hot, smelly, dangerous kerosene lamps and enjoy the advantages of electric light. It will make a new and better home for you and your family. Deko-Light, a simple and easily operated elec tric plant, was designed especially lor your needs and we will be glad to show you how useful and economical it is. Delco-Light is also a chore worker. Its power operates your smaller machines. Price $330 F. O. B. Dayton It pay for itself in time and -labor tared. M. O. FULTON Special Representative, Arminrton Hote iimiimiimmmmiimmmmmiMiimHmmiiimimHiMimm NO THREE-CENT POSTAGE (By International News Service. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The opposition scored a victory today when the section of the 12,000,000, 000 revenue bill providing for 3 cent letter postage was stricken out by a vote of 39 to 29. Flushed with triumph the followers of LaFollette predicted that the bill will be prac tically rewritten before it Is passed so as to place the burden of war taxa tion on the rich. RED cHu CROSS ...DEPARTMENT... RED CROSS XOTKS. There were 28 workers in the work room on Tuesday afternoon. Through the kindness of Mrs. G. A. Gray the work room has been furnished with a much-needed desk Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Crawford and Mrs. Robert Falls from the Crowd ers Creek Auxiliary were visitors to the work room Friday. They brought a quantity of clippings and a gener ous amount of old linen as a dona tion from this auxiliary. Members of the Machine Gun Troop, 1st X. C. Cavalry, have been furnished with blankets. The ladies of the local Red Cross Chapter were requested to assist the soldiers in marking the blankets. This mark ing was done by sewing, a piece of white cloth bearing the words "Ma chine Oun Troop Cavalry" together with Jhe soldier's number, on the left hand corner of the blanket. The soldiers expressed themeslves as be ing very grateful for this assistance Major-General J. F. Morrison yes terday assumed command of Camp Sevier at Greenville, S. C, relieving Col. J. Van Metts, of North Carolina, of the executive details of the camp The Field Hospital Corps of Nortn Carolina is now encamped at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. The Nortn Carolina Hospital Corps is the third unit of its kind at the Greenville Camp. Large crowds attended Balls Creek camp meeting in Catawba county last week. People came for many miles around and it is said that on Sunday there were 3,000 automobiles parked on the camp grounds. JAPAN MAY SEND ARMY. (By International News Service.) LONDON, Aug. 29. Reports are again current here that Japan may send an army to France to assist in the mighty Joint offensive against the Germans. Subscribe to The Gazette. Electricity For Every Farm Electric Light and Power Now Uni vereally Available mm r J V Money in the bank is a strong foundation to build upon. Not all of us can be rich, but each of us can better his condition. Sav ingsteady and presistent will accomplish wonders. Open an Account with us today with whatever you can spare; then add to it as opportunity permits. A foundation for starting some sub stantial business or a competence for. old age will result. mm- mmm "AM Every indication at this time points to Grey and Brown Kid as being the popular colors in dress Shoes for early Fall. We are now showingjthese colors with many other shoes in plain and combination effects. Come in and look them over. Robinson IMPORTANT NOTICE TO WATER AND LIGHT CONSUMERS: All light bills are due and payable on or before the 10th of the month and water bills on or before the 10th of the month after each quarter. Service will be discon tinued if not paid as above stated. A charge of 50 cents is made for cutitng inwater or lights after same have been cut off for non-payment of rentals. This rule will be strictly adhered to. ClTi OF GASTONIA By S. G. FRY, City Clerk S10c5 PIKDMOXT & NORTHERN RAIL WAY COMPANY Special Train For CAMP GREENE EMPLOYERS. Effective 5 a. m., Monday, Aoffast 27, 1917. Leave Gastonia 5:00 A. M. Leave Groves 5:05 A. M. Leave Ranlo 5:08 A. M. Leave Lowell 5:11 A. M. Leave McAdenville 5:13 A. M. Leave Belmont Junction 5:20 A. M. Leave Mount Holly 5:25 A. M. Leave Thrift 5:32 A. M. Leave Pinoca 5:36 A. M. Leave Hoskins 5:38 A. M. Leave Lakewood ... ...5:40 A. M. Arrive Charlotte 5:50 A. M. This train will make local stops at Ozark, Ray, Goshen Grove, Hutchin son, Beatty, Rhyne. and Toddville. Connection made at Belmont Junc tion from Belmont. WMl K ir JL . Grey And Brown Kid Shoes Shoe Co. BROADWAY TODAY VITAGRAPH UNIT PROGRAM THURSDAY VALESKA SURRATT in "SHE" It's a Fox Feature FRIDAY - Edison 7 Reel Conquest . - Program Something new, don't miss them. Watch Our Program Next Week Get a Rand-McNally War Map at The Gazette office; 15 cents.
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