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- i - - TWO, -'; THE GASTONIA GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18, J91S. - The Gastoni a Gazeite WEDNESDAY, DEC 18, 1918. YOUR BOY. x By Henry van Dyke. Your boy has fallen on the field of konr, a brave defender of righteousness, ' amnanity and freedom. May a stranger, who ia also a friend, venutre into the sacred quiet of your sorrow to say a word of sympathy and copifortf He was your baby, your own flesh of your flesh, bone of your lione ' a loug time you carried him under your heart. Bat all the while you wanted him to be a man, true and fearless. He was. He heard his country's call. He counted , not his own life dear, lut offered it gladly to defend the world from the menaee of Prussian paganism. Weep for him, yes. but do not forget to be proud of him, ami to rejoice in hirti. No possible ending of bis earthly life eould have leen more glorious, more rewarding for all that you have done for him, than this. He went forth, an American Ikiv your boy to fight for the liberty and the peace of the world. You made him and you sent him. It is your right and duty to be proud of him. Io not be anxious about his lot in tlifr nnpeen world. Leave that to the Right eous God who is the Father of us all, and to Christ who said: "He that los eth his life for my sake shall find it." Self-sacrifice is the key to heaven. You will never forget your boy. Do not think of him as dead, but as living living! lie sure that he will look down from fields of eternal peace upon that victory over the German war lords which is surely coming, and which he helped to win. Be sure that you will see him a gain in a better world "Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, AH rapture through and through, In God 's most holy sight. ' ' WORK FOR RETURNING SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. There U not a surplus of jobs even for wen returning home from service in the army or navy. Nor is there certainty that soldiers and sailors who immediate ly find werk will find the right work, the kind in which they will be contented and productive. For this reason the various war work organizations will concentrate attention for some time on the economic problems of the demobilization. There is enough useful work to be done, but if the right man and the right job do not find each other, there will be a situation hurtful to the soldiers and to the com inanities they have been defending. The agencies concerned in the read justroent are the National Council of Defense, the State and local Councils, the United States Employment Service, the Y. M. C. A. and other ' ' morale ' ' or ganizations, the War Department Com nittee on Education and Siecial Train ing, the eounty farm agents, ami special local bureaus which are about to be or ranized. The success of the plan failure Wing out of the question depends on the in dividual ' communities. The county and community Councils of Defense, the com munity labor boards, the local communi ties these will do the vital part of the work. Whether the soldiers discharged from service shall find productive and appropriate work in their own communi ties will depend on the communities. The plan of readjustment involves the collection of the essential facts and then the practical use of these facts. At each demobilization center every soldier will fill out a blank showing what education and experience he has had, whether he desires work found for him. and where he wishes to settle. These blanks will be turned over to the agent of the Unit ed States Employment Service on duty at the ramp, and new cards will be made for distribution to the local councils of the counties or communities in which the soldiers expect to settle. This plan puts the next duty up to the communities. Under the guidance of the local Council f Defense, interested persons and or ganizations will meet for the selection of a central committee to collect informa tion and see that men are provided with the right jobs and jolis with the right men. No community will wish its soldiers and sailors to say with justice, "They glorified us and then let us drift." The immediate problem is to turn our sol diers and sailors into contented and pro ductive civilian workers. The local central committee will first comb their counties or communities for the positions to be filled. Their next step will be to classify the calls for work, and to find for each man the kind of work he can do to the liewt advantage of all er sons concerned. All other work is pre liminary. A proper readjustment will depend on the thoroughness and skill of the local work. In the readjustment the local Coun cils of Defense and the local committee will ask the aid of county farm acrents, community labor boards, public official, war work organizations, and all good citizens who are prepared to give the sol diers and sailors something more than three cheers. The cheers w ill be given ; the practical aid will be given also. The Kaiser's Book. Oarlotte Observer. The Kaiser is writing an autobiogra phy in which he will set forth a history of his reign and its unhappy termination and in which, it is to be supposed, he will undertake a justification of the war. In case he is tru-i by an international court he will have this autobiography handy as a book of evidence and it will play a part in his defense. He has been considering the probability of having to face this court and has leen getting ad vice on it "from t-vo Herman exjerts on international law." Whether the advice these, experts give him may avail re mains to be seen, because 'he Allied Feaee Conference may have its own in- There Is more Catarrh in t-.ls section Of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was sup posed to be Incurable. Doctors pre scribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by con stitutional conditions and therefore re quires constitutional treatment Hail's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio, is a consti tutional remedy. Is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred Dollars reward Is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. 8end for circulars and testimonials F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c Ball's Family Fills for constipation. terpretation of the situation, and the power for action and execution ia solely in its hands. LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS From Private Charlie B. Laney. Following are some extracts from a let ter which Mrs. J. A. Laney recently re ceived from her son, Private Charlie K. Laney, of Co. K, :i2.Hrd Infantry: France, Nov. 16. l'.MS. Dear Mother: Will try to answer your letter I received yesterday. Mother 1 am still in the land of the living and hope to be home now lefore long. 1 sup pose you know they ceased firing Monday at 11 o'clock, and believe me, they did not stop any too soon to suit me, for our our company had been on the front for three long days. The shell lire up there was something awful, but there were only two boys in our company killed and several wounded, but I am glad to say that 1 came out without a M-ratch. Jim McArver, of (ins tonia. was killed just about ;ii minutes In-fore the tiring ceased. I don t think it will be so very long before we start back to the good old 1'. S. A;.' Will lose, love to all. vour son. CHAKLKS. From Private Meek B. Pearson. Following are some extracts from a letter received Saturday by Mrs. H. A. Pearson, of (iastonia, route one. from her son, I'ruate Meek It. Pearson, who a wounded on September U.'tth. This is ti e first letter received from him since that date, and it is presumed he is in a hos pital in Kngland : Dear Mother: Will write you a few lines to let you know I am all right. 1 was wounded September L'i'th. I am up and walking around now. (iuess you got the letter a Red Cross nurse wrote you telling you I had been hurt. Will not try to write very much as my hand is not in good use, etc. Vour son, MEEK R PKAHSOX. Ainer. Ked Cross Hos., Nov. !!, l;i. From Everett Jones. Following is a letter which Mrs. Fer rie L. Join's recently received from her son, 1'r.ivate Everett .1. Jones, of Base Hospital No. ;!, Base Section No. '2: My Dear Mother: 1 got your letter yesterday with the newspaper clippings in it. We all read anything that per tains to (iastonia and I passed them a r. mid to the folks. I was sorry to hear about 1 -t i II Nolen, as several of us knew him. There was a patient that came in today that lived on .'i.'ld ana Grove, Oakland, and another that lived in Alameda. We see lots of fellows that some of the fellows know, but none so far have arrived here from (iastonia or around Dallas Storms come frequently and it sure looks like winter is upon us. No snow yet but plenty of rain ami lakes of mud. That red clay at home is nothing as compared to our here. Say, you may remember seeing some army motorcycle side-cars. Well, you should we me riding around the country in one. Sometimes 1 take messages to a certain town and we get the sidecar out and burn up the road. French country and villagers are slow to move but out here, when they hear us coming they hit it for the road sides or into the honses, I Yesterday, we went to town in a driving i rain. I had a good raincoat and didn't ' get very wet, but we had two punctures s on the way there, and had to patch them ! in the raiu. It Aappened that cne occur i red near a carnival and we attracted more attention than the carnival. There were all sorts of people around us, from blue uniformed Poilou, to red fezzed Al gerian. It's exciting riding too, as we hit two "Frogs" (Frenchies) the other day but didn't hurt them. Vesterday was French All Saints Day and Memorial Day. There were pa-, rades, troops of the Allies marched, Am erican and French graves were covered with (lowers by the French people and there were feats and etc. But I didn't see any of their food. You should see how the women of the better i lass dress in tue city that 1 spoke of. The censor forbids that I say too mii.li a be ut their dress, but you have heard story that France sets the style. It don't seem as though these people have heard of the hardships of war, but upon cIos.t observation, one notes that many arc dressed in black. For many of their men have "(ione West.'' All the (iastonia ''family'' are alive and getting along well. Frank Morris is as fat as ever i nearly), ('apt. Lineber ger is ''pulling'' them. Misses Boyd and Potts ami Wilder Cunningham are "on the job. ' ' Tie war news looks very (food at pres out and we beliee that by the time this letter reaches you, that "something is going to happen" to that PotsDamln1 I.MIIg. With mill h loe. vour son, PVT. K F.liKTT J. JOXF.S. From Private L. W. Avery. Following are suae extracts from a letter which Mr. Clarence Avery recent Iv received fiom his brother, Private I.. W. Avery: Dear Brother: I .just received y,.nr letter and was glad to hear from you. This leaves me well. We have been hav ing some prayer meetings for about sev en nights and 1 have been going s inc. It makes me think id' being at home, for these meetings are so good and I hope they will go on for a while longer. Last week we had a good time for thiee days, we went to foot races and horse .-in. I mule races and all kinds of other races and had plenty of boxing and good band music; there were about six bri'ss bands there each day, so we had a good old tune and lots of fun. A Tonic Laxative that will remove the bile from the Liver and cleanse the System THOROUGHLY without frlpinf or disturbing' the stomach is truly Perfect Lax ative. LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN is the name of a Reliable and Perfect Laxative which soon relieves Sick Headache, Dizziness. In digestion, Stomach Trouble, Gas and Piles caused by Torpid Liver and Constipation. Alwaysusea Reliable Laxative la the treatment of CoUs, Grip and Influenza. I.AX-FOS wmt PTPSnt In a UmiM Ditfethra Tonic Laxative excellent In Its effect on the System, both as a tonio and as a Isxative. It U lust as tfood for Children as for Adults. Pleasant to take. Children like it 60c. Mide and recommended to the public by Paris Medicine Co.. St. Louis, Mo- manufacturer of Grove's Tasteless colli Tonic. I ; Well, I have received about sit or sev en letters from you in the last two weeks. I think I am getting all of your mail now; so write as often as you wish, I ran read them alL Well, I just went out and got a bate of cake and milk, the cake is not half as - good as mother's eake but it tasted good to me just the same. Well, I am hoping to hear from you , again soon. From your brother, L. W. AVERY. For Christmas Full line of all kinds of Fruits and Candies for the holiday trade. (Jood apples, per bag Go and 7o cents; oranges .10 and 40 cents per dozen. Special prices in quantities for Christmas trees and entertainments. Be sure to see us before buying. Our goods are the best and our pri ces are right. .1- . JOHN FARRIS Wholesale and Retail ifilUFi:' GASTONIA, N. C. 105 East Main Ave. DON'T DELAY Do your Christmas shopping now. Don't delay another day. Why not make it somethii.g useful? Make it a pair of shoes, a hat, hosiery, thirts, ties, reefers, etc.f Come in and make your selection before the rush lecomes too great. Vour for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Howell-Armstrong Shoe Company Realizing the Insult Manual, a negro with a record previ ously dean, was arraigned before the bu colic justice of peace for assault and battery. "Why did you beat that negro up, Manual.''" questioned the squire; "lie called me sumpin ' jedge. " " What did he call you?" "He called me :i rhinoceros, sah, a rhinoceros! "A rhinoceros! When did this oc cur!" " 'Bout three yearn ago, jedge.'' "Three years ago! Then how did it happen that you waited si Jong to re- rent il, Manual.''' "Lawd, jedge, I ain't never seen no riiiiimeres till dis niawuiu'. " Unequalled line of Christraas Gifts at "Gastonia's Quality Book Shop." At-kihs-Baber Book Co. Baseball has been introduced into France. Just imagine nine excited! en thusiastic Frenchmen tatkjng to an um pire all at once. Los Angeles Times. Subscribe for The Gazette. PROFESSIONAL CARDS This is to notify my friends that having been relieved as chief clerk of the Ix)cal Exemption Board, I have returned to the practice of law. n. capps f 212 Kealty Building W. W. Galloway Auditor. Public Accountant. Bank Examiner. and Office Systematizer Charlotte and Atlanta Offices. Residence, Gastonla, N C P. O. Box sr.s. TAX NOTICE. Property owners are hereby reminded that their 1918 taxes have been due since October 1st and that the penalty for non payment becomes effective January 1st. Please caj.1 and settle before that date and save the added expense. V. G. GRIER, City Tax Collector. 30 c 7 MORRIS BROS . We have put on sale a big lot of Ladies' and Misses' Coats and Wraps at prices that cannot be matched in this or any other market. Your opportunity is at hand if you need a good warm coat or wrap. These are not extra fine quality but good, serviceable Coats and the prices are half and less than half their present value. Big bargains al so in Men 's 34, 35 and 36 size Wool Suits at half-price. If either of these sizes fit you come while the picking is good. fVl orris 'Bros. The Home of ' ' Star Brand ' ' and ' ' Bostonian ' ' Shoes. For His Christmas Any man would appreciate any of the following articles as a Christmas present : NICE SILK SHIRTS GLOVES COLLARS HANDKERCHIEFS SUSPENDERS NECKTIES HATS CAPS BELTS HOSE HOSE SUPPORTERS You will find here everything in the gent's furnishing line. Our stock is complete and up to-date and our prices are right. We invite you to come in and seo us. Gents Furnishing Co. West M&in Ave. Fruits amid Caindies For The Christmas Holidays We have a complete line of Fruits, Nuts and Candies for the Holiday trade. We do both a wholesale and retail brsiness and would be glad to have your orders. We can furnish you Oranges Apples Bananas Malaga Grapes Raisins Figs Mixed Nuts English Walnuts " Brazil Nuts Almonds Etc. Etc. All kinds of Candies in bulk'or insmall quan tities. The best and freshest at the most reas onable prices. Phone us at No. 27 and tell us your wants p. P. kvfiitis Wholesale and Retail Phone 27 7-
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