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to Gastonia Gazette. Inued every Monday, Wednesday and frUay by Toe Gazette Publishing Com- , E. D. ATKINS. , . ' J. W. ATKIHS. Editors and Masai-era, Admitted into the mail at the Poet Offioe at Gastonia, N. CL, at the pound WW of Postage. April 28th, 1902. , - SUBSCRIPTION. PRICE. One year 12.00 8li montha .......... LOO Three montha ........ .60 One month -20 All subscription payable in advance and discontinued promptly upon expira Mea. a- . , - -- - - . . ESTABLISHED 1180.' 1 -. No. 336 Weat Maia Arcane. PHONE NO. 50. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1919. LEADING THE PROCESSION, USUAL. AS Announcement today of the organiza tion of a third cotton mill for Gastonia tM i1.it. MMInil f ua again that Gastonia continues to hold her plat-e as the leader in the textile in dustry in the Piedmont seetion. Thia - gives Gastonia 33 plants and the county , more than SO. i It u a matter for further pleasing re flection that Gastonia and the county lead in ether things also. It was Gaa- . ton La which first broached the idea of erecting as a memorial to our soldiers, ' aailors and , war workers a building of some public character Y. M. C. A., com inanity hall, library, hospital or sonie- thing of the kind instead of the con ventional monument of useless stone. Thia idea waa perhaps advanced prior to that in some other section but Gastonia Jed in putting it forth in this part of the country. Immediately it was taken up by other , towns in thia section and the result will probably be that many . . such memorials will be established in the progressive towns of North 'Carolina. 8ome weeks ago Gastonia 'a Chamber of Commerce appointed a committee to give consideration to the problem of boosing. The proposition of supplying fcouses for the people who wanted to oosne to Gastonia to live had become aente. People were, being turned away from town daily because there were no houses to be had.' The town was suffer' lag for lack of housing accommodations , a ad is still suffering. This committee got busy and as a result the Gastonia Housing Corporation was organized and .: has already, sectored ... subscriptions to stock amounting to $30,000. When 10, 000 more is subscribed and it should be takes without delay this corporation will begin at once the erection of an apartment house and a number of cot tages. Charlotte fell in line a few weeks later, adopting ', the same plan,; and we ' expect to see still other towns which may 1m tin atrainiit the same nrohlem adont- iag the Gastonia housing plan also.' , Gastonia leads in other respects, too, but it J not possible la aa editorial or short length to go into details regarding .tJaeen,. .' Aiy place that gets ahead of Gasto- . aia must get up early la the morning. REVOLUTIONIZE THE SYSTEM. Insistent demands for the reform of the United States Army court martial system are being heard from all quarters . of the country. At this time Lieut-CoL "8aanuel T. Ansell, formerly Brigadier General, Acting Judge Advocate General ia the Army, is maintaining that "the whole system is wrong." General Crow iter and Secretary Baker, while admit ting that injustices have been done, eon tend that the system is 'essentially seand." In a Washington' address re cently Colonel Ansell had this to say of the faults of the present system: "la the army any commanding officer : may prefer charges against any soldier, and when those charges become adopted by euiy commanding officer who caa con vene a eourt-martial, they are ordered by aim for trial The statutes do not require nay particular care and consideration up on the part of the officer preferring the . charge. Statutes do not require that the officer ordering the court to try the charge shall make aa investigation as to the prima facie sufficiency of the evi dence.' Statutes do not require that any person with the slightest legal qualifiea , tioa shall determine that the charge and the evidence are sufficient to subject the man to trial ;v - " "Lack of legal control is the difficul ty: .. Lack of legal control at the top, lack of legal control at the bottom, lack of legal control throughout the proceed ings. Instead of legal control, we have ia our system the control of these inher ently judicial functions by. the power of military command. " v t Secretary Baker has asked eVeommit . tee of the America Bar Association to investigate the entire system of army jus tice and report upoa their findings. Col onel Ansell has been named head of the Review Board and has been reeommead irg the mitigation of extremely"' harsh eentenees in such numbers that ' some army officers are predicting that there will be a "general jail delivery." . A number of officers who held eommis-1 sion a during the wsi and who were as- gigned to the Judgo-Advoeate General's Department have' given out the following statement: . ' '. "Our court-martial system has been inherited from English law aa it existed nrior to the American revolution; it had its inception in medieval days when sol Ldiers were not free citizens of the' flag under whk-h they served, but were either paid mercenaries or armed retainers of petty lords. Those were times when arm ics were made up of men who constituted the drees of society, or were no more than the chattels of military command era. - England, France and other demo cratic countries have changed and liber sliced their soldiers; but our armies are till governed by this brutal, medieval court-martial system which has survived outside of the United States only in Ger many and in Russia." Editorial comment from a number of the best newspapers in the country unanimous in condemning the present system. Citing a rase as an example of "Army justice" in which a half-witted youth was sentenced by a United States Army court-martial" lo ninety-nine years at hard lulor for absence without leave, desertion, and escape," the New York World characterizes the system as "lynch law for the Army." The Wash ington l'ont calls the 'system hideous, ' and renin rk s that "there is eoroetimes justice in a court-martial, bn it is purely accidental." Of the system the1 New York Globe says: "Boyish pranks in the Army,' incorrigibility under tlisfip line, or in some instances conflict letween duty to country anil duty to hungry fan ilies at home, brought soldiers in uni form sentences teu times heavier than the courts were dealing out to the Kultur whelps who were traitors to America and friends of the enemy. " During the first year of the war there were more than 3.10,000 court-martials held. In view of the great mass of ev donee that Colouel Ansell has submitted which tends to show that "terrible in jus tiees ' ' have been done the men in the service it seems that there is now no fur ther need for any one to try to defend the present system. Having been given the evidence in the case and there has been a prepomierance-rit appears that it is now high time for the War Department to do away with the present brutal sys tern and put in its stead a system that this great and free republic will sane Hon. Nothing less than the revolutionis ing of the present system will be satisfac tcry to the American people. . .- .t SATURDAY'S CASUALTY LISTS CONTAINED 369 NAMES (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, Auril 19. The fol lowing army casualties are reported by the commanding general of the American expeditionary forces; Killed in action, 4 ; died of wounds, 3 ; died in aeroplane accident, 1 ; died of ae cident or other cause, 20 ; died of disease, 40; wounded severely, 23; wounded, de gree uadeterniined, 23; wounded slightly, 251 ; total, 369. ine rouowing Aortn Carolinians are among those listed above: Died of Wounds: Private Walter U Jones, of FrankHnsvUle, Died of Accident or Other Cause: Lt, Cecil H. Tracy, of Jamestown. Wounded Slightly : Corp. George X. Rheu,' of Grifton, and Private John P. Southall, of Whitakers. Died of Disease Red Cross Worker Ezra Moore, of Goldshoro, and Private James 1yde Jones, of Edueyville. BREST, April IS. Nearly 20,0(10 Am ericau soldiers, including the United Rainbow Division, nailed for the United States from Brest during the past 24 hours. Only the one hundredth and sev en tee nth ammunition train of the Rain bow Division remains in France and it will sail immediately. GIRLS! WHITEN YOUR SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Make a Beauty Lotion for a Few Cents te Remove Tan, Freckles, Sallowness. Your grocer has the lemons and sny drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Squeeze the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in the orchard white and shake welL This makes a quarter pint of the very best lemon skin whitenerand complexion beau tifler known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion daily into the face, neck. arms and hands, and just see how f reck les, tan, sallowness, redness and rough ness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless, and the beautiful results will uprise you. RECEIVER'S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS. : North Carolina, Gaston County. All creditors and parties in interest of the Lloyd Cotton Mills, Inc., argjereby notified to make due proof of their claims against said corporation on or before the 15th day of May, -1919, as required by order of the Court ia the action entitled "The Citizens National Bank of Gasto nia, "North Carolina, plaintiff, vs. The Lloyd Cotton Mills, Inc., Defendant,'' and that such creditors aa shall fail to make such proof by said date, shall be forever barred from participation ia the distribution of the assets of the said cor poration. ' V . V. This the 19th day of April, 1919. '., a B, ARMSTRONG. - . Beeeiver. M-M-5 3r aunts it saved- OR LEE -SEE 8AS Mrs. Perry Could NofWalk Across Rooiv Her Recovery Through Taking Tan Ue Astonishes Friends. ; j '-'My friends are so astonished at my recovery that I just tell them' I'm taking Tanlac, which is enough to account for my being so well,'! said Mrs. E. L. Perry, of 1301 Eighth avenue. South Nsshville, Tenn. "I suffered from such awful attacks of nervous indigestion," she , continued, "that I became really afraid another at- Uack would be my but, for they would almost kill me. v I had suffered for. over a year with these attacks and got so I could eat nothing but milk ami toast; even a drink of water would distress me, and at night I could hardly sleep for the smothering spells that would almost stop my breath. My limbs would become numb and chilled all through, night sweats weakened me till I couldn't walk across the room and. I lay almost helpless in bed for three months. "One of my friends told me how much Taulac has helped her so I started taking it, aud before long I was eating just any thing and feeling much better; my strength began to return and I have been gaining ever since. I can go anywhere 1 want, do all my housework, I sleep like a chilli and get up in the mornings feeling fine." Tanlac is sold by leading druggists ev erywhere. FATHER GF THE PARASRAPf George D Prentice, Oidtime Journal it:. Once Withed to Use fitted. s Well. One himitrtd nhd is?Ttt yfiiro nz Oil rVc-enilior !8. llu rc wn Imrr. at Pri-stnn. t'ni.. iN'oriM l I'rviiiM who Jwcniiio in r I lie ui'i nnie ii)'KpiiNr Men or hN lime, tlin Onlii of llie (Mlltoriiil purhKi'ni li an ilif lrt terse (minted 'iiiiint h made n nn'ii and matters were called, mid who nnrrmvly missed an edit win I career iti Olilo. Prentice toured Ohio In 1S.TO. aVtrt he had already made a name for liim self Id eastern jor.fnnllsin, looking for a locution, hut pushed on into Ken fucky, where at lexlngton he begun work on his "Life of Henry Clay and ultimately became editor of the Louisville Journal. On his way through Ohio he c I led on William D. Galla gher, who had already become well known as an editor and who was then publishing hi unfortunate venture at Xenla "The Backwoodsman." Gallagher was upstairs working with the types that summer day Id 1830 and a helper from below an nounced his caller. Gallagher stopped to make himself a little more present able, whereupon Prentice shouted up stairs, "Never niTnd Inky fingerfTTnr used to lliem." Th two men were In hearty accord then, but It is Interest Ing to note that fhey came to sword' points twenty years later or rnther to pistol points. The slavery question coining up. In the early fifties, the two men found themselves editors of the two prlnH pal newspapers of Louisville Gal laglier of the Courier and Prentice of the Journal, taking opposite sides. Gallagher was strong for abolition and Prentice defended slavery. Their ref. erences to each other soon descended to the level of personal Journalism Finally Prentice went to Cincinnati, where Gallagher had written much for the newspaper, digging up his a hoi I tien sentiments for the purpose of re tailing tbem to pro-slavery Louisville. This aroused the Hon in Gallagher and he applied opprobrious terms to Pren tlce." The next day a Colonel Churchill ar rived at Gallagher's rural home wlih a challenge to him to fight a duel. Af ter reading the challenge Gallagher tore It Into bits and snld fo.Ohnrchlll. Tell Prentice that that Is my answer to his foolish challenge." Prentice died In Ioulsville, January 22. 1870. Delighted With Ice Cream. - It was In an American base hospital In France that I found him. his eyes bandaged, lying motionless on his rot. In o quiet corner of the ward. "How would yon like some chocolate Ice cream?" 1 bent down tc whisper. "Aw. quit your klddlnT he drawled. The words were so pathetically wistful thst It was almost a moan. "But here It ts I said. Tet not till I sat down on the spot to feed him the first mouthful did he believe me. "Why. ma'am. I Just thought you were fool In. I didn't reckon there was any real U. S. A. Ice cream short of 3,000 miles from here, lessways not for me." And the way he' smacked bis lips over that one saucer repaid me for coming those 8.000 miles to make It for him. Mary Elizabeth Evans In Letter From Paris. Food and War. . We went Into the war because the German general staff held the convic tion that American wheat was more dangerous to the Teuton army than American soldiers could ever be, says Balpb W. Page, whose discussion of the food situation appears In the World's Work. They realized what we soon discovered "that food will win the war.1 The ruthless submarine campaign thst outraged Christendom was primarily directed - against the transatlantic Journeys of the Chicago pfg en route to the Tommy's haversack. Bather than risk the replenishment of the polio's larder from the harvest fields of Kansas, William the Con- tiered elected to defy the republic SSSH:..'' ..; ': .;.: " 1 TtJ. t2TJA IST1 NCT1 VENESfi li th nibiU aualitv liat i 1ST! NCTIVENES8 is (he subtle quality that - l srwwn a a sVv.- VTl ' - . . " . & D a M !. duttinguihrs VOCUE I 11111:3 blV-J i ordi-iry. csch creation, rreai rrom tne Vogue salons i'i New York, has a &tlnct and lovely personality. V We sre s! icwing VOGUE HATS for sports and formal wenr; mple ci' ci for both town and country, elaborate ones far social fuicuon. ' . " VOCUE HATS are the very acme of fineness. I hty arc aiways exquisiiely VE HATS . a . 0 Mrs. D. R. Shields UPSTAIRS ADAMS BUILDING First Place For Gastonia. Charlotte Observer. ' The people of Gastonia have adopted the city manager plan of government and fiave thus brought their town . into the ranks of the officially progressive communities. A peculiarity of Gastonia is that it is a town, yet one without the characteristics of a town. It is small, comparatively, but what there is of it, is distinctly suggestive of the city. There are no earmarks of the country town in evidence in its streets, or its. business and residence districts. What has been lack ing to make Gastonia all city .has been provided. When, several years ago, the Armington Hotel was built and 0ened, it was a common suggestion that the ho tel was "25 years ahead of the town." The Observer contended in behalf of Pi lot Babington and Manager Wilson that it was not more than four yeara ahead of the town, and 'even now it is being proved that this paper was right. The town has about caught up with the ho tel, fine as that institution is, and in city and hotel it finds itself taking first place among the North Carolina towns. FOR COUNCILMAN. I hereby announce myself-a candidate for city councilman, subject to the action of the voters at primary to be held on April 2Sth. A. B. ELLIOTT. NOTICE OF SALE OF HOUSEHOLD AND KITCHEN FURNITURE. On' Thursday, May 1, 1919, beginning at 10 a. m., I will sell to the highest bid der for cash the following articles, to- wit:' 6 Feather Beds; 6 Straw Beds; 6 Bed steads; a lot of nice quilts, a lottof com mon bed quilts, good pillows, bolsters, etc. v f- 3 Bureaus, one good old-time - cup board, 2 good chests, 2 lounges, one old Beth Thomas Clock which has been run ning for me 45 years. 2 Tables, 1 cook stove and fixtures, 1 wash pot and other articles too numer ous to mention. l)ay of sale, Thursday, May 1, 1919, beginning at 10 a. m. JOHN L. WOOD, 610 East Third Avenue, 1&-21-28 K. OF P. NOTICE. Gastonia Lodge No. 53, Knights of Pythias will hold regular meeting to night at 8:30 and will do work in 'the Third Rank. All members of the Third Rank Team are urged to be present. CARL E.CARPENTEB, C. of C. B. GRAY RANKIN, K. R, 8. NOTICE OF CANDIDATES FOR NOM INATION FOR OFFICE OF CITY COUNCILLOR AT CITY PRIMA RY ELECTION. - The following is a list of the candi dates who have filed with the undersigned a statement of their candidacy for the of fice of City Councillor to be voted upon at the City Primary election to be held at the City Hall on April 28th, 1919, and their names shall appear upon the ballot alphabetically as follows: W. D. ANDERSON, " R. G. CHERRY, - - -W. J. CLIFFORD, A. B. ELLIOTT, F. L. 8MYRE, . . M. CTHORN, A. K. "WTNGETv This 19th day of April, 1919. -a G. FRY, City Clerk. 21-23-25. ' HATS from lh mus of vie hanoV lulored; 9ttff ar $25 REWARD For return to me of pair of field glass es, ia case, lost sear Kt Benlah Baptist church or near residence of David Frone ger on Dallas and Caerryvillo road. 0a inside of case is name, "-Capf. W. L. BALTHIS, France, 1919." W. L. BALTHIS, Gastonia, N. C TODAY George Larkin and Betty Compson in the last Chap ter of "The Terror of TheERufe" "LOVE and LATHER" Big V Comedy . Also HAROLD LQYD In : , "1 AM ON MY WAY" TUESDAY MAE MARSH In "The Bond. e of Barbara" and " EDDY LYONS and ...... LEE M0RAN In "MARRY MY WIFE" WEDNESDAY: THEDA.BARA In .! "1919 Version of A Fool There Was" Also - , , : "MottandJefrXbrneoV THURSDAY Bessie Barriscale in ' , ' "The Roe of Paradiie" Also FAY TINCHER In "Oh Susie Behave" "THE LOVE CALL, Have Yong;Heardl It? BILL'IE RHODES In a'picturization.of Marjory Benton Cooke's popular novel BROADWAY TUESDAY - IDEAL 1 Hf li . v - -m tfMff, ''; ttf Sn1 SQUEEGEE TRBAI ??5eV .'I Why their end their sides Csto rcd Color cuts no figur in making the treauls of Diamonds. For tire tread moat resist the mauling of rough 4 - and atony roads the grind of macadam and brick. . - ' When the toagheat, most gristly rubber that could possibly be made for Diamond Treads waa made, it just naturally CAMS BLACK Black it will be always upltss a tougher rubber Is . discovered. But the sides of Diamonds are made red purposely be cause Diamond Red Rubber admirably re . aista aide wear, and those red sides make Diamonds diatinctive ly beautiful. Watch those red walled Diamonds they're rolling up 5,000 to 8,000 miles for our cu&tomers aa often aa any other tires, and they COST YOU LESS than moat other tirea. , GASTONIA HARDWARE COMPANY N t . li' Am 5P a s . m m i - ( i V
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