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, - . - ' .. -. ; ' i : ' i cacxtwo. TEX GASTONIA GAZXTTX THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ltflMOL r The American l Choctaw Indian Chosen by French arw Sculptor for Statue of . : ' "American Fighting Man" A Chocr&w Indian, Otis W. Leader of Oklahoma, has been chosen by an eminent French sculptor as model for his atatne of "the American fighting maa." A brief resume of Leader's mm lice In France amply warrants his designation as a "first-class fighting man" and his unmixed American blood Justifies his selection as a typical American. Tnere can be no question of Amer ica's pride in her aborigines, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Indian, vbo was cordially hated by the pl meers and shjiniefuMy ilespolled and exploited by the su'cessors of the pJ oeera, has become in the present gen eration a popular, honored and justly respected citizen. lie has proved his merit Since the white man has ceased to accelerate his deterioration the In dian has ceased to be a "vanishing race." He has become an assertive citizen, standing on his own feet and making bis own way. And when there was war the Indian of today fought with all the courage and grim determination of his painted ancestors. The French sculptor made a wise choice when he selected Private Lead er as his type specimen of the Amer ican soldier. It Is a fitting tribute to the red Americans who fought so vail antly for white civilization and no white American will begrudge the honor. . 470,034 Boy Scouts Raised . f, $354,180,687 in U. S. Bonds " The Boy Scouts of America has grown to a total membership of ' 470,034 since Its organization nine years ago, according to a report Is sued recently. Of this number, 14,800 are scout masters and 17,334 assist ants, while of the 60,351 troop commit teemen and local conncll 'members all but 250 are unpaid volunteers. The scouts obtained 2,343,497 subscriptions in the. five Liberty loan campaigns, amounting to $354,180,687, and war savings stamps amounting to more than , $50,000,000. Nearly 100,000 scents were awarded medals by the treasury department for their work. FACTS AND FANCIES . Originality Is nothing more than doing something which so far no one has thought of try ing to do. There's nobody quite so busy as the man who doesn't want to do something else. If everybody did his best there'd be more men at the top and fewer at the middle or the bottom of the ladder. -. it takes only about three weeks for a woman to learn to hate the bonnet she fell in love with at first sight. The Helm. Our helm is given, up to a better guidance than our own ; the course of events is quite too strong for any helmsman, and our little wherry Is taken In tow by the ship of the great Admiral which know the way, and has the force to draw men and srates and ptiiiifis to their good. Emerson. : ' Putting an Egg in a Bcttle. An egg owy lie put into n botth which has a uiouth much smaller thai the egg, says Popular Mechanics Mag azlne. First sosk the egg In vine;ai ntil the shell becomes soft and pll able. It will then be easy to forci the egg Into the bottle. Pour cold water Into the bottle and allow It t ' remain until the shell becomes hare again. The bottle can then be showt to friends. are certain to be great ly mystified by the sight of an egl 4ft mt m Chemists have developed a method in Sweden for removing carbon from coal tar, leaving a clear, transparent, golden; brown liquid. Eilmlnatetlis Poisons I 3 5 t The chief indications in the treatment of RHEUMATISM etc are to neutralize the toxins and destroy the specific poisons circulating in the body. (cawt vmmtian j u jes and preventing their return. No . " overloading your system with 5 5 drugs. Half a teaspoonful of ; , . 5 Albert's Rheumatic Remedy a , 9 once 01 twice a day is sufficient, a ' S Price $1.00. 3 ti The KELLS COMPANY g if Newburgh, N.-Y. . - - ':: , PROBLEMS FACING STRICKEN WORLD Shaf! Chaos or Reconstruclion in Europe Follow the Great World War? IMPERATIVE NEED FOR ACTION Twelve Months Since the Signing of the Armistice Practically Wasted Call for Aid From America Mutt Be Heeded. Article V. By FRANK COMER FOR 15. Tin- signing of the armistice rndo'l tin- tulning. The slgniii.' f th !;! in-tfy liMHight Imt n'iili"i of :!.' (' lie's ri'siori'il ,U- tittatfil i;uru. In' lmcmi .I'll' iiliciid is tin- work of r-- o ii i iicj ion. .-i fill when I write tin1 vvi.nl "ivcoiistnn-l ion" I hnvo not in idiihI tin- iiie"V renin tiling ol tin- ;if Mridii'it Mf.'ii.s of rrnniv, I'.i'lui'iin, f .-1 1 v. 1 'liiml nnvl Uiissin. tJici'ii'"'" mi l important ns this tuU Is, iieiv--k:: r ,is it Is. it Is only a sinu'l pun of i In vvii-k of reiil reconstruction. 1 1 : t- of tholisnmls of square N!i!'' ni;.ke up the itctniil iir zone, i , io ':..i:mi iiiiinhi'd over, the territorx '"i lv r -ilel! tire. Millions of IKTe .f lirt once yielded fyod in respuns.. to the touch of the plow lliivc for ti,e past four years been tilled liy e ploslves. I'.clhini was literally looted, pi! lacd and ravished. Almost the e;i tivi- state was violated. Nearly on.- i i.-1 1 1 1 1 of Kraiice, her Industrial c -li.ii. was crushed. Hiiildins wer. i!e .-tioyed, factories dismantled. ' iy .I.iii.lllhl : I!.,IV t,.!' . .. in l'oluii'l vv ., laid waste. Italy siill'ered tenil'i.v. J'he ground i flllc with high ep!o- in?, tuidi.-cl.ar'ed mines and shells. Every duyVsince the work of recovery and restoration begun nieii worl.in :i I his zone have been blown to piece i'.illioiis of feet of hnrbetl wire and millions of tens of metal make u d.;!i uvrmis wlldciiess out of what was once :i highly productive area. Cities and villages are jungles of tv.isied, broken, torn wood, iron, brie!: !'nd stone. I have walked through heso villages mid have stood stunned 'y the completeness of the ilestnic- iioti. 1 he streets are uneven and !ii:.ipy with brick and stone and p'a--ler and glass, aisles of wreckage. Koof 'ecs houses w ith walls gutted and torn. eaps and piles of broken building ma- :eri):l : jagged, ragged p:tincles, masses of debris meet the eye. Had I not know:; ol the war and come upon one of these viisiglitl.v, shapeless masses of taaieri- i.t. I siiould nave thetiglit nature pail itiiered Into a mad conspiracy, com bining ..nil concentrating nil of the powers of a cyclone, n tornado ml an earthquake, and spilled their l'urv on these mangled, dead villages. Sights to Wring the Heart. Picture the Refugees returning to these villages coming buck home. What the sight lutist have meant lo flieiii. 1 have seen i hem. their faces gray as the gray ruins, standing in tic hist of- their destroyed homes. I have seen them picking their way over piles of stone anil brick through great openings made In the broken walls. I saw In their eyes homesickness, n hurt of heart 1 never shall forget. Old men nnd old women and little bare legged children; now and again a boy witn a worn, soiled uniform, some limping on crutches, others wearing an empty sleeve. One thought surged through my mind until It almost sickened ini War. The land of the war stone must be reclaimed. These acres nre n.H'iled now more than they were be fore the war. The world's food sup ply Is low. Hundreds of miles of trenches must be filled up. Trees mnft be planted, the ground must be cleaned of shells, cleared of barbed wire; villages, cities, must be whullt; sewer systems must be Installed. The mess must be moved. It is a big Job. One great misfortune Is that al though 12 months have come and gone since the signing of the armistice, no general comprehensive plan of recon struction has been started. Here and there small sections of the devastated regions are being partly reconstructed. Teniorary provision Is being made for the homeless. This Is all well and good, but Intelligent, economical, effi cient and speedy reconstruction de mands a general plan and an organiza tion big enough to ptit It over. The doing of this work requires vision and capacity for doing big things well. If the physical reconstruction is left to Europe It will not be finished In HO years. Here Is a chance for Ainerl.-n. We have a faculty of doing things on a big scale and In a short period of time. Europe needs our help. If we are to give It eventually, why not now? But the clearing up of the wreckage and the rebuilding Is a minor problem compared with the other greater and more Important question of reconstruc tion, the 'reconstruction of industry, the establishment of normal life, , The reclamation of the devastated rea Is, after all." only a matter of plan, time and npouey. and notwith standing the fact that Europe Is bank rupt today, the money must and will come. The barbed wire will be rolled up, the mines and shells will be dug from the fields, the villages will he re built; everything that has been de stroyed wll be replaced. Physical ro consi.T.i.ion is the least of Europe s problems. , , The grent problem Is the reconstriM' tlm of life. The war-devastated nil disordered the life of the world. It threw everything Into confusion; K left the scheme out of balance. Only Road to Prosperity. , We live by work. Prosperity means production. Poverty is underproduc tion. Stripping economics of all Its high-sounding Jargon, the simple truth that everyone knows Is that the world has o-ily the things It works to pro duce. It may not be amiss to state a few facts known by everyone which ex plain the meaning of production: We live on the earth. It Is land and wa ter. In the ground are minerals. The land grows crops. We need the min erals that are In the ground. We nee the crops, but minerals In the ground, as well as the fertile soli, intxtn noth ing until man by his work brings the mineral from the ground and makes the soil yield. We must have food, we must have clothing, we must have shel ter, and the only way we can get these things Is by working. If little work is done we have a shortage. There Isn't enough food to go around, there aren't enough clothes, enough coal, and as a result the prices of all these neces saries go 'way up But this Is not so Important as the fact that when there Is not enough to feed the world some go hungry, others must starve. When there Isn't enough coal, some are cold, others freeze, When there aren't enough clothes for everyone, some must be ragged and half-naked. Ev erything by which we live is the re sult of work. Stop work, and poverty follows. Work, and plenty results. Work Is responsible for everything that goes to make life worth living. To understand Europe's condition today, one must stop and realize that the war stopped production. The re sult Is a shortage of everything. There isn't enough food, there sn't enough raw material, there isn't enough coal. The whole story Is told In the word Poverty. Only Cure Is in Work. Tlwre Is a cure; the iesc:'i;i! ion can be written In a single word. Every one knows that word, but knowing the word and adopting the word are differ ent matters. Before we can get back to normal life this word must find root in the consciousness of the peo ple. We must realize that the world will continue sick and grow sicker un less this prescription is taken. Fur ther, we must know that If we delay taking this remedy it will be a longer time before we get well. The pre scription is work. Every effort should be made to make every man will to work. Every employer must not con tribute to unrest and provoke Idle ness by refusing to negotiate with his men, and into this negotiation he should go with a friendly spirit and a willingness to compromise. The em ployer who meets labor with the thought In his mind that he Is better equipped to fight than labor, because he has a surplus and can eat and be warm, while labor has been living from hand to mouth and will starve, Is shortsighted. He had better get the Idea out of his head that you can starve men Into submission. There was a day when that was true, but that day has passed, never to come. The man who depends upon his abil ity to turn a key In the factory door and go off on a vacation, imposing his will on his workmen,-will discover that these men stopped a certain "gent." late of Pottsdam now of Hol land, from doing this very thing to the world. He may wake up some morn ing to learn a new definition of the word "fight One thing that people do not realize is that the men who fought the world's fight for freedom are the men who are now, complaining that they are not getting a square deal. Who made up the fighting men of the war, the rank and file of the armies that stopped the Prussian PushT Who were the great majority of the Volunteers and the conscripted men numbering millions who went to the front forthe allies? The teamsters, the shophands, the mill workers, the factory hands, the coal miners. These are the same men who are the center of the labor prob lem. Mr. Employer, you are dealing with ex-soldiers. Please don't Torget It They fought for yon. You wouldn't have any business today if It hadn't been for them, and when yon think of the bond you bought remember the blood they gave. (Copyright, 1(10. Wetr Nwpapcr Union) Applied Christianity. The late Archdeacon Madden of Liv erpool used to relate bow on one occa sion he separated two women, one a Roman Catholic and one a Protestant who were fighting In the street After ward he asked the latter, whom ha knew, how she, as a professing Chris tian, could justify her behavior, to which she replied: "Well, sir, I was only obeying you. I have often heard yon say 'Ficht the good fight!' That other woman came into my house and she Saw a picture of you on the mantleplece. That's ao priest said she. 'Nor no parson, neither! lie's only an old quack.' Do you think I could stand that sir? Not Touch not the Lord's anointed ! 1 says, and I nps with my fists and I hits ber !" London Post , Smart Kid. An Irish school inspector was exam ining a class In geography. He had propounded a question regarding longitude and received a correct an swer. "And now." he said to the same boy. "what is latitude?" The youngster hesitated a moment and then with a merry twinkle in his eye he replied. "Please, sir. we have no latitude. The Brltfch government won't allow n any." LOWELL LOCALS last Thursday on account of the enide- A mie of influenia.' - Correspondence of The Daily, Gazette. LOWELL, Feb. 12. Miss Iala. Titman, who is a student at Queen's - College, Charlotte, spent the week-end here with homefolks. , The many friends of Mr. Lester Tea gue are glad to see him out again after an illness of two weeks' with influenza. Messrs. Coit M. Robinson and P. P. Murphy attended the automobile show in Charlotte Tuesday. Miss Ida Groves, who was taken to a Gastonia hospital Sunday, is reported as doing very well. Mrs. G. Frank Hovis attended the meet ing of Gastonia Chapter, IT. D. C, which was held Saturday afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. T. W. Wilson. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Gil liam, who has been quite ill at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blair, is now very much Improved. The Woman's Club will meet this af ternoon at 3 o'clock at the school house, the meeting having been postponed from TEN MILLIONS FOB 1920. Tampa, (FU.) Daily; Tribune. ! Gastonia, N: C, is sending out pro posed building estimates"' for 1920, and the total is three million dollars, ex clusive of seven millions' for mills." V Accepted Incident as Mandate. A remarkable case of ring finding la related of St Atllan, bishop of Za mora. who lived in the tenth century. He wanted to surrender his bishopric and threw his episcopal ring Into the Douro. But a fish brought U back to him, and he concluded that he should' . Wv. .-.. Joumai .ok. Mr. Anne Royal I, born In MaryUimt tn7G9, was not only the first womass Journalist but the first of ber sex tc own and edit a newspaper. She w af file widow of a Virginia revolutionar .war officer, and appeared la Washing ton In 1824 for the purpose of trytnft to socure a government Densioo. Tall ing In this, she started a Btnall weekly sheet which was first called the "Wab tagton Paul Pry? and later the "Hunt ress." She had met personally audi talked with every president" from Washington to Lincoln, and waa tha terror of politicians. - y The Second Load. It takes two trucks to move the a v. eragc household one to carry the fur niture, and the other to convey the old clothes the htttisewlfe gives away as soon as she move into the new place. Knnsn" City Star. Fire Losses and Tragedies. The fire loss In America average 1250.000,000 a year, while 15,000 paw sons die or are Injured by lira each year. 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