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ft. i ? j - ''6 i Liberty, Truth, h.hh.h. Justice, Equality. Vol. 1G, No. 4. Kings Mountain, North Carolinu, Thursday, April 25, 11)18. 81.50 A Year in Achnncc EVERYONE MUST HELP. Wara cannot Da (ought without monty, and upon tho Traaaury otntora rvcy financial dtmand upon tha Nation. Tho rich of this country cannot alono moot tho nooda of tho Nation; tho man of tho country cannot do ' It alono tho woman of tho country cannot do It alono; hut all of iia, tho paoplo of tho United Sutoa, Clara gardlng partlianchlp. forgetting oelflah Intoroota, thinking only of tho oupromacy of right and determining to vindicate tho majooty of American Idoalo and eecure tho aafoty of America and clvlllatlon, can do tho groat and aplendld work which Ood haa called upon ue to do. W. 0. McADOO, Secretary of tho Treasury. LT. DAFL AND fE A The entertainment at the school auditorium Thursday night under the auspices of the Fredrick .Ham bright Chapter D. A. R, was a rr.ost pronounced success from every angle. The bi i ding was packed to capacity with paid admissions swel ling the door receipts to above $ 00 which will be devoted to Red Cross and War Relief work. The program was intensely inte esting from start to finish. The chief attraction was an address by Lieu tenant Dael of the French army who is in 'the states' training the Sammiei in the art of European warfare. "At the beginninj of the war we didn't know how to fight and we have paid dearly for the ex perience and want your boys to know how before they go over", said the Lieutenant His English was bro ken and a little slow of utterance but hejheld his audience with tensest of interest throughout his discourse of near an hour. He pictured life in the trenches as 'no picnic' but as a stern reality, a big job, but one that is unavoidable. He expressed the confidence that all good men feel, that the Allies will eventually win over the German powers but was frank to admit that it will re quire men, money and food. Mrs. Goode of Shelby rendered a reading entitled "My Fl.ig and Your Flag", and flourished aii Americau flag while reciting. This was pro nounced one of the be t readings given he e in a long li ne. It was brief, to the point and full of expres sions of true patriotism. Three members of the S.mmies Quartette of Camp Chronicb were present and gave vocal music. This part of the program gained greater applause than any other. They were all extra fine singers and their voi ces blended most harmoniously. The trios and solos were entirley within keeping of the war1 times and the occasion. Each time they sang en chores were called for and had. The meeting was presided over by Dr. 0. G. Fulls in a most elegant and efficient manner, He called upon Rev, R. A. Swaringen to open the exercises with prayer and closed the meeting with the "Star Spangled Banner," Attorney D. Z. Newton was present and introduced the speaker in a few well chosen words. Great Wheat Stocks Isolated. It' the ihortaie la ahlpa tail la puulug the Allies and tho (Jolted Siatea on wheat rations. Ureal atovka or wheat are I to taled ui India, and Auatralla. At freat eacrtflco in ahlp apart and uao tho Allies are forced to na ture aonic wheal from Arc enUna, ' On January I. Auatralla bad atom luu.0OU.0U0 buahela of wheal that waa ready for ex port but there were no ahlpa. Then rnme tho new crop wltk an exportable aurplua of 80,000,. UUO buahela. Now Auatralla baa approximately 18O.UO0.OU0 buah ela waiting for ahlpa " India, at the name time, had 70,000.000 buahela of wheat .stored for" export During April M.OMMMO buahela more oot of the new crop will bo edited to ' tho pile. Argentina rloeed tho but ship ping eeaaoa with 1 l.UOU.OUO buahela of wbeat left hi tho stock available for exitort. Tho now rrop will add J!,OUU,0O0 to the left over. It la not a problem (hat tho wheat, doea not oiImI In tho world it l enilivly a problem of ahliiplng,' whlt'b haa thrown on Aoierlt-a the olillgntlou of divid ing our cluck with the Allln. U. S. Must Cut Use Of Wheat by One-Half America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly, From Now Until Harvest Must Use Only 21,000,000. RATION PER PERSON IS li POUNDS OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Hera Allied War Dread Must Be Maintained Our Soldiers and ' Sailors to Have Full Allowance). LIBERTY DAY Tomorrow, April 20, has been proclaimed by President Wilson a '"Liberty Day", and it I ex- pected th.t every community will make renewed efforts to well Liberty- Bond and that each e- tlren will rally to the causa i and pledge anaw his fldility to jht ooamoo oiose. : MPROVEHEHlS BEGIN AT KLOTHO COTTON MILL John Mason and associates, the I new owners of the Klotho Cotton Mills, are planning and will begin r.jlit aw. y, t make decided and x ended improvements on the 38 tenant ho ses, the streets and the mill, and will sometime later install electric lights. : The tenant house i will be thor oughly o.erhauled inside. The old up-and-town part it ions will be torn out and rt placed with studded and pUutered partitions. The walls will b e plubt .red anew and the wood work painted. Tne outside of the houses will be painted and re paired and some of them converted into bungalows. The streets will be graded and sidewalks built up and both streets and sidewalks covered with crushed stone The mill will be painted inside and outside and new maple floors put hi As soon as practicable the inachimry will be overhauled. When the frames just put in are started up the mill will have 7624 spindles. When the work planned by the new management is finished the vil lage will present a neat and attrac tive appearance and will be a most satisfactory place for the operatives to live. The work already planned I will coat ten thousand dollars or ! more and it Is highly probable that other improvements will be sugges ' ted as' the Work progresses that will further add to the cost and thorough Inesaof tbenterpriaefr , If we are to furnish the Allies with the necessary propor tion of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest, and this la a military necessity, we must reduce our monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, as against our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels, or 60 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situa tion as set forth by the U. 8. Food Administration at Washing ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for special, easen, leaves for general consumption apprexlmately 1V4 pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food Administration's statement continues: Many of our consumers are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population can majte greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat products than can the poor. In addition, our population in the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abun dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations. With improved transportation conditions we now have avail. able a surplus of potatoes. We also have in the spring months a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains. To effect the needed savins of wheat cent, of tha average monthly amount ars are wholly dependent upon the voluntary aaelatanca eC the American eople and we iiak that Um following :vlea ahall ha ohaerved: L Hooaefolderi to us not to sicoed t total of 1 , pounds per week of heat product) per peraon. This means not mom than 1 pounda of clorj bread containing tho required oercentage of eubatltutea and one-half pound of cooking floor, macaroni, crackers, paatry, plea, cokes, wheat hreakfaat cereals, all combined. 1 Public eating -placea and clubs to observe two wheatlaaa dara per week, Monday and Wednesday, aa at present. In addition thereto, not to servo to any one guest at any one meal sa aggregate . of breadatuffa, macaroni, crackera, paatry, plea, cakes, wheat breakfaat cereals, containing a total of mora than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served aalaas specially ordered. Public eat las establishments aot to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for sack ninety meals aerved, thus con forming with the limitations requested of the householders. ' 8. Retailers to sell oot more than one-elf hth of a barrel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more than one-quarter of a barrel to any country cuatoroer at any one time, and In no caas to sell wheat prodsets without the sals of aa equal weight of otasr cereala. 4. We ask tho bakers and grocers to reduce the volume of Victory bread sold, by delivery of the three-o,aarter pound loaf where one pound was sold i before, aad corresponding proportions La ether weights. Wo also ask bakers net to Increase tho amount of their j wheat flour purchases beyond TO par purchased la tha four months prior to llarch L 6. Manufacturers using wheat prod ucts for non-food purposes should ceaas suck use entirely. 6. There Is no limit upon the use ot other cereals, flours, and mails, corn, bsrley, buckwheat, potato flour, ot cetera. Mnny thousand families throughout the land nre now using no wheat prod ucts whatever, except . a very small amount for cooking purpoies, and are doing so In perfect health and satlafac Uon. There Is no reason why alt of the American people who are able to cook In their owa households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use ol leaa wbeat products than ons and one half pounds a week, and we specially ssk ths well-to-do households Id the country to foUow this additional pro gramme In order that ws msy provide the necessary marginal sapplles foi those parts of tho community less able to ndapt themselves to so largo pro portion of substitutes. In order that ws shall bo abls to make tho wbeat exports that ars ab solutely demanded ot us to maintain the civil population and soldiers of the allies and our owa army, we propose to supplement tho voluntary co-opera-Uon of the public by a further limita tion of distribution, aad ws shall place at once restrictions on : distribution which will bo adjusted from time to Umo to secure as nearly equl table dis tribution aa possible. With tho arrival ot harvest, ws should be sble to relax such restrictions. Until' then wo ask for ths ecessary patience, ascrlflco and es-operatloo of the distributing tradaa, . CLEAN OP NEXT WEEK Next week is "Clean Up" week in Kings Mountain. It is so decreed; and announced by the Civic League. It is expected thatevjr family In town will see to it that every old tin can and avarv other" tiIma of i nbbish on 'the premises is assembled and pntin a convenient plve for the ' night. The town will have the rubbish hauled away during the last three day; the week. One dollar will be paid for the largest pile ot trash and fifty cents each for second and third. This thing of cleaning up adds more to the comfort, general appearance and health ful cess of a place tban anything else of equal cost Let's make it the cleanest town In tha world. iOWJ $1,030 FOI IELBETHEL LOCAL TO A Gaston county jury Saturday iwarded the plaintiff a judgement f $2,000 to be apportioned equally letween the town of Kings Moun ain and the Southern Power Co. in he fifty thousand dollar damage uit bgainst the co-dere'nda;it3 for the death of Charles Hunnon on an ilectric wire near the East Kings .fountain gradad school building in Vugust 19111. The wire came loase .'rom the pole in ths early part of -he night and fell across the yard or Lesley Barnes and lay there until 1:30 the next morning when the 12 year-old Hannon boy on his return from the Dilling mill to Jesse Mc Janile's, his boarding place, ran in to it and was burned to death. 'Negligence" was the charge brought igainst the town and the Southern Power Co., in letting the wire lie so long after it had fallen from its po rtion. The case was brought by the boy's father, W. P. Hannon, who lived near Bethlehem church. The town offered to compromise the lamage with Mr. Hannon soon after the accident by paying him $1,000, the amount now fixed by the jury for us to pay. The Herald has nev er learned whether the Southern Power Co. offered any campromise in the case. The verdict was accepted with general satisfaction here. Cleveland Stan ds Near To Top U to April 1st. all the agen cies in North Carolina selling War Savings Stamps had sold $2,331. 052 worth of stamps. This represent the maturity value. We have the- list tabulated by counties which shows great vir iation for the differn' sections of the state. The sales by counties range from Watauga county with $16.97 to Forsyth with sales am mining to $168 591.61. Ashe u altes no report at all. C'e veland comes third from the loi with $78,310 9!. Gaston is put down with $19,249.47. This is tl offi cial data sent out by F. II. Fries State Director, at Winston-Salem. I', is assumed by the Herald that many counties had not put! an thti "Limit Club" drive when this report was made and that lie m x; epo. t will show a much etU'r grading f. r many count ies. We think this to he the case with our tiPihbor. Oaslon. We ire buro that ClevelunJ lias sold many tliousai.d dollars worth of stamps since April first. We fee1 a senso of pride, however, hat we are orf record as starting off s i near the head of the list. For syth coqnty is, of course, Col. Piles home county and naturally ought to get. a' better start, aud Guilford, the- xunty between Cleveland and Forsyth has the millions of cotton mill resources to draw from. So, everything considered Cleveland is right in the front line trenches. I Tlit Kli)?:lii:! I,j-nl of tho Far jinjrs' 1'nioii in a iiuolinn assem I hied Saturday April l:!tli , voted unanimously to aslt for the resig nation of 11. 'J. Alexander as president of tlm state union. Tho mallei- was picseimd hy .1. North Smith who still "1 want it understood tha' 1 am a tlior ouy'ihred American and tlial what the Koverninor.t is doing by way c( financing and conduc ting the war suits me to a letter". At the conclusion of Mr. Smith's patrioli'j address it was voted unanimously that the loltowing resolution be adopted; "Whereas the plans of finan cing lln government and the alleged standing of the Fanners' Union on Ihe same lias beep cal led to our attention, in session, ''Now. therefore, the Klbethel Local of tlio Cleveland County Branch of the Fat mors' Union, do hereby pledge our loyalty to our government and our appro val of the system of financing tho war, both by taxation of war profits and by bond issues, and that we will do all in our power for our country in this time of crisis, and will take, and encour age everyone also to take all the bonds possible, and that we hava full and explicit confidence in President Wilson and our rep resentatives in Washington, and that we stand shoulder to shoul der with thorn". After the above resolution had been passed and strong utteran ces had beeu Issued from many it was voted "Unanimously" to instruct the delegates to the cou nty, union to instruct her dele gates to ask the state executive committee to ASK H. (J. ALEX ANDER TO RESIGN AS PRE SIDENT OF THE STATE FARMERS' UNION, it being the opinion of the members of Elbethel Locil that the welfare of the union depends upon such action and that it is their duty as patriotic American citizens to pursue this course. Sianed by proxy, W. S. MAUN E if, Secy. (This article should have ap peared last week but did not come in until after we had prin. ted the paper-Editor) THE HBRALD, ILU per rear AUTO, FOUR MON'HS Recorder's coart was held last Thursday for the first time in a few weeks. There was only one case before his honor, B. T . Falls. O. B. Bennett of East Kings Mountain was arrainged for transporting whiskey and was let ofl with four months service on the roads of 'No. 6 township and the confiscation of his automobile with which he hauled the stuff around. "The way of the trnsgressor is hard." TAX NOTICE I will advertise all town pro perty that the tax is not paid on after May 1st. B. F. Lindsay Town tax collector. Adv,
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