iwin MMNWtwwiwwHiiiiiwiiifiHiTiimniimmntttimfijTI'mitlf' ..uuMUMUMlHluuiw,.. :$ I Mi,..- . !H'!!!"i HIE PRESENT COT- 1 ' . ' '"'"'ill II SCREEN Keep the Gas Range Bright, and Shining You can do it simply nnd easily with practically no work. It will add.enormously to the appear ance of the kitchen arid will sdve repair bills. A solution of warm water and ; : mule jew ; bomx , will take the dirt, grease and rust sr ots off in a hurry and keep your rane a bright and shindig 33 ;t was the day you got it. And thh is Just' one of t!: j ways that you can keep your kitchen hyisnicaiiy clean w'tti Borax, the oldest and best cleaning agent end disinfectan: for home use. 20 Mule Team Borax has a hundred household uses. . . ot pound fTsi" ' I jjr "i Have Pictures Made BRANCH OFFICE Shelby's Studio Office 'two doors below Pastime up stairs. " W.O. RUDDOCK L,lonal Oprora.lrl.t Byes Examined and Glasses properly fitted. National Bauk Handing KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. ARTHUR HAY All Kinds of Insurance KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Have Your Cloth' es Cleaned and Pressed at the ntiviy r 1 casing CLUB We clean and Press Ladies' and Gents and Children's clothing in the most approved style. I thank too for your patronage. : PHONE 214 B- A. QNCAID, prop.' 15 E It Will Settle Nation's War Debts and Will Care for Sick and Wounded. &heTroof el the pudding is in the eating. So the proof ol goH printing it in the atufactioa of the iht and lha re- Kcurod. Wo are specialMs in me kind ol prating that bring but en equipped to handle ! 0g Id this hoe that yon Med. Once In a while some .one asks: "What's ttie need of another Liberty Loan now 'that the war is over?" Revenue from taxes will not be suf ficient to pay all the bills, so the people will be called upon to provide the money by '.-subscribing to govern ment bonds. This money is goiuy to pay oft the army of producers at home the farmers, merchants, manufac turers and others. America had Just begun to fight when the Hun decided it was time to Quit. Allied leaders expected the war to last another year and the United States government was turning out ships, arms, ammunition and food to overwhelm Germany in one big drive. . Treasury officials have revealed that in 1919 Amer-ca would have had a tank at the front for every seventy live feet of line. We would have had ten tons of mustard gas ready for shipment for every ton Germany could produce.- Thousands of batter ies of guns would have been in act ion for every one America had In 1918. Everything else was being produced in proportion. - ; This gigantic preparation brought an early end to the war and saved thousands of lives. Victory Liberty Bonds will pay for this work which had been contracted for and was be ing delivered when the armistice was signed. There are other purposes for which money is need. Part of our army of 2,000.000 men must be kept in Europe until the peace treaty is signed. These soldiers must be fed, clothed and otherwise maintained. Then they must be brought home. The sick and wounded must be car ed for in hospitals. The army must be demobilized. There are thousands of maimed soldiers, heroes of the great war, who must be taught self supporting trades and given an oppor tunity to earn their living. This reconstruction Work at home must bo carried on. Tfie job must be finished. The American people who furnished the money to win the war must supply it also to bring th na tion back to a peace basis. FINISH THE JOB Success of the Victory Liberty Loan, the fifth government war loin, will depend largely on the savings of the people of the nation. ; To insure Its success, we must save NOW to practice anew the great lessons of the war, thrift and economy. Aside from the loss of respect for our selves as a nation, every family will be unpleasantly effected. If the com ing loan Is not fully subscribed. Uncle Sam's war exchequer is compelled to spend money to maintain the army of occupation, to rehabilitate tho wound ed, to bring borne the victors and to carry out the program of reconstruc tion. . , This money is being borrowed from the banks of the country, and -Uncle Sam is issuing short-term certificates of indebtedness in anticipation of the coming Liberty Loan and of the fed eral income taxes. If the banks were not speedily paid back, their resources would be gone, and as they could make no loans, credit operations would be hampered and busings stagn-ite. How about it? Will we, finish our Job that of paying tha wr.r bills, as our Immortal heroes finished theirs ci vanquishing the Hun?; They were" not quitters, even when called on to make the supremo sacrifice. Will we be quitters, when there is all to gain and nothing to lose? - A llttlo saving now Is all It will cost and this saving will mean a stronger grip on the futnri The Victory Lib erty Loon will soon be offered. Will yon be ready to di your part? . There are all kinds of cheap printing . but none of it Is real ly cheap at .least not on n basis of value. Cheap stuff . is usually worth al- -most what it costs. Our printing Isn't the cheapest you can let, but It's as good as the' best. G. H. jVlcDaniel's NEW SHOE Ad vertisement on Local page.. A Suggested Program For Dealing With It (By B. W. Kllgore. Director, N. C. Exp. Station and Extension Service, , Treasurer N. C. Cotton Association.) The South, and North Carolina par ticularly, wrought wonderfully well during the war period. Large crops, except cotton, have been made, par ticularly food crops. The cotton crops of the country for the four fears of the war 1915 to 191S-rwera ll.fOO, 000 bales. 11,302,000, 11,460,000 and 11,192,000, or an aWage of If ,411100 bales, against the lour pre-war jirops of 1911-14 of 16,135,000, 14,166,000, 13, 703.000, 15,693,000. or an average of 14,922.000 bales, which is an average of 3.511,000 bales more annually prior to, than during the war period. The acreage of last year was but 942,000 less than for 1914 when the bumper crop of 16,135,000 -bales was produced, The low production for the past four years has been due mainly to bad seasonal ijoridltldnt In Texas and Oklahoma. Good winter rains already have been had In these States, and with the same acreage as In 1918, near 36.000,000 and good sea sons, a crop well nigh as large as our largest can and likely would be made, which Is far beyond what there are any reasons to thiuk the world will consume. Big Crop, Low Price. Our bumper cotton, crop of 16,000,- 000 bales in 1914 brought $800,000,000 and our 11,600,000 bale crop of 1917 brought the South $1,600,000,00). or twice as much as the bumper crop. We know what this means "big crop, low price." Cotton at present prices Is at, If not below, the cost of produc tion, and not an inconsiderable num ber of North Carolina farmers have cotton of two years on hand. It would seem that the world needs and will consume at cost of produc tion, plus a fair profit, the small crop if 1918, especially as this is one of tour small crops In succession, the av- -irnge for thje tour years being 11,411. 100 bales, or 14,000,000 less for the '.-nr year war period than tor the fonr year pre-war period. To Make This Effective. What can be done to make this effective-? ': 1. A well-defined co-operative pro gram on the part of the banker, the merchant and the farmer for holding and selling should bring results. 2. Along with the movement to en able the farmer, the merchant and the banker, or whoever has cotton, to hold It till the right time to sell, must go a program to house the staple. 3. What Is perhaps more important when measured In terms of Its effect upon the future of our farming In dustry, Is a plan for preventing the production of a cotton crop this year greater than the world will require. A reduction in acreage of from one-fifth to one-third has been suggested as the method of doing this. This would mean for North Carolina In round numbers; a million acres Instead of a million and a halt of cotton. This would leave a half million acres hers tofore devoted to cotton available, for food, feed and soil-Improving crops, - Better Land for Cotton. Cotton should likely, In most cases, be put on the better land, Including some at least of the Jand planted to soli improving crops during the past year. It shonld be fertilised with the view of economy so as to meet the needs of the land thus used and the crop, and increasing the acreage pro duction and reducing the cost so as to meet the almost certain lower pric for cotton next fall. 4. Another matter of serious con cern Is the price of fertilisers. The prices of fertilizers are the highest we have ever known, and while the cotton grower cannot afford. If possi ble, to hII-iw his acreage, yields to dTllne, fertilisers must be used, as to quantity and kind to best meet the needs of the soil snd the crop. Foid and Feed Crops. ' . IS. it will be easily agreed that all reduction in cotton should go Into food and feed crops and pnstnre In an effort to make an the food and feed for the State on the farms of the State, so ns to save transportation charges and Intervening profits, to make easy the holding of cotton, to bacco, peanuts and other money crops, and to encourage and support onr growing livestock industry beef cat tle, hogs, poultry, sheep and dairy cows for the family cow, onr dairies and creameries and for our new cheese Industrythese, together with onr farm and townspeople and our an imals, make a practically sure mar ket at remunerative prices, for all the food and feed crops and roughage that can be grown. . Entitled to Better Living Conditions. 6. Finally, we must have In mind as a whole people a readjustment of our wage and living scale. We should not Want to gd Back to the-old con ditions as regards these. Cotton, pea nuts, tobacco and other money and general crops In the whole South have been produced with low-priced labor with much child labor, unpaid or underpaid. , These crop, have been sold to the world on a basis of this kind of labor and we have bought products from other parts' of the country an basis of a higher labor and J itgher living .scale than our own, greatly to the detriment ol onr owa standard of living as a section. YOUR HOUSE . ' . . . . V'1 ;: f SCREEN ARE A NECESSITY V The are necessary to both H EALTH A N D COMFORT cause more discomfort, disease and death than anything dse in tho world of its, kind. SCUEEN YOUR DOORS AND WINDOWS ANH KEEP THIS PEST OUT. We are prepared to make screens of i a - . ei 1 . a. all sizes on short notice. &ee usaooui n. KISEft LUMBER CO., Lessees. Kings Mountain, N. C. ale I you need some coma in and sec US warnm mamm Your Groceries -Should be bought with refer- ence to both Quality and Price. We take cr;re of you on BOTH THESE ITEMS SEE US FOR: Flour, Meal, Meat, Lard. . Sugar, Coffee Rice Grits , Irish Potatoes, Sweet Po tatoes, Canned Goods CSLc SEED IRISH POTATOES SEED BEANS ONION SETS FINE ROASTED COFFEE SPECIAL 22c PER LB ' .'.""... ,".'..".'.'. .....'.. AUCTION SALE Saturday, April 5th, 10 a. m. I will sell at public auction, my farm tools consisting of one twohorse wagon, one section harrow, one combination Cole planter, plows plow stocks, and all other farm implements. .Sale to be at Q. S. Ware's res idence. W. F.Dover. '1 f