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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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all sizes on short notice. &ee usaooui n.
KISEft LUMBER CO., Lessees.
Kings Mountain, N. C.
ale I
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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
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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.
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