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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-10-16
Red Cross

Washington, ID. c., Oct. 10
Early N this summer Secretary
Baker announced that there
were ,2OU,NDU troops III Europe
Immediately a German war OF
iitial proclaimed 10 the Ger
mnu people THAT this statement
oil Mr. Bakers was not true
because it could not be true. He
said we didn't have an army OF
that size, and that if we had it
would have been impossible for
us 10 have sent the men TO Eu-
rope because OF our lack of
ships, aud that even had we
boats enough 10 carry them,
the German submarines would
hava sent them TO the bot
tom before hey reached
their ports OF destination. He
concluded tn 8 remarkable
house that lack built with the
assurance that German soldiers
would never have anything to
fear from American soldiers.
Our enemy looked on with
snecrs and leers and contempt,
followed by fear and pane.
while Democracy builtan army.
Our Allies watched with hope
aud with doubt, while Il dom
ocracy turned its citizens into
soldiers aud sent the finished
product 10 the batt!cfronts oil
Europe.
You Will remember the 9Th OF
June a year ago, when between
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-10-16
A Daily Duty.

Each day every American
soldier in France is confronted
by a great duty. Our Army
there has great task To per
form for our country, for the
world, for civilization, and for
humanity. Oar soldiers are do
ing their duty with a courage
and fidelity and efficiency that
thrills every heart.
Each day every American
citizen at home is coniorted by
a great duty, duty as impera.
tive upon him or her IA the duty
of our soldiers is upon him or
her as the duty OF our soldiers
is upon them. The American
people have Il great task to per-
form. Ii is to support to the
limit Of their ability our Army
our Navy, our country at war.
To work with Increased ener-
gy and cilicieAcy 80 that our
national production may be in
creased; to ecoponize in con
sumption SO that more mater.
ial and labor and ;ransporta-
ton may be left free for The
uses OF the Government; and
with the resultan, savings TO
support the Government finan.
cially is the daily duty of every
American. 1t is duty that
will be met by every American
whose heart is with our soldiers
in France, who glories in their
courage and fighting ability
and their success.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1918-10-16
Meeting OF Holston Confer
ence Postponed.

News received here Wednes-
day is To the effect that Bishop
Frank Nj. Bristol has postponed
The meeting OF the Holston Con
terence of the Methodist Epis
copal church from Oct. 10, to
Oct. 30. The conference is call
ed To meet in Chattanooga, but
owing 10 Spanish influenza and
the government quarantine in
that city the Bishop advises
that he will convene The confer
ence IN annual session on the
Both at which time II is hoped
the epidemic will be under con
troll Bristol Herald Courier
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Moonshine Sells At $40 For
A Gallon.

Freezing, Va, Oct, lit is
an "open secret" that whiskey
has scared in price, as we'll as
other commodities. Despite the
prohibition LAWS nov in effect,
ii appears that it is possible for
tippler 10 secure drink
even several Of them, provided
however, that he has q fat
pocket book. IL is SAID that
moonshino brand is current at
$50 a gallon.
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Spread of Influenza.

So far rs the state nj large
is concerned, the situation grow
ing out of the spread of Spanish
influenza is far from cncourag-
ing and in some sections condi-
tons are truly distressing. Up
TO Sunday, total of 60, 900 cas-
es had been reported to the
State Board of Health while il
was estimated the total in the
entire commonwealth could hard
~ be less than 100000.
Ia No section is being spared and
the disease within the last day
so has made its appearance in
sections which seemingly had cs
capped it.
In Big Stone Gap, while the
disease has not become epidemic
there are quite number of cas-
cs and there has been two or
three deaths. but the local au-
thoritics are doing all in their
power TO check the spread of the
disease, and if our people will
use common sense and avoid
contact with each other MS much
MS possible and take good care of
themselves we may he spared
the fate of many other commun-
tiles III tins section. The dis.
ease is very bad throughout Ice
County and dozens OF people
have died from the effects of il
within the past ten days.
AT ST. Charles and that section
she spread Of the disease has be
come 50 great and the condition
of the people so serious that the
State Health Board has sent as
sistance there To help combat
with il. Some OF the mines in
that section have been forced TO
close because there were not en-
ough well men to operate them.
AT Cocburn the disease is very
bad and on Monday it was re-
ported here that the churches in
the town had been turned into
hospitals.
There does not seem to be any
part of the entire country that
is spared that dreadful malady.
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National Banks and the Lib
erty Bonds.

erty Bonds.
The Comptroller of the Cur
rency has made an interesting
statement Of the nationa, banks
played in the three Liberty
Loans.
He reports that $4,000 ooO,,
600, little more than huil of
tho aggregate of the loans,
passed through national bank
channels. BY far the greater
part of this was absorbed by
individual subscribers On
June 30 only about $500, 600, 900
of Liberty Bonds, constituting
less than 3 per cent. of their as
sets, were hell 10y national
banks. At the same time the
national bank loans Oh Liberty
Bonds We're only $457, 900, 900,
or 2 ! . per cent If their assets.
These figures are taken by
the Treasury Department to IN
dictate til t Liberty Bonds have
been taken largely by individ
ual investors and are being
held by them.
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SUBSCRIBERS are earnestly re.

SUBSCRIBERS are earnestly re-.
quested to observe the date
printed on their address slips,
which will keep them at all
times posted as to the date
Of the expiration of their sub
scription. Prompt and timely
attention TO this request will
save all parties great deal of
annoYunCe.
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10 Save Our Men From Ger
man Poison Gas.

The Potom,a Division OF the
American Rad Cross m likes the
following request:
A nationwide ampaign for
the collection of C ,rtain fruit
stones. fruit pits, an nut shells
mis-. be vigorously carried on
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Stamp Purchasers Refusing
To Sell.

Washington. Oct. 10. q pur-
chasers OF War Savings aud
Thrift STAMPS are holding them.
y treasury report today showed
that only -, $50, 900 or three
quarters of one per cent of The
S7d6, 600, 600 War wing S
Stamps sold to date, have been
presented for redemption.
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dawn ana dark Ten mlillOn men
Ito lie exact 1856, sos men
between the ages of twenty one
and thirty-one, were enrolled
for military service, how within
forty-eight hours practically all
registration returns were as
sembled by telegraph at Wash
ington.
The same process was repeat
ed last June, and again in Au-
gust, when something like $780,
900 men, the new twenty one.
odds, were enrolled; and now
the fourth registration which
Congress has just AUTHORIZED
includes $4,000. 900 more, up to
forty-five years of age and
down to eighteen. That Will
leave in the country only about
five million able-bodied men;
the rest will be boys and gray
heads.
At first glance the biggest
thing about the draft appears to
be its size, but great as that is.
the numbers are hardly as re-
markable and as significant as
the fact that tho people raised
their own army. Every town,
city and county nominated It's
best men, and they were put in
charge. No mighty federal
war machine composed OF army
officers was sent from Washing
ton and intruded everywhere
into the framework of local
government
AT the capital Provost Mar
shall General Crowdrr with Il
force of forty officers perfected
the plans ami directed the wort;
assisted 10y five hundred clerks.
mostly women. The sclective
draft was put into effect by
thirty thousand civilian officers
and was administered by home
town people, friends and neigh
bors. IL was the finest demon,
stration ever made of local self
government.
AS TO the cost, 1t Is To be not
ed that the bill for the draft is
far less per man than for volun
teering. In 1914 it cost 32l IS
for recruiting Il man INTO the
volunteer system;in 1915 it was
$40 II, and for the nine months
just before we went to war il
was SIS %. During the first
Year of the war down to the
seventh of April, 1918, official
reports show that the cost for
registering each man was 81
cents. The cost for each M!
called was 81 90, and the cost
for each man accepted for ser
vice came TO 81 90.
The appropriations for the
Provost Marshal Generals Of
flee We're 9l9, 1874 ,903, and the
expenditures were $l3 ,o54 1914 fl
and included among its largest
items the salaries of local and
district draft boards $i.2l0,0O
salaries OF clerical assistants TO
district and local boards S3, 900
( 900 and 50 ,54S,Il3 was spent for
printing and other expenses.
Orr Army is, every Ameri
can believes, the finest body
OF human beings the sun ever
shown on 1t is fit To fight that
the world may be made safe for
democracy, and tits built strict
~ on the lines Of democracy
RE millionaire and the hum
blcst laborer march side by side.
Officers are drawn from every
walk of life, No man is exempt
ed because he is rich. None
are drafted because they are
poor. Men are measured by
their Willingness or their capa-
city Past, or caste, or crceds
are not taken into account.
Thus the sclectivc draft has
become badge of honorable
service.
Sincerely yours,
ANTOINETTE FUNK,
/
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YOU undoubtedly have al
ready an excellent collection OF
Liberty bond S. We would
strongly advise You to add to 10
as many specimens as possible
o. the Fourth Liberty Loan.
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Americans always had the
reputation Of being drivers, and
this may be the reason why they
are meeting with SO much sue
cess in France.
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Save for Your Country or
Slave for the Hun.

DO your Christmas shopping
early is an Old, old friend. 1t
has always made the appear
ance the W k following
Thanksgiving, and nothing
could be more unexpected than
to find it greeting us early in
October.
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Back Your own with the
Bond You Own.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-31

were properly posted and were on the
job. A shell whizzed over his head
and landed just behind the parados
and the dirt spouted up like imagine
Yellowstone geyser looks.
Another officer came up to the lieu.
tenant-a new one who had only
| Joined the company about q week be-
fore. They had walked about ten
yards when another shell whizzed over
rthem. They laid to and q third one
came. There were three in less than
five minutes. directly ever their heads.
Then a shell landed on the left side
Of the trench and poilu yelled that
four men had got it. They were all
wounded and three died later. The
lieutenant went over to them and lust
after he passed me lad got it square
not far from me and was knocked
over to where was lying.
The lieutenant came back and
helped me with the f1rst-aid roll and
then the Germans began using shrap.
mel. The lieutenant was swearing
hard about the shrapnel and the Ger
mans and everything else.
Farther to the right shell had lust
struck near the parados and made a
big crater and across from it. againat
the parapet. was a young chap with
a deep cash in his head, sitting on
the ire step and next to him a fellow
nursing the place where his arm had
been blown OFF. Our bread ration Law
all about the trench and some of the
ana water and wiping the biscuits off
on their sleeves or eating as fast as
they could. Only some of the biscuits
had fallen in bloody water and thew
did not eat these.
A young fellow, hardly more than q
boy, stumbled over the parados and
fell into the trench right near the
lieutenant and the lieutenant dressed
MS wounds himself I think he was
some relation Of the boy.
The lieutenant asked him how he
felt but the boy only asked for water
and smiled. But you could see he was
In great pain. Then the bow said
On, the pain is awful. / am going
to de-
you are all right, old man." the
lieutenant said. "You will be home
soon. The stretcher bearers are com.
Ing. So we passed the word for tha
stretcher bearers.
linen ne took the water bottle from
the boys side and sat him up and gave
aim some water. He left the water
bottle with the chap and went to
lurry the stretcher bearers along.
"hen ne got around the corner of the
,rench the boy was slipping back and
Lne water bottle had fallen down. So
went over to him and propped him
up again and gave him some more
water.
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| friendly with the men, and while ]
think they liked him they were so
| tough they would never admit it, and
some of them claimed he was IL Jonah,
| or jinx, or bad luck of some kind. But
they all told him their vows as soon
as they made them and he was sup
posed to be a sort of referee as to
whether they kept them or not.
During my second stunt in the front
lines things got pretty bad. The Ger
mans were five to our one and they
kept pushing back parts of the line
and cleaning out others. And the
weather was as bad as it could be
and the food did not always come reg
ularly. Now, before they took their
VOWS, every last man in the bunch
would have been kicking and growing
all the time, but, as it was, the only
time they growled was when the Ger
mans pushed us back.
Things kept getting worse and you
could see that the men talked to the
chaplain more and quite few Of them
got real chummy with him.
One morning Fritz started in bright
and early to. begin his strafe. The
lieutenant was walking up and down
the trench to see that the sentries
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-31
Delivering the Goods,

Nothing is permitted to nonplus the
British royal air force photographer.
If the store of the rigid material un-
eXpectedly runs short he makes shift
successfully with q substitute. In
emergencies, when the supply of acety-
lOe gas has given out he has been
known to develop his plates most sue
cessfully by the glow of lighted ciga-
rette. He delivers the goods, and his
prints pass with amazing rapidity to
the intelligence staff, the detective
clearing house of the Photographic re-
suits Of air reconnaissance.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-31
Go to Bed and Stay Quiet -
Take a Laxative Eat Plenty
of Nourishing Food-Keep
Up your Strength = Ma
ture Is the Only "Cure"
ALWAYS CALL A DOCTOR
NO OCCASION FOR PANIC

| NO OCCASION FOR PANIC
Spanish influenza, which appeared Ii
Spain in May, has all the appearances
Of grip, or la grippe, which has swept
over the world in numerous epidemics
as far back as history runs. Hippo
rates refers to an epidemic in AZ
B. g., which is regarded by many to
have been influenza. Every century
has had it's attacks. Beginning with
1881 this country has had five epidem-
les, the last in 1889-9O.
There is no occasion for panic-influ-
enza itself has very low percentage
of fatalities-not over one death out
of every 400 cases, according to the
N. c. board of health. The chief danger
lies In complications arising, attack
ing principally patients in rundown
condition-thOse who don't go to bed
soon enough or those who get up too
early.
THE SYMPTOMS
Grip, or influenza, as it is now called,
usually begins with a chill, followed by
aching, feverishness, and sometimes
nausea and dizziness, and a general
feeling of weakness and depression.
The temperature is from 100 to 1O4,
and the fever usually lasts from three
to five days. The germs attack the
mucous membrane or inning OF the ar
passages, nose, throat and bronchial
tubes there is usually a hard cough,
especially bad at night; oftentimes
sore throat or tonsillitis, and frequently
all the appearances of a severe head
cold.
THE TREATMENT
Go to bed at the first symptoms, not
only for your own sake, but to avoid
spreading the disease to others-take
Il purgative, eat plenty of nOurishing
food, remain perfectly quiet and don't
worry. Quinine, aspirin or Dover's
Powders, ETC., may be administered by
the physicians directions to relieve the
aching. But there is no cure or spe-
cif1c for influenza-the disease must
run it's course. Nature herself will
throw off the attack if only you keep
UP your strength. The chief danger
lies in the complications which may
arise. Influenza so weakens the bodily
resistance that there is danger of pneu- |
nlOnial or bronchitis developing, and |
sometimes Inflammation Of the middle |
ear, or heart affections. For these rea-
sons it is very important that the |
patient remain in bed until his strength |
in bed at least two days
Or more after the fever has left you, or
If you are over SO or not strong stay
in bed four days or more, according to
the severity of the attack. e
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CHAPTER vi.
Fritz Does a Little "strafeino."

FItS& OOSS LIGGte SCFafGIn0,"
My outfit was one Of those that saw
the Germans place women and chill.
dren in front Of them as shields
against our fire. More than a third of
our men, should say, had been pretty
tough criminals in their own countries.
They always traded their pay against
handful of cards or a roll of the
bones whenever they got a chance.
They had been in most of the dirty
parts of the world. This war was not
such much to them; just one more
JOB In the list. They could call God
and the saints and the human body
more things than any boss stevedore
that ever lived.
Yet they were religious in a way.
Some of them were always reading
religious books or saying PRAYERS in
dl1ferent ways and between them thew
believed in every religion and SUPER
stltlon under the sun, I guess. Yet
they were the toughest bunch ever
saw.
After they saw the Germans using
the Belgian women the way they did,
almost every man in my company took
some kind of VOW or other, and
most OF them kept their VOWS. too. I
believe. And those that were religious
got more so after that.
Our chaplain had always been very
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CHAPTER V-Continued.

1 never saw a battery better con
cealed than this one. Up on the ground
you couldn't see the muzzle twenty
yards aWay-and that was all there
was to see at any distance. There
was ruined garden just outside the
gun quarters, and while the gunners
were there picking apples there would
be hiss and an explosion, and over
would go some of the trees, or maybe
man or two, but never shell struck
nearer the guns than that. The poilus
used to thank Fritz for helping them
pick the apples, because the explosions
would bring them down in great style.
Shells from our heavy artillery passed
just over the garden, too, making an
awful racket. But they were not in it
with the ''75's."
They gave me little practice with
10" under the direction of expert
French gunners before I went to my
14fnch naval gun, and, believe me, it
was a fine little piece. Just picture
to yourself a little beauty that can
send 38-pound shell every two Sec
onds for five miles and more, if you
want it to, and land on Fritz vest
button every time~ There is nothing
like better than q gun, anyway, and
l have never since been entirely salts
4ded with anything less than a "75."
As you probably know, the opposing
artillery in this war is so widely sepa-
rated that the gunners never see their
targets unless these happen to be
buildings, and even then it is rare. So,
since an artillery officer never sees the
enemy artillery or infantry, he must
depend on others to give him the range
and direction.
! Fsr this purpose there are balloons
and airplanes attached to each artil-
lery unit. The airplanes are equipped
with wireless, but also signal by
smoke and direction of flight, while
the balloons use telephones. The OBJ
servers have maps and powerful
glasses and cameras. Their maps are
marked off in zones to correspond with
the maps used by the artillery officers.
The observations are signaled to
receiving station on the ground and
are then telephoned to the batteries.
All our troops were equipped with
telephone signal corps detachments
and this was very important arm
OF the service. The enemy position is |
shelled before an attack, either en- |
barrage or otherwise, and communion
ton between the waves Of attack and |
the artillery is absolutely necessary. |
Bombardments are directed toward |
certain parts Of the enemy position |
almost as accurately as you would use
searchlight. The field telephones are
very light and are portable to the last
degree. They can be rugged up or
knocked down in a very short time.
The wire is wound on drums or reels
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-10-31
SPANISH INF[UHNzA---W WHAT TE
ANDNOW IT SHOULD Be TRAIN
Was Epidemic in 1890 Only Then It Came That
rom Russia by Way Of France and
This Time by Way of Spain
EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS

In Order to stimulate the -
the air passages to throw off tho ny OF
germs, to aid in loOsening tho -, ppe
and keeping the air passages onn m,'legm
1'aking the breathing easjer ~ y. mus
VapoRub will be found effecti,.o '1Cks
wet towels should be applied ovo. not
throat, chest and back hetn.ooe' tne
shoulder blades to open tba rot .ne
Then VapoRub should be rrhh tJreS'
over the parts until the Skin f.
spread on thickly and cover VIII Lea
th1cknesses of hot flannel cIoths Two
the clothing loose around the no @J."W
the heat of the body liberates ~b bo' q, az
gradients in the form of ,,nr ll
These vapOrs, inhaled with each hrp poS
carry the medication directly - 'a y.
parts affected. At the Same 4,u ne
VapoRub is absorbed throurb ' als
stimulates the skin, attracFina ana
blood to the surface, and thns o ue
In relieving the congestion within
HOW TO AVOID THE DISEASE
Evidence seems to prove that tbiS :,
germ disease, spread princino,IS
by human contact, chiefly tbrounS
coughing, sneezing or spittinp g.
avoid persons having colds-wbicS
means avoiding crowds-comnOnn
drinking cups, roller towels, etc. KoOn
up your bodily strength by plenty n
exercise in the open air, and good food
Above all, avoid colds, as colds irri'
tate the lining of the air passages and
render them much better brepdina
places for the germs.
KEEP FREE FROM COLDS
sign of a cold. For head cold. melt q
little VapoRub in a spoon and inhalp
the vapOrs, or better still, use Vano.
Rub in a benZoin steam kettle. If this
is not available, use an ordinary tea.
kettle. Fill half-full of boiling wa.
ter, put in half teaspoon of VapoRub
from time to time-keep the kettle
just slowly boiling and inhale the
steam arising.
Note-Vick's VapoRub is the dis.
covery of a North Carolina druggist
who found how to combine, in salve
form, Menthol and Camphor with such
oils as Eucalyptus, Thyme. Gu.
bebS, etc., so that when the salve is an.
piled to the body heat, these ingredi.
entS are liberated in the form of va.
pOrs.
VapORub is comparatively new in
New York State and New England and
a few Western states where it is lust
now being introduced, but in other Sec
lions Of the country it is the standard
home remedy in more than a million
homes for all forms of cold troubles.
Over six million Jars were sold last
year. VapoRub can. be had in three
'izes at all druggists. 1t is particular
v recommended for children's Group
md colds, since 1t is externally applied
md therefore can be used as freely as
lesired without the slightest harmful
fleets.