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French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Mrs. E, G. stillwell has been sick
for several days.
O
Louis E. Hesterly is in the hospi-
to1 at Camp Green with influenza.
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Miss Emmie Terrell of Salters, s. c.,
has been visiting Mss Lille Brooks.
Mrs. Nathan Bsts.ay left TOR Nr, ~,
70 ON Saturday to he with her tc5>fIc.
DR., E. P. Mallett has gone to Nea
Work City on a business trip.
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Miss Alice Latham has accepted a
nosition with the First Bank & Trust
company.
Mrs. Watkins of Greenville,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Smith, is visiting in the city.
o
" F. Penny left for Chapel Hill on
Sunday to be with his son, William,
while undergoing Gil OPO4o IAOAA
Miss C. Terrence left Saturday for
her home in Savannah, Ca, after
snending the summer in this city.
John Beck, who is III Penniman, Va,
has been quite i'll with pneumonia,
which developed from influenza.
Mrs. \. E. Gaines has returned from
New York city, where she visited her
son.
Miss Helen Grant, a daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Luna Grant, has accepted a
nosition with Miss NJ. E. Woodall.
Miss Elizabeth Belk is spending two
weeks at home until school is opened
again at Concord, N c..
Miss Lucille Belk came home from
Peace Institute, Raleigh, n. c., and
will remain until notified to return.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Johnston and Mrs.
F, H. Station have gone to Hot Springs,
Arkansas, for a months stay.
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NJ. NJ. Shepherd, who has been i'll
at the A. & E. College in Raleigh,
y. c.. is reported as improving.
P-a-- 10
Mrs. Henry King, who has been very
sick with influenza at the Patton Mem
orial Hospital, is better.
10
Mrs. Alice Dukes and daughter, Miss
Bertha. have gone to Alcolu, s.. c., to
visit relatives and from there will yls-
it at Portsmouth, Va, -u-
Mr.. and Mrs. w. p Bartlett, from
Virginia. are with Mrs. Sample for a
brief stay enroute to Florida for the
winter.
l.. R. Geiger and family are visit
ing relatives L Wave aosS, ga and eN-
pect to be ont Of the city for quite
awhile.
M. C. Latson, wa has hre1 Iii the
government services al Oklahoma City,
has been transferred to Little Rock,
Ark.
10
T. B. Conner, who is with the Cham
pion Lumber company on Pigeon r1v-
er, visited his family in Henderson
vile this week.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17
LIBRARY READING ROOM is
CLOSED BURING QUARANTINE

Although the public library is open
each day at the regular hours for the
exchange of books, the reading room
has been closed. against use during the
prevalence of Spanish influenza in the
community.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17
RELIGIOUS SERVICE AT CEDARs

On last Sunday night, when services
were not permitted at churches, Rev.
L. n. .Hindry, of st. Augustine, Fla,
conducted religious services at the
Cedars following the supper hour.
A collection of $50 was taken for the
Bed Cross.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17
Fioht II Out Now.

You cannot u away from a weak
ness: you must sometime fight 1t out
or perish. and If that be so, why not
now and where you stand2-R. L. Ste
vena0n.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17
People and EUents

The Hustler would appreciate items of news for this or any other de-
partment IF the paper when mailed. brought in person or telephoned.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

=" Buy Liberty Bonds see
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17
OVER THE LAND OF
The LONG LEAF PINE
SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.

Concord-Clarence Smith seven
years of age, was instantly killed
while on his way home from school,
when he was struck by a large truck.
Gastonia.-S. o. Marlborough, a well
known citizen. Of the Long Shoals sec
ton of Lincoln county, and a brother
OF q. e. Marlborough, of Gastonia, was
killed by a shifting engine on the Sea-
board Air Line railroad:
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

FayetteYille.-The eighth name was
added to- Cumberland county's honor
roll when Machinist Raymond Man
chea Gallup, U. s. N, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. D. =. Gallup, of this city, died in
a naval hospital at New London,
Conn, after a brief illness.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Raleigh.-The State Food Admins
tration making public a number of
violators of the food regulations who
have been disciplined following inves-
tfgation of charges against them, an
nounced that the black list order
against ]. L. Thompson Co., of Dunn,
has been withdrawn.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Kfnston.-Deserters, eight or ten Of
whom are banded together in the one
locality, may have robbed the home OF
Edward Brown, one mile from Beula-
vile.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

1O-3-5tp.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Miss Bertha Foster, who has held q
clerical position with the firm of E.
Lewis & Son during the summer, has
resigned to accept school work in the
Chimney Rock section.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

WalIace.-Since the opening Of the
market here $3.50 0GO pounds of tobac-
co have been sold at the high prices
which have prevailed throughout the
State. Donations of tobacco by the
farmers and warehousemen now
mount to S937.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Salisbury.-Mrs. H. C. Daniel has
received word from brother, Dick
Russell, that he was injured some days
ago in action in Europe, receiving a
bullet wound in his right shoulder.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Lumberton.-In order to do all pos
sible to prevent the spread Of Span.
ish influenza in Lumberton, the mayor
and board of aldermen have passed
ordinance -quarantining against
Charlotte, Wilmington, Fayetteville
and all points in Bladen and CImber-
land counties.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Charlotte.-A. contract for the con
struction within the shortest possible
time of a salad oil plant here for
Swift G Co., was awarded to a Char
lotte contractor.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Wake Forest-The Wake Forest
unit Of the student army training
corps was officially indicted into the
government service in front of the
college administration building in the
presence of a large number of town
people.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Winston-Salem. - Former Governor
R. B. Glenn, who has been quite sick
since his return from a business trip
to New York, was reported to be rest
ing more comfortably. A weak heart
is the cause of his illness.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Carthage.-A cablegram has just
been received here announcing the
safe arrival overseas of Lieut.. Henry
L. Graves of the Air Service Casual,
with the American Expeditionary
Forces in France.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-17

Jasper Lamb, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. H. Lamb, has been quite i'll with in
Auenza.-tHe had reached the point of
embarkation when it was learned tina;
he was not in physical shape for the
trip.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Equally Pernicious

are women people when they are
enemy aliens? Common sense tells us
tnat they are. SO does the popular dram
atist, who follows life from afar. What
spy play ever ran on the movie screens
which didn't have woman top-liner in
it? And what diplomatic melodrama ever
lacked a beautiful intriguer worming
fateful secrets out of confiding officials
whose heads she has turned?
Our government has so far put women
enemy aliens into the same innocuous
class as children under fourteen years of
age. This may have been gallant, but it
was ill-advised A woman can do almost
anything that a man can do in the way
of espionage. She can plunge as deep as
he can into sabotage and incendiarsm
She can spread the poison of sedtion and
defeatism even more subtly than a man
can spread it. If she has the will to DO
these things she is just as much menace,
ii left at large, as any male enemy plot
ter is.
There can be no question of equality or
inequality of sex in such matters. Women
enemy aliens should be put under the same
restrictions as are imposed on men. They
should be registered They should be in
termed. if their activities arouse suspicion.
The House Of Representatives rcceded,
therefore, from an unsound position wnen
it passed y bill last Monday abolishing
sex distinctions in the treatment of enc
mics within our gates.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
A New Head

Luck to Bernard NJ Baruch, new head
= of the War Industries Board, who is to
act as ''the general eye of all supply de-
partments". SO his function is drama
tized by the President in striking
phrase
The job is not new Neither is the
thing called the War Industries Board
except for the head. 1t has been with
out one, and, therefore, imperative as
war instrumentality, since Mr.. Willard
gave it up and went back to his Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad
In Mr.. Wilson's letter of appointment
the functions of the Board and the duties
of its chairman are described and defined
in a simple and very interesting manner.
Nothing new is elaborated, but there is
a feeling of crystallzation. The terms
of the problem are beginning to be
formulated.
Some one at last is going to be respon-
sible for synchronizing the governments
stupendous industrial demands, for
allocating the materials produced and for
bending industry to war without wreck
ing it,
Mr. Baruch has an extraordinary
equipment for the job. He is dynamic,
intuitivc and honest. He knows the soul
of business and how to touch it. Also,
he possesses the unbounded confidence
of the President
The War Industries Board may not
solve the war problem, but SO long as
Baruch is at its head it will never be
futile or static
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Walking Dangerously

Every one will agree with Magistrate
House, of the Traffic Court that .thc
figures of killed and injured in the last
lew years present pretty tragic situa-
ton. The various ways proposed of re-
ducing the mortality lists simmer down
to two ciples-legsation and educa-
ton. Magistrate House is for education.
SO far as the automobilsts are con-
cerned-and they are the chief offenders
restrictive and punitive laws have not
made great headway. The laws arc not
enforced rigidly. or they are enforced
spasmodcally; and some authorities con-
tend that in any case they are not strong
enough. But the proposal to add to them
laws governing the movements of pedcs-
trians is merely likely to produce confu-
sion worse confounded. Such a law
would not and could not be enforced.
Magistrate House instances as an ex-
ample of that impossibility the narrow
downtown streets, crowded during the
lunch hour. No law could confne the
throngs in those streets to the crossings
and the sidewalks.
The alternative is to educate both
motor car drivers and pedestrians to the
idea of safety first. Considerable head
way has been made in that direction in
recent years. If the Board of Education.
the streetcar companies and the other
big interests affected could be enlisted to
spread the doctrine, as he proposes, the
net result inevitably must be better than
the result from placing another unen-
1orceable law on the statute books.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Politics as Usual

Tammany carried the four city dis
tricts in which elections for Congressman
were held yesterday. The men voters
were apathetic. although very high
percentage of the new women voters was
polled The Republican voters were the
most apathetic of all.
The Republicans had fair chance of
carrying one dstrict-that in Mannat-
tan. But here the colored voters of EIar-
lem registered protest against the Re-
publican nominee.
The Tribune said few days ago that
the failure of the two leading parties to
put in the field candidates Of recognized
ability, broad gauge ideas and the gen
eral equipment so sadly needed to-day in
Congress was scandalous. A fine oppor-
tunity to improve the quality Of the city's
representation in Congress-now at so
low an ebb-was thrown away. When Will
the politicians learn that we are at war
and need to draft cur best talent into
the public service?
The Republican organization in this
city did not rise to the occasion. Will it
profit by it's mistake?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Hubert Fl. Bancroft

Hubert Howe Bancroft enjoys 2
unique distinction among historians. He
was the first Of them to conceive the
idea Of mass production. AS Oliver Wen
dell Holmes once said of him, he invented
"the application of machinery to litera-
ture"
His work raises the question whether
history is an art or an industry He
spent enormous sums collecting material
He gathered together library of 1000
volumes, valued at $500 900. He en-
ployed a large staff of assistants and
turned out gigantic works, "The History
of the Pacific States for instance, run
ming to forty large octave volumes. "The
Native Races Of the Pacific States" and
'The History of Mexico" are almost
equally monumental in scope and matter.
1t may be said that Mr.. Bancroft col
lated historical material instead Of writ
ing history. History in its highest form
10 selectlve and critical. 1t cannot well
be otherwise But research, ccmpila-
ton and Authorization are also the
tasks of the historian, and in this field
slr. Bancroft has had no rival. He has
prepared the data from which the his
tory Of the Pacific Coast before the Span
ish conquest, during Spanish occupation
and under the beginnings Of American
rule will eventually be written
That Is fame enough for one man.
When Mr.. Bancroft's enterprise was new
it astounded the literary world He be-
came striking literary figure. In the
last two decades the novel effect of the
mechanical system has worn off. We see
'ew that it has inevitable limitations
Literary and critical mastery il still the
final test Of an historians quality. But
II would be foolish 10 withhold from Mr.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Hog Island
BIZ THEODORE ". KNAPPEN

come experts in comparatively short time
Thus, men who have never seen ships be-
fore, but have riveted bridges and tanks and
structural steel, can be trained in from one
to two weeks to proficiency for these par
ticular jobs.
Work is now progressing on the first keel
which was started week ahead of schedule
time, and keels will soon be started so fire.
quently that the fact will no longer be an
event. The first stages of ship assembling
IN new plant are very slow Speed is
gained with time. Not only is there the
enormous preparatory work of building the
yards, but there is the tedious task of build
ing up an immense force of skilled workers
and learning how best to do things from the
initial experience. This is the answer to
the ott-repeated and usually impatient ques-
ton: 'Why, if they going to give us
SHIPS so rapidly in November and Dccem-
ber-hfty in sixty days-can they not give
us some within three or four months"
Slower Now, Faster Later
If the objective were not volume produc-
ton in the shortest possible time Hog
island could doubtless emulate the Skinner
d Eddy yard, at Seattle, and give us, say,
ten ships before November But when the
ten were done quantity production would
stlil be IN the future. Therefore. we 70
without the ten ships in the next few
months in order to get them at the rate of
one every two days after November l. Ten
ships more or less this year Will not win or
lose the war, but 12O great ships between
November and July may turn the trick.
Inc smaller yards must hold the gap until
the fabrication yards begin to pour out the
ships in fleets. There are about 140 smaller
yards on the job. They represent about 700
ways, as compared with only 33 large shin
ocean coast ways in the whole Of the limited
states IN 1914. 1t is doubtful whether the
limitations OF the available equipment, ma
tcrial and the skilled labor supply would
permit OF more rapid expansion than this.
Inc small yards are doing their work. with
Out interference from the fabrication wards.
as rapidly as is possible with the degree Of
clhclehcy or ineficiency so far attained in
our general management of the whole task
OF moblllzing American industry and labor
for war.
we must not forget the limitations Of
brains -
there had been brains cnough-"top
men, enough-the American international
corporation would have tackled 250 ways in
one or more yards, instead of only fifty
me corporation could find executives for
but fifty iY'
men may have some bearing on those
large salaries that so profoundly worry
some Of our Senators.
Go be continued
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
What Is Creel Saying?

Elsewhere on this page we reproduce
from "The Independent" another install
ment of the Administration propaganda
in America, written by its official propa-
gandist, Mr. George Creel. The subject
is Mr. Garfield, the Fuel Administrator.
The target is "The Metropolitan Maga
zine" The purpose is to prove that
President Wilson is not to blame for the
fuel famine. "The Metropolitan Maga-
zine" had said that he was, since it was
he who appointed the Fuel Adminis-
TRAITOR
Mr.. Creel does not deny that the Pres
ident appointed Mr.. Garfield. He merely
affirms that it was an excellent appoint
ment, and that the editors of hostile
magazines and newspapers who have
said it was not, or that the appointec
was without knowledge of coal and
lacked executive experience all of them
lied!
If the editor of "The Metropolitan
Magazine" had only lied to be malicious
or Republican or anti-social that would
be bad enough. But Mr. Cree finds that
he lied seditiously, that is to say, 'falsi-
flying for the purpose Of weakening the
faith of the readers of his magazine in
the war measures of the government
The Committee on Public Information
has consistently sought to intimidate and
defeat criticism of the Administration.
1t is only now beginning to use its power
and the peoples money to destroy critics.
The more one sees Of the Administra.
tion's American propaganda the more
one wants to know what its foreign prop
aganda is like. What is Mr.. Creel say
ing in the name of American democracy
III Russia, in France in Switzerland and
elsewhere abroad?
Propaganda is a new toy in the hands
of democracy.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Greetings

1t seems a pity that our hard working
Mayor feels compelled to cut short his
winter at Palm Beach just as he was
getting nicely acquainted with Nh
Hearst. But life is full Of these hard
blows. All our happiest afternoons must
end some time. One cannot 90 on forever
pacing the Florida sands and drawing
inspiration from the countrys noblest
patriots, however agreeable and clevat-
ing such a life would be-
By all means roll out the potted palms
to soften the blow. And may the winds
be soft and the sun warm. We should do
our best to make Mr. Hylan realize how
we appreciate his sacrifice. There should
surely be a band playing Everybody
Works but Father" And transparencies.
What more appropriate, now, than a
little greeting from the people of the
city, the frost-bitten, reading succinctlv:
"Welcome: the joke is on us!'
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06

brave armies, have once more set the
enemy at naught'
In the Ukraine Germany finds q vast
storehouse Of coal and iron, sugar,
wheat. cattle and in the Caucasus be-
yond the much needed oil. What is tiny
Belgium worth beside all this and
the loose Baltic Provinces and Lithuania,
almost unworkod, thinly populated and
offering open field for German c,Dan-
sion? What nation having come into
gifts 80 rich in promise for the future,
as the German commentators are jubi
lantly declaring. would not willingly ac
cept defeat, and all the moro eXultingly
in the knowledge that the enemy was
fooling himself into believing the victory
his? 1t is this reaction, this preparatory
frame of mind, which may have been the
purpose of last summers propaganda;
II is only a guess, but each days news
goes further in its confirmation
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Anatole France Gives Journalists Joy

tffom The indtduapohs Ncurs)
fernaps because so many authors Of pop
uiar fction arc former reporters the imprcs-
sion has become pretty firmly established
that Journalism is a poor school for the
training of writer's Enforced haste in com
position and the distractions attendant on
writing in newspaper Office preclude great
nIcety of style and results often in crude
workmanship One recalls the letter writ
ten by Robert Louis Stevenson to Richard
harding Davis then a reporter. and to
others working with him, that if they ever
expected to become writer's they would have
to burn the midnight oil in overcoming tho
iaults contracted in the hurried poundinc
out OF stories and ideas in the days work.
But now comes Anatole France. tho ,,,.,s
ter French stylist, with a word of cheer fo.
'he pioddlng thousands Of embrvo Thack.
erays and Stevensons in newspaner otficos
III Is AN lnveterate prejudice" he saws in :,
recent introduction to a book Of verso an
believe that one spoils his pen in wrjtinq
Tor the newspapers. On the contrary o,o
gains in that way suppleness as also case
ana mat readiness without which the nbraso
ooss not move gracefully and neven srnilos ,,
his dlctum viii be accepted as final bv tho
most OF newspaper reporters who ALREADY
see IN their styles the growing sunnlonoss
and fuency that augur the develonmon, -
genius. "
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
An Interesting Speculation

What was the meaning, along in the
latter part of last year, of the wide
spread and highly vocal concern in Ger
many as to the future sources of her
raw materials?
1t was not the Paris Economic Con-
gress, with its resolution to boycott
German industry after the war.
For this there was, by way of answer,
only defiance and scorn The lamenta-
tions came later.
With the downfall Of the Duma GOV
ernment did the statesmen of impcrial
Germany begin to see clear their way to
mansions in the great beyond? wrhe
Villager" offers a tentative theory. "Mav
it be-" it asks,
Chat by the middle Of last summer Pots
dam knew, beyond any uncertainty, that
its war was won and that it had now onlv
to educate the German people to the
realization? For SIX months the Cor
man people arc made fearful that all has
gone against them. in spite Of their
valiant llindenburg'g efforts, no cxplo-
6ives in the world can enable US 10 comDcl
single man or woman in Manchester
Montreal, Chicago, Cairo or Bucnos Ayrcs
10 buy single pair of stockings from
Cbemnitz.'
For six months the German pcoplc
discouraged BY the steadily increased
notion that the place in the sun for
which they have sacrificed all is as good
aa lost; six months Of this systematic
depression, and then one day the dark
nees hits and they are made to know
how their wise rulers. backed by their
New-York tribune., 1918-03-06
Hazardous

Pity the poor gambler, lie gets it
going and coming-at least in New York
State. The perils that ''do environ the
man who NEEDLES with cold iron" as
Butler cnvisaged them, scarcely surpass
those which surround the man who dal-
lies with the cards, or the faro layout, or
the chemin-de-fer box. Under a ruling
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, poker
winnings-and doubtless the winnings
from any other game of chance-must
be included in income tax reports. Per
contra, losses may not be deducted from
income in figuring the tax. And now
comes District Attorney Swami, digging
up forgotten law which says that any
individual who wins more than S25 in
twenty-four hours may be sued for five
times the amount Of the winning, the
proceeds to be given to charity.
That is, if you win YOU lose-you lose
the income tax On your winnings. and
maybe five times the principal in addi-
ton. And if you lose-oh, we'll, what's
the use? Gamblers might just as we'll
enlist.