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Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
Industrial Conference at Blue Ridge

Industrial Conference at Blue Ridge.
Charlotte, NJ C-The program for
the Southern Industrial Conference on
Human RelationS in Industry has just
been Issued. This conference is pro-
noted by the Industrial Department of
the Young Mems Christian Association
with the cooperation Of group OF
the leading Southern manufacturers.
1t will be held at Blue Ridge. N. c.,
July 14-16. The purpose of the con-
ference is to afford an opportunity for
both employers and employees to come
together In one meeting and frankly
discuss together the problems relat-
ing to that most important factor In
industry-the human element. 1t IL
designed to develop a stronger. spirit
of good will, friendliness, loyalty and
cooperation in the industries of the
South.
This Is the third of these annual
conferences and the prospects are that
the attendance this year will be larger
than during any previous year. Al
ready delegates have registered from
Virginia, North Carolina. Sesth Caro-.
lsR, Georgia, Mssiesipp, koutsAna,
Tennessee and Kentucky. Included
In the registration are delegates from
the following industries: Textile,
lumber, coal, furniture. iron and steel,
paper and pulp and tobacco.
Relations Between Employer and
Dmploye." Vocational Education In
Our Southern Industries" Some
Phases of the Human Element in
Southern Industrial Development"
New Relationships to Fit New In
dustrlal America" Spiritual Value In
Industry" are some OF the interesting
and timely topics to be discussed.
There will also be sectional confer
ences for executives. for foremen and
for personnel managers. In these.
lsuch questions as present Day
Problems Of Management" "Improv-
ing Foremanship" and Fitting Man
to His Job" will be discussed.
These timely topics will be dis.
cussed by such prominent men as
Stuart w. Cramer textile manufac-
turer, Charlotte, N. c.; Charles Green,
lumber manufacturer, Laurel, Miss. {;
r. B. Wolf, prominent engineer, Of
Now York City: Frank Cushman, Of
the Federal Board of Vocational Edu-
cation, Washington. d. c.; e. ]. Robe
son, Newport New, Shipbuildins and
Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va;
Charles r. Towson, OF the Industrial
Department OF the Y. NJ c. A., and
Dr. George r. Stuart, pastor Of the
First Methodist Church, Birmingham.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13

Dublin. - The siege of the strong
holds Of the insurgent Irish forces
was virtually ended with the sur
render of small groups of the men
who have been fighting for the past
week behind the barricades, and the
capture Of one of the principal lead
ers, Catahal Brugahs, former minis
ter of defense.
But the success of the national cause
has been purchased at the cost Of
blazing buildings and terrible de-
struction In O'Connell, to say nothing
Of the loss of life and the many So.
riously wounded.
There Is still no information as to
the whereabouts Of Eamon de Valera,
who has apparently escaped from the
FREQ staters' net.
In the afternoon, when ten buildings
including three hotels. were afiame.
the remainder Of the irregulars, driv-
on into the Granville hotel, with fire
on all sides, still maintains a desper.
ate resistance with automatics and ~
fies. but 1t was already seen that they
could not long delay the Inevitable
end. The final attack by the free
state troops commenced at midday
after lull during which the firing
slackened greatly. is:IsT
The regulars then began despefc
ate plan Of bombarding the insur-
gents.
A bomb was hurled into Haman's
hotel and soon faint wisps of smoke
crept through the shattered windows
and suddenly burst Of flames. fol-
lowed by dense volumes Of smoke.
The flames spread swiftly and the
fre brigade hurried to the scene. But
fussilade from the irregulars In
the Granville hotel compelled them to
retreat. The fire attacked the shops
adjoining the Hamman and in less
than two hours the roofs had col
lapsed. Three buildings were COM
pletely destroyed. their ruin being has
tened through the flames reaching
stores Of bombs and ammunition caus-
ing numerous explosions and throwing
up great clouds of smoke.
Still the battle ragged, the irregulars
firing fussilades from the windows Of
both the Gresham and the Granville,
while the national rifemen. replied
vigorously from their positions opp0.
site and from armored cars.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
Good Progress Made by Cotton.

Washington.-Progress of the cot
ton crop during the week was de-
scribed by the weather bureau In its
weekly weather and crop report as
very good to excellent in Texas, very
good in Oklahoma. Tennessee and
9outh Carolina, fair to very good In
Arkansas and North Carolina, gen.
orally good in Louisiana, fair In Geor.
GA and Florida and fair in Missis-
sippi and Alabama.
The temperature was not far from
normal throughout the cotton belt,''
the review said. showers were fair.
" frequent and while rainfall was
rather heavy In parts of Eastern Ok.
lahoma, eastern and southern Texas.
southern Arkansas, northern Louis
lana. and few places to the eastward
the fall. was not heavy or frequent
enough to prevent satisfactory field
work. except in a few localities.
Cultivation made good progress In
Texas and the fields were we'll cul
tivated in most Of the northern and
eastern portions Of the belt.
This work was hindered somewhat
in Mississippi and Louisiana and q
few locations in Florida.
while cotton was late and rather
small in many southern fields, the
condition was from fair to excellent
in southern and western Texas, from
poor to very good elsewhere In that
state, very good in Florida and Ten
nessee, fair to very good In NORTH
Carolina, generally fair In Alabama.
South Carolina and Oklahoma, but
only poor to fair in Georgia.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
Poozo Goes BeaaInq.

Philadelphia. - Genuine Gordon Gin
and Johnnie Walker" whiskey Is 60.
Ing begging at less than dollar a
quart, 1t became known here. The
federal district attorney and the Unit
ed States marshal have met with little
luck In their efforts to peddle q car!
!osd Of liquor which prohibition agents
had seized.
A bill OF $500 Is due the railroad for
freight and Ice and It Is up to the
government to pay It. The parties
to whom the car was consigned had
no idea who shipped the liquor to
them. They waived interest in 1t.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13

long lives.
"Of your six, that leaves New.
ton, who gave to men the yard.
stick with which to measure the
universe, the other five will fade,
philosophy, art, music, litera-
ture, but the name of Newton.
who wrote directly as the mass
and inversely as the square OF
the distance, will last as long as
the earth lasts. Cosmic science
endureS forever.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
ABOUT $50 PERSONS
OVERCOME By GAS
WHEN NEW YORK SUBWAY TX.
PRESS CAUGHT FIRE NEAR
LEXINGTON AVENUE.
PulM0TERs PUT IN OPERATION
Blaze 10 Quickly QuelIed But Nom
bers Of Rescue Squad Arc Forced
to Use Gas MasI<a

New York-About $50 persons wers
overcome by smoke when q north
Jerome avenue express on the East
Side subway caught fire near Lex.
ington avenue and Sixty.first street.
Dozens Of ambulances were sum.
moned from nearly every hospital In
the city and Mayor Hylan arrived to
direct the rescue. The accident oc-
CURED about rs feet underground.
The IRE started In the motorman's
box after fuse had blown out. There
was q fash Of flame and the smoke
swept through the crowded train.
When the emergency brakes were
applied and the train came to a
grinding halt, guards threw open the
doors and passengers made a mad
scramble to escape. Those unable
to walk were carried from the cars to
the Fifty.ninth street station. Fire
ladders also were dropped through
Iron grating at Stxty-flrst street and
unconscious women lifted to tho
street.
The injured were stretched out on
the sidewalks for several blocks. A
temporary hospital was organized and
IA pulmoters put in operation. The
crowd Of spectators soon became 90
dense that police reserves had to be
rushed 70 fha aconA
Men. women and children filed the
!en-car train. Guards attempted to
light the flames with hand extinguish-
9 ers, but failed. When the 4Aremen ar.
rived. however. they soon succeeded
In quelling the blaze. which in itself
was small. Many OF the fre.fghters
were overcome.
Relief work soon got under way.
Besides the doctors who hastened to
the scene in ambulances many other
physicians jumped into taxicabs, in
many cases bringing their office nurs.
es with them.
Bloomingdale's department store at
Fifty-ninth street and Lexington ave-
nue., promptly organized fire brigade
OF Is employees who dashed into the
subway to aid In the rescue work.
The stores drug department was raid.
cd for supplies and pulmOters.
Many flremen we're overcome 40
they tried to descend the subway
steps. Members Of the rescue squad
donned their Gas masks to attack the
flames.
Mayor Hylan, one of the first city
officials to arrive, was driven back
by fumes when he attempted to enter
the subway.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
Capt YTInsley Killed u crash.

Detroit. \Mich.-Georss" Tinslsy,
'aged ae, on the army aviation corps,
and sn. overseas veteran. was killed u
'6elirid be Field, Mt. Clsmons. neal
hero when his plane crashed to the
ground from a height Of $50 feet. and
burst Unto taames.
witnesses vaid Captain Tinsley bad
turned isharpk when the motor went
dead add thel plane dropped. Az the
cr1tt hitNthe ground It burst into
flames, TIA heat\ temporarily forestalS
Ing ne aaAempn ofs spectatoss =
reach tAA fiytsrs side.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
Many Hurt In Crash.

Chicago.-Seventy-flve persons, were
injured. only one seriously, when .
Chicago-bound Marquette passenger
train crashed into q New York Cen
tral engine on q siding near Porter,
Ind. The train proceeded to Chicago
after the injured had received frat
eid.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
THE KAISER At DOonnE.
(Springfield Republican. }

(Springfeld Republican,
More than usual weight may
be attached to the interview Civ.
en- by William II at Doom to b.
ron Clemens Won Rodowitz-Nei,
an account of which has been
given to the New York Times.
Baron Won Rodowitz was former.
ly a member of the German di.
plomatic service. but is now neu.
tralized in Austria. He is we'll &C.
quainted with the former emper.
or, and his uncle was head of the
German delegation at the Alge.
ciras conference. His report
should be more trust worthy
than some earlier interviews,
passages in which have been
challenged.
No very sensational utterances
are attributed to William II, ex.
cept that he is for the first time
quotl as definitely renouncing
hope Of returning to the throne.
This passage is of interest:
What does the new genera
tiOn think of me?" he asked.
1T knows nothing about you,"
l answered.
The ex-kaiser sighed.
II want nothing, he said, Tex.
cept to hide myself. But tell me,
has the new generation forgotten
ita monarchical ideas and the
glory of it's Hohenzollernsp"
There is a good deal eff mon.
archist sentiment in Germany"
l told him. t'%
THE monarchy will come back
he said then. Not now-after
some years. don't know how or
when. But l shall not com Q
back"
who will restore the monar.
chy," l asked. But he did not an.
swer; only asked me more about
the public's opinion Of the Ho..
henzollerns.
The prediction that the mon.
archy will come back need not be
interpreted as more than a firm
conviction, and indeed it would
be surprising if so firm a belle.
YER lin the divine right of kings
were to express any other view.
But William II can hardly be so
remote from German politics as
TO be unaware of the growth in
Germany of antagonism to the
republic, coupled with the belief
that he himself destroyed h is
chance of restoration by aban-
doning his people in panic and
running off to Holland.
For the rest. the former EN-.
petor spoke sensibly and moder.
ately on present day conditions
in Europe, predicting a reconcil.
iation between Czecho. .Slovaks
and Germans in Bohemia, and a
friendly alliance of Czecho. .Slo.
| vakia with Austria. In regard
| to the war he was taciturn, but
he still holds Fen. Ludendorff to
have been the greatest genius on
the German side, the adding,
Sometimes his ideas didn't a.
gree with mine" Which ideas?
1t would be interesting to know.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
MONEY
. FOR ROAD WORK.
MANY MILLIONS TO BE SPENT
FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION
DURING COMING YEAR.
70 DISTRIBUTE AMONG STATES
Under tho Conditions Of the Aid Each
State Must Match the Sum
Allotted Il.

Washington. approximately $780,.
100000 will be spent for good road
construction throughout the country
during the fiscal year which began on
July l. This will be brought about
by the continuation of federal aid
for roads under recent authorization
Of an appropriation Of almost fifty mil
liOp dollars for distribution among
tha several states. Under the condi-
tions of the aid each state must
match the sum allotted It.
At the same time the postoffice ap-
.propriation bill signed by President
IH4fdlng June 1S, authorized appro-
priation Of $5O,OOo,0OO for the same
purpose. to be expended during the
asSal year beginning July 1. 1923. and
$7S 100000 for tho succeeding fiscal
vear. The conditions are the same for
all three years. and will bring the to-
tai amount expended during the pc
riod to $3.50, 100000 II the state ad-
heres to the stipulations and expends
like sums. Tho funds will be admin.
istefed by the Secretary Of Agricul.
turS through the Bureau Of Good
,9(&de.,,,
"a is estimated that the $3.50, 100000
kltFopriated will result in the con-
sHlction of more than $4,000 miles
'n hpad, which, added to the $4,000
mn that are expected to result from
e yiopi federal appropriations, makes
\ 1et 1000, or nearly 40 per cent
e9timated 10000 miles of good
- " aahaA4ystem. of. federal 4sid
roads now being outlined. p"
With the aid Of $35O,O0O,OO prev.
iously appropriated by the govern
ment. 1900 miles of road had been
completed on last May 81 and in addi.
ton, nearly 14,50O miles were under
construction, Involving more than
$2S7 100000 of federal aid. To match
this fund the states have appropriated
approximately $3S0.OOO,O0O, making a
total Of $667,5OO, 900.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13
EAM0N DE VALERA
REPORTED WOUNDED
TEN BUILDINGS - INCLUDING
THREE HoTEL@ARE
AFlAME.
SIEGE IS Y|RTURllY ENDED
Success Of National Cause Purchased
at Cost Of Terrible Destruction
, In Dublin.

London.-The Daily Mail says it 4
reported that Eamon De Valera has
been wounded and captured by Irish
Free State forces.
The newspaper adds that the report
70 far cannot be confirmed.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1922-07-13

THE WORLDS GREATEST MEN.

Last Sunday, says the Wins,
ton-Salem Journal, we comment
ed at some length on the list of
the worlds six greatest men sup
piled by H. G. Wells, famous his
torian and author of many books
on divers subjects. The six he
named were Buddha, Asoka, Ar.
istottle, Jesus, Roger Bacon and
Abraham Lincoln.
Since giving our own impres.
sion of MIR. Wells list, wherein
we expressed serious doubts
that it would stand or ought to
stand, we have read with inter-
est an editorial on the same sub
ject by Arthur Brisbaen, one of
the country's best informed and
most entertaining if not greatest
editors.
Mr.. Brisbane thinks that Mr..
Wells made his choice careless
ly." He insists that in lists of
great men divinities that men
worship cannot be included.
This being true, the Wells list of
the worlds greatest is reduced
to four. And Brisbane declares
with good reason, too, that only
Aristosle could be prophrly in
cluded in a list of the worlds six
greatest.
Mr.. Brisbane insists that grea-
test means doing something, pro-
ducing something; that a man re-
ally to be great must show some
thing to prove greatness. In Sc.
lecting the worlds six creates t
men he would first choose t h e
worlds six chief lines of achieve
ments and then name the great
est man in each line. Since war is
a relic of barbarism, he would
exclude war altogether. And in
that he is unquestionably cor.
isrectsAfs ~ y,~. t7sgs
The American editor then pro.
ceeds TO give a list Of the various
ways in which human greatness
is expressed. These are: Philoso.
ply, meaning love of wisdom, or
knowledge, science, art, painting
and sculpture, writing, music
and highest of all, study of the
universe, to which this tiny plan
ct with it's so,called great men,
is an insignificant grain of sand.
Having listed the six great
ness, Mr.. Brisbane then names
his supersix. They follow;
Aristotle, greatest philoso.
pher.
2-Archemides, greatest sci
entitic mind.
s. Michelangelow, greatest in
painting and sculpture.
A -Shakespcar, infinitely the
greatest in writing.
5-Bethoven, greatest in mu
sic.
6 Newton, discoverer of the
law of gravitation which rules
the universe, greatest mathe.
matical mind ever born on earth
and a simple child outs ide OF
mathematics.
In concluding his discussion,
Mr.. Bisbane gives an interesting
discussion of greatness in gener.
al, saying
I'VE appear our little hour or
second upon the stage, disappear
and are forgotten like tiretiies.
You name your sixgreateSt men,
knowing we'll that they will be,
come more and moce faint as his
tory advances. A great human
race, thousands of years from
now, beyond our comprehension,
will look upon Michelangelo, or
Phidias as we look upon the un.
known cave artists of the stone
age. Language and music W ill
change completely. Shakespeare
and Beethoven will 60 to join. in
oblivion the man who made the
first wedgshaped writing, or the
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-08
PLAIN HORSE SENSE

Better than statistics about build.
ing homes. foreign trade railroad
cIpension. Is this cheering note. that
IT least part of our people are get
ting back to sound principles and
have ceased trying to borrow them
solves rich. No amount of specials
about prosperity being just around
the corner. with hints about the
country being on the eve of great in.
lustrial activity Is worth a line in
comparison TO the fact that the
neople have gotten over the bug of
borrowing instead Of earning and
-aving money.
Z would seem that the people are
letting back day by day and month
ny month to this better condition.
ror after all the American people are
The most adaptable people in the
world. and correspondents from diff
terent sections agree that the out
COX IS better, and there Is a cheer.
FIJI ton" that was lacking a short
time ago. The most hopeful sign OF
I return to normal conditions is the
fact that demand for money has not
been 90 keen lately. The farmer has
come to realize he can pay his living
expenses out of the returns from his
COWS, chickens and hogs, instead OF
money from the bank
Business Digest. U. s. National Bank,
Portland, Oregon.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-08
BODYBUILDING
EXPERIENCE VALUABLE

The more one studies the subject
of road building, the more important
becomes the matter Of impact-the
blow nit by the wheel.
Official tests OF impact of truck
wheels on payement have shown that
with solid rubber tires this impact
is in certain cases seven times the
load on one rear wheel encountering
an obstruction one inch high while
running Is miles an hour.
Recognizing the destructive force
OF solid tire, the Oregon motor law
taxes a solid tire nearly double the
amount of license charged pneu-
matte tired vehicles.
II it is important that the tire be
resilient in order to offset the des-
tructive effects of impact, it natur-
ally follows that good effects would
be increased on both tires and road
surface IL resilient or shock absorb
ing pavement was more extensively
used.
This Is5a very live question in
every western state where hundreds
of millions of dollars are going into
road construction.
VIII the roads built outlive the
pond issues at q minimum malnte-
nance cost or will they disintegrate
as have so many miles of rigid sur
face constitution in California with
resulting loss to taxpayers through
rebuilding the roads under main
tenance charges" long before the
ten year bond period expired.
California now faces the necessity
of surfacing hundreds of miles Of
roads with bituminous surface TO
save the concrete base from total
destruction.
The Sixth Biennial report OF the
California State Highway commits
sion says:
But regardless Of the over-laden
trucks it seems apparent that the
concrete base should In all cases
have the bituminous tops applied as
soon as it may be done. The original
idea of the commission that bare con-
crete is not fit material to resolve
the impact of heavily loaded vehicles
still appears to be sound Even the
thin bituminous carpet is a great aid
in distributing the impact"
Let the taxpayers of western
states think.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1922-06-08
NATIONAL SILVER LEAGUE

4 national silver league has been
formed and conventions OF those in
terested in the white metal are
planned at San Francisco, Denver
and Chicago.
The organization is Of Importance
to all mining interests in western
states. The promoters in their an
nouncement make this statement:
"Silver, when unrestricted by hos
tile legislation, is as potent as gold
in the economic development Of the
world.
The United States. as the pro-
Queer of 40 per cent Of the worlds
silver, and the American continent,
as the producer of 80 per cent there
of. ought not, in its own interests
and the larger interest of humanity
in general, longer submit to have
this great world asset left to the sell
fish manipulation of nations which
produce little or no silver.
THE demonstration Of silver,
forced upon the world by certain
European influences for selfish po-
litical purposes, has occasioned to
the United States in general. and
the silver mining industry in particu-
lar, direct loss in the value of ais
silver product OF more than a billion
Of dollars and an indirect loss that
is incalculable.
1T has enabled a few London
brokers, chartered by the crown, to
so manipulate the price as to render
the silver mining industry through
ont the American nations producing
the bulk of the silver of the world
hazardous and marked with count
less disasters. The securing to sill
YER it's proper place in the develop
~ rt Of the world is matter of the
highest Importance at this time"