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ffiE 8ANF0BD EXTREP8 a [ Ppblibhkbs FRIDAY - - - April 0, 1918 Ho Room for Despair. It somes times seems that in •soh an overwhelming, hideous crisis of ruin and confusion as the presesnt there were little room for hope. Turn where it may, the mind is assailed by some new suggestion of distress and misery, some new possibil ity of disaster heretofore un dreamed of by the! pessimist. Even the lovely and permanent consolations of life seem obscur ed, powerless to make us forget the horror of destruction that threatens to overwhelm the en tire wnrlH In a sense we ought not to for get, we do not wish to forget. Was it not said long ago, “Weep with those who weep?” But that does not mean that we are to give way to discouragement or de spair. Some preach daily that the world is coming to an end, at least that our present civiliza tion is coming to an end; that after such a fearful and prolong ed sapping of its vitality recu peration will be impossible. Do not for a moment believe them. Recuperation is possible and it will come with a rush when the war is over. A hundred years ago Europe was in the throes of the Napo leonic wars. To be sure the de vastation was less than now, but the recuperative power was less also. And in an incredibly short time Europe recovered. The chaos of the Civil War in Amer ica was on a smaller scale, but for the time it seemed complete, and many predicted that this country, especially the South, would never revive. Splendid, beyond imagination, was the growth afterwards. Few of the effects of the Civil War remain even in the South. The natural instinct of men is for construction. They enter upon destruction with loathing and lea re it,with great rapture The constructive, instinct seizes upon every smallest loophole to lay its founbations for the fu ture. When this war is over there will come such an era of construction and development as was never known. Even while destjjj^An is still going on the Hpi^P^Htions are planning to rebuild.^Tiand in band nature and human nature work to re pair decay with ceasless and un conquerable hope. The recovery from the present world sickness will be like the recovery from a long spell of typhoid fever. It will be in some points slow and ineffaceable scars will remain, but it will be sure. With sacred remembrance of the sorrows and sufferings and deep loyalties of the past the world will gird itself for the future, and it will enter upon the work of a new day with joy and confi dence. Above all, it will bring withlit an intense appreciation of the simple, natural pleas ures of life, the depth and suf ficiency of -whijlfi are often obscured by years of. uninter rupted and self-indulgent peace. Mankind will rise from its bed ol torture as did ths invalid of the poet: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest Dote that swells the sale The common suo, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Clean up, fix up. Form th« habit now and . keep it up the whole year. Nature is doing hei share towards brightening things up. The mayor and the board of aldermen ask every citizen tc assist.' Nature now is cleaning up the front yard, the back yard, the street and the vacant lot. A number of citizens have al ready planted shrubs and flower seeds. If you haven't, do so now and help to place Sanford in the lead. Every family in Sanford owe to their children if not the head of the family a membership in the local library. The children will get more enjoyment out of the dollar tieket in the library than out of ten dollars worth of clothes or ice cream or picture shows. Does “Buy in. San ford” mean anything to you? You’re right, it does. It enables the home merchant to employ more peo ple, pay more wages, make larger bSiik deposits, receive more freight and express and go on around the cl role. A tit fate for the Kaiser wbuld: be sequestration on a lonely isle, with 10,000,000 death masks to keep him company, a- • • ■ * • -1 A profiteer is without honor in any country. THE ACTUALITUS8 OF WAIt. One of the most striking pict ures of the war is found in the pages of the London Magazine, where the editor, Mr. Arthur Mee, describes his ride to the "End of Civilization," and what he saw there. He says: “I have spent three days in a ruined world. I have watched civilization fighting for its life. I have seen the work of a wild beast with the brain of a man that leapt across the Rhine and tore to pieces the face of beauti ful France. "I have heard the trumpet blast of the armies of the powers of darkness. I have listened to the thunder of the guns that tried to shatter human Liberty I have stood in the spacious soli tudes of a broken world. “Yet, though the things a man sees bring tears to the eye and break down any heart not made of stone, behind the visible things is an invisible something greater still; and there, in the dire peril of Ypres, on the con quered height of Yimy Ridge, in the bitter desolation of Bapaume, I felt again the eternal hope of man. My eyes have seen what no words can tell, and my heart believes in God." This is the way he brings the actualities of war home to his readers. lmrty million men are Killing one another, thirty million other men are making things to kill with, and we are riding to the heart of all this woe Ten million men who did not want to die lie dead upon these fields that not long ago were smiling with the homes of happy children, and we are riding to this Red Earth. Fifty thousand million dollars have been spent upon this war, and we are riding to see what men have done with it. We know what we have done with $50,000,000; we have given our aged poor a little comfort in their closing days. How much happiness could we buy, then, with a thousand times $50,000, 000? Surely we could change the very face of the earth with the power of ten thousand mil lionaires. Well, these ten thou sand millions have changed the face of the earth. Come for a ride with me and see. ■‘If you have ever beeD for a ride in France you will remember the miles and miles of trees that line the roads, you will remember the little white houses every where and the smiling fields and gardens that have made the peasant the master and the strength of France. ‘ We are riding through them from Agineonrt, through the pleasant plains, through the vil lages and- the little towns, through the endless avenues that give their cooling shade in sum mer and stand in winter like 'cathedral aialee,- and the world seems s beautiful place. The snn is out and the loveliness of autumn is about us; in deed and in truth we ride in joy through France. The people go about their work, the children go to school, we can almost fancy bells are ringing—and then— “And then. “We have come to the end of the beautiful world. The sword has gashed the face of France, the trees are withered and blast ed. the avenues are no more, the roofs of the houses are broken, the walls are toppling down, the rooms are heaps of rubbie, the people have gone, the cathedral bells will never ring again. The world slows down; the joy has passed from the face of it. This was written before the last great German drive. What must the picture be like now ? The same writer says at the close of his article: “We have had our failures—enough to break our heart, but the greatest suc cess of the .war is the British soldiers, made io a month or two to endrive.for all time. Aud so I am an optimist for i have seen the men who know and the things these men have done, and I know that good will conrjuer evil”. The Democrat* Must Meet the I sene. State Journal. The women's potentiality is inevitable. The national organ ization has decreed that women mast be advisory members ol the National Democratic Execu live Committee. That being true, North Carolina women are going to demand ol the State Demo cratic Convention when it meets here April 10 that this covention declare itself in favor of equal suffrage, and just how a party that is nationally committed to the “cause” will ignore it in State convention is not easy to explain. Congressman Zeb Weaver, of the Tenth, is all right. He voted for suffrage, but all the other Democratic members of House and Senate. Hood, of the Third, excepted, seem against it. Re publicans have gone a trifle further than the Democrats have. There is no promise to give the Republicans trouble in their UreensbOro'Convention; it is the Democracy that is datching it. That’s hard luck No. 1. The Democrats must face it. The men in charge are not long on facing things. They have been able to face sidewise, backward, any old way. But they must meet this issue. The women are not going to be put in the attitude of being recognized abroad and ignored at home. They will ask indorsement, they say. fy ; ’ ; . ! HEROISM OF THE ALLIES German** Advanced In Swarms —Met Determined Resistance— British Machine Gunners Fire Until Sick of Firing. All the stories that come from the battlefront tell of the cheer ful determination of the allied troops to hold on. And they have held on in the face of tremendous odds. Here is one report Everywhere cheerfulness was to be found and perfect con fidence in the future. Both of ficers and men. whether French or British, tell narratives of wonderful heroism on the part of individuals and units. The gunners of a battery of French 7es in the neighborhood of Chauny were surrounded for three days without food, but fought until the last round was fired; then, taking advantage of some confusion in the course of the third night, they somehow made their way through their encircling foes and escaped, car rying their wounded companions with them. Men Belonging wauisuiuuuvcu French cavalry corps, acting as infantry, fought a rear guard action day after day. against nn mense odds. The troopers declare that the enemy came forward in such deep waves that it was only necessary to tire point blank to hit with certainty. These cav alrymen tired into the company so rapidly that the Germans fel' in swathes, yet still others came on, until the French defenders were compelled to cease tire, be guns were red hot. The advance of the Germans was similar in character every where. wave succeeding wave in closest succession. When the tirst German division was ex hausted, another immediately took its place. In some cases a single division of the allies, while retiring, was attacked successive ly by six German d visions. Such a continued series of shocks from fresh troops was bound to tell on tired men. and eventually the allies were forced to give way. But they did so still lighting. A special cable from London to the Greensboro News under date of March *29th says: both rides and machine Wounded men arriving m London tell amazing stories of the fighting. Men in a front trench west of Lecatelet on the 21st knew what date and time the enemy attack was to be launched exactly and expected it any minute. In one semi cir cular trench wherein were 100 machine guns the enemy in dense masses swarmed right and left all Of Thursday and Thursday night, falling by the hundreds, by enfilading machine guns fire. Over piles of dead and wounded men and horses, the enemy kept pushing in. filling the gaps. Our |igen fought oh without food or water, orders haring gone out not to touch their rations, owing to the risks of poisoning from gas attack. Dawn Frida; dis closed enemy dead thick on all the surrounding ridges. The narrator says: "Two things drove us from our trenches-the enemy ’s numberless men and oar own exhaustion from want of food. We had bad nothing to eat since Wednesday night. I got nothing until I reached Per onne Saturday except a little of my rations which I ventured to consume at the risk of being poisoned. It was between 10 and 11 o’clock Friday morning Jwhen two advancing columns threaten ed to take ns, Hanked on either side, that we began to leave onr trench. As we left we continued to enfilade them and onr fire re duced 'heir numbers while onr own ranks were getting thinner and thinner. We returned some more, fighting all the way, some times hand to hand, then decided to make for Saulconrt to re organize there our forces. The two groups took different routes and as we retired we continued to take loll of the advancing col umn, which closely pursued, while every few minutes we could hear our mines blowing op and tearing holes in their forma tion. Our party, in charge of a sergeant major reached Haul court, but 1 did not bear what happened to the three other parties for 1 was knocked out by a bullett between Villers and Faucon. "At Saulconrt another division took over the rear guard action from us and we passed through their ranks to the rear walking over wounded, making for the casualty clearing station at Per 6nne. Three miles back on the way we saw our heavy artillery coming into play. Our division had 10 divisions opposing it and the battalion on the extreme right was badly cut up. The last time we saw them they were engaged in hand to hand fighting with two or three battalions of German infantry and cavalry. The division which took over the fighting from us repulsed four cavalry attacks.” The sergeant of a regiment at tached to the 24th division held part of the front between Per onne and St. Quentin considered that the enemy in spite of hit great number, could not' have broken through this sector but fnr igax ■llsrir_.‘II .la 1 Irak.srijfcK the wounded of six divisions and they all agreed it was impossible to bold our front lines under the weight of the enemy’s numbers and^K&s shells. AU agree that in the German storming waves there was a big majority «F yonng men. The enemy used for the first time a certain amount of dye in bis gas shells. This dye stained the enters caused by the shells explosion; as the gas bangs around the enters a HEROIC WOMEN of FRANCE DR. ALONZO TAYLOR My word* are not powerful enough to do even scanty Justice to the most heroic figure In the modern wertd, and of pa* ft*®8 'th® womai1 of Franco Of the healthy men who ore engaged tn the military service in France, proo tically all are engaged either In transportation or In the manufacture ol munitions, leaving the ogricnltiufe'-absoiu-eiy to the women. Not only this, but they have stepped into the place of work animals; yon caa go Into an) ■action of France today and see women of magnificent, noble womanhood hitched to the plough and cultivating the soil. All of the agrioultura real upon their shoulders. The home, always an «.uctremely efficient home, main tains a few old men. the wounded and the tubercular. Uncomplaining, with high devotion, with an atUtnda that amount* almost te religious exaltation the woman of Prance bears tlhn burden Now. conditions bsing as they are, does it lie within the heart of ths American people to preserve and hold to every convenience of our Ufa ai the expense of adding an additional burden to the womanhood of Franoel This is the exact question that Is Involved in our substitution of othei ceroale in place Of wheat. _ /, The women of France most be enabled to hold up the morale of thi French soldier until next Spring. The moral* of the house decides the morale of the soldier in the Ugnttwg Una. We can do this by giving to them the greatest possible freedom In thsir food supply, and et this, wheat is ths chief factor. SACRIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS MUST COME TO ALL BEFORE WAR IS WON Ralegh.—“A war consciousness—a sacrificial consciousness—must and will come to every individual unit of our people before tnls war is wen." This conviction was expressed toy United States Food Admnistrator Henry A. Page who has just rotttmJHtBma a conference of Btate Food Admlnis t re tors with Mr. Hoover an* kls staff at Washington. ‘There must be a reconstruction of our personal relations and of oui attitude Our relations and attitude must be determined by a cansideratioi •f their influence upon the winning of the war. 'There must be intensified liSu in every phase of life. We must not only substitute tout wo must economize. We must eal less, wear less, spend leea money far non essentials, conserve not only food stuffs and clothing but labor aa well. Every hour of man power should be made to produce as nearly agpoeaible 100 per cent efficiency toward the win ning of Lhe war. -This war consciousness mast some. If it doesn't come before, it will come when our casualty lists begin to come in showing a loss of several hun dred brave American boys each Ay. If not before, It will come when a large proportion of women you see on th* streets will be wearing black for boyi who bar* fallen *Ovar than.* “And then, America will bagtoi la fight—M England and Franca are light Most Old People — Are Constipated— lng today.” and especially adapted as a remedy for elderly people, women and children. It is the standard family remedy in count less homes. Sold by druggists every where for 50 cts. and $1.00—two sizes. f A trial bottle can be obtained, free of charge, by writing tO Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 457 Washington St*, Monticello, Illinois. few boars, the dye stain was in* tended to apply as an act of warning to Germans to keep: clear of them as they advanced.. An artillery sergeant told men that his battery forced open sights on masses of Germans advancing at short range and literally cat lanes in their ranks. His battery continued to Dre un-ii til the enemy got within 2od yards, then got ther guns away.' I also was told of some Germans who actually danced in front of oar gan Are as if they had been dragged and of others who walk ed as if drunk. No living creat ure coaid have faced such ter rible fire if he had not been eith er dragged or drunk. Oar ma chine gunners tired until they were sick of killing.” The latest wounded arriving include some South Americans, including officers gassed. They describe the terrible fight in Delville wood, where the South Americans held three enemy divisions for 24 hours. They say the gas mist was so thick that advancing masses in close forma tion could not be seen until with in 20 yards. The gas, which is called “bine cross,’’ is a new kind and is odorless. The enemy also used smoke barrages. One of these officers said that on one farm the enemy massed 1,500 men. our field and machine guns caught them and scarcely a man survived. Greater N. C. Convention. Calling upon President Wilson to proclaim Fayetteville, Wilmington and Southport as ports of entry umi rite-be-isrg, assi- srging- Ssewtary Daniels to make Southport or some other site a Coaling station and President Wilson and Postmaster General Burleson to route all mail to eastern South American, Went Indian and southern European point* through, ffijlmipgton, the Greater North Carolina Convention in session at Fayetteville Wednes.’ day, with s small attendance, elected Col. 8. A* Jones of Waynesville president snd D. 8. Holleuga, of Fayetteville, secretary.treasurer Chamberlain's Tablets. These Tablet* are Intended eapecially for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels. If you are troubled with hear} bum, indigestion or constipation they willdoyou good How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be eared by Hall'* Catarrh Medicine. 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Teach Children to Beware of Flies Explain to them how flies are hatched in filth. How, after crawling around in outhouses, privies, manure pitas'' and over dead animals and decayed^ matter, they come into the home and wipe their nasty feet on th^ family food, leaving a trail of dis-j Flies Cause Infantile Paralysis, Typhoid and Other Fevers The best doctors in the world will tell you that flies are the cause of a great deal of sickness, especially summer complaint, infantile paraly sis, dysentery, * typhoid and other fevers. Don’t let flies bring sick ness into your home. RED DEVIL LYE KILLS FLIES Keep a can of RED DEVIL LYE in your out-house apd sprinkle it on the filth freely, once or twice a week. It consumes the filth, destroys the fly eggs and prevents- odors and sickness. FOR SALE AT ALL GROCERS Write tor Free Booklet “ PREVENT” WM. SCHIELD MFG. CO, ST. LOUIS, MO. on the subject of 1918 style tor men A REVIEW of the spring style situation for men and young men reveals a decided tendency toward j, severity of design. | Belts, are no more — and I many other features ap proved in the past are no | longer in evidence. | The result is that nothing but superlative tailoring can lend to the more severe new styles that air of finish and fit essential to the well dressed man and young man. HkGUAKlQjOTOES MADR BY STROUSI Sc BROTHERS, INC., BALTIMORE. MD. with their particularly fine work manship, are especially qualified to win your approval this season. They nave ah air (St accompiiahment about. them that will prove itself in their unusu ally long service. Stein Brothers, Sanford ,N. G
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