THE
WAR TWELVE MONTHS'
SUMMING-UP
On the first anniversary of the
Great War there is an inevitable
temptation to estimate in terms of
achievement and result the meaning
of twelve months of world war. In
this period not less than 10,000,000
men have been killed, wounded, or
have gone into foreign prisons; a ter
ritory exceeding in area Ohio or Penn
sylvania has been ravaged. Cities
known through the centuries as treasure-houses
of art or in the last cen
tury become the centers of modern in
dustrial life have been destroyed,
written history has no record to com
pare with the tale of recent months
of uffering, slaughter, destruction,
human misery, and human grandeur,
But what now is the result?
The simplest answer to this ques
tion is to take the premise that peace
would come tomorrow on the basts of
things as they are. Such a settlement
it is instantly apparent would mean
that Germany, helped rather by her
use of the resources of her two allies
than to any capacity of theirs, has
won more European territory than
any state has acquired by a single war
since the Treaty of Westphalia, a
more complete victory than any peo
ple since the Napoleonic episode. To
day her armies occupy practically all
of Belgium and 8000 square miles in
France, that region which before the
war wp.s the center of French industry
and French mineral production. In
the East victorious forces have push
ed deep into Poland and approached
Warsaw, Riga, and Brcast-Litowsk.
On the field of battle Germany has
won mighty r.nd memorable triumphs.
Her defeats have been repulses, when
her foe was in his last ditch. They
have resulted in the interruption of an
advance, the recoil from the extreme
point of progress. But at the close of
a year German armies are fighting on
French, Belgian, Russian soil; only in
a tiny corner of Alsace has the foe
retained a foot-hold in the Fatherland.
Allied offensives in the West, after
terrible losses, have invariably been
beaten down within sight of their
Btarting-places. Since Von Kluck re
crossed the Aisne in September, Ger
many has suffered no material loss,
despite the masses she sent to the
East. The "Spring Drive" of the
Allies has dwindled to a gallant but
only locally successfully push of the
French at the edge of the Lorette
hills.
In the East the amazing victories
of Tannenberg, Lodz, the Mazurian
Lakes, and in the recent terrific cam
paign in Galicia have checked, repuls
ed, routed Russian advances and to
day (late in July) Russian hosts are
clinging desperately to the permanent
line of fortifications about Warstw,
against which German masses are
steadily driving with still unchecked
vigor. The greatest battles of mod
ern warfare have been won between
the Baltic and the Rumanian bound
ary by generalship and military effi
ciency in men as in commanders that
has only the Napolenic parellel.
At the Dardanelles German-led
Turkish troops have for months held
back Allied fleets and army corps.
Around the Gallipoli peninsula the
troops that lost Lule Burgas and
Kiimar.cvo are making a fight unsur
passed r.t Plevna, unrivalled in the
long history of Osmanli power in
Europe. More English and French
troops than perished in the long Cri
mean campaign have found their
graves in the few weeks of fighting
north cf the Dardanelles; end five
Allied battleships have been sunk in
tha narrow waterways.
Serbian efforts have declined to
mere passivity. Italy, bringing new
and eager masses into the field
against the shaken regiments of Aus
tria, directed by German officers, has,
as yet, made but small progress in
emerging from the constricted field in
which the Austrian fortified moun
tains confine her. To hold France,
England, and Belgium at bay in the
West, to sweep Russia back over hun
lreds of miles in swift defeat, to give
Austria and Turkey the necessary
support to withstand tremendous at
tacks, this has been within the re
sources of German genius in the past
months.
Only on the water has she suffered
real defeat. There her few ships have
been sunk; her commercial fleets have
been scattered, sent to prize courts or
interned. Beyond the seas Kiaochau,
Southwest Africa, Togoland, Kame-
run, and Samoa have been conquered.
Sea-power has dwelt with her as with
Napoleon. But as Napoleon conquer
ed the Continent, Germany has suc
cessfully defeated Russia, France,
Great Britain, Belgium. The victory
for the first year is then hers. Such
differences of opinion as exists must
be over the extent of the victory,
which, however great, is nowhere yet
decisive. From "One Year of War,"
by Frank H. Simonds, in the American
Review of Reviews for August.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASXORIA
THE TOOMBS AND GRADY "CLAS
SICS" ON KING COTTON
(By, John Temple Graves, in New
York American.)
It is with almost a human affection
that the men and women of Dixie re
gard the white stnple of their fields.
It is really a part of them a product
exclusively their own ornament of
their plantations and basis of their
fortunes. It is embalmed in the song
and story of all that land.
In the literature of the people of
the New South one of the distinctly
cherished claries is Henry W. Grady's
famous prose poem on Cotton.
It was written in 1882 just as the
South was coming into a new indus
trial glory through its cotton mills
and is treasured in every scrapbook
South of the rotomac. Among the
admirers of the editor-orator it is
ranked with Robert Ingersoll's tribute
to his brother as a masterpiece of elo
quent description.
Robert Toombs Grows Eloquent
One day far in advance of Grady's
time in Georgia, when cotton was in
serious crisis, the great Robert
Toombs in a burst of convention elo
quence said:
'But a few months ago they told us
Cotton was King and that before his
throne the crowned monarchs of the
world would crouch and sue for favor.
But now before a frost has withered a
single leaf in his coronet he comes in
to the hall a shivering pauper crying,
"Give me a drink or I perish!"
But Grady was the apostle of devel
opment, the eloquent optimist of the
new industrial South, and he embalm
ed the great Southern staple in this
prose poem which is now a definite
part of his fame. It is of peculiar
national interest and application in
the present crisis of the South."
Grady's Prose Poem
"What a royal plant it is! The
world waits in attndance on ts growth.
The showers that fall whispering on
its leaves are heard around he earth.
The sun that shines upon it is temper
ed by by prayer of all the people. The
frosts that chill it and the dews that
descend from the stars are noted, and
the trespass of a little worm upon its
green leaf means more to England
and English homes than the advance
of a Russian army upon her Asian
frontier. It is gold from the time it
puts forth its tiniest shoot.
"Its foliage decks the sombre earth
in emerald sheen. Its blommoms re
flect the brilliant hues of sunset skies
in Southern climes, and put to shame
the loveliest rose, and when loosing its
snowy fleeces to the sun it floats a
banner that glorifies the field of the
humble farmer, that man is marshaled
under a flag that will compel the al
legiance of the world and wring a trib
ute from every nation of the earth.
Its fibre is current in every bank in
all the world.
"Its oil adds luxury to lordly ban
quets in noble halls and brings com
fort to lowly homes in every clime. Its
flour gives man a food richer in health
producing value than any the earth
has ever known, and a curative agent
long sought and found in nothing else.
Its meal is feed for every beast that
bows to do man's labor, from Nor
way's frozen peaks to Africa's parched
palins.
"It is a heritage that God gave to
this people when He arched the skies
established our mountains, girded us
about with oceans, tempered the sun
shine and measured the rain. Ours and
our children's forever and forever
and no princelier talent ever came
from His Omnipotent hand to mortal
stewardship."
THE SEARCH FOR LIGHT
(From Ingersoll's "Prose Poems.")
We read the pagans' sacred books
with profit and delight. With myth
and fable we are charmed, and find
a pleasure in the endless repetition
of the beautiful, poetic and absurd.
We find in all these records of the
past, philosophies and dreams, and
efforts stained with tears of great
and tender souls, who tried to pierce
the mystery of life and death, to ans
wer the eternal questions of the
whence and the whither, and vainly
sought to make, with bits of shatter
ed glass, a mirror that would in every
breath reflect the face and form of
Nature's perfect self.
THE BOY WHO CAN
The boy who works his way through
college has always been a winner. He
gets the warmest praise and he usual
ly finds a place awaiting him, for
when a fellow wants to get an educa
tion bad enough to work, and work
hard, for it he is likely to be worth the
attention of men and business want
ing dependable service.
Graduating from one of the lead
ing colleges of the South this year
will be a Salisbury boy who earned
his way. He learned telegraphy and
earned a living for himself, paid his
way through college and helped his
struggling mother. When he gets his
degree in June he will be at, or close
to, the head of his class. This boy
held a job as night operator for the
telegraph company, attended college
through the day, financed, his own
career and sent his mother a check
every month.
Another Salisbury boy is finishing
his first year at college after having
worked his way to the campus. He
wrote his father that he does not need
any help, that he has his expenses all
paid except his board and he is tak
ing care of that out of his earnings
on the campus.
How proud a dady must be of such
a boy. Brave, free, independent and
with character strong and dependable,
these boys will succeed in life. All
such wil,l for they have the making
of a man in them and they prove it
before they are tested out in the most
serious world's work.
What a contrast to the many idle,
helpless fellows there are through
out the land not bad, well meaning,
but helpless and lacking the will the
determination, the application to work
out their own salvation. A lad who
will prepare himself for college, work
his way through will work himself to
a position of trust. He will prove a
winner.
But the more helpless lad needs to
be encouraged and boosted. He is
not of necessity bad. Many such have
in them the best spirit, the truest
metal and only need to be boosted
and started on the right road. . In
fact most boys and men, too, floun
der. It takes the average man some
time to find himself, and the trouble
is too many wait and loaf, through
valuable time awaiting the develop
ment of the finding process. This is
the man the boy, who needs the kind
word of encouragement, the earnest
suggestion of a ture friend that he is
worth while and can win the en
couragement that will fire his soul
and inspire his life. . '
But we simply started, jut to say
a word for the working boy the one
with the grit to overcome and to suc
ceed despite the many hindrances in
his way. Salisbury has just now two,
if not more, shining examples boys
who are proving themselves, making
good with a big G. Exchange.
HEALTH NOTES
and
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
Diarrhoea Remedy.
This is a remedy that every family
should be provided with, and especial
ly during the summer months. Think
of the pain and suffering that must be
endured when medicine must be sent
for or before relief can be obtained.
This remedy is thoroughly reliable.
Ask any one who has used it. Obtain
able everywhere.
72,000 Babies Without Names
The Vital Statistics Department is
having a great deal of trouble because
parents are reluctant to give to the
local registrars the given-names of
their babies. Not much more than
10 per cent, of the babies are named
on the certificates. There is a pro
vision for filing the name of the child
later through what is known as a
supplemental birth certificate, but not
many parents have availed themselves
of this opportunity. The registration
of the baby's birth as well as filing
the supplemental birth certificate is
done free of charge.
Sleeping Porches and Open Air
Schools
"Have you noticed how many sleep
ing porches are being constructed in
the city of Raleigh ?" asked an otsci-v-ing
visitor in that city recently. "It's
the same way all over the country.
It is wonderful to note how the atti
tude has changed in the last year pr
two regarding sleeping porches, fresh
air sleeping, and I might add open
air schools."
The sleeping porch is the best in
vestment that a home can make. If
it is second to any it is the bath room.
"It is a fact," said he, "that in a few
years a house will be considered more
complete without a bath room than
without its fresh air arrangements.
And the same reformation that is rap
idly taking place in the homes as to
fresh air apartments will soon be
seen in all the schools."
Over twenty-nine thousand is the
number of people vaccinated at the
end of four weeks in the five counties
conducting State and county anti-typhoid
cr.mpaign3. In the remaining
two weeks it is expected that the num
ber will be slightly increased but the
greater part of the work for
the remainder of the time will be giv
ing the second and third treatments.
By the end of the six weeks' cam
paign it is probable that the 80.000
mark will have been reached. North
ampton holds first place as having
vaccinated the largest per cent, of her
population.
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The Chewiest
Chemng Gum
everXsiiewea.
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Work has begun in improving the
road between Greensboro and High
Point. At least three weeks will be
required for the work.
OPPORTUNITY FOR
BOY
RANDOLPH
The State Legislature privides one
scholarship to the A. and M. College
for every member of the Lower House.
Randolph county is entitled to one free
tuition for which no application has
been made this year. This scholarship
is worth $45 per year. There ought
to be some deserving young man, in
the county who should get the benefit
of it. If this scholarship is not ap
plied for pretty soon, it will be loaned
to some other young man of another
county. It seems to me that Randolph
should be able to use this scholarship.
Any young man wishing to enter
the A. and M. College, please see me
at once.
T. F. BULLA,
County Superintendent of Schools.
RAISE MORE CATTLE
Henderson Gold Leaf. '
The campaign started Saturday in
Raleigh to further the breeding of
beef cattle in North Carolina is a
most worthy undertaking, and may
prove the breaking away from and de
throning King Cotton, and inciiently
the solution of the problems of the
Southern farmer. For many years
there has been a little band of "dream
ers," as they were sometimes looked
upon, who have been advocating the
introduction of the cattle industry in
to this State as a means of money
making. Other States are doing it
and are making a success of it, and
there is no reason why North Carolina
should not equal the others. Agricul
mrai experts nave declared many
times that North Carolina was well
suited to the production of cattle, and
there never was a better time to dem
onstrate this than at the present time,
Cotton prices may drop, as they
will as long as record crops are made,
but no matter how much beef is rais
ed, the price is going to remain high
enough for the breeders to make
money. A man can make out with
scant clothing in times of depression
but he must have something to eat,
and the man who raises foodstuffs is
going to be in the boat.
WHAT CATARRH IS
It has been said that every third
person has catarrh in some form.
Science has shown that nasal catarrh
often indicates a general weakness
of thelxxly; and local treatments in
the form of snuffs and vapors do little,
f any good.
To correct catarrh you should treat Jt9
cause by enriching your blood with the
oil-food in Scott's Emulsion which 19 a
medicinal food and a building-tonic, free
from alcohol or any harmful drugs. Trylt.
- Scott ft Bowse, Bloomfield.N.J. .
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Chew wBpbs
5c. the packet or two "Bobs for a
cent at all die better stands and stores.
1
HAT are they,,
Ernestine?
Why, little heart-shaped :
hunks of the chewiest
chewing gum, all coated
over with peppermint
candy a new chew to !
the gum and a new pep
to the peppermint I
All Dealers Sell "Bobs"
hi fiies 1111
SIXES EXCLUSIVELY
F. O. B Flint, Michigan
No other motor car at any price insures
its owner as great value, dollar for dollar,
as the Buick valve-in-the-head for 1916.
We announce with pleasure that we
have secured the agency for Randolph
county for the new Buick-Six for 1916,
and ws believe that no other Six at a thou
sand dollars will compare with this car in
point of power, make-up and equipment.
We shall take pleasure in proving this as
sertion with a demonstration.
Randolph Motor Company