North Carolina Newspapers

THE MEBANE LEADER. And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.” Volumn 7 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 8th 1915 Number 20 1 ,\n?. R* T- Listen an«l daugh- Mamaret and Gene left Mon«iay for Harrisburg after spending some time with Mrs ]{ K. VViliinson. Me. J. 0. Bradshaw left Tues- (|;iv lor a trip through eastern (■’.•irolina. :,lr. Zeb Oakley who is work- ) , it City Point Va. spent San aa. with his family. )!iss Margaret Millender of / Aslu'ville who has been visiting lit>r u?-andmother, Mrs. S. A. \\ iiite left for home Tiiesdaj\ Mrs. Carter is visiting her soil .Mr. S. G, Morgan. Mi.ss Salie Trollenger of Bur- liiu’ton who has been visiting Miss Lucile Dillard returned h M.if Tuesday. Miss Emma Warren spent last v\.vk with relatives in Mebane Mr.''. Ben Warren and Miss Sue Mebane left Tuesday for Hid- (ienite Miss Ida Thompson of Durham IS \ isitiiiR Mrs. T. B. Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Ira Roberson arui little son Paul of Norfolk Va. u’iu) has been visiting her father Mr. W. A Terrell for the iliiee weeks returned to rtieir home last Monday Mr and Mrs B W Terrell and .)iihlrt?t» of Greensboro spent last Sunday with their father Mr W A Terrell It is a good thing for a young man to have a pleasant place to i'l spend his spare time. Mr. helix Smith is agreably situated ill that respect. Only to Bur lington and the delights begin. In his last trip up there Mr. Smith was so absorbed in his anticipations that he walked off i he train leaving his over coat. i. J. Mazur It is agreeable for us to have Mr. I. J. Mazur of Burhngton h:iek with the Leader again in this issue. He takes a nice space in todays paper calling attention to some special cut prices. Mr. MazAU’ carries a nice stock, and ''-11s real low. See ad. Mi es-Nicholson Lumber Co. has e in this weeks Leader. This con- : rii is making a specialty of contrac- tiiiff [ rick buildings. They are prepared to d:> all kind of brick work. What itity do is done under the lire‘t supervision of Mr. John Nich- u partner in the business, and u sMlled mechanic, and a thorough ^toiie an i brick mason What he has iliM.t; is done well. Tiie olil reliable firm of H. E. Wil- 1;-, i ami Co. are still in the ring the goods. No trouble to show tilt rti and if low prices are any attrac- t "ii y.ju will buy. Mebane Tues, July 13th. Kapport of Durham will be at Mebane, at Dr. Hurdle's Office i ues J uly 13th. for the purpose of ex- aiiiiiiing eyes and fitting glasses, if V"u are in need o^ glasses for the good oi your eyes don’t fail to see him on that (late. Notes From Tne Civic As- ' and provisons’ but less than sociation. The Civic flower garden on Mam street has been greatly improved. Several of the league members gath- $10,000,000 1 n all, although this has been enough to I keep the system working, for ihe com- n')is.‘»ion has bouefht provisons, and sold at lower prices, than London prices. Cruciries Them. The Riley Damage: Suit The verdict in the damage suit i George Gordon Moore, just arrived of Miss Louise M. liiley against' London on a visit to his old W. H. Stone of Greensboro ; home in Detroit, granted the following , was returned Saturday morning j interview to a correspondent of The gered there recently and witn lawn-| whila the people have been kept alive, ' the isSUe had World: dmrwoVk^d'^lLders^'* TheTeLfa^n^^^ ^ | heard. Immediately upon thej “Young Canadian officers have been grass were mowed nicely and the walk= j ^7“ * , rendering of the verdict Judge (by the Germans. They have cleaned. Just a small amount of ti.r>e j' Siklging ClaSS j W. ,M. Bond, who had been | nailed to the village crosse;. a little co-operatiwi, and a good Orphanage Singing Class ^ hearing the (case, exclaimed i The cruelties the German army lias ea of enerffv and enthusmam i started ni its annnal to;jr, visiting | gentlemen nO pOWer Under high energy and enthusiasm I whole appearance of the! 1 of ard the garden was changed. What can ^ be accomplished in a little garden can i be done along our side walks and our i vacant lots, and our school and church | grounds and the Whole appearance of | ojr town would be changed. There is no reason why we should wait until our town grows into a city to improve our streets, our squares, our public places. A small town has need to be clean and sanitary and beautiful in appearance Just as much as the city. The Civic A.s.sociation notes with much pleasure the pretty little flower garden on the East side of the Mebane Bedding Co. plant This was made possible through the kindness of Mr. Arthur Scott, Superintendent of the plant and for the very tasteful ari'ang- ement of the beds and drive- way credit is due Mr. Walter Mason and Miss Jennie White. It is always a good wholesome sign when you see the various towns and cities in North; heaven could nidke me let that verdict stand. We do not know what step Miss Riley will take now, bui it seems quite lij^eily Brave Little Serbia Carolina, such visits being made upon invitation from, and under the auspices i)f, the Masonic Lodges and friends of the Institution. This organization, for such it may well be called, has a two-fold purpose. First: the Class gives a highly credi table and enjoyable entertainment, .'4Uch as will be a real help and bene- | In connection with the Balkan situ- (liction to all good people wherever the j ation attention has been somewhat children go, and in this wav arouse in i distracted from Serbia and it is apt to our people a deeper interest in, and I be forgotten haw great a part she l(*ve for, all that is true. j played in the war. We knew now that | In the second place, the Institution ! all the talk of a Serbian conspiracy • practiced smce the outbreak of the war would make any of our Indian wars of bygone day.s look like a condition of Utopian peace. “(^en. French an'i I were alone, her attorney will favor and ap- I having dinner, when word was brought peal. ! of the first u.'^e of gas by the Germans I at the battle of Ypres, Our people ought to see the victims. Burning at the stake i« humane in comparison. It only shows what this country would have to face if there were war. It is a signal to get leady. ‘’Civilization—German civilization —why, it is a veneer which covers the basest and most brutal passions } represented by these children supple- j against the Archduke Franz Ferdinand | imagionable. I saw ! ments its income by giving the friends j was pure invention, down to thu manu- j seven years old both j of the Institution this opportunity to ' factured evidence in the court that { make a special effort to aid the work. ! tried tlie assassins, and the b^t proof ! ‘ ^ em- j These efforts have heretofore enable {is perhaps the fact that most promine- ployers improving the grounds around their plants. The Campfire Girls under the direction | of Miss Emma Harris have already * made beautiful little wild flower gar j en on the East side of this company's plant. With flowers and grass on either | side and the whole place clean and sanitary the Mebane Bedding Company is one of the nicest looking manufactu ring plants in out town. the Orphanage to care for abont 100 j nt Serbians were abroad and Austria’s | children who a Belgian child of whose hands by German soldiers, fheir artillery even has dropped shells on refugees, on old men and women more children than could have other- ise been provided for. ultimatum was a complete surprise That a small nation, wasted by two 1 great‘Wars, with litlle military or hos- were fleeing from Business List The following is the list of the busi ness houses of Mebane, The Commercial Farmers Bank “ Bank and Trust Co. “ Mebane Supply Co. “ Nelson Ray Co. “ Tyson Malone Hdw. Co. *• H. E. Wilkerson and ('o. " C. C. Smith Clothing “ Home ^rniture Co. “ Smith-Miles and Co, “ A. P. Long “ J. C. Hunt and He*. “ W. T Hunt and Co. “ Mecca Drug Co. “ Mebane Drug C«>. “ A. H. Mebane “ L. T. Johnston “ J. H. Fowler “ J. M. Rimmer Some of these business hcuses, a fraction over one fourth of them are advertising in the Leader, how much more credit would it reflect upon Meb ane if every business was shown up in TWO AND AHALF MILLION towns on which the guns first directed. “And I want to .say that evidences pital equiprnie»’t, should have l>een | found of wells being ooison- able to put up such a struggle and fin- j ^ |^y German soldiery or its fol- ally expel an invader numericaHy many i lowing. I cite these to show what times stronger, is one of the ? remar-people England. France and What’s In The City Who nominated Wilson? Champ Clark harbors the opinion that Bryan had a hand in it. Numerous people have expressed the opinion that Provi dence inteivened to consummata it, Others, not so well pleased with the Administration have trary theory. Now it appears accord ing to The Philadelphia Evening Led ger, that Baltimore did it. The paper is making an aigument for the selec tion of Philadelphia as the seat of the Republican National Convention of Washington News Letter According to information thus far gathered, there are at least four sepe- rate and distinct groups apart from the Villa and Carranza bupporters in the United States who ais active po litically in the Mexican situation. j Whenever such activity shall reach the espoused a con-1 foot a military ex- pedition from the United Statos ar rests yre to follow. Ofi'icials at the Departinent of Justice expressed sur prise that Ilucrca and Orozo had been released on bond, and 'et it be known they had ordered their agents to main tain a stiict watch while the two gen- 1916. The very name of Chicago, it j erals were at liberty, in order that contends, invokes visions of disaster, may not escape across the Mex- “No demagogues could sway a con vention in Philadelphia. None but a man of solid achievement could here fight his way to. victory. ” By way of illustrating its point, Th3 Ledger says “Woodrow Wilson could never have been nominated if the Democratic con vention had been held in St. Louis, sa\, instead of Baltimore. The Mary land city was a Wilson city, the at mosphere was a Wilson atnriosphere. ican border. President Wilson, it is understood, will not permit his hand to be forced in Mexico by the actions of Huerta. If Gen. Huerta should succeed in com plicating the Mexican sitaation the ef fect, so far as the administration is concerned, would simply be to muddy the troubled waters there and to for tify the President’s determination to stop the whole thin^ whenever he re gards the time as most appropriate. Imitations of a favorable reply from Germany to the last note of the United States concerning submaiine warfare It changed a ho.stile majority against the Princetonian into a practic?l un- and the sinking of the Lusitania, were animity for him.” It is our view, that contained in an official dispatch from the nomination of the New Jersey j ^"^^^ssador Gerfrd received at the li. i? 1. J I State Department. The dispatch was Governor was the result of hard, | j 4. r> -j «7-i ; transmitted to President Wilson at were straight thinking by the delegates, j Cornish N. H. The information for- aided by intimations of the drift of I warded by the Ambassador was inten- sentiment at home, which settled on depict the atmosphere in Berlin of- Wilson more strongly as day after day Quarters, and was not an at- ^ ^ , tempt to outline the contents of the of the convention passed mto history, f^^tlicoming German note. This inter- There is no mistaking the fact, how- kable things of all his^^ory. I Russia have to meet. Serbia however has now in hejr midst These Go Recruit The!a greater foe than the Austrians who Armies of The Allies. ! devastated her fields and killed off her When tUe trend of American senti- ! civilian population. The deadly typhus nient is towards hopefulness that Ger- Over Sanguine. Not a man of Kitchener’s great army j has carried off a hundred thousand of j —some two and a half millions strong ^er population. At present, the typhus before the last call has yet left Eng- i 5^ under control and the land either for Flanders or the Darda-1 remaining problem is that of jielles. Before this letter is published | getting the refugee population bfick probably a quarter of a millii,n of them j their devastiifed farms .ind helping will be I'ndor way in one direction or j them to start again.—Sunset Magazine another I ■ — —» " They are msssed for sailing with all | their attendant organization of trans- poit, artillery, siege trains, engineer corps, aircraft ser.'ice, motor car equi pment, machine ^un companies, while their food and other spare equipments has been stored in Fr?nce long ahead of their ar»ival. The force at present operating and in reserve in France i« over 750,000, made up ct regulars and Territorials, whose losses ?re being automatically The ^cuth. The South is a land that n.ns known sorrows; it is a the advertising columns of the Leader, j made good. They have fought gallant The Leader is supposed to be a reflex j jy fu^e soldiers, but unless of Mebano’s progress and push. A dead paper would indicate a dead tow.\. j every expectation is falsified Kitchen- I er’s army represents the most splendid j fighting force, physically and morally. land that has broken the ashen crust and moisten it with tears; a land scarred and riven by the plowshare of war and billowed with the graves of her dead; but a land of legend, a land of song, a land of hol lowed and heroic memories. To that land every drop of my blood, every fiber of my being, every pulsation of my heart, is conafcrated forever. I was born of her womb; ! was nurtur ed at her breast, and when my last hour shall come, I pray God that I may be pillowed upon her bosom and rocked to sleep withm her tender and J many will respond satisfactory to our demands, it is not pleasant to be com pelled to take a pessimistic view. But we are convinced that the forthcoming note will not yield a jot or tittle of substance in the matter of submarine warfare. .Our complaints w«re speoi- fic and our contentions were unquali fied, They are not to be met by coun ter proposals of modification of methods contingent on the abandonment of England's blockade of German i)orts and embargo of shipments to Germany through neutral countries The cases are entirely distinct and each must be treated by the Washington authorities on its own merits. The issues raised by the note signed “Bryan” are not subsceptible of compromise. They must be squarely met or th« crisis will grow more instead of less acute.— Norfolk Pilot. Life is Enriched Magnifiecnt Few people, even in the country that tooted the larger part of the bill, are aware of the enormous labor that has been performed by Annencan Relief commission in Belgium. The very fact that the commission has spent $65,000, OOo will astound nr.any; that it has fed, not only the 7,000,000 starving people that England has ever put in the field. ; encircling arms. —The late Senator E I W. Carmack, of Tennessee. The Huns And Vendals j oi The Present. ! I And then there are the “atrocities” ■ committed by the “Huns,” tales of If ^uch There be, Go, Mark Him Well. Breathes there a “Life is enriched in proportion as it is spiritualized. The soul has its own hungers and thirsts, not less imperi ous than those of the body. We may think that we live by bread and flesh and material things but we are surpri sed that other things without weight man with s ml so substance insist upon taking their . , . , ^ u- ir u -J rightful place in our lives—and it is I I dead, who never to himself hac? said, 1 ° ^ j- i. i ’ ' not a subordinate one. . * Thatediior has quite a head. I’mj ^ ^lay sit in a bare, lonely j He’s got a room and see visions and dream dreams ever, that Baltimore did its part and that its sentiment, as expressed by people and voiced in the flaming head lines of the press, was a potent factor in the result. Mr. Bryants Old Section alism New York .\merican. Returning to his native Nebraska, Mr. Bry.an congratulates his neighbors that they “enjoy an environment which lends itself to the calm consideration of the Nation’s welfare.” Especially ha thinks, are they fortunate trade by this country, the war and lack of influences of the 1 Upon Secretary of State Lansing, Eastern press. The Allegheny Moun- j with a petition for action to enable tains, he thinks, “are a God-send to mation is not regarded by well inform ed persons as meaning that the Ger man government has decided to grant fully the demands of the United Sta tes, but only that the attitude of the imperial government is friendly and conciliatory and will endeavor to sub mit proposals for a adjustment satis factory to the'United States. Advices received in Washington are to the effect that Southern business men and bankers are much wrought up over the suspension in ihe cotton export trade caused by Great Britain’s blockade of neutral commerce. Pro tests are to be lodged with the admi nistration in their bahalf. Another important development in the Euro pean war situation was the call of re presentatives of 1,000 importers of the Mississippi Valley,” for they bar importers to bring their dyestuffs other United States owned goods out of Germany. Coincidental, however, out the Eastern newspapers. Just it was announced that the placing of how they do it Mr, Bryan does not I an embargo at present on shipments reveal, but he apparently considers | belligerent country, notwith- outrages, wholesale murder, rape and ; pillage which should have found small j giyj j tj^ke his paper. credence in the United States whose i of .,,^1 sand, he prints the 1 oi bygones that profoundly affect him in Belgium, but an additional 2,000,000 I people know more about German char-1 ^il the land, he boosts the in northern France will be another sur- j acteilstics from a personal observation I ^own to beat the band and that’s the I than any other non-Germanic country, j caper. He soaks the grafters prise. The work is the Reprieve Is Granted Becker Till July 26 ■governor Whitman of New York de- ‘ liiied to commute the death sentenceof • 'harle.s Becker, convicted of the murder H^-inian Rosenthal. Simultaneously, Martin T. manton. Becker’s counsel, :^llli»ullced he would take no further Htep in behalf of his client. Iliat other counsel for Becker may I'live an opportunity to appeal to the tf"leral court, hovitever. if desired, I tie ffovernor granted the convicted :t reprieve to week beginning ••uly 2{>. When Manton left after lii.-j corference with the governor he '!i,| not know if the case would be )akeii to a higher court, or what Htiorney, if any, would appeal for the '•"tivicted man. ■ *iiiy a writ issued by a federal court now will act as a stay. A (nere appeal will not haye that ef- Manton, who retires from the ‘•ase, never has been of the opinion that there was much hope of federal '■''urt intervention. There are a few points on which, it is expected, an ap peal on constitutional grounds might be t**ken, but they are considered of a minor character. more when one considers the dificulties under which it was performed. Comm enting on this the Philade'phia Inquirer says: “At the start the commission almost helpess. Its activltes were con fined to seeuring provisions and distri buting them as carefully as possible wherever they could reach the desti tute but this was soon seen to be mere makeshift which could not last long what the commision did was to relize the finances and the industry of creditable i Ugye is a sample of the German atro* j in the neck, he saves the Ship of State cities. Ponder upon it, then weigh it from wreck, he’s Johnnie on the spot. in the light of your own knowledge concerning the traits of your neighbors and acquaintances of German descent. HE EATS ‘EM ALIVE! “The child was about two years of age. The child came into the middle of the street so as to be in the way of the soldiers. The soldiers were wal- I king in twos. The first line of two passed the child; one of the second line the man on the left, stepped aside and drove his bayonet with both hands into Go into the Eastern penitentiary and you will find that some of the prison ers, “each in his narrow cell,” have covered ’he walls with vistas of hills, meadows, trees, water brooks and cat tle feeding that lift the spirit out of its pinching environment, giving it room and air to breathe. The brush, like a book, has conferred libertv. and the prisoner has painted his way to woe, he tells us all we want to know— I enfranchisement as though each pic- by heck, when thi.igs are in a jumble. He writes the ads that brings the dough, he chases all our gloom and and yet he is quite humble. He never gets a bit stuck up, he’s worked since Hector was a pup to earn h*s daily bite and sup and have a little over. I know we owe him many plunks and j let us shame the other skunks and furnish him Belgium to erect a great banking and j enild’s stomach, lifting the child commercial trading institution whereby j air on his bayonet and carry- j were exchanged for provisons. Gold 1 jj. a^vay on his bayonet, he and his! disappeard, but there was an abund-1 gQ^^ades still f>inging.” ' wherewith Mein tyre. to with kale in chunks, live in clover.”—E. F. Crown Prince liupprecht of Bavarii This is not the tale of an Bible person. It is a verbatim extract | from the official report of the British; I Committee on Alleged German Out-1 rages and signed by the chairman of i the committee. Viscount Bryce. On ■, I is quoted as saying that half the shells irrespon-| they must have been fired from this ance of paper money The commission m.deall who had the money pay for food, and when money was gone accepted credit slips. Then they man aged to get Germany to agree to let the commission collect foreign debts to Bel gians in gold and pay the creditors in | account of the chairman’s position a hgg j ten days ago—and so have probably not been delivered even at this writ- ture were an unbarred vnndow. ” that mountain rage a sort of mystic circle beyond which mails and tele grams cannot go and which turns back through itself. |In his scolding of the East, its press its habits of thought and its people, Mr. Bryan recurs to his earliest days. From 1892 to 1896, in ihe era of pop ulism’s most rapid spread, vitupera ting the East was as customary in Kansas and Nebraska as “twisting the British lion's tail” was here when Tammany was still Irish. The vogue of the cartoon showing the monster cow feeding the ^rans-Mississippi prairies and being milked in New York spoke volumes for the sectionalism of that day. When in 1896 Mr. Bryan •standing published reports to that ef fect. War Losses Here are figures gathered by the Red Cross and made public by the Ger man consul in Denver, which probably constitute the first authentic informa tion of losses since the beginning of hostilities. The losses of the Belgians, Serbians, Monteiiegrins, Turks and Japanese are not included in the summary, exact fig ures not being obtainable. The Red Cross records show that every day up to March 1 the losses of all the countries engaged averaged 41, 300, divided as follows; Dead, 10,140; wounded, 23,000; prisoners, 8300. The total losses of the allies averaged 28,- 000 daily, while those of the central boldly called New York “the enemy s ! powers, Germany and Austria-Hungary country” he strengthened himself at [ averaged 13,3G0 a day. home and did little to hurt a hopeless Followirg are the Red Cross figures: cause here. It will be interesting to see whether his effort to revive this sectionalism will bear fruit. It is cheap and un-Austria—Dead, patriotic device at best, and will prob- wounded^ 618,000; ably fall flat. For the agricultural The work an unknown good man has I West of today does not bear the rela- done is like a vein of water flowing tion to the industrial and financial East Germany—Dead, 482.000; slightly wounded, 760,000; seriously wounded, 97,000; prisoners, 233,UOO. Total losses, 1,572,000. 341,000; slightly seriously wounded, 183,000. Total los- hiddcn undergound, secretly making the ground green. —Carlyle. Traveling Man s Exper ience. “In the summer of 1888 I had a very severe attack of cholera morbus. Two physicians wot ked over me from four a. m to 6 p.m. without giving me any tired at his army in Northern France i relief and then told me they did not were made in American. In that event expect me to live; that I had best tele graph for my family. Instead of doing 80, I gave the hotel pwter fifty cents side of the Atlantic. The first ship- and told him to buy me a bottle of ment of shells from America did not \ Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diar- leave our shores until June 21—about the paper money. Eventually this ex- j large part of the American press tended much further, so that Belgian in j come to the couclusion that the com- dustry has to some extent revived and! mittee report “proves” the truth ofj*"^‘ I . * no one is starving. i the German atrocities. ,,Here we have an instance of fore sight and organized intelligence which is unknown in war history. It was Amer-' ican organized and executive capacity I American city. It is Just across the which accomplished this. Americans river from the European war, — Pitts- have contributed largely of the money burgh Gazette- Times. rhoea Remedy, and take no substitute. I took a double dose according to the direction and went to sleep after the second dose. At five o’clock the next morning I was called by my order and I took a train for next stopping point. Childrens day exercises will be held j a well man but feeling rather shaky at the M. P. church the 3rd Sunday j frou) the severity of the attack,” write evaning. An unusual interesting pro-1 h. W. Ireland, Louisville, Ky. For gram has been arranged under the i gale by Mebane Drug Co direction of Miss Bannie Sykes. D« High and MiM Pickaid retam-ip^ ^ ed Tuesday from Wadesboro. that it did in 1896. Then it was purely a debtor section, heavily over mortga ged, suffering from a succession of bad crop years, and “busted booms.” It owed the East heavily—to the mutual sorrow of both sections. The creditor whose money had been sought eagerly had become the oppressor and the East stood for him. Hence the sectional hatred upon which Bryan played. But the conditions now differ. Pros perity is not now sharply divided on east and west lines. The prairie States are no longer debtor States. The far mer is an investor more than a bor rower Populism is dead and if its funeral would be held today the farm ers Would attend in automobiles. Gone are the days when the socklessness Simpson appealed to the Kansas elec tors. Mr. Bryan is trying to conjure up a sentiment as dead as his 16 to 1 theory and to arouse a sectionalism which a true patriot would be glad to let die. 83,000; prisoners, ses, 1,225,000, France—Dead, 464,000; slightly wounded, 718,000; seriously wounded, 439.000; prisoners, 495,000. Total los ses, 2,116,000. Great Britainr-Dead, 116,000; slight ly wounded, 185,000; seriously woun ded, 49,000; prisoners, .83,000. Total losses, 433,000. Russia—Dead, 733,000; slightly wounded, 1,500,000; seriously wounded, 482,000; prisoners, 770,000. Total los ses, 3,485,000. These figures give totals of 2,146, 000 in dead, 3,781,000 slightly wounded 1,150,000, seriously wounded, and 1,764 000 prisoners, making a grand total of losses of 8,831,000. Rare Furniture Finished. Mr. Dave Qualls who makes a specialty of overhauling old fur niture and refinishing it, has three pretty pieces he has just finished for Gov. Holt’s son of New York. The furniture is some that has been held for long years in Governor Holt’s family and is of rare quality.