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MO. 2J
THRIFT CAMPAIGN
FOR SURRY COUNTY
A N«w War-Tatk for *11 A mar
To the ClUaan* of Surry County:
The glory of America and the Mr
tIm of humanity la calling th* man ot
average mean* into action.
Hi* powar ia th* conquering and un
conconquarabl* powar of tha American
Matian.
Big capital, big buaina**, th* big
man of tha country have already boon
called into service. Their reapon**
wan prompt, and they have entered
heartily upon the big taaka a**ignod
them.
By tha new plan pat into operation
this month by the United tftotea Gov
arnment the power of the a mall wiv
ing., th* ■mall buslne**, the average
cituen, ia to be employed for winning
a great victory over German plan*
and intrigue.
The new plan a(Ul be welcomed
wherever it become* known.
The announcement of It ha* arou*ed
«nthu»ia*m, and in tae moet populous
cantor* of the country, great throng*
are In evidence at Poat Offices and
other place* where WAR SAVINGS
STAMPS are for aale. It la a plan
for all tha hundred million fraa citi
zen* of America. The taak aaaigned
to each ia vary aa*y, but very great
In its effect upon the xuccesiful pro
aecution of the war and upon the fu
ture welfare of America.
The performance at the task brings
immediate profit to every person who
does his or her part. The Government
i
pays a higher rate for it than for the (
service of big capital.
Liberty Bond* are fceyond the reach j
of many whoa* patriotism is real, and
their savings from day to day and],
from week to week, alt in small ,
amounts. ,
The Government has devised WAB ,
SAVINGS CERTIFICATES AND
UNITED STATES THRIFT CARDS, |
to enable these people to invest some
of their savings profitably in securi
ties of their own Government.
A War-Savings Certificate ha.
twenty spaces, upon each one of which
* Government stamp costing {4.12, if
purchased before Feb. 1st, 1918, may_
be aflxed. These stamps inert—
in value at the rate of 4 per cent com
pounded quarterly, so that in 5 years,
at maturity, they will be worth $5.00
each.
The full certiflcata, costing $82.40
will be redeemed in five years by the
United States Government for $100.00
in CASH. ft
But any on* 01 tne aiamp«, or any
part of any incompletely filled certi
ficate. will be rcdeemed^n CASH, at
any time, on ten days notice, for ori
ginal cost together with accrued in
terest at «ny money Poet OfBce in the
United States.
The stamps are better than the
CASH. For example, if you were to
carry a Five Dollar bill in your pock
et for It months, it would be worth
just <5.00, no more and no less, at
the end of the 12 months. But if you
carry in your pocket a War-Savings
Stamp, or a War-Savings Certificate
with stamps afflxt, it is increasing in
value every moment of time you have,
it in your possession, and you can use
It as money any time you wish.
The United State* Thrift Card* are
planned en the same principle as the
War-Paving* Certificate.
The whole plan is simplicity, con
venient. profit and service to the high
est degree.
It gives to every clas< of Americans,
even thoae of small means, the oppor
tunity to save money, and thus to
I serve themselv** and V-nmnnty at
large in the largest possible way.
It bring* to every man, w«r»i*n and
child a strong inducement to econo
mise la food, dothii.*, and personal
fedulfeace and It aee their saving* to
toerea** their own fortune, to
strengthen their Government, and to
support the gallant anldlera and «all
or*, many of whom ara Surry fount)
ami North Carolina boya, who ara a*'
crlAcInf by AfkUnf lor iu all. avan U
tha point of giving their own livaa.
War-Savings Cartlftratea, United
States Thrift Card*, and tha War
, Saving* Stamp* to All them. will h«
! on aala at all Monay Orilar Poat Off
cea In tha Nation and by tha Rural
ranram, by all Hanka and paihapa at
othar places, announcement of which
will ha mad* latar.
Kull information will ha avatlabla
avarywhara.
Every facility In buying tham will
ha given. No ona will hava reason
for overlooking or neglecting tham.
Thay will not ha dumpad on l)»e mar
kit without raalrirtion howavar, thay
ara too good for that. .No ona aub
acrlbar will ba allowad to own mora
than 1100. worth of War-Saving* Car
tiflcataa. Thay ara non-taxable.
An educational campaign of graat
magnituda la being inaugurated in
Sorry County, through all tha newa
papara, achool and othar agencies.
Wa muat raach avary homa in Surry
and inform tllfcm aa to tha taak bafora
tha Amarican people to serve both
Man and, aa I believe, (jod, in light
ing Pruaaian Autocracy, and for tha
Freedom of man.
Tha community that can ba induced
■o practice tha moat rigid economy, by
ilimination of tha non-aaaantiala in
>ur manner and mathuda of living,
ind to aubacriba to tha graataat
imount of theM profit bearing WAR
1AVING CERTIFICATES, will vary
oon be the moat prosperous, and the
itizenahip will hava the conaciousneaa
>f having dona their duty by a great
auaa, and to our boya who are light
ng for ua.
In tha beginning of the work
ton-Salem, N. C., 1 moat aameetly
lead for tha hearty co-operation of
vary patriotic man, woman, boy and
firl in Surry county.
With kind regards and beat wishes,
am. Sincerely yours,
A. V. WEST, Chairman,
iurry County War-Savinga Comittee. I
'Its only i Question
of our Keeping Cool"
Amsterdam, Dec. IB.—The German
lewspapers contain lengthy account*
tt the speech of Grand Admiral von
rirpits before the Hamburg branch
>f the Fatherland party, in wlvich the
tdmiral said:
"Up to the present in this war Great
Britain has won, rather than lost.
Peace based on the status quo ante or
an renunciation, therefore is oat of
the question for Germany."
With reference to the rumor that
Germany would give up Zebrugge and
Ostend if the British evacuated Calais,
von Tirpitz said:
"The exacuation of Calais would
never be equivalent to the loss of such
first class security. Moreover, the
Channel tunnel will become a fact af
ter the war, for real security, we
should have besides Flanders and Ant
werp, Calais and Boulonge. The ru
m r in question is a wreen behind
which the question of Flanders might I
be permitted to disappear.
"The pretext that we cannot coerce
Great Britain and America falls to
the ground when wo consider thel
growing scarcity of the cargo space of
our ruthless arch-enemy. The time
for Anal decision will come when real
distress begins to take the place of
merely threatening dintrees. That
time will come. It is only a question
of our keeping cool."
Chamberlain's Tahleta.
Chamberlain's Tablets are intended
>.ill. for stomach trouble" bili
ousness and coiistip«:i<.ti, ...id have
with much u^-e»s in th« treat
ment of thone diseases. People who
: Uave sw-.'trtk! for years with stomach
trouble and have been unable to
{ obtain any permanent relief have been
completely cured by the use of these
tablets. Chamberlain's Tahleta are
also of great value for billiooaness.
I Chronic uunilipation mat he perman
ently cored by taking Chamberlain's
I Tablets and ofcaerving the plain print
lad directions with each bottle.
A Christmas Sermon.
By Rev. Tom P. .Jitnixon.
And on earth peace, good will to
ward man. St. Luke 2:14.
Tha none of Ola heavenly hoat on
that epochal night whan Jaaua lay In
tha manger waa prophetic. It berald
ad forth God'a attWurfe toward man,
and suggested that by raaaon of hia
infinite Gift, It would ultimately be
come man'* attitude toward eachather.
Jaaua did not rou»e to brine imme
diate peace. It could not be. Ha cam*
to "bring a ■word," to tend "fire" and
to let membera of the uma hooaefcold
"at variance one with another." Ifcat
waa the inevitable and iriepraealbla
conflict between a in and righteousness.
Tha progreaa of rigfetaoasnaaa haa
ever been attended by tremendoua up
heavals and disturbances. Sin la ter
ribly intrenched and tha legiona of
Lucifer fight to the laat ditch. They
make no "strategic retreata."
But righteousneea wina. Muat win.
Peace followa. That la the dominant
note in the New Teatament. A few
Mlated prelate* are still proclaiming
:hat God is trying to snatch a few
>rands from the horning and take
hem to glory in aaase far off place
'out beyond the confines of aatrono
nical apace," and abandon tha balance
in tha borders of Limbo; but it ia
lot so. Ha ia creating a new heaven
md a new earth wherein dwelleth
end to haatan tha final victory. I.
"Peace on earth!" Sounds like i
nere mockery now in the midst of all i
his wreckage and carnage and strife.
Ind yet this is but a conflict between
ight and darkness on a more gigantic
«ale than we have ever seen before,
t ia a supreme teat as to whether
ight or might shall rule. A nation
WHY ARE WE GERMANS 1
SO DISLIKED ABROAD?
Berlin, Germany (vim Zurich)—i
•w*y •re at Germans so disliked
■broad V was the question which Pro
fessor Kraemer of the University of
Stuttgart, recently discussed before a
meeting of the Mannheim Merchants
Association.
"The greatest failing of individual
Germans,* said the professor, "as well
as of the whole nation, is that we arc
no psychologists. This explains exact
ly why foreigners And us so disagree
able, it is because we have ao psycho
logical comprehension and do not esti
mate the effect of our words and our
manners upon strangers, otherwise we
should be careful to act more in ac
cordance with the ideas of foreigners,
and not behave ourselves when abroad
as though we were at home; yet on the
other hand, we should not sink all our
particular German qualities out of a
mistaken regard for foreign manners.
"Our unpopularity with the English
is due to our material and intellectual
advancement, which awakens dislike
and jealousy. England feels her de
cline approaching and wants to over
throw her ambitieua opponent. In
Franca matters were going much bet
ter in the last few years, until the
malevolent influence of England
I touch', about a rw rude sconce of the
old hatred. The Itatians have a spe
cial dislike of all foreigners. It is
true they have a great respect for our
•ansa of order, and a very cool re
i spect alto for our ability, but their
' artistic sensibilities cause them t"> And
, a lack of repose and gracious nets in
the German manner. The Russians
(
have mostly knewn the Germaiu. as
instructors and that has not filled
| them with love for us. The Swiss li
can run amuck u wall a* an imiividu
al. 0 ana any ha* dona that. Sha li
an international pariah with all tha
worat qualities of Napoleon, Alaxan
dar, Hannibal, Atilla, Norn, and Ju
daa lacariot. Sha ban preached tlx
doctrina that might makaa right until
aba haa bacoma drunk with Inat for
power. Tha tima of reckoning ban
arrivad. "Iniquity having playad it*
part, Vengenance haa laapad upon tha
»taga." Sha haa diggad a pit and fal
lan in it, haa hid a trap and raught
har own foot.
But wa muat not cronh har and
leave har by tha road side to dia.
Wa muat, aftar this conflict Is over,
halp har out of tha pit and aaa to it
that thia raving demoniac ia ciothad
and in har right mind. No naad to
undertake it though until tha devils
have been caat out and driven into tha
»ea. Thui all men muat learn that
might ia not right, but that right ia
almighty. Then will we learn war
no mora.
Put the Golden Age will not dawn
when war* have reaaed. Nor will
it dawn until there la "good will to
ward men" in every heart. However
t will come. "He must reign until he
lath put all enemiea under bis feet."
Politics will have to be cleansed of
topinjays and pismirea; industry muat
ind selfishness; society muat be pall
id out of the miasmic marshes of »in
ind "washed with the laver of regen
iration." Greed and graft, lying and
ust. injustice, oppression, envy, ma
ice, jealousy, hatred, strife, and all
>f hell's unclean brood muat be driven
Trom God's domain, the earth. Then
■veil hear the angels again.
fundamentally friendly to Germany, ^
but h« ia accustomed to use the French ^
and Italian tongue, rather than that of (
the German Empire. It irritate* him
that we >o easily forget abroad the
political frontiers and are constantly
boasting of how much better we do
things at home.
"In the Latin nations, the old ro
matic spirit ia nourished in the
schools, but in Germany the children
are taught that history begins in Ger
man nationalism. To these races, the
romantic ideal seems to (^threatened
by the spirit of work, of exertion, and
of force, and excel'ejice, of the Ger
mans, which the;- deem carried to ex
cess. Our development in intellectual
and economic relations is felt by our
enemies as a gloomy threatening of
old privilege*. When they speak of
our militarism, they mean the rigidity
in the form of our whole national life.
The short harsh tone of command is
hated abroad; it is said of us also,
that we eat and drink too much and
make altogether too much noise in the
world."
Seventeen Enlisted men
Are Miaaing in Action.
Wa.-huigUui Dec, 16.— Seventeen en
listed men of the United States army
engineer corps were imported missing
in action by General Perishing in a
dispatch today to the war department'
They were mis-ing on November SO,
i the day uf the German turning move
I ment at Oair>»r*l and are believed to'
' have fallen into the hands of the Ger
i mans while fighting valiantly with the
engineer contingent which distinguish
ed itself helping the British to check
the attack. The men were all from
New York, New Jetaey and New
England points.
| VLLIE5 CAIN ADVANTAGE.
I SpiU of PrrpoadcTMit Ma
jority of CorawM Dfrviaiooa
tho Britiah tad F ranch H**o
T«ri>
Washington, Dec. 1(1.—"No ele
ment in the military aituation nhould
lead ua to conclude that the initiative
in tha want ha* paaaad from tha allien
to tha aftemy," ayi Secretary Baker
in hia weekly review of military opar
ationa, made public tonight and devot
ed largely to tha German advartiaing
of an impending great offensive.
"During tha period of tha review
(week ending yeiterday) tha general
Military aitoatlon in tha waat haa re
mained unchanged." tha review aaya:
"Rumor* of graat preparation on
tha part of tha German*, with a view
to achiaving noma major utrategic *uc
ceaa in the waat, continue to reach ua.
"Report* of maaaad hoatila concen
tration* in thoae aactor* where tha
enemy propose* to break through tha
French front and roll bark tha allied
Una on a broad icala, are numerous.
"The German higher cnnftimand
aaeki peace through victory. The
enemy ia apparently very eager to
have *uch a victory.
"For the past two year* the Gar- 1
mana have bean on the dafenaive in '
tha waat. Tha bold advartiaing of
an impoeing offensive on the part of
the enemy, which while in the realm '
of poaaibility and therefore should not 1
be neglected or overlooked, mutt in 1
no wise be interpreted to nAan that '
the increased strength of the hostile "
force* will result in any permanent 1
strategic advantage to the German*.
"Surveying tha outlinea of the gen- u
n on tha.'
"The central powers have taken the
initiative in the eastern and Italian 1
haatere the allies along the major ■
front in the west, in Palestine, Me*o- *
potamia, and East Africa.
"The enemy has confined his efforts ®
to advancing hi* lin-s along the Rus- '
aian front, reeulting In the capture of '
Riga, and then by a well-conducted of- 2
fenaive in Italy, with tha asaiatance of I
an intensive political drive, gainad a
marked atrategic aweas in this aec- '
tor.
"The allies in the principal theater
>f operations, the west, have been able
to record an honest uninterrupted '
icries of tactical advantages, and in '
ipite of the concentration of a pre
ponderant majority of the efficient
jerman divisioni have gained consid
irable terrain and taken a large quota
>f prisoner*.
"In the outlying a rva < of Mesopo
tamia and Palestine th«> British have
iriven the enemy before, and their
j(Tensive culminated during the week
in the capture of Jerusalem.
"Though the capture of the holy city
rannot be held a principal military ob
jective of the campaign to vigorously
pursued by General Allenby in tihs
theater, the conqest of Jerusalem will
have a wide influence through the
Turkish empire. • • • And will
go far towards reaffirming the pre
stige of the allied powers through the
orient.
"Germany realixea the danger at
tendant upon the waning of her in
fluence in the east and will therefore
be more anxious than ever to con
clude a speedy peace before the 'war,
map' incomes less favorable. • ♦ •
"The raiding of German towns in.
ti>« interior, more especially the indus
trial centers of the f.tiineland, by al
lies aircraft, as reprisals for the re
peated bombardment of open towns
in France and (Jmt Britain by the,
German", has been successfully ini
tiated.
"Reports of observers recently out (
of Germany who were preeent dar
ing previous air raids, sate that these
raid* have had a eery depressing ef
fect on the civilian population and
have heightened the growing diacoo
tent among the German people. whe
now for the flr»t time are lirougfct
face to (m with it«I w»r conditio**.
• » •
"The armmtica concluded by the
Rum tans with the enemy now mrludee
the entire eaetem front from lha Bel
'tttothi Black ms. Negotiations are
not proceeding smoothly. Tha Gar
man demand* an reported to ua, • paci
fy, among other point*, tha immediate
opening up of ■ hanuela of commenciel
mtarrouraa between Run'ia an4 Car
many." _
FOOD, FUEL, SUPPLIES
FOR GOVERNMENT FIRST
General Priority Order IhimJ
Giving These Things Prefer
ential Shipment
Wa«hington, Dae. 7.— A raneral
priority order, giving preferential
■hipment to food, fuel and govern
ment supplies wai iaaued today by
Robert S. I-ovett, government dicta
tor of priority transportation.
The order legalises action already
taken by tha aaatam operating com
modities preference in movement.
Officials believe It will go far toward*
■elieving the eaiitarn freight conges
ion which haa threatened to cloaa
lown war industriee and public utfll
iea.
The order saya: •
"On and after th« 12th day of Da
ember, 1917, and until further order
11 common carrier* by railroad in
lie United States ahall give prefer
nce and priority in car supply and ia
lovement to the following commodi
iea and in the order numbered:
"1.—Steam railway fuel for currant
Has when conaigned direct to the
nited State* government or the *B
lorized ofllccrs of the United Statea
rmy, navy or shipping board or te
te allies or the proper representa
ven thereof, destined to any canton
lent, post or encampment^ to any
oint of export for movement thence
a Europe, to any arsenal or navy
ard. or material to any shipbuilding
ilant under contract to the United
Itates shipping board for the sola
lurpose of constructing veascla for
hat board.
"(B) Other shipments for the
Jnited States government u the UIM
nay be authorized from time to tin*
>y the undersigned as nece. sary as in
larHcular case*, but only upon re
juest of the United States army, Unit
id State* navy or United States ship
>ing board, through • designated offi
cer or representative of the respec
Irt departments located in Washing
mi;
"4.—Coal to and for by product cook
ng plants and not subject to recon
lignment; and
"5.—Preference and priority ia
■ovement only to real for current use
tot not for storage, consigned direct
(and not subject to rensignment) to
Hospitals, schools and other public in
stitutions, retailers of coal for use ia
■ upplying domestic consumers only;
ind to coal, coke and raw material*
For current use, but not for storage,
:oasigned direct (and not subject to
reconsignment) to blast furnaces,
foundries, iron and steel mills, smel
ters. manufacturers engaged in work
For the United States government or
its allies, public utilities (including
street and intonirban railways, elee
try power and lighting pieftta, gas
nlants. water and sewer srorfca), Cour
mill*, sugar factories, fertiliser fac
tories and shipbuilders; also ship
ments of paper, petroleum and petro
leum products."
TRANSFER UNEL
! will operate a passengi-r transfer
between Dobeon and Mount Airy hi
the future. Charges reasonable. IW
me at new Court House. Service day
or night P1>one Hoi-man's teallM
Dobeoa, N. C.
A. L. NORMAN.