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Mount Airy Newt. Ll Airy, 1 C. J mm 17 U. NIL •imeKimoN um * THE SAVING STAMP. / Ntvtr have we known tha people of thu section to interested in any aubject aa they are today in the War Saving* Stain pa. It ia the one sub let of conversation. This week Sur ry ia to raise more than six hundred thousand dollars for the country. This ia Surry's part in the present effort to get funds with which to prosecute the war. Lost Friday night the people were treated to an address by Lieutenant Choice, a British officer who has seen three year* service and knows of all the battles and borrows of the pre aent struggle. He .poke in the High School building an<? great number* of people were so intensely interested aa to listen rtanding to the whole ad dress for an hour and a half. We doubt if a speaker here has ever en thused and stirred an audience as Lieut. Choice did. He has a story to tell. In the (^-st place he was a University student and highly educa ted when he went to the war. Then he had the experience of long service seeing all kinds of r*fhting before he finally got put out of the game by wound". He was one of 40 men to live through a charge where 800 En glish soldiers attacked a German trench. For an hour and a half he thrilled his audience with stories, some of which were funny and some sad. He was ab'.e to make the audi ence laugh or cry almost at his will, but with it all it was a serious speech and one that created intense interest in the subject of helping to win by contributing to the present effort. During the past few days almost every man in the county who can make a speeA has been on the gc speaking at the various places in the county where the people are accus tomed to assemble. Large and enthu siastic audiences have greeted the speakers everywhere and it appears that the public mind is almost a unit in the effort to da. Its "part in this drive for funds. Both Siloam and Shoals have al ready much more than subscribed their part, and by large sums, too At first it was feared by the leaders that the rural sections of the county would be slow to subscribe their allot ed part, but not it appears that the rural sections will all be in line, and the fear now is that Mount Airy will not be able to raise the $180,000.00 that is assigned as her part. Truly it is a big amount for the wealth hete, but we are expecting it to be raised. The entHu:ia:m is such that if any oppo.-ition exist*, or even any indiffer ence, it has not asserted itself. All of which speaks in glowing terms of praise for the country. r \ GREAT SCHOLAR HERE. The people of this city have had tht opportunity this week of hearing one of the (.'nut scholars of the age ir Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, of Louisville Ky. He came here to deliver a seriei of lectures at the Baptist Church and it has been a great opportunity foi the gaining of information, to say nothing of the enthusiasm and spiri tual uplift for those who were able tc grasp the spirit of the intellectual feast. The Icctuics have been on churcli history and hu\e been of a scholarly natu i and have !>een free from all form* of prejudice. We have rarely heard ft minister of any denomination pay h »'h«r tributes to his own church that Dr. McGlothlin has paid to thr many ihutvh. ■ that he has discussed in hi» lectures. He i.< able to see and • to make others see the great good in tfce various denominational raove n * that have been a part of the ch'irth history of the nice during the pftr I thouiand year*. Ilis lectures akouM have much to do with breaking <!own denominational prejudice among those who have heard him. It would bft out of the question to i to mlw ta i ed km. But • w prominently that we will ikw. la Gttmay the •lata controlled religion. Na tar would dare ta antagoaiaa tha gov ernment in any at hia htbou. Ha at once. TH» churches ara vary much in tha nature of war ■naaum«. Tha walls of the churchaa ara today da coratad with capturad flag* and all tha vartoua trophiaa of war. Tha schools ara state rontrollad in ovary | wnM of tha word. Whila tha taach , ar can hava hia own views of laatha matica or astronomy or rhemiatry, ha ! .lares not teach anything that ia not I in harmony with tha ruling power of | the country. And h« must teach mor als and ideas of government as they are dictated t) the rulers, or he will soon lose out. A professor cannot hold a position in one of the univer sities unless he ia in harmony with the government to the extent of be longing to the political party of the ruling force. The schools are the underlying cause of the present conditions in Ger many. at leart they are the means by which the people have been poisoned mentally and made to assume their present attitude. To subdue Germany and leave the schools as they are would mean that the minds of the people would be so antagonistic as to bring about another conflict in the | course of a few years. Dr. McGloth 1 lin studied ir. the University of Berlin | for two years and took a high degree I from that institution. He nays that I the German mind is so poisoned with , the ideas of power as they have been 'taught as to make them have a per i feet contempt for freedom as it is I thought of in England and the United j States. Many of the people of our city have attended these lectures of which there were six, and they will no doubt be long remembered as a great source of information and truly an intellec tual feast. GETTING KILLED. Many people talk of the probabili ties of our boys getting killed in the present war. You have no doubt no ticed that the old Confederate noldier tells of the dangerous fights in which he participated. There is no story connected with the many long weeks and months in which he was as safe as if he had been. nt home. Some where we have 'seen that a soldier in Europe is much less in danger than the buby in this country, so far as his chances are for living through the year. A statement made by Surgeon-Gen eral Gorgas in the American Magazine throws much light on this subject of getting pijt out of the game. The statement follows: There seem • to be nn impression in ihis country t'.iat to fight in the pres ent war means r.lmost sure death to a j soldier. As a Platter of fact, both in | the danger from disease and in the deadlines* of the actual fighting, there is no comparison between the war in Europe to day and our Civil War. In tin' < ivil War our mortality was some thing over five per cent, for the four years'. It if true that the Krench arm i< uffered r'.ir.ost exactly the same death lore's during the first five months of the war. But people must not forget til: t those firs, five months were the mo t disastrous period, es pecially for the Allies, who were un prepared in every way. By 11116 the French reduced tfseir mortality to only about two per ccntT for twelve months That is a rate of only 20 per thous and. Even ir. civil life a rate of thir teen to fifteen per thousand is usual. Therefore it is evident that the addi tional war risk is surprisingly low. After a three day's in our Civil War— such a battle as Gettysburg, for in stance—a third of the men engaged were left on the field. You cannot find in the pri-yent conflict any three days as disastrous as that.—'Watch man Examiner. McLucasBarber. k On Wednesday of thin week at the home of the 1*1 ide in McCall, S. C., Mr. I. W. Iiarber and Mi** Margaret Mc Lucas were married. Mis Mc Lucas is well known in this city and section, having served here as Canning Club agent for two year* during which time xhe made this city her home and won many friends among our people. Mr. Barber has been Superintendent of the Water and Light plant here for mar.y years mid has made a place for himself here a* on* of our most use ful and worthy citizens. The newly married couple will make their home on Rawlejr street. HOW GERMANY IS LOSING. Military CritM Show* Mm Gradual failure o# Gwbmti Frank H. Simonda, I Miliary Critic. Tho First thing to bo aid of the op eiationa an tho woot front in tho wook of Juno 11-1* is that tho rocord ia tho Moot kopoful ainglo eircuwatanco ainco tho Gorman offonaivo began, on March >1. Tho latoot phaso of tho "Battio for Paria" practically ended after throo days la a bloody chock for tho armioa of tho erown prince—a chock recalling tho Verdun epiaodo and rocallinf it tho more vividly bo ra oao of aoccesaful French countor attacka. Recognising that the enemy (till holds half of hia strtUfk reserve, anywhere from 50 to 70 diviaiona in tact, and that he has gained some val uable ground in hia latest attacks, and ■till poaMsse* the power to deliver another blow comparable with those in Flanders and on the Aisne, we have still the right to measure of optim ism baised upon recent events. Friday, June, 21 closes the third months of the German offensive. In that time the German* have struck Ave blows. That towards Amiens, which was the heaviest and most suc cessful; that toward Arras two weeks later, which was the least successful and amounted to a bloody defeat; that toward the channel, on April 9, which gained a good deal of ground and opened the way for other attacks, but fell short of larger success; that on the Aisne, on May 27, in some ways the most remarkable and discourag ing 6f all, and finally that of June 9, between Noyon and Montdidier, which resulted in local gains won at great cost and ended in an approximate failure to achieve the objects sought. Now, at the end of three months, with a loss of about 500,000, the Ger man has drawn some 20 miles nearer to Paris, made large captures in pris oners and in booty, re-occupied around 2,000 s<|uarc miles of France, more than half of it desert as a result of German devastations, lie has won signal battle successes, but he has de feated only one army, the Fifth Bri tish army, in Euch fashion as to im pair its organization, and in the case of the Fretjch he has put no more than four divisions, those which held the Aisne positions, out of the campaign. To balance his gains the German loss three months, and these three months mean the arrival of not less than 400,000 American troops in France, the insurance of the arrival of another 200,000 by July, and the consequent presence in France by Au gust 1 of some 750,000 fighting troops representing the United States. More than this, throe months have been al lowed the British to repair past er rors and do two things: Draft mor.e men from civil life into the army and draw out of "side-shows," and from home and foreign garrisons, more re giments and divisions for service in France. Thus, by August I, at the latest, possibly earlier, the allied situation in respect to number will be actually stronger than it was in March; de spite any conceivable casualties they will have more men in line and in re serve than in the critical day* of the battle of Picardy, and thenceforward the improvement will be iapid. The Germans, on the other hand, made their maximum concentration at the outset; they had either engaged or assembled all they had, and their sit uation, since they have no new reser voir or feserves, must henceforth worsen steadily. Germany, as I have frequently pointed out, undertook to win the campaign in 1918, as Napoleon sought success in the Waterloo campaign, by offsetting an eventual inferity in num bers and resources by superior swift ness in concentration and attack. She caught her enemies napping, as the French emperor caught his. She has won her open round as Napoleon won Ligny, but time and eventually num erical advantage were l>ound to turn agahist her unless she won a military triumph quickly, and after three months she has not won the triumph, nor is she near to supreme success. She has spent half her time, at least a third of their reserves, and the ment of aurpris« following superior fovnd hi tha ciKumstaneaa of ttm hat-1 tU af Coaspiagnr. tha MM Gtnuui attack. la tkia iaalanca the Cihh , attacked on a front bat little shorter than his optratitt iront at tha Alaa. Ha uaad at least 30 diviaiona at the outMt, aa in Champagne. Ha mm ployad tha brief and intent* bombard - neat, tha rapid advanca of huge maaaea. Hia small mobile fWld (una of ona and one-half inchea, waa relied upon, aa usual, and his troopa were sacra bled by sact at aiarchaa. In a word, ha amployad exactly tha tactics which had won hint his aarliar sue ceisM. This tiraa, however, thara waa no surprise. Tha French were ready; they surrendered their first positions after brief but sufllcwnt defence; their reserves entered the struggle before the German masses had submerged the troops in line, whore mission H was to delay the srtsailant until tha reserves arrived. Thereafter the bat tle line rapidly stabilised itself. By the third day French counter-attacks had won back a great daal of ground on the west flank; the German center had been definitely halted, and the German left along the Oise had been narrowed into a salient too small to permit farther advance until it was widened. Accordingly on the sixth day the German broke off the battle. There are those people who claim to believe you can waste things and also have them to use for war pur poses. Save to the utmost of your ability .any buy War Savings Stamps so that the German thing may be kept out of America. Economizing may possibly hurt, but what of the hurts of the men who fight and die for you ? If your neighbor offers his life, surely you can loan your money. Save with the same eagerness that your neighbor fights, and buy W. S. S. with your savings. IH| Dunn at lk« b*(H of tndt, Ion-1 ing through tlM war department that j liiey want all the (tray dog* they can | yoailU) get for experimental purpo-' on new gases that Uncle Sam in tend* to use on the Gttaam and real ising that there are in the state of North Carolina thousands of dogs that are running loose, fed, and owned by nobody, that could serve this pa triotic purpose, he wired the war de partment ashing how many dogs could be used from thu state in testing gas. Today he received the following tele gram from the war department: "Will be glad to get dogs two weeks from date. Will be able to handle at least 100 dogs per week. Will send crates at your order." Secretary Dunn thinks this is a rare < opportunity for North Carolina to i get rid of her worthless curs. TRY IT! SUBSTITUTE FOR NASTY CALOMEL Starts jour liver without making yon nek and can not - salivate. Every druniat ia town—your drug gi* and everybody'* druggiat baa noticed • (Mat falling off ia the tale of calomel. They all give the umt reaaon. Dodaon'a Liver Ton* ia taking it* place. "Calomel it daageroua and people know K, while Dodson'* Liver Tone ia perfectly aafa and given better reaulta," aaid a Erominent local druggi*t. Dodaon'a ieer Tone ia pcraonally guaranteedl by every druggiat who lella A 1*1 *' bottle coata 50 cent*. and if it faila to give eaay relief in every caae of liver I aluggithneea and constipation, yon have only to aak for your money back. lAxlaoa'a Liver Tone ia a pleaaant-taat ing. purely vegetable remedy, barm lea* to Irtrth children and adult*. Take a : upoonful at night and wake up feeling I fine; no bilioutneee, tick headache, acid >tomach or coaatipated bowel*. It doean't gripe or cau*e inconvenience all the next day like violent calomel. Tak« a doae of calomel today and tomorrow vou will fael weak, aick and nauaeated Dont loao a day'* work! Take Dodaoa'a i Ijver Tone inttrad aad feel fine, full of j vigor and ambition. When'Vbur House Stretches Hsat and cold cause the wood in building* to expand and con tract. Paint that ia not elastic crack* and acalea, allowing the weather to reach the wood fi bres it is supposed to protect. Paint expands and contract* with the surface it covers — whan it is mads of Dutch Boy Lewis Brand White-Lead mixed with pare linseed oil. Such paint is elastic and ex pands and contracts with the wood. It will not crack and scale when subjected to tha most trying weather changes. Our stock of paint and paint ma terials is large. We recommend Dutch Boy white-lead be-* cause it is used and endorsed by people who know paint. We can serve you as satisfac torily as we are serving your neighbors. W. E. Merritt Co. While We Pray—Let Us Pay h will to no food to pray for-victory unless we hare faith. ' And faith in this mm to Wm Savings Stomps. Morthan' boys are dying for you. Time will not heal their wonndi. When the war ecwla, H will end—for yon. It will never, never end—for mother. NORTH CAROUNA WAR-SAVINGS WEEK JUNE 23 TO 28 Pfoideot Wilson and Governor Bicketi tav.: Proclaimed it. Mrtlff Mut WMk yon will be called upon by Government canvassers. Ton rawt^pfedgMe boy daring the remainder of the year, all the War Savings Stamps thai WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS "pLiDoi uarn. it mumw§" M. F. PATTERSON
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