fOL. XLl AtO. Itt LETTERS OF INTEREST FROM OUR SOLDIERS Utttr from l.t. V»»« H»r««, d«w ciiWag — itlitM of the haltle of Si. Mibtel, written Hrpl. IS In Ma father. Mr. C. H. Haynrn. "f Mwiil Airy. IlMr I'npa: If only I coiihl ha wilh yon all to night. t am aura I have many inter acting things t<> tall anil how you. Two night* ago I was planning In take a night off ami go to the city, •a I wa* about to.leave the officer in rha>ge aul "llaynen ilon't lea^e, wa Will naara!e of our trjop* i -upeih. Not a grumble, not a complaint. Kvery one eager to do his part and more to the In •. Papa it in jnst thts spirit that makes on* realize that we are rn-ht, iii ii that we can't loso. In the midst of it all, I came to a li tie low hut and when 1 peeped in a ladies voice said "come in." Whr \ I entered two V. M. C. A. men and women were giving out hot chocolate, bread, coffee and tobacco to nur ol d I" . On entering. I a Ke) "how air you all." The girl answered, "w; I! thanks, what pert of the South are you from?" After telling her I asked now she knew I was from the South. "How are you all," she said wu - a southern expression. The c girls nre very brave and are standing righ' with the fight ng men, enduring l.ard -hip» and are serving the cau a much as any one. I have collected maiv souvenir on this trip. Have a Borh gas ma «k. a treneh watch t found in one of their dugout!, a gun and other relic of the American drive. I will .-end me soon with full details how and when I found them. f V »t.. — .11 •! .Aii o'clock next morning, when we load ed our ambulance »nd returned to the hospital behind the line*. My ear* rang for sometime afterwards my not being: used to the noise of the big Kjr.h at so close a range. As you know, everyone but those actually en faged in the trenches, is forbidden to enter the trench tone, but when they i iret an American paper to read the war dope. Well in • short, time it trill alt be over any way i ha ■ aim will all be •urpriaad to know some of tha tJfTrir* th"t will be revealed. I received your letter* ye»t'.'rday, August Hi. that wn>- writ ten in Columbia, g. c., no you can *ee How slow mail travels. I.rttar from Vestal Taylor, now in France to hl» mother, Mr*. A. J. Tay lor, of Ararat, V O. Somewhere in France Sept. 22. ltllfl. Dear Mother: We arrived here safely, it really «eem< good to sleep in Vied without be ntr rocked to sleep. Tho I was dis appointed in not getting to see a sub ma'ine. however there were several' lurking around, they did not appear to be wliere I was looking. I am well and enjoying Ufa finn, • an not sea. ick but very little; "fed th» flh" only once. I enj.ivul the trip most of the time, we had but very llule rough «ea. To mv urprise I met two Sum boy * rhi ■ morning, l.onnie Wilmnurh and TVron Snow. I find that there are several boy from Surry here, al ii Mime from Winston-Srlem. Arthur Folk, a lliatt boy, and Koy Rroman from Pilot Mountain are here. I have not seen tl em yet, but they are com ing over thin afternoon. There ari several of us boys that ;' r' he 20 of July together yet. Snow. Mann, Shacklefnrd and Shelt'w are I .n'h me, *o you -ee we don't ,ret lone some. It ccrtainly is amusing to »ee the fVonch as their customs are io dif ; feren*. from our own. It mske* me I laufh to see two horse* hitched, one in front of the other pulling a cart, I had seen picture- of it but didn't think I would ever get to ee such. There are lota of other interesting things but I can't write them all thi tins Write me renl *«on for I haven't (heard from home in a month. Letter from Kdxar Hdrk to hia father Mr. (>. C. Wrlth of ML Airy. Somewhere in France. Sunday, Sept. 1, 1918. Dear M~mma and t'apn: 1 have been expecting a letter from you for the last week, hut so far none naii com«. hut we have been on the move for the last week ami I don't rue« »iir mail ha* nad time to catch up with u* yet. We are near the front, but not in real action yet. I rant nee much dif ference in the front and any other place in France. Of course we run near the hi(r run*, but you know we dont have any dew ing* with them. Now Mother dont he the le**t hit unea y about me, because I'm at the front, for I am not in any more dan rer here than I »«s hack, for you know I hav» .t (rood place to work and am not in any dr.at all. I dont think it will be eery Ion* be fore we will all be back together. I r»f" you read in the paper* about tne war and you all know Juat about a* mucli about It aa we do. Wr are having Iwautiful weather althn the niirhU are cool. Juat about like they are In Mount Airy. Now Mother If you dont hear from me as often aa you think you ought to let m • know and I will write mora often. Of course My latter* will be abort for you know that I don't know any nrwa to write, but m lone »• y°u ran hoar from me ami know that T am well I guess you aiw satisfied Wall I will he having another birth (lay bofore »»• 7 Ions, and whan I think about it. I'm rotting pretty old, too. Don't tho yaara fly. MAther. you all write mo roal of ten now cause I'm always ao glad to hoar from yon. This laavoa ma well and I truly hope it will And you all wall. Supper la roady ao I guess I will >ttop. Wi'h oceans of love to everyone of you. I am, ate. Support »ho President. Now York World. Twenty years .»gn, whan the'* wai a republican administration in power. And tho Unitad Stale* was «t war, tha republiran leaden had (n.aiclve and ■leftnita opinion* aa to th« evil that would nereaaaiily roault from a re publican defeat in tha congressional election* and tha choice of a demo cratic congress. Theodore Roosevelt, then a candi date for governor of New Y-wk, et preraed tha iaaue in thia fn*hi .r "Rememlier that whether you will or will not, your vote this year will be viewed by the nation* of Rjrope from one standpoint only. They will draw no fine destinctions, A refusal to sustain tha preaident thia year will, in thair eyaa, he rend aa a refusal to suatr.in the war and to nuatain the effort* of our peace commission to aorure tha fruit* of war." Benjatnine Harrison, former presi dent of the Unitad .States, was even mora emphatic: "If the word (roe* forth that the people of the United State* are stand ing solidly behind the president, the task of the peace commissioners will he ea*y. but if there ia a break in the rank*—if the democrat* score a tell ing victory, if democratic congress men. senators, and governors, are elected—Spain will see in it a gleam of hope; she will take freah hope and it renewal of hostilities, more war. may be neresrary to seen re to us what w« have already won." If these arguments were valid in lTOfl, they must b« a thousand t'mer valid in 1918 whan the fate of tea: world re eta upon the United State* and ita government. Neither Mr Harrison nor Mr. Roosevelt in 1HVS raised any question as to the patriot ism of a democratic congress. That was not an i.tsue. It is not an issue now. What they were concerned about was the effect in Europe of a repudi ation at the polls of the McKinley ».Immigration—for that i* w'uat tiie •lircti/m of a liemorratw eongresut in H'JH would hnve meant, just a* the lection of a republican congress in I91M will be interpreted cs a repudi ition of the Wilson administration. PRESIDENT GRAHAM DIES FROM PNEUMONIA One of the State'* Fineit Char acters and Youngest Presi dent* of University. Ch ip*l Hill. Oct. 28.—Edw.'rd Kid der G :.hnm. president of the L\.iver ouUi*;n cm: national i-durr. lioral affairs, died at his home here tonight at H:15 w'.th p.teumi nia. following influenza. Hi death, al though not unutpeoted by U e who woir acquainted with the ferious na ture of hut illne-s ov "whelms .ie j»i*;i.ity community with grief an.l will bring sadness to v.ou nrd* of former students snd friends through out L':t tate a'.d natioi. The fureral will lie held hv*i*e Monday st 2 o'clock In the death of President Graham the university loses a leader *'o in th-> brief peiiod during which he had bee-i at its head had b ought it into intimate touch wi:h the people in a stefulily increasing service and ut the same Lime had focused tie attention of the nation upon it as an institution keenly sensitive to the educational need > ef the present day. Sincr America's entry into the war Graham's qualities as a director in all | fields of educational e ideavor had ' been cor.stantly sought and at the I time of hi* death he wis serving as i l>eetor of the student*' army train ing corps of the south Atl.- -.tic sta es, a* trustee of the American University ! union in Europe, as a member of the ; international committee of the Y. M. 1 C. A. and a* a member of the educa Itionil committee of the council of na Ition.nl defense. Within the university circle Presi dent Grahom was the irtimate, in spiring friend of every member of the faculty and student body. His person ality was of the npliftinr. stimulating sort that gave ne% ideals to men and aa • result his death will he felt as a deeply personal spiritual loas to thou sands of university Man. MRS. BICKETT IS BACK FROM BATTLE FRONTS. Much o# Hmr Tim. in Franc* Wm Sp«nt is St Mikial Bat tle Sector. Raleigh, Oet. M,—Mm. Thomas W. Hiikett, who ha* been since lata Au gnat away studying Y. M. C. A. con dition* for th* government, returned, from Franca today and instead of go ing immediately into the government work for which .he had qualified, she plant' d into the influenaa nursing in which the women are nerving aa 10 to nn« man. Mm. Bickett spent from September 4 to October 1(1 in France. Hhe hail the joy of occupying the territory which hut lately had been abandoned by the kaiaer on hi* grand rovers# march to Pari*. A great deal of her time ha* been in the St. Mihiel sector, where the American* fought *o well. Hhs retu-ned with a party in which was General Kergemon. he of raiaing the- Maine fame. The general declared that these tfnopn, picked from the good states »f North and oHuth Car olina in large part with Tennessee and others liberally represented ..re the befit men in the service. In the terrific fighting the casualties hava been amazingly small, large a* they are. Mra. Bickett eeing many of the wounded boys whose spirit thrilled her. "The feeling throughout the camp* over there la that the war la almoat over," Mra. Bickett said. "*o nearly over that many of our troops do not hope to havo the chance to give Ger many some of the punishment sus tained by our allies. In France every body ia confident that the war haa been won, but there is so much of sor row throughout France that you could hardly say the French are overjoyed They have suffered so much that they are not even in position to be jubilant. "Their spirit ia wonderful of coarse and they are willing to Aght on until feet-many la brought to her knee*. But even that would not make France joy ful. The French soldier* are ju*t as sure of our early victory as are the Amreicans, at leant, as well as I could keep up with them in talking with them I gathered that. "Both French and American boys tell of the atroritie* just as we have read them. I heard one of the men tell how several of his comrade - went out to hring back to the lines a wounded soldier. When they found him he wo* tied down wi'h a hand behind him. A* they released him a ham! grenade burst, killing them all. I heard another doctor tell hov a wounded German who had been nursed hack to health wnt leaving the hospital and aaked to sea he man in charge. Failing to see him, an the German ««id, to thank !■ im, he called for the nurse, took har 1 r the hand, twisted hor arm and broke it. Tne sol diers say the stories of brutality have not been exaggerated. -rne iieva-iion attenmng me vi< toriou* march of -h«- ('.<■> man* ha,~ l>r«n correctly I w-m over many of the villapos a^l winie of these are town* say of the size of Louisburg, 2,000 or more people. In these villa ge* often not a house is left standing And the Germni's who blew up the building* would take the material* anal pot them on the system of road* built behind the linen. "The boys from our state, a (Treat many of thorn, are right in the heart of the fighting and they were where 1 could not *ee them We were close enough to hear the guns and to exper ience the sensation of screaming shells. The presence of war was brought near to us, too, by the targe number of German prisoner* who had been taken and were at that time be ing employed on the road* of the al lies. The allies treat the wounded German prisoners as well a* they do our own. Of course we aaw thous ands of both kinds." Mrs. Rickett came back and went over under escort of fighting boats. They aaw only cne submarine on the trip, and it hadn't a c* ance to do anything but to drive thw passengers once to their belt* and to get ready for attack. Mrs. Ricke.. came back at the call of the government, whose work is interrupted by the epidemic. Die state law and many local ordi 1 nances forbid crowding theaters and | public halls and require that aisles ' moat be kept clear. Furthermore, that no more tickets mast be sold than there are seats. Safety First and accident prevention should impel au thorities in aH towns to rigidly en force theee law* and ordinance*. V AMERICA'S STRENGTH IN AIR U GETTING RESULTS How a Bombing 1i|wilnm ii Started on a Raid Into En*. my Torritory. With American Aviator* in Franca :Oet. 21.— D»« Mart of aa American , bombing squadron un a raid into \ German territory ia a spectacle to «tir tha enthusiasm of an American and inspire him with an appreria tion of America's growing strength I in the air. The squadron already hail been over the German line* twice that day with fair success and the aviator* loungwd in nhady -pot*, jibir.g one another or idly commenting upon the i evolution* of practice aeroplane ■ overhead, when the correspond ?nt of the Aaaoriated Free* visited the fly ing Held. (hit of a concealed and camouflaged office out there stepped suddenly the flght leader, lieutenant Gunderlach, 1 who already ha* been named in the official America c-ommuniqo* for pro gem in the air. The aviator!! xpraing to their feet and gathered around their leader for the final instruction*. H« had not been at all satirfled with tBe two per formance* of the day. TT»ey had show a tendency to straggle over much and had not kept sufficiently "bunched." Hot criticism poured from hi* lip.< and the youngsters were silent in em barrassment. The leador did not spare them, but iterated and re iter ated that "the formation is the tiling the saquadro ia the thing." and Anally j "God help a straggler." Then, the ordeal over, the avia tors went silently to their quarter* for that great, heavy, Arctic cloth ing. In the turn of a hand they were back on the field swathing and swaddling ihem elves to the eyes, tucking chocolate into their pockets (for they get l.ungry up in the air,) or breaking open a frosh package of chewing gum, which helps to alle viate nervousness and ha* a steady ing effect. The last machine gun had been tested, the last pro pel. er hail been twir'ed until it revolving at lightning speed. The commandc gave an al most inperceptible wave of his hand. Airplane number one. bearing the flight leader, threw off it. restraining mechanics and swept in a big curve across the field, "taxing" clumsily across the field with it* wei-'ht of bombs to a position from which it could rise at thel:er.d of the group. One by one the ot'i ers followed suit, taking up position just behind anil to the righ. anil left of the lead ed until they were spread out like a huge covey of ungainly but marvel lously colored bird*. As they waited they tossed out rocket* which, do spite the brilliant sunlight, flared a blinding red and white. The te-t was complete. They were ready for the start. Aga.n the commai.ler gav« a sig nal. The noise of the motors rose to deafening proportion*. The great covey began to move, gained spewl as they sped northward across the field, then one after another "took off' the ground. All the clumsiness of the "ta*i-ing" was gone. The machines had become graceful bird* in fact. Swiftly they rose, while still r ith-( in sifrl I, to a great height, looking for all the world like a flock of geese with the leader at the neck of the formation. Later on when about to cross the line, they would draw clos er together into a compact tightly knit group, hut always following, whether to left or right, the two lit tle white pennants streaming out ■ from the leader's machine. Wilton > Latest Note Is Praised in Japan. Tokio, Fridcy Oct. 25.—Unqualified i administration of Pres. W.lson's atti i tude toward Germany i» expressed in | official circle:. The reply is praised highly as deserving the moat pro j found attention of all the belligerent . nations fighting a common enemy, j who ia a deliberate trangressor of i the cauae of peace, justice and hu manity. President Wilson'a note is contider j ed to be fully comprehensive. His I refusal to treat with the Prussian rulers of Germany, according to opin ion here, is so sxplicity and unmis takably expressed ss to sraoss ad miration worthy of the leading cham pion of tntsraatioael J—ties, at the all whs stand for right sad Justice. BREVITY Of GERMANY'S REPLY IS SIGNIFICANT. 3mm» London Paper* Think That PtwmI C*rnu>B Pa*. Iur» Really Meant Peace. London, Oet. "Tli* brevity of the reply to Praaidant Wilson*-. laat not* ia a manure of it* aigniftcar.ea," aeya the Daily Naw«. "President Wtl son's noi« put an and to further argu ment. It ii due to Dr. Solf, the Gar man foreign secretr.ry. to nay that hia nota it precisely what tha wvs ji« de manded." » "If parf, aa tha new posture of Germany warrant* ua in believing !» coming within reach," the new-paper continue*. "there muat he no delay in taking st»pa to and hostilities. There ia no justification in fighting on for what ran ha haa rigorous hut must not ha needlpr ly so." Tha Kx press enumernt ng tha lat eat occurrence* in Germany, including the reply to the President, exclaim*: "The sign* portend enough, p dining to a *pe.-dy end of the nightmare and indicating an aceptance of Jia term* noon to ha dictated." The Chronicle say*: "The German reply ia. in effort, an unqualified acceptance. Nothin" re rpaina hut for the associated power* to nnnouncc without delay the pro gram of naval and mili*_-ry measures' which the armistice nec •» itatc*. It ia unlikely that Germany will object to the detail* after agreeing to the principle. If her situation were not desperate she would never have gone so far aa she ' a*. If any confirma tionwere needed ax to the 'significance of Dr. Sulfa reply, it would lie found in G ?neral Ludcndorff's resignation." Tlie Daily mail hopes and believe* the allien "will not do anything so fooltrh' as to immediately dircWne the term* upon which they are willing to grant au armiatice. The paper -ay* the Ge- man reply doea n&t meet Pra* ident Wilson'* questions and, after summarizing the moat recant happen ing* in Germany declares, in effect nothiag is altered there. "Tie sword ia still in the hands of autocracy" the paper says. "It will be time enough for Marrhal Foch to tate the term-; when thct -word haa been broken or surrendered." "The promptitude of the reply ma7 e accepted aa convincing evidence at iea.st of Germany's de*ir 1 and need of an armi tlce." say* the Poafc. "Dr. SolfV aj*urauce regarding far-reach ing changes are rot ve>> satisfying, however. Nothing has happened aa yet to «ugge"t that anyti'ing furda mental ha» been changed in Germany except the expectation of victory. * * • T!?e fir*t condition of r.ny armi tice is thr.t Germany shall ha ui.abte to break it or ref'ise the con ditions the allien dictate. If the Ger-. man government mean- bu.iine?* it will av'id plenipotentiaries to Mar shal Foch bu*. from p-e?ert indica tions Germany'- mlcr* are iatent on ly on gaining time." The Times gr.yn: "There i* no new yiewpoi- t in tha German reply except t> at it sjek* rather crudely to impose upon Presi dent W'i-on and the allie-i the initia tion of proposals for an armi 'ice. It is for the Cerman* to npp ?aeh .ha naval and military commander* wilh their fotnal petition for a cessation of w-r." General Run on Bank* , in The German Empire. Amsterilam. Oct. 2">.Public anxiety over the solvency of th« empire ap parently in becoming acute in Ger many. The hoarding of money has become so rampant as to cause great inconvenience. There Han been a gen eral run on banks to cloae account*, ami the theift of hidden fund* is of daily occurrence. With ita depleted by the war and grip, the German treasury is turning out new currency at top speed but, acording to The Lokal Aa xeiger, of Berlin. H melt* like anew when the sun shines and the cus tomary backflow into the state coffers haa reaaed completely. The retch - sbank in the third quarter of theyear issued the unprecedented amount of four billion marks Tn new money, or nearly twice the amount issued in the same period last year. The government haa been compell ed to make war lean coupon* legal tender. Pears are growing that If the oOcial appears to rsftita hoarding are Ml h*adsi< the *t meter* nl