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VOL- XXIII.
(TUESDAY)
(FRIDAY)
Number 9
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34 lk-I"EEKLY NEWS PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTE RESTS OF 'WARRENTON AND W ARREN COUNTY 3c A COPY
CLIMATE OF BEL
GIUM AND FRANCE.
Though Far Northern Than We
Cold Not As Severe Or the
Changes As Sudden-
BUY THRIFT AND
A BETTERMENT
EXPpSSIOR OF A
ORDER TO HOUSE
HELP KEEP THE
WAR STAMPS NOW.
MEETING AT WISE
FINE SENTIMENT.
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WIVES OF COUNTY.
BOYS A-SMILING.
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The people of this country now that
they have friends and relatives in
FrVnce are .interested in that country
1S never before. Many mothers are
anxious to know how their boys m tne
trencres are faring these excessively,
cold nights. The climate of Belgium
and France is a subject of intense
solicitude as they think of those al
ready there and those to go.
We learn from "Weather Review
Climate of Belgium and France" these
items, which are matters of informa
tion to most of us: France and Bel
gium occupy together that part of the
Western coast of Europe extending
from north latitude 42 degrees, twenty
minutes to 51 degress, twenty min
utes which corresponds nearly to the
portion of the American coast lying
between Boston and the North end of
Newfoundland. Therefore, they lie
largely to the North of the United
States. Mrrpsille the most southern
important c.ty of France is further
North than Boston, while Paris is
nearly 500 miles farther north than
Chicago. Brussels in latitude 50 de
grees 51 minutes is farther north than
Winnipeg, Canada, or in the same
latitude of Hudson Bay. Paris time
is 5 hours later than New York, thai
is when it is noon at N. Y. it is al
ready 5 o'clock p. m. in Paris; seven
hours later than at Denver and eight,
hours later than San Francisco.
Thus during the longer days of the
year as the sun is setting on our
Western coast it is rising on the fol
lowing day in eastern France. The
area of France is slightly less than
210,000 square miles; of Belgium 11
000. - -
Many will be surprised to know that
in this far north latitude it does not
follow that the climate is correspond
ingly cold. The climate is modified
by proximity to large bodies of water
to their western border and possibly
also in southern France from breezes
from the Mediteranean sea as well as
the topography of the country. These
countries are favorably situated for
marine influence on temperature. Pre -vailing
winds from the sea modify the
temperature on land in large measure
over bothe countries. There are .
number of ocean currents which carry
relatively warm water long distances.
The great Atlantic Drift (Gulf
Stream) carries the warmer water
from the Gulf of Mexico and the nor
mal western winds blowing over these
waters carry their warmth .to these
lands.
Brest, on the west coast of France,
has about the same latitude as Deviln
Lake in North Dakota. The averat
January temperature at Brest under
these influences is 44 degrees Fahren
heit, while at Devil's Lake it is zero.
On the other hand, the summers as
Brest are cooler with an average tem
perature in July of 64 degrees while
at Devil's Lake it is about 68. Farth
er south on the Atlantic coast district
of France the temperatures through
out the year resembles those of Ore
gon and north California about like
the coast of the Carolina's and Geor
gia in winter, with less variations and
extremes.
Winter in France is not severe from
the standpoint of low temperature bu!
there is a constancy of cold weather
net common in the United State. On
the battle line in January two thirds
f the days have a minimum temper
ature as low as freezing and as a rul ?
about five days of that month have
temperature continuously below freez
ing. Summers in northern France an
Belgium are cool as compared with
ur country. The daily maximum
temperatures in northern France are
usually less than 80 degrees and min
imum 60.
This gives a general idea of the
climate and shows that in France our
soldiers will never be exposed to such
extremes of cold as we are having in
orth Carolina, and the summers are
mi1ch cooler.
Embro SchooTMakes Donation
The Embro Colored School - Satur
day brought to this office a donation
Five Dollars for tie War Y. M. C.
campaign. The money was turned
v to Mr. C. R. Rodwell, County
easurer, who expresses thanks to
school for this act.
County Organization To Perfect
Plans of Arousing the Peo
ple Upon This Subject,
With Mr. John Graham as county
chairman, ably assisted by a commit
tee to be nominated by him composed
of influential men from all sections
of Warren, and embracing heads of
churches, schools and business interest
the county is to commence a drive
for Thrift and War Saving certificates
and War Saving Stamps in the near
future.
, As a part of the nation's two billion
Warren people during the coming
year must invest $445,52 in these
"baby bonds."
As soon as the organization is per
fected a speaking tour will be on in
schools and churches to acquaint peo
ple of Warren with the desirability
of these stamps as an investment and
to awake, a power long asleep in oui
National life a power to save and en
courage investments.
The thrift stamps may be bought
for 25 cents a piece and 16 placed on
a Thrift card are convertable into a
War Saving stamp, maturing in 1923
with a five dollar value. Twenty
War Saving stamps, formed in this
manner, compose a War Saving Cer
tificate maturing with a hundred dol
lar value.
War Saving stamps may be bought
for 4:12 now, but a penny is added
each month during the year as they
are bearing interest thus in Decem
ber a stamp will sell for 4j23.
An individual can not purchase-over
a hundred dollars worth at one time,
but may make ten purchases until he
has bought a thousand dollars worth.
Each member of a family may do like
wise. As distributing agents the post
office here, the Bank of Warren and
the Citizens Bank are all busy selling
these stamps, and will be glad to wait
upon Warren people. Later, as the
organization is perfected, distributing
branches will be convently located
over the county.
Literature upon this subject, pa
triotic posters and soul-stiring epi
grams are in charge of Mayor John
B. Palmer who will be pleased to dis
tribute this datafrom the Commis
sioners room at the Court House, at s
to give any .information a close study
of the War Saving plan has brought
to him.
In charge of this important work
in North Carolina is one of the most
prominent of the State's banker's and
successful business men in the person
of Col. F. H. Fries, of Winston
Salem. Warren's share as to township's is
given in "the following table:
Warren County $445,852.00
Fishing Creek Township 33,154.00
Fork Township....... 29,810.00
Hawtree Township ..... 43,956.00
Judkins Township ...... 41,030.00
Nutbush Township 31,966.00
River Township 43,384.00
Roanoke Township ..... 8,910.00
Sandy Creek Township. 32,186.00
Sixpound Township 36,894.00
Smith Creek Township. 34,936.00
Warrenton Township . . 82,148.00
shovel
' DAY
lias y our Coal shovel
been tagged yet?
CTATW
"Don't worry! To worry about the
past is to dig up a grave; let the
corpse lie. To worry about the future
is to dig your own grave; let the
undertaker attend to that. The pres
ent is the servant of your will." Had
dock.
Regular Meeting of Betterment
Association To Be Held On
Next Friday Evening.
The regular meeting of the Better
ment Association at Wise will be held
next Friday afternoon at the school
house at 3:30. Let there be a larg
attendance.
The weather this winter has been
exceedingly bad, and there are many
calls for servicebut there never has
been a time wheriwe could ill afford
to relax our interest in our school
work. There never has been a term
when a greater effort should be put
forth to maintain its intergrity and
its high standard of excellence.
"The community that shows the
"reater patriotism now is the commun
ity: that provides good public schools.
Neglect in providing proper facilities
for the education of American youtn
is a neglect of America's greatest
r.oset. The nation's call for increased
food production is crowned with the
appeal to increase the production of
manhood and womanhood.
Right now is the time to begin the
part of shrewd discretion by taking
stock of what your community is do
ing for its boys and girls. "There is
no jesting with edged1 tools," and
there is no jesting with a community
or a nation that sharpens the wits of
its children.
While the young manhood of the na
tion is healing humanity's wounds
with blood, the folks at home also have
their responsibilities for humanity's
snke. The community with a ram
shackle, dilapidated, antiquated, dingy,
insanitary, poorly heated, poorly light
ed, poorly ventilated and poorly taught
school is squandering the time of its
children and is a blight on patriotism.
Make the School Better
In this age when brains, training
and well-directed efforts are the great
prerequisites for human success it is
the part of criminal neglect to let boys
emerge from ragged schools with
regged minds to face a world that ex
acts action and training. It is just
as hard to stand an empty bag on end
as it is to make an empty-headed boy
a success. Institutions alone can
create! a nation, and the public
school, is America's greatest institu
tion. Make America greater by mak
ing its public schools better.
Certainly it requires money to do it,
but it will be economy for the com
munity tightwads to loosen their purse
strings. Money spent to train the
minds and character of children not
onlyj places a blessed heritage upon
your own flesh and blood, but is is a
display of patriotism that will make
your nation and your greater. The
Country Gentleman.
COUNTY HOUSE TO
HOUSE SURVEY.
For Food; Canvass To Be Made
By Mr. F. B. Newell In
Next Few Days Ready!
Compulsory under an Act of Con
gress approved August 10th, 1917
Warren County has been selected by
the Secretary of Agriculture to make
a household food survey.
Mr. F. B. Newell, Agricultural Agt.,
will visit you in a few days for this
rmrDose. It is necessary that each
household give a correct list in detail
as the report will be the basis for
food regulation.
The Agricultural Department real
izes that it is placing a tremendous
burden upon the shoulders of the Co.
agents, and stated in its letter to Mr.
Newell, appointing him to this impor
tant work, "It was only in the abso
lute anticipation of your doing this
work successfully and because the sur
vey is compulsory with "the legisla
tion of Congress, that we have se
lected you to represent your County
as one of the units in this survey."
The immensity of this task is ap
parent, and Mr. Newell asks that cit
izens of Warren co-operate with him
and enable Warren's report to be
thoroughly accurate.
Though Expressed Worthy The
Consideration Of Us All;
Speaks Number of Truths.
(Gov. Bickett Before Grand Lodge)
Some one has said, "Opportunity is
a fleet horse. Ever and anon he comer,
bounding along the heights, pauses
for a moment and invites us to njount;
in another he is gone, an we hear his
clattering hoof strokes sounding-fcw, i
the corridors of the past."
Today Masonry in North Carolina
stands face to face with the sublim
est oppotimity to justify its existence
and make sure its grip upon the souls
of men that it has ever known. The
destiny of the Order will, largely de
pend upon its seizure or its failure to
seize this opportunity. Masonry can
not hope to survive the shock and
strain of earth's most perilous hour
by resting upon a luv-age that reaches
back toi the shadowy beginnings of
time. Age is venerable only when
found in the ways ,of righteousness.
Grip, and guard, and pass will become
solemn vanities unless now, while the
clock of destiny strikes, they shall
open the wicket to the world-wide
arena of selfless thought and high en
deavor.!' The majestic music of our
ritual will become "sounding brass and
tinkling; cymbal" unless under its mar
tial strains we shall fall in with those
shining!' legions that count it joy to
die than honor may . live, and right
eousness rule the earth.
The might of Masonry is its loyalty
to God,; to country and to our fellows.
That loyalty is now being tried in the
fire and my hope and faith is that
every Lodge' in North Carolina wil?
come out pure gold.
North Carolina is patriotic to the
core. I know' the State. I have been
in all -of its one hundred imperial
counties, : and I know there is not ii
streak"bf yellow in it from Cape Look
out toSlick Rock Creek. But there
is someTignoranceand some misinfor
mation, and no Order, in the State can
do more to remove this ignorance ar.a
correct this misinformation than the
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
We touch. virtually the life of the peo
ple, and I want every Masonic Lodge
in the State to be a citadel of loyalty
and light within whose radius neither
ignorance nor treason can live.
MEETING OF SEA
BOARD D. SOCIETY.
In Henderson Friday In Chamber
of Commerce Rooms; Dr. H.
N. Walters In Attendance.
Dr. H. N. Walters, president of the
Seaboard Dental Society, returned to
the city Friday night after presiding
at a helpful, interesting and practical
meeting of that body in the rooms of
the Chamber of Commerce in Hender
son on Friday.
The regular routine business was
satisfactory disposed of. The Society
heard with deep pleasure an interest
ing paper by Mr. Peace of Henderson,
on "The Painful Part of Dentistry."
The paper was full of good pointers,
humorous enough to keep the spirits
up, while Mr. Pace drove home facts.
The paper was splendidly conceived,
and was the feature of the gathering.
It will be of interest to know that
it was resolved to participate whole
heartedly in a joint meeting of the
Raleigh Dental Society, Durham Den
tal Society, and the Seaboard Dental
Society at a meeting to beld in Ox
ford on Friday May 3rd. If the plans
work to perfection, as is expected, the
meeting at this time will be one which
dentistss of this section can not af
ford to miss. .
NOTICE COLORED TEACHERS
You are requested to nake & spec
ial effort to be in Warrenton on Sat
urday February 2nd, regular meeting
day of your Association, for the espec
ial purpose of being advised by Dr.
C. H. Peete, County Health office, in
respect to making examination of
colored pupils in accordance with data
sent from the State Health Depart
ment. You are directed to meet in the
Court House at 11 o'clock a. m.
HOWARD F. JONES,
Supt.
To Observe More Wheatless And
Eatless Days In Each Week;
This Is Necessary.
Raleigh, January 26th The intensi
fied food . conservation program that
has been planned by the Food Admin
istration as a result of the desperate
cries of need from the other sidef calls
for the observance of two wheatless
days in the week, Monday and Weu-
nesday, and one wheatless meal every
day; one meatless day, which shall b3
Tuesday, and two porkless days, which
shall be Tuesday and Saturday,:
each week.
Of the two wheatless days and at
one meal every day all consumers oi
foods, private homes, hotels and res
taurants, etc. are requested to use no
wheat bread, biscuits, crackers, pas
try, macaroni, or breakfast food con
taining wheat and to use wheat flour
in no form except in such small amts.
that may be needed for thickening
soups or' gravies or for a binder in
corn bread and other cereal bread.
On Meatless Tuesday no meat shpuid
be used except fish, poultry and game.
On Porkless Saturday mutton and
lamb should be used in preference to
beef. "Porkless" mear.s without pork
bacon, ham and lard or other pork
products.
If the United States meets the food
demands of its Associates in the War
and provides for the starving neutrals
of Europe anything like the amount
which our shipping will be able to take
to them our own people must save at
least one-third of their normal con
sumption of wheat from now until
the next' harvest. The same thing is
true of pork and approximately true
of beef.
A LETTER FR(
-SAM M. CONNELL.
The Beauties Above The Clouds
When All Is Dreary Below
Graphically Related.
Houston, Texas,
-January 21, "1918
Dear Folks at Home:
I wish to relate to you a
soul thrilling experience which I had
this a. m. I felt lonesome and de
pressed: the clouds hung heavily over
me, shutting out the sunshine, and
everything looked dark and dreary.
Meditating, while sitting there in my
barrack, the . thought came to me that
hank of each cloud, where the sun
still shines, there is a silver lining.
I at once went to the hanger, ran
out my plane; determined to go above
this gloom. To me it was the most
beautiful and inspiring sight imagin
able. The artist's brush or human
imagination could not portray it the
ocean in all of its beauty and silent
grandeur, falls far short:
Beneath me the clouds rolled like
billows, and in their sombre impres
siveness, played upon by the sunlight
from above, made a scene indescrib
able for its beauty. Such a scene, to
my mind, can oly be surpassed by the
Resurrection Morn, when all who are
faithful shall pass up to a haven of
rest and beauty eternal. I actually
was persuaded to imagine that I might
see angels floating along with me
This as I saw it was a revelation
which I shall try never to forget: I
am fully convinced that the darker
the cloud, the brighter the silver lin
ing, andl shall try harder to dispel
the gloom by remembering that each
cloud has its silver lining discerna
ble always and forever if we only
look up for it!
With a heart full of love,
. Your son,
SAM M. CONNELL.
"Economy and everything which
ministers to economy supplies the
foundations of national life."
"We have not studied cost or econ
omy as we should, either as organizers
of industry, as statesmen, or as indi
viduals" Woodrow Wilson.
Start Right Today! Buy a War Sav-
ings Stamp.
Buy A Smileage Book From The
Town Committee and Send
To Friend In Camp.
Mr. M. C. McGuire as chairman,
Mr. Joe Macon as Treasurer and Mrs.
Kate Pendleton Arrington as head of
canvassing committee compose War-
renton's committee in an effort to
raise $100.00 here by Feby. 4th for
Smileage books.
These books represent tickets to
performances given under manage
ment of the committee on social camp
activities in National Army Canton
ments and National Guard camps. A
book entitles its holder to see per
formance of high rder and will mean
a span of smiles to its owner.
The, following clipping from the
"Smilage News" on What Will the
Soldier See" gives an insight" into this
matter:
The men in the camps have a par
ticular craving.- They want to sec
shows." In the evening they are tir
ed; they are sometimes very lonely;
they want to laugh; and they want
:regular" performances. If there are
to be any amateur performances, they
want to be in them, not merely looking
at them.
Four comedy companies are already
assigned to this new field. They are
Broadway . organizations, presenting
accepted Broadway successes "Turn
toi the Right"; "Cheating Cheaters";.
"Here Comes the Bride"; Inside the
Lines."
Four vaudeville bills have been as
sembled by general manger E. F. Al
bee, of the Keith Circuit. Their
routings will be arranged of course,
so as to prevent an unvaried succes
sion in any camp of any one kind of
entertainment.
In the regiments are scores of pro
fessional actors and vaudeville per
formers. The men manifest special
interest in seeing their own comrades
on the stage. So there are to be reg
ular amateur productions, between the
professional offerings, that the men.
may have part in the enterprise and
of much more importance that when
they have gone to the front they may
be able to provide suitable programs
for themselves.
YOUR FLAG AND MY FLAG
(By Wilbur D. Nesbit)
- Your flag and my flag,
And how it flies today
In your land and my land
And half a world away!
Rose-red and blood-red
The stripes forever gleam;
Snow-white and soul-white
The good forefathers' dream;
Sky-blue and true blue, with stars to
gleam aright
The gloried guidon of the day; a shei
ter through the night.
Your flag and my flag!
To every star and stripe
1 The drums beat as hearts beat
" And fifers shrilly pipe!
Your flag and my flag!. .
A blessing in the sky;
Your hope and my hope
It never hid a lie!
Home land and far land and half the
world around, .
Old Glory hears our glad salute and
ripples to the sound!
i Your flag and my flag!
And, oh, how much it holds
Your land and my land -Secure
within its folds!
5 Your heart and my heart
Beat quicker at the sight;
i Sun-kissed and wind-tossed
Red and blue and white.
The one flag the great flag the flag
for me and you
Glorified all else beside the red and
white and blue!
Save food.
Always leave 'a clean plate.
Vary food used with the work done.
Eat all you need, but no more.
Have meat but once a day.
Every morsel saved is
A shot againstt he enemy.
Let fish replace meat.
The food you eat determines
Health, and health your happiness.
"Teach economy. That is one of the
first and highest virtues. It begins
.with saving money." Lincoln. Buy
' a ' War ' Raving- Stamp Today. Start!