VOL. XXIIL
(TUESDAY)
WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 12TH, 1918
.-(FRIDAY)
Number 30.
7t50 A YEAR
A SEMI-WEEK L Y NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTE RESTS OF WARRENTON AND W ARREN COUNTY
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The following excerps are from the
,.v Digest's interesting article
April 6th "Uur nrst lear in tne
it' J 4 ,.,-kx4- fVio Ttsiflvir'a attain-
I' " ... 1
on to the fact that America nas ac
plished a mammouth year's work:
One year ago toaay a navai ensign
, the White House wigwagged a mes-
jtre to an ensign m cue otaic, i,
,j vgVy Building, instancy tne mes
,ffe was transferred to telegraph-
wes aim tdm ..
Ls on the tongue ot the man m the
treet in every part ot the country,
rill that at last we were m the
orldWar. ...
"practically our whole Army was
the Mexican border in 1914. Such
k i
mplement as was not mere was in
,waii and the Philippines. Anyef-
-c ; i
krt to increase its size was lrowneu
13011 wai"'au'ltaj "-'J' v"Ji,v'A v-i.t
kcifist leaning. .But despite all od-
ction, the will of the majority put
rouoii the draft legislation,and while
have not had 'a million men spring
arms overnight we have raised an
my of nearly two millions within
n a. -.c -iTr t i :
e year, secretary ui w ai uanci m
mere handful in Honolulu and the Phil
ippines. At the end of the first year
of the war the whole man-power of
the nation is in the service, and within
the brief interval of twelve months
we have become practically a mili
tary nation . .
"In looking at the divisions tf the
Army as specially designed for this
war, one remarks that the great mass
of all who bear arms are in the in
fantry, for, owing to fighting condi-
and calvary horses.
"The equipment of a division, for
which the Ordnance Department is re
sponsible and must always have on
hand "in perfect order and for in
stant use," includes rifles, pistols,
heavy machine guns, automatic rifles,
anti-aricraft machine guns, field ar
tillery, howitzers, trench mortars,
guns (with all necessary and reserve
ammunition). Trench warfare muni
tions consist of bombs, hand grenades,
Have
Reached
fmti
tions, 'the Army is infantry' with tne j rockets, signal lights, and other pyro
necessary complement of artillery. The technics. ...
infantry is the largest branch of the "After ten months of the war we
service, because, to quote a militai -were producing 50 per cent, of the
authority, it must be at every point of amount of artillery per day produced
contact with the enemy unremitting
ly. To succeed with the Army, ot .
infantry must be pushed over the en
emy, and all effort of every branch of
the Army should have this for its ul
timate object. The Navy pushes the
infantry toward the i battle-front, and
by France. In the output of rifles it
was decided in the early part of Mar.
that we had sufficient for all possible
demands in this war, and the plants
where rifles had been made were
thenceforth given to the production of
machine guns, of which we had pro-
Their Presence Is Expected To be Felt Shortly,
Great Battle Assumes Enormous Proportions
On Western Front
A;
MRS. CONNELL ON
CONSERVATION
the artillery drives it farther and fa.- jduced 45,000 by March 7. Before the
ther toward the enemy's lines. The ' war our rifles were made at the Rock
infantry looks to the artillery for as-
Island Arsenal and the Springfield
sistance in time of trouble more than j (Mass.) Arsenal. At Rock Island 200
ever before in the history of warfare
rifles were turned out a day and 500
Practically ail the men taken at Springfield; now Rock Island is pro
into the service are first placed in the
, j J C iU O fin...
:iuarv siatea oeioie cue ocuaw vjum-
ttee that early in the second year infantry, the artillery, or the calvary,
the war we should have an army and while these services are made up
500,000 men in France. The vast of a great number of men, they aie
ilities at our base on the French ceives personal attention and supervis
ed, as described in cables recording ion from the person m authority over
Secretary's overseas inspection, in- him. lhe dratted man who goes m
ates plainly that we are planning one ot our camps does not become lost
tender the Allies unlimited man- m the crowd, but is at once placed
rer under an organization of ' officers and
Within the past sixty days much non-commissioned officers whose bus
erse. criticism, haein.Jiiyirdrrjaoti
n i: 1 nri4-V oil riaariaA r tyiqIto Viityi 'nnnrfnvh-
t m certain organs oi puuiicanon, .-
in our halls of national legislation. ! able, strong, and a fighter.' Ample
nators Chamberland and Mitch-1 meaim euuu ...ic euii'1cu c"
k, whose patriotism is above sus-j teach the drafted man his duties in
ion nave been tne most oistinguisn- i"ovj ----- - -
perhaDs. of the adverse critics.! the sooner be available for service
eLiterarvDioest has dulv recorded! with Pershing." We have the testi-
such criticisms, and now presents mony oi oiucei ui iiign it"v.a
results of its fist-hand investiga- tne native quicitness oi intelligence
n strictly as they were secured thru and adaptability for learning notable
courteous co-operation of a host of m the draitea American, iviaae into
a soldier, ne is a mucn nner prouuci
than the regular Army people had ex
pected, and our authority sayo that
"green men can be made ready to fight
in five months.' This- shows that after
all we are a military nation, in the
'decent sense, even tho Germany holds
' .1 1 Z AXrU.-
W and moral welfare with the scru- . contrary opinion. V "
us conscience of a parent toward whether 'ready to ngnt meant .reaay
,5m;n ifor the trenches ' one omcer connnes
himsp t wnoiiv to tne necessity xui
ON THE FOOD CON
SERVATION PROBLEM
n in the service . . It is offered
the American public in order that j
men, women, and children of the
J shall be calmly confident that our
fting men on land, on sea, and in
air above have behind them a
ernment that looks after their phy
Our Army
In the first year of the war the
py was increased from 9,524 offi-
ducmg 500 and Springfield 1,000 perl
cay . . . The long time it takes to
make a rifle is explained by the fact
that every one is in operation for two
months before it is finished. The more
striking, therefore, is the swift in
crease in output of three private man
ufacturing concerns once their plants
were in working order. The increase
in rifles per week is shown:
September, 1917. . . . 2,50Q per wk
October, 1917 5,000 per wk
Npy.embsr,..! 91.7 -7,50Q ; per -wk-
December, 1917. ... 8,500 per wk
March, 1918 11,500 .per wk
Our production of small arms and
mmunition has been greater-than that
of France and England at any time,
and in February we turned out 125,
000,000 rounds of ammunition."
Quartermaster Corps
"In 1914, at the time of our trouble
with Mexico, the railroads responded
to the Army's request for aia m mil
itary service, but at the cessation of
this trouble they suspended their ac
tivities. However, the Quartermaster
Department felt it was essential to
keep the plans of the Army and the
capacity of the railroads coordinated,
and to this end held consultation with
eminent railroad executives. As a re
sult of the Quartermaster Depart
ment in time of peace, the Army has
been able to move 2,107,000 men from
We Are Not Asked to Underfeed
Our Families; But to Study
Very Closely the Food Situa
Local News From
Marmaduke Section
Rev. Morriss, of Wake Forest, de
livered a wholly enjoyable and soul
stirring sermon here Sunday morn
ing. The subject was . "Our God,
Country and War."
London, April 10. American rei
forcements have appeared in the
British battle zone, says a dispatch
from British Headquarters in Franc
to Reuter's Limited.
Their presence in the fighting line,
the correspondent adds, should soon
be felt.
Battle Is Expanding
American troops will soon be in
the thick of the fight against the
Mrs. Russell King has been several (German drive, for a decision on th
The regular meeting of the Bet
terment Association for April was
held on Thursday afternoon, April
4th at 3 p. m.
Mrs. Connell was present and talk
ed to the .ladies on food conservation,
and distributed Food Administration
pledges and numerous government
bulletins on home economics. These
Ttralietirfs "c&nYaln valuable information
for those who wish to assist in sav
ing food for our soldiers, sailors and
Allies, and yet live well. We are
not asked to underfeed our families,
but to study the Food situation, and
learn to "use substitutes in an appe
tizing and economical way.
There never has been a time when
the services of a home demonstration
agent were more needed or more val
uable to a community. Mrs. Connell
will be at the next Betterment meet
ing to be held the first Thursday in
May. Let every twoman help tne
Food Administration of the State and
Nation by cooprating with the coun
ty demonstrator. -
At this meeting it was voted to
federate with the other women's or
ganizations of the State by joining
the State Federation " of Women's
. . . it 1 j 1 j
fight. 'I do not like the word trenches men- nomes to camps ana canton
he said, 'I want to see the Germans f ments and points of embarkation with
dug wit and got on
the run. The but a single fatality up to December
Pand 202,510 enlisted men to 123-' Frer..h have dug in and held the Ger- 31, 1917, when- the Government tooK
omcers and 1,528,924 enlisted me i. man back. The English also have j over the railroads. lhis teat was
a sign of quick action, it is to be1, in uut show a tendency of late , achieved with less effort than in the
lembered that Pershing's first con
lent of troons landed safe at a
-
r fnrrr the fie-htiner to the open. It
is mv hone and judgment that our
eh port eighty-eight days after j men be the ones to go over the
declaration of war; that about one fn fn mav-e the Germans fight or
fdred davs latr American troops!
" - i r un. ....
Ordnance Department
ped their baptism of fire on the
J-line in France; and that 309
from the start of the war Ameri-
froops permanently took over a
; the firing-line as' an Ameri-
sector. Less than three weeks
r the enactment of the Selective
fice Law the entire male popula-
the country within draft age
ely, about ten million men pre-
rd themselves before some four
Pand boards and registered. The
drafting the Army and of the
old days was required to move a reg
iment, and there was no disjointing of
traffic. On December 31, 1916, agree
ments were signed with railroad-traffic
officers representing 220 different
lines of railroads and steamships. The
roads covered approximately 250,000
miles of the country and the agree-
"On May 17, 1917, the Ordnance De
partment at Washington, ..consisted of
eleven officers and a total force of
from one hundred to two hundred em
ployees, who were housed in half a
dozen rooms of the State, War, and
Navv Building. The report of the
Chief of Ordnance for 1916 showed partment, which promptly saw the de
that there were eighty-three omcers j sirability of standardizing motor trans
of this department in the whole Unit- ports xe advice of leading motor
ed States. In peace - times the Ord- J engineers of the country was secured,
ations of the Provost Marshal- nance Department expended about Jjirf, an(j as the result a program has been
Fal was $10 000 000 and the cost 000.000 per annum. Mow it spenus worked out by wmch a war-truck
pan accepted for service $4.93. about that much per day. To supply
Fn two weeks of the bee-innine of i garrisons and army posts was a sim-
far contracts had been made cov-iple matter in former days, but to sup-
? the requirements of an army of
million men, and this material
Prsed 8,700,000 items. Up to Feb
20, 1918 the Director-General of
ary Railways had placed orders
ailway supplies valued at Jjl42,0u0
and with an afrrecatp. weierht of
D0 lonsr tons Th flpmpral En-
Depot up to Februarv 1 issued
0rders for mntoirinl vnlnpd at
0,000. Such scope and speed of
avr become the more evident
We recall that1 in 1916 the Unit
es Army almost in its entirety
c0ncentrntarl 1, Mnv-iti
er. rw. , . a onninment for artillery
xroops not there were a -teens, uiu v.v. x-
days visiting her father here.
Mrs. Harry Leonard and familv
spent Sunday afternoon with her
father.
We were glad to have Sunday
school reorganized here Sunday.
The new time system puts us in
more haste than we are accumtomed
to these lovely spring mornings but
the majority of theh people like it
I believe.
Last Sunday the home of Mr. John
Powell was alive with many visitors.
They were as follows: Mrs. J. C.
Pridgen and children, of Norlina;
Miss Ruth Dayis, Mr.. J JD,. Riggan
and family, Mr, M. . C. Duke and
family, Misses Ruby and Lela Ctork
and Mr. G. Vernon Duke.
Misses Mabel and Nora Davis
spent Easter Sunday and Monday
with their cousin Miss Bessie Powell
Mrs. O. C. Davis has named her
young daughter "Annie Hinton" f 01
her, mother.
Mr. Billie Williams, of Richmond
and a native of Warren County, is
again in this" county visiting hissis
ter Mrs. Ellis Neal, of the Grove Hill
section. Only last week he lost his
only brother, Eugene, who died in
Petersburg after being sick only one
day and night with Pneumonia.
The young folks anticipate a fine
time Friday night at the Buffalo
school entertainment.
-'S'S'AV-
Patriotic Meeting
At Wise April 18
i . i T " 1 3 1 ' a. fc
menx on sxeamsnips inciuueu pracn There were several new members
cany all coasting lines. , . dded tQ the roU at tMs meeting
lh,e opportunity orrerea oy tne
Mexican emergency to create a motor
service for the Army was taken ad
vantage of by the Quartermaster De-
Clubs. This is a decided progressive
step which will mean much to the
Associaton. Will all members ot
present last Thursday please, hand the
Secretary, Miss Justice, ten cents
the amount of the Federation yearly
dues per member? i There will. be a special patriotic
It was further voted to make an j prayer service for our soldier boys,
effort to finish plastering the school 'at the-church at Wise on Thursday
auditorium before commencement. A M. April . 8th at 8:30 Rev. E
committee consisting of Mrs T. B., Baxter, Rector of Emmanuel
Rose, Mrs. M. H. Hayes and Mrs. j Church, Warrenton will deliver, the
Charlotte Story Perkinson were ap- j addres There be
, .1 i. musical proerram and a collection for
pointed to iook alter getting me wuik ; . - .,. ,
done.
Western front, according to indica
tions in today's dispatches. They
have appeared in the British battle
zone, where their presence is expect
ed to be felt shortly, the advices
state.
Meanwhile, the great German of
fensive in France seems to be devel
oping into much more local actions.
The German effort in the Flanders
stroke is really of such magnitude as
to constitute another attempt to
break through the British lines, in the
opinion of at least one of the observ
ers at the front, the tremendous .
massing- of artillery and. the. dens '
formation of the infantry indicating
the magnitude of the attack. ,
W. S. S.-
State of Washing
ton Leads in Lumber
carrying 3 to 5 tons, according to the
conditions of the roads is now going
through factories at the rate of 1,000
ply thirty-two camps and cantonments per m0nth, which production will be
of 20,000 to 30,000 men is another j gradually increased to 4;000 per month
story. The Ordnance Department re-inne standardized motor-vehicles are
ceived requisitions, as soon as the war -the heavy duty truck, capacity 3 to 5
was on, from the regular Army ar.utons; the medium truck, .1 1-2 to 2
all the State militias. The lack of jtons; and the light truck, 3-4 to 1
sufficient material and the wide distri- j ton. The last is on pneumatic tires
bution necessary demanded complete an(j is used for various purposes, in
reorganization of the'' department to ciuding ambulance service. The sur
insure the prompt supply of the arti- pius of these in good condition after
cles proided by this branch of thejthe war, it is stated, will be handed
service, which includes the fighting ; over to the Postoffice or other public
men's arms, helmets, bolos, cartridge j department. There are also the stan
belts knives, bandoliers, haversacks, i dardized trailer, motor-cycle, and bi-
i, tyipss pmiioment, and can I
P " . ' . i-iMxr I "Continued on fourth oae-e.l
Mrs. V. D. Alston
Entertained at Bridge
Mrs. V. D. Alston entertained on
Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs.
Howard Alston. ' Auction Bridge
amused and pleased the sixteen ladies
present and the afternoon was an en
joyable one..
Those present and playing were:
. Mesdames Howard Alston, John
Kerr, W. D. Rodgers, Jr., M. C. Mc
Guire, A. E. Jones, Henry Boyd, G.
H. Macon, Harry "Leob, B. B. Wil
liams, V. F. Ward, W. H. Dameron,
H. F. Jones, John G. Ellis, C. C. Hun
ter, Henry Falkner, Palmer Scoggin;
Misses Mary Harris, Jennie Jackson,
Elizabeth Hunter, Kate W.. Williams.
A delicious salad course and hot
coffee was served.
the Red Cross will be taken.
The fathers, mothers, brothers, sis
ters, sweethearts and friends of the
boys now serving their country are
especially invited.
Let everybody who loves his coun
try com and join heartily in this
service.
"S'S'Al
Reach Illinois Train
ing Camp In Safety
The Local Board informs us that
Warren's fifty-four colored regis
trants, under command of George Bur
chette, of Warren Plains, reached the
camp. .at Rockford, Illinois, in good
condition.
The men stood the army physical
examination and are now actively at
work in the uniform of U.S. Army.
W.S.S.
Don't wait. Lend your Govern
ment your money today. If you are
not able' to buy a "Bond buy a W. S. S.
From a Poster of the Commercial
Club of South Bend, Wash., we copy
the following which is of interest t
our people as some of our. boys from
this town and county are now within
two miles of South Bend, assisting
in getting out Spruce lumber for
aeroplanes and ships for the Govern
ment. "The State of Washington ranks
first in the production of lumber, ex
ceeding by fifty percent that of any
other state, and equaling one sixth
of the amount manufactured in the
United States. At the present time
every effort is exerted in getting out
spruce for aeroplane construction.
Owing to its texture, and character
spruce has been found best for use
in the aeroplane, and to the necessi
ty for immediate .delivery of the wood
local forces are now being supple
mented by large detachments of men
of the National Army who are in
sisting in the logging camps m get
ting out the much needed spruce.
"It seems but proper in passing to
pay a deserfed tribute to the charac
ter of the thousands of American sol
diers now engaged in the spruce toi
jests of Washington. They are" lue
highest type of fine, clean, wholesome
'American manhood. Not only is their
help in the prpduction of the urgently
needed aeroplane spruce most wel
come, but the people of this section
heartily welcome these gentlemanly
soldiers in a spirit of friendship and
high regard.
"These men in the forest of Pa
cific County are as certainly and as
patriotically aiding in the successful
prosecution of the war as the men in
the trenches in France."
' -W.S.S.
Had Become Truthful. "Uncle
Mose," said a drummer, addressing
an old colored man seated on 'a dry
goods box in front of the village
store, "they tell me that you re
member seeing George Washin;rton
am I mistaken?"
"Well, sah," said Uncle Mose.' "I
uster 'member see'n him but I done
fo'got since I j'ined the ch'ch. Rev.
T. De Curcy Rayner.