JOHN D. ADDS FIVE MILLION. 1
Boublet* His Subscription to The |
Liberty Loan. Campaign Gains
Momentum. Department and Other
Stores Furnish Productive Field
For Activities *f Salesmen.
New York, May 22. ? While finan
ciers, banking houses, industrial
trms and railways were subscribing
lfcrge sums today to the Liberty
Loan of 1917, the committees con
ducting the campaign to sell war
?onds pressed their attention upon
individuals who, without bank ac
counts, might be induced to purchase
?n the installment plan.
John I). Rockefeller added $5,000,
?00 to money of the same amount
with which he previously subscribed.
Max J. Breitenbach bought $1,000,000
worth, J. & W. Seligman took $2,
?00,000 worth and the Canadian Pa
cific Railway, the Louisville and
k'ashvillo and the American Brass
Company, $1,000,000 worth each.
Other large subscriptions were made,
scaling from $125,000 to $500,000.
f he Association of Safe Deposit
Companies here announced it would
place its facilities without cost at
the disposal of all persons wishing to
have their bonds kept safely.
Good Work Done in Stores.
Shoppers entering department
?tores found themselves confronted
by special salesmen who greeted
them with the words: "Right this
way for the Liberty Loan. Don't be a
?lacker. If you can't enlist, invest.
Step this way and buy your bond."
This solicitation was effective, the
loan committee was informed, and it
will be extended to take in 5 and 10
cent stores, lunches and groceries,
cigar stores and hundreds of the
?mall retail shops throughout the
city. Moreover, the department
stores have received so many inqui
ries from out of town customers that
it was decided to use the mails to
place loan information before such
customers through the distribution
of 1,000,000 circulars bearing the slo
gan: "Keep the light of liberty burn
ing by buying a Liberty Bond.
-> Where Persistency Won Out.
The persistency of bond salesmen
has been responsible for a number of
odd incidents involving the success
ful sale of bonds. One salesman dis
covered late yesterday an ancient
mariner, skipper of a vessel to sail
today, who was willing to invest
several hundred dollars of his sav
ings in bonds. But the banks were
closed when the salesman found this
man. The salesman kept in touch
with the sailor throughout the night
and early today he hurried him in an
automobile to a bank. The bonds were
purchased and the captain sailed
away on time.
The National Security League an
nounced today it had taken acti\e
steps to promite the sale of Liberty
Bonds. Letters were sent to the
chairmen of 228 branches through
out the country urging the 100,000
members to get in touch with local
Liberty Loan committees or to help
organize such committees in places
where none exist and to subscribe to
bonds.
The American Car and Foundry
Company has subscribed $2,000,000 to
the loan. ? Baltimore Sun, 23.
BENTONSVILLE NEWS.
Bentonville, May 23. ? Rev. T. W.
Siler filled his appointment at Ebene
zer M. E. Church Sunday night in
stead of the afternoon session.
Mr. T. J. Lassiter and family, of
Smithfield, spent Sunday in our sec
tion, the guests of Misses Annie and
Flora Lassiter.
Mr. W. B. Cole, of Smithfield, is
visiting relatives in our section this
week.
Messrs Kennie Coore and Zeb Hol
liman and Misses Mabel Coore and
Aggie Blackman, of near Goldsboro,
spent Sunday in our section with Mr.
W. A. Flowers' family.
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Powell, of
Smithfield, spent Sunday in our burg
with their brother, Mr. W. A. Powell.
Mr. W. J. Lewis and family, of
Four Oaks, passed through ^our sec
tion Monday en route for Wayne
County to attend the burial of Mrs.
Lewis' father, Mr. I. I. Thornton.
Mr. G. E. Thornton and family, of
Smithfield, motored to our section
Sunday afternoon.
Quite a large crowd of our people
attended the burial of Mr. I. I. Thorn
ton Monday afternoon at his old
home in Wayne County. Mr. Thornton
was a resident of Goldsboro at his
death, having moved there some five
or six years ago. Mr. Thornton was
well known by the people of this
section.
Mr. N. K. Thornton returned home
last week from Buie's Creek Acad
emy where he attended school the
past session.
We arc sorry to note that Mr.
John Best is confined to his room
from blood poison in his foot caused
from a shoe tav.k pricking his foot.
We hopo he will soon be on the go I
again. <
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Napoleon levied $71,250,000 in three
year? from defeated Prussia. j
PRESIDENT RE STATES HIS I
POSITION K K LATIN E TO WAS
Washington, May 22. ? No nation
that respected itself or the rights of
humanity could longer have borne the
overwhelming wrongs that Germany
inflicted upon the United States, i
President Wilson declared in a letter !
re-stating the reasons for this na- '
tion's entry into the war, written <
Representative Heflin and made pub- i
lie today at the White House.
Mr. Heflin had written to the <
President, saying some of his recent
utterances- on the war apparently
had caused confusion over the issue
with Germany. In re-stating his posi
tion, the President again made it
clear that the United States had no
quarrel with the German people, but
with an autocracy "which acts upon
purposes to which the German people
have never consented." The letter fol
lows :
"It is incomprehensible to me how
any frank or honest person could
doubt or question my position with
regard to the war and its objects. I
have again and again stated the very
long continued wrongs which the im
perial German government has per
petrated against the rights, the com
merce and the citizens of the United
States. The list is long and over
whelming. No nation that respected
itself or the rights of humanity
could have borne those wrongs any
longer.
"Our objects in going into the war
have been stated with equal clear
ness. The whole of the conception
which I take to be the conception of
our fellow countrymen with regard
to the outcome of the war and the
terms of its settlement I set forth
with the utmost explicitness in an
address to the senate of the United
States on the 22nd of January, last.
Again in my message to Congress on
the second of April, last, those ob
jects were stated in unmistakable
terms.
"I can conceive no purpose in seek
ing to be-cloud this, matter except
the purpose of weakening the hands
of the government and making the
part which the United States is to
play in this great struggle for human
liberty an inefficient and hesitating
part. We have entered the war for
our own objects clearly stated, and
shall forget neither the reasons nor
the objects.
"There is no hate in our hearts for
the German people but there is a re
solve which cannot be shaken even
by misrepresentation to overcome
the pretensions of the autocratic gov
ernment which acts upon purposes to
which the German people have never
consented."
LOWER JOHNSTON ITEMS.
The crops through this section are
not looking very prosperous, espe
cially cotton.
Miss Esther Thornton, from Dunn,
recently spent a few days with her
sister, Mrs. T. J. Lee.
Misses Ruth Morgan and Myrtle
Barefoot were the guests of Misses
Eva and Janie Jackson Saturday
night and Sunday.
Mr. J. A. Johnson and family from
Smithfield, spent Sunday and Mon
day visiting relatives in Lower John
ston.
Messrs. Cobb and McMillan, from
Lumber Bridge, recently made a bus
iness trip to this section.
Miss Mcrdie Denning spent the
week-end with her cousins, Misses
Flora and Beatrice Denning, near
Maplo Grove, Sampson County.
Mrs. E. E. Matthews, from Har
nett, cpent a few days last week in
this community.
Among those who attended the
Buie's Creek Commencement last
Thursday, were Misses Naomi and
Ruth Morgan, Hettio Jackson, Les
sie and Katy Lee, Dr. M. L. Bare
foot, Mr. C. F. Wagstaff and daugh
ter, Georgia Maie.
Mrs. Oscar Barefoot and children,
Mrs. W. J. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs.
Jasper Lee, from Peacock's Cross
Roads, were visitors at Mr. G. P.
Lee's Sunday.
Miss Naomi Morgan has been
spending a few days in Dunn.
Mr. J. P. Johnson, from near Dunn,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
L. D. Johnson.
Mrs. Senia Wilson, from Sampson,
is visiting relatives in this section
this week.
Mr. Julius Barefoot is very ill, we
are sorry to note.
Mr. Loon Wilson and sister, Miss
Viola, of Sampson, visited in this
part of Johnston Sunday.
Misses Lessie and Katy Lee return
ed home Sunday afternoon, after
spending a few days with relatives
near Angier.
Misses Mildred and Eva Lee are
spending this week in Dunn.
BILLY.
Several English firms using box
wood hrve tested the South African
boxwood, and the general opinion is
that it is quite satisfactory.
Brazil's cotton crop is increasing
in quantity and quality.
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WE FEEDING OF OUR ARMIES. I
I'ood of Soldier Costs About Three !
Times as Much As in the
War With Spain.
It costs almost three times as much j
now to feed a soldier as it did in the
Spanish- American war of 1898. This
was made known recently by the
quartermaster's department of the
army.
Then the cost was 12.81 cents a
Jay for each man. Now it is 8- cents.
The ration is standard.? Washington
Post.
MEADOW ITEMS.
The people of this section are chop
ping cotton.
Mr. Seth Lee went to Dunn tq-day.
There will be preaching at Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Holley's, Sunday after
noon at 3:30 o'clock, by Elder Exure
Lee.
There was preaching at Trinity
Church last Sunday and a large
crowd present.
Miss Mildred Johnson spent Sat
urday night with Misses Lenora and
Bertha Johnson.
Misses Mary and Maude Dunn and
brother, Joseph, spent Saturday ni^ht
and Sunday with Misses Myrtie and
Verna Lee.
Mr. J. N. Johnson, of Dunn, spent
Sunday in this section.
Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hinton and Miss
Mary Young spent Saturday night
and Sunday with relatives in Bentons
ville.
Messrs. Joseph and Isaac Hudson
spent Saturday night with Mr.
Booker Lawhon.
Mr. J. F. Ryals spent Sunday with
his mother, near Benson.
Miss Lessie Smith, of Blackmail's
Grove section, is spending this week
with her sister, Mrs. J. R. Holley.
Miss Sybel Tart and brother, John
Mang, spent Sunday with Miss Clau
dia Godwin.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ryals and chil
dren spent Saturday night and
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John
Whittington.
May 22, 1917.
Phillips-Moore.
Oak Grove Presbyterian church
was the scene of a very beautiful
church wedding on Wednesday ev
ening, May 16, at 8:00 o'clock, when
Miss Eloise Moore became the bride
of Mr. M. L. Phillips.
Just before the bridal party en
tered the church, Miss Minnie Camp
bell sang, very sweetly, "I Love You
Truly," Miss Emma Oneal presiding
at the organ. Then as the strains of
the wedding march pealed out, the
party entered up the side aisles and
met at the altar. The first were, Mr.
Hubert Godwin with Miss Lillie |
Hunter, of Dorches; Mr. E. C. Nel
son, of Elm City, with Miss Annie
Godwin; Mr. J. H. Hocutt with Miss
Louvenia Williams; Mr. Lonnie Hare
with Miss Mavis Melton, of Dorches.
Then came the lovely bride leaning
on the arm of her dame of honor
and were met at the altar by the
groom and his best man, Mr. and
Mrs. J. P. Nelson, of Elm City, act
ing as best man and dame of honor.
At the altar the bride and groom
took their places under a beautiful
arch from which suspended a large
wedding bell and there, in a very im
pressive manner, Rev. W. 0. Biggs,
pastor of Elm City Baptist church
and former pastor of the groom, pro
nounced them man and wife.
The church was beautifully decorat
ed with ferns and other potted |
plants.
The bride wore a lovely gown of ]
white crepe de chine with satin trim
mings and net veil, and carried a
boquet of white carnations and pink
roses. After receiving the congrat
ulations of their many friends, the
happy couple left for the home of
the bride where they spent the night,
leaving on the early morning train
for an extended visit to friends and
relatives in Nash and Wilson Coun
ties.
On their return they will make
kheir home with the parents of the
bride, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Moore, of
Spring Hill Farm, in Oneals town
ship.
Those attending the marriage from
a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Wiley
Williams and little daughter, Ruby,
of Elm City; Mrs. R. B. Melton and
laughter, Miss Ola Mae Melton, of
Dorches, and Mr. M. F. Ellen, of
Dorches.
Mr. and Mrs. Phillips were, up un
til this year, residents of Nash Coun
ty. Since coming to Johnston to live
they have both rc^de r host of friends
ivho join in wishing them a long and
happy journey over the sea of life.
AN ATTENDANT.
Pessimism and Optimism.
The world we live in is a world
if mingled good and evil. Whether
t is chiefly good or chiefly bad de
fends on how we take it. To look
it the world in such a way as to
emphasise the evil is pessimism. To
ook at it in such a way as to bring
out the good, and throw the evil into
the background is optimism. Wheth
er we shall be pessimists or optim
ists depends partly on our tempera
ment, but chiefly on our will. Pessi
mism is linked with misery. If you
are miserable it is chiefly your own
fault. There are thousands of people
who would be miserable were they
situated precisely as you are. They
would make themselves miserable be
cause that is their temperament; that
is their way of looking at things.
Life is like the ocean. It draws one
man, because he yields to it pas
sively and blindly. It buoys up the
other because he strikes it skillfully.
We all know people who have plenty
to eat, a roof over tlieir heads, a
soft bed to lie in, money in the bank,
plenty of friends, good social posi
tion, good education, even the pro
fession of some sort of religion; who
yet by magnifying something that
happened to them a long time ago;
or something that may happen to
them at some time to come; or what
somebody has said about them; or
the work they have to do; or the
slight some one has shown them, or
even without anything as definite as
even these trifles, they contrive to
make themselves and everybody else
perpetually wretched and uncomfort
able. These people have become pes
simists. If you want to be a pessim
ist ? worry on what has been or
shrink from what will be, rather
than face the facts of the present;
find fault with other people instead
of setting your own affairs in order,
intent on what you can get, rather
than on what you can do, these aro
our marks of the monster pessim
ism.
Then next comes optimism. If you
want to be an optimist, be intent on
what you can do, rather than on
what happens to you, concern your
self with facts as they are rather
than as they might be, think of tho
duty in hand, without regret for the
past or worry about the future;
criticise yourself rathcy than con
demn others; seek the approval of
your conscience rather than popular
ity with the many. Who ever lives
the life of such unselfish devotion to
the good of others is bound to find
his life full and rich and glad and
free. He will be an optimist.
JOHN A. NARRON,
Horner Military School,
Charlotte, N. C.
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