WELCOME TO HEROES OF DIXIE.
President Wilsoa in Fine Style
Makes Confederate Veterans Feel
at Home in Nation's Capital.
Nearly 7,000 of the Heroes Who
Wore the Gray Attend the Reunion. \
They Give the President a Great 1
Ovation.
Following is a condensed account
of the first day of tin* re-union which
was sent out by the Associated Press
and published in Wednesday * daily
papers:
Veterans and visitors in Washing
ton by the thousands for the 27th an
nual reunion of the United Confeder
ate Veterans joined Tuesday in giv
ing President Wilson a great ova
tion when he welcomed the soldiers
of Dixie to the nation's capital and
told them that the country was be
ginning to understand that one of the
purposes of Providence in keeping
the nation united was for the oppor
tunity now before America to fight
for liberty and mankind.
The great hall in which the Presi
dent spoke was filled with thousands
and twice that many more had to be
turned away because of the lack of
room. While waiting for the Presi
dent the Veterans and visitors cheer
ed the various leaders as they came
on the platform.
The Marine Hand kept the old sol
diers in a joyous humor by playing
the beloved airs of the South, and
each time they swung into "Dixie,"
the "Rebel yell" would go ringing
through the hall. The Confederate
choir from Portsmouth, Va., dressed
in gray Confederate jackets, sang
"If you Want To Have a Good Time
Join, the Cavalry," "Maryland, My
Maryland," and other tunes to which
the young men of the South marched
to battle in the sixties.
The number of Veterans here is
estimated at nearly 7,000 and the
tents provided for them in the Union
Station plaza could not accommodate
all of the late-comers and nearby ^
buildings had to be utilized. Officials
who have charge of arrangements
for the accommodation? estimate the (
attendance as one of the largest
gathered in Washington in some time.
Many of the lenders declare this the (
largest reunion in point of attend- .
ance of visitors, ever held.
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The presentation of a United States ,
flag to General Harrison at the in- |
itial meeting of the Confederate Vet- r
erans by Colonel Andrew Cowan, of .
the G. A. R. was the signal of a
patriotic demonstration led by the '
Veterans and in which the women '
and visitors who packed the hall to
the doo.'s heartily joined. The Stars
and Stripes were hung side by side
with the Stars and Hars behind the (
presiding officer and will remain
there throughout the re-union. j
Telling of his four years at the (
Georgia Military Academy, where he
learned to love the Stars and Stripes,
General Harrison said:
"For four years 1 learned to love
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another flag, the Stars and Hars,
which you have truly said, was borne
with honor through the war nnd
furled with honor at the end. And, ^
so long as red blood flows in our
veins, we will cherish its heroic and
tender memories. Now that the war
of sections has ended and our coun
try is again united, my love for Old
Glory has returned and we who
wore the gray now stand side by side
with you who wore the blue in fight
ing for liberty and human rights
whenever and wherever our country
calls."
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v urpurai James lanner, wno serv
ed in the Union army as a member |
of a New York repiment, and was
wounded at the battle of Second
Manassas, welcomed the Confederates
in the name of the Grand Army of
the Republic. He was received by the
Veterans who stood and pave three
cheers, and his references to the mu
tual respect and esteem existing to
day between the former foes brought
applause.
Colonel Robert E. Lee, prandson
of the South's chieftain, declared in
his address that the sons of the men
of the North and South would emu
late the example of their fathers and
serve their country in any capacity
in which they are called.
The President's Speech.
The President spoke as follows:
"I suppose that as you mix with
one another you chiefly find these to
be days of memory. You are plad to
remember that heroic thinps were
done on both sides, and that men in
those days foupht in somethinp like
the old spirit of chivalric pallantry.
There are many memories of the
Civil War that thrill alonp the blood
end make one proud to have been
sprunp of a race that could produce
such bravery, and yet the world does
not live on memories. There are
some thinps that we have thankfully
buried and amonp them are the preat
passions of division which once
threatened to render this nation in
twain. The passion of admiration we
rtill entertain for the heroic fipures
of those old days, but the passion of
Beparation, the passion of difference
of principle, ia gont* gone out of
our minds, gon?? out of our heart*
and one of the thin?* that will thrill
this country ns it reads of this re
union ia that it will read alao of a
re-dedication on the part of all of ua
to the x"??t nation which wo a?rve
in common.
I'aat Difference* porgottra.
"These are daya of oblivion a*
well as of memory, for we art* for
getting the things that once held ua
asunder. Not only that, but they are
daya of rejoicing, because we now at
laat sec why thia great nation waa
kept united, for we are beginning to
see the great world purpose which
it waa meant to serve. Many men I
know, particularly of your own gen
eration, have wondered at some of
tho dealings of providence, but the
wiae heart never questions the deal
ings of providence. And now that we
see ourselves part of a nation united,
we know the great ends which (Jod,
in His mystcrioua providence,
wrought through our instrum ntality,
because at the heart of the men of
the North and of the South there was
the same lovo of self government and
of liberty, and now we are to be an
instrument in the hands of God to see
that liberty is made secure for man- 1
kind.
"As I came along the streets a few
minutes ago, my heart waa full of
the thought that this is registration
day. Will you not support me in feel
ing that there is some significance in
this coincidence, that this day, when
I come to welcome you to the national
capital, is a day when men young as
you were in those old days, when
you gathered together to fight, are
now registering their names as evi
dence of this great idea, that in a
democracy the duty to serve and the
privilege to serve falls upon all
alike?
The Spirit of Obligation.
"There is something very fine, my
fellow citizens, in the spirit of vol
unteer, Imt deeper than the volunteer (
spirit is the spirit of obligation. There
is not a man of us who must not hold
himself ready to be summoned to the )
luty of supporting the great govern
ment under which we live. No really
Ihoughtful and patriotic man is jeal- ,
sus of that obligation. No man who
really understands the privilege and
:he dignity of being an American cit
zen quarrels for a moment with the (
dea that the Congress of the United
States has tho right to call upon
whom it will to serve the nation, j
These solemn lines of young men go?
ng today all over the union to the (
daces of registration ought to be a
signal to the world, to those who dare ,
lout the dignity and honor and rights
>f the United States, and all her man- j
lood will flock to that standard un- 1
ier which we all delight to serve, and ;
hat he who challenges the rights and
principles of the United States chal
enges the united strength and devo
tion of a nation.
No Selfish Wealth.
"There are not many things that
>ne desires about war, my fellow cit
izens, but you have come through
war, you know how you have been ,
chastcned by it, and there comes a
Lime when it is good for a nation to
know that it must sacrifice if need be
everything that it has to vindicate the .
principle:, which it professes. We have
prospered with a sort of heedless and
irresponsible prosperity. Now we are t
going to lay all our wealth, if nec
essary, and spend all our blood, if
need be, to show that we were not
accumulating that wealth selfishly, I
but were accumulating it for the ser
vice of mankind. Men all over the
world have thought of the United
States as a trading and money-get
ting people, whereas we who have (
lived at home know the ideals with ,
which the hearts of this people have
thrilled; we know the sober convic
tions which have lain at the basis of ;
our life all the time, and we know
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the power and devotion which can be
spent in heroic wisdom for the ser- j
vice of these ideals that we have
treasured.
"And so it seems to me that we (
may regard this as a very happy day,
because a day of re-union, a day of
noble memories, a day of dedication, !
a day of the renewal of the spirit
which has made America great among
the peoples of the world."
We Need More Cattle.
W. S. Matthews, Secretary of the '
State Food Department of Illinois, is '
doing some effective work in creating
a greater interest in dairy develop- 1
ment and better dairy cows in that
State. In a notice which he recently
issued he says: "Do you know why j
meat, butter, milk and leather are so
high? Do you know there are <>,0<>0,- 1
000 less cows in the United States
than there were 15 years ago, and 24,- J
000,000 more people? Do you real
ize the cause? The slaughter of veal
calves is responsible largely for this
condition." ? Indiana Farmer.
DID YOU EVER READ THAT
great little story "Ten Nights In a
Barroom?" If not get a copy at
Herald Office. Price only 5 cents.
By mail 8 cents.
HOLLAND DIVIDES HER FOOD.
Gitm Ebtrnt* Allies ? Share and
AImi Soiuc to the Central
Paw era.
Tha Hague, Netherlanda, J una ft. ? ]
"Every consignment of Dutch cattle
?xport<-d to (Jirmtny coata the live*
of son* of France," recently declared
a French writer. "The Britiah block
ade of Germany ia still being evaded
l.y the T/eakm-sa of the Foreign Of
fice'* policy," conatantly reiterate
certain London journala.
Tho correspondent of The Assoei
ated Preaa in informed by a Dutch au
thority that, while the vast transit
trade ov? r Holland into Germany has
long since been absolutely cut off
by the Hritish fleet, with the excep- J
tion of quite insignificant quantities
of goods smuggled across the fron
tiers, Germany is still obtaining con
siderable supplies of badly needed
goods from Holland, the produce of
Dutch farms and market-gardens,
butter, cheese, eggs, vegetables,
meat, bacon and the like, as well as
fish ? but that a radical alteration
has been brought about in the divis
ion of the country's surplus products.
Up to the middle of last year, the
high prices offered by Germany and
Austria were drawing the great bulk
of Holland's surplus agricultural
produce over her eastern frontier,
and the normal trade with Britain
had fallen almost to vanishing
point.
Holland was thus not only running
great risk of losing its old British
customers permanently, but it became
evident that the country's oversea
supplies of fodder grain might be
entirely cut off if these continued to
be merely converted into food for
Germany.
The result was a resolve to divide
the country's surplus food produce
between the Entente Allies and the
Central Powers in the same propor
tion as before the war, and the Ag
ricultural Export Bureau was estab
lished to control that task.
Under an agreement with the semi
official British and General Trading
Association, it has for months been
dispatching certain fixed proportions
of exported foodstuffs to the British i
market, to France or the Belgian Re
lief Commission, while the remain
der all goes to the German Trade
Trust by the medium of the Central
Purchasing Company which now
monopolizes the import of virtually
all foodstuffs in Germany. What part
of these latter goods going eastward
reach Austria is not certainly known, i
Of butter, one-fourth goes to
Britain and three-quarters to Ger
many; of cheese, a third to Great
Britain, and the rest to Germany;
bacon, pork and other meat, half to
either; vegetables, a quarter to Great
Britain and three-quarters to Germa
ny; milk, three-quarters to Britain
and a quarter to Germany; potatoes
anil potato-flour, half to each; eggs,
up to a quarter to "Britain and the
rest to Germany. No arrangement
has yet been come to in regard to the
exportable sugar crop, but probably
hall will go either way. Under a sep
arate agreement with the Nether
lands Oversea Trust, Britain receives
virtually all of the Dutch margarine
exports.
Despite ruthless submarining, the
exports to Britain are proceeding as
usual. The Groat Eastern line, for
instance, has five vessels, still run
regularly to British ports.
Incidentally, the Dutch hit upon a
neat way of discouraging the taking
in of their boats to Zeebruge by Ger
man naval forces. Any England-bound
food cargoes so captured were reck
oned as if they had been exported
over Holland's eastern frontier, and
the direct exports to Germany re
duced proportionately.
Exports of any breeding cattle and
of horses to Germany fall outside
the division arrangement.
It is asked, if Holland stops ex
ports to Germany, how much of such
indispensable raw materials as coal
and iron will she receive from that
country, not to mention darker possi
bilities with a desperate and half
starved armed nation at her door?
The Minister of Agriculture recently
pointed out that the first effect of a
stoppage of fodder imports from
America must be the slaughter of
large numbers of cattle and their ex
port ? a by no means desirable pros
pect for the Entente Allies, in view
of the fat famine in Germany. Ger
many, too, has a great interest in re
fraining from enterferinpr with Hol
land's supplies of grain and fertili
zers from America, as every diminu
tion thereof must mean less exports
to Germany.
I THE EVILS OF CONSTIPATION.
I Constipation is one of the main
reasons why the average human life
is below 40 years. Leaving: waste ma
terial in the body, poisons the system
and blood and makes us liable to sick
| headaches, biliousness, nervousness
and muddy skin. When you note
these symptoms, try Dr. Kind's New j
Life Pills. They give prompt relief,
are mild, non-griping in action, add
I tone to your system and clear the !
complexion. At your druggist, 26c. '
? Advt. I
KtWLR DOCTORS IN COUNTRY.
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Demands That People Do More to
keep Well and Prevent
Disease.
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"Th? re never has been a time,"
says the State Board of Health,
"when there were as many good
reasons for preventing disease and
preserving health on the part of in
dividuals and families, a.s now. The
necessity of keeping well and pre
venting sickness from a patriotic
point of view and duty has before
been given; health conservation as
well as the economic loss sustained
by the country through illness and
inefficiency are other subjects not al
together new. But the importance
of learning how to keep well and to
prevent disease for the reason that
there may be such a scarcity of
doctors that treatment may be dif
ficult to get, is a view not yet consid
ered or taken into account by the
public generally.
"That there are less doctors grad
uating at the various medical col
leges than in many years past is not
the only reason why this is necessa
ry. The country in some parts is al
ready feeling the drain that is being
made upon the medical reserve corps
by the army and navy, and yet our
part in the war has scarcely begun.
Furthermore, the medical students
graduating this year cannot be ex
pected home k) make good the
shortage of those having already en
tered the army or navy service as a
very large number have already
planned to enter government ser
vice."
The State Board of Health be
lieves that if every North Carolin
ian will do his duty this summer
not only by his own health but by
the health of the public, particularly
those dependent upon him, that the
State will not suffer for medical at
tention and that the health of the
people will not only not suffer, but
will show decided gains and improve
ments over previous years. That
towns and communities, as well as
individuals, will make no effort to
stamp out typhoid, dysentery and
other summer diseases in the face of
such conditions is inexplicable to the
Board. And that they will take no
steps to control such a debilitating
disease as malaria, when it may be
controlled in a number of ways,
seems to the Board not only a poor
show of partiotism but very poor,
bwtlies8 ability.
Our Foremost Citizen ? the Farmer.
The farmer raises the food that
feeds us. His cotton fields and sheep
give us the clothes we wear. He fur
nishes Uo with the necessaries of life
and a generous surplus with which to
follow the compass of civilization to
all the corners of the earth. His
peaceful fields, well planted and till
ed, support everything in the world ?
the industries, arts, sciences, humani
ties, and those countless clusters of
human life which we call cities.
His has been a big job ? that of
starting the world and keeping it go
ing ? but he has done it cheerfully,
never seeking praise or glory. While
the cities have bought and sold, and
grown rich and fat, he has whistled
and laughed, planted and harvested.
This nr.tion, gathering to itself riches
from all the world, almost forgot
whom it owed first for its achieve
ments.
It has taken a world calamity, *a
catastrophe without precedent in his
tory, to remind us of what we never
should have forgotten ? that the
farmer is carrying in his strong arms
the destinies of his work in his fields,
gardens, and orchards.
Today finds the American farmer
charged with a duty that in ordinary
times would be shared equally by the
farmers of all nations. Three years of
war have so shifted the burdens of
producing the world's food that the
greatest load of responsibility is now
resting on the shoulders of our farm
ers.
The men and women on American
farms are richly fitted to meet this
great emergency. Their ancestors
builded for character and stamina
while laying new trails through the
wilderness, beset with the dangers of
the frontier. But that was only the
foundation. They themselves have
been carrying on the great work of
production and fruitfulness. Through
the suns and storms of American
rural life, they have worked intelli
gently, hand in hand with Nature.
As they have met crisis in the
past, American farmers are at the
world's service today, ready at the
threshold in the present hour of need.
? Exchange.
Popular Hooks Just Received.
The Straight Road $1.50
The Lifted Veil, by Bonie King, 1.40
The Middle Pasture, by
Mathilde Billro, 1.25
Lloyd George ? The man and
His Story 1.00
AT HERALD BOOK STORE,
Smithfield, N. C.
BENTONSVILLE NEWS.
Dtstrurtirt Wind and flail Rtornsa
lu Nrotoi droit SMim Sunday
Afternoon. I?eath of a Well-know a
Colored M ia Othera lu?i of
Inter eat.
Mr. A. B. Adams, of Dona, wna in
our section Thursday shnkint band#
and talking inauraure.
Messrs. J. A. and E. J. Wallons, of
Smithfuld, motored through our suc
tion Thursday.
Miss Julia Williams, of ?mithfield,
is spending a few days in our burg
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. J.
Williams.
With Irish Potatoes, Cabbage and
huckleberries now beginning to show
on the table our people are begin
ning to fea?t at home.
We hope to have a good Communi
ty Fair in this section next fall, and
give the people a time to be long re
membered. Tho officers are putting
forth every effort to give the people a
day of enjoyment.
Mr. G. E. Thornton and son, Ever
ette, of Smithfield, were in our burg
Monday and the result is Mr. and
Mrs. Claude Sanderson have a new
piano.
We had a very profitable rain to
visit our community Sunday after
noon, and we have been informed that
in Newton Grove a few miles below
us the people witnessed a very de
structive storm, wind and hail doing
much damage to property and crops.
Last Thursday the death angel vis
ited our section and claimed Gaston
Grantham, a very honorable negro.
Gaston was a very good colored citi
zen, a very quiet, peaceable man and
was well known by the business men
of Johnston and Wayne Counties,
having been in the mercantile busi
ness in Bentonville for several years.
Gaston was well thought of by both
white and colored people who knew
him. He had been very saving dur
ing his life, therefore accumulated
some property. He was buried in the
Cole cemetery, Friday. A large crowd
of both white and colored people paid
their last respects to him.
June 5, 1917.
Farm Labor.
In the farmers' conferences that
have lately been held in Indianapolis
a problem that came repeatedly to
the surface was that of the scarcity
of farm labor. It is, in fact a thing
that more than any other threatens to
handicap farm production, and its so
lution is not easy. Much has been
said about city people going to the
farms to work ? even conscription to
that end being suggested, not taking
into account the fact that the aver
age city man is of very limited value
as a farm hand. Aside from inefi
ciency through ignorance of the bus
iness an unseasoned man in the heat
of the harvest field or at hard manual
labor would collapse; he would hardly
be worth hiring, and so too much
must not be hoped for in that direc
tion. The work on the farm is, how
ever, so diverse, that much of it does
not call for especially expertness or
endurance, and if energetic, depend
able youth from the cities would go
to the farms during the vacation
period with a willing spirit, and stim
ulated by a fair pay for their work,
their help would be very acceptable.
The drain on the farm is made
worse now by the enlistment of many
young men who would be serving the
country quite as well, perhaps, if they
remained' at the plow. In view of this
some urge a selective conscription
system which will take the men that
can best be spared from civil life and
refuse to take those whose industrial
pursuits are of especial value to the
country.
It has been suggested that the solu
tion of the insufficient labor problem
must be in the wider adoption of la
bor-saving agricultural machinery.
The difficulty is that much of this
machinery is so expensive that the
small farmer can not afford to own
it. However, this will in some meas
ure help to solve the labor question
on the farm. ? Indiana Farmer.
ROCK HILL ITEMS.
Rev. R. M. Vcn Miller filled his
regular appointment at Blackman's
Grove Sunday.
We arc glad to ses several of our
people who have been sick with meas
les out rgain.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Holly, of Pea
cock's Cross Roads, visited at Mrs. J.
G. Smith's Saturday nnd Sunday.
We aro sorry to note that Mrs
N. J. Lcc is on the sick list.
We arc sorry to note that Mr. No
gah Wood is very sick with measles.
Mr. Joseph Wood has purchased a
new Ford car.
Mr. J. B. Lee and family, of Wilson,
spent Sunday in this section.
Miss Nettie Lee visited Mi s Mittie
Smith last Sunday.
Messrs. Jasper Blackman and John
Stanley, of Bethel section, were call
ers in our burg Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Carson Blackman spent Sun
day afternoon in Oliver's Grove sec
tion. TEDDY.
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