North Carolina Newspapers

BILLY MAY PREACH TO SOLDIER BOYS ______ I W... i wlsi hi Eiiropa. ANX13J3 FGH t.;e work Also Plans to Visit Several Training Camps Here and Knock the Devil Out For the Count of Ten ? Engagements In Several Cities May Cause Aban donment of Scheme, However. Billy Sunday, who lias just closed a campaign in New York city, durlug which 1)8,201 persons "lilt the sawdust trail," is going to "do his bit" for the United States. As soon as arrange ments can he made and after he has rested at his home in Winona Lake, Ind., the evangelist expects to begin a series of revival campaigns in the va rious concentration and training camp throughout the country. lie al<o ex pects to fro to Fngland and Frame and "knock the devil out of the trenches." He has been asked by the Washing ton authorities to make the trip, and all that prevents a definite announce ment of his sailing date is the fact that he has revival engagements that he cannot cancel or postpone without dilll culty. He is confidently hoping to be able to devote part of his vacation time before his next campaign begins, in September, to religious work among the troops in American concentration camps. The idea of carrying the gospel to the American troops has been on Sun day's mind ever since war was declar ed by the Fid ted States. (Heorge Sun day, Billy's son and campaign man ager, discussed the idea with the Washington authorities during a re cent visit to the capital, and Billy's project was warmly encouraged. J Talked With Pershing's Aid. When t lie British wur commission was in Now York recently General G. M. T. Bridges and other members of the body discussed with Sunday the possibility of l)is going to England to preach. Sunday then said lie would like to undertake the work if it could be made to fit in with bis engagements In America. Bator a member of Gen eral Pershing's staff broached the i>lan to the evangelist, and Sunday enthusi astically" declared he would do his liest to arrange his revival dates so as to permit t lie undertaking. "I don't know who it was who talked with mo," lie said. "I've forgotten his name, but it was a member of General Pershing's staff. He said they wanted me to go over and preach to the soldier boys. There's nothing I would like better, so I told him to fix it up with Pershing, and I'd go as soon as I could. "I had thought of making a trip through 1 110 American camps for a month or two this summer or some time later, and I want to do it. It all hinges on what arrangements I can make with some of the cities I'm sched uled to preach in." The Sunday committee is attempting to got Washington ministers and others who are preparing for a scheduled Sun day revival there in January and Feb ruary of next year to agree to a post ponement of the campaign. If it is found jiossible to postpone the reviv ing of the capital Sunday will, in all probability, leave for Europe early in the coming year. Will Rest For Week or Two. When he left New York he went di rect to Winona Lake to rest for a week or two. lie will then proceed to his apple farm in the Ilood River region, Oregon. He is scheduled to open his first campaign of the fall season at Los Angeles on Sept. 4. November and December are scheduled for the campaign in Atlanta. January and February will be spent in Washington unless other arrangements are made. Other campaigns for which Sunday is booked next spring will be in Chicago and Du'iiith. Minn. "I don't see how I can get away to the training camps unless some changes are made, ' he said. "But I'm going to do my best to go, and I guess I'll find a way." Mrs. Sunday, convalescing after her recent serious illness, expressed her self as being sorry to leave New York. "The people have been so kind and sympathetic that I hate to leave such goods friends," she said. "My illness proved how tenderly human New York folk are. I got loads of letters, flow ers and other expressions of kindliness from people I had never seen, but who, I suppose, had been to the tabernacle. "The few meetings I conducted here were the best I've ever had. The Hip podrome meetings were simply wonder ful. The response was amazing to me. "I like New York more than any city we've been in. I like the sliops ami the general immensity of the place. l*it l>est of all I like the people who have rallied so well to hear the message my husband brought them." Fooled the Doctors. Walking 117 niles to enlM, a Minn* sota man wps about to pass an exam Jnation when it was discovered one of his lees was artificial, but so -lifelike tt had fooled all the do< tors. Found His Mark. After studying nn aviator's photo graph of a German tunnel a French artilleryman nt ten miles planted i) half ton projectile In the mouth of t* I trench. A HED GROSS WORKER Wounded Indian Officer Is Eeing Assisted From an Ambulance. o o Photo by American Press Association. Wherever there Is human sufferinn workers under the sign of the Red Cross may he found. The work has been brought more forcibly before the public since the outbreak of the war, but even before the beginning of this struggle Red Cross workers have been J the angels of mercy in every catastro-' plie. The above illustration shows onej phase of their work. A lied Cross ( worker is assisting a wounded Indian o Hirer from an ambulance. WHALE STEAK THE LATEST; IT'S PALATABLE AND CHEAP Department of Fisheries Says It Offers Chance to Wallop the j High Cost of Living. Fried whale steak, whale pot roast < and whale In any other forms which chefs may devise may soon make an appearance on the menu cards if the ^ people of the east can adapt their tastes to whale meat as easily as do persons j along certain parts of the Taciflc coast. So sure is the department of fisheries that whale meat Is palatable that a campaign is to be started to educate the American people to its use. The J meat can be sold at a low rate and will j afford a means of reducing the high cost of living. The department of fisheries was first attracted to the possibilities of whale ; meat by a whaling company which placed the meat 011 the market in Seat-, tie and Portland, Ore., last month, j Two employees of the department of, fisheries were in a restaurant 011 the coast and saw 011 the menu "Sperm] whale steak and currant jelly." Tn ? quiries were made, and it was found j that there was a tremendous demand ! for it. The whale meat, it was said, j cost 10 cents a pound, and there were j indications that it was as popular as ; beef. "There is evidence," says the bureau : of fisheries, "of great interest hi this ; matter by whale fishermen on both j coasts, and it would not be surprising I if within a short time the meat of whales and smaller cetaceans in both fresh and preserved form should be in demand and extensively utilized. "Whales and porpoises are mam mals, like cattle and sheep, and their flesh is meat and not fish. In texture and appearance it resembles beef, though the color is darker red. The flavor is cl#se to that of meat. It is | devoid of all fishy taste. It is likely , that it will soon be obtainable fresh, j corned and canned, and it is recom- j mended to those who have the oppor- j tunity to purchase it. "Whaling on the Atlantic side, once 1 the greatest whaling region, has de clined greatly, but there are still some whales taken. There is no difference in the food value of the Atlantic and I'aciflc whales." DIDN'T THINK QUICK ENOUGH. i How General Joffre's Aid Failed to Take Advantage of Situation. IJoforo introducing Lieutenant do Tessan, aid to General Joffre, and Colonel Fabry, the "Blue I>evil of j France," Chairman Spencer of the St Louis committee entraining tlie Iirit ish mission told this anecdote: "In Washington Lieutenant de Tes san was approached by a pretty Amer ican girl, who said: " 'And did you kill a German sol dier?' " 'Yes,' he replied. "'With what hand did you do it?' she inquired. " 'With this right hand,' he said. "And then the pretty American girl Feized his risrht hand and kissed it.1 Colonel Fabry stood near by. Hd Ptrolled over and said to Lieutenant de Tessan: " 'Heavens, man, why didn't you tell her that you bit him to death?' " Price of Life Is Higher. Life worth more now, Illinois Judges i said In giving a widow .*1s.fKK> for th ? | death of her husband on a railroad. It ] used to be $10,000 in such cases. ? HOOVER TELLS OF RED CH038 WOll No^ior) P- ?> ' i LilJ.i Uw. -J j v. ..I 9; ' o ' ' ; ) i 1" j uu^O . ; >?? j I i... .. J? rn? '"" r n!ii i'fi ri I il.ltiw.. u~~Jo UM i2t.i.s Civilian Population In Reconquered Territory Left Absolutely Without Food or Homes by the Retreating Germans ? Will Cost Over a Billion Dollars to Restore Their Homes. The people of the United States show ed their patriotism when they so great ly oversubscribed the Liberty loan. Likewise in the appeal for $100,<>00,00c for the Ited Cross the people of this, nation responded gallantly. The Red Cross is the humanitarian side of warfare. It is just as neces sary to have a good Red Cross organi zation as it is to have efficient lighting forces. In this connection the follow ing statement made before the Red Cross chapters in Washington recently by Herbert C. Hoover, who has chargt of the food supply of this country, is interesting : "For nearly three years we had as one of our duties the care of the civil ian population in northern France. We are, I think, the only Americans who have been In intimate contact or even in any contact with that Imprisoned population. I think wo, are the only group who know of their suffering, of their misery, of their destruction, ami who know of what confronts those peo ple even after peace. We have always entertained the hope that possibly this or some other agency, some other or ganization, might be found that could bind up their wounds and take In hand their difficulties, rehabilitate them Into a position again of self support. "There is probably the greatest prob lem of all the war. There is an untold destruction of property, a total dis placement of population, an enormous loss of human life, a loss of man pow er, a loss of animals, a loss of Imple ments ? a population of probably 3,000, 000 of people totally and absolutely unable to get back on their feet with out help. "About the end of March tho retreat of the German army over a small area opened up to the world a vision of what had really happened to the total of 3, (XX), 000. It was but a little parcel in France that was recovered, with a pop ulation of only 30,000 people. But there was displayed tho problem which confronts all of us partially today, but in a much greater measure at a later date. "I had visited that area from behind the line.i and again visited it from the allied side. I found that every village, with the exception of two small areas, had been utterly destroyed. The Ger mans had erected battering rums, had destroyed and burned villages, had lev eled everything to the ground, had gath ered ui? ull the agriculture implements in open squares and burned them, had taken all animals and had removed all the male portion of tho population be tween the ages of eighteen and sixty live years. "Tliat is only one of the problems of France. That is but n sample of what we bave to expect from practically the entire area. The cost of rehabilitation runs into figures which should startle all except Americans and perhaps Americans even in the large figures in which we liave begun to think. "I made a rough estimate of the im mediate amount of money required to rehabilitate that little parcel of popu lation. To support them for one year, to provide them with their implements, to give them the roughest kind of hous ing, to get them back to the point where they may get the land into culti vation and get into self support, would run somewhere from seven to ten mil lions of dollars. Altogether the north of France is probably faced with a to tal expenditure for rehabilitation which will run a billion and a half dollars. "There is still a further field in France, and that is the children. The orphans of France Increase day by day. That service is one which probably touches more nearly to the heart of every American than any other. "The lied Cross is perhaps founded fundamentally for the care and com fort of soldiers, but we are not fighting this war alone for the direct efficiency of battle. We are fightfhg here for in finitely greater objectives, and there is no support that can be given to the American ideal, to the American objec tive of this war, better and greater than a proper organization of that side of our civilization which we believe is today imperiled. We are fighting against an enemy who had become dominated with a philosophy, with an i idea for which there is no room in this world with us. It Is a nation obsessed with the single idea that survival of the strong warrants any action, de mands any submergence of the indi vidual to the state, which justifies their mastery of the world. "Our contention of civilization lies In the tempering of the struggle for exist ence by the care of the helpless. The ?urvlval of the strong, the development of the individual, must be tempered, or else we return 2.(KK) years in our civi lization. While the Red Cross devotes itself to the strengthening of the strong, to the support of the soldier, It is a duty of the Ited Cross to illume that part of American character and American ideal which stands for the care of the helpless." The Country Kditor. He might have been a millionaire, i And won financial fame, Or sat in u director's chair, Had money been his aim; He chose instead to spend his years In service poorly paid, And with the paste pot and the shears A humble living made. He chronicled the town's events ? j The local goings-on; His fellow townsmen's hopes and bents Inspired his lexicon. He felt the public pulse that beat I Around him, and he tried To make his little country sheet A thing of local pride. Unselfishly, with all his heart, I He strove but to upbuild His town, of which he was a part. With great ambition tilled. He spoke well of his fellow men; He praised when praise was due; He wielded but a kindly pen, l And ? no reward he drew. ? Editor and Publisher. | Library Commission and the War. It is evident that the Liberty Com mission, being a state office, should be of the greatest possible service not only to the men who are called into action, but to all the people of | the Sta^e. Plans have been made | with this twofold object in view. A list of books on Vegetable Garden , ing has been compiled and printed and it will be distributed throughout the State. A great many inexperienc ed and rmateur gardeners are plant ing vegetables this year and the books listed will be especially helpful and j encouraging to them. The Library I Commission will lend any title listed i to any one in North Carolina for : four weeks, the only expense being the postage both from and to Raleigh. Another list in preparation is one dealing with foods, food values, and food conservation. In order to help to conserve the food supply of the na ] tion and yet properly preserve the ; health of her family, the housewife , must study the big question of food ! and become familiar with food val jues. The list will give some of the best and simplest books on the sub ject and the books themselves can be I borrowed from the Library Commis I sion. i England, France, and Germany have supplied the men in camp and j training field with books by means of traveling libraries, and it seems that | on the battlefields of France books jhave been right behind the firing line. ? The regular army of the United 'States is well supplied with books, but the National Guard is not, and i herein lies a wonderful opportunity for the library commissions of the va ! rious States. As soon as the North Carolina National Guard is called out and established at the mobilization camp, libraries containing an average of at least one book to every five men will be furnished each regiment. It is evident that the intellectual needs will be varied. There will be some pro fessional and business men, some col : lege graduates, and a great many others who read only for recreation ,or diversion. And there will be need for wholesome diversion; a need which the temporary soldier will find it difficult to fill. A National Guards man, writing in the Library Journal of his experience last summer, tes tifies to the various cravings which books can satisfy, and says that it was impressed upon him more vivid ly, perhaps, than one can imagine without the experience, how books jean "fill in" in the army. Hence the North Carolina Commission will see to it that the National Guardsmen of our own State arc well supplied with good books. ? North Carolina Library Bulltein. Horses and Mules Exported. In the 34 months since the begin ning of the war ? August, 1914 ? the United States has exported to Europe 190,000 horses and 330,000 i mules. The horses were valued at $104,000,000 and the mules at $66, 000,000. j The fact that this is "not a cav alry war" and that automobiles, mo ! torcycles, flying machines and ob servation balloons arc performing much of the service formerly re quired by the horse in war time, does not seem to have checked the i demand for American saddle and draft animals. While the exporta tion of horses has decreased in re cent months the exportation of mules has increased. Most of the horses and mules sent abroad have gone direct to France. The average export value of horses was around $215 and mules about $200. ? Ex. Small wood-working machinery is | needed in Peru. A few furniture fac tories are now equipped with electric driven machines which came from Belgium and Germany. Frost doesn't nip canned vegeta bles. I'hoto by American Presa Association Major General Tas'te. H. R!is?. The Science of Burning Trash. A city dweller told me how he kept the grass in his yard growing lux uriantly. Instead of letting his neigh bors burn the leaves they raked, he took them off their hands and used them to mulch his grass. On many farms the torch is applied too freely to dead vegetable matter which might well be utilized in supplying humus to the soil. When I was a lad cornstalk burning was an annual event and many farmers have not yet come to realize the seriousness of the practice. There is a belief that the ashes from burned matter act as a fertilizer, while in fact the plant food escapes in smoke and leaves lit tle but mineral matter in the ash. The s sh is beneficial to the soil, serving to improve its mechanical condition, but if the vegetable matter is allowed to decay it is far more val uable as a soil improver than if burn ed. As it is our soils are wearing out fast enough without impoverishing them more by burning up a lot of plant food. The plant food that goes up in smoke can never be regained by man; it is lost forever. Corn stalks are not the only things that might be mentioned in this con nection. There are dead grass, stub ble, straw, weeds and leaves, all of which may be worked into the soil as quickly and often as easily as they can be raken and burned. If the work is done properly there need be no bad results, as most of the material will have decayed by the time a three year rotation is completed. A corn r.talk cutter will chop up the stalks so that they may be turned un der or mixed with the soil with a disc harrow. In this way they will not be bothersome in the future hay crop, but will serve in keeping a mulch that will be beneficial to succeeding crops of oats, rye or hay. After a good crop of corn the amount of vegetable mat ter which may ultimately be changed to plant food is enormous, and if one cannot afford a stalk cutter he cannot affiord to do without a disc harrow to save the stalks. The disc harrow can be used ad vantageously in mixing dead grass and weeds with the top soil before plowing. If it can not be worked up fine enough with the disc put on a jointer, set it to cut deep and plow it under. Discing will mix the trash sufficiently with the top soil to pre vent it from interfering with capillary action after the ground is plowed. Let the soil burn the "trash," and keep the torch in the closct. It is the cheapest way of "getting rid of the trash." Payment for the labor is re turned in increased crop production. ? Indiana Farmer. NUMBER ENROLLED FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE 9,619,938 Washington, June 21. ? War regis tration returns, virtually completed tonight by reports from Wyoming and Kentucky, show 9, <>49,938 men between the ages of 21 and 30 years, inclusive, have been enrolled for the country's service. In addition to the regularly tabulat ed total, 6,001 Indians were enrolled by State officials or on reservations by interior department agents. Counting the 600,000 or more men in the federal service and not requir ed to register, the Provost Marshal General's office said the Census Bu reau estimate of 10,275,604 eligibles was approximately correct, and that few slackers are to be sought. The Reason. 35-ounce loaf of bread is sold in Paris for eight cents, and a 14-ounce loaf is sold in Washington for 10 cents. The reason is that food pirates do not flourish in Paris. ? The Ro chester Herald. It is etsy to pardon one's own faults, which may be considered for tunate, since they are so many. Stand by the President. Why? ?Because he stands by you. Stand by the Laundryman. Why? Because he stands by you. All kinds of laundry work rtone at the Smithfleld Steam Laundry. Prices reasonable. Call phone 19-L and we will come. T. W. JOHNSON Proprietor. MONEY TO LOAN. During the summer months when business is not rushing is the best time to secure your money needs for the coming year. I can lend you one-half of apprais ed value of your cleared land on 5 years time with interest at 5 per cent, payable semi-annually. Or I can lend you this money on 20 years time on the amortization plan; in other words on the same plan as the Government Land Bank Loan. This money is available at any time. See me and learn details and ar range for your loan right away. F. H. BROOKS, Smithfleld, N. S. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of L. S. Tart, deceased, hereby noti fies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 1st day of June, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 29th day of May, 1917 H. M. TART, Administrator. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Executor on the estate of Blackman Jernigan, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present, the same to me duly verified on or before the 22nd day of June, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 15th day of June, 1917. ZERO D. JERNIGAN, Executor. ABELL & WARD and JAMES RAYNOR, Attorneys. NOTICE. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Johnston Coun ty, made in the special proceedings entitled, A. M. Noble, administrator of Willis Powell, deceased, and D. H. Durham vs. Bost Joyncr, et als, heirs at law of Willis Powell, de ceased, the undersigned commission er will, on the 30th day of June, 1917, in front of the postoffice in the town of Princeton, N. C., offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash, that certain tract of land lying and being in the town of Princeton, and de scribed and defined as follows: "Beginning at T. P. Farley's cor ner, then north 116% feet to Eugene Holt's corner; then west 116% feet to John Reed's corner; then south 116% feet to Georgianna Reed's cor ner; then east 116% feet to the be ginning, containing one-half acre, more or less." This 28th day of May, 1917. A. M. NOBLE, Commissioner. EI). A. HOLT Dealer in High (Jrade Coffins, Caskets and Burial Robes, Princeton, - North Carolina HA f?? RatssMi^fi For Sale by Creech Drug Co., Smithfield, N. C.f R. C. Lassiter & Co., Four Oaks, N. C., G. G. Edgerton & Son, Kenly, N. C., J. R. Ledbetter, Princeton, N. C., and all good Dealers. Magnolia Balm LIQUID FA CE PO WDER. The beauty secret of women who know how to take care of the com plexion. Cannot be detected. Heals Sun burn, stops Tan. Soothing, cooling, refreshing. Pink. W'A.fc. 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