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IE iiliphe i Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITER Sniithfield, N. C. Editors and Proprietors, Cash in Advance. BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: ? ' e Ye at * $1.50 ?:ht Months, 1.06 ;U Month*, .73 Three Months, .40 j Entered at the Tost Office at Smith ield, Jolinston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. I NITED STATES WAR-SAV-J ING STAMPS. The following full explanation of the "War-Savings Stamps" is taken from a bulletin sent out by the Treasury Department at ; Washington : In offering "War-Savings, Stamps" to the public the United i States Government has made im- j mediately available for every man, woman, and child in the Country a profitable, simple and secure investment. War-Savings St;' nips are the answer of a great democracy | to the demand for a democratic form of government security.' They are "little baby bonds." , Like Liberty bonds, they have b< hind them the entire resources of the Government and people of the United States. They have the additional advantage that they steadily increase in value from the date of purchase until ? the date of maturity, and this increase is guaranteed by the Government. These stamps are issued in two denominations, the 25-cent stamp and the $5 stamp. ( For the convenience of invest tors a "Thrift card" is furnished to all purchasers of 25-cent ; stamps. This card has spaces for 16 stamps. When all the spaces have boen filled the Thrift Card 1 may be exchanged for a $5 ^ stamp at post offices, banks or other authorized agencies by ad- , ding 12 cents in cash prior to ? February 1, 1918, and 1 cent ad-1 ditional each month thereafter. Whose who prefer may buy a $5 stamp outright. These will be on sale from December 3, ' 1917, until January 31, 1018, for !, .12. They automatically in crease in value a cent a month every month thereafter until January 1, 1923, when the United States will pay $5 at any p st office or at the Treasury in Washington for each stamp af fixed to a War-Savings Certifi cate. When you purchase a $5 ! stamp, you must attach it to an ? engraved folder known as a "War-Savings Certificate" which bears the name of the purchaser and can be cashed only by the person whose name appears upon the certificate, except in case of death or disability. This certificate contains 20 spaces. If these are all filled with War Savings Stamps between De cember 3, 1917, and January 31, 1918, the cost to the purchaser will be $82.40, and on January 1, 1923, the Government will pay the owner of the certificate $100 ? a net profit to the holder of $17.60. This is based on an 'in terest rate of 4 per cent com pounded quarterly from Jan uary 2, 1918. The amount of War-Savings Stamps sold to any one person at any one time shall not exceed $100 (maturity value), and no person may hold such stamps or War-Savings Certificates to an aggregate amount exceeding $1,000 (ma turity value). If the holder of a War-Sav ings Certificate finds it neces sary to realize cash on it before maturity, he may at any time after January 2, "1918, upon giv ing 10 days' written notice to any money-order post office, re ceive for each stamp affixed to his certificate the amount paid therefor plus 1 cent for each calendar month after the month of purchase of each stamp. A registered certificate may be re deemed, however, only at the jjost office where registered. In other words, the plan is simple, straightforward, and certain. The holder of the cer tificates can not lose and is cer tain to gain. He is buying the safest security in the world fti the most convenient form in which the security of a great Government has ever been offer - j ed to its people. Why You Should Buy Them. The main reason for the pur chase of War-Savings Stamps is because your country is at war. Your Country needs every pen- 1 ny which every man, woman, and child can save and lend, in order to feed, clothe, arm, and equip the soldiers and sailors of America and to win this right eous war in defense of American honor and the cause of democ racy tnroughout the world. If we are to win the war, we must win it as a united people. The savings of every man, wo man, and chili! are necessary if we are ty hasten the victorious ending of the war. War Savers are Life Savers. A single strand in the' cables | which uphold* the great Brook lyn Suspension Bridge is not j wry strong, but thousands of these strands bound togeth er uphold one of the great thoroughfares of the world. When our fathers and sons and brothers were called by ourj Co m t r \ to take up arms in her, dt I'ense, you did not hear an in- J dividual soldier refuse to serve because his service alone would not win the war. Each man was ready to do his part. The great army thus formed is going for ward to face the lire of battle .i d to risk everything for the . safety and security of ourj homes and our families, and for the very existence of our Coun try. Trese are the men for whom you are asked to save and lend ; your dollars. A Coi ntry worth fighting for is a Country worth saving for. To save money is to save life. Buy War-Savings Stamps at post offices, banks, trust eom: \ panics, or other authorized) agencies, and strike a blow for our Country. I \It,M KltS OF JOHNSTON COUNTY , ? r* . i Th< re is one weak point, or gap, in our agricultural interests which must ' he closed, or bridged. The County , Farm Demonstrator and the County Food Administrator can not adequate ly reach the farmers. They cannot render aid to the six thousand tillers of the soil by means of the few tele phones and the few good roads. They must have some medium through which to work. For their own good, and for the good of our nation, the Johnston Coun ty farmers must be in,closer touch with the Agricultural Department and the Food Administration at Washing ton. Our plan is to bridge the gap be tween the Johnston County farmer and the Federal Department of Agricul ture. You farmers who have an interest in your community, in your township, in your County and in your Nation, come to the Johnston Couty court house at Smithfield on December 22nd to form a Johnston County Board of Agriculture. You will elect a Town ship Board of Agriculture of three members; a president, vice-president and a secretary-treasurer. The seven teen township boards will, in turn elect a County Board of Advisors of ?hree similar officers to counsel a-vl advise with the County Farm Demon strator and County Food Administra tor. None of these men elected will re ceive a salary. Their service will be a patriotic duty. Come and bring the men whom you want elected to work with Uncle Sam and to further the agricultural inter ests of our County. A. M. JOHNSON, County Farm Demonstrator. F. H. BROOKS, County Food Administrator. P. S. The meeting called for Decem ber 8th, was postponed on account of the bad weather. A N S W E R QVESTION AIRES. They Must He Returned to the Local Exemption Hoards in Seven Days After They Are .Mailed. Must lie Filled Out With Help of Legal Advisory Hoard. The new regulations in regard j to the registrants are very strict and demand the most careful j consideration. The Local Boards will send out about December 15th the Questionaires, a leng- 1 thy document, which must be j filled out and returned to the Board in seven days from the date of mailing. This is of the greatest importance and the reg istrant who neglects to do this will lose his right of exemption and be placed in Class No. 1. The : Questionaires will be sent to the! last address of registrant and if he fails to get it, it is his look out. The Board is not respon sible. For this reason, it is very important that those who may know of the change of address of any of their friends and rela tives, should notify them of this matter. Should the Question aires be sent to a man who has changed his address without no tifying the Board in his district, and fails to get it and return it properly filled out to the Board within seven days, will be put in Class No. 1 , and denied the right of exemption. Every registrant is required to (ill out his Questionaires with the aid of the legal advisory board. The Advisory Board for Local Board No. 1, located at Smithfield, is James D. Parker, Ed. F. Ward and Albert M. Noble. They are selected with the sole purpose of helping the r< gistrant to fill out his Ques tionaires. The registrant may | be able to (ill out the Question aires all right, but he must get one of the legal advisers to help him. That is what the Govern ment has selected him for. He I gets no fees for this work. When the registrant has pro- i perly (ill<>cl out his Questionaires ! with the help of one of the legal j advisors, he has to swear to ? it. For this reason every man ! should be as careful as he can be not to make a mistake. The reg- 1 is t rant must not go to the Local Exemption Board for help. The Questionaires will b.> sent! to every man in registration listj who has not already been accept cd at camp, and the deserters. If ] a man failed to pass the Board when examined at some previous time, he is not excused. He will j get one of the Questionaires, and must fill it out and return to Ex emption Board in seven days. If every man will do his duty in looking after these "things care fully it will greatly facilitate the work o the boards and place him on his right footing in regard to] the army. Again we warn all registrants to look out for the Questionaires anfi be prepared to return them within the appointed time. Bl; 1<M Mi THE BOOKS." Acts 19: 19. Tho above caption is the subject of a sermon delivered by Rev. H. F. Brinson at the Smithfield Baptist church on Sunday morning, December 2nd. The following is a general out line of the sermon which was pro nounced by many who heard Mr. Brinson as one of the very best ser mons he has delivered here since he j asumed the pastorate of the Baptist i church. Next to man the most potent factor in the world is a book. No one knows the power that is wrapped up in that which we call a book. He who said . that a book has a soul, was very near j the truth. True it has no individual; soul as has man, but every real book contains a cluster of living thoughts which constitute its soul. The me chanical part may be very beautiful, but the words might l>e jumbled into an unintelligible mass, and it would ( be no book; but the thought these words and characters are arranged to express is the real book, ami can never die. It is this that God puts into His Word and makes it as eternal as Him self. It is into his book that a man puts himself, his very soul and it be ing part oi hin\ is living like Him. It is this iiving characteristic that en ters into the reader and changes him. No man can read a book and ever be the same again, either in time or eternity. Something from the book has become a part of him, and he is better or worse as the book is good or bud. Books are divided into two classes: The good which are constructive, and the bad which are destructive. There is no such thing as an indiffer ent book. The effect upon the reader is either good or evil. The- books and music of a home are an index to the life of those within. No bookless race or people has ever gone far in civili zation or contributed a constructive page to its history. The world has lost immeasurably by the destruction of books. Vandal ism has wrecked many rich treasures which can never be restored and has all but blotted out the story of the ancient past. Today we are digging from the ruing of Alexandria, Thebes ' and other ancient cities broken bits of writings which give fragments of a history which has lain buried and unknown for ages. Nor is this wanton destruction confined to the uncivilized past; for today the vandal hand that cares not for the riches of the past, or for the future that must rest upon it, but only the accomplishment of a diabolical purpose is burning treas ures that can never be replaced. But rome bocks will not burn. Re peated attempts have been made to destroy the Word of God, but every effort has resulted in its greatest dis semination. No power can destroy it, it is a living thine,, the very life giving breath of God Himself. fi s ? I h 5 s ? K VV hen I yndale introduced his trans- , ? lation of the New Testament into 5 England the Bishcp of London made I ? repeated efforts to destroy it. Final- fij ly in his desparation he ordered that ' every copy should be bought from Tyndale and burned. Scarcely were ( _ the embers cold before his monoy was i B used by Tyndale to issue a better edi- 1? tion, which was sent broad cast over i all England. There are various ways of burning books. Every book that is put out of or rendered useless in one's life to all practical purposes has been burned to this life. The dust on the unread ? volume is but the ashes of the burn ing. How often do we enter a home and find the Word cf God or other soul-lifting books covered with dust, ( while those which lead the reader ? farther from God and the life in Him | ^ are kept ever before the future men . ^ and women who are now the children | c in that home. How cfton do we burn b to our individual lives, by neglect, P those silent but soul-lifting messen- ? gers which make us more like the ^ Christ whom we would serve, while r we feed our minds on that which rcbs j? us of His image and likeness and f brings to us only irreparable loss both ; ^ in time and eternity. i jjjj The future of our lives, the lives of D our children, of our country and the kingdom of God, is going to be de termined largely by tho books we burn today. If we put out of our lives , the bad. and surround ourselves and j ^ our children with the good of the past and present, the gospel of Jesus Christ will soon peal forth with a new note of triumph and men from the uttermost parts of the earth will join the angel chorus in giving praise ; to Him who gave to us His Book. CALL AT THE HERALI) OFFICE and get your 1918 Turner's North Carolina Almanac. At 10 Cents each. By mail 12 Cents :: s Seasons come and go and, almost without warning years have gone by. The Christmas Holidays always call for more or less strenuous living. You cannot escape the social features of the season. It is equally true that you cannot enjoy the season if you are in a jaded, run-down condition. can furnish you iust the right tonic or corrective to put your system in mince-pie order. Don't wait till the Christmas sports and the Christmas feasts have gotten you "all wrong." Take it in time and fortify your health. You can't be perfectly happy during the holiday season unless you know you are SAFE ? First, safe from FIRE. It is as liable to come now as at any time ? possibly a little more so. Second, from sudden death. Of course an insurance policy will not protect YOU from death, but it WILL protect your family, your credi tors and your honor. We want to insure YOU now ? your life and your property. We offer you the most liberal policies written, in the safest and soundest companies in the world. * PRACTICE " SAFETY frlRST."
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