:ast selfish
"down
8AID PRESIDENT WILSON IN A
DARING ADDRESS BEFORE
BALTIMORE AUDIENCE.
The President spoke as follows:
"Fellow citizens: This Is the an
niversary of our acceptance of Ger
many's challenge to fight for our right
to lire and be free, and for the sacred
rights of free men everywhere. The
nation is awake. There is no need
to call to it. We know what the war
must cost, ourt utmost sacrifice, the
lives of our fittest men and, of need
"be, all that we possess. The loan wo
are met to discuss is one of the least
parts of what we are called upon to
give and to do, though in itself it is
imperative. The people of the whole
country are alive to the necessity of it
and are ready to lend to the utmost,,
even where it involves a sharp and
daily sacrifice to lend out of meager
earnings. They will look with repro-
oation and contempt upon those who
can and will not, upon those who de
mand a higher rate of interest, upon
those who think of it as a mere com
mercial transaction. I have not come,
therefore, to urge the loan. I have
- come only to give you. if I can, a more
vivid conception of what it is for.
"The reason for this great -war, the
reason why it had to come, the need
to fight it through, and the issues that
hang upon its outcome are more clear
ly disclosed now than ever before. It
is easy to see Just what this particular
loan means because the cause we
are fighting for stands more sharply
revealed than at any previous crisis
of the momentous struggle. The man
who knows least can now see plainly
how the cause of justice stands and
what the imperishable thing is he is
asked to invest in. Men in America
may be more sure than they ever
were before that the cause is their
own, and that, if it should be lost,
their own great nation's place and
mission in the world would be lost
with it.
"I call you to witness, my fellow
countrymen, that at no stage of this
terrible business have I judged the
purposes of Germany intemperately. I
should be ashamed in the presence
of affairs so grave, so fraught with
the destinies of mankind throughout
all the world, to speak, with trucu
lence, to use the weak languages of
hatred or vindictive purpose. . We
must Judge as we would be judged. I
have sought to learn the objects Ger
many has in this war from the mouths
of her own spokesmen and to deal as
frankly with them as I wished them
to deal with me. I have laid bare our
own ideals, our own purposes, without
reserve or doubtful phrase, and have
asked them to say as plainly what it
Is that they seek.
"We' have ourselves proposed no in
justice, no aggression. We are ready,
whenever the final reckoning is made
to be just to the German people, deal
fairly with the German power, as
with all others. There can be no dif
ference between peoples in the final
judgment, if it is indeed to be a right
eous judgment. To propose anything
but justice, even-handed and dispas
sionate justice to Germany at any
time, whatever the outcome of the
war, would be to renounce and dis
honor our own cause. For we ask
nothing that we are not willing to ac
cord. "It has been with this thought that
I have sought to learn from those who
epoke for Germany whether it was
justice or dominion and the execution
of their own will upon the other na
tions of the world, that the German
leaders were seeking. They have an
swered, answered in unmistakable
terms. They have avowed that it was
not justice but dominion and the un
hindered execution of their own will.
"The avowal has not come from
Germany's statesmen. It has come
from her military leaders, wnc are
her real rulers. Her statesmen have
said that they wished peace, and were
ready to discuss its terms whenever
their opponents were willing to sit
down at the conference table with
them. Her present chancellor has said,
in indefinite and uncertain terms, in
deed, and in phrases that often seem
to deny their own meaning, but with
as much plainness as he thought pru
dentthat he believed that peace
should be based upon the principles
which we had declared would be our
own in the final settlement.
"At Brest-Litovsk her civilian dele
gates spoke in similar terms; profess
A their desire to conclude a fair
peace and accord to the peoples with
whose fortunes they were dealing the
rlriit to choose their own allegiances
But action accompanied and followed
the nrofession. Their military masters
the men who act for Germany and
exhibit her purpose in execution,
T-MiaimA a verv different conclu-
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GROUND GLASS FOUND IN
NINE ARTICLES OF FOOD
Announced by Major Gaines Govern
ment Has Found But One Case. t
San Antonio. Texas Proof of the
presence of ground glass in nine dif
ferent articles of food shipped to the
)0th division commissary at Camp
Travis, was announced by Major .Noel
Gaines, in charge of the military po
lice of the 00th division. Fifty mem
bers of officers' families and enliste 1
men arn ill, he said
dominions
in the du
sr
slon. We can not mistake what tney
have done in Russia, in Finland, in
the Ukraine, in Rumania. The real
test of their justice and fair play has
come. From this we may Judge the
rest. They are enjoying in Russia a
cheap triumph in which no brave or
gallant nation can long take pride. A
great people, helpless by their own
act, lies for the time at their mercy.
Their fair professions are forgotten.
They nowhere set up Justice but ev
erywhere impose their power and ex
ploit everything for their own use and
aggrandizement; and the peoples of
conquered provinces are invited to
be free under their dominion.
"Are we not Justified in believing
that they woudl do the same things
at their western front if they were
not there face to face with armies
whom evwa their countless divisions
cannot overcome?
"If they have felt their check to be
final, they should propose favorable
and equitable terms with regard to
Belgium and France, and Italy, could
they blame us .if we concluded that
they did so only to assure themselves
of a free hand U Russia and the East?
"Their purpose is undoubtedly to
make all Slavic peoples, all the free
and ambitious nations of the Baltic pe
ninsula, all the lands that Turkey has
dominated and misruled, subject to
their will and ambition and build upon
that dominion an empire of force upon
which they fancy that they can erect
an empire of gain and commercial su
premacy an empire as hostile to the
Americas as to the Europe which it
will overawe an empire which will
ultimately master Persia, India and
the peoples of the Far East. In such
a program our ideals, the ideals of
justice and humanity and liberty, the
principle of the free self-determination
of nations upon which all the
modern world insists, can play no
part. They are rejected for the ideals
of power, for the principle that the
strong must rule the weak, that trade
must follow the flag, whether those to
whom it is taken welcome it or not.
that the peoples of the world are to
be made subject to the patronage and
overlordship of those who have the
power to enforce it.
"That program, once carried out,
America and all who care or dare to
stand with her must arm and prepare
themselves to contest the mastery of
the world, a mastery in which the
rights of common men, the rights of
women and of all who are weak, must
for the time being, be trod under
feet and be disregarded, the old age
long struggle for freedom and right
begin again at its beginning. Every
thing that America has lived fr-r and
loved and grown great to v iicate
and bring to a glorious realization will
have fallen in utter rnin and gates of
mercy once more pitilessly shut upon
man-kind.
"The thing is preposterous and im
possible, and yet, is not that what the
whole course and action of the Ger
man armies has meant wherever they
have moved? I do not wish, even in
this moment of utter disillusionment,
to judge harshly or unrighteously, I
judge only what the German arms
have accomplished with unpitying
thoroughness throughout every fair r e
gion they have touched.
""What then are we to do? For my
self, I am ready, ready still, ready
even now, to discuss a fair and just
and honest peace at any time that it
is sincerely purposed a peace in
which the strong and the weak shall
fare alike. But the answer, when I
proposed such a peace, came from the
German commanders in Russia, and I
can not Mistake the meaning of the
answer. ,
"I accept the challenge. I know that
you will accept it. All the world shall
know that you accept it. It shall ap
pear in the utter sacrifices and self
forgetfulness with which we shall
give all that we love and all that we
have to' redeem the world and make it
fit for free men like ourselves to live
in. This now is the meaning of all
that we do. Let everything that we
say, my fellow countrymen, everything
that we henceforth plan and accom
plish, ring true to this response till
the majesty and might of our concert
ed power shall fill the thought ana
utterly defeat the force of those who
flout and misprize what we honor and
hold dear. Germany has once mora
said that force, and force alone, shall
decide whether justice and peace shall
reign in the affairs of men, whether
right as America conceives it, or do
minion as she conceives It, shall de
termine the destinies of mankind.
There is, therefore, but one response
possible from us: force, force to the
utmost, force without stint or limit,
the righteous and triumphant force
which shall make right the law of the
world and cast every selfish dominion
i down in the dust."
WaRhtnirton. Investigation by the
government of thousands of stories ol
ground glass In food has disclosed but
one case in which glass actually wai
found, according to the committee on
public information. This instance wai
the work of a disgruntled employti oi
a Fort Smith, Ark., bakery who drove
his employer out of business by put
ting glass in a loaf of bread sent tc
an orphanage, riome of the orphan'
had their lips cut but no more seriou
injuries resulted. The baker, accuse
of being a German agent, kd to cloi
his shoo
STATE
ORGAN ZER
J.Z. GREEN RESIGNS
WOULD ASK NO MAN TO JOIN
UNION UNDER ALEXANDER'S
LEADERSHIP.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raleigh.
To the Executive Committee N. C.
Farmers Union:
At the last annual meeting of the
State Union at Winston-Salem I ac
cepted a unanimous re-election as organizer-lecturer
for the ninth time
with misgivings, and only under the
hope that the universal condemna
tion by the press of North Caro
lina of the State president's disloyal
attitude, in the greatest of all world
struggles for human freedom, would at
least make it undesirable on his part
to receive further odious publicity and
I that a sufficient amount of official si
lence would prevail to make it possi
ble to proceed with the legitimate con
structive work of the organization
without a further humiliation nf ita
I loyal members who are keeping their
I local unions alive nad active in com
j munity co-operation under their own
; initiative and independent of the po
litical activities of individual State
officials, who have built for themselves
j a political program over which they
I became exceedingly enthusiastic and
over which the rank and file of a re
maining membership are profoundly
and admirably indifferent.
When I entered into the F'armers
Union work in 1908 my greatest fear
was that activities of those who were
by nature more interested in political
qtstions than in constructive co-operative
efforts might ultimately have the
effect of hastening a premature disin
tegration of the organization. My ef
forts from the beginning have been
concentrated along constructive lines
under the predominating idea of per
petuating the organization, making the
local unions vital and active agencies,
under strong and efficient community
leadership, such as would make them
strong and potent factors for the pro
motion of better farming, better busi
ness and better living in the country.
There are a few local unions of this
kind existing now in this State, but
they exist only under efficient commu
nity leadership, which, in most in
stances, is active only under its own
initiave and independent of any
counsel, political or otherwise, from
State officials. This evolution in
which the principle of self-government
has become a strong element exempli
fies the need of organizing the suc
cessor of the Farmers Union stronger
at the bottom with less counsel from
the top. The most expensive mis
takes have been those that came
through efforts to build structures
from the top downward, efforts that
were too often very much mixed and
muddled with presentations of politi
cal "problems" of a general nature.
In view of the recent renewed re
pugnant activities of the State Presi
dent and his part of. the "advisory
council," in which a hostile attiude
is maintained against the Govern
ment's plans of financing the war by
the sale of bonds, having usurped to
themselves the privilege of repudiat
ing the action of the State Union in
its substantial endorsement of the
Government's plan by instructing that
ten thousand dollars of the State
Union's-funds be invested in Liberty
Bonds, thus inviting more odious pub
licity through the press, I would not
be frank with you or true to my own
conscience if I should not declare to
you that it is not humanly possible for
me to conscientiously ask any man to
become a member of the Farmers
Union under its present treasonably
active State leadership. i
At the recent State meeting of the
Farmers Union, I recall a dramatic
performance when a member read '
some socialistic literature then refer
red with approval to that very parti !
san organization known as the "non- j
partisan league- which has been elect-!
ing men to political office in the Mid
dle West, and was suggesting that the
time had arrived for us to throw our
hats into the political ring, when he i
was called down by a gray-haired vet-;
eran delegate from one of the eastern
counties and was finally ruled "out of
order" by the presiding officer. It Is
a rather natural coincident that the
gentleman who wanted to "throw M
hat into the ring" is now nominally j
managing editor of that defensive per- ;
sonal organ of the president, known j
as the "Farmers Union Bulletin,"
Take Care of Indians
Representative Weaver and Senator
Overman have put the Cherokee In
dians of North Carolina in good shape
for another year. The senate has
passed the Indian appropriation bill.
This bill, for North Carolina, includes
an appropriation of about 47.600 for
the maintenance of the Indian school
at Cherokee, in Swain county, and for
improvements to the school building
and grounds. The former appropria
tions provided for taking care of 190
Indian pupils. This one provides suf
Icient fundi for 250 pupils.
which seems to be more or less under
the eyes of the secret service men as
possibly an undesirable publication to
be transmitted through the mails.
But by far the saddest tragedy that
resulted from the political caucusing
at the Winston-Salem meeting was
the sacrificing of Dr. Clarence Poe, of
the Progressive Farmer, by prevent
ing his re-election as a member of the
executive committee, by a margin of
a few votes a place which Dr. Poe had
never sought, but a position in which
he had rendered more valuable serv
ices to the Farmers Union than all
other officials in it. That such a thing
could have happened In a Farmers
Union convention in North Carolina
seems strange and almost unthinkable
to the membership, but it was no sur
prise to those who were acquainted
with the political methods that were
at work.
In tendering this my resignation as
State organizer-lecturer may I venture
the suggestion that as a temporary ex
pediency in a convention attempts to
make a martyr of an official who seeks
re-election by holding out the idea
that an attack upon him is equivalent
to an attack upon the Farmers Union,
may serve an immedidate purpose, as
it has done, but in this age of the dis
semination of intelligence by rural
mail delivery, the effects of that sort
of campaigning cannot be very far
reaching. This severing of my official connec
tion does not imply that I have any
personal grievances whatever, or that
I have in any way lost faith in the
ultimate possibilities cf rural organ
ization directed along practical lines,
or that my services, as far as practi
cal, will not be available to commu
nities interested in rural organization.
There has probably never been a more
opportune time to begin to organize a
successor to the Farmers Union,
which should retain most of its
finances in the local organization and
under a plan that will make the struc
ture stronger at its foundation, as it
should be. J. Z. GREEN.
Administrator Jumps Violators.
Dealers in foodstuffs in North Caro
lina are beginning to find that tho
food control law and the orders and
regulations of the Fbod Administra
tion have teeth. One reputable whole
sale house in North Carolina was
guilty recently of violating a rule of
the Food Administration which pro
hibits resale within a trade. Food Ad
ministrator Page gave the firm a hear
ing to show cause why its license
should not be revoked. The dealers
were apparently honest in their be
lief that they had done no wrong. Mr.
Page did not see it that way but upon
a tender of $200 to the Red Cross he
let the firm off with anadmonition in
stead of the revocation of its license.
J. Habit, a Syrian grocer at Eden
ton, was not just clear as to what
control the Food Administration had
over his business and he sold some
sugar for more than 10 cents a pound
and some flour without the accompa
nying cereal substitutes. Mr. Habit
was given a hearing and a "black
list" order was issued against him.
Facing the gradual disintegratiou of
his business as his present stock was
exhausted, Habit woke up to the fact
that every individual in this country
has some responsibility to the country
and to humanity in the present emer
gency. Becoming deeply penitent and
making promises of earnest and ef
fective co-operation with the Food
Administration, Mr. Habit has been
allowed to contribute $100 to his local
chapter of the Red Cross and the
"black-list" order has been withdrawn.
Devotes Time to Hog Raising.
Mr. Herbert Woodard. of Wilson,
has severed his connection with a
leading wholesale grocery concern,
and will, in the future, devote his
whole time to raising hogs from the
purest strains of Durocs and Poland
Chinas. A few miles out from Wilson
he has stocked his pens with 21 brood
sow 13 Durocs and eight Poland
Chinas. Two of the sows cost nearly
$1,100. daughters from the famous
"Old Defender." $10,000 boar.
On a 100-acre farm he has construct
ed modern barns and feed rooms with
cement floors and properly construct
ed pens for the care of brood sows,
sanitary drinking trougs, self-oiling
medicated "rubbing posts," shelters
for protection against storms, isolat
ed pens for sick stock and everything
conducive to the health of swine.
Portrait of Bahnson.
An oil portrait of the late Dr. Hen
ry T. Bahnson, of Winston-Salem, w.as
presented to the North Carolina Hall
of History by the North Carolina Med
ical Society and now hangs with the
group of illustrious medical men In
the State's Valhalla. The presenta
tion of the portrait was by Dr. George
H. Thomas, of Wilmington, and its
acceptance was by Col. J. Bryan
Grimes, secretary of state.
Plants 2,800 War Gardens.
As a result of its combination "War
Gardens and Clean-Up" campaign, the
city of Wilmington has increased the
number of its war gardens to 2.800.
London Called Into Service.
Lieutenant Commandedr John J.
London. U. S. N., left Raleigh for sea
duty. He has been ordered to the bat
tleship New Jersey as navigator.
For the past 21 months he has been
i stationed at Raleigh performing the
I combined duties of naval inspector
of ordance. southeastern district, and
navy recruiting officer for North Car
olina. He has been relieved by Er
ngn L. II. Webber of his ordnance du
ties and by Ensign W. J. Shelton of
his recruiting dut'p. The former offic6
rl be moved to Birmingham. Ala.
WILMINGTON IS
U. S. SHIPYARD
SELECTION FOR SITE OF NEW
YARD FORMALLY ANNOUNCED
BY CHAIRMAN HURLEY.
WILL MEAN n TO STATE
Government's Decision to Build Con
crete Vessels There May Mark
Great Development.
Special from Washington. Selec
tion of Wilmington, N. C, as the site
of one of the shipping board's new
concrete shipyards was definitely an
nounced by Chairman Hurley.
Growing need of oil carriers caus
ed the shipping board to decide to be
gin as Boon as possible the construc
tion of a fleet of steel barges, ocean
going tugs and concrete tank steamers
to replace the large number of tank
ers taken from the Mexican and coast
wise service for trans-Atlantic trade.
It is estimated that 75 additional
steamers are required.
Seven of the concrete ships will be
built at Wilmington, Chairman Hur
ley announced the board having
selected Wilmington as the site of
a new yard in the south. Three of
these ships will be of 3,500 tons and
four of 7,500 tons.
The shipping board announcement
that the 'government will build con
cretee ships at Wilmington is most
significant and may mean a great real
not only to that community but the
entire eastern portion of the state.
The real test of the concrete ship
proposition will be made by the Unit
ed States at the North Carolina port.
If the scheme works out well, as It is
expected to do, then the center of a
great new industry will be at Wil
mington. This will mean a great deal more
than a few contracts to one or more
contractors for fabricated ships. Uncle
Sam is going to build his own yards,
and operate a government plant.
The advantages of labor and cli
mate are favorable to the government
plans. Wilmington has been definite
ly agreed upon. Officials of the ship
ping board have warned that if land
sharks try to gouge the government,
when it comes to selecting sites, the
program may fall through. Wilming
ton business men have assured the
federal authorities that nothing like
that will be permitted or even at
tempted. A number of other southern
cities are hot after this enterprise
and Wilmington has been honored.
Senator Simmons was told that Wil
mington would be selected, but asked
not to announce it until Chairman
Hurley made a statement.
Representatives Godwin held a con
ference this morning with the ship
ping board and immediately gave out
the following statement:
"The government will build a ship
yard at Wilmington. Plans are now
being prepared for that purpose, and
as soon as completed the construction
of ihe shipyard will begin. This con
struction work will cost about $1,000,
000. The shipping board expressed
the hope that Wilmington would be
reasonable in the purchase of sites,
and they were assured that no exorbi
tant prices would be charged.
The government will construct six
concrete ehips, the first three of 3,500
tons each and the other three of 7.500
tons. each. The cost to construct all
these will be $6,000,000. There will
be a payroll during the construction
of these six ships of something like
$ ,000,000. The shipyards will be per
manent and owned by the govern
ment. Winston Motorman Held.
Winston-Salem. Motorman John
Shackleford, charged with being Te-
snonsible for the death of Conducter
Roy Petree, when the. car operated by
the first named crashed into another
on the south side while Conductor Pe
tree was standing in the middle of the
track adjusting his trolley, was given
a nreliminary hearing before a mag
istrate. Shackleford was held in $300
bond for the grand jury. He gave
bail.
Hamlet to Have Another Weekly.
Hamlet. Hamlet is to have another
weekly newspaper, The Hamlet
Times, edited and published by Ralph
W. Smith, formerly of Rockingham.
The new paper will be issued shortly,
occupying offices in the Boykin build
ing on Main street. This makes the
second paper for Hamlet. The Mes
senger having been edited for the past
nine years by W. H. Lindsey.
Hamlet is still building. Among
the new buildings to be eercted at
once are five bungalows.
German Sympathizer Freed.
Charlotte. Tried on a charge of
threatening the President, Frank
Spear, an admitted native of Saxony.
Germany, and for 33 years a resident
of America was declared guilty and
conditionally allowed his freedom by
Judge James E. Boyd, presiding over
federal court, that he might provide
his crippled wife and infant chill
with the necessities of life. He was
ordered to report to teh judge at the
October session of the court, when
sentence may he Imposed.
CORNS LIFT OUT!
COSTS FEW CENTS
Drops of magic! Doesn't
hurt one bit! Drop a little
Freezone on a touchy corn,
instantly that corn stops hurt
ing, then you lift it off with
the fingers. No pain! Try it!
Why wait? Your druggist sells
a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few
cents, sufficient to rid your feet of
every hard corn, soft corn, or corn
between the toes, and calluses,
without soreness or irritation.
Freezone is the much talked of
discovery of the Cincinnati genius.
One Great Truth.
"I suppose you claim that you will
loave office poorer than you entered
It?"
"I'm not making any statement about
that. But I can truthfully say that
the campaign depleted my bank roll
considerably." Kansas City Journal.
A sin el e dose of Dr. Peery's "Dead Shot"
will expel "Worms or Tapeworm. No second
dole or after purgative necessary. Tones
up the stomach and Bowels. Adv.
The child who cries for cake may
live to cry for bread.
Building-up for the Spring Attack at
the Front Is a good deal like putting
the body In condition for an Invasion
of the germs of grip, pneumonia or
"Spring fever" here at home.
At this time of the year most people
snffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "pimply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wintertime, shut up with
in doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps
fuel into the system which is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system a clogging up of the circu
lation with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
For an invigorating tonic which will
clarify the blood, put new life In the
body, sparkle to the eyes, and a
wholesome skin, nothing does so well
as a glyceric herb extract made from
Golden Seal root. Blood and Stone
root, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry bark. This oan be had in con
venient, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for the past fifty years as Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. By
reason of the nerves feeding on the
blood, when the blood is pure the
nerves feel the effect, and neuralgia or
other nerve pains disappear because
such pain is the cry of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine,
rheumatic pains here or there, or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these disorders is merely
to obtain Dr. Pierce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets, sixty cents.
ii nM?ffiirti'i ( ii , am in
Bof h Quality:
And Quantify
Try Yager's Liniment,
the greatexternal remedy
for rheumatism, neuralgia,
sciatica, sprains, chest pains,
backache, cuts and bruises.
This liniment has wonder
ful curative powers, pene
trates instantly, and gives
prompt relief from pain.
It is the most economical
liniment to buy, for the large
35 cent bottle contains more
than the usual 50 cent bottle
of liniment.
3Sc PCT Bottle au-
mii.iisia
GILBERT BROr
BALTIMORf
hr