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4 THE DISPATCH, LKXHTT05, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JT5E 13, 117. BIG TASK FOR RET CROSS. The Wounds of Bleeding France Mast Be Bound and Healed by American Red Cross. (Remarks made by Herbert C. Hoo ver, to delegates from Red Cross Chapters, in Washington. D. C, May 25, 1917.) 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 intimate contact or even in any contact with that impris oned population. I think we are the only group who know of their suffer ing, of their misery, of their destruc tion, and who know of what confronts those people even after peace. We have always entertained the hope that possibly tlhat or some other agency, some other organization might hp found that could bind up their wounds and take in hand their difficulties, re habilitate them into a position again of self-support. GREATEST PROBLEM OF THE WAR There is probably the greatest prob lem of all the war. There is an un told destruction of property, a total displacement of population, an enor mous loss of human life, a loss of man power, a loss of animals, a loss of implements a population of prob ably three millions of people totally and absolutely unable to get back on their feet without help. About the end of March the reatreat of the German army over a small area opened up to the world a vision of what had really happened to the total of three millions. It was but a little parcel in France that was re covered with a population of only thirty thousand people. Rut there was displayed the problem which con fronts all of us partially today, but in a much greater measure at a later date. FRENCH VILLAGES I'TTERLY DESTROYED. I had visited that area from behind the lines, and again visited it from the allied side. I found that every village, with the (exception of two small areas, had been utterly destroy ed. The Germans had erected bat tering rams, had destroyed and burn ed villages, had leveled everything to the ground, had gathered up all the agriculture implements in open squares and burned them, had taken all the animals, and had removed all the male portion of the population between the ages of 18 and 65 years Even the fruit trees have been de stroyed, and that entire section of pro bably sixty miles in length and over twenty or twenty-five miles in depth, has been devastated to an extent that, without an entire replacement of all the engines by which production N carried on, those people cannot get back on their feet. That is only one of the problems of France. That is but a sample of what we have to expect from practi cally the entire area. The cost of re habilitation runs into figures which should startle all except Americans, "and perhaps Americans even in the large figures in which we have begun Jo think. FRANCE NEEDS OVER MILLION DOLLARS. I made a rough estimate of the im mediate amount of money renuired to rehabilitate that little panel of pop ulation. To .-upport them for one year, to provide fln-in with their im-l., plenients. to give them tlie roughest i kind of bousing, to get them hack to),,f the Hunt where they may get the land , into eiiltiva'ion and get into self-sup-1 , port, would run somewhere from se -i., er. tn ipn million of dollars. Alto-: gether the north ably faced wt'i . ftf rebate I :t:it ion hillinn ami n half if France is pro! toiiil .Hnditni winch run if dollars TI'KI'ItCl'I.OSIS MVS SI'KKWi i.MlllCI.S There .11'" other t'Vobl. ' C'a: ' ; also don'aml ii- ;ii'ti;ed,.'it. hi !;i Tu berciilosis fro ' evposi-ri n 'In trench,'-, from a ttoou!a!'"ti :n nurr. I sections partially undernourished. I spread to he nnwt a Li t mi , n l: device j Til1 French, busy and Miten; upon 'h- I war with limited resource- have per- haps neglected the problem, hut the I need help, 'hey tu-ed sanitary sup- ' nor, anil thev need care and direction. 1 hin informed that there has been j an increase atMive norma' in t rance, of men alone, of more than s; hun "lred thousand tubercular cases NEEDS OF TIIK CHILDREN There is Mil! a Ifnrther Held in France, and that the children. The rphans of France increa-e day by lav. Tha- nee s -ne which pr"t-1 whly touches more nearly to the heart I of every American than any other we can do On the (tnldren of I-ranee , rest absolutely the hope of France, because today France i sacrificing her manhood on a pyre devoted to liberty and a pyre devoted to our pro tect Ion. In these th-ee proMt c. 'he Amer ican people have got an outlet foi a'l f their generosity, for all their ca pacity of org iniatmn. nevrr tven tresented t The problem of Belgium Is a prohlem much the -ne si France, but a prob- i MOTHERHOOD mm JOY Suggestions to Childless Women, Among th virtu of Lydia E. Plnkharo'l Vegetable Compound la the ability to correct lenlitT tn the rai l of man women. Tnia fact at well etabitahed aa evidenced by the following letter and hundred of others mm have nublishad la these eoliima. fopler Blutl, mo. "1 want olne 10 Know woal b leasing I.yaia b, rinaoara e v t labia Compound hat been to me. We bad always wanted a baby la our borne bat I waa to poor health and not able todoaiy worfc. My mother and h s band bnthorrdm. totry l-ydiaCI'Ink-hsm's Vegetable Compound. 1 did SO. Wit fcllh Im proved and I am now the another of floe baby eHri and do all my own booee -work."-tlra. AlXU a Ti-oe, III .Almond RU, Poplar Ilmfl. Mo. la many other homea, once thIVneea, there are now eMItren beeeoee of the f art that lydia K. ilnkham'e Vegetable ItxvmanA makea Wtxaeej normal. h-' ' r end atrortg . r . U the rinVhart Wei. ' to., I vnn. eteae, f edvtce H , t ititUU and beifuL IjlllU''njii S ( f 1 lem of much uess dimensions so far' as we see it today. If the Red Cross could now consoli date the whole of effort directed to wards civilian charity to civilian sup port in France, it would hate laid the foundation for probably the greatest work which the American people must undertake as one of the aftermath results of the whole war. BETTER ORGANIZATION NEEDED IN CHARITY. I have long had the feeling that all civilian charities in Europe should be better organized and better consoli dated in the United States. We have had a multitude of bodies engaged in that effort, a multitude of overlapping effort, a multitude of overlapping col lection of support, and a multitude of overlapping in distribution on the other side. Furthermore, as tlie war goes on, as times become harder, we will re quire a greater ana a oeuer organizeu effort, in order to maintain that sup port. It requires an effort that not only covers the field of charity, but also covers the field of helpful fi nance. I do not think that any think ing person wishes to pauperize a pop ulation by pouring charity upon them. We ourselves had undertaken to do some rehabilitating and have made some study of that one which is only one of the three great problems. In that case we have developed a meth od by which we believe that these neonle may be nut back on their feet and made self-supporting again. If perhaps only ten or fifteen per cent of the total cost may be founded in charity, these people themselves will repay the entire cost of their recon struction. They must be given time. The eighty per cent may be accomp lished bv financial meaurcs. but some one has to provide the first ten or fif teen per cent to give the foundation for any adequate development of tha problem. Since coming to America I have had a number of discussions with your officials, and I have urged upon them and tiiey are only too glad to undertake it that problem as the problem of the Red Cross. GREATEST RED CROSS WORK. The Red Cross is perhaps founded fundamentally for the care and com fort of soldiers, hut we are not fight ing this war alone for the direct effi ciency of battle. We are fighting here for infinitely greater objectives, and there is no support that can be given to the American ideal, to the Ameri can objective of this war, better and greater than a proper organization of that side of our civilization which we believe is today imperiled. We are lighting against an enemy who had become dominated with a philosophy, with an ideal for which there is no room in this world with us. It is a nation obsessed with the single idea hat survival of the strong warrants any action, demands any submergence of the individual to the state, which justifies their mastery of the world. Our contention of civilization lies in the tempering of the struggle for existence by the care of the helpless. The survival of the strong, the de velopment of the individual, must be 'cntpered. or else we return two thou sand years in our civilization. While 'he Red Cross devotes itself to the streng'hening of the strong, to the suiinort of the soldier, it i a duty of :he Red i'ios- to illume that part of I mericau charactei and American ' ileal winch st.miL f: :!u care of r helpless. I had hoped, and I think that all your officials had hoped thai it ili be po. silde to now conirresate i- strength of the whole nation in'o he Red 1 111 i :.ik link w!: :iel !!. 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Dr. New l;n. having already telideted bis res ignation, will remain at his desk and lie the executive of the college during I the summer mouths and "until his . sni i-e.ssor is chosen by the hoard of nistees. the chairman of which is .1. ;wK)d Cox. of High Point. i. vwlm Mated Tuesday while , (jreenslmro that he had made no . ... ... fir(. nd that he bad resigned was bet tecaiis lie felt the action for himself and the institu- I ,Oll. The outgoing head of the college has bfen president of the institution for he p it ' two years, very successful trail.. He served as dean of Guilford for Ave vears and as away eight neb bns.wan, H.r,,. i, emu raled back as pres them before ,,i,,n, ie v tin nresiilent of Whlttlcrs' i ,.(1,., a Uuacker Institution In Whit at the time he was elected i president of the college in thin rmin- ') In New tin is a graduate or nav el ford colege and Chicago universMy and an educator of experience. lie .ti i ceded Di I. I. llohlvs as the head of Guilford. H..rl Genua Mr Itald. In a swift and deadly raid on the cim of I union Wednenday German airplane 'ok a heavy loll In killed and wounded. Other place were at tacked, but fsr a l known at prewn! by far ihe Iteavlest lowon oc curred In Ixmdon Itself. At a late hour the cajuialtieaa offi cially announced numbered 5JI In cluding ST killed and 43 wounded. Fifty-five men met death and S23 men were wounded. 81 teen wronen and : children were killed and 122 wo men and 4 rhlldren were wounded. The German squadron conalrted of alimif 15 txarhlne. and the downtown laertinn of lrmdnn waa their enter on- jeriite. aiany ranm leu in in ewev. where nulldlnie were deetroyea and ottiere badly damaged and aeoree of pemotia fell, victim to Ihe erploawma, In one Instance alone 10 children were killed In a school and 60 were Injured. tliitleh airplane aweended Immertl tly the elcnal waa given that hoettl nwrhlnea wer eomlag. but Ihe Gr- ! remained a a great beiirht and flew ewirUr. and evidently the Itrtt !h flfhler had difficulty In the pnr nHU foe the ka of only one German whine ha been recorded. Others re reported lo bare been brmixht own, but there la no official ennnrtn sllna of thla. The antl-atrerafl rim of Ism don eeemlnily were unable to reeeti the Germane. While a great many email buelneaa hmieee and the komee of tt poor in be crowded dlMrtrta Buffered great damawe. yield Mereha! Vlaroaat franco, eonwnaadee of the home 4e tytmmm. anaoaBoea ekat aWnage 4 a ennitary ar aarai sewn wme uamm. PRESIDENT WILSON TELLS AMERICA'S RIGHTEOUS CAUSE In Flag Day Address La& Thursday at Washington He Shows Menace to Our Freedom of German Mili tary Power They Have Begun Now Intrigue . for Peace Which is False and Musi: Fail. My Fellow Citizens: ' We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honour and under which wc- serve is the emblem of our unity, our povver. our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours, It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us speaks to us of the past, of the men and wo- men who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it. We cele- brate the day of its birth; and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people, We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are aliout to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be 'millions, of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away for w hat .' For some unaccustomed thing? For something for which it has never souglil the tire before?. American ar mies w ere nev er before sent across the seas. Why are they sent now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried he fore, or for some old. familiar, heroic purpose for which it has seen men. its own men. die on every battlefield upon which Americans have honu arms since the Revolution? These are iiiestions which must lie answered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her Hag as she has al ways used it. We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in niter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. PLAINLY FORCED INTO WAR. It is plain enough how we1 were forced into the war. The extraordi nary uiMllls and agressions of the Imperial Gerniun Government left us no elf 1 1 sm ( tini; choice but to take up at ii- in deft use of our i iKht.s as a fne people and of our honour as a sovereiKu novei nineiii. The military maslers of German) denied us the right lo lx- neutral. They hlled our unmis twctiiu communities with vicious spies and conspirators and wnilKht o corrupt the opinion of our people In their own betialf. When they found f tut 1 they could not do that, their HKeiits diligently spieuil sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own itiens from their allegiance -and some of thou agents were men connected with the official Embassy of the Cennan Government Itnelf here In our nan capital. They sought hy vio lence to destroy our Industrie and ar rest our commerce. They tried to In cite Mexico to take up arms against us and ' draw Japan Into a hostile al liance with her and that, not by In direction, but by direct mijCKcwtlon from the Foreign Office In Itcrlin They Impudently denied u the use of the high sea and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send tn their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of LuroM' And many of our own peo ple were corniced Men lieian to look iimn their on neighbor with suspicion and to nndcr in their hot resentment and surprise whether there wa any community In which bimtile Intrigue did not lurk. What treat nation In such rlrriimnlanre mould not have lakrn up arm? Mum a we had desired peace. H waa denied us. and mil of our own choice. This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored hsd we withheld our hand. Hut that I only part of the story. We know now at clearly as we knew before we were oursetve encaged thai we are not the enemies of the German people and that they are not our ene mies. Tbey did not originate or de sire thta hid eon war or wish that w should be drawn Into It: and we are vaguely conscious that we are flirhtlng their reuse, aa they will some day aee R. aa well aa our own. The are them selvea In the grip of Ihe earn sinister power that baa now at Ual stretched Us ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world hi at war because the whole world ta In lb crip of that power and I trying out the treat battle which ehall determine whether It la to be bmucht tinder Ha mastery or Srng Itself free. BRCTB FORCE RLLK8 GERMANY. The war waa be run hy tha military maatera of Germany, wbo proved to be also Ota rnastera of Aaatrla-Hua tary. These dm bsre never regard ed aatlnaa as people, men. wtsmea, aad ran of Baa blood aad frame X :' u k M. - ' JKt 0 themselves, for whom governments .existed and in whom governments had their life. They have regarded them merely as serviceable organiza- tions which they could by force or in- trigue bend or corrupt to their own purpose. They regarded the smaller states, in particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force, as their natural tools and instruments of domination. Their purpose has long been avowed. The statesmen of other nations, to whom that purpose was incredible, paid little attention: regarded what German professors ex- pounded in their classrooms and Ger- man writers set forth to the world as the goal of German policy as rather the dream of minds detached from practical affairs, as preposterous pri- vate conceptions of Germany's destiny, than as the actual plans of responsi- ble rulers: but the rulers of Germany themselves knew all the while what concrete plans, what well advanced intrigues lay hack of what the profes- sors and the writers were saying, and were glad to to forward unmolested, tilling the throne-- o' Balkan states with German princes. putting German officers at " the ser vice of Turkey to drill her armies and make interest with her govern ment, developing plans of sedition and rebellion In India and Egypt, setting their fires in Persia. The demands made by Austria upon Servia were a mere single step in a plan which com passed Europe and Asia, from Rerlin o liagdad. Tin v hoped those de mands might not arouse Europe, but they meant to press them whether they did or not. for they 'thought, themselves readv for the final issue of arms. CONTROL i KNTKAL El'IiOPE. Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very cen tre of Europe and beyond the Mediter ranean into the heart of Asia: and Austria-Hungary wan to lie as much then tool and pawn on Servia or Bul garia or Turkey or the ponderous states of the Et. Austria-Hungary. indeed, was to become part of the cen tral German Empire, absorbed and dominated hy the name forces and in fluences that had originally cemented the German states themselves. The dream had H heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart nowhere else! It I ejected the Idea of solidarity of race entirely. The choice of neon left played no part In It at all. It contem plated binding together racial and po litical units wnkcii could le kept to gether only by force-Czechs, Magy ars, i roats. Serbs, Roumanian. Turks, Armenians the proud states of Bohe mia and Hungary, the stout little com monwealths of the Balkans. Ihe in doniitable Turka. the subtile people or rne i.ast. These peoples did not wieh o be united They ardently de- urni to direct their own affairs, would be satisfied only by undisputed Inde pendenre Tbey could he kept quiet oniy ny the presence or the oorurtant threat of armed men. They would live inder a common power only by sheer compulsion and await the day of rev oiution Hut the German military statesmen had reckoned with all that and were ready to deal with it in their own wav And they have actually rarried the greater part of that amailng plan Into eiecuiKin: fjtok now ihincw stand Austria Is at Iheir mercy. It haa act ed. not upon It own Initiative or up on uie moire or Its own neonle hui at iierlin a dictation ever since the wr began. Its people now deal re prate, hut cannot have It until leave 1 granted from Her 1 1 a. The aAx-alled Central Pgwera are tn fact but a am- we l-ower, rVrna Is al lis merrv should Hs hands be but for a momeol freed. Itu I gar la haa consented to Its ill, and I Um mania Is overrun. The Turkish arm lee. which Germans train ed, are serving Germany, certalnlv not loemseives. and the runs of German wanmtpa lying In the harbor at Coa siarrtlnople remind Turkish atatewmen etery dav that they have no choice but to take Iheir orders from Merlin. From Hamburg to tbe Persian Gulf the net la spread. A.N INTRIOVR FOR PF.ATK. I R not easy to understand the ea cemeea for peace that haa been man Ifeeled from Berlin ever elnca the snare was pel and sprung? reare, naee. peace haa tot tbe talk of her Fnreiga Office for now a year and more; not peace npnn her own initia tive, but upon tbe initiative of the na tion over wtilcti aha now deems bee self to hold tha advantage. A IHtle of the talk haa been Vuhllc, hat trmat of II baa been private. Tb rough all sorts of rbennele M haa come ta ana. and In all aorta of guleea, put never wtu the terms disclosed which tbe German. Government would be willing to ac cept . That government haa other val uable pawns in Its ihands besides those I have mentioned, it still holds a val uable part of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole or Belgium. Its armies press close upon Russia and overrun Poland at their will. It cannot go further; it dare not go back. It wish es to close its bargain before it is -too late and it baa little left to offer for the pound of flesh it will demand. . The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. If they fall back or are forced 'back an inch, their power both abroad and at home will fall to pieecs like a house of cards. It is their tpower at home they are thinking about now more than their power abroad. It la that power which is trembling under their very feet: and deep fear has entered their hearts. They have but one Chance to perpetuate their mili tary power or even their controlling political influence. If they can se cure peace now with the imnnese ad vantages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified them selves before the German people: they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it: an immense expansion of German power, an im mense enlargement of German indus trial and commercial opportunities. Their prestige will be secure, and with their prestige their political power. If they fail, their people will thrust them aside; a government ac countable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as it has been in England, in the United States, in Prance, and in all the great coun tries of the modern time except Ger many. If they succeed they are safe and C.erma'ny and the world are un done: if they fail Germany Is saved and the world will be at peace. If thev succeed. America will fall witli- n the menace. We and all the rest f the world must remain armed, as thev will remain, and must make eady for the next step in their ag- gnssmn; ir they ran. the world may unite for peace and Germany may be of the union. o you not now understand the new intrigue, the intrigne for peace. and why the masters of Germany do no- hesitate to use any agency that pr. u ses to effect their purpose, the eceii of the nations? Their present particular aim is to deceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights of peoples and the self- government or nations: for they sec what Immense strength the forces of justice and of liberalism are gather ng out of this yar. They are employ ng lilierals in their enterprise. They re using men. in Germany and with out, as their spokesmen whom thev have hitherto despised and oppressed using them for their own destruction socialist-, the leaders of labor, the thinkers tbey have hitherto sought to silence, l-ct them once succeed and these men. now their tools, will be ground to powder beneath the weight of the great military empire they will have set up; the revolutionists In Russia will be cut off from all suc cour or cooperation in western Eu rope and a counter revolution foster ed and supported; Germany herself will lose her chance of freedom: and all Europe will arm for the next, the final struggle. i lie sinister intrigue is tieing no less actively conducted in this conn try than in Russia and In every coun try in EuroiH? to which the agents and dupes of ihe Imperial German Gov ern men t can get access. That gov ernment has manv spokesmen here. n places high and low. They have I learned discretion. Tbey keep within the law. It is opinion tbey utter now. not sedition. They proclaim the lib eral purjioses of their masters; de clare this n foreign war which can touch America with no danger to either' her lands or her institutions; set England at the centre of the stage and talk of her ambition to assert economic dominion throughout the world: appeal to our ancient tradition of isolation in the politics of the na tions; and seek to undermine the gov ernment with false professions of loy alty to Its principles. THE KAI.SE BETRAY THEMSELVES Hut they will make no headway. The false betray themselves always In every accent, it is only friends and partisans of the German Govern ment wtiom we have already identi fied who utter these thinly disguised disloyalties. The facta are patent to all the world, and nowhere are tbey more plainly seen than in the United States, wbese we are accustomed to deal with facta and not with sophis tries; and the great fact that elands out above all the rest Is that this Is a Peoples' War. a war for freedom and Justice and self-government amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make the world safe for the people who live upon ft and have made It Iheir own. the German people them selves Included; and that with us rest tbe choice to break through all these hyporrtelea and patent cheat and masks of brute force and help act the world free, or else stand aside and let It be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms and the arbitrary choices of self -const Itu ted masters, hy the nation which ran maintain the biggest armies and the t-ost Irreelatlble armaments -a pow er to which tbe world has afforded no parallel and In the face of whlrh 1 11 Ileal freedom gnuet wither and lrlsh. For us there Is but one choice. We have made R. Woe he to the man or rrmrp of men that seeks to stand In our way In this day of high resolu tion when every prlnclnle we bold dearest Is to he vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the ba llon. We are ready to pbad at the oar or hietory. and our nag shall a new hurt re. Once more we ehall make good with otir Uvea and fortunes the great faith to wtitrh wa were horn. and a new glory shall shine In the face of our people. British I'se ew Weapons, New weapons of formidable rhsr srter were brought Into trne by the IH-Hlsh Army tn the attack on Mee- stnee Rldr. Tbe correspondent of the miy News at headquarters tells or thvn. "We dldnl use gas In Ihe attack.' he save, "but every other known form of offensive weap)on I Ihlnfc wa did supply, including a new norror known in the army aa 'oil ran,' or Twilling nil.' It I not permissible to give description be rood saying that tbe weapon throw to a considerable dis tance project lies whVb are la fact containers of highly Inflsmmshle stuff Tbeae on conenselon barst and carter roe narration over wide area. We know from prisoners taken thai they caused terror and did aa tm mease amount of harm both In actoal ratnaMiea nd y starting tanumera- Me minor Bras." TEtxriiO n rem. Kt WOU on your tire is a guar antee that you have the greatest dollar-for-dollar value that it is possible to buy. When you pay more than Fisfy prices you pay for something that doesn't exist. eUV"a The Ilrighter Side. Everybody is talking and thinking about the war. It has brought a great sorrow to the hearts of the peo ple, but it has its compensation. There is a silver lining to the dark cloud. The war has halted us in our mad chase of the dollar, for one thing. We are coming to understand that there are thinss in this world that are dearer than money. The over whelming sorrow has sobered and subdued us. We were becoming too flionant and careless of the more se rious side of life. We had gone crazy on the matter of amusement. We are thoughtful now and are giving atten tion to things that are genuine. Sharp distinctions that were driving the classes apart have been obliterated. War is a great leveler. One touch of , sorrow makes the whole world kin. Democracy, for Which the mighty war fare is being waged, is re-em phaslzed and glorified. The nations of the earth are coming tn see that the prin ciples that underlie this government are the only just and righteous prin ciples upon which government should Ik established. The brotherhood of' man has loomed large upon the Inter- i national horizon, ad the great truth1 proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth that very man who Is in need Is our eighlMir is coming Into Its own! We ave discarded our foolish notions about human efficiency, and discover- ng that there are better things to which a reasonable human being hould aspire. Germany Is the most fTicient nation tbe world ever saw nd the most brutal and inhuman! Gross materialism is discredited. The skill to rake together the muck of the world has lost its charm. The shrewd and successful business man finds himself helpless in this Morm of suf fering and blood, and the man of faith ' alone is calm and serene and strong. I Who pay any attention to the doubt er and the skeptic now, with the world encircled with a ring of fire! The man of faith Is the man of the hour. The ultimate purpose of this war will be to bring the nations of the earth to understand that "Tbe lord 1 God alone. He ran create and he destroy." When this purpose Is accomplished the war will cease; and not until then Charity and Chil dren. Hymn Before Actloa. The earth is full of anger. Tbe aeas are dark with wrath. The Nations In their harness Go up against our path! Ere yet we loose the -legions Ere yet we draw tbe blade, Jehovah of the Thunders, l.ord God of Battles, aid! High last and forward hearing. Proud heart, rebellious brow Deaf ear and soul uncaring. we seek Thy mercy now. The sinner that foreswore Thee. The fool thst passed Thee by. Our time are known before Thee 1ord grant us strength to die! From panic, pride, and terror. Revenge thst knows no rein Light haste and lawless error.. Protect us yet again. Cloak Thou our undeserving, Make firm the shuddering breath. In silence and unswerving To taste Thy lesser death! R'ven now their vanguard gather, E'en now we face the fray A Thoti didst help our fathers. Help Thou our host today! Fulfilled of signs and wonders. In Ufa and death made clear. Jehovah of the Thunders, I4ird Ood of Baltleo. bear! Kudyard Kipling. DI. A. I. BtAIIOCI Trterlaarlas, TalM Answered Pay at light rheaa ft W. I. BreeeVi riaoa, Lailagiea, I. C. J. F. SPRUILL Attorney-tt'Ltw Lexington, N. C. Waie sL rsllltpe. Jeia C Be war PHILLIPS & BOWER itteraeys-at-Law, LKXLYGTOB, I . C rressH AtteaOea la AO Leewt ftast. niil Cenecttead petlalt. Fisk Tire For Sale Bu Foy & Shemwell Lexington, N. C. PHYSICAL TRAINING TEACHERS IN DEMAND Young Men and Women about to be graduated from High School should consider this healthful, useful, dig nified snd profitable profession. By recent UKlslatton Physical train ing Is made obllKRtory In every school In New York and New Jer sey. Penn., North and South Caro lina have bills pending. Send for Catalog of the only school of physical education chartered by the University of the State of New fork Wnitr Iht Hrgnm THE SAVAGE SCHOOL FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION 310 W;t .Tgf". Sir,,!, N.w Ymrh City ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF HOTEL CHELSEA, West Twenty-third St. at Sev enth Ave., New York, City. EUROPEAN PLA5 600 R00XS 400 BATHS Room, with adjoining bath, .1.00 and $1.50 Suites, parlor, bedroom aal bath, $3.00 and op ward. Club Breakfast, 25c up. Special Luncheon. 60c. up. Table d'Hote Dinner, 75c. up. Cafe attached. To Reach Hotel Chelsea, From Pennsylvania Station, 7th Avenue car south to 23rd 8t; Grand Central, 4th Avenue car south to 23rd Street; Lackawanna, Erie, Reading, Baltimore & Ohio, Jersey Cen tral and Lehigh Valley R, R. Stations, take 23rd Street crosstown car east to Hotel Chelsea. Principal Steamship Piers. Foot West 23rd Street, take 2lrd Street crosstown car. WRITE FOR COLORED MAP OF NEW YORK. Scaedale la Effect Bet. It, 111. Leave Wtiatton-Baleda. liM A. B. Dally tot Koes'il aad In termediate station. Connect wKh Mala Una train NorU Skat, aad Wist 1ta Pullman Sleeper, DtsJtvf Cars. lilt P. K. dally for Mart) nsrllla. Boa aoka, tha North and ttst Pullmaa steel electric lighted Sleeper. Whv toa-Calam to Harris ixg, PnlLndar pbla. New York. 4 tU P. M. dally for Martinsville. Roa noke and local statkos. Pullmaa Sleeper. Trains arlve Winston-Salem 11:10 a. tL, 1:10 P. H, t.ti P. M. C P. BAUS.RBAM. CHy Ticket Agt Wlastea Salem. B. U W. B. BKT1XL, W. C 8AUBDBBS, Pass, TesX VgT. Gea. Pass, igl aVeaaeka, Ta. WI.19T054ALEM 80CTHB0CH0 BAILWAT. SchediU EffertJra, Bar. tS, 1111. TRAINS LEAVE LEXUfOTON. Is, tl, li3 A. Kr Local for Wadea bora and Intermediate points, la. ta, tiOa P. ate-Tbroaga tnia from Roanoke. Yi ta Florence, ft. C. He. ttll P. -L Through ' traia from Florence, t. C to Roaaoka. Va. la, M, f I4t P. aU Local from Wades bora to Wlaatoa -Salem. Train ft carries throngh Pullmaa aleeplner car from New York to Jack eonville, Fla. Train II through Pull maa car from Jacksoo rills to Boeu oka. Va - S. P. COLLIER, ir, TraMe Manager, rTiasten-nalem, H. C L h, BIBBER, Ageat, l-etlaglee, H. C TlIWtE IS A JDOOD SHOW EVERT day at Tha Lyric, often 4 great stow. nuD-r.iY-Tisr.T Will ctirs lThctirrintUrri, Ntf' nU'n, Hcsdscbea. Crimp. Colkj Fprai at Iule Cuts. IWna, Old Eorta, Tatter. RinJ-Worga, E, Hint, ate Aatiaayti iaajyaa, 4 lamrtuily or txtarviUy, ,
The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.)
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