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A SLOXOS FOB THE WEEK At th request of The Dis patch the sermot below ku, furnished ffte pispatclf by Bev. . I T. Wilds, Jr, pastor of First Presbyterian church. From time to Ume we expect to secure sermon from the various min isters of the tow for publica . CHRIST ON. FORGIVLNG ONE ANOTHER. Thta is a very Important matter, as fif shown by the large place that Christ gv to it In His teachings. It- is a vary practical matter, for so often do KA all need to forgive or to be for given, u is a very difficult matter, as all who have had experience in it Know. When Jesus was talking to His disciples about forgiving one an other, they said, "Lord, increase our faith," Indicating that it takes a great Utsai ui luim to enaioie one to lorgive. Our lord gives some general rules fir the direction of Christians who Cave offended one another and have become estranged. For a Christian - these rules are final; they determine Vhat he must do, for unless he obeys tlem, he has added to the difficulty With his brother and with his Lord disobedience, which disowns His . lordship, which is to deny Christ, which is to be denied by Him. ' Jesus teaches us t HOW AVE SHOULD FEEL TO WARD AN OFFENDING BROTHER. "Ye have heard that it hath been ajild. Thou Shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy." The world says, "Hate him"! "But I say unto you, Love your en emies, bless them that curse you, do ood to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you: that ye may be children of your Father which Is in fieavea: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and Jendeth rain on the just and the un ust For if ye love them which love jou, what Toward have ye? do not firen the publicans the same?" (Matt. Jesus expects more of Christians, who have been born again, who have Had a change of heart, who have the promised "new heart," and who know the love of Jesus Himself. He expects Wore of them than He does of others. It would be folly to tell an unconvert ed man to love his enemy, even not to tinte him, for it is of the nature of an unchanged tieart to hate its enemies. Moreover, He says in this passage Giat to love one's enemy is a mark of yie child of God, for God loves and is Kind to His enemies, causing His sun to shine on the evil as well as the rood and sending His rain on the un just as well as on the Just. In His great love for His enemies God even gave His Son to die for them: "God CDmmendeth His love toward us, in tlai while we were yet sinners, Christ filed for us." (Rom. 5:8). , Had God hidden Hie love for the nTnner or had He hated the sinner, even though He had given His Son to file for bim, the sinner would never hive been moved to repentance. It is the love of God for the sinner that melts and breaks his cold, hard heart and brings him to penitence and con fession. "The goodness of God lead eth thee to repentance." And unless we deal with an offend tng brother in the spirit of love, we ! hall never win him to repent of his j w.rojog and effect a reconciliation with bun. If iwe can express our love for turn by kindness to him, even as God haii done, it will move him in tears to canfeaa his wrong unless his, heart tie. hardened by sin and unchanged by grace. In other words, the, following direc tions of our Lord must be followed In the spirit of love: otherwise, it will be in Tarn. T. WHAT THE OFFENDED BRO 'THFJR MUST DO. This as found in Matt. 18:15-17 (1) ' Moreover if thy brother, shall trespass against thee, go and tell him 41 fault between thee and him alone: T he shall bear thee, ithou hast gained tlfy brother." The world says. "He will have to comtj to mg." .jCVut says, "Go to him." And there Is great wisdom In this, far so often we unintentionally and unknowingly offend someone, and we wonder wtiy he refuse to speak to us. I have known a number of Instances ctha. very thing. I have in mind tiwp.Chrutian men. One of them sud denly wive the other "the cold shoul der." The other man was amazed, for lie count not think or any way in vlUoh, hi bad offended. And rhe er ref ued even to say what it was. attempt to pay. have stolen somebody Hflanng that the offender ought toIKood name, maligned somebody's know what his offense was. ThiH may friend be parted for years through ' an offence of which the offender Is ut terly unaware. Christ says go to him "alone." The Implication seems to be. "Keep your brother's offnse to yourself." Most people do Just the opposite they go nut and apread it all over town, there by itlmm up the anger and pride of t!: offender and rendering a reconcll-j ration a hundred times more difficult. If one had any love for that brother, j fewder. Here He commands th of be would not do thia. No loving wife fnder to go to the one be has offend tnlla the community of her husband's 1 "I. Thus by commanding both to go sit.m. I He makes it doubly certain that the "TeH him his fault." We are not to Tw M come together, which Is nec bera't him. bless him out, give him I ery to a reconciliation. But which pier of our minds, but quietly and In 1rtX you may be. you are not to rae.auirrt of love tell him wherein he 1 as wronged us. la u-ike 17:3 Christ says. "And If :n to do wita his doing bis duty he mint. forgive hi:n." The only ' Tt re ' yours you are to go, cotytitKii upon which God Himself ' -he'ber you be the offender or the of forxtve Is repentance; and we are''oded. ruriruanded ti forgive an offenoJug1 .Ptter raised the question. ; .brother only on condition of bis r- HOW OFTEN SHALL WE FOR pentlng of the offense ecknowlediog QIVEf impressing sorrow for It. and do-j Ink iit In his power lo tight Mu ' wron "If be email hear thee," (I Judge He men. he repent). Thou hast gained th? brother." How much better to gam a orp-nrr loan to lose one: I Mead Stepped Up? Try thz Vid: Vcp MppU4 la Salvo Fens Over Tewaaw 4 CU USts iy l..k.l.tU mi AjUarpUs. Tapif ltrnnU r beat f. InfWfnmft f r J 'I h vjtn . n. .i to t . h '.fi r . !.. . .. h. v - ... TAKE "CiSCARETS" IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS . AND CONSTIPATED Best for Liver and Bowels, Breath, Bad Colds, Sour .Stomach. Bad Get a 10-cent box. ' Sick headache, biliousness, coated tongue, head and nose clogged up with a cold always trace this , to torpid liver; delayed, fermenting food in the ooweis, or sour, gassy siomacu. Poisonous matter clogged in the in testines, instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate 'brain tissue it causes' conges tion and that dull, .throbbing, sicken ing headache. Cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poi sons In the bowels. A Cascaret' tonight will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-cent box from your druggist means your head clear, stomach sweet and your liver and bowels regular for months. know two blood sisters living across the street from one another who are as really lost to one another as if they were dead. Why not gnin a lost broth er or friend before it is too late? "Somewhere in the future my lone grave Will lie where flowers bloom tnd mosses wave- And friends will stand beside it, speak ing low Of things I said and did so long ago. My faults and follies all forgotten dead And buried with me in my lowly bed. Oh, loved ones! Why notjjuiy them today, And let me feel forgiven hile I may." Now if you have gone to that broth' er and he does not repent, you may say, "Well, I have done my part." But not yet, dear friend your Lord has further directions. (2) "But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three wit nesses every word may be establish ed." A Mediator, the Lord Jesus Christ, was needed to come between God and the sinner in order to bring them to gether. And sometimes a wise, tactful, mu tual friend can restore the broken friendship between two "who could never have done it themselves alone. And then our Lord says that if the offender still refuse to repent, you have a witness to the faet that you have done your part to end the quar rel. If this second attempt fails, there is still one step more according to your Lord's directions. (3) "And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heathen man and i publican." I take It, He means bring the mat ter before your church court your church officers supposedly fairmind ed, wise and good men. They may help the offender to see and to do what is right. Paul sharply rebukes Christians for fighting one another in the state courts, making themselves a laughing stock for- the world and bringing reproach upon the church. (1 Cor. 6) Where one party Is not a Christian, it may be necessary to go to court to get Justice; but where both parties are Christians, they ought with the help of the church court, to be able to see and to do what is right without being forced to it by civil law. But Then suppose be refuse to bear the church?" Let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a publican.:' For that is what he Is. He certainly fs not a Christian when he refuses to re pent after all you have done to win him if you have done it In the spirit of love. 3. WHAT THE OFFENDER MUST DO. . "Therefore It thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother bath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift." ((Matt. 6.23, 24). To translate it Into present day language: if you come to the house of God to worship let us say, to Com munion, the Lord's Supper and there your conscience reminds you that you have done someone a wrong, owe o:h-ll"bt which you have made no honest cnaracier, una worsnip is powerrut ' confront a man with his ains). you need not ervect God to accept your worship or to hear your prayers un 1 1 you have gone to the one you have wronged and have repented of your sin and have become reconciled to your brother. 'To refuse to do this and yo: pretend to worship God Is to he an old Pharisaical hypocrite. e have seen that Christ commands the offended brother to go 4o the of- w" ,or otner man to ao ni rhrlt-tnposed duty you have notb- f. ls:JI. XI) Then came Peter o Him and said. Lord, how oft shall , f,ro her sin again me. and I for ;'vr him? till Seven times"? , Pt'rr thought that to for rive a bro revrn offense waa certalnlyth limit ' T Cca't Breaths? - O - Rzb Treatment Tenlent ni treatment is a enad ipi'lica. tic of V k'i " V(M-Knb" Blre over tbe- uinw and cheat, curomd with a Warm tUnnal rMh. The txxly baa rvVaans nprtn Ut are luhaUx) with rrery braath, rrpaninij V air Jkiaaaea, InoeunHa; L'ia iilrui, an1 healing tba raw aurl . , 'lp cheat e.ii.ta, ft tp!y lvl .nl (iwl to fTo tl pun. V ! li s i I'.u r..,ftK thrnjt-h lit Skin, tftklli( out U. .t , Mnva anl V ,a. f.t.- . : li-l. - o - "Jesus saith unto hkn, I say not un o thee. Until seven times: but. Until seventy times seven." oFur hundred and ninety times. In other words, 'here Je to be no ltmlt to our forgiveness.- ' i, .. . ... . Do not we pray God three hundred and sixty-five times a year to forgive our many dally sins against Him? ' The final matter for consideration is. J - 5. WHY MUST WE FORGIVET (1) It is our Lord's command. . Christ, your Lord, is the one to whom you say, "No," If yo refuse to forgive. If you choose to disown His lordship, the responsibility is upon you. . -,. (2) To forgive- Is Godlike. "If we confess our sins. He is faith ful and Just to forgive us our sins.: ( Uohn 1:9.) - -,"Goi for Christ's sake hath forgir en you." (Eph. 4:30.) Then for you to forgive is to be like God, your Father. Once a friend came to Sir Eardley Wilmot, a noted Christian' statesman, and declared that he had been griev ously wronged, and asked, "Is not my indignation righteous? Will It not be manly to resent such an injury?" "Yes," was the calm reply, "It will be manly to resent It, tout it will be God like to forgive it." The offended man afterwards confessed to a friend that these words caused his anger sudden ly to- depart, and left him a different and a better man. (3) God will not forgive the unfor giving. "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, nei ther will your Fathor forgive your trespasses." (Matt. 6:12, 14, 15.) (4) The unforgiving will be severely dealth with. In the eighteenth chapter of Mat thew Jesus likens the kindgdom of heaven to a king who called his ser vants to account and found one of them who owed him ten thousand tal ents, about $21,000,000. The servant could not pay it, and the king com-' manded that he and his wife and his children should all be sold and pay ment made. But the servant pled for mercy, "and the, lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loos ed him, and forgave him the debt." Now that very same servant had a fel lowservant, who owed him a hundred pence, about $17; and he went to him, laid his hand upon him, took him by the throat, and demanded full pay ment. His fellow-servant fell down at his feet and begged for mercy; but he would not have mercy and cast him into prison. When the king heard how inifni-ivlnj; was the servant who :i he hail forgiven the large debt, he 'iinniomd him, and said, "O thou wickrd servant. I forgave thee all that deln. because thou desiredst me: shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormenters, till he should pay all that was due unto him." And you and I agree that it served him right he got just what he deserved. Now read the solemn words with which our lxrd ends that story: "So likewise shall My heavenly Father do also untn you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." Does not one reserve to be severely punished who thinks to receive God's forgiveness of his thousands of griev ous sins and yet who refuses to for give his brother one or two or a dozen offenses? Despite all his professions to Christianity, he Is a heathen and a publican. We conclude with a question of our (word's which is applicable to all of His teachings and commands: "Why call ye me. Lord. Lord, and do 'not the things vhlch I say"? (Luke :46) , And that servant which knew his lord's win, and prepared not himself, neither did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes." (Luke 12:7.) Iexfngton, N. C. L T. WHJW, JR. i i Finest Gna ! (lie World. The latest American contribution to warfare, tbe Browning automatic ri fle, waa officially introduced to Con-! gresa Wednesday at a demonstration staged in a remote valley in the hills that surround that city. For more than two hours the air was filled with the snarl and crash of the firing, sen ators and representative operating the new weapons for themselves un der the direction of a sqnad of sol diers from the machine gun school at Springfield, 'Mass. High army officials. Including Assis tant Secretary Crowe II, "Major Gener al Prlddle, acting chief of staff, and a score of officers from the British, French. Italian and Belgian missions. watched the demonstration with keen Interest. . There was no target practice, al though a line of figure shaped like men was battered to pieces by the squad of 10 gunners. (Membera of Congress also scored repeated hits, al though It was the first time any of them had bandied a weapon of this character. , As to the performance of tbe 10 (una used, there was not a stoppage or mal function, despite the fact that hun dreds of roirnda were fired, and the squad from the school had sever teen tbe guns before last Batarday. When firing with tbe automatic ri fles waa completed, two Brownina heavy machine guns were put in ao- tion. mousanas or outlets were sent streaming across the valley to set the dust leaping on the far hillside. Again there was not a malfunction and the demonstration waa completed with an exhibition of the simplicity of structlon, on of the gun being dis mounted, taken apart and reassembled repeatedly In a few minutes' time. These two guns hav been selected by the ordnance burean of tbe war de partment as the weapons with which the army Is soon to t equipped. The automatic rifles used earns from fac- orlea where tbe actual product an on a quantity scale has already started Within a matter of weeks, hundreds will be delivered every day and thou sands every week. Tbey are to be the "over the top ' guns of tomorrow as tbe Frenrh . Cbaurhat Is used by French and American troops today. A norronxnlssloned officer of the dem onstrating detachment, who with bis "roriatea; has been drilled with every ype of wespon used by tbe allied 'mops, Including (he Chsorbat, the nnly prototype of th hew rifle, spoke for the whole squad when be ssld: "That's tbe flnt gun In he world.'' fiV" lilt lt TMK LTHIC THRA ire where ltey la? hate hew, ssd shew attst they sa'terfW They are at trttne la (! utM) Ts see slaays weleeate si the LvrW, ACIDS U l-ACH 80C3 TEE FOOD A5D . CAUSE pDIGESTIOJf Tape's Dlapepsin Fixes Soar, Gas. . 4 sy, Vfaet Stonachs In Tlve V Minutes. ' . , You dont know what upset yur stomach which portion of the food did the damage do you? Well, don't bother. It your stomach is In a re volt; if sick, gassy and upset and what you Just ate has fermented and turn ed sour; head dizzy and aches; belch gases and acids and eructate undiges ted food; breath foul, tongue coated Just take a little Pane's Dlapepsin to neutralize acidity and In five minutes you wonder what became of the indi gestion and distress. . (Millions of men and wonlen today know that it Is needless to have dys pepsia. A 'little Dlapepsin occasional ly keeps the stomach sweetened, and they eat their favorite foods without fear. .. a f If your stomach doesn't take care of your liberal limit without rebellion; it your food is a damage instead of a help, remember the quickest, surest. most harmless antacid is Pape's Dla pepsin.' which costs only fifty cents for a large case at drug stores. It's truly wonderful it stops food sour ing and sets things straight, so gent ly and easily that it is really astonish ing. Your stomach will digest yoar meals if you keep acids neutralized. Red Cross Extends Work. Following the request of Secretary of War Baker that the American Red Cross should extend Its communica tion service, which Is already operat ing in France, to the army camps of America, clans are beinir nerfected for the' building of a Red Cross House in each camp, which will be not only a new headquarters for all the Red Cross activities in the camp and an admin istration center for the field director, but also a place of rest for convales cent soldiers and an emergency lodg ing for summoned relatives of those rookies who are dangerously ill and for Red Cross nurses and stuff. The Red Cross communication ser vice will be developed td its highest efficiency through these houses in the camps, and the families and friends of soldiers will be able to obtain prompt, accurate and detailed information as to their welfare. One of the first of these houses will be opened at Camp Meade, and construction work in all the cantonments will be rushed. Each house will be 100 feet square. On the first floor will be a billiard room, kitchen, reading, reception jmd committee rooms, a large assembly hall with a stage for "movies" and other entertainments, and a sun par lor for convalescents. The second floor will he given over entirely to bed- Too Much to Expect 'I have no stomach for stumping the State on the difference between a Democrat and a Republican,", says Gov. Bickett. It will seem like migh ty small business, with the fate of the nation, and the world for that matter, at stake in the world war, to be going up and down the State disputing about what the Democrats should have done and have failed to do, and what the Republicans would have done had they been in power; to be contending about who should have the offices while men are dying on battlefields to preserve human liberty: to arguing alt the small, contemptible things that are In variably injected Into a political cam paign, while we should be giving every ounce of strength and every minute of time to the support of tbe men' In tbe trenches. It would be mighty one If eacn par ty were to name its candidates "se lect its strongest men, men who have shown the greatest capacity and the greatest willingness to work for the winning of the war," as Gov. Bickett says and then leave It to tbe people to say who they want, meantime all of us going on with be work of win ning the war. But it's useless to expect that The noise of the men wte will tie trying to go to Congress, to the legislature, and who will want to be county com missioner and coroner, wllT. for a time at least, drown the war alarm and paralyze the patriotic efforts for the support and prosecution of the war; and partisanship will become so strong that numerous citizens, rocrf eronsty proclaiming their patriotism, would, almost at heart, not openly rather the Germans should' succeed, for the time at least than that the Democrats, or the Republicans, as the case may be, should elect fltetr men. We would like to believe that this will not be the case this year: that patriotism will be stronger than par tisans nip, nut It must be confessed that there Is nothing fs sight on which to build the nope. The political tnr moH, we trust, will be abort-lived. W should at least, by common agree ment, compel the offlce-eeekers to shorten their campaign. But we will have to co through with a certain amount or the usual-politic! strife, and all of ns will become Involved to some extent, even acalnst our wishes and desires. landmark. Good roads era mnra fmtitelva ft human happiness than good digestion. YOU can mddta mir aTla-aatlnai 'arifk matted milk, but ther Is nothing more renaia lo convert a cow path Into a bau-d-aurfmced highway than brains, plus money, plus concrete. Another Lexizgtca Case It Preve That Tkere A Way Oat for say ftaffrrlsi Lexlagtea Felks. Just another report of a ease la Lex- ingtoa. Another typical case. Kid ney stun eats relieved a Islington with Doaa s Kidney iPllla. Mrs. H. i. Beck, K. Center BC. Lex ington, says: f Aboot seven years sen I had a pretty pad Ume with my kid neys. My berk pained me so I could hardly get around. I could hardly straighten after stooping. If I lifted anything heavy. ehan twin re darted through me. No matter If I lay down or sat la a chair, my bark ached, iff kidney were weak and earned me as noyanre. My head arh4 and I felt so dlxsy that t thonsM I would fall. My aerve were all u twining and t didn't have any airtt.ttsn to do any ihlng. Tbe first box of lvmn' Kidney Ptlla, procured st Wmth's Drug rliore, did me tend and f it I had lakes three . I felt like a (1 fTerent per )n. Wy bark atnpnrd a'hing and my kidneys acted as they hould" On., at all dealer oatarAlllbura C Wfgs, Buffalo, N. Y. TBE TEACKI2 IZZZZZZ. Salaries Paid Instnctor ef Children Lees Than They can Get Else- - where Say Lose Then. The old question of teachers' salar ies is looming up for consideration in no uncertain form. That something must be done to Increase their com pensation is an undeniable fact Their dollars, like the dollars of the general public, are worth only about half what they were two years ago. But the sal aries of the teachers are not being doubled. Their increases are neces sarily small because of the limited amount of money from which to draw. Some way must be devised for the in crease of the funds from which the schools can better be financed. . Of course the only way is .through the means of taxation, wince money is plentiful, at least since It Is much cheaper than formerly, it Is folly to think that the same money Invested in taxes 'will suffice when such is not true In anything, else. The Lexington schools, like the schools all over, the conutry, are in danger of losing some of its best teachers simply, because of the neces sity of making a living. Teachers who can Intelligently direct large groups of children can now get much larger; salaries from the government, or from many corporations, and the temptation Is to leave the school room and get Into the business world. Our schools cannot afford to lose these teachers. The poorest, economy ever exhibited is the cheap teacher. We do not want our iboys and girls guided by those who cannot be successful elsewhere. At oresent the hleh school trirl who has taken a short business course is ' Started here in Lexington with a year ly salary of $480 and it efficiency Is! shown her salary, is increased before' many months have passed. An inves tigation recently made by the writer proved that the salaries of the lady ' stenographers In Lexington ranged all the way from $480 to $1500 the year. Larger towns and the national govern ment are giving even better salaries! than shown here. In contrast, the ' Lexington teachers practically all of whom are college graduates, are re-1 ceiving an average yearly wage of $380. The highest salary paid to any , Lexington teacher is $510 and the lowest Is $191.25. Even these low sal-1 arles are based on a two weeks long er term of work than has been given previous to this year. The writer has no complaint to make against the school board because of these low saj arles. Its members have done about ( all that It was possible for them to do with the limited funds at command. ' Our town must see to It that these gentlemen have more funds with which to handle the situation. Since we like to see our teachers going In some fair degree of style and appearance it is in line with reason that we be willing to provide necessary funds for same. We are at present spending less than $7 per capita on our school enroll ment, whereas some North Carolina towns are soendlna- about three times Ihla Ttllth nil eanh Vi I M arrtaA Vn' money is being wasted in the Lexing ton school system and none will be wasted. The foregoing Is written not in the spirit of complaint but that we may be informed relative to that in which our citizens are vitally interested. At the proper time It is not doubted that steps will be taken to look after our schools Just as steps are being taken elsewhere for their school's benefit. Money Invested in boys and girls Is money. Invested where dividends will be enormous. 0. V. WOOSLEY. For Indigestion, Constipation r Biliousness Jost try one M-cent bottle of LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid D&ativa Laxative pleasant to take. Mado and recommended to the public by Paris Modi- cine Co, manufacturers of Laxative Eromo Quinine and Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic. Another Thrift Amy. The boys and girls of the farm clubs of Davidson are preparing to show their Uncle Samuel that tbey appre-1 elate his favor in paying for men and women to instruct them in better far ming, canning, etc, by lending him some of the profits this has enabled them to reap. Much of the proceeds from cann.-d goods, corn elub acres, better phrs and poultry will be Inves-1 ted in War Savings Stamps, wtere It win draw a fine rate of Interest and come in fine la a few years when the boy or gtrl has grown op. Miss Pen ny Is expeetinc to create a great food army from the fine nucleus she has' gotten together la Davidson. The girls and boys will have distinctive nnt-. forms, which will be Just as service-' ble and as cheap as the regular cloth es they wear every day, and these Food soldiers and Thrift soldiers wUl wear the Insignia of the Food Admin istration. She is planking m great coontywide rally for these young folks early la the spaing. - BOSCHrrs gekiai rtbct win quiet your cough, soothe the m Bammatlon of a sore throat and lungs. step Irritation In the bronchial tubes. insuring a good night's rest free from coughing and with easy expectoration In the morning. Made and sold la America for fifty-two years. A won derful prescription, assisting nature la building np your general health and throwing off the disease. Especially seful in lutfg trouble, asthma, croup, bronchitis, etc For sale by J. a Smith C&. 10 and H eent bottles. Tie Cost of the ftetectire Draft The Provost Marshal of the United States has Just Issued a statement oa the cost per man of tbe first draft quo ta for the national army. It cost Uncle Ram only $4.11 per man to pick over 600,000 physically fit soldiers and cer tify them for service. This Is la con trast to the flrst two years of tbe Civ 11 War, srbea it cost the government $31.01 for recruiting purposes. Under the draft act of 1I6J, which was la op eration for two years tbe cost per maa waa It ti. It should be remem bered that $10 at that time bad aa much purchasing power la labor ma terials, rents, etc., as $:0 has at this time. . . , Worth Carolina does Hot acenpy x very enviable position In the list of states In regard to the coat per man. Tbe average coat la this state was M 49 per nun, Only five states In the Union. Tennessee, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island and Delavrare, reported a higher coat The PUtrlct of Colum bia waa slao higher than In North Carolina. Tbe other fnrty-two states had a lower cost than North Carolina. However, every board la North Caro lina is attempting to rut eipenaes snd the next report will show differently. Oklahoma reports ths loweat coat la the t'nlon, ll .7 per man. Delaware ahows he hlKheat coat. $15 00 per mas. The coat In flmilh Caroline waa $4 IS, a Ir-tle l a t! n half the par tapita eoat ef torth Carolina. .r L l 'II '! V r A THfc F.t-.DALHY COHHUWATIor S.LTD. But KAtO. N.Y Japan May Occupy Siberia, t Japan has directed Inquiries to the Entente Powers and the United States Government to test their feelings to wards a proposal to Institute Joint military operations In Siberia to save the vast quantities of war supplies stored at Vladivostok and along the Siberian railroad. Criticism at home of the1 failure of Japan to play a larg er part in the war is said to have been influential in bringing about the negotiations.-'-, . : -. .- Accumulated at Vladivostok are mil itary supplies of all kinds, much of American manufacture and even grea ter quantities of Japanese origin, which were delivered ong before the Bolshevlkl took possession of the Rus sian .government The Stevens Com mission of American Engineers made extraordinary efforts to improve the facilities of the Siberian railroad so that these stores could be transported westward for the use of the Russian army on the German and Austrian fronts. A good deal of the accumula tion was removed, but great quanti ties remain on the docks and in ware houses and even In the open, both at Vladivostok and at points westerly on the railroad. The, material suffers greatly from deterioration through ex posure to the weather and from other causes, but the principle matter of concern to the Allies is the danger that the stores shall fall into the hands of the Germans, who may make their delivery on the conditions of any peace treaty which they are about to compel the Bolshevlkl' to sign. This situation is regarded by tbe Japanese as warranting the adoption of some measures to' secure these stores, even If this involves military action on their part They are quite willing to have the co-operation of the Entente forces and of American troops and sailors in this object, and r EL If3 I N fera4Bla I a "xjUPk ' The wholesomeness of Chero-Cola is insured by its perfect blend of fruit flavors, to which is added the delightful aroma and refreshing qualities of the tropical cola nut v ' ' ' Always look for the yel low oval-panel label on each bottle, which is a guarantee, of purity and . satisfaction. 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The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.)
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March 6, 1918, edition 1
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