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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C SUNDAY, JULY 29, 1917. TWELVE A J. I S1' m IK! Its'. I: THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR MARKED BY ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES America'sOlesoujrces of Menand Material Make It Possible for the Allies toFace the Fourth Year in .Entire Confidence General Maurice Reviews Present Situation. London July 28. Aimerioa's entrance : into the yrsir is the- most important development .of the - third year of the great conflict' in theopinion of Major General Frederick B-V Maurice,, chief di rector of .Military Operations at the British waroffice, as expressed in an interview in which the revflewed the main events of the third year ani summed up the presenlt situation. -Today, Major General Maurice said, Ger many, whose whole fnilitary gospel was to prosecute a vigorous offensive, is reduce to "a pitiful state of military helplessness in which , she is barely able to hang on" in thte hope that her submarines will force tJhe people-of the Entente powers to demand peace at a time when Germany has th "big pawns" withi which tomake af bargain. "Speakfing from a. military point of view," saud Majjor ' General Maurice, "the greatest event of the third year of the war is the fact that the Ameri can people joined) us. Up to the pres ent, France and Russia always have been able to say to their people that the English poweS: had not yet been developed to the fullest extent and that, when England's full weight was in the field, the pressure on the French and Russians would be some what lessened. Thiat still is true, but only to a limited extent. Even Eng land is getting near the point where she must say thati she cannot extend her work much further in France. Meanwhile, the sstrain in the contin ental countries ,is becoming greater and greater andthe French are in. real need of moreiaavd more support. "Of course, the same is true and . probably In far" greater measure in enemy quarters. America the 'General Reserve. "But the whole) lesson of the three years of warfare Is to emphasize the military maxim .that the man 'with the last reserves is (going to win,, and we still have got th& whole power of the United States to draw upon. T!he Unit ed States is today the general reserve of the Entente. "With that reserve intact, we may 'look the fourth year in the f ace with entire confidence. "Germany has made the same mis take With regard to the United "States, as three years ago, she made with re - gard to England. She argued, "We do not believe England will come in, but if she doestcome in, she is not a mili tary nation and cannot become a mil itary power soon enough to play' any part in this' war." We proved that theory wrong as you will prove her theories regarding the United States wrong. "What was it -that led! Germany into war with the United States? She found she could not wrn on land. It w.as necessary to try U-boat warfare. 'This, said the German theorists, 'will defeat England and brfng the reign of the Entente to an end. We do not believe the United States1 will come in. If she does, she is an unmilitary na tion, has no army, cannot create one for many months, perhaps years, cer tainly cannot become a military fac tor soon enough to play any part In this war. "That reasoning sounds unbelieva ble to us but a drowning man clutches at a straw. We believe the German theorists will be proved as wrong in their estimate of the United States as -they were in their estimates of England. First Three Years in Epitome. "You asked me what is the outlook at the opening of the fourth year of the war. First, let me give you in ep itome the history of the first three years as I understand it. "The first year, broadly speaking, was an attempt by Germany to put in to effect elaborate plans which her military strategists had been prepar ing over the space of many long years. The first phase was a concentrated at tack on France and Belgium during a certain allotted period of time, in which the Germans estimated it would be impossible for Russia to disturb them in the east. "The attack on France was checked, first on the Marne, later on the Yser and at Ypres, although France and Belgium suffered severely in the pro cess. "Germany then, according to her plan, took the defensive on the west ern front and turned her offensive ef fort in an effort to knockout Russia. Here again she failed, although her attack enormously weakened Russia's offensive power. Germany's Old Scheme Abandoned. "In the autumn of 1915 Germany def initely abandoned her 'd pre-war Strategic scheme ana started .In on a - new plan developed since the war be gan, namely, an effort to . upbuild 'Mittel-Suropa as a great block com posed of four so-called Central Pow . ers which would command the road to the east. The, autumn campaign of 1915 consisted, in essence, of the fur therance of this scheme by conquering Serbia, bringing in Bulgaria and halt ing our Dardanelles effort by rushing munitions, supplies and soldiers to the assistance of the Turks. "By the winter of 1915 Germany-had gone a long way toward realization of her own ambition and this point repre sents to my mind the grand climacteric of Germany's offensive power. All this time Great Britain had been building up armies, and with the beginning of 1915, we for the first time had a real army in the field. - "With the spring of 1916, Germany had come to realize that the conquest of Russia was impossible, Russia was too massive to kill or crush. So the German staff again turned on France and the Verdun attack was the re sult. "With the defeat of Germany at Ver dun came a turning of the tide of which further manifestation was seen in a successful British offensive. Pre vious British military efforts had been, comparatively speaking, minor opera tions or operations undertaken in sup port of the French. At the Somme we started our new work and really great, important work it was, although a great deal of the contemporary effect of the Verdun defeat and of the Somme victory was neutralized by Germany's push into Roumania. The Roumanian push, however, viewed in true histor ical perspective, was merely a flash in the pan. The German military power already was on the decline and her of fensive strength was nothing lilfe what it had been the year before. Scales Lean Toward Allies. "The end of 1916 found the situation between the two great groups of con testants about equally balanced but with the scales leaning slightly in fa vor of the Entente. "The year 1917 has presented a still rosier picture. During the whole third year of the war Germany and her al lies have attempted nothing on land. They Everywhere have been on the de fensive. The Turks lost Bagdad and th Sinai peninsula. On Germany's east ern frontier, although the Russian rev olution enormously weakened Russia's military power, Germany was incapa ble of taking advantage of the situa tion. On the Austrian front, the Ital ians got into powerful blows. In the west the British and French struck repeatedly and the Germans have been powerless to answer back. "This is the pitiful state to which we have reduced the great power whose whole military gospel was summed up in the phrase 'vigorous of fensive.' Germany's military helpless ness, owing to the long strain on her man-power, material and resources, is such that today she barely is able to hang on and her only hope is that she may find some way of similarly wear ing us down and forcing us out of the war before we get up momentum to drive her back. "At present Germany is banking on the U-boat.. She hopes against hope that the U-boat will reduce the people of the Entente powers to the same state of want, privation and suffering which she has been enduring for months and years past. She hopes to make the Entente peoples cry enough and start peace parleys while she still has got the big pawns with which to bargain at a peace conference." By The Wayside If there is one thing more than an other that makes a slave of Lady Nic otine mad all over It is a box of matches that won't yield fire enough to combust the end of a cigarette or the tobacco in his jimmy pipe. There is a variety of matches being dispens ed around town that most appropri ately bears the name "Safety Matches." They are so safe from an insurance point of view that a whole box of them wouldn't ignite a keg of powder. "Safety" is right. One would think that after the submarines disrupted transatlantic commerce, some bright American young man tried his hand at making safety matches to take the place. of those "made in Sweden"; and that these "safeties" are his first re sults. The pure food department ought to get busy and protect smokers from being imposed on. Give us matches that will strike or give us death. Sergt. "Woody" Howell of the police force has a 4rdcar to which he has add ed so many devices, accessories before and after' the fact, appliances, extras and things, that Henry would not rec ognize the child or his brain. In short, a new creature has been evolved from the primitive, primordial 4rd, just as birds have passed by evolution from serpents, and as man has descended from a monkey drinking cocoanut milk in the tropical forest to a palm beach soaking "dope" at a soda foun tain. This car, therefore, requires a new name plate, so Sergeant Howell callsit a "Packard,' because it packs so much additional hardware. The of ficer only recently learned how to op erate it; that is, to advance it. Like the French soldiers since the war of 1870, he has not yet learned to re treat, or "back" his Packard. There is no such word in his guide book. This situation was bound to produce something, and last week it did. He had driven the car into his garage, very nicely, and desiring to go to ride before his night trick at headquarters began, he attempted to "back" out, against very good advice from a cer tain person who has often by good ad vice saved him from trouble. "Get somebody to back it out for you," he was cautioned. A moment later the old, familiar "I told you so!" rang out on the affrighted air. The car backed like a scared rabbit and hit a fence. To keep it from carrying off the fence, the policeman drove it forward at an amazing speed and it went right back int.o the garage, just like an old horse taken from a burning stable. Going in, it tore down a side of the house. The sergeant backed it again, had to drive forward some more, and so on, for upwards of a quarter of an hour, un til finally he was headed down stream and ready to voyage out around the loop, with a mud guard or so bent, the fender wrenched, and a half bushel of spedometers, chronometers, shock ab sorbers, spare searchlights, mirrors and such things scattered around the yard. This is not Sergeant Howell's column, exactly, but it will not be complete this time without a word about his phenomenal memory. The other day when the negro, Henry Brown, wife murderer, was proclamated by the gov ernor as having escaped from a prison camp, where he was serving a sen tence of 30 years, the officers were asked about the case, the governor's proclamation stating that he was fr.om New Hanover county. Nobody seemed to recall the man and several declar ed he was not a New Hanover pro duct. So the matter was dropped. La ter, casually, something was said about it to Sergeant Howell. Instantly he recalled the entire case. "That negro came In here (headquarters) at ten o'clock at night on the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and sixteen; nobody was here but -me and chief; I was standing in the door there, chief was settin down at the blotter desk, with his feet histed on the blotter. I said to the negro, 'Well, what can we do for you?' and he said, 'I am Henry Brown, the man you want for killing his wife. Here's my gun.' Chief said, 'Well, consider yourself under arrest.' And we locked him up." The recital seemed so correct that the reporter in vestigated the blotter, and found every detail recalled, just as the sergeant had said. "April 5, ten o'lock, Henry Brown, black, murder," right on down to the prints of Chief Williams' heels on the page. The town has been on such good be havior lately that it was proposed in a company of policemen that half of their number could well be spared and sent to the camps to command the ar mies. This riled one of the veterans in the department, and he said: "That's right if a lot of crime is be ing committed the public cusses the police for allowing so much devilment to be done; and if we. pitch in and clean up things so that during a whole night, or a day, or a week, we may not have a single case that amounts to anything, then they say we are not needed and ought to be fired." The cop was right, but he was up against human nature, which all of us have in us, more or less. You of ten hear people rapping the Sunday newspapers for printing so much read ing matter. "What's the use?" they say. "We heap rather you would just print what we can read and quit mak ing the paper so large." And if a Sun day issue were to come forth stripped to the current news of the day before the same folks would say: "Well, they ain't nuthin in today's paper whafa gittin' in to them fellers?" "FT UM NA WRIGHTS VILLE BEACH TODAY CONCERT 3:45 AND 8:45 P. M. Come Enjoy the Music the Surf, Keep Cool, Healthy and Cheerful PROGRAMME TODAY Concert by Kneisel's Orchestra AFTERNOON. 3t45 O'CLOCK. 1. March "Dolores" Neil Moret 2. "Melody in F" A. Rubinstein 3. Medley "The Sunny South".. J. B. Lampe 4. Melodies from "The Fortune Teller" . v .. . Victor Herbert Intermislon. 5. March Triumphal Entry of the Gladiators Fucik 6. Spanish Serenade "La Paloma". . .Yradier 7. Auf Wiedersehn Waltzes Blue Paradise. . Romberg 8. March "Religioso". . ,W. Paris Chambers "Star Spangled Banner" NIGHT, 8i45 O'CLOCK. 1. March "The Fairest of the Fair" J. P. Sousa 2. Valse Suite "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt 3. Two Favorites (a) Abendlied R. Schuman (b) Moment Musical. Franc Schubert 4. Grand Fantasle "Carmen". Intermission. .G. Bizet 5. Overture to "Zampa" .F. Herold 6. Solo for Vlolencello Selected Mr. Clarenz C. Burjo. 7. Intermezzo from "Tales of Hoffman" Offenbach 8. March with Whistling Chorus "Boy Scouts of America" J. P. Sousa 7 Free Motion PICTU Every Night Except Sunday, Beginning at 8:15 PROGRAM Week Ending August 4th Monday, July 30th. "LOVE'S BITTER STRENGTH". American "JUST AS HE THOIGHT", Beauty Tuesday, July 31st "RUTH RIDLEY RETURNS" American "DISGUISERS" Falstaff Wednesday, August 1st. "THE KEY" American "JUST FOR A KID" Vogue Thursday, August 2nd "A JIODERN' K.MGIIT" Must "THE STIXGER STUNG" Beauty Friday, August 3rd "THE FRANCHISE" American "GUIDERS" FaUstaff Saturday, August 4th "THE SHERIFF OF THE PLUMAS" Must "THE LAST THRUST" Beauty Free Tables For Families and Picnic Parties Play Grounds For Children Cool Verandas Comfortable Seats in many an instance time performs that surgical operation without anes thetic; and once love's illusions are destroyed, love creeps into its heart sick" chamber and dies, or lingers dul ly, dying by inches. But the other day a woman who has reached the age when the hard, practiced eyes of experience penetrate all illusions of life and of love, a woman who is of middle age and who has reared her flock, and the flock has left her for homes of its own, speaking rapidly of workaday matters, casually brought in the name of her husband, and asking, "Do . you know him?" declared, "He's the best looking man in the State.: If love can look at and live with the same man for upwards of 30 years and still say and believe a thing like that --Good night! It's .the real stuph. could be spun right here. But she lost her nerve and was afraid ever to call for the mail, and so the budding ro mance never blossomed. The eyes of love and It is commonly said they are blind. We all know that in the full, sweet 'tide of youth love grows a film across the -eyes and vis ion is distorted. . Ugliness becomes beauty; defects are rounded out into perfection; qualities of character that are unlovely are transformed into vir tues; sins bec.ome mere mischief that can be smoothed over and condoned. That is in youth. One would think that the years would cut away the cat aracts woven by love, and no doubt Schaat is a paper drummer from Richmond who regularly "makes" this city, where he visits the Job printing houses and sells them paper. He was here during the week, and talking of Wrightsville Beach, recalled that sev eral years ago he spent Sunday down there, and walking along the beach, picked up a small bottle, sealed, car rying a message. He opened it, and found a letter, four months old, writ ten by some Richmond young man, who asked that any young lady who found the bottle, write to him at such and such a number in Richmond, "with a view to matrimony." He declared that he had "money enough for two." Mr. Schatt was Interested, because he knew the young man, and on going home, gave the message to a girl of his ac quaintance, and told her to answer the message, and thus build up a pret ty romance. She did, using an assum ed name. And did they live happily ever afterward? What a lovely yarn There is an old mansion in the west ern part o fthe State that was built in 7190, that has housed several gen erations of one family, that has been the scene of the birth of many a child, that has sheltered hoary sires and withered dames as well as rosy-cheeked boys and girls, for 127 years, and yet no death ever occurred under Its roof. Built of rough rocks of the neighborhood, it is called the "Rock House." The son of the first white man west of the Catawba river, built it. The doors and door frames and win dow frames are of black walnut, sound to this day. In 1844 the man who own ed the place concluded that it was too near the stream, which was why the pioneer built it there, and he took down this rock house, piece by piece, and rebuilt it 200 yards away, piece by piece, so that not the slightest change in its architecture could be detected, and there it stands today, ex actly as it was 127 years ago. There have been born in the house seven chil dren to the poineer; 11 to the second family; two in the third "family, seven In the fourth, and eight in the family of the present owner 29 births in all, and never a death. What volumes of The Death of a Hero. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." Sidney Carton (William Farnum) as he is about to pay the death penalty in '-iA Tale of Two Cit ies" at the Royal Monday and Tues day. Adv. human interest history these old dwell ings of American early life could tell. "What's the news?" the reporter ask ed Capt. Thomas D. Meares, city clerk, as he strolled in on his daily visit to the capitol of the city. "You might say that my neighbor is a blanked scoundrel," he replied, having no news and merely wanting to start something. " 'Who is thy neighbor?' " he was asked. "Makes no difference," he said, wav- I ing his hand in a circle, "any one of em will do. Which started a three-phase laugh. "If I were to print that, you might have to defend a general assault from all sides," the reporter suggested. "Not at all," replied the veteran who has been watching human nature per form long enough to know all its tricks. "There would be universal silence." Light, meaningless conversation; airy persiflage nothing, you might say. But think it over, apply it to your block, and measure life as you know it by the yardstick thus laid down. OXFORD AND CHOWAN ARE NO WCLASS B. COLLEGE! "I am so tired of hearing people speak of Raleigh as a 'city,' " a lady from Baltimore scornfully said. "In my estimation it is nothing but a coun try village." Which ought to make Raleigh people so mad they would quit buying licker in Baltimore. - All Pacer Dead. Fergus, Minn., July 28. Al Pazer, the boxer, died today at Perham from a wound inflicted by his father, accord ing to word reaching here this after noon. Palzer had tried to protect his mother during a quarrel between th'i parents. Raleigh, N. C, July 2S. Chowan anj: Oxford olleges have been placed upoi the B list of colleges in North aroliu by the State Board of Examiners was announced today. This action w; entitle graduates of these institutia: to college credit on their certificates a assistant high school teachers. THAT KNIFE-LIKE PAII Is Only One of Nature's Warning i Weak or Disordered Kidntjs, Have you a lame back, aching itf and night? .Do you feel sharp pas after stooping? Are the kidneys sore Ts thp.ir artion irrpirular? Use iraii Kidney Pills the medicine recommeni ed by so many "Wilmington peop Read this case: R. J. Orimslev. Jr.. nolice sergeffl mm M TT'niirth streat savs: "At A. V J- V 4. X VU1 til Ji. v vv two vears asro. I had a bad attacn lnmham. T rnnldn't take a full breat. ,.. f nn.f,,i chini nains t-s' caught me across my kidneys. TS; fif HUp a knifp: stickinp into me at for a couple of days I couldn't do i arj u ; t t rincin'c; Kidnev I ll's Smith's Drug Store and the first doses eased the pain in my back. ter I had been using them for a k and my kidneys haven't caused me trouble since." tj; en .tc ,t nil dealers. A1 s l i. ti,incv remedy' 81II11IJ.Y IU1 d niu"-. Vj. uoans ii-ianey rm v" Mr. Grimsley, Jr., had. 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