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. V ' ' ' . , GREENSBORO DAILY NEW. MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 115 GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS AND TOJaUMM Pahllahv Evry Mat l Trar kr CrrMbor Kewa t'osspimy. R. B. JT1IPPRF.KS Mamsrrr A. B. joxm . .Ilvrnlxlu GAHLF GOnnE FilltoT A. l STOCKTON . .Ml Editor TFLEPH(lr.l Business OffW. Cashier. Circu lation and Advertising Pept . . 1 "M" CUv Nws TVit I'"1' Mecnsnical Orpt 1" Kdltoria! IVpt - 8oitthrn Brll Lnis Pistsnc Booth " North Stat Tl.ir-.on Company. Call Daily News offlce. HEMIKR OF TIIH AKSOdtTm Thi Associated Pre" Is exrln.lve W entitleH to the i fr repnbi'eii ton of all new. d"n-trhM e-eVtert to t or not otherwise cred'ted In th's paper and also the local news puhnhd herein Ail rlchta of republication of ppeo'at dispatches herein lire also reserved srBKCitiPTiox pbicf.! One Wv mail, poatase paid Year Sir Mo 1 00 rvallv and Slindiiv ' Pa'lv Without Sunday.. M Sunday edition only 100 Three Jloi. flatly and Rundav S! 75 Talv without Sunday.. 1 ?5 Sunday edition only. . . 50 One Jto. 0p.. JOc. B NSWS carrier delivery service In Greensboro for one week: Dally and Sunday lie. Dally only lOr- Sunday only &r- Kntered aa second-claim matter at the poetofflee at Oreenshoro. N. C. under the act of Congress of March a. 187J. '1 MOXDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1918. PARAGRAPHICS. "Ring out the old" do you yet that llohenzollern 1 In o. w., if we get the secretary of war rightly, all the boys will have quit drilling, certainly, by March. Fully expecting the New Year to be th greatest year in all history yet old 1918 is entitled to a lot of respect. Missing Girl in Heredity's Grip. Headline. Sounds like a new sort of flu; but the missing girl hasnt really anything on the rest of us. The year has shown progress and pros perity in many lines, but the universal testimony is that the kaiser business has been strictly on the bum. The gladsome Yuletide is rapidly re ceding into the all-engulfing past, and Pa's pocketbook is gradually beginning to recover from shell-out shock. The Bryanite still exists, although hia name is not as legion as of yore. And there is that in the international news to bring back some of his former chest in ess. Remember what a fuss was mado about the baby the new Twentieth Century? And here she is entering ber last teen. How quickly the centuries pass here lately, to be cure. Things have been going from bad to worse in Russia k long you'd think they mut surely pet there, before a great while. In Ku-ia. at least, it i clearly a long ways from bad to worst. If the public will not pay price de manded at present for good, and man ufacturer cannot f-cll them any cheaper because they cannot sr.-t materials and labor any cheaper what i Hie an swer? There are still oid-fa-hloned people to be found who hold that if the flu could iippp to prevent . or even postpone, a session of the legislature, it would jut jro to 1 !ow tlia everything lia some wise purpose. Comee now Colonel Roosevelt confess ing that for an eutire 'i0 d.iys after the war bepin. he was an Hdu-nte of net? trality for the I'nited Mate.. A filit. as big as that and T. li. waiting a month before taking ?ilei it stems un believable. Tomorrow morning a year ago we re marked as follows, to wit: "It ii go ing to be a good year for the Joe i-f Peace. I S. The Dove ha- ben bdi in need of a good year fur a while, Bow." This ought tn un f r tw ar l clearing up any lingering double a- to our prophetic standing i margin's warning. Since the abdication of William Ho lienzollern an emperor and kinp. his inglorious flight to Holland, the appar ent collspse of the iierman military ma chine, signing of the armistice, surren der of the flower of the Oerman navy and the rise and fall of the Khert so cialist ministry, there has bern a sort of general feeling, particularly on this side of the Atlantic, that the giant of , i . ..., l ;,,,i the central empires had been hog-tied . . . . . , , vi.;i, and lav impotent at our fect. While '.i ii v i. .i -.,.1 apparently all this has happened and ,, ' i i , ;,; the vanquished is onlv awaiting the, ... ... .,, tArnnM inuHi ui (lie rraiiiH'B ,nmi,i,,c there is feeling in certain French cir cles, a feeling among some statesmen and military chieftains who know the Hun ways and his tricks, that this is no time to be careless; that it is still the part of wisdom to keep an , . , . i fl ,, ere peeled for anv devilment the rlun - . . , . i i : i in all In-!, feiffned humility and possiblv hunger, may be up to. One of the chief of this school of reasoning or thought is (General Mangin, hero of many a hard fought battle, who in the closing months of the war, sent his French poilus hurt ling against the enemy's massed di visions and won everlasting glory. General Mangin, who, next to Foch or Gouraud, probably knows the Hun bet- ter than any of the other allied gen- erals bv reason of closer and more con - sUnt contact during four years of con - flict, maintains that Germany is still un- trustworthy; still potentially danger- ous. The French general was'visited at his headouarters at Main the other day by Cyril Brown, correspondent for'Societ.v WM ?IaJ that il could eat and the New York World. In the course of an interview Mangin is quoted as say ing: "Germany is still untrustworthy and potentially dangerous. Its army is again faking up arms and its officers resuming their functions, and we must take do chance. The occupation must last a long time. General Mangin at least Is taking no chances. He told Mr. Brown that he is now working harder ithan ever doing "war work until 2 a. m. night after night". ! In the opinion of General Mangin the iend came too .oon. He feels that Ger many was not sufficiently crushed by i military force to humble her and break I her spirit. "It is the same old Ger many," the general said. 'The armistice came too soon. The war should have continued at the very least a week , longer. In another week I should have 1 been in Metz and the following week on the Rhine." General Mangin praised the American troop and said that his sole criticism was the staff work due to inexperience- "The war ended before the American army could unfold its real power," he said, "but all France knows what the American army would have done. From a strictly military standpoint the end of the world struggle may, as General Mangin says, have come a few davs or few weeks too soon, but if the! peace conference accomplishes what j President Wilson and other allied states men believe and expect it .will, the po$ ! nihility of harm from Germany or of ! another world war will be reduced to ; the minimum and General Foch by sign ing the armistice when he did, though it robbed him of the high honor of ab solutely and completely beating Ger many to her knees and of scattering her once boasted army in flight to and across the Rhine, saved many precious live? and this after all is worth infinitely more than all the glory that could have come, in the closing days or hours of the war, to the allied cause. WILL HEAD THE LIST. When Secretary of the Navy Josephus ! Daniels entered the cabinet of President 1 are BO many important things to be done Wilson in 1013 a great hubbub wenttIlftt that bod.v can hardly escape doing up from the press of the north and Pome f them. And the quicker these narticularlv from the metropolitan things are accomplished the better. If press. Mr. Daniels was first ridiculed ! and held up to scorn and then "cusBed:"'rea,ly superior nature has been elected, then he was "cussed" and ridiculed. Butja personnel far different from the aver Mr. Daniels, in the vernacular of thela& in character and ability, in vision street, "sawed wood" and said little. mas-land in purpose, the suggestion of a pos tered the details of his big job and sup-1 8'ble postponement would be regarded norted the President. Much of the crit-1 "t to a calamity. jieism leveled at the secretary of the! As a matter of fact, the assembly navy was during his first year in office W'U probably put in most of its time and the next aud foremost among Mr.doi"g things that are not highly neces ! Daniels' critics probably was the New Bry. and doing them in a way not York Sun. It never let an opportunity ! conspicuously intelligent. slip to jab tho secretary of the navy! Not that the Daily News is a pessi some place or Kme way. But in the aliout legislatures. The last one years that have elapsed a marked waa conspicuously constructive, and this .change has come over the critics of newspaper is indulging what it regards the navy secretary. They have cithcr reasonable hope that this one will be vanished or changed front. Notable ' still better. But legislative habit and iamone the array Is the Sun. In its tradition are to strong, nature runs so . . ..... issue of December 26 instead of criticism; we find a handsome a tribute for Mr. DanUU as the most ardent of Mr. Dan- ieN admirers could wikh. It is u hou- onet of rare frairrance. Captioned "Sec- tv.:i.m .i.- i.: a. reiary isamem un- chii, niraKiiij u me 'renew to be lie d that dav of the Araer- ican armada back from European Iter where it won everlasting fame, s-ays: j ' -Ihe proud satisfaction which will ! fill the heart of the secretary of the j nay to4ay as he reviews our splen-! did hinfi of war from the bridge ofj 'the enerable Mayflower will have been honestly earned (and will be grudged to him by no honest soul. j j "Criticised much and sometimes juftt-jcase ly, often at loggerheads with the sea - soned professional experts of the service, - i j u-rationally tickling the humorous cnso' alike in rear admiral and jack tar and . civilian observer by the eccentricity , iof some of his earlier administrative conceptions. Secretary Daniels has ertheless gained place steadily in the,accept fulling on a syllable forward, is! e.-teem began. "W of ihe count rv since ho tilities net member has worked hard er i'i r (lie national eaue. or with more pra l-fwort hy clf -re-t ra int in the mat ter t f pretent ion, activit v. Nobody in that quarter has profited more quickly ' and progressively by the lessons of ex- perience. And in the evening light of the war the earnestness of his patriotic purpose and the magnitude of the job he has don? are clearly visible. "If it can add to the pleasure of his visit to the fleet assembled in the Tlud - son river to know that such is the opin - ion of a newspaper which at times lias not been the most reticent among the candid critics of some of his policies ana meiaoas, aui now views ins acnicve- ment ill the balance sheet, that small increment of deserved recognition shall certainly be Josephus Daniels' today, - ' ' North Carolina s contribution to the world war, as glorious as that may be, is not found entirely on the field of battle. One of the brightest pages in history will be that which records the part North Carolinians in high places took in helping to shape the policies that brought ultimate triumph to allied, r . a ..., : 4 1 aims ami tue uiisiiiii.ru prise m uw r win m n Aiiit'iii'a b wuuumui uuwn, And, lo, -Toe Daniels' name will head the Hit. NO SENSE IN RUNNING WILD. A part of New York society the up jwr part gave a victory ball Saturday night, not so much in celebration of j victory as in celebration of the state of reiaaauoii now pennisMuie. vtaa nui 1 )7 over the fact that the peace sun l w" hinl"K fter the darkness of the war cK,ud8i New York had endy celebrated that, but it was joy over the release from the necessity of scraping ! ftnd imping, of sav.ng this and that drink heartily without bothering to save the crumbs, that it could dance the soles off its feet without wondering if the soldiers had plenty of shoes, that it could cast to the winds all restraints, self-imposed and government -imposed-The ball was a sort of declaration of in dependence. The elite of Gotham are not the only ones who have reacted violently from cares of war. In various cities, large and small, In the rural sections, the idea seeks expression. Having done their bit the doers pat themselves on the back and thank whatever gods they serve that it is not necessary to do any more bits. They put three spoonfuls of sugar in their coffee, literally or fig uratively, let the motor run on while they run in for a little call and do vari ous things to show that it doesn't mat ter now. Wastefulness stands a tine chance to become fashionable Again. Industryi too has visions of old time methods again. The Tuft-Walsh labor board, whose duty it is to settle labor disputes, has some trouble in getting consideration for its decrees. Two com panies, at least, have flatly rejected rulings of the board, announcing that times have changed since Novmber 11. The general feeling is that the board can run along now and play marbles. A certain amount of relaxation from the tension of wartime is desirable, but there H little sense in running plumb wild. Fur one thing the nation cannot afford it. Those parts of Kurope freed I from German. Turkish and Bulgarian 1 occupation must be fed and clothed, and a large part of the relief work must come out of American savings of food And the lessons enforced by the liberty bond and thrift stamp are too valuable to be cast aside. It was hoped that the saving habit would be so inculcated that it could be regarded as one of the chief compensations of the war. But the pendulum is swinging far back. THE GENE PAT. A.QSEMBT v There are lots of important things that the general assembly could do, that need to b dotie without delay. There one coxh believe that a legislature of r it ' irue 111 puL Lmn mufil SUH ne cnosen ior many oi the seats, that it is unreasonable to . ,. .il PC' that body to function with thing approaching the intelligence that w.-.nld he HUnlnv.-d l.v a ri..n r,.r-. i v - i wmative cuixens rmrusicu wun ine wa-:mc duties and tasks. : . I KING MISHANDLES KING'S EN- j GLISH. i jH HU historic moment and your j vjR;t marks an historic epoch," haul tioorpe to Woodrow. The king's KnglisbJ a may be Paid, is unquestionably the king's Euglifdi; but in this particular j it might be, to our way of think ! j,.,, better i-Inglish- It is characteristic but bv no means prevalent, u-age n , , Kngland to place the "un ' form of indefinite article befc rc words begin- ning with a vowel which has the eon- sonant effect of "v." The use of this nev-jform before words beginning with much less common amongst the king's eompHtnots. The translators fur .lame-., it is true (ami they were scholars in their day) not only followed the "rule." if such it may be called, of "an"' before a wor 1 beginning with "h," first syllable U- accented, but the use was much broader not only "an habitation," but "an heifer," although "a hedge." There was created for Adam "an helpmeet" (or ! lielp meet); "The sparrow hath found 'an house;" "every one is an hypocrite;" . ftc.. etc. 1 Of course, a good mary of tfhe king's 1 near neighbors read the account of his spoech, "This is hsn 'istoric moment, and your visit marks han 'istoric epoch." anil the usage was not ques tioned by them. A REMINDER. Many things, it will bo recalled, were greatly more difficult endurin' the war. Take frinstance the meteorological phc - , 7 . nomena. We find tho foflowing refer- ence, or chronicle, in the Daily News of . New Year's day, 1018, under tho head ' nig, "This Here Spell of Weather "I congeal, I congeal!" cried fat Anna n Pool . Peel; "In fact, I am freezing," said Miss Anna sneezing. "And I feel quite a lot like Lot's wife. who got Into permanent trouble. Belwve me, it's not A doggone bit nice To be turning to ice." A rude, common bit of narrative an one will find; and vet 'twill serve as a reminder. John Dillon was almost a leader without a party when he succeeded to the title. Ho may be a bold political prophet who will declare that the Irish nationalist party is at its end, for it has had its periods of recession before At one time it may have appeared as if the partv would not long survive Parnell. But it never ebbed so low be fore. It is a curious situation that will leave Ireland practically unrepresented in parliament, since the Sinn Fein mem bers do not take their seats. British Premier and President Are Agreed- Headline in favorite newspa per. If that is the case, the rest of 'em might as well be. Soldiers' Letters (The public are Interested in letters recounting- the experifnces and Impres sions soldiefs in the overseas ser vice. Mid sailors on foreign Huiy He clpients of such letters should noi furnish the originals for pubtication. bu' should send copies of the letters entire, or of such portions as seem to be of general Interest. It Is not pi Ac tion b!e to return manuscript (i.:-et. after tt has been used by r wsiap'?r the manuscript Is of rr n cut into bits for convenience In sorting it up. Where a sentimental value attaches to letter it is especially Inadvisable to ser - originals. From Private A. B. Holt, hme hos pital, -No. U5, base section No, 5, A. P. C 716, America a expeditionary fortes, France, November StH, to his home peo ple. I wanted to write to you last Sun day, but was feeling too bad to do anything. I have had a real bad cold, and I'm so glad to say I'm feeling better than I did a few days ago. I am trying to take IJryces advice and take care of myself, so I won't have ih fl,. T U .. A . 1 .. - kiln ters on my mouth, and they surely do hurt- ,,ut from ,he eood attention the sure they will soon be well. 1 think I weigh the most I ever have. All my clothes are getting too small for tne. I received the Greensboro Daily News today. Hnd have read it with much interest. I am working with a nurse who Just got over here last Friday, so by talking to her, reading your letters and the Daily News, I have learned quite a bit of news. I appreciated sister's letter very much, and am going to try to write to every one I owe letters, and then some. I enjoy Bryce's good letters. I got a good letter from Miss Otwell and Miss Addle Boone the other day. I have just returned from midnight lunch. We had beef, butter, beans, French fried potatoes, jam and cof fee. So you see I'm not starving by any means. Wonder what you wili do to celebrate Thanksgiving? Guess you will eat your big turkey. Would like to be with you for dinner, but - j uiii j hardly think I can get there this time, i Wonder if Bryce will go rabbit hunt ing. I think I shall go over to Brest and spend the day. that is if I can get pass. Brest is a very large city. two or three times aa large as Greens boro. Our hospital is about four miles from there. We are right on the bay. and can see the big ships come and go, and I'm very anxious to get on one of them and come back to North Car olina. I think I'll get to come back some time next spring, and there Is perhaps a slim chance of coming be fore then. I guess this letter will reach you about Christmas time. I sent mama a handkerchief the other day. I have not seen Taul Jordan In several days. Of course he is around here. You see he Is on day duty, and I'm on night. Papa. I saw Mies Hasser the other night and talked with her a few min utes. From W. K. flaldwin. Battery C, 4th trench artillery, A. II. F Vltnej, Frnnee. XormelH-r 2-1, to his father, 31. A. Baldwin, Greensboro. I m well and hannv at rtntfv this will Hnd you well and all ziujje k. The censor has relaxed sorm-what now and It is possible to say more in writing. I can now tell you just Bny-jwhre rm ocatClI an). Iot8 moro wutch was impossible to say heretofore. I m ai ,ire a sma" "wn "on.e whore 'southeast of Paris. It will he easy to locate upon the upon the map. I land.-d Itrest October 21. We were at a rest camp at Itrest till October '-., when took a train for Vitrey. We were a small town near Vitrey til Novem ber 12 when we moved into Vurey We were on the train five days from Brest to tliis place 1 had somewhat t f an eventful trip across on the boat. We saw a submarine a couple or times. A battle cruis-r which escorted u across fired a numher of shots at oiu. and was a general opinion that it was ur.k, and I guess was. for we uuin t B'-'e it again j I wouldn't dike ii million for my trip to France. 1 only wish that I had ;'.eon a, ' l,in 1 ,l hert ,n,r tnaa I did. It isn t like the t. S. - though, by any means. In faot there 1 lsn l another place in the world )o mo ?,? sevraf for-un "untVlcs omi 'n" 'one thing to say--tin- V. H. lia.s uot it j on all of them. I'm expecting to g' i Lack io 1 1w Miut, u i.r i.i i vr nt-r..,t .. . when 1 do 1 m sur.- rmng io st'av ' l in going out for dinner today-. was out to visit a nati ; family larft Sunday ai.J had a real nice time "Yes." there is a pretty little girl there-, too The people here sure are nice to the American soldo-rs. ( And no doubt they have a right to be. I'd. sure love lo be at home tn t ti.joy the CirlHt nms holidays with you and maniii, but as it seems almost hnpoa- ; ilble I'll try to enjoy myself In Franco or wherever I may be. f know that the ones at homo will have a lovely time curving upon the old turkey nnd other good eats, but I will get what's corning to me, yam may know. I'd like to.s.'nri mama and you a little something; for a Christmas re membrance but honest, papa. I don'c know of anything to send of any value. Ill try to brin a few ) it tin souvenirs slim I come home. From Private Robert Forbls McLean, compnny 1, 4th corps, artillery park, A. p. o., 7T.T, A. K. K November 2s, to ht. mother. Mra. J. c. Mrl.eaa, (ilb aonvllle. We are In a large town now. but I can speak their language. I think w will oon be home. We are goinl inrouKn i (.ermany. What do you think ,aBut that? I think that will bo fine. ! eoinV to wrT.V vL . " ""i s"!nB lo write you, but we have been i movlnir ho much, IX'n ... . .. ,avQ u Ull pmce lo Btay m now. ve nave si earn -heated rooms. We are ii -Alsace-Lorraine. I guess there was some time In the states when they heard the war was w-r. i was glad to hear that. tnv It was kinder 'funny that the war on ine nth day at II o'clock nd Hth month. I think I heard the last guns fired. Let me tell you I have seen some t mng. We are on our wv hmna i 5'fhey teH mo that vcrJ' thl'n vV come. in m! in next to the latest town in the state, so they say down me leU you the nomPS ar to fl? v J, m 1 was out the when I k PP fl"htins- I will wait to tell about it when I come home. From rharle It. Rifmh ... , jnny. iaiMh ,nf dlvM A R " oveinltfr 24. hi. .. ., ' X-, to hi f(.sr if w r rett, NwepBonvllle. i could write week and not tell while I have been over here. through inry say l can even tell you when Im coming home; but how am I to tell yon. when I don't know? I can only hope it will be soon. Well, J hardly kjiow what to tell first. I have o much I would like o tell but I can't tell it all this line. I sailed from Boston May 12 l.18. and landed In Liverpool May 27 Relieve me. I sure did get tired of the water. a were attacked twica by submarines. The last time they at tacked us was the last night wo w.-re on the water. The attack was at 2 20 o clock a. m. We sure got on our life belts and jot out on top decu quick as possible. We landed at 1 unlock Mnv 27 and hiked about four miles io the railroad station. There wt gut on a little train. (The reason I say little is because onlyetght of us could pet In a car.) Our next stop was 6 o'clock next morning. After trvlmr tn -un about four deep in the car, we got oJfr packs on after we had orders to stand in line li minutes. Then hiked about four miles again, every mile seemed like five. That was at Folkstone, Eng land.' We had lunch there. At 10 o'clock we packed ud air him mil out Tor another hike, but didn't an fnr this time. Then we boarded another ship, we crossed the English channel In about ono hour and 20 minutes. Then we went In to a rest ramn in Calais. France. On July 4 we were on our way to Belgium. There we went in the line at Vpres front. September 6 we left Watar. Belgium. On the seventh we got off train at St. Pal. France. Keptem- ner - our regiment went over the top at 5.64 o'clock a. m. and broke the Hindenburg line. We have kept Fritz on the run since that. We came out of the line about three weeks before tne armistice was signed. Of course we caused this victorious defeat. I'm in a little town named Sergie at the present, about 20 miles from the seaport. Am expecting to board a ship for home soon. From Cook L. battery, A. K. P., Andrews, fith A. A. November 24, to hU mother. I am still well and getting along fine with my work, believe me 1 was sure glad to get In the kitchen again this winter, it's lots better than being out In all kinds of weather. Seems like I am lucky about that for you know last winter at Ft. Caswell I was inside. Well, tomorrow Is Thanks giving and we are preparing for a big dinner. Guess you all had a good time, don't reckon I will get to take my usual hunt this year but I am thinking that I will get to hunt some at home before the seaBon is out. What do you all think about the troops getting home? I believe our big Uncle Sam Is going to send us back faster than we came over. I know for a fact al ready some of the A .A. battery have left for the port of embarkation; whether they are going to sail right away or not I don't know. I think that they are trying to get all of the small Companies and independent units at the ports so that when peace is sign ed they can get them out of the way ru iiiey (jev viiem uui 01 me way for the divisions to come through and here's hoping to get back pretty quick although I am not building any air castles to be torn down. If you have a map of France you can find where I am at. Colonby. which is near Toul and Xancy. which are both big towns. Then if you will trace the railroad from Toul to Nancy you will see where we were at the front, we just stayed at tho front for 30 days but all of our action was not over there for wo had lots of firing to do here and all night work at that. But It is all finished now. From Samuel T. I.ntta, Jr.. battery 'CV 11.1 F. A A. K. F., Oct. a to hi home people. Orange county. I am living in a dugout made by the Germans. We have been In thl Vl place about 18 days. It is on top of nl" mountain. About 14 of us are out on the etlfte of the mountain living In a two-room house built In the bank. We do guard duty, watch for signals, and we have a telephone and four or five lines coming In here. I have been orking on the lines this morning. Wei don't have very much work to do. Weto be that when one becomes a citizen have about half mile to walk for our j Identifying himself with the manifold imats, back lo our mattery. We can go j interests of the community state or out in our front yard and see out over nation entitles him to the samo right the plains for many miles. We can j as a native born citizen, see away beyond the enemy front lines, I When writing the article to which aw'ay over No Man's Land. We can "Fair Play" tube excrpt'ons to I Hee several towns Occupied by thw never dreamed of the necessity of per enemy. So you see we are on a high.onal references and for that reason hill. There is not very much shelline I lalnly signed by name without pre- - I here except at night. Some nights ' hey throw a good many up here, Some, of t hem hit so close that it I threw rocks and dirt on our house, hut iliun't get a direct hit. Our house t Is built so that one side and one end t eel f afforded an ordinary to gain such has dirt and rock piled up high as j information through the common the house. Yes, we have been on the.rehools and other mediums of informa front two months. Our tirst big drive Mlon created in rny young mind and was the drive. I guess you read I heart, an insatiable desire for that sort of it In the paper. September 12. From of tretnum of conscience that I be there we hiked about 140 miles, doing ; Hev-M then nnd do now that Ood Al the most of the hiking at night. One, mighty Intended for his human rea nU;M the enemy threw some gas on t luroti. I had heard of the land of the tin- road in front of us. When we got ' noble and free discovered bv a man ih'-re we all put on our gas masks. About, the same time they began to sli.il us. We. .all had to doubie time fur about three-fourths of a mile, but no one was hurt. We w?re In the drive. We stayed on that front right nar or about a week. hiuI that van iihniit a week, and that was a bot time there. Shells were falling around there all of the time. I saw lots of excitement there, and up In the old town of . vas upon a high hill, but a bout every house lias been shelled to the ground. From that front we came over here. I don't know how long we will be here. For the first two ivffkfi we were here, we hail only two days of sunshiu-'. It rain- ed most all the lime. Yesterday and today have been rlirht pretty. We have a nice old clock in here. Some of the boys found It out near here In I results of this union was the birth of an old town. No, 1 haven't seen any I three sons born right here in North of the boys from near home, except the Carolina, educated here In tho south ones that came over with us. All of j with other natural born children and the boys rere from near home are like a great many other North Caro gsttlng on very well. Kurat McBrown Una boys when they saw that the de ls as fui aa ever. How is Edmund Ilk- mocracy of the world at stake frssly Ing camp? Has Allen (rone? 1 hear ( without any hesitation volunteered some big shells now. and fhe machine f their services to the country of their guns are crying out a pood deal. 1 saw ! father's adoption. One of them Is now a battle in the air yesterday, one ma chine was forced down. I must stop writing and go up for supper. Prom Henry M. Moon?, company 0. 10.th fftKhirrrft, 3Hb tllvUlon, A. K. P., fin Htm fr'ranctx December 3. lo hi t Ah the war la over I hone to noon he sailing wsMvard. I sure would iike to have been there the llln. Some Rig l)ay, f guess. Walt didn't get to come over for the big show but 1 can tell him all th; he wants to know about It any way, when 1 get home, and I truly hope that It won't be long before I Btart that way. s 1 know I hav("h't been writing as often hs I should but have been so busy I haven't had time for anything have been fighting with the British army all the time, we haven't been with American army at all. I m Med by the gentlemen who styles I drove a lorrlo or truck as we call It himself as "Fair Play" does not fcen from Amiens to Hall. which Is about ; erally prevail In North Carolina, One 200 miles, and I buljb did see some I un at difference betwen the man who Lcautilul acenery. I am working in the repair shop, and I don't get much time for writing. Do hope I'll soon bo back in dear old V. S. A. Tell papa t send the car to the shop ami nave ner lixed up for 111 soon be , important matter, I think, of which there. Tell him to be euro and rtoihe lake8 no not)oe at all and why h . . Inssumts any particular superiority rtr V!?e0f. ",y .ve7 b8t a,S Ta! ki,,etl I fr doing that In which he had no voice lcft there, John Callum was his name, puess you have heard about it by now. I never hated anything worse than giving him up. It's sure bad to go through the war and then be killed. I will not write and tell you about any of my experiences sfneo I have been over here for I think If the Lord Is willing I'll be home soon and then we will talk It over. That will be some t'me. on't It '.' (.Juess Watt was some glad to get home for a few days. Ou-ess he U home for gonl by now. . As I've noticed in papers 'hat the men were being mustered out right along. Tell papa not to forget the car for I'll soon be walking in If tho Lord is willing. From Corporal V. A. Carl In, Co. C, lflAth regiment, 1'nlted Ntnfes enajln- eers. A. K. F., 1 O. 74M. ISnvrmlirr 1 :i. hia aister, Minn lllanehe art Is. tireensboro. I guesB the war is over nnd I sure am glad of it, or at least the fighting has slopped, but there is a lot of work for some one to do. but I do not know whether we will have to stay and h Ip or not. I am sorry to hear about Thad. Weatherly passing away, he being so young and Just married, too, but every one has to go some time. I sure have thought my time whs up many times, but I have escaped injury so far and I hope to be home soon, so I can tell you alt about It, because -one can never tell about It In writing. I have ju.st been out and had dinner. We had white bread. French fried po tatoes, cheese, butter and coffee, ho you can tell by that that L S Is not going to let his bovs irn hnntrrv I am sitting in an old Frenchman's ! ,heir mot,1Pr''B t,iat their right to vote house while I write this. There are,was nul only 8tine1 or Prohibited but just two in famlty. he and his W(f,, I actually voted contrary to their Inten He Is 73 years old and his wife 70 'on or eB'r nnti that too while they They sure are nice people and are wcr6 ftshtlnir to make the world safe so nice to us. Thev seem to be very'for a democracy they fully believed proud of all the Yanks and are al-'cnrried witn u 8Uch rights, ways willing and glad to aid them 1 K A- KOHLOSS. In any way they can. The old French- Salisbury, Dec. U, '18. man's wife made the sergeant and me a cup of coffee this morning. She Is almost like a mother to nie. They, have been staying here in their home; eer since tne war started, of course, they have heeo prisoners, because Jer ries have been holding this place. Write soon with all the news and tell all my friends to write to me. A letter from any of the folks back home will be appreciated. From Private H. M. Relnoebl. of l,eb an, Va., t amp Merrltt, J., December 12, to L. 11, ( I r mm on it, (irreusboro. I have Just arrived In New York on the transport Manchuria, which left Brest. France, 12-11-18. While in France I met your brother, Roy Clemmons, being a patient In the ward of base hospital fii, of which he was ward master. I was there for four months, so we became well acquainted and struck up a mutual friendship. When I left he gave me your ad dress and told me to drop you a few lines Btating that we were "buddies" and that he was enjoying the best of health. He sent his love and best wishes for a merry Christmas to you all. PUBLIC PULSE MIL. KOHI.OMS KKPLIF.3 TO "FAIR PI-AY." Editor of The Daily News: I notice that an article appearing In your paper December 25, and signed by "Fair Play" intimates that this writer has no right to express himself on public matters fOr the simple reas on that hia name indicates" foreign birth. This would hardly be worth replying to If it were not for the fact that the close selfish and hide-bound views ox pressed by "Fair Play" la the position assumed by a great many other North Jaiolinlans as one of the barriers pre- ntiig the growth and development of i 'id North state. Just how long i:r I May would require a man to nd here before becoming a citizen this great common -wealth to en thc privileges accorded other citl m who happen to be native born Is ritiest ion he might find It difficult to answer himself, the theory appears tendir.T to hide hi hind a ron-de-piume whereby I might of availed myself of the one t hat looks . so nic in print j( Fair Play). Yes. 1 happen to be bornlhim their support. He says that he In a foreign country and availing my born outside Its confines and after- wards peopled by rtiers who no doubt :j i.fter waltiPK till the years of maturity .oteiminrd tn nfiike the new found ccumry their home. So as a boy of my own fi ie '.vlll and accord I left the fatherland tSe home of my parents and my own birth place and sought a home in t h ' n-w count ry of which I had orrame'l so much. finnlly selecting North Carolina as i: i y adopted home and by the help, advice and open heart hiess of some of Its best people j commenced to grow-up with the conn- ! try which I believe today is the equal I of that section referred to by one of -hit country's g rente ft' citizens when he saiil "go west young man and grow up with the couutr." I took to my i bosom a southern born and southern 1 raised lady for my wife, some of the in tjormany with tho third army of invasion, the other one by hla conduct attracted the attention of hia superior who returnt-d him from France as an ttiBtructor nnd is now serving In tho capacity of an adjutant In one of the cantonments of this country where he spent day after day preparing other y.iiintc men to not only courageously but the more lntellirently meet the militarism of the country the birth- nis ratner, me tnira one, m lad of 18 years, was honorably die- charged from the army and Is now at home. These hnvs volunteered at the outbreak of the war and their foreign borri father if proud of their record, not only bcciuu tney rfld their duty but because 1: feels tht Indirectly that the opportunity was afforded, him of serving and being of service to the land of his adoption. I am glad to know that the hlde- bound prejudice Indulged in and eusT- i styles himself as "Fair Plav" and the writer of this artlale Is that he was born In North Carolina because be could not help It while I happen to be citizen of this state by choice, a is a question I leave to the reader to settle who really believes in fair play. I want to aild that the principal reason why I and as I verily believe thousands of others have left the land of the kaiser was because of the earns solrlt that at.lnir.ted the writer who attacked mo heeauso I am still seeking freedom of thought nnd action In securing for myself and those of sim ilar political views believe In the free exercise of the franchise to vote ac cording to the dictates of one's oon- j science without any interference of any poltlcal boss or trickster on earth and I want to reassert right here and now that too over my signature that 1 stamt ready and am prepared to make the proof of (very statement or Intinatior. contained In my former article over the sworn signatures of a nuii! ber ut n.tl iral horn North Caro linians many of ihni formally bound and shackled by s contemptable and hurtful system t f katserlsm as was ever displayed in any foreign country by William llohenzollern or any other king or pnttr.ate that ever thrust his iron heel upon a prostrate people any whero upon t lie face of Gods green ' earth. I I believe that right here In North Carolina thi ie nie thousands of natural born citizens who believe in the theory 1 of our country being carried out and practiced by Its people In elections either In primary or the one of last resort as th y do In matters of re jligion on bended knee In the prayer (meeting. Sunday school or the church j will believe the boys who gallantly displayed their valor in the service of jour country who upon their sacred (oath swear with uplifted hand or with warm lips pressed upon the Bible of SHEARS AND PASTE Mr. Lane's Suggestions. Secretary ot the Interior Lane, who looked over the section in the vicinity of Wilmington in connection with the government scheme to eettle returned soldiers on vacant lands and develop prosperous farmir g communities, in siiK'St m the things necessary to banish Isolation and make people con tent in the rural districts, mentioned good roads, schools, stores, moving picture shows, a place to dance and a church. The report of the secretary's address, sent from Wilmington to the Ureensboro News, mentions (he need in the order named the moving pic ture show and the dance hall before the church. Of course Mr. Lane had, no idea of making the movies and the dance hall more Important than the chutch. He wat simply stating a well established fact that plaoes of enter- tainment must be provided for young people If they are expected to stay content In rural communities. But hia remarks, as reported, are more than likely to set some of th church folks after him. Speaking of roads, too. the secretary should know that the disposition now is to let CJeorge do it George In this case being your Uncle Sam. Norta Carolina people have built many roada themselves have done splendid work In road building, their e (Torts In up keep not being so praiseworthy. Lat terly, however, the disposition Is to ask the federal and state governments preferably the former to build tmt roads. If the government will build the roads for us local capital will pro vide the schoolP, churches, stores, mov ing picture shows and dance halls. The Landmark is delighted that Sec retary Line has visited North Carolina In behalf of this laudable purpose, which is not only to provide a place for soldiers but which means the de velopment of waste lands Into prosper ous agricultural communities. The people of the state should lend every effort to help make this plan a Success. Statesville Landmark. Mr. Morrlaon's Candidacy. Present indications point to a lively fight in the primary in 1920 for the Democratic nomination for governor of North Carolina. It In now almost 18 months until the primary will be held, but one candidate has already thrown his hat In the ring;, Cam Mor rison, of Charlotte. The announcement of his candidacy came as no surprise. For sometime tt has been expeoted. Mr. Morrison Is well known In almost every county In the state. He has been a wheel horse for Democracy for many years past and has hosts of friends who will five wants to be governor because he sees in ine potmion "a larger opportunity to serve the state and Its people.' Them are other good men who want to be governor and others are expect ed to get in the running before the legislature adjourns early next March. There is no doubt but that he will have strong opposition. The friends of Lieut. Gov. Max Gardner are ex pecting him to announce himself as a nuiume i an eany aate. And there's former Congressman Bob Page and IO,rmer ',e' uov. . A. Doughton, who . mtty ,!ae. a ance at the gover- norshlp. Smithfleld Herald. Knded the Argument. (A letter to the St. Louis Post Dis patch.) Sir: My niece, five years old, was present yesterday at a heated discus sion as to wb.o was tlie direct cause of the war. She listened quietly and nueruiy anu iook advantage of a short silence io speaK: If I was C.od," she said. "I wouldn't have made the kaiser." That deUnltoIy closed the discussion. N. K. HL
Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, N.C.)
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