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I -'W ill ';' ..'Ml PobIi.h4 TeeeaVya ead FrUeye ' . ' ?.-. - LENOIR, W. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917 Prices Five Cent Copy No. 55 CEViEVV OF CRIMES OPX : HBE EJUS III 11 Heaver, Whitieek sad Other Offer TeetisaMy Barbarity La Bel-' . E. MORRilY BBUIIEHr L!M fifl.l FEME ISKSSOGIETyi: ifl'EVERY. SCHOOL RG3!J VH; ' ; , . , . ' i Call to Doty ' af - North Car alitu's Fif toasi TWand V I, PeUte School 4 .Te.chars,f ' ill GERMAN PKCE TERMS Mi BHTHE ROSSIS Germany to Ceatral Wheat Mar... ket for Fifteen Tear; Car naa Goods to Ba Dety-Frae mR ACTIVITIES BEGOfl; GETS 14 MONTHS Wrk Profrf Mbf SplftJidly im Por- The Sattate Ordara e Prahwef the S. R. McCarkU Take Apeal " Goaa Back to tha Jail ia Default of tha Re quired $500 Bond Bat to Rica -Parf Rieaa Traopa to '' Allagad Amy Clatkiag Short agw aad Other Matter--Te Put Pancb U Work . . ' fieai ead Praace Gevera- seems Report. - Colombia, S. CPraba fM Battery; E ',. . f . ' t i El ft: 4 Some of the blackest pages is all history,' comprising j' i documeitarj record of "deeds that make one de spair' of the , fatare of the human , race, 'are found In a book named "German War Pmtieee. which baa ' just been issued mi-fbV government - printing oOce by the committee on .. public information for free distribu tion. 4It Is edited by Prof. D.' a ' Munro of Princeton and other schol ars. ' The tftunbf ounding evidence which .this book' presents to the jury of .mankind If draw mainly from Ger , man andJAmericaii sources, and ln Iodea efleial proclamations snd ut terancea. of tha responsible heads of .tan ' imperial Germaa-; government, letters nl jliarios pf German sol ; V diera, quotations from Germaa news spervnd material drawn from the archive - of the state C department 'which Uy .bare ,tiio. story, of incon- eeiTable : German atrocities.. , The purpose of the book is to show that the .system of f rightfulneaa; it self the greatest atrocity, is the defi- ' mite 'policy of - the German govern ment, to sinister that German aoj- diers have themselves at times re- volted. Individual acts of ' wanton , eruelty an dbarbaric "destruction are - itod.onlf UUltstrate the Operation , ax the remorseless system. " The book supplements the Bryce report which waa5 toe first official sur vey 01 too pata et Horror, jrutn an ' death left by .the 'German armr on " the lands of inoocezii and defenseless people, jrhe book ;lr. 'uppieb4ltal . aWVo1 the official reports by the Bel- 1 jfi&u iommiaaion and the French min Vter of f6reign affairs, and: it re . yeals more f tite damning Gerinaa war philosophy as expressed in the . German White Book and various of ficial tteranees:f exteduatinc reveiV lne? crimes, on the Rounds of exnedi- ncy and fhe 'advattcemenl of that .. fKultur", which now mocks its, own t ame throughout the civilised World. ' .The humanity, ; of German soldiers ' was so torn by the system of brutal ity that they cried out in letters to AtsjbAss expressing . his protest, against the slaughter of " the Russians In the Masurian lakes and swamps by saying, "There Js "no God there ' is no morality, 'and no ethics any more: there are no huran - neings any more, oai pniy peaaxa.'; t The niuminating reports of Brand Whitlock; minister to Belgium, tell of miseries inflicted upon . the Bel -i gian; people, Mr. Whitlock laying: f'One id so overwhelmed with the hor- ' Wr. ;o,.thi.!:1that4t:luH been, nd even now is, 1 difficult to write calmly an4 Justly about it." u r Herbert Hoover, writing v f or , this s- Wok of his experiences in Belgium, sayst ',jtlo sight bf. the destroyed homes and cities, the widowed fatherless, the destitute, the phyai eal misery of the people but partially . nourished t best, the deportation of men hy tens of tiiouaands to slavery in German mines and factories, the execution of men and women for pal- ' (Ctinei M two) ONE :fel&V.I BER SNOWf fill IN Hl$TORy r Vyirgia';K6rthVs4;-Souti''- Caro- - lina and northeast Georgia Were cov V - lered yestr4a by one of the heaviest ; December snowfalls in history, t u1 i? From the mountains to tidewater ; in theOli Dominion anow which be- " kaii'; falling r early TuesaVnight is Jfeported.io .h'-Mh.de'if ' ; trom.yighi' ;tim ' Inches. Newport f fewa nao tne neaviess precipitation , PUneteen, years,, accoi-)Jiio 'u 'vLW accounts, a ten-tech fall tc- tirtpanylng severe cold weather and -high winds virtually tying up ship- ping: it ' tho -Uatnpton 3i"Boads port. Roanoke reported fall of v eight inches, j ? vj ; v ' ' ,j In North Carolina also, the inow- fall was the heaviest near the coast' Y; ' ' Raleigh reported level -inches, while ,", ; n the mountain city of Asheville the " depth was only iour inches. V ; Columbia Mas barely t0yeredkun tf, ' ' dor an inch of snow, but in the north T " trn and 'western Sections of iouth t Carolina from three ' to' four inches 'of snow were reported. i V- ' I '. ' From ' northeastern . Georgia came reports -of anew te a' depth of three jhch,eel t.Uncia Sam's 'call for men ia the forest service has1 been nobly re- mionded to. , Entire renments o men from this service have joinedlhe colors. ' They are needed for tmpor tsn'iad" pbrtcnlsr woral U Prancf lo'help carry on the war of democ racy.-,- ;'- .'-'x :;;;-: ,' From Porto Rico Mr. E. Murray Bruaer-writes The News .thai When bis special missies ia completed ther the next puce wm prooaoiy do France. C,Whil in . Porto Rico Mr. Bruner keeps an eye oa Caldwell an is1 interested in every progressive movs "the county makes, He spent two years here in forestry work and he realisef the importance ot a sys tem of roads connecting this fores with the ewtsidiThii is tTn more imoortant now than when. Mr. Bru ner was fceavv The establishment of the. " Grandfather National Pari makes this so, for at no great distant f?ni. : afbsr r' the war ' is' over, the Grandfather National Park will be one Of the most, important tourist attractiona of the South. Mr. Bru nei's letter reads: t;;f j VRio Piedras, P. R., '. "Dec. 1,1917. fMy work is cpming on splendidly here in Porto .Rico. In fact I guess the most Important part is done, for the legialature has just passed tne best forestry law I know of tor tne creation of a first-class forest sea vice in . Port Rico to take up thf work of reforestatton. v My next task hi to get our own national forest here wthe Laqulllo cations! fores- un der regular omnizatioa and edmin- (strsiieiv nnd after that I skppeee will m to France. . - . r - I read with great delight the bi part Caldwell is playing jn the ort ganisatioa of BattetfE, etcf It il aso jfc grf at jleasmrf to now tha n.'iipl . cmnA omrli has been done Will not let up on the campaign for raal avatam of roads for the county , "One hundred and eighty officers have just t been commissioned froia) thi pbrto Itico traihint campi Twelve thousand men will be drafted here 1 the first calL The present plan is te send the officers and the 8,000 of the drafted men who are white to the cantonment .at Columbia. S. C. lust haw they 'will handlfl Uh 1,000 cofe ored snem is hot vet determined. Of the 180 officers about 25 are from fhri.BtM.';WrMt re native white Porto c Ricana. They are splendid appearing and carefully se lected bunch of fellows and no doub will hold their own all right wHcri ever they are sent. Very sincerely yours, ' E. M0RRA1T BRUNET Mareary Stood at 6H Balaw Yaatar- day btorulns Ww 8 in JSW ' IS Balow Zero at Blaw-y :- "h... in( Rock r The cold wave that has been com ing out if the west' since Jest Safr urday has held the -whole country i the B-rin of snow and ice. The mer cury here yesterday morning reached the lowest point since 1898 nine teen years ano. . The . government theAometet registered i i.belo tern' and at no-time aurjna tn aay AiA it Mt far above that point Mon day Vnd -Tuesday mornings it regis tered i above sero. During the night Tuesday snow began , falling, and Wednesday morning bad reached debtb. of about eight inches. Again yesterday for k short time fine inow f1l hut it was almost too cold wither febaorvera say, for it to con tinne falling. -.v''' ' The streams have been frosen ever eil the week, according I to." people coming' to town. John's river, Wft son's creek knd Pu(talO( were frosen over for the first time in yeara.: Ice On tn pand at Patterson was four niches thick, A rtelephbne message from Blow- tog Rock - yesterday'; said v that ' the thermometer there registered IS de- rrees below sire. .-,., ,.r t v' COLDEST The hour is at hand when, every patriotic American eitizens, whether at, home" or oh the far-flung battle front must do, not his bit but bis utmost to help win the war. To the fifteen thousand public school teach ers of North Carolina conies the caQ to help ' win the war by organizing war Savings societies In every school room in the state and in encouraging their pupils and patrons to do. .their utmost by lending the - government money with, which to feed, clothe and equip the soldiers in training at the front . , - - 'On Patriotic Day, which ia soon to be observed in every schoolhouse' in the state, the patriotic fervor of the hchildren and patrons will be aroused to the kindling point What a loss it will be if this enkindled pa triotism is allowed to subside with out Iteing converted into; energy with which to help win the war! 'Every school teacher in the state (s asked to give a practical tum to Patriotic Day by- organizing a war savings society in his or her school room. One of these societies may be Organized as soon as ten persons be come war-savers by purchasing one or more thrift stamps iccording to the plan of the national' war savings Committee The teachers are also nrzed.to stimulate patriotic rivalry among tbe children by encouraging them to en ter training for tne, army ox tnnn. Aa soon as a' child becomes si war saver and joins the war , garings. so ciety he is eligible to strive to enter t e army of thrift When he gets n other persons to purchase h $100 war savings certificate each he be comes a soldier of thrift and receives from the government an appropriate badge; when he gets twenty-five per sons to purchase a $100 war savings Certificate each he becomes a captain pf , thrift; one hundred certificates, a colonel of thrift and when he has caused the purchase of two hundred certificates he will be made a general of thrift and his name will be en tered in a permanent register ia the Office of the sentary Of the treas ury tn Washington and he wiu oe immortalized at a soldier of thrift i The wonderful opportunity, .both for patriotic serf ice .and for self- help in the war savings plan must be apparent Every time a child buys S thrift stamp he is lending twenty- five cents to his government, which will give a meal to a soldier. Twen ty-five cents may not be much, but remember that just one thrift stamp purchased by each . citizen of the United States will amount to $25,- 000,000 y , Every .time he purchases sixteen thrift stamps and, with the addition of a few centsi- converts them into a war savings stamp, he invests money which will bear him 1 ner cent interest compounded quarterly, to be paid to him, princi bal and interest, in five years. The savings 'of the child, small as they may be. may give him a start with which to complete his education, or with which to ge inte buBiness for himself. : More than tiiat and better hen tUt thi habit Of savihg incut Cated by this campaign, may check his tendency to be a spendthrift and make him appreciate the moral value Of economy and thrift ; F. H. FRIES, State Director National War Savings I Committee MANY GERMANS ARE rrARREsTSD, AT HALIFAX Wholesale arreBts of German mi dents ;of Halifax were begun by the jbolice this week. ,Thta 'action was taken under the instructions from the military authorities. $ Sixteen 1 Germans were taken into fuatody within a short time. Military Officers after a short inquiry released ji few of them The ethers are held hi tho county jail. s The authorities refused to disclose Whether they had evidence against the Germans.", - SIBERIA HAS cut off , ;t r FOOD TO RUSSIA iJA TWa ttWAoUMal atAiMMAtklAt e fit. jberia has ordered the stoppage of ood supplies for European Reset, j particularly Petrograd; on the grouad tMt may assist ueraany v Sten were initiated la Coneress this week to obtain fuller informa tion about and establish closer con nection with , the government's war activities, past and future. - A general inquiry into the work of tho war department especially in arming -and equipping the nation's loan-power was 'of dered by the Sen ate -mflitary committee. Capitol eadera said it was the forerunner of similar investigations of all phases which would in a measure accom- of. executive conduct of the. war-, plish the purpose of the proposed einl committee for 4lhS conduct. of the war." The joint committee idea was abandoned at the last session because of President Wilson's oppo sition,. '.,'.. Inquiries by standing committees into the navy department's activities'' and the work of the shipping board and I other wartime agenees of the government were said to be contem plated. ; f The war department inquiry be gan Wednesday, when Gen. Crozier appeared before the Senate commit tee to testify regarding ordnance manufacture and supply. Secretary Baker and general staff officers, as Well as departihental and field com manders, will follow. Senator Cham berlain, chairman of the committee, said, much of the testimony would be confidential and given in executive session, though some of the sessions would be public. K ,-Tbe decisipn to inquire into the war department's operations came after two hours' discussion of reports from Senators who have visited army eisnps Senators Chamberlain, Wida- worth, FreHnhuyaen snd others told of conditions observed and reported to them, fspecWly regarding lack o clothing in many camps) Uck of ord nance and unsatisfactory sanitary conditions ' " ; : It Lis understock . the committeo heard of large quotas of men in camp lacking overcoats and winter clothing, of .ordnance shortage re sulting In the; use of broom sticks for rifles; and wooden makeshifts for cannon. The alleged clothing snort age and its possible, relation to the large number of pneumonia cases in the cantonment were discussed. Transportation of soldiers and re ports that they haye beep crowded into trains and not properly rationed and contracts for bulldmg canton ments Snd furnishing supplies are other matters en which the investi gation will touch.. . That the purpose of the army in quiry is constructive and not critical was emphasized by Senator Cham berlain snd others. He said it is proposed to inquire What, if any, mistakes have been made, extrava gances or errors committed and to assist in preventing their repetition, "We propose to have 'punch' put into the., war preparations if they need it" said another member of the committee; "to have new and young er blood and methods supplant old, Jf necessary,, and to insure the great est future efficiency." GERMANY CANT HOLD OUT LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS Amst!am "Dee. 16. A pro-German Dutchman has returned after several weeks' stay in Germany and gives the Handelsblad a pessimistic report of' conditions, says a special cable, from the London Times to the dsb-;Nev';!; Ho declarfi tho Germans - cannot held out over six months.'' ;.: If the war continues long er tiie nation will become a physical ajio!.'entil "ifteV:rThsir food sup plies are little better than pigs' food and tiie, population is suffering. He saw three of his friends collapse front weakness. He says he will never forget h epitif ul impresvon the Ger man ' people made upon- him. .' t.H n.'n t I. R. F. D .CARRIERS ARE SELLING WAR SAVINGS'THRIFT STAMPS War savings and thrift stamps are being distributed through the R. F. D.' carriers aa well as through other branches of the postal service and through -the banka. -Every carrier eut of Leneir has a supply , of these stamps and ' will ho glad to explain the sale of thets W theii patreae, The A. H. E. church in Freedman is again preacherless on account of the new minister from Greensboro being unable to get bereJ It seems that McCorkle had "taking ways" other than in the pulpit and at pres ent he is on the inside looking out while the Lenoir parishioners are wondering if there's such a thing as an honest man. Of coarse every "nigger knows there's no harm in "robbin the roost" occasionally, but when it comes to 100-pound sacks of flour and things well, there's a limit. The Greensboro Daily News says: "Unless the Superior Court de cides otherwise Rev. S. R. McCorkle, the negro minister who was' arrested Friday for the larceny of a large amount of merchandise, must serve fourteen -months on the city streets, this being the term given him In po lice eourt when he was convicted in three, eases. Monday he was found guilty of stealing two sacks of " flour from -T. M. Bennett's grocery store and yesterday he was convicted of stealing a ham from the same store and of the larceny of shoes from the Fordham-Brown Shoe Company. "In the first case he was given eight months and in the other two three months each. Probable cause was found in the case in 'which he was charged with the larceny of $32.50 worth of merchandise from B. Stadium oY Co., and he was hound over to Superior Court, the munici pal court not having Jurisdiction in cases charging' the larceny of over $20. He was acquitted of stealing i pair of troneera front the 'Wallace Viotning company. "Tho negro did not take the stand to his ' own behalf yesterday, but through his "attorney pleaded not guilty in each ease. At the conclu sion of ho trial notice of appeal was given and his bond placed at $500. He was unable to raise this sum and Was, returned to Jafl. His bond for appearance In Superior Court in the case bound over was $200." DAVE CLARK PRESENTS MR. BERNHARDT. WITH A DEER A good-sized buck deer has been received by Mr. J. M. Bernhardt It is the present of Dave Clark, who is at Daydton, Va. The buck has a nice spread of antlers. Mr. Bern hardt intends to have the head mounted. It is far better to sign the food pledge card late than not at all. W KIRBY, LEK1IR !, KIllEO W WM Was Shot By Floyd Johaaott Wadaea- day AftaraoOB and Died Short ly Aft.rwerd. Will Be Boried Hare Roy Kirby, the son of Mrs, Ella Kirby, who Uvea in South Lenoir, was shot Wednesday afternoon at Gaatonia by a man named Floyd Johnson. Kirby died thirty minutes later at a local hospital. The shoot ing occurred at a store near the edge Of tho city, where Kirby and John son had gone as companions. Ac cording to the story brought here, both, men had stopped to talk with a woman on ' the store porch when Johnson went into the store to buy some cigarettes. When he fame out he said to Kirby; "You are talking to my girl," md fired one shot, which took , effect in Klrby's breast . Thf bullet,-which was fired front a .S2 caliber pistol, ranged downward and, lodged near the backbone. yS John son threw the pistol v away Wd,so the story gees, helped Kirby to the, hospital, where he died ..before an operation could be performed. John son was said to have been, drinking. He was immediately placed Under ar rest , i : ' . ..jvi,;,. Roy Kirby was about twenty years old and was working in a, cotton mill at 0f.4 H.4nos, .vr Ella Kirby, lives here In South Lenoir, to which place the body of her son was brought yeaterdsy. The burial will bo held today in Fairfielcl cemetery, ;' The causes for the Bolsheviki de-' pression referred to in recent dis patches from Petrograd are ex plained in the following dispatch1 according to a special cable from the-. London Times to the Greensborov Daily News,: -Petrogrkd, Dec 8. -It was stated on good authority in the course C informal conversations with the Rus sian and German delegates that the following terms were indicated, tho Utter as likely to form a part of any Geraan peace pourparlers: First, Germany is to obtain' for fifteew years tine control- of the RassUsa. wheat market enabling her to sat- isfy all her requirements; second, the- importation into Russia of all Ger-: man goods duty-free; third, that territory now occupied by Getmast troops is to be surrendered. Owinr to the continued successes by the -' ' eialist revolutionaries tha 'country ; constituencies of the Bolshevists has now lost even a relative majority ia -tiie assembly. - 4 "The government yesterday ar ' rested and imprisoned 'the tommia-' sion carged wtih the superintendencw ' of elections. There seems little' pros pect that the assembly will be al lowed to meet until it undergoes a j thorough overhauling at the hands of I the oarty now ia nower.'.- ' r "Petrograd, Dec 6.-Delayed.p " m V ' ... ' ' , i.; ' Disappointment evidently prevail among the Bolsheviki because of the reserved attitude' of the Germans in. , - the negotiations and for ther evident ,'" want of sympathy and political ideal-' ' v ,v. ism. The feeling of depression has ' ' increasedas ; reauIF of the "t4r' conference, the war credit voted by the reichstag, the Hindenburg's dec- laration in the Neue Freie Presse and1 the vigorous, militant speech of Free- 1 -; ident Wilsoa.:' . . y t h , "The end of the war seems remote, " but tho people's commisaohera pro- . . pose a new appeal to the allies. a hitherto nld" tiahrdlpuetaoinshrdlu , : "Kornilon succeeded imjoinins- 5 Kaledinea yesterday. An' armored , v train was dispatched by Kharkoff for the-purpose) of attacking Kaledinea troops., w";r a, . t s "Dismissal of public functionaries1 i . and the suppression of journals con ' tinu. Some of the latter reappear under ; other names. 1 A" few impris- ', oned journalists have been liber- ' ated." , CHRISTMAS BAG FOR EVERY ' r , AMERICAN SOLDIER IN FRANCE , . Every. American soldier in France , will receive a Christmas bag. The -first shipments, consighde to the American base hospital unite on "the British front, were sent forward hut .? : : Tuesday. ,;.-r-. -, t -Each bag contains two packages 1 of cigarettes, two of cigarette tobac- , so, two of pipe tobacco and one plug' s.' of tobacco, a toothbrush, tooth paste ' '-' and a wash cloth, a pair of shoe , laces, a needles roll, half a pound , of candy and a khaki handkerchief. v' , The bags have been made up by tho v A women's war relief corps Of the American Red Gross composed for the most part of AmericaVwomen v ' in Paris. :-,'' ''' ' v ,v' 'T 1 Nearly 150,000 bags have already--' ,-( been prepared. The bags are ade , ' of cloth witii a large Red Cross sew. 4 ed on the- side.'" V . i , - , ?i;VJ' DEATH UST IS PROBABLY NOT MORE THAN, 1,800 , ' Hslifaa N. S.,1 Dec. 12. A revised estimate today of the explosion ess' lY , , unities reduces the death list to ap proximately 1,800. The known dead total 600 mad It is believed that hot . , ' more than 1,000 bodiea and perhaps only 00 stiH lie Under the debris,' :. The list of victims is Steadily becom- - " ing smaller as relatives are reunited V V i and refugees return- , ; , From 300 to 400, persona are to'' 1 v tally or partly blind and 200 childrenvV,. -have each tost both parents, accords ing to the AaiericnrandtCatadJaa ; , , workers. , v,v'v.A -y A relief ship from Boston entered, the harbor today. : :- v,v j ; a, "-s t.1 For dessert serve fruit salad or fruit;; omolet : erOaM Jeheese" wit!' honey or fine ; preserVes: tntt i i- Jserta With honey or just enou ) sugar to bring out the fruit T-iizz. i
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