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LENOIR, N. C DECEMBER 7
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10 SdN Bl BEATTY
British Admiral Says Contempts
bleBehavior of German Navy
Merited Iti
Diigrace
' A scathing denunciation of the
perssonnel of the German navy
was made by Admiral Sir David
Beatty, commander-in-chief of the
British Grand Fleet, in a speech ad
dressed to a gathering of represen
tatives of the firsst batle crusier
squadron on board the battle cru
sier Lion, prior to its departure
for the Scapa Flow as an escort to
the surrendered sships of the Ger
man high seas fleet.
"We had expected them," said
Admiral Beatty, "to have the cour
age that we looked for from those
whose work lies upon the great
waters, and I am sure that the sides
of this gallant old ship, which has
been well hammered in the past,
must have ached as I ached, and as
you ached, to give them another tas
te of what we had intended for
them.
"Their humiliating end was the
proper end for an enemy who has
proved himself so laking in chiv
alry. At sea his strategy, his tac
tics, and his behavior have been
beneath contempt and worthhy of
a nation which has waged war in
t ehmanner in which the enemy has
waged war.
"We know that the British sail
or has a large heart and a short
memory. Try to harden the heart
and lengthen the memory; nad re
member that the enemy which you
are looking after is a despicable
biot worthy the sacrifice of the
life of one bluejacket in the grand
fleet, and that is the one bright
spot in the fact that he did not
come out."
London, Dec. 6. The Germans are
bui.ding an airplane with which they
intend trying a trip across the Atlan
tic and have a Zeppelin under con
struction with the same idea in view,
according to the correspondent at
Berlin of the Dai.y Express. The
correspondent said he learned this
when being shown over an aircraft
factory at Staaken, a suburb ot
Berlin, by the managing director, a
former naval officer.
The machine being constructea
there for the trans-Atlantic flight has
a wing spread of 198 feet and en
gines of 3.000 horsepower.
The correspondent says he has
learned that the Zeppeiin factory at
Frledrlchsaven is building an airship
for transAtlantic voyage capable of
carrying 100 passengers. It hii.
nine engines and eight propellors. It
wil! leave by July next if the inter
national situation clears up by thai
time.
OFFICERS OF ALEXANDER
ORGANIZE FOR BUSINESS
Taylorsville, Dee. f. The board of
county comi'iiss oners were in regu
lar session Monday. The new coun
ty officers took the oaths of office. J.
T. Hedrick and W. A. Barnett are
the new members of the board. Mr.
Hedrick was made chairman. W. E.
Boy.e of Hiddenite, was made county
attorney. The other business was
the r f Inr routine.
The .food roads commission was in
session Tuesday and re-organ zed by
reelecting R. L. Downs chairman and
electing W. A. Barnett secretary to
succeed B. F. Hines. They granted
Gwaltney township three roads, $4,
00 to be spent on two of them, $3,
000 on the other and $1,000 to be
used where it was most needed in the
township.
R, S. Echard of Taylorsville and
Wi son Malstead of Eilendale town
ship, have gone to Washington, D. C,
to accept poistions as mail clerks. Mr.
Echard wil Ibe on a Washington-Charlotte
train, and Mr. Milstead on a
Washington-Raleigh train.
There are seven cases of influenza
here today.
Not the least part in the work of
the American army in France has
been to make Brest a first rate sea
port. Improvements were made be
cause of m iitary necessities that
might have waited a hundred years
for accomplishment.
Winston Churchi 1 agrees with Col
onel Rooseve t, that the British fleet
should be supreme. Yes, but it need
not be abe to whip all the navies
in the world or else a league of na
tions would have a hard time in im
posing its will on the British.
The country has more confidence
In the president that ever, and it is
but truth to state that some of the
Democratic leaders do not share this
confidence. Regard ess of the caus
es, Lender Kitchin lost the Democrats
many votes in the north and west.
MORE THAN 300.000
I DEATHS FROM INFLUENZA
I Wasshington, Dec 4. Between
300,000 and 350,000 deaths from
influenza and pneumonia have oc
curred among the civilian popula
tion of theUuited States since
September 15, according to estima
tess today of the public health ser
vice. These calculations were based
on reports from cities and states
keeping accurate records and pub
lic health officials believe they are
conservative.
! The epidemic persists, but deaths
are much less numerous, according
to reports reaching here. A recru
descence of the disease now is soc
curring in many localities, but
this is believed to be sporadic am
not indicate a general renewal of
the severe epedimic conditions.
I Insurance companies have been
hit hard by the epedimic, govern
ment reports indicate. About 20,-
, 000 deaths cccurred in the camps
of the country.
To Dealers, Manufacturers, Pub
lic eating places and other dealers
in the use of sugar:
Effective December 1st the cer
tificate plan of sugar distribution
is rescinded. This smeanss that
from this date all purchases of su
gar may be made without certifi
cates, and the dealers may make
their orders for such amount as the
trade demands.
Please note the following
points:
(1) The 4-povjnd per person per
month ration for household and pu-
, blic eating places is still effective
and dealers well be expected to cou
fine their sales to consumers to this
amount.
(2) Sugar for dealerss, manu
facturers and otherss in this terri
tory must still be purchased from
Louisiana. In other words, zoning
restrictionss remain as they have j
been.
I (3) Merchants are still required
I to keep an accurate record of all
sugar sales; such records to be
'available for inspectors, County
Food Administrators or Food Ad
ministration officials on demand.
Yours very truly,
Henry A. Page,
Food Administrator
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
The proposed league of nations over
which the senate has been more or
less aroused in the past few days
would depend upon the popular will
of the peoples of the several nations
composing it as upon the constituted
authorities Just at this time, with
the casualty lists disclosing names
from every part of the United States,
it is safe to assume that the Ameri
can people endorse the princip e. The
Record does not know of a thought
fu. person who is not in favor of sucH
a league. Thinking people realize
that there must be joint action on
the part of several great powers if
one strong power, bent on conquest
and plunder, s to be restrained in
future from making war.
Had the former emperor of Ger
many been convinced that Eng and
would have entered the great world
war, for instance, we should have
been spared this calamity. Frederick
William, German crown prince, as
serted as much in h's interview th,
other day. And had the former
kaiser realized that the United
States would have been drawn into
the war also he never would have
consented to unleashing the terrible
German war dog.
The logic in favor of a league of
nations is so plain that it is d ft'icult
to comprehend those minds which
see in such a super-state, as some
would call the league, an object to
avoid.
If the etigue of nations is not an
mmedlate product of this war it
eventually will be. It is bound to
con)?, and it is the duty ofhe masse
of the people, rlcli and poor, to con
tend for such an organization unt 1
it is a fact. The peop'e who fur
nish material for the armies and na
v'es should and will be the judges
ms to its feasibility.
At antic City, N. J., Dee. 6. The
organized business men of the Unit
ed States through the reconstruction
congress decided to send a commis
sion to Europe to be available to thr
Amer'can peace delegates n the
event information is needed on tlu
economic situation at home,
him at the peace dinner.
INFORMATIVE READING
Named for president in 1920, Per
hing w 11 have time to ponder the
Vographies of Grant and Dewey.
Boston Herald.
"Lady Raleigh," who la d 223
eggs in one year is given publicity
by the American Trust Company of
Charlotte. A bird that will do that
trick will be worth her weight in
god n a few years at the present
price of hln fruit.
Peace Brings Us New Mouths to Feed
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PRFSiDFPiT I5SMI!
1 PAGEGONFERENGE
President U Now Speeding Across
the Atlantic Ocean Ship
Manned By Navy
Crew
New York, Dec. 4. Bound on a
mission, the principal objects of pun.shment of the men responsible
which are the abolition of milari- !for the war ho,vever high their place
tism and the attachment of a just , , . a . , ..
world peace, Woodrow Wilson, the ! he Pged the influence of the br.t
first President of the United States j ish delegates at the peace conference.
to visit Europe while in office, was
tonight speeding across the Atlan
tic toward France to attend the
yroatest international conference
in history.
On tne transport George Wash
ington, one time German passenger
liner, manned by a navy crew and
with deck guns ready for action,
and accompanied by a naval con
voy, the President left New York
harbor today amid a demonstra
tion winthout parallel in the history
of the port.
'1 i resident took hiss pi -ice
on the flying bridge as the great
ship moved down the bay.
.5.itpptsts8 Over Horizon
( i !' Ou. r nti'ie. where State n in
land throngs wave and shouted a
second farewell, and monitore, gun
boats ind arulier.. men at Fort
Hamilton joined in ssaluting gun
fire, the George Washington met
its ocean coiiey -tne superdread-
naught, Pennsylvania and a uuin- j
tet of destroyers. With her official '
consort and ten other desstroyer
which jioned the fleet for a cruie
to the limit of American territorial
waterss. trie ueorge VVasnington
dissappeared over the eotern hori
zon shortly after noon.
, i . ., o i 'eft n.s native shores,
according to perssons who confer
red with him before the George
against militarism in any form. He
feels that the crushing of Prussian
milaritism is part of his plan for
the future peace of the world,
these informants said.
ei.'.Hi -is. a seemed, of Amer
ica's part in bringing about Ger
many's downfall, the presidential
party, outbound, met some ot the
American hosts returning home.
Aomir.il Mayo Commands
Tn command of Admiral Mayo,
the peace squadron is sheading, it
is understood, for Brest. Its date
of arrival is uncertain, but a quick
passage is not required, as ample1
time remains for conferences pre-
liminary to a main peace assem
blage. Off the French coast the
President will be welcomed by a
squufron of American warships,
French, British and Italian vessels,
also, it is expected, will join the
greeting at sea.
,-!.' -t H K-v Mo-
MMr. and Mrs. Y. D. Moore, arri
ved home Monday from the offi
cers' training school at Gamp Tay
lor, Ky. The school was closed
on account of the ending of the war.
The officer students were mustered
out Saturday. Sergeant Moore
will be connected with his
at the Lenoir Book Co.
father
T e ;e:.::.:t .op s sj d to b" tl.rt.
m 1 io , hi h Is s .o.t nr.i i.isU.m o
',.. .-.. - . h (or a nick e you
will probably receive 17.
CHARLOTTE LAD RLEASED
Washing. on, D3C. 6. Corporal John
Edward Johnson, 408 west Hill
street, Charlotte. N. C, has been re
eased from a German prison camp
and has arrived in France. Johnson's
name was included in a list of rep
atriated American prisoners.
London, Dec. 6. In details of re
statement of his pol cy Issued by
Lloyd George calling for the trial and
In declaring for the expu sion and
exclusion of a'l enemy aliens from
Brtish sol, the prem'er pointed out
that a considerable proportion or
'"lemy residents in the Un ted K ng-inb'e firing has occurred in the prin
'om during the war had abjsd Br::- c.pa'. streets, according to reports
'sh hospita'ity anj t'uis had forfe t-1 reaching the Dutch-German frontier,
! their c'.i ms to live here.
' The kaiser must be prosecuted
';i! ,t"rrib e (rime! It wps a crime1
ho debts that ? 1: was a fr gut -
I'ul, terrible crime!
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:i 1 n the de ibe: .
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t was planneJ
wuntonnos
...th wi eh it
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pruv: ktd. It was
u invasion of a
also a ei me in tlu
,?lphs .t e sf.it i
les pr:u t eed ag i :i.-t
state. Ri member !
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NATICNS PREFER ENGLAND
j
j Ky th Assoc, ated Pre
London, Dec. 5 Nai.ves of Ge;
many's colonies want to come under
i'.nt.sh rule says Wa ter Hume
Long, secretary of s ate for colonies,
spelli ng at Westmin ster tonight,
: rd '!oc ara(1:
"Our representatives at the pence
conference should see that the case Turkey. This year even Germany, ceeded in seding American offi
for our retention of those co'on'es is'nas a bone to pick with him. icial, if "we except Congressman Buch
put forward in full strength. It
will be a gross injustice to our great
dominion to tell them that those col
onies which they conquered with their
b'ood, are to pass under any control
except the British empire."
EMPLOYES REINSTATED
py (jle Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. t Increased
wages and reinstatement of two em
p oyes were ordered by the war labor
board in the Atlanta street car cas
es. Wages of conductors are to be
Hi!, 38 and 40 cents an hour. Wages
of o'her employes are to be increas
! ed on the same basis. Emp oyes
son of wonder 21 are to receive a minimum
of 36 cents an hour.
No wonder the German
crown
pr'nee had the reputation of being ir -
rational in Germany. He appeared
to be the on y person of consequence
;n the empire who saw clearly what
!the war would mean to Germany.
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Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 4.-Atten-
t 0". s called to the co nctdence
'Mt Preside f Wion wi 1 arrive in
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AR. M. C. TRIPLETT
DIES IN LINCOLNTON
Mr. Mack C. Triplett died Wed
iesday morning at 10 o'clock in a
-incolnton hospital where he had
een for treatment since Sundav.
His body was sbrought to Lenoir
Tuesday and the funeral service!
vere held at his home on Asshe St. Land at that Port Will Pre
Iv'ednesday afternoon at three o'- ! pare Big Celebration For
lock. The interment took at Bel- J Homecoming.
leview Cemetery immediately af- j
er the funeral. He was a member ! Newport .Wws expe.-t the 30 th
t' the Knights of Pythias and the division to land at tr.at port when
Masons. The burial was conduct-' they return from France and ismak
h with Masonic honors. ing plans for one if ;hc b gge: eel
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. ebrations ever held at thhat port,
-alvin C. Triplett of Lenoir and The 30th division, which includes
vas about 4U years of age. He is Battery E, will be given a big
urvived by a wife and four chil- homecoming, according to the fol
ren. He is also survived by three lowing leter from former Captain
isters and five brothers. B. F. Williams of Battery E, who
is now in Newport News. The let
Washington, J3ec. 6.-tXew hos-, ter, 4folloW3J, , . . , ,,
. . . . .. . . , At a Thanksgiving rally neld
p.tais at Norfolk, sites yet to be sc !of this city Gen Ferguson, in
.ected in North Carolina, the Massa- charge of embarkation at this city
chusetts Berkshire hills and at statement during his address:
.Wfo . i. ara.; v, a, '"It is more likely that the 30th
charged so uiers. Assistant Surgeon
Simpson of the public health service
today told the house public buildings
, ,
committee in asking for an appro-
pr.ation for this purpose.
An add t on is also planned at the
Marie Hospital in New Orleans.
.
Representative Carter Glass of
Virginia will be acceptable to the
country as secretary or tne treasury,
! He is well qualified for the position,!
h: momiui, n r.-, thQ kor,v;., ,i
ii 11)1.111 lsv i o 1 1 . p j .i tnu 1 u 1 1 1 1 1 1 auu
currency committee, of which he has
been chairman under Democratic con-
trol, well fitting h m for his new du-
. ,,- j t j . , - i
ties. We do not wonder at his hesi-
tancy .n accepting the post, how-
ever, for even if a Democrat should
be elected president in 1920, this
... ,, ,
executive probab y would have a
personal choice for the office. And
Mr. Glass had his d str;ct sewed up.
The suggestion from London that
the German ships probably would be
sunk to avo'd contentions among the
allies left a persimmon-like impres
sion. Since that time, however, the
ex-kaiser's Black sea fleet has been
distributed and the gTand seas fleet
soon wi.l go to new owners.
London, Dec. 6. Prince Adelbert,
third son of the German emperor,
has joined the present government,
according to a Berlin dispatch to the
Sxpress. It was said he is at Pots
dam. London, Dec. 6. Serious disorders
have arisen n Berlin and consider-
! recording to an Exchange telegraph
id'spatch from Amsterdam.
The trouble is sad to have been
1 caused bv the German boishevlki.
The Zurich correspondent of the
Tar's Jotirnnl reported Thursday
:!v.t he h?.d rec? ved advices that h
irrer'st revo ution would break out
n Berlin Fridnv even ng. T''e rev-
1 olters. it was siid, wou d be led by
I.'ebkneeht, .he radical Socialist, who
was sa d to have 15,000 well armed .
men.
(II ITH SEW
"I understood you ,o say the o'.h
t r day that your w fe was ill. but I
suppose she is better. I saw her
this morning sitting by tie w ndow
sewing." said one man to another.
Qu te r.ght!" rep'ied the other. "As
you observed todav, she is on the
mend!" Bridgeton Even ng News.
! VN OTHER BONE PART
i.nt Tank-striv'no- th Wnie,. hA
IS THERE NO EXPLANATION
'
And now, according to Copenhagen,0
dispatches, Ludendorff has fled to
Sweden. Is there any who did not
show the yello wstreak when the
pinch came? New York Herald.
With t1 c nr can Army of Occupa
tion, D . .'.Studied indifference
again c. raeterized the German re-
ception of American troops on theii
way to the Rhine today. General
Dickman's army resumed its march at
daylight and by nightfall had reacheu;
a line 12 miles eastward.
Scores of additional villages and
small towns were Drought under the
domination of the American army,
but none of them of great inipoi-
j tanee.
i General Pershing has issued a proc
i Inmat'on calling upon the people t
return to their pursuits and assuring
I them if they do not interfere win,
the military, they will not be molested
i
At Treves 130 airplanes were found
, ,).. ji: u
I -ouv tui ucivciy I.U UIC allies, rt
'"m'l quantity of suonlies was also
t 4 .u . v i. r.
left there by the Germans.
Newport New Expt-cts Boyt
to
division will land at this port on its
return from France, and if it does,
I want this city to give this divi-
sion- which is composed of troops
from North Carolina, South Caro-
Jina and Tennesseei a real ovation.
It was this division that first broke
i through the Hindenburg line, and
,made 8Uch an ,?nslaUf L " fthe
1 Germans, regardless of the cost in
lives of its brave men. It has done
more hard fighting, and lost more
men in battle.than any other div-
sion, with the qossible exception of
the Rainbow Division.
"'As Battery E and
11 other
ompanieV
volunteer batteries an
frnm Ynrth Pnrnlinn rp nn rhp Hi-
xi3lon j thouJfht the foliis aback
home would be glad to hear of this
Teat compliment paid our boys
who have covered themselves with
, . uui i n
such imperishable glory. Gen.
Ferguson is a North Carolinian, and
has just returned from France
when he ,was appointed to his post;
your readers well remember him
M the officer who raised the Maine
in Havana Harbor.' "
Washington, Dec. 6. In telling
his story of German propoganda m
America, A. Bruce A. Bielaski, chiet
of the bureau of investigation of the
department of justtvC, today laid be
fore the senate committee investigat
ing brewery and German propoganda
cablegrams exchanged in 1916 be
twaan Ambassador Liernstoiff aid the
German fore'gn office.
One of Bernstorff's messages urg
ed that spjeial favor be shown to
William Bayard Hale, an American
about to visit Berlin as an American
newspaper correspondent, because
he was employed by the Hearst or
gans, favorable to the German cause.
Bie'aski told the committee thai
Ha e was r.i the Hearst payroll of
.303 a we'll and also was employed
rt $15."0') a year by a public'ty o.
gani?.a' 'o- fc.T.-ed in this country by
Bernard !:::buBg.
Suggesting on June 2, 1916, that
the t'me was favorable to "gev
Hearst to send a first rate journalist
to Berlin,'' Bernstorff told 'he foreigu
office that the man selected wa3 Hale,
who had been a confident al agjnt
of the embassy.
"Hears" the ambassc "r's roes-
C '1 IT0
no. aw; re tnat Hale
our agen . but ;:o s h m on v as
a Germanoph; e jo.irna ist. vio has
contributed art 'c is to leading pa
pers." Hale, accor iing to Mr. B'slasS...
was paid by the German gov irnme.ni
to visit Rumania and if poss b e pre
vent the entrance of that nation
into the war
Mr Hearst. Mr. Biei-
ask sa:d was ignorant of Hale's
mission.
Bielaski sa d Germany never suc-
anan of Illinois who got mixed w tn
von Rintelen in labor's peace coun-
i if
JTom the d.ary of Dr. Karl A.
Fuehr, a German agent brought to
America by von Bernstorff, was pro
duced a paper labeled "important list
of names," which Mr. Bielaski si d
contained practically all who wert.
actively pro-German prior to the war
and some who were active after
wards.
The list included: Dr Walter S.
McNeill. Richmond Dr. David S' -:t
Jordan, Berkley. Cah: Peter S. Gro?s-
CUP- United St.res nreral judge. M
land Pa'm, Hi.- Oswa d Garr son
lard. New Y rk Even'ng Post; V
i'a Rando'ph Hearst, Hermnn F. ii
uer, New York Staats Z? tung.
DR. C. L. WILSON SUCEEDS
I.1F.UTF.NANT W1I SON M Of
Dr. C. L. W 'on. who nine man
& sa?e volunteered his services to
"'???n t T"
ven a commisim a5 first lieu ten-
ant in the Medical Reserve Corps,
v.. A.
irvi;,cu u inv !! C 911IW WV
8ning oi tne arm stice, and is now
at nome- Dr. W; or has already
rMumd hi, nrrt;- 7
resumed his practice here.
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