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THE ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ROBESONIAN COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH VOL. IXL LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY. JUNE 3, 1918. $2.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCE NUMBER 33 U-BOAT SINKS NUMBER OF MERCHANTMEN . - . "7. ... r,m rflKTFR iitnp cru maii cnv npnwNcn stop shippins " vnvniinij flour into state HIGH SCHOOL FINA i ' I A dispatch at 2:45 p. m. today states that a German submarine operating on the English coast near Nantucket sound fired upon and sank a number of merchantmen. The French made a number of counter attacks last night and made gains at many points and took prisoners. A violent German attack on both sides the road between Chateau-Thierry and Paris was broken up by the French. THE BATTLE , FAR PARK -Young Men of Robeson District 1 , 14-Year-Old Escar BuUard Drown- North Carolna Merch win xvegister at uoun nouse j ea m iiumoer Kiver jfnaay Funeral Sunday at Boardman. From Strength of Foch's Reserves Has Been Felt French Have Re w captured Several Vantage Points. A TURN IN THE BATTLE We Registration Place of District 2i At Red Springs. As has been stated repeatedly in! The Robesonian, all young men who have reached the age of 21 years; since June 5, 1917, or who will be come 21 on or before June 5, this year, must register for military duty Wed nesday of this week between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. Red Springs is the registration place for young men of Robeson division No. 2. Young men of Robeson district No. 1 will register in Lumberton at the court house, where the following reg istrars will be on duty all day: L. M. Oliver, W. Lemon, O. H. Bracy, R. H. Crichton, J. Robert Prevatt. Ed. Rancke. V. 0. Thompson, T A. Mc Neill, Jr. BROWN WINS IN 4TH; McGIRT SEEMS WINNER IN 3RD to Refrain Importing Flour North Carolina's Share is Within Her Borders. TERRIBLE WARNING TO BOYS Escar, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Win. P. Bullard, was drowned in Lumber River about a mile north of town Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The unfortunate boy was bathing in the river with a number of other small boys. He could not swim anJ ventured out too far. A small boy who was on the hill and saw the Bullard boy drown hur ried to town and made it known. It was not long before a young men were searching for the body, which was found about 40 min utes afterwards. The body was. the bottom around 25 yards from where it last wert down and was first found by Mr. John G. Proctor. After Raleigh, June 2 ."Based on the to tal supply in the United States for home consumption, and considering the decreased consumption by vur people, there is within the borders of eVr Carlina our share end more of flour," today stated Food Admin istrator Henry A- Page. "This being true I am calling upon the wholesale and retail merchants of Norr Caro lina to refrain from sending further orders for flour to mills outside of North Carolina. "The larger mills which hav number ox i astomed to ship tremendou; quan- UM i iiour into JNorth Carolina rre mit i?f them close to export points and all of them are in position to pack ---ur xor export. ineretore, vr,-re merchants KIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS i '('ie f Lum'erfon Splendid Address Bv Pf R i iri S"nt Ro'eson.an on June 1st a u .aaress By Prof. R. L. Flow- cotton square from his farm. era of Trinity College Diplomas I Relatives of Capt. J B Bwen Delivered to Eight Girls and Three jTsThSKreti lhi ?S V'. ay, ?..e suJ ir. trie da.K as Boys Graduating Exercises Friday to his 'hereabouts. Evening Bu1 Singletary was i ofore Re corder E. M. Eritt Saturdav on the generation ever went out int U1 pretense. tie was into foun(j not gujky. mi muic ui me can to live and achieve than this, Prof. R. L. The condition of Mr. R. R Barnes it. . ii Liie wona with more of the cal even . M North Carolina could secure from such j-,, - Jl JA.. .v. AJ. - . - i. uaiucs flowers of Trimtv collem tnU th. Of Barnesvule. who was rit-wniiv ,n g:aduaang class of the Lumberton Saturday, is reported as being some high sc.ioo! at the school auditorium what improved today. Friuay morning in one of the Mnest-i t u l t ing phrases, but h errinnorl hia a; I Mr. Ike Lee Benton nnH xi;aa . mo a u'i.- - v iuioa bare the purposes m that soul the hnnv was Innate Vw AitAvtrr - .T ' avuwwm -' Ul r lll m - . - nr t i , -r, 3 can -fr-nrvi T v. t- i: -n . n t-i.- r.-A... . . . a i uessrs. jonn ana itooert froctor. , " "Uli-11 oruiui nmis w SEEMS NOT FAK UUHWip-""1 fteiu rrom "sl"cl Jack Edmund, Adrian Britt and Steph-I nave iiour avauable, I am going- toj every bit of efficiency and courage onows mat crown Defeated Wil-C11 kf uivc" j-ui il. me uuuy wasi . ; "- bwi ""-wih u:ur:g is not now I brougnt to shore by Messrs. Robert I v4 a mgner price. long one lives, but how much. He kerson for Road Board Incomplete! Proctor and Jack Edmund Dr. Jno.i-. f ? .no1 pretena to say that Utee saw in part: Knox was on the scene when the bo ly was recovered and Dr. T. C. Joha&oar ence wita a message in which he laid Leeta Mercer were married Thursdr- ff Op-mr. r,r A, eveninc ahnnf A i i- r dj .i f , a . 1 uc - vw ai me nomti. ared that there i uimufhina aa I of Mr. M. R tk-q,; .i - ' ,V C SOUl t.iat rpmal; nnt,wV.J I bv orv f fV,o. ...u i Li - i I -Mr. F. Ertel Carlvlp ha anKo and found for his hearers the nav; and a J-V - , I I rt- Ul Kiiuwieage and of truth Lro,cea that wilder and old --- "7 - . - - cuicni, tie sain. tnat is going to call for 5' in fSall for duty in the near future. Mr. I ictcuny Decome zi vears the best . mills their flour cheaper than they I blood, the most heroic sacrifices ard I Perat,on for app hich highest service, of this nation, for' i10"'-?300. hospital The strength of Gen. Foch's reserves has been felt by the armies of the German crown prince in "the battle for Paris." East of the line running from Sois Returns Indicate Defeat of McCor j mick in Third by McGirt. Complete returns from the five sons to Chateau Thierry, where the , townships constituting road district Germans Saturday in a continuation oooonent. Mr, A E. Wilkerson, for road com missioner. Mr. crown received 2)b nd to s?iv that ti.ou is sufficient flour in North Carolina 0 supuly anvthinEr likp thp nnml demand. What I do mean to sav k of their mighty strokes gained sever .i nitinnal villages and then at- tempted to proceed further westward,: vote? in the primary Saturday, while magnificent opposition was imposed: Mr. Wilkerson received only IS'?, bv Ihe newly strengthened lines and I Returns from all the townships in with terrific smashes the French j district No. 3 except Alfordsville give frvU rpraotured Lonjrpont, Corey, j Mr. L. L. McGirt 141 votes ?nd Mr. Faverolles and Troesnes, vantage; J. A. McCormick 89. While Alfords-nnint-s in the center of the line lead-' viile has not been heard from, it is ! fng to the forest of Villers Cotterets, j thought that Mr. McGirt was nomi which seems to be the present objec- j nated. tive here of the enemy. The vote in district No. 4 was as The Germans, however, still have follows: -in their possession the village of Vau- j Red Springs Brown 78 ; Wilkerson rezis, lying to the west of Soissons,l 105. and further south of Saconin Etj Raft Swamp Brown 8; Wilkerson Breuil, Chadun, Licy and Bouresches, i 8. the last named directly west of Cha-j Smith's Brown 59; Wilkerson 13. teau Thierry A little to the south-j Burnt Swamp Brown 96; Wilkerson west of Chateau Thierry the enemy j 1. has reached the Marne. i Saddletree Brown 33; Wilkerson 9. Nowhere has there been any at- j The vote in the four townships tpmnt hv the invaders to cross the ; heard fro min district No. 4 was: Pembroke McGirt 3; McCormick soon arrived and thev. with the aid i ..;ndv!r ' tnat if we are to sunnlv our A11;p trying to restore life to young Bul-i J1"1 the quantity they must have we lard, but to no avail. The remains! have as much flour in North Carolina were then turned nver tr thp urripr. ! as we are entitled to and as much in taking- establishment of Messrs. I P.rePor"iori as the people of any other I world. If the only thing that counts , the year 1918 axepnens e uarnes , , . The funeral was conducted from I i, more. we have no the Baptist church at Boardman by Rev. Dr. Chas. L. Greaves, paster of the First Baptist church of Lumber ton, yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and interment was made in the church cemetery. It is said that a number of small There are a considerablt? numher nf small mills in North Carolina which, heretofore, have been able to supply only their immediate territory but which, because of the conservation of flour by the people in 'heir respective communities, nave lor the market out boys who live about town have been' of their communities, consi ierable uruui.ities oi iiour. in scores ot in stances these small mills are not pre pared to pack flour for export or to UPPly it in sufficient quantities to arrant offering it for export and m is these small units of flour which heretofore improted ail or most of Mr. Page plans to divert to those mar kets in North Carolina which have their flour from outside the State. Mr slipping away from their parents and bathing in the river at the point where young Bullard was drowned. Marvin Barker, a small boy, who was in the stream at the time Bullard was drown ed, says the drowning boy got hold of him and almost carried him down with him. This should serve as a warning to other boys. DROVE OVER CHILDREN. 1 I 1 1 i 4. n - Z"1 W ,1 river ana at an points ensi ui uiau Thierry they are hugging the nortn ern bank of the stream. It is not improbable, however, that the tactics of the Germans have in view the ford ins of the river when the time is 62. Back Swamp rMcGirt 6; McCor mick 15. Thompson's McGirt 36; McCormick more propitious, for in the center otiju. the line between Chateau Thierry and The canvassing board is composed Rheims they have pushed back the ai-i of Mr. J. C. Everett of Maxton, chair lied front across the Rheims-Dormans j man; Mr. R. B. Branch, Red Springs, road between Olizy-Voilaine and j secretary; and Messrs. Dan McAr-Ville-en-Tardenos and are pressing j thur and M. M. Singletary . onward toward the Marne. This is the only point on this left wing, how- NITRATE THIS WEEK. ever, where the enemy has been able to make fresh gains, notwithstand- tofgte lMj Shipment Hag Arrived in Wilming. UIVISIUIIS UIW LUC UilttlC, OVWlc Ul ; ton But Re-Shipment Delayed By the best trained in the German army Having failed in all their efforts to conquer Rheims by direct assault it now seems to be the intention ot tne Germans further to widen their oc- Labor Shortage. Mr. W. K. Bethune, chairman of the ! cupation of the territory lying south! county committee to Iook after the of the Rheims-Dormans road and I uismuuuui i tUl thereby outflank the cathedral city I trate ot soda, advises The Robesonian and bring about its capitulation. In I that the soda he expected to deliver the fighting in the immediate vicinity ; last week did not arrive. However of Rheims the enemy won Fort de la he talked to Mr Walter Sraallbones of Pompelle. but his tenure was short- Wilmington who has charge of the lived, for the French in a counter-j shipping of the soda, and was advised attack recaptured it. that the soda was m W dmmgton and Taken all in all the seventh day of, would have been shipped ou. last the new battle found the allied line week, but for labor shortage. Mr from Soissons to Rheims, although it Bethune was told that the soda would had been bent back at various points,! be shipped out some time this week. i Robeson mirchasers will eet arouna 10 days and seemingly more capable of! per cent of their orders from that Named Dove Turned Out of Road and Drove Over and Killed 2 Negro Children. A news item in last Monday's Robesonian told of two colored chil dren being run down by an automo bile near White ville and killed. Since fha't'Miime two young men named Freedman of the Chadbourn section have been arrested. One of the Freed -mans turned State's evidence and ter-tified that he was in the car and that a man named Dove was driving the car when it struck the children. Dove has not been arrested and it is reported that he enlisted in the army after killing the two children. Freed man said the three men were drinking and that Dove drove the car out of the road in order to strike the chil dren, one of whom was instantly kill ed, and the other died in a short time. Mr. Jno. S. McNeil! underwent an ppendicitis at the :al Saturdav H; condition is as favorable as could be expected. Mr. M. G. McKenzie ani Miss Lulu M. Cassirl TT" , 1 . - " . V I vrnen tnis war broke out in 1914! to the Jennings cotton mills and we might have known that it was a i organized a Red Cross auxiliary with conflict of ideas and that the th"f!20 members. would come when we could not keep; -There are many men in Robeson To ?0t wantumore territory; . liable to indictment because of the we ai e fighting for human liberty. ! fact that they let the month of May Ihis nation stands as the hone of t'nP,rocc r. i; m. t . . - " -o veal ijio. T Tnicrnr r i J o . . I , n I ...,6..u, rmMxv uaica w nc, anyway: ivr. c .,., , We are going to pay more atten- MrS' Sarah An" Whlte wn. some tion to man power after this. One of i time ag u-derwent an operation for the most disappointing things is the!USS. appendicitis at tne Thompson physical condition doctors have found CTt retlulAned t0 her ho at in examining men for the army. The Blaaenboro today. Government has cleaned up territory h?3 Lacy Johnson of Hope Mills adjacent to the camps where men are ?s. accePted a position in Mr. A. in training and we are going to clean i Weinstein's department store. Sue be up everywhere and make a stronger 2an work Saturday. Miss Johnson and more efficient race. j formerly worked in the Weinstein We are not going to be so careless ! store, of expenditures as before. The war; Mr. W. J. Wilkerson of the Cen came just in time, for we were going ter section brought to The Robesonian on at a rate that would have plunged ; office Friday several stalks of oata us into despair. We are groins: : which measured five and a half feet. to put emphasis on the essential . Mr. Wilkerson says the oat crop in tmngs. We have been giving too much attention to sport and money na pleasure and dreas. All of us the miller sof the State requesting tnem to list their flour so that his of fice may put prospective buyers and sellers of flour in xirii-Vi t,ol, One of Occupants of CrtimM&m3n " Mr. Paee's reauest to flour dealers Page's office has sent out a letter to ! want wealth, of course, but there are resisting the enemy's onslaughts. Just how many men the Allies are oppos ing against the 45 German divisions that are now actively engaged on 'he shipload and since that load came into Wilmington another shipload has ar rived there and Mr. Bethune expects to get another per cent next week. wwi aic uuw acuvciji cugagcu u" " o . , u T u ia not sure as to how mucn KODe- apparent, but the fact that on the son will be allotted frorn the last west the enemy is being not only shipload that came in. Purchasers held but driven back at some points . will be advised by Mr. Bethune on and on the southern end of the salient what day to call for the soda. he has been able to make but sl'.gnt1 , ra , TrtM. progress is evidence that a turn in the TO WAGE THRIFT CAMPAIGN battle is not far distant. Thr British in the neighborhood of Arra up against the Germans. Saturday night Attended Meeting Here This Morn Mr. McLean's War Finance Board Is Hard at Work. Mr. A. W. McLean left last night to return to Washington after spend ing a few days with his family her.1. The Government War Finance cor poration, of which Mr. McLean is one of the 5 directors, plunged immediate ly into a mass of work as soon as it was organized a few weeks ago, and already has applications for loans amounting to $300,000,000. It has so far approved loans amounting to about $60,000,000. The corporation has offices on the second floor of the Treasury building, on the 15th street side of the White House. Each direc tor has two offices, with his own force of clerks and stenographers. is an immense amount of work for to refrain from purchasing flour out side the State is not an order but it is very clearly indicated in the office of the Food Administration that all dealers will be expected to comply with the request and that any disre gard of the request will be looked upon with extreme disfavor by the food administration Army Y. M. C. A. Man Will Be Here Tomorrow. Mr. J. T. Mangum, army Y. M. C. A; secretary for North Carolina, will spend tomorrow in Lumberton at the Lorraine hotel and will be glad to consult with any men who are inter ested in army Y. M. C. A. work either in this country or overseas. Only men above the draft age and under 50. are accepted for this service, except that in rare instances men of 25 and under 31 are accepted if they have some visible physical defect that would bar them from army service. The need for men for this important branch of army work is urgent, as will be seen from an article published elsewhere in this paper, and it is hoped that sev eral men will volunteer from Robeson. Find Camp Life Better Than They Expected. Mr. F. Grover Britt, business mana ger of The Robesonian, received a let ter this morning from his brother, Mr. Rossie B. Britt, who entrained last week t&C Camp Jackson. He stated in the letter that the boys who left for camp last week wrere finding army life much better than they expected There j and that about half the number who ras. Lens and Bethune' are keeping 24 f th 26 Postmasters of Robeson th.e corpora tion to do and its members their trench raiding operations OI ine i will take no vacation during "he sum- ihwt the Hprmnnd Snt.nrdav nif?ht AttonH lWtinr Here This Mora- mer, though Mr. McLean hopes to be contingents from the London forces invaded a German trench suotheast of Arras and took 27 prisoners and a ma chine gun while east of Lens and j north of Bethune similar maneuvers wtre successfully carried out and oth er Germans made prisoners. There is considerable activity by both sides on the northern sector of the western front. As yet the expected battle has rot broken in the Italian theatre. There has been only moderate artillery ac tivity along the whole front. The Italian and allied aviators, however, are busily engaged in reconnassance work and bombing raids ovetr the enemy works. German airplanes again have deli vered an attack on Paris. Several per sons were injured. able to come home for a day d ing To Launch Vigorous Campaign I every two or three weeks. and so things that mean more than moviev We have lived to see the time when his section is promising. Mrs. N. A. Thompson and daugh ter, Miss Ruth, went Saturday to Greenville, this State, where today Mrs. Thompson's daughter. Miss Sadie ! Thompson, graduates from the East men like H. P. Davison of Wall street j Carolina Teachers Training School. ie wuunjf to give minions tor tne! Mrs. Harriett Watson of Ben ideas for wluch we are fighting; when i netts ville, S. C, arrived Friday to women of high social position have visit her daughters Mesdames Daisy given up position and wealth and are cheerfully enduring hardships and dangers to nurse soldiers. Social lines have been wiped out. This is a marvelous condition to have been brought about in less than 2 vears We hardly thought to see the race ad-! vance so far in our generation W. Jenkins and Nannie W. Crump. also to witness the graduation of her granddaughter, Miss Viola Jenkins. Rev. W; D. Combs, pastor of the Gospel Tabernacle, returned Satur day from a visit to his mother at As bury Park, N. J. He attended while away the annual conference of the lives in This Conflict d somebody I Missionary Alliance at Nyac, ,,4. 4.-1 iU 1 TTT A. iN . I. muai Let is. c melt places. yv e must, con serve our intellectual strength. We are going to conserve our spiritual strength, too. (5he of the saddest things in life has been the indiffer ference of the people to .the things that are vital in human life, but it is not going to be. that way any more. We are not going to sit in our pews and hear men camouflage German higher criticism with religion. If Germany had delayed this war 25 years German thought and influ ence would have dominated this coun-' The National Bank of Lumberton installed Friday a Burroughs auto matic book-keeping machine. The machine is operated by electric cur rent and is a great time saver. It was installed by Mr. J. H. Thomas of Raleigh. i License has been issued for the marriage of I. L. Benton and and Leeta Mercer; Marshall Tyner and Callie Baxley; J. Dewey Ellis and Ag nes Britt; Rowland M'White and Kate Graham; R. S. Brisson and Mittie r l ii try. Many universities in this coun-j T,0 vnn UA- A I 1 V. lUilv f f lllfik -VVA IV O f U try, notably the university or Wis" consm, had been inocculated with Prussian ideals, but thank God noth ing of that had come into the- life, of Trinity college. It would be better to! raze to the ground two-thirds of the educational institutions if the German ideal of efficiency is to be the sum of it all, if the German spirit is to pre were students at the graded school here during the term just closed left Friday for their respective homes: Misses Goldie Sawyer and Virginia Lee, New Bern; Miss Carolyn Webb, Morehead City. Mr. Murphy McLean returned Thursday night from Norfolk, Va., where he enlisted in the U. S. navy. -i i.i i-A. 4.vi. u 1. 1 wnere ne van ui rrrma is not sure when he will be called aim aims v. aZZI thJto his post. Mr. McLean recently be- men tortures soldiers destroys 21 years of age and would have works of art of centuries, and shells the cathedrals of Rheims. Men who are held up as leaders have uncon sciously been spreading abroad the ideas of German universities camou flaged as religion. Leaders of reli- for military duty had to register June 5. Mrs. John S. Truesdel of Ker shaw, S. C., who is a guest at the home of her brother-in-law and sis ter. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Britt, received Miss Martha Lee North, daueh ter of Rev. Dr W. B. North, former pastor of Chestnut Street Methodist church, now pastor of the Methodist church of Hertford, and Mrs. North, J3 a member of the graduating class Si ne Hertford high school this year For Sale of War Savings Thrift Stamps. Twenty-four of the 26 postmasters in the county attended a meeting here today which was called for the pur pose of planning a campaign for the sale of War Savings and Thrift stamps in the county. Mr. L. R. V ar ser, chairman of the War Savings committee in Robeson addressed the postmasters and Postmaster D. D. French of Lumberton also addressed the meeting. A campaign wnj be launched at once in the interest of the 1d of afomn and Mr. Varser will or ganize a War Savings and Thrift so- ciety in eacn commumiy m w um,, COUNTY PENSIONS READY. Pensions For bid Soldiers and Sol diers' Widows This Year $17.50, which is $250 More Than Last Year. At their session this morning the county commissioners, holding their regular monthly meeting here today, passed an order granting a pension of $17.50 to each old soldier and sol dier's widow of the county. This is $2.50 more than the pension allowed last year and is the largest ever granted by the county. Old soldiers and widows who are -r l :"m" j j me same v;vfuijcuj - --r- r Jniss North is pleasantly remembered i that this company is also in France 'y many fripnHa Viors 1 , I -; V.A f Via aama hoat. Mr W C Roeers has been noti- fied by the government that his halt-; entitled to this pension may obtain hrnrhpr Mr. .lames r . rUUey , lias a.l - ooma Ktt oithor mnhnor mr annlvirc in . , . ' ,, -on.r v,lrvr,rQ 1 j . "jr i-ij "o"iujx ui I it i. more uiaii oi wins nved in France. Mi vMey belonged ; to Register of Deeds M. Wiqo valuation and $1.50 on the poll in the Parkton school district wed nesdav of last week. This district al ready had voted a special tax of 30 cents on the $100 valuation and 90 to Co. B, 120th infantry. The old Floyd. Liumber tsridge company ueiuiicu vu the same company and it is supposed Mrs. T. N. Higley is seriously ill at her home, Seventh and Cedar went from this district were assigred tc the same barracks, while the oth ers were scattered around. The boys have not yet been assigned to com panies, but have been drilling. Alleged Deserters Carried to Camp Jackson. Oscar Jacobs, Indian, was arrested near Rowland Friday night by Rural Policeman J H. Carper on the charge of deserting the U. S. army. Jacoos left Camp Jackson some two months ago without leave. He and Troy Maynor, another Indian who is an alleged deserter from Camp Jackson, and Sunny Morrison, colored, who fail ed to answer the call to report for military duty, were carried to Cam Jackson Saturday night by Mr. v. a Wishart and Rural Policeman Carper . , . 1 LCX, BUT. ailU 11119. . O. D1IU. 1CT.C1TCU JIJl a card last week from her husband, LO UclellU uciiuait uccua 111 itgw, the most cruel and infamous acts that blacken the oasres of history. Prussia knew and knows that when; who is stationed at Camp Sevier, quartermasters' department, advising that he had arrived safely in France. the spirit of : the : Lord .J3,1 receipt of an invitation from Mr. dominates the worla it is the doom ot . nJ , crtTi . Mr . Alf H. McLeod of Lumberton, to the Parkton School District Votes Ad ditional Special Tax. Only two votes were cast against a proposition to levy a special school tax of not more than 5U cents on tne streets. MMM cents on the poll. Prussianism. This is going to be a democratic world. We have got to take from the throne of Germany the Kaiser, as the Czar of Russia already has been tak en off his throne. The ideas for which America stands are the ideas for which the world is fighting, and at the final peace conference tne rep resentative of the United States will sit at the head of the table. Problems of the times in which we live and the years to come demand steady, clear brains. Young men and women leaving the schools now are going into a different world, mere are tenfold more avenues of opportu nity for women than there were 5 years ago. In conclusion Prof. Flowers likened a human life to a torpedo. The pro pelling power of a torpedo, he ex plained, is a fly wheel which is set to revolving at a tremendous speed, and it must go forward in the plane in which that wheel is set to revolv ing. Waves may sweep over it and deflect it from its course, but it must ever come back into its plane, no matter how often it is deflected, and move forward. So it is with a human (Continued on page 5.) commencement exercises of Siwanee (Tenn.) Military academy, June 2nd to 6th. Mr. McLeod is one of the first classmen and is also a member of the cotillion club. Also an invi tation has be"en received to the com mencement of the State university, Chapel Hill, June 2nd to 5th. Clash With German Fleet Expect ed at Any Time. The United States now has a large number of first class battleships pre paring "side by side with the best ships of the British navy for an en gagement on the high seas which is expected to occur at any time with the German fleet," according to a statement made in an address in New York Sunday night by Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves. Admiral Gleaves said further that "we have about 150 vessels over them now and between 35,000 and 40,000 men aboard them," and that "we now have a navy of 19,000 officers and more than 400,000 men," or "a navy four times greater than it was just before we entered the war." ..v..