The NcVvs Reporter Littleton, N. C. FOUNDED IN 1898 . BY T. R. WALKER - SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $1.00 Six Months SO Three Month 25 Advertising rates furnished upon ap- Elication at the .office or Uon inbuiry y mil or telephone - - ; ' V Re entered ,as second clas3 mitter October 1907, at the post office at Lit tleton, N. C, under the Act of Ccn eressof March 2? 1879. - Littleton graded school should now be made a State High School and be prepared to give to the children of Ibis commu nity the much needed opport i- - nlty to prepare themselves for business or for college. We feel confident the Board of Ed ucation of Halifax county will render- whatever a'sjstance it can to raioe the , school to a ... higher standard,- but have our doubts about the Board of War ren County, ifj he Norlina pre cendet is to be followed, by said board. FTry your h n d gentle men oT the local board and see what may be done. That there are' many poorly paid teachers doing work in the public schools of North Caro lina is pretty generally admit ted and that there are . many people drawing salaried as teachers "who are giving very lsttle in return; for the money is also apparent. yParentsand oth ors interested have only to ex amine their children and. the part gone oyer by them to as certain how little of thorough ness, is done by the. teachers. It ought to be The duty of tht Superintendent 6 schools, for a district or county to visit; the schools, and follow the work pi teachers byjexaming the children and knowing whether , the teachers are earning Ithe salary or not. We are of the 'If opinion that TEACHERS ought to be prid more money land we are also of the opinion that there are many who ought to be paid less or their places filled by teachers worth the time of the children. . I VI f 1U I 1 IllMrrTlH II I w : nr U Willi the trade that 4t is patri otiejand the moral dutyjof -pe pie to patronize home industries. In that we believe thevar?;ument is sane and -worthy of. beinp; taken. But do the jnierchants practice what they preach? In many cr.se they.do not. There are merchant? in ihh town, whe look to.the conmiinity for busi- ness and must either rise or fall by the patronage of Vlie commu nity who use large quantities" ol stationery a year and rmd.'rather send their orders to houses far away from here andpay nigner price . tnan encourase home industries. There are from seventy-five to one bun dred business house3 in Virginia and North Carolina, who do far more ,to support a newspaper and job office in Littleton! than do . some business . houses,, here. There are Several hundred far mers who do as much to support iL. ....... . e tL. nic ucwo'Uapcr uo sunn; ui tu business mea do. -Whether the business menfgtve us their pat ronageor send jt to northen concerns does ! not changed opinion that every man ought t give home industries preferencH over outsiders. The point wc wish to make is that those whe preach a doctrine can give grea force tothat preaching by prac "ticing the preachment. Wer we asked what Littleton need most for its prosperity we" shouk give it as our unqualified belie that nothing is more needer here than a GENUINE SPIRI1 OFtCO-OPEBATION cn . th. part of the business men and citizens. 1UI.0 II-- - OPPOSE A Proudest Thing to Report is That This Gre?.i Country is Trust ed Throughout the WorlcL-r-Ho Nation. Distrusts the jpurpose of the United States. fHEJ'OBLO WAR WAS WON BT Critics Invited to Test the Sentiments of the American Nation: "We Set Out to Make Men Free, and Now We Will Make Them Free, and Sustain Mechanics HalL boston. Fed. 24. ine text .cf President Wilson's ad dress here b as foilowa: Governor Coolids?,, Mr. Mayor. Fc-ilciw' Citizens I. wonder, it you are half glad to see iv.q as lani to see you. u wanu3 my heart Vj fee a great iipdy of my fellow citizens again, because, in seme respeVts dur ing the -p.cent months I havt be&n very lor.civ indeed without your, cora- radechip aVd counsel, and I tried xt every btep f the work Vvhich feU to nie to rucaliXwhat I was sure wotrld he your counsel with regard .to.tlio great matters "which were under con sideration. " f . I do not wan you to think that I have not been appreciative of tlie ex traordinary reception Which was Riv--en to me on the othervfcidc. in eayUig that it malTes mo verr happy to get liomc again., i 'do. not 'mean .to say "that 1-was iiot very tfeeply touched by tho c ries that earueWom the great crowds on, the other side. Cut I warA to Kay. to you ia all honjesty that I felt them to ho a call of greetings to ycu rather thaa to me. V I did not. feel that the Kraetinp- was personal. I had in my lxeart the oyer-crowning: yride of being your representative and of receiving the- nlaudits of men;' everywhere wfeo felt that your hearts beat' with ther,s ir. thoae great crowds. It was not aton of mere greeting; it was not a tone mere generous welcome?; it was the-1 calling of comrade to comrade, tha cries tJiat come from men who.sajt "We have waited fGr this ilav who the friends of liberty'.'. should come across the sea and shalie hands with us. to Fee that a new" world wasi eon- structed upon a new basis and a foHndatioii cf justice and right." - tnsnirH hv r.rawH' vre " . I can't tell'you the Inspiration that came from the sentiments that ;-come out of those simple yokes at the crowd. And the proudest thing' I "have to report to you is that this great country of 6u r3 is tni;ted-thrrwushout the world. i I have not come to repcrt Hie pro ceedings or tho results cf. the pro ceedings of .the - peace conference; that would be premature. T can eay that I have received vtjry happy im- pressions from this, conference ;the impression that while there are many differences ' of - Judgment, . .whilo there are some divergences of object, there is nevertheless a common spirit ind ftarnmmrkii ronliT.-f inn nf f -nopnecitv of .fetting up nev; standard of, ri-ht i . ra tho world Because tho r.ien - who are in con ference in rris realize as keenly a-s any American can realize that , they are not tho masters of tftrir people; that they nre.thf? servants of their people, and that the spirit ,of their people has awakened, to a now pur pose and a'.imw conception . of thoi' power. to realize that purjxso, nnd that no man dure go home from th.'t conference and report anything les noble 4 than was expocted of it. Why Conference Gos Slowly." v The' conferersce sejms to yoii to go slowly'; from day to day in Paris seems to go slowly; but I wonder 3f you, rein?e tho complexity of the tas& which it has nndertuken. It. seems as it the settlements of this war "af feet, ! and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes think every small, nation, in the world, and no one.do cisioa can prudently be made which U noft properly linked with the great series of other decisions which omust accompany it. Ajid it must be reck- nn'ai) in witli Oift ftml roeillf if the real miaiity :nd character of that re sult, is to be properly judged. hole, c ase:' heaV it from' the mouths Kwhol Of the men most interested; hear it from those w ho are officiallv commis sioned to state it; hear the rival clams; hear the claims that affect ncw nationalities, that affect new area of. the world, that affect new commerakil and economic connections that have been established by the great world war through which havo sonff. And. I have been struck by the mbderatei iss of those who have, reptwented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the sleam of pAfiioa. I .have seen earnestness. havo seen ' tears, come to the eyes cfVmen who pleaded foe down trodden people whom thev were privileged to spek for; but they wem not the tears bf"V?ii&h: they were the tears of ardent hope. And I don't see how any man can fail to have been subdued by these pleas, subdued to the feeding that he was not there to assert an indi vidual jadgment of hjs own. but to try to assist the cause' of humanity. Ail Look' to America. . i . it. -ft - I Ana n. iue mius oi i au. fterj i Interest seeks out, first of all. when i LEAGUE OF NATIONS THE INSPIRATION OF 10EALS Them in Their Freedom." of the Cnfted States. Why? faecaus and I think I am stating the Eioit woadrrful, fact in history because there, is no ition in Europe that suspects' the motives ot the United States. - Was there ever wonderful , a thing iieen before? Was there ever so nrjviny; a thing? Was there ever any fact that so bound the nation that had won lUat . esteem forever to leserve it? 'I woukl not havx: you '-understand that thf ixront men who represent tlie other nations then? in conference r.r disesteemed bv th'xy who know them. uii t.muM.. ju " j. sinking to a soi t of stubborn-desper-Ktand that the nations o Kurope have. -. ... . 4 again and again clashed with one an- other in competitive interest.. It is impot-sihle for men ta" forget tho&e sharp issues that were cIitit."i between them, in , times past. It is imivossiblc for nv?n to believe that all ambition have ;;11 of a sudden bfjen foregone. Thev resiemher territory that was eovctC(l; thev renu;mher rights thai it was attempted to extort; they re member political - ambitions which it was attempted toj alize and while they hslieve tliat men have ono info a diffl-rent temj.Tr, thoy cr.nhot for get t!ics ,thing.v and so thy cl - rrt " resort fo on another f6r a rtispas- - Lsionale view of the matters in on-i trovers-. Thev resort to th it nation ' which ?ias won the envi.'.bio (ii.-tinc- t ion or Iioins ,i?rtrurie(t as the tricnc of mankind. Wlien'cver it is desired to send a--small forc of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it is thought;' nobefly, else viH h, ''welcome, thew f - ask for Amerian ' poldie-rs. Anil, "where othor vol.diers would ho .looked. upon with suspicion, and perr.appk merican . ? I meet wtih resistance. ' tb FOldier is Avelconwd -with acclai:r. Many' Grounds fcr Prfde. v 1 .--I navf ia.fi sr inanv trroui.fis tor "fride on the. otlior side cf tho .water-.-fihat I ara very thankful thrt they I are not ' ground's' for personal' pride.; I'd bo the most ?t;u l-up mh:i in the-, world. And it has been Vi infinite", pleasure, to me to see those gallant? soldiers of ours, of whom t'.ie c"n- -titution of tho' United . State's . made me the proud ccfuiniander. Ycu mayi I be proud cf the -Twenty-sixth division, j j' but I commanded the Twony-sixth:? '.division. . and Fee, what they did j under my direction, and everybody . praisss ths American soldier w;t! the- 1 ifetflinri tht irt nraisMfl him IS fiuh-'-Ji tracting from the credit cf no pneK . i , CC? ' I havo been seaTching for the? fun - damwital fact that co:iyer:c(i i.uropr-i to bcliovev in u!s. Beforo this war Eu-i rope did not bfdieye in us as she docs. lthroughoat the first three yf3rs fJ the war. Bh .eems reallv t havet mmg out a modern scrap ox paper believed that we were Jioldin off be- No nations united to defend, no great cause we thought we ooald mn 1)UlI,r j forces combined to make it good no by staring out than hv going in. And f assrncf given to the downtrodden all,of a snddn. in a shrn t 11 month,. " nd Jarful people of the world that the whole verdict is revered. There- sh4a f b 8aff ' An ,nf hJ? ran bo but oncelanaticl, for it : think3. tha If Wl11 lC Ph They' saw what we did-th ,t wtihout m fle world any such rebuff making a single claim we pat all our f d Ptment as that does not iren ani all ir mean, nt th, kntw A posal of these who were, fating for . Ch!"'n?e ,1, 'J t!'timMt their lumes. in tho first in ,.nco" but t '1nviteihlm' te"e sentimen - , .1 ; of the nation. We set this up to make for a "can?e. tho. ttiu.e of human'? . . ... . a w 11-'.. , a. men free, and we did not confine our nshju and jus tic, and that w went ' . . . , , , . 4. . , , conception and purpose to America. In, not to support thveir national . s t r T . . . . , and now we will make men free. If claims,, but to support the grsr.t c?use ... . . tUn w.u 4,. u-im t - - h did not do that, the fame of Amer- wnich tney held in common. . ... . . a , .v Mca would be gone and all her powers Arid when they saw that America "i , , . . , , .-would be dissipated. She then would ?W T ?C S; 1 to keep her power for those nar- wIJlT cflnv"Us! t3f-Pncta, a?1 i row, selfish, provincial purposes which bemane r.rB, Partisan of hose m gQ dear tQ some micd3 that Jiave t - Scholars. i no 6Wecp beyond the nearest horizon. I mot a group of .schcir? when I T rt c-to ,1. one cf th- Clreek unifitV, I,-,.! rather in the preset re of the, iradI-4 Jf ', ' IP3rniEP 1 y indeed. I fold them that I had cn? cf the delightful rvezge tha.t sonHtfrse'. exjmes to a man. All aiy life I had heard mm .peak with r sort of con- deccnsjcn of JJcal anxf cf iieilists. and Partiirilarlr thisp Rtiarp-.!. r-n-l cloistered horizons'' 'when . they cho-s to term academic, .who i'-e ::i 'the hebit of uttering iei in the free atmcsphrre whera '.they f la f hi Witli no body in partciular. And I said I har. had tbi svre-et revenge Speakin? wl;h frankr.ef. ia the na aia. of the perfect' people o? tne Crated Stnjr t.. I hsve uttered as thft objects cf H im g-vzt rwr ideals, and nothing but 1dft2f, and the war has been wen " b ths;: ir.spircticn. Men vre-ftghtiig ri;h tense mic!e find lowered hxid rctil ihev mzp to realize thoro thtiir. feeling t;ey '"'K iT iicir inw. aau uar t country, fni w!jpp ilcse 'acewts of . . ' ' .. ... wnai I. was all ,f't ritche-J tht-m s from Areerfca thier Iwted their heais. - " . jwhen they saw men In khaki coning across ice sea m uic su v ers. and they rousa ui-i ices sirusge men. reckless of darker not ionly, but reckless because they seem- JJ , - ea eomeimuz. worth- while. Men have tes- me in Europe that our men twere possessed by acmeming inai J they csuld only call a religious icr- vor. They were not hie- any c: me other soldiers. They had a vision. ' thev bad a dream, and. fighting in the I tlream ,they turned the whole tide of battle and it never came uaxK. J Tribute cf a Humorist, j One of our American humorists meeting the criticism that American , soldiers were not trained leng enough, raid: "It takes only half as lcn to train 8h American soldier cs any other, be cause you only have to train him one way, and he did only go one way. 1 snd he never came back until hexoald do it when he pleasrd." And now do yon realize that this confidence we havo established throughout the world imroses a bur den upon us if you choose to call it a burden. It is -one of these bur dens which any nation onght to be proud to carry. Any man who resists the present tides that run In the world will find himself thrown' upon a shore so high and barren that It will seem as if he had been separated from his human kind forever. The Europe that I left the ether day was full of something that it had never felt fill its -heart so full before. It was full of hope. The Europe ol th esecond year of the war, the Eu- 1 ropa of the third year cf the war, was 5 aticn. They did not see any great j thing to be achieved even when the war should be won. They hoped there would be some salvage; they I "hoped that they could clear their ter ritories .of invading armies; they jnoped they could set up their homes nd start their industries afresh. Put i f Vi rv tYinntrht it Tf nnlrt cimnlv ho the i iW. ... ... i.." rcsuiupiiou vi lue uiu me uiui zuw rcpe had led in fear, led in anxiety, j led in constant suspicious watchful i tm?s-3; Tl ey never dreamed that rt would bo a Europe of settled peac 'l und of justified hope. I All Peoples Buoyed Up. And now these ideals-have .wrought fhis new magic, that all the peoples -of Europe are buoyed up and confi dent in the spirit of hope, because they believe that ve are at the eve ! cf a new age in theworld when na- tions will undrstand one another, when nations will support one anoth er in every just cause, when nations will unite every moral and every phy sical strength to see that the righl '-all prevail. If America were at this juncture to fail the world, what would come of it? I do not mean any disrespect to i' any ether great people when I say that America is the hop?of the world, and if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown back upon the bitterness of disappointment not only, but the bitterness of despair. All nations will be set up as hostile camps again; the men at the peace conference will go home with their heads upon their breasts, knowing hat they have fail ed for they were bidden not to come home from there until they did some thing more than sign a treaty of peace. Suppose we sign the treaty of peace and that jt i3 the satisfactory frentv of noiice that tno rnnfneiru niA- 1 v. - r . 1 . T .1 ill 1 ,JL luy muueui WU,1U. v,Ili loru anu so iiome aiiu iuiuk auoiu our labors; we will, know that we have left written upon the historic table at Versailles, upon which Vergehess and I ? i i : lU.f. , uwu riauMm .ui iuCu i., lenge- than. that. I have fighting blood in me and it i3 sometimes a delight to let it have scope, but if it Is a chalienge on this occasion it will be an indulgence. Think of the picture. rl- r.t ha fiter 'ht?rVne that would fall on the world America has failed. America made a little essay at generosity and then withurew. AmerJca s;id: e are your friends." , nt ir nW fnP tor!av Eot for to. UU w mj - v - - . . . f - AM V morrow. America saia: jiere ia our power to vindicate right" and then the next day said: "Let right take care of itself and we will take care of ourselves.- America said: "We set up a light to lead men along the paths of libertv but we have lowered it. It U I intended only to light out own path." et up a great deal of liberty, and then we said: Xaberty ts a thing that you mu3t win for yourself, do not call upon us. And think of the world that we would leave. Do jou real fze how many new nations are go- In?r to h fwt nt) In the Presence Cf Old powerful nations in Europe and Ieft lherSt u Icft by us, witnoai a ais- jatcrestd fnecd? vh Af HdctmT jo yon teUeve la tie Polish cav. a I do? Are you going to set up Po- 1&ndf immalure, inexperienced, as yet unorganized, and leaTe her with a circle of armies around her? Do you ia xhe aapiration of. the Czechoslovaks and the Jugo-Siavs as r do? yon know how manr sow- ers be o nick to cornice noon the!tl if there wera not the guarantees of the world behind their liberty? s , HaTe yoa t!OU!,,t ef t!ie gunerin of Armenia? You poured out your money to help succor the Armenians after they suffered; now set your strength so that they shall n?Tcr suf fer again. .. The arrangements of the present' peace '.cannot 'stand a generation nn less they are guaranteed by the unit- ed forces cf the civilized world. And if we do not guarantee them, cannot vcu the picture? Your hearts jnre Instnicted you where, the bur- den or this war ten. it dui not rail upon the national treasuries. It did not fair upon the instruments of d- ministration, it did not fall upon the resources of the nations. It fell upon the vicUms' homes everywhere. where women were toiling in hope that their men would come back No Doubt of Verdict? When I think of the homes which dull despair would settle where this great hop is disappointed, I should wish for my part never to have had America play any part whatever in this attempt to emancipate the world. But I talk as it there were upon any questions. I have no more doubt J of the verdict or America m this mat ter than I have of the blood that Is in me. And so, my fellow citizens. I have come, back to report progress and I do not believe the progress is going to stop short of the goal. The nations of the. world have set their heads now to do a great thing, and they are not going to SiacKentntir purpose, a when I speak of the nations of tho world, I do not speak of the govern- ments of the world, i speak of the peoples who constitute the nations of the world, l hey are in the saddle ana they are going to sec to it that if their present governments do not do their will, some Other governments shall. And the secret is out and the present governments know it. There is a great deal of harmony to be got out of common knowledge. There is a great deal of sympathy to be got out of living in the same at mosphere, and except for the differ ences of languages, which puzzled my American ear very Fadly, I could have believed I was at home In France or . in Italy or in ungiana wnen i was on the streets, when I was in the pres ence of the crowds, when 1 was in great halls where men were gathered together, irrespective of class. I did .not feel quite as much at home as I do here, but I felt that . now, at any rate, after this storm 'of war had cleared the air, men were seeing eye to eye everywhere and these were the kind of folks who Would understand what the kind of. folks at home would understand arid that they were think ing the same things. .. Manners Very Delightful. I feel about you as I am reminded of a story of that exceUent witness and good artist, Oliver Herford, who one day, sitting af luncheon at his club, was slapped vigorously on the back by a man whom he did not know very well. He said: "Oliver, old boy, how are you?" He looked at him rather coldly. He said: "I don't know your name, I don't know your face, but your manners are very fa miliar," . and I must say that your manners are very familiar, and let me add very delightful. It is a great comfort for one thingr. to realize that you all understand the language I am speaking. A friend of mine said that to talk through an in terpreter was like witnessing the com pound fracture of an idea. But the beauty of it is that, whatever the im pediments of the channel of commun ication, the idea is the same; that It gets registered, and it gets regis tered In responsive hearts and recep tive purposes. I have come back for a strenuous attempt to transact business for a lit tle while In America, but I have real ly come back to say to you, in all soberness and honesty, that I have been trying my best to speak your thoughts. When I sample myself, I think I find that I am a typical American, and if I ?ample deep enough, and get down to what Is probably the tme stuff of a man, then I have hope that it Is part of the stuff that is like the other fellow's at home. And, therefore, probing deep in my heart and trying to see the things that are right without regard to the thHngs that may be debated as expedi ent. I feel that I am Interpreting the purpose and the thought of America; and in loving America I find T hav Joined the great majority of my fel lowmen throughout the world. DELEGATES TO CONFERENCE ARE "LORDS OF THE WORLD" London. Under the heading -The Lords of the WotW The Frankfurter zting publishes a rather lively jtietch of the peace delegates to Pari, jt wonders whether any of them win turn out to be a Metternlcn. a Talley- na It2rdnbrr. a. S'eiselrode. or B Caitlereagh. but thinks that cons cj thera at present can be compared wjtjhi Bismarck. Disraeli or GorUcha koff. jt s added: wnsoa. , Cleaoenceaa and Lloyd ccorro are already characters wltn garply and firmly outlined features. trvt ihv hT Arm tnr thrtr Mmb tr!e8 the var raises therf high above afddle aUture. Bat their greatness as statesmen hzs still to undergo tha tests of fire at the green table. f SMALL BOY- 111 HARD LUCK ! - Found Himself Handicapped by the Fact That He Was Only a -Half Orphan. We had missed the little fellcrx who used to come around every ? - inoflthwit!r;Tittre;pyi tne.irphan'horiic: - frnefl . neV ,rA r fho inh. fcVJ OMV vv J v 4 "What's become of the other boj vho used ? to bring the rupcr around Y re asked him. Vlio-JTimmie? Ob, heYbcm M L Gee, he TTSS lucir. A . , tr , bS "di farmer out in Kansas too him and heS going to lire out on a farm Trherc thejf'a COTfS and horses aad squirrels and rabbits and . a cik runs right through the farm tlld everything' ' : "Well, he is lucky, sure enough. Bnt mavbeTour turn will come , i."um mwI tnr. one of these days' we said encour- aguiglj... "Xo 'chanct' slid the new boj regretfully. "TheyY five of thera orphans ahead of rne. I ain t no j l0le orphan; I aint nothin' but a . j y0u know I ain't in their ; oi class.'' Kansas City Star. MANUFACTURERS OPPORTUNITY. If the Algerian farmers could bcT come thoroughly acquainted with American farm methods and ma chinery and if the manufacturers J of American farm machinery, and particularly of farm wasrons. plow?. barrowg, grain drill, tractors , , .. b ' ,. nd thrashing- machine, would study the needs of the Algerian i farmers and would supply those needs at reasonable prices, a very profitable trade could be established between America and Algeria and Algerian agriculture , wduM be greatly Knicfitd thereby. Difference In Heart Beat. According to an English - scientist there Is an Individuality in heart beats affecting the handwriting to uch a degree that it can be Identified when writing Is magnified. Alwaya carry 'a little phllosoThy about- with you. A gilded aearchlltbt Is of little account to"th--blg atJto stuck In tho mud. nnxiuui moment Agitated Daughter (on the link) On, ; mother, whatever shall we doT Father's In that bnnker and here com the parson nnd his wife. Boston Transcript. , - M.P.CKfirch. Methodist Protestant services, D. M. Jy, . Daajrjr. Preaching: first Sunday irt each' iripnth at 7:30 p, m., aritl third Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. A cordial welcome to all. M. E. Church South Sunday School at 9:45 o'clock, C. G. Moore, Superintendent. Morning: services at 11 o'clock Eveninjr services at 7:30 o'clock. , Baptist Church. H. Reid Miller, Minister. 9:45, a. m. Bible school and class. M. L. Cole, Supt. 11:00, a. m.Morninfir Wor ship and eermon. 7:30 p. m. Evening Devo tion and sermon. Prayer oeetino; Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. I You are welcome. Come! WANTE D Good half share man to work one or two mules, Good land. Will make one or more bales cotton per acre, C. C. Alston, K. F. D. 5, Littleton, N; C. TAKEN :UPA small black mare mule at my home, on Tuesday, Feb 25th. Owner come and get same by paying cost, etc. Jesse Shearinv R. FD. 5, Littleton, N. C. Nice Farm for Sale Having: decided to move to Littleton, N. C. and work at my trade, 1 offer my home for sa!e. The farm contains thirty (30) acre3 of land, cut houses, well water and eight room dwelling, The land is . suited for cotton, com, tobacco and grain. Near churches, schools and stores. Good neighbors. - iW. E. SADLER, 0 f Macon, N. C, R. No. 3. febl4-4t to harea.