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Tlie Gnvifle Daily News
Published ray afternoon except Sunday by Greenville Publishing Co., Inc.
J. CONRAD LANIER, President ;v JAS. L. MAYO, Secretary & Manager..
Entered at the Poet Office at Greenville, N. C as second-class matter June
13, 1917, under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879.
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Thursday Afternoon, June 6th, 1918.
DIGGING.
The period of the great war ought most assured
ly to be known to the historian as the Age of Dig
ging. There probably never before has been so
much digging in the world. Everybody is digg
ing or preparing to digr or else regretting the
precious opportunities for digging which have
been allowed to slip by unutilized. The soldiers
dig; and the armies of the diggers, delving to win
the war with some form or other of the prosaic
tool of husbandry, run into the tens of millions.
Every day adds to their numbers. The world of
civilization is organized, one might say, into one
vast camp for the purpose of digging.
The run on spades and shovels, hoes and rakes,
by men and women, by boys and girls, through
out the warring world, has been enormous. The
supplies have often threatened to give out. Peo
ple have bought extravagantly, enthusiastically.
Those who hardly knew a hoe from a rake order
ed luxuriously. They wanted to be of the goodly
number of patriots who dig war gardens, and
they wanted up-to-date tools, such as their neigh
bors were using, with which to accomplish the
work. The big stores and the agricultural imple
ment makers prepared for the abnormal demand.
They compiled elaborate catalogues, issued tempt
ing dissertions for the true patriot, telling him
how, when and where to dig, and prepared special
sets of tools, sets for men, sets for girls and boys.
They fashHoned model war gardens in corners of
their stores, or in the show windows, and put them
in the charge of professors of the noble art of dig
ging; while horticultural societies laid out war
beds where pater familias and mater familias,
comfortably seated in chairs, could watch all those
intricate processes of digging which are supposed
to be infallible in making a potato or a tomato
grow as nature and the gardener intended it
should grow.
For more than four years now, the task of dig
ging along the military fronts has been on a gi
gantic scale. All the while the nations at war
have scoured their villages and towns for the
men who could dig, These nations have poured
out money to arm, feed, and train these men to
dig along the most approved lines; dig from morn
to night, dig as though their whole future and
that of their nation depended on their digging
efforts, as indeed they apparently did. Millions
of men became highly specialized trench diggers,
men who, stretched prone, under galling fire,
could dig themselves in at top speed and perhaps,
thereby, win a great victory or stave off national
disaster. In time, trenches were dug that stretch
ed well-nigh across continents, trenches for men
and for guns, trenches for attack and defense,
trenches that were to be the rudely constructed
homes of warring men for weeks at a stretch. The
country-sides were literally seamed with these dig
gers, which ran in parallel lines with scarcely an
interruption for hundreds of miles. - Men snig
gled for their possession or blew them to pieces
with cannon, and when they were destroyed or
lost, they rapidlv dug others. And still the digg
ing goes on. It has srrown to be a mark and sym
bol of the war itself, itsceaselessness, its exacting
insistence, its remorselessness of demand, and of
the slavery which the success of those who
brouerht the great human strife into being would
entail.
On trie whole digging has been a great success.
LET CONGRESS ACT
In condemning so-called commercial bribery-
i j ,all"uo Absents ana tavors m re
turner orders and contracts the Federal Trade
Commission has struck one of the worlt of busi
ness practices. Gratuities and entertainment
may seem of small significance, but they Te
LlTirp h?,human judgment. If this Strv
is to have fu 1 nd fair competition, these
ed WTheS taffiPS bU3iness !st not &t3X
ea. lhe trend of Commerce is to be deflected by
favors handed out, the cost of good must ultimate1
ly be increased, and trade will not be conducted on
the nlane of strict efficiency, but according to the
standard otthe man .who.adds the most-gifts tol
the buyer, rne, ieaerai easiness commission is
getting down to some of the fundamental prob
lems of American trade in .attacking this form of
rebating. Legal; authorization to stop it by means
of criminal -prosecution! should dbef provided by
Congress with utmost eagerness; It is a chance to
serve the business rmerirof the country-as well as
consumers in a most definite and signal way.
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Solr3y Wtrrea Drng Co.
BUYAR SAVBTCS STAMPS
ao-ainst a time of need. " It hems tn unV i nA
And your dollar 'will buy more after the war
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BUSINESS AND COMMON GOOD
R. G. Jlhett, president of the National .Chamber,
in speaking at its sixth annual meeting ; the oth
er day at Chicago, warned the 'American business
world that industry and commerce must get to
gether. Then he spoke these winged words:
"What is not for the common good, is not for the
good of business. When we have all learned that
lesson, suspicion between employer and employee
will disappear, conflict between capital and labor
will cease, thoughts of coercion will change to co
operation, the spirit of greed will be transformed
into" service." -Fine andtrue, every word of it.
The only way is the right way. The only way is
the fair way, the square deal way. Any other way
leads nowhere but downward and backward, it is
time and human energy wasted.
NOTICE!
State of North Carolina Pitt qounty
To J. C Qaskins, Entrytaker for Pitt
County.
Take notice that the cmderslgned
claimant, L. H. Mills, a resident of
Pitt county State of North Carolina,
has entered and laid claim to and he
does hereby "enter and lay claim to the
following described parcel or piece of
land in Chicod township, Pitt county
and State of North Carolina, fully de
scribed hereinafter, said land being va
ant and subject to entry under the laws
of North Carolina, the said lands being
described as follows:
Lying and being in Chicod township.
County of Pitt" and State of North
Carolina, adjoining the lands of the
Carolina Land & Derelopment Com
pany, Arcissla Sutton, Fred Mills and
L. H. Mills and others, and lying on
the west side of Clay Root Swamp,
near the mouth of Reedy Swamp. Be
ginning at the Sweetgum, now I. H.
Mills' and Fred Mills corner; thence
running east with the line of L E
Mills to a pine in L. H. Mills line and
Arcissla Sutton's line; thence south
with the Carolina Land & Derelopment
Co., thence with the line of the Carolina
Land & Development Co., back to the
beginning, containing fifteen (15) acres
more or less by estimation.
The said undersigned claimant here
by makes demand and prays for a
grant for the above described proper
ty. L. H. MILLS,
- Claimant.
This May 20, 1918. 6-20-4tc.
PROFESSIONAL
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NOTICE!
A request by the Pitt County Board
of Education having been filed with
the County Board of Commissioners
stating that the petition filed by voters
of Farmville S Dedal". School District
be withdrawn by reason of the unsett
led conditions of public sentiment, the
hight rate of interest, the great de
mand of money, and the demand for
labor and material, the County Board
of Commlssioners'has authorized me to
notify the public that the said Election
to te beld on 4th day of June, 1918 for
the Issuing of bonds Is hereby cancelled,
the order revoked and the notice re
called. This the 6th day of May, 1918.
J. C. GASKINS,
WMwc Register of 'Deeds.
ASTEB, PLANTS, LAST CALL. MRS.
Haskett.
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I appreciate heartily the large vote which the
votersgave me in Saturday's primary, and which
put me within only one hundred and fifty-eight
votes of being nominated for Clerk of the Superior
Court. In the second Primary I urge the continued
loyalty of my friends and the support of all, and to
my opponents I extend my friendly greeting.
Respectfully,
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BRAN
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Administratrix's Notice
I have this day qualified as admin
istrator of the 'estate of J. D Andrews,
deceased. All persons holding claims a-
fralnof aolii Acf-afA will wtMA..
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to the undersigned, dnly itemized and
verified within twelve months from f
this date or this ntice will be pleaded
In bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make Immediate settle
ment. This 18th day of May, 1918. '
C. P. WHITEHTJRSr,
5-20-6wp Administrator.
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Adminisratrtxs Notice
I have this day qualified as admin
istratrix of the estate of Daniel L.
Maultsby, deceased. All persons hold
inc claiiAB against said estate will pre
sent the same to the undersigned, du
ly itemized and verified within twelv
months from this date or this notice i
wil be pleaded In bar -of their recov
ery. All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate vettle-
Nnent
This 16th day of May, 1918.
Mrs. Daniel L Maultsbv.
5-16-6wp. Administratrix.
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MAIDEN HAIR OR GLORIA FERNS.
Only 4 left Mrs. Haskett. 6 5 2fp
STTBSCRTBra TO TTTP DATTj KTBTTS
and iZl r6rai" fr-lm exPressing my deep appreciation to my friends
and supporters during the recent primary for the office of Sheriff of Pitt
at 150 t0 metokttIledmynSponen
by about 150 votes. This gives my opponent the privilege of callintr an
other prunary to decide whether h e shall have a third fe aTsherlff of
Pitt county or whether I shall be honored with that office
According to the'vote polled in the first Primary my opponent has the
or every vote given me I am truly thankful and for thoe who ?im-
TsZfjtZZ&Ty sl?a,1ffee'rateful- 1 asonc; aSnX
tne support or all good democrats m the forthoommo- pwo,- j
chosen to the high office of Sheriff shalUnSvorTe "?3 .
merit the confidence of each and every one wSei theIr??
If elected I shall endeavor to do my'duty no man n
w no man can promise more.
Respectfully,
Eo R. EDBBEEW
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