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-?C7S IT.'"".,.- '.MJ,', - ; ' .-i'gr ',V'A VOL. VIII. NO. LINCOLNTON. N. C, TUESOAT. OCTOBER t, 1914 r Jf7 A T II .11 II 11 j !X ' ) a 1 ' M ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR . . . t, . ) MAY BE DAYS -BEFORE BATTLE HAS BEEN CONCLUDED Germans Fight Dsperately to Protect .Their Right Bring up Reinforce ment According to French Offi cial Reports German Attacks Have Been Repulsed. London, Oct." 3. Roye, the little town on the main road from Ameins to Noyton, the heights around which have been alternately occupied by the .French and the Germans during the past week is still the center of a bat tle of great violence. The Germans who are fighting stub bornly to protect their flank at this point, have brought up reinforcements, but according to the French official communication today, all their at tacks have been rupulsed. The action, however, is still pro ceeding and upon it much depends, for if the Germans are beaten, their line of communication at Tergnier will be seriously threatened. Of other operations on this front) which extends as far north as Ar ' ras, nothing has been disclosed since the French themselves announced that their force debouching from Arras had fullen back slightly on the east and north of that town. There is evidence from other sources that the Germans are making prepar ations to protect their flank, should retirement become necessary, , They have evacuated West Flanders and their attack on Antwerp is believed by many to be designed to keep the Belgians busy and prevent them from operating on what would be General Von Kluck's left should he fall back through Belgium. But the battle is not yet over and It may he many days before either side attains its objecti;,,- for the forces absut-J- much and iu their strength in , ,nr: "iues fighting off tb m JiJr efforts on their right r. . mmseives remaining on uie on tne rrencn right. Germany la Strong Enough to Carry t on the War to Victory. Berlin, Oct 2. The Hague, and Lon- non, vctooer a, i:iu a. m. " ".Ormaoir la strong enough eeotwmi- cally and financially to carry the war to a successful conclusion, according to Vice Chancellor Clemens Delbrueck In a long interview today the vice chancellor declares the country can not be starved out. Vice Chancellor Delbrueck referred to the unanimous demonstration by representatives of labor, agriculture, commerce, 'industry and trade on Sep tember 28, of the determination of the German people to see the war through to a successful conclusion and declared that this was no bluff, but was justi fied by the spirit and preparation of the country. The currency crisis which immediately preceeded hostili ties was overcome quickly and com pletely, and now there was an abund ance of circulation media, War Depletes French Bar. Paris. Oct. 2. The French bar1' has suffered the fortunes of war. In opening the sessions of the courts today the Public Prosecutor, Jules Herbaux, announced that three judges of the Paris bench had been killed, while a list of dead issued by the War Office contained the names of many lawyers. The War Is Costing France Seven Mil lion Dollars Daily. Paris, Oct. 8. The war is costing France $ 7,000,000 a day. Minister of Finance Alexandre Ribot announced today that the outlay of the first 60 days of the conflict had been $420,- ooo,oe. . Germany Now Has Under Arms Twen- ty-Seven Corps. London, Oct. 8. In Swiss military circles, according to a central News dispatch, from Berne, it is estimated Germany now has actually under arms 27 army corps of her regular troops and an equal number of reserves. Of " these, 24 army corps "are in France, fix in Belgium and Alsace, 13 in East Prussia and H between Berne and Cracow. There are In addition, the dispatch adds, what is assumed to be 1,600, 000 men of the landstrum and volun teers serving in the interior, while 600,000 fresh recruits are reported to be in training sufficiently advanced for them to be ready for service in November. Ger mans are Evacuating Russia. London, Oct 3.- A Petrograd dis , patch by way of .Rome to the Central v News says: "Th Germans are evacuating, Rua sian territory. Whole regiments .have " been drowned in the Niemen river and ; have lost their siege artillery. The emperor, it fs declared, escaped with difficulty." . ,' ' yin Paragraphs. Dr. Carl Graves predicts invasion of England by German Zeppelins fleet early in November, each ship carry ing 12 tons of explosive. He says German Government has non-flam-able gas for the Zeppelins. To keep secret the construction of a special Diesel engine the various parts have , been kept separated, some at Pots ; dum, others at Spandau and Wil ; helmshofen. Engine as whole is know only to Kaiser and head of general stuff. Graves says Germany . will have ready in three weeks 120 submarines, equipped , with Diesseli engines. ' . Battle of the ' Aisne which tins lasted three weeks has been exceeded in duration by only one or two bat '. !U's in history and never in number ul men enr J. Battle of the Mnrnc liisiid five ii ys end cost 100,000 men ami the '- f iMukden in the Eiis- o-Ja.- a War lasted 20 days and mat i, . l I men. French statuta inn e.itimuUa that H.C'tO.lwO tneu . Bar I been killed or rendered usless in wars !of the last century. A STORY OF ",THE, FIGHTING. A tale of warfare from the British camp in France, vivid with descrip tion of the way the English forces faced death on the battlefields of the jokes they cracked and the prayers they said with the bullets sweeping their ranks, was brought to New York by the Rev. James Molloy, a native of Trenton, N. J., who served as chaplain for several weeks wijh one of the British regiments in France. He said: . "in a modem battle there 1s an overpowering sense of unreality. The business of seeing men kill each other seems mechanical because of ' the pre ponderance of the machine, element in the affair; the human element simply Dieeas ana dies, but the machines con tinue in their perfection of slaughter. "The conduct of the English and Irish soldiers in the trenches was surprising. There those men stood behind shoulder high mounds of dirt, lacing level sprays oi aeatn in iront, yet cracking jokes and singing snatches of music hall ballards be tween volleys. Stupendous bravery 1 call it, or stupendous absence of nerves. "I've heard men under the crashinsr fire of the terrible German guns and with comrades dropping all about them unite in roaring, 'It's a Long Road to Tipperary, 'as if they were in barracks. Sometimes I'd hear a big Irishman call out to a neighbor in the trenches, 'Well. I winged that Dutch man ,all right' The business of kill ing, with them, seemed personal and to partake somewhat of a sporting event 'But how' the Germans Hid' that British line at Mons. Thev came on, and on, and on,, never stopping, never faltering. It was like the waves of a blue gray sea rolling up through the fog. One wave would break and die sway, but another would be right uenma it, pusning on inexorably. The German commanders threw their men into the face of British fire with ab- wklessness, counting on the vouT' ht of numbers to over ti ... us. "To see those German Hnan mnv. forward through glasses was like watching regiments of toy soldiers pushing across a table. You'd see a long row of pale blue blocks, topped with spiked helmets, break from cov er and come rushing at you. Then a British gun at your elbow would speak, a shell would drop right in the mi-tot f felwmjtrc, tt gret hurling up of smoke and soil and the block would be gone. Nothing left but a few little men madly running back through the haie of powder smoke, "But the German shells kept ..com ing and coming.' They are terrible, those shells! I have seen one shell en ter a little hill and there explode car rying away the whole top of the hill, I have seen a company of British wip ed out by the explosion of a single shell. "Perhaps the night fighting is the most wierd and terrible to see. In this. tne lorces or the allies had the supe- lority, through their preponderant ""wy "i. aropianes. 54 SHIPS COME UNDER U. S. FLAG Other Vessels Following Daily, De dares Department of Commerce. Washington, Oct. 2. Fifty-four foreign-built steamships, with a gross tonnage of 217,201 and valued at be tween $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 have taken out American registry and are now sailing under the American flag since Congress passed the emergency ship registry act nearly a month ago. Many other vessels have their applica tions pending. "The question or principle of prise has not been involved in anv nf thus registers,,' said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Sweet today, in announ cing these figures. "Thi vessels were previously under British, Belgian and German registry and flag! because, until the act of August, 1914, the-fact that they were foreign-built prevent ed them from carrvmo- on tiuHo un der the American flag between for eign ports and those of the United states. "The changes in our dnmafi tvni; begun under the Panama Canal act of 1912 and extended by the recent act of last August has brought these 64 vessels into the American merchant marine. Others are following daily but just how many it is impossible at this time to say." Announcement was also made at the Department of Commerce that a steamshio service betwaan NW vi and Rotterdam for the transportation to this country of German chemicals and dyestuffs had been established. DROPS TAX ON AUTO OWNERS. Senate Committee Plans Cent-A-Gal- ,1011 ivy on. liasoline.. ' Washina-ton. Oct ZRpH, the proposed tax on gasoline in the War Revenue bill from 2 cents to I cent a gallon and the imposition of a tax of 50 cents per horsepower on au tomobile sales were agreed to today by Democrats of tho Senate Finance Committee..' They plan to complete their revision of the House bill by to morrow night. - It was agreed to retain the proposed increased tax of 60 cents a' barrel on beer in the House bill, with the under standing however, that a further in crease of 25 cents might be made should the committee find it. n-ir to raise more revenue after it has com pleted consideration of all sections of the bill. The committee's scticn with refer ence to gasoline and automobile oc casioned consideiable surprise as the general expectation had been that an automobile tax would -be tmhglitut ed for the gasoline tat. The, I nt on gasolino will bring revenue amount ing to $) 0,000,000, The proposed 60 cer.ts per horsepower on automobile will mt Sffeet persons owning automo biles, but will be levied on sales. There is a d;vihion, however, that whenever a manufacturer already Baa contract-! u 10 -w ii automobile at a certain pie the Urn shall be paid by the job - ber or aealrr. TEACHERS, CHILDREN BUY A BALE State Superintendent Joyner Suggests Buy-a-Bale Clubs For Teachers, Sup erintendents and Children Oppor tunity to Teach Children Thrift and Economy. To Superintendents of Schools, Teach ers, and School Children: On' account of the disturbance of the world's markets and the consequ ent depression in the price of cotton by the deplorable European war, the farmers of the State and the South are seriously threatened with the loss of millions of dollars and with de moralization of business in- all lines by the forced sale, under financial distress, of the South's chief money crop, cotton, at prices less than the cost of its production and less than its intrinsic value. To avoid this threat ened disaster to the agricultural and other business interests, of the State a cooperative movement, participated in uy painuLic citizens ui an parts oi the State, and of the South, of all classes, vocations and professions, has been started to help the farmers pro tect themselves and all the rest of us by helping them to store and hold their cotton, by aiding in providing the mo ney to take distress-cotton off the mar ket until normal conditions can be re stored. - No class of citizens are more Dat- riotic or more ready to respond ac cording to their ability to any calling of public service in any hour of pub lic need than are the teachers and oth er educational workers of this State. In times ef need the schools should always be the rallying places for civic service, teachers should always be teachers, superintendents of schools. and all other educational workers for thniF nr.fi awt ioi .,Z.Zt i SS'Sii V tfr!?l . i -. Iu"-': ethisofc the fee Mp d atford it, buy a bale of cotton at 10 cents a pound and hold it. Let the county and city superintendents pre- sent, the mtuL. J.Mh- their teachers meeting and counts teachers' association,., and form t..,' I ers clubs of two or more to buv a bale should h nmvh-sed t ;.nV .:'was telling about last week, he be- the market price and he d. 2. Buy-a-llale Clubs for Children: .. . 1 . hU...v A fin. lnn n i. iy ! w.Ti; o-ri nnnnn... T C.-Tii ..ui:"' . . i X: 'urCi"7C"lVJiru M the Aildren of money in TffZ 10 cents a pound, or a half cent above ' & J", V? &lJT?JJKr .S2 ikell h.rf f P"Se ' 10tlrt the blaze going in the fireplace. cents or over, to be held, and, when sold, the proceeds thereof to be re- turned to the children themselves, ac cording to the . amount invested by each child. Where this plan is adopt ed a certified list of names of the mvesSS invested by each in the bale of cotton purchased, should be deposited im mediately after the purchase, with the bank in which the deposit of the pro ceeds of the sale of the cotton is to be made. When the cotton is sold the fund arising from the sale should be deposited in the bank to the credit of the teacher of the school d strict, in trust, for the investing children, as each child's interest shall appear from1 the certified list in the bankers' hands. 1 Tha funrl )uin ks .K. . .v. teacher of the district, instead of anylwith 8 8no ?Vn" cauain tha loss of ,1 J.. i . i , . . . . 3 . fine Pva RA nAfitinn U . iiiuiviuuui icacner, in trnsi lor tne in- dividual child, will be subject to the check of the teacher, as trustee, f or j eacn cnua according to his interest, irrespective of any change in indiv idual teachers. At the proper time each child can, in this way, determine what disposition he desires to have made of his part, and can be encouraged- to use his part of the proceeds iu suiri ior nimseu account. separate saving, 3. Buy-a-Bale Day: Let the coun ty superintendent set apart the earl lent posible day after the opening of mihli,. r i,;. ....? the "Buy-a-Bale-of -Cotton Day," in every public school; call a meeting of all the people at the public school house at I p j 2e,( becau,se he ,Beem to be a 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon on that KOod fI),0W; X,ou 8Poke of stay day for the purpose of raising the'!"!? ""V1 APrl1' 1915- The guards money to buy a bale of cotton at 10 me he T', Ket redit for good be cents a pound and hold it for the : navlor which lets him out about Xmas scnooi. Let him give notice of this iNTOuiiK uirougn tne county press, in struct the teacher in charge of each school to eive notice through tha ebii- dren to the parents of the school and to enlist the children in the campaign for raising the money to buy at least one bale of cotton, urging them to con tribute, and to get their parents to come to the meeting and- contribute. Let the superintendent enlist also, the active cooperation of the schoool com - mitteemen, the Womans' Betterment Associations, the women'; Clubs, the Farmers'-Union, and other organiza-: tions in the countv and in tha Dnm school districts. With the funds rais-j 1A In L:. Ll . ii . " oaie oi cotton De purchased izauon ior scnooi improvement In the through the school committee -or school district i In this way a two through some other committee de&g- .fold service could be rendered bjr one nated by the meeting. Wherever pos-; needed service to the farmers Slble It Should be a bale nf pnttnn .; 'and tn all tha hiiainana Wju-aaf. nf ed in the school district, and where the south, and a valuable service to the it can be done, it should be purchased community school, at 10 cents pound, or half cent f Let superintendents, teachers, above the market , if market nd other school officials cooperate price is 10 cent, through the organ- 'with all others in their community for ized channels for purchasing distress the encouragement and advancement cotton and holding it, or where a dis- of the "Buy-a-hale of cotton" move tress bale is forced on the market in ' menV-and of all other proper means the community it should be purchas- for the protection of the farmers and ed by the committee at the market their interests in this, crisis. Let price and stored and held. It should them permit and encourage the use of be stored either in the nearest storage the school building for community wanhouse, or, in rural districts with meetings in the interest of such move no convenient storing warehouses near ments. ' , some member of the school committee or some oilier reliable farmer in the , district would be willing to store 'giving - a receipt for it. When obi HOME DEALERS AND THE PEDDLERS Lincoln County Has Its Share of the Peddlers In Ranges, Buggies and Other Articles-Might Be Safer To Buy At Home See the Goods Dis played and Too You Know These Agents Buy No Cotton At 10c; They Help Build No Roads; pay No Taxes Lincoln folks are beginning to learn the advantage of buyinar from the home dealers. They are learning that the agent who passes among them is a slick talker and sells his wares at a higher rate than the home dealer; he has to sell higher, he tins a big ex pense hotel bill, livery bill, etc. Trading at home is more than a mat ter of loyalty to home interests. It is a matter of individual self interest. Everybody is bound to profit by the community's success. The success of the retail merchants in the rural towns depends "entirelv upon the patronage given them by the home people. The greatest injury that 1 evitable. Germany, having brought on n lm,ln Aiti.. a.. nniiL.;KI tUfl'., ... ... town that has a claim on his patronage is to send his money away to some other section of the country for the goods which he consumes; Take a for eigner for instance, he comes to Amer ica and work hard, saves and send it his money back to the old country. He don't help build up this country at all. If Lincoln people send their money away to concerns 1000 miles away it will impoverish this section. A man died the other day who was the origi nator of the mail order business. He left a fortune of $25,000,000. If this section contributed to his fortune we are all the losers. As the farmer and the local retail mu- e hoIuld. do f-.To buy away. trom " M,.f I 1TViT7 ' Ty merchant, but to the farmer himself, as it reduces property value, of the local itown, and in a very short time will af- s Trade at home and get just as good ""n7' if f ,ygel ICe dwM biWUl191 f ;"Ly..ur!" ?,ye7" , ". lar"."'.r K'"y speaaing, is "" I ",,u "e'"f nonesl "lm .irtim, ..j r n n ilii. j 7 lP St"r'land- 0; D- b 1,8 and BPnds ,mmpn WHrv nf fntn nrra anrl nHv c.aan pooBiing nqme trade ana sup- porting borne merchants who do nol their wares "sight unseen" and ("WS ii mere were iu millionaire mer chants in Lincoln county farm lands cotton crop of 12345 6..6$50493 would be worth $200 ner acre. Trade at home when some agent offer you a "bargain" consult your 'f7S Trust him and help make your county me must prosperous in tne state. TO THEJPUBLIC: Lincolnton, N. C. Oct. 1. 1914. A P'1'0" being circulated in Lincoln i;"u"l 'ur paraon oi jonn stowe wh0 ?. 8e.rvinga two-years r e ?n wevelan county Koads .r,secre,tly BSsault"i& me in my store in Liincolnton N. C. and shooting me f' - ? t,06.18 d)"nir with Tuberculosis. The f ollowlnK letter from Dr. E. B. Latti- more, Ountv Physician of Cleveland County, North Carolina, explains it self. . KILLIAN LOYD. Shelby. N. C. Sept. 29. 1913. Dear I Sir: In reply to your present letter I I will say that Stowe's health has 1" "S the County Board of Health as well as the Highway Commission not to ...... . uluDan, 1 MO VIIV UU11L V Ul , p 0 c?ct ln CBmp wh culosis. if known, and I i ho has Tuter- would be the i?.rst to ask for pardon f ""ona'ly, I would like to for him. -"'"' i j , duuhi una ui sew nun ' 1 "i"""" nuwneu is mat it is not detrimental to him or to the other convicts for him to stay that length of time will be glad to answer any further any inquiry. Yours truly, "E. B. LATTIMORE." O 6 It adv. the funds might be placed in the hands ot the county treasurer to the credit !of the school and paid out upon the i voucher of the school committee for purpose of school improvement as should be recommended by the 'teacher, the committee tha terment association, or other organ- 1 t . Very truly yours, ' Stabs Superintendent of Public I- aUriirtiM. t . . ' THE DEFEATJOF GERMANY WILL BE -ITS SALVATION Cause of Present Slaughter and De vastation Include Envy, Jealousy, Suspicion, Among So-Called Chris tian Nations.' - (By Dr. Lyman Abbott) New York, Sept 2C "Of the 66 millions of people in Germany I am informed that .65 millions were op- poped to the present war St Europe and that only about one million in cluded the military party, aristocracy and most of the intellectuals. "But now that the war has been brought on, Germany will fight as a unit. This "is natural and almost in- the war, now finds herseif in a life and death struggle. All parties dis appear and all citizens unite to save the nation." Thus spoke the Rev. Dr. Lyman Ab- 1 -1 . Li:-:-. : envy, selfishness and suspicion among tha an-.ullwl rht-iatian nnt;nna. U. .. ..... i viii iduhii iiauuua iic uv tered the words carefullv. Above all : other causes he puts the "ambition of 1 1 ussia to aominate Europe." mat the war proves or even indicates that Christianity has failed, as some al- lege. Dr. Abbott does not believe for a I monactrti , A uun,, tavvjrci, vie, gyiuaii, puuncisL oi j mis spirit, wmcn cuuiu not ana Bp international reputation, when asked parently still does not comprehend by the New York Sun his views re-1 why Belgium should be bound in de garding the titanic struggle now being I fending her neturality, or why Eng waged on- the continent. I land, with no very direct and im- Dr. Abbott sat in his editorial of8- mediate interests to protect, should ce of the Outlook, slender, active, full feel herself bound to oome to the of vigor despite the fact that on De- defense of her weaker neighbor, cember 18 he will be. 80 years of age. "The delay of the German army, His eyes, keen as ever, needed no which is likely to prove disastrous to spectacles; his voice, strong and re- her designs, has demonstrated in her sonant, rang with deep conviction. 1 own chosen field that there is a force And yet there was much suggesting in national honor and national con the patriarchal about that wonderful science which can put op a very ef- head, with its domelike brow, silvery ficient resistance to Krupp gun. hair and flowing white beard. He has i "It is a great mistake to suppose lived long and observed many men of . that all Germany is actuated by this the passing generations; he has watch-! spirit of militarism. Frederick Wil ed events worldwide in scope, he has liam Wile, for over seven years the thought calmly and deeply. He knows chief - German correspondent of the just what he thinks about the war sit-1 London Daily Mail, in an article in the uation and he does not hesitate to say , Outlook recently said: "There are what he thinks. 1 66,000,000 Germans; 65,000,000 of In his belief the causes of the pre-i them did hot want war; the other mil sent slaughter and devastation include lion are the war Dartv.' But he adds Germany s invasion of Belgium Dr.jordinnry. Whoever is responsible for Abbott regards as indefensible from a -bringing on the war, the interests, the moral standpoint. The underlying ! welfare and in soma, nense th scheme of the whole plan he thinks, j honor of Germany are apparently in lay in the fact, as he sees it, that the. volved in it. And yet it may be true military party for years had cherish- and I believe it is true, that the de ed the ambition to have an empire ex- feat of Germany will be its salvation, tending from the North Sea to the for it will be the overthrow of the Mediterranean, which empire would eventually include Austria and be dom- matea Dy tne uerman race although the bane of the German Empire, only a minority of the population of I "In our civil war there was at first Austria is German. That the inva- only a minority in most of the South sion of Belgium was indefensible from em states in favor of secession, but a moral standpoint, he reminds the ' when the national troops invaded Vir public, has been officially admitted in ! ginia the south was as united for state the Reichstag. independence as the north was for na me veteran student of affairs is glad that President Wilson offered his difficult to find anywhere in the south services as a mediator of the exist-1 an intelligent man who does not recog ing struggle in Europe, but he does not 1 nize the truth that the defeat of se- think the offer will be accented hv anv 'cpssinn and tha amnneinatinn nf tho of the parties involved until "the fun- damental questions at issue are set-'to tied and settled aright." "I make no attempt here to appor- "A patched up peace would only ' tion the responsibility for this war be lead to another and still more terrible tween the several powers engaged in war. The peace must provide in some it. However this responsibility must way for a reduction and a ve.rv cnn. : be shared anionp- them. I ran see hut siderable reduction, of military arm- amente and a guarantee of peace and a Kuuramee against overweening am- i tne victory oi Prussian militarism. The bition; creating such an international defeat of Germany will mean the de moral sense that a treaty like that of feat of Prussian militarism, the re Belirium's neutrality will not. in flitnra habitation of ftprmanv aa a Croat in. be regarded scornfully as 'a scrap of nnnur ' " . ilr. Abbott does not think t.hnt. nanea will come until something akiij. to con- j stitutional government is granted the I ui-upie oi an eastern r-urope, including Russia. His review of salient Dolnta in tha great conflict follows as he rarefnllv and deliberately prepared it for public- "u"m. "In answer to vour renuest for a statement of the causes and maanino- of the European war I write with necessary Drevity, Dotn because of the ouma and establishing true constitu limits on my time and the limits on tional government in Germany, a gov your crowded columns. ' lernment in which the ministry will be What is the cause nf tha avnlnainn of a "powder maeazine? The o-nsea stored in the powder. The lighted match is the occasion, not the cause of the explosion. The cause of the Euronean war In tha anirit nt on.. jealousy, selfishness and suspicion in "It is not Btrange that men sheuld the socalled Christian nations. The point to this, perhaps the greatest war assassination by a Servian of the of history, as an evidence that Chris crown prince of Austria was only the ' tianty is a failure. If Christianity lighted match which set the Europe- j professed to be able by a miracle to an combustibles arms. transform human nature at once, such In the United States we recotrniro the truth that the interests of each no such claim can be made for Chris state are identical with the interests of tionity. It is a great human move the union, and that no state can per- ment, a phase of the gradual evolu manently prosper by reason of the tion of man, governed by conscience misfortune of its neighbor. In the nd reason, out of the brute, govern Gerrnan Empire since its unification ed by appetite and passion, each principality similarly recognizes' "Man as he is seen in the world to that the interests of the German Em- day is an unfinished product He is pire and the interests of the several the making. The best that can be said principalities are essentially identical, of a Christian is that he is further a But there is no such recognition of the long toward the goal of humanity than common interest binding the warring ....: M T.- . . V iiuuoiis oi c-urope togetner. j ibacn nation looks with envy on the prosperity of its neighbor and acts ud- on the assumption that its neighbor i that life is a struggle for others is a rival, and that its own commerce well as for self; that in this strug and wealth can be built up only at the gle every one owes a duty to his neigh expense of its rival. New York is bor, and need of his neighbor the more quite willing that the harbor ofBoston imperative is his duty that as the fath should be improved. Bremcrl is quite er and the mother care for, educate willing that the harbor of Hamburir should be improved. The west coast able to care for, educate and govern of England does not object to harbor himself, so always the strong man and facilities on the east coast of England. , women owe the duty of protection, ed But Germany envies England's harbor ucation and in some measure govern facilities, arid England and Germany ment to the weaker of the human race are both resolved to prevent if possible until they have outgrown the need for Russia from getting harbor facilities it. - on the Mediterranean sea. Not every t "In so far a autocracy is the ruin individual German holds this opinion, but the policies of these nation are governed by thi. spirit of internation-' al rivalry "A. striking; . illustration af Uu spirit, pe,3 8 the most striking illus tration ii Jdern international life, is furnished by the military party in Prussia. General Bernhardi in a volume entitled "Germany and, the Next War" has given what may be regarded as a semi-official Interpret ation of German militarism. He holds that life is a struggle for existence with a survival of the fittest, and the strongest is the fittest; that a military organization constitutes the true strength of a nation; that there is no higher power in human life, certainly none in international life, than the power of physical force; that only the strong nation has a right to exist, and he objects to international arbitration because it recognizes the right to life of a small nation. In this volume he calls on Germany to establish a "world soverignity" by force of arms, and he indicates what should be the twofold purpose of Germany in the next war, nanwly to crush France and to estab lish such world sovereignity of Ger many. It was the spirit which led Ger many into the present wan this spirit which denied that Belgium had any rights which Germany was bound to reHpect; this spirit which inspired the military party in Germany to regard its treaty with r ranee and England guaranteeing the neutrality of Bel gium as onlv a "scraD of nuner." and it.:- u x i thut now Germany is absolutely united J U., U r- 111 ... ... .1. nuu viiav tuo vjci inaiio will nut DUtlK arms 'till the last amonff them cnnnhle of shouldering a rifle is incapacitated tin tne last copper ptennig capable of purchasing ammunition of war has banished from their improvished grasp.' - "TW -ia in-tnia- tutliinif extra- 'spirit of militarism inherited from Frederick the Great, and this has been tinnal union, and vet. tndnv it will ha slave have been of inestimable benefit the southern states. - one meaning in the awful campaign, The victory of Germany would mean .dustrial and educational power in the I A t l 1 . . . i i tvuiiu aim uiTjiiuuiy uic uruLilCHl over- throw of military aiitacrarv in all western Europe." "The campaigns of Napoleon ended ior western Europe the divine right of Ikines. The campaigns of the allies will end for western Knrone the divina ricrht of the armed man. The Rnssn. Japanese war gave to Russia its first representative assembly, the duma. It is not unreasonable to hone that the nresent Euronean war will result, in greatly enlarging the powers of the responsible not. to the ptnimmr hut tn tho reichstae: and tha nower both nf the purse and the sword will not he in the hands of an aristocratic oligarchy hut in the hands of the common neo- nla i a war would be fatal to its claim. But the barbarian. Theological doctrines u iL. T ' 1 . . I . . . , suc-n hs uie irinity,tne . Atonement ana the like are not the essential doctrines of Christianity. The essential doctrine and govern their child until he rrows of the few for the benefit of the few it is paganism. . In so far as demo- eraey is the rule of the many for the nenetit at the many it to Christianity, He who believes Una will perhaps be- LINCOLN COUNTY'S 3!276 HOMES U. S. Department Issues Bulletin Of the Total More Than Two-Thirds Are Farm Homes. There are 226 Mortgaged Farm Homes 77 Town Homes Are Mortgaged About One Third of Home Are in Towns. The question of the number of homes in Lincoln county is up for dis cussion now and then, and these facts will interest. The United States Census Depart ment at Washington has just issued a bulletin dealing with the ownership of Lincoln county homes. The import ant facts contained in the bulletin rela ting to this county are as follows: There are 3,276 homes in Lincoln county. farm Homes. Of this number 2.262 are farm homes. 1,077 of the farm homes are owned by their occupants and are free of mortgaged incumberance. The mortgaged farm homes number 226. Renters occupy 958 farm homes in this county. Urban Homes Out of a total of 326 homes in the county 1,014 are urban homes. There are 376 urban home owners in the county. ur this number 77 are mortgaged . 291 of the urban owned homes are free of incumberance. , There are 618 rented urban homes in the county. . I he census enumerators were unable to secure data pertaining to the owner ship of a small percentage of both the rural end urban homes in this county. iniormauon About jNorth Carolina Farms. North Carolina has 253.725 farms: of this number 146,438 are operated by owners and managers and 107,287 by tenants. , Fifty-eight per cent of the farms of this State are operated by owners and managers and 42 per cent by tenants. The farm home owners and manag ers of North Carolina cultivate 5, 670,000 acres of land and the tenants till 3,113,000 acres in this States. . The value of the land and buildings of the tenant farms of this Stale is $137,081,000; that of the home owners and managers is $319,543,000. harm facts. He who plows can nroduce anv. thing, including health and happiness. inv mine lAtiuaiuie ox w e plow will make a desert bloom and blossom. Ihe problems of farming are as serious as the multiplication tables. Successful farming and marketing are the basis of all human progress. . Farming is successful only when the crops have been profitably marketed. Good roads broaden our sympathy, lessen distance and increase our use fulness. It's the man who really counts in farming. Fertile land is necessary, but a master mind must solve the problem of production and marketing. PRICE OF COTTON BLAMED A Charlotte visitor, who comes from the North tells the Observer that only in the Cotton section is there a busi ness depression. Says the Observer: "That the depreciation in the price of cotton is the basis for the general feeling of unrest existing over the South is the opinion of Mr. Herman Suter, former general manager of The Philadelphia Evening Times, who has been spending a short time in Char lotte on business. Mr. Suter came here from an extensive trip through the northwest. The people in that part of the country are rolling in wealth almost as never before. They have never had such a crop of grain, never had such a commanding market for it and never received such fabulous prices for their offerings. Business everywhere is on a boom and it seems that instead of acting as a deterrent to business, the -war is having a beneficial effect upon that part of the country, "1 noticed a change of scenery as soon as I struck the Southern clime. I first touched Memphis and detected no organic trouble, but a somewhat Pessimistic view of the situation and soon ascertained that it all came about by reason of the low price of cotton." Mr. Suter has been in the South on numerous other occasions and was distinctly impressed with the fact that the prvailing price for cotton is responsible for the rather unfavorable view that is being taken of the times and further with the promise that with relief coming to the cotton trade of this part of the country. It would likewise share in the general pros perity that is so bountifully falling to other sections of the United States. RUNAWAYS. Two Rphnnlhnva (lnranA Ci-air r.t Mount Holly and Leslie Cobb of Moun tain Island, becoming tired of the con finement or sehonl riaeidoH thov uaii)1 leave town for other parts.- When a coal train passed they got aboard and came w liincolnton. At WIS point tha nnlit-a atnnno th.m -TV. U .. .1 . r ...... j. ...v. wiv . 1 1. i ii j iinu a little money, . three steel traps and sums experience, iney nad started for the mountains, where they in tended putting in seme time trap ping. Iieve with me that in a true sense this is a religious war, the war of conscience, honor, the moral sense against the rule of the bayonet and the bullet. The cynic.who thinks this war dem onstrates the failure of Christianity snouia not iorget sucn iacts as the heroic struggle of Belgium to main tain her neutrality, the resolve of En gland at every cost to maintain her pledges to Belgium, the Red Cross following the armies in the field and ministering to tne sick, the wounded and the suffering, regardless of their nationality, the general kind treatment to prisoners, accentuated by some very horrible exceptions, and all this con trasted with the enslaving, torturing, the crucifying, the flaying alive of Srisoners captured in war by barbar : nations before the dawn of Chria tosnity." - ' ' t-
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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Oct. 6, 1914, edition 1
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