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-ST--. ' UMi&k-r-. .Jinimrintl e -v 9 i -: . ft'.V-J- VOL, IX.-NJ. 27. LINCOLNTON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6. 1915. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR rarest , . n a -y "- LINCOLNTON WON THE DEBATE Llncolnton High School Debaters Con vinced on lhe Home Ground That a Ship Subsidy is A Bad Thing While At Dallas They Convinced Judges It Is All Wrong Llncolnton Will Go To Chapel Hill. In the debate at Dallas last Thurs day night the Lineolnton High School was victorious over Dallas, winning the negative side away from home and the affirmative side at home the prev ious week when the negative from Dallas came to Lineolnton. When the negative from the Dallas school came up week before last to try conclusions with Lineolnton the query was "Resolved, That the United States Should Adopt the Policy of Subsidiz ing Its Merchant Marine Engaged in Foreign Trade." On this occasion Lineolnton, on the affirmative side, won, Sterne Camp and Harvey Coon representing this city and Miss Lois Wilson and Earl Newton represented Dallas. Thursday night in Dallas Lineolnton debaters were Misses Roberta Love and Mayacca Warren, negative, while the Dallas school took the affirmative and was represented by Hugh Rhyne and Paul Costner. At home our de baters proved that a ship subsidy is all right and at Dallas they convinced the judges it is all wrong. This means that the Lineolnton debaters will par ticipate in the final debate at Chapel : Hill. ' Lineolnton has cause to feel proud of the showing made by our debaters. Misses Love and Warren who repre sented this city in Dallas had both been sick previous to going there for the contest but inspite of these diffi culties made a fine showing. The Dal las debaters also made a good show ing the subject being thoroughly dis cussed, every phase of the question being threshed out by some one of the speakers, and all the speeches were good productions. The Lineolnton delegation, at Dallas went down Thursday evening in auto mobiles. Besides the debaters some of those who were present from here were: Messrs. Edgar Love, M. S. Beam, Misses Adams, Wnrlick, Jor dan, Grace Warren, Messrs. Stern Camp, Walter Costner, Jennings Ed wards, Frank Cashion and others. The debate in Ciapel Hill will be on Friday evening of this week. The winners in the debate with Dallas Misses Roberta Love, Mayacca War ren and Masters Stern Camp and Har vey Coon will leave Wednesday or Thursday so as to be on hand in time for the debate in Chapel Hill. They will be accompanied by Prof. Beam, Mr. Love and others. The debaters will be entertained free of cost while at Chapel Hill, but they will be compelled to bear their own expense as to railroad faro, etc., unless the citizens of Lineolnton give them a free trip. Lineolnton has' rer.son to be proud of the record made by - her young statesmen in the costest with the fine Dallas school and this is an opportunity to show her appreciation by giving their representatives a free trip to Chapel Hill. We would sug gest that any who wish to take ad vantage of this opportunity see Prof. Beam. BIRD PROTECTION LAW STILL EFFECTIVE. Department of Agriculture Will Con tinue to Prosecute Illegal Killing of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds. Washington, D. C, April 2. Many of the press comments on the decision of the United States District Court, rendered March 20, at Topcka, Kan sas, holding that tho Federal Migrato ry Bird law is unconstitutional, ac cording to the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, are erroneous and are opt to mislead the public con cerning the roal situation in this mat ter. The Kansas decision, like a former decision to the same effect in the Eas tern District of Arkansas, is limited in its operations solely to the district in which it was render ed. Neither decision settles or nulli fies the law, and the exact contrary has been held by the United States District Court for South Dakota. The Arkansas case has been appealed to, and is now pending in, the United States Supreme Court. The Act of Congress protecting migratory birds stands effective until Supreme Court finally decides the question of its . constitutionality. In the meantime, it it is incumbent on every law-abiding citizen to observe its provisions and the regulations. It is tho duty of the department of Agriculture to enforce ' this law and the ofieials in charge will endeavor to do so as long as it is in force. Reports of violations will be carefully investigated and when sufficient evidence is secured they will be reported for prosecution. In this connection it should not be forgoten than an offender against this, as in the case of other United States laws, ' is subject to prosecution any time with in three years from the date the of fense is committed. Complements Major Graham. Maj. Graham, Commissioner of Ag ' " ' riculture yesterday received a letter ; from Mr. Garland, Daniel, Secretary of ... the Central North Carolina Fair, ot Greensboro, in which he stated th.it . at the meeting of the secretaries of the North Carolina circuit of fairs he was directed to express to the Com missioner the appreciation of the va rious fairs for the interest that the Department of Agriculture had taken in the fairs. Mr. Daniel also stated that the secretaries wanted to get in closer touch with commissioner Gra ham and invited suggestions as to improvements in affairs. News and Obeserver. In the contest in the municipal pri mary in Hickory, Qeo. L. Lyerly de f feated Jones W. Shuford for mayor Dy bu votes. Wisdom comes with tears, but on the other hand, the older man grows the more chance he hat of being found IRON CORRESPONDENCE Iron Station, March 31. The last day of March and about 8 inches of snow on the eround. ii is certainly a pretty sight and we might add a lit tle out of the ordinary. This corres pondent has always took a keen in terest in the weather but we are a Door hand at remembering dates, About 30 years ago on the 8th day of April we made tne trip to Lineolnton for a load of guano, and it snowed all day, but the snow melted as fast as it fell. We stepped into a dry goods store and asked to look at an alpaca coat The clerk cast an anxious look out of doors and I replied, "To look out of doors it would appear that you ought to buy heavier goods." On the 20th day of April 7 or 8 years ago snow fell very near all day. Mr. Lee Perkins has been right sick but we are informed is improving. His friends are hoping that he will soon be restored to health. Mr. Alexander who has charge of the building of the abutments to the Lineolnton Denver road has about completed the job. He has built in all 14 abutments, which would indicate 7 bridges on the road. ' He tells your correspondent that the bridge near the writers residence will be the high est above ground in the county. We remember of once hearing a man boast that he possessed the strongest land in the county, because he said it sup ported more rocks and bigger ones than any other farm. We suppose that on this principle Alpha may be excused 'for boasting that his farm contains deeper ravins than any other farm in the county. Mr. S, L. Bollinger's school at Ma cedonia closed last Saturday with ap- Jropriate exercises. Senator C. A. onas addressed the audience. Your correspondent had a special invita tion to attend, but failed to get there. One present informs us that Mr. Jo nas made an interesting talk. Sorry that we were not present to have said amen; to some thoughts presented by Mr. Jonas. We are quoting Mr. Jonas second handed and if we misrepresent him we stand ready to apologize. Mr. Jonas advised against parents moving to town to educate their children. That the country school has many advan tages over the town school. This scribe has always been of the opinion that it is not the part of wisdom for parents to move to town to educate their children. The reason generally given is that our rural schools are too short In the first place all other things being equal, we believe that a child will get about as much out 'of a 4 or & months term in the country as they will out of 7 or 8 months term in the town or city. ' Then if the length of term is the great inducement for moving to town to educate our children how easy and how much better it would be for all concerned to reach down in our pock ets and by special tax or some other Slan make our rural schools longer. Ir. Jonas, we are also informed, ad vocated large schools. Again we would like to have been there to have said amen. When we were appointed a member o fthe Board of Education of Lincoln County, our first thought was of consolidation of districts and making larger schools. We had not served but a short while until we dis covered that to make larger and stronger schools in Lincoln county we had a hard job on our hands. That public sentiment seemed to be against us. During our 14 years service on the Board, we did help to do just a little consolidating, but at the same time we helped to create a few small districts which we are now convinced that never ought to have been created. This puts us in a position where we do not feel at liberty to criticizo the pre sent Board or future Boards of Edu tions for not doing what we failed to do ourselves. Yet we still think that our schools would be stronger and better if we had about one fourth less schools in the county, and the board of education that can rise above even the seeming public sentiment of the people and accomplish that re sult will determine the lasting grat titude of the whole county, our people need to be educated out of the foolish idea that the children are not better off by having to walk two miles to school. The writer's experience as teacher has convinced him that the child is not hurt either physically or mentally, for having walked two or even two and a halt miles to school Every school in the county should be large enough to sustain two teachers and public sentiment should be edu cated to that end. Sheriff Willis is making a splendid record as a catcher of blind tigers, and if he keeps up this record and is a candidate for a second term, to use the language of the late Rev. Sam Jones "some of us Democrats will have to pray hard to keep from being glad." should he be elected to another term. Well, we did get some kind of a jutr law after all. It is a very poor make il.ift we think, and we also think it a shame that the Legislature ?ould not do better, but we are not discouraged. As sure. as the kingdom of our Lord is to set up on this earth just so sure is king alcohol gouig tc be dethroned. Let no prohibitionist be discouraged. When the writer was a very small boy, we remember of hear ing a good old Baptist preacher sine "Go on, go on, we re gaining ground nrncnuun, For the love of God Is coming down, . Hallehuah." Let the sentences ef this old song be the motto of all true prohibitionists. ALPHA. EXPERT DIVERS LEAVE TO RAISE SUBMARINE. Washington, D. C, April 1. Expert divers from the New York navy yard to assist in raising the submarine F-4 in Honolulu harbor, are expected to leave with their equipment today for San Francisco, where the cruiser Maryland will be waiting to take them to Honolulu. Meanwhile Rear Admiral Moore, commandant of the naval station at Honolulu, will continue his efforts to raise the submerged craft. The girl who marries her ideal gen erallv lives to realize titer iro't any mtk thine. THAT "DOCTORED" WHISKEY BARREL The Barrel For Water And Whiskey Discovered Here Some Time Ago Was Fixed in Statesville. The following is from The States ville Landmark of April 2: An investigation conducted by Sher iff Deaton has revealed that the de ceptive liquor barrel found in the possession of Bud Lippard and Ira Norris, when they were arrested in Lincoln county recently on the charge of retailing, was "doctored" in States ville and snipped from here to Norris under an assumed name. Two bar rels were "fixed up," but only one of them was shipped, ' the other being held here for instructions. The barrel which was found in the possession of Lippard and Norris by the Lincoln officers was secured from a Statesville establishment by Bud Lippard, who took it to a local tin shop where he had made arrange ments to have it "fixed." The fixing consisted of having a small tin con tainer fastened inside the barrel in such a way that it could be filled with liquid which could be poured f rom the barrel without disturbing the con tents of ihe barrel proper. Knowing that Lippard had been in the courts for blockading, the tinners realized that the barrel was to be used for de ceptive purposes, but they did their work according to instructions. Lip pard is said to have explained to the tinners that if the barrel was used in the liquor business it would be used to deceive the revenue officers, the idea being to full the barrel proper with liquor and the small cantainor with vinegar. Then if tho "revenues" should come, the owner of the barrel could ckim that it contained vinegar and could satisfy the officer by pour ing out a small amour.t of the vine gar. But if it was the purpose of Lip pard and his confederate to use the barrel in the manner mentioned, they changed their minds after getting it In accordance with Lippard's in struction the barrel was shipped from Statesville to "D. Dellinger, Conover, N. C." and from Conover it was re-shipped to Lineolnton, where Norris called for it, representing him self as "D. Dellinger" and signing for it with that name. From Lineolnton Norris had the barrel hauled by a drayman to a branch or creek about three miles from town. And it was near the stream that the officers found the barrel in the possession of Lip pard, who was arrested on the spot, while Norris was found elsewhere and also placed under arrest. The of ficers found that the barrel - proper contained water while the tin contain er within contained about a gallon and a half of liquor. Lippard and Norris, it is charged, were trying to sell the barrel and its contents as "a barrel of blockade liquor" and to convince prospective customers small quantities of liquor were drawn from the tin container. The case of Lippard and Norris is to be tried in Lincoln county Superior Court next week. The Lincoln offi cers have been notified about the origin of the barrel and the . tinners who "fixed" it are willing to tell of their part in the affair, but Sheriff Deaton is informed that they will not be called to court to testify. Norris is in jail at Lineolnton, having been recaptured in Statesville after mak ing an escape, and Lippard is under bond for his appearance at court. MERCHANT CONFESSES TO FIR ING HIS STORE. Bentley, of Statesville, Says He Was , Pressed by Creditors And Applied Match. Statesville, April 2. -The investiga tion of the Cash Grocery company fire came to an abrupt end this afternoon when W. C. Bentley, the owner and proprietor of the store, confessed to officers that he started the fire. Bent ley whs then taken into custody by Sheriff Deaton. According to his own confession Bentley entered his store by the rear door shortly after 6 o'clock Tuesday morning, sprinkled kerosene over some of the goods, applied a match and left the store. Smoke which came from the store attracted early risers and the fire was "nipped in the bud" by the fire men. Had It gained any headway an entire business block would have been in danger. Bentley's stock and fixtures inventoried (686 and he had $1,000 insurance. He says that he was being pushed by creditors and decided to burn the stock with the hope of collecting the insurance. , , A THIEF DEFINED. From Billy Sunday's Sermon on the Ten Commandments. "Thou shalt not steal." Listen a minute. A man is a thief when he takes, that which he does not give adequate return, either in property, work or money. A man is a thief when he makes false representations. A man is a thief when he says: 'This is all wool," and It is half cotton. A man is a thief when he says: "That is imported," when it is made in Phila delphia. A ,man is thief when he says: "This is a pure article," when it is adulterated. If he knows it, understand, he is a thief. The employer that makes the work ingman work for wages that keep him on the verge of starvation and don't begin to pay him for the labor he ex pends is a thief; so is the working man that doesn't give his employer an honest return for his wages a thief. The church hat holds a lottery is a thief, too. $32 Shoes Angered Villa. So He taxed Germans of $500,000 for Revenge. Montery El Paso Dispatch. , Because a German merchant in Montery didn't recognize General Villa when he entered to buy a pair of shoes and charged .the military lender $32.00 for them a tax of wu,uuu has Deen levied on all Germans in the city. Max Weber, German Vice Consul in Juares, is preparing a messag to ihe German Ambassador in Washinr- ton protesting against the levy. UNHOLY ALLIANCE Republicans and Wall Street Want The Whole Hog They Talk .Cal amity But Enjoy Prosperity. New York World. One of the most prominent manu facturers in the Middle West recently expressed the opinion that the only obstacle to American prosperity was the senseless pessimism of Willi Street How senseless this pessimism is may be inferred from a statement credited to Piedmont Thomas of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, who was reported last week to have said: The continued prosperity of the United States depends almost entire ly upon what is done in Washington. I would authorize an . expenditure of $10,000,000 tomorrow if the situa tion in Washington was clear. But the uncertainty of which I speak means that we must withhold this $lo,uuo,ouo expenditure for an indefinite period. At the very time that Mr. Thomas was pouring forth this tale of woe, the Lehigh Valley Railroad was adver tising a quarterly dividend of 2 1-2 : Pr cent' on j V c! '. on its common stock and on its perferred stock. A railroad that is paying 10 per cent dividends is not starving to death, whatever "the situation in Washington" may be. There is no situation in Washing ton that is hostile to business. There has been no other time in ten years in which there was so little uncer tainty. Yet Wall Street continues to talk calamity think calamity and dream calamity. When it might be making New York the financial cen tre of the world, it spends its time in conspiring against an Administra tion that cannot be bought or bullied. The feeling is growing that Wall Street wants no prosperity unless it can hog it all, and that the typical Wall Street banker's idea of pros perity is 6 per cent for loans with 5 per cent commission and 61 per cent of the common stock as a bon us. PLAN FOR SAFETY IN MEXICO CITY. Washington, April 1. With the hope of securing permanent protec tion lor tne zd.uuu foreigners in Mexico City, the United States Gov ernment has proposed to the Villa- Zapata forces and to General Car rnnza that the Mexican Capital be declared neutral and outside the field of operations hereafter in Mexico's civil war. The Villa-Zapata forces have agreed to the proposal and are will ing to evacuate the city as soon as a similar agreement, is obtained with the Carranza authorities. On Gen eral Carranza depends also whether or not the effort of the United States to neutralize the railway between Mexico City and Vera Cruz shall succeed as the Villa-Zapata officials have agreed to this. The plan with respect "to Mexico City contemplates an arrangement whereby order would be maintained by a local council of prominent resi dents. The CapitaJ would not be subject to further attacks nor would there be more changes in Govern ment until a central government had been established. Should the Capi tal be declared neutral, much of the apprehension for the safety of for eigners would be removed and the famine menace elimnated. ,No important engagements be tween the Villa and Carranza forces were reported to the Washington au thorities today, dispatches saying that comparative quiet prevailed along the border and that the Mexico City situation was unchanged. WARNING ABOUT SEED CORN. I believe that some one ought to warn the farmers about planting good sound seed com this spring. I will venture the assertion that we will hear more complaint about bad stands of corn this spring than ever. On ac count of the dry spell last year there was more late corn than I ever saw in this country In one year; and then we had more hail storms than usual, I do not believe there is one farmer in ten, the county over, that has seed corn that will germinate good. When you consider the amount of land one bushel of seed com will plant a far mer ought not to take chances on get ting s poor stand of corn on account of poor seed. All farmers know that they cannot make a good yield of corn unless they get a good stand in planting, as it is a waste of time replanting corn. Now as to who yon buy seed from, I would advise getting seed as near home as possible, from some reliable seed dealer or from a neighbor whose corn you are sure matured good. E. A. Morrison in Sutesville Landmark. PREPARING FOR THE TAX LIST ING. One million and two hundred thou sand copies of a special blank for tax abstracts must be printed and gotten Into the hands of the tax listers in every township of each of the coun ties in the State by May 1 by the State Tax Commission and the planks are now being prepared. There will be a nuirlber of new fea tures in the abstract blang form to conform to the provisions of the new machinery act passed by the recent Legislature. For one thing there! will be a feature that will show-the number each of horses, mules, cows, hogs and the like instead of, as in the past merely the number and value of all classes grouped. This change is especially for the purpose of furnishing something of a census ioluim no w uie iivH block lnuutfiry 01 j The State Tax Commission, it is announced, is prepiring to make good its pledge to the finance cenmittes of the Legislature that it would make special effort to get all the properties in the State subject to taxation on the books, and to gi books, and to get them on the most ( equalized and full value basis poasi- i Die. For which result all of us will ever 'pray. i 1111 Even the blind beggar may have an 'eye for businsasv EUROPEAN WAR ZONE NEWS London, April 4. The sinking of the Turkish armored cruiser Medji dieh is reported in a Reuter's Petro grad dispatch. A semi-official com munication from Sevastopol to Petro grad says that the Medjicdieh struck a mine near the Russian coast last night and went down. Strikes Mine in Baltic. Washington, April 4. London April 6. A Reuter dispatch from Stockholm says the German steamer Crete Hemsoth struck a mine in the Baltic and sank and that 25 members of her crew were drowned. London, April 3. The Germans are pouring reinforcements into Hun gary to support the Austrians, hard pressed by the Russians in the Passes of the Carpathians, and are also again sending men from Belgium to strengthen their eastern front, where1 the Rusians have taken the offensive. Apparently the Russians have had considerable success ,for the official reports unnounce the repulse of Aus trian attacks south of Lupkow pass and west of Uszok pass, and continued progress in the region of the latter puss. On Anril 1 the Russians claim thev have taken prisoners 100 officers and 7,000 men and to have captured 10 machine guns. , i Berlin, April 3. The American w. n.aruiam Mo. v-Lr struck a mine in the North Sea and sank a few hours after sho left Bre men yesterday, according to word re ceived by United States Ambassador Gerard tonight. Her crew is reported to nave been saved. The Greenbrier is the third Ameri can vessel destroyed by mines in the North sea. The Evelyn was blown up off Borkum Island on rebruary 21 with a reported loss of three men, while enroute to Bremen with a cargo of cotton. The Carib was sunk by a mine off Nordeney on February 23. One of her crew died from exposure. Ambassador Gerard cabled a brief message to Washington tonight, tell ing of the sinking of the Greenbrier. At the time he took steps to obtain all possible information regarding the sinking of the American steamer. London, April 3. A blow that may send four more nations tumbling into the European war has been struck along the Serbian-Bulgarian frontier. Bulgarian irregulars have invaded Serbian territory, the Serbian war of fice announced tonight and are bat tling with Serbian troops along the Vardar river. Both sides have suf fered heavy losses and the struggle was continuing when the last dis patches reached Nish. The news Created a sensation In Eu ropean capitals. Rome dispatches to night reported communication with Salonika interrupted and wild reports that Greek troops had been hurried northward taward the scene of the fighting, a few miles from the Greek frontier. The Serbian prime minister, M. Pashitch is reported to. have tele graphed a peremptory demand for an explanation to Sofia. The Serblun embassy tonight was confident that the Bulgarian raid would be disavowed by King Ferdi nand. Diplomatic circles, however, saw the posibility of an explosion in the Balkans they could plunge first Bulgaria, then Greece, Italy and Ru mania into the war. Berlin, April 3. Vinna's official claim that 40,000 Rusians have been captured in the last three days' fighU mg in tne Carpathians aroused tre menduous enthusiasm in Benin to night. The Austrian was office at the same time announced that all Slav attacks north of Lupkow and Uszok passes have been repulsed and that the Austro-German forces everywhere are holding their own. Italy and the War. Paris. A Di ll 3. Giusenne Bevoine. editor of the Turin Stampa and member of the Italiun Chamber of Deputies, told the Associated Press today that he had a deep conviction that Italy would begin war against Germany and Austria before the end of April. Paris, April 28. Captivity weighs lightly on German prisoners" In France. Their spirits are sustained by unfailing faith in a final victory for the Fatherland and the good care they are receiving. These facts were discovered by newspaper men who have Just visited the prisoner camps. "My soldiers." said General Po- line at Tours, "are sleeping wherever they can in barns, in sheds while the German prisoners are eniovinir the comforts of baracks." German Submarines Add Two More Ships To Their Long List. London. April 1. While German submarines continue their activity around British coasts the naval wing of the royal squadron keeps up its attacks on the German underwater craft being built at Hoboken and the Zeehrugge submarine base. The Germans have added two more steamers to the long list of merchant men sunk off Beach y Head. The vic tims this time were the French steam er Emma, torpedoed yesterday with a loss of 19 of her crew, and the Brit ish steamer-Seven Seas, sent to the bottom today with 11 of her crew. The British losses already reported for the week ending March 31 were five steamers. A sixth vessel torpedoed reached port. During the week, how ever, 1,650 vessels entered and sailed from British ports. So, except for loss of life, the damage was not consider ered excessive. Germans Took 55,800 Prisoners. Berlin, April 1. The German head quarters staff in today's official state ment says that in the month of March the German Eastern army took 66,800 Russian prisoners' including officers and soldiers and captured also nine cannon and 61 machine guns. London, April 2. The Rusians are on the offensive along; their whole front, from the Baltic am to tba Bo- manian border and in the Caucasus, and according to a Stockholm dispatch they have centrated an enormous num ber of soldiers on the Finnish coast to prevent the Germans landing there. WILL BE A DRAW. , Officers Thinks War Will End That I Way. Capt. Granville R. Fortescue, who served as military aide at tho White House during the administration of President Roosevelt, and who has been on duty for the past seven months as war correspondent for the Belgian and French armies, return ed to his home in Washington today, for a brief stay, says the Washing ton Star, with the opinion that the great war in Europe will result in what might be called a compromise or a draw. Lapt fortesue s attention was drawn today to the statements made in a speech yesterday afternoon in which the English statesman declared in effect, that the peace price of the allies is the restoration of Belgium and "liberty for Europe." His attention was also called to re cent statements by Dr. Von Beth-mann-Holweg, in which the German chancellor also discussed possible peace terms. Capt Fortescue's com ment upon both statements was that they have probably been put as feelers, and in connection there with he said: lhe whole thing seems to me in the nature of a question of exhaus tion of either the allies or the Ger mans and Austrians. Or, again, the question of the possible end of the war may be solved by the fact that the loss of life will be so enormous this summer that the civilian popula tions of the countries at war will de mand the cessation of hostilities, "You may be sure men of affairs at the heads of the difforont coun tries understand the situation better than any one else, and that they must now realize that no matter what they had hoped to gain when they first went to war, if they con- unuod tne present operations it is certain that all the nations involved will so cripple themselves that years and years will be required for recov ery. "When the figures as to loss by death of thousands and thousands begin to come in as the result of the scheduled advances this summer by the armies, and it is seen that the re sults achieved are comparatively so small, then there will be a demand for compromise. That is how the war will end, in my opinion." "I have been around a good bit, with the Belgian, the French and the German armies, and of course I saw the English at Os tend, but haven't been with the Russians, and haven't wanted tc much, for the reason that the Rus sians only take one to see six-day-old battlefields. I have been under arrest too, a number of times, as have been, such as Richard Harding Davis, John Reed and others. "Some of these experienses are rather harsh.' They say "Take this man and keep him in solitary con finement for four days,' for instance, and you cannot communicate with your friends, and after all, you know, the impressivencss of military detention 'gets on your nerves,' so to speak. "What I have seen makes me be lieve that the results to be achieved by the different countries at war cannot possibly justify the enormous loss oi lite and destruction of nroD- erty which has already taken place and which will result should the war continue indefinitely. i cannot see how the disDositmns of the armies on either the eastern or western fields of operations can result in any battle which would destroy suf ficient numbers on one side or the other to make the struggle decisive or bring about an immediate awing for peace. The demand for peace, in my opinion, will come from outside of the armies, from the civilian pop ulations, as soon as the spring and summer advances result in the death of thousands and thousands of men about to be slaughtered." .. COW THOUGHT TO - HAVE HOLLOW HORN Lineolnton. R-3. April 3. Farmers are somewhat set back again in their line of work for the last several days owing to unfavorable weather. Some along this route who were fortunate enough to hold their cotton are now selling at 9 cents. Some we believe are holding for 10 cents. Who knows but it will go to 10 cents or more yet? The price of cotton and the weather we know very little about except in the present tense. ihe Sunday school at Macedonia is progressing splendidly under the lead ing of Messrs. Meade Ewing and Gaither Lee, Superintendents and Secretary respectively. Just here may we ask why don't more parents go to Sunday school ? Do not stay from your .QlinHau DoIiaaI anA - L. . ........... j u, o 1 1 v. v jr w icaiu yum children only by precept by telling them to go to Sunday school, but teach by example by going along with your children. Mr. L. A. Abernathv has been in. disposed for several days, not able to go to his school. Miss Pansy, his daughter, has been teaching; in his place. When are we to have the bridges placed over the streams along the newly graded Denver and Lineolnton road? We are anxious to see this done. Good days when the snow and rain have gone we want to try the route. Many in this section are greatly in hopes of getting a short cross road connecting the two sand clay roads. As soon as this is done all of this eastern part of the county will have a way out to the railroad. There is some cow sickness out this way. Some say the cows have hollow horn. Others say there is no such a thing as hollow horn hurting cows. We would like to know what your stock raising readers have to say about this. Cannot Mr. R. A. McNeely or Rev. Mr. Deaton tell us through your columns about this? Hoping to hear about this from some we will say Good day. XX There wouldn't h an tnuK mom the top if the stain weren't so hard' to climb. , PRINZ EITEL TIME LIMIT TUESDAY Newport News, Va.f April 2. The German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich began taking on provisions here today under supervision of the United States government. Comman der Thierichens, captain of the mer- : chant raider, it is understood, asked permision under neutrality regula tions for supplies sufficient for a fif teen days' voyage. Only a small portion of the ship's stores, it is said, would be taken on to day, the bulk af the provisions to be loaded Saturday and Sunday. That the time limit granted the Eitel to remain in this port does not expire before Tuesday is a report generally credited here, but the port still is filled with British merchant ships which leave daily. After Tuesday the German com mander would have 24 hours in which to leave waters of American jurisdic tion. If in that intern the merchant ship of an enemy should leave tho Eitel would be held 24 hours more, but after that she must be given an opportunity to depart or be interned. It is possible therefore that the climax to the Eitel Friedrich incident may not come before Thursday. Close scrutiny still is being kept on the German ship by American military forces and the battleship Alabama stands guard in Hampton Roads. Reports current here some time ago that German warships may have es. caped from European waters to come to the relief of the Eitel seem to have no definite basis, but were revived to day by the report from Madrid that the Hamburg-American steamer Mace donia had evaded British cruisers and was making for South American wa ters with supplies said to be intended for German warships. Allied warships reported off the Vir ginia capes today were the Suffolk, Berwick, Coroma and a French vessel unknown. Marine men say thev are lying on both sides of the channel about ten miles off by day and four miles by night. TOO BUSY "HOGGING IT." The Foe of The Community Spirit and Co-operation. J. Z. Green in Marshville Home. In his interesting lecture on "The Community Spirit," Mn B. C. Ash craft said that a man who is possess ed of the community spirit does not "hog it" The only apology he made for using the term "hog it was that he couldn't find any other term that properly conveyed the meaning. He then told of going with his uncle. back in the days of turkey -hunting o see him fix the bait for turkeys. When his uncle placed a pr.rt of an ear of corn on a stake about two feet from the ground, he asked him if he wasn't afraid the hogs would get that corn. The old gentleman an swered, "No, hogs never look up; they are busy rooting." "A more abt illustration of the hindrances to the development of the community spirit could not have been made. "Too busy rooting!" When a farmers' institute is held in a vicinity, through which valuable in formation, based upon costly exper iences, may be had by simply taking a day off and attending the mentino' of the farmers institute, the attend- inee usually amounts to only a few dozen when it ouerht to be numWed by the hundreds. Farmers are too busy "rooting" to attend. When a meeting of the Local Union is held it frequently happens that only a part of the members are Dresent. The others are too busy "hogging it." A week day church meeting is called. About 6 ner cent of the members are present The others are "rooting." A community meeting is mlled to devise Dlans for betterment of the school. Only a small part of the patrons are there. The majority of them are busy "rooting." A com munity betterment association is or ganized. Those who have the com munity spirit nre promptly on hand at the meetings and are' true stick ers, while many of those who are trying to get the most out of tha community and putting least into i, re conspicuously absent. They have KnH U . 1,1 . i . h ., . u ' uKK'nK it mat tney vuuiu nave a nervous DreaK- down f they should "go out in the night air. io they are at home "h it" again the next day. And in most f the townR. esDeeiallv th nm.ill ioxvns, the greater proportion of the energies in "hogging it" are expend ed in efiorts to push each other out. f the trough in attempts to pull jusiness away from each other They ire so busy pushine and "rnotino'" t jach other that they have no time ir inclination to nssemhle Uly in "net toirethor" moetinoa an1 consider plans- for creating more wealth and more business for the community as a whole. Tnstend rT calling this "hogging it" I am fully aware that it would sound much bet ter to call it "legitimr.te business competition." But there have been more economic crimes and "hogging" sins committed under the agreealde name "competition" than anv other name. ' , Now don't let anybody say that I am placing any discount on individu alism. Success in human achieve ment will always depend primarily u"on the efficiency of individual ef fort, but the individual effort itself depends upon merged effort in estab lishing and supporting and improv ing the community agencies that de velop the individual. If, therefore, we should ronvinra nil riu .flr, ...i. vidual activities we could have no schools, no churches, and no co-operative community associations. The best progress and achievement ' then can come only through greater effi ciency of the individual unit of soci ety along individual lines of endeav or, together with the merging effort ui community service. Individual achievement is either limited and re stricted by community environment or it is enlarged by it, just in propor tion as a belter environment is ere ated by concerned efforts through community service, in raising the av. erage of efficiency of tho community as a whole. " 1 Virtue has Kb own reward. To the poor all thing are par.
The Lincoln Times (Lincolnton, N.C.)
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April 6, 1915, edition 1
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