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LINCOLNTON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 26 1915.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
U. S. MAKES FIRM ITS
DEMAND ON GERMANY
Hu Both Ring of Finally and Sugges
tion of Action Is Virile in Every
Line Intends To Insist Upon Full
Recognition Of All Our Sea Rights
Closed With Big Punch Clever Dip
lomacy of ihe President is Noted
' Throughout the Document. Keen
Disappointment is Expressed.
Washington, July 23. The text of
the American note on the submarine
warfare, presented at Berlin today by
Ambassador Gerard, was made pub
lic here tonight. It revcnls that the
Imperial Government had been in
formed it is the intention of the Uni
ted States to regard as "deliberately
unfriendly" any repetition by the
commanders of German naval vessels
of acts in contravention of American
rights.
The United States announces that
it will continue to contend for the
freedom of the seas "from whatever
quarter violated, without compromise
and at any cost."
In official and diplomatic quarters
the communication was viewed as
the srtongest and most emphatic
pronouncement that has come from
the Washington Government since
the beginning of its correspondence
with the belligerents of Europe.
President Wilson returned to Cornish
tonight to awnit developments.
On the assumption that Germany
has already admitted the illegality of
her practices by attempting to justi
fy them as retaliatory moves against
Great Britain the United States ex
presses ihe belief that Gehmany will
no longer "refrain from disavowing
the wantom act of its naval comman
der in sinking the Lusitania or from
offering reparation for the American
lives lost, so far as reparation can
be made for a needless destruction
of human life by an illegal act."
Referring to the German Govern
ment's expression of hope in its last
note that the freedom of the seas
may be established in some measure
before the end of the present war,
the United States declares that this
object can be accomplished and in
vites the practical co-operation of
the Imperial Government. The
American Government adds, more
over, that it "holds itself ready at
any time to act as the common
friend who may be privileged to sug
gesting a way' 'to assist in establish
ing the freedom of the seas.
At the outset, the German note of
July 8 is declared "very unsatisfac
tory because it fails to meet the real
differences between the two Govern
ments and indicates no way in which
the accepted principles of law and
humanity 'may be applied in the
graVe matter in controversy, but pro
poses on the contrary .arrangements
for a partial suspension of those
principles, which virtually set them
aside.
Following is the official text of the
latest American note to Germany re
garding submarine warfare, which
was delivered to the Foreign Office at
Berlin today by Ambassador Gerard.
The Secretary of State to Ambassa
dor Gerard.
Department of State.
Washington, July 21, 1915.
You are instructed to deliver text
ually, the folowing note to the Min
ister for Foreign Affairs:
The note of the Imperial German
Government dated the eighth of July
1915, has received the careful con
sideration of the Government of the I
United States and it regrets to be
obliged to say that it has found it
very unsatisfactory, because it fails to
meet the real difference between the
two Governments and indicates no
way in which the accepted principles
of law and humanity may be applied
in the grave matter in controversy,
but proposes on the contrary, ar-1
rangements for a partial suspension
of those principles which virtually set
them aside. .'.-.... j
he Government of the United
States notes with satisfaction that the
Imeprial German Government reeog-i
nizes without reservation the validity
of the principle insisted on in the sev
eral communications which this Gov
ernment has addressed to the Impe
rial German Government with regard
to its announcement of a war zone
and the use of submarines against
merchantmen on the high seas the
principle that the seas are free, that
the character and cargo of a mer
chantman must first be ascertained
before she can lawfully be seized or
destroyed, and that the lives of non
coinbatants may in no case be put in
jeopard unless the vessel resists or
seeks to escape after being summon
ed to submit to examination, for a
belligerent act of retaliation is per
se an act beyond the law and the de
fense of an act as retaliatory is an
admission that it is illegal.
The Government of the United
States, is however, keenly disappoint
ed to find that the Imeprial German
Government regards itself as in large
degree exempt from the obligation to
observe these principles, oven where
neutral vessels are concerned, by
what it believes the policy and prac
tice of the Government of Great Brit
ain to be in the present war with re
gard to neutral commerce. The Im
perial German Government will read
- ilv understand that thc. Government
of the United States cannot discuss
the policy of the Government of
Great Britain with regard to neutral
trade except with that Government it
self, and that it must regard the con
duct of other belligerent Govern
ments as irrelevant to anj discussion
with the Imeprinl German Govern
ment of what this Government re-
f ;ards ar grave and unjustifiable vio
ationa nt the rights of American citi
zens by German naval commanders.
Illegal and inhuman acts, however,
justifiable they may be thought to be,
against any enemy who is believed to
have acted in contravention of law
and humanity, are manifestly inde
fensible when they deprive neutrals
of their acknowledged rights, particu
larly when they violate the right to
life itself. If a belligerent cannot re
taliate against an enemy without in
juring the lives of neutrals, as well
as their property, humanity, as well
as justice and a due regard for the
dignity of neutral Powers, shduld die.
tate that the oractices should be dis
continued. If persisted in it would in
such circumstances constitute an un
pardonable offense against the sover
eignty of the neutral Nation affected.
The Government of the United States
is not unmindful of the extraordi
nary conditions created by this war,
of the radical alterations oi circum
stances and method of attack, pro
duced by the use of instrumentali
ties of naval warfare which the Na
tions of the world canot have had
in view when the existing rules of in
ternational law were formulated, and
it is ready to make every reasonable
allowance for these novel and unex
pected aspects of war at sea; but it
cannot consent to abate any essential
or fundamental right of its people be
cause of a mere alteratio; of circum
stance. The rights of neutrals in time
of war are based upon principles, not
upon expediency, and the principles
are immutable. It is the duty and
obligation of belligerents to find a
way to adupt the. new circumstances
to them.
The events of the past two months
have clearly indicated that it is pos
sible and practicable to conduct such
submarine operation as have charac
terized the activity of the Imeprial
German Navy within the so-called
war zone in substantial accord with
the accepted practices of regulated
warfare. The whole world has look
ed with interest and increasing satis
faction at the demonstration of that
possibility by German naval com
manders. It is manifestly possible
therefore, to lift the whole practice
of submarine attack above the criti
cism which it has aroused and re
move the chief cause of offense.
In view of the admission of ille
gality made by the Imperial Govern
ment when it pleaded the right of
retaliation in defense of its acts and
in view of the manifest possibility of
conforming to the established rules
of naval warfare, the Government of
the United States cannot believe that
the Imperial German Government
will longer refrain from disavowing
the wanton act of its naval com
mander in sinking the Lusitania or
from offering reparation for the Am
erican lives lost, so far as repara
tion can be made for a needless de
struction of human life by an illegal
act.
The Government of the United
States while not indifferent to the
friendly spirit in which it is made,
cannot accept the suggestion of the
Imtierial German Government that
certain vessels be designated and
agreed upon which shall be free on
the seas now illegally prescribed. The
very agreement would, , by implica
tion, subject other vessels to illegal
attack and -would be a curtailment
and, therefore, an abandonment of
the prinicples for which this Govern
ment contends and which in times of
calmer counsels every Nation would
concede as of course.
The Government of the United
States and the Imperial German Gov
ernment are contending for the same
f-,rant object, have long stood togeth
er in urging the very principles upon
which the Government of the United
States now solemnly insists. They
are both contending for the freedom
of the seas. The Government of the
United States will continue to con
tend for that freedom from whatever
quarter violated, without compromise
and at any cost. It invites the prac
tical co-operation of the Imperial
German Government at this time
when co-operation may accomplish
most and this great object be most
strikingly and effectively achieved. ,
The Imperial German .Government
expresses the hope that' this object
may be in some measure accomplish
ed even before the present war ends.
It can be. 1 he Government of the
United States feels obliged to insist
upon it, by whomsoever violated or
ignored, in the protection of its own
citizens, but it is also deeply inter
ested in seeing it made practicable
between the belligerents themselves,
and holds itself ready at any time to
act as the common friend who may
be privileged to suggest a way.
In the meantime the very value
which this Government sets upon the
long and unbroken friendship be
tween the people and Government of
the United States and the people and
Government of the German Nation
impels it to press very solemnly upon
the Imperial German Government
the necessity for a scrupulous ob
servance of neutral rights in this
critical matter. Friendship itself
prompts it to say to the Imperial
Government that repetition by the
commanders of German naval vessels
of acts in contravention of those
rights must be regarded by the Gov
ernment of the United States when
they affect American citizens as de
liberately unfriendly.
LANSING.
SHOOTS AND KILLS BROTHER.
Shelby, special to Charlotte Obser
ver, July 22. Curtis Barrett, seven
years old, shot and instantly killed his
brother Clyde Barrett, 12 years old,
while playing bear yesterday after
noon at the home of their parents,
Mr, and Mrs. Mann Barrett, tenants
on the farm of William McSwain, five
miles southwest of Shelby. The father
had placed his gun on the bed prepar
ing to make a rack for it over the
door. While the parents were out of
the room, the children began playing
bear, the elder child teaching the youn
ger how to shoot the animal. As
suming the role of the bear. Clyde
turned the shotgun over to his little
brother who pointed it at him as he
had been directed to do and pulled the
trigger. Of course they did not know
the gun was loaded, but the entire
load entered his right eye and passed
out though the back of his head. The
mother was in an adjoining room scrub
bing the floor and did not know the dan
ger the children were in until she
heard the shot. Clyde and Curtis are
the only two children of the Barrett
family. The remains were buried this
afternoon at Zoar Church, Rev. A. J.
Burrus conductii.g the funeral.
Governor Craig has received from
former Secretary of State Bryan a pa
perweight made from swords wrought
into plowshares. On one side of the
paperweight is the reply made by Mr.
Bryan to the Japanese embassador
"Nothing is Anal between friends."
MR. EDISON AND
LINCOLN FOLKS
Great Inventor Remembers With Keen
Interest His Visit To Lincoln Coun
ty In Search of Cobalt. ; .
A Washington special to the Char
lotte Observer says:
Secretary Daniels has made quite
a hit with his proposition to have a
board of scientists to tell him what
is best for the Navy in the way of
new things. His selection of Thomas
A. Edison, the inventor, for chair
man, has caused much favoruble
comment. Mr. Edisor. will be as
sisted bv other nrominent m the in
dustrial affairs of the Nation.
Mr. Daniels found Mr. Edison to
be a very pleasant man and a great
admirer of North Carolina.
"Mr. Edison," said Mr. Daniels,
"recalled with keen appreciation his
visit to Lincoln County a few years
ago in search of cobalt. He said that
he never saw better country people
anywhere than he ran into in Lin
coln. He described them as sturdy,
honest and energetic."
Mr. Ediso.i was in North Carolina
a week or longer. The Observer sent
a man to interview him. The re
porter drove out many miles from
Lincolnton and found Mr. Edison in
his shirt sleeves by the roadside dig-
f;ing for cobalt. His search for co
ult was part of an effort to reduce
the weight of the electric buttery for
automobiles. Mr. Edison was travel
ing in a large touring car and sev
eral other members of the party had
another car.
To the Observer man Mr. Edison
talked of his early days in Charlotte
as telegraph operator.
Mr, Daniels was delighted with
Mr. Edison's enthusiastic interest , in
North Carolina.
TRIANGLE NEWS.
July 20th. As I have seen no news
from this place in quite a while I
thought I would write a few items.
The crops in this section of the
countv are looking fine owing to the
food rains we huve been having, al
though it begun to get pretty dry, until
mis auernoon wnen we nau a imc
shower.
Misses Kate and Laura Nixon Miss
Anna King, Mrs. Ivy Cherry, and chil
dren, Pearl, little Milly, and Masters
Tom and Dan visited relatives in Lin
colnton last week ,and reported a fine
time..
Miss Etta Cherry, and Miss Bessie
Long are visiting relatives and friends
in Cornelius.
Campmeeting seems to be the great
est topic now. people are making "all
kinds of preparations" for it. In a
couple of weeks they will be going to
the camp ground, the place they love
so well, and where they have had such
grand times.
Gilcad defeated the Triangle ball
team last Sautrday after noon, the
score being 9 to 3. Gileud is a better
team than we thought it was, we had
no idea when they started they would
win,but by pretty hard playing they
went home rejoicing.
Dr. Elliot has located at Denver now
and I think the people are going to
like him fine.
Mrs. Rankin Cherry, who has been
in feeble health for the last year or
two seems to be improving somewhat,
although she cannot be out much yet.
Miss Sadie Luckey gave a birthday
party Saturday night and the young
people reported a good time.
If I see this piece in print I will
write another one some time.
Pocahontas.
STOCK HOLDERS' MEETING.
LINCOLN CREAMERY.
The subscribers to tlic stock of The
Lincoln Co-operative Creamery is here
by called to meet in Lincolnton, N. C,
at the rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce, Post Office Building, on Satur
day, July 81st, 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Every subscriber, and all others who
wish to subscribe are earnestly re
quested to be present, and bring with
hira the. first installment of 25 per
cent of stock subscribed, for which a
receipt will be given.
The Certificates of Stock Will Be Is
sued When Full Amount is Paid
This meeting is for the purpose of
perfecting the organization, electing
officers, a board of directors and ap
pointing building committee, etc.
Be sure to attend if possible. If you
cannot attend in person, fill out and
sign the attached Proxy and send it
it with your check for the first install
ment of 25 per cent.
Make all checks payable to' Lincoln
Co-operative Creamery.
Respectfully,
D. 11. SHIELDS,
Secretary for Committee
W. C. Kisor,
Chairman.
If you cannot be present, fill in
Proxy and mail at once,
Proxy.
I hereby constitute and appoint Mr.
my lawful proxy to represent me and
vote for me in all matters pertaining
to ti e organization of the Lincoln Co
operative Creamery, at a meeting of
the subscribers to be held July 31st,
1915. ...
Note: There are several subscrib
ers who have not given their address
consequently have not received their
noticos. We take this method of no
tifying them, The shares are $10.00
and the payments can bo mad? quar
terly. If your name is not on the roll,
come in and meet with us.
There ought to be only one more
monument in the capital grounds at
Raleigh and that is the one the peo
ple erect to honor the memory of
Charles B. Aycock. There are sever
al there now that should be some
where else. We must not change our
beautiful capital grounds into a cem
etery. Petitions calling for an election for
$250,000 of bonds for good roads are
being circulated in Catawba county
and it is said the prospects is good for
securing sufficient signatures to war
rant the commissioners in calling the
election, which would be held some
time this summer.
STEAMER CAPSIZES;
HUNDREDS PERISH
Passengers, Composed Mostly of Wo
men and Children, Drowned Within
A Few Feet of Wharf at Chicago
Several Persons Taken Alive From
The Cabins of the Ship After it Had
Lain on its Side For Four Hours.
Marine Architects Declare Ship Was
Faulty in Design.
Chicago, July 24. Hundreds of per
sons were drowned today when the
steamer Eastland, crowded with 2,500
employes of the Western Electric Com
pany, capsized in the Chicago river.
Four hours after the accident rescuers
still were taking bodies from the bout
through holes chopped in its hull. Es
timates of the death bst run from
700 to 1,500. At 11 o'clock nearly 500
dead had been found.
Deputy Coroner David Jones and
Sheriff John E. Traeger, directing the
work of removing bodies, said they
feared the dead would number 1,200
or possibly 1,600.
The crowding of passengers to one
side of the boat popularly is supposed
to huve cuused the tragedy, but au
thorities, not satisfied with that ex
planation ordered the arrest of . boat
officers. Captain Harry Pedersen and
Dell Fisher, first mate, were taken to
police headquarters.
Chicago, July 24. A thousand per
sons lost their lives in the Chicago
river today by the capsizing of the
excursion steamer Eastland while
warping from its wharf , with more
.han 2,400 employes of the Western
Electric Company and their relatives
mid friends on board, bound for a
pleasure trip across Lake Michigan.
After working ceaselessly all day
and far into the night the bodies of
K42 victims of the catastrophe, most
(jf them women and children, were
collected from temporary morgues and
taken to the second recipient armory.
Coroner Hoffman, taking into con
sideration estimates of yet unreeover-
d bouies. said he honed the total
dead would not exceed 1,000.
1 he bast lurid, said bv mar:ne archi
tects to have been topheavy and bal
lasted in an uncertain manner .turn
ed over inside of five minutes after it
began to list, pouring ita gala passen
gers, into the river or imprisoning
them in the submerged hull.
h.very effort was made bv thousands
of persons on the river wharf to res
cue the drowning men, women and
children, but many drowned almost
within grasp of the river bank.
Mothers went to death while their
children were snatched to safety.
Other children died the arms- of
their parents who were finally saved.
Hundreds of girls freed for a day
from their tasks of making telephones
and other electrical apparatus in the
factory of the Western Electric Com
pany and dressed in their smartest
white frocks, drowned miserably.
A pull of sorrow hung tonight over
the entire west side of Chicago where
the majority of the victims lived. Ko
lin avenue, a small street near the
factory of the Western Electric Com
pany, was in universal mourning.
Every house lost from one to all its
occupants in the disaster. And many
of thi illfated residents of this street
tonight lay in the morgue, or beneath
the steel hull of the Eastland, over
which searchliehts shot their blindine-
glare while hundreds of men search
for more bodies.
Efforts to discover the cause of the
accident were begun long before the
work of rescue was over. Federal and
county grand juries were ordered, a
coroner's jury was empanelled and
all the officers and crow of the East
land were arrested.
Durine the dav more than 700
bodies were taken from the river and
from the hull of the overturned
steamer, whose sides were cut open
wnn gas names to admit divers. -
beveral persons were taken from
the cabins of the ship after it had
Iain on its side in the river for four
hours, but the 300 others said to he in
the hulk are all dead.
Under the flu re of searchlights to
night, scores of men worked in the
hull of the vessels to remove the
bodies. The steamer lay on the bot
tom of the river, one side protruding
iiKe a monument to the hundreds it
had drowned as it turned over.
Under misty skies. 7.00ft men. wo
men and children wended their way
to the Clark street dock early today
to fill five large lake stenmors with
holiday mirth in a trip to Michigan
City. The steamer Eastland, brought
to Chicago from Lake Erie, after an
unsatisfactory career, was the first to
be loaded. . .
Rain began to fall as the wharf
superintendents lifted the
from the vessels, declaring tnat the
government limit of 2,500 passengers
had been readied. White dresses
peeped from raincoats along the
shore rails as those aboard waved
goodbye to friends on shore who
were wniting to board the steamer
Theordore Roosevelt and other vessels.
"Not A Safe Boat."
Chicago. .Till v 2 ft Cntw f n Wta
from a naval architect cando
the Eastland's construction will be
used bv St ii I pa Attmmiv llnn. i i
vestigatihg the disaster. The letter
was written by John Devereaux York
of Chicago to the United States har-
wir inspector nere, August 3, l!tl;j.
-"I stated in that lelti-,'' said York
today, "that the Eastland was not a
safe boat. Every naval architect who
knew the construction will tell you
she was extremely dangerous.
"There was not a coal passer in
the hold who was not dwuia f
danger. The fact that none was
found in the 'glory hold after she
turned over showed that. Tl
a scaling ladder leading up from that
hold and 20 mei: worked there. It
would have Uken 20 men 20 minutes
to get out by the ladder, but they
were all out whin the ship listed."
Chicago Reslizes Extent of Disaster.
Chicago, July 25. The bodies of
809 persons, drowned when the
steamship Eastland capsized yester
day at its wharf in the Chicago river,
had been recovered tonight after 40
hours of searching by divers.
The total dead was put at approx-
RUSSIANS REMAIN
IN WARSAW
Have No Immediate Intention of With
drawing From City Fighting in Po
land Not Now So Vicious Berlin
And Vienna Agree That Compara
tive Calm Prevails Where Violent
Strife Ruled.
The nature of . operations around
Warsaw indicates that the . Rusisans
have no immediate intention of with
drawing from the city, if at all. The
pressure of the Austro-Gcrman forces
from the north, however, is making
itself fell, and the Germans have
crossed the Narew river on a 30-mile
front.
The fighting east of the Vistula in
southeastern Poland hud lost much
of its vicious character. Both Berlin
and Vienna Hay comparative calm
prevails in the Lublin-Cholm region,
near Ivangorod and in the region
where the ling river flows across the
Russian Poland border into Galicia
At these points the Russian defense
has been well sustained.
Besides crossing the Narew the Teu
tonic allies have made towards the
Bug with an important railway as
their object. Progress also is re
corded to the south, with the capture
of two villages by storm ten miles
from Warsaw.
French troops huve ' stormed and
carried strong German defensive
works in the West between La Kon
lelle heights and the village of
nois, more than 700 un wounded Ger
mans being taken prisoners. Berliin
admits the. .French nave established
themselves in German trenches, in the
Vosrres.
. The Germans have resumed their
imlunarino campaign and one British
one French steamer and four British
trawlers have been sunk.
Four men of the crew of the British
.steamer Filth of Forth were kill
ed. Ten men of the crew of a Grimslij
trawler destroyed by a mine lost then
lives. The Russian Government to show
that all political parties are harmon
ious as regards the war,- will give So.
cialists and Labor members', of the
i!uma representation on the military
and naval committees.
AN
ULTIMATUM
, THINKS ENGLAND
London, July i!ti. There is only one
rpinion expressed by the British press
on the .American note to Germany
that, in polite language, it is tanta
mount to an ultimatum, and "the dig
rified manner in which President Wil
son has stood from the beginning of
the negotiations for the principles of
international law and humanity" - is
remarked with satisfaction.
"The issue between the two gov
ernments is tl;U3 stated in its sternest
and most unequivocal terms" says the
Daily Mail, and adds:
"Whatever happens nothing can de
tract from the dignity, high minded
ness and patient skill with which
President Wilson, acting in the name
of humanity and from no merely na
tional motive, has thus far conducted
these difHcult negotiations." :
DALLAS ROUTE 2 NEWS.
On Inst Wednesday evening between
the hours of one and two o clock the
gentle spirit of Miss Olo Richard wing-
id its tiight to the unknown world.
Ola had been suffering with the dread
ed disease typhoid fever for the two
last week. Ola suffered dreadfully
and on Wednesday she took her
flight to the promise land. We look
up to our Heavenly Father on high
who knows the best. There is a vac
ant place in our home that never can
be filled. She was baptized in infan
cy and joined the Lutheran church
in 1912 and lived a devoted member
until death. The deaceased was 19
years, 4 months and 14 days old. Pall
bearers were Messrs. Gn'mewell and
Cecil Lutz, Marshall Friday, Robert
Lewis and Fred Friday. ,
The funeral services were held at
the home at 10 o'clock and burial was
was conducted later by her pastor,
Rev. A. R, Heck at the llovis grave
yard. She leaves a father and mother
tour brothers and two sisters and a
host of relatives to mourn her dalh.
Mrs. Sarah Friday is spending a few
weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Luther
Pasour. Miss Essie Friday is some
what improving with a slight attack
of fever.--Mr." Pressli-y Rhyner of Iron
Station is sneiuling a few days with
friends of Hoylc's Creek.- Mr. J. C.
Friday spent Sunday with his son, Mr.
Robert Friday. X.
FRANK IS NOW BEYOND DANGER
Milledgevillt, Gu., July 22. Leo M.
Frank's condition lias improved so
much that further official bulletins
will not be issued unlets there should
he a pronounced change, it was an
nounced tonight by physicians attend
ing him at the Georgia prison farm
here. Inflamamtion resulting from
the knife woui.d in Frank's throat
decreased materially today and his
temperature was about normal. Frank
received scores of letters and tlele
grams from persons throughout the
country, offering sympathy and ex
nressing hope for his recovery from
the attack made by another convict.
Another prisoner in the prison here
was stabbed today by a convict
Charles Miller, serving a term for
burglary was cut in Uie stomach by
Frank Reid ill prison for murder. No
explanantioii was given jas to how Reid
obtained his weapon. ' ' T"
iinutcly 1,000 by Coroner Hoffman-,
whose report indicated that possibly
200 bodies were held in the mud of
the river hy the superstructure of the
boat. While only 1,002 of the 2,408
passengers of the Eastland have reg
istered as saved, it was thought that
about 475 survivors, includinf the
crew of 72, had failed to report.
Wilson Sorrows With Chicago.
Chicago, July 25. Acting Mayor
Moorhouse of Chicago today received
the following telegram from President
Wilson at Windsor, Vt.:
"I am sure I speak the universal
feeling of the people of the country
in expressing my profound sympathy
and sorrow in the presence of the
great disaster which saddened- so
many homes.' '
SHORT NEWS ITEMS
Mr. Thomas Edison told a reporter
some days ago that he could make a
compound that would be more destruc
tive in war than the German gases.
When asked "Then, why don't you
muke it and sell it to the warring na
tions? It would make you immensely
rich," he said: "It would, no doubt,
but I shall not make it; and I shall not
tell anyone else how. I am ready to
do what I can to help people to live,
but I will not do anything to help to
kill them."
The Dupont Powder company has
announced that if peace were declar
ed now they have orders ahead for
powder and other explosives sufficient
to keep all their plants busy at full
speed for five years.
John Moran, a machinist, started a
riot in New York Friday night, when
he pulled an American flag from a
platform from which an evangelist
was preaching to a crowd of men.
Jack Powell ,a sailor from the bat
tleship Maine, lead the assault on
Moran, who was badly mauled before
being rescued by the police.
Says a dispatch from Copenhagen:
A private dispatch from Berlin, which
was passed by the German censor,
says that excitement is growing rap
idly among the German population on
account of social democratic pam
phlets demanding a rapid conclusion
of the war owing to tic increasing
price for all foodstuffs. Martial law
will be declared all over Germany, it
is said, to suppress all demonstra
tions. g
The Chapman-Alexander party,
which held a meeting in Charlotte
last winter, held a meeting at Mon
trent -last week; and arrangements
ire being made to hold a meeting in
Asheville in November. Plans are
i-eing made to build a tabernacle to
eat 5,000 ,for the Asheville meeting.
Graham and Thompson townships,
AlamuWe county, have voted $50,000
n bonds for the Alamance, Durham
nd Orange railroad.
The wheat crop of the State prison
farm is expected to yield 25,000 bush
els. Suits are about to be brought by
the government against American cit
izens, who, though apparently able
to do so, refuse to repay money ex-
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were stranded in Europe at the out-
break
of the war. Many of those
aided have reimbursed the govern
ment, but Secretary McAdoo says
there have been a number of refusals
und that he would ask the Depart
ment of Justice to institute suits.
A dispatch from Washington (N C.)
says that Peter White, an aged nogro
of that vicinity, recently prophesied
the day and hour of his death and he
missed it by only 20 minutes dying
20 minutes after the hour named.
It is sometimes said that to pro
hibit the liquor traffic is to create an
appetite for cocaine, morphine and oth
er habit-forming drugs. Chicago has
more than 7,000 saloons, yet, accord
in" to the Chicago News, there are 80,
000 dope-users in that city!
The Sanford Express Bays that. M.
J. Riddle, who died in Lee county a
few days ago at the age of 54, lived
in three miles of SanforJ but had
never visited the town. It is said he
was kept away by a dream. He was
a mechanic and an industrious and
good citizen, but he stayed close at
home. He did not visit neighbors
whb lived within a mile of his home.
Frank Propst, who lived in the vi
cinity of Hickory, died Sunday night
in Baltimore, where he had been
taken for an absess on the brain.
Propst was one of two men sent to
State prison for the killing of John
Hafer at a cock fight in Alexander
count" six years ago, but had been
out of the penitentiary about a year.
He was about 40 years of age and has
a family,
Mrs. Etta Holder Stone has filed
suit at Durham against - her husband
for alimony and divorce. The com
plaint alleges that Stone deserted
his wife while she was recuperating
from a nervous breakdown in Hot
Springs, Ark., and left here with a
I'irl employe. Stone is president of
thc"Chatham- Knitting Mills Co of
Durham and is a wealthy and promi
nont citizen. He some time ago con
verted much of his property into cash
and left Durham and it is said his
present whereabouts are unknown ,
Of all the great Indian population
which once roamed the forests, the
prairies and the deserts from Maine to
San Diego Bav and from the Great
Ijikes to the Rio Grande, there were
left in 1910 only about 265.000 less
than half the population of Balti
more according to a recent publica
tion by the United States Census Bu
reau. '.
The typewriter companies of the
United States are now in the war con
tracting business on an imense scale
not for the manufacture of machines
but to make fuses for explosives and
shrapnel shells. These companies have
srone into an organization known as
the American Ammunition Company
n,iu i u,uvu,uv.u uiui-i ,war supplies tor tne enemy
lklinilk ik,i I 'nlllidllirt CUjll i tnl.i I I'll '
throuirh the Canadian Sholl Commis
sion for the British, French and Rus
sian Govarnmenta. .
Mr. H. B. Grose, son of Mr. P. H.
Grose of Forest City, Route 1, has just
secured a patent on a burglar-proof
lock, which he perfected while at
school at Boiling Springs. The lock is
very simple, but seems to be valuable.
Former Governor Cole Blease issues
a "tentative" announcement of his
candidacy for Governor in the cani
Daign to be held next summer, provid
ing neither United States Senator from
this State leaves his seat vacant be
fore .that campaign opens.
"Let us sympathize as we please were brought to the ranch by Em
with theories and nations," says Vice pey's son and a neighbor lad.
President Marshall, "but let us act
as Americans, who are citizens of a The only man who really can laugh
united country." The vice president and grow fat is he who laughs at trou
is intone. ' ble.
KNOWING THE STATE
The Local Man Wants to Know Vthat
Other Parts of the State Are Doing
The Exhibits at the State Fair
Should Answer That Question and
Form a Composite Picture of the
State's Resources and Activities.
.Every once in a while somebody asks
me what 1 know of Gaston County ,or
what sort of a place Craven County is
or what is made in Wilson, or whether
I regard Lexington as a promising
place to locate. This thing with varia
tions is applied to every section of the
State. It is surprising now many peo
nle want to know about different purls
of North Carolina. The Publicity Bu
reau, organized recently in Raleigh,
will undertake to answer such ques
tions, but to help the answer along
every county and every town ought to
take advantage of the opportunity of
fered at the State Fair this fall to
show the world what it is and what
it makes and what it does.
What do you make in your county?
What do you raise on the farm- What
resources have you in raw material, in
climate, in health, in locution, in any
old thing? I know you have a good
countv, a better county than you sus
pect. But a lot of people do not know.
Now at the Stale Fair this fall Priz
es of liberal sums are to be offered
for the county making the best agri
cultural display. Your county should
be in that game. Your county should
have at Raleigh prominent before the
the eyes of the crowd that will be there
the best possible exhibit it can muster.
We are all anxious to get publicity
for North Carolina, rind that means for
every county and town and township in
the State. My Countyt Moore) is going
to be on haiid at Raleigh with some
thing you will be interested in seeing.
Moore county folks want the world
to know what they have done down
here. Do you believe our county is bet
ter than yours? Do you believe our
towns are better than yours? Are you
going to allow us fellows in the Sand
hills to make a better showing than
you are.
Don't do it. Join us, and let us make
North Carolinn this fall most talked
about state in the Union. I am doing
what I can to gain that end, and it is
having its effect. Moore county is do
ing it, too. The Sandhill Section is the
most conspiciuous section of the State
today, and just because the Sandhill
folks are constantly making a noise
about their country. I came to North
Carolina because 1 had to. But lots of
peopled" " know much about our
ts ale- ua UP ",K "'r' '
play of every thing we can and show
them. Get your commissioners and
your farm demonstrators and your
factories, and your chambers of com
merce nnd every thing to arrange some
thing that will rank with what the
Sandsbills will hnve to offer. Don't
let the fair look as if North Ca'olnia
has nothing to offer except what
comes from the bad lands of Moore
County.
Go to Raleigh with an exhibit and a
banner over it, "Made in Guilford
County" or "Ruised in Sampson Coun
ty," or what ever it may be, and if
you think you can't do anything bet
ter go down with an empty tow sack,
and say frankly, "We can't make any
thing in Podunk County' 'and ask for
the booby prize. But send something.
Get the thing under way right off.
Suppose you have a meeting Satur
day at the schoolhouse or courthouse,
or some place that is conveninet, und
discuss the subject and write to me
what you do, or send me a paper with
an account of it, and 1 will help you
in any way I can. Captain Purish and
Colonel Pogue, the officers of the Fair
association, are trying to make this
fair a great educational exposition of
the state. But they can't do a thing un
less you jump in and produce the ex
hibit. They will be glad to allot you the ;
space, free of charge, for it is not a
money-making scheme. But you must
present what you have to show to trll
what your town and county are and
where they are and what they have to
offer the world.
Now while the whole state is wak-
ling up to the value of publicity, fix up
something lor the Mate hair that wilr
get you your share. Honest, down here
in the Sandhills, we are getting so con
spicuous that it is .embarrassing some-'
times. Whirl in with us so we won't be
lonesome. You remember that our yel
low sand country took seven or eight
of the prizes at, the State Fair last,
year. We don't want to have to carry
off things that way again. I don't want
my county tolooklike H favorite at -Raleigh.
Get in the game, and make it
interesting. Don't let Clyde Davis and
Roger Derby and Henry Pago and Le
onard Tufts walk around at the fan
looking as if all the rest of the state
had put up a plea of nolo contendere.
Friends, let ue tear North Carolina
Wide open this fall with a great mani
festation of its resources and products,
Let us show the Publicity Bureau that
we have something to make public. As
old Spurtacus said, let us make Rome
h-o-o-w-w-l-l-1-1."
Get busy. Let me hear from you.
Bion H. Butler.
Southern Pines, N. C.
OFFICIAL UTTERANCE TO
GERMANS MAKING MUNITIONS
Berlin, July 22. An official declara
tion a mihlSshpri nero piillinn. nltpnlif,n
I to the fact that "Germans working in
fn,.i,i.a in nai.tml mimimt r,.,tin.
j uariy jn the United States, producing
render
themselves liable to prosecution for
treason, under paragraph 89 of the
renal Code, penalizing such assistance
to an enemy with a maximum or 10
years imprisonment."
Another paragraph of the penal
code authorities prosecution in the
cases of such offenses, even when
commiuea aoroaa and it is under
stood that the German courts will
proceed against offenders.
Ernest Emney, a wealthy rancher,
of Idaho Falls, Idaho, is being held
prisoner by a bandit for a ranHom of
$0,000 according to word received
from TCmpey's ranch. Directions for
the delivery of the ransom on a
I mountain road the niirht of July 24t.h