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"THE UNION COUNTY PAPER EVERYBODY NEEDS IT THE UNION COUNTY PAPER-EVERYBODY READS IT r The Monroe Jourmal PUBLISHED TWICE EACH WEEK TUESDAY AND FRIDAY s VOL.24. No. 57. MONROE, N. O, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1918. " 50 PER YEAR CASH. SKETCHES By JOHN BEASLEY. Camp Wadsworth, Aug. ID. Army officers have discovered tht. darkey can't drill when there is a waterwelon in sight. A. M. Carpenter, a corres pondent here, relates about this inter esting discovery in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, as follows: There are several thousand negroes in camp, most of them fresh from the cotton and corn fields of the South. They are being classified and outfitted here and will be sent on to other ramps to fill up colored regiments, but while here awaiting orders they are getting some preliminary train ing. The other morning a lieuten ant had a platoon of them on the drill ground putting them through some elementary paces. They had formed a perfect line, and were keep ing step in good shape, and the lieu tenant was about to compliment them on the progress they were making when suddenly be saw their attention waver and the line went all to pieces. "What in the Sam Hill is the mat ter with you men?" he exploded. " Scuse mc , sir, said a little col nmii mnn. who had been acting as "But er colored man can't drill when he sees er watermelon. He Just naturally cant do it. Th lieutenant turned and saw farmer driving along the road with a wagon load of watermelons. Where upon he marched his men over to the other side of the parade ground, out of sight of the rn hut it was a long time before he coum gei wie linn nf his duskv Dlatoon again. "If I command colored troops in France," he said afterward, "I will i,io oii ihm that there are a lot of watermelons behind the German lines and we will be bound to go mere Union county fathers who tried to furlouched home to helD gather the crops will also per onnKvlatP the following ffOUl the same writer: The spirit toward the war which nnui nervadps the coutry. as reflected by the draft men now coming into camp, may be further illustrated by nn innidpnt that occurred here the An elderly farmer from Nnrth Carolina came here to try to get his son released from military ser- vice on a iarm iurioug". n man said he needed his son to help finish making a crop. They turned him over to Major A. B. Percy, of the headquarters staff. Major Percy was formerly an officer in the Virginia National Guard and is a Southernor of the old school, Diana, counrous henevolent-looking. "Oh, 1 think we can arrange ev rvthine satisfactorily." said Major vrrv to his visitor. "Sit down and tell me what you think of the war.' n., viotnr Perrv did most of the talk ing. ' He told of the German atroci ties and or their deprdations in eBl on,t PranrA. "Sherman's march through the South was a mere picnic -.i this wnr " he said. party coniyaieu iu im- - - ..- k.v. ent to crush those people, The world will not be safe for people to live in if they are not," he said. The North Carolinian listened with interest, and as Major Percy kept on talking his indignation began to rise. Finally he could stand it no longer. h exclaimed, as he "Stop, .... ii ..i-u nUnnt that hnv You Just keep him here and make a milder out of him. 1 thought .he was Just down here among a lot of drunk enness, and that 1 would try to get him out, but I've cnangeu my The army ne-eds him, for we ve got to whip them Germans. Keep him. and Ml go back home and gather the crop, and then If they'll have me I'll Join the army too, We've got to lick Iho r.prnmns." And he tramped out. The other day we were taken be for the nersonnel employment board It is the duty of this board to find out what branch of the service a man can be of the most service, and each man is allowed to state his prefer ence. though they usually place one where they please. Frank Broom, 01 Buford township, who has been men tioned In these letters before, was be ing questioned. "What can you do?" he was asked. "What branch of the service do you prefer?" was the next question put to him. Broom told them he had no choice; that he was reidy tn serve anywhere. "Can you drive four mules?" came the next query. "Yes," responded the Union county man, "but I'd rather be on the firing lines than driving pesky mules'." Chris Carpenter of New Salem township, having begun to get tired of the dally drills, thought he'd get in the Quartermaster Corps for a change. "What In the h do ybu know about the Quartermaster Corps?" demanded the board. Chris was stumped, but finally recovered long enough to U41 them he "knew as much about It as anything else in the army." ,' While we were standing at atten tion on the drill field Saturday who should pass by but Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Redfefn of Vonroe. They were up here to tee, their son, Lieu tenant Frank Redfern, and were on their way home when I espied them. Being at attention, I couldn't wave or holler at them. It would have been impossible, however, for them to have picked out any of the Monroe boys from the thousands of khaki clad men on the field that day. But the sight of them was a little taste of home. Carl Griffin drove up to our company yesterday afternoon with a Ford full of Unionvllle fel lows. In the party were Vann Bras well, Vance Presson and Claud Ben ton. Carl, it is remembered, was sent to Camp Jackson in the first contingent of selected men from Union county, but was later physical ly disqualified. Mrs. Belk's death was a shock to every Union county man in camp. The Monroe boys knew that she had been in poor health for a number of years, but were under the impression that she had lately regained her old-time condition. She will be missed by all; especially the poor and needy, to whom she was a guardian angel. A fellow can't help but admire the manner in which Mr. Sikes took his defeat for Sheriff. That statement of his in The Journal contained noth ing but good humor and best wishes to the successful candidate.' 2eb Green in his "exposure" of the "dirty work" made it appear that It came from the candidate. If he had made an investigation he would have dis covered that Cull Sikes had. nothing to do with. Some of his supporters simply became so zealous in his be half that they lost their heads. Uncle Jerry Laney was beat for the Legislature by a mighty good man. B. H. Griffin will make an ex cellent colleague for Mr. Redwine. The Governor of Buford has been in politics so long that success or defeat does not faze him. Ernest Newell of Jackson township firmly believes that he Is the man se lected to "shoot the kaiser." He says he has been picking off squirrels all his life with a 22 rifle, and that he knows he can hit most anything In sight with the long-range army rifles. To Newell everybody is "Captain" from a corporal on up. He Is a fine fellow, and will make a good soldier. Henry's story about Tom Sikes re minds me of one I heard on Will Pethel, who Is In France, just before I left home. Will didn't like the boat ride across at all, and, so the story goes, Is going to wait until the "pond" freezes before he conieb back home. It. J. Reynolds, worth millions, willed $120,000 to hospitals. The late Mrs. Ellen Fitzgerald, worth a modest foitune, willed half of her possessions to the city of Monroe for a hospital Reynolds did a worthy deed, but Mrs. Fitzgerald's was the greatest gift and Monroe people should appreciate it accordingly. 163 CASES OK TYPHOID AMONG INTERNED GERMANS Patients Removed From Hot Springs to HoNpltal Camp Said to Have Drunk Water From River Six Deaths Have Occurred. Ashevllle, N. C, August 19 It was learned here to-day that there are 165 cases of typhoid fever among the interned Germans at Hot Springs, for ty miles west of this city, and that six or more deaths have occurred The patients, who were yesterday removed to a local hospital camps, are reported to have drunk the un filtered French Broad River water with the intention of making them selves sick so the War Department could not move them to Georgia camps. The others will be moved at once, it is understood, and Hot Springs will be equipped as a hospital for American soldiers. AMERICAN SOLDIER FINDS AN INTERESTING SOUVENIR Private Harold Cecil of Ijexlngton Un earths a Bunch of Coins Made About Thirty Year Before the Birth of Christ. (Lexington Dispatch.) Private Harold Cecil writes from France that he has secured a high ly interesting souvenir. Recently while digging a well a bunch of sol diers with whom he was working un earthed a tombstone at considerable depth in the earth. Digging some ten feet further they struck a bunch of coins bearing Inscriptions and dates which showed they were made about thirty years before the birth of Christ. They apparently must have been bur led there by some of the Romans un der the Caesars. Private Cecil say he wouldn't take a hundred dollars for bit coin. . - i CAMP MEETING NOW IX PROC RESS AT PLEASANT GROVE Rev. H. M. Vestal In Charge of Meet ing, Assisted by Itev. J. E. McCain live Families Have Kicted TenU There. The practice of holding camp meet ings, revived two years ago., at the Pleasant Grove Methodist chu:ch was not ajlowed to lag this year artf the meeting now in session there Is meet ing with more success fan either of the two previous years. Fivj families have erected tents on the etmp ground and are now occupying them. Rev. H. M. Vestal is the minister in charge of the meeting. He la being ably assisted by Rev. J. E. McCain of Weddington and Rev. C. M. Cambell, a former pastor who nerved that charge. The meeting will continue with services each morning and night for several days. Hundreds of people f'-om all parts of the county attended the services Sunday. Services wen held In the old arbor erected by the God fearing men of the community more than a half century ago. The morning service- was conduct ed by Dr. H. K. Boy?r. presiding eld er of the Charlotte district. Declar ing to his congregation, which filled completely the larga arbor, that the world would be a better place to live In after the war is over. Dr. Boyer proceeded to refute liio criticisms of those who have said that the Chris tian religion Is a failure as it did not save the world from the war. Modern inventions have made neighborhood of the world so no na tion can longer live alone, he declar ed. The Christian religion will tri umph and after the war the nations will live with brotherly love toward one another, he said. To prove that the soldiers in the trenches are turn ing to the religion of Christ for sus taining power amid the fields of death he related the Incident of a soldier rushing up to an army chaplain just before going over the top and de manding that he be informed concern the Christian religion. When these soldiers return they will bring with them the religion that has sustained them as they charged over the ton none knowing whether he should re turn or not. The Christian religion will take deeper root upon the lives and hearts of mankind, he concluded Rev. J. E. McCain of Weddington and Rev. C. M. Campbell conducted the afternoon and evening services, respectively, preaching strong s nions. Wl LMI NGTON-CH A RLOTTE HIGHWAY IS ENDORSED Resolutions of Good Roads Conveu tlon Made Public Advocate State Road Construction Fund Military Higlmnj to be Construct eel Through Federal, State and Lo cal Aid. The building of the military hieh- way between Charlotte and Wilming ton seems certain. At the recent meet ing of the State Road Convention at wrigntsviiie a number of carefully inougnt out resolutions were passed and the delegates to that convention think that by geting behind tho legis lative program suggested in these resolutions a step toward solving the present transportation problem will be taken, and North Carolina will take her place among other proxies sive states. Prominent among these resolutions is the endorsement of the military highway, which section is quoted below: "Whereas, the war has emphasized the inadequacy of the transportation acuities or this country; and, "Whereas, the supreme value of nignways as a military asset has been repeatedly demonstrated In Europe tnrougnout the progress of the war; ano, Whereas, permanent highways serve in needs of peace no less than inose or war; and, '"Whereas,, we believe It to be the duty of this country at once to con struct a system of permanent high ways to meet the exigencies of war and also to serve the commercial needs of the nation; and, wnereas, we believe that a per manent nignway from Charlotte, the largest city or the State, and the or one or the large army camps, to Wilmington, the chief port and ship building city of North Carolina, would De of great service to the eoun try for both military and commercial purposes; now, therefore, be it "Kesoived. that he North Caro Una Good Roads Association does hereby approve the building of a military highway from Charlotte, passing through the counties of Mecklenburg, Union, Anson, Richmond, Scotland. Robeson, Bladen. Columbus, and Brunswick, to Wilmington in New Hanover county; and, further, "That the construction of such highway be effected by federal. State and local aid and co-operation. " Itirths. To Mr. and Mrs. Calvin W.-Mc- Guirt, Monroe Route 6, a son, Aug. 9. To Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Carter, city of Monroe-, a son, Wilton Ever ette, April 9. To Mr. and Mrs. George Newsome, Unionvllle Route 2, a son, April 18. To Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Trull, Monroe Route 2, a daughter, July S. To Mr. and Airs. Praney Veston Williams, city of Monroe, a daughter, July 13. To Mr. and Mrs. William Helms. city-of Monroe, a son, July 21. T. L. CROWELL, Registrar. ENEMY CONTINUES TO GIVE GROUND BEFORE ALLIES. Germans Encountered By British Have Lost Fighting Efficiency Willingly Surrender -Ludendorff Displays anxiety Over Scarcity of Horse Enemy Fliers Escape From Hunting Plane by Para chutes. With the Britifh Army in France. In response to pressure applied first at one and then at another part of the line, the German soldiers op posite the British on several portions of the front continue to give ground. The German troops which have been encountered in the past few days epecially during the operations of last night In which Outtersteen ridge was captured and consolidated seem to have lost in fighting efficiency. Of nearly seven hundred German troops captured during the Outtersteen ope ration, many surrendered tamely af ter securing their rations and person al belongings. The operations of last night astride the Scrape river may serve as an In dication of the Germans' intentions. The old Hindenburg line crossed the river here on an angle, so that com pared with the present line which here runs nearly north and south, the direction of the ground south of the Scrape is deeper than that North of the river. In other words, the old Hindenburg line Is closer to the pres ent line north of the Scrape than south of it. British patrols operating north of the river, have met with stiff opposition, but south of the river pa trols have managed to penetrate for some distance. There are Indications that the Ger man troops also are giving way in parts of the Merville sector. On the new Sonvnie front, the Germans over look no opportunity to fight rear guard action. They appear ready to retire, but apparently want to be pushed a little because In the push ing operations they may be afforded an opportunity to get in their deadly work with machine guns. At the same time the Germans ap parently do not want to fall back fur ther than Is necessary before the com pletion of the operations around Roye. There are no signs of further counter attacks at this time. Sonne forty divisions have been identified as having been engaged In the recent operations, f these twen ty-seven have been used against Brit ish and many of them are believed to have been exhausted. General Ludendorff is displaying anxiety regarding a possible shortage of horse3 for the German army is in dleatea in a secret order Just cap tured. This order cautions all com manders not to expend their horses as they cannot be replaced. The men must understand that this is neces sary to continue throughout the war until victory is reached. It has been ascertained that nine hundred re mounts recently received on Gee man formation were composed of horses taken from officers. The Germans have started using parachutes to permit their aviators to escape from doomed airplanes, as ob servers escape from sauage balloons. A British pilot reports having seen a German pilot jump from a flaming airplane with a parachute and appa rently escaped death. Two remarkable stories of air fight ing came to light to-day. in one a British pilot dropped a bomb on an enemy machine in the air. The mis sile broke off a wing of the German machine and then exploded on the ground. In the other fight the obser ver of a two-seater machine limbed out of the wing and stopped with his glove a puncture made In the gaso line tank by an anti-craft gun. The machine side-slipped during the op eratlon, but the observer remained out on the wing until the ground was almost reached. Then he climbed back into the machine which landed safely. U-BOATS COMMUNICATE WITH PERSON ON LAND Raiders May Even Hate landed Mem bers of Crews to Obtain Informa tionOne Submarine Officer Ha Heen recognised in A New York Sa loon. Washington, August 19. Informa tion furnished by officers of vessels attacked by German submarines along the American coast has strengthen ed the belief held by several experl enced officials here that the enemy raiders have had communication with persons on shore and may even have landed members of their crews in an offorts to secure reliable information. The Navy Department, officially re fused to-night to indorse this belief, though admitting ttfe possibility. Postlve claim that he met In a New York saloon an officer from the sub marine that sunk the schooner O. B. Jennings Is made by the first officer of that vessel, according to a story reaching the department. The recog nition between the American and Ger man is siid to have been Instantane; ous. tne latter making his escape when the American appealed to a brother officer accompanying him for confirmation of his belief. Other Instances have been heard, not 80 well substantiated, of the dis covery of evidence that German sub marines have been In close touch with the shore. One story along this line was that the captala of a coastwise vessel, being ordered to the subma rine, with his papers was astounded to see cn the deck of the German commander copies of the New dailies of the same date. Communication between the raid ers and the mainland is possible at scores of places along the Atlantic shore, naval officials believe, the ir regularity of the American coasts at certain points nuking such possible. Front authoritative sources it was learned to-day that there is a reason to believe that three German sub maribes have been operating on the American coasts at three separate points. Two of these have recently "ceased operating" either because their stores have become exhausted or as a result of damage received in con tact with the patrol fleets. It is known that the activities of one boat ceased immediately after a destroyer report ed having discharged depth bombs near the spot where the U-boat submerged. RIOTS IN TOKIO AND ALL THROUGH JAPAN SERIOUS Troops Called Out in Nearly Every linMirtant City Poor and Middle Classes Chiefly Involved Food Shortage a Cause Social Unrest Growing. There was serious rioting in Tokio, Japan, last Thursday, Says the Asso ciated Press Dispatch. Mo'.s attacked and damaged property in the business and theatre districts. The rioters also entered and pillag ed houses in Asakusa, the great re creation resort of the middle and low er classes. A number of the distrub ers were wounded by the polices. Troops have been called out in practically all the larger cities. In the naval station of Maizuru two thousand workmen are rioting in con Junction with the populace. At Nagoya, noted for its manufac tures of porcelalnes, a mob estimat ed to aggregate thirty thousand per Fons rioted. At sevtxal places the soldiers fired on the disturbers. At Knobe the soldiers and police aiso were ib.oged to use wirier and bayonets against the rioters. Reports eeeni to indx'.ve thai these food riots are an expression of growing social unrest among the peo ple and to reflect the belief that the empire Is advancing towards a social crisis. The poor and middle classes have felt compelled to protest against the economic condition. The out breaks of the mobs, seem to be direct ed chiefly against the wealthy people. Gejsha girls have been stoned as they drove thToirtrtrttle streets 'fn!Hite mobiles, and the houses of the rich have been assailed. While the war has created millionaires and increas ed the luxuries of the rich, it lias also Increased the misery of the poor because of the insufficient wages be- Inc naid. Factory hands, especially, are fomented by the ring leaders of the riots, which are the first he kind to occur since Japan was open ed to Western civilization. Disorders broke out in Tokio on Tuesday night. A crowd of five thou sand which was prevented from con gregating In the park, 'Hutched to the Ginza, the great retail thorough fare of the city, where they stoned and damaged two hundred stores and unsuccessfully attacked the niinistery of the interior. Ninety arrests were made and twenty policemen were In jured. Tokio is occupied by heavy (Uvati'hinents of police and infantry. The newspapers are forbidden to pub lish news of any kind relative to the rice riots. BRYAN WONDERS IF KAISER ALSO RETREATS WITH GOD Has no More Doubt of the Victory of the United States Than He Ha of the Rising Sun We Must Win For the Sake of -all Future Genera Hons. Winota Lake, lnd. William J. Bryan gave the big Chatauqua gath ering here a few words on the war to-day. "The Kaiser used to say to his army, 'Onward with God.' I wonder If he is now saying, "Retreat with God.' I have no more doubt of the victory of the United States than I have of the rising of the sun to-morrow. We must win for the sake of all the future generation and the sur est way to pease is the road straight forward. The soldier bears the heav iest burden and no civilian had a right to complain of taxes or gifts. The difference between loaning the Gov ernment your son or money, is that the money will come back, but the son may not." County Board of Education Has Full Control of the Building of School Houses. Some party or parties I understand have announced their intention of building a school house without the authority of the County Board of Ed ucation. I refer to a concrete case in which ttie letting of a contract Is an nounced (I would rail names if any names were given In notice), and I wish to call attention to all parties concerned, that according to Section 4124 of The Public School law, that the County Board of Education may forbid the erection of a schoolhou.se in any district which ought not to ex ist. Schools are accessible, not more than one mile, or one and one-half miles distant from the point in mind. Therefore we 'consider the erection of schoolhouse at this place as detri mental to the school Interests of the adjoining schools, and would ask that this enterprise be abandoned Indefi nitely, or until conditions warrant this step, and until the Board of Educa tion authorizes the movement Very respectfully, R. N. NISBET. Supt. Public Instruction, Union County. GEfcHAL PERSHING WILL LEAD GERMAN INVASION Assignment of his Army to Alsace Utrraine Front is Taken to Mean This Honor W1U Fall to America Allb-M Intend to Invade Germany At Her Strongest Point. (Special to The World.) Washington. D. C. Indications are that it will fall to General Persh ing's first American army to strike the initial blow in an effort to invade German. Nobody here knows exact ly where the first blow will fall, but that it will be on the Alsace-Lorraine front is generally conct led. The Germans got a small taste of what is coming yesterday when Amer ican troops In Lorraine captured the village of Frapelle, less than five miles from the German border. Ger man territory by this little attack was brought well within the range of heavy American field guns. Fur ther South, American troops have been on German soil for weeks. General Pershing will be guided wholly by the decision of Marshal Foch in attempting any major move ments. The fact that American Troops al ready are in force on the Alsace-Lorraine front and are holding the lines in occupied German territory carries with it the assurance that to Gener al Pershing will fall the task of win ning back the lost provinces for France with Allied assistance. From the outset American military experts have felt that victory must be won on the western front. This does not mean that the Allies and Ameri ca will neglect an opportunity to smash the Austro-Hungarian Army. It does mean that Germany must be beaten where the Kaiser Is strongest, so that he will not be able to say in the future the war ended because Ger many's allies failed her. Wlhen General Pershing, acting in close co-operation with the Britisth and French forces, starts a major of fensive it is predicted here that the lighting will quickly reach German soil at many points. The German people are destined to see for them selves In the not distant future wheth er American soldiers can fight. OFFICERS CAPTURE STILL WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS A Crude Affair t .'the Home of Moses Massey, Colored, on Quality Hill In Use a Few Hours Itefor Capture Ol'ttwrs in Search of a Chicken. Officer L. C. Robinson and Deputy Sheriff Clifford Fowler captured a blockade still Sunday morning about 11 o'clock, at the home of Moses Mas sey, colored, on Quality Hill, the ne gro section In the western part of town. It was a crude home-made af fair consisting of a fifty pound lard can and a cast iron worm rigged up on the kitchen stove. The still was not In operation when captured but contained the materials used in making the last run some time previous. No liquor or beer was found on the premises. The capture of tiio still was purely accidental. Sunday morning the of ficers got a tip that a flock of stolen chU'kens were confined In the home of a negiess by the name of Nettie Also brooks near the High School. When the officers entered to search the home of the negross they found Mas sey eating breakfast with her. Mas soy was very much perturbed nt the sight of the officers so much so that the officers noticed It. After they had failed to find the stolen chickens Of ficer Robinson remarked to Mr. Fow ler that Massey had been or was en gaged in some unlawful pursuit or he would not have acted as he did. They then concluded to search Massey's home, doing so with' the above results. Finding the still. Mr. Fowler at once returned to the home of the At sobrooks woman intending to arrest Massey. On arriving he found that his bird had departed with more haste than grace for parts unknown. Negro residents of the section where Massey lived "informed the po lice that as they entered the front door of the house where the still was found James Massey, a ' brother of Moses, residing In Charlotte, rushed out the back door and through a con venient corn field at a forty-niile-an- hour pace. Call For Meeting. Every person In Union county who has either purchased or subscrib ed for. $1,000 of War Savings Stamps is urged to meet tn Monroe In the courthouse Saturday, August 24th, at 10 o clock a. m., for the purpose of perfecting a permanent organization. The roll will be called and a perma nent register of all the persons In Union county who have taken the limit will be made and a copy of the same forwarded to Washington for the national files and a copy will be filed In the clerk's office. It U hoped that you will respond readily o this call and be present at the place and on the date mentioned. R. A. MORROW, Chin. , Union County W. S. S. Committee. T. L. RIDDLE. Publicity Manager. Meeting of Merchants. Mr. J. Frank Morris, of Winston Salem, President of the N. C. Mer chants' Association, will address the merchants of Monroe at the Chamber of Commerce tonight at 8:30. on the sale of War Savings Stamps. Every merchant in town Is urged to be pres ent and hear the messaee Mr. Morris has. Show your patriotism bv com ing out R. A. MORROW. Chm. Union County War Savings Conr. T. L. RIDDLE, Publicity Mgr." al i
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