The Wingafe School
Opens September 3, 1918.
Strong Faculty. Modern Equipment.
New Dormitory, with up-to-date equipment,
open for girls this season.
Board at actual cost. Provisions
accepted at market price. Excellent
boarding facilities for boys in private
homes near the school; rates moder
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Trades
With the Government at Washington prepared to lend economic and
philanthropic support to Russia, the National War Work Council of the
Y. M. C. A. is actively recruiting to reiuforce the Red Triangle workers
already manning huts over there. Agricultural experts, physical direc
tors and regular Y. M. C. A. secretaries as well as other men familiar with
welfare work in communities are being sought.
A further consideration of a definite policy toward RiifRia has served
rirtnally as a "go-ahead" order to the association. The Y. M. C. A., through
all uncertainties of the past few months, has kept 100 of its secretaries in
Russia. These men have been kept busy day and night in an effort to
build up the morale of the citizens and soldier! of the unfortunate coun
try. The secretaries today are In all parts of Russia.
In the dark days of Russia the American secretaries "stood by" all
over that country to serve the people in every way possible. Thousands of
Invalid prisoners were taken care of as they returned from Germany. Most
all the men were broken in health. They died, almost without exception,
with curses against Germany. But greater even than their hatred was their
wonder that their countrymen eould have made "peace" with such an
enemy.
"The Y. M. C. A. leaders in Russia," said Dr. W. W. Alexander, direc.
tor of the War Personnel Board of the Southeastern Department, National
War Work Council, "have never doubted the essential soundness of the
Russian people. Despite all difficulties and Inevitable losses and discour
agements, the Y. M. C. A. has remained In Russia, seeking to serve and
watching for a better day. The day is now evidently coming."
Fifteen new secretaries, with ability to contribute some constructive
element to the Russian life of the future are being searched for throughout
the Southeastern Department. Some agriculturists are wanted, some
business men, but the call comes stronger for men skilled in rural Y. M.
C. A. and Community work. All are to go with the purpose of helping
Russia help herself.
American Woman
(By Delayed Cable from Chateau Thierry Front With American Forces
In France.) Mrs. Clara Simmons, Grafron, Mass., woman Y. M. C. A. work
er furthest front, placidly runs canteen while shells drop in adjoining
fleli. Makes hot chocolate and distributes cookies to men going into ac
tion. Military policenjan killed by shell near her but Husband wita Y.
M. C. A. forces in Vladivostok. Russia.
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STORY OF GERMAN CRUELTY
TO THE ALLIED rtUSOVEIW
Rtuia Who Spent Two Years in a
Uernutn Prison Camp Tells of Out
rageous Treatment He Received
Food not Fit for Dogs. His Wife
and Daughter Lot Forever So
Mauer Cante to America to Live.
Syiacuse. New York. "All Ger
man. are beasts," declares Louis Ma
uer, Gorad, Russia, who has just been
released from a German prison camp,
where he spent two years. He is on
his way to Cincinnati, where
mother and sister are living.
his
Mauer was in the Russian army
and was captured about the end of
the first year of the war. Confined
in a German prison camp for more! en some Prussian plans id tne kus
than two years, he was released when sians. He was ml.'treated horribly.
Germany made peace with the Bol-. British soldier who contradicted a
sheviki, and after wandering about ! German officer was sentenced to
Russia and China searching for his1 death, but his penalty finally was re
missing wife and daughter he has giv- j mitted to ten years at hard labor. An
en them up for lost and will live in 'attempt to t scape meant bread and
the United States. ia!er and bestin.es.
His home at the outbreak of hos-, "Toward the last we were given
tilitic-s wa3 about two miles from the meat which had been pickled long nf
German border. Fierce tig-hting took ter it had started to spoil and which
place in this region during the first no German soldiers or civilians would
year of the war, and when he return- tat. The sugar-cane refuse, which or
ed he found bis home destroyed and J dinarily is fed to hogs, was given to
his wife and daughter gone. j us. When we complained e were
The war was just entering the sec-(cuffed for Impertinence,
ond year, he says, when he was -When we heard our exchange had
wounded and captured. sem 10 a i
German hospital, he soon recovered
and was sent to a prison camp, lie
says the food was unfit for human be
ings and the men were treated in the
most brutal manner.
"HUDDLED LIKE SHEEP.
"After 1 left the hospital." he says.
"I was sent to the prison camp at
Holzminden, where I lived two years
with thousands of other prisoners of
several nationalties. huddled togeth
er like so many sneep in nuny nuis.
ni tk..t i.n.ii i.'pml m net 1
I fii I 'I lilt: lilUl ill Uirrncu nit; uit
L A : , . wi -n'
111 - . ... . , 5 .r liai'A hann oKlil
Uiufaimriiirun(,ui"a-T.u,.v
to stand, but the food was worse than
nvhin? I had ever imagined. I
"When we went to the prison camp j an,j never witnessed such slaughter
first they gave us tickets entitling us j j niy life. It was far worse tlan
to four hundred and fifty grams of i anythirifi in the trenches. Outlaws
bread a day. about twelve ounces, but roamed the streets at will, an.i if they
toward the last they cut down the ra-1 disliked the color of a man's dota
tion to two hundrt-J gram. In atldi-1 intr he. was butchered. Thev cut oif
tion we had a few thimbles full or
soup, with a lump of potato flour in
it. which, if it wasn't thoroughly mix
ed was vile. The bread was made
of seventy per cent substitute po
tato, corn meal, and graham flours.
It was badly made-, without yeasts,
and baked so hard you scarcely could
chew it.
Occasionally, as a treat, we were
given a bit of dried fish which had
stood so long it was alive with worms.
What we didn't eat of the food was
given to pigs which were kept In a
sty near by.
"We were treated worse than any
animals could have been. At six o'
clock every morning we were expect
ed to be ready for inspection. On
some of the winter days it was far
below zero, bue we were not allow
ed to have a spark of fire in the huts.
We were eiven coal in small chunks
nn,i evicted to keen our own fires
minir. hut thev never gave us enough
for more than two days in the entire
week's BUDtilV.
"Every able bodied man was put
to work in the coal mines, wnere
there was almost no food at all. Each
was given a little bread and a small
amount of water for Ills rations.
'Sometimes men refused to work
They were thrown Into prison, where
they wore compelled to sianu irom
morning until night for three aaya.
You couldn't buy anytning in uer-
many, and it was not unusual to see
a man with plenty of money in his
Vet starving to death. We could
unie home, however, and we always
...b.ii for rlnthlne and food, not
money.
GERMAN OPENED CANTEEN
"A canteen was finally opened by
a Gorman, but he was an entoition-
1st. He asked us excessive prices for
everything. He charged sixty cents
for a small herring and hi teen cents
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W. B. HOUSTON,
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MONROE, N. C.
Office up-stairs, Fitzgerald Building,
Northwest of Court House.
Dr. B. C. Redfearn, Dentist
Office over Heath Morrow Co.,
Phone 232. MONROE, N. C.
At, Marsh ville on first and third
Mondays of each month and at Mat
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Farmers & Merchants Bank
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W. 0. LEMMOND,
Attorney-at-Law.
Office In Law Building, old Library
Room, Monroe, N. C.
Will practice In all the State and
Federal Courts. Will give special at
tention to collection of claims and
settlement of estates by administra
tors and executors.
S-ave Sugar Dally,
O-mlt Icing from cakes
S-weeten with substitutes.
for two small potatoes. He now la a
millionaire. Another man had a con
tract to feed us. He was allowed IS
cents a day for each man's meals, and
also is a millionaire.
"When we were luckly enough to
be able to get tobacco at all we paid
eighty pfennigs for what would or
dinarily cost fifteen cent. The. Ger
mans don't care for anything except
their own gains. They are all beasts.
"There was a prison camp for wo
men and children next to ours. They
were citizens of all nation who bad
been captured with their husbands
and fathers. The children were piti
ful sights, as they were given almost
nothing to eat. The little babies were
given half milk and half water, and
i they looked like tiny sparrows.
I "Many went Insane ana hundreds
' starved. There was ono old Polish
man. who. the Germans said, had giv-
hP(.n arrangea we were wua uu r)
We were sent to Berlin witn just
enough food to last us until we
reached the border. I would hav5
starved if it hadn't been for a German
woman, who sold me three loaves of
bread after 1 had begged for hours.
They cost one dollar a loaf.
When we got to Berlin fie peo
ple hissed us and the guards had a
hard time keeping a mob away. We
went to Stockholm, where we got the
first decent treatment in three years
from the Red Cross. The wotke-rs
cave us warm food
good dailies ana
i monev. if we needed it.
rrOTirrn
STKbki utum v r-v-.i.. ,
-i saw a revolution in IVtrocrad.
the fingers of those who wore rings
It was unsafe to go out or your ou
loom.
"If I had not belonged to th? work
ing class I should have died. I tried
to get work, but there was none In
a tobacco factory where eight thous
and men were employed before the
war. no one was working.
"I went to Harbin, where butler
was six dollars a pound end bread
couldn't be brought. The sufferings
of the people are terrible. I hope
that America will come to their res
cue. "I stayed in fehanchai to- some
time, getting treated for my stomach,
which had been ruined by the Ger
man food. The doctors said I nev
er could recover, but I am some bet
ter. ,
"The Bolshevik! are no e.iol. I
hope that America will drive them
out. and that liussla wil bt a real re
public like the. United States.
CANE SUGAR IS ISOLATED.
Allied Beet Production Falls One-third
in Rigid War Economy
Practiced.
The world today Is producing forty
per cent, less beet sugar than the pre
war average.
Counting the American, Allied and
German-Austrian crops, as well as the
neutrals, the U. S. Food Administra
tion has estimated that the world
shortage created by the light crop of
1917-1918 Is at least three and a half
million tons.
That the 1917-1018 crop of cane sug
ar was two million tons in excess of
the nvcvloM year does not relieve the:
general shortage. j
n.,v ,i Totro nwwtni-o nno-iinif of
the world cane crop, and the Java sug
ar Is too far removed from America to
transport when shipping Is badly need
ed to transport and maintain the mill'
tary forces In France.
In Java a large part of the old sugar
crop Is still awaiting shipment. Since
it requires 150 to 160 days for each
boat that Is sent to Java, the possibili
ties of obtaining adequate shipments
ot Java sugar this season are remote.
Allies' Production Falls.
Taking the Allied nations as a group,
official reports show that beet sugar
production Is less by one-third than the
pre-war average.
French beet sugar Industry has suf
fered most by Ae war. The French
yield of beet sugar Is now only 29.1
per cent of the pre-war average.
For the five years preceding the out
break of hostilities In Europe, France
produced an average of 152M2 tons of
sugar each year. For 1917-18 the
French production was 19,416 tons.
. With 61 factories operating, at com
pared with more than 200 that were
in existence before the war and before
the general campaign of destructlve
ness launched by the German armies,
France nevertheless managed to manu
facture more beet sugar In 1917-18
than In 1916-17, when the total output
was 202,415 tons.
Italy In 1917-18 produced 100.800
tons of beet sugar, which was 66,000
tons less than the previous year and
110,2.i0 less than the annual output of
sugar for the five year pre-war pe
riod. One of the great difficulties experi
enced In Italy's beet sugar Industry
was finding sufficient labor to handle
the crop. Thousands of men usually
employed In beet sugar production
were called for military service. The
yield per acre amounted to approxi
mately half of the usual quantity of
beets harvested.
Honey and syrups instead of sugar
rill make victory Just as sweet and
ring It much sooner.
AJfERICAXS GIVING GERMANS
! LESSONS IN REAL, FIGHTING
Our Troops at Bray and Oiapiliy Tac
kle Enemy Ranks Without Wait
ing For Support of the Tanks -En
ter Their First Fight Like Season
ed Veteran Dritbh Officer mar
vel at the Dash of Sanitate.' At
bu-k.
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG.
(Staff Correspondent of The World
Officially Accredited to the British
Army.)
On the British Front Some of
those bayonet fighters, American lads,
who tore from the Boche a few days
ago a formidable terrain near Bray
and on Chippilly Spur had a veteran
like manner in telling to-day how
they tackled the enemy without the
support of the tanks in their fight
in this great world war.
It is not an easy job to get hold of
them to talk, for the enemy artill
ery is pummelling the countryside
with vengeful regularity. Neverthe
less they have started their first cache
of Gtrnian guns, with the neat nu
cleus of eleven pieces, which partly
represents the spoils of a limited but
successful operation, and one which
provided the incentive to get going
again as soon as the orders come to
do so.
No, we had no tanks when we
sailed into those fellows," said one
husky dough-boy who won consider
able repute by bringing down a run
ning Boche at several hundred paces
with a pistol shot while running him
self, in pursuit. "Some shooting!"
as one of his compatriots gleefully ac
knowledged.
There is blood In the eyc3 of those
units, which did all that was required
of them, and on schedule time too,
in this fine victory of the fourth army.
"WE WENT FOR THEM
We saw no Germans at all except
I ' " . . "
VlW!.e teiiows wno were trying to niue
in the wood and ravines with ma
chine guns," said another of those
who were in the fighting. "We went
for them with the bayonet or poured
a hail of rifle fire into them as we
advanced. There was not much to It
We lust got a good start and soon
cleaned up."
Their commanding officers are just
ly proud of these Americans ar.d
pointed out the difficult ground which
had been captured. It is a good thing
the Boche counter-attacked them, for
it gave our men an opportunity to
add another kilo of French territory
to what already had been captured,
and which the American would take
no end of punishment before relin
finish in c aealn.
The eround won from the Boche
in this section is being strafed quite
hard and these Americans are stand
ing up under the strain with admir
able spirit and are envied by all their
associates who have as yet not been
called on to take part.
LOTS OF REAL U. S. PEP.
In my trip to-day over considera
ble ground where the American with
the British are holding the line, I
heard of nume-rous American patrols
who are feeling out the rearguard
strength of the Boche in his latest re
tirement. A high British officer, tell
ing of their work, said:
"They leap to get Into the fighting
and are working splendidly with our
men. They are not satisfied with
merely feeding out our enomies
strength. They want to go after hlin
with a vengeance. As you Americans
sav it. they've got 'lot of pep.' "
In his recent visit to the American
front, General F.ershing was highly
delighted with the appearance of
all the Anu-rlcan units.
lULKS
RELATIVE TO
STHF.KT
CKOS1XGS.
The Street ami Police Department
ask the public to avoid crossing "at
mm Ion' any htreet intersection while
walking.. Go directly iutoss from
one sidewalk to another, as drivers of
automobiles and vehiele are goneral-
ly looking out for pedestrians nt
crossings and are not so particular
to the center of the rtreet intersw.
tion.
SAFETY FIRST at all times.
. It. CALDWELL,
Street Commissioner.
J. I. McHAK,
Police Commissioner.
This Aug 12. 1918.
ACTRESS HELD AS A SPY
Mile. Suny Depsy, one of the most
beautiful women on the Parisian stage.
Is now being held in France as a spy.
She Is formally charged with maintain
ing relations with the enemy. Her bus
band, Emll Guiltier, former manager
of the American prize fighter, Sam Mc
Vey, Is also under arrest on an esplon
ige charge. Mile. Depsy became noted
for her beauty while playing minor
roles at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt
Ji Paris.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Having this day qualified as admin
istrators of the estate of L. R. Helms,
late of the county of Union, State of
North Carolina, notice is hereby given
to all parties holding claims against
said estate to present them to the un
dersigned at Monroe. N. C, on or be
fore the 10th day of July. 1919. or
this notice will be pleaded In bar ot
their right of recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make prompt settlement.
This July 8th. 1918.
STAMEY R. HELMS and
EARLE A. HELMS. Admrs.
of L. R. Helms, deceased.
Redwine t Slkes, Attorneys.
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