THE L ii And Right The Day Must Win, To Doubt Would Be Disloyalty, To Falter Would Be Sin.” \ OLUMN 7 MEBANE, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 1915 NUMBER 25 little sister Miss Hill spent Mrs. J. R. Mebane Vs Svvepsonville Aug i EffanU [terns . ill. The last game of the Ala-} Mrs* Fmley Merritte and niaiice League to be plaved on i Ruth also her M u , :ii I «t*ittic* Merntte of Chapel the Mebane grounds. Inis wili!. ^ ^ . iiic ^ ;iastweek with their aunt , Q ori6 of the Dost gdrn0h ot th6 . near Etland. ason. I Marvie Durham of Durhatn is Mrs. Sallie Durham and child-1 sister ren of Burlington are visiting' urray. her sister, Mrs, E. Y. Farrell, '. last Friday 111 Durnam shopping. Mr. Clay Murray spent^ S\m-1 Mrs. a. Y. Kelly and children of day with his sister, Mrs. Ralph j Raleigh ,is visiting her mother Mrs ; Uella Forrest. Vincent. Mrs. Charles Lasley returned Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Thompson and XT r. daughters Misses lettie and Georgie Monday evening trom New visited Mrs. Thompson’s sis^'er Miss where she has been visiting her | Jennie Bacon Saturday night and at- husband. I tended the protracted meeting at N3w _ ^ , Sharon church Sunday Mrs. S. G. Morgan and child-j A II „ J Mr, J. F. Bogga who has been ren Mary Allen and Ihomas:^ ... .. r»i 1 »/r , spending some time With his nefihews llUVe returned trom Jjlack Moun- j Messers Frank and Chas. Bogga re- tiiiu where they have been for i turned to hi& home in eastern Caroiiiia ^ oaie time. | ‘Sunday. . , i Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Baity and chil- Miss Bessie Williams is spend- Jdren left last Saturday for Salisbury to iilg' some time with her sister, ^ spend a few days with Mrs Baitys Mi'5. Oda Terrell. ! parents Mr. and Mrs. Newsome, Thev : will return to their home in Win.ston There will be no trouble about, salem the Scllliners finding hot sandj Miss Boona Brown and lidle bro,her at Morehead city, if that I master Ver'ion are visiting their aunt anything to do with their cere- ' Mrs. J. Terrall near Mebane. ni«»nies. | Mrs. Nannie Williams and san, 1/1 u 1 I Havid of Ford Kentucky have return- I’iie Mebane Supplsr Co. broke. ground for their new brick store ' to her old home near Efland on Tuesday 10th. Tne contrac-1 Misses Mary and Cora Strayhorn tors will push the work as also Messers Cates and Holt from rapidly as possible at least the, “ear Cedar Grove sp-nt last Sunday building is expected to be com pleted and ready for occunancv! Bessie Baity is all smiles by the middle or September. : ,J paper where Mrs Becker had inscri- T>i On her husbands coffin plate The girls paint, • the mens . j j u ^ ^ • i. u 4. i Charles Becker murdered by Gov. paint and everybodys paint, but^ Whitman July .‘ioth” such a pity that the most important paint is that | she was not beside him in that coffin, put on a house with a brush to | Gov. Whitman is a man with a “back add to its appearance, or preser- i bone" a man that could not be bribed ve it. The Acme paint sold by Washington News Letter! County CommUsioners Report Graham, N. C August 2nd. 1915. The Bo;^rd of County Commissioners Sentiment has been growing among American officials that the next step in the Mexican situation should be oiie which would m*"et the approval of the world and should be taken in concert Alamance Countv met ir, court with the othor nations of the Western: „ , ‘ . Hemisphere, even it in the last event! ^ ® above ate in regu ar the trend should be toward military , "'“f’lv meeting at ten o clocli A. M I With the tollowing members present. It will be recalled that the Ambassa- j ?f“- illiamaon. Chairman dors from Argentina, Brazil and Chile i ’ urrenti.ie were mediators in the Niagara con- j p, ‘ p., * ferenne in the summer of 1914. Con- j ' certed action of the South and Central I ‘ j . . 1.U *u o.. ^ I Ahe tollowing business was transac- American powers with the States i ^ I would be in line with President Wil- j ' I son’s plan for closer relationship, and Ordered. That C. 1. Smivh be reliev- is pladned to show that the United Graded School tax . |h Oak Dale States considers the Mexican question school for 1914 $1.24 same iii the common cause of the pan-Ameri- ^***trict. can group, and that this government Ordered, lhat W. B. Jones, Mebane entertains no idea of territorial aggres- j ^ authorized to furnish waiter Siofi, '■jut is acting solely as Mexico's l^urnett and Sidney Burnett in proviai- n 'arest powerful friend and neighbor. I amount of $1.5U each for American military control jg about I itemized ac- to be extended over practically the ^ ^®unt with this order attached. DOINGS OF THE over practically entire area of Haiti the capital of which, Port an Prince, is “already in possession of American marines and bluejackets under command of Real Admiral, who has sent word to the j an i emizem accouit with this Ordered, That J. U. Hunt be author ized to furnish Mr. Brooks in provisi ons to the amount of five dollars per month for July and August and pre with Miss Annie Jordon occupancy | Bessie ]-ltter Dart of i days wonder whats the cause?, I Mr. Editor, we noticed recently in to Navy Department that he is sending a mixed commission, including an American naval affi^er to the city of Cape llaitien, second in importance to Port au P. ince. This commission is to bring about the disarmanent of all pleasant Visit the troops in that part of the country, government and rebel, and to bring the chief lead^'rs to Port au Prinz for a conference. After asking for and receiving the permission of the United States govern- meni, the commander of a French crusier has been allowed to land a detachment of f’rench Marines as a guard for the French legation in Port au Prince, Haiti. This development is viewed here as indicating not ouly order attached. Ordered. That W. H. Foglenian be authorized to furnish Micajah Bunton in provisions to the amount of $1.50 I English language. Mr. George L. Kackney Sees Thikigs in Virginia- Two Big Towns Esta- Diished Geo. L. Hackney has just returned from a trip to Virerinia, where he went in the interest of the Chair Company. While away he visited City Point and Hopewell, where the Cuonts have put I up a six million dollar plant for the manufacture of munitions of war. He says that the developments of this company are nothing short of wonder ful. “Hopewell had a population one year ago of 150, while today it is a city of 30,000. Well, no. not a city, because it is not incorporated and can not be until the Virginia legislature meets next January,” said Mr. Haek- ney. “All nationalities are represen ted there,” he continued. “There are hundreds of men who cannot speak the Th«‘ place has been and 1 laid off for a town. On many of the this [ streets the corn rows are still observa ble. The three main streets are all torn up preparatory to the layirg of per months for one month present an itemized account with order attached. Whereas at a regular meeting of the Board of County C iiuraissioners of Alamance County, Sta^e of North j water and sewer lines. Big business is Carolina, held in Graham on the 2nd, I done in one story shacks, Hotels, res- day of August 1915, to canvass the j tau^ants, ca^es, soft'drink places, and returns and declare tne results of the • i ..i i ' , , . I rooming houses compose the larger i election ht-retoforo ordered to be held • on the 20th, day of July 1915, in the' °f the business section. The following townships in Alamance Coun | place is wide open Sundays and every ty, North Carolina, upon the question i day alike Pool rooms, beer gardens of subscribing to the preferred Capital j anj like are doing a land office of the Alamance Dnrham and A REPORT MADE ON 6ARRIEL HANOTAOX French Court Finds That the Worst Crime is The Killing of Wounded Nelson-Cooper list. See ad Leader. Co. . leads the in this weeks by Bocker’s graft money. How we wish we had men like him In the South If Becker had been in the South he would never served a day in prison ^ and if Leo Frank had been in New I York he would have gone to the Elec- j trie chair just what he deserved. But I we are glad to know that they are I some honorable men, men that money i cannot bribe even if they are in north- erp States. It is most deplorable to Tho Baraca class of the M. E. I think about wbat money does do in church will play the Baraca • our “Fair South land” No justice class of the Presbyterian church | when money is plentiful. Friday afternoon at the Mebane Base ball park. Admission lOcts. Ladies free. Base Bail Friday After noon at 3 O’clock. Lawn Party at Efland On Saturday night August 14th, Lhat the United States considers itself I stock in sole charge of tl situation at the ; Orange Railway and Electric Company Haitian capital, but also an implication j Issuing the 5 per cent thirty year that the French holds the United I bonds of the townships votirg the States solely responsible for the pres-1 amounts hereinafter set out under the ert situation there. Laws of North Carolina as contained The lull text of the Austrian note | in act of General assembly of North to this government protesting against | Carolina as oontained known as house the export of munitions of war, just | bill 1274 ard Senate bill ioo wiucn^ j business.” I Wheti asked about the developments j and business of the DuPoint works, : Mr. Hackney said that their business j is hard to comprehend by most people j because it deals in millions. A recent 1387 which ' as published in the papers. published, reveals its extraordinary i said bill i'J the charter for the said ! made with the Russian government is character. It continously asserts that | Railway and Electric Company the j far over sixty million dollars, while it the munitions exports of this country ' following is declared t»- b« the result | jg ^renorally believed that they have are a violations of neutrality and vag- of the election in the following town- our own government ships. Graham Township subscribing ta the preferred stock in the sum of $35,000 and issuing bonds of said township in there will be a Lawn party at the Methodist Protestant church at Efland Ice cream. Cake and other refresh- : ments will be served proceeds benefit 1 ^ .e 1 i church, you are inyited to come a deligrhttur What Kind of Fuel Shall We Use? Surprise Party Given Friday evening a number young people gave , surprise party to Miss Frances i Singleton and her house guest. | iMisses Virginia Davis, Annie and Mary Macon at her home on | So with the human engine, what 5th street. During the evening l kind of fuel shall we put under the the popular game of rook was l boiler? Shall it be fuel of high com- played, after which delicious re- | bustion with energizing power, or shall fresh ments were served. ; it be slate or the ordinary screenings I from the coal bin? Shall it be the j highly nitrogenous foods, such as meat ll Its Feed or Flour and eggs, or the starchy f(.ods (car- , bohydrates), such as potatoes and car- if its feed or flour go to Smith- rots? Shall it be a well-balanced food Miles and Co. They make these , nke wheat, oats, rice and barley? Pota- a specialty. A full line of fam- tQgg Jire ^ good example of an incom- ily groceries, and farm produce, ’ piete, poorly-balanced ration. Persons uely refers to international law in sup port of this contention, while it offers no sound basis for the assertion that the United States in permitting this traffic is stultifying its position before j like amount. the world. 1 Number of voters registered 346 Tnree notes from the British govern-1 Number voting for subscription 262 ment and one fr.im the Berlin foreign , Number voting against subscription 4 office, all dealing with the commercial j Thompson township subscribing to rights of neutral nations in war time, i the prefered stock in the sum of $20, came before Secretary Lansing almost 000 and issuing bonds of said town- at once. In the British notes, En- i ship in like amount, gland’s course is stopping shipments to America of. manufacturers from countries in Germany’s possession or under her control is vigoroUily defend ed. So far as the German note is' concerned, which relates lo the de-{ struction of the steamship Frye, there ^ appears to be no question of the pay- ; eggs etc. Store Broken Into ! fed entirely on potatoes and other I starchy foods will soon become flabby I and weakminded. On the other hand, } persons whose diet consists largely of parties un- ' other high-protein foods are the Mebane ! suffer from derangements Thompson precinct. Nnmber of votes registered 84 Number voting for subscription 71 Number voting against subscription 13 Swep.-^onville precinct. Number Registered Voters 66 Number for Subscription 55 Number against Subscription 6 ment of reparation by Germany, but | Ordered: That G Ab Fogleman, there is a quibble whether it Shall be j Supt, of Ror.ds, be authorized to in paid directly by diplomatic excharges vestigate the cart-way across the or shall go through a prize court. , latids of Sarah A. Kime, W. A. Kime, That Germany is endeavoring to. and report to this Board at its next avoid unnecessary harm to our .“hip- meeting. ping is snown by advices from Am-j Ordered: That W. A Ivey, et al, in I bassador Gerard at Ber'in to the ef- Newlin's T wnship be authorized to I feet that the German admiralty had spend Fifty Dollars ($50.o0) on Public i informed him the neutral makings on road beyond Sutphin’s? Mill. I American ships entering the European | Ordered; That the report be war zofie was too small. It will not ed and filed. ( be surprising, however, to this govern-. Ordered: That the Court Stenograph-j ment if the German reply to our last ’ er shall present all bills for transcript! note regarding the Lusitania involves j of evidence to parties ordering same' a long delay. j unless said oi’der be made by the * • Trial Judge. | Dora for fabulous amounts. “They employ seventeen thousand men." he continu- ; ed, and their pay roll is over a million j dollars a month. A large part of this j is spent in Petersburg, and it has j given that old burg new life. It is 1 one of the most prosperous places in ! the United States today. I was told j by one business man that his turnover I last month was $22,000 while his nor- , mal July business would be about ; $7,000.” AEPORT MADE PUBUC The final report of the commission presided over by George Payet of the French court of accounts to inquire into acts of barbarity and violation of international law charged against Ger man troops has been presented to Premier Viviana, and was made pub lic According to this report the find ings of which are based on the testi mony of German prisoners and French and Belgian victims, German troops have been guilty of thefo lowings acts: Civilian prisoners including w^omep and children were used as shields against the fire of the allied troops. Wounded prisoners were put to death by order of ^the German com manding officer. In one case wounded were pitched with bayonets into a burniiig building. Orders were given to make no more prisoners. Cartridges were reversed, split or cut to cause more s‘rious wounds. Bay onets with teeth like a saw were used. Ambulances were bombarded,stretch er bearers fired on and taken prison ers The worst charges in the report re late to an order alleged to have been Declares Nation Prepared For .Precipitating Present Gigantic European Struggle ENSLAVEMENT OF WORLD THE OBJECT Under the* caption “After One Year,” Gabriel Hanotaux, former minister, in the Figaro Paris, reviews the cause of the war and the “his torical stages leading Germany logical ly to cast the die for the gigantic con flict in an attempt to impose domina tion on the world.” “Germany prepared for this war.” says M. Hanotaux, with a long hand as an enterprise of universal domina tion, Once ready she chose her hour and dragged along her accomplice, Austria-Hungary and her other accom plice, Turkey.” This is proved by historic documents M. Hanotaux says, and he reviews the growth of the German “welt politiK” idea, born at a meeting aboard the im perial yacht Hohenzollerh in 1897, through fifteen years of military and navy preparation to 1912, when “the work of preparation was accomplished and Germany was ready to profit from the first favorable circumstances.” Tp the.se historic evidences of Ger many’s intentions, M. Hanotaux offers what he terms furthe;’ material and moral proofs of Germany’s “fell pur- given by General Stenger commander pose.” of the 59th German brigade directing his troops not to take any more prison ers and to kill all falling into their hands even if already wounded. “From that day,” says the report, “big groups of prisoners were put to the wall and shot with infinite refine ment. HARO TO BELIEVE THE FIGURES DROWNED III THE CUPEp Three Men Lose Their Lives —The treacherous Cape Fear river added another tragedy to its long list I shortly after midnight Sun. when Dr. accept-! Morris M. Caldwell, his brother, Clell Caldwell, of New York, who was visiting him; Dr. J. H Bornemann and Chief Engineer Harwell, of the German steamer Nicaria, interned were drowned I The small motor boat in which they Jones be ! were crossing the river at to Wilmington combined, pre' are world having “voltage.”— Other Things Than Rab bits. Some party, or known broke in to Supply Companies store Tuesday j of the liver and kidneys. Persons eat nieht and stole therefrom a I these properlv combined, 1 J} • Kocf i pared and in balanced proportion number of pairs of their bestj^’ ^ shoes, and perhaps other „,er-'‘h* chandise. The entrance was af- i fected by breaking the glass' out of the west front door, j There was a heavy plate glass j in this door and it seems a lit-' . ,T_ , 1 . r; (From The Siler City Grit.) tie surprising in the breaking of, s„ has been said of late re- the glass that sufficient noise ^ girding Chatham’s side-issue-the rab- had not been made to have bit industry—that an outsider might awakened some one, or attracted ' be led to believe that the county is attmtinn good for nothing else. Far from it. \xr 4-u’ 1 4.U- *o ^he county is one of the largest in the We think this is the fourth despite the fact that tho Legis- time in a year or so this store 15 years ago sliced off a part has been broken into, and goods i for Alamance and a few years kter taken from it. From this and | another part for Lee. The eastern other places that have been j half of the county pnxiuces thousands . . . ,, , -4. of pounds of the finest ot bright to- broken in toin Mebane it wou d , county produces yearly appear that thieves think this q^qqq bales of cotton produces nearly place an easy mark. yield runs into the hundreds of thous- It’s a shame, with all of the anda of bushels wheat R.S. Clark on a robberies around here that no one' ^7 raised 166 bushels, this being an aver ts apprehended or made sorter ^ bushels the acre, and he for it. We need something, j 200 pounds of I6 per cent acid to the acre. Anyway one looks at it, our county literally has the i visit the two interned German steamers Ordered; That Miss A of riou/ FJv- relieved of tax on Seven Hundred Annual rilteen Day Ex Dollars-same having been; CUrsionTo Atlantic City, i erroneously listed I the Nicaria and the Kiel, capsized m N. Y. Via Southern ! Ordered: ThatE 0. Smith be reliev-j midstream opposite the foot of Grace Road Duty for 1915 , street. Chief Engineer Reimers, of the ^be account of inabilities. I t/-- 1 I J J ri,u 4. / u c. u 1 i steamer Kiel, the fifth member the Premier Carrier of the South, Tuer-I Ordered; lhat G. H. Sartin be al-1 , „ day August 17, 1915, $U.OO ROUND lowed to peddle in Alamance County j the party, was the only one to be TRIP $11.00 from all stations Selma to i free off license tax on account of dis-' saved. He is a good swimmer and Grten.-;boro inclusive. Special Train j abilities. | reached some Piling which he clung to Standard Coaches and Sleeping Cars | Ordered. That the Report of Dr. j yptjj Captain Hollasnh, of the Nicaria, Special sleeper for colored people. ' W. Long Superin^tenant of health be ; to calls for help went to his Have your pullman reservation made' rccepted and filed. i • n u ^ ' J H I o yij I ' assistauce lu a small boat, in advance in order to secure com for-1 Whereas, L»r. ueo. w. i-iong, buper-j table quarters. i intenant of health on account of feeble j — ^ Stop overs permitted at Pniladelphia | health and not being able to alttend to Baltimore and Washington returning' the duties of the office tendered his j W ith British submarines reappearing by depositi ig tickets. [ resignicion as supercenaanc o£ neaicn ! in the Sea of Marmora and again at- In addition to the above, very low | and it was ordered that same be ac-1 tacking German ships of commerce round trip tickets will be on sale from | cepted with the thanks of the Board^be Baltic, the honors in There is no occasion for any politi cian or any newspaper editor in the South to tear passion to tatters over the cotton situation, so long as the growers of the staple continue to pay so little deference either in the matter o^ reducing the acreage seeded or in that of increasing production of food stuffs, to the conditions brought about by the war in Europe It is true that figures recently made public by the Census Bureau at Washington show a falling off in the aggregate area plan ted in cotton this year of approximate ly 13 per cent, and that a correspond ing advance is indicatf’d in the pros pective acreage of foodstuffs for men and of forage for work animals This showing is hardly entitled to be class ed as nnore than encouraging, but in the light of it statistics contained in a news letters from the University of North Carolina, published a few days ago in the Raleigh News and Observer become all the more remarkable: It is hard to believe that 76,800 farm ers in North Carolida in the census year bought feed for their farm ani- From the material viewpoint.” he says, the far-sighted and formidable preparations of the twin empires with a view to war cannot be denied. With the most savage resolution, in abso lute secrecy with fists clenched and lips closed, two empires, armed to the death, constructed monstrous cannon, filled arsenals with arms and ammu nition and conceived the prodigious niechunism for adopting the arts of peace to the art of war. The whole country was regulated like a barracks, very slightest resource was catalogued that nothing might be lost and all with the purpose of offensive action. There were inventoried in advance the means of defense exploitable and the riches of the countries coveted. Universal espionage prepared the way for world conquest.” “The Germa.is are fighting for the enslavement not for the liberation of the world,” continues M. Hanotaux. “Were things not in their conclusion as in their origin, the prodigious events would be unmeaning, but never since the birth of the world have there been events more significant. We have gone about our task and know what that task is. “France, especially, is in her tradi tional role, nor will she let herself be turned aside. She struggles for ideals which are hers; justice is greater than force; right protects the weak; every man and every people has a right to dispose of his own. These mottoes are opposed to those of Germany's “German theories, German doctrines and German morality are irreparably lost, They appear now for what they are and themselves have demonstrated what they are: Frightful materialistic heresies. First of all, we have saved the truth. “Now it is the- turn of justice and of right. Already Germany, by the fail- mals; that three in every ten of our ure of her campaign of conquest, over- what is it? Is it a night watch man, well attention has been called to it enough. •goods,” and is the stuff! Selma, Raleigh, Durha.n, Henderson to Baltimore, Richmond and Norfolk. Schedule as follows: Lv. Chapel Hill Lv. Raleigh Lv. Durham Lv. Hillsboro Lv., Mebane Lv. Haw River Lv, Burlington Lv. Graham For pullman reservation^ detailed information, etc., ask your agent, or write. 0. F. York, Travelling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C. Oxford and i for the faithful service he had render- Superintendant : unders3a warfare pramise to be more Washington, ’ ed to ^the country as , ir j of health. i evenily distributed among the beiliger- I Ordered. That A. B. McKeel be el-1 ents. But for many months neither i 4:00 P. M I ected Superintendant of the county | Germarr naval vessels nor British naval 7:00 P. M I Home for one year at a salary of $30.- j wherever they may be in m W. H. Turrentine, 8 MPM ^hess H. Roney and G. Ah Fogleman | ?reat danger of being torpedoed. The 9-02 P M be appointed to accept bids for a 110 } impression gains ground that the sub- 9-17 P M ! span of steel bridges on Stoney j marine is a cautious opponent and care creek at Hopedale cotton mill, and | considers the risks, bids wili be received at the oridge | sight on the 10th day of August at 3 T ' ' o clock P* M. Recently a vessel in the China Sea Ordered. That when this board ad- ,, . - , -j journs that it adjourns to meet on the "P 16th day of August 1915 in the Russo-Japanese war tea years ago. farmers spent in cold cash for this purpose cn an average $41 apiece, and all told, $3,151,000. In 56 counties, the per cent, of farm ers buying farm feed was btyond the State average (30 per cent.) in 36 counties more than a third of the farmers bought stock feed; in five, more than half of them, and in one country, nearly three- fourths of them. In 24 counties more than a thousand farmers bought farm feed. In six counties, around 1,500 farmers were supplying deficiencies in this way. In Robeson the farmers buying farm food numbered 1,739; in Wilkes, 1,875, and in Wake, 7,%5. The ratios ranged from 9 per cent, in Dare to 73 per cent, in New Han over; and the sums spent for farm feed averaged all the way from $23.15 in Yancey to $121.90 per farm in New Hanover. In the 1910 census, it appears that 184,000 farms in North Carolina grew no hay and forage; that 25,393 farms, or one in every ten, grew no com; that nearly 200,000 farms grew no oats and more than 200,000 grew no wheat. whelmed by the immense losses which are draining her, conscious of the utter ruin which grips her, seeks to escape the consequences of her own theories and would be content with the white peace of a stalemate—counting herself well off to be able to preserve herse for the future. But not even this neg ative result will she obtain. The two theories of life are radicalfy opposed. One or the other must succumb, Fol lowing in the wake of the German doc trine, Germanys force is now likewise is on the decline. Ona more effort, through it requires another year, and both will be '^ast into the abyss.” 9:08 P. M. Whatever your occupation may be, and however crowded your hours with affairs, don’t fail to secure at least a few minutes each tlay for the refresh ment of your inner life with a bit of poetry.—Charles Eliot Norton. The Last Half We are now, ladies and gentlemen, starting out in August—the last half of the year 1915. It isn’t going to be long now until we reach the other shore and stand on the 1916 bank. And the question is: Have you done any thing this year worth while? Have you stopped to talk too long about the the war? Have you concluded to wait until the war ends before doing the chore you ought to do and which you thought you would do? Only five more months of the 1915 dope, so if you have anything to do before the next yea? get busy.“Everything.”