r SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1914
BY LUCK AND
PLUCK SCOOPS
ALL THE NEWS
COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT IN
FRANCE BEATS OUT NOTED
WAR JOURNALISTS.
HE WAS ON THE SCENE
Fleury Laure Didn't Have to Get a
Permit to Go to the War, Since
the War Came Him In His
.Native Home of Charleroi.
By William G. Shepherd,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
London, Septfl 30. (By Mail to
New York)
Fleury Laure is at the front,
And I must get there, too.
Why do you let him go to war,
And keep us back with you?"
It isn't a song; it isn't even a poem.
It's a chant of woe that was intoned
by the war correspondents during
certain days of the present war. Mon
ocled English journalists, who hadn't
worn ordinary street clothes for sev
eral weeks, drawled it in the "war of
fice in London, to walrus-mustached
officers.
Whiskered French war Writers who
had thrown away all their every-day
clothes except their flowing bow ties,
gesticulated it to wax-ended-musta-ched
officers in the war correspond
ents, who have their own ways of
dressing for warfare, went to the
high school building where the Bel
gian government now lives and said
it in Flemish to the Belgian war
lords. ,
In Petrograd, too, the warlords
heard the plaint in Russian, from the
bearded reporters.
Perhaps even German journalists
chanted it. American war corres
pondents yelled it in every capital.
"Fleury Laure is at the front;
Why can't I go there, too?"
Nobody had heard of Fleury Laure
before. One day in a London newspa
per there appeared an article by him
on the fall of Charleroi. It was a
splendid first-hand story of the bat
tle and the entry of the Germans.
The next day another first hand sto
ry by Laure appeared, from another
town which the Germans had seized.
The war correspondents of Europe
grew worried. A mysterious man, of
whom they had ne'er before heard,
named Laure, was at the front.
Whether he was at the German or
the French front they couldn't tell.
The third day's story from another
town of another battle started the
war correspondents' lament in every
capital ni Europe.
Who is this Fleury Laure? How
did he get to the front? These were
the questions asked by every worried
editor in every newspaper office in
Christendom.
"We must get that fellow1 away
from the front," said the war offices.
If they had only known it Fleury
Laure was trying to save them trou
ble. ,
And now at last, the truth about
Fleury Laure is out. I write it to
praise his luck, his pluck and pres
ence of mind. He has been the local
correspondent of a London newspaper
in his home town of Charleroi.
The war offices of Europe were
keeping all the big war correspond
ents of the world away from the fir
ing line, but they couldn't keep the
firing line away from this local cor
respondent. As soon as Laure saw what was
happening to him in the way of a gift
from Fate ne tooK lull advantage ot
the opportunity. He left Charleroi
at one side of the town while the
Germans were coming in at the other.
At the next town he sent his story
to London and waited for the German
army again. They came, too.
Day after day, being only two
jumps ahead of the Germans, as you
might say, he got stories of the Ger
man advance through Belgium which
the newspapers of the world were
hungry for.
And so, the front, which came to
Fleury Laure, instead of him going
to it, chased him clear down into
France and, at last, squeezed him in
to Paris, where the great big, world
famous war correspondents could get
a look at him, slap him on the back
and say, "Welcome, son, to our noble
midst."
And now he belongs.
AN OPTIMIST'S VIEW
OF THE SITUATION
Mr. J. E. Peterson, United States
commissioner and prominent planter
of Goldsboro, writes optimistically of
the cotton situation as he regards it,
to the Goldsboro Argus. Mr. Peter
son says:
"Editor Argus. I feel sure that
there is entirely too much stress
placed on the effect of the European
war as it affects our country, along
many lines. The fact is our people
have been so evry prosperous for
many years, and have, to some ex
tent, been extravagant that now they
have become frightened and have
talked it so much that the future ap
pears like a dark cloud. There is
really no apparent need for such de
pression. It is well to be economical
and thoughtful, but not necessary to
be picturing destruction just ahead
of us. There never was a better op
portunity for encouraging words to
be spoken, and for people to show
kindness to those who are worthy of
it. The clouds will soon roll by and
this will only be a lesson to make us
more prudent. There is a determi
nation not to sell cotton for less than
cost of making, and a disposition to
"kill the goose that lays the golden
egg" is not good policy on the part
of the manufacturer or anybody else.
The world will need the cotton sooner
or later.
"Let every one who can store and
hold their cotton. Sell only enough
to meet pressing obligations. Satis
fy those we owe by getting them to
help us hold. In most cases they will
do it. Plant a small cotton crop next
year. Let none desire to take advan
tage of this almost useless scare.
Talk less about it. Be more hopeful.
Not much cloth will be made out of
7-cent cotton yet awhile. Things
could be worse. Cotton hands get as
much now as when cotton brought
14 cents. Tobacco is bringing fair
prices.
"It is only the cotton farmer who
is in debt badly and not able to hold
his cotton who is in bad fix. Other
can patiently wait with some degree
of hopefulness for better conditions.
Our wise national and state' rulers
will do all they can to relieve the sit-
i a .. p 1 1 .
I uuiiun, uui iney can i care ior an oi
us. Some of ua will have to protect
ourselves."
MOBILIZATION OF
CREDITS RELIEF FOR
COTTON SITUATION
Washington, Oct. 8 President Wil
son believes that mobilization of the
country's credits will suffice to solve
the problem of the cotton growers.
He told callers today that the orga
nization of the federal reserve sys
tem would help the situation and, re
ferring to efforts to secure the issir
ance of more money to relieve cot
ton men, said he believed there was
plenty of money in the country, but
the difficulty was to get it to the
growers.
There is no danger of a "cotton cor
ner" in the President's opinion,
through eqorts of bankers to raise a
pool of $150,000,000 to be loaned to
planters.
"CONCILIATION" COURT
PROVES BIG SUCCESS.
Cleveland, Oct. 10. informal in
vestigation by social workers ot
Cleveland's municipal courts today
showed perhaps the most valuable
service rendered by these institutions
is that of the "Conciliation" court,
the only one of its kind in America.
Founded by Judge Manuel Lovine,
a Russian Jew, the work of this
stranger to American justice has
come to be looked upon here as indis
pensible. To temper justice with common
sense, to reduce court costs to a n'n
imum, to render court procedure so
simple as to be rnderstood by ven
the uneducated foreigner theS'.' arc
to be the three main objects Judge
Levine has in mind in conducting his
court.
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OF
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GREAT STATE FAIR
RALEIGH, N. C.
OCTOBER 19-24, 1914
Finest attractions this year ever seen at a South
ern Fair ; De Lloyd Thompson loops the loop and flies
upside down in an aeroplane 2,000 feet above the earth.
Gigantic Fireworks Spectacle "Panama in Peace
and War." Climax of new and wonderful effects in
pyrotechnics, showing battle of aeroplanes and war
ships using radium shells.
In addition a $l,000.display of fire works nightly.
Flying Herberts Hatch's Autodrome Great
Calvert Bennett Brothers Hay Wagon and others.
Fast Racing Big Purses Good Track.
Better Babies Contest under auspices State Board
of Health, and Woman's Club of Raleigh.
Huge Agricultural Displays from all over the
State have been booked.
Some of the finest stock ever shown in North
Carolina already entered for premiums.
Reduced rates, special trains and convenient sche
dules on all railroads.
Write for Premium List and full information to
JOSEPH E. POGUE, Secretary.
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