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'MM;-.!-. PAGE FOJJB ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH Isaac S. London Editor and Proprietor The Post established January 8th, 1909 The Dispatch established Jan. 1st, 1916 Bought by Isaac S. London in Novem ber, 1917, and consolidated under name of Rockingham Post-Dispatch Dec. 1st, 1917, with first issue Dec. 6th, 1917. Published Every Thursday Subscription Rates $1.50 Per Year Entered at the post office at Rocking ham, N C as secon 1 class mail matter All men fcr the war armies still to be raised by the United States will come from clsss one under the 'new selective service plan. That means the nation's fighting is to be done by young men without families dependent upon their labor for support and unskilled in industrial or agricul tural work. This statement was announced by Provost Marshal General Crowder last week. Class one will provide men for all the military needs of the coun try, but to accomplish this the draft law will have to be amend ed so that all men who have reached their 21st birthday since last June 5th shall be required to register for classification. Also, the quotas for each state will be determined hereafter on the basis of the number of men in class one and not upon popula tion; this, of course, is by far the fairer way. Available figures in dicate that there will be 1,000,000 men physically and otherwise qualified for class one when the classification period ends Feb. 15th. To this the extension of registration to men turning 21 since June 5th and thereafter will . add 700,000 effective men a year. An analysis of the first draft shows that 9,586,508 men be tween the ages of 21 and 31 reg istered themselves. Up to late in December only 5,780 arrests had been made of those who had sought to evade registration and of that number, 2,263 were re leased after having registered and there remained only 2,095 cases to be prosecuted, " Class one comprises: Single men without dependent rela tives, married men who have habitually failed to support their families, who are dependent upon wives for support or not usefully engaged, and whose families are supported by incomes independent of their labor; unskilled farm laborers, un skilled industrial laborers, registrants by or in respect of whom no deferred class- ' lfication is claimed or made, registrants who fail to submit questionnarie and in respect of whom no deferred classifica tion is claimed or made, and all regis trants not included in any other division of the schedule. A constitutional amendment will be submitted to the voters at the November election mak ing it mandatory upon the county commissioners of the State to levy a special tax to supplement the regular oounty school .tax sufficient to provide a minimum school term of six months in stead of four months. The Government in its opera tion of the railroads has issued an appeal to the country to ob- serve the, week of January 14th to 21st as "freight moving week." j Also, it is not at all unlikely that the Government will shortly re-i ducethe number o passenger, trains throughout the country,' and at the same time makes each passenger train run on a much slower schedule; this will . be done in order to give freight trains the preference, the right of way. . Where we have formerly seen long freights on sidings patiently waiting for passenger trains, we may soon experience the reverse and ourselves, if we be passengers, remaining' on siding and watch the once-despised freight go thundering by. And this will be right; every thing must be relegated for our war speed. Mr. McAdoo's statement on, a concerted movement to clear congestion said: " -, "I wish to appeal to the people of the United States to observe the week begin ning January 14 and ending January 21 as "freight moving week," and I earnestly request the governors of the various states, the public utilities commissioners, the mayors of cities and towns, the state councils of national defense, the federal and state food and fuel administrators, the chambers of commerce and other business organizations, business men and shippers generally, trucking companies and all railroad employees concerned, to organize locally and make a supreme effort during this week to unload freight cars, to remove freight from railroad stations and to clear the decks for a more efficient operation of the railroads of the country. "An earnest and united pull all along the line will achieve wonders in this dl rection. We can help ourselves and re' lieve an immense amount of suffering if we attack the problem vigorously and in the true spirit of cooperation." Immediately after the "freight moving week," the new high demurrage rates ordered by the director general will go into ef fect. Every contention raised against the selective draft act was swept aside by the Supreme Court Mon day in an unanimous opiniondeliv ered by Chief Justice White, up holding the law as constitutional. This righteous decision of the Supreme Court should put quietus upon the chronic kickers and followers of the traitorous Tom Watson, of Georgia. Watch the man who effects to despise wealth. There's some thing wrong with his mental make-up Wealth is the visible evidence of industry; it is the vehicle through which all human activities accomplish their re sults. A sordid greed for gold is repulsive to all right thinking persons, but the man who has not a true appreciation of the value of wealth -be it in money or what not has no appreciation of the worth of human ambition, He lacks the real inspiration that moves to successful effort The spendthrift is not the most de sireable ot characters, but he is a paragon beside the man totally lacking in the ambition to ac cumulate the rewards of industry. The fellow who has nothing and wants less is simply a clog on the wheels of progress, and the world were better off without him. A Queer Sum. Put down the number of your living brothers. Multiply by two. Add three. Multiply the result by five. Now add the number of your living sisters. Multiply the total by ten. Add the number of your dead brothers and sisters. Subtract 150 from the total. The right-hand figure will be the number of deaths; the middle figure the number of living sis ters, and the left-hand figure the numuer oi uving Drotners. Thb birthdays of two beloved Southern leaders will be observed in a few' days Robert" E. Lee January 19th and Thomas (Stone wall) Jackson January 21st It is generally customary to have ap propriate exercises on the same day in commemoration of the birthdays of these illustrious men, and the Post-Dispatch trusts that EVERY school in Richmond county will have ex ercises befitting the occasion, say on Friday, 18th. nave every scholar prepare a composi tion upon the lives of these soldiers, if yov can't hold exer cises. Though dead these many years, their memory should be kept fresh in the minds of the youth. ....' In our next issue the . paper will reproduce Lee's immortal "Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia;" also, Ben jamin Hill's "Tribute to Lee," and Father Ryan's a"The Sword of Robert E. Lee." r Splendid School at Hoffman. The spring term of the Hoff man school district win oegm next Monday with formal occu pancy of the splendid new school building. This district deserves the ut most credit for such a building, Last year the district issued $12,500 in bonds for a school building, and voted a special tax of 30 cents, and 90 on the poll, supplementing the tax already prevailing of 30 and 90. The bonds will be matured in 20 years, at the rate for the first several years of $500 per year, increasing in amount as the twenty-year limit approaches and the interest decreases. The building is of brick, two stories, has 6 standard size class rooms, principal's office, two teachers' rest rooms, 2 play rooms in basement, an auditorium with capacity of 400, is wired for elec tric lights and has an elegant $1650- steam heating system, this last the gift of Mr. F. T. Gates, who also gave the school the five-acre-plot on which the build ing stands. The principal of the school is T. L Williams, of Apex; assist ants, Misses Juanita Williams, Sallie Thomas, and Todd Armis- tead. There is scarcely a rural school in the state that can boast of such a building and equipment and the Post-Dispatch is proud to call attention to this district and the progressiveness and unity that have made such a for ward step possible. PRESIDENT WILSON DE FINES OUR WAR AIMS In An Address to Congress Tuesday, President Wilson Clearly and Rightly Defines America's War Aims. America's program of war and peace, with dehnite terms upon which the nations great and small fighting together against uerman wona aomination are 11 i . ready to lay down their arms, was given to the world by Presi dent Wilson Tuesday through an .1 i ... aaaress to uwigress in joint session. No Separate Peace. For this program, based upon the righting of wrongs and the safety of peace loving peoples de siring to live their own lives, the President committed the United States to fight and continue to fight until it is achieved. Thus he pledged the country to the allied policy of no separate peace. The speech, heard by Con gress at an hour's notice and ac- ppnfwl urtfti fx that brought together virtually ) every element of both Houses, was delivered as a direct response to the German challenge in the negotiations with the Rusjsians at Brest-Iitovsk. It followed closely and approved the address of the British Premier, but was ar more specific in statement of terms, robbing of force in ad vance ,any German peace drive designed to confuse the Entente and American governments and their people while at the same time presenting the foundation for genuine negotiations when ever the Central rowers are ready to talk of a just peace. 14 Concrete Proposals. Fourteen concrete proposals aid down by the President began with the declaration that the days of private international un derstandings are gone and .that covenants of peace must be reached in the open. Briefly summuarized. the other points were: Freedom of the Seas. Absolute freedom ot the seas in peace .or war except as they may be closed by international action; removal of economic bar riers among nations associating themselves to maintain peace; of guarantees the reduction of armaments to the lowest point consistent with domestic safe ty; impartial adjustment of colon ial claims, based upon the princi ple that the people concerned have equal rights with the gov ernments; evacuation of all Rus sian territory and opportunity 'or Russia's political develop ment; evacuation of Belgium; evacuation of Rumania; and righting of the Alsace-Lorraine wrong; readjustment of Italy's rontiers along recognizable lines of rationality; free opportunity for autonomous development of the peoples of Austria-Hungary; evacuation of Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro and guarantees for all the Balkan states; sover eignty for Turkey's portion of the Ottoman Empire and auton omy for other nationalities; an independent Poland with access to the sea; and general associa tion ot nations for mutual guar antees of independence and loyal integrity to large and small states alike. Sympathy With Russia. A notable feature of the ad dress was the sympathetic atti tude of the President toward the Russian representatives who dealt with the Germans at the peace conference the Bolshe vlki, often execrated for their de fection from the Entente and for permitting themselves to be drawn into the Teutonic peace trap. The Russians, he said, pre senting a perfectly clear state ment of the principles upon which they would be willing to conclude peace, were sincere and in earn est, and when they found that the actual German terms of set tlement came from the military leaders who had no thought but keep what they had taken the negotiations were broken off. Peace of the World Depends Upon the question of whether the Russians and the world are to listen to the military and im perialistic minority which so far has dominated the Teutonic pol icy, or to the liberal leaders and parties who speak the spirit and intentions of the resolutions adopted by the German Reichstag last July, the President declared, must depend the peace of the world. ' This was in line with his previous declaration that the word of the present rulers Germany could not be taken for anything worth while, but he took care to disclaim any intent ion to suggest a change in Ger man institutions. Special attention is called to our muslin underwear. We have the famous Dove brand, the very best m style, workmanship and material. W. E. Harrison & Land Co. ; ical Examination By ALAN H5NSDALE (Copyright. 117. Wwun Newspaper Unloa.) I received my degree of M. D. on the , 25th of Jane and on the 26th started for a town in the West, intending bl fore" settling down to practice to put In a couple, of months' recreation. I fell in with a party of tourists, one of them being Miss Julia McGregor. When she discovered that I was a saw bones, there arose a bond of sympa thy between us, for she was a daugh ter of one of the most eminent sur geons In America, and a lecturer In a medical college. Preferring the company of these people, especially Miss McGregor, to traveling alone, I clung to them. Where they went I went. We visited the Yel lowstone park and other regions of In terest and when my outing' was ended pronounced it the most delightful I had ever experienced. . And well I might, for I had been falling in love with .Miss McGregor, and she had reciprocated. It was the middle of September when, having been referred, by her to her father, I went to ask him for the hand of his daughter. She rounded up her outing by a visit to friends in Chicago, but had written her latner that I would call upon him at the fam ily home, which was in a suburban town near the city of Philadelphia. Raving boarded the train that was to take me to my destination, the car being nearly filled, I took a seat by an elderly gentleman who was reading his evening newspaper. But he laid it on his lap soon after the train started and gazed out of the window. I ad dressed him, asking him how far my station was from the city. He in formed me very courteously, and told me he lived there. Then I told him I was going to call upon Doctor Mc- Greeor. and asked him how I could find the doctor's residence. He told me he knew Doctor MacGregor very well and gave me the necessary direc tions. While conversing with the gentle man I told him tnat i was a newiy made M. D. J said I thought that I had an advantage over older doctors in that I had learned the latest discov eries in medicine. My auditor listened to me attentive ly, occasionally asking me my opinion as to the merits of antitoxins for va rious diseases that were well known to the layity and I answered him In such language as would be understood by a layman, carefully avoiding medi cal terms. Whenever I was obliged to use scientific nomenclature be did not ask me to define the word used, nor did he at any time show a want of comprehension. Before our Journey was half ended he had asked me a number of these questions that I could not answer, and finally said that he did not see from my replies that the doctors Just grad uated knew any more than those who had been long In practice, and be did not think that doctors knew much, anyway, whether young or old. I was angered at this, and retorted that whether or no doctors were Ignorant of their profession, they knew more than the laity. "Do yon look upon your fellow citizen, Doctor MacGregor, as an ignoramus T I added; "What he knows," was the reply. Is as a grain of sand to a whole sea coast to what he doesn't know." At this point the trainman called our station and we left the car together. The gentleman cooled my wrath by In viting me to ride with him in his mo torcar to the home of my father-in-law in prospect, and I accepted his lnvl tatlon. We entered a beautiful car which was in waiting, and were driven away by a uniformed chauffeur. My companion telling him to stop at a certain house by the way. On reach ing this house, the former pointed to a handsome place not far distant as Doctor MacGregor's, saying the doctor usually came up on the train we had traveled on and if he was not at home he would be very soon. The maid who answered my sum mons at Doctor MacGregor's said that she expected the doctor very soon and I sat down to wait for him. In a few minutes who should enter the room but my companion on my trip from the city. I was staggered. Why should he be there? He approached me with an amused but kindly smile, saying: . "Well, my boy, I'm sorry to have an gered you, but it Is the only revenge I could inflict upon a man who is about to rob me of the greatest treasure possess." "You you are Doctor MacGregorr I gasped. "I am. I took occasion, incognito, to draw you out on various subjects. Now you may put your best foot for ward, and make yourself appear the marvel my daughter has described you." "Heavens I" I exclaimed. "I thought I had passed my medical examination last June. I didn't know that I was under the rack when you were ques tioning me." Ton doubtless acquitted yourself better this afternoon than on graduat ing, not knowing yon were being exam? toed." The doctor and X dined together, and when I departed I had his consent to an engagement " with his daughter, Since then I have become convinced that what doctors know U "a a grain of sand to a whole, aeacoast" to what they don't know. But this Is so in ever department of science, . theTdephone By F. A. MTTCHELL ; (CopjTlht, HIT, WMUra Nwppr Umtoa.) Til call you up about nine o'clock and let you know the result . - " Ton can't call me up because X have no telephone In my house." "No telephone? Why, I supposed every bouse had a telephone nowa days." ''-"'. "Mine hasn't It had one and I had it taken out" , y "Why so?" " ,' "Well, there's a, little story about it xi you cure xo near 11, m ieu 11 w you. You know, I live out at Hibton, an hour's ride from the city.. When I was first married, my wife was alone, all day, I being in town at business, bo we concluded to put in a telephone so that she could call me up once in a while to break her loneliness, or if . anything unusual occurred. "Well, the first thing to be com municated was, 1 caught the mouse I set the trap for; what shall I do with it? ' The next thing to be com municated was, 'Spmeone is ill in the house opposite; the doctor's convey ance Is standing before the door.' Then she called me up to ask me to bring her a spool of thread when I came out in the evening. I must walk six blocks to a store where I could buy the kind . she wanted, ' and she could get it by walking two blocks, or send for it by telephone. I told her to do this and she said she didn't like to ask the storekeeper to send so small a package costing only two cents. ft was the same with an yeast cake. But all this was nothing to what happened one night when I stayed in town taking an account of stock. At ten o'clock I as rung up and my wife saiu: 'I'm going to bed, dear. It's awful to think that you wr.t be at home till tomorrow evening?' I tried to cheer her by promising to go home early the next evening, and after telephoning half a dozen kisses I hung up the receiver and continued my work. Ten minutes later X was called again: "'Reglnall Oh Reginald T What is it dearr " 1 hear sounds below. Someone is trying to break into the house.' "What could I do? I couldn't ask my wife to go down and face a robber. I asked her what the sounds were like and she said they were like those made by someone boring. "I now really became frightened myself, I was not so much afraid of burglars attacking my wife; for I knew that she had ber bedroom door locked and furniture heaped against It What I feared was that she would be friehtened to death. However. X must plan for her. "I called a council of those working with me in stock taxing, stating that my wife was locked In ber room at borne while burglars were below bor ing In the door, doubtless Intending a, make a hole to pat in an arm to remove the chain and open the door. All voted it a complicated case. It was suggested that I telephone the police at Hilton to go at once to my bouse, surround It and capture the' burglar. I wondered that I bad not thought of this plan myself, for It was very simple, and a telephone mes sage from me from the city would be' as effective as from my wife in Hilton.1 "I called up the police in Hilton and told them to go at once tp my house, where they would find some one trying to bore his way in. The man at the desk said that burglars: didn't really effect entrance in that way, but he would send some men right over. i "While awaiting the result mf wife, telephoned me that she had located; the boring. It was at the door of a storm shed which was held closed by! an iron hook. I thought that any burglar who planned to effect an en trance to my house there was a fool.' After unhooking the storm door he would have to open the door within,' which was protected by an excellent lock. "It was not long before I received1 word from the police at Hilton. 'We got him. He is now in a cell.' "I at once telephoned my wife that the danger was past But realizing that she had suffered a shock, I said: that I would go noma on we pne o'clock train. "I reached the bouse about two o'clock and found several of the neigh-, bora attempting to soothe, my wife,! whose nerves bad been terribly strained. While sympathizing with, ber I received a telephone message from the police that their prisoner claimed to be my wife's brother and' desired that I come immediately, and Identify him. 1 "Great heavens! could this be so?, "I answered the summons immedi ately and on reaching the station, there waiting tor me Bat Jim Cham bers, my brother-in-law, true enough. "What in thunder' be began. "What the dickens were yon try' Ing to break la ?" " I had a key to the side door and I was trying to cut away a bit of wood in order to lift the hook on the storm door.' '' "You've scared Mollie out of her senses. Why didn't yon ring? - "'I thought X could get in without waking ber?" "That's the end of the story and the end of a telephone in my house. If the things could be used only for legitimate purposes, they would be great convenience, out they won't do for nervous wives to say sweet things ta their absent husbands." .
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