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ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH, ROCKINGHAM, N. C. me Waff awn PI am Is a plan by ivhich you invest your small savings with ' the United States Government You do it by buying War Sav ings Stamps and Thrift Stamps. A War Savings Stamp cost $4.12 in January, and to this price is added one cent for each month since January. The one cent advance each month is to al low for interest the stamp earns. These stamps as bought are pasted in a War Savings Certificate, which is a folder with 16 spaces for the Stamps. When these 16 spaces are filled put the Certificate away; it is worth $ 1 00, pay able Jan. 1, 1923. Then start another. A United States Thrift Stamp is for in vestors who want to save but find the War Savings Stamp more than they can spare at one time. The U. S. Thrift Stamp costs 25 cents; you get a Thrift Card from the postoffice or bank, or other authorized agency; no charge for the card. . There are 16 spaces on this Card; a place for each 25-cent Thrift Stamp you buy. Sixteen of them make $4. When the card is full, take it to the postoffice, or bank, or other agency and get a War Savings Stamp; you'll pay the difference, 12 cents for January and one cent more each month during 1918. Paste the War Savings Stamp on the Certificate . Card you get with it, and start a new 25-cent Thrift Card.. The U. S. Thrift Stamps do not bear interest; the War Savings Stamps "do 4 per cent, com pounded every three months. The in terest is in the convenient form of a monthly increase in the face value of the Stamps. The Stamps' are redeem able at their full value, $5, on January 1st, 1923. If you need to draw out the money you have saved (don't do it if you don't have to) go to the postoffice and they will tell you .what to do, and what the " exact value of your investment is on that date, and give you the money. A Country Worth FIGHTING For IS A Country Worth SAVING For WS.S. rauntKsniMFS 11IUKS W TUB - UNITED STATES 4X7VEKMMENT THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BY WH JS $WW mS SWiSil iJ ill) I mil In .MAiwWiViaiAs ws.J rtaA a, -v ft v. mini 1 M iriiAiiAAimA i nrtti IliUUiJlUUiLtiillll THE FLYInG GAME .Immense Camp Where Men Are ; Taught Aeronautics. SFEKDS4,GOO,000 II FIELD Accommodation Will Be Provided for 40,000 Men at Kelly Field, Near 8an ' Antonio, Tex-WIII Bo Nothing to Compare to It In Magnitude in the : World. " .'. - Koenlgsberg, Prussia, Claimed by the New Lithuania. ROCKINGHAM POST-DISPATCH Newspaper - - Job Printing LITHUANIA, which has declared Its independence of Russia, has a history that for hundreds of years was Intertwined with that of Poland, with which It long main tained a loose sort of union. At the time of the dismemberment of Po land It went for the most part to Rus sia. Lithuania now comprises the Rus sian "governments" of Kovno, Vllna, Grodno, Vitebsk, Minsk, Mogilev, and Suwalkl (the last a part of Russian Poland.) This territory Is almost en tirely occupied Just now by the Ger mans, who swept over It in their cam paign of 1915 against the Russians. In the heydey of the Lithuanians the dominions of their princes extended, however, far beyond the limits of to day, reaching even the shores of the Black sea, and embracing districts now Included In Ukraine, Poland, and oth er parts of Russia. A most interesting point about the claims of those who have brought about the Lithuanian declaration of Independence is that, in their extreme form, they contemplate not only the separation of Lithuania from Russia but also the incorporation into the new state of German territory which cen turies ago formed part of Lithuania. This district includes the Important city of KoenlRsberg, in what is now East Prussia, as well as Tilsit and oth er towns. If this district should form part of the new Lithuania, and if an independent Poland should have free access to the sea after the war through the seaport of Danzig, formerly Polish and now German, there would be a small wedge of German territory, iso lated from the rest of the empire, be tween Polish Danzig and Lithuanian Koenlgsberg. The Lithuanians re-en force their claims to Koenlgsberg and other cities now under German or Rus sian rule by pointing to the fact that they have names for them in the Lith uanian language which the cities bore in the old days before they were seized by Teutons or Slavs. Onco a Great Principality. The Lithuanian nation in the fourth century of our era was living along the coast of the Baltic sea between Riga and Koenlgsberg. From the tenth to the sixteenth cen tury the Lithuanian principality ex tended from the Baltic to the Black sea. In that territory were White Russians and Ukrainians or Little Rus sians. White Russians are mostly of Lithuanian stock. Whoever goes from Lithuania to White Russia soon no tices that the same types, customs and festivities exist there. The language of White Russia is 25 per cent Lithu anian, and the attitude of the people toward the Lithuanians Is very friendly. The Lithuanians are Indo-Aryans, fair, light-haired, blue-eyed, tall, and strong. They are in no way related to the Slav or Teuton. They are said to have crossed from Asia to Europe about 2,000 B. G. They settled along the Black sea, near the mouth of the Danube. Gradually they were driven by other races until they came to the shores of the Baltic, where they final ly settled. Here Lithuanians grew and prospered. They were peaceful folk, never fighting unless attacked, busy with agricultural pursuits, and a few with hunting and fishing. As a nation they were prevented' from going into manufacturing or. Into commerce by physical surroundings, but some of the more venturesome made trips to Ro man territory with cargoes of amber and various products of their country. The language of the Lithuanians has been preserved to this day. Some even say that it is the oldest language in use. It closely resembles the Sanskrit and, In many cases of research work, is the key to it , Beat Germans and Mongols. The Lithuanians lived In clans until the thirteenth century, when, because of national danger, they banded togeth er. They chose Rlngaudas as the first grand dukt of Lithuania, and ha aoon collected a large army. He defeated the Germans and stopped the western advance of the Mongolians.. He like wise defeated the Russians and In creased the territory of Lithuania con siderably. Mindaugis, the next grand duke, a capable organizer and administrator, continued the work successfully. Ged emlnas, a shrewd diplomat, as Is shown in his correspondence with the popes of Rome and the Teutonic order, was the next grand duke of note. He es tablished the grand duchy of Lithu ania on a firm basis, vanquished the Russians, Teutons, and especially the Tartars, and so helped save Europe from the greatest disaster that could have befallen It Invasion and occupa tion by Mongolians. At this time Lith uania extended from the Baltic sea to the Black sea. After the death of Gedemlnas, bis two sons, Algirdas and Kelstutls, reigned, and waged battles with Teutons and Slavs. In 1569 a sort of dual Polish-Lithua nian government was adopted. Even then, Lithuania kept Its independence. In the three partitions of Poland the major part of Lithuania was annexed by Russia and the smaller by Germany. Thus Lithuania was removed from the map of the world. The people were forbidden to use the Lithuanian language, and the pos session of any Lithuanian books, even prayer books, was considered, a polit ical crime, and schools teaching Lith uanian were closed. The Russian gov ernment prohibited the use of any type in print but the Russian. The people as a result, smuggled in books and newspapers printed In Latin type, from Germany. Eventually the imperial or der was revoked and the use of Latin type re-established. From that time on Lithuanian literature has flourished, many newspapers having been pub lished and many books printed. There are probably about 7,500,000 persons of genuine Lithuanian stock. In addition to these, the Lithuanian state would include 1,500,000 Poles, Jews, Russians, and Germans, making a total of 9,000,000 for Lithuania prop er. If Lettland should be united with Lithuania it would add 2,500,000 Letts, making a grand total population of 11, 500,000 for the new nation. Thousands of young men are being taught the game of flying and fighting la the air at Kelly Field, situated ad Jacent to San Antonio, Tex. This training ground is being rapidly .Drougm up 10 me largest aero neia in the world. The United States government is constructing buildings and making im provements to the Kelly Field at a (cost of more than $4,000,000. It Is now (the largest government flying ground In the United States, and when the present plans are finished it is stated (that there will be nothing to compare rwlth it in magnitude In the world. I Accommodations will be provided for more than 40,000 army flyers here. iThese will be divided into squadrons, 'each to consist of 154 enlisted men and 19 commissioned officers. To each squadron there will be assigned 12 air planes. The organization Is officered by a major, a captain and two commis sioned officers each for a supply sec tion, engineering section and 12 aero sections, making 19 in all. The personnel also includes the fol lowing: Four master signal electric ians and one sergeant major, one first sergeant, two clerks,' one truck master and 10 mechanicians with the grade of sergeant, first class. Ranked as sergeants there are an assistant truck master, mess sergeant, supply ser geant, mechanic. photoeraDher. chauf xeur ana 11 mechanicians. There are also S3 corporals, six cooks, 89 pri vates, first class, and a medical depart ment of four. In the Engineering 8eetlon. : Four of the first class and five , ranked as sergeants belong to the engineering section. The sections in !the squadron are the headquarters section, supply section, engineering .section and 12 aero sections. The dls nosltlon of the cornornla is four to the headquarters, eight to supply, three toT engineering and 18 to the aero section. ; One of the interesting camp features of this great training camp for ardty flyers is the machine shop, where the airplanes are not only repaired but (aro being rapidly constructed. Many skilled mechanics are employed in this work. These men are not only capa ble of building machines, but they are experts in flying as well. In a way the arrangement of the aero squadron Is similar to that of the racing teams that a short time ago were maintained by the leading motor car manufacturers. Classed In tnia" 'way the team would consist of 12 driv-i ers each with its particular machine. In the aviation section the aero squads ron is the "team." The 12 drivers and 'machines are represented by 12 cqdm 'missioned officers. Each "section" Mj the aero squadron has a machine audi flyer. The mechanicians and helpers . of the various auto race drivers have ! their counterparts in the mechanical tend men assigned te each section. j The .machine shop of the flying flelij corresponds to the automobllef actor and there the more elaborate work; is done. : ':' ? " ' : '"' '"t ; 1', The men of the ' squadrons are! housed in barracks built in orderly military fashion. - Each building la numbered, but the building number do not always tally with the squadron; number. -: ... .. v.. " i Examining Board Meets Regularly, j i An examining board meets regularly, 'and examines applicants for commls isions and applications are numerous, 'Flyers also come from the 'ground 'schools which have been opened ati many places throughout the United States. The ground school nearest to San Antonio is that at Austin. Avi ation work has been featured as a pari; of the summer school courses at manx oi we leaning universities, and una; too, aids in getting men of education; and training for the aviation 'sections. It is assured that one of the attrac tions that winter tourists will find in San Antonio during the coming season' will be that of flying men over and around the city. Already myriads of airplanes are often seen performing the various kinds of feats above Kelly Field. One day recently a great flock of buzzards was notlced-to apparently Join in the maneuvers that were being conducted by the flying machine men; These birds went through evolutions that were being performed by the air planes and their remarkable actions were viewed with interest by visitors. MAMMIES HANDLE FREIGHT Work in Railroad Yards at Cleveland and Like Wages. ( Old negro mammies, many of whom worked on the cotton levies in Dixie,; are loading and unloading freight in' the freight yards at $2.60 a day. They! wear red bandanna handkerchiefs; about their kinky hair and each comes, to work in a clean white apron. They say the work isn't hard and the pajf-j "Jlmmm-boyl" ,J Some Towers. ' The height of the Eiffel tower, Paris, Is 980 feet;' of the Blackpool tower, B20 feet; of' New Brighton tower, 670 feet, and of the Woolworth build ing, New York, 750 feet. Compressing Cotton. Scientific investigation tos . proved thnt compression of a high Qegree does not Injure the fiber, and cot' ton Is pack ed in oth.r countries todey at a den sity substantially three times that of . ours by the most economical practice The Egyptian package has a density, of about 87 pounds a cubic foot; the Indian cotton Is compressed to 45 pounds per cubic foot ; while some In dian and Chinese baling plants effect a density of from 55 to 60 pounds f cotton oer cubic font Russian Peasant's Hard Life. The whole existence of the Russian peasant is out of Joint He is born in a world of earth and wood, where his life is circumscribed oy a log cabin that Is thatched in fall, when it as sumes an appearance of tidiness, but becomes a huge harp for the March winds to play their woeful dirges on. The thatch is fed to the few starving animals, and the dispensable wooden props and decorations nsed to cook dinner with long before the approach of spring. Here between the unplas tered, undecorated walls he lives with his horse, his pig, his hens always , provided be has anyunder the same roof, glad of their sociability and ani-1 mal warmth, being much in need of both. His home Is one of the maze of zlgzaz, lopsided, weather-beaten, broken-down izbas that stand huddled to gether, freezing in God's solemn peace fulness and uncanny dreaminess. En chantlngly Idyllic on a canvas, bat a dreadful place to live In. Java's 8ugar Production.' Java is such a fruitful land that ont hesitates to specify the principal crop, but it is one of the great sugar-producing countries of the world. The annual export of sugar amounts to something like 1,700,000 tons. People are so accustomed to thinking of sugar in terms of pounds that nearly 2,000, 000 tons of sugar seems to have a stu pefying effect on the mind. There are more than 400,000 acres of land under cultivation in sugar on the island of Java and the average yield per acre Is four and one-half tons, which is a yield that is high above the average of agar land. The Safest Place for Your Money The paper money of the United States is a promise to pay. It is the agreement of the United States to "pay to bearer" a cer tain sum. W. S. S. are also a promise to pay. War Savings Stamps Are as . Good as Money and Pay You 4 Compounded Quarterly Both the money and the stamps are guaranteed by the richest nation in the world. Suppose we were to lose the war? What good would money be? None at all. It would be a mere me mento of the past. And if we bought our -freedom back, by indemnity, it would be at a price so colossal as to wipe out our sayings -and mortgage our earnings for generations. The safest place for all your money is in War Savings Stamps, because the money saved and raised by War Savings Stamps will win the war, and thus insure the preser vation and solvency of our Government and the sarety or our homes and families forever. wwwwl mm UNITED STATSf. fiavtsmsant' TLIs ;C8 CcntrCb-tsd by L. G. FOX, Druggist
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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