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iF THIS PAPER IST WORTH THHEE CENTS A WEEK, IT ISN'T WORTH PRINTING VOL. XXII (TUESDAY) WARRENTON, N TUESDAY, APRIL 10TH, 1917 (FRIDAY) NO. 61 $1.50 A YEAR HOW AMERICANS SERVE. CAN Mirier. s of moricans are impatient to kiuw how they can best serve 4heir country in thi.s war. It is a uoe and generous impa tience, but in all seriousness it must be said -iat most of them can render no . reatcr service than to proceed soberly and earnestly with their daily ap pointed tasks. When the Government needs them, it will ask for them, as it has a ;ked fot recruits to the navy and tbe lesular army: but until it requires lh.'ir services elsewhere, they cannot lo better than to go about their regu lar nor.v, doing, if possible, a little Wore e.Tciently than they have hither to done it. : Thi-J war is unlike any other war. It is or iy the privileged few who wear the uniform and bear the heat and bur den (. battle. Most of the fighting is done by those who wear no uniform art many miles from the trenches. It a war that must be won on the farms, in the factories, . in the shipyard.- and in the counting-rooms -It must be won not by soldiers alone but by civ Hans by men and women alike, by boy.- and girls. Everybody who raise food, everybody whose day's work uids to the wealth and resources f the country, everybody who helps to su?:?. n American industries is do in his bit. Our government is in a position to profit by the mistakes that Great Brit ain nvTls in the war, and the British mistake? are the most important to us because our condition most closely re sembb? that of the British. The first of tht?e mistakes was in assuming that it vould be a short war and there by faill.ig to make adequate provisions for a long war. The war, so far as w a:? oon.rrned, may be short, it will unqueitu nably be shortened by the en trance i f the United States, but in the light of Great Britan's experience this Government cannot afford to tace chaw s on an early peace. . The finances of the country can be easily rr.cbilized, and so can the indus tries. It will not be so easy a matter to mobilize the 'manpoweri but for tunately it i.; a task that need n t be float i; a hurry. The United States Must and drill a large army for tYtnti j.i i-3s, but this army can be pro vided Tcethodically and with due re gard to the successful carrying on of vital industries. We cannot send troops to Europe at once, unless it be a division of the reg ular ar.ny for sentimental reasons. We kave r o troops outside of the regular -who are fitted for trench warfare o who can be trained for trench warfare before the end of the year. Even if we had troops, there are no ships to car ry them, for to divert our shipping to transport service would mean starva tion to the French and British. Co-operation with the Allies simpli fies all our problems and immeasura bly increases our effectiveness. We can at ones provide them with money and credit. We can carry on a vigorous campaign against German submarines and help keep tl.z sea lanes open. We can increase our munition output for tkeir benefit. We can raise the food that is the first necessity to them and to us. We cm train an army under a system of selective compulsory ser vice which will not demoralize 'indus try and which will be ready for instant service if it is needed. We can put our ouse in order. We can be prudent and careful and economical of the Nation's resources, making every pound of food and every dollar in money go as far as possible. We can be ready to aid the Government in whatever capacity it y deride. " Mos-; of these things are not spec tacular. They are not heroic in ac cordance with popular notions of hero ism, They have little to do with the traditional pomp and ceremony of war, but th; y are the things that count, and owhere else do they count for so much m the trenches. Not he least of the great lessons at this war has taught to mankind 18 that the most modest' and humble rvice may be the kighest duty that Mtnotism can exact N. Y. World. . REV. G. w. MEDLIN TO BE HERE Jov. G. W. Medlin, Field Secretary, vv.it and address the Macon and Warrer.ten Epwortfi League next Fri y and Sunday evenings respectively, prices will begin at 8 o'clock. Pas Krand offlcers cordially invite the Pubhc genially to attend these meet "rs and to hear Mr. Medlin, who is a onsecrnted young man devoting much 1 his time and talent to earnest ef fort tD help others. He ig to organ- league at Warre Plains Sunday ming. - - . A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS THE WARREN-HALI FAX COUNTY CLUB -ITS WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY. The Warren-Halifax County Club at the University is a volunteer organi zation devoted to the study of social, civic, economic problems and condit ions of the home-county, and state. The club members believe that a prop er study for North Carolinians is North Carolina.- They are bent upon intimate, thoughtful acquaintance with the forces, agencies, tendencies, drifts and movements that have made the history we study to-day, and are making the history our children will study ta-morrow. Each eounty is compared with itself during the last censusperiod, in order to learn what essential particulars it is moving for ward, marking time, or lagging to the rear. But also it is comnared with other counties of the state in every phase of the study, in order to show its rank and standing; or so, as far as possible. Meanwhile the State as a whole is beine: set aarainst the bier background of world endeavor and achievement. - Citizenship needs to be broadly thoughtful,, competent and pa rotic everywhere; and also it needs - escape being narrowly parochial and provincial anywhere. Our County Club studies largely t-ncern our rural problems and their solution; and properly so because country civilization bulks big in North Carolina. Our country dwellers outnumber our town people more than six to one. Nearly five-sixth of the school child ren of our State are country children. Nearly four-fifths of all the church members in North Carolina are in the country side. The white voters in our county precincts outnumber our white voters in the towns and cities nearly six to one. Barely more than 500,000 people in North Carolina in 1910 lived in cities and town, or incorporate places of any size whatsoever. But nearly one million seven hundred thousand of our people live in the open country. - If democracy-concerns .the greatest good of the greatest number, country life in North Carolina deserves to oc cupy the foremost place 'in the activi ties of both the church and the State. But also agriculture is the bigest business in North Carolina biggest in the total capital employed, in the wealth annually created, and in the number of people engaged in it. The capital invested in agriculture in the census year was nearly two and a half times the amount invested in manu facture of all kinds. The farm wealth created in crops and animal products, was nearly twice the wealth created by our mills and factories in the pro cesses of manufacture, while the peo ple engaged in farming outnumber all other brerii-winners and wage-earners nearly exactly two to one. Education or- legislation that' neg lects or overlooks the country-side promlem in North Carolina sins against the majorityof her people, the bulk of hor business capital, and the chief sources of her well-being and welfare. Our civilization rests at bot tom on th! wholesomeness, the attrac tiveness, and the completeness, as well as the prosperity, of life in the coun try, says the Country Life Commis sion. Upon the developement of country life rests ultimately our abili ty, by methods of farming requiring the highest intelligence to continue to feed and clothe the hungry; to supply the city with fresh blood, clean bodies, and clear brains that can endure the terrific strain of modern life. We need the development of men in -the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the nation in time of war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in the time of peace. THE NATIONAL GUARD (By Kenneth MacDougall) Pushers ef pens and pencils, - Workers of wood and steely Doctors, lawers and businessmen, Answer the bugle's peal. Hurrying throngs of khaki, Rumble of wagon train, Clatter of calvary Jiorses, . The Guard is called out again. Back from the sun-baked desert, Stalwart, alert and hard, , Protecting the nation's vitals, - , Is the much-knocked National Guard. Give them the praise that's due -them, For the regular call 'ena "pard." Watch est f er the wire and families f the mem ef fiie National CnaxtV DEATJLOF MRS. SMILEY- .After many months of weary suf fering Mrs. Lucy King Smiley, beloved wife of .William H. Smileypeacefully fell asleep last Saturday even, arid left a vacancy in the hearts and homes of her loved ones that anly Heaven can fill. . : Her life on earth was limited to twenty-one years, but the arth-lif e of such a devout christian woman -as she was is only the beginning of a life that will continue to expand for ever and ever, to such as she, "There is no death! down The stars go To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine forevermore." "There is no death! An angel form Walks o'er- the earth with silent tread, V He bears cur best loved things away! And we then call them 'dead.' "And ever near us, though unseen, .The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is lif e there are no dead." From her earliest childhood Mrs. Smiley was a' member of Warren Plains Baptist Sunday school. When about twelve years of age she publicly professed faith in. Christ and was baptised into the fellowship of the Baptist church at Warren Plains, and until the last day of her life she mag nified her profession. Nothing gave her more joy than to worship God in the services of the church and to join in singing His praises who loved her and gave Himself for her. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard King, of Warren Plains, and the beloved wife of Wil liam H. Smiley. She leaves her de voted parents, her affectionate hus band and five brothers and one sister to mourn their irreparable loss. Her little two year old baby boy will re ceive Tfrom -others the love and care which she would gladly have given. - She was buried in the cemetery at Warren Plains Baptist Church, Sun day April 8th, 1917. A large conge gation of friends and neighbors at tested by their presence sympathy with her bereaved family and the es- teem with which she was held. Ap- propriate and tender services were conducted by her pastor, T. J. Taylor, assisted by Rev. Robert H. Broom. T. J. TAYLOR. GID MACON WHITE On March 27, 1917, at about 7:30 o'clock, little Gid Macon White a twin son of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. White, age 2 years and 9 months, after an illness of about two weeks, breathed his last on "earth. . The ministrations of anx ious parents, skilled physician and kind friends, all could not avail. Oh! how sick was the child!, how piteous the moaning! How restless! How hard to see it suffer and yet not be able to relieve it! Eyes grew dim witntears and could only faintly pray: God spare, oh! spare the darling boy. The pastor and other kind friends were near and watched the flames of life decreasing. The broken-hearted father carried the little twin brother, Hal Adams, to look for the last time this side of the grave upon the face of his litle brother who was so tender ly devoted to him, and as he looked he said. Bubber sick; and Bubber was very sick, for in a few moments his earthly pilgrimage was ended. The hour for the burial came, "and Father, Mother, loved ones and friends looked again upon the darling child; there was the face they had learned to love: but Oh! the eyes were closed, the voice was hushed, there lay the child so still and quite, with a beauti ful flower in his hand, and a flower from the home and a flower from the garden slept together. His little body was laid in the Cemetery at Warren Plain's M. EV church; and fthere it awaits the resurrection morn : glad morning will that be for all who love the Christ and for all those who are called to meet him in the innoncence and purity of childhood. UNCLE JOHN. Why do we say that one man in a large place is doing agreat work for God, while one in a small place is do ing a work of insignificance? Because we do not appreciate that everything done for Him is great, and that those who are most faithful are those who are most worthy of praise. A. H- BradferL OF WARRENTON AND WARREN ; SAFE FARMING. Editor of the Record: Please pub lish in your paper for the good of our county as follows: . There nevesr has been a time jn the United States when a .farmer could farm ; successfully and buy food-stuff with cotton or tobacco. 1 remember when jmeat sold on our rnarket for the price of lent cotton, and some farmers contracted that way in the spring with the merchant. This put the farmer one year behind, he ate the meat be fore the cotton was made. And a lot of our farmers have farmed for forty years -and are still one year behind. I hope the farmers, in Warren County will plant as follows. in-1917: 1st. Corn with a well prepared seed best with good seed. 2nd. A good garden with one vegetable to follow the other from ".the 'earliest salads to the latest tomatoes to ripen in your cellar. 3rd. To plant every idle space on your farm in peas, potatoes,, beans, sugar cane or sowed corn, to furnish food for the people, and cotton. The future is high price cotton and tobac co, but twice as high food-stuff. Cot ton and tobacco will not buy $10.00 corn, 15.00 flour, 25c. meat, 25 cent lard $4.00 Irish potatoes, $1.25 sweet i potatoes, $6.00 beans, 75c. syrup, $40. I hay, $6.00 shoes, $1.25 labor to work iyour land eight hours to the day I Farmers I hope you will not let j your Judgement fool you this year. The war in Eurpoe will never hurt you in this country as bad as poverty. Your future without foodstuff, is awful to think of. Plant rape now for hogs and cymlings", a little later cantelopes, then peas, then soy-beans or peanuts and sweet potatoes. When the time comes .when you can't order food-stuff, I hope' you will have it at home. F. B. NEWELL, -" '- i ' ' Agricultural Agt. " : MARMADUKE ITEMS (Arrived too late for Friday edition) 'Rev. Mr. "Worj:i,-oi Vake Forest, filled hii first appointment heie Sunday- m trig; "which iriei eted1 a large congregation. . , - Suniay School was re-organized and Mr. J. A. Cheek was elected Superin tendent by the largest majority votes of the people present. of Our-Sunday School hour has beer changed to 10 o'clock A. M., subject to other changer, if agreeable. All old members are especially invited to re join next Sunday. Mrs. Harry nd little ErtPi H. Leon ard ' svenH -everal days of last week with her father hero Mr. B. W. Powell and family, of Spencer. Mr. G. Vernon Duke, of the same ph'ce, and Mr. and Mrs-uRussell King, of Warrenton, spent Saturday night with Mr. S. R. Duke. Mr. G V. Duke is - at home' helmr g his father's farm, but is sick with chills at this writing. Mr. D. L.-Robertson is having his lesidence repainted this week. Last Sunday evening the home -f Mr. M. C. Duke was made happy b the arrival of little -Harold Wilson. Messrs. Jefferson Lee Davis anl (I ?on. L. Powell are isiting their par ents and friends at Inez and Grove Hill this week. They are very happy to be away from the border and with friends at home once more. Mr. J. D. Rigg&n nd wife and M: J. L. Alston and family visited Mrs Jno. Poweli Sunday, and also some of the neighb irhoocl folks v, ere pres ent. , Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cheek spent Sunday with Mr S. K Clark. fMIZFAH. IMPORTANT DAY AT HEBRON- Next Saturday, April 14, 1917, will be an important day at Hebron church, Warrenton Circuit. The meeting, whieh is to begin at 11 o'clock, will be devoted to the . quickening and strengthing of the Ep worth League. The principal address will be made by Mr. G. W. Medlin, Field Secretary. A cordial invitation is extended both the church and the community. Dinner will be served on the grounds, after which the Board of Stewards will meet in regular session. Whenever we see a woman wi'h about a pound of powder on her face we wonder why she didn't save the mosey. Henderson Dispatch. And to think that you have to pay the coal barons for them to make it hot fer you. Exchange. C OUNTY NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS APPLY FOR TWO MIL-. LION DOLLARS OF LOANS The good which the- Federal Farm Loan Act" is to accomplish for the North - JUarolina farmers is evident from a report just received . from the Superintendent of Credit Unions. Ac cording to this official, articles of as sociations for fifty-six national farm loan associations have been forwarded to the Land Bank at Columbians. C. The loans applied for by these asso ciations amount to $2,41,951. Twenty- eight associations, applying for $1,- 168,363 of loans, were organized in Eastern North" Carolina; twenty-two in Central North Carolina, with ap plications amounting to $868, 388, and rix- in Western Noirlh Carolina, with r rynlications for $205,200 of loans. This indicates the relative amount of loans being applied for in the different parts this State, but does not show all ap plications. The Division of Markets and Rural Organizations has helped many associations to organize, whose articles of association it has not re ceived Besides, the amount of loans applied for have greatly increased since the articles of the as sociation were made out. It is safe to say that the loans which the-farmer? of North Carolina are preparing to ap ply for amount at least to $4,000,000. The eastern part of the State led in the amount of its. applications at the time the report was made to the Fed eral Farm Loan Board in October. This is partly due to the large amount of new land which is being brought into cultivation in this section. One or more associations have been formed m thirty-four counties. The ten counties applying for the largest amount of loans, according to the ar ticles of association received, are as follows: Sampson, $193, 825; Beaufort, $182,425; Robeson, $156,728; Bladen, $130,760; Gaston, $128,400; Union, $113,100; Columbus, $105,225; Pender, $101,100; Nash, $83,000, and Watagua, $81,600. County Agents in several counties have especially been active -in cooperating with the Division of Mar kets in spreading a knowledge of farm Icyassoialtoris' :',;''' .'-:-'---Jv The articles of association of each National Farm Loan Association may now be forwarded to the Land Bank rs soon as they are put in proper form. The Land Bank promises to mail all Secretaries of National Farm Loan Associations apprisal blanks and in structions as soon as they are printed. Farmers are being advised to cut their applications as low as possible, so as to cover only the amount of credit needed for improvements dur ing the coming year. Another year loams may be obtained for further im- Tprovements; that is if the security s sufficient to" permit. Thus farmers will be saved paying interest for any money which they are not immediate ly using. Besides, loan committees should remember that the more con-, servative their valuations of land and the greater the margin of security of fered over the amount of loans ap plied for, the lower the rate of inter est will be. Extension Farm News. A PROBLEM IN MATHEMATICS For the want of three hundred, two hundred waslost; For the want of five hundred a tkeus-- and was lost, For "the want of a, thousand aWema was lost, . And for want of a woman Much goo was lost. "AH for the sake of a rainy day" Let me explain: Had th Board of Education given the one hundred and twenty-five dollars that they spent on a County Commencement to last ONE day, and promised one hundred and seventy-five to be paid this Fall; ths Commissioners would have given two hundred and the State Five hundred, which would have-made One thousand dollars for the Woman's Demonstra tion and Girls' Canning Club work in the County. Surely the services of trained woman used in the betterment of our women and girls for three hur dred and sixty-five days .would have teen worth infinitely more to the County than what turned out to be a rainy day. . "All for the sake of what?" LUCY T. WEBB. The Board of Education, under rul ing made by Superintendent Joyner, has no authority to include Cannin Club work in its budget of expens--. Had there been more evidence of a demand for it than Miss Webb's ac tivity, the Board could not hare mad : the appropriation and for want :--the law a thousand was saved. , . And a "Rainy Day" saved the $125 ., too. . 3c. A COPY AMERICANS JOIN U. S. MARINES. Washington, April 9th Chance of immediate actions in the-ranks of the men who operate our battleship guns in submarine defense is bringing many red blooded Americans to Ma rine Corps recruiting stations. Seven hundred and fifty-eight men have applied for enlistment in the "Soldiers of the Sea" during the pasi, week at their various recruiting sta tions from coast to coast, according to recruiting officials here. The . Marine . Corps is still short about 4,000 men for war strength and is making a strong appeal to youths of . spirit to "do their bit" in "The First Line of Defense." R. F. D. NOTES (Arrived too late for Friday edition) Once more we rejoice to see spring time and the beautiful flowrers ap pearing above the ground. We are having some beautiful weather now, and the farmers seem very busy plowing and clearing new grounds. . Mr. and Mrs. Edward Watkins and children, of Norlina, visited Mr. Ed wad Powell Sunday. Mr. Norman Gardner was in our neighborhood Tuesday afternoon on business. ; Mrs. Cora Myrick and little son, Henry Macon, were pleasant visitor? in Wise Sunday. Mrs. Hugh Stegall and sister, Miss Bettif was a pleasant visitor in the home of Mr.. Jim Frazier Sunday af ternoon. Miss Lizzie Williams . and little daughter of Mr. L. J. Williams, of near Oakville, visited her aunt, Mrs. O'Mary last Sunday. Mr. Peter O'Mary and sister, Miss Maggie were pleasant visitors 9 in Wise, Sunday. Miss Peaiiline Harriss spent several days. Tecently.. with friends and rela tives near Macon. ' Mr. R. C. O'Mary went to Norlina Tuesday on business v Mr. Jim Williams, of Merry Mount, visited in the home of his aunt, Mrs. O'Mary Monday afternoon. Messrs. Hugh and J. B. Stegall vis ited friends in Mac.cn Surd ay. .We are very sorry to rftnort thj t Mr. Bovd Sttgill has had several" chilli recently. Mrs. Jas. O'Msry and daughter, Mrs. Cora Myrick, visited herdaugh ter, Mrs. R. T. Williams near Oakville Tuesday afternoon. Mr. R. H. Frazier called on some of the fair ones m 3Vise Sunday after ; oon. Mr. Emmett Frazier and family vis ited irithe horn of Mr. Jim . Frazier last S'mday. The little daughters of Mr. W. L. 1 Carroll, of Wise, Misses Ethel anl Delia were pleasant visitors in the -home of Mr. Robert Carroll Saturday night arid Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carroll and daughters, Misses Leonia and Lucy Belle were in Warrenton last Satur day having Dential work done. TULIP. "SHE WILL COME. 99 An exchange tells the story of a lady Nrvho went out one afternoon, lea ing her little boy at his grand ma's and saying she would call f or him when she returned home, which she. expected would be six o'clock. The time passed till it was nearly six, and his grandma said perhaps his mother was not coming for him that night. "Yes, she will," replied the boy. Six o'clock came and grandma said "Well I guess your mbtner will not come for you tonight." "I know she will," said the boy, con fidently, and he watched patiently for hen . It was getting toward bedtime and grandma was pretty sure his mother would not come, and he would have to stay all night with her. "Well, I know she will come," was still his confident reply. "Why, , what makes you so posi tive?" asked his grandmother. "Because," said the boy, "she said if she was not here by six o'clock she would certainly come, and my mother never told a lie." In a few minutes his mother came and took him home. What a lesson for mothers in the faith of this child. Michigan Chris, tian Advocate.