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VOL. XXII (TUESDAY) WARRENTON, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 1917 (FRIDAY) Number 99 $1.50 A YEAR A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF ? WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY 3c. A COPY URGENT RED GROSS NEEDS AFTOn ITEMS. ONLY ONE ISSUE. mTFR qiippi v miT ncc X V ircifc.ll UUI1L.I UUI Ul I 1 The following telegram cannot fail to bring renewed efforts to our al ready active Red Cross organization. Major Grayson-Murphy is upon the battlefields, and his message shows what are the needs there. The tele gram follows: Miss Esther Jerman, Chairman Red Cross Chapter Warrenton, N. C. x "Red Cross has urgent call from Major Gray son Murphy for enormous quantity knitted woolen articles. -Cablegram frcm Major Murphy follows: 'Last winter broke all records for cold and misery among people hers inexpressi bly. Coming winter finding us with out supplies to meet situation. We urge you on behalf of our soldiers and those cf our allies who will suffer in their frozen trenches and also thous ands of French and Belgian refugees and repatriates being returned to France through Switzerland. Every one here looks to America to begin shipping at once one million five hun dred thousand each of warm knitted woolen articles already requested. They must come before cold weather, and in view of shortage of fuel and other discomforts they will be of in credible value in both military and civilian work' signed 'Murphy.' Your Chapter is asked to furnish definite number of this requirement. Your al lotment is 200 sweaters, 200 mufflers, 200 pairs of wristlets, 200' pairs of socks.- Full instructions follows in two days. Ask your members to finish all knitting work on hand and clear deck for action. We want every chapter to have a chance to do its part in j making good on this call for help from j r ranee. wiapLei unainaaii requesisu n -il j. -it : 4- J i place copy of foregoing part of this message including cablegram frcm Major Murphy with all newspapers with request to give full publicity to this first call. Then get knitting com mittee together and line them up for rush job. GUY E. SNAVELY-, Direc tor Southern Division Red Cross." The above telegram clearly outlines the needs and the neescity for imme diate work. The following letter bearing upon this subject also explains itself: Miss Esther Jerman, Warrenton, N. C. My dear Miss Jerman: Replying to your favor of recent date, I regret to state that on About ten percent cf all the children account of the enormous quantity of j have adenoids to some extent, claims wool necessary to supply order for j the State Board of Health in a special 1.5000,000 sets of knitted articles to ; bulletin just issued, and of particular be used in France, it will be impossible I interest now as a new school term to furnish jwooI feo to individuals j approaches and preparations are be Ohaniors. Althcugh. this will nee?.-,- : ing made for medical inspection work. pi!.ate an additional burden, we feel . According to the State Board, the that Chapters will ?r-pond in Vie"" tho urgency cf this call. Very truly yourc, Associate Director, SouthenDi vision American Red Cros3 In view of this pressing demand, ! Mrs. Peter Arrington, vice-chairman . , . ... 1 mar the child s features, stature, ef- bership committee, are at work along! " . u.u. ri-u c --u; inciency and character for lite. with other officers to get everything ; J . j, r 1 in shape for handling this task. The ' .No; sa the S fte B? d 8 Bul" work of mercy is the work of love. ?-J ATTOTSr-WinP! PROWTRTTTON This i3 the text of the Joint Resclu tion Adopted by the United States j Senate, August 1, 1917 As adopted, the resolution, which was submitted by Senator Sheppard of Tc:-as, democrat, would add the fol lowing article to the federal constitu tion: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two th pre-! in) thf.t the following amendment to the constitution be and hereby is pro- posed to the states, to become valid as a narf of the constitution when rat - if.ed by the legislatures of the several x - 1 states r3 provided by the constitution: Article Section 1 The manufac ture, sr le 01 transportation of intoxi cating HqucrG within, the importation thereof integer the exportation there- of from, the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes, is pro hibited. Section 2. This article shall be in- operative unless it shall have been ! ratified as an amendment to the con stitution by the lctrislaturos cf the several states as provided in the con- - with the danger of leaving the ade- stitutkn within six years from the 'noids alone, is a nimir-. com date of the submission thereof to the ':mrcd with .yia danger. Take stales by the congress. ! vour el, II:! l-j some 'physician who is Section 3. The congress shall have! known to treat adenoids, or, if con- power to enforce this article by appro- ! venient, to a nose and throat special- priato legislation. . 1st." Miss Laura Fuller spent . several days last week with her cousin, Mrs. Sam Brunnette near Henderson. Mr. A. H. Frazier went to Norlina Saturday. We are glad to report Mr. M. S. Dryden is repidly recoverying in Hen derson and will be home soon. Mrs. J. T. Egerton and Miss Susie Overby, of Macon, visited Mrs. H. P. Reams last week. Glad to know Mrs. W. A. J. Pinnell is rapidly improving. We hope to see him out soon. Misses Lucy and Rosa Frazier; of Raleigh spent last week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Frazier. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Fuller were shopping in Warrenton Saturday. Dr. C. H. Peete was calling on a young lady in Afton Sunday afternoon. Mr. Robert Hunter, of Norfolk, Va., spent the week-end with his father, Mr. H. B. Hunter. Mr. Leon Jones and sister, Miss Louise, of Durham, are visiting their grand-father, Mr. H. B. Hunter. Mr. W. B. Dunn, wife and children and Miss Lula Dunn, of Wake Forest, were very pleasant visitors in the home of Mr. H. P. Reams last week. Mr. H. P. Reams and son3, Oliver and Graham, were in Warrenton a short while Friday. Mr. J. W. Burroughs went to War renton Friday. Mrs. Hugh Reams and daughter, Mary, spent a short while with Mrs. J. W. Smithwick near Axtelle. Mr. Sam Pinnell and wife, of Hen derson, spent Sonday with relatives here. Mr. W. C. Burroughs went to War ronton Saturday. Mr. Frank Pinnell, of Manson, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. J. Pinnell. Mr. Vernon Mabry called on hi3 best girl Sunday. I Mr. Byran Williams went to War ; renton Saturday. J Mr. H. B. Hunter spent a day last week in Ridgeway. Mr. Georro .Overby. of Macon- tv.i in Afton a few hours Saturday on bus iness. REMOVE ADENOIDS f ' disease usually begins about the se jcond, third or fourth year, increasing jimseverity up to the eighth, ninth or tenth year. Then it decreases, disap pearing, perhaps, between the child s eleventh and fourteenth years. This does not mean, of course, that adenoids are not serious. As a fact, the disease may and frequently does iietm, Any o .- ux tucu xrequeiic in chiW?C:i &id c.? such far reaching ccnncoiiences imTjo2S3 tne duty upon every intelligent and considernt. j.-sar- j ent to suspect or rocognnc O dis may ;ase so tat tne proper tieatmc applied before permancrit -:"jury results. Adenoids are described as li I": tu ; :ack o the r-J of oars mors in the throat just abov 01 tne opening 01 tne nose ir .mouth and in front of the opei the two small tubes by which tl are connected with the upper pait of .the throat. In detail, they int , Tere j with the breathing; alter the el -Id's voice to a stuffy quality: remove to a certain extent the sense of sir. ell; j create a new facial expression cf -pen mouth, overlapping teeth, short 1; per Slip, small and narrow nose sivl high arched evebrows: and interft: with i ees the hearing, causing various of deafness. As for the treatment, the bI:.itin says: "When the adenoids" are recog- nizable they are doing harm child is under eight or nine tne- 3 of r in. will age, the harm will almos crease and, perhaps, the injury become permanent. The opera 1:1 : for the adenoid-3 is relatively simple, danger is not much greater than the danger of m anaestnatic. 'words, the treatment, as ' "ft, 55 v. v. 1 . J J i t 1 t CV t 4 7 fist V "hi ? V -v 1, iv ?v V1- -v A- j. GENEHAl- FRANCIS A. MACOiN J . U 1 up 5S E IB no KETT AYMASTER The following articles from the Hen dcrson Daily Dispatch will be of mivh interest to the friends of General Ma- con here. Mr. Macon has - a host of relatives here, and is well known thru- k m f I o e s ira "a NAMES out the county, lins news 01 nis an- s Adjutant-General J. Frank Armfield, pointment will be received with ifHof Stgtevii, he reorganised the Na- tional Guard of North Carolina alter Dr. Francis A. Macon, a retired j the credit of having located, built, brigadier-general of the North Caro-land equipped Camp Glenn and the lina National Guard, has been appoint- United States rifle range, and was ed by Governor Bickett as quarter- j especially commended for this work master-general and paymaster-general y Elihu Root during his term as Sec of all the State militia forces, and he ; retary of War in his report to Presi will assume his new duties at once.-rjent Roosevelt. Upon the recommen The appointment came as quite a sm- jdation of the Secretary of War made prise to military men in the State jto Governor Glenn his rani: as colonel and is one of the consequences of the j wa3 raised to that of brigr.dier-genor-resignation of Acting Adjutant-Gen- j al by special act of the Legislature,, eral B. S. Royster, and Major George the only time this has been done in Peterson, formerly United States Dis- this State. His term as United States bursing Officer and a member of the Disbursing Officer under the Dick bill quartermaster corps, both of whom re-1 enacted by. Congress for a longer per rently gave notice of their decision to ; loci ibrn any other man in the United retire from the State service Septem- j States. He was beginning to serve ber 1. Dr. Macon's new duties will! the third appointment of four years not take him away from Henderson, hv j made- by the War Department when said Friday, except for brief visits to Raleigh at various times. In the new work Dr. Macon is 0 have complete control of the disburse ment of the State's appropriation of $75,000 for the National Guard and will be in entire charge of all the mil itary properties belonging to the State's organized forces. One of his chief duties, it is understood, is the organization of a force to supercede the various Guard units that are now rvfr?rin& to co to France. Much of X X C3 '- theVork that will be under his di - t'np T?.aWh nffir. will be done by a corps of assistants. Dr. Macon accepts the new duties conferred by Governor Bickett after a long service in the military estab lishment in North Carolina. He has seen twenty-five years of active ser vice, during which times he has held places as a private, a corporal, a ser- geant, second lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, and brigadier-general. He was commissioned a retired bnga- j te states Relation Service, U. S. De-dier-general by Governor Craig a lit- j partment of Agriculture. Mr. Knapp tie more than a year ago. He heio" j directs" the agricultural extension work the position of United States disburs- j jn South, work which was conceiv ing officer, and twice in one adminis- j ed an(j organized by his late'illustrious jtraticn aeennea me piace an uj"- Iffeneral ot tne state, in me posing I f paymaster-general in former se-- vice he was associated with General ! Julian S. Carr, of Durham; Major Leo 'D. Heartt, of Raleigh; Colonel VVallcer ! Taylor, of Wilmington; Colonel" Sol 1 j-1 a Tl J-A. ill . . .n-a-tJ rl ftW per, oi aye, State omcials wno strongly lecuw- j mended him for a high commission inr the new national army were Governor - Glenn, Kitchin and Bickett, Secretary Daniels, Senators Simmons and Oyer- man. Hud not the President decided to make these appointments for the -."-.v-:'' ij-.r.s.'.v A .- vc- Jtt 14 -if i 0 f v 4 7 IV i tHUi. sell Si U-JniisJ HI QUARTERMASTER-GENERAL AND 8EHERAL army, it is belived he would have been 'assigned,' and should there be a change lit is. regarded as certain that he may be recognised even yet. j -Y;ith tl co.operation Df the late j the Spanish-American- war. He has he retired in 1913. Dr. Ivlacon volun teered for service in Mexico last year, and has tendered his services in the war with Germany anywhere the gov ernment may desire to send him. FARMERS' CONVENTION Raleigh, August 21st Governor T. W. Bickett, .who, because of his well known interest in the agricultural de velopment of the State and especially lin increased food production and con- serration during tne present emergen- jcy, has won the soubriquet, "Agricul tural Governor," has promised to de liver an address at the Farmers and Farm women's Convention which will be held at the A. & E. College and the 28-30 insts. The Convention has secured a very notable list of public speakers and lec turers. A man who "will be listened to with the greatest interest by the farmers js Mr. Bradford Knapp, of father, Dr. Seaman Knapp. tie will Speak on "The Farmer and theWar." . Another expert from the Department j 0f Agriculture is Dr. Frantz P. Lund, Le best known authority in the coun- try Cn the drying of fruits and vege- tables Other well known speakers will be President F. J. H. Von Engel ken of the Federal Farm Loan Bank at Columbia and Dr. C. A. "Gary, State . veterinarian ux .uamu. ; The approaching convention is ex- - pected to be the most largely attended j and the most profitable that has been , held here. In addition to the general lectures there will be a large number of field demonstrations in all branches . 1 There is only one issue. The United States is going to lick Germany or Germany is going to lick the United States The question is, under which flag , dees a man fight, and that , is one of i the greatest questions that is present i ing itself to every American citizen ! William Jennings Bryan is a lover j of neace. He does net want war. But I the day after war was declared Bryan volunteered his services. Claude Kit I chin spoke aeainst war and voted against war, but the day after war was declared he took off his coat and j went to work on the bill to wage the t war and his son enlisted in the army, j That is the way North Carolinians j always do. 1 In the present emergency no ma, j ter what a man's private opinions j might have been, before the war was J declared, if he is an American he will give power to the' arm that is raised to strike. The time has come when war be tween enlightened and civilized na tions is worse than savagery. It means the using of brute force by men who claim to have risen above the brute level. It scorns the subject of logic and savagely asserts that the gun should be the supreme arbiter of a nation's life. For thirty years with tireless energy and matchless skill, the imperial German Government has converted every citizen into a soldier and every industry into an arsenal. This completed, it suddenly demanded of a startled world a new place in the sun. We are fighting to send Prussianism to the scrap heap of civilization, for the simple logic of justice and peace lXZcZZ until the strongholds of autocracy shall have been laid low and on the ruins a Christianized democracy built. One of the puzzling facts of history is that nations lay far behind individ uals in mental and moral perception. Maybe this is the reason that Congress and the Legislatures pass what indi viduals, believe to be so many fool measures. This is more striking in a r,rl tlia-n in a mental acn&e. For a thousand years diplomacy was simply an art of duplicity. This was so until John Hay lifted the whole world's di plomacy to a level of truth and honor it had never known before. I say the real issue in this war is whether or not the ideals of Prussian ism are to direct the civilization of ..wu.m .7 come, i nave notnmg but leeimgs ot sympathy for the down-trodden peo pie of Germany. I trust no man will let his feelings drive him to an act of injustice against those poor fellows quartered down there at Hot Springs. If Germany wins this war every na tion will be converted into a military camp and every citizen will be draft ed and drilled for a model soldier. We owe our vary existence to the nation of France, and it is no more right to stand and see it overthrown without cause, than the strongest man has a right to stand by and see a help less woman attacked by a savage brute. We cannot stay out of this fight j one minute longer and preserve a sem blance of our self respect. I rejoice to hear that calm voice in Washington saying as quietly as the Master bade the stormy seas to cease that "the world must be made sale for democracy." That sentence wa3 heard around the world The Kaiser heard it, and for all of his legions, he upon satrapy and hereditary privi was afraid. - liege by God's will and the strength They are coming from "Greenland's of just arms it shall be the last. Icy mountains and from India's coral We, the allied armies of the Free, qtranas to ngnt ht the Goliath of au- I can see the divine rights of kings, flutter and fall before the divine right of men. The world must take knowledge of Christ and His righteousness, for then and not till then, will the world be 'made safe for democracy", and the nations know a great and lasting peace. Governor T. W. Bickeet. y agricultural and livestock exhibits. All the railroads of the State are of-fex-ing reduced rates, and A. & E. Col lege is throwing its dormitories open cor tho free use of those who attend. NOTICE The TvWren County Farmers' Un ion will meet in regular quarterly ses sion the first Saturday in September in the Court House at 11:00 o'clock. Locsl Unions please see that thdy are represented. HERBERT SCHOLZ, President, In an interview with Mr. A. G. El liott, city engineer, this morning, he ives out the following statement: "Owing to unavoidable circumstances We seem, to have had small cave in of the deep well, resulting in pumping gritty water and the cups on the pis ton rod have become worn making it necessary to remove the pump and fix same. "The matter was taken up at once with a Richmond firm which will send a man here today. Until further notice, the water com pany will have water turned on from 7 to 7:15 p. m., and 8 to 8:15 a. m. as long as the water in Tank lasts. "We will also connect with the well at the Ice Plant and one or two pri vate wells which we hope will give us a limited amount of water that will have pressure enough to reach the ground floor of the homes. "Citizens are hereby asked to boil 11 water used for drinking purposes until further notified. The company will do all in its power to remedy the situation at the earliest possible mo ment, and asks that the citizens draw as little, water as possible." As the pump could not work Sunday the water was low in the tank Mon day morning and the tank was only about two thirds full when the pump broke yesterday.,. Thus it is imperi tive that we use as little water as possible. For fire protection all of the cis terns in different paits of town are full and ready should occasion require. THE SLACKER The papers are carrying reports that a young man of this State vviib'.n the draft age and physically fit for ser vice under the Selective Drn.fi ' ; ask ing Jo? exemption because ho boldi a commission from the Governo;.' as a notary public. That is about as flimsy an ereuse as a registrant could well find and we hope that this will be turned down. The exemption for State office. ?s was meant, as we take it, for tho:je whose services are actually required to carry on the government, not for tho:-.0 hold-,, ing places which are of the non-essential kind. North Carolina is overrun with people who are capable : per forming duties as notaries publi.?. The people of the State expec' those in official positions to toe thv mark iust as other citizens. p.vpi: whon tney are m positions which they must , fiU in order to carry forward the gov ernment. They will have no p.'ence with any official "slacker" '"w.o at- tempts to hide behind his job 1, out of military service and th keep 7 are apt to make themselves herm when there is another day of reckc-i: -ig at the ballot box with elective cTicers who back up employees in .-.s for exemption when they arc net lv: -olute-ly Justified. The man who expects to get away with any such plea will find that there is a large amount of public contempt awaiting him. Contributed. WHAT WE'RE FIGHTING FOR We are not fighting a war, but War itself. We have no quarrel with kings and empires, but are extirpating the cause of every quarrel between all sovereigns and sovereignties. This, the supreme conflict of the ages, is Democracy's first concerted attack ! are storming the "Castle on the Iiill" which alone holds the highroad against thoroughfare. No race shall hence forth exact toll from Civilization to profit its own despotic ambitions. No little state shall again tremble in the shadow of political ogres. No sea shall ever be vassal water to a bully flag. No coming generation shall raise stalwarts for cannon-fodder and drain its stores of wealth for Gargantuan armaments. No power shall blackmail peace with the bayonet and defy world will from behind a hedge of steel. The ghosts of Alexander and Attila must be laid never to stalk another century, never to lead another people to vandalage. These things we have resolved so that reason alone may rule the uni verse, that women may breed worthy sonr, and deserving daughters' in un dre;dmg wombs, that opportunity m?.y be w sighed upon uncheating scale3, thjui thought and mercy mf control tho hemispheres and persecution and barbarity be bamshei. This is our .i2.ause: who serves it serves Humanity. Herbert Kaufman in the Cosmopolitan. 7