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VOL. XXII
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WARRENTON, N, C FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 1917
(FRIDAY)
Number 111
$1.50 A YEAR
A SE21LWEEKLY NEWSPAPEB DEVOTED TO TUB ffiTQ&ESTS OF 7AC3EirTON AHD WAEREN COUNTY
tc A COPY
DR. TAYLOR'S OLD
TIMES IN WARREN.
Address to the Baptist of the
South Issued By Commissioa
Southern Baptist Churches
I commend the following address to
the Rati,
tne consiuciowuu - -
but all the people oi warren
County. It is important, and snouio
be carefully heeded.
T. J. T.
The following address issued at a
Conference held in Washington, Au
gust 9, 1917 with Hon. Herbert t;
Hoover, Food Administrator.
To the Baptists of the South:
The world is facing the most
.1
serious food shortage known in the
seri . a I
i,;fnrv oi civuinauon. men
the beginning of the European war
there had been a gradual but serious
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decline in the production ox xoowmm.
Ai J..4-im cntTa I
. t . TT.il 1 Ci.l.o Tn onma I)19S
. i , : iM ortnniil
iative de-
rrease. i i
ease as compared witt population,
t iv;. w havo fhrp-fore Tor I
E Uv de-
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F Tt,. oe Konr
the official figures of the United States
Department of Agriculture, are of pro
found significance.
The total yieia oi grain, f"
a orhiiii fonstucs last vear was
auu vmw w.w 0 w
nearly 1,400,000 bushels short of the
1915 production, the most disastrous
rrot) shortage in the history of the
country. The indications for the
present year give promise of a large
com crop but of a small wheat crop
and the world depends upon wheat lor
bread rather than upon corn.
According to the August forecast of
the Department of Agriculture we wiu
have ncarlv 370.000,000 bushels less of L
wheat
than we had in 1915. It is
true that lVio gave us umr
vcAA "kf weatr but even that greap
. cropw.as scarelyequal to the require-
ments of this country and or tne aiiies
for bread. We now have to iace two
disastrously short wheat crops. This
vear's vield will be 200,000,000 bushels
less than the average of the last nve of flo Deef, pork, and mutton need
years, though our own bread require- for armies, Great Britain and
ments in five years nave mcxeascu u,
40,000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels a year
Tn iQOfi. or 11 vears aeo, when our .
nonnlation was about 20,000,000 less
rt - .
than it is to-day, we produced oi
wheat and corn 3,662,000,000 bushels.
If this vear's yield of corn and wheat
had increased in proportion to popular
tion as compared with the " yield oi
1906, we would have 4,395,000 busneis
-
or 550,000,000 bushels more than tue
August estimate of production of the
Department of Agriculture. On the
same basis of comparison our wneax
i;, ,r,- criva us the same I
croduction ner canita as that of 190$$
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would have to be 882,000,000 tmsneis. We believe that everyone snoum giye
or more than 225,000,000 bushels in tne heartiest cooperation to the far
excess of this year's prospective yield, reaching work of President Wilson
The forecast of this year's wheat
crop is 95,000,000 bushels short of the
cron of 1901. 16 vears ago. -
It is 82.000.000 bushels short of the
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croD of 1906. 11 vears ago.- it is r,-
000,000 bushels short of the crop of
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1912. I
Tf ic hush els short of
the crop of 1913.
Tiirnino. frnm trrain nroduction to
live stnrV wa finrf that 'the total num-
ber of oxen and other cattle, on Jan-
uarv 1 1Q17 nraa AQ R49.000. or 8,-
500,000 less than in 1909, and 4,700-
J -t ' I
000 less than as far back as 1901.
The decline in the number of sheep
is equally as significant. In 1893, 2
years ago, we had 47,273,000 sheep,
In 1903, 63,964,000 head, whereas to-
day, with all the great increase .in
conv.io? i Afi amc,60
shepr tf. 1 k Ktf aaa ! fiion we had
i -fJunuiI. WC U11IJ -w,wwr- I
H .:iu inn in. I
j-c.o UU, d jvrww r I
crease ,o r nf about I
26,000,000.
vi bAACfeE L W v
We have made a considerable in-
crease fortunately in the number of
8wine, but the gain since 1911, S
years ago, is only 1,800,000, or 3 per
cent, 'hile the increase in population
during that time has been about 10
Per cent. Indeed, on the 1st of Jan
uary of this year we have 513,000
less
ia I
SWlne in the country than we had the
year before.
Under these conditions there has
bee an inevitable increase' in the
value of live stock, and as a nation
have too often looked at the ta-
tistics M
- wa oi values ioww
M"utny ana, to a iarK I
len, isnorAd iA.OAn
from het facta showing the rapid and
dangerous decline in the production
of meats as well as in the production
of grain.
These facts come to the nation with
startling significance in view of . the
world hunger now existing and which
must continue for years. Even when
the war has ended the demand lor
foodstuffs will exceed the present re
quirements for the famished, starving
people of Europe will - seek first to
supply their need for food and they
must look largely to this country as
it will take them years to readjust
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weir agncuiwrai cwiuiUi uu 4S
store uie xermivy ui uiwr
In the light of these facts, it be
comes the duty of every patriotic Am
erican to develop as we have never
had to do in this country, the spirit
of self-sacrifice in the conservation! of
food. Every waste of food,, however
smaii, especially, ox mew "V "
11 - M .i. H 1
bread, will lessen tne amiy
ftimtrc maintain the trreat strug
. .
g r0urWu.
We must not only feed ourselves but
at. fd the allies. Their battle
WO must
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For three years they have
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oeen kvuk w j "vJf v-
blood shed by them, every dollar ex
pen - oy -
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our mt m well .3 for theirs.
We would be recreant to our re-
civilipation,. and to the WB wno are
Nation to battle in our behalf, if. W
shall fail to realize the necessity of
increasing to the utmost the food pro
duction of the country and lessening
to the utmost the waste of food.
We can Increase the use of substi
tutes for wheat bread through the lar
ger Tire of corn bre4 nd through the
development of the possibilities of
other substitutes. But as Europe
not understand and has not used corn
bread, and as it can not be ras4s avail
a purposes, we must Pi?
necessity save to the utmost our wheat
8uppiy jn order to feed the armies that
wiU d the fighting. Every wastage
Lj criminal. We believe that it
fa a solemn duty that" these facts
tghoUId be presented iront every puiyiv
J,,,. AmpnV -That theV "should be
Uaght in v?ry school, and that while
our men are gaenpee tnemseives
on the battlefield, those wfto fgm&in
at home must sacrifice some of their
mf olt Dy lessening the consumption
prance and ueigium r looKiny w
us for foodstuffs: Without our aid
w would starve. Their starvation
would mean our death as a Nation
...
. The spirit of sacrifice must De ae-
veloned among our people, rich and
noor alike. All must learn that the
soldier who lays down his life for our
Drotection is doing the noblest and
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most heroic work to which men have
Ver dedicated their ; lives, but sna
we aelshly indulge our appetis and
hive m the same comfort as in the
past wnile he endures tne narasmps
aA f n fnrers and to many the
deaths of the battle field
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an(j pod Commissioner Herner w
Hoover in their : work for food con-
servaticn. Civilization itseir may ae
- . . . i it
nend uron the work and certainly mu
lions of people win nterany starve w
- - .
death unless we of America uo our
utmost to increase food production ana
i'tst conserve the use of food.
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We call upon the - baptists or we
South to realize this situation ana w
urcrentlv commend to every minister
0f our denomination that tnese lacwi
h- constantly pressed upon tne kb-
... - . it.i
tion of his people, ana -suggest ut-v
the pastors and churches cooperate
with the National Food Commission in
the practical metnoa ox "
zations for the conservation .
and particularly that weeKiy
be made to the commissioii.
T?iharH H. Edmonds, iJaitjmorf
. T. Cody. Greenville, . -.
ri W: McDamel. Kienmona.
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.Tnsbila. Levermgt "M4?
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DR WILLIAM BDGEBS
; LOSES AUTO EQUIPOTim
Sunday afternoon about five o'clk
Dr. W. D. . Rodgers, Jr.; of this city,
had his motor go -dead" on him about
four, miles out on the woeria
a i..win ear
He came to wwn, "" --- m
there. Next morning when
ed for tte car he f,'sS2
v.. J Wn entered, and that a set
pf chain,, several
his medicine case, infactJOigy attofc
he had in the ear was -
tne ear w - -
, f BflTff if
' VV
the thief. ,
ITEMS FR01 WAR
RENTON COLTER
Red Cross To Have Locnl Talent
Play; Pig Sold; Executive
Com. Met Wednesday.
The Junior Red Cross of Grahaia
High School is to present a play in
the High school auditorium at 8 p.
m. Friday night, October 12jth. Entire
proceeds for benefit of fh(ed Cross
Chapter here.
The entertainment will be under di
rect management of Mr. James Mc
Kay who will be ably assisted by
local talent well represented in the
Graham high school.
The program consists of, duets, vo
cal solos, recitations, and is featured
in its laj$ number by a humorous play.
Mr. McKay very successfully present
ed a similar attraction fnt W$infngton
this year, and his efforts ? here if
assurred will produce a WJlrouiidfd
interesting program.
The cast of characters and details
of greater length and clearness will
be presented to Warrtnton and War
ren county people in later issues of
this paper.
Pig Sold.
The full bred pig donated some time
ago fey Mr. John L. Skinner, of Little
ton, hMbe 8Pl( m4 ft 10- rc
sutting from the iU piaeta t9
credit of the Red Cross Fund,"
Executive Committee eeta.
The Executive Committee of the
Warrenton Chapter American Red
Cross held a meeting Wednesday night
The work of the Chapter was found
to be progressing steady and after
a firipy? of conditions of the Chapter,
complete fajsfaction wa,s expressed
in in4Hioij of ilfajrf r
LYCEUM COURSE
AT NORLINAW. C.
Norlina To Have Lyceum Course
of Merit Tfcfe Yea?? Ffrst At
- traction October l$thu
The Lyceum attraction to be given
at th Noriimk Sshop! ftuditorim be
irinning October 19th art Mrf Wil
Ham Calvin Chilton, Monodramist; the
Winona entertainers; the fcolring
Quintette; the Beverly Quintette;
Paul (Sunshine) Dietrich. :
This is thesecond year of Lyceum
entertainment at Norlina, and the en
tertainments of this year are ef the
same high class as those given last
year. '
OFFICERS TO BE
4 U
'At the Court House Next Tues
day Night, October 9th at
,, 8 p. m.; Talks to be Made.
A Red Cross, meeting of all members
of the Warrenton Chapter is called at
8" x. m. at the Court House oh next
Tuesdav nii?ht. October 9th.
The purpose of the meeting is the
election, of officers for the ensuing
year, and it is urged that all members
of the Chapter be present-
Several, interesting speeches are to
be. made by members, and suggestions
offered as to the work, the proposed
work and oolicy of the Chapter here
''The rofetiiig should be well attend
ed. The Chapter is large and the ex
pression of the ill of all is of iniP9r
tanpe in choosing who shall fee vested
with th au&oiity an$ mPonflhlUty
of the managfinen! Pi tfei orgaiz
fcfak -your plans early to be in at
tendance. -- -
Temperance Lesson,
Small girl (at the druggist's)
"Please, sir, will you give me some
good-natured alcohol for f ather ? M
Current Events.
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iiSrr relation,
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ELECTED
TUESDAY
SCHOOLS SOLIDLY
BEHIND MR. PAGE
Dr. Joyner Calls for Cooperation
Teaehera to Bfeet Here Sat
urday, October the 13th.
The publie,: school system of the
State is lining up solidly behind Food
Administrator Henry A. Page 4n the
conduct of the campaign for food, con
servation. Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Superin
tendent of Education, is' suggesting to
all the county superintendents of the
State a meeting of the teachers of
the various counties October 12th or
13th for a conference with the county
food administrator and the executive
committee for full explanation and
discussion of the plana for the cam
paign October 20-28th.
Dr. Joynera letter to the county
superintendents follows:
f,I fefg tp urge your hwty d,w
tive eo.option with your county
food administrator and the county ex
ecutive committee in carrying out suc
cessfully their plans and the plans of
the State food administrator for the
'Pledge Card Campaign for Pood and
Fuel Conservation Please confer
with your county food administrator
and acquaint yourself with the plan
of work and organization, about which
he will be glad to furnish you full in
formation. The public scoqI district
is the subdivision wough which this
work will be undertaken. Saturday,
October 20, will be 'General Food In
formation Day.' Meetings will be
planned at each public school house
in the county on that day and the
district food administration committee
will be asked to be h? attendance to
deliver the house cards and to. secure
the signing of the pledge card,! hy aAl
W0B viiitHiff the aehoolhousepn that
Uy. ' A r-
Suggest Full C6-operaiion
I suggest and urge that you co-op
erate vithex
toirrSttif
ing cezsrutUes In each district, and
thai; yon join7 him in an urgent letter
to these committeemen . requesting1
their active help in this" work and
their presence at the sehoolhpuse on
Qgff 2Qt. 1 frAer s,ugges thai
you em9t, in active service m w
work th t?ft?h?r In h h-3ftl
trict. and urge the to p& present at
the sehoolhouse e October 2 and as
sist the temmittee, and that they
heartUy co-operate also in diitrihut.
ing the literature and notices to the
patrons through the children, in se
curing the largest possible attendance
and in conducting the 'Follow-up Cam
paign' from October 20 to 28, to se
cure the pledge cards from all persons
in the. school district interested in
dispensing food who do not attend the
meeting at the school on Saturday,
October 20.
Call Teachers' Meeting.
"I strongly recomemnd that you call
a county meeting of all your teachers
on Friday or Saturday, October 12 or
IS, for a conference with the coun
ty food administrator and the, execu
tive committee for full explanation
and discussion of the plans for the
food conservation campaign October
20-28. You can combine this confer
ence with a regular meeting of your
county teachers' association and, if
necessary, let it take the place of
some other regular meeting of the as
sociation. If impossible or inadvisa
ble to pall a meeting of your teachers,
be sure. to write to each teacher in
your county urgin co-operation with
the school committee and others in
this work'17 In my opinion, the suc
cess of this important work will de
pend largely upon the active ad in
telligent co-operation of the county
superintendent, and the teachers, with
the food administration and the execu
tive committee. "
"Do not fail to confer with your
county food administrator immediate
ly upon the receipt of thin letter and
perfect your plans to enlitt heartily
and actively at nee teachers and the
school children in this campaign
feel sure that no county superinten
dent or teaeher,if properly and prompt
ly notified and urged by the county
superintendent will fail to respond
heartily, actively and immediately to
this call ofthe country through the
food administrators of he nation,
State and county to contribute their
bit towarde th'e winning of the ww
by aiding in this campaign for the
conservation of food at home, for the
feeding ft our boys at the front and
of our allies who must he properly fed
in order to win the fight.
Supt. Jones Calls Meeting for Warren
In carrying out the suggestion and
direction of State Superintendent J.
Y. Joyner, I hereby call upon the
white teachers of Warren County to
assemble at the Court House Saturday
October 13th.
This meeting will be of two-fold pur
pose: to aid in the Conservation work
and to give instruction to the teach
ers in respect to the important matter
of physical examination of the pupils
of their respective schools. I expect
a Physician of the State Department
of Health to be present and assist Dr.
Charles H. Peete in explaining to the
teachers the method to be followed.
The colored, teachers will be called
together at a later date for a similar
purpose.
The mothers of the pupils are cor
dially invited to be present.
HOWARD F. JONES,
County Superintendent.
FIRE PREVENTION
DAY IN THE STATE
Next Tuesday. October 9th De
signated by Gov. Bickett
Fire Prevention Day;
Taxes are a great burden, and a
source, of constant irritation. The in
genuity of statesmen U being taxed
to reduce and to equalize the tax. bur
den, and yet the fire tax annually lev-
ed upon the State of North Caroilna
is practically equal to the entire taxes
evied for the support of the State
Government. We may equalize the
governmental taxes, but they must be
paid by somei oryx. Twothirds of the
fire taxe are wholly unnecessary, and
are due to lack of reasonable care.
Realising this, the General Assem
bly of North Carolina has set aside
the 9th day of October of each and
every year as Fire Prevention Day,
and -toakes It the duty-Jof the.Gover
nor to' issue; a Proclamation, urging
the people 'to a proper "observance of
the day. " " .
qw, Therefore, I, T. W, BECKETT
Qtvernor of North Carolina, in accor
dance with thift statute do issue this
my Jfecamation, and I do. set aside
and designate Tuesday, the 9th day
of October, 1917, aa Fire Prevention
Day and do urge' all the people to a
proper observance of this day in obe
dience to the law of North Carolina.
I urge the public schools of the State
and the municipal officers thereof to
give proper and formal recognition of
the day and its meaning, and request
the citizens generally to give special
attention on that day to the condition
of their premises, to the end that the
waste and loss of property and life
may be reduced in this State.
Done at our City of Raleigh, this
the fifteenth 4a of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seventten, and in the one
hundred and forty-second year of our
American Independence
T.'W BICKETT, Governor.
By the Governor:
SANTFORD MARTIN,
Private Secretary.
HONOR ROLL AT
NORLINA SCHOOL
Those Making An Average of 90
or Qyqt oa Every Subject
f
During Isv School Month.
Requirements for making the Honor
Roll are: an average of B, 90 or over.
on every subject, perfect attendance
and no tardiea.
The following pupils made the honor
roll for the first school month:
First grade Alma Latta, Howard
Ransom, Mary Draffin, Sallie Bur
chette. Elizabeth Terrell. Winnifred
Johnson, and Maude Hicks.
Second Grade Nellie Wilson, Elton
Gupton, Thomas Cawthorne, Louise
Inscoe, Helen Hawks, Lillian Ransom,
Lucile Hundley.
Third grade Dorothy Jenette.
Fourth grade---Edward , Weldon.
Fifth grade Lucy Cawthorne, Eliz
abeth Moore, Boyd Hicks, Douglas
Draffin, Pattie Pearson. : .
Sixth Grade Frank 'Banzet, ;Alex
Mabry. '
Seventh' grade Pear Roae, .
' High School, first year Gladys Pas
chall; 4th year Alma Tate.
IMPOTANT TO SAVE
THE SMALL THING
Food Administration Calls At
tention to' the Necessity of
Saving: and Conserving.
Raleigh,October 4th Following the
formal announcement of U. S. Food
Administrator, Herbert Hoover, of the
food pledge campaign to be conducted
throughout the country the week of
October 20-28, Henry A. Page, Food
Administrator for North Carolina, is
preparing to set in motion the entire
state-wide organization which is ra
pidly being perfected.
That -a ready response from the
people of this State may be expected
is the firm conviction of Mr. Page
who declares that the great need is
to get our people to realize just how
vital and necessary is the service ask
ed and just how important it is that
no single family or person shall ex
cept themselves from the food pro
gram. Mr. Page today issued the fol
lowing statement and appeal" to the
people of the State:
"The, most important business of
every man, woman and child in Am
erica as long as this war lasts is to
adjust their consumption of food as
to release the largest amount possible
of foodstuffs suitable for export for
the use of our armies in the field and
the armies and civilian population of
our Allies.
"By enabling our Allies to keep in
good fighting trim we hall bring the
war to a quicker victorious close and
save the lives of thousands of our
boys, some of whom are even now on
French soil with the grim determina-
ion to see it through.
i "Np really patriotic family will need
any urging. to follow the suggestions
of the Food Administration. Certain-
y there is noy mother or sister or rel
ative of any ofjyie boys who are ofjter--
ing Jtheir lives but will render this
service at home, and it would be un
patriotic, selfish and brutal for others
to refuse.
MLet ho person refuse the service
requested by the Food Administration
because their part might : be ssxalL
Little service could be rendered by
one soldier in the trenches, but the
aggregate service of companies, regi
ments and divisions will win therar
with the help of those back home.
The failure in the saving and substi-
ution of foodstuffs by one particular
family might cost just one extra Ufa
in the trenches. and that might be
the life of a son or a neighbor's son.
"There are 300,000 or more families
in North Carolina. During the food
pledge campaign we wantthe signa-
ture of the housewife from every one
of those families."
The purpose of the food pledge cam
paign is to reach and enlist as an ac
tive part of the Food Administration
every woman who is responsible for
the handling and dispensing of foods,
to secure her signed pledge to observe
the rules and requests of the Food
Administration as far as practicable.
and to leave with her a Kitchen Card
upon which is printed the definite
needs for saving and substitution and
suggestions as to how this may . be
done together with a statement of
the reasons such a course is now nec
essary.
The Food Administration realizes
that there is no necessity fir anyone
in this, country suffering for lack of
food. ' There is very ample food. The
problem is to economize in the use of
those foods which are needed for ex
port and to largely increase the con
sumption of those which, because of
their perishable or bulky nature, are
not suitable for export. Those that
must be saved are wheat, beefpork.
fats and sugar, for which should be
substituted fish, poultry, fuits, vege
tables, all cereals except wheat and
such other foodstuffs as may be avail
able in each locality.
Who Knows?
A lad in a Chicago school refused
to learn to sew, evidently deeming it
beneath the dignity of a ten-year-old
man.
"George Washington sewed" said the
teacher; "he took it for granted that
a soldier must. Do you consider your
self better than George Washington?'
"I don't know,M said the boy, ser
iously, "time will tell." Harper's.
Very soon our Government expects
our shipyards to be turning out 1C0O
merchant ships a year.
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