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VOL. XXIII
(FRIDAY)
NOT SLACKEN BUT
INCREASE BUDGET
Writes
Dr. Edward K. Graham
Upon Necessity of School
Support In War Time.
Educationally the decade that fol
w3 war will be, I believe, the richest
rd most fruitful in the Nation's his
Here in the South, and in North
Carolina especially, we need to keep
heroically foremost in our public pol
. the determination n t to slacken,
but rather to quicken our educational
and France under war burdens im
comparably Sweater than ours have
doubled their educational budgets. Iz
is clearly the inevitable policy of wis dom.
Our handling of our educational af
fairs in the next few years will furn
ish once more a test of our statesman
ship and give unce more a clear rev
elation of what relative place we give
education in the things worth while
in commonwealth building. The nec
essity of war economics will show
what we value in terms of what wc
nourish and of what we sacrifice. If
schools are the first public-service in
stitutions closed for lack of fuel; il
their terms are shortened as first
steps in economy; if we cease building
them and yet build other things; ii
they cannot compete with business foi
the services of the few good men and
women they need-we shall know in
concrete terms that in time of storn
we feel that they are still the first to
be cast overboad, and not, as we have
claimel to believe, the basis of the de
mocracy for which we are fighting.
Xo Sacrifice Too Great
No sacrifice is too great to make f o
the schools, and no patriotism is mor
genuinely productive than the patriot
ism whose faith in the schools is s
deeply rooted that no public distrac tion
or disaster is permitted to blighc
them as the source of all of our recon structive
power.
My great confidence in the futurd
of the University is based on the ex
traordinary need for its present and
future service, and on the spirit of in
telligent sympathy and co-operatio-:
that have been shown by the peopk-;
in the State at large and by the fac
ulty, alumni and students. The days
ahead of us grow out of the. days tha
are gone; but in every phase of human
activity that a University touches they
are new days with a new and broader
horizon. They will test the capacity
of the University for leadership, not
only in terms, of energy, efficiency,
learning, and scholarship, but In terin
of renewed vison, sympathy, and high
devotion.
Out of this new opportunity to serve
in a great and difficult way, and aid
ed, as it wonderfully has been, by th i
understanding of the State, whose
highest aspiration it seeks to express,
I believe that this institution will come
into a new and especial greatness.
Report to the Trustees, Jan. 22, 191h.
THE FUNERAL ORATION
OF ROBT. G. ENGERSOLL
Hons. Ebon C. and Robert G. En
ffersoll made a solemn compact that
which ever died first, the other would
Preach his funeral, , Hon. Ebon C. En
gersoll, a member of Congress, died
first, and the following funeral ora
tion by his brother is considered one
of the prettiest bits of English in the
world:
"I am now about to do for the dead
nat in life he often promised to do
me. Loved and loving brother, he
"Parted this life before his sun had
reached its meridian. Becoming weary
or a while he lay down by the road
side and using his burden for a pillow
!el1 mto that dreamless sleep which
8ses down his eyelids still. If ev-
ryone for whom he did some loving
fulness would but- place a blossom
Pon his grave, he would sleep tonight
takath a lderness of flowers. Mis
tang the approach of death for the
rn of life he whispered with his
ate st breatfc, 'I'm better now!' " Let
tear? m Spite of Dubt's dogmas,
are t fearS that these dear word
that f a11 the countless dead and
Ca they are 'better now!' Words
tW 0ntain our love- There- is,
Was no nohHpv ' Mouv ma ".
And v '
in aor the sPeaker broke down
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS PAPERDEVOTEp TO THE INTE RESTS OF WARRENTON ANDARREN rnnNT?
Number 21
Sc. A COPY
WAR NEWS HERE
AND "QVFRTHERE"
American Soldiers Assert Initia
tive; To Seize Non- Resident
German Property in U.S.
American initiative has asserted it
self on the Lorraine front in France.
Three savage . raids on. the German
lines have been made by J;he Ameri
cans, who succeeded in reaching the
second line of , enemy trenches before
being ordered to return. During their
stay in German-held territory they
destroyed carefully built defenses and
picked up much war material.
American artillery ably assisted tun
infantry, in the operation.
The resignatiin of Leon Trotzky,the
Bolsheviki Foreign Minister is explain
ed by a report that he acted after a
quarrel with Nikolai Lenine, the Pre
mier, who insisted that the Russian
people agree to the disastrous peace of
Brest-Litovsk, while Trotzky protested
against submitting without a struggle.
The only fighting reported m Russia is
in the neighborhood of Kiev. The
general situation of the country re
mains the same. On Thursday the
Soviets are to hold a Congress in Moe
cow, Russia, to pass judgment as to
whether they will accept the peace of
the Bolsheviki made with the Germans
at Brest-Litovsk. President Wilson
has sent a message of sympathy to the
Russian people through the Congress
with a pledge that the United States
will avail itself of every opportunity
to aid them in driving out autocracy
and restoring Russia to her place in
the world with complete sovereignty
and independence. v
SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER
NOW IN EUROPEAN WAR ZONE
Dispatches in yesterday's dailies car
ried the information that Secretary
of War Newton D. Baker had safely
landed in the European War zone. He
goes to confer with General Pershing
as to army needs and to gain military
knowledge for the Administration. He
was accompanied by several military
men of rank.
CONGRESS FORECLOSES ON
ALL GERMAN PROPERTY IN U.S
Washington, March 11: Legislation
authorizing the sale of all enemy prop
erty in this country, requested, by the
alien property custodian to permanent
1 uproot German commercial influence
was approved today by the Senate and
added to the urgent deficiency appro
priation bill.
An amendment empowing the Presi
dent to acquire title to the German
steamship company's docks and wharv
es at Hoboken, N. J., also was accepted
.The vote on the provision for the
sale of enemy , property was unanimous
64 to 0, and came after several hours'
scathini denounciation of German kul
tur and intrigues for world dominion.
Enemy property within the meaning
of the law is property owned by resi
dents in an enemy country and official
assurances have, been given that there
is no intention to interfere with the
property or money of Germans or Aus
trians; living in this country. The pur
pose is to sever forever the hold of
Germans in Germany upon vast com
mercial and industrial enterprises in
he United States, which have been
closely connected with the Kaiser's gov
eminent, serving as outposts of the
Teutonic movement for world dominion
IN RECORDER'S COURT
MONDAY MORNING.
Quite a spirited case was before
Recorder T. O. Bo'dwell, yesterday
morning, Yard Master W. E. Clyaton
of Norlina, was charged with two as
saults and carrying a concealed wea
pon. .
Clayton alleging that Flagman Har
ris anKonductor Baldwin, of the
Sebaoard, had been slamming cars
against his caboose and disturbing him
in this manner, goes into the engine
cab and assaults these men, knocking
one over with the butt of his pistol
and slapping the other down. The
men were not seriously hurt, but were
painfully bruised.
In the two cases of assaults Clayton
was fmed $10 for one and $25 for the
other; in the pistol case he was fined
$50. Hon. Tasker Polk appeared for
Clayton, and Hon. T. T. Hicks, of Hea
der son assisted Recorder's Court SoLc
itor Daniels in the prosecution.
RED CROSS AND j DON'T GET THAT
BE I FERMENT NEWS! LAZY FEELING
Report of the Secretary of the
Wise Auxiliary; Betterment
Report Shows Progress.
In order that all who are inteiested
in our local Red Cross may know just
what has been done a report of the
Secretary follows:
The Wise Auxiliary to the Warrenton
Chapter, American Red Cross was or
ganized November 2, 1917. There are
now enrolled 118 members. Total re
ceipts from all sources to March 1st
$205.59; total expenditures, $174.94,
balance on hand $30.65.
Report of work done up to March I :
38 sweaters, 20 mufflers, 18 pair wrist
lets, 42 pair socks, 620 gauze com
presses 4 1 2 x 4 12, 280 gauze com
presses,9 x9, 25 T. bandages, 80 tri
angular bandages, 20 abdominal band
ages, 25 pillows, 26 bed shirts, 15 four
tailed bandages, 5 many tailed ban
dages. CHARLOTTE S. PERKINSON,'
Secretary.
A most interesting and profitabre
meeting of the Betterment Association
was held at the Schoolhouse on Friday
afternoon March 1st at 3:30.
Several new members were added
to the roll, and Mr. C. W. Perkinson
and Dr. Holt were made honorary
members.
The program consisted of a talk on
Food Conservation by Miss Justice, a
few remarks by. the President, Miss
Dui?n on the work of the Wake coun
ty Betterment Association, and a talk
en Thrift and War Savings Stamps
by Mrs. Perkinson. Several war com
mittees were appointed.
Miss Margaret Tanner and Miss
Mary Perkinson were asked to super
intend the work to be done in the
school house yard, and to make sug
gestions. A committee to visit the
school was appointed and a committee
on attendance was asked to try an
bring the attendance bck to normal, as
the epidemic of measles had nearly
subsided.
The teachers are sweeping their own
ooms, thereby saving the janitor's fee.
They are to buy War Savings Stamps
for the school with the money thu5
saved.
CAPT. PRICE AND
MISS HERBERT WED
Ceremony Performed In Christ
Church, Greenville, S. C, Sat
urday Afternoon at 3:45
Captain Edward C. Price, of H. Cow
pany 120th North Carolina Infantry,
a son of 'Capt.' and Mrs. E. C. Price
of this city was happily . married last
Saturday afternoon at 3:45 o'clock in
Christ's church, Greenville, S. C, to
Miss Leone Herbert, of Morehead City.
The telegram announcing the mar
riage came as a distinct surprise ; to
the family and the friends of Captain
Price here; the. romance which culmi
nated last Saturday afternoon in the
presence of officers of the Regiment
at Camp Sevier was one begun at
Morehead City some time ago wher
H. Company was stationed there.
Top-Sergeant Eric Norflett, of : H
Company, was ... the -, best man, . and
among the bride's maids , were Miss
Lulie Price, sister of the groom and
Miss Lilian Stainback of Weldon.
Miss Herbert, is an attractive and
popular young lady and was up to the
time of her marriage teaching school
in Greenville. Captain Price has num
bers of friends here who are interested
in his happy marriage and join with
this paper in wishing years of the
happiest of married life to this couple.
After the ceremony Captain and Mrs
E. C. Price, Jr., left for a short bridal
trip to Hendersonville, N. C, and are
now at home in Greenville, South Car
olina, where his command is stationed
HONOR ROLL FOR VAUGHAN
SCHOOL FOR FIFTH MONTH.
Third grade: Myrtise Harris and
Carrie Myrick.
Sixth grade: Mary Harris.
Seventh .grade : Nettie Myrick.
Tenth grade: Rosalyn Harris. , ,
Eleventh gradeV Bettie CreeTucker.
Regulate Your Diet and Your
Clpthing To Keep Healthy
and Efficient Says Board.
Ground hog day, spring fever days
and 'dog days! What a trio! Of
course the State Board of : Health has
no intention of questioning the ground
hog's sovereignty as a weather maker.
Nor "is it the proper time , of year to
assail' the old idea that dogs "go mad"
only.during dog days. . Spring fever
epidemics however, are perennial. Who
has hot been a victim? Fortunately
it never proves fatal. How discon
sertihg to be told that spring fever is
a myth. Disheartening as it may seem
of tHe hundreds of diseases to which
human flesh is heir, . medical science
distains to even recognizeor mention
"spring fever." In other words, "thero
ain't no sech thing." The real rea
son many of us feel -so tired, lazy,
stupid, sleepy, dull and "generally no
count" these days is because we have
failed to change our diet, our clothing
and our habits of living, to conform to
the season. We have been continuing
a heavy winter diet of meats, fats and
other heat and energy producing con
stipating foods, instead of cutting
down the whole intake and including
more greens, fruits, vegetables, rough
ness and even water. The trouble in
many cases is that our winter store oi
last summer's canned fruits and vege
tables has about given out and the new
supply has not yet arrived.
Spring tonics, purgatives and . a
course of medicine? No, nothing of
that. kind. Such things are no more
necessary than a periodic aebauch,
spree or wife-beating contest. One
is about as sensible as the other. The
whole secret is to regulate the diet,
clothing, and living habits to . suit the
season, to eat less, especially of heavy
constipating foods, " and use more
"greens," and salads, to dress lightei'
and live rationally.
DOT LET YOR LIB
ERTY BOND GO.
News of Interest
Frop Areola Section
Bright Jewels. Active; .Invest
Your Missionary Nickel ;
Locals and Personals.
Miss Alma Scull is visiting in
Rocky Mount.
Mr. Lewis Capps has returned from
a business trip to Richmond.
Mr. Garland Capps is visiting rela
tives here before leaving to serve his
country in the Navy.
Mrs. John W. Gupton visited her
daughter, Mrs. Lewis Capps, and Mr.
Linnie Gupton last week. -
We are glad to report Mrs. Lewis
Shearin convalescent. - v
Misses Maude and Ethel King and
Emma Duke spent Wednesday night
pleasantly with Miss Ethel Lapps.
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Davis, Mr?.
Beaufort Scull and Miss Hattie King
were callers in Brinkleyville Friday
night.
Misses Vinson, McFay, -Pritchard
and others were pleasant guests at
"Dalkieth", the home of Mr. Joe Hun
ter, Thursday.
Mrs. Linnie Gupton, Misses Hattie
King and Myrtle Duke were shopping
in Warrenton Friday afternoon.
Our teachers attended the Teachers'
meeting in Warrenton Saturday.
Six boys from this section are now
serving our country in the Army and
Navy.
Be sure to enjoy the program at tiie
school building Thursday, night, Mai. i
14. Admission 10c.
The Bright Jewels held an interest
ing meeting Friday afternoon. This
organization now has twenty-three
members with Miss Agnes Hunter as
President, and at last meeting an at
tendance of twenty two. '
, Fifteen persons took .nickels last
Sunday at Sunday School which will
be invested in .various .things from now
until the fall; at that time the nickels
with amount made by wise investment
will be turned in to be used for mis
sions. Last year about $25.00 was
made with about eighteen nickels in
this wayr -Some
of the fruit trees are in full
bloom. '
Secretary of Treasury McAdoo
Urges Holders To Keep the
Best Investment In Hand.
One who subscribes for a Liberty
Bond and , gets credit as a patriot for
doing so is not acting, patriotically if
he .immediately . sells that bond, that
is, unless he imperatively needs the
money, says Secretary Mc Adoo. It is
not the mere subscription that helpa
the Government, it is the actual loan;
shifting the bond to someone else doeu
not help.
The same objection lies to exchang
ing Liberty Loan Bonds in trade. Mer
chants offering to take Liberty Loan
Bonds in exchange for" merchandise
are doubtlessly actuated by' patriotic
motives, but such transactions tend to
defeat a primary object of the bond
sale, the encouraging of thrift and the
discouraging of expenditures. Bonds
so exchanged are in most cases im
mediately sold on the open market
which tend to depress the market
price and affects adversely the sales o
future issues.
Secretary McAdoo expressly states
that there is no desire on the part of
the Government to prevent or inter
fere with legitimate trading, in. good
faith, in Liberty Bonds.
It is one of the great objects of tlit
Treasury Department to have thesa
bonds held as . permanent investments
by the people and paid for out of sav
ings, thus at once providing funds for
the Government and conserving labor
and material.
There are the soundest reasons for
holding Liberty Bonds. Their quota
tions under par on the stock exchange
means a loss only to those who sell.
The financial history of the United
States shows that in tifes of peace ail
of its bonds have gone above par,some
as high as 139. The" tremendous
growth of our "resources and of ou1
trade, our domestic trade alone hav
ing increased from $30,000,000,000 to
$64,000,000,000 in the last four years,
warrants the belief that our Govern
ment bonds are the soundest invest
ments in the world and with the res
toration of peace conditions will com
mand a handsome premium in tne
market.
IN MEMORY OF
W. R.
COLEMAN
SINGING GLASS AT
NORLINA MOND AY
Orphange Singing Class To Ren
Render Highly Patriotic Pro
gram School Auditorium.
On next Monday night the Oxford
Orphanage Singing Class will appear
in the Norlina School auditorium to
render a concert- to the people of this
community.
The class of 14 girls and boys have
been chosen, from 375 children of that
splendid . Institution which is today
doing so much for the childhood of the
State. It is not necessary, though it
may be opportune, to commend the
Oxford Orphanage Singing Class to
a Warren county audience. On pre
vious occasions, they have appeared
before packed houses in Warrenton
and the merit of their performances
have always pleased.
The program is of a patriotic trend
and every citizen will Jbe Intellectually
benefitted by attendance. May every
seat be taken at the presentation of
this program for such a noble purpose.
There has beeif no arrangements
made for the Class coming here, and
indications are that numbers of our
citizens will attend the Concert at
Norlina. -
COLORED PEOPLE OF LIBERIA
ORGANIZE WAR SAV. SOCIE1 t.
The-following, is reported by Mis.
Mamie Alston, the colored school tea
cher, of Liberia:
The colored people ; of Liberia met
Friday, March 8th, at the schoolhouse
and under the auspices of Rev. J. K.
Ramsey organized the War Savings
Society, with a membership of twelve.
The- following officers were elected:
Mr. Will Cheek. President:Mrs. Mamie
Alston, Secretary. Collection of $5.00
of which $2.00 was raised by the school j
children.
The First Warren County Man
To Die In France ; Leaves
Heritage of Good Name.
The meaning of war was most forci
bly brought home to us in the sad
death of William Richard Coleman,
oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.
Coleman, of Wise, who died in France
on the twenty seventh of February
of pneumonia at the age of thirty oe
years.
Mr. Coleman did not wait to be
drafted, but fearful lest he might
fail in his duty to his country, he
volunteered, and . sailed for France
January 17th, a member of Company
B, 23rd Regiment, Engineers.
Mr. Coleman had been in business
in Rocky Mount for several years,
where he made a great many friends,
who have endeavored in many ways
to show their respect and love for him,
and to sympathize with the grief stric
ken family.
Nevertheless "Dick" as he was ia
miliarly known among his earlyas
sociates was never too absorbed in his
business nor in anything else to forget
to pay a frequent visit to his hom
folks here. His singular devotion to
his mother and sisters and his ever
present desire to make them happy 13
indicative of the kind of young man
he was. His was a clean record, his
habits the best, and his disposition
most genial. He was a thirty-third
degree Mason, an Odd Fellow and a
member of the Baptist Church.
besides the father and mother, and
grandmother, three sisters and three
brothers survive: Mr. D. P. Coleman,
of Beaufort, S. C, James Coleman, of
Norfolk; Rodney, who is also in the
service of his country and in camp at
Chattanooga, Tenn; Miss Lucy : Cole-
man, of Atlanta, Ga ; Mrs. E. E. Lloyd
of Greenville, S. C, and Miss Malissa
Coleman of Wise.
The death of one of our own deaiiy
beloved boys, who gave his all for his
country, ought to make us ashamed
of the little we can do and are doing
to help win the war. This mother has
given her oldest son, and many of us.
are unwilling to make even the small
est sacrifice. Let us not forget to
pray for the boys who are fighting
for us, and to ask our Heavenly Fath
er to comfort the mothers whose
hearts are broken and bleeding, even
though they are proud to have had
sons willing to die if need be, on the
far away fields of France in order
that government by the people for the
people and of the people shall not
perish from the eartn.
God bless them! C. S. P.
THE WAY LIFE SEEMS TO
A PESSIMIST! DON'T BE ONE
Man that is born of his parents 13
of few days and full of microbes. He
goeth to school when a youngster and
gets the seat of his pants paddled for
something he didn't do until he is sick
at heart. He groweth up like a weed
in the back yard and soon reaches
the age when he is composed largely
of feet, freckles and an appetite for
pie. About the time he gets too long
for short trousers and not long enough
for long ones he goeth away to col
lege, learneth how to monkey with a
three-dollar mandolin and play whis
key poker. He cometh home a bigger
fool than ever and marrieth a sweet
young thing whose pa is supposed to
be wealthy, but whom he subsequently
ascertaineth, couldn't buy the prize
rooster at a county fair. He worrieth
along from year to year, gradually acj"
quiring offsprings, until his house re
sembles a Sunday school class just be
fore Christmas. He fretteth through
the day and lieth awake nights trying
to figure how to keep himself and his
dependent population out of the poor
house. Efforts are rewarded by his
daughters who run off and get mar
ried and bring him;. home a nice son
in-law every few days to feast at his
board. His sons grow up and call him
governor and set him back a five-spot
every day or two. About the time he
has acquired enough lucre, to make x
worth" while for his heirs, to quarrel
over, he contracts a cold and is hur
ried away before he.has time to have
a talk with his family. His sons .blow
in his estate. and his wife puts the
finishing touches to his career by mar
rying the hired man.