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tfitafoie, OoirdveJhiei otio' lBuy War Savings Stamp VOL. XXIII. (TUESDAY) WARRENTON, N. C, FRI DAY, MARCH 29, 1918 (FRIDAY) Number 26 5l 50 A YEAR A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTE RESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY Sc. A COPT GERMAN OFFENSIVE LOSING STRENGTH SCREENING TIME IS HERE AGAIN NO CONFLICT TO COLORED QUOTA BE EXPECTED TO LEAVE APRIL 1 $ecUF&9. Pro I . -LL -LL ALLd . f XEUTON LOSS IS ESTIMAT ED TO BE OVER 400,000. At End of Sevn Days Greatest Offensive of Time Keeps Up But Loses Punch; War Out look Better for Allies. : The strength of the gro.t German offensive in France apparently is fast diminishing. On the seventh day of the titanic battle there were strong indications that the enemy was feel ing materially the strain he had un dergone and that his power had .been jrreatly impaired through hard usage " .While the town of Albert had been captured from the British and west of Roye the French have been com pelled to give ground in the face of o-reatly superior numbers, the British have repulsed heavy attacks, both north and south of the Somme an also driven back across the Ancre river the Germans who forded the stream Wednesday. The fighting still continues of a sanguinary char-J acter on all these sectors but every where the British and French are holding the enemy. Especially severe has been the fVghting west if Albert, where the Germans in an endeavor to debouch westward were repulsed by Field Marshall Haig's men with tiv heaviest casualties. The British gains bewteen the Ait ere and Somme regions are represent ed by the recapture of the towns of Morlancourt and Chipilly. South or the Somme they have advanced to Proyart, which lies to the south of Bay. All along the fifty mile front from the region of Arras to the south of the Oise near Noyon. the effects ot what was to have been the final stroke to end the war in a victory for tin Teutons are only too plainly evident in the re-devastation of the country side and the wreck and ruin of the towns, villages and hamlets through which the armies have passed. Westward from where the old bat- io ho rpumi itself the Germans everywhere have pushed forward for material gains, but with, foes before them who fought with the greatest bravery and stubbornness and ceded oA at. ns- no ground unless iecunicnov uarious rates in men . killed, wounded or made prisoners. It is estimated that in the great attacks delivered in mass formation more than 400,000 of the neai'ly a miyion -.men' the.. Ger mans threw into the fray are dead, wounded or in the hands of -theii foes. About 25 miles represents the great est point of penetration made at any place by the enemy in his advance and on the northern and southern ends of the big salient he has left, his flanks dangerously open to counter attacks which if successful possibly might result in a retreat, greater than the .1916 retrograde mqvemem of Von Hindenburg and nullify in its entiretv the drive that has been ac complished. It is not improbable that British and French reserves, and pos sibly American troops, known to be behind the battle front soon will be thrown against the weakened enemy. Notwithstanding the strength of the German drive, nowhere has the British or French front, along the latter of which American troops have given a good account of their ability as fighters, been even dented. Ground has been given, it is true, but so skillfully and with such precision of movement that from north to south a surveyor scarcely, cquld have work ed out a more even. ?lne. Still intact in the hands of the Allied -.forces are portions of the old line from which Hindenburg fell back in his "straget ic" retirement in 1916; Just who is in command of the German force ; seem i to be somewhat in doubt. Late dispatches report that Field Marshall Von Hindenburr has been at Dvinsk, in the Russian theatre and the German war corres pondents assert that General Von Ludendorff not only planned the of fensive but was on the ground last Friday personally to control the at tacks. On the other battle fronts the op erations continue of a minor charac ter but daily the situation in Italy (Continued -On Third Page) STATE BOARD OF HEALTH SAYS SCREEN HOMES Advocated As Most Effective Way of Getting arid Keeping Free of. Flies; Also Urges All Premises Be Kept Clean. Raleigh, March 28th "Swat the fly by screening," is the text of a bulletin which the State Board of Health sent out today. "Screening," according to the bulletin, "accomplish es much greater results and at lor less expense than any of the other various methods of anti-fly warfare. Of course cleaning up and staying so clean that flies will find no place in which to breed is ideal. While we should strive for the ideal we should also remember that some care less neighbor is likely to leave enuf uy-breeding material around to stock the community with a superabun dance of flies. It is difficult to get ample protection from such neigh bors expept by screening and by swat ting the few stray flies that dodge in at open doors. Furthermore, screens also protect against mosqui toes and when properly made will last for many years. "Extension screens," according to the Board, "are scarcely worthy of consideration. They rarely fit, soon get out of shape, and often serve as a trap which tends to retain the flies in a .room instead of excluding them. Good wire made-to-measure scree-is are best, while ordinary mosquito netting makes an excellent cheap screen. "Traps are useful around stables, markets or where flies are numer ous. Swatting is good as far as it goes, but it is a 'retail proposition, and is best limited to those flies that break through the first lines of de fense, the screens. Manure, even if infected with fly" eggs or larvae is rendered much less dangerous if it is spread thinly on the surface of the ground and allowed to dry. "Finally, the fly danger can be greatly mitigated . by having ali out houses sanitary and by being vacci nated against typhoid." .- W.S.S. TEN WHITE MEN TO CAMP JACKSON REPORT HERE AT TEN THIS MORNING FOR SERVICE Leave On Early Afternoon Train for Camp Jackson; First Ten Men of Second Quota to En train. The following ten white men ; leave today for Camp Jackson. They com pose the first ten of the County's se cond quota. The men are to report here at ten o'clock: Roscoe DeWitt Hux, Chrome, N. J. Joe Radford, Wood. Davis L. Peck, Warrenton. Jolm McRobert Booth, Warrenton. Thomas Leete, Wise. Joe Smith, R F D 3, Littleton. George Van Brown, Vaughan. Tunis Pitchford Littleton. William Randolph Parsons, Littleton. Emmett Clements Reid, Littleton. - W.S.S. ; Request to All Red Cross Knitters Mrs. Adele 9ones, chairman of , the T?H Cross Knitting committee, re quests all those knitting for the Red rm5 to .nlease send in completed x.ovlr lw next Thursday, April 4th. nt. comolete work AIlUoc by that date will please notify Mrs .Tones at once. All those having Red Cross needles will please return them also.. One An Investment; The Other a Loss; Com parative Sacrifices the Interest of i Property (By IREDELL MEARES) (Mr. Meares is campaigning for War j Open the portals of your soul, , vis Savings Certificates under the aus-'ualize this world wide calamity, be pices of the State War Savings Di- j hold your country's peril, and re rector). ;spond to your country's call! This war will cost billion. It will j Can you not be as courageous, as be financed, whatever the cost. The 'dutiful, as heroic, in manhood ax.. government can draft men. 'It can confiscate , property. The business and professional man laborer and farmer or person with an inpome, might as well bear the cold facts in mind. If the government raises the mon ey by taxation, the burden falls upon its present taxpayers; indirectly upon all citizens. If it borrows tre money upon War Savings Stamps and Certificates and its other obligations, the present tax payer is so far relieved. . The burden will be distributed then over periods of years to successive generations who will be inheritors of this republic, unimpaired and undi minished in its freedom and tradi tions. It is to the interest aside from patriotic duty, of the- income and property man to invest in War Sav ings Stamps and Certificates, what ever the inconvenience. It is no sa crifice. , Else, if the full quota be not sold, he may find what might have been a sum invested , in good securities become a sum paid in unrequited tax es. Which do you ' prefer ? What does common sense suggest? One of two things will happen. You will invest or pay taxes to support this war. Don't be a slacker. .The times are critical. Men are called to service. Slackers" will be known, marked and scorned, now and hereafter. You can -slack in evading the draft to military service." You can slacic in evading the call to investment ser vice. There is no difference in mor al turpitude. The financial slacker, if any, is lower in the scale ofxeva sion. Don't whimper or whine about it. Stand to the rack. There is fodder here for the investor; none for the sailor or soldier.- You are called upon so often to give! Yes. You are called to sub scribe to the Red Cross! Yes. You are called to subscribe to the Young Men's Christian Association welfare work! Yes. You are called to give or subscribe to other warlike pur-1 . -.- i i n posesj xes. .ana you may ue mail ed, and recalled, and called again; perhaps, to your uttermost farthing. Must it take the roar of cannon the flare of explosive shells to awak en you to action? Suppose you do subscribe often! What then? 'You have not been call ed from protected home to battlefield, chucked into mud trenches, driven in bayonet charge, 'mid hell's inferno of shot, shell and poisonous gas, return ed with, mutilated body or dead on oldier's bier! The soldier and sai lor is called to that fate and, . with cheerful courage and intrepid daring, will meet the ordeal. If he falter, he is called a coward. You are pre-occupied in your daily avocation; thinking in the usual term of personal interest; practicing the preparedness of looking out for num ber one; perhaps, making surplus money; at least, having an income; living, three meols a day, comforta bly dressed, well housed, enjoying so cial environment 'and business oppor tunity, secure and protected, with the battle front, across the seas, three thousand miles away. : Your country calls ", you to service and to sacrifice. Heed you the call? Turn away from your self-centered, habitual exciusiveness and look to the dawn of brotherhood service. Con serve, in business, in home and econ omize personal expense. Give what you make, over your absolute needs, to warlike charities, freely, and to the purchase of your country's se curities, liberally. Holder. patriotism, as the sailor, in blue and the soldier in khaki? If you falter, in your duty, are you not deserving of the condemnation which attaches to sailor or soldier who. falters? There is no difference. Does your country demand as much of you as of those whoare called to the front? The government lays its hand upon the shoulder of the young mantrong virile, bouyant with youths ambition, and says: "Come I draft you; I take you from home, from mother, from wife, from children; I drill you in the art of war, send you across the seas, there to battle, to suffer and to die, if need be." We, at home, approve and rightly call the drafted man a hero! The government has the right to demand of him the sa crifice. The government has the right, too, to demand and to confiscate your property. If it were to enter your office, your store, or upon your farm and say: "How much have you in the bank? What merchandise have you in stock? What cattle or pro ducts on your farms? Come, I con fiscate them all without recompense; you "can 'continue your occupation; I willgive1 you food and raiment and thirty dollars per month, with a small stipend' to dependent parents, wife or child." Pray, if your government demand this M11, would it demand as - great a sacrifice as it demands of drafted soldier or sailor, when it requires his service and his life? "Greater love hath no man than this; that he give his life for the brethren" Reflect upon these facts. The Con gress appropriated at its last session twenty-one billion, three hundred and ninety million dollars. To be exact $21,390,730,940.46. This sum is said to represent nearly half of the an nual income from all sources, includ ing labor and investments, of the peopje of the United States. The totaf expenditure of the gov ernmenl. including the cost of past war and every other expense, from 117i'i to 2917, was a little over twenty six biihons, or only about five billion less than Congress . appropriated at its last session. The necessity was recognized and the responsibility as sumed by all parties in making these huge appsopriations, because of this collossal war The per capita, savings in the Unit ed States is estimated at $50.00, in Denmark and Norway at $70.00, in Switzerland at $86.00, in Australia at $91.00 and in New Zealand at, $98 We, in this country are extraya gant; get the highest wages, have the best opportunities, but don't save as do the people of other nations We cannot divert our past savings which are invested in stocks, bonds factories, machinery, . farms ana homes; "but we can cut down our ex penses, buy no unnecessary article release labor and material to fill de mands for goods, actually needed, so that the labor and material may oe employed in producing necessary goods, and invest our savings in war certificates Enough may be saved this way to finance the great expenditures of this war. If every man, woman and child were to save, each day, five cents,for a year, it would put over the sale by the government of the two billion war certificates to be issued. The War Savings Stamps and Cer tificates are the most convenient,saf est and most profitable method of in vestment ever offered to any people, non-taxable and secured by the Unit ed States. We must thoroughly or ganize the nation by the lesson of (Continued On Fourth Page) BETWEEN LIBERTY BONDS AND WAR STAMPS. " Secretary of Treasury McAdoo Explains That the Campaigns Are To Run At Same Time Without Conflict. Winston Salem, March 28th--That there is no conflict between the War Savings Campaign and the Third Li berty Loan Campaign is the text of a letter that Colonel F. H. Fries, State Director of War Savings, -a sending his one hundred or more coun ty chairmen and other War Savings workers. -He says to them: "Only the best of feeling shoum prevail between the workers of all organizations, but there should be no abatement of activity on the part oj. the Thrift and War Savings Cam paign. On the contrary we should seek to - capitalize the enthusiasm started by the intensive campaign of the Liberty Loan workers." Colonel Fries says that the Wa; Savings and the Liberty Loan cam paigns are not rivals; to make them rivals will be to hinder-the war plan of the nation. On the other hand, ho says that they are two forms of the same financial operation of the Gov ernment and are intended to supple ment each other. "The Liberty Loan Camnaifirn is necessarily of short au ration . and primarily designed to each those who have ample funds to buy bonds, while the War Sav ings Campaign is addressed to every citizen in the State. The War Sav ings plan naturally appeals to those who can invest in small amounts and hose whose receipts are irregular in ime, because they can purchase the stamps at any time in amounts up ! o $1,0000, and they can save regu- arly, thus encouraging the cujltjivat ing the saving and thrift habit. ' Secretary McAdoo favors the two campaigns being run separately and contempaneously, according to a let ter from ""Assistant" Federal Director Tarson to Colonel Fries which ne auotes as follows: " " ' "The Secretary of the Treasury has expressed himself verbally very strongly along the line that the War Savings Campaign should continue undisturbed during the Liberty Loan Campaign, as the two were in the main sufficiently separate and dis tinct to justify their running contem poraneously. It is the Secretary's ue sire that ho friction or conflict develop between the two organizations and that every type of assistance and co operation consistent with the funda mental purposec of each respective campaign should be practiced by both organizations." - , W.S.S. Baptist Literary Club Met Tuesday Night The Literary Club of the Warren ton Baptist Philathea Glass met wit! Misses Mary Russell and Sue Bur roughs Tuesday night. There" was the usual large number of enthusiastic members. The pro gram was very interesting and ben eficial. r A delegate was appointed to the Convention which meeUs in Rocky Mount in April. The class expects to give a sociai in the near future. While refreshments were served, music was rendered on the Victrola and it was nearing a lata hour when the crowd disbursed to meet again April 9th with Misses Chandler and Beasley at Mrs. Macon's. Contribut ed. W.S.S. He Shall I come to see you on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday? She Better come on nut Sunday. The' Tarheel. W.S.S. Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer. He fails to make his place good in the world unless he not onlv navs his debts, but also adds something to the common wealth Emerson. DATE MOVED UP A DAY; MEN TO REPORT AT 10 County's First Colored Contin gent To Leave Here Monday April 1st For Rockfish, Camp Grant, Illinois. L The colored men of the County's first quota are to entrain here on Monday, April 1, for Camp Grant, Rockfish, Illinois. The following col ored people of the first quota have been ordered to appear here at 10 o'clock by the Local Board. It is urged by the Board that all men re-. member that the clocks are to b turned up an hour Saturday night. and that they are to report nere tut ten o'clock by the watch; at nine by the sun. George Burchett, Rl, Warren Plains Boyd Hunt, Merry Mount. Warren Powell, Littleton. Stanley Williams, Elberon. Sam Holloway, Manson. Willie Gregory, Littleton. Herbert Fogg, Vaughan. Dennie Randolph, Henrieo, N. C. Robert Arrington, Littleton. Ernest Milam, Macon. Green Thomas Reynolds, Inez. Isaac Thomas Alston, Alston. Manly Durham, Route 2, Mansen. Will Newburn, Ridgeway. William Russell, Mo. St Co, Pittsburg William T. Davis, Elberon. Daniel Hargrove, Ridgeway. Jerre Gardner, Route 3, Littleton. Sol Lindsay Alston, Inez. Sam Moss, Warren Plains,-Route 1. Robert Williams, Creek. Walter Giggetts, Route 1, Norlina. Edward Drumgold, Vaughan. Collin Allen, Afton. Ben Shearin, Warrenton. John Jones, Warren Plains. Raymond Camill, Manson. Thomas Walter Coppedge, Littletea. Anthony Robert Perry, Inez. Arthur ' Williams,RFD, Henderson. William Davis, Shocco. Lemuel , Johnson, Norlina. James Battle Elams! Douglas Williams,Route 1, Warrentoit John Hunter, Route 1, Warrenton. Taff Alston, Inez. Leonard Perty Ramsey, Warrenton. Thomas Williams Alston. Anthony Alston, Inez. Clinton Jordan, Capron, va. William Henry Green, Warrenton. William Sylvester Shearin, Norlina. Bennie Lee Kearney, Newport News. Lemon Cobb, Route 1, Norlina. Robert Alston, Marmaduke. Leonard Whitted Williams, Raleigh. William Lindsay Alston, Inez. Austin Alston, Jr., Warrenton. Rann Boyd, Macon. Henry Davis, Vaughan. Moses P. Stewart, Macon, Mack Jeffrey Davis, Littleton. Alfred Alston, Norlina. King Hawkins, Baltimore, Maryland William Love Perry, Warrenton. Robert Nathaniel Kearny, Warrentoa George Hargrove, Ridgeway. Sandy Powell, Jr., Alston. ' Ned Williams, Inez. Aaron Evans, Roue 1, Manson. Edgar Alston, Areola. Jesse Pender Brown, Embro. Joe Williams, Creek. Marcellus E. Brown, Elberon. Edward Walker, Berkeley, Virffini. Willie Arthur Ross, Elams. Cornelius Williams, Inez. Eugene Davis, Elberon. Herman Somerville, Macon. -W.S.S, Local News From The Areola Section Mr. O. C. Davis is visiting his fauu ily for a few days. He expects to soon move his family to- Edenton, N. C, which will be their future home. Miss Sallie Powell visited her mo ther and grandmother from Friday 'till Monday, returning to her school near the County Homo on Monay a.m. Mr. Ernest Gill spent part of Sat urday and Sunday with his wife, who is spendingsome time in her fath-er's home. y Mr. M. C. Duk? and family, Misses (Continued On Third Page)
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