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VOL XXIII. (TUESDAY) WARRENTQN, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 2ND, 191ST (FRIDAY) Numh
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100,000 AMERICAN
SOLDIERS READY
OLD GLORY TO WAVE
ON PLAINS OF PICARDY
American Soldiers To Fight Side
By Side With French And
British Soldiers On Western
. Front.
With the American Army in France,
March 31 (By Associated Press.)
All the American troops have been
turned over to the Allies for such use
as they see fit to make of them.
American troops may soon be light
ing side by side with their British and
French allies in the battle which is
raging in Northern France.
It is enough to say that great ac
tivity of many sorts is in progress in
the entire American zone. Miles of
motor trucks loaded with Americans
have passed through the towns, some
going in one direction, some in
another. Through a driving rain the
motor trucks ploughed their way
along muddy roads, the Americans
singing. Many of the trucks had
American flags fastened to their tail
boards. On other roads mile after mile of
marching Americans splashed through
the mud which came over their an
kles. The horses were steaming
from the work they had to do.
All the men are working as hard
as possible. With the realization that
they are to be of service in the com
mon cause and used in the present
conflict.
Parish, March 31 "The French
government has decided to accede to
the desire expressed by General Per
ishing in the name of the United
States government," says an official
note issued today dealing with the
operation of American troops with
the French and British.
"The American troops will fight
side by side with the British and
French troops, and the Star Spangled
Banner will float beside the French
and English flags in the plains of
Picardy."
100,000 Intensively Trained Ameri
cans Available.
More than 100,000 Americans in
tensively trained and fully accounted
are available for immediate use in
aiding to stem the tide of the Ger
man hordes, and large numbers of
them, on railroad trains and in motor
trucks, and even afoot, already are
on their way to the battle front, eager
to do their part in defeating the in
vaders. The miserable weather which has
broken over the country is proving
no deterrent to the Americans as they
push forward from all directions to
wards the battle zone.
-W.S.S.
Eighty-Three Enemy
Airplanes Destroyed
London, March 31 Eighty-three
enemy airplanes have been destroyed
by British aviators since they began
operating on the Italian front, says a
British official communication issued
tonight. The British have lost ten
machines in aerial fighting. The text
of the communication which tells of
the operation of the British on the
Italian theatre follows:
"On the Italian front the British
troops holding the Montelo section
were relieved in the middle of March
and since have taken a new sector on
the Asiago plateau.
"Our flying corps since its arrival
in Italy has destroyed eighty-three
enemy machines and lost ten."
-W.S.S.-
SOLD DOLL CLOTHES
,FOR RED CROSS
Little Misses Lucy Boyd and Bobby
Jones earned $4.10 for the Red Cross
here by selling doll clothing Satur
day. These clothes consisted of in
tJle main of doll sweaters and caps
jjtoich had been knitted or crocheted
y patriotic members of the '. Red
Cross.
IRISH POTATOES
SHOULD BE $1.25
SHOULD NOT BE OVER
FORTY CENTS A PECK
There Are Plenty Of Irish Po
tatoes In Country Yet And
They Are Being Marketed
Daily.
Raleigh, April 1 Irish potatoes
should be reaching the consumer at
approximately 40c a peck of $1.25 a
bushel, according to the Food Ad
ministration which has received com
plaint during the past few days that
some retailers who are securing Irish
potatoes at $1.00 to $1.25 a bushel
are still charging 50c. to 60c. a peck.
In the face of a 50 per cent shortage
in wheat flour, Irish potatoes should
be usd to a very marked degree .a
the place of bread and the Food Ad
ministration is determined that no
system of profiteering on the part of
dealers shall hinder such a practice.
There is a very considerable sur
plus of Irish potatoes in the country
and they have been moving very rap
idly since the passing of the severe
Winter weather. They are avail
able to merchants of practically any
town in North Carolina at around
$1.00 a bushel and the Food Admin
istration feels that they should . be
available to consumers t $125 to $1.
35 per bushel or 35 to 40 cents a peck.
"Eat potatoes now that you may
have bread later," is the injunction
of the Food Administration.
W.S.S.
This "Made In Ger
many" War Hell
If Germany had waged its war
without barbarism; if every soldier
in its armies had been a decent man;
if there had been no outraging, no
murder, no destruction of homes or of
lurches and -uathedrials, Germany
would still deserve the utmost pun
ishment that could be inflicted by
civilization upon any country because
of this unholy war for its own ma
terial advancement.
But the world has been engulfed
by awful woe; millions and millions
have died and other millions have
been maimed for life; hundreds of
millions have suffered in the agony
of seeing their loved ones forced by
Germany into this awful war to save
the world from German domination
and damnation. Women and children
have been outraged, the chivalry of
the" high seas has been supplanted
by the foulest campaign of Hell-devised
murder of innocent non-combatants
that even the devil himself,
as expressed through Germany, could
devise; the very existence of all civi
lization has been threatened, and if
Germany were to succeed, the whole
world would sink back into the dark
ages of atheism and barbarism.
We are face to face with all of
these terrific realities and all the
fearful possibilities the very thought
of which staggers mankind.
And all of this has been brought
about wholly by this "Made-in Ger
many" war, started by Germany for
the sole purpose of forcing Ger
many's, domination and damnation
over other countries.
These are the farts which our peo
ple should fully understand, and then
;hev will slowly come into a reali
zation of Germany's crime, surpass
ing all the crimes combined of all
nation from the very beginning ot
time. Then they will realize tnat
this "Made-in-Germany" war is in
deed a "Made-in-Hell' war and is a
fight to the death Manufactures
Record. -
W.S.S.
RED CROSS BALL AT PAL-
MER SPRING HIGH SCHOOL
There will bea Red Cross rally at
Palmer Spring High School Saturday,
April 6, at 3:30 oclock p. m. Mr. T.
Polk will deliver the addressl Ice
cream and candy refrehments will be
on sale benefit Red Cross.
E. F. BOBBITT.
Are You Observing What Uncle Sam Says ?
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THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY GERMAN-AMERICANS-NAME
IS DEAD FOREVER
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By Samuel Harden Church, Presi
dent of Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burg.) We can never overcome the foe in
front unless we shall effectively re
strain the foe at the rear. The test
of loyalty is a simple one. There
are no longer any German-Americans.
That name is dead forever. They
are either Germans or they are Amer
icans. No man cherishes a higher
regard than I do for those American
citizens of German birth or German
parentage who are truly, able to unite
their love for our flag with their
detestation of this German outrage.
There are millions of former. Ger
mans in this country who are now 'ful
ly absorbed, heart, soul and language,
into the greit body of Americanism.
I know hundreds of such men in Pitts
burg, and you have hundreds of them
here in New York like Mr. Franz
Sigsl,Mrs Jacob H. Schiff, Mr. Otto
H. Kahn and the society know as "The
Friends of Germany Democracy"
men. of such probity and honor all
through our nation that we would
trust them to hold control of the
chief citadel against the Kaiser him
self ' A good many years ago I had
the honor of meeting Carl Schurz
at Deer Park, Md., and that gifted
man, whose name is an illustrious one
in American history, came over to a
erroup of us young men where we
were seated under the cool shade of
a great oak tree, and after shaking
hands with a cordiality which became
to each one a living memory, pointed
to the flag over the hotel and told us
we should feel grateful in our hearts
that we were all citizens in a country
where liberty had free existence, as
it had been his own unhappy fans
to be driven out of Germany because
of the tyranny of her feudal system,
and that there would be no liberty
for the German people until that
feudal system was destroyed. I wish
that the former countrymen of that
former German would absorb this
doctrine into their secret souls, for
the German Government is more auto"
cratic to-day than when it drove Carl
Schurz into exile and executed thous
ands of his associates who had at
tempted to reform it.
It is frightful to comtemplate the
continued existence of the German
Empire as it stands today "a thing,"
says President Wilson in speaking
of it, "a thing without conscience or
honor or capacity for covenated
peace." Why? Because its only
guiding power is military force. It
is frightful to think that there exists
in' the heart of the world a military
force. It is frightful to think that
there exists in the heart of the world
a military power which has declared
with a thousand articulate and voci
ferous voices that it intends to sub
jugate the whole of Europe in this
war. The leading purpose in this
world conquest . is to enslave and not
to elevate the people who dwell in the
peaceful territories of her neighbors.
Is proof needed ? , Take Alsace and
Lorraine. During the 50 , years of
German occupation not one word of
benevolent interest in the welfare
of those hapless children of old
France has been uttered in Germany.
She has ruled them as she is now
ruling Belgium and northern France
with her mailed fist. She has not
even permitted them to speak their
own language or to sing their own
songs. Let me show you a contrast
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between- a civilized and humane na
tion and a nation which Goethe char
actirized as ferocious brutes. When
this war began there came the test
of British civilization. It was a good
time for England's colonies to cut
loose and leave her, to fight her own
battle. She had no power to coerce
one man outside of her own little
island Kingdom. What was the re
sult? You have seen that picture in
Punch where the British Lion stands
on a mound emitting a roar which
only a lion can emit, a roar which
comes from the depths of his nature,
and from every quarter of the globe
his cubs respond Australia, New
Zealand, Canada, India, Eygpt.
How was it with Germany? When
the first blast of war blew on our ears,
when Germany had been ruling those
French provinces for half a century,
50,000 of the men of Alsace and Lor
raine gave up home and property and
fled across the border torange them-
selvejs under Jhe
could ever recognize, the ancient ori
flamme of France. Not a man who
could escape the impressment would
fight for Germany.
And take England once more. She
had conquered South Africa and giv
en the Boers a complete liberty anu
self-government of which they had
never dreamed of in the days of their
own tyrant, Paul Kruger. But here
was their chance to revolt. Did they
take it? When they saw peril ap
proaching that precious heritage of
human government which had been
expanding itself throughout the
world, from the day when the Mighty
Charter was established on British
soil at Runnymede the last Boer turn
ed from his farm and his mine and
joined the fight for liberty under the
British flag. , . .
And how is it with France? If it
is ever possible that all the nations of
the world can be assembled on some
Elysian Field where a divine Commander-in-Chief
shall ask: "Which
among these nations has in . ancient
or modern times shown the most
valor, sacrifice and suffering? I am
sure that all mankind with one voice
will respond: "It is France!" We
can say of her now, as Shakespeare
said of her in time of King John:
"France, whose armor conscience
buckled on, whom . zeal and characity
brought to the field, as God's own
soldier."
The question now is whether Japan
shall move by land against Germany
in the Far East. That brings up
Russia. Everybody has a profound
sympathy for Russia. The trouble
there is that the people of Russia
have been held through these cen
turies in a pitable ignorance and sup
erstition. The illiteracy there is
more than 80 per cent, of the total
population and when they have over
thrown an oppressive and corrupt
government by revolution it is a mov
ing and pathetic sight to see the.a
without knowledge or experience of
the capacity to form a government go
plunging every day deeper and deeper
into the abyss of civil strife and
general anarchy Great things were
hoped for from Mr. Kerensky But
the- task was too large for him pos
sibly it was too large for any other
man. Then came Lenine and Trot
sky.. We do not yet know whether
they are incompetent dreamers or
corrupt German agents, but we do
know that they have wrought the
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IT MEANS HEALTH
AND HAPPINESS
TO OBSERVE CLEAN
UP DAY APRIL 15-20
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Make Your Back Yard Look As
Neat And Clean As Your
Front Yard Burn All Waste
And Debris
Raleigh, N. C. April 1 The mu
nicipal authorities and the people of
Warrenton and surrounding country
are being appealed to by the State
Insurance Department and the State
Health Department to join effectively
in the observance of "Clean-Up Week
April 15-20, during which time,
throughout the state there is to be
a general clearing out from residence
premises and places of business and
factories and shops of all waste ma
terial and debris that might harbor
disease germs, start a preventable
fire or help along a fire that might
start from other causes, fire preven
tion and better health conditions be
ing the two chief objects of the move
ment for a 1918 Spring clean-up week
Insurance Commissioner James R.
Young and Secretary W. S Rankin
of the health department, asks that
municipal authorities not only help
in arousing the people to thorough ob
servance of the week in cleainging out
their premises, but that they see to
it that there are ample facilities pro
vided free of cost to the people, for
removing the trash and waste ma
terials from the streets as fast as the
people clear it from cellars, attics,
closets, out houses and back yards.
And the people are urged to give
special attention to making this o
thorough job and one that can but
bring the largest returns in improve-1
health conditions all through the sum
mer and the greatest possible im
munity from prevrentablei fires.
A
can but ' prevent many a fire that
would otherwise bring heavy losses to
the property owners and in many in
stances deprive families of homes and
workmen of their places of employ
ment and multiply the all too heavy
fire waste that the state carries with
heavy fire insurance ' rates that can
but be ultimately reduced if the fire
waste in the state is held down to
figures consistent with cutting these
rates and still yielding fair returns
to the insurance companies that as
sume the risks,. Then, too, there ar-j
the rewards in improved health con
ditions for families and whole com
munities and savings in doctors bills
and drug bills. So that a general and
effective observance of this clean-up
week means a very great deal to the
people of this community and the
state at large. Then, verily, let it
be altogether for fullest co-operation
and largest success for the week.
W.S.S. ;
Inventors Grand
Nephew Joins Marine
New York, April 1 Fred Hithkiss,
grand nephew of the inventor of the
Hotchkiss gun, a weapon that was
adopted by the United States Marines
during the Civil War, enlisted in thei
Marine Corps here today. Young
Hotchkiss, who has two brothers m
the service, came all the way from
Alaska to enlist.
His distinguished uncle, Benjamin
Berkely Hotchkiss, born in Water-
town, Conn., in 1826, was one of the
first to adopt the principle of using
explosive gas developed by firing to
assist the operation of rapid-fire guns.
All modern machine guns now employ
this principle.
Many of the inventor's improve
ments in projectiles and heavy ord
nance were accepted by the American
Government and are now in use.
Hotchkiss afterward went to Paris
where he established a gun factory.
He died there in 1885.
W.S.S.
U. D. C. TO MEET
The U. D. C. will meet over Allen
& Flemings store the first Friday in
April at 4 . o'clock p. m
A- full attendance is desired.
(Mrs.) S. B. TWI8TY,
. President.
THIRD LIBERTY
LOAN LAUNCHED
LETS MAKE A CON-
SERTED DRIVE FOR IT
Chase National Band To Do AH
In Its Power To Make Third
Liberty Loan Overwhelming.
$3,000,000,000 The Mark.
The Third Liberty Loan has just
been announced by Secretary McAdoo.
The amount is three billion dollars
and the rate four and one-quarter per
cent. The response must and will be
entl usiastic and overwhelming.
The manhood of America is being
tested today as never before. Within
the past year the selective service
law has been put into effect success
fully and without appreciable friction
Our soldiers are now on the firing line
in France. We have an abiding faith
in the fighting quality of our young
men. But this is not only a war of
armies. It is a war of nations. A
war of peoples, a war in which indus
trial organization financial resources,
national unity and the will to win ar
of the highest importance. The mo
rale of the Allied soldiers is beyond
question. But this war cannot be
won by the Allies unless the morale
of the civilian population is preserved
and that can only be maintained
through an aroused and enlightened
and a self-sacrificing patriotism. As
a people during the past year we have
given generously to war relief or
ganizations and have gladly subscrib
ed to the Ffrst and Second Liberty
Loans. Now it again becomes the
duty of those who stay at home to
give unsparingly of their financial re
sources. The safest security in the world is
offered to our people to provide funds
with which to conduct the greatest
war in history. And it has been our
war from the beginning. We are just
beginning to realize that we were
threatened to the same extent as was
England and France in August, 1914,
when the German militarists inaugu
rated their long conceived plan of
world dominion. Because of our dis
tance from the scene of conflict, it has
taken our people some time to ap
preciate the importance of this con
flict to us. It seemed to some of us
as though it were local in its nature.
As though it were a conflict over
territory, or a contest for trade sur
premacy. We now know that from
the beginning it has been a clash of
ideals. When mankind was in its in
fancy, power was surpreme. The
strong ruled. Justice was unknown.
But through the struggle of civiliza
tion certain principles have all been
thrown to the winds by the German
Militarists who have reverted to the
ancient idea of rule by force. So we
must rally to the support of our ideal.
The ideal of liberty, the ideal of self-
government, in order that eouity and
justice may rule in the world.
In subscribing to the Third Libertv
Loan, we tender you all the facilities
at ourdisposal. We are not only
willing, but anxious to be of assist
ance to you because, at the same
time, we are thereby serving our
country, we will enter your subscrip
tion and do anything else within our
power in order to make this Third
Liberty Loan and Overwhelming suc
cess. Very truly yours,
THE CHASE NATIONAL BANK
W.S.S.
HE HAD THE SONG BUT
NOT THE PHYSIQUE.
Buffalo, N. Y., March 27th A ti
dal wave of poetic verse threatened
to swamp the recruiting office of the
U. S. Marine. Corps here, recently,
when Burt Gibbs, of nowhere in par
ticular, entered the office and burst
out:
"My country calls, I wish to fight.
Pray tell me, sir, am I in right?"
His auditors were staggered and
one braver than the rest led the poet
ic Gibbs, still chatteringi into the
office of the officer in charge. Gibbs
effected a lordly bow and swept his
hat to the floor:
"I've come to fight to clear the sea,
To make it safe for Democracy."
This was followed with:
"Prithee, kind sir, I'm known to fame
Think and reflect, Gibbs is my nam o"
Burt Gibbs may gain poetical but
never military fame. He was reject
ed as physically unfit.