"A GREAT NET
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: (TUESDAY) WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1918 (FRIDAY)
$1.50 A YEAR SEMI.WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTSOF WARKENTONND WARREN COUNTY 3c7a COPY
WE HAVE JUST
GOT TO HAVE IT
COUNTY MUST VRAISE $5,000
I OK RED CROSS WORK
Week May 20-27 A Period xof
Thorough Canvassing To Give
Every Individual Opportunity
To Contribute to Cause.
AN APPEAL TO, PATRIOTISM
Organization of Work In Town
ships Urged By Committee
Who Expect Results In
County Drive.
The Executive Committee of the
Wl- Fund Campaign composed of
. Polk, V. F. Ward, Stephen Bur
roughs, R. S. Register, J. M. Gardner
J. M. Coleman, W. B. Boyd, Mrs. Kate
P. Arlington and Brodie Jones, is de
termined to carry with the active and
efficient aid of its Township chairmen
and the people of the County goner
ally, Warren County "over the top"
n the drive for $5,000 for the Red
Cross.
During the week of May 20 to 27th
one hundred million dollars is to be
raised over the country for the Red
Cross. One fourth of the amount of
Warren's apportionment is to remain
with the Local Chapter, the remainder
going to service overseas.
It is the purpose of the Executive
Committee through the organization
which each township chairman is to
perfect to have every person in War
ren interviewed for a contribution tc
this great humanitarian work. The
Red Cross is today recognized as s.
great War measure and a great aid
to America in France. The first duty
of the Red Cross is to soldiers of this
country, and General Pershing testifies
to the great work of the organization
in France. - . . -
The township have been apportioned
their quotas by the Executive com
mittee and the township chairmen urg
ed to appoint their assistants, to per
fact their plan for raising their quota
and to be ready by May 20th to launch
the soliciting campaign embracing ev
ery individual in their sections. Each
township chairman has been notified
by letter the amount expected from
his township.
The township chairmen are: R. B.
Boyd, Warrenton; J. Byrd Ellington,
Nutbush; R L. Capps, Fishing Creek:
J. B. Davis, Shocco; A. G. Hayes,Smith
Creek; Dr. T. J. Holt, Hawtree; J. J.
Nicholson, Six Pound; John Picot,
River; W. R. Vaughan, Judkins; W.
H. Pndgen, Fork; Haywood Aycock,
Sandy Creek ; H. L. Well, Roanoke.
County Chairman of the Drive, Mrs.
Kate P. Arrington has appointed Mr.
John G. Ellis, cashier of the Bank of
Warren, Campaign Treasurer.
W.S.S.-
II Be Allowed to
Add 2c And Freight
County Food Art
directs our attention to the following
from the State Food Administration:
Raleigh, May 8th On account of
th importance of binder twine to the
eat and grain growing industry ,the
od Administration through' its sisal
ard jute division has fixed a margin of
th3 profits which dealers will be allow
d to charge on binder twine. The
Manufacturers' price has been fixed at
cents per pound and the retailer
Wlll.be allowed to add freight and 2c
a Pound cash or 2 1-2 cents a pound
0n time to the cost price to him.
h is very important that not only
'etaileis but farmers themselves
should place their orders for their re
lu-ements of binder twine as early
the slow freight movements and
Wier causes which might militate
, a ireignt movements and
"ler causes whirh mio-h TYiilitnA
gainst a free and easy distribution
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essively patriotic is the Kaiser's
OF MERCY DRAWN
When a
Contributed by Briggs.
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A Bit of Fi
By JOSEPH
Of the
Caleb Rogers was seated at the little
desk behind the counter of his "gen
eral store" at Rogers' Corners. His
check book was open before him, and
he was tapping his front teeth with
the end of a penholder and apparently
considering deeply. Daniel Griggs,
who owns the big farm half a mile up
the road, entered the store and stood
for a moment regarding its proprietor
with an amused smile.
"Well, Caleb," he observed, "you
look and act more 'like a Rockefeller
every day you live. 1 presume likely
you're figgerin' whether you'll invest
this month's income in more Standard
lie or use it to buy your wife another
diamond collar?"
Mr. Rogers smiled also, but he was
serious enough a moment later.
"Dan," he; said, "I tell you what I
was figgerin'. I was figgerin' whether
I hadn't better make the check I was
goin to give the Red Cross folks a
hundred instead of fifty." ' . . -
Griggs' mouth opened in astonish
nient.
What About Jim Griggs?
"You give a hundred dollars to the
Red Cross, Caleb Rogers !" he demand
ed. "You! Are you crazy? You sar
tainly ain't worth any more money
than I am, and I was calculatin' to give
about ten not more'n fifteen anyway
The Red Cross is a mighty fine thing.
I know that well enough. But if you'll
tell me why folks no richer than you
and me should give"
Caleb's foot, which had been resting
over one corner of the desk, came to
the floor with a bang. He straighten
ed, leaned forward and shook his fore
finger earnestly at his visitor.
"Tell you?" he repeated.. "Yes, Dan
Griggs, I will tell you. I'll tell you be
cause you've got a boy, same as I have,
up here at the big camp, and it won't
be many weeks, or even days, afore
they re both over on t'other side of the
big pond fightin the most cussed,
cruei, unscrupulous gang of thieves
and murderers that ever rigged up in
uniforms and killed women and babies
for frm. Oh, of course you know all
that you'll say. You know your son
has enlisted and is goin' to war, to
batlie, to run his chance along with
the rest of bein killed or wounded or
takm prisoner. You know it, yes, in a
general way you do. Such things, the
woimdin' and all that, happen to other
boys every day, but it's amazin' how
slow fellers like you and me are to re
alise that they're just as likely to hap
ped to that one boy we set so much
stove by. It's .what I've just been try
In to realize, Dan. I've been sittin'
here tlunkin' it out.
"Take my own boy or take yours,
to fteh it right home take your Jim.
Jim left here and he went off to camp
to be trained. And it was colder than
the northeast corner of an ice chest up
in that camp, and he no sooner landed
thar than he realized he hadn't got the
heavy sweater he'd ought to have.
His ; mother would have knit it, but
'twould have taken time, and he'd have
pretty nigh froze v'iitin'. So the Red
Cross gave It to him, along with
wristers and a comfort kit. On the
way up ;o canip wherever that troop
txain he was on stopped ther? was j
THROUGH AN OCEAN OF UNSPEAKABLE
Feller Needs
Heirs Does
muni
C. LINCOLN
Vigilantes.
Red Cross women with hot coffee and
sandwiches, a-maMn' Mm comfortable,
doin the little kind things you and iis
mother are just longln. to-, do this min
ute. V
"When Christmas come who saw
that the bundles from r home got to
him? Who gave him things -candy
and smokes and such on its own ac
count? The Red Cross, thafs who!
And when he had the bad oold and
fever who supplied the nurse that did
more than anybody else to fitfxt the
pneumonia off? The Red Cross,, JDan ;
nobody else.
"And when he's on the ship- goin'
across, when he's marchin' tforough
France on his way to them trenches
we read so much about, when at last
he's in those trenches who's bodkin
out for him every, minute of the tisne?
Who's motherin' and fatherin" him,
same as you and your wife would give
all this wide world to be able to do?
Why, the Red Cross, just the Red! Cross.
"And when he goes over the -top to
get his first real punch at the Kaiser's
gang of pirates, suppose he gets a bul
let through him somewheres. It -can
just as likely be him or my Sam as
anybody else s boy, remember that
He's lyin out there in No Man's ."Land,
and It's night and cold and wet, and.
he's in pain, awful pain, and"
Mr Griggs interrupted.
"For mercy sakes, don't, CalebT' he
pleaded. "I can't bear to think of it."
"Then you ought to. 'Twill do you;
good to think just a little. For pnetty
soon who comes crawlin' along through
the hell fire to him and gives "him "wa
ter and morphine, if he needBs it and
binds up his wounds and carries Mm
back to the -place where thje doetoxs
are? And whose doctors are they fibat'
gives him the very best treatmjent
that's possible, and whose hospital
does he go to afterwards, and wh ose
doctors and nurses take such gt od
care of him there? Putttn' it all to
gether, who makes Jim Griggs a wi ill
man again and makes it possible f r
his father and mother and sisters t t
lay eyes on him once more? Nobod. f
on this earth but the Red Cross. Am I
God bless it, I say ! ;
What Is Your Son Worth to You7
"And now you wonder why a man no
richer than I am is givin' a hundred
dollars to a society that's doin' all that I
and a million times more for my boy.
Look here, Dan Griggs. How much is
your son worth to you? If you could
save his life by doin' It wouldn't you
sell the farm and the stock and your
house and the last shirt on your back?
Wouldn't you give him the last cent
you had if he needed it to save himself
from torture and death? Well, the
Red Cross is doin' everything humans
can do to save him from those things,
and it's warmin' him and comfortin'
him and Jseepin' him well and happy
besides. And what it's doin' for him
it's doin for every one of the soldiers
in the fields or the trainin' camps, the
hospitals even in the German pris
ons. And it needs money and you
grudge givin' it."
Mr. Griggs shook his head.
"N?, I don't," he said. "I guess I
can spare a hundred, too for the
boy's sake.
j
a Friend
YOUR HUNDRED
MILLION DOLLARS
i
WAR FUND COMMITTEE
TELLS HOW IT WAS ,
SPENT. !
i
No Part of It, Says John D. Ryan,
Went for Any Expenses of
the Organization.
John D. Ryan, vice chairman of the
War Council, recently discussed the
disbursements of the first $100,000,000
American Red Cross fund and spoke
of the necessity for further funds.
He announced that the week set apart
for the drive is May 20 to 27.
"We have collected $105,000,000,"
said Mr. Ryany "We have allowed
refunds to chapters as you know,
chapters are entitled to retain 25 per
cent, of the collections covered by the
chapter. They have not in all cases
availed themselves of the 25 per cent.,
but we have allowed $17,006,121 oh
this account. We have appropriated
to date $77,721,918 and we have avail
able for appropriation on March 1
$10,371,217, with the addition of $3,
500,000 we know to be perfectly good
ivhen called upon.
"The appropriations have been
made to the different countries as fol-1
lows: France, $30,936,103; Belgium,
2,086,131; Italy, $3,588,826; Russia,
$1,243,845; Rumania, $2,676,368; Ser
via, $875,180; Great Britain, $1,885,
750, including $1,000,000 that was ap
propriated by the War Council to the
British War Relief, and for other for
eign relief work, $3,576,300.
"For relief work for prisoners we
have expended $343,304, and this
work is only beginning. These appro
priations have been made to care for
the prisoners that we fearedmight be
taken. We also spent for equipment
and expenses of Red Cross personnel
sent abroad $113,800; for army base
hospitals in the United States, $54,
000; for navy base hospitals in the
United States, $32,000; Jkr medical
States, $531,000; for sanitary service,
in camps in this country, $403,000; forj
camp service in the United States,
$6,451,150, and miscellaneous in the
United States, $1,118,748. We have
funds restricted as to Use by the
donors amounting to $2,520,409, and
we have as a working capital for the
purchase of supplies for resale to
chanters or for shipment to France
0f $15,000,000. We have working cash
svdvances for France and the United
States of $4286,000.
"People say we use 60 cents to
t.lpend a dollar. The expenses of the
I led Cross today are well within the
a nount of money provided by mem
bt s;ship fees. No part of the $105,000,
OOx1, that we got is spent for carrying
on the work."
f
IT want to lay to you that no
ruther organization since the
iworld began has ever done such
igreat constructive work with the
.efficiency, dispatch and under
standing, often under adverse
.circumstances, that has fceen
4 -done by the American Red Cross
in France. General Pershing.
PAIN THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
Four Sons Of Mr. And Mrs. William J.
Davis In Service.
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LIEUT. MARTIN J. DAVIS
la , i ii m iriiniiBnNiMsfeiqraw
CORPORAL WALTER A. DAVIS
It is not often that as many as four sons of a Family go into this War,
and it is indeed seldom that as fine set of men as are above shown are found
in one family. " It. is our pleasure to present to the readers of the Warren
Record the four sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Jones Davis, of Warrenton.
All of these boys volunteered and three of them are Across. In talkinj?
of her sons this morning, Mrs. DaVis expressed the finest sentiment of Ia-l
triotic motherhood in these few words, "I'm glad for them to go; I feel that
There is where they should be!"
Lieut. Martin Jones Davis was commissioned in November at the Second
Officers Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe. He was for a number of
years a member of H. Company, having held a Sergeancy in the organization.,
Previous to going to Fort Oglethorpe, he taught school in Virginia. He is
an A. M. of the University of North Carolina, and is a man of strong char
acter. He is 28 years old and is now stationed at Camp Greene, Charlotte.
First Lieutenant R. B. Davis volunteered early this year and was called
in February. Previous to entering
where he was practicing medicine. A graduate of Virginia Medical Col-f
lege, he is a member of the Medical Corps. He is 26 years old, and a cable
gram received Wednesday announces his safe arrival "Over There."
Corporal Walter A. Davis at twenty three is serving Uncle Sam in the
Motor Mechanics Branch of the Aviation Corps "somewhere in France." He
volunteered in early Fall, was called in November, was trained at Fort
Thomas, Kentucky, and Fort Hancock,
in January. A -letter home states that he is well and happy, Walter
farmed near town for a number of years, and then was in the garage busi
ness at Norlina for some time.
Seaman Edward Lee Davis is twenty-one, and is sailing the Atlantic on
the U. S. S. Ticonderoga carrying soldiers "Over There." Ed volunteered
from Charlotte in January; spent three weeks in training at Norfolk; then
about three more weeks at work in
active transport work. He is an honor graduate of Warrenton High,
School, and made a splendid record at Carolina last year. The best of luck
to all four brothers is the wish of many true friends in the old home town.
LIEUT. PALMER
NOW IN FRANCE
WRITES LETTER TO GRAND
MOTHER IN WARRENTON
A Bennettsville, S. C, Boy; But
Connected With WTarrenton By
Association ; A Grandson . of
Mrs. W. J. White.
The following letter from Lieut. W
W.. Palmer, who is flying in France to
his grandmother Mrs. William J.
White, of this city, is particularly in
teresting. Lieut. Palmer is a son of
Mrs. Maggie K. W. Palmer, of Ben
nettsville, S'. C, but formerly of this
city. The letter follows:
France, March 24th
My Dear Grandmother, .
Haven't done any flying
today for a change and although I had
a pass to leave camp I stayed here
to sleep and write letters. After one
has flown r.s much as I have in the
past few weeks a- littls rest is not at
all bad.
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1ST-LIEUT. RICHARD B. DAVIS
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SEAMAN EDWARD LEE DAVIS
the service he had settled at Weeksville
Georgia, and sailed for France early
the Detail office,, and then transferred t
WHY WE SHOULD
SUPPORT U. S. A.
A MAN WHO FAILS TO WORK
FOR COUNTRY CLASSED
An Ingrate of the Worst Char
acter; Serving: At Home Is As
Necessary and Essential An
Service at the Front.
Dear Friends;
For more tban fifty years I
heve enjoyed the unfailing protection
of, my Government. Never, until this
crisis, has it asked of mo a favor. If
I eed not the call, I stand condemned
as a selfish ingrate.
Other men, by the hundred thous
and, are fighting and facing death,
that I mey be safe. If. I shirk my
plain duty to ad them as best I can,
I am not worth saving.
I have always professed to love my
country. If, in this hour of oppor
tunity, I fail to square the deed with
the word, my neighbors may justly
brand me as a four-flusher and a
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