The Wamrem Mem
VOLTOIE XXIII (Tuesday) WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918 (Friday) Numbe7l04
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PLANS MADE FOR BIG RE
CEPTION OF PRESIDENT
Warships Will Meet the George
Washington and Pilot Ship
Into Harbor at Brest; Ameri
can Delegation Meets Party
BREST, France, December 10
The steamship George Wash
ington, carrying President Wil
son and the American delegates
to the peace congress at Paris,"
was reported by the naval wire
less as passing the Azores at
one o'clock this afternoon. Ali
on board were well after the
stormy weather through which
the Presidential liner passed. .
ALL IN READINESS
Preparations for receiving
President Wilson here have been
completed.
The progress of each step ta
ken by the American visitors is
followed with eager interest.
The first plan of sending an Am
erican dreadnaught fleet seawara
has been changed. According to
the new plan the fleet will go out
early Friday to meet the Amer
ican party a short distance off
the coast.
French warships also will take
Foreign Minister Pichon, Minis
ter of Marine Leygues and Andre
Tardieu, French High Commis
sioner, to America for the first
greetings by an exchange of sa
lutes. French officers have arrived
from Paris to make final recep-
The following clipping from the At
lanta Constitution impresses the need
for the continued and increased Homi
Service of the Red Cross. Co-operation
by citizens in all sections of tha
County in making known cases need
ing attention is requested by Mrs. W.
A. Graham, vice-chairman of the Red
Cross. The clipping:
Our soldiers, freed from the pros
pect of service overseas, are still
to spend weary months in camp. In
the depressing waiting they will lose
heart more easily than before whca
things go wrong at home. Red Cross
to?xe Service to their families must
continue we are p.edged it shall -as
long as families are deprived of the
support of the soldier's presence.
Our task is peculiarly heavy be
cause of the large rural districts our
chapters cover. The worried soldier
with a letter telling of sickness or
trouble at home must often wait days
until a Home Service worker can
make a visit to a distant place, and
write back that medical or other re
lief has been given. Bad weather
conditions will soon make almost im
passable roads in many places.
We want to make plain to all peo
ple the opportunity Red Cross pro
vides for kind neighborly interest in
soldiers' families; how every patriotic
person can be a link in the chain 01
service we give our enlisted men. A
distress call may come to your Home
Service worker at any time in refer
ence to a soldier's family who live
near you. You can become an active
instead of an admiring member of
this department of Red Cross. Tele
phone or write your Red Cross chap
ter that you are willing to visit a sol
dier's family at once if need arises
in your immediate neighborhood. If
your chapter has no Home Service
find out why not, and get others to
help you push the inquiry until your
community takes its proper part in
the pledge that the soldier's family
shall not suffer during his absence. In
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tion arrangements.
The George Washington draws jf orm ourself too as to what benefits
too much water to enter the in- ! Home Serv ice can help secure the re
ner harbor. SO it will anchor turning, especially the wounded sol-
about a mile off shore.
THE AMERICAN PARTY
An American party, consisting
of Generals Pershing and Bliss,
Admiral Benson, Admiral Henry
B. Wilson, and Col. E. M. House
then will board the liner and
bring the President and Mrs.
Wilson ashore aboard a naval
tug.
The French ministers will ex
tend a formal welcome to the
American President as he sets
foot on French soil.
W.S.S.
REV. J. R. BETTS WILL
PREACH AT MACON 15TH
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aier. lour neignDor may come duck
!and not know. The army depends on
Home Service to instruct returning
men about keeping up insurance, com
pensation, re-education and fitting
back into industry.
It is your patriotic and neighborly
duty to get in touch with your Home
Service section. For further informa
tion address Mr. C. R. Rodwell, chair
man Civilian Relief Committee, War
ren Chapter Red Cross, Warrenton.
W.S.S.
COLORED RED CROSS AUX
ILIARY TO MEET MONDAY
Rev. J. R. Betts will fill the appoint
ment of Rev. J. A. Hornaday at 3
c'clock next Sunday afternoon in the
Macon Methodist Church.
In conjunction with this service he
will present the Red Cross Christmas
Roll Call. It is greatly desired that
the people of the entire community j
attend. 1
The colored Red Cross Auxiliary is
called for a special meeting Monday
night, December 16th at the Court
House here.
Hon. Tasker Polk will speak.
Rev. C. H. Williamson will also talk.
Rev. J. K. Ramsay will preside.
Everyone is urged to come.
Mrs. P. F. HALEY,
Chairman Red Cross Auxiliary.
W. E. RAMSAY,
Secretary of Warrenton Auxiliary.
W.S.S.
Remember Buy more stamps
By HENRY C. WAGSTAFF
The Red Cross sounds a clarion call
Throughout the land the call for all.
A call that carries the holy thought.
Of a Christian victory, dearly bought.
Revoked, the guns of carnage cease : '
Supernal, wings the dove of Peace,
Yet from devastafed lands ascend the cries
Of hurt and homeless : war's sacrifice.
A mighty chorus of pain and woe,
Wells up to Heaven, from the crushing blow.
For Flanders' fields are blight and bare ;
Where once they fruited rich and fair:
Where once the poppies gloried red,
Now sleep the host of martyred dead.
Returning home, where no homes are,
Instead, the wrecks of battle scar,
The legions view, yet scarce understand,
The chaos of destruction's ruthless hand.
In grief's deep abyss of despair,
Plunged are the stricken everywhere.
Shall orphaned lips now moan in vain?
Shall helpless waifs unhelped remain?
Shall aged and ailing, sick and failing,
Suffer on, their fate bewailing?
Shall hunger stalk, and famine reign,
To add their toll to the pitied slain " r
Shall desolation's fearful hand
Remain unstayed to scourge the land?-
Shall ruined homes in ruins stay?
And tortured fields in torture lay?
Shall blackened hearths, whench hope has fled,
Be left, reminders of their dead ?
The Red Cross answers its thundering NO !
Its blazened banners forward go!
Against the tide of woe unfurled,
To stanch the wounds of a war crushed world.
In the wake of destrcution's fearful blight,
The Red fcross follows in Christian MIGHT!
To reach the afflicted. To SAVE to heal:
To hear the faintest cry. The farthest appeal.
The war is over. The fighting done.
But the work of the Red Cross is newly begun.
For the human wreckage in the lands over sea,
Is the heritage of the Red Cross and humanity.
You can't go yourself, but the help you can give,
Will help the Red Cross to help others live.
"Your heart and a Dollar" the appeal to all :
Universal Membership in the Christmas Roll Call.
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The Red Cross Christmas Roll Call depends on
yoru individual support to make "UNIVERSAL
MEMBERSHIP" possible. Have your "Red
Cross Dollar" ready when the solicitor calls.
(Dr. William A. McKeever in Balti
more Sun)
"The love of money is the root of
all evil," saith the proverb.
Two small boys confess that they
lost $2.50 between them trying xo
beat a wheel of fortune at a sreet
carnival.
Out of 100 boys arrested for misde
meanors during a recent month 20
were found guilty of violating a junk
ordinance.
A mother has. just presented the
case of her 13 year old daughter, who
has been stealing systematically from
the home purse for five years past.
Appeal is now going up from many
parts of the country asking that all
concerned discontinue the practice of
authorizing more boys and girls to
collect indefinite amounts for patriotic
purposes. "These children are often
tempted to keep a part of the money"
is the complaint.
"This new liberal wage scale i
making a fool of my boy, who is only
15. He does not think it necessary
to have an education and refuses
attend school. He drifts from one
little higher pay, and yet never learn
ing to master any line of worlc."
"Boys nowadays have too much
money to spend. Our boy, 16 years
old, is getting $18 a week and is sav
ing none of it. What are we to do?
He argues that it is all his own money
and that he has a right to do what he
pleases with it."
So the juvenile money troubles
might be reported at great lengu.
The situation is very much aggravat
ed by the present-day scale of high
wages. Ordinary workmen are being
paid so much for their services that
the matter becomes a topic for exist
ing conversation at the- dinner table.
The children join in the chorus. Mon
ey, money, let's spend the money this
enticing issue is probably more in the
consciousness of the young today than
the great war itself. "
All this thought of earning and
spending money is an abnormality for
children, a kind of madness, which is
certain to warp the even growth of
their characters unless checked.
You have no right to permit your
boy to earn money unless you teach
him how to use it.
It is perfectly natural for children
to steal, gamble and squander money
until they are taught a better way to
transact business. Your child inher
its absolutely nothing definte as to
ibonesty, integrity and financial respon.
jsibility. In order to understand and
I practice these matters he must u
i taught by you or some one else.
The larger your boy's earnings, the
grave his danger of going wrong, and
the greater your responsibility as his
j guide.
t The world has stumbled and faLeii
down largely because money,, business
trade, commerce these all were be
ing pursued more and more as ends
in themselves. So will your boy fail
lor fall if he is permitted to believe
that money making is the chief bus
iness of society.
The struggle is now on in the whirl
pool of the world events to take down
the gods of money, greed and inhuman
might and place in the center of af
(Continued On Sixth Page)
KING GEORGE AND HAIG
COMMEND OUR TROOPS
Record 30th Division In France
Resplendant With Heroic Ser
vice of Troops from the Caro
linas and Tennessee.
The following clipping . from tho
News Leader, Richmond is of particu
lar interest. H. Company is a mem
ber of the 30th , Division, and home
people read with pride the record its
representatives have made. The ar
ticle: . . . The London Daily telegraph
of November 19, describes a drive of
King George and Queen Mary, thru
Northwest London, accompanied by
the Princess Mary and attended by
Commander Sir Charles Cust, R. N.,
The telegraph says:
"At Kensington Gardens was a group
of American officers, to whom the
King walked up, afterwards chatting
with them for several minutes and
shaking hands when salutes had been
given and acknowledged. Among the
officers, who were delighted at the
honor accorded them were Major W.
A. Fair, Captain Charles E". Monk, and
Lieutenant James R. Ridley, all of the
Thirtieth Division (known as 'Ola
Hickory.)' They had served with the
Fourth Army Division on the Western
front.
" 'The king' declared Major Fair
afterwards 'said how pleased he was
that America had co-operated with
the other allies. 'Not for one mo
ment,' added the king, 'had I any
doubt of the issue.'"
The Thirtieth division, mentioneo.
for special honors by Field Marshal
1 Haig, was known as the "Wildcat" ai-
j vision and came from the .Sbutheas
itern states. The Twenty-seventh and
Thirtieth divisions probably were the
first American divisions to fight in
Belgium, having crossed the border
(Continued On Sixth Page)
W.S.S.
Ready For Intensive
R.C. Christmas Drive
With headquarters on main' street
here teeming with Red Cross posters
buttons, and appeals to "Join", every
thing is in readiness for launching
the intensive campaign for member
ship which will run next week with
the one idea of universal enrollment.
All over. Warren, the appeal is to
be made to come to the arms of the
Greatest Mother in the World.
Every one is expected to wear tho
Red Cross Christmas button, and a
large red cross is given the head of
each house who joins. To these large
crosses smaller red crosses, at head
quarters here, are to be appended for
each member of the home. The pub
lic is expected to prominently place
this honor certificate of mercy where
it may be seen at all times.
The need for universal membership,
it has been pointed out, is world wide.
They look to the cross of mercy as
the mecca of hope, the symbol of
tenderness, the sublimity of love.
JOIN!
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