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VOLUME XXIV
(Tuesday)
VVARRENTON, N. C, rFRID AY,J ANUARY 17, 191fT
(Friday)
Number 5
YEAR
ASEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THEINTEI? ESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
5c A COPY
ROMIE C. HEUAY PCPF" II 1 Q II
Att fl0W DEMOCRACY MAY
WrdtioiT Discussed isy Mr.
jj E. AycocK wno Aavocaies
Initiative, Referendum and Re
call Legislation.
"You can fool some of the people all
of the time, ana an ui iuc wm?
cnme of the time, but con can't fool
some , . m
of the people au oi me -uue. . me
mortal Lincoln must have had in
mind the need of initiative, referen
dum and recall, which puts democ
cracv in the hands of the people, so if
tricked by their legislatures iney can
enact or kill such laws, or discharge
such officials as they wish. The time
has come to establish the democracy
at home which we have fought for in
Hurope.
Government in tne unnea otaies
r ia r f Vio Tvr'ncinle of De-
WaS lOUIiueu r
mocracy, the rule of the whole people.
But somehow principle ana practice
don't get together. The democracy
, r of loast Hopsn't democ
we nave uu
to suit the folks. Someway, by" some
trick or other, the will oi a powenui
wpolthv minority gets done, the will
Lf fhfl hi? majority is disregarded.
Over the head of the average voter
there is a question mark a foot high.
I He feels that Representative Govern
I ment does not represent and he wants
I to know how it can be made to. What
is the way out?
There is a way out and the people of
several States and many cities have
already found and are applying it. It
is a way so simple and reasonable as
to have been scarcely noticed by t ic
headline writers of the daily papers.
Yet this way constitutes a political
revolution of the first magnitude, a
revolution whicK is - securing, for-the
common people political powers of the
kind for which our forefathers fought
the Revolutionary war and which in
other lands and times hwe been secur
ed only by bloodshed and the violent
overthrow of reactionary govern
ments. I shall attempt to discribe in my
feeble way this epoc-making move
ment. It is a thing every voter should
know about and thoroughly under
stand. It will bring hope and courage
to all those who believe that the clos-
ithe better that government will be.
We are to deal with new political ma
chinery, popular tools of self-government.
I shall confine my .description
.to State government because
the
the
movement has not yet reached
national stage, and shall define by de
scribing here and there illustrations
which show just how the tools of the
new democracy work out in practice..
One gives an example of the initia
tive, one an example of the Referen
dum and one of the Recall, now in
lii,uii practice.
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The legislature of Washington in
1915 enacted a law seriously crippling
the public port of Seattle. The people
had built this port at an expense of
i$7,000,000. There are fine grain
((Warehouses, refrigerator for fruit, and
jtruck storage, docks, piers, ferries, and
public market. Whearfage and stor
age charges had been reduced from 40
to 70 per cent of the former private
fharges. Farmers all over the North-
r e3t were using it. It was a great
usmess to both producers and con-
umers who had before been system
atically robbed. It was rapidly
caching a noint where it would be
elf-sustn
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ayers. The law was recognized in
tently as a first steo on the nart of
he railroads and corner ationsr to nut
he public port out of business. A
torm of protest issued by the port of
eattle Commission. When the act
as pending the people protested ve-
'emently against the passage of so
ricous a bill; meetings held in public
lalls; Commercial boddies, civic or
ganizations, women's cliibs and im
provement societies throughout the
and Districts transmitted resolu
;10na; and telegrams demanding de
eat of the measure. Representatives
!f such organizations went to Olympia
t their own expense and personally
fPpealed to members against legisla
tor! so needless, so undemocratic, re
actionary and unsound. Nothwith-
tanding the aroused sentiment of two
r the largest papers printed in Seat-
i ..rv-.ir nrMnrwAPY may m l i
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Lieut. Dunn is a son of Mrs. Bettie
Dunn, of Wise, who has made a good
record since he left home for Camp
Jackson in the fall of 1917. He went
with the draftees, but has risen stead
ily until he holds the commission of
First Lieut. He was transferred from
Camp Jackson to Camp Sevier and
from there went to the officers train
ing school at camp Gordon. Lieut.
Dunn is a young man of a most amia
ble disposition, one who makes friends
everywhere, and his associates here in
Wise were not surprised to learn of
his many promotions.
tie demanded the emasculation of the
port commission, under the whip of
the party machine the Legislature
adopted word for word the bill of the
Special interest find rejected all other
amendments, suggestions and presen
tation cf facts.
Within ninety days a petition sign
ed by over six per cent of the voters of
Washington was filed with Secretaiy
of State, the law suspended and at
the election of Jan 7th, 1916, the
voters rejected the act of Legislature
by the overwhelming vote of 195,253
against to 45, 2(34 for. So this port,
the ocean gateway of the Northwest,
.was. ,s&ved. - v . -. ..- --- - - -
This is an excellent illustration of
the use of the Referendum, that is the
power of the people to require thai
any law or part of a law may be re
ferred to themselves for ultimate de
cision. I hope that our honorable represen
tatives from Warren County will have
an eye open to a measure like this,
have an amendment passed and let the
people of North Carolina vote on it
next November, 919, that is the Ref
erendum." There are many laws in North Caro
lina that should be referred to the peo
pie both State and County, is my way
of thinking. If we had Referendum
only that would put more power by
the people.
Respectfully
R. E. AYCOCK.
Local News From Lit
tleton and Community
Mrs. Telfair Ricks and children,
who have been visiting relatives and
friends here left Wednesday.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Mack
Johnston are very glad to know that
they are improving after an illness
of "Flu."..
Mrs. T. P. Rideout and children, of
Henderson, who have been., the guest
of Mrs. Jim Johnston , have, returned
to their home.
Mrs. Rom Parker and son, of -Enfield
are visiting friends and relatives
this week. ,
Mr. Jack Northington, of Norfolk,
Va., is here on a visit.
Mr. and " Mrs. J. H. Newsom, Mr,,
and Mrs. V. F. Harrison, Mr. John
Taylor and Mr. M. J. Grant motored
to Raleigh Tuesday to attend the
show "Pom Pom.."
Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. H. White
head Friday morning a son.
We are glad to see Mr. "Rick" Har
ris up town again..
Mrs. Marvin J. Grant who has been
visiting relatives in Raleigh, has re
turned. Mrs. Bessie Cawthorne and .daugh
ter Bessie Lee, are very sick with In
fluenza. Mrs. Ella Bailey, who has been vis
iting her sister Mrs. W. H. May, has
returned to her home in Knightdale.
Miss Frances Sessoms spent Sun
day in Thelma.
Miss Saddie Vinson is quite sick
(Continued On Second Page
Four Million Armenians, Syrians and Other War Suffer-
ers Practically Without
Eyes Turn to America In
UMillion Dollars.
AND JESUS SAID
"If ye shall ask anything of the
Father in my name, He will give it
you.
For nineteen centuries this glorious
promise has been a source of comfort
and of strength to countless millions
of the opprest, the sick, the suffering,
the troubled, and the grievously bur
dened. These burning words have been
a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of
cloud by day to the heavily laden and
the sore distrest and to those multi
tudes who have passed through the
Valley of the Shadow of affliction or
death. Anr now in this latter day
nay, at this very hour millions of
women and children in and near those
lands, those hills and rivers made holy
by the sacred memories of our Lord,
are claiming this promise and are cry
ing out to Him in agony of spirit and
body beseeching Him that He will save
them from starvation, from death, and
from horros worse than death.
Four million Armenians, Syrians,
and other war-suffers in western Asia
are practically without food, clothing,
or shelter, the vast majority helpless
women and children. More than a
million and a half have been deported.
Nearly a million have been brutually
murdered and massacred. Four hun
dred thousand children are orphaned.
It can be said that there are practical
ly no more children left under the age
of five, all having perished from ex
posure and disease. For every hundred-births--there
are from '"two' - to
three hundred deaths. The newly
born children die almost immediately,
their mothers having nothing to give
them but tears. Deaths from dysen
tery, typhus, tuberculosis, and famine
are increasing from day to day with
appalling rapidity. The homeless a
pitiful stream of women and children
wander aimless through the streets
of their wrecked villages. If you stop
a child toward evening and ask him
where he is going he will tell you, "I
a m searching for a place to sleep
All winter long they have slept in
nooks and corners, in alleys and by the
roadsides, with no blankets, no cover
ing whatever, their clothing the mer
est rags. The women clasp their wan
faced children to their breasts and on
their faces is written the pitiful story
of their utterless despair.
The scenes in these lands of grief
and suffering are beyond the power of
imagination to conceive or of words to
describe. Throughout the length and
breath of these countries there is no
food save bread, the dry crusts of
bread that they receive at the hands
of charity. No meats, no soups, no
vegetables, no sugar, less than a
pound of bread daily, and even this
morsel has often to be shared with
others. "A poor old woman faint
with hunger said to me to-day," writes
one of the devoted workers, " 'Sahib,
the breu won't go dowr I soak It
in water, but it sticks in my throat."
"Wheresoever I go," a missionary
reports, "I see men or women fallen
on the street dead or dying and litt.?
emaciated children tirercring out
.i.oir wasted hands 'for :ust one shahie
for bread,' tears running down their
cheeks, and still more awful are the
little ones sitting prop; aga'nst a wall,
l:stiess and torpid, inderent even ti
food, waiting quietly for death."
"Just now," says another worker,
"I have been interrupted in my writ
ing. A Jewess has come to tell me of
a woman who staggered to her door
begging late last evening. She was
allowed to spend the night in a corner
of the house and this morning she was
dead. 'Won't, you please, send some
one to bury her," imployed my caller."
Such pleas are frequent now. There
are more dead than buried in Armenia.
Men and women once in good circum
stances and self-respecting, now
hungry, helpless, friendless, crawl
away, like animals, out of sight, die
unseen, and lie unburied.
There is no joy of victory in these
distraught lands; but only the cries
of, an agonized people to whom peace
has brought neither benediction nor
Food, Clothing or Shelter;
Appeal For Thirty-Five
blessing; neither rest nor respite;
lands where the war has lend an aw
fill human wreckage in its wake; a
great Kingdom of Grief filled with
the cries of mothers and orphans, a
cUstrest people prostrate with desola
tion, numbed with suffering, having
rip partnership in the great joy of a
liberated world. No sons, no fathers.
!np brothers are returning victorious to
their homes in Armenia or Syria, for
, their villages ' and their cities have
bieen razed and ruined and lie in dust
and ashes, and the men by the thous
ands have been pitilessly murdered
ojr barbarously depoted.
u Deported? Yes, but what a eup
hemism for the most heartless and re
lentless cruelty.. Deportation means
Ithe loss qf home, business property,
jand every personal possession. It
means being driven into desert places,
forced to march at the point of, the
.bayonet until strength is exhausted;
itj means being refused shelter, food,
drink; it means being subjected to out
rage and calculated cruelty.
Many such scenes of terrible and
tragic suffering are in the very lands
where Jesus walked with his disciples;
where He had compassion on the
needy multitudes, and fed them and
healed them and comforted them;
Many of these awful sights are even
in ithe very shadow of the Mount of
Olives, where Christ said:" Suffer the
little children and bid them not to
come unto me: for of such is the king
dortjfi'heaveiT.,,': -Millions" of """the
least of these my brethren" are hun
gry and naked and sick and in terri
ble prisons without walls. In them
and through them the King of "Pity
and of Love is calling to you to minis
ter to them just as you would do if
you saw Him lying at your feet.
You, to whom the Christmas just
past has meant a time of reunion, a
time of feasting and happiness; you,
whose homes are warm and whose
children are well fed, think now of
J these your brothers and sisters who
'are pershing. The cries of these
children must reach your ears. The
your hearts. These homeless and
'prayers of these mothers must touch
starving millions are dependent on
charityyour charity f or Turkish
charity provides for no one it begins
and ends at home.
It is America's God-given privilege
to feed the hungry from her great
bounty and from her unlimited stores.
It is her blessed duty to life the head
of fallen Armenia and put the cup of
of bread in her hands, and so ,prove
cold water to her lips and the morsel
of bread: in her hands, and so prove
herself endeed the protector and lib
erator of the opprest and subject
races.
But now the period of rehabilita-.
tion in the Near East is at hand. Vast
ly larger sums will be required to re
store the refugees to their homes than
.were required merely to sustain life
in their desert exile. The American
Committee for Relief in the Near East,
under the able leadership of Cleveland
H. Dodge, is appealing for a minimum
of thirty million dollars "with which,"
says the committee, " we can, human
ly speaking, save every life."
We feel this cause to be so worthy,
this need to be do desperately urgent,
that even tho we made a liberal con
! tribution less than a year ago, we are
now subscribing five thousand dollars
to this new drive. We are doing this
after Having convinced ourselves by a
careful investigation extending over
j a number of days that these funds will
j be wisely administered, that this work
! is in most capable hands, and that
'every dollar given will go for. relief
j without the deduction of one cent for
! organization expenses. Send your
J own contribution quickly, and so bring
new life and a new hope to some
weary, broken body in the Near East.
Now is our opportunity to show
these lands made luminous by the foot
prints of Christ and the Apostles what
our Christianity of the West means
to-day. Now is the time when these
places of sacred history should receive
Son of -Mrs. r.ucy Heuay, of below
Littleton, who volunteered and left
with H. Company in 1917 for Camp
Sevier. He was wounded in the bat
tle of September 29th, but last reports
are that he is all right.
a . new sanctification by the service ox
God's children in the twentieth cen
tury. We a Christlike healing of the
sick and feeding the hungry, we will
make a royal highway for our Lord
into the grateful hearts of these peo
ple, along which the King of Glory
may come with his message of love
and "light. Literary Digest.
Send your check at once to Cleve
land H. Dodge, Treasurer, Room 190,
No. 1 Madison' Avenue, New York
City
Mr. Hornaday Pleas
antly Located Maxton
, Editor of the Record:
. Having ""per-'
suaded myself that a brief 'message
from me to the good people among
whom I lived last year, published in
your excellent paper, might be read
with some degree of pleasure, I have
decided to ask you for space for said
brief message.
On the first day of January wife
and I left the good town of Warren
ton for our new-old home in Maxton.
And right here I wish to mention one
very unsatisfactory incident connect
ed with pur leaving that splendid
town. An unkind fate ordered it
that the schedule of the trains on
which we were to make the trip had
been moved up ten minutes that very
day, which we did not find out until
we were just ready to sit down to
quite a tempting dinner prepared for
us at the ideal home of tmr dear
friends, Mr. and Mrs. Norwood Boyd's.
The unsatisfactory side to it was, we
did not have time to attend to that
dinner just as we wished to.
Of course we had a long ride from
Warrenton to Maxton, but the con
nections were good, and we arrived
here about fifteen minutes after nine
o'clock of the day we left Warrenton.
As Bro. Ormon was not out of the
parsonage wife 'and I went to her sis
ter's for a brief visit.
" On Friday the third day of January
we came overf rom Mr. McKay's in
an automobile, and found quite a num
ber of the ladies, and a few men, at
the parsonage -to welcome us to the
charge. We began our itinerant min
istry right here thirty-five years ago,
and we were impressed with the fact
that several of those who were present
to welcome us this time were present
to welcome us when we came to the
charge before. Of course a great
many changes have taken place dur
ing the years that have fallen into the
gulf of past eternity since we were
here before, but some of the old
friends were easily recognized in
spite of the changes. ,Then, too,
Maxton is quite a good deal larger
than it was back in the eighties. Hav
ing spent four happy years on the
Ridgewayy Circuit twenty-odd years
ago, living at Ridgeway while serving
that charge, we felt like we were go
ing back home when we were appoint
ed to the Warrenton Circuit. A feel
ing very similar to this possessed us
when we were assigned to Maxton by
Bishop Darlington at Goldsboro. We
shall not cease, to regret the necessity
for leaving Warrenton, but having to
leave that charge, there was not
another charge in all the Conference
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REPRESENTATIVE DAVIS IN
TRODUCES OTHER BILLS
One To Repeal Dog Law and the
Other to Abolish Present Me
thod of Taking School Census;
Jones Defends Present Act.
Representative Davis has introduc
ed the following bills:
A bill to repeal the Dog law; a bill
to repeal the working of able-bodied
citizens upon the Public roads; a bill
to iepeai the Highway Commission.
A bill to repeal the Act of 1917 ap
pointing a County Census Taker for
Warren.
Supt. Jones Defends Census Law.
I.ijpte that the Representative from
this County has introduced a bill to
repal the law appointing a County
Census Taker for Warren county. Of
course it is a matter of-on:non as to
the method of .taking the . Census. It
was aumuted b.. tne owie am n
ference of County Superintendents
that the present method was a failure
in that it often was not "a true and
accurate census.", At the time that
the law was enacted it seemed almost
impossible to get the census properly
taken and promptly taken. "One man
may lead the Pony to the brink; but
a THOUSAND cannot make him
drink." Farmers were too busy (and
are now) to take the census at three
cents per name; when the labor of
completing the census and filling out
the blanks is more trouble and re
quires more - care than procuring the
names. The law which Mr. Davis
proposes to repeal requires the Cen
sus taker to visit in person the home
of each child and each adult iHitere .
and -procure -the iillrniation required
by the State and County; to ptce a.
cotvt of saM census of each school
district in the hand of the teacher on
or before the opening of the school;
to furnish a copy of . the census of
each district to the County Superin
tendent for filling in the office for the
inspection of the public, and prohibit
ed payment by the Superintendent for
the service until the census and
method, of taking was sworn to by the
County Census taker. The cost for
1918 and 1919 was $492.96. That is
to say $246.48 per schocl year, includ- .
ing a census of those who could not
read and write. I believe this method
if followed intelligently and the cen- -sus
made out on the Card Index sys
tem; each card representing the head
of a family and each card having
blank space sufficient for a record of
each family for ,say six years, and a
blank space for showing the progress
of each child in the public school is an.
ideal system. The law is alright, if
carried out as written. The old meth
od of having one census taker for each
school district means a variety of de
grees of eefficiency, and a variety of
dates of -delivery of Census and
sometimes, as was the fact in 1917,
the census was taken late in the Fall
by the white and colored school teach
ers. A true and accurate census of
school property, school buildings,
blcVboards. desks and cet.. an'l il
literates, giving proper ages in all in-v
stances, is of much value to the Coun-
ty; but with the oid method we had ail
kinds of degree of opinion and of
record.
It may be that Mr. Davis has some
thing better in view; he certainly can-
Inot make it cost the County less
money than the price of six cents bi
ennially per school child. A better
system will be welcome. A combina
tion of County census taker and Coun
ty Attendance Officer might be a step
in the right direction; but don't go
back to the old system.
HOWARD F. JONES, Supt.
COMMENDED FOR MER
ITORIOUS CONDUCT
We gladly call attention to the fact
that First Lieut. Bravid W. Harris,
Warren county's only Commissioned
colored officer, has been commended
by General Martin Commanding tlie
92nd Division, for meritorious conduce
in action at Bois Frehaut, near Pont-a-Mousson,
on Nocember 10th and
11th. Lieutentant Harris is a son of
B. Washington Harris of this town
and has had proper training at home
as a foundation for success in life.