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v. c,ev Live Semi-W eekly for the Common Good Medium iii this Section ;;VifP YYIV (Tuesday) . 'T7 AT?' A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY ti 50 A i ' 5c. THE COPY ; - ----- g - - . ; :. . . -. . , . - - WARRENTONr Gw FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1Q1 a ?7 1 - K . . -iv.-.Wv . . ' . . 7 . COTTON TIM 'ORGANIZED township Chairmen As Men Executive Committee To "Honor" Pledge From Farmers number of Warren county farm- j winpss men met in the Court prS3"u uu t use here weanesaay at xs o ciock line up with tne ou cent cotton anu i -..nnrrQ" nrncrrntn' TVirrtncrVi- jecreaseauciC"6- & - f the entire boutn air iarmers or .. . 1 A i. n-wan vrrani7innr 4-r aK .Up cotton ueiu u- ,in a fair price tor lung cotton, r l i j ;i which as Otner sovereigns, uas lost its Prior to the election of officers Mr. John Graham, upon tne ably seconded motion of Mr. J. B. Davis, addressed Ithe assemblage. Stating: that he was Lot a farmer, but a teacher whose every association and influence was e r. ,vith the agricultural interests, trot. pv,om launched sturdily forth to ijiaii"i - Th6 Unit iUCl luuuvi cv vuv .u.v w v . on acreage, insisted upon to protect im as the spot which should be hit. e urged that the time merchants lm- ress the importance of decreased cot- 11 1 A. 1 on acreage a sman crop Dut . oig oney, and hence as much protectioin ?s would be agorded by a large crop raised at the expense of a "live at :ome policy." He endorsed the pro gram of organization, stating that the jrice paid mill help, and for the fin- shed product, justifies at least thirty ents cotton. He plead that the f arm- rs stick together in times of prosper- ty as well as adversity and thereby ssure a just compensation for the'r abor. The live at home policy was i!o scored as the means to prosperity. l,-s warm npiMise ceased, Mr. -John p. Davis, of Shocco, plead for a perm ;vnert organization, and a compliance pith the rules oz such a body by the armers whether cotton was ten cents r forty. "It is the lack of coopera- lon among the farmers in time of prosperity which makes organization vork hard in times of dem-ession " Duvis. Sspt. Jones impressed the point that ne trend ei public mind should be aken from th $150 a bale idea and wc(l on the decreased acreage hLl this vas the true policy to fol- ow for betterment. The "hoe- and tommy" farmer is the man on the oad to prosperity, and this organiza ion should inculcate this idea. Judge Kerr greeted his audience Fith the remark that "he was nroud f being a North Carolina farmer for ghty per cent, of the best Deonle of ne State were tillers of tW ml" igures produced by him showed that fer capita the farmers of this State fade the largest monied crop of any mt of this commonwealth tHnt." the Jalue of the State's crops in 1918 was ,uuo,000 and that the manufactur a goods of the State in 1918 renre- ented S713 nnnnnn -c .... uoted, my fellow citizens, to instill a Pride m your achievement for once 1 3 necessary quality is given birth . T vlsl0n comes its the spring 1 better thJno-c 4-:.,: t j perr statnri fu4. . i umi. mere was no trouoie f organize wherever confidence exists j and the trouble has been with the Ftoer that he HiHn'f h-,IO r,nKAr the other fellow." To which truism I0iner Matthew Duke.' add A men and tho Vi Jh t "VU'3C iwuueu us assent. I ne farmers, linwpvor -nYiinAaA v weaker, "am . . ' " uie saaaie Dut a on z ow t. and it is hio-Vi iro or, nization Working in Viar-mAr, aiantee to the nortal Constitution of Liberty as e source of all power, a just reward tne swpnf 4-t i 7- ason in charge of the meet-J Ued fnr fVn i : .as k,j ciccuuu oi omcers r after disco; -r i xu . were elected by acclaim: arn --cn, president ; - K. IS. Wil- nes v-iii- uiuuic i ' Secretary and Treasurer and Me nav, ... . . : n oi the Warren County Cot- vi auuuLK i. Discussion citizens present, on the ail of Pntf;, , wm- s acreage ana ion. ts. avis " wuams lat tk ner gentlemen insisted i ine orffQ;t: i , f H , - ti-.iiiduon ionow tne pian vjunuu Association ASSICIA- Of of the South as given on the honor pledge to be obtained bv the townshin . . ' r -men irora every coxton iarmer. a "e motion oi ; ivir. j esse uaraner that. tVi P "F!Yfrntivo. nr A rKri c n-r ir nm - - - - y mittee De maae up oi twelve town- ship chairman and that they would order the disbursement of the funds was carried. A later meeting is to be .held and other details worked out. The following men have been ap pointed Township Chairmen: FORK R. E. Williams WARRENTON W. B. Fleming i SIX POUND Jessee Gardner HAWTREE W. P. Rodwell FISHING CREEK W. T. Hardy SANDY CREEK-r-S. E. Allen SHOCCO J. W. Burroughs RIVER R. D. Fleming JUDKINS D. L. Ryder ROANOKE L. W. Kidd SMITH CREEK Bob White NUTBUSH J. C. Brauer. The following letter has been dis dispatched to these organization heads : Warrenton, N. C. February 26, 1919 Dear Sir: The farmers of the county in session here today appointed you a member of the executive committee of the Warren-county Cotton Association whose aim is to get the farmer. to hold all cotton until thirty cents is reached and as a step in . this direction is ask ink all-f a.rir ers;- both white and color-, ed, to decrease their acreage this year by one-third. This plan is being fol lowed over the entire South as the only manner to guarantee a fair price for the stap.e. Your duties j as chairman of your township is to appoint a representa tive from the colored and one from the white race as your assistants, and so '.secure the "Honor" lpedge from every farmer. You are to collect 20c, on every bale unsold and 10c. on every acre to be planted in 1919, funds to be used for fordwarding campaign in Countv and State. If there are any .who will not join hands to assure a fair ueai ior an, uie urgitiiuaiiuu icucaia that you take their names also. It has beenf requently said that the iarmers can't organize, but things which were impossible in the past, reed not remain, over thus. If the cotton farmers will stand like a "stone wall" in Warren, as they are expected to do oper the entire Southland, a fair price is assured and a just reward for labor will come to him as it does to the cotton mill, the 'merchants and those who handle the finished product. Your immediate and whole attention is urged to this matter which will mean much in dollars and cents to tne farmer who has cotton, and to the fi nancial welfare of this section. "Lead on McDuff, and damned be he who first cries enough."" The fight is on! With co-operation success comes the farmer's way. Literature enclosed. Yours for thirty cent cotton, W, BRODIE JONES, S Secretary-Treasurer, Warren County Cotton Assn. RETURN OF THE PRESIDENT When President Wilson went to Europe there was an awful racket in Washington. - Washington loves prec edents, and apparently "Mr., Wiison never allows them 4 to ) interfere" with his purposes. . And so he' went to Eu rope a thing none of his predeces sors had ever done. A very unfriend ly lot of epithets were hurled a thim as he departed. But the Presidents returns, and it f is noticeable that ' the " Wilson smile' . ' hasn't worn off. He is acclaimed everywhere as a leader who has done great things. He has succeeded and nothing succeeds like success,-, especially ; among politicians. It does not need a partisan to analyse the situation; for though tons of words and speeches may be spilled upon the subject, the- fact remains that Mr, (Continued On Fourth Page) ALBERT LEE COLEMAN; ' ft IP I Son of Mr. L. P. Coleman, of Merry Mount, N. C killed in action on Sept. 29, while during hit bit for his country, over there. Mr. Coleman was a mem ber of H. Company, the home organi zation. SHERIFF DAVIS ON JAIL CONDITIONS To the people of Warren County: There appeared in Tuesday's issue of the Warren Record a. partial report: oi conditions of Warren County's jail as reported by the state inspector. Thinking, perhaps, this partial re port might be misleadiny I deem it my duty to tell you what the inspector did say. He said the jail was clean and well kept inside, but the'buildinv was not up-to-date; that the Ventilation was bad, and there were no cots, pil lows, or pillow cases provided and he miyht have added ice cream, cake and candy. However, let-that be as it may, I wish to say this: During the past 18 years there has been only one complaint made to me by , any county l : : . t- iL. -r .1 3au. The.re have, been only3wo es1 capes: one by 'sawing out and one by overpowering y the jailor. : There has been no death in Jail for over 18 years. There has been no sickness in jail for over 18 years, except wound ed prisoners. There has been some vermin in jail a few times brought there by prisoners from other coun ties or states 'but they were soon de stroyed. Four white men were confined there last year for several months and I saw. them after and never heard a word of complaint. It is true that at times conditions have not been as I or any one else would desire owing to lunatics being confined in the v jail. They . would break up and destory . any and . every thing and some of them were very un clean. All the lawyers of Warrenton and some from Henderson, Littleton and Weldon have been' tOv the jail time and again to see their clients and I have heard no complaint from them as to the conditions. If the state in spector can find a jail in the state with a better record let him produce it. Going back to the poor unfortu nates who have lost their reason and. (Continued on Fourth Page) MICK1E SAYS 1 v NOPE ,WE OXOWK BON ER fr. CrOW-U. -NNEU., NHN 0ONl VA PHONE OS AfcOvX KZ ob HC BEST w rid eai to President al In Boston-Nation Heads In France Work In Perfect Accord Fori Future Welfare Of World. - Boston, Feb. 24 The text of Pres-f ident Wilson address at Mechanics! Hall to-day follows i Gov. Coolidge, Mr. Mayor, Fellow Citizens: I wonder if you are -half as glad to see me as I am to see you. It warms my heart to see a great body of my fellow citizens again, because :in, some respects during the recent mpntns l nave, been very lonely indeed without your, comradeship and coun sen, and I tried at every step of the work which fell to me to recall what I iras i sure would be your counsel with regard to the great matters which I were under consideration. ; I do . not want you to think . that I have not been appreciative of the ex traordinary generous reception which was given to me on the other side m saying that it makes me happy to get home again. , I do not mean, to say that I was hot very "deeply touched by the cries that -came from the -great crowds on the other side. But I want to say to you in all honesty that I flt them to be a -call of greeting to you rather than to me. The Proudest Thing Is the World's ' Trust. I did not feel that the greeting was personal. I had in my heart the over crowning pride of being your repre sentative and of receiving the . plau dits of men everywhere who felt that your hearts beat with theirs in -the cause, of liberty. There was no mis taking the ton in the voices of , those reat crowds. It was not a tone of rhere greeting; it was riot a ' tone of rpere generous welcome ; it was the dialling, of comrade ito comrade, the cries that come from men who say,. fiWe .have waited for this day 'when the friends of liberty should' - come us;-to see that - a new world was cojir us, structed upon a new basis and a foun dation of justice and right." , , I can't tell you the inspiration that came from the sentiments that come out of those ' simple voices of?- the crowd. . And the proudest thing I have to report, to you is that ... this great country of ours is trusted throughout the world. I have not come to report . the pro ceedings or the results of the proceed ings of the Peace Conference; that would be premature. I can say that while there are many differences of judgement, while their are ... some di vergencies : of object, there is never theless a common spirit and a com mon realization of the necessity of setting up new standards of right in the world." Because the men who are in confer ence in Paris realize as. keenly as any American can realize that they are not the masters of their people; that they are the servants of their people and that the .spirit of their people has awakened to a new purpose and a new conception of their power to realize that purpose, and that ho man can go home from that conference and report anything less noble than was expected of it. Why the Council Cannot Go Rapidly. The conference seems to you to go slowly; from day to day in Paris it seems to go slowly; but I wonder if you realize the complexity of the task which it has undertaken. It seems as if the settlements of this war affect, and affect directly, every great, and I sometimes think every small, nation in the world," and . no one decision can prudently be riiade which is not prop erly linked in with the great series of other decisions which must accompany it, and it must be reckoned in with the final result if the real quality and character of that result is to be prop erly judged. . :.' ;'' What we are doing ' is to hear the whole case; hear it from the mouths of men most interested; hear it from those who are officially commissioned to state it ; . hear the rival claims ; hearthe claims that affect -new nat ionalities, that affect new areas of the word, that affect new commercial and economic connections that have been established by the great 1 world war through which we have gone. And I have been struck by the mod erateness of those who have repre sented national claims. I can testify that I have nowhere seen the gleam of passion. I. have seen earnestness, : I have seen tears come to the eyes of men who plead for downtrodden peo, nip whom thev were privileged to of anguish, they were the tears of arj dent hope. ' r X ; ' ' T , aa t j anv man Mn AI1U X UUI1 Ot " foil to liavp TiApn subdued bv these pleas, subdued to this feeling, that he was not there, to assert an individual judgement of his own but to try to assist the case oi numanity. - t AJ tk. mMst nf !.U oil avoW in. j. '. i. M f oil wkon it icai ui mio " reaches Paris, the representatives of I the United States. Why? Because, ana l tnmK i am.-suung tne musi wonderful fact in history because . .... A a.1 A- T Am League Wilsoit Delivers' Powerful Address Upon Arriv- there is no nation in Europe that sus Dects the motives nf tlw: Tnitwi fifofoc pects the motives of the United States. Was there ever s so wonderful a thing seen before? Was there ever so moving a thing ? - Was there ever any fact that so bound the Nation that had won- that esteem forever to deserve it ?, . , . Hard . for Europe to Forget Past I would not have you understand that the great men who represent the other? nations there in conference are disesteemed by those who know them. Quite: the .-contrary But you under stand that the nations of Europe have again and again clashed with one another: in: competitive interest. It is impossible for men to f orcet those sharp issues that were drawn between them in times past. It s impossible for men to, believe that jOl .ambitions hAveVnll'nf Un n Ti,m, , . ji ' Aicjr icuicuiucr- icrritory- mad was. coveted; they remember rights, that it was attempted to extort; they remem ber political ambitions which it was. attempted vto realize, and7 while they believe that men have come into a dif ferent temper, ' they cannot forget these - things, and so .they do not re sort to one or another for a dispas sionate view of the matters in contro versy. They resort to that Nation which. has won the enviable distinction of being-regarded as the friend of mankind. Whenever it is desired to send a small force of soldiers to occupy a piece of territory where it is thought nobody- else will ' be welcocme they ask for American soldiers, and where other soldiers would., be - looked upon with suspicion and perhaps met with resistance, the American soldier is welcomed with acclaim. j-lveaiadiozaany.grundfr-. f or pride on the other side of. the water that I am very thankful that they are not grounds for personal pride, but for national pride. If they were grounds for personal pride I'd 'be the most suck-up man in- the world. ' And it has been an infinite pleasure to me to see those gallant soldiers of ours, of whom the Constitution of the United States' made me the nroud commander. You may be proud of hnt T' pnmmanHpd the 26th. Division the 26th Division, and see what they " ' . did under my direction! And every body praises the American soldier with the feeling that in praising him he is subtracting from the creidit oi no one else.. I have been searching for the funda mental fact that converted Europe to believe in us. Before this war Europe did not' believe; in us as she does now. She did not believe in us through the first three years of the war. She seems really to have believed that we vere : holding off ' because we thought we could make more by staying out than by. going in. P 13 . . . i , And all of a sudden, in a snon eign- teen months, the whole verdict is re- versed. There can be but one -expla nation for it. They- saw what we lXXttl WIUIUUD mmn6 - -'"--O-. of the Greek nniversities who had - 1 ...U. knrl come to see . nuv and in whose pres ence, or rather in the -presence of whose traditions ' of learning, I felt very young indeed. I told them that I had one of the delightful revenges enmatimps pomes to a man. All lliav uvinw...- . . . - t v.o1 Ima-fA man sneak with a . st of condisceion of ideals and of idealists, and particularly those sepa rated, encloistered persons whom they clioose to term academic, who were in the habit of uttering ideals in the free atmosphere when they clash with nobody inp articular. And I said I have had this sweet revenge. Speaking with perfect frontnps in the name of the people of the United States I have uttered the obiects OI WUS great war wcaio, and , nothing but ideals, and the war has been won oy wiat 'finr Crusaders Made Others Laii I - . lneir Ji.yes we put all of our men and "all of bur uisappomimem nut umj, un means at the disposal of those who terness of despair -were fighting for their homes, in the All nations will be set up as hostile first initance, but for a cause, thelcamps again; the men at the Peace cause of human rights and justice, t Conference will go home with their and that we went in not td support heads upon their breasts, knowing their natioal claim, but to support the .that they have -failed for they were great cause which they-held in com-j bidden not to come home from there mori until they did something more than And when they saw that America 'sign a treaty of peace, not only held high ideals but acted Suppose we - sign the treaty of ideals, they werl converted to Amer- peace and that it is the most satisfac ica and became firm partisans of tory treaty of peace that the confus th ideals mg elements of the modern world will I met a group of scholars when I j afford, and go home and think about was in Paris some (gentlemen from lour labors, we will know that we have V MendTf he tathney SSS SAl. !' no, sweep beyond the rr r" -us A,v.Hvm anrt nearest horizon. xney were vguuug . their country, and when these accents of what it was all about reached them - ' K ' - l -lifjA thoir- heads from Amenca they ;ifted their fMsf , they raised tneir eyes zo new -m-r cnXTT TTtOn 1T1 LT fl Q LT 1 f fi TTl 1 Tl T U33 ' f , the sea in the spirit of crusaders, and 1 enca TT niimm they found that these were strange men, reckless of danger not. only, but reckless because they seemed to see " something that made the danger worth while. , Men have testified to me in Europe that our men were possessed bv some thing that they could only call a re- 1 4 mi ugioustiervor. rney were not like any of the other soldiers. They had a vision, they had. a dream, and. they were fighting in the dream, and fight ing in the, dream they turned' the whole tide of battle and it never came back. One of our : American humorists, meeting the criticism that American I sol.diers were not trained long enough, !!aiV At takes - only - half as long to j H5m T 'American soldier as any ! other, because you only have to: train 'nrni one way.' And he did only go one way, and he never came back un- til he could .do, it when he pleased. And now ao you realize that this confidence we have established throughout the world imposes a bur den upon us-if you choose to call it a burden? It is one of those burdens which any nation ought to be proud to carry. Any man who resists, the present tides that run in the world will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem as if he had been separated from his humankind f orever The Europe that I left the other day was full of something that it had never felt fill its heart so full before. It was full of hope. The Europe of the second .year of the war, the Eu rope of the third year of the war, was sinking to a sort of stubborn despera tion. They did not see any great j thing to be achieved even when -the t war should-be -won. They hoped-there would be some salvage; they hoped that they could clear their territories of invading armies; they hoped they could set up their homes, and start their industries afresh. But they thought it would, simply be the resumption of the old l$fe that Europe had led led in fear, led in anxiety, led in constant suspic- ious : watchiuiness. J. hey never 1 dreamed that it would be a Europe of 'settled peace and ! justified hope. 1- - T P A . T-l "1 Itr. 11 1L.T i utapair- ir America rai norm low. And now these ideals have wrought this new magic, that all the peoples of Europe are buoyed up and confi dent, in .the .spirit, of hope, .because they believe that we are at, the . eve of a new age in the world when: na tions vwill understand one anothei, when nations will support one another in every just Cause, when nations will unite every, moral and every physical strength to see that the right shall prevail. . ': If America were at this junction iu 'fail the world what would come of it? mean, any uisrrapr LU' har rrmit nannla whon I cav That m h"-- riC i j i America is me nope m me Wurm, anu if she does not justify that hope the results are unthinkable. Men will be thrown back upon the bitterness of , . .. - . . i i a .1 1. fir Wri .l.Hll 1 1 I II 1 1 I t .1 If ItlSl.llf II l.-l 1 1 1 1"! 1L left written upon the historic table at Versailles, upon which Vergennes and Benjamin Franklin wrote their names, nothing but a modern scrap of paper; no nations united to defend it, no great forces combined to make it good, no insurance given to the down trodden and fearful people of the world that they shall be safe Any man who thinks that America will take part in giving the world in such rebuff and , disappointment as that does- not know-America. ! I in vite him to test the sentiments of the Ration. We set this up to make men free, and we did not confine our con ception and purpose to America, and now we will make men free. Welcomes a Challenge to Fight lor , Freedom. If we did. not do that the fame of America would be gone and all her powers would . be dissipated. Sne then would have to keep her power I should welcome no sweeter chal lenge that that. I have vghting blood in me' and it is sometimes a delight to m me ana it is someumes a aeugnt 10 a chal- - occasion it will be an in- - I . (Continued on Fourth Page) Of