I JSkV OUJMEXXIV (Tuesday) WARRENTON, N. C TUESDAY, MAY 27,1919 (Friday) Number 41. 750A YEAR A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY 5c. THE COPY IWSM3S STUlflSS uKRY HAWKER AND NAV IGATOR GRIEVE SAVED To Build Bridge Over Roanoke; Cotton On Jump; Peace Dele gates Non-Commital; Cente nary Drive Big Success. Harry Hawker, intrepid airman, and his Navigator Makenzie Grieve, ttho attempted a flight across the At lantic in a Sopwith plane Sunday, tae Igth, and who were given up for lost, Were heard from, yesterday. The plane made about eleven hundred miles of the journey when it was forc ed to descend by over-heating of the engine due to poor water-circulation. Landing near a steamer they were picked up after an hour and a half in the water, but the outside world was not informed of their good fortune for the boat did not carry wireless. The good news Monday electrified the en tire world who could but help admire the daring of the birdsmen. A ' tre mendous celebration was accordea them upon reaching . Scotland yester day and a purse of $25,000, half of the prize offered by the Daily Mail for a non-stop flight across, was awarded them. Lieut. Commander Read almost across the Atlantic, with Navy Cur tiss plane No. 4., is awaiting favor able weather conditions in the Azores before making the final hop off on "the last leg of the journey undertaken as a scientific venture by the American ravy. Daily reports are expected showing that he has completed the last eight hundred miles leap to Lis bon, Portugal. With practically every church over in Warren,- and-, all'charge exceeding their quota, the big Methodist cente nary drive in Warren has been a suc cess. In the southern church, driving for thirty-five million, forty eight have been pledged, is the information coming from Nashville. Washington, May 26. Reconnisan- ces in cotton prices were attributed to the raising of restrictions upon cotton exports to German-Austria and .Jugo-Slavia by Senator Smith, of Georgia, in a statement issued late to day. "While cotton is still on the embargo Hst," Senator Smith said, "the War Trade Board under powers vested in it by the president, has practically re Heved cotton from being on the em bargo list. The principal cotton mills f Austria were in German-Austria and Jugo-Slavia and all of this terri tory is now open to cotton shipments without restrictions. The quantity restrictions of shipments to Switzer land, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have also been removed. These broadening markets justify the recent rise in cotton prices and with raising of the blockade into Ger many all of our markets will again be opened." As the day for signing the Peace l;eaty approaches, there is no indica tion that the delegates are mover f av orably inclined than last week, but it ems to be the only course left. Von Hindenburg has" notified the Reich staf that resistance is out of the ques- Jn- There will be no moderation of tne terms as submitted, is the general ehef. The Austrian and Bulgarian jace and have appealed to Chairman Clem lenceau for action by the Peace Confer 'ence. plmminc that. t.liA Hplav 15 fusing a regretable financial strain ,n tlle countrys. e South kill-Henderson Bridge Cor Ration is the name of a firm which to bridge the Roanoke at s Ferry with Mr. J. E. Boyd. Goode "l inis citv ooutn Hill. -r vimci xy j uuu liuvv va. , as President. -Directors ewer, of Henderson . The plans ii Z the bridSe wiU be built away and that a toll of fifty ts will be charged for cars and all cent fS' 10c' for orses and five s for pedestrians. This will great- ncrten the distance to Richmond. and IT J the World the best yu have he best will come back to you." For Whole Time .Nurse in Warren Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughan met with the Executive committee of the Wt. ren county Red Cross chapter here Friday morning in reference to em ploying a whole time nurse for War ren, j : The need for such worker was -emphasized by the facts given out by Mrs. Vaughan that , in 1917 56 babies died in Warren from preventable dis eases, twelve of them during the first week and thaF fifty people died of tuberculoid in this county, during the same period. She was confident that many lives could be saved this sum mer by a nurse arid that the further duty would be hers to make prepara tions to guard against the ravages of Flu which the medical profession states will make its appearance this fall. ,v The idea of Home Service and Nursing are so linked up in spirit, it was thought that the worker could, with a small amount of volunteer help, perform distinct service in both lines of progressive endeavor. The Executive committee were fav orably inclined by Mrs. Vaughan's statement of facts and were willing to devote $2000 of the Red Cross funds for the employment of a whola time public health nurse. The ques tion of a car in which the public work er could travel was partially solved by Mr. Walter B. Boyd who offered t-, give half the cost of a car if the coun ty commissioners would make a like appropriation, Final action was held up awaiting a session of the 1 Board here next Monday. , General opinion is to the effect that the nurse will be employed and that the Red Cross funds, over and above! the war-time requirements, will be spent in the county, from which de rived to improve the health and, hap piness of its citizenship. . GROVE HILL ITEMS. Miss H ope Powell visited friends here a .short he Friday? r-- Miss Hattie and Katy Warren and brothW Mr. Claude Warren, of Lit tleton, visited at the home of Mrs. R. W. Pittman last week. Miss Bettie Egerton visited friends here several days last week. Mrs. P. R. Davis, of Buffalo, was here for a short while last Thursday. The cream supper at this place last Friday night was enjoyed fine, espec ially by the young people. .Mr. Fred Devis went to Petersburg today on business. School closed here last Wednesday. Miss Jessie Dickens, the school teaca er, went back to her home at Norlina Thursday. She has made man friends since being here and will be missed very much. Mr. Conrade King, of Inez, visited at this place Sunday. Mr. Robert Pittman went to War renton last week on business. Mr. and Mrs J. O, Hardy visited at the home of Mr. H. T. Egerton one day last week. , Mr. Raymond Riggan, of Vaughan, was at this place a short while Sun day. Miss Laura Clayon, of Plymouth, visited at the home of Mrs. W. T. Hardy one day last week. Mr. Clinton Egerton was here for a short while last Tuesday. MICKIh SAYS nou mustn't Think VJ ERE CAB. LESS JEST &ECUZ NOU FNO A "TYPOGRAPHIC Mb. ERROR IN TVAE, PA.PER OWCE VNHVUE. hAN OOSH,NTHj THE BILUOK4S OF CHANCES Then is t CrT Tvam&s nromg.) T's f nnonoep. aje oomT NAVr. hAOVSLE ERRORS TVAAvU VMC DO I CHfkB.i9 J' s of Treaty (iive f 29,000 Square Mies of Territory As Well As Coal Fields of Silesia and Saar Bason. (Commerce and Finance) "Der Tag for Germany arrived on j copper . production, . turning out far May 7, the fourth anniversary of the more zinc than the rest of the conti torpedoing of the Lusitania, an act . nent put together, as well as quanti of which no "civilized power was deemed capable until it was actually committed. On that day the repre- sentatives of Germany, who had . with which she once thought to gain grown great, while she was content j a strangle - hold on the world. De to be of service to mankind, only to j spite her", losses in territory, in popu- "fall like Lucifer" when she essayed mastership, met the representatives of the Alliedand Associated nations at Versailles and received from their spokesman, Premier Clemenceau, the, terms of the peace to which they arj to subscribe. - The words of M. Clemenceau wei few and stern. The reply by Count von Brockdoff-Rantzau was a plea in confession and avoidance and was characterized by a spirit which will .... . not help him in any attempt to soi - ten the terms. It is passing strange that he should have adopted this tone in view of his keen appreciation and open acknowledgement of the magni tude of Germany's defeat. His claim that the war grew out of the "imper ialism of all the European states (which) has chronically poisoned the intenational situation" may be ad mitted without in any way affecting the stubborn fact that France, Great Britain, Italy and even the arch-imperialistic Russia did all that was humanly possible, almost abasing themselves, to avert the war, only to be blocked at every turn by Germany and Austria. Though the record o Hie "Etttente nations may' bevas scarlet; that of Germany is black, for it lay in her power to prevent the war and she would not. The disintergration of Germany is two-fold physical and moral. She loses the coal fields of Upper Silesia to Poland and thos of the Saar basin to France, about one-third of her total coal resources. The latter may be .returned to her in fifteen years?the inhabitants of that section willing. Its output is about 17,000 000 tons annually, about one-twelfth of Germany's whole production. Her loss of iron in Lorraine is far more serious. Some 21 million tons of pig iron came from there in 1913. The nearness of these mines to the Saa- coal fields accentuates the seriousness of their loss, her other iron mines being far from coal. She is trans formed from an iron and steel'export ing nation to an importing one. The voice of the press Ms disinte grated. Vorwaerts, Socialist, is ex ceedingly wrathy, condemning Presi dent Wilson in unmeasured terms, using the same arguments used by his opponents here, and says the war is still on at Versailles, urges resist ance even to forcing the Allies to oc cupy the whole of Germany, citing Belgium as an example of what may be done by a resolute nation under foreign occupation. "Max Harden in Die Zurkunft says the terms are the hostility engendered by the con about what he expected, as Germany fHct will weaken and the spirit of co- has given no guarantee larantee that the revo- lution has changed hex system. ' -TT1 I : 1 . 1 Trt niIM v wnaxever jnay nave ueeii tiesmcu'. Wilson's one-time opinion as to "peae without victory,", none who read the peace terms need be in any doubt as to who won and who lost the war. Those who have proclaimed and com plained that a "soft peace" was to be imposed on Germany find themselves covered with confusion. Yet one will look in vain for evi dence of vae victis in the terms sub- mitted. Comparison with those pro- j iow n the fulness of time. The adop posed by German leaders at various ' tion of the covenant of the League "s times during the war reveals extreme an undertaking to promote justice and moderation .on the part of the Allies Though Germany may consider the terms harsh, the way is smoothed as far as possible for her to meet them. She is not to be subjected to the "economic boycott" that was so much ; to establish international law as the talked of. She is to operate under a)ruie of conduct between governments. tariff of her . own making, the pre war tariff, with its "most, favored na tion" clauses open to all nations with out discrimination. She remains in a favorable position 'as compared with other European nations in the produc tion of metals generally, leading in ESIMO SOFT mm? ties of lead, nickel, silver, manganese and iron pyrites, and she retains the greater part of her potash deposits, lation, '. in colonies and in resourc she still has "a place in the sun,' and by. again becoming the Germany of ! ideals that her truest friends. are even yet hoping to behold, she may rise to a position of honor among the nations she has so greviously offended and Injured. " ' The worst feature of Germany's dis integration, however, lies precisely here- she appears to see only the m-i- terial aspects of what she aspired to ' J i,rUi4- A. T 1 J- 1 1 ' ja."u yvilrtl' BI1C Ims lust ailu Iier- ni"i serious loss she seems not to be aware of Nations have been shattered, in their political and economic -: struc tures before without losing hope, and have 'Vome back," but thjs .an k?o":s not to be , the case with Germany, f With the smashing of her ambitions her strength seems broken, and her faith in herself as a nation of super men is gone. It is a disintegration of morale. I So strong is the impression made on Austria by the terms imposed on Germany that she relinquishes aii hope of joining that country, and Chancellor Renner, addressing tha Austrian Parliment, sorrowfully says : ""The' people of."-Austria must? suffer for the misdeeds of, their rulers. We never' wanted the war and we were not guilty of bringing it about. I will do the best I can to secure bet ter terms for ourselves." And if he and Austria' continue in that temper such easier terms may quite possibly be secured. Austria's economic re sources are not great, however, aim in the low state of economic knowl edge in- Central Europe her future is not over bright at best. "The great reckoning" of which Count Berchtola warned the Czar in 1914 has recoiled. on Austria-Hungary effect. with crushing Integrated Europe is a more pleas ing picture. Though, differences have arisen among the Allies, the con sciousness of a community of inter est among- them has survived the war. Though still entertaining' hostile feel ings toward the common enemy (and human if they did not), their feelings toward one another is one of friendly co-operation in rebuilding their re spective countries. As the work of rhabilitation goes on the advantage of this co-operative spirit over tlu spirit of conflict in which the world's commerce has been conducted wnl become more and more obvious, and is likely to become permanent. A a new generation arises in Europe which had no part in the Great War, operation will extend until it em- ope: braces the continent. As in thi country the civil war now excites only )vri academic interest, so in time a longer time because of the magnitude and savagery of the conflict will the Great War recede in the shadow of history and the United States of Eu rope become -'a possibility, with na- , tional boundaries become as ummpor tant as are our State boundaries, The birth of the League of Nations is an assurance that all this is, to fol- preserve the peace of the world by internationalobligations not to re sort to war, but to deal openly justly and honorably with one another, to ' maintain the sanctityx of treaties and and co-operation in matters of com mon concern: - - v . - i. J Neither the League nor its consti tution is perfect! There are many questions on which the nations are (Continued, On Fourth. Page) . EOPLE Free Tuition To Returned , Soldiers At the request of the United States Bureau of Education, the State Col lege Summer School at Raleigh is ar ranging courses in Farm Practice for returned soldiers. This instruction will be given these soldiers without any tuition charges. More than 40,000 returned soldiers have applied to date 'to the Secretary of the In terior concerning the possibility of becoming farm owners, according to a statement by Commissioner of Ed ucation P. P. Claxton. In order to reach all classes of these men, this agricultural instruction is to be given in two divisions. One, for those soldiers who have had no Farm ex perience, and who constitute 25 per cent of those mentioned above, which will be very elementary; and one 'for those who have had some Farm ex perience. These ex-soldiers students in Agriculture will be allowed to take, free of tuition charges, any addition al courses offered in the ; Summer School which they may desire to take. In addition to this work the Sum mer School will offer courses in Agri culture ' and Mechanic Arts for Re habilitation Soldiers under the gener al direction of the Federal Board for Vocational Education. The Summer School further offers exceptionally strong courses in Edu cation for the benefit of the Teachers of the State whip desire to obtain or renew Teacher's Certificates. The catalogue contains very full informa tion as to the procedure necessary to do these things and may be had upon application to W. A. Withers, Direc tor In addition to courses in Agricul ture and Education, courses in Home Economics, History, Literature, Man ual Training, French and Spanish are offered and opportunity is given for pupils now in High School- to obtain additional units for College Entrance, and for College men to obtain Col lege Credit in their Freshman -work. Reservations "-have been coming in rapidly and a large ' arid successful school in anticipated by .the authori ties. ' . G. F. MILLER. To Have Colored Summer School. I was called to Oxford last Wed nesday for a conference with Super intendents Rollins, of Vance, Webb, of Granville, and Dr. J. H. Highsmith of State Board of ' Examiners in ref erence to holding a joint Summer School at the "Mary Potter" school for colored teachers. Upon the plea that the majority of the ' colored teachers of Warren county would riot be able to attend for four consecu tive weeks a Summer School that dis tance from home, I prevailed upon the authorities to allow our Summer School to be held here. Therefore, take notice: 1st That you must make arrange ments to attend continuously the Sum mer School to be held here, and 2nd That the State . and County expect continuous and diligent wOrk. 3rd That increase of salaries wih be based upon fitness, or at least an earnest effort on your part to prepare yourself to do better work. L Ihave confidence that you will make every egort m . your power to meet the expectations of the State Depart ment and the School Authorities of this County. 4th The exact date of your Sum mer School will be announced later it depending upon the ability of tho I Department to procure competent teachers to instruct you who are not engaged in smilar work elsewhere. HOWARD F. JONES, Supt. SPECIAL MEETING OF BETTER MENT ASSOCIATION AT WISE There will be a special meeting of the Betterment Association on Thurs day, May 29, at 3 p. m. at the home of Mrs. .Charlotte S. Perkinson in Wise. Miss ' Rankin, Home Demon stration, Agent will make and demon strate the use of a fireles cooKer. All who are interested are invited wheth er members of the Betterment or not. Come and get acquainted with Miss Rankin. The Boys and Girls' Agricultural Clubs will also meet at Mrs. Perkin sons on the same afternoon, at 3:00 and go on . a picnic. . . nCMKSF f Mil Ik IbUbiJliyiliivi HOME AGENT URGES THAT WARREN HAVE EXHIBIT List of Awards At State Fair Submitted Below; To Hold Meeting This Week At Ar eola, Oine and Wise. I am very anxious that this county make a good showing at the State Fair this fall. The jars that will be used for exhibit purposes can be ob tained from Allen & Fleming Com pany, ' Warrenton, or E, G. Davis' Store, Henderson. The list of jars to enter in this ex hibit follows: Commercial Pack String Beans or Baby Beets in squart qt. 1st $3.00 Commercial Pack English Peas, Lima Beaijis, or Corn, in No 5042 jar 1st. 2.00 Commercial Pack Okra or Asparagus in square- quart jar. 1st 3.00 Commercial Pack Sweet Potatoes in square quart jar 1st 2.00 Commercial Pack Canned Cherries, Peaches, or Berries, in. square qt. jar 1st 3.00 Commercial Pack Pimentoes in No. - 5042 jar ' 1st 2.00 Commercial Pack Cucumber Pickle, not to be over 2 1-2 inches in length in square quart jars. 2d 1.00 Commercial Pack Onion Pickle, no to be over 1-2 inch in diameter, in square quart jar 1st $3.00 2d 1.00 Commercial Pack Watermelon Rind . Syeet Pickle, in No. 5042 jar 1st $3.00 2d. 1.00 Commercial ; Pack Cherry or Straw berry Preserves in square quart jar 1st. $3.00 2d. 1.00 Commercial Pack Fig or Watermelon Rind Preserves in square quart jar 1st-$3.00 - 2d 1.00 Commercial Pack Peach, Fig, or . Pear Preserves, in square quart jar 1st $3.00 2d 1.00 Display of Pickles in No. 5042 jar3, to include 4 jars selected from the following: Cucumber, sliced tomato, or onion pickle, peach or water melon rind sweet pickle, sliced cu cumber or watermelon rind sweet pickle. 1st $5.00 2d 3.00 Display of Preserves in No. 5042 jar, to include 4 jars selected from the following: Fig, peach, pear, straw berry, cherry, orange marmalade ginger pears. 1st -$5.00 2d 3.00 Display of Jams in No. 5042 jars, to include 4 jars selected from the fol lowing: Blackberry, strawberry, fig, dewberry, raspberry, peach, damson plum, apple 1st $3.00 2d 2.00 County Exhibit of 19 squart jars anr No. 5042 jars, selected from pro ducts listed in classes No. 413 and No. 428 1st $10.00 2d 5.u -f There will be a. community meet ing at Oine School house Wednesday night at 8:30 to discuss local condit ions. Thursday afternoon the Boys and Girls of Wise will meet at Mrs. Char lotte Perkinson home at two o'clock: put their chicken in the fireless cook er, and go fishing. When, supper time, comes they will open the cooker and have hot chicken for supper. The ladies of Wise will meet at the same home and have a demonstration in building a fireless cooker. Friday, May 30th, at 3:30 p. m., a meeting will be held at Areola school iwise. The object of this meeting is to discuss and organize a credit unioi'. Mr. William Garnett, from the Divis ion of markets will be on hand to out line the organization and answer any questions that may come up. All persons interested in short time credit at reasonable interest rates should oe prtsent at this meeting. A, similar meeting will be held at Warier Plains . school house at 7?S0 p. w. The initial meeting was held at tae above mentioned places Saturday Mav 17th. with fair attendance at both places. At the meeting next Friday it is proposed to go into the details ot organization and operation of credit unions. It is the least you can do tj come-out and. hear the matter discuss ed. - . "When one smiles at our criticism of another it is not always at the one criticized."

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