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VOLUME XXIV
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WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919
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GERMANS APPOINT DELE
GATES TO SIGN TREATY
Government To Spend . Millions
To Get Anarchists; Go By Old
Rooze Monday; Willard-Demp-sey
Ready ForBout At Toledo.
WASHINGTON, June 2G Provis
ion for vigorous steps by the Federal
Government against bomb throwers
and other anarchists and radicals de
clared by government officials to be
plotting over throw of the government
and spending $2,000,000 monthly to
that end' were made in the sundry
civil appropriation bill as reported to
day by the Senate. Among the meas
ures recommended were large addition
appropriations for the department cf
justice and legislation continuing per
manently the wartime regulations as
to purchase, storage, manufacture,
sale and distribution of explosives.
In reporting the bill, the Senate
appropriations committee increased
from $1,400,000 to $2,000,000 the fund
of the department of justice for gen
eral suppression of crime. In addi
tion, it added $300,000 for a special
fund to enforce the law against alien
anarchists through deportations.
GERMANS APPOINT MUELLER
AND BELL TO SIGN TREATY
PARIS,
June 26 Dr. Hermann
Mueller, German foreign minister and
Dr. Bell, minister of colonies who have
been selected to sign the peace treaty
will arrive . at Versailles Saturday
morning, the Havas Agency learns.
Dr. Mueller and Dr. Bell are leaving
Berlin tonight by the "ordinary train.
The time for the .signing of ' the
treaty also still is in doubt. The Ger man
delegation, says the reports, wil!
reach Versailles' Saturday morning.
There has been some talk of the pos
sibility of setting Sunday as the date
for the function and Monday also hes
been spoken of.
JESS W1LLARD AND DEMPSEY
IN PERFECT SHAPE FOR FIGHT
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 26 Jess Wil
lard and Jack Dempsey today entered
the home strefch of their training
grind in preparation for their heavy
weight championship contest here on
July Fourth.
Before boxing ten rounds at his
Maumee Bay shore camp today, Wil-
lard hopped on the scales and balanced
the beam at 243 1-4 pounds, which is
six and a quarter pounds below the
weight he made for his championship
match with Jack Johnson in Havana
in 1915. The champion said he ex
pected to enter the ring weighing 240
pounds as the drying out process of
the last 30 hours before ring time
vculd burn up the surplus besh on
his huge frame.
Manager Kearns announced tonight
that Dempsey would wind up his train
ing next Wednesday. The challenger
scaled 197 pounds before entering tho
ring this afternoon.
BONE DRY LAW GOES INTO
EFFECT MONDAY AT MIDNIGHT
WASHINGTON, June 26 Wartime
prohibition will become effective next
Monday at midnight without enact
ment meanwhile by Congress of ad
ditional legislation for its enforcement
Out of a maze of confusing develop
ments this fact stood out clearly today
with the decision of the House Ju
diciary Committee charged with the
duty of preparing and submitting en
forcement machinery to report three
bills in one, each standing on its own
legs, and capable of holding its own
in the event the others were made in
valid by Congress or the courts.-
Chairman Volstead, of the commit
tee, declared tonight there was no
possibility of the passage of the joint
measure before July 1, but that there
existed ample means of enforcement
and ample penalties for violation of
the wartime act. The full and explicit
definition of intoxicating liquors any
beverage or product containing more
than one-half of one per cent alcohol
set by the Bureau of Internal Revenue
left no doubt, he said, as to how the
courts would construe the law or deal
"With offenders.
1 Group of striking female employees of the Western Union Telegraph coin. y in New York city. 2
Armed civilians arresting Red Guard soldiers In Munich, Bavaria, when the soviet forces were driven out. 3
Lieut. George Horowitz of Passaic, N. J., the high-honor man of the 1919 class just graduated from the United
States Military academy.
HOTEL AT SEASHORE DESTROY
ED BY FIRE THURSDAY NIGHT
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, June 2
The big Seashore Hotel, the oldest
and largest hostelry at this, resort, was
burned tonight, and two cottages to
the south of the 250 room building
were also destroyed before the flames
were gotten under control. No lives
were lost and no accidents of any kind
reported.
More than 300 guests escaped un
hurt with most of their belongings.
The loss is partially covered by in
surance. The blaze broke out on the third
floor of the hotel at ,10. o'clock and
quickly spread through" the structure
which was built entirely of wood.
Talks Thrift To
County Teachers
Miss Mary Shotwell, special repre
sentative of the War Loan organiza
tion, delivered an address to the Tea
chers Institute Tuesday. Miss Shot -well
was present in the interest of
Thrift clubs in the schools.
Miss Shotwell had just come from
Raleigh where Governor Bickett had
told her "I am deeply interested in
your efforts to establish War Savings !
Societies in every school in North Car
olina. I wish you every success.
Please say to the people for me that
Itrust that they will co-operate with
you in securing the largest member
ship possible in every society in every
schcol in the state. Your plan ap
pears to me to be an emminently sen
sible and practical one."
Governor Bickett belives that an in
vestment in North Carolina of fifty
million dollars in War Savings stamps
will give the state a tremendous im
petus on the road to success in the
after-war competition for business.
"North Carolina may not hope to
get its legitimate share of this bus
iness," said the governor "unless we
shall store up the capital with which
to carry it on. If we fail to do this,
North Carolina soldiers will com-' (
home to a land without jobs, and will
of necessity be drawn away from us
into more thoughtful and provident
communities.
"The issue is votal and plain. The
purchase of War Savings Stamps
spells industrial salvation. The failure
ure to purchase War Savings stamps
spells industrial suicide."
CIIA-CHAS WON'T "JAW" WITH
UNITED STATES MARINES
Washington, June 26th U. S. Ma
rines who have hobnobbed with Fili
pino headhunters, Mid have long be2 i
friendly with the Cnamorros of Guam,
met their Waterloo when they tried
to establish entente cordiale with the
Cna-Chas of the . ivgin Islands.
According to the Marines the Cha
Chas are "poor mixers." They live on
the west side of the harbor of Char-lotte-AmalieT
decline to mingle or in
termarry with the negroes, and resent
any outside interference with their af
fairs. They are the hardest drinkers
and best workers on the island, theu
industry bringing them a good living
straw
w THp tribe is said to have come
originally from the Dutch and French
Leeward Islands,
Man Creates His
Own Opportunity
(By B. C. Forbes in the Merchants
Journal and Commerce)
Mediocre men wait for Opportunity,
able men seek Opportunity, the strong
est men make Opportunity.
Ignorance is blind. The blind can
not see Opportunity.
Fit yourself to see Opportunity
Knowledge illuminates.
Mediocre men wait for Opportunity
to come to them.
Strong, able, alert men go after Op
portunity. The brainest of men make Opportu
nities. Opportunity can avail no man who
has not fitted himself to seize it and
utilize it.
Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns
the unworthy.
Prepare yourself to grasp Opportun-
uy, ana upportunity is apt to come
your way.
Opportunity is not so fickle, capric
ious and unreasoning as some com
plain. Opportunity shuns the idle, the ig
norant, the worthless. -
Great men train themselves to
seize, mold and master Opportunity.
The echo of the first shot in the Eu
ropean war had scarce died away when
Charles M. Schwab presented himself
at Kitchener's desk, showed the war
lord a shining Opportunity and came
away with contracts which have led
to the enrichment of Schwab, his
workmen, his stockholders and his f
country by hundreds of millions of dol
lars. Henry P. Davison likewise went to
London, convinced the British author
ities that J. P. Morgan & Co. could
serve them and his firm has since
skillfully and profitably handled sev
eral billions dollars of business as fis
cal agents of the British government.
George Gaston, a little known but
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not unready New York business man,
was also prompt to see Opportunity.
end he, too, so impressed the British
War Office that Gaston, Williams &
Wigmore, then incorporated, have de
veloped an export and import business
which already covers more than half
the earth and runs into tens of mil
lions a year.
Henry Ford is an instance of a man
creating his own Opportunity.
John D. Rockqefeller was a youthful
produce commission merchant in Cleve
land when the oil industry was born,
but, to use his words to me, "'I saw
that there was an opportunity to en
ter a field which could be made as
broad as the world something tha?
everybody could use if given it cheap
enough; so I became interested in oil".
To quote Mr. Rockefeller further,
"There are a hundred opportunities
today -for every one ' there vas fifty
years ago."
H. C. Frick, the barefoot boy and
obscure bookkeeper who discerned the
possibilities Gf coke and was making
a million dollars a year when in his
thirties, gave me as one reason for
his success: "I worked very hard, and
always sought Opportunities.".
Thomas E. Wilson, the now famous
packer, was a $40 a week railway
clerk when Morris & Co. asked his
superior to send them a smart young
clerk to eep tabs on their refrigerator
cars. The man sent returned post
haste, refusing to work irk "so smelly
a place." "Let me go," Said young
Wilson. He went and became pres
ident of Morris & Co. Now he heads
Wilson & Co., successors to Sulzberger
& Sons' Company, one of the largest
packing enterprises in the world.
E. H. Harriman was an inconspicu
ous stock broker when he spotted Op
portunity in the form of the possibili
ties of rehabilitating the bankrupt and
dilapidated Union Pacific Railroad.
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jairdom. But a less well-equipped as
Jpirant would neither have seen the
Opportunity nor been able to master
it.
James J. Hill was equally obscure
and equally poor when he likewise
took, hold of a bankrupt little rail
road and made it the stepping stone
to higher things.
Three of the first five Frank W.
Woolworth stores were failures, but
he kept chasing Opportunity until he
learned to locate it here, there, al
most everywhere.
John N. Willys hadn't a thousand
dollars when he jumped in and saved
the Overland Automobile Company
from imminent collapse. His heroic,
indefatigable, never-say- die handling
of that Opportunity paved for him
the way to fortune.
The biblical story of burying the
talents in a napkin is merely a sermon
on Opportunity. The brother who dil
igently seized Opportunity became
"ruler over many things." The other
who loafed lost even what he had.
How are you using your talents.
Are you zealously, industriously,
painstakingly increasing them?
Or are you letting them lie dormant,
rusting and rotting?
Opportunity can be spelt with four
letters.
But these letters are not L-u-c-k.
They are W-u-r-k.
A woman has many a quarrel with
her complexion but she's always
ready to make up.
Reach County
Wear Two Gold Stripes But All
Mighty Proud of the Invert
ed Red or "Discharge" V
Wearing two gold V's for service
on the other side of the big pbnd m
the little disturbance just closed, and
the proud possessors of an inverted
Red V of honorable discharge, War
ren men of the eighty-first division
are home again.
The eighty-first contained more of
Warren's men than did any other unit
with the exception of Company H. and
the home-coming of this division has
been anxiously looked forward to. The
division went across last summer and
was intensively trained in trench war
fare. They occupied the St Die sector
for four weeks and took part in the
great Argonne-Meuse offensive.
Among the Warren county boys in
the division were Regimental Supply
Sergeant W. M. Gardner, W. Faulk
Alston, John R. Rodgers, Joe S. Jones,
Will Harris, of Inez, Billy King, of
Warren Plains, Johnny Adcock, oi
Norlina, Vernon L. Paschall, of Nor
lina Garland Gupton, of Areola, Hen
ry Fuller, of Afton, Eric Glenn, of Lit
tleton, Perry Conn, of Areola, and
Kemp Brown, of Vaughan.
The divisional insignia is a wildcat
upon a black background.
Honor Badges For
Red Cross Work
The Warren County Red Cross has
received thru its chairman Mr. W. N.
Boyd instructions for awarding ser
vice badges to workers within the
county. The chapter is requesting all
entitled to any of these badges to file
the request immediately. Prompt ac
tion is necessary.
The badges for women include:
Badge suspended on buff -colored
ribbon, also a certificate-for-four hun?
dred hours 'service rendered within a
period of six months.
Badge suspended on blue-colored
ribbon, also a Certificate for eight hun
dred hours service, rendered within a
period cf six months.
Badge suspended on blue-colored rib
bon, with one stripe, also a Certificate
for sixteen hundred hours service ren
dered within a period of twelve
months.
Badge suspended on blue colored
ribbon with two stripes, also a certifi
cate for twenty-four hundred hour;;
service, rendered within a period of
eighteen months.
The badges for men include a small
lapel badge and certificate for eight
hundred hours service, rendered in
period of six months.
For sixteen hundred hours service,
rendered within a period of twelve
months, same badge as is awarded fov
the first period of eight hundred hours
work and Certificate stating number
of hours served.
For j twenty four hundred hours ser
vice, rendered within a period of eigh
teen months, same as above.
The badges are to be awarded on the
conditions outlined below:
1 Service in the Red Cross, whether
rendered in the work room, knitting
at?home, Executive work in the Chap
ters, or in any way connected with the
Red Cross may be taken into consid
eration by the Committee in award
ing service badges, Provided that this
service does not date farther back than
April 6, 1917.
2. Service Badges are awarded by
periods of six months each, and a per
son must have served the exact num
ber of hours required before being en
titled to a badge. Service rendered in
any period of six - months over the
minimum required, is not counted in
awarding the badges. For instance, if
a person makes application for ser
vice badge and states that he or she
as the case may be, has served sixteen
hundred hours, in a period of six
months, they are only entitled to a
badge for eight hundred hours, and the
remaining hours must be regarded
only in awarding badge for twelve
months period. Neither would one
who had performed eight hundred
hours in four months be entitled to a
badge.
"3. Badges for men are small lapel
badges, and have no ribbon attached.
Men are not given recognition for
additional service, i. e., if a man ren-,
ders sixteen hundred hours service
in a period of six months, he is not
entitled to any additional ribbon.
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STOKE AT H2
BIG BASKET PICNIC AND
INEZ SCHOOL CLOSING
Day A Great One and Program
Well Carried Thru; Mrs. Mat
tie E. Williams, Charge D' Af
fairs, Proves Great Hostess.
Governor T. W. Bickett delivered
an excellent speech Wednesday at an
all day. picnic in the Henry Williams.
grove in Fork township. People from
all sections of the county were pres
ent. The occasion was the closing of the
Inez public school- and a real befo'
de war picnic. Mrs. Mattie E. Wil
liams, in charge of arrangements, had
the program perfected carried thru.
The Governor was introduced by
Mayor John B. Palmer, of Warrenton.
who endorsed warmly the administra
tion of the State affairs and the pol
icies of the State executive. He gave
a brief sketch of Gov. Bickett's life
and the sterling worth which had car
ried him to the gubernatorial chair.
The governor spoke on "Education
al Training In Civic Development".
He took the position that education
should be something more than classic
bone-dry, antediluvian studies, rather
it should be a period of training with
the aim to prepare for better citizen
ship by teaching the practical.
The material worth of practical
knowledge was forcibly presented the
audience of Warren citizens. Thi
enlargement of our educational sys
tem as provided by the vote of the
people and the last Legislature came
in for favorable comment and with
the comment the appeal to secure the
greatest value by community co-operation
in educative development.
After the very able speech, a din
ner which -would have driven Hoover
to desaiair only one short year ago was
spread, beneath the great oaks and
with friends, neighbors, chums, and
sweethearts lending their presence to
the happiness of all the splendidly
prepared meal was thoroughly enjoy
ed. After the meal, a good cigar and
some minutes of congenial conversa
tion, the plaintive appeal of the banjo
was heard. The Governor was inter
ested at once and into a large room
of the old home the crowd, some of
the crowd, gathered. Local musicians
fiddled, the Governor led the Square
dance and the dames present enjoyed
an hour of regular fun. With the
governor setting the pace, plenty 'pep:
was right there and the closing ball
was the dream of success par excel
lence. The day was a great one for Ine
community and the school spirit of
its citizens.
SIDE APPLICATIONS OF FERTI
LIZER VALUABLE TO CROPS
A. great trouble with many farm
ers in making side applications of fer
tilizers has been that these have been
made too late for best results. In
the case of oats and wheat, as an il
lustration, there seems to be pretty
conclusive evidence that for most
profitable results applications should
be made not later than 8 weeks before
harvest time, and 10 to 12 weeks
would probably be considerably better.
In making side applications for corn,
in many sections it is the common im
pression that the fertilizers should be
used at about the timethe corn be
gins to "bunch for tassel." We have
good evidence that this is much too
late, and that on an average better
results will be had from making tha
side applications when the corn is
from knee to waist high. Knee-high
as a rule will probably be the best
time.
With cotton, as with other crops,
the. general tendency has been to make
side applications entirely too late. Dr
B. W. Kilgore, of. the North Carolina
Experiment Station, says that on
lands with a fairly good clay subsoil
he considers it quite safe to put a;,
the nitrate of soda and sulphate of
ammonia to be used on the cotton at
planting time. Of course where there
is not a clay subsoil this practice ia
inadvisable, because of the danger of
leaching. Another point in this con
nection is this: Cotton, particularly
under boll weevil conditions, needs a
quick acting nitrogenous fertilizer to
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