A Colyum
Of Thoughts
From Here
There, Yonder
VOLUME" XXV
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWS PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTEB ESTSOFWARRENTON AND WAR KEN COUNTY
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WARRENTON. 1M r
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(By W. BRODIE JONES)
There has been no cause since April
of 1917 having as its goal service to
humanity which has not won the warm
support and intelligent, patriotic, in
dispensable aid of the women of this
county.
In embarking upon the next great
move of county wide import and gen
eral service thru the years to come it
is peculiarly fitting that a special,
earnest and sincere invitation has been
extended the women of Warren to
heip form the plans and carry out the
details of this laudable undertaking
by expressing appreciation of the
heroic spirit of our dead thru a serv
iceable memorial to our living.
It takes no seer or prophet to know
that the undertaking will call forth
the spirit of self-sacrfieing endeavor
which makes results natural when
vomanhood its influence be felt.
With the influence and the result
ant enthusiastic support of the men,
the funds necessary will be procured,
the building will be a certainty.
Once more the women of Warvu
will answer the call to public service!
Keep the corners of the mouth turn
ed up and you won't be turned down.
Reputation is what the world gives
a man; character is what he gives
himself. Clipping.
"The present demand for automo
biles in Sweden is 300 per cent greater
than that prevailling in 1914."
One of the fellows sapiently remark
ed at the drug store the other day:
"Board has gone to forty dollars, push
the hotel."
Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick says that the
biggest tax of North Carolina that the
people pay is the tax on bad roads.
He puts the figure at a hundred mil
lion a year. Exchange.
And Say Hullo
Is he clothed in rags? Oh, sho!
Walk right up and say "Hullo!"
Rags is but a cotton roll
Jest for wrappin' up a soul.
An' a soul is worth a true,
Hale an" hearty "How d'ye do!
Don't wait for the crowd to go,
Walk right up and say "Hullo!"
Sam Walter Foss.
A news item in a Chicago paper is
causing smiles here the journal
prints an account of a man who en
tered a restaurant and commenced to
quaff that beverage of booze whicn
dwells only in memory down here. He
was observed, arrested and his trous
ers confiscated as beiner 'a carrier.'
Another warrant was promptly pro-
cured and the e-entleman. striDDed of
his trousers and spirits, arrested for
a r x JL
indecent exposure.
Friendly Plotters.
"You will need a trained nurse for
Mrs. Hooker."
"Certainly, doctor! Ill attend to
that right away." said Mr. Hooker.
"Speaking as an old friend of the ers do not always make fine birds and
family, I can tell you how to hasten that everything we possess we must
your wife's recovery." at some time pay for. "Fine Feath-
"How?" ers" is an ideal play, for it measures
"Engage the prettiest nurse you can up to the high standard demanded by
fod and show her a little attention in Chautauqua audiences,
the sick-room. We'll have Mrs. Last but not least among the musi-
Hooker on her feet in a juTy." Clip- cal numbers is the Allpress All-Star
ping. Company. Everybody likes a quar-
tette of accomplished musicians, and
Knew His Tastes. the Allpress All-Stars are the best in
Maude blushed prettily as she told the country,
the sister of her fiance that she would Fine Lectures,
like to buy a birthday present for him. The committee announces that for
"You know Tom better .than I do,' lecturers and entertainers the great
she said, "so I came to ask your ad- est group of notables will be present
viee." ed that has ever assembled for one
"Yes?" said her future sister-in-law Chautauqua,
inquiringly. There will be Denton C. Crowl, that
What would you advise me to get?"
went on the blushing Maude.
Oh, I don't knowi" replied the
other girl carelessly. "I can only ad-
Vlse you in general terms. From what
I know of him I should say he would
appreciate something that he coma
Pawn easily." Richmond Times-Dis-
Patch.
It Toucher Her Heart
Naturally, when Ethel went on a
flm visit to some distant cousins in
thc country, she didn't want to dis-
Pjay her lack of knowledge of country
he- So she asked questions which
she bought "knowing," but which
nearly made her hosts laugh out loud,
"One evening, just as dusk, as Ethel
stood at the open door of the farm-
ftouse talking to one of the sons of
Jhe family, there came to them the
Mournful note of a cow.
Just listen to f.W. qiVVi-
.ed Ethel tenderly, "mewing for her Birdland with wonderful intimate pic
iost colt!" -SeWt 4-,, r,ri tViHllmsr narratives. He
JUUE 121i
CHAUTAUQUA
Community Event To Again
Greet Warren County
People Here
BIG MUSICALE PROGRAM
A FEATURE THIS YEAR
Denton C. Crowld To Deliver A
"Sam Jones' Lecture; Head
liners As Speakers; To Be Un
der Big lent At Academy.
The Community Chautauqua com
mittee reports that the date for this
next summer has been assigned, and
that an unusually strong and appro
priate program has been arranged so
that the week during which the Chau
tauqua will be held here will be one
which excels in good music, lectures
and entertainments. The Chautau
qua will be held during the five days
beginning Saturday, June 12, and the
program is so arranged that each day
will be a feature day with plenty of
music and an appropriate worth
while lecture. Real artists and notable
lecturers have been engaged, and a
different group will appear each day
giving a distinctive program which
difers from that of any other day.
Music Is Big Feature
It is siaid that the management has
made a special effort to secure for its
musical numbers those artists which
will render the best there is in melody
and son?. That they have succeeded
"J this shown by the fact that 0ttc
of the big feature numbers of the
Chautauqua next summer will be the
famous Little Symphony Orchestra
with Leon Weltman, the master vio
4inist, as conductor. This is said to be
the greatest orchestra in the country,
its members all being highly talented
musicians.
Another notable feature in music
will be the Light Opera Revue, a com
pany of six attractive youngs ladies
whose work has established a very
enviable record of successes upon the
Chautauqua circuits. .They will give
a unique program consisting of selec
tions from the most . popular light
opei,as
The Theresa Concert Company is an
accomplished trio of artists who pre
sent a program filled with music, a
monologue and song. They will give
an entertainment which is versatile to
a high degree.
The event which perhaps will prove
of as reat interest as any is the big
production of that well-known play
"Fine Feathers." Here is a company
of six talented players presenting a
drama of modern life that is brimming
over with smjles and thrills bringing
to every one a great message of tne
home. It touches on the high cost oi
living it teaches us to live within oui
income it teaches us that fine feath-
most unique of platform men, wno win
present one of the famous "bam jones
Lecturers" especially modernized in
the light of present day conditions.
Sam Jones had a message tnat gnp-
ped the hearts of folks and made them
glad they were alive, and Mr. Crowol
has the peculiar faculty of giving the
message new life and virility. He h
also one of the rising publicists of the
newspapr world;
Then there is Albert Edward Wig-
gam with in inspirational lecture en-
titled "Forty Kinds of Fools." Mr.
Wiggam is one of the foremost plat-
form men in the United States and
the clear, easy-to-understand manner
in which he handles his subjects will
provide an unforgettable evening of
enjoyable instruction,
One very strong feature among the
lecture entertainers will be Capt.
Oliver G. Pike. Capt. Pike is coming
Vnm TCnoland to tell jus the secrets of
holds a very high place among the
naturalists of Europe and his enter
tainment is bound to be a distinct
novelty to us.
That popular juvenile branch of the
Community Chautauqua will be bigger
and better than ever before. A great
Toyshop Pageant has been planned, a
big parade, new stories and games
all are being prepared and arranged
for the boys and girls of our town.
Not one of the five days will be lack
ing in good wholesome fun for each
youngster. Special announcements
will be made later setting forth in de-
tail the elaborate plans.
All in all, a great treat is in store
for evevrybody. It is planned to put
the season tickts on sale at least three
weeks in advance of the Chautauqua
and it will greatly assist the local
committee if everyone will plan to get
their tickets early.
List of Guarantors.
The guarantors for the 1920 Chau
tauqua follow:
Annie Lee Rankin, R. B. Boyd, M.
C. McGuire, Alice Rooker, Howard F.
Jones, W. W. Taylor, The Warren
Record, Mrs. Edward White, C. B.
Overby, J. K. Pinnell, G. E. Tarwater,
Basketball Team (Ella B. Jones,
r 4. rr i tt iir
Captain), Haywood Davis, Homer W.
t t e U i t tt tt
Rose, J. E. Rooker, Jr., C. H. Hams,
wTm0"' JnBrdTE"inf7
W. A Miles, Mrs Davis L. Peck, I.
A- I hlpman. V fi. fnlpmnn. J. VV.
...
Bason, W A Connell, Jr Hilah Tar-
water, j. a. uaniei, k. Koawen, jr.,
T. B. Gardner, Mrs. W. D. Rodgers,
Jr., L. B. Beddoe, W. H. Dameron, J.
H. Duke, W. A. Connell, W. J. Pinnell
J. L. Aycock, M. R. Burroughs, T. W.
Height, John H. Fleming, Mrs. N.
Mcl. Moore, Womans Club by Mrs. J.
E. Rooker, Walter B. Fleming, Walter
Boyd Massenburg, Mrs. V. F. Ward,
j . .
Alston, Hugh Holt, F. R. Height, J. J.
Macon, G. H. Jones, A. J. Ellington,
M. T. Rose, W. M. Haithcock, W. G.
Rogers. D. R. Mustian, W. N. Boyd,
James Polk, Eugene Wilson, Cate M.
Gardner, Edward Tarwater.
THE BEST GrFT.
Did it ever come home to you with
aDSOIUte conviction as you nave meu
to make your life count a little for
human goodness and uplift, that the
very best possible gift you can ever
make to your fellow mortals is a ucation, scholarship awards will be HOW TO BE HAPPY
spirit of incurable, unbounded, per- made in grade school or elementary
sistent hopefulness ? In the first courses, as well as in commercial, aca- Ifc was at a Sirls' summer school
place it will keep your own soul, demic, agricultural, professional and ycars aS when one of the girls rose
healthy and your own thinking sound highly specialized technical courses. and said to Alice Freeman Palmer,
and clear Discouragement and pes- While one man may be learning "rejiu- who had been talking to them: ?Mrs.
simism are like deadly mists that ing, writing and arithmetic' in a pri- Palmer, you are always so cheerful
gather about undrained places. You mary course, another may be prepar- a"d happy. Will you tell us, please,
can't live in the midst of them and you ing to, say, manage a farm or become ow we can be happy ?"
can see neither earth nor heaven in expert accountant. Electricity and I wi", dear, said this saint of her
perspective. And when you think of all its modem appliances, drafting and sex. V will give you three simple
the man beside you, there is nothing designing, salesmanship, public speak- rules. The first is this: ' Commit
you can do for him that will count ing, engineering, dentistry, law, and a to memory every day-something
for so much as to put the light in his hundred other attractive courses are good. It neednt be much; three or
eye, the spring in his step, the ring in offered to the ambitious man just out four words will do-just a pretty bit
his voice and the iron in his backbone, of uniform.'..' of a poem or a Bible verse The see
that come alone from draft of fresh SuPt. J. Edward Allen will be pleas- ond rule is: Look for something pret
hope and courageToronto Christian cd to confer with any whose qualifi- ty evry day; and don't skip a day, oi
q ?- cations merit and give necessary in- it won't work. My third rule is
ar ian' - formation of this excellent opportun- now, mind, don't skip a day: Do some-
"Those two fellows must make a
lot of money," said young John. "Gee.
I wish I had a job like that."
"Who is that," asked dad.
A. .www
'bout every paper you
and all the
neighbors take." .
"Who is that, Johhny?"
"Exchange and Selected," innocent
ly replied Johnny.
MICKIE SAYS
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HEBB TOWN. QUf fH BE.ST
OP 'eftt ARE "THE FLLRS VMnO
BCitNG- in their copn AtV
kOSEJRY.V SO WE
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Warren County To Get $440 Of
National Fund For Edu
cational Purposes
SUPT. ALLEN IN CHARGE
0F COMMITTEE IN WARREN
John D. Newell and Jesse Gard
ner Other Members; All Ser
vice Men With Qualifications
Asked To Submit Requests.
Warren county is entitled to $440.00
dollars to be used by former service
rsen as Y. M. C. A. Scholarships is the
word which comes from State head
quarters. A committee composed of
J Edward Allen, John D. Newell and
Jesse Gardner is named by the State
Board to handle this fund here.
The conditions of award follow:
'A scholarship fund has been made
nVnilnllr -P-V-M ntmm i4-xr nni t
27T"T ,QV
the Umted States. Any ex-service
, , . . ,
man wuo desires to improve his edu-
u - u i v.-
.submit his application to the
Local Educational Service Committee
-, , , . ....... .
ana tmg committee will make awards
up to the Hmit of the fundg available
in jocaiity
Each applicant must have the fol
iowjng qualification '
1 He mugt havJ an honOMble dis
chafge from U. S. Military or Naval
sreyice; Gr, in the case of an Ameri-
caTl wi ,prvpri an auia amv
proof of American citizenship j
ation to an honorable discharge; or,
in jflg case ot tne son of a man who
died in service satisfactory proof of
his identity
He must be qualified to enter the
rnmW a
ient ambition and purpose to finish the
course of study he undertakes.
Note: Collegiate scholarships are
awarded by State Educational Service
Conjnittees, generally on recommen-:
uauuii oi iucai commit tees,
Scope of Courses
"For the benefit of the man who has
never acquired even an elementary ed-
ity. r
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HOW WILL SHE VOTE.
Sampson Democrat.
Only four more states need to ratify
, -t . v T 1. A
tne womans sunrage amenumsui, io
put it into effect. The West Virginia
legislature meets Friday to consider
the amendment. There is hardly a
doubt that women will vote in the next
election, and now the great question is,
will the women vote with their hus
bands and parents, or will their hus-
hnd the narents have to vote with
them. It is three to one at this writ-
er's home and the three are all mighty
aard-headed.
A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
It is a great mistake to imagine that
savages are happy in their wild state
of nature. The most deluded people
in the world are the sentimental poets
wfcn naint the "noor Indian" and the
native race of countries where civil- Stevenson), without college training
ized man has displaced them as hav- (D wight L. Moody. Character is pee
ing been robbed of a paradise of free- sonality.
dom and joy. All savage races are The great motto of modern pyschol-
abject slaves to a thousand delusions ogy concerning the making of charac-
and superstitions, and are prohibited ter is, "Live in the presence of the
by a vast network of ceremonials and best." It is true advice. ' We become
nsrrmiion from anv true liberty of like that which we admire. To be-
movement or action. Sir John Lub- come strong let us dwell in the place own work and is nurse, cook and laun
bock said "No savage is free. All of strength. Let us associate with dry maid as well as mother and wait
over the world his daily life is regulat- the great men and women of history, er extraordinary. We are going to
ed by a complicated and apparently especially with the great men and have these things for her whether we
most inconvenient set of customs. As women of the Bible, and above all, can afford them or not, and the cost is
in the animal world, so is primitive with Jesus! Study carefully II Cor., going into the overhead,
man, fear is the perpetual nightmare 3:18. Not luxury but comfort is to be the
of existence. It is not too much to Strength needs nourishment. Some slogan for American agriculture, and
say that the horrible dread of un- strong men through neglect, have of- at last we are organized to secure it.
known evils hangs like a thick cloud ten become weak. Prayer makes men partly by education and partly by in
over savage life, and embitters every strong. ' creased outlay a more comfortable life
pleasure." Lester F. Ward, in Ap- Strength comes through strugg'e. is coming to. the farm. Dean E. Dav
plied Sociology." (Continued On Fourth Page) enport, in the Country Gentleman.
MASS MEETING TONIGHT
The citizens of entire War
ren are invited by the commit
tee in charge to attend the
meeting at the Court House to
night where discussion of a per
manent and serviceable memor
ial to Warren soldiers and a
club room for the county will
take place.
The movement to raise the
forty thousand dollars deemed
necessary to fittingly express
the appreciation of the county
and create a needed rest room
and community building for
Warren is a county toic which
will guarantee attendance' of
many public spirited citizens.
The committee expects to- be
able to make a report. The lo-
cation of the building and
means of raising funds are to
be considerd.
Th"e ladies are especially invit-
ed to be present and lend their
assistance and suggestions in
this county move.
' The world is suffering for a thous
THE NEAR EAST RELIEF CAM- and things, for food, for clothing, for
PAIGN EXTENDED ONE MONTH cars and locomotives, and many other
things, but the thing which it most
The Near East Relief campaign has
lionn ovfanrla w.4-u .
" " uuuwi aunuuuuea
the State headquarters. The work in
warren, however, is practically com-
plefed though other funds will be re-
ceived until the expiration of the can-
vass period,
The committee acknowledges the
following recently reported funds:
Six dollars from Afton School Miss
Mabel Robertson, teacher; thirty dol-
fr0 M!ss Keaton's school of the
'
seventeen dollars from Hawtree; the
adoption of an orphan by the Shady
Grove Sunday School in Fork, and a
five dollar donation by Cora D. Thorn-
ton Harris, teacher of Snow Hill color
ed school.
The canvassers are urged to make
reports immediately. It is the desire
of the county organization to complete
its campaign "as soon as possible. An
- intelligent report to State headquar
ters is impossible without definite
facts from each township worker.
tning ior someooay every aay. mat
is all there is to it, dear."
These three rules are just as good
today as wtitn they were spoken.
They will work always and every-
...1 j-MSia-t -Ukr rtim-iTr n rt vtrA I I o ivt
wuwee, m wuuuj o .o n
the city, for women as well as for
cirls. They will make a farmhouse
warm in the chill of winter and a ten
ement cool in the blazing summer.
They will help to make us masters of
our lives. They are so plain that
everybody can keep them. No matter
how gray the sky, these rules will
make the sunshine through. Selected,
HOW TO GROW STRONG
.
The first essential in gaining
strength of character is to have a
clear idea o what character is. Char-
acter is what a man is, not what he
has. A man may be a strong charac-
ter without health (Robert Louis
A 1LESSK
World Needs Realization of This
Fact In Present Era of
Under Production
MAN A SHIRK AND SLACK
ER WHO FAILS TO DO PART
Work Called By Writer Heav
en's Great Gift and Happiness
Contained In Proper Adher
ence To Task In Hand.
As she lay dying in a Red Cross
Hospital in France, Miss Jane A. De
lano, an American nurse whose 'ife
had been given to heroic work, said:
"My work! my work! I must get bacK
to my work!".
Every man has a work to do whicn
is as solemn a duty as was this work
of this nurse, who was literally giv
ing her life for others.
needs next to religion itself is a new
conception of and a new consecration
t work, not merelv because it needs
"jZl t
enlarged production, but because, to
an infinitely greater extent than it
needs food or clothing, it needs a re
birth of character.
Without consecration to work there
can be no upbuilding of character.
Without a deeper realization of
man's responsibility to God and man
J
t?
the thrill of creative work, whether
one be shoeing a horse, planting a
crop, building a locomotive or cooking
a meal, there can be no moral ad
vancement. Into every work one must throw his
whole life or else be a failure.
Knowing that the needs of the
world are as great , as were it needs
when this nurse gave her life to servo
others, the slacker in work, the shirk
er, the time-server,, the indifferent
and indolent are sinning against their
own character, against their character-forming
influence upon their chil
dren, against all humanity, and
against Almighty God, who is our
supreme example as a worker.
Work we must with all our might
if we would not, looking deep into our
souls, see that there is a weakness
there which tends toward ultimate
moral decay.
Work is Heaven's great law. and our
supremest privilege. Indeed, in all
the work we do that is honest and
honorable we are co-workers with
God.
With God as our partner are we
willing to be a slacker and a shirk?
That question every man, rich or
poor, employer or employe, old or
young, must honestly face now, or in
an agony of shame face it on the
great Judgment Day.
Let us glorify work as a privilege
as well as a duty; as a blessing, not
a curse. Manufacturer's Record.
COUNTRY COMFORTS
Of all men the farmer lives most in
his home. His home and his business
are so interlocked as to make it quite
impossible to say where the one
leaves off and the other, begins. The
farmer has been working long for
land. He proposes now to be housed
comfortable, He proposes that his
wife sha11 have some of the comforts
and conveniences of housekeeping and
he challenges the world to produce a
housekeeper who more richly deserves
them.
Is. there any man who labors as
continuously and carries as unremit-
tmg responsibility as the larmer, and
is there any other housekeeper who
works as long hours for three hun
dred and sixty-five days in the year as
does the farmer's wife?
The answer to all these questions
is: We are going to have the mod
ern conveniences for the fanner's
wife, who for the most part does her