A Colyum
Of Thoughts
prom Here
There, Yonder
OPTIMISM -
wier being good than bad.
It's safer being meek than fierce;
better being sane than mad.
U Mv own hope is, a sun will pierce
The thickest cloud earth ever stretch-
Thatafter last returns the first,
Through a mide compass round be
"fetched;
That what began best can't end worst.
Nor what God blessed once prove
accurst.
Robert Browning
The Merest Hint
He "A penny for your thoughts."
She icovly) "Oh, I really can't tell
vou. This is not leap year." Boston
Transcript.
Newspaper or Hemp
We haven't heard much of the
Kaiser lately. It is time he had a
head-line all to himself.
London Opinion.
Terrible
Mac: "I'm smoking a terrible lot
of cigars lately!"
Jack: "You certainly are, if that s
one of them." London Opinion.
Their Use.
If there were fewer fools about,
the world would be a much more
pleasant place t live in. Only it
would be harder to make a living.
London Blighty.
Explained
The Judge: "You were found under
a bed with a bag of tools. An ex
planation ? "
The Prisoner: "Force of habit, yer
washup! I've been a motorist."
London Opinion.
The True Test
"Does success mean getting what
you want?" asked the young man.
"No," replied the old man. "Suc
cess isn't so much getting what you
want as what other people want."
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Unnecessary.------- I; - -"Pay
your debts, boy."
"Ugh?"
"And keep your credit, good."
"Aw, what's the use of credit if I
gotta pay up ail the time?" Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Old As Things Go
"When you spoke of your maid as
an old family retainer I expected to
see an older person. oHw long has
she been in your family?" '
Mrs. Rooral: "Ever since last Wed
nesday." London Opinion.
Extravagant
Two English mothers were talking
abut the jam rac.ion. "Wot's four
ounces of jam a week to my biby,"
said one of them. "Why, I used to
wash an ounce off his face after tea
hevery day." Boston Transcript.
A Return Wallp.
She "I appreciate the cmpliment,
but I'm afraid I could never make you
happy."
He "Oh, yes, you could. You don't
know how easily pleased I am."
Boston Transcript.
What's In a name?
Diner "Here, what d'you call this ?
Rf or mutton?"
Waitress "Carn't yer tell the dif
ference?" Diner "No."
Waitress "Then why worry about
"-Sydney Bulletin.
Companions In Crime
Customer: "Do you make any reduc
tion for those in the same line of bus
mess?" Waiter: "Yes: are you a restaurant
Keeper ? "
Customer: "No; I'm a robber."
Le Rire, Paris.
Appreciation
Husband (handing, his wife some
ney): There AmeHa ,g fiye
to "t'-'1 k has bother me a littlc
get it f0l. you j think j deserve
a ttle applause."
youlftr"Applause? Why my dear
Blighty an encore" London
Fr Jne Terence to Him
r ! y ConstaWe: "Come, come,
calling yo0uU?elf t0etherJ your wife's
can?1 Gent: 44Wha's she call-
Vonv Wllham, sir." "
fa bome? Gnty I'm not go
' London Blighty.
VOLUMirxXV
A
AMERICA WAS LEADER
BUT PEOPLE DISSATISFIED
U. S. in Wrong: State of Mind;
ThevTime It Has The Most
Right To Be Generous It is the
Most Selfish
When the armistice was signed the
United States was the greatest mili
tary power in the world. Neve.r before
had such moral, financial and physi-
1 i i -
cai energy Deen developed m war.
Victory had been achieved and a peace
based upon American "conceptions of
justice was foreshadowed. Yet'nat
J l j: . . i
wai uisconieni -oegan tne very
hour of triumph:
The United States had the respect
of all nations for its leadership as well
as for its might. It was in a position
to dominate the earth unselfishly, to
impress its liberal and progressive
principles upon mankind and to guide
long-misgoverned -peoples out of the
abyss of intrigue and strife into a new
and finer relationship. Yet even-the
professing millenniumites and other
perfectionist impracticables voiced
their discontent as loudly as any of the
Bourbons who had been overthrown.
Never before had any nation had the
wealth possessed to-day by the United
States. In spite of some glaring in
equalities, there never was a timem
all the past when riches, luxuries and
pleasures were so well distributed.
Labor, fully employed, receives the
highest wages ever known. The re
wards of capital are unexampled.
Agriculture is blessed with rich har
vests and finds eager markets at high
prices. Notwithstanding popular ex
travagance; without precedent, sayings
banks are glutted and life insurance
is making figures beyond the dreams
ofits fourders. Yet "labor, capital,
manufacturing, merchandising, agri
culture and even the speculator wh
trades upon uncertainty are alike dis
contented and full of direful forebod
ings. ' ' m ..
Having mastered the earth intellec
tually and materially; the United
States is not now looking for other
worlds to conquer. It is quarrelling
over the spoils, finding fault with
everything that has been done, com
plaining, bickering, ready to believe
the worst of . the Government under
which these miracles were wrought,
suspicious of every ,new idea, doubt
ful of the value of the victory gained
at such cost, inclined to reproach the
army and navy, and forgetful of the
tens of thousands of brave men who
died with unfaltering faith in an idea
ls it all wonderful that demagogues
and agitators, some of them inspired
abroad, should take advantage of such
a situation ? Are we to marvel that
reactionary politicians find in this
state of affairs an opportunity to sub
ordinate and to sacrifice, honor ajid
peace in order to obtain the Presi
dency ? 4
In their present frame of mind the
American people are not quite capable
of passing intelligently upon the
League of Nations or any other pro
posal for human betterment requiring
f arsighted courage and unselfishness
for its adoption. They are sitting by
the flesh-pots. They are wailing out a
distress which is spectacular and un
real. .They are deluding themselves
with dangers that do not exist and j
they are fighting small but disquiet-
ingbattles that are a reproach to them
and a mystery to their neighbors. To
be true Americans again they must
put aside all the meannesses which
have enthralled them of late. If they
cannot in. this emergency revive the
spirit that never has failed to make
them invincible, the moral decline of
the Republic will begin with that fate
ful failure.
Our discontents heretofore have been
those of ambition and progress. The
discontent of this day is of greed, in
gratitude, indulgence and perfidy.
New York World. -
Delightful Barbecue
Several of the Warrenton young
men gave an enjoyable barbecue at
the home of Mr. Roy Daniel Wednes
day afternoon at seven o'clock. Two
pigs were cooked and season fit for
a king by Beverley Watkins and a
number of young people enjoyed the
feast. .
SUfliEST .'
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WARRENTON, WARREN
SEMI - WEEWLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF
WILL HE GET A
NEGROES DISTURB!
PUBLIC WORSHIP
Burwell Harris, son of Jack Har
ris, and a man named Lynch, negroes
of the Grovehill section, tanked " up
on moonshine liquor and proceeded
over into Halifax to Oak Grove church
where preaching- was in progress.
With pistols they proceeded to break
up the worship.
Deputy Sheriff Dickens, of Halifax,
was cailled in to arrest Lynch and Har
ris. Harris, resisted arrest and it in
stated that he had to be knocked down
by Dickens before he could be arrest
ed and disarmed. Lynch escape; HarJ
ris was carried to Halifax tfaircuaf g-
ed with resisting arrest, carrying "pis
tol, disturbing public worship and
public drunkness. .
From the above charges it ajppear
that Harris is in for a long stay on
the Halifax chain gang.
Population of North Carolina
Over Twenty-one Years of Age
WhlU women, 858,585. Colored wo
men, 159,236. Therefore, there are
199,847 more white women in North
Carolina than colored.
White wemen, 358,583. Colored men
and cornea, 805,988. Therefore, there
are over 90,090 mere white women In
North Carolina than colored men and
women together.
Population of Tennessee Over
Twenty-one Years of Age
White women, 419,646. Colored wo
Btn, 122,707. Therefore, there are
296,939 more white .women in Tennes
see than cl5red; or more than three
times as many white as colored women.
White women, 419,646. Colored men
and women, 241,849. Therefore, thfcrt
are 177,797 more white women in
Tennessee than colored men and wo
men together. -
Mrs. Geo. Dill is visiting in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Rodvell.
MICKIE SAYS:
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COUNTY, FRIDAY, AUGUST
WAY WITH IT ?
THE LIBERIA ROAD
TO BF IMPROVED
The Warrenton road board at. their
monthly meeting Monday decided to
overhaul ther Liberia road. . It was
the decision of the board to procure
cinders from the Peck Manufacturing
Co., and it is said that a thousand
loads can be secured. There is abun
dant gravel at the Liberia end of the
road and the -road will be built of cm
ders and gravel.
This road has been a hard road to
keep up on account of that the fact
that the proper gravel has never been
put on the road.' As this is one 3f
the most important roads leading into
Warrenton it should be one of the best.
At Liberia this road will connect
with the new road that is to. be built
in Fork Township under government,
supervision. When the government
finishes this road in Fork it is hoped
that the Liberia road will be in good
shape so that it can share in govern
ment appropriation for the upkeep of
roads.
What Will Tennessee and
North Carolina Do?
The action of the Legislatures of
North Carolina and Tennessee on the
Federal Suffrage Amendment will win
or. lose party votes in crucial states
where women vote for President
These states are: Wyoming, Colorado,
Idaho, Utah. Washington, California,
Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana,
Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Mich
igan, South Dakota, Illinois, "North
Dakota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, In
diana, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Mis
souri, Wisconsin, Ohio, Arkansas and
Texas. " -.v--.- . ; ":;-::
The change of a few votes In an
one election district In one' of these
states may mean the gain or loss of all
the electoral votes from that' state,
and the gain or loss of the Presiden
tial election for your party.
In President Wilson's Opinion.
"It would be a real service to the
party and to the nation if it is possi
ble for you, under the peculiar provi
sions of, your, state constitution, hav
ing in mind the recent decision of the
Supreme Court in the Ohio case, -te
call a special session of the Legisla
ture of Tennessee to" consider the
suffrage amendment. Allow me te
urge this very - earnestly." Telegram
sent to . Governor Roberts of Tennes
see, by the President.
"I am sure I need not point out te
you the critical importance of the acr
tion of your great state in the mat
ter of suffrage amendment." Presi
dent's telegram to Governor Bickett i
North Carolina.
From the Governor of Tennessee.
"I , will call the session in ample
time for the women to vote In . the
1920 elections." Governor Roberto.
From. the Qoyerner of North Carolina.
T wili - recommend ratification"
Governer Bickett.
Explained.
"I wonder," said Mrs. Cossossuck,
"I wonder why Lot's wife looked,
back."
"That," said Cossossuck, sagely,
"Was the beginning of the famous
Postscript. She wanted to see what
was at the bottom. of it all.' Times
X
1920
RRKNTON AND WAR I;KN COUNTY
LADY cASTOR AP-
Through Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
President of the , Nation : American
Woman Suffrage Association now di
recting the ratification campaign in
Tennessee, , Lady Nancy Astor, bom
Nancy Langhorne, of Virginia, and
now Great Britain's first womanM.
P., has sent the' following message to
the men of the South:
"I want to send -a message to the
men of the South, because I come from
the South, and feel that I know and
understand it, as one only' can under
stad the place of one's birth and
childhood. I know the strong sense
of justice and honor that lives in the
hearts of the people. I know their
chivalry, too, and it. is just because, I
appreciate that chivalry that I, as a
woman, am anxious that it should be
representative of the. present and not
only of the past -that it shoulo! be a
progressive chivalry, equal to the
needs and aspirations of the women of
today, not content to give merely what
was demanded of it in the old days.
"I am writing to you from the
country of my adoption a. country
which has taken the great step and
given political responsibility p its
women. As it happens, I am one of
the women to whom the new oppor
tunity for service has come most di
rectly, and ' it - is partly on that ac count
that I am appealing to you of
the South..
"I am at present entrusted by the
people of - the Sutton Division of Ply
mouth to represent them, men .and
women alike, in Parliament. There
are something like 17,000 women
voters in my, constituency, and over
23,000 men, who include a large num
ber of men in the Royal Navy. It
would indeed be hard to feel that one
could not have the same trust from
the men of my home-land which has
been - given to me so generously in
the land of my adoption. '. But the re
sponsibility they have laid on me is
only the outcome of the responsibility
which they have already placed on all
women, , by giving them the vote.
Trusting a -woman in Parliament can
not be done fill you have trusted
women at the baSlot box. A democra
cy which only trusts its men cannot
help being a lop-sided democracy. I
know the South too well to believe that
they will interpret their own constitu
tion of popular government less dem
ocratically than this country, from
which I write, has 'interpreted its
constitution of limited monarchy.
"The cause of women's political
freedom has been won in America
America, where one of the first shots
in the campaign was fired. But the
forces working against justice and pro
gress are still strong enough to raise
technical obstructions and to delay the
full realization of the Victory.
"On August 6th the Governor of
Tennessee will call that Legislature"
into special session, to consider the
ratification of the Federal Amendment
for Women's Suffrage. r Thirty-five
states have given their hand and seai.
but one is lacking Will not the South
giv.e that one? So strong is my faith
ih'ihe South that 1 feel it almost an
imper.tinancejto ask them such a ques
tion." Remember we are making a"
new world of women mothers long.
to have a share in the sort . of world
in which their children must live. We
have moral courage and spiritual vis
ion. Give us the chance to help you.
We don't want to be little men, but
we do want to be Big Mothers."
(Signed) NANCY ASTOR.
A Good Extractor
Willie had swallowed a penny, and
his mother was in a state ol alarm.
"Helen," she called to her sister in
the next room, ''send for a doctor;
Willie has swallowed a penny!"
The terrified and ' frightened boy
looked up imploringly.
"No, mama," he interposed, "send
for the minister."
"The minister?" asked his mother,
incredulously. "Why the minister?"
"Because papa says he can get
money out of anybody." London"
Titbits. - . '
- Business
"Gimmy crikets, Blimps, I ran right
into my; tailor -on the street today "
"And he dunned you for the $50 you
owe him? Shucks, that's "
"Naw, you got it wrong. He' gave
me a cigar and sold me a. suit for $80
cash! That guy's some nifty collec
tor ! "-Times-Dispatch.
V. I
PEALS
Number 63
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URGE.FARJV1ERS TO PLANT
: RYE AND OTHER CROPS
IJ. S. Department of Agriculture
Advises Farmers To Grow
Cover Crops, To Help Their
Land and Furnish Feed.
Before the great war progress had
been made toward getting some kind
of cover crops "sown each fall on -Southern
farms. County agents and
other extension workers stressed
their importance and each year
thousands of demonstrations gave
ocular proof of their value. Follow
ing the outbreak of the war, however,
there was a great decrease in the
acreage " sown to such crops. This
was due to labor shortage, high-priced
seed, unsettled conditions, and
particularly to the stress of food pro
duction. ,
We should now endeavor to regain
the lost ground and again stress suit
able cover crops as a part of the farm
system for the South. Let us try to
make the early slogan of the Farm
er's Co-operative Demonstration Work
"Cover Crops on Every Farm," a real
ityin every county n the South this
year: . -
"Winter cover crops have a special
value on Southern Farms. They pro
tect the land from washing, prevent
loss of plant food by leaching, furn
ish grazing for livestock during the
winter ninths, and in the spring may
be plowed under to the great benefit
of the soil, or left for harvest for hay,
grain or seeds.
CROPS TO CONSIDER.
The smair grains and the clovers
are the most satisfactory crops for
this purpose. . They are all adapted
to Southern conditions and soils. In
most of the Southern states oats is
the most important small grain. Not
over 75 per cent of the amount needed
for home consumption is now grown.
The acreage in fall oats should be
greatly increased. They can be pro
duced cheaply, mature early, and can
be followed in most of the States by
corn and cowpeas, cowpeas for hay,
sweet potatoes, or other fall crops.
Rye is better than fall sown oats in
the northern tier of States of the
southern group.
Oats Rye, Wheat, Bur Clover, Crim
son Clover and the Vetches, sown with
oats, are all valuable as cover crops.
The choice will depend on your soil
and location, and the County Agent
or the Agricultural College will ad
vise you.
Local Items From
The Af ton Section
A series of meetings are inprogress
at Providence church. Rev. Draper is
assisted by Rev. L. Bridges of West
Va
Miss Rosa Frazier, of Raleigh, is
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. A.
H. Frazier.
Mr. Lawrence W. Overby, of Macon,
spent Saturday night with Mr. Boyd
Reams.
Mr. Sinclare Newman, of Atlanta,
Ga., is spending some time with
friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Hull, of New
port News, Va.f is visiting Mrs. Gull's
parents Mr. and Mrs. Frazier.
Mr. Henry Fuller made a fiying trip
to Norlina Saturday.
Mr. Henry Montgomery was a bus
iness visitor to Warrenton Saturday.
Mrs. J. W. Limer was shopping in
Warrenton Saturday.
Mrs. W. A. J. Pinnell'and son Rob
ert were visiting friends in Warren-'
ton Saturday.. ?
Mr. J. H. Pinnell and Mrs..F. P.
Bowden" visited Mrs D. G. Curing
near Oxford Sunday.
Mr. Jim Williams, of Warrenton, is
visiting in the home-of Mr. W. A. J.
Pinnell. -
Mr. Frank Frazier and family were
visitors in the home of his brother
Mr. A. H. Frazier Sunday.
Health and disposition are the two
most important things in life: good
health enables you to live with your
self, a good disposition to live suc
cessfully with others. Type Metal
Magazine.
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