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VOL XXXIV
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, Wednesday Evening March 7, 1917
Number. 10
7 iy
INflAT 0 Of
WOODROW WILSON
FOR SECOND TERM
HIS INAUGURAL
ADDRESS
merica First" Emblazoned From
Countless Streamers; "We Are
American Citizens" Flares From
Banners Borne By Once Alien
Hands; Course of Chjef Executive
From White House to Capitol And
Back Triumphant; Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs. Marshall Honored With Hus
bands. Washington, March 5. Woodrow
Wilson with the major part of the
world at war and America poised
en its verge consecrated his second
inauguration as President of the
"I'nited States today with a message
of hope for peace.
Standing in the shadows of the
Nation's Capitol with his face turn
ed toward the Eastern war-seared
skies, the President renewed his oath
of allegiance to the Constitution
praying to Almighty God that he
might be given wisdom and prudence
to do his duty in the true spirit of
the American people.
While trumphets blared and mar
tial accutrements rattled propheti
cally about him, the President pic
tured the deep wrongs the United
States patiently had borne in the
conflict of other peoples without
wishing to wrong or injure in return.
Asserting that the tragedies of
another continent had removed pro
vincialism and made Amercican citi
zens of the world, and that the prin
ciples of this republic should be ap
plied to a liberation of mankind,
that America, standing "firm in arm
ed neutrality" must demonstrate her
claim to a "minimum of right and
freedom of action" in world affairs.
Peculiar interest and significance,
in the light of his rebuke last night
to Senators who prevented passage
of the allied neutrality bill, were at
tached to the President's assertion.
Even more interest and concern were
aroused when he added:
"We may even be drawn on, by
circumstances, not by our own pur
pose or desire, to a more active as
sertion of our rights as we see them
and a more immediate association
with the great struggle itself. But
nothing will alter our thought or
our purpose. We desire neither con
quest nor advantage. We wish noth
ing that can be had only at the cost
of another people. We have always
professed unselfish purpose and we
covet the opportunity to prove that
our professions are sincere."
President Wilson's inaugural ad
dress was as follows:
Ivly Fellow Citizens:
The four years which have elapsed
since I last stood in this place have
been crowded with counsel and action
of the most vital interest and conse
quences. Perhaps no equal period
in our history has been so fruitful
of important reforms in our economic
and industrial life or so full of sig
nificant changes in the spirit and
purpose of our political action. We
have sought very thoughtfully to set
our house in order, correct the gross
er errors and abuses of industrial
life, liberate and quicken the process
es of our national genius and ener
gy, and lift our politics to a broader
view of the people' essential inter
ests. It is' a record of singular vari
ety and singular distinction. But I
shall not attempt to review it. It
speaks for itself and will be of in
creasing influence as the years go
by. This is not the time for retro
spect. It is time, rather, to speak our
thoughts and purposes concerning the
present and the immediate future.
Although we have centered coun
sel action with such unusual concen
tration and success upon the great
problems of domestic legislation to
which we have addressed ourselves
four years ago, other matters have
wore and more forced themselves up
on our attention, matters lying out
side our own life as a nation and over
vhich we had no control, but which
despite our wish to keep free s of
them have drawn us more and more
irresistibly into their own current
and influence.
It has been impossible to avoid
them. They have affected the life
of the whole world. They have sha
ken men everywhere with a passion
and an apprehensioriTthey never knew
before. It has been hard to preserve
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calm counsel while the thought of
our own people swayed this way and
that under their influence. We are a
composite and cosmopolitian people.
We are of the blood ofairthe nations
that are at war. The currents of our
thoughts as well as the currents of
our trade run quick at all seasons
back and forth between us and them.
The war nevitably set its mark from
the first alike upon our minds, our
industries, our commerce, our poli
tics and our social action. To be in
different to or independent to it was
out of the question.
And' yet all the while we have been
conscious that we were not part of
it. In that consciousness, despite
many divisions, we have drawn clos
er together. We have been deeply
wronged upon the seas but we have
not wished to wrong or injure in re
turn; have retained throughout the
consciousness of standing in some
sort apart, intent upon an interest
that transcended the immediate is
sues of the war itself. As some of
the injuries done us have become in
tolerable we have still been clear that
we wished nothing for ourselves that
we were not ready to demand for all
mankind fair dealing, justice, the
freedom to live and be at ease again
st organized wrong.
It is in this spirit and with this
thought that we haye grown more
and more aware, more and more cer
tain that the part we wished to play
was the part of those who mean to
vindicate and fortify peace. We
have been obliged to arm ourselves
to make good our claim to a certain
minimum of right and of freedom.
We stand firm in armed neutrality
since it seems that in no other way
we can demonstrate what it is we
insist upon and can not forego. We
may even be drawn on, by circum
stances, not by our own purpose or
desire to a more active assertion of
our rights as we see them and a more
immediate association with the great
struggle itself. But nothing will alter
our thought or our "purpose. They
are too clear to be obscured. They
are too deeply rooted in the prin
ciples of our national life to be al
tered. We dsire neither,., conquest
nor advantage; we wish nothing that
can be had only at the cost of another
people. We have always professed
unselfish purpose an we covet the
opportunity to prove that our pro
fessions are sincere.
There are many things still to do
at home, to clarify our own politics
and give new vitality to the indus
trial processes of our own life, and
we shall do them as time and oppor
tunity serve; but we realize that the
greatest things that remain to be
done must be done with the whole
world for a stage and in co-operation
with the wide and universal forces
of mankind, and we are making our
spirits ready for those things. They
will follow in the immediate wake of
war itself and will set civilization up
again. We are provincials no lon
ger. The tragical events of the
thirty months of vital turmoil thru
which we have just passed have made
us citizens of the world. There can
be no turning back. Our own for
tunes as a nation are involved,
whether we would have it so or not.
And yet we are not the less Ameri
cans on that account. We shall be
the more American if we we but re
main true to the principles in which
we have been bred. They are not
the principles of a province or a
single continent. We have known
and boasted all along that they were
the principles of a liberated man-
Thpse. therefore, are the
things we shall stand for, whether
in war or in pelace.
That all nations are equallly in
terested in the peace of the world
and in the political stability of free
peoples, and equally responsible for
their maintenance:
That the essential principle of
peace is the actual equality of na
tions in all matters of right and
privilege;
That peace cannot securely or just
ly rest upon an armed balance of
power;
That governments derive all their
just powers from the consent of the
governed and that no other powers
supported by the common thought,
purpose, or power of the family of
the family of nations;
That the seas should -be equally
free and safe for the use of all
should be supported by the common
thought, purpose or power of the
world so that, so far as practicable,
they should be accessible to all up
on, equal terms.
That national armaments should be
limited to. the necessities of nation
al border and domestic safety;
COUNTY COMMISSION,
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W. D. Merritt Appointed County
Attorney Jury -List for Aplril
Term of Court Drawn.
The Board of County Commission
ers met in regular monthly session
Monday morning at ten o'clock ; in
the Register of Deeds office, wjthl
all members present. ;.'
Mr. W. D. Merritt was appointed
County Attorney for the term of
one year. '
Below is the jury list drawn for.:
the April term of Person county Su
perior court: Luther Satterfield,Aj
M. Denny, Sam Fulcher, J. Y. FbxJ
John E. Chambers, W. T. Daniel, C. J.
C. Cunningham, W. E. Winstead, W.1
T. James, R. D. Long, A. D. Ham-rbf this convention to run in the elec
lett, C. H. Dunkley, I. G. Stephensjion the six getting the highest vote,
J. H. Melton, A. J. Dixon, W. W.yt being understood, before the vote
Harris, C. W. Allison, E. G. Riley, wJiras taken that even if three of the
J. Barker, T. L. Hamlin, G. C. Bar
rett, R. T. Winstead, Z. B. BarnetC
J. Nr Broach, W. K. Hayes, Johii
Lunsford, A. E. Jackson, J. L. Bow?
ling, M. R. Long, T. W. Wright, W.(
H. Gentry, J. M. Williams, Joe H.
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Carver, J. R. James and J. E. Brooks.;
The usual routine of work was.
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gone thru. The commissioners ad-
journed Monday afternoon to meet
again on the third Monday in regu-i
lar monthly road meeting. I
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Lewis, and
daughter, Mrs. K. L. Street, left last
Saturday morning for Washington,"
D. C, where they were in attendance
at the inauguration of President Wil-
son Monday.
That the community of interest
and of power upon which peace must
henceforth depend, imposes upon;
each nation the duty of seeing to it
that all influences proceeding from
its own citizens meant to encourage"
or assist revolution in other states.
should be sternly and effectually sup4J
pressed and prevented. A
I need not argue these principles
to you, my fellow countrymen: they?
are your own, part and parcel! Miandidates will be able to Doll b.
your owir4htolrfng-ycm
tive in affairs. - They spring up na
tive amongst us. Upon this as a
platform of purpose and of action
we can stand together.
And it is imperative that we should
stanc together. We are being forged
into a new unity amidst the fires
that now blaze throughout the world.
In their ardent heat we shall, in
God's providence, let us hope, be
purged of faction and division, puri
fied of the errant humors of party
and of private interest, and shall
stand forth in the days to come with
a new dignity of national pride and
spirit. Let each man see to it that
the dedication is in his own heart, the
high purpose of the nation in his
own mind, ruler of his own will and,
desire.
I stand here and have taken the
high and solemn, oath to which you
have been audience because the peo
ple of the United States have chosen
me for this august delegation of
power and have by their gracious
judgement named me their leader in
affairs. I know now what the task
means. I realize to the full the re
sponsibility which it involves. I
pray God I may be given the wisdom
and the prudence to do my duty in
the true spirit of this great people.
I am their servant and can succeed
only as they sustain and guide me
by their confidence and their coun
sel. The thing I shall count upon,
the thing without which neither coun
sel nor action will avail, is the uni
ty of America, an America united
in feeling, in purpose, and in its vis
ion of duty, of opportunity and of
service. We are to beware of all
men "who would turn the tasks and
the necessities of the nation to their
own private profit or use them for
the building up of private power;
beware that no faction or disloyal
intrigue break the harmony or em
barass the spirit of our people; be
ware that our government be kept
pure and incorrupt in all its parts.
United alike in the conception of our
duty and in the high resolve to per
form it in the face of all men, let
us dedicate ourselves to the great
task to which we must now set our
hand! For myself, I beg you toler
ance, your countenance, and your
united aid. The shadows that now
lie dark upon our path will soon be
dispelled and we shall walk with the
light all about us if we but be true
to ourselves to ourselves as we
have wished to be known in the coun
sels of the world and in the thoughts
of :all .those who love liberty and
justice and the right exalted.
FROM ALLENSVILLE
Mrs. Van Aklen has been con
fined to her bed for several weeks
by reason of sickness.
Little John, , the son of John W.
Wilburn is sick with pneumonia.
Mr. Gus Slaughter is said to be
pck. ' j
Mr. A. C. Allen is the father of a
son, arrived just after the primary,
Ibut too late to vote.
5 I don't know what the other town
ihips did yesterday but we had a
crowd at Allensville, which will go
on the record as the greatest meet
mg of tis kind ever held at this
place, which shows the very great
interest that they fee! in their town-
ship's welafre, twelve candidates be
ing put in nomination. The purpose
candidates should happen to be elect
ed from any particular location, we
ould abide by the vote of the peo
ple. While at the same time it was
Jiot thought that this would be satis
factory but we thought all men had
an equal right to run in the pri
vmary and the ones getting the larg
4st vote should run in the election
on March 20th. Richard feels proud
of the selections made in his town
,ship, commencing on the western
side with a young man who has only
been in the township a few years
;but is generally known os one of the
best men among us, that man being,
B. G. Crumpton. No man in the
township would make a mistake in
rvoting for Mr. Crumpton. The next
jnan is Mr. S. T. Slaughter, a man
in whom people place their confi
dence and one who will no doubt be
elected' in the coming election. The
third man from the west end is Mr.
J. D. Burch who is fully recognized
as one of the good men of this sec
tion, he was given a few more votes
than Mr. Crumpton or Slaughter.
Fourth man is Mr. Jno. L. Gentry a
pian well known all over the town
ship and but a few if any of the
? On lie- ferpcf
north side is Mr. C. A. Whitfield,
carrying a large vote m tne pri
i ii
mary and on the extreme east Mr.
L. H. Lunsford well favored by the
ery large vote of his particular
section. It is now almost assured
that the bond issue will carry in
Allensville township and in the whole
countv. So vote only for men who
are outspoken in favor of good roads.
We could not afford to vote for a
man for commissioner who would
kill the vote we have cast for good
roads. So be careful who you vote
for commissioner. Poor Richard.
Presbyterians Announcements
Midweek prayer meeting service
tonight at 7:30.
Sunday School at 9:45 A. M. every
Sunday. Preaching next Sunday
March 11th at 7:30 P. M.
Service at Hurdle Mills
Rev. Carleton E. White will preach
at Hurdles Mill School House next
Sunday March 11th at 11 o'clock.
Roxboro, N. C, R. F. D. No. 2.
February 24th, 1917.
Mr. S. P. Satterfield, Insurance,
Roxboro, N. C.
Dear Sir:
I want to thank you for your
uniform courtesy and nice settlement
for my tenant house recently destroy
ed by fire. You paid me. every cent
my policy called for. I take pleas
ure in commending you and your
Agency to the Insuring Public.
Very respectfully,
N. B. SLAUGHTER,
Assured.
To the Voters of Person County
Please read carefully before voting
for Good Roads, bonds for $300,000.
Supposing a man paying one five
hundredth part of it, he could pay
$600 cash and his part would be paid
in full. But if he votes for the bonds
to run for forty years, then it will
cost the same man $1600 to pay it
in full, making $1000 loss. Let's kill
it this time to stay dead.- E. R.
Bradsher, Hurdle Mills, N. C.
Announcement of Edgar Long Me
morial! Church
On account of the Unfavorable
weather last Sunday the Communion
service was postponed until next
Sunday at 11 A. M.
We have the-pleasure to announce
that Rev. J. A. Dailey, will preach
for us at 7:30 inlthe evening. The
public is cordially invited to these
services. u. w. uowa, r.
CONTRACT LET FOR ROADS
Leading From Roxboro to Leasburg
and to Hurdle Mills
The contract has been let for the
building, which includes the grading
and topsoiling, of the roads leading
from Roxboro to Leasburg and to
Hurdle Mills. These roads will be
completed just as fast as the con
tractor can get to them. There is
yet some work to done on the road
to Loch Lily, which as soon as com
pleted will be turned over to the
Highway Commission and work will
begin on the other roads just men
tioned. It has been stated by many, who
either did not know or did not care
to know facts, that the townsnip
would not have near money enough
to complete the work laid out, but
we are informed by the Commission
that these roads will be built and! that
there will not be a dollar owing on
them when completed. At the com
pletion of these roads there will be
more miles of roads actually built
tbi was first thought possible,
which clearly shows the splendid
manner in which the township funds
have been handled.
Regardless of what may be the
turn of the coming bond election
this township will have good roads on
nearly every road entering the town,
and while the winter has been the
most severe on roads for many years
all of these roads have stood up
well, and within a week after the
rain ceases and the sun comes out
all of them will be in splendid con
dition. Surely a lesson for the oth
er sections of the County.
BETHEL HILL ITEMS
The ground hog knew what
he
was doing this year. .
Messrs. W. J. Crutchfielc, 0.VD.
Bailey and W. R. Seat were nomina
ted Saturday by the Holloway mass
meeting for township highway com
missioners. It was the sentiment of
the meeting that these men would
make us a good body of officers for
fully discharge their duty irrespec
tive of personal or places.
It is not right to defeat or win any
proposition by misrepresentation.
Some are leaving the impression that
the federal government will give us
as much money as we vote bonds for
roads and that since the bond issue
in Roxboro township the road tax
has been reduced from 25 to 15 cents.
Under the national road bill N. C.
will get a little over a million dollars
during the years from 1916 to 1920
to be expended on roads selected by
the Governor and the State Highway
Commission the 'counties in which
these roads are built to bear one half
the expense of building. It is not
likely or probable that Person-co
would get nearly one third of all
the national road money allowed to
N. C. to be used at random on a sys
tem of county roads. As to the
statement that Roxboro township
does not pay as much tax now under
bonds as before, such a thing is pos
sible. Nearly one half the property
of the county is listed in Roxboro
township and a lower rate than 25
cents on the hundred dollars of pro
perty may support the bonds. But
anyone with any degree of intelli
gence knows the road tax all over
the county will be increased if bonds
are voted.
Whether any misrepresetatibn is
meant or not it certainly is leaving
the wrong impression to make the
above statement is why I say it is
wrong to try to win or defeat any
election in such a manner. J. Y.
Humphries.
rwh nt Mr W W WilkM-snn
At the home of his daughter, Mrs.!ni,ght- is sai? J0"??!
J. W. Phelpsp in Granville county
on the 5th inst. the death of Mr.
Wesley W. Wilkerson, a native of
Person county occurred. Mr. Wil
kerson was about 68 years old and
brother to the first wife of Mr. A.
R. Foushee of our town. The re
mains were buried at Berea ceme
tery Granville county.
Work has begun on the enlarge
ment of the store building' occupied
by Mr. A. Lipshitz. The store will
be made longer, and when finished
will give Mr. Lipshitz a 'much larger
and nicer store room. He expects to
equip a Victrola parlor, and also
have his office in the rear of his
building.
Mr. A. Lipshitz left Monday for
the northern markets to make far
g rf and -summer puxcha:ses
for histore.
Meeting of Good . Roads Associa
tion Good Roads Association met at
Allensville, March 3rd, meeting call
ed to order by Mr. Jno. Q. Yarboro
order of Chairman J. E. Montague.
Two strong-speeches were offered in
interest of good roads led by W; T.
Buchanan and followed by Jno. Q.
Yarboro. After which a primary or
convention was held and the follow-
ingcandidates -were nominated for
Commissioners for; Allensville town
ship, to be voted on at the general
election to be.' held the 20th day5 of
March; L. H. Lunsford, C. A. Whit
field, J. D. Burch, S. T. Slaughter,
J. L. Gentry and B. Gk Crumpton.
The general -opinion is that the can
didate who receives the most votes
at the regular election will be elcted
for six years, the next t highest for
four years and the next for two
years.
This writer has been going to Al
lensville for twenty-three years "for
primary elections, and have never
seen so many people at Allensville
before at htis kind of meeting. -There
were sixty seven ballots jput
in the box and others present who
did not vote. The people are deeply
concerned about matters pertainjng
to roads in Allensville. We hope'
it is for good and the people evi
dently believe that the bonds will be
voted or they would not be so inter
ested about their road commission
ers. It is time I think that every
body ought to be disgusted with the
roads we now have to travel and the
present system of pretending to keep
them up seems to me that most of
our roads are getting worse. 1
It looks like a poor policy to try
to have better churches and better
attendance at them with such roads
as people have to travel to attend
them. It sounds rather bad to say
that our roads look like unciviliza
tion when we compare them with ;
the progress along other lines that
we are trying to make. So fellow
voters lets lay aside the dread of a
little tax and all vote together one
time and have some good roads built Av-r
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mai we can travel over any time ,
the year. ; The writer thought to3ay i-r; t
as he went through the mud to at-
tend the above "named good roads ' '
meeting that if poor horses and mul- V j
es could vote they wouldall vote for
good roads. ( - - ,
The man whj has traveled his -7 !
team much this winter has lost more , ,
on the wear and tear of his stock ." ;
than his tax one or two years would
amount to, and furthermore horses
and mules have feelings of pain and
torture the same, as human beings
and we will have to give accounts
some day for our cruelty toward
them. So, Mr. Voter, let's seriously
consider where we are and act from
our better judgement and decide be
fore the 20th of March that we will
better our conditions in Person
county, in the way of churches,
schools and roads, for all three are
badly needed. S. T. Slaughter, Sec'y
Good Roads Ass'n, Allensville Town
ship, i
ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING
AGAINST THE PRESIDENT
Fritz Kolb, a German Reservist,
Planned, to Send Bombs to Wilson
Caused Black Tom Eplosion.
Hoboken, N. J., March 5. Fritz
Kolb, a German reservist who" says
he came to this country in 1914 and
later went to the Mexiean border,
and two other men, have been ar
rested by government agents here
as
the result of v an alleged plot
against the life of President Wilson.
The detectives said they had found
in Kolb's room, a quanity of explo
sives and two bombs which were to
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ed to the plot against the President
and that he took part in recent muni
tions explosions, including that at
Black Tom island,
NOTICE
Everybody invited to hear Mr, W.
S. Fallis, at the Court House Friday
evening March 9th, 1917. 7:30. ,
Mr. Fallis is state engineer and
will give a very interesting lecture
on roads, he also will show the pic
tures ofthe flood damage in Wes
tern North Carolina. '
Come and bring all your friends.
J. W. Noell, President ' "
Good Roads Association
There will be given-at Bethel, Hill ' .
Friday night, March 16th,- 1917 av
play entitled, Poor ilairied JlanV tl
The , admission s will' be ( 15anji 25'J.
cents. The public is cordially injited ,
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