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'' THE AMERlCANf-SOLDlER.' f " "DR. "JAMES8 SPRUNT. ? ' From the time it became known that It is with ; great pleasure nwe note Americatrops would be sent t Eu-i'the Nortb Carolina ;Litefary and His A . - torical Association has elected Dr. rope 1 a James Sprunt its president. ..It is n among many o our people as to what welj deserved recognition of biszeal our soldiers would do to, the Germans in preserving the "heretofore 7:un writ- General Manager's Office 44 as soon as mey goi on me uuug uuc, i.Cu : jwictHJ!,; or Advertising Department 176 Sdme seemed to think that all they ,tne -ape ear section, and of., thewal- would have to do 'to become victors ;uaDie results of energy, time -and,,tal-would be to show themselves to the , nt? tfwrteft.to-.tfce ?wpxl5.Noret Germans. There was much talk as toffitting selection could have beenadd how quickly they would end the war.and we congratulate the association hv chnwino- the 'French and British on its choiee of a v; president Dr. 1 HE WILMINGTOfl DISPATCH Published DAILY AND SUNDAY BY DISPATCH PUBLISHING CO. TELEPHONES: Circulation Department lib Managing Editor 44 City Editor ....205 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE. how real soldiers fought. There was a great deal of such talk among peo ple who should have known better. -The American soldiers -are a3 good ITOMBER OF THE ASSOCTATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively enti tled to no use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local Dews published herein. All rights of re publication special dispatches herein are . flehters as any in the world; but they BY MAIL: Daily and Sunday Daily and Sunday. Sir. Months. Daily and Sunday, 3 Months... Sunday Only. One Year Urp nnt mirarJe nerformers. and to do $3 00 witn the Germans what .some people !$l!5o' seemed to expect of them would have . $2.00 ' been little short- of . the , miraculous. DELIVERED BY CARRIER: oiir' soldiers eo to France to meet an SfWh?n K rdrvaWcfai-Om-my who have been good fighters Daily and Sunday, One Year $7.00 for many generations and those of the Daily and Sunday, Six Months. . .$3.50 present generation have been trained Daily and Sundayfi 3 Months fj-jjto arms as no others in the world of Sunday Only, One Year 2-0Qjtodav have been. ' , Entered at the Postoffice in Wilming-i So matters stand up to the present ton, N. C, as Second Class Matter. day. and we are afraid the pendulum -Foreign Representatives: 18 going to swing back and our sol- Frost, Green & Kohn, Inc., 225 Fifth diers be not given the full credit they Avenue, New York; Advertising jeserve. The first indication of this Building, Chicago. Sprunt, as head of the Association, will bring his store of knowledge- and fondness for historical .research., into play to the advancement of the class f work engaged in by the. Association. WAR EXPENSE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917: is an article in The Saturday Evening Member Audit Bure?u of Circulations. 'Post by George Patullo, who fails to find among our soldiers now on me front the spirit of the fearless West- - - . . i i xu.i . : erners. We am not Know Derore umt Byng! Bans;!! And the Huns didn't WeBterner ha(j more fearless spir know what hit 'em. it than tne southerner or the North- I erner. Wire entanglements don't stand, ' &int of patullos ,g any suuw t AmeEican soidiers now over.iars during the first year of the war, them- ! j there are too eager pupils of their al-Jbut large part of this will be for build- rwt von know our bovs further I lies. This criticism is as faulty asg naval vessels, for various plants v - I , , T, 1.1 v. wish they could have uie otner. n wuum ue - i fortunate for the cause .ana tor our The war expenditures of our gov ernment seem enormous and the war taxes very high, but whenV compared with those of Great Britain they are comparatively small. In comparing the figures it must be remembered that this is the first year America has been in the war.4and that a great deal of the expense so far incurred was in initial preparations and will not have to be repeated in the coming years of the war, while Great Britain's are current expenses. For the six months ended September 30 her revenue in come was over one and a quarter bil lion dollars, oeing five hundred million more than for the same , period last year. Two hundred and eighty mil lion of this sum came from excess profits tax. The United States', will spend or authorize the expenditure of somewhere near twenty billion dolr - WITH ; THE EDITORS. ; , truck company .ro" 4lvcame- front 'Tex as here and motor -truck -company No. 311 from -San - Francisco. Cal.-Ghar- ', lotte Observer, ' , ', At tho farm .-nf Hvil ftntHvwhicn-: Asheville Times.The people are Liiii - Mnnflir witbTude-e hearing from; the. Amerifcan boys in James L. Webb presiding; ' the. Char- : A LITliJE old ladv recentlv :Vis- 2 -w -- o j ' irirru . r rif If kl Ililllfl LSnl.H 111 - . J A.iT.J JJ M m . i4-t J.U U aU.'-J Tl. n A. the repor,3.wm continue .eports of j Fbeg'hf up T'&ML , btfV stadi ?h 'g brare service, effective -attacks, AtL,ntlra "nttr hq hemimt in nronert . Stt SSLSSSj: aui i ,v-.rf-f- -pi-www jc-r-.. - - , : i , mvvxvu uivvuivo maucp uiic ine same time tne wires .win leu M shape for a speedy -hearing and Judge spent the morning watching the actfbh lives sacrificed on the altar or tree- Webb- he asked to render a dcis- before the camera and remained for flom. In the meantime, those wno lon M early ag possibie so that th.e luncheon at the cafe. Director Rupert remam : i nome snouxu uu aoiueiums case mav, be carried to the - Supreme i Julian, who was then producine a new ; i Court and a decision obtained as near-1 leature, was luncning ai me same : ? - - .."i-'i - i ly; as convenient ; to' me vcourti . Mj;ne 4" xcu uyuu.me and dp it.9uick. : New Bern- Sun-Journal It is bJnd were shape to; s0ld ; a call forth, the- firing squad. . The ih. raattftr referred to. New York Pmother!' She's just the type I've been IcNineh found for." An introduction A. to cau iortn xne-nring equau. . xnc 4fc atATr-aa people of the. United States have for tQ,r! QttQ Mi, mo months suffered, at the hands of.;the , wfaat hebelieyed to be an obsfacre.to alien- enemies, in this country tj New;Qrk;eipeEts when the time comes, as has been the aeed''wltli-MaibrMcinctiUna"tSt case, when these enemies endeavor to ;ed that bef ore they could passffavr intimidate the public and cause them ably upon them they w0liid have o to cease giving aid to the government, be passed upon by . the courts. In then it is up to the government to t meantime, the building. program of take drastic action. the board of school commissioners has ben held up and the, high school, to down the line taken part in that battle? soldiers had they joined the veteran Magnificiently planned and superb-' soldiers of the Allies feeling superi- y executed, will be the universal ver- ority and displaying an assurance of .the close of the war the debt of this or war material, for erecting army cantonments and many other perma nent war equipments. The expendi war will not be near so heavy. At Durham Hterald. Organized labor gave the", pacifists , the right answer, and Samuel Gompers "used the proper methods of defining labor's attitude about this war when, he flayed the pacifists, and the pacifists wing of the Socialist party in his Buffalo speech yesterday. Once the laboring man has understood the situation, there is lit tle doubt of his. attitude towards this war. The Vote was over twenty thou sand to four hundred against the peace t any, price wing of the party yes terday, but the smaller number, has been creating : enough , discussion ,. to have been on the majority side. Charlotte Observer. President WH- ison has insisted upon Colonel House standing firm by one particular in struction governing his participation in the conference by the allied war commission which is shortly to be. held in Paris! 'The President has reminded Colonel House that unity of action be tween the Allies is essential1 to vic tory.' It is strange that there should be any necessity for urging this mani- j fest fact upon England. L,ioya-ueorge echoed President Wilson's contentions when he proclaimed the coming unity between the leaders of all the allied countries. cost $150,000, has -not been started, Some of the improvements'cohtemplat ed in. th,e building progranv tionld nb wait, however, and these have, for the, most part; been carried out. The new Third Ward school, to cost some $25,000, has not been started -as yet, either Charlotte Observer, - : was iVfoinia1 art1 4 ifqa 4-V 4- 4- Uttle old lady was none other thanS- Kuby La Fayette, who since the late '60sf had been an actress, on the legitimate stage. Miss La Favette'i success in t "Mother o' Mine"' is now moving picture history. She' mave ther-rolewithotit make-up", nresentinfir an artistic performance that won her immediate recognition as one of the screen's greatest "old ladies.". Al though she had played with such emi nent actors as Booth. Barrett and McCullough, she had never before ap-J pearea Deiore tne motion picture camera, jnow she says she is start ing her career all over again at sev4 enty-tnree. -t :o: I - liiinil ;!"! Jr ftiss"m a Iff diet on the splendid British victory. attaining greater success than they. 'country will be much less than that of ureat nntain. 4 .The mode of warfare and the instru- We would not care to have been ments of attark and defense employ the person whose duty it was to in-' ed in this war are so different . from form Kaiser ill of the British victory, anything our soldiers, even those who nave been in actual war, have ever ex- As the British admirality has found perienced that any other course than that it can get close in to German wa- bat pursued would have been folly, iknow what is meant by the announce- ters we may lcok for a repetition oi vbe American army may adopt amer-.ent mai me reserves cnecKea tne ent offensive tactics from those of the aemy in the rear position." The German war office will not tell its people that their army has met signal defeat, but they will want to the Cattegat affair. Allies, but even then there is much An exchange says corn bread is f3r them to learn before they become good enough for interned Germans, effective participants in the fighting. If not that, they need not be venwejtake it that; the American officers white flour bread, for no doubt they on the ground know what they are would prefer to have brown bread, about and are pursuing the right which most of them probably were course to develop the utmost efficiency used to at home. -There is no limit to German inge nuity in thinking up ways to destroy of the American army. No one will believe our soldiers are acking in the spirit of fearlessness or self-assurance or, that they are such American efficiency in war prepara- eager pupiis of the Allies as to admit tions. It extends from burning ware-'. inf eriority. When opportunity comes houses filled with war supplies on the the American soldiers will show them- Atlantic seaboard to poisoning whole gejvea t0 be the equals of any of those flocks of sheep on western ranches. "The spy caught hiding in the crows' nest of a United States troop ship in New York deserved to be lowered from it by a rope," says The Boston Globe. A good way if the rope were fighting with them or against them. A WARNING. The fearful results of the burning of the school building In Asheville is looped about his neck and not long a warning to the people in every city enough to. reach the deck. in this State. What happened there is liable to occur in any jother city We hope all soldiers will, for the whose school buildings arenot fire sake of their families, heed the ap- proof. No new- school building should peal of Secretary McAdoo and take be built which is not absolutely fire out government life insurance before j proof, and every one now jn use the time for so doing expires, which should be made as nearly s6as pos is February 12, next. All soldiers with'sible. Dependence should not be put .families at all dependent on them owe on means for quickly "emptying the it to those families to take advantage buildings of the pupils or in frequent of the liberal plan of life insurance fire drills. These measures are good offered by the government. 'in their way and should be properly looked after in every building, but pre- If General Pershing did not have cautions against -fire - should not end anything to do with planning that at- there. No city can afford, for the sake tack by the British on the Germans of economy, to place the lives of hun Which proved so successful it was of 'dreds of children in jeopardy daily by the kind of fighting the American Gen-' assembling them in school buildings eral has advocated and said his sol- where there is danger of repetition of diers would do when they got into the the Asheville catastrophe. Humanity war. It was entirely different in sev- demands that every precaution should eral respects from all former British be taken to protect them. Human modes of attack aad in every impor- life cannot be measured by the money tant feature resembled the kind of standard. Dollars and cehts should warfare advocated by General Per- not be made tq . oonirt" When it is a shing and other American army men. question of . life and death, as is the c. v. case when the cost of a school build Kaiser William is endeavoring to inS is cut down through rejection of repeat the history of the Fifth cen- proper means in the construction to tury. The Attila of the Twentieth make that building fire-proof. Every century is sending his Huns to lay city school committee in'' the State waste and take possession of the coun- should ?take warning from what Ashe- tries to the jsouth, fairer than his own. villa baa. ufferedrand . take, steps-, tc The repetition will continue until the prevent its repetition in the building Modern Attila will meet defeat at the undeltsHn-tl ' ' ' hands :of his -Aetius. The victory over '-Y,:'-' ' ' ' - V'-'- - ' ' he Huns yesterday was near where .g III t I I l-f I 1 U tl rt r AD - T T t s-v i m aw,.....- " at The London v Daily News hints - ...-- I V J M. uUO.Ulll.Lf i LllOiL 1.1 ' ' Cim &VdlXV4 ?. 1.. e."rly.'"- P-eS ot jfethe VniJea State,'! I entrance into the war has saved Great red on the plains of the Marne. : .Britain and France from defeat ; or at The London Mail told a great big the least ftom .-being; forced to , make truth when it .said, the. United States' a humiliating pac.Tbis 'is'a 'fact was not in ; this war to help Great those counWesee':and 'it is.' no Britain or France, but to save her own more thaixf'rit'Jpfottr government freedom i'rom German domination ' should takeiiieffcf at the council of for exactly the same reasons - that nations, whenfineets to settle ; the those two. European nations are fight- terms of peaice- Germany will, heart ing. The only, reason this country is ily approve of this, for she well knows in tne war now instead of waiting till that sh later is that;lt. prefers to join -England: from a iunciMubr thelt and France :mthe curbing of Germany ed". State? - than from; one 1 under : tht . v. and JBehtin 1 aHrA&tA2i&??&i.'At i-if"-- li-sLisi-1 r tit That wiU put the people to wondering -how the British got to the rear positions and what the soldiers of the front lines were doing while the reserves were c'lecking the enemy' in those rear po rtions. It will be pretty hard to ex plain such situation without admit ing that the first line soldiers were all killed, captured or had run from ,tie battlefield. STATE NEWS. ! Mrs. Frank Herz, during the past several months has extended many delightful hospitalities to the soldiers at Gamp Greene. Several days ago when she returned home after a visit to the base hospital she was surpris ed to find on her porch an express box containing 800 large red apples. shipped to her by Mr. and. Mrs. M. A. Hay, a high school boy, who. was re- and Mrs. Hay' youngest son, Bruce Hav. a -high school boy, who wes re cently. stationed at Camp Greene, had been entertained;, on; several occasions by Mrs." Herzi and the apples , were sent as a token of appreciation Charlotte Observer. Neuralgia Headaches After shopping or after a hard day are quickly relieved with Sloan's Liniment. So easy to apply, no rub bing, and so promptly effective. Cleaner and more convenient than rhussy 'plasters and ointments. It does not stain the skin, or clog the pores. Every home should have a bottle "handy for sprains, strains, lame back, rheumatic pains and stiff, sore muscles and joints. ' Generous sized bottles at all drug gists. 25c, 50c, $1.00. j GIVES DRESSES TO V ; HER "EXTRA" GIRLS If there is one question whir ' til-. ma Taimadge is called - upon to ah- swer-more irequently than any other, it is tln "What do you do-with your .v j. t, occms- mat- me ever present fijlni fans would be only too glad to help Miss Talmadge distribute her dresses over the entire country if uicy tuuiu, jor me requests-which she receivea for her cast-otf frocks are as numerous as the letters which ask for ner auiograpnea photographs. But to all these pleadings MisL Talmadffe to her "extra" girls that they may be ouie w Kei positions with other com panies when they are not working w "YORICK" WRITES FILM PLAYS That H. Sheridan Bickers, nna nf ihe best-known English playwrights and dramatic critics, has ben pn. ?aged to write scenarios for Mae aiurray is a recent interesting an nouncement made bv BluehirH Mntn- plays. Mr. Bickers was formPiltr iveii known in London and New York ander the pen name of "Yorick," and afs dramatic criticisms for years have Cor 11th & Market Street S Plan "Germany has made some huge blun ders since she" entered the ' war, but none so great as the moving of troops from the line in front of the British to take part in-the drive in Italy, as it is said was done. It was generally supposed that the troops sent to. aid the Austrians had come from the Rus- sian front. THE RESULT OF STRIKES. (Asheville Times). Will Federal control and ODeration of the railroads become a war neces sity? ..... The trend is . in that direction and unless the signs of the times are im perfectly understood, the government will be forced to the step.. From various sections of the coun try there are rumors of strikes or threatened strikes of railwav em ployes. Efforts to avoid the stop page of railway trains and the conse quent embarrassment, not of individi uals -nd mercantile concerns alone, but of the government itself in its con duct of 'the war. seem futile. ' ' Unless settlement of the differences between employes and employers can be brought about, it will be right and necessary for the government to step 'ri, operate the railways, set the scale pf wages and if the worst comes, draft men to drive the engines. ;load thfc "reight, and conduct ' the business of transportation. - . If this course is forced upon the 9y ernment; .- no one .can ; complain . Trains must move now and. move everyday-War material must reach the seaboard. This is np time fpr bick erings. Difficulties between labor and capital must be settled. The Federal government can be trusted by both sides, -1 fair and just treatment would Se accorded both the operators and the operatives. r - This is- not the ' time for strikes in '.ny line of ;wdrk.,EVery.wheel;.vshould turn and every mill ' should : be ppei ted. Too much depends on the out put of plant and .factory The nation's oresent ?nd future, nay the nation's very life hangs in the, balance, If workingmen. vnd" -employers of labor would simply recognize the fact that loyalty to. the.country demands a unJtpd service the adjustment of dif ferences would co&eftcpiickly. If the conflict continues then gov ernmental operaU6n ?f iindnstrial olants and of railway lines .will-follow and the" fault will lie with those who .tfave made the step necesslaryl; y One French Ship Lost-5? - 1' - (By Associated iPress.) - ' 1 " Parish Nov. 22. One French ship of more than 1600 tons .-and two. fishing vessels were sunk by" Xsubmarines or niines . last t week. One ship was at acked unsuccessfully ? A ' . ? i;4- , . . 'rW U; , ''; --. V ' : Hugo Bzdek Ms - oat .with ,, a,' boost pr Chick Warie Plttsburgi ba gctii oaf a iru,; sSij.ue?iuoei.vpromis- )pg7 ijastlmerpnshef rale ;crewi?G E. H. Moser, who is superintendent of the public schools of Selma, Johns on county, was here Saturday as the representative of the people of his town to confer with the Federal fuel administrator for the State, A. W. Mc Alister. Mr. , Moser told friends that a number of prominent business and professional men of Selma had taken the lead, called a mass meeting and in this manner "put over" the munic ipal woodyard plan, despite disincli nation of the mayor. The mayor is working in full co-operation with the municipal woodyard plan, now, it was stated, and Selma is put on a wood burning basis,-with the first order amounting to 600 cordsl Greensboro News. mm iFEvl l"w (111 ml mm 2 At the monthly meeting of Post B, T. P. A., Saturday night, it was de cided to dispense. with its annual ban quet this year and donate $50, of the funds usually expended in this man ner for the 'war relief work of the Y. M. C. A. The annual banquet of this po3t is always a great occasion which is enjoyed by the membership, but it was decided at this meeting that owing to present conditions, the necessity of food conservation, and the need xf money for such work as the Y. M. C. A. is doing for the sol diers, that it would be better to dis pense with this feature this year as a patriotic duty. Winston Sentinel. In Camp Jackson America 'meets. When you meet a soldier and ask him where he is from he will most likely answer North or South- Carolina or Florida; now ever, there are a few thousand here who represent' every State and almost every county in the United States. " New York State, Pennsylvania and Texas are especial ly well represented. 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