VOLUME ox
WINDSOR, N. C. , THURSDAY OCTOBER 2 1ST, 1915.
No 19
Froclomatioii For Hooniighi j
School Month
Whereas, there is inv North; Card
jina 132.000 white men, and women,
boys and girls, oyer ten s years of age
who cannot read and write -an army
greater in number than was sent by
North Carolina to the service -iof 4 the
Confederate States and ., ,14 per cent
of the white voters are reported in tljie
census , as illiterate the Stkte in thfo
particular standing v practically at the
bottom of fhejjroU of States;! and , :
Whejreasflt is largely because thiy
islT'nnmrtunitv. larcrelv because thev
"had ro chance," - that these oeople.
brothers and sisters of ours, are illiter
ate today,, growing up as they did (in
the yers of war, and reconstruction,
and the years of ' poverty that " follow
ed, before the State had provided ad
equate schools or thoroughly realized
its duty to provide facilities ?where)&v
verv child may "bureeon all
there
is
within him;" and,-
Whereas, the state nas now come
to a poignant realization of its di.ty
not only to provide schools for the boys
and girls of today but ' also to open
the doors of. knowledgeTof hope, and
of opportunity for all who were n sg
lected in her days of poverty; 'and
Whereas, while our illiterate peo pie
as a whole have bravely and perse vr
ingly achieved . usefulness, success,
good citizenship and high character,
despite their terrible handicap; we dan
but f eeV how infinitely greater would
have been their achievements, how in
finitely richer their contribution to Jthe
life of our Commonwealth had tpey
but had the keys of learning in ! their
hands; and while our State, ; through
patient struggle, has won its way but
toward prosperity and civic progress,
too. can but reflect udoh the far. far
greater progress Iwe
were all our people educated; ana J,
t Whereas, through the "Moonlight
School," as we are assured by the ex
perience of Kentucky and by the expe
rience of numerous counties in our
own State, the method is -at hand as
outlined by the Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction and the ; State Commit
tee on Community, Service, Lwheijeby
we may carry the immeasurable" ben
fits of education to all who were neg
lected in their youth:
Now, therefore, I, Locke Cr aig,
Governor ot North Carolina. do issue
this my proclamation to designate the
month of November, 1915, as Moon
light School Month" in North Garo.
iiria, and set, it apart to be devoted to
the hlgb purpose beginning a cru
sade to eliminate illiteracy from tbe
State; trusting that the movement
then begun will not xease until every
unlettered man and woman,' boy and
girl is given access through readir g to
all the wealth of knowledge now
sealed to them, to end that North Car
olina long before another census year
may be a State without adult il iter
ates. . . ' ' ' " . . i .
I, therefore, call upon the citizens,
teachers, and educational- authorities
of every county la organize fori; the
purpose of eliminating adult j illiteracy
from that ccunty;-and
I call upon the members of the Far
mers . Union, the Press Associations,
the Junior Order; the Federation of
Women's Clebs. and all other organi
zations that have already enlist ;d in
the cause, to be unfaltering in their
splendid purpose to carry it through to
a triumphant' conclusion; and . ; ;
I call upon the commercial-orgs niza
tiohs, boards of. trade, civic clubs, re
ligious organizations, - Sunday schools,
and all organizations everywhere to
give loyal, .enthusiastic aid and sup
port to a movement .whose success
will promote the welfare ot, every in
dividual in the State and bring new,
confidence and courage to all the peo
ple; and . i
I call upon every man and: svery
woman who craves the sacred privi
lege of being of greatest service to
those An greatest need to render
here the infinite service of. bringing
new freedom to a human mind.
. Done intour city of "Raleigh
9th day of October, in the year
Lord one thousand nine hundrei
fifteen; and in the one hundrei
fortieth year of our, American
pendence. ' v
By the Governor:
Jno, P. Kerr
' Private Secretary. .
; . Locke Craig,
on the
of our
i. and
i : and
Inde-
'".' , Governor,
The Farmers Ought To Be
Organized
We find speculators and those en
gaged in the distribution of farm pro
ducts have organized ;and operate to
the great detriment f of the farming
class, To enable farmers to meet
the conditionand protect their interest
we must organize ourselves; we have
the Farmers'1 Union in our county and J
State and nearly.every State in the
Union,: with a: membership of about
4;000. 000 and we ;'are doing great
good;,weJhavB: saved millions of dol
lars, by cooperating ih purchasing our
salt, fertilizer, lime peanuts sacks,
and many other articles too numerous
to' mention. Many million dollars
have been saved in selling; the farmers
products. But, we heed all the farm
ers in the organization; just stop and
think for a moment, if we farmers
were all members . what: would be the
results. There is no telling what could
be done, we are not here to hurt any
man,' but to establish justice,; to se
cure equity, to applyMheGoldenVRuley
to discharge the credit and mortgage
system. To educate' the agricultural
class in scientific farming. To teach
the farmers the : clasification of crops,
domestic economy and ths . process of
marketing To systemize methods of
production and-distribution To elimi
nate gambling in farming products by
board of trade, cotton" exchanges and
and other speculation! ? To bring
farmers up to the standard of other
industries and business enterprises.
To Secure and maintain profitable and
f uniform' prices for gram,: cotton, live
stock and other products of the farm.
To strive for harmony and good "will
among all mankind and brotherly love
among ourselves. "To V garror the"
tears, of the distressed, the blood .of
martyrs, the laugh of rinnpeentj, child-
and
the virtue ;of a happy; - home: as the
brightest jewels known If you want
a local, union in your community that
will help to bring about such conditions
please; write me at once, I will arrange
to organize you at once. Let, us, as
farmers, be true to our calling .. for.
the diyine Power give us our vocation,
I want to ask- the Union men in this
county, and Secretaries of the Locals
to le time know of any place that
ought to be a local organized. I am
still in a position te organize. them and
tut them to work. j v
James M. Perry,
, , Sec-Organizer.
Colerain, N.-C; ; i
Organize, The Townshhip
By; Clarence Poe.
, - jiK
-Our township serves no pur
pose in tha world, and is not or
ganized except to have a deputy
sheriff or constable to serve as
policemen It has voting bound
aries, but it has never been or-
.W(1 anvwWfl in thia rrniin-
k0wi-except in
IJew England.
.A' great part" of the progress
that New England jhas y made,
and the great influence it has
wielded in the development of
this nation lies in the township
system. ; . ; y -; -
Just '"one great American
statesman saw this X situation,
Thomas Jefferson.,, He v said;
"As lonas.I .have breath in
my body lwill reiterate it time
and again. L I am going to fight
for just two things': one is the
education; of 7 all the 1 people
and the other is the ! subdivision
of counties, into wards,. .the- de
velopment of the New -England
system of township govern-
ment." c ; ; - :
,His idea was to : give every
country community : about six
miles square a government of
its own, its free , aldermen or
commissioners who could occupy
the same relation, io ward the de
velopment . of- tKat. ; community
that yonr 5To wn Board of Alder
men holds ih the town govern
ment.
! Desolate Lands of I Death
Vivid Impressions of a War vCor -
respondent Who Found Him
self , in the Center' of the
Heavy Fighting at Loos.
I went today in the center of the
great battlefield, where heavy fighting
is still .taking place, and stood near the
famous , redoubt where the - German
dead still lie in' heaps, writes the cor
respondent of the London. Chronicle.
I "can hardly put - into wtfrdsTHtfe
scenes "through 'which j TI passed yester r
day up to this historic ground, nor the
strange and rather dreadful aspect of
the- battlefield,, upon which" the..:sup
shone Mn splashes, pf t light r through
piled storm clouds. . i - v - ' .
The turmoil of-war .was in the back
ground Thousands and 'scores of
thousands ot men, .wejre moving in
s teady columns for ward and.bak ward
in queer tangles in a highway which.,
during a great battle, seems to have
no purpose or ;meaningf except to the
directing brains-of the, headquarters
staff. The - roads were"; choked with
Vast convoys of transports ; with teams
of mules harnessed to agon and gun
limbers; witli trains of motor ambu
lances packed with wounded men," with
infantry brigadea . plodding through
slush and slime; with divisional cavalry
halted in villages and great bivouacs
in boggy fields. i ; - :
The heroes of a week -of; battle
'- .- . 1 - .--.-7 - ..".. re
passed " and repassed in dense masses,
in small batalions, in scattered groups
Famous regimen ta hichV- had aiped.
new .fame in" recent liours Jwhich will
last through the unforgettable records
of , history went' byrTsilentlyi,and ,,iio
man cheered them., Xfegions ofjtall
bids who at few Qcml.i
mart"-; and trihrdown English , lanes
trudged v toward the fighting lines un
der the burden of their heavy packs,
with all. their smartness soiled by the
business of war, but splendid to see
because of their hardiness find strength
and the enduring look they had
DESOLATE LANDS OF DEATH-
Further away, within . the zone of
the enemy's fire, - the ' traffic ceased,
and X came into desolate lands of
death, where there, was but little'
movement and -the only noise was that
of the guns. I passed by ruined. vil
ages and towns. It was a long walk
through narrow trerfches; toward that.
Loos redoubt where .at list I stood in
the ' center of the whole battle line.
There was the smell of death in those
narrow; winding ways. r
I Was in the center of - the great
field of fire, with the enemy's batte
ries on one side and ours on the other.
In sweeping semi-circles the shells of.
all these batteries went crying through
the air with high," whinning sighs,
which ended in the ccugh ) of death.
The roar of the guns was incessant
and very close. The ' enemy was
sweeping a road -to my right and his
shells went . overhead with a -con-tinual
rush, passing bur shells, which
answered back. The. whole sky was
filled with these ; thunderbolts, : ,
, Passing; over the parapets we1: saw
the whole panorama of the battle-,
ground.- 1 1 v was . but an ugly naked
' plain rising up to Hulluch and Haisnes
on the north, falling down to Loos on
the 'east from .where we stood,
The "Tower Bridge," thse : mining
worksnt which I had stared several
times , from afar through the 'thick
veil of smoke as an inaccessible land
mark' within the German lines close
by in the town of Loos, was. the oiie
great landmark which broke the mon
otony ot the desolation.
rNo " infantry attack was taking
piace; no men moved about this
ground; the only moving things were
shells which , vomited up earth and
smoke and steel as they,' burst in all
directions 'oyer the whole zone. " ;
A MASS OP HORROR
If Only two -men moved about, above
the trenches. They : werej two khaki
boys carrying a'german gass - cylinder,
arid they went on : their way ! whistling
an though it were a nice .healthy, sport
under the autum sum They Bhouted
out a. cheery answer to our question,
, ' 'There are "the German'- trenches'-
These trenchesr- howours, run 7 across
the open ground -'-. There .was the fa
mous Loos . redoubt through ' which
-'Kitchener's men" had stormed their
way in the dawn of that Saturday
morning - which bean . cur advance.
The dead was etiil heaped about it, i
mass of horror. Down - nelow in th
town of Loos thy - were "digging - our
ead from :deep cellars and taking
t them away for burial. - . ' -
. Apart .from the 'rubbish
masonary
in the street and the " litter of . broken
rifles and scraps of clothing:, there is
already no outward sign of the fierce
fighting which made a helT of the town
on September -25. Jt is only another
ruined place like . scores of villages
around. V' . . : .
: , , JOYOUS VICTORS -
Out of the bewildering impressions
of these days, as I have moved about
trie battfe zones, it is difficult to give
in .brief space one vivid, picture which
could help those' at home' to visualize
these scenes of. war-the scenes f on
roadsides in ' the country behind Nthe
firing lines; where : headquarters are "
established. Out of the confusion of
alt these scenes some v things are : un
f ofgettable; ; as Fwhen I saw some of
the wounded after Loos - singing and
shouting; hilariously , as ' thvwpn
back to the .baser-not weeping., for
their fallen comrades, , but ioy otm be
cause - having - smashed the Gentian
line.-- "
Another scene willJive in my ming
It was in a village: near x the front
Though its streetB streamed tide of
war- transport v of '.divisions, gun,
teams -with their limbers: ? ambulance
r convoys, ' , ammunition wagons, inf an-
try moving u p to -1 h e fron t,: dispatch
riders, staff .officers,, signalers and s
great host'of meriand mules and motor
cars? The rain lashed down upon the
crowds y waterproofs ; and tarpaulin
covers of . forage carts streamed with
water, and the T brbzen aces of the
soldiers were dripping wet; the mud
splashed-them to the, thighs: fountains
of mud spurted jj p - from th e whe 1 s o f
the. gun carriages; the chill 'of; winter
m ade the f Highland e rs as fellfas 'the
Indians shiver in, theV wind ; but every
where and among all these men there
was a spirit of cheerfulness and exul
tatfon. . v t ' - ,
GERMANS. NOT i, DETERIORATING 4
I must say there are no signs of de
teriobating vm the fighting qualities
of oilr enemy. On thB contrary, the
recent fighting has. shown that the
majority are veryi brave men, deter
mined to sell tHetr lives dearly, arid
in many cases willing to fight to death
when surrender would be easy. Their
bombers Jiave in many cases ..been' Ja
match for ours, and it' is only when
they, are sunrized and when our j bay
onets are among them that they throw
up tneir , hands. Their artillery is
still enormously strong and' skillfully
handled - x : v "''.
TOe Fate Avafiinn Tne German Arinv
in Russia, as Seen Dy ? a Gor-:
repftvllcorjlie Front
BY W. f. MINTOK" '-
- The Germans are being drawn on
into the icy plains of 'Russia by lhat
fatality which constantly dogs Ihe
councils V of the haughty. . "Emperor
William is slowly but surely leading
his millions of veteran troops ' into
the same trap which caught the Grand
Army of Napoleon, and ,. before- an
other blooming of the flowers that
chapter of . unmitigated horrors may be
repeated In which the French flew be
fore the pursuing Rassins, . when life
became torment; and death a . boon.
See, .the proud w.arriors; march- on; to
Petrogadand Moscow to find them in
ashes ; then watch them : pursue the
Russians oyer 'the wastes "of. Siberia to
satisfy the ,:' ambition' af the .German
Emperor , that he can achieve v more
than the Great Napoleon could accom
plish. "History proves that the Rua
sians are .never so dangerous as when
they are rolling i backwards. ; -The
Russian heart belongs to Holy Russia
and . the Czar when on Russian soil.
Tne loss of battles fortresses, cam
paiens and principalities, means noth
ing to them, for they, 'give - today - that
they may take back in double quantity
tomorrow." .. The GTerman Emperor is
not ignorant of the impending 'dangers
of Russian invasion, nor does he ignore
why and how1 Napoleon failed. Bnt
the War Lord has been blinded by the
gods and his vanity makes him think
that he can .ignore all the obstacles
Which caused the downfall of the
Emperor Napoleon, "Upon , reaching
the smoldering ruins cf tho Rur'im
Capitol, the German, army wll rot be
aole to escape by ten. lot iUthe ire-haa
not locked the waters, the, British
fleet will hold them in.
;i'Germah raihoads built behind the
armies to facilitate retreat and ; to
bring food, ammunition,' clothing and
all - other necessary, equipment, most
surely will be destroj ed by the Rus
sian Cassocks. ''They will scour tho
country day Bnd night dashinf: in and
darting out. -until the work is com
pleted-'l Thpy will make it impos
sible to maintain the long-drawn
out - German lines'" of . communication
with a guard less than three' million
German soldiers, which Germany can
not spare for the job. . VGeneral
Winter", never failed the Russian arms
in .the , time u-of; emergency..,.."nows
will ?chpke ' the. railway, frost will
puckle ill laid, rapidly constructed Jines
or stell, and warp lightly " build 'and,
speedily patched up ' bridges and cold
will kill and' cripple all, except, the
hardiest of the invaders. V In tho
stygious darkness of winter eights and .
driving 8iiow8tom- the namy Cassacka
used to the climate. live and fight on
ripping up rail roa'i line, blowing upv
bridges and culverts. arui e. 1 ulTv de-
loilln tT frit. . f . ' -. '
starvation for their eternal enemies. V
WitH:th8e advantages upon their own
soil, with a ffne army to choose its -time
to strike, the ultimatee ' conquest
Of Russia is the one impossible propo
sition in German, life ' - 7" .; 1
- . . The Russian cannot be beaten upon',
his native field. "Even: if th Rpf..
mans were to sweep the Russiana'back
to the TJral mountain, they could not
long remain in the country. ; ' v
"-" Every point gain ad by the Geraan
hordes in their advance had been care
fully discussed by the ' Russians, who
have been falling back with one airri
and endjn view. . 'These "tecticsIrVcro.
to' tempt-the enemy7'tnt6,'ah -invasion.
" As the Ger m ana ad vanced in to Rus
sia they open up a great gap between
their 'momentarily - victorious-., columns
and the source of amuriition andsup
plies, and become r leagues f ur tner
awy from their base of supplies, while
the Russians will be in touch with all
required. ' "This expedition across the
Vistula is goinc to be tin epoch in Ger
man history. "They "are v marching
into the trap with millions, who will
never return to their v father, land.
Russia bas been hurled out of "Prussia
like; a storm: ' Watch . her conie back
like an earth-quake ' crash - Ancl in-:
human Germany will deserve her fate...
"German bones will bleach the plains
of Russia, for the harvest of retribu
tion is - ripening - for the
avpnerininev
sickle. '
She has degraded Poland,
devastated Belgium, cruc.ufied Chivalry
and crippled human progress.? On
her brazen brow she bears the . brand
ul a ucwir uuu iuc WOll , la HOW
entering the toils; - The Russian snow
will be'. the winding sheet l of the Ger-
man uuavs. ' -..'.'
. NOTICE ?
North Carolina, Superior Court,
Bertie County. Before the Clerk
Lottie Harden Brimcley and her ; hhs-"
band Eugene R. Briskley, Char
lie Harden; ' and Percy . R. V
Harden, petitioners. -
- - ' ' '7f'W :.
Bettie Sutton and tier husband, Wil
liam M. Sutton, Herman C. liar-
ucii nuiuc uauuucio auu ucVI
, Harden, defendants.
To Levi Harden." one of the defend.
. . ants above named: ? '
r. -You .will take notice that a special
proceeding,' entitled as above, has been
commenced in , the Superior Court'
of Bertie - county, - before tho
Clerk, ' to sell . for division
among the tenants in common there
in, the AbbieJ. Harden house and
lot in athe town of Windsor, . North
Carolina. , And you will further tako
notice that, you are required and com
manded to be and appear before W. L.
Lvnn. :Ean.. fllprlr ' nf nna'A
J ' . T. . www J U A
Court of Bertie county, 'at bis offico
in the courthouses" in - Windsor. North
Carolina, or Thursday, the 18th dap
of November, 1915, at 12 o'clock m.
and then and there answer our demur
to the petition of. petitioners now on
file in saidofiice, ' asking for the sala
of said .Jiouse and lot, for. division
among the tenants in common therein,
or the petitioners will apply to tba
court for the relief demanded in said
petition.
This October 15th). 1915.
- . v ' !; W. L. Lyon,
v-iern superior Court.
7inston & Llatthsvs. Atty's