North Carolina Newspapers

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