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: . Volume 19. Number 32 THE MOST AMAZING REVELATION DF NATIONAL DEPRAVITY IN HUMAN HISTORY An Editorial by Richard H. Edmonds of the Manu facturers Record, of Baltimore For its own aggrandizement Germany, after years of prepa r .tiun, deliberately entered upon a war to conquer the world. I s leading business men were repeatedly called into consulta tion with the Kaiaer, and ih consideration of the promises made by him and the military leadertf of G >rmany tha. they would be utile to loot the worUTand enormously enrich themselves if t ley would uphold the Kaiser's proposed war, men liter aly sold their souls to the devil, and for personal profit pledg ..l their hearty co operation in a war which they knew would mean the death of millions of soldiers, in a war which would mean sorrow and woe such as the world had never known. They entered into this unholy compact with a disun'ct promise from the Kaiser and the military clique that within one year from the beginning of the war they would le able to reap the enormous profits which w ire promised to them, and dominate the trade of the world, as Germany proposed to dominate the nations of ttfe earth. In all human history there is no record so damning and damnable of a nation which definitely committed itself to mur der, to outraging, to pillaging, to all the horrors of a world 7 war, for the individual profit of its business men and the ag- ~- grand izement of its military power- ~ "" This is the blackest story in human history. It indicates a degree of moral depravity of the whole nation which found a fitting expression in the fearful crimes in Beigtum and France upon women and children, upon church and cathedrals, and upon all civilization wherever the accursed army of these iree booters and looters and outragers and would-be world conquer ors have marched. And now that these murderers and outragers and world robbers and looters find themselves balked, realise that civilization is greater than barbarism, that honor is greater than dishonor, that an enraged and outraged world is making impossible the carrying out of their plans for highway robbery and murder, plans deliberately entered upon after years of study, efforts are being made in many directions, through pro- German activities, and in jther disguised ways, to raise the cry ' of peace; and here and there suggestions are seen that the Kai ser was forced into this war by Prussian militarism, hoping in this way to create a sentiment in favor of saving him from the gallows or the firing squad. " It behoove* every honest-hearted man and every good wo man on the lace of the earth to set their faces against this peace propaganda, and to vow before man and heaven that there shall be no talk of peace until the armies of the Allies and this, of course, means our armies with the other Allies have marched through Germany and Austria and by their pre sence have proved to these nations that right is greater than might; that righteousness is greater than unrighteousness; that the heaven of prosperity based on integrity and honor is better than the hell created by the baseness and the vileness of Ger many in which all of its people, from the KAiser Co the lowest of its peasants, united for the purpose of looting tip world, for their individdfcl enrichment, and the domination and the damnation of the world under German rule. Any man in this country, 'or in that of our Allies, who thinks peace on any other terms than the unconditional surren der of Germany and its allies, who thinks peace except on tlje basis of death to those who have brought this fearful war upon the world, who thinks peace upon any other basis than a pen alty through the indemnities impoeed upon Germany and its allies which vill tax to tha utmost of thtir ability for genera- * tions to come, will be a curse to civilisation and prove himself to be without moral backbone, without honesty and integrity of character. It matters not where the suggestion of peace with out penalty may appear, it matters not in what devious ways it may crop out in church circles, in political circles, In news papers or in public life-he who yields to the thought of except a peace.baaed upon the righteous destruction of Ger many's power, and the righteous punishment of the criminals who have blackened the earth with their crime?, is a weakling, a coward in thought and in act, and is indeed a pro-German, andshould be spurned by every man who regards honor and in tegrity and womanhood. j. Should we yield to suggestions for 1 peaee which Germany wHI soon be putting forth in many directions, as it seeks peace without penalty, we would be putting a premium upon crime upon barbarism and upon outraging, a premium upon the work of the highwayman and the looter, a premium upon the moral degradation of the Germa i business men who deliberately, after years of study, pledged their co-operation to a war for world conquest, bribed thereto by the promise of great individual profits. # This country needs now to drive home into every mind in America tie conviction that there should be no pea e except a peace dictated by America and its allies in, Berlin and Vienna and Constantipjle; and that this peace shall on ly be considered when these countries have been beaten to their knees, when they sue for peace on our terms, of_ji*s death penalty for the leading Vriminals and an indemnity in L money which to the extent that can be made to do so will repay to Belgium and France and Servia and Roumania and Italy, all the wreck and ruin which has been wrought: and/ which shall repay to England and America life full amount of money ex pended in putting down these highwaymen, these freebooters, these pirates, these outragers, these would-be world looters, j, these thieves and scoundrels who have murdered millions, who have sorrowedTtundreds of millions merely for their own indi vidua! financial profit- By the side of what they have done Germany ««« infinitely superior to hell itself in its deviltry Has Heaven made peace with Hell? If not, then let us not "Williamston, Martin County, i\. C. June 28, 1918 jggp THEY DIED 8r / What Are You Going To Do About It? •••_ •-*•*». f > JUNE 23rd TO 28th North Carolina War-Savjgs Week North Carolina's quota in War-Savings Stamps is forty eight million dollars. This must be ■railed during the 23rd to 28th, by pledge and purchase. PRESIDENT WILSON SAYSi "May There Be None Un enlisted On June 28th" We arc in this war to die finish. If It's not settled over there it must be settled over here. You might not belive that. Neither did many believe that such an awful war could happen at aIL But it did. Canvassers duly authorized by the Government will call upon you, and YOU MUST pledge UNTIL IT HURTS, -^"r" k : -v--- •• . •: \2 ■*,* - ;• f Will Send Save Soldiers ] I h W ... -s" ***" tptM oontrilr9t « (i th* winning of the war by k ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY THE ENTERPRISE GIVEN OVER TO Wtff SAVINGS STAMP CAMPAIGN THIS WEEK Issue Planned for Last Week but Delaydflfy ency of Western Newspaper The Enterprise greets you this week enlarged I* size and all I home print. Our reason for appearing a day earlier in this: On Saturday, June 15th we planned a "War Savings Special" for our issue of the 21st. We reduced our advertising rate twenty -per cert and went out and sold our patriotic and" progressive merchants four pages of War Savings ads, that were put out by the War Savings Publicity Committee through the Western Newspaper Union. We ordered these advertisements Saturday June l&and wired them on the 17th. They wired us on Tuesday the 18th that the advertise ments were being shipped t hat, day We immediately Completed the arrangements fur the Special and waited the arrival of the plates, but they did not arrive, and Thursday at two o'clock we received a letter from them stating rather unconcernedly that they were shipping the same on the 19th and "that they hop ed the same would reach us in time for our issue," which of course was impossible. We have for the past several years been getting from these people four pages of ready print service. They are the only people from whom we can obtain such service (they, the Weatern News paper Union, having succeeded in crushing all competition.) Their service and insolence has been growing more and mare unbearable since their absorbtion of the American Press Association last year. For these reasons and the above mentioned girevance we have de cided to discontinue their service. - J-- —— The Enterprise hereafter will have no fixed number of pages, but will carry to the people of Martin County eaeh week all coun ty news that is obtainable and will have as many pages as the oc casion demands, whether it is four, six, eight, ten Or twelve pages. Now back to War Savings Stamps. We want you to read the advertisements appearing in this issue. Think what the money you are loaning to your Government in this manner will help to do. Hit the Hun a little harder by Increasing your pledge, if you have al ready made it And if you have,n't made it remember "that you are not expected to buy more than you are able to buy, BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN YOU ARE EXPECTED TO BUY JUST AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO, up to $1000." Money spent foolishly is slacker money! U-BOAT ACTIVITIES CAUSE INCREASE IN ENLISTMENTS The. submarine activities of ttra hist few weeks iuiva suddculy ceased. Whether this fact is due to the undersea craft having re turned to their bases, or having been sent to f the bottom |by American gunners, 0 f eourke cannot be made known at the present time. But it 4s the com mon belief of seafaring men that some of the U-Boata? at least, will never return to a (ice man port. Although these (I-Boats did a cerUun amount of- injiirv to our coaslwise shipping, their depre dations wero not entirely with out benefit to our cause, for great numbers of young Ameri cans have been all at once brought Jto cealize what the Navy can of fer in action and excitement The consequence of this has been an unprecedented rush to the Naval Reserve Enrolling Of fices. Duijng the first, week that the enemy's submarines were lurking ofF the American court, the Naval Reserve enrolled al most one lifth as many men as the whole United States Navy contained in the days before the war. This branch of the service is still open to all desirable men. Registered men are eligible pro vidtd that they secure a release from their local board The En wdling Office in Norfolk, located at the corner of Main and Gran by Streets, is open daily for en rollments from 9.00 A. M.-to 4:30 F. M. Norfolk, Va . Jane 22nd 1918,. W, Martin District Enrolling Officer. THREE SLACKERS SENT TO CAMP LEE MONDAY Chief of Police Page left Mon day for Camp Lee with Vander bi.lt Repass, Robert Daniel and a man named Bond from Bertie, who were dubbed slacken be cause they failed to leave on the 21st, claiming to have been sick. Martin County is taking no chances on being reprimanded for allowing slackers to dwell in 'its borders. I a *w^^BO>-9$ owr I " HECTOR MOOIE KNOCKED FROM TRESTLE BY TRAIN Last week, Hector Moore, an inmate of the County Home who is. (leaf and dufflfe, and 'ts also a familiar figure in the town, as he comes in very often and picks everything off the streets that he can carry in a sack, was hit by the mail train while cross ing the treatie near town and knocked off. Conductor Elmore and crew picked him up and he was taken to the Home, where Dr. Warren gave him alLAjneeded services. It w«a found Stat he had h broken arm, whfch was also badly lacerated, Squiring many stitches. SerfeaatAjrers Weds Of interest to numbers of friends in North Carolina will be the news of the marriage of Miss Kate McLean, of Cameron, N. C-, and Joseph H. Ayers, of Oak City, which was sotetnnized Saturday afternoon, June 15th, at 1:30 o'clock in the. First Pres byterian C urch Charlotte, N. C., the officating minister being Rev. iiohn L. Caldwell, of the ministry of the Presbyterian ' lunch, A few relatives and others witnessed the marriage, among the former being Mrs Sallie Curjrie, of Carthage, sister of the bride. and neice, Miss .Johnnie E. McLean, of Godwin. The bride wore a stylish tailor xl suit of dark blue cloth with
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