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'V ONLY 10 MORE SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS News Without Bias Views Without Prejudice VOL) 5 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA TUESDAY MORNING DECEMBER 12, 1916 NO 161 lil li fffi $ l fffllff The 0nly Democratic ' ' I I ' 1 . v.- s v UWS SERMON HEARD BY OUT PRESIDENT POTEAT OF WAKE . FOREST COLLEGE SPEAKS .FROM FIRST BAPTIST PULPIT A crowd that filled the audi torium heard Dr. W. L. Poteat Sunday at the First Baptist church. Dr. Poteat's subject was "The Place of Religion in Life". : "Among the interests of human Jiff, he said, "the religious inte rest is sovcrelsn. "This is seen to be so from eever. al considerations. "First, religion is natural, in the sense that it it is inherent in human nature. It is not an imposition from Without. "It is universal. There is no tribe eo low' in development as to be destitute of religious opinionj and sentiment. "It is diagnostic of m-n, which is the same as to " say that it is the most reliable distinction which . serves to set man t-p:' rt from ail the animals below him. Religion is the organizing force of human life, preserving the com posite elements of riiman nature in unity and efficiency in the case of the individual and binding individ uals together in social groups. It is he mother and conservator of na- , tions. Moreover, , 'religion is the mother of , intelligence. The church lather than the school has educat ed the race. i"it becomes important to know what this "sovereign human ink-rest is, in itself. Generalizing the reli gious' phenomenon as it occurs in ( human life, comprehending its low est and highest phases in one point of view, it is the recognition cf the " Universal Spirit back of all things that appear; (together with the cor ollary that the hiM"n 'spirit, which is in some ways its counterpart, is in communication with this univer sal Spirit. lu a word, it is the re sponse of the human spirit to the appeal of the eternal World. In the case of Chr'stlanity the slnlfl cance of Jesus lies in his revela tion which he made of the Univei sal Spirit, whom he taught us to jeall "Father". In Him the Eternal Life invaded too earthly life. The Word which was , with God, was made flesh and dwelt among us; and our lovo withdrew into the In ternal World, making communica tion with It easy, endowing us with a' freshened fellowship wi'.h the Father.. . I This is the essence of the Chris tian experience; but, es In t'ae case ' of "11 other relirtfor.F, speculation about thoi religious experience some times usurps the place which be longs only 'o that experience. This usurpation of metaphysics is well illustrated in the rise; and 1 domi nance of the mediaeval theology. Theology "Is a noble ant. us?ftjl sci ence and every thoughtful man has his system of theology. On the , . other hand, it is important to dis tinguish between religious experl- etice and the effort to account for It f In terms of intellect. Your personal I 1-elatiohship to God in Christ, which Ja the essence of religion, is one thing, your-thery of that relationship-is quite another thirg. ; It. Is most fortunate that one does not have to be sure of his theories be fore he can be sure of his experi ence. Disastrous ronscquc-nrp- have , , followed confusion here. Inquirers have been confounded and di.-cour-aged and Christians have passed years of misgivings rnd doubt be ctuse they hive identified certain propositions of theolopy with the es sence of religion. One does not have to understand the deepest things of human life in order to ex perience them. Probally the analo gy . which comes the closest to. the religious experience is presented in the experience of falling in love. A Vision of beauty and goodness wins a young man's heart. He cannot ex plain it; but he cannot dovbt it. So o.PBESEHJ PUT OTHER JNTERESTING ITEMS FROM CAMDEN'S STATE HIGH SCHOOL AT SOUTH MILLS South-Mills, Dec. 11 The Senior Class of South Mills High School will give a play "When a Man's Single" In the High School Audi torium, Wednesday evening, Dec. 20, 1916. Admission of twenty-five and fifteen cents w'll be charged The Christmas Holidays for the South Mills High School will begin on December 21st, 1916, and run un til January 4th,1917. Miss Miriam Dozier's Music Class win give a recital on Friday night December 15th, in the High School Auditorium. In connection with this recital, the children of the Third and Fourth Grades will give a short play "The Nigh Before Christ mas". Miss Barnes has chare e of Uicse grades. "1 The. Methodist and Baptist Sun day Schools are planning for their Christmas trees and entertainicnts. rhe Methodist will have theirs Wed nesday night, December 27th , at Trinity. Church, the Baptist Thurs day evening, December 28th, at Eberne.ir church. . ' Let us hope for a Community tree next year. If wo are to progress wo must catch more ofMhe Com munity Spirit. i Our teaclV-rs attended the- first TeuYhers' Meeting of the year for Ccnmden County Teachers last Sat urday. The meeting was held at Camden. 1'rof. S. N. Hurst and Miss Ix-titia Midgette attended the Teachers' As sembly, at Italeigh, ' Thanksgiving. They reported a very enjoyeble and profitable trip. Patrons of the school will be in terested to know that with the mon ey realized from the play given by the faculty recently the following magazines and periodicals have been ordered: Country Life In A merica. The Outlook, The American Boy, The Literary x Digest, The In dependent, Current Event sTh Wo man's Home Companion, The Craft man, Something To Do, The Mentor, and The Raleigh News and Obser ver. These will be placed In the Read ing Room of the High School for use not by the stu dents of the Hiuh Schcol but by tlie the citizens of tha town as wel!'. The Reading Room will be open to students every day; to others on Monday and Friday afternoons. Come and enjoy the feast we wish to give you In addition to the above maga zines, the Dallas Williams Literary Society (girls) g'ves Every Wom an's Magazine a splondid maga zine published at Raleigh. N. C and edited by North Carolina wo nun and men cmwfyp cm rf tild cm men. Read it by all means, and lear whut the women . and men particularly the women of your own state are doing. THANK, BOY SCOUTS . At the Sunday mornir.g service at Blackwell Memorial church the church expressed appreciation for the services of tre boy scouts who, during the convention, brought the mail daily from tho postofflee and were always on hand to run errands and make themselves useful in ev en .possible way. Appreciation was expressed also for thP services of tie automobile , committee who saw to it that1 all departing delegates were conveyed directly from tht church to depot. the vision of Jesus, as the type of manliness and beuty of th0 race consecrated to its ultimate redemp tion and 'exhibiting In his gracious, person the marks of a compassion which sought us beyond the gates of death, iMns our hearts to a joy ous surrender and to a perpetual loyalty DELIGHTFUL JRIP ' TOHEADQUABTERS M. W. FEREBEE TELLS OF IN FORMATION . GAINED AND HOSPITALITY ENJOYED Mr. W. M. Ferehee returned Monday from Toleda where he at tended the Willys-Overland Conven tion. Mr. Ferebee gave the follow ing interview to The Advance. Some action! Nothing was ever' so impressive as cur tour of the great plant :hvl turns outWilliys Overland cars. Our Pullmans all parked in the company yards. There wt.s ricm enough, for there are seven and three-quarter miles of trace with in the plant. " s Each man got a card contain ing a picture of Mr. Willys and an autographed message of we'- loan- from him. Next thing I knew we were lined up on the sle:is of the btunning new admlnls tiaiion building getting photograph ed . Elevators shot us to the compa n s own resturant on the sixth flo'ir. There we had a corking breakfast. A' each plate was a Icopy of the live new WUIys-Over-land house organ 'The Starter'. It mapped our day's program. Then started our tour of the plant. Our guides were carefully picked men. Thfy knew the plant from 'end to end and each party was small s0 that each number of the paity could have his questions an swered. ' Nobody ou?.ht to try to si-1! Wil lys Overland product without know ing Ibis plant. You can't grip the immensity o the proposition till you do. It Is no piker business. $25,1)110.000. e) are tied up In land, buildings nnd machinery, not to say a word about the stock of parts and raw material. From the roof of the wonderful administration building, which stands out like a state capital, you get a great panorama of the plant. You can then readily believe that it occupies 103 acres, with 4,486, 6S0 square feet of floor space In dally use and a production capaci ty of 1000 cars per day. You can appreciate the growth from 250 employes In 19S to 17, 300 In 1916. 1,000 persons, more than the en tire manufacturing force of many a company, work In the adminis tration building alone. Thi.i struc ture, 375 feet long, has every fa cility for rapid work, includlm dictaphones, its own te'enraph and telephone system -ind a mail handling department tlu-t does about everything but wrlto tho !et- ICI'8. :txx persons can be fed in the res taur mt at one time. lint this is nothing to what hits when you cross into th s'wpx.- It is a whirl of, action, y;;t ell is sys tem . Parts by the untold thousand are here, with a value Into the millions of dollars. There ore lines of motors. I never saw so many crank shafts together. Our guide said 6.00O I'd have t"lieved 60.000. There is, stock in bins. toek in yards, stock along tho walls, con necting rods, frames, fe-id -r, mud guards, hoods, rims, spring-., ax les, torsion tubes, transmission gears shafts, brake, parts. f-fter-ing rods, padals it Is an unending procession. Every thirty days sees an aver 3g. ef Loon tons of rteal come in It is handled by a magnetic crane tbnt enables two men to do a work that formerly required thirty. There are amazing machines. ' The toggle press, for example, held us all. This monster, with its pressure of 1000 tons, shapes E LLOYO CALLS HIM ENGLAND'S MAN OF HE HOUR AND TAKES ON 'f EW COURAGE Paris, Dee. 11. More and more England's limited war council idea is gaining support in France. More and more Lloyd George Is regarded here as England's man of the hour. France is wasting no time in pes simistic reflections over Rumania and Greece, but on the contrary the nation is setting its jaws more firm ly for immeadiate -action and dar ing. cold steel like cardboard. A piece of metal fed to it comes out as a side frame. , It can make two thousand of tliese in an eight hour day. Other maehinen staup out radia te r shel's, fenders, cowl dashes and door-4. You take off your hat to ibe drop of fjrglng machines. Down conies the hammer and the flrey piece of Iron is beaten Into shape. The complete drop forging of the front axle can be accomplished with one heat. Kvery kind of part requiring Btrengtn was drop forged while we looked on, flxles, crank ' shafts, brake assembly rods, break and control rods, spring ahakles, gear blankB nnd break rod sectors.- We saw the company's accurate ystem of die making. It calls for a special workman on each ile al I. One worKs on the simper. another on Hie planer ami a rniiu on die sinking. The multiple spindle drill in one operation drills 1! the hol-s in the front axle. This Is a guarantee that e:ich will be in right relation to the other. It was hard to drag us away from the - automatic turret lathe that surfaces and finishes fly wheels. It works as though some where within Its metal vitals was concealed a brain. The work man has only to put on the rough fly wheel, adjust the first set of tools,- push the lever, and let the machine do the rest. The cast Iron is peeled off as readily as wax. Sometimes four or five operations are performed at once. When one set of cuttings Is done, the machine stops auto matically, and the next set of tools comes automat ic.i'.lv into place. Twenty operations are performed In fourteen minutes. " Twenty-six pounds of metal are removed from the wheel. One man can watch three of these machines. The vertical cutter of gears on fly wheels ilmost matches the turret In Interest. Moving up and down, the cuttf-r at the same time slowly r.-volves, the fly wheel turning in the oppo site direction By the time u com plete revolution of the fly wheel has been accomplished, all the gears are cut. We all fell for the aluminum foundry and for the machines that finish the alumnum parts. The multiple spindle . drill . bores S1 holes In the crank case In one operation. This Is a proof of the superiority of machlng processes, for the hob s niust lie in right rela tion to each other. Another machine smooths the surfaces of the crnk cases, finish ing seven, In nine minutes. Diamonds, rial diamonds. are consumed with apparently reckless Indifference In the wet grind room. Placed In 'small tools they are used to true the emery wheels on which are ground the bearing sur faces of the crank shafts. They are bought in 15.000 lots. We looked on while whole for ests of lumber were being turned CONTINUED Orf PAGE J HI APPROVES GEORGE Commercial Congress in Opening Session Moday m ' 1 I. t John Skelton Uncle' Sam Must be Both Good Samaritan and Sam son Among Nations after War (By United Press) Norfolk, Va., Dec. 11 With 'the changed outlook,' produced by two European war as its theme, the Sonrliern Commercial Congress con venes here today will go thorough ly into the qnestion of commer cial preparendness to meet the an ticip led cutthroat competition from across tin-, waters with the return of peace. Economic, financial, agricultural and commercial phases of the pro blem will be discussed by the i- ex lerls from this country and tbroud. A number 'of the most, notable men of the country are scheduled to address the Congress. "This nation must be read after the war to stand both as Sampson and the good Samaritan in its re lation to (the world'' said Hon. John Skeiton Williams. Comptroller or Currency, in his address before the Congress today. "America mut be si rung but mag n niinous" said he and drew a striking comparison between the fattened purses of this nation and the nation's contributions to suffer ing Europe "Our gifts" he said "are about one twentieth of one per cent of our profits". "The abnormal growth of the ur ban population, especially through migration from the rural districts cityward," said Senator Joseph E. Kansdell of Louisiana, In his ad uress this afternoon "Is one of the most fruitful causes of the high cost of living. "The migration of farmers to Can ada Is also a cause of soaring prices In this country "Thirty years ago seventy per cent of the people lived in the coun try, today only fifty three per cent. "It is an interesting fact that the South is the mighty balance wheel of the nation. If it were not for the South with Its seventy seven per cent of country people the average would be greatly changed and prices now might bo even higher. The Smith's rural Increase during the past dec ide ,as been much big ger than Its urban Increase. "In the fertile Southern region with its large number of food pro duce rs lies the , nation's t strongest hope of solving the high cost of liv ing". A plea for the? par.sage of the Webb bill, urging that the bill will lawfully permit the formation and combination of American exporters for foreign trade was made by As sistant secretary of Treasurer Pe: ter. Loyd George Suffers Illness London, Dec. 11. -Premier David Lloyd George nuff'-reil a severochill this morning and his physicians or dered him to remain indoors throughout the day. The premier's llliness follows as 8 result of his al most superhuman efforts during the past few weeks In the reconstruc tion of the new government. Williams Says 1 LOSES TO EDEN TON CASKET BALL FRIDAY, WOOD MEN ELECT OFFICERS THURS DAY, XMAS TREE COMING Hertford, N. C. Dec, 11 -In a fast exciting game of basket-ball, the Edenton High School five de feated the Hertford Highs hcre on Friday by the score of 18 toll. Kdenton outclassed the locals in their team work and secured an ear ly lead, the first half ending with tho score ! to i. Hertford came back with u rush In the second half and made a game flyht, run. iiing up ten points to Kdenton's 9 but the lead was too great to over come. The regular election of officers for Albemarle Camp No. 463' Wood-' men of the World was held Thurs day night and resulted in the re election or al! olllcers. Consul Cotti' mander, L. R. Crawford; adviser, J. H. Haskett; Danker, J. S. Vlck; Escort, A. W. Herren; Clerk, A. W. Cahoon; Watchman, E. M. Simpson; Sentry, J. M. Rogerson. Felton was elected Manager to suc ceed Elll0 White, whose term has expired, and J. W. Beaston. will again Captain tho Degree Team. The local c-mp Is now stronger than ever before in its history, num bering over 150 members. Hertford will have a Community Christmas Tree this year. All pre lltnanary arrangements have . been made und the various committepm are now at work perfecting tho de tails. Tho movement was started by the Circle, the Woman's Club of Hertford, and at a meeting held In the Graded Schools early In the week, which was well attended by the representative citizens of town. W. O. Gait her was elected Presi dent und W. F. C. Edwards Secre tary. The Sunday Schools will co operate as will tho Woodmen of the World, and the Graded School chil dren will also tako part in the Cora munity celebration. CULPEPPER HOLM ES. Miss Jennie Holmes, of Perqui mans county was married to Mr, James L. Culpepper, of Tyrrel county. In the otbre of register of deeds Wednesday afternoon. The bride Is tho daughter of Mr. J. B. Holmes, who formerly lived In Pas eiuotank.. Miss Virginia Smith of Norfolk Is spending a few days here the guest of her mother, Mrs. Virginia Smith. Dr. Victor Flnek spent the week end in Norfolk. C. C. Brock of Norfolk Is here visiting his parents, Mr. ar.d Mrs J. L. Brock. ' ran in
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