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VOL. 1
ELIZABETH CIY, NORTH CAROLINA
NO. 121,
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CENTRAL POWERS HOPE TO
PUT ROUMANIA OUT OF FIGHT
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JNG BY "NEW OFFENSIVE
(By United Press)
London, Oct. 13 The British
north of the Somme advanced on a
front extending from Guedecourt to
L8 Boeufs, or a distance of half a
mile, during the night. General
Haig's report also speaks ,of gains
to the northwest of Guedecourt.
Thi fighting was severe all along
the line.
Dispatches from iVenna state that
the Italians have advanced alt
miles in their newly launched and
violent offensive on the Carso south
of Gorizia, but that the gains have
cost 2700 captured besides the kill
ed and - wounded.
According to Berlin the new Ital
ian drive has failed utterly in its
effort to relieve the Austrian- pres
sure on Roumanla. AU Italian at
tacks have been blocked, it is stat-
viif tv iiiiuuh duuiuiuuiu ss, m
6lngle regiment from other fronts.
Likewise, the war office at Berlin
announces, the British and Serbian
attacks in Macedonia intended to.
divert the Bulgar offensive against
Roumanla have afiled of their ob
ject. The Austrian drive through
Transylvania is expected to 'deal a
crushing blow to that country.
THIS W
iiTunnmn
warn guiis
ALLIED AVIATORS SAY RECENT
FLIGH I S REVEALED REMOVAL
TO NEW POSinofvS
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By HENRY WOOD
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
With the French Armies on The
Somme, Oct. 13 The Germans
have withdrawn their heavy guns
back from the Somme front one to
live miles.
Allied aviators made thin discov
ery In their recent flights oyer the
German lines.
he guns have been withdrawn in
order to prevent their being rap
tured by tlie allies. The Germans
-peir
y before an allied advance. They
noy have only 2100 guns on the
thirty mile 8omme ftont as against
2500 used In the Verdun offensive.
The number of captured German
guns In the recent allied offensive
Is more than 600.
'f Juve lost man-v heavy guns through
ijiieir Inability to move them quick-
v .
The beautiful Manhattan shirts
sold by Weeks and Bawyer are th
talk o tthe town. See the new silk
weaves and wool mixtures now dis
played. adT.
ONE CENT 8ALE
Attend the one cent sal at Stand
ard Pharmacy Thursday, Friday and
Saturtdtay this week.- 6
ROOM FOR RENT Prefer two
Wen. Big front room. Modern con
enleicee on Road st near Main.
See Mr. Land, at S. R. Siff Co.
Oct. 13 3tp
A CARD OF THANKS
1'
We desire to express our thanks
end appreciation to our friends rela
tives and neighbors for flowers and
assistance and acts of kindness P
tended to us in the loss of our lit
tle baby. ' """"'"ISrlS
Mr. ana Mrs. J. h. Baker and
SIxJh St, City.' '-..j,:
family; V
-INVESTIGATING REPORTS OF
BELLIGERENT NAVAL BASE
NEAR AMERICAN SHORES
(By United Press)
Washington, Oct. 13 Suspicion
that a belligerent government might
be maintaining a naval base on the
Atlantic coast of the United States
caused the sudden dask to seo of
the three destroyers, Jarvls, Dray
ton and Fanning, from Newport late
yesterday afternoon.
In making this statement Secre
tary of the Navy Josephus Daniels,
ald: "we have no reason tov be
lieve that yny belligerent Is main
talnglng a base near our. shores,
however, 8,11 reports of such nature
will be investigated."
A number of such reports have
been received but the sudden order
to ut to sea did not come from the
Secretary of the Navy, but was
made by Admiral Mayo on his own
Initiative. It is believed that Ad
miral Mayo had een "tipped" as to
the location of the alleged base.
Tbe destroyers will scour the
coast as far north as East port,
Maine, near the Canadian border In
their search in which they will have
the co-operation of the Coast Guard.
The price of The Advance to city
subscribers Is now live cents per
week. Have your nickel ready for
the collector on Saturday.
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TO SHIPPER3 AKD RECEIVER8
OF FREtGHT
The unusual demand for freight
care equipment is general through
out the entire country and the indi
cations are that the shippers and
carriers are facing a serious short
age, which ran only be overcome by
a strong cooperut:on of all parties
Interested.
It is to the interest of the ship
per, the receiver and the carrier
that each freight car he made to
carry as large a load as it will con
tain, and to he loaded and unloaded
as rapidly as possible.
ThiR railroad company will pledge
itself to move the cars with all the
expedition possible, and we ask
from the shippers and receivers
FIRST Ttiat the carst,be loaded and
unloaded In the shortest possl
hle time. rQJtardless of the free
time allowed.
SECOND That each car be loaded
as nearly as possihle to its max
imum capacity.
THIRD That no more cars be or
dered than are actually requir
ed, or can he loaded In one day.
.FOURTH That the railroad com
pany be given as much advance
notice as possible of your re
quirements. FIFTH That , the railroad company
be given as much notice as pos
sible as to when loaded cars
will be released.
Your co-operation in , these mat
ters w'll minimize the car shortage
in your territory and revert to the
benefit of the whole community.
It is our earnest effort to give
you prompt' service, both as to fur
nishing you empty equipment an
as to moving your loads, and we
will greatly appreciate your assist
ance In meeting a situation which
may become serious for both the
shippers, receiver and the carrier.
Respectfully,
Norfolk Southern Railroad CO.
By E. D'. J(yle, Traffic Manager.
Nowdays trousseau presents tor
the grom muBt be provided for. He
will appreciate It more when It
comes from Weeks and Sawyer's be
cause he knows the sylo-la right.
HELL BARHED FROM
THE u s
1.1
AT SUNDAY EVENING'S SERVICE
REV. I.N. LIFTIN. AGAINST
RECENT ACTION OF GENERAL
FUNSTON
Scr'ipture references: Matt. 25 : 41
46, Matt. 8:12. Rev. 9:2 11, Rev.
14:10-11.
oOo
You have not sefn it In iho dally
newspapers that General Funston
refused an interview with Dr. J. B.
Gauibrell- the State corresponding
secretary of Missions of the State
of Texas for the Baptist Denomina
tlcn. sending his chief of staff in.
stead of a personal interview.
"In the statement made by Gen
eral Funston's Chief of Staff, in an
Interview with Secretary Gambrell,
and in a later Interview given by
General Funston himself to the
press, there Is revealed a misappre
hension, all too common concerning
the lost?
T!ie soldiers in the army says the
distinguished general, are picked
men and their present environment
Is such that there is no need of
preaching to them that they are
loht. In an open letter to General
Funston, published in this issue
baptist Standard, Dallas, Texas).
Secretary Gambrell eplalns that
Southern Baptists sought to do
evangelistic work among the 200,000
.,iUlef,n,h hordes 4HifT of nllstlfl worl
such a tasa our mosi capnuiv wvu,
who . would observe the proprieties,
and hive due respect for proper
regulations of army life. It is con
'trm plated that other evangelistic
denominations also would desire to
do a similar work among the sol
diers, not as proselyters from other
evangelic-1 faiths, but as preachers
o the gospel of righteousness. But
we are told that It would not be
best to excite the emotions of the
so ditrs or to preach to thpra that
they are loHt without Christ Jesus.
In what age are we living that one
man or a group of men. however
sincere and dMlnguished th"y may
i.e. should assume to he the spiri
tual sponsors of a Rreat body of
mm committed to trfm. and to
prescribe what such, men shall Be
lieve, or not believe? Is the United
Slates army exempt from that sec
tion of the constitution which pro
vides that then1 shall he 'no law
respecting the establishment of reli
gion or prohibiting the free exer
cise thereof?"
We are lost? !s this determined
by social conditions or environments?
Is a innn saved necessarily because
enhance, he Is a member of an ex
clusive soct' l club or coterie? Does
his enlistment in any. organization
civil of military, or his promotion
to' any rank save him?4 ThfiJi Mr.
I.oftln read another paragraph from
High Price Hughes evplalnlng that
years ago, Mr. Hughes being one of
the foremost Wesleyan (Methodist
preachers of England; "I assert
with full sense of the responsibili
ty, that I believe the great battle
of the twentieth century will be
the final struggle between tbe
Jesuit society In full possession of
the" authority of Rome, and tbe in
dividual human conscience; and,
when like Oliver Cromwell, I look
around to see where I shall find
Ironsides, who will vindicate, the
rights of tbe human conscience, my
eyes fall upon the Baptists. the
anvil on which the Jesuit hammer
will hreak to pieces Is the Baptist
conscience. I should- like all the
world throuph to pit the Baptist
conscience against the Jesuit."
The modem Idea is like unto that
of Ignacla Loycli the author of the
Jesuit society who1 wishes to dic
tate to Individuals what their con
sciences shall believe.
For a long time now General Fun
stoh: nd staff with his soldiers
have been on the border of Mexico
trying to catch, slay, banish or get
rid of one little bandit, named Villa
they have failed. ' Yet General Fun
ston has to his own. satisfaction put
the devil and hell 'but of1 commiss
ion, a thing that the Standing' Army
of Christ has hern working for nine
teen centuries. The first outstand
ing point developed was the Dan
gers In Tendencies 'or In an Un
balanced Truth.
This age has magnified . the love
of God till It has lost all sense of
Justice and holiness. We have mag
nified physical well being and good
social conditions till We have . lost
all aense ct unlvereaV sin. We hsve
come upon a time when if we can
make envTcnmcW right we have
no need for Chr.'st and leave God's
sjospel out of the question
All" of this started, back yonder
in a tendency not to Intentionally
lead the race c stray, but to magni
fy cue truth of the Gospel to the
exclusion of another. The varnlng
of hell is as much of the Gospel as
is the hope and assurance of a
Heaven. This point was closed with
the conclusion that when you hear
men raise a cry for the gospel to
day, it means they want Gods' love
magnified but the revelation of per
sonal s'n, guilt and sure punish
ment are curtailed, then the ten
dency is to preach nothing that will
disturb the conscience. So It Is both
with the individual and churches,
they grow into the currents of ten
dencies and hide the better and
make a way for bad things.
Who are Lost?
Is this question determined by
social conditions or environments?
Is a man saved because he belongs
to the best social Bet. in tbe world?
Does the enlistment of a person in
any organization whatsoever . mean
that he la saved. Then what is the
Taken as ,a whole it thinks of sav
ing from drunkeness, from thieving
from adultery, from murder, from
seduction. Tbe church thinks of
saving from all these and the ideal
reems to be Respectability. And
the one who raises his voice against
the unholiness of Respectability
has struck at the very Ideal which
the average church holds as a mat
ter of salvation.
The Impression of the great mass
of humanity Is If you snatch from
the fires of Point ion a prostitute
that Is salvation. The criminal
class who are caught and condemn
ed by the law they are lost of course
These Impressions exist because
the church and society have come
to the conclusion that sin Is an ex
ternal thing.
Itut in God's almighty wisdom s'n
Is a thing of the heart an( works
out not fronf without Inwardly.
.Unless this nation can he awak
ened to the fact that sin Is a heart
condition toward God rather than an
outward condition of body, the na
tion Is lost and damned just as
those that fiod has let pass from
the map of the world.
Who do.jjS Jesus say are lost?
"Except ye repent, ye shall all
llkew'se perish," Luke 13.3. Jesus
was here speaking to a crowd that
thought their respectability would
save them. He plainly states here
that a man who Iris not repented Is
lost no matter what his outward
conditions may be. 'He that be
lieveth not is condemned already
because eBcsuse what? Was it be
cause he did not hare proper so
cial conditions? Was It because his
position in life was not in good en
vironment? No It was because he
hath believed on the only begot
ten son of God. "There la no differ
ence for all have sinned And fallen
short of the glory of Ood." '
Is Jesus to be set aside In this
f
mlltary age of prosperity and can
the militia abolish hell?.
For the time being and to all out
ward appearances both are bein
done. Actually the, standing arrny of
the tf. S. through Its' official bead
at the front has told God's servants
that they could only preach a gospel
that suited them whether It com
plied with Christ or not. I have
told you before that the tendency, I
to muzzle the mouth pf the minis
try.' .. "v ': ' .. N -
You have not teen, anything of
this in the big dally-papers, they
MESS
WOULD PRESS SUBMARINE AC
MVITIES REGARDLESS OF A
MERICA'S ATTliuOE
(By United Press)
Dusselfiorf, Germany, Oct. 13 -Chancellor
Von Bethman Holweg
has emerged from -the submarine
controversy strengthened by his
victory over advocates of an unres
tricted submarine policy, according,
to the Munich press.
I Leaders In industrial centers,
ever, favor a ruthless submarine
policy regardless of the interests
or the attitud.6 of the TJ. S.
Chancellor Von Bethman Holweg
faces opposition. The interests both
on the Rhine and in the Westphal
Ian provinces are hot beds of Tir
pitiism. They are hoping to win
Von Hindenberg to their side and
believe that such a policy could be
presecuted without bringing the U.
S. into the war.
German millionaires are unani
mous that there shall 'be no peace
until England sues for terms.
Dutch Lunch
At 8:30 Tonight
A ' Dutch Lunch" tonight at the
twH- J5Ai-1 will t n joyed by
the members of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Every ,Bember is urged to be
present. By-laws will be adopted
and the meeting will be an Interest
Ing and enjoyable one.
MEETS AT 8HAWBORO
The next Union meeting of the
Camden-Currituck Baptists will be
held at Providence Baptist church.
Shawboro, on October 27, 28 and
29th.
Churches are urged to send large
delegations.
Assigned speakers will lead the
d'scusslons, and other brethren are
urged to participate in the open dis
cussion.
FRIDAY
11:00 A. M. Introductory sormon
N. H. Shepherd.
2:00 P. M. Devotional services-
Milton Toxey.
2:15 P. M. The duty of Baptists
to Inform themselves concerning
their Denomination and Its work.
a. 2:15 P. M. The distinctive Doc
trines. J. K. Henderson
b. 3:00 P. M. The work E J. liar
rail.
SATURDAY
10:00 A. M. Devotional services
W. H. Pritchard.
10:30 A. M. Conscience In service
S. N. Hurst.
11:16 A. M. Discipline Its laxity
and remedy W. J. Byrum.
200 P. M. Devotional services
M. P. Jennings.
2:16 P. M. New Testament meth
ods 'of Evangelism N. P. Stalllngs.
8UNDAY
11:00 A. M. Missionary sermon
D. P. Harris.
ONE CENT SALE
Velvet Cream The Original
iLlquld Complexion Powdsr. An
Ideal Toilet Lotion.
25c per bottle 2 for 26c.
8TANDARD PHARMACY 6t
are already muzzled.
In conclusion you will note that
'the only man who will set Christ a
side, abol'sh hell nd undertake to
dictate to God's servants Is the man
who has lost sight of eternal Pun
ishment, Personal Sin and Personal
Guilt, and the one 'who has ldst
sight of this Is the man who evalU
the
pojlcy and environment above
words pf God. ;
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5ISIITE0
UNKNOWN T STEAMER 'REPORTS
8UBMARINE SEEN AT SEVEN
O'CLOCK THIS 'MORNIfvG
(By United Press) f
Newport, Oct ,1J The radio' stat ,
ion has received a report from an .
unknown steamer that she sighted
the submarine U-63 off ' Nantucket
Shcala at seven" o'clock thos morn
lng. l 1 ,J-'
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Warning Against
New Counterfeit-
(By United Press) Vv (
Washington, Oct. 13 A Warning '
against a "fery diangarout -coua ' '
terfeit has been sent broadcast ,
the secret service. The spuriont
paper Is a copy of the ten dollar U
note of the Federal Reserve, Bank .
at Minneapolis . The face and hair ! '
of the Jackson portrait are too dark
otherwise the counterfeit is practi ,
eally perfect. i
CITIZENS BANK GETS OUT , fV
AN ATTRACTIVE BOOKLET '
f. iv V..,-.y;;js r. ,
The Citizens Bank . has just got -tea
, out i very attiactlve booklet
giving interesting Information .about
tfcnttngT the i Parlous departments of p.
a bank, banking by mall and , the , ,
management and strength of thla
particular bank. . ,
The cuts in thla booklet were
purchased from The Advance Shop
and add considerably to the attrac- "
tiveness of the general appearance, ,
the Citizens Bank horse shoe appear
Ing on the cover In red, a page cut ,'
of the exterior of the building be
Ing used as a frontispiece, while an '
exceptlonaly good view of the Intel" ( '
lor forms the, cent ml double page.
For men who want the best qaal ,'
ity the elegbrated Stetson hats art ,
now to be found at Weeks and 8ay t . 1
yer's. Where the Best Clothes Come
From . adV. . t; !
UNION OFFICTRS ELECTED
A a meeting of the A. A. Union
of the First Baptist Church last
Tuesday evening the following offi
cers were elected: D. M'lton Love,
President; Miss Dawson and pided
.Tones, Vice-President; Frank Tatem
Secretary; Miss Kate Wood, Asst.
Secy; nnd Thomas Wlllnughby Trea
A number of good things were
discussed. In the meeting, among
which was the serial which the pas
tor, Dr Henlng. wishes to give the
classes of Mrs. Meekins. Mrs Pear
son, Mr. C. A. Cooke and Mr. C.
Harris next Tuesday evening,
the 17th In the Church Parlors.
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DR BLACKWELL HERE 8UUNDAY
Dr. Calvin S. Blackwell of Nor
folk will begin a series of meetings
at Calvary Baptist Mission on Rlvef
side Drive Sunday afternoon, the
services continuing through the fol
lowing week.
ONE CENT SALE
Harmony 'ollet Water. It has i
delicate and flowery fraBrance that
wMI always hold Its popularity.
76c. per bottle, 2 for 76c.
8TANDARD PHARMACY ... 6t
The price of The Advance to city
subscribers Is now Ave cents per
week. Have your nickel ready for -,
tbe collector on Saturday. "
Another shipment of the celebrat
cd John B.' Stetson hats just ire
eelven at Weeks and 8awyer. j adf
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