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v PRESIDENT POTEAT OF WAKE
FOREST - COLLEGE SPEAKS
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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 11. 1916
TO
NO 161
FROM
FIRST BAPTIST PULPIT
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s.. " -
J A crowd' that filled the audlr
f ; tortum - beard Dr. W. L. Poteat
f Sunday at the First Baptist church.
7 Dr PitfeatV aubject was; -"Th
Place of Religion in Life".
"Among' the interests of human.
v lifB, he said, "the religious inte
rest is BOToreign.
' "This is seen to be so from sever
al considerations.
I "First, religion is natural, in the
eensef that It It is inherent in human
nature. It Is not an imposition from
-without.
"It is universal. Tbere 1b no tribe
so low in development as to be
destitute of religious opinions and
V; sentiment. , .
"It !s diagnostic of man, which ie
the same as to say that ltis the
most reliable distinction which
' serves to set man cport from all the
! animals below bin1..
, Religion is the organizing force
"Vf liuman life, preserving the com
Z posite elements of human nature in
I -I unity and efficiency in the case of
the individual and binding individ
uals together in social groups. It is
the mother and conservator of na-
j' 1 tions. , Moreover, religion Is the
), mother of Intelligence. The church
rather than the school has educat-
f , d the race, j
fit becomes important to know
-what this sovereign human interest
i j. .is,. in Itself. Genoralizips the reli
gious phenomenon as it occur? 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 a!l things
that appcarj together with the co;.
' ollary that the hur.rn spirit, which
is In some ways Its counterpart, Is
In communication with this univer
sal Spirit. In a word, it Is the re-
' ' sponse of the human spirit to the
appeal of the. eternal World. In
ca"e V Chr'stlanlty the sinifl-
tAce of Jesus lies in his revela-
1 tiion which he made .of the univer-
" sal Spirit, whom he taught us to
call "Father". In Him tae Eternal
Life Invaded the earthly life. The
Word which was with Qod. was
made flesh and dwelt among us;
and our love wkhdrcw into the E-
ternal World, making communica
tion with it easy, endowing us with
a freshened' fellowship wl'.h the
Father..
This is tho essence or the Chris
' tian experience; but. as in the case
of .-11 other religions, speculation
' about the religious experience some
times usurps the place which be
1 longs only o that experience. This
V usurpation of metaphysics is well
illustrated in the rise and domi
nance of the mediaeval theology.
Theology is ,a noble anC useful sci
ence nd every thoughtful maa has
his system of thcolorx On the
other hand, It 1b important to dis
tinguish be'tween - religious cxperf-
ence and the effort to account for It
In terms of Intellect. Your personal
relationship to God In Christ, which
lajjf lUsence of religion, is one
fkrnf thery of that relation
ship is quite anothor thing. It 1b
most fortunate that one does not
, .have to be sure of his theories he
fore 'he ccnbe sure of his experi
ence. Disastrous consequence have
i followed confusion hero. Inquirers
have been confounded and discour
aged and Christians have passed
years of misgivings end doubt be-
oause they have- Jdcntlfled cerftain
A propositions of theolocy with the es
f sence of religion. One does not
nave to understand . the deepest
. things of human life in order to ex
perience them. Probably the analo
gy which comes the closest t0 the
religious experience is presented in
he experience of falling In love. A
vision of beauty and goodnens wins
a young man's heart. He cannot ex
plain it; but he cannot doubt It. So
OTHER
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INTERESTING ITENO
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CAMDEN'S STATE HIGH
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SCHOOL AT SOUTH MILL 8
. South MUli, Dec. 11 The Senior
Class of South MJHs High School
wiU glre, a play "When a, Man's
Single" in the High, Jlchool Audi
torium, Wednesday' evening, - Dec.
28," 151. Admission" ot ' twnty-flve
and fifteen cents w'Jl 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 Dozler's Music1 Class
wiirglve a recital on Friday night
December 16th, la 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 charge of
those grades.
The Methodist and Baptist Sun
day Schools are planning for their
Christmas trees and entertaimcnts.
The Methodist wlM have theirs Wed
neBday night, December 27th , at
Trinity Church, the Baptist Thurs
day evening, December 28th, at
Ebernezer church.
Let us hope for a Community tree
next year. If wo are to progress
wo must catch more of the Com
munity Spirit.
Our teachers attendod the first
Teacners Meeting of the year for
C'-mnden County Teachers last Sat
urday. The meeting wao held at
Camden.
Prof. S. N. Hunit and Miss Ix-tltia
Mldgette attended the Teachers' As
sembly at Raleigh. Thanksgiving.
They reported a very enjoyeble
and profitable trip.
Patrons of the school wil! be in
terested to know that with the mon
ey reillied from the play giveu by
the faculty recently the following
magazines and periodicals have
been ordered: Country Life in A
merlca, The Outlook, The American
Boy, The Literary Digest, The In
dependent, Current Event sThp 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 High Schcol but by tue
the citizens of tho town as wel'..
The Reading Room will be open to
students every day; to others on
Monday and Friday afternoons.
Come and enjoy the leant we wish
to give you
In addition to the above maga
zines, the Dallas Williams Literary
Society (girls) gives Every Rom
an's Magazine a splondid maga
zine published at Raleigh. N. C,
and edited by North Carolina wo
men and men cmwfyp cm rf uld cm
men. Read it by all means, and
lear what the women and men
particularly the women of your
own state are doing. "
TO II SiD i(lTER S
7 ' ' 7' X .I. , ' , "
M. W. FEREBEE TELLS OF
FORMATION . GAINED
IN.
AND
HOSPITALITY
ENJOYED
FDAIIGE APPROVES
LLOYD GEORGE
HIM ENGLAND'S MAN
THANK BOY SCOUTS
At the Sunday morning service
at Blackwell Memorial church the
church expressed appreciation for
the services of the boy scouts who,
during the convention, brought the"
mall duty from the postofflce and
were always on hand to run errands
and make themselves useful in ev
ery possible way. Appreciation was
expressed also for vthe services of
the automoblleeommittee who saw
to it that all departing delegates
were conveyed directly from thi
church to depot.
the vision of Jesus, as the type of
manliness and bouty of the 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, wins our hearts to a Joy
ous surrender and to a .perpetual
loyalty. 1 .
Mr. W. M. Ferebee returned
Monday from Toleda whore he at-
tended the Willys-Overland Conven
tion. Mr t Ferebee gave the follow
tng interview to The Advance.
Some" action! "
Nothing was ever so impressive
at cur tour of the ureat plant r :Tt
turns out Wllliys Overland cars.
Our Pullmans all parked tlu the
company yards. There was ncm
enough, for there are seven and
throe-quarter miles -of trace , with
in the plant.
Each man got a card contain
ing a picture of Mr. Willys , and
an autographed message of wel
come from him. Next thing I
knew we were lined up on the
steps of the stunning new adminis
tration building getting photograph
ed. Elevators shot us to the compa-
own resturant on the Bixth
There we had a corking
breakfast. At each plate was' a
jcopy of the live new Willys-Overland
house organ 'The Starter'.
It mapped our day's program.
Then parted our tour bt the
plant.
Our guides were carefully picked
men. They knew the plant from
end to end and each party was
small gD that each number of the
party could have his questions an
swered .
Nobody ouijht to try to sel'. Wil
lys Overland product without know
ing this plant. You can't grip
the immensity o thi proposition
till ;,ou do.
It is no piker business.
?,.v's c
loar.
I
CALLS
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OF VlE HOUR: AND TAKES ON
iKEW COURAGE
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rns, ueo. ii. more and more
England's limited war council idea
la 'gaining support in France. More
and mora 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 Immeadlate action and dar
ing.
are tied up
In
nut
of.
$25,000,000.00
land, buildings and machinery,
to say a word about the stock
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.
Tou can then readily believe that
it occupies 103 acres, with 4,486,
680 square feet of floor space in
daily use and a production capaci
ty of 1000 cars per day.
You can appreciate the growth
from 250 employes In 1908 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. Thu struc
ture. 375 feet long, has cvyry fa
cility for rapid work, including
dictapl'CiiRs. its own te'nirraph
and telephone system and a nufil
handling department Hint does
about everything but write th let
ters. 388 persons can be fed in the res
taurant at one time.
But this is nothing to what hits
when you cross into the shops. It
Is a whirl of action, yet all is sys
tem. Parts by the untold thousand
are here, with a value into the
miMions of dollars. There are
lines of motors. I never saw so
many crank shafts together. Our
guide said 6,000 I'd have believed
60.000.
There Is stock in bins, uock In
yards, stock along the walls, con
necting rods, frames, fenders, mud
guards, hoods, rims, springs, ax
les, tfirslon tubes, transmission
gears shafts, brake parts, steer
ing rods, padals it is an unending
vrocession.
Every thirty days sees an aver
age of 1,000 tons of steal como In
It Is handled' by a magnetic crane
that enables twp then to do a work
that formerly required thirty.
There, are amazing -machines.
The toggle .tress, for example,
held ns all. This monster, with
Its pressure of. ' 1000 tons, ' shapes
cold steel like cardboard. . A piece
of meta! fed to it comes out as. a
side frame. It can make two
thousand of tnese In an eight hour
day.
Other machines stamp out radia
tor shells, fenders, cowl dashes
and doors. .
You take off your hat to the
drop of forging machines. Down
comes the hammer ar.d the firey
piece of iron is be:Uen Into shape.
The complete drop forging of the
front axle can be accomplished
with one heat.
Every kind of part requiring
strength was drep forged while we
lookrd on, axles, crank shafts,
,brake assembly rods, break and
control rods, spring shakles, gear
blanks and break rod sectors.
We saw the company1 accurate
system of die making. It calls
for a special workman on each de
tail. One works on the shaper,
another on the planer and a third
on die sinking.
The multiple spindle drill in one
operation drills ll tho holes in the
fr:nt axle. Thin is a guarantee
that each 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 ltB metal vitals was
concealed a brain. The work
man has only to put on the rough
f.y 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 automatically into place.
Twenty operations are performed
In fourteen minutes. Twenty-six
pounds of metal are removed from
tho wheel. One man can watch
three of these machines.
The vertical cutter of gears on
fly wheels flmost matches the
turret in interest.
Moving up and down, the cutter
at the same time- slowly revolves,
the fly wheel turning In the oppo
site direction. By the time a com
plete revolution of the fly wheel
has been accomplished, all Jhe
gears arq cut.
We all fell for the aluminum
foundry and for the machines that
finish the alumnum parts.
The multiple spindle drill bores.
81 holes In the crank case In one
operation. This is a proof of the
superiority of m-Slng processes,
for the holes mube In right rela
tion to each other.
Another machine smooths the
surfaces of the crank cases, finish'
Ing seven In nine minutes.
Diamonds, real diamonds, are
consumed with apparently reckless
Indifference in the wet grind room.
I Placed In small tools they are usea
to true the emery wheels on
Which are ground the bearing sur
faces of the crank shafts. ,
They are bought ln. 15,000 lots. "
We looked on whll . whole for
erta bt lumber were being turned
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Congress ii
Opening Session W
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XJRcle SwnEMust be Bbtii
maritaii aiidSam-
Natiohs aftei'
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Among
(By United Press)
XNorroik. Va., . Dec. 11-WitB
the changed outlook,' produced by
the European war as Its theme, the
Southern Commercial Congress con
venes here today will go thorough
ly into the question of commer
cial preparendness to meet the an
ticipated cutthroat competition
from across the waters with the
return of peace.
.Economic, financial. agricultural
and commercial phases of the pro
blem will be discussed by the ex
perts from this country and
broad. - A number of the most
notable men of the country are
scheduled to address th Congress.
1"This nation must be roady after
the war to stand both as Sampson
and the good Samaritan in its re
lation to the world" said Hon. John
Skelton Williams. Comc-troller of
Currency, in his address bpfore the
Congress today.
"America nlupt be strong but mag
nrnimous" said he and drew a
striking comparison between the
fattened purses of tills 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.
Ransdell of lxulsiana. In his ad
areas this afternoon is one or tho
most fruitful causes of the high
cost of living. -
"The migration of farmers to Can
ada Is also a cause of soartng'pricea
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 he greatly changed and
prices now might be even higher.
The South'B rural Increase during
he past dfc-de has been much big
ger than its urban Increase.
"In the fertile Southern region
with its large number of food pro-1
ducers lies the nations strongest
hope of solving the high cost of liv
ing". A plea for the passage 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 Peter.
Loyd George
Suffers Illness
London, Dec. 11. Premier David
Lloyd George nufforcd a severe chill
this morning and bis physicians or
dered him to remain Indoors
throughout the day.' Tho premier's
mines follows as a result of his al
most superhuman efforts during the
past 'few weeks in the reconstruc
tion of the new1 governments
LOSES Tjpil
BASKET BALL FRIDAY, WOOD
MEN ELECT OFFICERS ThVRS
DAY, XMAS TREE COMING
Hertford, N. C. Dec. 11. In a
fast exciting game of basket-ball.
the Edenton High School live de-"
feated the Hertford Highs her. on ;
Friday by the score of 18 toll.
Edenton outclassed the locals . la
their team work and secured an ear
ly lead, the first half ending with
the SCOrO 9 to 1. UfrttnrA Am
back with a rush in the second
half and made a game fight, run- ;
ning up ten points to Edonton's 9
but the lead was too great to over- '
come.
The regular election of officer!
for Albemarle Camp No. 463 Wood;
men of the World was held Thurs-'
day night and resulted In the re
election of all officers. Consul Conl-:
mander, L. R. Crawford: adviser.
H. Haskett; Banker, J. 8. Vick; .
Escort, A. W. Hefren; Clerk,' A "v
W. Cahoon; Watchman, B. M ;
Simpson; Sentry, j. M, Rogerson.
Feltoa was elected Manager to suc
ceed Ellle White, whose term hat
expired, and J. W. Beasfon, will'V
again Captain tho Degree ' Team.
The local cmp is now stronger
than ever before In its history, num-
boring over 160 members.
Hertford will have a (Community
.Christmas Treo this yoar. AH pr -llmanary
arrangements have been '
made and the various committers,
are now at work perfecting the de
tails. The movement was started '
by the Circle, the Woman's Club of
Hertford, and at a mooting held In
the Graded Schools early in the
week, which was wolf attended by
sthe representative citizens of town
W. G. Galther was elected Presi
dent and W. F C. Edwards Secre
tary, rne Sunday schools win co
operate as will tho Woodmen of the
World, and the Graded School chil
dren will also take part In the Com
munlty celebration. ,
CHRIST CHURCH
There will be a meeting of the
congregation and ail those Interest
ed in St. Mary's School, at Raleigh,
In the' Church tonight at 7:30, to
confer with the Kev. Francis S.
Osbern, -with reference to a forward
movement for this school which is
being undertaken in North and
South Carolina. No collection or
subscription will be takeriat this
time, but Mr. Osbern wicheVlo learn
what it Is proposed, to Co here , In
the matter. Mr. Osborn addressed
the, congregation last night on this
subject. , '
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C, C. Brock of Norfolk : Is here
visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs .
l-''t.' Broct.- v " v ! '
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