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VOL. 4
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 6,1919.
No. 134
ON SALE SATURDAY JUNE 7TII
ANSELL WOULD NOT MILITARIZE
FREE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS
Says America Must Depend Upon Army of Citi
zen Soldiers Instead of Professional Soldiers
If Nation's Freedom Is To Be Maintained
WANTS JUSTICE
Would Not Abolish Discipline But Would Make Hit Conviction
For Any Offense a Matter of Law And Not of Whim of
Commanding Officer. Say American Military System A
Relic of the Roman Empire.
"When I think of North Carolina institutions," said Lieu
tenant Samuel T. Ansell in his address at the High School Audi
torium Thursday afternoon, "I at once think of two men who
deserve to rank as institutions in the development of the state.
"The first of these men was Ezekiel Gilman, whom many
of you that hear me know. I had the honor some time ago to
address a body of alumni of Harvard University, and I told
them that Harvard had achieved much of which the world and
the University itself knew nothing, and illustrated my point by
the story of this son of Harvard who came to Currituck and
chose to dwell there in obscurity, a missionary to the cause of
education. In spiritual and therefore a very real sense he con
tributed to making this section what it is today and hardly a
man within sound of my voice but ewes something to Ezekiel
Oilman.
"The second of these men whom I style North Carolina
institutions is the Superintendent of your schools, Professor
Sheep, who also came among you a stranger. Through all these
years he has lived and worked among you and I do not believe
that there is a man in the State today to whom North Carolina
owes more than to him."
"My home Friends:" was the
whether they had known him
before or not those who heard
the distinguished Currituckian
felt themselves the friends in
deed. No man who has been
heard by an Elizabeth City
audience from an Elizabeth
ity platform was ever given
closer attention.
The crowd, considering es
pecially the fact that the time
of the address was changed
literally at the last moment,
was a large one. Among the
audience were an especially
large number of people from
Currituck who had left their
farms in the busy pstato ship
ping season to sra and hear
again their county's native son.
Remembering the time Col
gtjonel Ansell was in school here
vOine is bound to admit that he
-must be approaching fifty
.years of age. But to see him
you would never guess it. In
deed, he looks hardly more
than a man in the first strength
of youth. He spoke in his reg
.ular army uniform, which ac
centuated his erect figure and
youthful bearing. This was
.heightened when at the close
. of his speech he walked down
from the platform and out in
the audience and kissed his
, mother, who was present, spite
of her advanced age, to hear
him. His father, Henry An
sell, is also still living in Curri
tuck county, but was too feeble
to be present.
Manifestly the entire audi
ence was with the speaker in
his plea for justice for the sol
dier in the army as well as for
the civilian at home. For that
rmatter there is little doubt that
the American people are with
him too, -when they understand
v:his position; and in order that
Iro'.his position may be understood
fully in this, his own section,
The Advance is printing the en
tire text of his set speech,
which follows:
On an occasion like this the spirit
should speak speak for the present
instructed by the, past. Sweet sen
timents mark pathways In memoir
Twhich unite today and the long ago
FOR THE SOLDIER
yesterdays. Absence for a quarter
century has not served to destroy the
sentiments or to bedim the recol
lections of my boyhood. My loved
home in yonder county, this vener
able town, in those days the seat of
local culture and learning, the my
riads of happy boyhood associations,
have been ever with me. Down those
highways sweet sentiments bid us
follow. Tender recollections impelled
your calling me and my coming.
From the mystic land of memory we
thus come to the actual present.
Loved scenes, how sweet it is again
to behold them! Loved friends long
gone to the Other shore, how Inspir
ing it is to feel the presence of their
spirit! Loved friends, survivors of
the passing years, how gladsome it
is to be with you and to greet yon.
This is commencement day. Tou
are quitting school to begin life. Up
on such a day speakers are accus
tomed to indulge In abundant advice
and great exhibitions of learning;
advice that seldom Inspires conduct
and learning that little elevates
character. Whatever place such ab
stractions may have within acade
mic halls, little do they help in the
great outdoor of life. Such a day as
this ought not to be taken up with
useless advice and academic learn
ing. It Is a spiritual day, the most
practical of all days, when we should
vitalize our faith into deeds, quicken'
our resolutions into conduct, make
zealous Inquiry into the spirit of
American citizenship, and determine
upon the part that it commands us
to play.
Material Things Count Less.
Out of this war we must have
learned one great lesson: Material
things are not the things that most
count. The world, your own land,
In spite of, indeed by reason of its
lavish expenditure of energy, has
been re-energized. The activities of
the many have been called into play.
The human being, as such, stripped
of mere earthly cirenmstance, has
come into new places and new power.
We appreciate at last that after all
it is he that counts, not his mere
physical strength and material needs,
but his soul, his spirit, his purpose,
his capabilities, for moral develop
ment. We have not yet completely ad
justed ourselves to this situation. We
are Intellectually conservative and
are prone to old habits of thought
and old terminology. We are still
Inclined to measure our national
power by mere national safety solely
by the mechanical . science employed
In the use of power. . National power
and national safety and national
progress Involve all of those factors.
But those factors , are not primary
elements. If the American spirit be
MEET TONIGHT
There will be an Important meet
ing of the Chautauqua guarantors
In the courthouse at eight o'clock on
Friday night, June 6th. All guaran
tors are urged to be present and get
their allotment of tickets.
preserved in all its lofty purity, if
our purposes be in consonance with'
the spirit, it our conduct be guided
upon such principle, then all these
material things shall be added.
We are prone to look upon war as
a straining of material energies, up
on a battlefield as the theatre in
which superior physical force must
dominate. This is far from the truth.
When we use the term "art and sci
ence of war," we are apt to accentu
ate military science and minimize
military art. Military science alone
cannot result In military success.
Personnel there must be, material
there must be, but above all there
must be the spiritual quality which
Is sometimes spoken of as morale.
The material qualities, however plen
tifully present, cannot win, but the
spirit of the soldiery will compensate
for the greatest deficiencies in ma
terial respects, and that spirit must
in the end triumph. Men, not ma
chines, are the necessary elements
of national power and progress; men,
not machines, are the necessary ele
ments of our national defense. Mili
tary leadership worthy of the name
must develop the moral qualities of
the soldier. He must appeal to and
depend upon the sense of self-respect,
the principles of citizenship
upon which our patriotism rests, and
develop and rely upon that mutual
trust and confidence required for su
preme self-sacrlflce.
Spirit of America Won.
Every American today has
Just
cause for pride. Our arms have tri
umphed. It was not our numbers,
nor our material, nor our physical
power and resource that triumphed.
It was the spirit of America. We
should not deceive ourselves. We i
did not have the largest army in Eu
rope; we did not have the best
equipped army; we did not have the
best trained army; but, more tha,n
any of these, we did have an army (
with a spirit that was absolutely In-'
vincible. I regard the first battle of
Chateau-Thierry in the early days of
June, 1918, as the decisive battle of
the world war. I stood upon that
field. Two lone American divisions
were thrown in at the point of that
savage German thrust which marked
the high-water mark of Invasion
since the first days of the war. The
German army surpassed the army of
the allies in numbers and in mater
ial and, besides, it was a victorious
army. But the German spirit, which
magnifies the scientific and mechan
ical, met the American spirit which
would accentuate the moral and
spiritual, and went down to defeat.
Outnumbered, faced by apparently
Insuperable difficulties, the American '
troops, but supported by an unfalt
ering spirit, stood in the fact of that
victorious German force and never
retreated. That battle was won not
by two American divisions. It was
won by the spirit of these divisions.
That spirit won the war. I saw that
spirit communicate Itself like an
electric spark to the armies of France
and England. It ran up and down
the battle line from the North Sea
to Switzerland. It brought back to
the British army its dogged tenacity
and inspired the French armies to
their former deeds of glory. At Chateau-Thierry,
at Saint Mlhiel, at the
Argonne, it was the American spirit
that won. It caused others to win
on many a field.
That spirit must be preserved. Our
men are citizens before they are sol
diers. They are soldiers because they
are citizens. Their soldiership is but
an incident of their citizenship.
Whatever prepares a man for citi
zenship prepares him for soldiership.
Whatever militates against his mili
tary status does injury to his civil
status. If the spirit of the citizen is
pure and lofty and self-sacrificing,
such must be the spirit of the soldier.
Whatever crushes the spirit of the
soldier does injury to him as a citi
zen. That spirit of American citizen
ship has been preserved among our
citizens by reason of the quality of
fundamental Institutions of govern
ment and laws designed to that end.
That spirit is brought over Into the
military status, Illumines it, Imparts
to It the quality of Americanism.
Thai spirit has attained such strength
under the fostering laws surround-
CONFORMS WITH
EOURTEEN POINTS
(By Associated Press)
Paris, June 6. "I am convinced
that our treaty project violates none
of my principles," President Wilson
is quoted by The Matin as having
said when he became acquainted
with the German counter proposals.
"If I held the contrary opinion I
would not hesitate to confess it and
would endeavor to correct the error
in the treaty. As drawn up, how
ever, it entirely conforms with my
fourteen points.
ORLANDO ABSENT
When the Council of Four met this
morning Premier Orlando was ab
sent. This led to the belief that the
Adriatic question is again under con
sideration. DR. RENNER EXPECTED
St. Germain, June 6. Dr. Karl
Renner, chancellor of German-Austria
and head of the country's peace
delegation, who with five colleagues
have been at Feldkirch for confer
ence with Dr. Otta Bauer, is expected
here tomorrow.
BERLIN APPEALING
TO U. S. SENATE
Paris, June 6.- It is understood
here that the Berlin Government is
sending photographically reproduced
copies of the peace terms to every
United States Senator and Represen
tative. ing the civilian that it survives in
the soldier, even when subjected to
the Injustice of the archaic system
of discipline which still obtains as an
anachronism in our army. It has the
strength to persist in the face of an
organized system of Injustice which
would have broken the spirit of a
less sturdy and patriotic people, and
which itself must finally be over
come by those very qualities.
The war is over. The moment of
reflection and Judgment Is come. The
spirit of our soldiery is sore. It is
aware that it has suffered. It is aware
that it has been subjected to a sys
tem which is not in consonance with
our Institutions, which is contrary to
our traditions and sentiments, which
belongs to an age and a system of
government with which we insist up
on having no other connection. The
spirit of the American soldier is
proud, and Justly so. It is proud of
its endurance, its valor, its accom
plishments. It is not proud of the
system of discipline to which for a
moment it became subjected. It was
not exalted by its experience. It was
not satisfied with a treatment which
was regarded as unnecessary as It
was harsh and unhelpful.
Arbitrary Military Laws.
Our system of military justice and
discipline is the arbitrary system in
which the will of an officer is law.
and the right of enlisted men is but
to be forever unthinkingly subject.
It is a system which supports the
official caste regardless of right or
wrong. It is a system which, if it
could, would crush one, not on the
ground that I am wrong for it is
largely conceded that I am right
but on the ground that I have com
mitted the unpardonable sin of differ
ing with my military superiors. Bet
ter, they say, to tolerate harshest in
justice to a soldier than to point out
the foolish use of power by a sacro
sanct officer. It Is a system which
assumes a detached self-eufflc'iency
and punishes all who criticise from
i within, and resists the force of all
public opinion from without lest It be
modified In accordance with the pop
ular will. ' It distrusts all civilian
views; it distrusts all but those who
are products of the system and who
become more blinded to its deficien
cies the more clearly the light re
veals them. Like all systems of au
tocracy it desires to be let alone, and
thus far, from the beginning of our
government, it has had its way.
The system js Roman in its origin
and is best suited to Roman arms. It
is suited only to the army of a na
tion whose Ideal Is that might makes
right. It was suited to the army of
; Prussia, a kingdom that frankly pro
claimed the Romkn military and pol
itical ideal as its Inheritance. It has
' en much modified by England and
long ago discarded by France, Belgium
and Italy. Our own land li today Its
on stronghold. Look at the history
of pur adoption of the Roman articles
(Continued On Page Two)
SANITARY INSPECTOR
WAS AFTER SAUNDERS
City Sanitary Inspector Simmons
was out after the scalp of editor
Saunders of the Independent Friday
morning. He invited Saunders out
of the letter's car in front of the
Bee Hive early in the day and when
Saunders didn't come out Captain
Simmons started to climb aboard.
Saunders gave his car the Juice and
avoided Simmons.
Later in the day Captain Simmons
saw Saunders on the street in front
of the courthouse and tride to give
a policeman his gun and blackjack
so that he could tackle Saunders un
armed. The policeman held the
Irate Inspector and the newspaper
man walked by.
Friday's Issue of The Independent
charged Captain Simmons with hav
ing induced his "son Josiah to vote
for the members of the new Board
while himself voting for the Old
Board" in the hope of being able to
retain his Job as sanitary inspector
whether or no.
The Sanitary Inspector Is armed
and is given police power.
Saunders has sworn out a warrant
for Simmon's arrest.
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
TO SEVENTEEN
Diplomas were presented to the
graduating class of the High School
Thursday night at the closing exer
cises of the school year in the high
school auditorium. Following are
the members of the class, Misses
Bertha Jennings, Annie Harris, Mary
Griffin, Geneva Roane, Annie Love,
Marion White, Elolse Cohoon, Rena
Ward, Winona 8plvey, Annie Sllver
thorne, Helen Welch, Elolse Ches-
son, Hazel Sykes, Katholeen Homan,
Nellie Pappendlck, Willie Fearing,
and Mr. Randolph Commander.
The seventh grade students re
ceived their certificates at 10:30 on
Thursday morning.
The enrollment for the high school
this year has been 246, for the en
tire school 1,350. Three weeks were
lost during the year on account of
influenza. The teachers received
pay; however, and faculty and stu
dents alike endeavored successfully
to make the year a very, profitable
one.
More teachers, more rooms, and
Increase in salaries are planned for
next year.
RED MEN HOLD
BIGJMEETING
The special meeting held Thurs
day night by Pasquotank Tribe No.
8, Improved Order of Red Men, was
an event of especial magnitude In
the Fraternal life of this city. Not
less than three hundred members of
the local tribe and of its sister frater
nlty, Matoka Council, No. 10, De
gree of Pocahontas, were present at
the appointed hour and the exercis
es started off promptly with the sing
ing of America and the invocation of
the Order.
Secretary Lorenzo D. Case of the
Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce
made the address of the evening. Mr.
Case, although very tired from his
strenuous work In the country In the
interest of the High School move
ment in the Weeksvllle section gave
the membership an address which
was inspiring and profitable. His
subject was "Brotherhood."
Several musical selections Inter
spersed the evening's program. The
climax of the meeting was the elab
orate banquet served by the Degree
of Pocahontas.
Fourteen members of the tribe
who saw active service in the world
war were present and were given
seats of honor and accorded a hear
ty welcome home.
The special feature of the evening
was the Inauguration of the special
drive for an Increase of one hundred
new members. Fourteen appllca
i tlons were presented as a start in at
taining the goal set, and without a
donbt, the Red Hen say, this num
' ber will be added within the next six
ty days.
I The Red Men is one of the llvest
and most progressive fraternal or
ders In the city , and Its Influence Is
BOTH SIDES ARE
MY CONFIDENT
Meanwhile There's No Telling
How Farreaching the Tele
grapher's Strike May Become
(By Associated Press)
Atlanta, June 6. Both sides to
day expressed confidence in the out
come of the strike called by the Com
mercial Telegraphlcal Union against
the Western Union in ten southeast
ern states.
Western Union officials declare
that business will continue as usual,
as union men are in the minority.
Union officials predict a victory
and declare that a nation wide strike
wjll be called If necessary for them
to win.
The strike was called late yester
day in support of the local strike
against the Western Union which
began Tuesday when union men went
out in sympathy with telephone em
ployees here who struck Monday, al
leging discrimination against union
members.
WILL NOT BE TAKEN BACK
New York, June 6. Employees of
the Western Union who Joined the
Telegraphers Union on the assurance;
of Postmaster-General Burleson that
there would be no discrimination
against employees joining the unions
will not be taken back if they strike.
Newcomb Carlton, President of the
Company announced today.
He pointed out that the Postmast
er-General has now turned the West
ern Union over to the Company "to
operate as we think best for the In
terests of our business," he said.
HOOPER TWIRLS
mm GAME
Gray Win By Score of 8 to 0,
In First Shutout of The Sec
ond Series
Seven innings and not a clean hit
against him, is the record that
Hooper, pitching for the Grays, made
for himself in yesterday's baseball
battle between the Grays and the
Indians. Taken all in all, it was be
yond doubt the best game that has
yet been played by the clubs of the
Twilight League. Perry, for the In
dians was good but occasionally wild
and the Grays piled up a total of 8
runs In the third and fourth innings,
which clinched the game for them.
Woodley held the Grays scoreless
for the last two innings.
The box score:
INDIANS: Ab,
Aydlett, lb, 2b .3
Lane, If 3
Armstrong, rf, 3b 3
Woodley, 3b, p. .3
Bagtey, 2b 3
R.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
H.
0
0
0
0
0
0
Stowe, cf 2
Davis, s.s 3
Rogers, c 2
Perry, p., lb ... 2
Stanley 1
Total 0 0 7
GRAYS: Ab. R. H 7B.
Twiddy, s.s 4 1 0 1
W.Weatherly, lb 4 2 1 0
Henderson, c. . . 4 1 0 0
Cropsey, 3b 4 2 1 1
Hlnton, cf 3 0 1 0
E.Weatherly, rf. 3 0 0 0
Falls, 2b 3 1 0 2
Williams, If 3 1 0 0
Hooper, p 3 0 1 0
Total 8 4 4
The score:
R. H. E
INDIANS: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 0 7
GRAYS: 003600 X-8 4 4
Batteries: Perry, Woodley and
Rogers; Hooper and Henderson.
DAYLIGHT SAVING
OFF IN OCTOBER
(By Associated Prees)
Washington, June . Favorable
report on the bill repealing the Day
light Saving Law on the last Sunday
in October was passed by the House
Committee on Interstate Commerce
today.
felt In all phases of the Community
life:'
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