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VOL. IX
No Thooghl of Stopping Fight
ing at Tkis Stage.- Diplomats
Belie# ' Presi<fentYAnswrr
Will Cause Revolution in tlie
German Empire
Washington .?President Wit
son has answered Germany's
peace proposal with & decision
which riot only fulfills the ex
pectations of suppoiiers of his
diplomacy but also dispels the
feares of those who predicted he
would substitute victories at
-
arms with defeats at diplomacy.
AUTOCRACY MUST GO!
{ V 'r ? ?
No peace with Kaiserism! j
must go; no armis
fully dictated by the allied Com
mandefs in the field in such
terms as abolutely provide safe
guards and guarantees that Ger
many's part will not be a scrap
of paper,
This in a few words is the
President's answer.
MAY CAUSE RE^LUTION.
If it does not bring a capitu
? 3HL-j||p jgy. ^
lation which may be more ttian
uncondition?! surrender allied
diplomats apd'American officials
believe it may cause a revolu
tion in Germany.
Beyond '?question it speaks for
the entente allies as well as the
Unhe&tatefc
The dispatch of the president's
reply was followed by the issue
of this formal statement a I the
White |louse by Secretary Tu
molty:| \?&
"The government will con
tinue to send over 255,000 men
with tlietr supplies every month
and there will be no relaxation
TEXT OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S
OFFICIAL REPLY TO GERMANY
Washington, Oct. 14,
"Sin
"hi reply to the communication of the German gov
ernment dated the 12th. instant, which yoti handed me to
day, I have the houorto request you to transmit the fdl
lowing answer:
'The unqualified acceptance by the present German
government and by a large majority of the Reichstag of
* thcterms laid down by ihe President of the United States
of America in his address to the Congress of the United
States on the 8th of January, 1918, and in his subsequent
adtlMiiu justifies the President in making a frank and
direct stateneftt of his decision with regard to the com
munications ot the German government of the 8th and
12th of October, 1918.
AUTOCRACY MUST GO!
"It must be dearly understood that the process of
evacuation and the conditions of an armistice are matters
which mustbe left to the judgment and advice, of the
mi|Hary advisers of the government of the United States
and the Allied governments, and the President feels it his
doty to say that no arrangement can be accepted by the
government o? the United States which does not provide
absolutely satisfactory safeguards and guarantees of the
tSUnntenaoce of the present supremacy of the armies of
1m the fiel<4li|ie feels
"The President feels that it is also his duty to add
that neither the government of the United Stales nor, he
is quite sore, the governments with which the govern
ment of the United States is associated as a belligerent,
will consent to consider an armistice so long as the arm
ed forces of Germany continues the illegal and inhumane
practice* which they still persist in.
JUSTLY REGARDED WITH HORROR AND BURN
ING HEARTS. i
"At the very time that the German government ap
pf cached thegovenimentofjhe United States with pro
posals of peace its submarines are engaged in sinking
passenger ships at sea, and not' the ships alone, but the
very boats in which their passengers and crew seek to
make their way to safety ;Tand;in " their present inforced
withdrawal from Flanders and Fcaace the German armies
are pursaiog a course ot wanton destruction which has
always been regarded as in direct violation of the rules
and practices of civilized warfare. Cities and villages,
if aot destroyed, are being stripped of all they contain
not only that, but often of their very inhabitants. The
nalioes associated against Germany cannot be expected
to agree to a cessation of arms while acts
spoliation and desolation are being contiage
justly look upon" with horror and with jgpteiepftriMftC
MUST BE DESTROYED OR MAjHP
"It is necessary, also, in order tiflmm
no possibility of misunderstanding that i
should very solemnly <?U the attention of
ment: of Germ-any to the language and plain
of thetenbs of peace which the German goi
now accepted, ft il MfPtaine^ in the ac
President delivered rtMoriPprnoa bit; A
July last.
destruction of every arbitrary
?parately, secretly and of its
ace of fhe world; or, it it can
atiessf its reduction to virtual
oiwer which has^ hitherto controlled the
is of the sort here described. It is withi
, to peytfce
tbv
i of tea tons
? SttlllB Witfcr
The Crash*
thtolmt to
^ W-W per
LOCAL
~%-r
-v :
CROSS TO ASSIST
?4W?*?BL1N6^ . _
fe' k?4?|?e ? i ? I ? t i ieei i^jbl
At a call meeting of the Farttiville Reft Cross Thursday
night, by the chairman, Mrs. J. W. Lovelace, plans ware ef
' ' id commitfee^iaffeirrted to assist materially in the
: of the influenza epidemic in Farmville and com
>. "HWfV m Mg0 ik-bhki - #
Tne tollowinfc committees, each with its chairman, were
jtpi^de^theduties of each herein outlined:
t6MigewJbmwttee:]-Mf&. G. M, H
led record of every pati
n i . ? > ?? ' _i 1
mppmpi mmgmm
2. Take daily note of needs of every
J needs, (b) Nursing, (c) Food, (d) I
close touch with all other committees.
1. Solicit first every available-qualified person as nurses.
. 2. Inform patients and families of elementary preventa
? tives and remedies. 3. Designate and distribite nurses
g||yand medicines, and keep in touch with all nurses.
'mantt Committee:? Mrs. J, L. Shackleford, chairman.
Get list of persons v&ov tSfJH contribute money for
-eeessary relief and amounts"" each wm contribute. 2.
Collect assessment as needed. 3. Pay out necessaiy
money to necessaiy Committee. 4:
. Transportation Commitlee:-~Mrs. R. A. fields, chairman.
1. Furnish conveyances to distribute^(a) sFoOd, (b) medffaa
cine, (c) Nurses, Other Essentiafs. fT"
Food Commfttit:? Mfe J* D. Gates, chairman.
S$Preparefoods ^ilSsT^ '
lish
waere their .services are needed. ?
- The Iollowing, who have so far volunteered their ser
vice as nurses a re to be commended. They are: Misses
Tabitha DeVisconti, Novella Horton, Aanie Laurie tang,
Sarah Pollard, Estelle Perry and Mrs. C. W. Donaldson
V" ?_ V ? '."iVfc* \ '"v. 7 . ? ?'
rt v.
J
Commercial
Mod Scar
rials of
Wasi
Fertilizers so High
ce That Many Ma
tfais nature hereto
ed Should Now be
The following, Which comes
through the State Go-operative
Extension S ervice, is passed on '
to our farm it friends especially
with the nope that they may
realize more fully the import
ance of the situation.
As the war progresses, com
mercial feri ilizers become scarc
?V &ighgr i 1 pric^ and harder to
T1 lis, coupled with the
that ncj farmet should plant
>p without getting all that
caii out of it, makes ??
^imperatives ttott.:;,.
should l
as possible to
the farmer! and this w;,I not be
. case unless the soil is suffi
j tiently well fertilized.
. ?. E. Williams, Chief of
Divis on of Agronomy of
the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, in a recent statement, says
that there is no excuse for plant
food to be the limiting factor in
drop production, when there are
many foms of home fertilizer
which may be used to supple
ment the
fertilizer.
lariy to n
Many
Ei' :
available commercial
At the present time
all forms of nitrogen, phosphoric
acid and jbotash are high, with
this stater :eot applying particu
trogen and potash,
materials containing
these ingredients, which have
been was ted heretofore! on the
farm, may be saved to very good
advantage at this time and ap
plied to the soil Such materials
are farm manures, wood-mould,
est leaves, and wood ashes. ?
rest leaves, according to
pre >ent values assigned
^"nitrogen, phosphoric acid,
and potesb, are worth commer
Jyjoi the plant-food which
they contain abou t $8 per ton.
The vi lue of different manures
produced upon the farm,, where
they have been properly cared
range from $6 to $8. Hen
ure s worth more than $20
Ion. Wheat straw is worth
| $7.21 per ton for the fertilizing
ituints which it contains.
6bbs are worth $6.2$. and
straW $8.69. * ^ ->
ajd-wood ashes ihat
been subjected to 'the
:ect of" rains should'
cent of potash,
a toa tf t;
at thet
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