If Pays To Advertise
Through The Cbfamns of
The Farmville Enterprise
IT REACHES - THE PEOPLE
Let Of Write You an Ad.
, and we'll open your eye?
WITH INCREASED BUSINE!
J1.00 a Year in Advance
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4TH LIBERTY LOAN QVER-StfB
SCW 8Y m MILLIONS
It is Estimated There Wefre Over Twenty-Five
Million Subscribers. North Carolina Over the
Top by Eleven Per Cent. Farmville over by
About Ten Per Cent
The Fourth Liberty Loan
drive, which ended last Saturday
night, Farmville, the State and
- the Nation %gain went beyond
thq amount asked by several
handred million dollars, which
plainly show3 our people as a
whole are backing the boys at
the front with sufficient funds
to fight the* Hiins.
A dispatch sent out from Wash
ington Monday says;
Washington. Oct. 20. ? Probably 25,
000,000 or more, individuals bought
bonds of
nompn wn.n .tmr ? b J
tlic solicitation worn, rvstcu ha?j ww
wiS not start until tomorrow to figure
up the avalanfche of last-minute par
chases. The only okcial figures in hand
here were of Friday night, showiBg
nbout $1,400,000,000 yet to be sub
scribed.
Issue Was Oversubscribed
Desoite this total lack of definite hi
which deprive the child of proper
breathing- space, thas dolling the in
tellect and stunting the child mentally
and physically.
The State Board of Health urges
that every failing child be given a
thorough physical examination and
any defeat discovered remedied. The
United States Government found in
excess of thirty percent of the men
in draft ages defective when they were
called for service in the army, a very
great many of whom are suffering
because of minor defects that could
have been recdedied in childhood but
which had been alowed to continue
and become permanent.
Every child is dependent upon its
parents for a fair start in life, and is
{entitled, to a fair chance to compete
With other children who have their
defects remedied and are kept frew
from disease. Putting the matter on
the basin of doQtoa and cents it is
' ? foTisii
There are only three states
which Save a shorter school
term than North jgiur^iiia, Mms
issippi, find Tenoeasee, jie
Toe average annual
her school teachers is
nail that of the United
here is cot a lahoror
tjbacco factory in Pitt
Sft-* " ' ' dtjt 1 ~ * , r
r. Wealth derhed
factory will, not
our children are.
Standards Demanded by Work
men Carried Into (be
Army.
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WASHINGTON? Wily doesj
it cost the United States so much
more to make war than it does
anylof its cobeliigerents?
What is being done with the
lens of billions being raised from
Liberty &>nds and taxation?
One often tears these questions,
The answer is not difficult.
Itis, simply, that it costs an
American more to d^<piytbkig
man in the world. When he
becomes a soldier he carries
th?
parauveiy ?<,
Napoleon said, and everybody
ever since has repeated, that an]
army travels on its stomach. Sol
naturally the of the
runaiiig to $50,0Qp,(X)0 ^ day
3 regular ration Ijst of the
can army calls for fofljfc
nine different items of iood. It
includes many things which are
luxuries ro the soldiers of the
is low because
Ausiro
ficU (J?e of;
ATLANTIC CITY ? -Major
W. D. Bancroft, U. S. A., of Cor
nell University, suggested the
probabUi^ Aiat destructive -war.
gases, first Used by Jhe Germans
and improved upon by the Al
lies may be made to serve "ben
eficent purposes of mankind"
after the war coc^nlion of the
American Electro Chemical So
ciety. J
know these gases kill |
. ii ? vwiauuR -no < war
secret to say&atTveb%veto(hyi
asa mult of the wafc* cha??al
before. It is not Se
this product of an emer
y wiU be used after the war
war gases. We are using
many new methods of doiog
this which I hope will be pub
lished after the war."
America, Canadt^i and Eo&
poweis*
clared that Federal
o* such power rsan
would J* a
"W$ d?no|wa
IdKreauctacie^nJ
qf ?
Ifeht aKainst Germanic 4o?mna
tlM^l?ewor!d's potash su|
America will be m
far as nitric acid is concerned by
the time peace is reslored. "One
has only to view the Newark
jneadows," he said, ?to realize
our opportunities for the de
velopments nitrogen."
C. Ar Winder told the electro
chemical experts ihai the largest
single installation of power in
America is in motor cars, and
asserted a tremendous saying in
fuel awaits only the development
of a storage battery that will
take up the power and store it
for use anew.
W. S. Landis expressed the
opinion that the Government
will take oyer research for the
development of Americans in
dustrial power after the war
much in the same fashion that
it his taken over the raiiroadi.
WASHINGTON? Draft calls
for men who have past theft
.. . . -
for bringing the older <
!W registrant into i c
not been completed,
pproximate date of the
^disctei^-tlaiflrfy |
m of testimony by Pro
.aKJoneralCrowderbe
ouse military commi
ill, General Crowder
y St '"*? ?
SSSSS^m
Be^s For Peace. ixies To Satisfy
Pres Wilson That U Has Com- .
plied With His Demands, Bat
Continues Its Work of Destruc
tion.
fllhe past week has been a bad one
for J the ffeerman armies. Everywhere
the British, French and Americans
havje driven them back, the Germpqs
e so last in some cases that tho
armies have lost contact with
in others only by'the,nse of cal- .
have theyjfept up. .
the sector held by the Ameri
can! troops the hard fighting has oc
rcur -ed. The Germans ore fighting hard
to Mtd this sector because a severe
def:at here" means the practical de
tsfcri Lction ot the German:anaic? from
the Swis border north. To atop the
onr ash of the Americans and French
the j have massed lines of machine
gunners, one aftir toother, which
witjh orders to hold the line at any
cost have held out in many ig-<
line next the 'Engl i? channel has re
teken the whole Belgian . coast, cap
turing Ostend and zeebrugge, two
Geiman submarine bases from which
'"'I11"" mmm in1 " """ 1 1
En jlish shipping. 16,000 German sol
diers to esQp/pe capture tied into Hoi
'T7IE. "? r ? r' . v
Ther - GeTimm government realizing
vodupte all occapiod-4?jrritory and to
meet the other demands of the allies;
insisting that/it- has not beeta guilty
ofcHthe cruelty and damage charged
against i$. Apaipable lie. which the
Gi * rtoian government knows is a lie, as
all the world knows and will testify.
It says that orders have been sent
sul marine commanders not to ruth
les rfy destroy passenger vessels and
jeopardize the lives of passengers.
There is a feeling that the end of
thci war is in sight. Active fighting
wilrihanlly stop until the German
antny 4? rendered impotent. It is be
lieved1 that1 this will be soon, though
hostilities may not cease, until next
tfpjllF. % s .-*1
MEN BRUTALLY TORN FROM
HOMES AND FORCED TO
LABOR FOR GERMANS
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n,I*vre,.Oet &? The Belgic/n cov
er iment has issued a statement that
fnin the coast to beyond the city, of
3sfs
torn fioni their home? sad forced to
abor on German military work.
: /The text' of the statement reads:
"The Belgian government has been
wj^bject of ine^^wwtidl^e^neces
e&i?#nploying Jpj- territory h? ;?
?Y^fdgiuor hoa been frow th* begin-'
atog: ?i) to> v*rexpoBed te the o*t
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