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. .... . -. . - T AGE TWO TAB GA8TONIA GAZETTE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1017. THe War Capital as You Would See It Yourself By DAVID M. CHURCH L N. S. Staff Correspondent MOST URGENT HEED A PROOAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR. i III ilORTK GAROLiliA Washington, Aug. 27. Perhaps i House guests. Now occasionally one you have heard of the "gimnieguy." fs Bby Mdo play'n udr "e jvu ... . I trees: but other than this child, the He is a peculiar animal, out noi ai - all rare. He is of the male sex ana ' talks in terms of the word "gimme. " It Is always either "gimme a match, ' or "gimme a cigarette." Washington - since the outbreak of the war has de- ' ' veloped a new strain of this species; . It IS, the "get me man." , The national capital is overflowing - with the people who are here to get something. Hundreds ot young men have flooded into the city and be-' gleged their Congressman and other " "back home" officials to get them commissions in either the army or the nary. It doesn't appear to the "casual observer here as though any - American is willing to be a private. ' ' There is the youth who doesn't want to go to war. He has come to Washington in herds looikng for a ; governmental position which will ex- empt him from the draft. Compen--' satlon doesn't matter; what he wants v is to keep oat of war. - Then there are the great hordes of men who have come to get fat gov ernment contracts. Any day at ten in the morning you can find half a ' hundred Important looking men, guarding fat bundles of documents, -r waiting at the doors of the State, War " and Navy building in hopes of get ' ting in to see some one that can give "them a contract. They range from the man who has come to offer the Government lumber for cantonments to the' youth who wants to sell the ,army all its belt buckles. 4 Women haven't been missing in the "get me" class either. There are , great numbers of young girls and 'women who have come to the capital 1 h to get positions. They are willing to fill the places of men who can go to war, but most of them have found the conditions of work altogether too -'strenuous and they, are thinning out " rapidly. ' College friendships, boynooa ac- aualntancea. fraternal affiliations : every subterfuge has been resorted to by these persons in order to gain ' their ends. Army and navy officers and other officials have taken up the practice of - ; leaving their offices by the side and back doors. In order that they may .dodge the insistent demanders of con 'cessions and privileges. ; Undoubtedly the work of the war capital has been considerably retard jed by this horde of seekers for prof 's it. in every omce in me capital mere is now an official "buffer." It is the duty of this person to weed out the undesirables. Buffers, are Just as f persistent as the "get me men." and oersons with real business find it most difficult to reach the proper of "llcial. ' In all fairness it must be said that the numbers of those who seek to give, the Government something are " almost as large. But it has been 'found that there is generally an at- tachment to every gift, and the Gov- ernment has adopted an attitude of ' entire Independence. ; Although he doesn't seem to thrive - the "get me man" continues to live on. Hotel keepers are the only sym , pathlzers that he has, too. trees; but other than this child, the grounds are deserted. Each week the President attends the theatre. 'Always his box is filled with the same people Mrs. Wilson, Dr. Grayson and perhaps one or two other attaches. The President is never known to make calls, except a few strictly of ficial and diplomatic calls. So, day in and day out, the Chief Executive and greatest war maker works on at hi3 war making, always alone. Perhaps 'it is his studious nature which seeks seclusion, but the name, "The Lonely Man in the White House," outwardly seems fitting. CITIZENS MUST SEE THAT PRE VENTABLE FIRES ARE REDUC ED TO MINIMUM. T HARVEST READY ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. It's f great big house, and it sits back from the street in great spacious grounds, beautiful in their appearance. In the great big house there sits a great big man. and the great big man sits alone most of the time. Y Passersby stop to peer through the Iron fence and hope for a glance at the great big man. He is Wood row Wilson, President of the United States and director of the greatest - war his country has ever taken part In. Moreover, he is the biggest war maker In the biggest war. European - Kings msy do more actual military campaigning, but nevertheless every - one of them realizes that their future success or failure lies pretty largely in the bands of Woodrow Wilson. And be is doing the work all alone, . too. Some one has called hiim "The . Lonely Man In the White House." Whether he is actually lonely or not, none of us knows. But it is a well ' known fact in Washington that never - bas the White House been less in the social light. Never before have the carriages and motors driving up to the White House been so few. In the early morning: if the Presi . dent goes for a round of golf it Is always with the same opponents Mrs. Wilson and Dr. Grayson. In the afternoon when he goes for his drive it 1s always with Mrs. Wilson, and , no other guests. Luncheon at the White House used to be a time of relaxation and gayety President Taft and President Roose- elt were always surrounded by a host of luncheon guests. Secretary Parker has been at luncheon once with President Wilson since the war began, and Colonel House perhaps twice. Other guests there have been none. Dinners at the White House are almost unknown. Only the most formal diplomatic dinners have been beld there in the past six months. Dinnerguests are few and generally Immediate members of the Wilson family. Time was when the White House grounds were always full of White -; FKEE OP CHARGE. I 'Why suffer with' Indigestion, dys pepsia, torpid liver, constipation, our stomach, coming-up-of-food-af-ter-eating. etc when you can get a sample : bottle of Green's August Flower free at J. H. Kennedy ft Co'. This medicine has remarkable curative properties, and has demon strated its efficiency by fifty years or success. - Headaches are often caus ed by a disordered stomacn. ' August Flower is put up in 2S-and 73 cent bottles. For sale in all clvl-y-pa countries. ' - . j Washington, Aug. 27. Americas administrative officials have to play. They could not stand the strain of the onerous task of war-making if they did not. All of them have their bobby. President Wilson is a golfer of no mean ability. He has never played to any great extent in public, but those who know his game claim It is "cork ing good." Secretary Lane golfs a little, but he gets most of his exercises out of the morning setting-up exercises which Walter Camp conducts three or four days a week for high officials Postmaster-General Burleson likes to do some fishing. Week-ends, when it is possiDie, ne sups away to a stream in the Blue Ridge Mountains or to Chespeake Bay and gathers in the finny tribe. Newton Baker may be Secretary of War, but he is strong for the water Coming from the inland he is perhaps the highest mariner in the Cabinet Secretary Baker finds great delight in going down the Potomac River in the Mayflower or the Sylph, and he takes a river trip whenever he finds himself going just a little bit stale Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo gets away from Washington when he begins to tire. In the Pennsylvenla mountains, with his family, he takes long walks- into the country. Of the Senators and Cangressmen there are a score or more of real golf enthusiasts and they can be found almost any afternoon at one of the Washington country clubs Many or me western legislators go in for driving and riding. Secretary of Commerce Redfleld is an auiomooue enmusiast. -Not a speed enthusiast, but a lover of long automobile rides. The Attorney General, Thomas Watt Gregory, is also a great automobile lover. "Uncle Joe Cannon," the venerable law maker, finds much of bis pleas ure in dominoes. Whether it is the dominoes or the story telling which amuses him most is hard to state. Every official has some form of di version which he finds time to prac tice. There need be no fear that tne members of this administration will go stale, for they have recognized the value of recreation in times when the burden of war is heavy upon tnem. Washington, Aug. 25. Hidden be hind a clump of trees in the outskirts of the city. Washington has a house or mystery, it is omclaly recog nized and omclaly protected. With in the wals of this wysterlous house no stranger ever peeps. It is the United States Bureau of Standard. On the edge of the wood, there has been erected the greatest war labora tory in the world the Bureau of Standards. Within this building there are scores of chemists and scl entlsts working day and night upon inventions to aid America and the Al lies in the conduct of the war. The most eminent of America's scientists have been gathered for work there No one is allowed to enter the buildings until he has secured cre dentials from the highest official in charge. No outsider knows what goes on within. There are a score of great Ameri can engineers at work there now, striving hard to build an aeroplane engine which will make the American aeroplane the strongest and swiftest that ever entered into "battle. Ru raor has It that these engineers are on the verge of success. Officially no one even knows the engineers at at work there. Naval and marine constructors and Inventors are quartered ttiere. What they are doing no one knows, even though every one believes they are struggling with a device which may stop the ravages of the German U- boats. Munition experts work there. Per naps some great and powerful ex plosive will he the result of their la bors. Not the least important of the workers are the many chemists wno are seeking substitutes. Germany made many of our drugs. The war has cut off this supply of cnemlcals. American chemists are now studying how they can make their own chemi cals and drugs. An occasional an nouncement from the Department of Commerce indicates in a small de gree what success they are meeting Rapid additions have been made to the buildings. Huge boxes contain ing mysterious machinery have been brought there. The place is alive with activity all day and night. The Bureau of Standards is situat ed far enough away from the town, so mat most people forget its exist ence. It is the most mysterious place In Washington. What will come out or this "House of Mystery no one knows. Perhaps one day the instru ment which will end the war may be Every Farmer, Farm Wife, Girl, Boy, and Employee on Farm Must Set That No Food Crops Are Destroyed By Fire. Recent reports from sections ol North Carolina telling of alleged up risings against the selective draft when sifted down proved to be purely unproven rumors or cases of protest I the first day of September, in town made by persons thoroughly ignorant I ship and school district meetings, and Requests People of the State to Hold .-.Appropriate Patriotic Exercises on '. September First and on Labor Day. - . State of North Carolina, Governor's Office, Raleigh. North Carolina is about to send 25,000 men into battle. These men are making the supreme sacrifice that forever hereafter the wisdom of the many shall determine the decrees of nations. They go to make war 'on war. They go to destroy with the sword the government that main tains that the sword is, and of rlgn ought to be, the final arbiter of a na tlon s rights When the government that defies war shall perish in war then war will come no more upon the earth.' It is fit that these guarantors of the world s pease should be sustained by the love and prayers or all good men: Now, Therefore, I, Thomas Walter Blckett, Governor of North Carolina do request the people of the State: First, to assemble . on Saturday of the law providing for the selective draft. It Is unfortunate that the re port should have gone out to newspa pers throughout the nation leaving the impression that there might be an organized protest or a protest of any proportion from North Carolina against a condition such as the country now faces. North Carolina is fortunate in being more than 99 per cent Ameri can. Recent war census figures show that less than one per cent of the population of the state is foreign born. The people of North Carolina will be found always ready to support the powers that have charge of the conduct of the war that has been thrust upon America. In some parts of the country serious complications have arisen with indus trial socialistic organizations. State and county officials and in some in stances ' troops have had to he called to cope with the situation. In the Dakotas army officers have been warn ed of an organized plot to destroy great crops of grain as it is harvested and stored. Throughout various parts of the country have come reports of arrests of supposed German spies or pro-German agitators. But none of this sort of activitiy has been reported in North Carolina so far. There remains but one enemy of the people of North Carolina and that enemy by proper effort is the easiest of them all to cope with. It is care lessness. Abundant crops are now ready to harvest or have already been harvested. The urgent need in North Carolina is what may be termed a burning need. It Is that every farmer, every farm wife, every farm employee, every boy and every girl on every farm in the state should use every care to see that these food crop? and this cotton is protected against the danger of destruction by fire. North Carolinians have little to fear from alien enemies or their sympa thlzers because there are few it any here. Incendiary fires are few and those that occur are the outgrowth of personal enmity and not the acts of enemy agents. It is incumbent upon every citizen to see that preventable fires are reduced to a mnimum. Every ounce of food destroyed or unnecesarl- ly consumed is an ounce of treason ignorantly 'or intentionally committed. The fact that insurance is carried and that the value of the burned food stuffs may be collected in money does not even tend to mitigate the loss. When foodstuffs burn in a time like this money will not replace It. Every ounce of foodstuffs produced is needed somewhere while thousands are suf fering from the lack of sufficient food. The duty which so plainly faces North Carolina is the duty to guard against themselves. A little care and tht practice of ordinary precaution against the destruction by fire of crops is barns and warehouses will conserve the foodstuffs that the promised boun tiful crops will yield. It is the duty of each to see th&t'carelessnees does not permit their destruction. If North Carolina crops are destroyed In barns or in storage it will not be by the hand of an alien enemy or an erratic pacifist for there are none of this class roaming this section. Jfor will it be "an act of Providence." but the inevi table result of purely human negli gence. hold patriotic exercises in honor of the .men we are sending to tne front; second, on Sunday, September 2d let special religious services be held in all the churches In the State, and let all good men pray for the safety ana success oi me men who are go ing into battle that lasting peace may come upon the land; Third. That on Labor Day, Septem ber Jrd, appropriate exercises be held in every county seat in the State ana let me men who have been draft ed into the public service be the guests of honor at these exercises. Done at our city of Raleigh this the 25th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun dred and seventeen, and in the one hundred' and forty-second year of our American Independence. T. W. BICKETT, Governor A ItKSl'LT OF BILLY'S MEETING louiij; College Professor, Rescued Ki-o-n ruDnkcnness, to Marry soon. New York World. Hundreds of persons who regularly attended the Billy Sunday meetings in the Tabernacle uptown, will. re member "The Professor," a tall. gaunt individual, who, hopelessly drunk, staggered down the trail one night to take the evangelist's hand and then fell flat upon his face in the sawdust. This man had been an instructor in a prominent college in New Jersey but liquor had put him down and out He was the most shocking spectacle of dirt and tatters and general help lessness that ever presented himself for conversion. Some of the "personal workers" knelt in the circle about "The Profes sor and prayed with him. They got him food and later clothing and some one got him a job. In a month he was an entirely rejuvenated person lie was clean, sober, actually youth ful looking and had made good with his employers. Among the persons who aided in the redemption of "The Professor" was a sweet-face woman in her early thirties, who soon became nokwn to him and to the other personal work ers as "The Angel". She sat beside "The Professor" at subsequent meet ings; they prayed together; they sang together from the same hymn book. And, now; the World learned yes terday "The Professor" and "The An gel" are to be married. The man has again become the charming, brilliant fellow he was fifteen years ago De- fore he began to drink heavily; and the woman Is proud to have her friends and relatives know, him. The wedding -will take place is a few weeks. The World has the names of both 'The Professor" and "The Angel," but It would scarcely be fair to print them since he is to begin a new life under the happiest of auspices. IN THE WAR AGAINST WA8TE. built behind these walls. Maud Was Contrary. Aunt Jemima: "Is you gwlne tef let dat mewel do as he please? Wha'i you win power?" Uhcle Epbriam: "Mr will nower'a all right. You Jest want ter come out Here an' . mess ore dls here I m ewers went power.", Judge, Joining other numerous forces throughout the nation in the wai against waste as a helping band to the country's struggle to "Make ths World Safe For Democracy," one ol the large insurance companies bas is sued a bulletin which, it announces, has as Its object the promoting of patriotism, good citizenship and the physical betterment of the people Some very timely suggestions ars herewith presented from this valu able paper: Give no time or money to selfish pleasure which can be given in unself ish service to the nation." "In the name of common humanity and of common sense, let us at ones adapt ourselves to the extraordinary war conditions which have com upon us. Unless extravagance is checked the nation will be injured people will go hungry and the war will be pro longed." - "What a blessing rational economy would bring to war worn humanity is the present food crisis." "But economy is not enough. Wi must produce more, conserve mort and every one enlist int the wai against waste." t . - j The question, who shoud be vac cinated against typhoid fever? has recently been answered by a noted physician of this country. He says all who come under the following heads should be vaccinated against typhoid, as their positions largely In crease their chances for contracting it: Drummers and railroad men: all vacationists, especially campers, and people who travel much; prac ticing physicians and nurses; all people who live in towns and small cities, people who live In the country; people who live In a town or com munity where typhoid is epidemic: people who eat at various hotels and restaurants; people who have no means of knowing whether their food has been free from flies and filth: and finally all people who have not big bank accounts or who have loved ones dependent on them. per il's Use. "Maud has a very engaging sonallty." "Yes; that's how she gets so many diamond rings." Life. LEMONS MAKE SKIN WHITE, SOFT, CLEAR Make This Beauty Lotion For a Few Cents and See For Yourself. What girl or woman hasn't heard of lemon Juice to remove complexion blemishes; to whiten the skin and to bring out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beauty? But lemon Juice alone is acid, therefore irritat ing, and should be mixed with orch ard white this way. Strain through a fine cloth the Juice of two fresn lemons into a bottle containing about three ounces oforchard white, then shake well and you have a whole quarter pint of skin and complexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small Jar of ordinary cold cream. Be sure to strain the lemon Juice so no pulp gets into the bottle. then this lotion will remain pure and fresh for months. When applied dai ly to the face, neck, arms and hands It should help to bleach, clear. smoothen and beautify the skin.-' Any druggist will supply three ounces of orchard white at very lit tle cost and the grocer bas the lem-; ons. - , . . ' IDEAL i THEATRE TODAY "If a Man Should Gain the Whole World and Lose His Soul, He Profiteth Nothing" Perhaps Mr. Williams has never characterized a role more abundant in human emotions which are strictly in keeping with the scene in which they appear. He loses his own identity and becomes the man without a soul Even the great wealth he has accumulated does not fill the void in his life which causes him great unhappiness, for he has lost that which money cannot buy and wonders over the emptiness of his existence. The Soul Master" Featuring EARLE WILLIAMS 44 TOMORROW CHARLOTTE WALKER MARY LAWSON'S SECRET" Gold Rooster Play EXTRA! FORD WEEKLY Is the Ideal Place for Your New Home AH Modern Conveniences Close In For Prices and Terms See GASTONIA INSURANCE & REALTY CO. Telephone 89 Office Realty Building How About Bicydes? We have some good ones. If you are in the market, call and let us show you. 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