FACTE FOUR
HIE REVIEW: REIDSVTl.L. NV C.
FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 1917
Ita Reidsville Review
TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
THE REVIEW COMPANY
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(Entered at the postoffica i ' Helds
fSIla. N. C, as second claaa f , : fi mat-fw.)
AMERICA FIRST
"My Country 'Ti of Thee, Sweet Lend
Of Liberty'
LOOK BEFORE LEAPING
Reldsville should make every inves
tigation before Riving any company a
lighting franchise for (he town. The
Review has beencharitablo enough to
asy on different occasions that the
Southern i'ower Company could pro
duce electricity perhaps at a lower
cost than the- city, and also that, the
service might be more satisfactory.
The following from the Hih Point
Enterprise throws an altogether dif
ferent light on the situation. We are
reproducing the editorial without
comment:
Ft'RXISHLN'G XOTIIIXG
"The service furnished the city of
High Point by the North Carotin,
Public .Service ' Company is little sii-Tt.
of a disgrace to a progressive com
inunity. For months it has been ap
parent that the Public Service Com
pany Is doing about as little as it
cam do, and the condition is becoming
intolerable to these manufacturing
plants forced to depend upon Public i
Service for power to run machinery
There la a remedy for such service,
end now is the time to apply it.
"For four houra yesterday afternoon;
there was no power. The Enterprise
did not get its press started until
shortly after six o'clock, and then
the vower was off again, on again,
for a cnsiderable period. Other plants
in the city, depending upon electric
power, had to shut down at 2:20
o'clock. If such a happening did not
ie ao frequent The Enterprise
would feel that it was in a position
tc excuse the poor service for one day,
but the same has beon occurring for
months and months. The Public Ser
vice,: to all appearances, is making no
effort to hotter the service it sup
posed to be giving.
"The street oar service offered here
to so poor that a person can do bet
ter by wulklng. In fact, those who
have to bo at their offices or piaeo
fo employment in the morning on time
re lorcea 10 warn. . me same con
dWojx exiula In the -afternoon , I
the Public Service is making any at
tempt to remedy this condition it is
net apparent, except that some new
cars have been ordered. We are told
they will better the service, but enn-
not run without electric power.
"The city of High Point holds the
franchise for furnishing elwtric lights
some 1800 years old. It will be kept
this year, with more or less devotion,
by somo three hundred and fifty mil
lion Christian In the world. Its aim
is the devlopment of Christian charac
ter. Christian character means;
1. The power to make a sharp,
dear distinction between right and
wrong, between obedience and disolie
dience, between righteousness and
,in. 2. The it means self control
;i,nd discipline. 3. It means loyalty
to the character and purose and aim
of Jesus Christ. 4. It means charity
toward men. 0. It means growth
away from that which is earthly, sen
sual and dying, and growth toward
that which is high, spiritual, godl
and immortal.
Lent is a call for the development
of such character, mind a time when
the Church deliberately sets herself
about Its development. It is a iivival
lit the Christ ..man within us.
! The lessons of Lent are of incstl
mable value. We all need them. 'I hey
will help us to discern the things of
real vt.'Jue in life, to subdue and eon
! i.rol our selfish and sinful impulses,
and if we learn them aright th"y will
tiring pence to body, soul and spirit.
If a. real Lent were universally ob-s-erved.
and its b-v-son learned, war
unl discord would speedily end the
gulf that divides labor and ' capital,
nt h and poor, great and lowly, would
ne bridged by the bond of heavenly
love; sectarian pride and sirne wouiu
cease, every mm would bo a brother
to his fellow, aim strive id munnnr
the happiness and well-being of all
humanity.
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THE BEST SECRETARY.
Some of the New York Republi
cans never lose an opportunity to
"poke fun." at Secretary of Navy Dan
iel. However, people who know, or
ought to know, his qualifications as
Secretary of the Naivy, do not hesi-
It is almost a dead level to Lawson
ville and by proper surveys an easy
grade could be made across the creek
beyond Lawsonville which would
make this road a very important feed,
er for Iteidsville.
o
fate, to praise him. Mrs. George Dew
ey says her husband felt for Mr. Dan
iels a sincere affection, and that only
a short time ago the cwfiniral said:
"I have been In tho navy sixty two
years and have served under many
secretaries of the navy, but Secretary
Daniels is the best secretary We have
ever had, and -has done more for the
navy than any other. I am amazed
by his knowledge of technical matters
He has studied profoundly and his
opinion list founded on close observation."
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the city. Because of this fact, and
jio
that only, High Point is given a rate
Jjtwt one 'half of what Greensboro
'pays. The city did a wise act when
Jit refused to surrender the franchise
.to the Pcbllc Service. The city will
.do a.n even wiser act If it will build
jits' municipal electric light plant and
jfurnteh current to the city at what
it costs to produce it, plus a reason
able amount of profit. We have the
statement of men who have studied
he proposition that the city can make
ear and above expenses, $11000 a
year on a municipal plant, and that
t can furnish High Point with sit-
Ice a city of this class should Ime!
"A thunder storm 25 miles, or 50
liles from High Point, cuts off pow-
r for this city. With a plint here
Governor liickett made five sugges
tions and laid down many broad prin
ciples in his inaugural address, hut
he referred to nothing of a materia!
nature in a more forcible and pictur
esipuv WAy than the foilwiug arraign
ment of the policy of growing one
crop mainly and buying food for man
and beast. "If I were tho Czar of
North Carolina instead of the Gover
nor, I would issue an edict declaring
that from and after five years from
date any man who imported into Nor h
Carolina any corn or meal, wheat or
flour, beef or bacon, should be forth
with hanged without trial by Jury and
without benefit of clergy. Of course
la t he beginning 1 would be denounced
as an infamous tyrant, but after the
law had been in effect for ten vears
the richest State In the Union would
build a monument to me as the flnair
elatF redeemer of my people."
". . ' . O '-..'..
Governor Itickott's message tj the
Legislature urging the passage cf the
farm life bill is one of the finest argu
ments, we.. have read in some time. It
was effective With the '.members of
the senate who lost tr time in pas
ing this iill. Governor ftickett has
.earned the naine of the "farmer's
friend."' .'
Food riots in New York! This high
price of living and scarcity of food
stuffs situation is getting serious. It
is up to tho farmers to relievo tho
shortage and get rich all at the same
time.;
VICTORY FOR THE SMALL
' FARMER
liy a vote of three to one the .'senate
put itself on record in favor of giv
ing the tenant farmers of North Car
olina the measure of relief so earn
estly sought for them by Governor
liickett.. The vote on the Gov rnor's
crop lien bill was as decisive as it is
encouraging to those who for years
have waged war onTho present ini
quitous .system.
The action of the Senate was a
victory for small farmers of North
Carolina, such as has. not been wit
nessed before in a genor i.tion. If the
House concurs in the Senate's action
and this bill becomes a law, that
achievement alone will lie snflieient
tc mark the liickett, administration
as the beginning ui a new era ot" de
mocracy and oppport unity in this
Commonwealth.
The bill was put upon its pa -sage
immediately after the reading of tho
Governor's special message urging
fuvorablo action. And the vote left
no room for doubt that the General
Assembly is ready to stand by Cover
. i liickett in his efforts to fulfill, his
I most cherished hope, lo members of
(be General Assembly the Governor
I laid bare that hope when in bis mes-
age he said ;
"The task this administri'ion
has assigned Itself is to do for the
agricultural development of the
State a work that will at least re
semble the work done by the be
loved Aycock for our educational
development.. I am irrevocably
c.oinitted and consecrated to the
work of securing for the men u.d
women on the farm whose lives
have been hard and of the hope
they have have never known.
Their faces. tale as picked cot
ton, are before me always, and as
I write I feel the pleading truch
of cold, thin hands."
If this bill becomes a law P. will
destroy the arch enemy of the indus
trious poor mini who tills the . sail
It will, break" the chains that now
bind him and set the tenant-farmer
free in North Carolina for tho first
time in tho history of the State free
to work uot his own salvation and
become independent, homeicwning
citizen. It will destroy an evil that
Yas done more than all other t hings
combined to retard the progress of
the ninety and nine who toil in the
field. That such an evil exists and
should be detroyed was admitted in
the Senate by one of the opponents
of the Bicket t Crop Lien Bill who
offered as a substitute for that mea
ure a 'bill "to-. repeal the crop lien law
entirely.
tt yet remains for the House to
pass the Governor's bill. And the ma
jority in the House should be Just. as
decisive as it was in "the Senate. As
we have pointed out before . this
bill has been carefully worked out.
It is no half baked measure. After
it had been framed by the Governor
and others who have given the matter
much thought, it was considered for
niany days by the Senate committee
which reported it favorably with only
one dissenting vote. Now it h is pass
ed the Senate by an overwhelming
majority. It is by all odds the biggest
and most important measure yet ad
vanced by the Pickett administra
tion. It is through , the operation
of this law that the Governor hopes
to fulfill his pledge to translate ten
nit! Into landlords. We hope and
believe, that there will he no serious
opposition when it comes up in the
House.-NewH and Observer.
APPROACHING LIVESTOCK EX
POSITION AT WILMINGTON
PUBLIC SCHOOL MATTERS
On March 28th and 20th there will
be held at Wilmington, under the au
spices of the Southern Settlement and
jX'velopment Organization of Kalti
niore, and the Wilmington Chamber
of Commerce, with the North Carolina
Agricultural Kxtension Servire State
Department of Agriculture, and the
transportation lines co-operating, a
most important livestock exposition
i , . , I i ,ti f ren ri il i rt-n-t hi! Inwiivl I It ,
H,,.miln. of D,e l.lle I.noU in f he 1 ft'rK'' 11 Cah friZ0 f
whole State, and for the purpose of
Influencing fanners and land woners,
and bankers, On tho importance of
livestock growing.
Wilmington is rapidly developing a
picking interest, which will result in
doing away with the economic loss
the South has heretofore sustained
throiig.li shipping hogs and other live
stock to distant points, and then pay
ing a higher freight rate on the finish
ed product for consumption.
This conference ought to h ive defi
nite results in the way of the stimu
lating the growing of hogs and live
stock throughout, the whole State.
and at the monthly meeting of the
Ct.mmercuil H Agricultural Associa
tion, held the 2dth inst.. the following
lesolution were adopted in regard to
the meeting:
Whereas: A State-wide Livestock
Exposition and Conference will be
held at Wilmington, March :iMh and
29th under the auspices of the South
ern Settlement & Development Or
ganization of ISaltiniore. and the- Wil
mington Chamber of Commerce; with
ihe North ' Carolina Agricultural Ex
'tensioij Sqrvice, State ltpt tment
of Agriculture, and the transport ition
lines, co-operating, and
Whereas: The encouragement of;
the livestock industry' is essential to
the development of the idle and un
used lands of North Carolina, and
this conference is for the purpose of
stimulating interest among the farm
ers, "landowners, and the .bunkers in
the importance of livestock growing
and bringing to the attention of the
entire State what can be accomuUshed
along this line with the proper effort.
and
Whereas, the sessions of .th-'. 'con
ference -will - be devoted to practical
discussions of subjects reining to
Animal Husbandry, with an exhibit of
pure bred cattle and hogs from dif
ferent sections of the State.
Therefore be it resolved, that a copy
if these resolutions be sent. -to. the
Wilmington Chamber of .Commerce,
and given to our local paper for pub
lication ,
IMPROVEMENT IN OUR METHOD
OF FIGHTING FIRES
There Is a movement on foot among
our town commissioners to brin,; to
a higher state of perfection our meth
od of dealing with fires In the town
Lack of space prevents our giving i
this m '.litter full publicity, but we give
a small description so that the -public j
Fly Ahead, Pointing Out Weak Spot
In Enemy Lines.
The steamship Chicago, which ha
Just arrived .from Europe, brought in
thirty-nine T'rench soldiers on the way
to their homes in .'Canada on furlough.
Hubert Mrt'reary of East Aurora,
N. Y and Frederick Zlnn of Chicago,
the former a driver for the American
ambulance corps and the latter an
American aviator, come from the front
to spend their leave with relatives.
Zinn was wounded while serving In
the foreign legion and spent &ve
months In a hospital. His later activi
ties have been in the aviation branch
of the service.
"Aviators," he said, "are now lead
ing regiments and sometimes Whole di
visions in charges against the Ger
mans. A capable aviator rises high
'above; 'the 'German lines and then sig
nals with a system known as optical
telegraphy to the commands beneath
him. It is much like the fire control i
on battleships, where the men at the
guns do not see the target, but are
able to Strike it. The signaling Sys
tem has just '.been; perfected. When
an advance of infantry is ordered the
men are not only directed, but the lines
are guided away from exceptional
peril and toward weak spots in the
enemy line. In other words, the work
of a general or colonel in directing an
advance now devolves on a lieutenant
'occupying an observer's seat in an air
pin ne."
World's Crop Estimates.
Official world crop production esti
mates for l!Ut, just timde public by
(By Prof. L. N. Hlckerton)
The county oommencement of the
public schools will be held on Satur
day April 21st, 1917. The program
will consist of an address by a prom
inent speaker, declamation and reci
tation contest, spelling contests, etc.
At tho suggestion of Mr. VV. K.
Gibbs. tho County Superintendent has
worked out an oral and quick written
arithmetic contest. Mr. Gibbs has of-
.00 to the
winner. The purpose of this contest
is to stimulate interest in simple,
piactical every day arithmetic. The
contest is only open to those who
complete the seventh grade, and the
rules and regulations governing the
contest have been mailed to evry
school in the county. The fallowing
sebjects will be included:
Notation and enumeration, multi
plioaitioii, addition, subtraction, addi
tion, etc., common fractions, simple
decimal fractions, simple oral analy
ses, simple denominate numbers, sim
ple practical measurements, simple I
interest and percentage. The contest
will be held at the county commence
ment, and the winner will be deliv-
red the prize at the time.
In order to encourage the habit of
'Ais saving and experience of money,
a "Thrift Essay" contest will be held.
The following has been sent to all
ihe schools of the cunty:
THRIFT ESSAY CONTEST FOR ALL
THE SCHOOLS IN ROCKING
HAM COUNTY
Mr, S. S, Straus, resident of the
American Society for Thrift has of
fered a fine gold medal for tre best
essay on "Thrift", to be awarded un
der the following rules and regila-Cns.:
First This is open to pupi's of all
the schools of Rockingham County
public or private, city or rural, high
school or elementary school.
Second The essa can be as short
as the writer wants to make it, but
must not contain over one thousand
words.
Third The writer can gather ma
ferial from any source or sources,
but the essay must be iu the writter's
own language and aai original produc
tion: .
Fourth As many as desire can en
ter from any one school, but only a
Single essay from each school will be
allowed in the county contest. The
teacher of each school will determine
the manner of selecting the single
essuy. . , '
Fifth- Each essay must be sent to
the otfice of county superintendent
of schools. Wentworth, N. C. not latei
than April 15th, -with the nam" and
address of the mriter, name of school
and grade.
Sixth Five competent judge, will
be appointed to decide on the nest
essay consisting of a banker, a law
yer, one teacher, one farmer and one
manufacture.
Seventh The winner of the essay
will read it at the county comnience
nent on Saturday, April 21st and the
medal will be awarded at that time.
--'Please remember that this contest
will be fair and open to all the schools
Ihe medal hs been ordered and it
is hoped that this: contest will prove
interesting and beneficial.
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p,!ng sk:rtings
Ask us about the
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When you have anything
to sell, advertise in our Busi
ness Builders, five cents per
line for one insertion; 10 cents
per line for three insertions.
The pretty Rirls. the "charming wi
dow," and the "Sweet Girl Graduate
will all be there in. "Scenes in -a
Union Depot".
may have an idea of what it is like i the depart nient of agriculture-, show
n High Point such could not occur
j'he Public Service cannot ' fiui.ish
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THE LAWSONVILLE ROAD
In the list if roads desimialcd bv
Pgh Point with service when the (he wunly commissioners to be sand
(layed, as published in Tuesday's Re
view, the Heidsville-Iaw'sonville road
is put down as three mile: The dis
tance from Ueidsville to lawsonville
Is seven miles. Whether or not the
three miles wi! an error, or that only
1 three mllo stretch of this road was
to be we do not know,. But we hope
the eomniiwdotiers will see to it that
this imiHirtant road is Improved all
(he way to the Caswell Hue. The
residents alonp this rKid are willing
to make liberi.il contributions In kibor
as well -as 'Tights of way and the use
of topsoil. If thk road were put in
K(km1 condition It would be the means
of greatly increasing -our 'trade. .'with
Caswell county.
The road at present Is in very bid
condition. The steep hill beyond Law
sonville is almost impassable and act
as an effective blockade to traffic
from the part, of Cuswell county that
road leads to. Mr. S. II. Hutler and
other citizens of that section have had
to help haul out stalled wagons on
that hill quite frequently this winter.
The distance to the Caswell line
from Reidsvlllo is tabout nine miles
jjurce of its power Is so far removed
"rom the city. It has made excuse
'fter excuse, but what Is an excuse
InJesB a speedy remedy is appli3d?
Ugh Point citizens ought to tusk the
ity council to provide this city with
1 municinaly-owned plant in ordr
mt Ihn rilv tnav;- havA Sfrvif "
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LENT: 1917 '
February 21, was Ash Wednesday
ent is the Church's appointed season
r the more definite cultivatun of
rsonaj religion. The forty davs are
ss than one-tenth of the year 1H
t crowd all the year's devotion Into
Use It as a time to know yourself:
ur weakness, your desires, your,
ma. Do not go after a devotional
cord but strive to formulate pro
am of conduct far the future 'Xent
but a means to an end. So observe
ur Lent that you may always keep
is end In view and it will aiwaTS
:i help you to realize It
There -sxe many people who ask
a rjuestion and we give below a
irt explanation.
It Is, first of alL a tact. Lent la
l another column of our paper today,
There will be an opportunity for the
young men in our town to take a
more active part in this department
of our community life if the plans !
Ihe commissioners are carried oiit
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RUSSIANS AND GERMANS
ALLIED FIGHT WOLVES
A .wolf hunt in wbbh both
Hussian and Oerinan soldiers
joined Is lies' riliod in rorre
siMuidv'ine from the ."i dish front.
Parties of lUissiui. and Cer
; ma n shiuu nift lecdyly and
were In tly cnuanr In i skir
mish u ben a liirjie pa k of
wolves dasb(Hl on the siciip and
attacked the wunniloil. Hostili
ties were at once Ktlspoiidcd, and
Germans and Uussiiins Insfiur
tively atta kod the pa. k, l.l'llng
about fifty f (be wolvi-s. Atu-r
the hunt the ..soldiers soparatinl,
each party i.-tuinin iininolested.
to its own 'H ie lies.
Wheat (seventeen leading 'countries),
C. trH.OiHMMO bushels, per cent less
tlinn the 1!1." crop; rye (eleven conn
ti its), PS!),OiH).OOo luisliels, r.2 per cent
less than l!l."i; barley (sixteen conn
trii's), 1.oi.,:;.M0,O(i0 bushels. H.ti per
(iiit less than 1915; oats (fourteen
countries), 3.158,1 N KK000 bushels, 13.C
j i r cent less than in l'.ll."; corn (six
."Uiitriesi. 2.71 l.(MMUH'0 bushels, ll.i
per cent , less than In l'.U."; cotton
'Inltiil .States, India, Japan am!
K-vpO, 17.07 1,'XK) eiiulvalent oXl pound
bales. 7.9 per cent more than in 1915.
India's 1917 wheat ..acreage.-is fore
' ast as ah iin i'c.ise of 8 per cent ovei
ltip;, tlax :j 'per cent less and cotton It
Ii-r cent more, with cotton production
indicated, at "2 per cent greater thai
t lie last year. ,
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Our Ike of lades' ad Men's Ready-to-Wear
is almrst comflele and ready for your inspection.
WHY YOU SHOULD BUY
YOUR EASTER SUIT FROM
Wentworth's Ladies' Aid Society is
fiving another play and is sufficient
proof that there will be lots of inter
eating scenes and good singing. Feb
-uary 23 is the date.
Longest Name In Michigan.
On page SH of Kalamazoo's new cit,
dneetory "l;l.v be found the name of
Polybiis TlieotlDrooumoundorucofopou
l"s. a waiter in a restaurant. It is sale
ef TheMlorctuii)Oiiiidorgtotopoulos that
hi name of eleven syllables and twenty-eight
letters is not only the longest
In the directory, but also -longer than
Unit of any other resident of .Michigan
-letroit News.
In a welding process of German In
vention magnetism la employed to de
posit all of the molten metal on the
desired place.
Because we have the La
test Styles from which to
select from. You can buy
one of our Easter Suits cn
our Easy Payment plan; y c u
will never miss your money.
$1. a week pays the bill
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9 N. Scales St. Opp. Postoffice