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THE REVIEW COVERS EOanNOlUM IJl.TnE.MOENINOmCTJ BtJEBOUNDINO COUNTIES UKE THE SUNSHBTCJ ON A CLEAB DAY. i REIDSVILLE, N. C , RIDA, MARCH J4TH, 1919. IS8UEO TUESDAY AND FRIDAY VOL. XXXII. NO. 2. President Wilson Has Reached Brest, France Will Bi in Paris Friday Reception at Capital to Be Unofficial and Lac Ceremony of the First Ar I rival. President Poinoare With a Quad, to Welcome Him. An Associated Press dispatc from Paris says: President Wilson Trill be met at Brest by the French minister of marine, George Ley res: CUatain Andre Tardieu, Col 'tt.-mkja his son-in-law, Gordon Auchiscloss, who loft Paris s-via.l train this evening. by President Poincare with a guard of honor and hand, will meet Fres ident Wilson at the Paris station on fcj arrival Friday. probably be ,'twoen It o'clock and noon. The re cetitioa will be unofficial and wil kick the ceremony which attended the first arrival of President and Vra . Wilson in Paris. The steamer George Washington Is exoeeied to reach Brest about o'clock Thursday night, the Presi &nt gMng immediately to a spec ial train, which will make a slow tin 'to" the French capital. nsn.-ni.l!nE' to a message from the mayor of Brest, President Wil unn aMTPrfd to proceed from the 'aiar to the railroad .station, but the lat arrival of the George VaaMc.s'ton will likely proven tits. Tha President will probably cter the train at the quay. At Least 10,000 Rebels Taken. Fighting is still going on in Ber lin, with great fury, according to undated reports received in, Copen hagen from the German capital and HarwJsrd'Ml by the Exchange Tele kgraph Company. Witches of the fighting In the last few days say both the Sparta- flans (and, the government soldier acted Hie wild beasU., Hostilities nntinut in the Northern and Northeastern sections of Berlin and the government troops are kill ing all prisoners who fi ll into their bands. Wlomen , the sports said , participated In the cru''.t.ies with as much desperation as t'.e men. Human Flesh is Sold For Food. Chaio'U conditions in Russia, ."particularly in Petnogra-d and Mos cow, 'ware- described In reports re ceived -this' week by the State De partment at Washington. The depths ,to which the country has been plunged by bolshevik rule was mid by the advices to be indicated in a Mirt from Moscow saying Iramian Ssh had been sold to the famine-stricken dpulation by Chi nese sol Jirs who later w-ere ar rested. Bath Moscow and i'etrogmd were reported without fuel of any kind. German Navy Personnel Limited The . personnel of the German fleet Is to be restricted to 15 , 000 , tie supneme icouncil has decided, according to press dispatches from Paris. The military conditions to be imposed on Germany include guafliantoes that no tanks will be bnilt and no more poison gas man ufactured and that all German war material must be handed over and destroy!. It is added that allied Commissions will supervise the car rying oit of these conditions. 3,018 Liberty Motors at the Front When Truce Came The American Expeditionary Forces had 3,018 Liberty motors at the front when the armistice was signed. Major Robert J. Bates, . Signal Gjorps, announced on his arrival la Washington from Fiance. Major Bates, who flew the first Complete American airplane at the front, said that the Liberty motors were baring assembled, tested and turned over for action at the rate forty a day on Nov. 11. TroUey Tie-up Threatened. A complete tie-up of New York's eufcway, elevated and surface car lines,' a. well as paralysis of its barber shipping, is threatened by the strike of harbor workers which has beei ia progress more than a week. German Army Limited. A cablegram from Paris says: The supreme war council today fi nally adowed the milit-arv terms of German tiiarmament. These :ro YVde for r.n army of 100,000 men, enlisted f or 12 years. FRENCH CHILDREN HAVE FORGOTTEN HOW TO SMILE "There is nothing in France to day sadder than the unsmiling and solemn IJaces of the children of France who for four years have lived under the '.shadow "of the sWprd and have had all brightness tand hope crashed out of them by the cruel hand of the Hun. "Many children who should be Homjplmg over grassy fields, hobble about on a crutch Instead, or have to make out with a single arm, but even the faces of those who are whole look sad and old from the suffering they 'hare experienced and seen. "A few days aao I ma.de up my mind that I would give these sad children in one little settlement a party; Just a frolicsome party, the kind our children like, and 1 uld r wtitch their faces brighten- up. There were games, cakes and candles, which have been so rare over there, and story books which -hought would delight their child ish hearts. They played games as I suggested, but their faces re mained fixed and serious. I asked one of the French mothers if there was anything I had neglected, and If there was anything wrong with the. party. The quiet little w'c1 man in black replied !n her expres sive way: 'Madam, the fault is not yours. Our children for so long have been forced to leave off all noise and play, and face danger every moment, that they have for gotten 'how to be merry and have forgotten how to smile . ' These last words stuck deep in my thoughts and I have made up my mind that we Americans will do all we can to bring back happiness and smiles to the faces of these serious French children,". ' The above is an extract from, a letrer wrftten by Miss Annie Mor gan, one' of lh?""dtrei;t&rs of -the Aruetlidan cbminijteo for devastated- France, who is doing rehabili tation work in co-operation with the French government. " Hitchcock and Lodge May Debate. One of the ifeatures of the coun-trV-wkJe discussion of the league of nations during the Congressional recess probably will be "a joint de bate at Newark, N. J,, between Senator Hitchcock; of Nebraska, retiring chairman of the Senate1 foreign relations committee, and Senator Lodge of Massacrusetts, who will be chairman of the com mittee in the new Congress. A date for fhe meeting has not been fixed but it is being planned for between April 1 and 10. Semi tor Hitchcock is arranging to deliver many addresses in sup port of the league. Rainbow Division to Soon Sail. General Pershing cabled the war department this week that he had issued orders for the 42nd division to prepare for embarkation . This would indicate the 42nd may be ex pected to sail between April 10 and 15, .as the average period between such orders and embarkation has been one month . Under - the schedule announced the division should reach the Uni ted States by May 1 . Fight on Champ Clark. A fight Is being made on Speaker Clark by insurgent democrats who claim that he should not be the minority leader of the House under the Republican regime soon to be ushered in. Indirectly Representa tive Kitchin of North Carotina and Representative Dent of Alabama are involved. It was asserted that 70 Democrats had ; been pledged to overthrow Mr. Clark. Conviction of Debs Sustained. Onnviction under the espionage act of Eugene Debs, socialist lead er, and Jacob Frohwerk, a news paper editor of Kansiw City, were sustained this week by the United States Supreme Court In unani mous opinions delivered by Justice Holmes. Both men wpre sentenced by the .lower courts to 10 years imprisonment. Battle Losses Totaled 240,197. Battle casualties of the American army in France as rfhown by revis ed records just announced by Gen eral March totaled 240,197. Tl'.o Include killed in action, wounded, missing in action ind pri-wners. There probably will be some slight revision final reports are re ceived.- APRIL 21 DATE OF THE VICTORY CAMPAIGN Issue to Be Short Term Notes; Not Long Tevm Bondsv Amount to Be Offered Not Disclosed, But Understood to Be Five Billion Minimum. The Viutory Liberty loan cam palgn will open Monday, April 21, and close three weeks Jater Sat urday, May 10. Secretary1 Glass has Just an nounced the dtes, together with the fact that short term notes ma turing In not over five years would be issued instead of longer term bonds. The amount of aotee to, be offered was not disclosed, but it has been generally understood the loan will be for a minimum of $5, QOO.OyO.OQA with the treasury re serving the right to accept all ov ersubscriptions. Mr. Glass said the interest rate on the notes and the amounts to be exempted from taxation would not be determined until a week or two before the campaign. It was lntlmaited, however, that the notes might bear interest in excess of 4 1-4 per cent, the interest rate on the third and fourth loans. Mildest Winter in Seven" Years "This has been the mildest win ter in seven years," sad the chief statisficlan of the United States weather bureau to the Washington Post. The average temperature of the three winter months as shown by figures of the weather bureau up to March 1, was 38 degrees as compared with an average of 40 degrees during the same period ot 1912-1913. The temperature records for the paid three months -were: Decem ber, 41.6; January, 38.1; and Feb ruary,' 37.2. The normal tempera ture for those winter months for the past 35 years has been for De cember T. 3ff . 1 ; " January ,32.9, and February, 34.5. Tre mildest winter In 40 years was in 18S9-1890, when the aver age of 44.3 degrees was registered. Peace Treaty to Be Signed Soon. A dispafJch from London says: Premier Llioyd 'George and Foreign Secretary Balfour have sent word to their colleagues here that; the pajace 'donferenoe has nearly com pleted its work. The Evening News says it understands the .draft of the peace treaty alredy has been finish ed and will be signed before the end of March . When fhe Germans are summon ed to Paris , The News adds , the treaty will be read to them and they -wajill be invited to sign it. There wtill be no discussion with a view to alterations of the principle articles of the treaty. . If It is thought necessary, questions in volving the adjustment of details wall be referred to a special com mission. Warning Issued. Warning was issued this week by Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper that persons who fail -to file income tax returns with revenue oollectors beflore next Saturday night will be subjected to prosecu tion. He calls on honest, taxvi--ers to aid in the round-up of si -"'-ers by reporting any informnt- n they might "have which would as sist in detection. Those who merely neglect to file returns are subject on prosecution to a fine of not more tHan $1,000 and those who "wilfully refuse" are subject to a fine of not more 'than $10,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both. The Home-Coming. We are now getting down to d tail in the matter of home-coming and welcoming of the Thirtieth home division. The first unit, the 'Hth field artillery, will leave ship at Newport News and proceed to Raleigh, where the North Carolina welcome is to be extended. After that the regiment will be sent to Camp Jackson and then the boys maye at last make their way back into North Carolina. Whiskey Hidden in Hay at Durham When railroad employes unload ed a car of hay at the Southern railway warehouse in Durham the o;her day, in order to make car re pairs, they found 4t cases of fine hiskey, amounting to a . total of 120 gallons. Revenue officers confiscated Lay and whiskey. WORK OF THE NORTH LEGISLATURE Number of Acts Ratified 1,130. General Assembly Adjourns Sine Die at 2 a. m. Tuesday -Income Tax Amendment Act Only One Passed Involving Change. The General Assembly at 1 : C5 o'clock Tuesday morning found the work in the enrolling office so throughly up that the sine die ad journment could be taken without waiting for the noon hour, which, under resolution adapted previous ly, was the time set for the final adjournment. At 1:15 the last batch of enrolled bills was laid be fore President Gardner and Speak er Brummitt for their signatures of ratification and at 1:55 the great doors between the legislative chambers were thrown open, the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House faced each other in their respective stations and gavels fell as they declaied the 191!) session at an end. This Legislature passed and rati fied ' 1,130 acts, compared wirb 1.215 for the 1917 session and 1, 498 for the 1915 session. There were 63 legislative "days, the legis lators, of course.' receiving pay for only the constitutional limit of 60 days. The Uat bill ratified was an act to place on the pension roll a widow of ia Confederate soldier in Surry county. With the killing of flie Senator Brown bill for calling a constitu tional convention by the House in the last hours of the session after it had inassod the Senate by a big majority some weeks ago, there is left only one act involving the State constitution to go to the people for ratification. That is the Doughton act to amend the constitution as to income taxes &o that incomes -from rentals and other sources, can be taxed along with salaries and the 'ike. This aict also submits the question of eliminating the pay ment of polltax ais a prerequisite for voting. Friends of the income tax meas ure are gratified that it is to go to the people for ratification unham pered by any other constitutional amendment proposal. It was chiefly to this end. it is intimated, that the. leaders finally decided on kill ing the" Brown bill from fhe Sen ate flor the ynstitutlonal conven tion. ' First Penny Postage!. The first trial of cheap postuge was the system of penny postage inaugu rated in England January 10, 1840. The Idea that letters could be for warded to any part of England aud delivered fr only a penny seemed absurd to most Englishmen, and they predicted speedy failure for the proj ect. It is unnecessary to point out that they proved to.be poor prophets, observes a writer iu the New York World. On this side of the Atlantic the much greater distances seemed to pre clude the adoption of any Huch measure- as a low, flat rate for letters. At the time Great Britain adopted penny postage, the rates ia the United States were: For 30 miles and under, 6 cents; 80 to 60 miles, 8 cents; 00 to 100 miles, 10 cents, and over 100 miles a proportionate increase, so that a letter dispatched a distance of 450 miles cost 'S cents. With the adoption of Rowland Hill's penny postage system. England also adopted lib suggestion that the diffi culties attending prepayment of post age "might be overcome by using a bit of pnpet large enough to bear the stamp, and covering the back with a glutinous wash, which by applying a little moisture, might be attached to the back of the letter." Thus the postage stamp was born, and there came Into existence those little scraps of paper Which are now collected by millions of men and boys the world over, and wuiie of which, becuuse of their rarity, are worth thousands of dollars. An aprinmch to -the penny postage of Great Britain was made in 1S51, when 3-cent xistage was adopted in the United Slates, Adhesive postage fitamps hud pft-viously w' introduced on this side of the Atlantic in 1817. Later postage wa reduced to '1 cents In the United States in 1S.STI, but it was not until some years later that Canada followed the example of her mother country by instituting the penny postage. Go to Mrs. K. II . Tur-ker's resi dence Friday afternoon between 4 and 6:30 and carry a large piece of silver to help the Isabel Memorial Society of ttio Presbyterian church. Incidentally yon will be charmed with beautiful music. CAROLINA ii SLEEPING SICKNESS IS ON A RAMPAGE Cases Are Discovered and Victims Are Quarantined. Disease Said to Be an Aftermath of Influenza and First Cousin of infantile Pa ralysis. . 'Sleeping sickness," now believ ed by physicians to be an after math of influent and first cousin of infantile paralsis, has appeared in many sections of the country." Fivet cases of ihis "epidemic som nolence" hjave been carefully segre gated and are being investigated In hospitals in Richmond, Va., by a special committee of physicians appointed at a called meeting of tho State board of health. Of the five cases under suspicion one Is from South Richmond, two from . North Carolina and the re maining two from points in Virgin ia: ' , ; . At Kansas v:ity many persons are reported to be suffering from the disease. Among noteworthy cases there are Miriam Johnson, 14, who has been sleeping for five weeks; Adelaide Qdwood, asleep or 67 (lays, and Emanuel Macho- vee, master mechanic of the San ta Fe Railroad, who has been un conscious for 120 days. Tw(o deaths recently occurred In Chicago. Public health officers have issued statements waHicg th,e pubfic against a possible visitation of. the disease. . They ; point out that the symptoms of the disease are mark ed by dizziness, aching and droop ing of the eyelids and drowsiness and sore throat. In addition to these symptoms, it is said, the pa tient seems to lose every particle of . strength, sometimes is unable to make any voluntar movement and resembles a wx figure in. ex pression, Should theae symptoms appear, a doctor, should be sum moned immediately, or a report made to the Board of Hvalth. ' T!he "sleeping sickness" reported In this country Is not the same as prevails in Africa. Lethargic en cephalitis, as it is known scienti fically, was first observed in Ger many In the lat ten part of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur ies. It then appeared In Italy and Hungary in 1890 and parts of Eu rope and the United States in 1895. The first case in England wus in 1918, when eighteen cases were reported during the month of April. Keep Your 1918 and 1919 War Sav ings Stamps Separate. Purchasers of 1919 War Savings Stamps should not place them on 1918 certificates. If the 1918 certi ficate has blank spaces, just put the Certificate away without filling It in with 1919 stamps. The same Thrift stamps and Thrift cards are used this year as werre used last year, and when & Thrift card "holding sixteen stamps Is filled, it will be exchanged for a 1919 VJar Savings Stamp on pay ment of the additional cents, which represents the difference between the price of the War Savings stamp, and $4, he value of the sixteen Thrift stamps. Keep your Thrift stamps and yotftf War Savings fitamps firmly identified in your mind. The Thrift stamps are worth a quarter The War Savings Stamps will be worth five dollars in a few years, ir any question anises about your stamp or how you should handle them. gv to your local postofflce and a.sk the poatmaater. High Tobacco. The prices on ' all kinds of man nfftctuned tobacco, cigarettes and chewing and smoking tobaccos and cigars will cost the consumer more money In the future. The main cause of the probable advance m prices U blamed largely on war taxes which the UriNd States Gov ernment has imposed since the be ginning of the war. Take cigar ettes: First a tax of $l.ft.r a. thou sand put on top of the tax of $1.00 a thousand exiting before the war, and the additional tax of 95 cents a thousand provided in the general revenue bill. -. signed by the Presi dent a few days ago, making the total tax $.1 a thousand. Dal.-M fay that along with those war Mi es have gone increases In th st of tolwcco and atlvanees in the cost of living. What is true of cigar ettes also applies to cigars and smoking and chewing tobaccos.. But the people will have tobacco, an. I the consumption will keep oa grow ing. Winston Tobacco Journal. OR WMM T(i TUP 1EACHERS0F COUNTY Brought a Message of Encourage., ment to the Teachera--"Eduia tional Rally" This Spring and Teadhert' Institute Later in thai Summer. Wentworth, March lis County Superintendent of School J. H. Al letf called the white teachera of the) county in session here yesterday. Jt was the first teachers' meeting; he has been able to have this year on account of fhe influenza epidem ic. A large number of teacher answered to the roll and the ae's sion was marked with interest and, enthusiasm. , The feature of tha meeting was the address of Dr. J. Henry Highsmith pf the Stat Board of Examiners. Dr. High, smith brought a message of encour afement to the teachers and men., tloned the fact that next year tha schools will be longer with increas. ed salaries, but he also let it ba known that Increased expenditures for schools and increased salaries for teachers can be Justified only by Increased efficiency of teachera. ana to that end must be the main, tenance and enforcement of reason able, uniform standards of exami nation , . credits -and certification oC teachers and by adequate provision for professional protection in em ployment -jand compensation for professionally qualified teachers. His address was replete with facts,; figures and illustrattoAii which carried conviction and i&i. pressed teachers with ,tbeLr high dulling and holy mission. One of the questions settled by the teachers was that on account of the interruptions caused by tha epidemic of inuuenza there will bo no county commencement this- year for Rockingham county. ISupt. Allen - hopes to have an "Educational Rally" at . Wentworth some time in the spring at which noted educatxxre of the State will be present and deliver inspirational addresses. Yhe meeting yeaterda wiaa indeed a success. This county summer which will probably qba tlnue for a month. Dr. Hlghsmith will be asked to conduct this meet- ' lng.-. 'v. DEATH OF GEO. Aj. MILLER AT A RICHMOND HOSPITAL The many friends of. Mr; Geo. A. Miller were shocked to hear of hla death which occurred in a Rich mond (hospital Wednesday after noon at 5:30 o'clock. Mr. Miller had been afflicted with brain trou bles for several weeks and was car ried to the hospital for treatment. It was finally decided that a diffi cult and delicate ..operation was hla only chance for recovery.. The op eration was performed Wednesday and the patient fell into a state of ooma from whioh he never recov ered.:- Mr. Miller was born and reared in Reidsville and was very popular with every one who knew him. He was a man of fine business qualifi cations and succeeded In every Duainf.ss veuiurea ne engaea ja. He owned a large plantation near Danville where his family re si detl for many years. He bought tha Huffines home on Maple avenua back to Rejdsvllle where they are now living. Mr. Miller was 50 years old and. is survived by his wife (formerly Miss Alice Wootton) and two sons, Robert and Henry, and two daugh ters. Reita and Francis, and one sister, Mrs. Frank King, and oua brother, Mr. Jim Miller. The body was brought to Reids ville on train No. 11 Thursday morning. The funeral services were conducted from his home at 5:30 Tli urjday afternoon by Rev, K N. Johnson, assisted by Rev, H. B. Sprinkle. Interment was at Greenvlew cemetery. Memorial to State College Men Lost In the War. The alumni of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering at Raleigh are raisin eoroy tr.r the erection on the col lege campus of a memorial to 23 former students who have lost their liws in the great war. This cam paign which began on March 1 li starting off well and the committee Iu chaise of it who hac sc." their goal at $10,000 are !:o;efU , lb.it the amount desired will be'Bccured
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