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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-11-25
WH|TEV|L[E VISITED
BY DISASTROUS FIRE
Commercial Hotel, rahouse, Hard
ware Store AInoI.g :ss Business
us Burne,l-Loss Is $4,000.

Whiteville, Nov 22.-F'ire> originat
ing in the corridor of the Commercial
hotel here this afternoon a little after
2 O'Clock destroyed the hotel complete
ly, along with the buildings occupied
by the Star Pressing club and city
market, located on the same lot, the
warehouses of J. r. Gurganus and
company, Whiteville Hardware com
pany and J. c. Thompson, the bicycle
establishment of Ely Smith, the bot
Ting plant and machinery belonging
to r. E. Hill, the residence in which
Policeman D. F. Pope was living, one
barber shop and one cafe and several
,outhouses belonging to the CONNER
cial hotel, enteiling loss estimated
lat from $4,000 to $4,000, partially
covered by insurance.
t'The fire was discovered too late to
save any personal effects from the no.
tel Of value, and the whole loss of the
Commercial hotel, owned by w. F.
Robbins, of Bolton, will amount to
$4,000, with about $4,000 Insurance
thereon Outside of the hotel loss the
next individual loss was that Of the
bottling plant owned by R. e. Hill,
estimaed to be from $4,000 to $4,000
besides the plant. The building in
which it was located was also used
as warehouse. The warehouse Of
J. R. Gurganus and company and the
Whiteville Hardware company will en-
tail a loss of from $4,000 to $4,000.
There is no insurance at all on the
building belonging to Gurganus and
and it is not known whether
or not there was insurance on the
W warehouse of the Whiteville Hardware
The remaining fire losses
range from $500 up to $4,000.
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THOs. RUFFIN CHAPTER.

One Of the most enjoyable meetings
had was held at the lovely home OF
Mrs. ]. Wash Bizzell Saturday after
noon with Mrs. Bizzell and Mrs. w. 3.
Jenkins as hostess. There was pres
ent very large number of members
Much business of interest was discussed
and splendid reports for the year read
by all officers and standing commit
| tees.
Following are the officers for the
coming year elected:
President-Mrs B. H. Griffin
First e-President-lErs. q. M. l.
Jeffreys.
Second Vice President-Mrs. NJ. L
Lee.
Third Vice President-Mrs. NJ. E
| Bizzell.
Chaplain-Mrs. John R. Smith.
Recording Secretary-Mrs. c. f
| Taylor
Treasurer-Mrs. j. D. Hardin
Corresponding Secretary Geo
G. Switzerland
| Miss Susie Fulghum
Custodian of Crosses of Honor-Misa
Sue Collier.
After business was over delicious
refreshments were served by Miss
Gernie o'Berry, Miss Bizzel1, Margaret
Bizze1l, Mrs. o,Berry and Mrs. Bell
Mrs. J. Wash Bizze1 gave toast
to our President.
Mrs W. H. Higgins welcomed The
guests at the door.
REPORTED.
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VI. 0. 7. u.
FORTY YEARS OF SERVICE.

Raleigh News-Observer.
Forty years ago yesterday the Wo
mans Christian Temperance Unior
was organized at Cleveland, Ohio. II
less than half century it has grown
to- be the largest woman's organiza.
ton in the world, with membership
of 328,000 and with active organiza-
tons in more than ten thousand towns
and cities. There is no State in the
Union without it's bands of White Rib
5oners.
The United States has grown in the
direction Of prohibition country in
about the proportion that the w. c.
T. Q. as an organization has grown.
Wien the W. C. T. U. was founded in
1874 there was but one dry State in
the Union. Now there are ten where
hquor cannot be legally sold, with
four more to come into the fold as
soon as DEGREES of the recent election
are executed.
But the w. c. T. U. has not stopped
with It's war on liquor 1t is the par
ent Of nearly ali the organic activi-
ties OF women III the republic, the ju-
venile court, the crusade against the
white slave traffic, the woman suffrage
movement and other social uplift en-
terDrises having been launched by it
1t mas aided working men to secure
an eight-hour law in many of the
States and has been a factor in the
movement for world peace.
In view OF the wonderful record of
the organization the following account
Of the founding OF the organization
as furnished by the Associated Press
is timely
The movement had it's beginning in
the following incident: In 1873 DR..
Dio Lewis 1ectured on temperance in
lilllsboro, and at this lecture was pres
8nt Mrs. Judge Thompson, a woman
Of singular beauty, who was moved to
begin a woman's crusade against in
temperance. Led by her, the woman
entered the saloons and organized
prayer meetings. The movement
spread through Ohio and thousands
Of barrels of liquor were emptied into
the cutters in the Middle West. An
army Of men signed the temperance
pledge. But a reaction soon followed
IN Chicago. To combat this Miss
Francis w. Willard appeared upon the
field with her White Ribbon Army
Her crusade gathered such momen-
,um that in the fall OF the following
year the National W. C. T. U. was
Miss Willard was appointed
secretary and began the work of or
ganization' -
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MRS. EDWA RFG t..1..).i.'.IE: |.

Her hosts of friends in this city and
surrounding sections will sympathize
with Mrs. Joseph Edwards in the death
of her nephew, DR.. MisIowitzer, who
was killed on the battlefield while
serving with the German army.
The following account of his death
and life's usefulness was taken from
the Schneidemuch1er Zeitung of Sep
tember 27 and translated into Eng
lish:
"On the field of honor fell the well
known physician DR.. Mislowitzer, who
served since the beginning of the war
as army surgeon, infantry regiment
No. As, in the western area of the
war
D1. Mis1owitzer was struck on the
head by bullet while talking to his
superior officer.
.'Sorely wounded, he was carried
distance of 35 kilometers to a fielc
hospital. With Dr. Mislowitzer was
another wounded soldier, a townsmar
of his :, and when they both reached
the hospital the doctor, knowing thai
he would die, sent kind messages
through him to all of the people O.
Sehneidemuchler
In the hospital he became uncon-
scious and died"
For many years Dr. Mislowitzer was
a representative in his state legisla
ture, and his wholesome advice bore
fruit. As a member of various com.
mittees he served his state worthily.
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DISCRE T|ONARY POWER
IS GRANTED CAPTbINS
Secretary Daniels Rescinds His Order
Against Officers Taking ANY Ac-
tiOn-M0rgentllau Silent.

Washington, Nov 22-Secretars
Daniels today cabled Captain Decker
of the cruiser Tennessee and Captain
Oman of the cruiser North Caroline
giving them discretionary authority
to deal with emergencies that ma5
! arise in the western Mediterran can IL
! regard to American citizens and theil
interests.
The secretary rescinded the ors2e1
| sent last week that neither command
er take any action whatsoever pending
an Investigation of the firing on g
launch from the Tennessee by the
Turkish forts at Smyrna Although
no official explanation has been receiv-
ed from the Turkish foreign Office
informal assurances from the Ottoman
ministers of interior and war TO Am-
bassador Morgenthau that the shots
were fired as friendly warning that
the harbor was mined, have been ac-
cepted as the forerunner Of a formal
statement by the grand vizier to the
same effect
Secretary Daniels, in placing the
American naval commanders again IN
der the customary navy regulations
cautioned them in the use Of their dis
cretionary authority. He asked that
they keep in close touch with the navy
department and the American embassy
at ConstantinopIe.
No further word came from Ambas-
sador Morgenthau today concerning
the Smyrna incident. Officials believe
messages will arrive tomorrow telling
of his formal conferences with the
grand vizer
The fact that the two prominent
members of the Ottoman cabinet had
voluntarily explained the incident was
accepted by high officials here as proof
that no unfriendly act was intended.
1t is quite probable that the American
ambassador, as a result of the Smyr-
ma incident, will be instructed to make
arrangements whereby the American
consuIs at Turkish coast sts Is w1ls VIII
notify Turkish land forces of the de-
sire of small boats from the America
cruisers to come ashore, so that all
friction may be avoided.
The two American warships mean
time will rendezvous in German wa
ters so or SO miles away
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Nj. Z. CONFERENCE WILL
COME TO CLOSE TODAY.

Washington, Nov. 22-It is expected
that the North Carolina Methodist
conference in session in this city, will
adjourn about noon Monday, the ap-
pointments being read the last thing
before adjournment It is rumored
there will be number of changes.
The bishop has called for conference
to be held at o'clock Monday morn
ing in order to have plenty OF time to
dispatch the remainder of the busi-
ness.
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BRYAN IN BIG FINALE
Secretary Is Greeted With Rousing
Cheers in Lincoln When He Asks
Votes for Nebraska Women.

When Secretary w. J. Bryan touched
upon equal suffrage the night before
election in his speech at Lincoln, Neb.
the big audience cheered him ever
more enthusiastically than when he
referred to the political campaign in
the State. 1t was the concluding ad-
dess of Mr.. Bryan's speaking tour
through the West.
81 have held no mass meeting of my
friends to find what | ought to think
said the Secretary of State. 81 have
made up my mind and if just one vote
is cast for suffrage tomorrow you will
knew that that is my vote
"For one reason, I had mother.
This reason ought to appeal to all
men, For another reason I have a
wife This reason ought to appeal to
most men.
1--WE have been married for thirty
years. Mrs. Bryan took me when I
was young and she took great chances
Having seen her tried by every con-
ceivable situation I shall ask nothing
from the government that l would not
ask for her.
''The mother argument appeals to
me deeply. When people who set
snares and lay traps for the boys
whom a mother has risked all and
sacrificed all to make worthy men,
have the ballot, God forbid that I
should { g the mothers hands by re-
fusire her t3e right to vote.
''.Atier yeas cf study Of the essen
tiai5 IF Soo.l voting 1 have decided
that t2 tliaga are essential to make
a PER- .oto veil. They are intelli-
genc2 :,G morality. I discovered a
few ly* 20 that there are 354 men
and 5 women in our State Peniten-
tiaTy. l have noticed that women out
the men in the churches. If
women have sense enough to keep out
of the penitentiary and morals enough
to go to church it follows that they
will make good voters.
bad people vote as unit. Good
people divide in their voting In every
community where suffrage is an issue
every man who is living by crime and
vice is against woman suffrage. These
bad men know by instinct that woman
is their enemy. Why don't good peo-
pie all know that woman is their
friend?
Suffrage is coming as sure as to-
sun will rise. Nations have
adopted and repealed tariff laws but
no community where suffrage has been
adopted has gone back
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PARSONAGE AID SOCIETY.

The Parsonage Aid Society of ST
John Methodist church will serve oys-
ters, chicken salad, hot coffee, etc., al
Waters new building on Mulberry
street, tomorrow (Tuesday) evening
Nov "a, from to 10 O'Clock.
Everybody invited. Come and bring
your friends.
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ZIG INTEREST GAINED

on annuities. The attention of parties
with limited means is called to this
mode of investment, which pays its
dividend regularly as long as you live
No care, no risk Tell US your age and
we will tell you about it.
National Life Insurance Go. of VT
(Mutuai)
Il. M. HUMPHREY. State Mgr
Goldsboro. n G.
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It appears that "Villa' is merely a
stage name" We trust that the man
who bears it wort prove a "bad
actor"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-11-25

JoAn hare, were shopping visitors in
our city today.
Mr. and 1Irs. D. H. Dixon returned
home last night from Washington, N
c., where they lave been attending the
Methodist conference.
Tor Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Of this week the Crystal will have the
SpiIlman Comedy Company, tabloid
of ten people; six girls and four men
Just one week to the opening of
Wayne County's superb new Court
House-next Monday, November 80.
The program will be published tomor-
row.
Miss Daisy Jordan, of Hillsboro, a
sister of Mrs. B. c. Thompson, will be
Of the corps of Wayne County's public
school teachers this year, and opened
the Novel Hill School this morning
lTr. E. T. Atkinson, county super
Intendent Of public education, left fol
Charlotte this afternoon to attend tbs
state gathering of County superin-
tendents ard the N. c. Teachers As
sembIy. He will return Saturday.
MIS- g. IL Griffin left this afternoon
to visit 3Grs. ". z. Borden, in Annap-
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Never bet on sure thing unless
you can afford to lose.
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Mr.. and 1Irs. D. H. Dixon returned
home last night from Washington, N
c., where they Lave been attending the
Methodist conference.
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Misses Exum and Hare, of Fremont,
chaDeroned by the latter's father Mr.
John Hare, were shopping visitors in
our city today.
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LOCAL BRIEFS.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Miss Mildred Edmundson is visiting
friends in Raleigh, and her sister Miss
EIinor, who is student at Meredith
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Tor Thursday, Friday and Saturday
of this week the Crystal will have the
Spillman Comedy Company, a tabloit
of ten people; six girls and four men
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Just one week to the opening of
Wayne County's superb new Court
House-next Monday, November 3d.
The program will be published tomor-
row.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22

That is the only crime | impute to any
general staff-lack of intelligence.
When Captain Granville Fortescue, OF
the Hearst syndicate, told the French
general that his word as war correspond
ent was as good as that OF any general
in any army he was indiscreet but ne was
stating fact. The answer of the French
general was to put him in prison. That
was not an intelligent answer.
The last time | was arrested was at
Romigny, by General Asebert | had on
me a 3,000-word story, written that morn
ing in Rheims, telling of the wanton de-
struction of the cathedral. I asked the
General Staff, for their own good to le;
the story go through 1t stated only
facts which l believed were they known
to civilized people would cause them 70
protest against a repetition of such out
RACES. To get the story on the wire |
made to Lieutenant Lucien Frechet and
Major Klotz, of the General Staff sport
ing offer. For every word of my dispatch
they censored l offered to give them for
the Red Cross Of France five francs. That
was an easy way for them to subscribe
to the French wounded $4,000. To re-
lease his story Gerald Morgan, of The
London Daily Telegraph made them the
same offer. 1t was a perfectly safe offer
for Gerald 70 make, because a great part
Of his story was an essay on Gothic archi
lecture. Their answer was TO put both +
us in the ChercheMidi prison. The next
day the censor read my story and said to
Lieutenant Frechet and Major Klotz:
But insist this goes at once 1t should
have been sent twenty-four hours ago"
Than the courtesy of the French Off
GERS nothing could have been more cor
rect, but | submit that when you ear
nestly wish to help man to have him
constantly put you in prison is confusing
1t was all very well to dissemble your love.
But why did you kick me downstairs?
There was the case of Luigi Barzini
In Italy Barzini is the D'Annunzio OF
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22

is true you have made it possible for mail
to fly, that discovery is more important
than your personal wishes Your secret Is
too valuable for you to keep to yourself.
We are not spies We are civilization de-
manding to know if you have something
that more concerns the whole world than
it can possibly concern you.
A MULTITUDE OF QUESTIONS MET
WITH SILENCE.
AS applied to war, that point of view
is equally just. The army calls for your
father, husband, son-calls for your
money 1t enters upon war that de-
stroys your peace of mind, wrecks your
business, kills the men of your family, the
man you were going to marry, the son
you brought into the world. And to you
the army says: This is our war. We
will fight it in our own way, and OF 1t
you can learn only what we choose to tell
you. We will not let you know whether
your country is winning the fight or is n
danger, whether we have blundered and
the soldiers are starving, whether they
gave their lives gloriously or through our
lack Of preparation or ineficiency are
dying of neglected wounds And If you
answer that you will send with the army
men to write letters home and tell you,
not the plans for the future and the Sc
crets of the army, but what are already
accomplished facts, the army makes re-
ply: mo, those men cannot be trusted.
They are spies
Not for one moment does the army
honestly think those men are spies. But
it is the excuse nearest at hand. 1t is the
easiest way out of a situation every army
save our own, has failed to treat with in
telligence. Every army knows that there
are men to-day acting, CT anxious to act
as war correspondents who can be trust
ed absolutely, whose loyalty and diScre-
ton are above question, who no more
would rob their army OF military secret
than they would rob till. 1t the army
does not know that it is unlntelllgent.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22

newspaper writer's. Of all Italian jour
nalsts he is the best known On Septem-
Der IS, at Romigny, General ASebert ar
rested Barzini and for four days kept him
in a COW stable. Except what he begged
from the gendarmes, he had no food and
he slept on straw. When l saw him at
the headquarters of the General Staff
under arrest told them who he was, and
that were l in their place 1 would let him
see all there was to see, and let him, as
he wished, write to his people of the excel
lence Of the French army and of the in
evitable success of the Allies. With Italy
balancing on the fence and needing very
little urging to cause her to join her fort
unes with France, to choose that mo-
ment to put Italian journalists in a COW
yard struck me as dull.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
w AM OUWWESPUN.
Writer Tells of Hunting,
Harassimg and Incarcerat-
ing of Himself and His
COmfreres i'm the War
Zones Of Europe.
Bv RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
By RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

ers, submarines, hydroplanes; in Paris
bombs falling from airships and city
put to bed at o'clock; battlehelds COW
cred with dead men; fifteen miles of artll-
lery firing across the Aisne at fifteen miles
of artillery; the bombardment of Rheims,
with shells lifting the roofs as easily as
you would lift the cover of chahng dish
and digging holes in the streets, and the
cathedral on fire; | saw hundreds OF
thousands of soldiers from India, Senegal,
Morocco, Ireland, Australia, Algiers, Ba-
varia, Prussia, Scotland, saw them at the
front in action, saw them marching over
the whole northern half of Europe, saw
them wounded and helpless, saw thou
sands of women and children sleeping
under hedges and haystacks with or
every side of them their homes blazing
in flames or crashing in ruins. That was
a part of what l saw. What during the
same two months did the man at home
see? If he were lucky he saw the Braves
win the worlds series, or the Vernon
Castles dance the fox trot
PRESENT POPULARITY OF WAR COR
RESPONDENTS IN EUROPE.
The war correspondents who were sent
to this war knew it was to sound their
death knell They knew that because the
newspapers that had no correspondents
at the front told them so; because the
General Staff of each army told them so;
because every man they met who stayed
at home told them so. Instead Of taking
their death blow lying down they went
out TO meet it. In other wars as rivals
they had fought to get the news; in this
war they were fighting for their profeS-
sional existence, for their ancient right
to stand on the firing line, to report the
facts, to try to describe the indescribable.
If their death knell sounded they Ger
tainly did not hear it. If they were licked
thew did not know it. In the twenty-five
wears in which l have followed wars III
no other war have l seen the war cor
respondents so we'll prove their right to
march with armies The happy days
when they were guests of the army, when
news was served to them by the men vino
made the news, when Archibald Forbes
and Frank Millet shared the same mess
with the future Car of Russia, when
MacGahan slept in the tent with Sko-
beleff and Kipling rode with Roberts,
have passed. Now, with every army the
correspondent is as popular as floating
mine, as welcome as the man dropping
bombs from an airship. The hand Of
every one is against him. Keep out!
This means you" is the way they greet
him.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
THE ARMIES SAY TO THE GOVERN
MENTS: HANDS Off

In this war the Foreign Offices of the
different governments have been willing
to allow correspondents to accompany the
army. They know that there are other
ways of killing man than by hitting him
with a piece of shrapnel. One way is to
tell the truth about him. In this entire
war nothing hit Germany so hard blow
as the publicity given to certain remark
about a scrap Of paper. But from the
government the army would not tolerate
any interference. It said: DO you want
Us to run this war or do you want to run
it?" Each army of the Allies treated its
own government much as Walter Camp
would treat the Yale faculty if it tried to
tell him who should play right tackle.
AS result Of the ban put upon the cor
respondents by the armies the English
and few American newspapers, instead
of sending into the field one accredited
representative, gave their credentials to a
dozen. These men had no other creden-
tials. The letter each received stating
that he represented newspaper worked
both ways. When arrested it helped to
save him from being shot as a spy, and it
New-York tribune., 1914-11-22
WHO HAD A FACULTY
FOR GETTING ARRESTED.

Added to the dangers and dificultie5
they must overcome in any campaign,
which are only what give the game its
flavor. they are now hunted, harassed
and imprisoned. But the new conditions
do not halt them. They, too, are hghting
for their place in the sun. know one
man whose name in this war has been
signed to dispatches as brilliant and as
numerous as those of any correspondent
but which for obvious reasons is not gwen
here. He was arrested by one army, kep1
four days in a cell and then warned II
he was again found within the lines 81
that army he would go to Jail tor SIX
months; one month later he was once
more arrested, and told if he again came
near the front he would 60 to prison for
two years. Two weeks later he was back
at the front. Such a story causes the
teeth of all the members of the General
Staff to gnash with fury. You can hear
them exclaiming: IF we caught that
man we would treat him as a spy" And
so unintelligent are they on the question
of correspondents that they probably
would.
When Orville Wright hid himself in
South Carolina to perfect his flying ma
chine he objected to what he called the
Spying" of the correspondents. One Of
them rebuked him. You have discov-
cred something" he said, in which the
whole civilized world is interested If it