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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-05-23
Short News Items Of Interest
Of Town and County, Con-
densed Into Paragraphs
for Hurried Reading.
S. s.
1872.
Subscription $1.50

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the Baptist church Sunday morn
ing, on account of Commence
ment services at the Methodist
church.
j. H. McRae, Carrier on FL
lerbe, Ri. /, was in the city this
morning. He makes his route in
a car, leaving Ellerbe each aft.
at two o'clock; it is q miles long.
Ice cream will be served Sat
urday night, 25th, at the Wood
men hall at Roberdel No. l,
beginning at. seven. The public
is invited; proceeds for Red Cross.
Mrs. W.. o. Ellerbe, in this
issue on page 8, has an interest
ing history of the community
club work of the club known as
the victorian c Community Club"
Elsie Pearl Carpenter, aged
20 months, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee Carpenter, of Steeles
Mills, died Saturday and&was
hurried in Arson Sunday.
Services in the Episcopal
church Sunday. morning and
night, by the rector, Thad "A
Cheatham. He will be the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joint. Bennett
for the weekend.
William Wallace, colored, OF
Wolf Pit township, was Tuesday
lodged in jail to await commit
ment to the insane asylum. He
is about 70 years old, and has
been married four times. >
Last episode of The Fighting
Trail" at the Star next Saturday.
18th. June 18th a new serial will IL
begin, with the same characters
as the one just ending. entitled,
vengeance and the Woman"
George Warner was given a
hearing before Justice Guthrie
Monday, charged with abandon
ing a crop. He was bound over
to criminal court under $lOO
bond. W. T. Baldwin is prose
cutor.
-Anson county expects to COM
plete her Red Cross quota with a
big rally at Wadesboro next
Sunday at 2::30. A wounded
Canadian, c. S. Mason, will speak;
also, Josiah Morse, of Columbia,
and L. D. Robinson.
Recent buyers of Ford tour
ing cars from the local agents,
the Page Service Station. are:
DIR. ]. M. Ledbetter, Tuesday;
John Luntz, Wednesday; w. I.
Williams, Joe Higgins, Ed. MCGEE
and w. C. Coble, last week. :.
William H. Sawyer, aged 54,
died Wednesday morning as a
result of drinking concentrated
I've Sunday afternoon athis home
at Entwistle. He was in poor
health and while mentally unbal-
anced tried to end his life by
drinking the lye. His remains
were carried to Hyde county this
morning tor burial.
Mr.. Frank Page, OF Moore
county, not satisfied with being
chairman of the exemption board
and captain of the Home Guard,
has volunteered for service II,
France and has received a com,
mission as lieutenant and will be.
connected with construction Of
military railways. He has two
sons in the military service and
now he himself is about to sail
for France.
"A car belong to Mr.. Henry
Ledbetter "ran away Tuesday.
He left the car on an incline be.
side the Ledbetter pond. with the
engine running; the brakes pro.
badly were not on tight enough;
at any rate, the car started on a
Joy ride on its own account. roll
ed down the bank, turned com.
Fta.i.. -. 4 t.,.& - -, 81, @nxs
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dlc. The warm Italian spirit Of its
Ieop!c tried to breathe life into if.
hefolcally they struggled to maintain
ZONE commercial activity; but it was
peless-Austria had doomed lbo
Ircntino to lingering death. viz
The paper mills, the iron and plass
WORKS, the silk mills of this reejo,
we're last disappearing, even prior 70
inc present war. The mininm ;nd,s
tries, which had given this country 10
hame of the "California of E,nSo' ,n.'
ana mad added to it's wealth a thousapna
m'liloh francs to reckon ONLY ~
wages paid to the workers. hst,yo enu
!; loo ara 800. according to the IRE.
oise ejaculation of historian-wera
az 1870. "Neo DIS carry
Isolated, the Trcntino faced ruin T.
1oush' 10 transform itself from an in
HAastr'al To an agricultural Alpine land
tlSn "'nHC even this means OF survival
lhe Austrian government hos ,ra W.
relentless opposition. Roads -, "" Ky
ways to open outlets for the no.ca ~ =,
Lrooucc have been refused. Thc hi;
.aiy authority. which before 1919 han
transformed the country into a v ,sut
. .;,'d camp, dominated by th;,tv'
.'tI iorts' cut up at every cornor H.,
,'''llary roads, allowed the Trent;ns9.
"u economic expansion. All telenhon;l
enc telegraphlc communicated NIX
lazy mas been Systematically forh;d
~" th ~ .or many years. Capitalists fror,
.ne kingdom of Italy tried mora t +h,''
once TO revive the industries Of T ,.la''
emp out they met with strenuous ar;
o.d' oronlbltion. Licenses woro ,.or, o' :,
Even TO travelling sellers of nou ueuu
rom Verona. The marvellous ' al,,;S
t"Stufes OF the Trentino vera a'aan,
~ nerosmen and cattle breedinr c o,Vs.,p
nus uoes TINS alien race desfro,,: Nv l.
Co. ~ INDUSTRY Of these peonle @'e
olHce 1856 the Austrian rovernro,4
h. ,s" cnaracterlstic Teutonic brutal;t,
d;t;o soosn' 70 break the venerable t,o
I; t.Vp", 10 destroy the spirit Of tbic
. ar..e people, who had managed to nroN
,,raa.o 'nelr existence through 'ho
t t;on ~ polltlcal and national rcvoln.
-; 10y means of transportation, nv srh
far Ing 49, olav and German element.
ha. ' hoon a'al,an elements in Trieste it.
IaI;. wv! attempted to eliminate tho
th tl',a"s IN trieste, without destrovinr
wh;r,, business life and enterprise
nrod,ot; Gp'eSetlC so large II part of the
~; NE of the empire. 10
cia r, e"u VIC government subsidizos
,,nJant ana German workmen. who
unpertaNe to marry and remain for tho
remainder of their lives ~ r. 1ol 'he
.hey are given little home nnj
iufhllure, provided with LAWYERS Jn ,r"
tors, schools, newspapers in car uos-
and are taught to proclaim the itni n;.an
as usurpers, and that Trieste Ia n So"
city. 10 d oiaV
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mitores. The dining room for the Off
GERS was in the centre of the large
building. In the left wing was the
business station, where also lived few
unmarried captains. The cooking was
done in gigantic common kitchen.
But close by the chief cook, Frischmuth,
had established true German sausage
factory frequented assiduously by Off
GERS and crews
During the rainy season the German
mariners had cause to keep to their
rooms, but the interned had plenty of
devices for killing time, and the repre-
scntatives Of Uncle Sam sincerely aided
them in their efforts
In the big structure was also an am
phitheatre with a stage and comfort
able seats. There on fine days COM
edies were performed, and music and
song resoundcd. Or in the evening hours
one attended in the open the kino
performances, which always brought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
1rentno Bears Scars of Austrias Vain Scheme
to leutonize and Enslave Latin Minded PeonIes

italy, already half exhausted, has been
IN absolute strategical dependence upon
Austria. which has ruthlessly dictated
her foreign policy. BY supreme act
on courage Italy severed the bonds
"hich hcid her to the tyrant, and the
hearts of the Austrian Italians in the
lrentlno leapcd for JOY and hope of
ending their long exile from the mother
country.
During the last fifty years the Aus
TRAN government has worked for the
material and spiritual destruction of
tins people. To the least intelligent if
would seem evident that gay, poetic
Italian could never become a morosc or
phlcgmatic Teuton; and yet this has
been the determination of the Hans
burgs TO convert the Trentino into n
pure German state; failing which, to
oblitcratc the Italians from the Trcn-
tEo.
They have endcavorcd to ACCOMPLISH
this by methods Of moral and spiritual
dlslntegration. They have sought to
exhaust the national sentiment by con-
tinuous persecution, encouraged vice
ana fostcrcd materialistic scltishness
in the poor in order to lull the ardent
national instinct
At this very moment when Germany
threatens ruthlessly to override the
/ world, she hovcrs on the brink of de-
struction-and she knows it, Once
dominating Central Europe, the Teu-
tonic race is now being submerged in
the floodtldc of new races, rising to
dispute its rule. The races which
seemed doomed to perpetual slavery
have bIossomcd again and have Gre
ated for themselves middle class
which IS fast advancing along the line
of its nationality.
I'm Austria the Teutonic element has
been on the wanc for a generation,
The lIungarians long to free them
selves from Vienna; in Austria. the
Poles have struggled for autonomy:
the Southern Slavs the Slovenes and
Croats talked Of Trialism and n new
lllyrian kingdom; while the Czechs
nave not forgotten their ancient king
dom Of Bohemia. The problem of the
liapsburg is not, Will the Central
Powers win the war? but, Will tho
lapsburgs weather the storm?
After 1866 the A,striars feared
United Italy. 1t seemed that the King
dom OF Italy was formed by lberating
Italian soil from the rule of the for
eigner. The Italian territories en-
chained by Austria must not be iber-
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ated. The unifcation of Italian lands
must be stopped. The Austrian remedy
like the German remedy in Belgium,
was to suppress or transform the Ital.
lanS who renamed outside the king
dom: When Italy would seek them she
would not find them. In the places of
her sunny hearted, poetic sons, she
would find sullen, arrogant Tcutons.
The government keeps these two
distinct peoples united in one province
whose capital and centre of gravity is
the Pan-Germanist city, Innsbruck.
inc Jrentlno must send it's repre-
sentatvcs to the Diet at Innsbruck
where a third of the seats only are as
signed to the Italians. The German ma
Jorlty can therefore impose its ideas
and interests on the Italians. Hence
the whole provincial life Of the Tren.
tlno is subject to German control. The,
make the .laws, impose taxes and ok
pend the money for the Tyrol. The
Irentino is impoverished, while it paws
most of the taxes
The government Of Vienna has al.
ways shown itself insensible to the
critical moments of history. It's rigid
and closed mentality has had no re-
spcct either for its own subjects on
for other nations. Regardless of the
limitations Of its political principles
Vienna erected them as unalterable
dogmas. The facts of Austria's system
OF government in the T'rentino, inter.
preted by history, and by Vicnnese DO.
lltlcal mentality, which is responsible
for them, show a typical Teutonic sys
TEN OF oppression, Austria's misrulo in
the Trentino forms one of the mos,
tragic and miserable episodes in the
history of modern F'urone
The Trcntino is dominated bv tho
Austrian military. not only since the
present war but during the two score
and more years of Austrian occupatior
OF the territory. The first crisis hep,,
III 1866. with the separation from LON.
hardy and Venetia. The Trcntino hal
lived upon its industries. its CONNER.
cial outlet being the valley of the Pc
It's fourishlng silk industry gave en-
pigment to 10000 skilled workers. The
little white town OF Rovcreto alone
consumed in its world famous sill
mills the whole product of the cocoons
or the Trentino and a part of that OF
Venetia and Lombardy. The tiny tow
of Ala had eleven velvet factories. +,
the valleys of Sarca and the Chies,
there were many glass works. Thu
the small and mountainous country fol
the Trentlno. exploiting by the wiilinp
labor OF It's simple people its resources
was well on the road to progress in
1856. when Vienna ruthlessiy cut it of,
from Vcnctla by ii political frontie,
and n new customs barrier. Sepnratel
from all the great internal centres OF
Austria and robbed of it's natural Ital.
i'm markets and centres Of supply. the
Irentno was like plant cut Off from
'ts roots 1t could only languish ant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

X7HEN the Germans devastated
w Belgium the civilized world
gasped in horror.
Inc same policy, less barbarically
spectacular, but equally Teutonic, has
peen employed by the Austrian Haps-
burgs for fifty years in the Trcntino.
Toward the close of the eleventh CEN
fury bishop named Werner built a
fortified palace among the mountain
crags of Switzerland. The pcasantrv
iivlng in the valley referred to the
bishops residence as DER Habitchts-
burg" which may be Anglicized as the
"Hawk's Nest" Bishop Wcrncr's sue
ccssors justified the name. They spread
Tear and terror through the country,
seizlng every opportunity to increase
| their wealth and power.
The lord of the "Hawk's Nest" dis
c"rded the sacred mantle, took the title
OF Count of Hapsburg, and married
thus originated the house of Uapsburp
which, like hawk, has prcycd for CEN
b.
lection Singularly devoid of the finer
scnslbilitics, the Hapsburgs have pro-
voked quarrels with their best friends
that they might dcspoil them of their
lands. Their dream of world conquest
was apparent as early as 1910. when
the venerable Bishop of Basic cried ::
"sit fast, 0 Cod, or the Iapsburg Ru-
dolph viii have Thy throne next"
Tins IS the family which divided
Central Europe, one branch taking tho
throne of Austria, the other that o(
Germany.
The Hohcnzollcrn in Belgium has
been drastic and quick; the Hapsburp
In the Trentino has been slow and sim
istcr
The Trcntino, in the hands of Aus
tria, is geographical and national alb
surdity. The Trcntino is a prolonpa.
ton OF the valleys of Vcnitis and Lom-
hardy. All its gates arc open toward
Italy, which is without defence. Held
~ Austria, 1t ~ like great intrcnchcd
camp in the heart of Lombnrdy. n con-
slant threat to the valley Of the Pc. the
link between ltaly's richest and most
productive cities
THIS geographical situation explains
the Triple Alliance. For forty years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

comrades about their sojourn in Uncle
Sans tropical islands,
Captain William Hernecke, who had
commanded the Andalusia, Of the
neutrality-suspicious. Line, is one of the
newly arrived in Hot Springs.
And the still youthful commander
narrates quite interestingly the story
OF the months he spent with his crew
and officers in the prisoners camp Of
Baguio, in the Philippine Islands.
High in the mountains really beau
tlful and picturesque camp had been
built for them.
And as can be seen from the illustra
tons, one certainly could live excel
lently we'll in those clean. white
washed, airy houses.
The captains and married naval off
GERS were placed in the neat pavilons
Whlle the crews in the government con-
tire were lodged in spacious, sunny dor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
A CORRECTION

In Albert Mardell's article. 1.-THE New
Science That unlocks the Minds Most
Secret Doors" which was printed in the
Tribune. February "a, DR.. A. A. Brill
~aa Represented az being connected
with the Mount Sinai Hospital Of New
York City. Dr.. Brill corrccts The
Tribune's information, by saying he has
never been connected with that institu-
ton, that it is another DR.. Brill who is
associated with the hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

change into the deadly monotony of
detention.
Board and treatment were faultless
Everything that could reasonably be
asked was offered. And who knows
whether the Germans interned in the
Philippines were much overjoyed when
the order came to depart to the United
States.
The voyage to San Francisco was made
on the Z. S. transport Sheridan. After
short rest in an Angel Island camp
their journey came to an end at Hot
Springs.
And at Hot Springs time will surely
hang less heavy than in the far-ofr
mountains Of Baguio.
Hundreds upon hundreds of former
comrades have been there reunited. And
before all the stories of adventure ar,
exchanged the war probably will be
over, and then they will return blithe
and cheerful to their native country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17

MY nerves have gone back ..
she said. owe gone stale M me-
good any more. Switchboard ons,a. no
get that way. l want job as ~.
erette. Back to the land for ,n;a as".
want to help feed the world d,,;s l
war" Without delay She was sas 'he
the "omen's Land Army of the Jln;. "
States and will go on a farm lieu
April Is. This girl excbanc.a N'va'
paying her SIS week for one tho. . 'ou
not pay her more than $40 or S.. :"
moneyvbut hundrcdfold that =;
health and restored vigor. 'a
There Are Many
Who Never Worked
one OF the greatest problems Of N.
placing OF women is in incxper;on.', ,
girls and middle aged and old w..
Pitiful, indeed, are the stor;s. ~" :,
women who all their lives have hoon ~ "
dependent. but now, by the y;c;ss;...
Of war, death or other trouble hss
been thrown out upon the world to ~
their own living. 'u
One of these, woman clos.
enty, neat, clean, respectable looL;..
came to the desk. With the sbama,
color burning in her withered cbo.,.
she told US that she had never n,o.,.-,
before; that she was bitterly asb.m.s
to have to ask for work at her ago H..
that 1T had to be done. Sure 7 how.
two fine boys" she said, with tremblin.
lips, land they've taken the ;lleoon,
care of me always. But tn two Of th;n,
was drafted. Oh, yes, know coula
have had 'em exempted, but would !,
do ut? Sure, thin, l wouldn't wild ~.
Germans murtherin' women an bah;os
an tn country needin' the hilp of ive,v
brave man. No, 1 said to thin. a.
and God bless We, sure I'll make 70 on
along somehow, by the grace of Gods
When the applicant has filled on,
her registration card she is e;ver !.
small round disk with number on !.
These disks are in four colors, red for
stenographers and typewriters, yellow
for factory workers, white for clerica,
editorial and secretarial positions, and
blue for domestic workers. She tben
takes her seat behind the railing and
waits until her number is called pros
entity she is summoned to the Occupa-
tlonal Desk, where an intelligent and
understanding woman goes over her
qualifications with her, and refers to
the cards of employers on file. If in
the opinion of the woman at the desl
she IS ftted to one of the applications
for workers she is given the name and
address of an employer and sent to
see him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
She Wanted To Be
A Housekeeper

A woman past her first youth came to
the desk. Her face was beaminr. She
had been a worker in a munitions fac
tory, was sick, discouraged and miscr-
able. She had brought her troubles to
the bureau last week, saying that she
could not go on; that she hated the
work. could not stand the strain of II
and must find something else to support
her. She was asked what work she nrc-
Icrred to do, and answered with cnthu.
slasm that the thing she desired most
was Il position as housckecpcr either
III a prlvatc home or an institution az
am an expert cook" she told them "am
wonderful buyer, and can run house.
pobllc or private, to perfection." A
position was found for her as WORKING
housekecpcr in boys school. and sbc
was there to tell of her success and
happiness. "Thcy call me a rcal icwol >,
she sand, with a joyful smile. "ana 7
haven't been so happy for years. III
iced those Riddles better and cbeo,or
than they've been fed in a long ti,tc
and save money for the institutions
80 much for fitting the woman to tho
lob and the job to the woman.
Another woman also wanted , oh
OF occupation. She had been worh;"n
'or years az a switchboard onarotor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
hould Not Lower
Wages Of Men

The new bureau is making a special
effort to avoid placing women in occu'
patrons which will freeze out men OF
be used as club over their heads
The entrance Of women into the iela
of labor should in no way decrease inc
wages Of men or take from them legit'.
mate employment Women should ho'
be forced into fields Of industry ths'
wlll injurc their health or jeopardi'e
the mentality and virility of the COM
ing race.
The response Of the public TO Wv
new department has been remarSsois.
Bankers, manufacturers, factory sA4
mill owners, munitions plants, susA
retincries, railroads. insurance co'a
panies, owners of department s'o's'
all kinds of business men that s''
doing the important work or the eou',
try, are giving it their cooperation
applying to the bureau for the I'ss'
kind of women 10 fill the places yase Il
cd BY the enlistment and dfaltiiie s..s
titiT men. ana IL * tide 49, Eellad
should be we'll and inteilisentiy linn amn.
that the necessary work OF the eo snd
try should go Oh unMeerrup'ea
that the work that needs the "v 'nork
and the woman who needs inc thc
should be brought together thss II 4
woman's department OF the puie"N
Labor is striving. N.sk.
Il feel said Mrs. Margaret'a var, york
the superintendent of the New oyer
bureau, as we stood looking on. >h,ess
the crowded benches where inc 'v one
women we're waiting, that TINS 70 ths,
OF the greatest steps III emclea .ha man
the government has taken: AS Wv ,nors
power Of the country is depss,msua into
and more women must be caiieu ~recs
service. And what we aim 10 so IN
is the haphazard placing OF %o sa men
any kind OF work that they nnu too.-
Every man and every womah'; best
has a work for which he or sne - aiken
adapted. The square peg must p1 r;esly
out of the round hole and hstsa - in hols
and comfortably into the kin .;, ~ Of
best adapted to its highest ut,usith ine
course, every one does best ta ~, .p y
he likes to do, and the great . sas, al
are making here is to effect 'n ny nSesatt
cheney in Industry by fitting sas M M.
to the job and the JOB 70 VA1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Mistaken Vocation
Looks Like allure

Should she not qualify for the posi-
ton she may retarn and try some other
occupation. No charge is made, and
the sole desire of the women in charge
OF the bureau is to see her happily and
satisfactorily placed.
he bureau, while under the direct
charge OF the United States govern.
ment, is not in existence solely for the
purpose Of giving government employ
ment. Many of the positions obtained
Tor women are not in the government
service. but in the employ of private
enterprise. The object of the bureau
IS to improve labor conditions through
out the country by utilizing to the best
advantage the abilities Of the women
who are in the industrial world.
There is not at this time, according
to Mrs. Richards. head of the bureau,
any real shortage Of labor. There are
still, she maintains, workers enough to
carry on the industries. But what is
needed, she says, is transference Of
occupations. Men must be released for
war service. as they were released in
England, by women workers. Every
truly patriotic man should be willing
at crisis of this kind, when the lib
erty and democracy of the whole world
are IN the balance. to exchange his
work for the kind of labor of which
women are not capable, leaving to the
women workers the lighter forms Of
labor which they are physically able
to do.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-17
Town Surrendered
With Light Levy

1t was after our defeats Of Wissem-
bourg and Froeschwiller, when the
troops of MacMahon and de Faiily
retreated so abruptly that the line of
the Vosges, which might SO easily have
been defended, remained unoccupied
by the French. On August Z, 1870, the
Mayor had posters put up saying that
neither rifles, guns nor munitions were
available. SO the town was deserted,
after the stores of powder had been
suax in the Meurthe. On August 12
thirty thousand German troops were
encamped on the plain where few
days before Napoleon HIS Imperial
Guard had been stationed. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon one officer,
accompanied by two men, galloped
through a town and Prussian dctach
nent took possession Of It. The vic
tors demands we're not excessive and
very different from what they are to-
day. They levied only $4,000 francs
100000 and various rations. The
Mayor Of Nancy was violently re
preached for this easy surrender in the
Chamber Of Deputies; but it il diff
cult to say how he could have acted
better in an utterly defenders town
On August 8, 1872, two years, less nix
days, after their occupation. the Ger.
-naDs left Nancy and the Tricolor was
at once hoistcd.
All thosc who have visited Nancy
before 1914 viii remember It's churches
and public monument The ducal
chapel, one of the gems Of the World Is
architecture, hSs been. ever since the
eleventh century, the burial place Of
tbose proud rivals Of the Kings Of
France. the Dukes Of Burgundy, whose
great ambition was TO become rulers