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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
M'ADoo DEcoRATEs BOY SCOUTS.

This Is not the cross of tyrant.
II Is not an iron cross. II Is Il token
Of merit which would be credit upon
any soldiers uniform"
So said Secretary w. G. McAdoo Of
the United States treasury TO four boy
scouts in Colorado Springs who had
performed distinguished services in the
first Liberty bond sale, as he pinned
upon each Il bronze medal.
'The boy scouts of this country have
performed their work like real soldiers
In aiding the government in the sale
Of these Liberty bonds" continued Mr..
McAdoo. in my travels over the coun-
try ! have been forcibly impressed with
the spirit and enthusiasm of the boy
scouts"
As each boy approached Mr.. McAdoo
he gave the prescribed scout salute.
There was not trace Of ombarraSs-
mcnt-the scout training eliminates
that-but each lad received his decora-
ton, salutcd and returned to his seat
amid veritable thunder of applause.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
SPOKANE SCOUTS ARE PRAISED.

Lieut.. Col. c. II. Common of the medl-
cal corps in the United States army
has written to w. Edgar Wylie. scout
executive OF the boy scouts Of Spo-
kane, WASH, to congratulate them on
the work done by the first-aid troop
on the night when an accident oc-
Cured at the Great Northern depot as
the Spokane quota of the draft army
was entrainlng.
"The efficiency Of these scouts" said
Mr.. Wylie, SIS all owing to the train
Ing they received last summer. DR..
w. N. Lipscomb for six weeks had
them under supervision and training
at Camp Dee Light and at the con
clusion of that period they won the
United States Red Cross medal In u
test the same MS that given to any de-
pertinent of the organization. They
lost only four points out of a possible
400."
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

works Of Union switch company near
| Pittsburgh.
FEB iS-Great connagration In tho
| Piraeus. Greece, heavy loss OF life,
Feb 2l-Brltish transport Mend sunk
| In collision, 625 South African laborers
lost. T..
diana killed more than 20 -,
March 23,-Thirty eight persons Killed
| and 200 injured when tornado wrecked
suburbs and part OF city OF New Albany
Ind
April 0,-Exploslons In ammunition
plant Of Russia near Chester, Pa. killeo
April N.-Exposion in Hastings mine
May 1.--Great fire In Atlanta, Ca; loss
S3,6OO,O00
May 25. thirty lives lost and great
damage done by storm In Kansas. ,
May 20 -Tornadoes In central lllinois
killed about $50 and did millions OF doi'
lars worth OF damage.
May 2s-Tornadoes In southern ILLINOIS.
Kentucky. Tennessee, Alabama ana At
kansas killed many persons.
June 7.-San Salvador, capital OF SAL
vador. and a number Of surrounding towns
d desttroyed, BY volcanic eruption ear'h'
June s-More than $50 men persisted In
blazing mine at Butte, Mont.
June 3O-Water tank fell on whalebacs
Christopher Columbus at Milwaukee. KILL
Ing 10 and hurting many.
July Niagara Gorge trolley car
plunged Into rapids. rs killed.
July 2b-Mlna explosion at New Water
ford. Cape Breton, killed 62.
Aug. 4-Mne explosion at Clay. KY,
killed 81.
Aug. 10 -Britlsh steamer City OF Athens,
carrying missionaries TO Africa. sunk by
floating mine 10 lost
Aug 10 Eighteen killed In trolley car
collision near North Branford Conn.
Aug. u.s. -large part OF Saloniki. Greece,
destroyed by fire.
oct 2-Typhoon and flood at Tokio
many killed
Oct, s-Millon dollar FIRE in GuayaauiL
Ecuador
Oct 2S.-Grent floods in Natal. South Ar
RIGA: thousand drowned
Oct. 30 Million dollar fire on Il. o.
docks nj Baltimore, seven persons kllled
Dec 6.-Eyploson Of French ammunition
ship In Halifax harbor killed 1900 ana
wrecked much Of the city and suburbs
Dec. 17.--Amercan submarine FL
sunk In collision 10 lost.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
SPORTING

April ll-Baseball season opened.
May &-Benny Leonard won world
champion lightweight title from Freddie
Welsh in New York.
June 9.-University OF Chicago won west
ern intercollegiate conference meet
University OF Michigan re-admitteG to
western intercollegiate conference.
June l6.-Earl Cooper In Stutz won the
Chicago auto derby.
July l4.-Francis Oulmet won western
amateur golf Championship at Midlothian
Aug 4-C. II. Larson, Waupaca, Wis,
won Grand American Handicap at Chi
Cago
Sept. Mrs. F. C. Let's, Chicago. won
women's western golf championship.
Sept. l5.-Jim Barnes won western open
golf championship at Chicago
Sept. H-Chicago White Sox won Amer
lean league pennant.
Sept. A-New York Giants won Ma
tiOnal league pennant
Oct. l5.-Chlcago White Sox won worlds
championship from New York Giants.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

six merchantmen sunk In North sea by
Germans.
Dee, l5.--Armlstlce agreement signed
by Russian bolsheViki government and
Teutonic allies.
War council in U. s, war department
created
Dec, i7-Charles Piez succeeded Rear
Admiral Harris as genera manager OF
the emergency feet corporation.
Dec. lS.--Gen. Goethals made acting
quartermaster general and Gen Wheel
err acting chief of ordnance,
German air raid on England.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

small house heating plant In the state
of Illinois would use reasonable care In
the purchase of his fuel and In the OPP
Grafton of his plaRt, the saving would
be equivalent to 100000 tons of coal.
According to circular just issued by
the engineering experiment station of
the University OF Illinois such saw
ing is easily within the range Of prac-
teal attainment Applied to the entire
United States, intelligent attention In
the operation of house heaters would
save more than 80.Od0,000 tons Of coal.
The University of Illinois has dis
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
DISASTERS

Jan. 5,-Earthquake In Formosa killed
800.
Jan. ll.-Tremendous explosion wrecked
Canadian Car & Foundry Co. plant at
Kingsland, N. j.
Jan l2.-Du Pont Powder Co. plant at
Haskell, N. j., destroyed by explosions.
jan. lS,-Collery explosion IN Fushun,
Mancfuria, killed 10.
sand dollar fire in business district OF
Pittsburgh. Pa.
Feb. 2.-Explosion and fire in Chicago
tenement killed Is.
Feb, 3.-Thirty killed, GA hurt in ship
explosion at Archangel
Feb. 10.-Four million dollar fire In
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MEXICO

Jan 2.-U. S.-Mexico parleys ended.
Carranza refusing to sign protocol
Torre0n reeaptured by Carranza forces
Jan. Villa defeated in big battle ii
JimineZ.
Jan Is -Mexcan-American joint COM
mission formally dissolved
Jan 2l.-War department ordered more
than 2j,000 militia from border
Jan. y President Wilson ordered with
drawal of American troops from Mexico.
Feb. 5.-Gen. Pershing marched out of
Mexico
March li.-Carranza elected president OF
Mexico
April %. Villas main army defeated by
Carranza forces at Babcora.
Nov. l3-Vllla troops captured Ojinaga
after hard fight.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

printed. These are deeply edged in
black. the center of the card bearing
The name of the company which issues
it. When company has suspicious
regarding q customer one of its Off.
GERS takes a number of these cards,
writes on the reverse side the name
and address-or different names and
addresses-in some cases--of the sus-
pected man, and sends around the
cards to the other Offices. These cards
are regarded as absolutely confidential,
and they are never sent around till the
company which issues them has
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

through the staff of inquiry officers
always kept for such purpose, found
strong evidence against the men whose
nsmes they bear.
Each company keeps book regular
ly posted with these cards In 1t, and
the book Is more frequently consulted
than the general public would imagine.
Many Of these volumes Of black-edged
warnings are bulky ones.
The aliases and changes of residence
Of each suspicious customer are care
fully noted In the book, and 1t Is com
prted that these cards save the com
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
SCOUTS KEEP UP WITH COLONEL.

When Col. Theodore Roosevelt broke
training at the Jack Cooper health
camp in Stamford, Conn.,, where he
lost IA pounds, he started at a stiff
clip around the track which circles
the place. 1t is little more than half
a mile long, partly up grade, and the
200 or more who started to follow him
were soon struggling. Mayor Mitchell
of New York quit at the quarter post
and went back 10 the house, but half
a dozen boy scouts did the sprint at the
colonel's right and finished with him.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
INSURANCE MEN ON GUARD
How First-Class English Companies
Succeed In "Wardinu OFF" Their
Depredatlons.

There is a mutual understanding be-
tween all the tirst-class insurance Of
Aces that they should warn each other
Of customer whose conduct Is sus-
picious, and such a warning Is con-
veyed In a very simple yet effective
way, says London Tit-Bits.
Zach company has number Of cards
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

cussed. In the circular referred to. the
more important factors involved In the
installation Of satisfactory house
heating system, and has set forth the
most economical methods of firing soft
coal and operating a house-heatlng
plant. The properties of fuels and the
processes attending their combustion
are discussed In fashion which is In
tended to help the average household
er to unt arstand his problem and to
secure the economics Of intelligent op
GRAFTON.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04

panies thousands of pounds each year.
Salvage companies also Issue these
insurance warnings" Whenever
salvage officer n0ies the slightest
suspicious circumstance amid the ruins
of fire he duly reports II.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
SCOUT FINDS cHILD's SKELETON.

Scout Perreault, aged twelve years,
Of Spencer, Mass, found the skeleton
Of child. He and several other
youngsters We're "chestnuting" in the
woods, when under a clump of leaves
and brush he saw piece of bone
above the leaves. Scouts are taught
not to display fear, so Perreault scat
tered the leaves and then discovered
the skeleton. The boy notified the au-
thoritIes. It is supposed the child was
lost in the woods long ago.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-01-04
SAVING COAL IN HOUSEHOLD
Experiment Station Of the University
Of illinois Tells HON u May
Be Effected.

If every householder and owner Of a
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AIESSON PROPOUNDFD

A CURE for the chronic incoherency Of
those Hun statesmen who babhle for
peace suggests itself in the words Of
prominent neutral journalist. The prac.
tcal application of his formula in Ber.
lin would conceivahly settle the war in
short order. The date, which we here omit
could readily he changed to suit the situ-
alton. Here is the significant credo:
Il will use the full strength Of my pen
and voice to make my country know the
truth about the United States In
We suffered a disastrous disillusionment
because of our ignorance. It shall not oc.
cur again If I can prevent it,
Notwithstanding their contriteness. It is
entirely conceivable that something like
an echo of those words will some day be
heard from the German capital already
reported as plunged in the depth Of pro
found discourag cement" Their memorial
ton is being daily advanced by certain
events on the western front.
II may be added that the date to which
the text of the little formula refers is 1898
The writer is an eminent Spanish puhlicist
Jose NJ. RIM Without boasting, be it said
that history has particular knack of re-
peating itself when questions concerning
the freedom of mankind are involved
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P. R. T. WAGE INCREASE

DETTERMENT Of both public service
- and public servants is assured by the
increased wage scale which the Rapid
Transit Company has fixed for its en-
ployes. UnquestionabIy under present con-
ditions Of living, the conductors and motor
men deserved higher pay. Unquestionably
the need for improved transportation in
city that is giant dynamo OF war work
was imperative. That the new scale will
prevent experienced trolley men from
drifting to other lines of activity and as
a practical earnest OF good will, will insure
higher efficiency of service is scarcely
to be disputed.
Best OF all, the raise, which is from five
to nine cents an hour, is voluntary. The
danger Of making it contingent on an in
crease Of fares seems to have been realized
The two issues should he kept apart. Add
ing to the complexities of increased fares
will not benefit either the transit company
or its patrons. The findings Of the Public
Service Commission, the clarihcation of the
relationship between the holding and the
subsidiary companies warrant careful con-
sideration in determining fare increases.
In regard to it's employees, the Rapid
Transit Company has done its duty.
Tangled though it still is, the fare prob
lem can now be handled with far more
directness and sincerity
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Every time the Kaiser seeks to establish
General Lull" on the French front General
Retreat" quickly relieves him.
SCENES OFF THE CAPES

MO WONDER the German U.boats.
L which came over to "terrify" the
United States and succeeded in sinking A
few unarmed ships. schooners and barges
hovered so uneasily for while off the
Delaware Capes These coastal projections
were something worth worrying over. For
between them, and originating in the port
of Philadelphia alone. more than $500 900. 900
worth of exports passed through to the
ocean trade routes from which all Hun
commerce is barred
Moreover, the value Of materials which
we shipped abroad during our first war
year was $3.50 O0o 600 more than that of the
previous twelve months. The total will
doubtless he outstripped again in 1918.
The present figures have Just been pub
lished by the Maritime Exchange They
proclaim Philadelphia as one Of the great
ports of the world The decrease Of
$4,000 900 in the value Of our imports was
relatively small compared with the i'm
mense increase on the other side of the
trade sheet. Philadelphas commerce is at
last becoming worthy of her other civic
proportions.
Scenes perscopiCaly viewed off Hen
lopen and May must remind handful Of
depressed pirates Of peace days near Cux-
haven on the Elbe
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"WONDFRFUI!"

DOUBTLESS there were many sieniA-
- cant things that President Wilson
might have said yesterday when he ap-
peared al Hog Island for the launching OF
the first ship of the American miracle fleet.
There is a new and dramatic suggestion
IN the fact that Mr.. Wilson's formal ut
terance was limited to one word. Wonder.
full" said he. ana he probably was think.
ing not only Of the ship and the ship
yard and the great crowd. but also of the
unity Of national will and purpose which
the occasion made manifest.
This is the first time since the war
began when the President has appeared
officially at a function of great national
importance without making an address Of
any sort. In Germany they would have
read with interest any expression of
opinion offered at such a time by the
man who is looked upon as the leader
OF opinion and policy among the Allies
But it is likely that the absence Of any
such expression, the attendant implication
that the last word has been said and
the last bid made to the imagined reason
OF Germany, will seem more ominous in
Berlin than any threat or promise.
The Presidents silence was unexpected
But 1t was, in its way, eloquent enough
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
THE SUBWAYFARERS

NEW WORKERS, after a few wild days
4 of unexampled confusion and disnnav
and outcries for the riot squads, are at
5ast able to find their way about their
odd little island in the new subways The
outside world has been watching them
with awed interest and reading in the head.
lines Of happy and gradual return to
the order which disappeared in black chaos
when the Manhattanese were turned mo-
mentarily from the familiar routine
Some new subway connections upset
the balance of innumerable thousands
Hundreds were lost Men and women
without number, whose judgments count
heavily In art, literature war and politics
and the drama, were rescued in the tubes
or found astray and hopeless in the wrong
places and guided by the police to the
bosoms of their families mile or two
away. There is an accent of tubilation
and of hallelutah in the news headlines
with which the newspapers in New York
assure the populace that the crisis is DER
How shall this news be kept from
Kokomo and Waukesha and all that defer.
ential hinterland which is accustomed to
look to the Manhattan for guidance in
every affair of the mind or the spirit? ?
New York. after days of terror that fol-
lowed the slightest disturbance in its IA
niliar orbit, is at last able to find its way
home to dinner!
1t 10 the pleasure OF the city man 20
believe himself at the top of the world
- look down upon the rest of mankind
with touch Of pity. And yet his tenden-
eiss on occasions that require discrimina-
ton almost invariably indicate that he is
10 busy keeping up with the crowd to
- other than think In circles The new
nanvav Ioops In New York might have
~, 3uI)t % prove the truth Of this dread
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READERS VIEWPOINT
More About Boonville!


TO the Editor Of the EUenfng Public Ledger.
Sr-Some friend has forwarded to me your
paper Of July g and marked Socratess artt.
Gle "Corncohs" concerning Boonville. Me-,
my home town He also sent me the rep|y
to said article by an odd Boonvillian," pub
lished in your paper. Permit me to say
that especially the reply Of the Old Boor-
william is very good and true. .. VI
My people came to Boonville in 1884. 4
was past six years, and remember condi-,
tions as they existed then. Boonvile was
the starting point Of the Santa Fe trail and
also an important center for slave-market.
l well remember later as boy Of thirteer,
when on the morning Of June II, 1861 we
heard the cannonading and musketry Of the
battle OF Boonville. where, as your Old Boom
william tells you, the first blood of the
Civil War flowed" Fathers farm was only
a few miles from that battlefield The
defeated Confederates retreated past our
farm, and today our apple orchard &C. C.
Bell Fruit Company is on a. part Of that
battlefield
I am here for another week, when I wfll
come to your city to attend the international
Apple Shippers convention, which will sbe,
held August 13 to 16. and IL it be agreeabiea
to you (and inasmuch as l was part owner
of a newspaper at one time) might call
l have written to my orchard superinten-
dent to send an apple exhibit TO the COM
ing apple shippers meeting when you can
see the Missouri apples which now grow on
part Of the Boonvile battlefield of '61
CHARLES C. BELL.
New York August s.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Ballad Of Simple Simon

I cannot regulate a clock.
I cannot keep the furnace going;
I cannot button up a frock.
Or cut the lawn when It needs moving
I never know Just how to greet
Ny wfe's relations when they're calling
And when I cross an icy street
You may depend upon my falling.
Each time I shave cut my thumb;
I hate to give the kids whipping;
I cannot carpenter or plumb.
Or stop the bathtub tap from dripping
I cannot grow a decent beard,
And Mrs. Simon does the carving;
To tell the truth, I've often feared
The family would end by starving.
I cannot keep my trousers pressed:
spill the ink when I am writing;
drop potato on my vest.
My fngernails are marred by biting.
And yet. in spite Of all this list
OF awkward and adverse conditions.
still continue to exist
NJ fdther-h-ldD makes munttiorsi
DOVE DULCET.
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What Do You Kno,u?

l. WhS hhsoS;,s Is Whsston Spencer ohurch' winssen
e. What Is q Gordisn knot?
s. Where is Camp Funston. ~
4. When and what was the Hegira? 80,
S. What Is the location Of the Great Pyramidf
@. What is an iconoclast?
!. wh,t "a the largest river in the United
8. What is the capital Of Spain?
0. What is noncom.?
a marble stone should declare that
queen, having reirned such q time. lived
and died virgin? a44.
Answers TO Yesterdays Quiz ~
]. Yekaterinburg Is o Russian city in the PROV
Inc inee Of fnn,n FERN near . the Siberian an border
z. Lord Weir is chief of the British Air MiR-
istry.
8. The Hundred Days: from March go. 1915,
Eba. TIL June 2s. when he abdicated.
4. The I,oiy Land; Palestine.
s. Citizen Caret; the name given by the French
revolutionists to Louis XVI Of France
durinG his trial. =
9. The Golden Gate; the entrance to the harbpe
of san Francisco. ~, 81,
T. Ellington Field: the United states ayisff6n
grounds near Houston. Tex. n
8. Harrisburg Is the capital Of Pennsylvan1a-
0. Iiiadi Homer's epic posm sclatlns the s1sSe
pIeees Of All litssatsre. 7' 4 a. B
: y; ~: 7 Z R;;';i: -! ! =; Z, s!:
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statesmen are uncommon. Death

statesmen are uncommon. Death some.
times changes the political and personal
lineup; impeachment hardly ever. The re-
grets of constituents are futile until bal.
loting time comes around again. None
the less, It would be interesting, were II
possible. to compare the viewpoint of in.
dividual voters with those of the Congress
men directly concerned in this new issue
Standards of duty might perhaps differ.
AS it Is, however, the home folks" are
powerless. Assuming that the new draft
ages are established, It will be the precious
privilege Of each Congressman within the
prescribed limits of deciding for himself
where he can best serve his country--in
Washington or in France. Those cues.
tonnaires will make significant reading.
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SETTLING DOWN

DLA1NLY We are settling down to the
serious business of the war We are
less excited and far more efficient than
we were even six months ago Newspaper
readers who are able to recall the spir-
itual reactions reported from all parts of
the country will easily perceive the change
that has occurred.
1t is easy to recall the time when the
Germans were supposed to be Introducing
ground glass into all the apple pies made
IN New Jersey. If barber in Riverton
became indisposed the rumors went forth
of plot fathered by Captain Bowed for
the determination Of all BARRIERS in Amer
lea. Did Capn Enoch Pringle's wooden leg
catch fire when Cap'n Enoch absentmind
edly dozed before the fire, there wera
mercurial folk who instantly felt assured
that a pro.German had started on a cam.
paign of terrorism to make a conflagratiop
of all the wooden legs in the countrv
Every little town in every State trumpeted
at one time or another of conspiracies to
poison, burn, desolate, destroy and Oh
literate
We aren't so tumpy now. The truth was
so much more ominous than the fiction
that we have settled down to calm esti-
mates and systematic work 1t has been
found that the Germans in their elaborate
and expensive campaigns didn't waste tire
on relatively harmless ground glass and
poison. Their favorite weapons have beer
fire. dynamite and peace talk. The lively,
Imagination of an isolated alarnist is No
longer adequate to divert the attention
of the country from the actual and ever
present dangers