The review., 1918-04-25
A Great OutpOuring Of LOy=
aIiStS Sunday

Coy. T. W.ABickett of the great
State of North Carolina came to
High Point Sunday, saw the i'm
. mense overflow audience at the'au.
: ditorium to greet him and conquered
every indiV idual with his matches
oratory and his sledgehammer blows
for the cause of humanity and right
eOusness.
Never such an indoor audience
assembled here before. The vast au-
ditorium and gallery, aisles. hall
ways, steps, windows, porches and
lawns were a mass of seething hu-
! manity to show their patriotism and
honor the presence of North Caro-
lima illustrious on and chief execu-
tive
The High. Point orchestra warmed
up things considerably with Its pa
trio'ic airs and when America was
played with the great throng stand
ing, patriotism burned brightly in
the hearts of all and spread its glo-
rious rays of love and loyalty, like
mantle of beautiful serenity and
iity over ALL 1t was happy time,
a glorious feeling, a heart throbbiug
of one and another for the common
cause.
Carter Dalton was master of cere-
monies and presented Dr., Dred Pea
cock who in turn, In well lchOSen
words, presented Gov. Beckett. The
great throng listened attentively to
every word uttered by the speaker.
who won the: hearts of all his hear
erS as he brought forth matchless
oratory and great and undisputable
truths concerning the present strue-
gle, our part in it and our unbound
! ed duty to our soldiers, our country
and the allied cause. Especially
should we teel thankful that we are
able to pay the debt we have been
due France ever since the RevOlu-
tionary War when that great nation
came to our rescue and put more
soldiers in the field to defeat Corn
wallis than we had at the time and
thus made Washington First in
war, first in peace and fEst- in the
hearts of his countrymen' when
otherwise he doubtless would have
been shot as traitor.
The governor put it squarely up
TO the slackers who remained at
home and refused to do their full
part to help in the prosecution of
the war. He told of the great emer-
gency and begged all to rally to the
cause of righteousness and freedom
lest they rue the day they failed as
Americans. We wish space allowed
complete synopsis of the big speech.
Words would fail to give those not
present a faint idea of it.
The Boy Scouts were asked on
the platform by Carter Dalton who
presented them to the audience and
by authority conferred upon them
the duties of food commissioners.
The Liberty Loan Battalion was
present and given front seats and
later stationed outside of the audi
torium so as to give each and all
chance to sign pledges for bonds.
Thousands of dollars were disposed
of in this way.
The High Point orchestra, as
usual, furnished excellent music.
DR.. Gilbert T. Rowe invoked di-
vine blessing on the as 'emblage.
An incident of the patriotic meet
ing was an announcement by DIR.
Peacock that he repeated rumOr
concerning Frank H Fleer, the mil
ionairs chewing gum man, who has
large farming interests at Thomas
vile, discounting Mr.. Fleer's loy-
atty. Later he learned that MIR.
Fleer was cultivating all the land
possible, bought large block OF
bonds, had a son and son-in-laW in
the service of America and when a
boy had fled from Germany to es-
cane the very things America is
now trying to prevent and that he
(Peacock) was glad to make the
correction.
Immediately after the speaking
Gov. Beckett was taken to James
town where he spoke to the good
people of that community in the
high school building there.
While in the city the governor was
the guest of judge Carter Dalton
and he attended the First Baptist
church Sunday morning and list
ened to a fine sermon by DR.. Dred
Peacock.
One dollar week will provide for