Our Fighting Men and Time for Patriotism
A conservative call to support war against Germany led by Admiral Mayo and President Wilson. The piece extols national unity, duty, and the United States’ right to defend liberty, while warning against discord and stressing moral support for the government. It ends with a humorous excerpt about a child’s joke on overcoats.
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Henry T. Mayo
Atlantic
United States Navy
Washington
Navy
Annapolis
Spain
Albany
Naval War College
Mare Island Navy Yard
Navy Department
Atlantic Fleet
Huerta
Admiral Mayo
Nele Sam
High Point Patriot Calls For Clean-up Week And Patriotism
The notice urges High Point citizens to join a week of sanitation to show patriotic spirit as cities advance in wartime. It laments few flags and asks for broad cooperation to keep streets clean by next Sunday, while linking sweeping civic effort to national morale.
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High Point
Vice Is A Monster Down at Kinston
A Kinston woman, after a night of debauchery at a birthday party, drank poison and died. The News laments moral decay, warns towns nationwide, and notes the tragedy reflects broader social ills across the state with sentiment that virtue no longer reigns. The piece condemns the event and contemplates future headlines and sorrow.
Must Win a War
An editorial argues the United States cannot be defeated by any foreign power given competent leadership and preparation. It stresses unity of the forty eight states and the nation's collective defense, noting England took three years to conquer a portion of Europe in a historical reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
England
S. C. Clark
Bank of Commerce
Correction clears eighth grade math tie at Mechanicsville
The report misstated results of the eighth grade mathematics contest. John Reynolds of Oak Hill won, not Ida Guyer, due to Prof. Hammer’s error in the preliminary notice.
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Hammer
Mechanicsville
Ida Guyer
John Reynolds
Oak Hill
H. W. Reynolds
Enterprise Office
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