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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1918
Page
10
Arthur Guy Empey, an American from Jersey City, sails to England after Lusitania sinking and enlists. He trains in France, endures cooties and shirt hunts, notes officers in trench life, and witnesses a church parade before football in billets.
A recruit recalls identity disks worn by soldiers to indicate rank name number battalion and religion. Recounts choosing Church of England under pressure and the obligation of church parade on Sundays amid early army life and under fire.
The narrator details the march to reserve billets, the first experience of shellfire, and a plunge into front line duty. He witnesses an airplane being shelled, learns to read anti aircraft and German shells, endures a raid on Whisky Street, and endures rain, rats, cold, and fear before finally resting in a front line trench and longing for Jersey City.
Empey enters the trench firing line as bullets whistle overhead. The piece captures his realization of the danger and the adopted soldierly motto about facing danger without worry. The reader is invited to follow the next installment.
A fragment contemplates how not filling time during strenuous days requires also withholding one’s own opportunities. The terse musings imply self discipline and the tradeoffs of endurance.
The War Department orders withhold names of next of kin and emergency addresses from daily American expeditionary forces casualty lists to deny enemy access. The Public Information Committee notes lists will be expurgated and available only through the War Department, while some officials expect a quick reconciliation to resume full publication. General Pershing urged the change to close a channel used by the enemy.
Senator Reed led a cross party attack on price fixing and food administration powers in a four hour speech. He warned that licensing and policy moves by the food and fuel administrations threaten farm prices and could bring bread tickets and reduced efficiency.
Washington reports an average 30 cent cut in the retail price of all anthracite coal for domestic use from April 1 to September 1. New regulations govern coal retail distribution for the year starting next month to curb hoarding and ensure winter supplies.
Washington reports a U S Spain commercial agreement signed in Madrid will supply Gen Pershing with needed materials for his troops. The deal also includes a French credit in Spain and permits free export to the allies of pyrites minerals and manufactured wool by the Spanish government.
A Wilmington letter demands Congresssman Hannibal L. Godwin speak plainly about North Carolina’s neglect in government appropriations. The missive, presented by Walter H. Blair, cites shipyard delays and state port activity while urging a clear explanation or impending reckoning. Governor Bickett also names eighty five delegates to the Sixth Annual United States Good Roads Association meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas, with a full list of NC attendees.
Miss Madge Hanna of Chester street has not missed a First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Sabbath school meeting for more than 11 years marking a rare continuous attendance record in Gastonia.
North Carolina brief reports the jury awarded Mrs. George M. Spittle administratrix $11500 in damages against Southern Public Utilities Company for her husband's death, while she had sued for $40000. Five Fairley family members from Monroe bought $1000 each in savings stamps. Preparations for the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union meeting at First Baptist Raleigh begin with over 500 delegates expected, following Goldsboro turnout. Max Levin of Raleigh, ex Sea Board agent, now in France. A keg of about 10 gallons of ink arrives at Camp Greene for soldiers.
Governor Bickett speaks at the North Carolina Conference for Social Service stressing that morality, home life, and the sanctity of marriage underpin national efficiency. He condemns the double standard of morality and calls for unity of family, faith, and civic duty as the base of societal strength.
The Democratic State Executive Committee met in Raleigh and decided the state convention will be held April 10. The brief session also set dates for precinct, county and state conventions and approved minor organizational changes required by the primary law. March 30 was chosen for precinct meetings.
In Kinston, a Dover mailed postcard from March 26, 1901 finally arrived to Mr. Lord Hines after nearly seventeen years. The missive, signed by Seth West, described a minor business matter the two men shared. The sender did not live to receive a reply.
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