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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1918
Page
11
A collage of editorial asides and social notes urging voting in the matrimony metaphor, praising church and ministerial guidance, promoting Liberty Bonds, garden work, and wheat saving. It mocks Kaiser, contrasts Western Front with Eastern theater, and comments on shortages and costume fashion amid wartime strain.
The Washington Times notes that regardless of subject, the core point is fundamental principles. It portrays a state legislator opposing a proposed law and withholding reasons, calmly declaring he is against it because it is unconstitutional.
Governor Davis of Virginia convened a special session to save the state about 2 million dollars in the appropriation bill but lawmakers passed the workers compensation act against his vote, awarding themselves 50 and a nickel per mile for railroad fare before leaving.
The article describes a major German Western Front drive with massed divisions and heavy artillery. It notes Allied reluctance to concentrate forces, expects fierce fighting, and cites casualty estimates while urging calm and continued support for wheat conservation and public duties.
A report claimed German heavy artillery shelled Paris from 62 miles away triggering widespread doubt from Washington authorities. The piece discusses rival theories including aerial torpedoes bombs and a giant cannon while noting current record ranges and the astonishment such a weapon would inspire.
An editorial argues that good citizenship, not geography, shapes a community’s character. It asserts that the nation advances where the people embody high civic standards and resist safe but selfish gains, noting property alone does not define virtue.
Henry Page asserts the difference between eating corn bread and drinking corn juice, highlighting a contrast in consumption. The remark frames a simple culinary distinction.
The government plans to mobilize over seven hundred daily papers as employment agencies and will pay each newspaper a munificent salary of 1 per year, treating them as they did wealthy papers during the war.
The Lumberton Tribune notes scarce labor will keep many farms idle this year while towns have few vacant lots. The piece argues every acre of productive land should be cultivated to feed the world, stressing the national harvest urgency.
Rural schools in the county are closing while several high schools stay open a month longer. Officials say securing an efficient teaching force next season is perplexing. It is reported that few, if any, Whiteville High School teachers will return. Officials note teachers seek higher paying positions elsewhere.
The State Journal notes ex Senator W. B. Cooper will return to the Senate in 1919 and Representative L. Clayton Grant will represent New Hanover again. The two will work as a smoother-pulling pair. Mullins Enterprise congratulates W. B. Cooper of Wilmington on his primary win held Tuesday.
A Greensboro Record exhortation urges every man to plant a small garden to boost current food stocks and prepare for winter. It argues that even a peck of onions or potatoes from each household would greatly contribute to the community food supply.
The Wee county rapist Earl Neville died during an innocence period stirring doubt about his guilt. Some observers including State press have voiced uncertainty while the Governor was present as the mob gathered.
The will of John C Burroughs probated at Tran- quil Park Sanitarium last week disposes of about 250000 dollars mainly to charities including Barnum Springs Orphanage. He left 3000 dollars to eight friends and relatives and 2000 dollars to a niece. Also notes church mission boards and First Presbyterian linked to the deceased.
The Robeson Baptist Association holds its next union meeting at Long Branch church on March 28 and 30. The event focuses on Sunday school and B Y P U work within the association in Lumberton.
The Ham let Graded School will hold closing exercises in the week ending Friday May 3. Eight girls graduate this year versus four boys last year. The annual address will be given by Dr. W. L. Poteat, president of Wake Forest College, noted as a leading Southern educator and thinker.
On Thursday afternoon last week a large forest fire endangered nearly all homes at the southern end of town. High winds drove the blaze into Oak street backyards before heroic efforts by the fire company and volunteers including several women brought it under control.
In a trial before Judge J. H. Fonveille, J. E. and Needham Brown Jacob Edward and Tom Swinson Riley and Lewis Jones Eli Mobley Riley Raynor and Obed Cavenaugh were bound over on a $100 bond for tearing down Mr. Melvin James’s stock pen, releasing stock, assault and threats. Six were convicted of letting stock run at large in stock law territory.
Hundred years ago today 1818 Rear Admiral William E Le Roy born in New York and died there in 1888. Seventy five years ago today 1843 Shobal Vail Clevenger born at Florence Italy builder of first telegraph line in Dakota. Twenty five years ago today 1893 Colombia earthquake caused loss of life and property destruction.
One year ago in the war on March 24 1917 Gen M V Alexieff became commander in chief of the Russian armies American relief workers recalled from Belgium and France the French attacked the new German front and captured forts on the Hindenburg line with furious efforts noted in the report.
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