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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1917
Page
9
The May 20 1917 Wilmington Dispatch issue mixes humor and war talk with light commentary. It notes weather and fashion, pro war jests about Gough and Hindenburg, references to reformer Bob LaFollette, and social quips on money, wheat, and politics. It also teases Roosevelt conscription and German hunger while quoting local groans about taxes and banks.
An editorial urges decisive American involvement in World War I, arguing the United States must deploy expeditionary forces, expand the navy, and boost munitions. It defends President Wilson and the War Department, endorses Roosevelt's possible role in France, and stresses swift, decisive action over delay. The piece warns that delay harms peace and national honor while highlighting growing Allied pressure and German-dual threats.
The text argues sealing submarine bases as a key wartime strategy with patrols and convoys, stressing blocking gateways to starve German U boats. It also reports Raleigh writer W T Bost uncovering a Butler Morehead plan to gain control of government by electoral means, urging focus on the war now.
The author argues against political stunts and violence abroad and at home. Emphasizing education over impeachment, it suggests using gentle language or caustic criticism to improve a delinquent leader, while noting the inevitability of removal if service does not improve.
The article argues Congress acted with expert restraint by authorizing President Wilson to send Theodore Roosevelt and U S troops to France, framing it as a necessary shift of responsibility. It questions critics who favored direct civilian or congressional control and asserts the president and war department were best positioned to decide.
Ninety two of ninety seven nurses survived a grueling regimen and passed the State board. Erma Fortune of Fairview Hospital led with a 95.12 average. Recipients by reciprocity included Miss Alice Comers of South Carolina and Miss Rose Ehrenfeld of Pennsylvania and Kentucky.
The State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro will hear Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri speak at the commencement, the first time a woman delivers the principal address. Her talk on The Elimination of Waste as a National Service will begin at 10 30 Tuesday in the Students' Building auditorium.
The article notes that Lima and Iquitos are a few hundred miles apart but lie on opposite sides of the Andes. It describes the impractical journey for a letter, outlining a route of about three thousand miles down the Amazon, five thousand miles to Liverpool, four thousand more to the Panama Canal, and then along the west coast to reach its destination.
A bomb released from a Zeppelin at 8 000 feet while moving at full speed would strike the ground not less than three-eighths of a mile in front of the point beneath the airship at that moment.
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