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GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1916. VOL. 85—NO. 40
OPTING " VISES AT
IOR no»ifc.
' TM commencement exercises of
. LLboro College for Women came
'"Y os, Tuesday night With the an-
10' concert. which for a long pe-
'"H of rears lias been an Important
'° , „,' ,;,is old institution of learn-
'' The roncert was attended by a
.' cr0«-d. which thoroughly en-
'% the splendid program rendered
L t!lf music department of the col-graduating
exerc!s.>s
college chapel Tuesday
,e ai 10.30 o'clock, when the
was delivered and
,,;,,-,■ in the
morning a
animal address
, plomas and certiucates were pre-
...mcd io the graduates of the vari-p„.
departments. President Tur-rentiue
presented diplomas to eight
roung ladies who had completed the
A. [!. course and to 12 graduates of
the school of music. Certificates were
presented to four young women who
•■•■/A completed the course in domestic
science and domestic art, two in ex-pression,
three in art. two in stenog-raphy
and typewriting and two la
book-keeping.
The address to the graduating
tlass was delivered by Rev. Dr.
Henry N. Snyder, of Spartanburg, S.
('.. president of Wofford College. Dr.
Snyder announced his subject as
"Debts and Debtors." and he stated
that he knew something of being in
the debtor class financially, as might
also some of his hearers. But there
are other debts than money debts,
and debts which cannot be paid by
money. Notable among these is the
great debt which a student owes his
college. The sophomore says many
-<■ things without being aware of
it. One of these great sayings which
he so often employes is: "I am the
heir of all the ages." And the speak-er
proceeded in an easy, entertain-in;,
elective manner to show the
greai debt whicn present generations
r. ■•■ to civilization that was biiilt up. i
not by them, but by generation on
je'.eration of toiling mankind.
So it is that the present individual
inherits the richness of culture, so-cial
advantages and wealth untold i
which has been accumulated by pre-!
ceding generations. Yon college stu-dents
came into a world alreadv
■wd* by others. Tt was. for one
"UK. a world of hook;. The stu-
' reads many hooks, forgets much I
of his reading. The college g-rl al- i
o finds a world of human characters I
'■ '"ferns, oven til* faculty is I
" ''• 1"> human, not inhuman
« ' "nes of instruction and torture
■ » «or!ri of people, and it is an
•Knwa world, where certain acts
»r' durable and good, others are
nr / "Mtcd by principles and organi-
1 " Is an institutional world,
•■ 'in«tns of power and effeet
""' '" each individual, one of
J""™"* of whlch is the college
I- '^-.essistotea,,, the man
Zu " '" k""W "imse" »"d "i«
m.- helh S'M" ""ain ,,im that he
,DDfwabe,t0flthin»«" '"to it,
T ■ Wlsel>- "".I efficiently.
•*l-t£ra£ilTofIfir"ri» Scn<y"»C,-r's a(idres*" a
Orient o•,;,'': K "lxon- a former
*al " °' the "'stitution, was pre-
-i io "C;°!1^">'^e alumnae
" ;«• ^e Presentation speech
Dr. mZl ' M,M Ida Hin«haw. X°" Weeded the late Dr. T.
PRIMARY REGISTRATION
Wild, CLOSE SATURDAY.
The registration books for the
primary to be held the first Satur-day
in June will close Saturday,
which is also the last day on which
candidates for office may declare
themselves. Voters are again re-minded
that a new registration has
been ordered in Guilford county,
and those who desire to participate
in the primary should get their
names on the books before Saturday
night.
In view of the fact that so little
interest is being taken in politics, it
is said- the registration is showing
up fairly we!'. It seems to be heav-ier
in town than in the country, and
perhaps it is heaviest in High Point,
where two Democratic candidates
for the legislature are staging a hot
contest.
A comparatively light vote Is ex-pected
in the primary in this coun-ty.
There will be no Republican
ticket, since there is no opposition
to any of the Republican candidates,
and it is not believed that there will
be sufficient iuterest in the few cm-tests
among the Democrats to attract
a heavy vote.
Must Pile Expense Accounts.
Under a provision of the primary
law, all candidates ior office are re-quired
to file with the clerk of the
court by next Tuesday, May 23. an
itemized, sworn statement of all
money expended either by them-selves
or by others for them in be-half
of their candidacy. Clerk of
the Court Gant has a supply of the
necessary blanks and is prepared to
receive the reports of the candidates.
*/*•» as present
*hi later » of the college
*"»■" tWVe" 3S a men>ber of the
**l r r,ri!n war an" -
'*> »amed «* wa* hoWin* tlie
^Office at the time of his
about si, yeaW af0
R'-»nae .Association.
>* iSSmeeting of tne •*»■ »«« w',0f,,,e Allege was
,,.../ "«»'• afternoon, when a
'"■ oi0!1" mal,ers attended •'- *Z I . '"e enSUing -vear
l'regj as follows
- vtce^l:,!is8 Mart»" Dozicr;
'^riso,, ,JP?"!enl- M«" D. A.
*■ '•■ Tucker- CS President. Mrs.
*»» Xai ,(„,• rew'r<lir.g secretary,
, ,,,-^^ correspond-
:"s,'rfr. Un wi ■ Stone:
"::'■£!***£**"''*"* 'Crr,ri'1 t","p f°,icw-
' ^,,,l„. ,"- ,lie >ear: Mrs. D.
'.'r:,v<-s Nines -T'^ M™- Bto««*«
' - -Pass Trov ?"S,'°ro; Mrs- K»a
'i:'»l* 'loss'l,,r'ree"S,'or^ Mrs.
:;•• Mont r'am- "Anderson:
W^b0r,,\.,. " ,s"a« Blalock.
-vlary Lee Hudson,
MRS. G. H. ROYSTER DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS.
Mrs. Ceorge H. Royster, who ha1
been seriously ill for several months,
died Tuesday morning at 1.30 o'clock
at her home on Church street. * She
spent so-ne time during the past win-ter
in hospitals in Richmond and
Salisbury, but received only tempo-rary
relief. She returned home about
two months ago.
The funeral was held from the
First Presbyteriin church yesterday-afternoon
at 5 o'clock and interment
was made in Greene Hill cemetery.
Rev. Dr. Melton Clark conducted the
services.
Mrs. Royster was in the fifty-first
year of her age. having been horn
in Chatham county September 13.
1S65. Her parents moved to Greens-boro
when she was a child and she
spent most of her life in this city.
She was a dauguter of the late W. B.
Farra, who was engaged in the jew-elry
business in Greensboro for
many years. She was married March
J3, 1884. to Mr. George H. Royster,
of Oxford, who soon afterwards lo-cated
in this city, where lie has been
engaged in business si ice. She is
survived by her husband, oi:e daugh-ter
and three sons.
JAWS OP RUSSIAN' ARMIES
CLOSING UPON' THE TURKS.
With the advance of Russian
forces southward from the Urumiah
region toward Mosul, in' Assyria, on
the Tigris, which resulted recently in
the occupation of Rivandouza, the
Russians are bringing fresh pressure
of the most powerful sort upon the
rear of the Turkish armies in Meso-potamia.
The hope is now entertained in
Petrograd of bringing not only Bag-dad,
the Holy City of the Caliphs,
but the entire country lying between
the Tigris and > ... ..uyiirates under
Russian dominion.
The only serious obstacle between
the czar's army and Mosul 's the
ancient tortified city of Jesioh-llm-
Omar, on an island in the Tigris. 130
miles southeast of Diarbekr. It is
believed that this city, with its anti-quated
defenses, will not be able
long to delay the Russian advance.
The progress of these forces already
has broken the backbone of the
Turkish communications between
Diarbekr and Mosul.
Some 200 miles sooth yard another
group of Russian forces, drawn up
on the Persian-Turkish border be-fore
Khanlkln, Is prepared to strike
to Bagdad.
The combined pressu.-e between
these directions upon the Turkish
rear has placed the entire Turkish
army in Mesopotamia, estimated at
between six and seven divisions, in
the greatest jeopardy.
According to the latest dispatchi-s.
the Turks have lieen forced to relax
to a great extent their resistance to
the Britis-h expeditionary army and
rush troops northward. Thus it is
thought the successes which have
been won by the Russians will have
an important effect upon the for-tunes
of the British campaign.
Mr. King Will Not, Run For Senate.
Mr. R. R. King, who has been im-portuned
by many people through-out
the county to become a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
the state senate, has stated to friends
that he will be unable to make the
race. Mr. King considered the mat-ter
for several weeks and probably
would have yielded to *he desire of
friends that he become a candidate
but for the fact that he does not feel
that he can spare the necessary time
from his private affairs to oartici-pate
in the campaign and later spend
'.wo months or more away frim
home while the legislature is in ses-sion.
Mr. King's decision will be a
matter of regret to many friends who
had hoped to have the pleasure of
supporting him for the senate this
year.
Southern Baptist Convention.
The sixty-first annual session of
the Southern Baptist Convention
met in Asheville yesterday. About
1.500 delegates were registered for
the opening session and the regis-tration
will probably reach 2,000
before the close of the convention.
The delegates represent more than
2,000,000 persons of the Baptist
faith, virtually all residing south of
Mason and Dixon's line, except for
-ertain churches in Illinois, which
several years ago left the Northern
Baptist organization and joined with
the Southerners.
Shelby; Mrs. Nannie Caldwell, Fry,
Greensboro; Mrs. Lula Pell Rouse,
LaGrange; Mrs. Etta Farrar Royster,
Greensboro.
NORTH CAROLINA YOUTH
IX FRENCH AIR SQUADRON.
Paris, May 17.—Corporal J. M.
McConnell. of Carthage. N. C, today
took part in the first aerial expedi-tion
which the American aviators in
the service of the French army have
made over the German lines since
the Franco-American flying corps
was organized as a separate unit.
Though Corporal McConnell was fly-ing
at a height of 12.000 feet, the
German shells were bursting all
around him. showing that the range
of the German anti-aircraft guns has
been lengthening.
The machine piloted by Lieut. Wil-liam
K. Thaw, of Pittsburg, lost part
of its tail piece, and the propeller
was damaged by a shell, but Lieu-tenant
Thaw brought it safely back
to camp.
Corporal Victor Chapman's nfa-chine
was also hit and driven out of
its course, returning so late to its
base as to cause anxiety- regarding
Chapman's fate.
The flotilla started at daybreak
and spent nearly two hours recon-noitering
under sustained fire, but
encountered no German machines
and no one was wounded. Sergeant
Elliott Cowdin. of New York; Corpo-ral
Kiffen Rockwell, of Atlanta, Ga.:
Sergeant Norman Prince, of Boston,
and Sergeant Hall, of Galveston.
Texas, also took part in the expedi-tion.
Three more Franco-American flo-tillas
are to be organized from the
iO aaditional American volunteers
now in training.
Feeble-Minded Number 175,000.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 16—There
are 175,000 feeble-minded persons
in the United States and only 28,778
of them are in institutions devoted
to their care, according to a state-ment
made here tonight at the Na-tional
Conference of Charities and
Corrections by Joseph P. Byers, of
Philadelphia, secretary of the na-tional
commission of provision for
the feeble-minded.
"We know that two-thirds of
feeble-mindedness is due to inherit-ance,"
said Mr. Byers. "So we see
that the best way to stop two-thirds
of the feeble-mindedness is to pre-vert
parenthood among feeble-mind-ed
persons."
Bandits Kill 24 Persons.
Eagle Pass, Texas, May 16.—Ad-vices
recei\ed by Mexican officials in
Piedras Negras. opposite this city,
tonight stated that 24 persons were
killed in the derailment and robbery
of the passenger train held up by-bandits
between Queretaro and Em-palme
Gonzales last Friday.
SPEAKS ONJARIED TOPICS
PRESIDENT TELLS NEWSPAPER
MEN OP HIS EXPERIENCE
IX THE WHITE HOUSE.
President Wilson Tuesday night
made public the frank and intimate
review of his three years in the
White House and h-s impressions of
foreign and domestic problem;, de-livered
confidentially last night be-fore
Washington correspondents
gathered at the National Press Club.
He spoke of the difficulties of the
presidency and particularly of the
motives which had guid.d his hand-ling
of the European situation.
America, the president said, is for
peace because she loves peace and
believes the present war has carried
the nations engaged "so far that they
cannot be held to ordinary standards
of responsibility." But, he added, the
United States has grown to be one of
the great, nations or the world and
therefore must act "more or less
from the point of view of the rest of
the world."
"If I cannot retain my moral in-fluence
over a man except by oc-casionally
knocking him down," he
said, "If that is the only basis on
which he will respect me, then for
the sake of his soul I have got to
occasionally knock him down."
The president declared he had
been kept awake nights considering
the European situation. because
there might come a time when the'
United States would have to do what
it did not desire to do, and "the
great burden on my spirits has beer,
that it has been up to ice to -.-noose
when that time came." He added
that he did not conceive that he had
been elected president to do as he
pleased. "If I were .t would have
been very much more interesting,"
he said.
Impressions of public men as a
class were given frankly by the pres-ident,
with flie comment that so-.ne
grew and some swelled.
When dealing with domestic af-fair*..
>ie continued, we are dealing
with things that tc An ericans are
more or less calculable, but when
the fortunes of the country are sub-ject
to "the incalculable winds of
passion that are blowing through Hie
other parts of the worlu, there is no
knowing what turn of the wheel of
fortune may wrest control from the
guiding hand.
"It makes no difference how deep
the passion of the nation lies." said
the president, "that passion may be
so overborne, by the rush of fortune
in circumstances like those which
now exist that you feel the sort of
1 had almost said resentment.
that a man feels when his own af-lairs
are not within his own hands.
You can imagine the strain upon the
feeling of any man who is trying to
interpret the spirit of his country
when he feels that that spirit cannot
have its oun way beyond a certain
point. And one of the greatest points
of strain upon me, if I may be per-mitted
to point it out, was this:
'There are two reasors why the
chief wish of America is for peace.
One is that they love peace and have
nothing to do with the pres?nt quar-rel,
and the other is that they be-lieve
the present quarrel has carried
those engaged in it so far that they
cannot be held to ordinary standards
of responsibility and that therefore,
as some men have expressed it to me,
since the rest of the world is man,
why should we not simply refuse to
have anything to do with the rest of
the world in the ordinary channels of
action?
"Why not let the storm pass, and
then, when it is all over, have the
reckonings? Knowing that from both
these two points of view the passion
of America was for peace, I was,
nevertheless, aware that America is
one of the nations of the world, not
only, but one of the chief nations of
the world—a nation that grows
more and more powerful almost in
spite of herself; that grows morally-more
and more influential even when
she is not aware or?si; and that if
she is to play the part which she
covets, it is necessary that she
should act more or less from the
point of view of the rest of the world.
"The people of the United States
are not asking anybody's leave to do
their own thinking, and are not ask-ing
anybody to tip them off what
they ought to think. They are think-ing
for themselves, every man for
himself, and you do not know, and
the worst of it is, since the respon-sibility
is mine, I do not know what
they are thinking about. I have <he
most imperfect means of finding out.
and yet I have got to act as if I
knew.
"That is the burden of it, and I tell
you, gentlemen, it is a pretty serious
burden, particularly if you look upon
the ofhee as I do—that I am not put
there' to do what I please. If I were,
it would have been very much more
interesting than it has been. I am
put here to interpret, to register, to
suggest, and . more than that and
much greater than that, to be sug-gested
to."
Referring to the difference in In
terpreting the thought of America
and in dealing with foreign affairs,
the speaker told the newspapermen
that was one reason he had urged
them "not to know more than the
state department knows about for-eign
affairs " Some of them, ha said
had a singular range of omniscience
and he was constantly taken by sur-prise
in regard to decisions said to
be his own. Continuing, he said:
"Now that is pretty dangerous,
gentlemen, because it happens that
remarks start fires. Thi-re is tinder
lying everywhere, not only on the
other side of the water, but on this
side of the water and a man that
spreads sparks may b-5 responsible
for something a great deal woise
than burning a town on the Mexj,
can border.
"Thoughts may be band it a.
Thoughts may be raiders Thoughts
may be Invaders. Thoughts may be
disturbers of international pep.ee;
and when you reflect upon th-.- im-portance
of this country keeping out
of the present war. you will knon
what tremendous elements we *>re
all dealing with.
"We are all in the same boat. I If
somebody does not keep tne processes
of peace going, if somebody noes not
keep their passions disengaged, by
what impartial judgment and sugges-tion
is the world to be aided in a so-lution
when the whole thing is over?
If you are in a conference in which
you know nobody is disinterested,
how are you going to make a plan?
I tell you this, gentlemen, the only
thing that, saves the world is the lit-tle
handful of disinterested men that
are in it."
The president, said he had found
few disinterested, men and that he
tied to them as to an anchor. They
iire men. he said, who would give
their lives for America, not caring
whether aryt.ody heard they uad
given their lives for it: willing to die
In obscurity if only iliey might
serve.
"A friend of mine savs that evory
man who takes office in Washington
cither grows or swells." he continued
in lighter vein, "and when I rive a
"man an office I watch him carefully
to see whether he is swelling or
growing. The mischief ot it is that
•vhen they swell they dc not swell
enough to burst.
"If they would only s veil to the
point where you might insert a pin
and let the gases out, i* would be a
great delight. But the men who
grow, the men who thick better a !
•-ear after they are put in office than
they thought when they were put in
office, are the balance wheel of the
•.vhole thing.
"I have come through the fire
since I talked to you last," he said.
"Whether the metal is ni:rer than it
was, God only knows: \>ut the f-re
has been there, the fire has pene-trated
every part of it, and if I may
believe my own thoughts, I have
less partisan feeling, more impati-ence
of party maneuver, more enthu-siasm
for tne right thing, no matter
whom it hurts, than I ever had be-fore
in my life."
THE HOME 18 GREATEST
AGENT OP EDUCATION.
That home is the greatest educa-tion
agent was a declaration made
by Dr. P. p. Claxton, formerly of
North Carolina, now United States
commissioner of education, Sunday
afternoon in Norfolk. Speaking un-der
the auspices of the Norfolk
Teachers' Association, Dr. Claxton
asserted in a forcible address that
education is the greatest attribute of
democracy, and that the home is the
first and most important agency Of
education. Developing his subject,
"The Home, the Community, and
the School," he .teclared that schools
Nut interpret experiences, in the home
and in tiie community, and can never
make good what homes fail to do In
the first y^-ars of child life
Dr. Claxtbn's address was some-what
Utopian in character. He visu-alized
a community in vhich every
child had its talents developed fully
and declared this condition should
obtain. He said a community which
had slums within its limits was a
community which permitted ignor-ance
among a part of its inhabitants;
and added that the whole fabric, op.
democracy suffers «hM any pJr( oft
that democracy Is ignorant and un-trained
for intelligent living.
Illustrating his declaration that
every child should be irained", fie*
used tha words of Christ after He
had fed, the 5,000 when He instruct-ed
His disciplies to "gather up the
fragments that nothing be lost."
"Neither church nor state will ful-fill
their duty." he added, "till there
is no forgotten man or woman; till
they see that no child dies unneces-sarily,
and nc man or woman grow
*ithout their intelligence develop-ed."
He emphasized the.importance of
home training in co-operation with
that of i he schools, saying that at
most a child spends but 900 hoars
in school during a year out of more
than 8,000 hours, the remaining
time being spent in the home and
community. He asserted that teach-ers
should know the parents of chil-dren
in their cdre to be able to give
the children the best training as re-gards
t!.eir own experience and en-vironment.
He said they ought not
all be run through the same ma-chines;
that 'schools were made for
children, and not children for
schools."
WANTS TEN THOUSAND
PEACE SERMONS SUNDAY.
Guilford College Commencement.
The commencement exercises of
Guilford College will be held Sun-day,
Monday and Tuesday, May
28 2S and 30. The baccalau-reate
sermon will be preached
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock by-
Rev. Dr. Byron Clark, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Salis-bury.
At 8 o'clock Sunday evening
the address before the Christian as-sociations
will be delivered by Rev.
Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, pastor of Wes-ley
Memorial Methodist church,
High Point.
The class day exercises will be
held Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
The business meeting of the alumni
association will be held Monday-evening
at 7 o'clock and will be fol-lowed
by the alumni reception.
The graduating exercises will take
place Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock.
Following the conferring of degrees,
the baccalaureate address w-11 be de-livered
by Dr. William P Few, pres-ident
of Trinity College, Durham.
New York. May 16.—Letters sign-ed
by former President Taft, as head
of the League to Enforce Peace, and
by a committee of prominent church-men,
have been written to 10,000
clergymen throughout the country,
it was announced tonight, asking
them to embody in th-ir sermons
next Sunday an explanation of the
league's purposes It U admitted
that "there is no reasonable groi nd
to hope that the nations of the world
will at this stage go so far as to dis-arm
and create an international
army and navy to police the world."
"However," the letter says, "we
have got to the point w'here there is
ground for hope that at the end of
this war the community of nations
will do what every primitive com-munity
sooner or later does, namely
—unite in forming a vigilance com-mittee,
in which they agree to use
.heir combined force to see that out-lawry
is kept down and the peace
maintained.
"Shall we not say th.;-, if nations
must arm, the armaments shall be
used to support law rather than to
break it?"
Villa Leader Killed.
Three bandits, including Julio
Cardenas, a Villa leader, were killed
in a skirmish with an American de-tachment
near Rubio ranch, 20
miles east of Lake Itiscatc. Mexico,
Monday.
The Americans, 12 in number,
comprised an automobile detach-ment,
under Lieutenant George S.
Duttenout. that was out foraging
There were no American casualties.
A Costly Lexington Case.
Lexington, May 16.—After being
out for about 40 hours, the jury in
the case of Denton Telephone Com-pany
vs. Varner returned a verdict
in favor of the plaintiff. Only about
$10 in actual property value was
concerned in the case, yet it took
nine well-known lawyers over a day
of Superior court and about 30 wit-nesses
to untangle it. The witness
fees alone amounted to $13S.«u.
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