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THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
PAGE SEVEN
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P! UI1L If
LOAN IS NEEDED
It Will Settle Nation's War
Debts and Will Care for
Sick and Wounded.
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1919.
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Once m a while some one asks:
"What's the need of another Liberty-
Loan now that the war is over?"
Revenue from taxes will not be suf
ficient to pay all the bills, so the
people will be called upon to provide
the money by subscribing to govern
ment bonds. This money is going to
pay off the army of producers at home
the farmers, merchants, manufac
turers and others.
America had just begun to fight
when the Hun decided it was time to
quit. Allied leaders expected the war
to last another year and the United
States government was turning out
ships, arms, ammunition and food to
overwhelm Germany in one big
drive.
Treasury officials have revealed
that in 1919 America would have had
a tank at the front for every seventy-
five feet of line. "We would have had
ten tons of mustard gas ready for
shipment for every ton Germany
could produce. Thousands of batter
ies of guns would have been in , act
ion for every one .America had in 1918.
Everything else was being produced
in proportion.
This gigantic preparation brought
an early end to the war and saved
thousands of lives. Victory Liberty
Bonds will pay for this work which
had been contracted for and was be
ing delivered when the armistice was
signed.
There are other purposes for which
money is need. Part of our army of
2,000,000 men must be kept in Europe
until the peace treaty is signed.
These soldiers must be fed, clothed
and otherwise maintained. Then they
must be brought home.
The sick and wounded must be car
ed for in hospitals. The army must
be demobilized. There are thousands
of maimed soldiers, heroes of the
great war, who must be taught self
supporting trades and given an oppor
tunity to earn their living.
This reconstruction work at home
must be carried on. The job must be
finished. The American . people who
furnished the money to win the war
must supply it also to bring the na
tion back to a peace basis.
GOVERNOR COMMUTES
CHAS. BUSH' SENTENCE
Allowed To Pay Fine Instead of Serve
Road Term For Unlawful Pos-
session of Whiskey
A sentence of four months on the
VuWic roads for the unlawful posses
sion of whiskey for sale has ben com
muted by the Governor to a fine of
!50, in the case of Charles Bush, of
Pasquotank County. Bush was convict
ed at the September(1918)term of court
and since that time an appeal has been
pending.
The reasons for the pardon assigned
by the Governor are :
"Upon petition of the Judge and the
Solicitor who tried the case, and what
seems to be the whole body of the citi
zenship of Pasquotank county. This
sentence is commuted to a fine of $250
upon the condition that the defendant
shall appear before the Judge of the
Superior Court of Pasquotank county:
at the March term of said court, every
year for three years, and show to the
satisfaction of the Judge that he has
not violated any of the laws of North
Carolina against the manufacture, -sale
and possession of intoxicating liquor
and that he has had absolutely nothing
to do with intoxicating liquor in any
way. hut has led an honest, sober and
industrious life."
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RELEASE THE SINCERE
Joseph F. Rutherford, President of
the International Bible Students Asso
ciation, and his associates, also official
members of that religious organization
are held in the Atlanta Penitentiary
although their case is still pending in
the courts, even ball being refused
them. Their crime consisted In the
publication of their sincere belief and
understanding of the Bible, wliich in
terpretation was written before the
United States entered the war, and be
fore the Espionage Law was passed.
Forty years and more before his death
Pastor Russell taught these doctrines,
and Mr. Rutherford successor to the
Pastor, and his associates, continued
the teachings and works of the Asso
ciation. For years they have labored
to better, mankind and have dono so
without money consideration, which is
the best evidence of their sincerity, ,No
one doubts their sincerity. In pro
nouncing sentence upon them the trial
judge said they were sincere, hence
great should be their punishment. .
On the 22d of January . Secretary of
War Baker ' released 113 conscientious
objectors who had been court-martialed
and sentenced to long terms of im
prisonment. He announced that they
were released because an - examining
board had reported these men as sin
cere in their belief and as to their po
sition as to war. Four months have
passed since the war ended and yet
these Christian gentlemen of the In
ternational Bible Students Association
sincere and honest, as conceded by all.
are still held in prison. Why not rec
ognize . their honesty and sincerity by
immediately releasing them? The
American people, love honesty and sin
cerity. Why not apply. the principles
to these sincere Bible Students?
Let every American citizen who fa
vors their release from prison write a
letter to his Congressman and United
States Senator enlisting their aid In
this behalf. It is high time to act and
thus lend yyour aid and support to the
cause of democracy. adv.lt.
DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS
IN THE OLD NORTH STATE
(Concluded from page 1)
It is time for a nice new spring hat
with a nice gay spring countenance
under It- '
The, business that can't afford to ad
vertise in -this newspaper isn't" worth
dvertIsmff,vivs'ir:r's-'-'j;.-.. k.r- ,:
textile manufacturer. And there is
where I once lost- my temper. The
moss-back representative of Halifax
county, a doddering old fossil with one
foot in the grave, interrupted my speech
in behalf of child labor legislation -and
asked:
"Would you keep the poor little
children of North Carolina from earn
ing their bread and meat?"
To this I answered in tones of thun
der: 'If it has come to pass In North
Carolina that children under 16 years
of age must work ten hours a day to
get their bread and meat then, by God,
let the State of North Carolina feed
its children!". I was promptly called
down by a rap of the Speaker's gavel
and the cannibals (those who live on
their children) felt they had achieved
a great victory.
North Carolina will some day wake up
and enact a humane child - labor law.
At the same : time North , Carolina
should put. a check upon the reckless
lrocreatfoW :of "Mtrn.5:W-; ; "'!
parents. North Carolina needs trained
nurses to go into the homes of the
poor women of North Carolina and
show them how to limit the number of
their offspring. There is nothing in the
law of North Carolina to prevent the
giving of birth control information to
women. If the poorer worjung ciass 01
women In North Carolina gave birth
to fewer children the state would have
better children and less of a children's
problem.
REV. W. W. SAWYER
Rev. W. W. Sawyer, age 64, died at
his home at Dinwiddle, Va., Tuesday
night. He was a native of Perquimans
coifhty. He entered the Methodist min
istry about 35 years ago and connected
himself with the Virginia conference.
He is survived by a wife and eight
children. He is survived also by two
brothers, Dr. C. W. Sawyer, of Eliza
beth City and Dr. LeRoy Sawyer, of
Great Bridge, Va.
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