-3'
m
' Of Wheat by One
America Consumed 42,000,000 Bushels Monthly.
From Now Until Harvest Must Use
Only 21,000,000.
RATION PER PERSON IS V2 POUNDS
OF WHEAT PRODUCTS WEEKLY
Military Necessity Calls for Greater Sacrifice Here Allied War
Bread Must Be Maintained Our Soldiers and
Sailors to Have Full Allowance,
Tf we are to'furnish the Allies with the necessary propor
v tn of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the
ixt harvest, and this is a military necessity, we must reduce
monthly consumption to 21,000,000 bushels a month, as
,ainst our normal consumption of about 42,000,000 bushels,
or 50 per cent, of our normal consumption. This is the situa
tion as set forth by the U. S. Food Administration at Washing
ton. Reserving a margin for distribution to the army and for
special cases, leaves for general consumption approximately
pounds of wheat products weekly per person. The Food
Administration's statement continues: Many of our consumers
are dependent upon bakers' bread. Such bread must be durable
and therefore, requires a larger proportion of wheat products
than cereal breads baked in the household. Our army and
navy require a full allowance. The well-to-do in our population
can make greater sacrifices in the consumption of wheat
products than can the poor. In addition, our population in
the agricultural districts, where the other cereals are abun
dant, are more skilled in the preparation of breads from these
other cereals than the crowded city and industrial populations.
With improved transportation conditions we now have avail
- able a surplus of potatoes. Wfc also have in the spring months
a surplus of milk, and we have ample corn and oats for human
consumption. The drain on rye and barley, as substitutes, has
already greatly exhausted the supply of these grains.
Trt aff ant tha naarl1 co
- o v m6 ui wucai
we are wholly dependent upon the
voluntary assistance of the American
people and we ask that the following
rules shall be observed :
1. Householders to use not to exceed
a total of 1V6 pounds per week of
wheat products per person. This
means not more than 1 pounds of
Victory bread containing the required
percentage of substitutes and one-half
pound of cooking flour, macaroni,
- crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat
breakfast cereals, all combined.
2. Public eating places and clubs to
observe two wheatless days per weelt,
Monday and Wednesday, as at present.
In ' addition thereto, not to serve to
any one guest at any one meal an
aggregate of breadstuff s. macaroni,
crackers, pastry, pies, c.akes, wheat
breakfast cereals, containing a total
of more than two ounces of wheat
fiour. No wheat products to be served
unless specially ordered. Public, ent-
lng establishments not to buy more
ilian six pounds of wheat products for
fach ninety meals served thus con
forming with the limitations requested
of the householders.
8. Retailers to sell not more than
one-eighth of a. barrel of flour to any
town customer at any one thne and
not more than one-quarter of a barrel
to any country customer at any one
time, and In no case to sell wheat
products without the sale of an equal
weight -of other cereals.
4. We ask the bakers and grocers to
reduce the volume of Victory bread
soil, by delivery of the three-quarter
pound loaf where one pound was sold
t.fore, and corresponding proportions
In other weights. We also ask bakers
not to increase the amount of their
wheat flour purchases beyond 70 per
ALLIED FOOD SHIPMENTS
REACH LARGE TOTAL,
A general Idea of the quantity of
fool sent to European allies by the
United States from July 1, 1914, to
.Thiii;tirif 1 1Q1R la H von hrr fttrnroa
jfsk Bounced by the C S. Food Ad
mli istratlon. In that period the Unit
ed Srates has furnished complete year
ly rations for 57,100,933 people. In
3d i ion there was enough extra pro
n ?d supply this portion of the diet
:'2.194,570 additional men.
Tl e total export of wheat? aqd wheat
Slou? to the three principal allies' iir
qui alent to about 384000.000 bushels.
Porl exports for the years, amount
ed to almost 2,000,6t50a-ponfnds. Ex
ports of fresh beef totaled 443,484.400
pout "is. The amount of food exported
to I' ;ssia is negligible compared with
that sent to the western allies.
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ONLY AMERICA CAN HELP.
'On your side are boundless
smplies of men, food, and mate
ria!; on this side a boundless de-m.-ri'sd
for their help.
Our men are war-weary and
their nerves have been strained
by more than three years of
h i J, relentless toil.
- "Our position is critical, par
t'nsiarly until the next harvest,
bt the United States can save
us
-vbu Americans have te men,
the skill, and the material to
save the allied caus."
81 R JOSEPH MAC LAY.
British Shipping' Controller.
m
alf
cent, or tne average monthly amount
purchased in the four months prior to
March 1.
5. Manufacturers using wheat prod
ucts for non-food purposes should
cease such use entirely.
6. There is no limit upon the use of
other cereals, flours, and meals, corn,
barley, buckwheat, potato flour, et
cetera.
Many thousand families throughout
the land are now using no wheat" prod
ucts whatever, except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and satisfac
tion. There is no reason why all of
the American people who are able to
cook in their own households cannot
subsist perfectly well with the use of
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and we specially
ask the well-to-do households in the
country to follow this additional pro
gramme in order that we may provide
the necessary marginal supplies for
those parts of the community less able
to adapt themselves to so large a pro
portion of substitutes.
In order that we shall be able to
make the wheat exports that are ab
solutely demanded of us to maintain
the civil population and soldiers of the
allies and our own army, we propose
to supplement the voluntary co-operation
of the public by a further limita
tion of distribution, and we shall place
at once restrictions on distribution
which will be adjusted from time to
time to secure as nearly equitable dis
tribution as possible. With the arrival
of harvest we should be able to relax
such restrictions. Until then we ask
for the necessary patience, sacrifice
and co-operation of the distributing
trades.
Great Wheat Stocks
Isolated.
It's the shortage in ships that
Ts putting the Allies and the
Cnitwl States on wheat rations.
Great stocks of wheat are Iso
lated in India, and Australia. At
great sacrifice In ship space and
use the Allies are forced to se
cure some wheat frpm Argentina,
On January I, Australia had
stored 100,000,000 bushels of
wheat that was ready for ex
port but Ciefe were no ships.
Then came the new crop with
an exportable surplus of 80,000,
000 bushels, Now Australia has
approximately 180,000.000 bush
els waiting for ships.
IndUqTlTt tbsatne time, had
70,000,000 bushels' r of wheat
stored for export. -During April
50,000.000 bushels more out of
the new crop will be added to
the pile. '
Argentina closed the last ship
ping season with 11,000,000
bushels of wheat left in the
stock available for export. The
new crop will ado 135,000,000 to
the left over.
It is not a problem that the
wheat does not exist In the
world It Is entirely a problem
of shipping, which has thrown on
America the obligation of dlvid
tiig our stock with the Allies.
WHAT IT IS
By DR. TALCOTT WILLIAMS,
Director of the Columbia University
.School of Journalism.
Based on the principle, immoral In
ethics, tyrannical In operation, and
perilous to all liberty, that certain
men are born to
German Govern
ment" has for a
generation been the
foe of liberty and
the enemy of free
dom. Its whole in
fluence has been
thrown to suppress
freedom in the
four, Balkan states.
It has prevented
their peaceful de
velopment, refused
to enforce the Trea
ty of Berlin, which
"Talcott Williams.
would have brought
peace, and is responsible for four Bal
kan wars. A score of years ago it
supported the bloodthirsty Sultan of
Turkey in Armenian massacres, and
the officers of the "Imperial German
Government" have aided and abetted
these massacres now because the Ar
menians worked, and peanned for lib
erty when other' races in Turkey were
quiescent. It is the "Imperial German
Government" which is responsible for
800,000 Armenians, starved to death' as
Germans themselves testify.
"Secret Enemy."
In 1908, when the revolutionary
Turkish government was for freedom,
Germany opposed it; when it became
tyrannical Germany made this govern
ment its ally. The German govern
ment harassed France not merely be
cause it was its ancient enemy, but
because its success as a republic made
the French people perilous to princes.
The German government plotted to re
store the Manchu Emperor and the
Russian Czar to their thrones.
Because the American people by Its
prosperity and power made liberty
desired by all the world the German
government has been its secret enemy.
Thirty years ago it plotted against oxxv
treaty rights in Samoa; it sent its
fleet to worry and threaten Dewey
at Manila in 1898; it offered to Eng
land, which refused, fo overturn the
Monroe Doctrine in Mexico. It has In
fifteen years threatened Venezuela,
Mexico, Hayti and other American
states. When we were maintaining
peace under great provocation, it pro
posed to Mexico and Japan to attack
us, both refusing. It betrayed Inter
national faith in the dispatches sent
through the Swedish Minister. It. filled
our land with spies, sought unavailing
ly to embroil us with those of German
birth resident in this country, slaugh
tered our citizens on the high seas,
contrary to all law, national and Inter
national, human and divine.
"Bore Much."
We waited long, we bore much, and
we are now sending our sons to the
war declared against the "Imperial
German Government" because the rec
ord of thirty years shows that neither
liherty nor democratic institutions are
safe the world over while that govern
ment is powerful. We wisely prefer,
after what Belgium suffered, to fight
Germany "somewhere in France" rath
er than In New York harbor; on the
Somme, rather than on the Hudson.
In one or the other we should have
had to fight. In 1770 we sent our sons
to fight for American liberty,-and we
won it. In 1812 we fought for the
freedom of the sea, and we won that.
In 1S61 we sent our sons to fight for
the liberty of the slave, and we won
that. ToJay we send our sons out to
fight for the liberty of humanity, and
we shall win that. ,
PUBLICITY AND CRITICISM.
"Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of speech -or of
the presV so reads a clause In our
Constitution.
This Is a wise provision. The cltl
rens of a .democracy should at- all
times know of and be able to criticise
the management of their affairs. In
vestigation aed criticism In the pres
ent war have been of great benefit
In hastening our preparation by point
ing out errors that have been made.
There Is no doubt whatever that the
great safeguards in the conduct of the
war are almost unlimited publicity and
the right of criticism.
We are told that constructive crit
icism is alw.ays welcome, but who Is
to decide what Is constructive?. Why
not criticism without the adjective?
Most citizens believe " that . Universal
Military Training as a corrective of
our unpreparedness would have Jbeen
constructive, and yet it was not adopt
ed. Who can tell, if It had been ac
cepted when, first proposed, what the
result would have been on this war I
If we had had more publicity upon
the production of aeroplanes, shipping'
and ordnance, the suggestions or think
ing men would unquestionably have
stimulated the rapidity with which
these articles were being produced,
and the delays that have occurred
might have been avoided.
There are things the Government
cannot make public, and these the peo
ple do -not ask to know. But In the
main full information concerning the
progress of preparation can safely be
given to the people. It is the people's
war: it is a war supported by the peo
ple, financially and pnysically, and
s-iriestions by them should be sought
and considered.
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LOCAL NEWS
of interest to
ALL OF OUR READERS.
A train of wounded eol
ieS$ paesed through this city
eii route to Abbeville. These
men had seen spivies on the
Branch jfrouj and some had
bejfn badly wouuded or gas
eg They talked fre-ly of
tlj scenes and their experU
rice at the front.
f JThree more Rpwan men are
ordered to report for duty at
Syracuse Recruiting Camp,
Syracuse, N Y, July 29th.
The men are: Earnest Hols
hoiiser, Dudley' N Click,
nw B Van Poole, Alter
nate, Thomas Lee Kesler.
-Dispatcher from Paris on
VVsdne8day the 17th told of
.thtv death of Lieutenant
Qfjfentin Roosevelt, the young
esjp eoii of Col. Roosevelt,
ad-American aviator whose
machine fell behind the Ger
man lines after a battle with
aftjerman plane which he
brought down. It was
thought for a tims that he
hljd landed safely and was
bjipg held prisoner.
: The Li taker township Suns
day school eonveutipu will
bej held in the Lutheran
church at Faith, Tuesday,
JiJy 30th, beginning at 10
o'clock a m aud there will be
morning and evening ses
sriua. A splendid program
hs been arraugecK
.'if -'
fjVlrs Joseph Wallace Hoce
Rgiite 1, Salisbury, N C, was
iithe city Friday, peeking
information regarding the
death of her husband who
was killed in action ou the
front. Mrs Hoce was former
l"y Miss Pearl Overcash. -
The women of Salisbury
have organized a Young
Woman's Christian Associa
tidn under the leadership of
Ms .Skinner, Y W C A sec
refary. . This orgaimatiou is
a f;jnd maiden of the church
tint goes fort h to make our
world a cleaner one.
A '"wi'd" motorcycle ran
oyer a block on North Main
Street Sunday afternoon
without a rider aud only
stopped when it wrecked it
self against a telephone pole.
Flyd Kerns, a white man
wlo had "been riding the
machine was thrown from it
brising his knee.
other contingent of color
edien left last Thursday
foffJafeip Meade, Md. Earlier
in lie day a long train ot
about twenty cars containing
dxafted men from Pennsyl
vania, passed going south,
an4 the night before 'quite a
few. troop trains passed bear
ingjthe men to points of em
bailment
Mrs R D Harry died at her
hou e in reeridboro, last
Wednesday after an attack
of a r a I y 8 i A hus
banj two daughters and two
sonurvive. She was a na
tivebf Rowan being the
daughter of Frank Neely and
Amanda Hall Neely.
The SouthRowau branch
of Jhe Red Cross will give
au ic cream supper at E M
Dea store, near . "Organ
church,, on Saturday from 4
to lQjp m, July 27th Ev-ry
bodjpis' invited to come out
a?rd;i?ist iu a good cause.
Th proceeds go to tha Red
Cr )tf.
Clove's Tasteless chill Tonic
destrothemahrialrmswhiA
Sfljs erc3trJ tots FwDisfoyal Till, y
Drputy United Stated
Marshall H 0 '.Trait, went iq
China Grove township last
Wednesday and p'aeed. Silas
Overcash. a well known and
proppero'is farmer under ar
rest, el'aifivd with violating
the espionage ad, engaging
in alleged disloyal talk and
abusing the government. He
was given a hear'ng that eve'
ningbefor Commissioner W
L Ray, who after hearing the
evidence and questioning
Overcash, held him iu a $1000
bond for his appearance at;
the next tenn of Salisbury
Federal c. urt. Overcash is
said to have talked prtty in
dependently and refused -to
jfiyH bond, so he was placed
in jail. After having been'
there for about two hours he
sent for Mr Tratt and arrang
ed bail, giving cash bond fori
$10'0Gand was liberated.
The iFederal authorities
had het-n award of Overcash
es diBlnyaly for some time and
at the hearing when he was
asked i'he did not know that
the United States wis nt war
with Geim'-Miy, he h reported
to have said lint he did not
not know it, that he had
heard, but did not know it
totn'afact He also admit
ted that be had not purchase
ed any Libertv bonds or War
Stamps and said he would
tell President Wilson so if
nece sary. The officers re
ported that h acted very
ugly and disrepectfully also.
Mrs Overcash has a wife and
eight children. He is a very
successful farmer f ud is well
fixed (inanMally.
The Quinlno That Does Not Aftsct the Head
Because of its ton to and laxative effect, LAXA
TIVE BROMO is better than ordinary
Suinine and does not cause nervousness nor
agin? in head. Remember the full name and
took for the signature of E. W. GROVB. 30c.
A Batch of Negroes Leara Fw Camp.
i The following is a list cf
the colored men who left last
Thursday for Ta rap Meitd
Admir-il. Maryland. The
mn wereaccotppanied from
tlrw Post Office to the station
by rn mi herd of the colored
Red Cross, friends "and rela
tivrs. Messr4 Qoinn and
Rimsay of ihe loaal board,,
headiug the processiou. , V
v Cliff Griffin, captain
John Neal lieutenaut
Thomas Cicero Miller
John S Leazer.
William OultHrston.
Tonsil Alex Li taker.
V illiam Johnson
(harles Heilig
Fred William Kilpairick.
Fred Douglas Carson Lieut
Henry Luther Neal
Anderson Mobley.
Charles E Cisco
Charlie Bates
Levi Savage
Coul6u8 Harris
Robert Cowan, Lieut.
Sam Johnson
Bane Archie
Archie Blake
Charlie Blpke
Cleaty Rohnrls
Ei Walters
Floyd A Kerr, Lieut
Roheit Gibsou
Thomas Wilson
Daniel Sumner.
Isaac Lowery
Sam Smith
James Li taker.
The Joy ef Living.
To enjoy life we must have
good heaiih. No one can reason;
a ly hope to get much pleasure
out of life when his bowels are
clogged a good share of his
time and the poisons that sboutd
be expelled are absorbed in the '
system, produciu headache and j
indigestion. A lew u .
Chamberlain's Tablets will move
the bowels, strengthen the di
gcti.m and give you a chance to
the leal joY of imtr I
;riARE?iA(Si
Miss Adelaide Ward And
not. x' vwou wqro quiwfcljr
'married la9t Thursday nt the
hime of ReY P W Tucker,
pastor of South Main street
H E Ckurch. Mrs Oweu 1
the daughter of Mr and Mrs
Ge rge Ward of Vickebburg
Miss, while Mr Owen is son of
W F Owen of western Rowan
and is in the service of the
US Navy and has recently
been selected asNan ibfficer on
a torpedo boat destroyer now
uuder construction. ' The
young couple will spend a
few weeks at the home of the
groom. They will makeQtheir
home in Bopton, Mass, aud
Mr Owen will resume his
work uutil his ship is launch
ed.
The fire dedpartment was
called gut early Monday
morning to the home of
Francis Murdoch, South
Church street Considerable
lamage was done by fire and
ater. 1 is believed the
blaze originated from a high
)wwi electric wire. The
unily. was not at home.
The twelth anniversary of
' zreth Orphanage' will be
eld at Crescent, Thursday,
i ngnt 8th.Thi8 occasion has
sways been largely attended
i d it is hoped this year the
attendance wili be still
greater.
hcrease in 'Pfeons Rates.
The hearing of the Bell Tele
phone Company's application for
an increase of rates iu certain
North Carolina towns was con
cluded before the corporation
c6mm sion last week. Represent
atives of interested towns asked
fqr a continuance of 60 days un -tH
they could gather material to
answer statements of the Bell,
but this was refused. While the
commission has not rendered its
decision it is generally accepted
that the increase in rates will be
granted
The increase in 'phone rates in
the towns included in the Bell's
application will increase the reve
nues of that company - about
$lf0,0o9 a year, it is stated. Iu
f Asiieville, says the Citizen, resi
lience phones will be increased
from $2.50 to $3 per month and
business Uhones from t4 to $5
per month.
His Finish.
Herbert Crawford of Cynthian
Ky . a drafted man on his way to
Camp Meade, Md., leaped from a
train near Millboro. Va. As the
fall did not proved fatal, Craw
ford ripped barbed wire from a
fence near the railway tracks,
threw one end over a limb of a
tree and by the time the train
stopped and backed to the scene,
he had succeeded in' strangling
;-f himself.
Garage end Store Ean it Crtsits fcarry.
Granite Quarry, a small town
live tniles east of Salisbury, had
qaite a Are Saturday afternoon.
The blaze started in the Granite
Quarry parage and destroyed
that building together with two
automobiles and then burned the
general store of J. R. Lyerly &
Sons. The garage and the store
were both owned by the Lyerly
firm ..and their loss is several
thousand dollars. &ome of the
merchandise, was saved from the
Store but the contents of the ga
rage including a quantity of auto
mo ile accesories were destroyed.
Both huildings were framestrac-
tures.
No Worms In a Healthy Child
.'! children troubled with worms kiw 1i
V' S r-r. --m.t-1. i- t . . . . . . i
zule, trsrrre fa more or lets stomach distorbiueo.
GROVZ S TASTELESS chill TONIC toa regularly
far two or t'iee weeks will enrich the blood, kn
9nw ditfesUon. aad act as a General Street th-
10 me waoie systexa. Mttort will teed
unwjorar di3il the worait. aad the GUM wCLU
fc ft