WASErtXGTOTT, H. C., WEDNJfSDA Y J&ISRNOON, DECEMBER K UMBER 10, BONAR-LAW REFUSES TO SERVE AS PREMIER LLP MCE HA* BE HAM NEW KMIER BolleTed That the Tank of Reorgan izing the British Cabinet Will ' Pall Upon Trim, . (By United Press) ' x LONDON. ? -That Androws Bohar t Law, the Unionist leader of the Brit ish cabinet, has definitely declined the profer from the King, -made last, night, that he form a now ministry, ^Was authoritatively stated today. Apparently Law's decision In d clinlng to accept the premiership t ? and form the new cabinet Is constru ed to mean .that Lloyd George will bo called upon to perform the task. There seems to be little doubt but that the latter will accept and that he will be the next prime minister. King Summons Lloyd Goorjje. LONDON. ? King George today summoned Lloyd George, whose, res ignation as minister of war forced a shake-up in the British cabinet, to the palace for a conferen<^>. Such, summons at this time is loaned upon here as an indication that Lloyd George wjll be offered the Premier ship. Lloyd George, early today, also conferred with Bonar Law, who re fused to bocome premier. Cafcfj^tt >|cmbcrs Summoned. ? LONDON? Kin- George this af ^' HerBOOti stiinttfbncd coalition eabinot members In council at the*palace to discuss the situation. RESofii OF PEACE ARE INTRODUCED Want , #fnrtse and S-nnto Committees to Confer so That the Peoplo ' Slay KWw. . WASHINGTON. ? Resolutions, calling for an immedlate>fconferenco of the Sonate committco on forolgn relations and the House committee o% foreign aifr-'vrs with the President, to formulate plans to bL-ln/; ajiout pcaco nugoUaflonn among the war ring nations of Europe wore offered In the House today by Representative Llndenbergh. The resolutions also provide that If It 1b impossible To obtain speedy action toward ending the war, the committees report back so that Con gress may then proceed to regulate 'potntnerce and business. f >*The people- should hot he forced Under existing .circumstances to contribute 'any longer to the ejpen jlve carrying on of the Inhuman and senseless wars that are now raging," declares Llndenbergh. * Hero Prom R(oiint* Ci^ek. C. R. Gallagher and daughter and W. R. Gallagher and his daughter are In tft* city today from Blounts Creek. THE LADIES AID SdClETVi of the Plrst Baptist Chnrch win eondnet a Christmas Pair hi the Rodman bfJldlng on West Main street besoming Thursday night < at 9 o'clock and conUnnlng the week. 1 1-?-2 tc-fp H'ADOO CRIT1CES miniKE for PUBUCJtflLIMKGS WASHINGTON. ? In his annual re port, to Congress, Secretary McAdoo criticises the "pork" system and pleads for a more sciontlllo; business like method. His observations are based on a study of the public build ing question for the past three and a half years and experience gained In the administration of the law* rela tive to the designing, construction sad operation of public buildings through the supervising architects' j office. : ' "I am convinced." he decrees, "that the methods pursued by the Congress for the past 15 years of) providing federal buildings through ; Bo-ealled omnibus public building! bills have resulted in the eonstruc- j tlon of many public buildings in | 'small towns and localities whore they ? are not needed, and at a coBt which , is clearly unjustifiable by sny actual ? j requirements^ of tho communities In i wl^ch' they are erected. Tho conclu sion Is Irresistible that authorisations for public bullldngs in those small communities are too frequently dic tated by local reasons and without .regard to the best Interests of the government. I ?In the past rwo decades,*' he con ; tlnues, "the Congress has authorized and Appropriated approximately $180,000,000 for public buildings and tho major part of this great sum has been expended on costly struc , tures in small localities where neith er the government business nor tho convenience# of t?e peoplo Justified their construction, and VhUe~the in!-' , tlr.l cost of thecs buildings represents j a largo waste of public funds, this is j |not the worst of It. The most ser | lous aspect is this: the annual op , oration and maintenance of these I buildings impolb on the treasury a [permanent and constantly increasing I burden. "Thene are now more than 1,000 I federal buildings to be operated and ^ maintaned and this number Is being ' Increased at the rate of a pew build ing overy fourth day In the yoar. Meanwhile, tho cities and larger towns have outgrown their govern | ment buildings and nearly every pop ulous center in the United States in j today ncutoly in need of additional J space to moet the demands of gteatly | Increased and constantly Increasing i government business. { To such an extent has tho govorn Imont business outgrown the old J structures in tho cities that tho ren | tals for outside spaeo now amdunts approximately to $3,000,000 annual ly. This capitalized atlhrco per cent represents $100,000,000 snd is doub< less the amount required to provide the facilities sorely needed for the prompt, efficient snd oconomlcal con duct ?f " the public business in the great centers and large cities of the country. "Common senso and business Judg ment would bwid to demand that, structures for the transaction of the Government business should be au thorised only In localities whero they are imperatively needed and that buildings should not be erected whore I publie necessity cannot bo sfiowri." MAOHIX* GUXS AND BTTKTXR GO TO AMfi&JCAN ARMY EL PASO. ? Thirteen motor trucks loaded with 3-Inch shefls, ,22.000 rounds of rlflo ammunition. 180 miles of ground wlro for field tele phone*. machine guns snd other "Mil itary supplies, left for the Am erf MA army fleld headquarters In Mexico y<*WterdiT,' so wmy officers arriving here from Cotaaboi, N. M.. the fleld base, reported today. There was ^nifRsl activity In both the Ofdnance and Quartermaster D? pai^pents at the Columbns base, they said < . - ' CONGRESS TO BE GOVERNED BY PRESIDENT Mr. Wilson and Cabinet to Jlalce j Recommendations Regarding Food-Priccr Regulations. (By United Press) WASHlNGTOX.-^-AcUoa by con gress on any. food-price regulation will await a recommendation from j tlio President and his cabinet. Sucb recommendation will bp based on reports, some of which Mr. Wilson has already been receiving for sev eral days from various povernmental departments that are conducting the ? investigations. This plan, it"ls stated on tho beat of authority, has tho approval of j congress and will get tho full sup- , port of Democratic congressional , leaders. They believe that they caa ? talco care of tko food embargo agl- 1 tntora until a detailed plan has been j decided upon. ' WOMEN SPESr $50,036,15 ? 0 called next week at which time It j Till bo formally decided whether | Washington is to have the treo or: not ' I 1MCNDSEN* 1SUYS FIFTY TONS OF FOOD FOR DASH CHICAGO'. ? Fifty tons of food were pureshsod hero today by Cap tain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pols, In prepartlon for his expedition to the North Pole. Pro vlsrons will be taken, ho said, for n . ?lx-yea* stay Ija the' North. The sup- S plies includo ten tons "of canned mosif %nd twenty ton# of flour. ? . ? ft. IT, ft. jrCTKJKS JjOHJS R1CTHT to rv8pkx;> MttiHWtne WASHINGTON, ? Fed eral Judges, thb Supteme Court held today, do not possess Inherent power exercls-d for a eenttrry without authority, to Indefinitely suspend execution of, criminal sentences Imposed la their respective courts. "Of coarse, there Is a discretion lodged In every court," Chldf Jus tice White %ald. "hut that's a Judi cial discretion, a (Mscrettoa to .en force the law? not to refuse to en force it." SIMMONS IS OPPOSED TO FOOD pASCO rMlaeej 93-_r.ll .y-rlvo tn Washington. Congressman Small Sluted for V V. Chairmanship. WASHINGTON ? Senator Simmons Bali today that lio 1b bitterly opposed to Congress passing a lav/ putting an ertbat^ on* foodstuffs going to for eign countries. The. senator thinks tbo fanners and other producers arc not responsible for tho presort high cost of living and that they are en titled ,to get a fair prlcc for what thoy hare to sell. Senator Simmons !s strongly of the opinion that commission merchant, or ponfcfotlfcr "middleman" Is* more ^or leas 'responsible for the high cost 'of llvlHS? whlqh so much Interests the public kt this time. He will volt usralnot^ny plan to place an embargo on shipments from this country and le prepaid to even fillbustc-r In order to pnjjfeit such a law being passed, altsncs Small 'Arrive. M!?sea M.iry Belle and Kathcrlnc Small. Cair^htors of Representative and Mrs. Smajl. rearhed Washington today and will remain until the lat ter part of the month. Small for Chairman. Thero is overy Indication now that Representative Small will become chairman of the rivers and harbors committee next December unkss the Domocrats fall to have a majority in | that body. Every ono hero believes now that tho Democrats will have, son trdJ, land, If this is true, there 1b! 10 doubt about another big chair- 1 aiarshlp being annexed by a North! Carollnlpn. The state" now has prac-, *!eally every committee that Is worth } living and the river and harbor as dgnmo&t ^vill about make a "full Iioubo." The chairmanships hnve been : 'urncd over to North Carolina con-, Treasmen and senators mainly be cause tho people of tho state have iot "traded horses" too ,often. By ' ?teeplng their Ronator3 and congress men hero for a long tlmo they have been able to rise to a point where their services are valuable and con sequently tho stale Is honored by her -eprcsentatlves being placed at the 1 top of nearly all b!g committees. AURORA S0CIE1Y NEWS AURORA, N. C.? The most|briI-l 1! tint social function of the season | up to the present tlno was the party given Thanksgiving eve to tho Wo- ' man's Clcb by Mlr-s Adelaide Watson and Mr. R. T. Doaaer at tho Bonner1 residence^ The guests wero received by Miss Watson assisted by tho Misses Bon ner. Tho library and reception hall were boautifully decorated with cut flow'crs and pottod plants. I Miss Kathleen Pike wo for the boct reading of ono of Undo I Remus' poems and Mrs. L. T. Thomp son won the literary prize, a silver bonbon spoon. tn the midst of on Interesting programme the guests were Invited to the dining room which was dec 01-atcd to represent an old timo Pur Itnn Thanksgiving scene. In tho cen- , tcr of the table, there was a "Puritan church and figures droned to rep-' | resent Puritans going to church. There was a little lake back of W\e jchnrch with ranors floating %brfut. Also, to remind one still more jforcl |bly of Thanksgiving, thero were tur- ( koys fof placo en pis. Delicious Thanksgiving refreshments were . ?enrcd. I Stttertatncrl at Can Is. Mr. and Mrs. Ohas. Dl*on, Jr.. en tertained at cards Thanksgiving or-j enlng In honor of Dr. and Mrs. V. , I Brickhouse Oasklns. To fllvo Dinner Party. I Mr. and Mrs. t?. T. Thompson will give a dinner party Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Small Thompson who have Just returned from. a honeymoon trip to Northern | fltlm. WAR DEPARTMENT TO PRESS iitJSu. SERVICE WASHINGTON ? A bill for unl ive raal compulsory military borvlcc will be'lntroduced at the present ses sion of Congress and will bo backcd by the War Department. This was learned today from an official of the War Department, who said: "For the next flJty years we will have to compete In caae cf wa." w.th armies trained In battle. I believe that to be successful in such a com petition wo must have universal military training. Tako our boys at' the age of eighteen and give ih.-m c year's actu&l service with the colors. J in addition to six months blackboard training, and when the necc.?s.ty comes you will have a trained reserve army of millions." The bill will provide for the *o.^i pulBory military education of all boys In public schools between four teen and eighteen. It will also re-' quire that soon after the age of eighteen every boy shall p.tss from ' ?wo to throe weeks fit least !n ci.mp service precisely like that of the Federal army. URGES CITIZENS TO ! ATTEND CONVENTION ' C. A. Flynn, secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce, today received a letter from officials of tho Sauthern( Commercial Congress, urglns Wash ington to send a big delegation to the j convention of the Congress, which : !r to be held In Norfolk on December 10 to 14. Part of the Invitation reads' as follows: ?This organization herewith ex tends to you. and cach member of your organization, a cordial invita tion to come to Norfolk that you may hear aud coino in contact with some of the greatest men of our country. Can you come and WILL you coni^? . Bring your family and stay a while." 1NTI-SUFFRAGETTKS DENOUNCE PRESIDENT , (By United Press) WASHINGTON. ? Denunciation and hcckllng of President Wilson ' wnwmade today bj, speakers at the national convention of the National ' Association to oppose sulfrnge. HEARING AGAINST GRAVES IS AGAIN' POSTPONED I (By Un'ted Press) WASHINGTON. ? The hearing against Armemrd Graves. ma*;<*rj spy, for blackmail chargcs. has again been postponed until Mnrch 10 be cause of the inability of the govern- > ment to secure sufZc-Ient testimony. Visitor from To\n*. | H. A. Tunstall, of Dnlhart. T?*n.!f.ii) With (hi Ot-t'Kiua a::. ilea ut l\t eail, Kniiianla. - J'.i- f.-u- v?r Hu?h aiest Will !>-.? wliliij iV* n xt by ?! few days. !>? sjn'i ,t; ? She Itur.i.tnian* ran o::!> paacy of the rar-i'.al To aa observer u:' ih maa achievement ::i Tli up? .: ent that the Gi-rt: In tills movement Js now appj Its tdimax, nn?t only v.\;h re Bucharest alone but for a ulterior purpose. (J rmany\ Is first to destroy ihe Ruisuni n nr my aad then pri-pAre ::i taarili r>n to ward Russia with pcrha; s Odessa a3 the filial goal. Every ?: fi >: i 1.-' ii'j'.v t #!np; made to vanqi'Lith the Ruman ians as quicltly as poc-.b!n and hup* reserves have been c;? 1 3<- i rp- n to complete this \Vi;h rap ture of Duclmrc-ft, t1 e Rumanian "backbone will Se.hr - V..T.. the Teutons. c c.i* Gor unni*. it :s .a oiTta.?.\o h. 14 J to ct Rrnnnnlnm Compelled tr? Retire. "? PETRQGRAD. ? .An oPIrdal an nouncement w?s mailt1 today of tJ;o continued German attach* on R:?rh* nrrat from the nori'\ \vhi- h w:mo successful. Docause Ru!?-iai:n rront was pierced hy (Ju.; aita'k. tl^a Ruinanlaas vccre forced to ic'.'.rc. FRESH TROUBLE !ii| 1 ISrltlsh Refuse t?? S:if?j?Ty Coal Fx CfptiiiK to Vrs?.ls Engaged In Allied Trrwlc. fRy V , fed Prr*n) WASHINGTON. ? Fr. f>. trv!.l? wo* stirred vp t">t!?y between thn Un'ted Rt'itcs nn1 Knglnnd n* Ihn remilt of tho n ?! r l#?'! rert?s*?l to r.ip ply coal at her s*af;*>rsfi. do**!nrr thn Ifloh", lo my shins ^T^ep* t *1 nt?e rn* Raped In commerce heneflM-] i-? the allies. The Sttle n-?pr?rfro?nt in tends to do ?ll !t enn l-> ?|ier ?' n pollry, b"t I'Uln l?r>p? 1? held f"?r any material change for the present. _JI TODAYS PROGRAM 8 Now Theatre " "Clilldren In fhtet?