TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS
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to aaat tfca demaad. Macy pahHihir. hava iacreaaed
their saharriptiaa. Meat p»ibMah»r« Kara ihmW tfca ratea far ad
la oar raaa wa Krre aat pat ap ratea, hat wa in try lag te atep
la erery ray, aaff 'ty la tfca way of aeeaaata. Wa ara
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length af tlaia te aay aatacrifcar aa rrWIt, far It la wall haawa
that tfca laaa aa aawll vnaita la large. Thte la traa af erery haaiaaaa
aa wait aa It la af tfca aaaa pa par haa>a»«« Aad aa tfcaaa af aar aah
aarthora wfca haaa haaa |atM| tfca papar all tfca yaar at
pay ap aad not aak aa te wait aatil every atfcar debt la paid.
Wa ara i«la| te aar lie,' a large aaathar mt aaw
aacfc weak, and that wlthaat aolicitiag, tea. It afcauld aat ha far gat
tea that at tha praaaat prira ml Tfca Nawa, tfcara ia hat a a mall margin
mt praftt la pahllahlng a papar. and tfca only way It raa ha daaa la
far aahacrihara ta pay ap and nat caaaa tfca pahilafcar te laaa aa aafc
la almaet arary mail wa gat lattera aakiag that Tfca Nawa ha
atarted. and tha praaUaa la made that tfca party will pay aemetlma
wfcaa it la eeavealeat. Thte Had of haaiaaaa wauld ga ia tha yaara
peat, hat aa publlahar can aaw haap te auch haaiaaaa racthoda. Aad
aa wa aspect tfca pay alaag with naw aubecribora.
It ia tfca daaira mt tfca pahllahrra af Tfca Naw a te haap tha haai
aaaa aa a haate that tfca papar will roatiaaa, aa it haa far yaara, te
giae tfca facte a bant Barry Caaaty aad the war Id ia geaeral. ia a way
te appaal te intelligent paapla. aad te da tfcia wa aaat haap a daaa
watcfc aa tfca laanrial aad af tha haaiaaaa, eapacially daring thaaa
atranga times. If aar aahacrihara will pay oa praiaptly wa will aat
haaa to lacraaaa tfca prica af oar aahacrlpttea, aad wa will aat haaa te
adapt tfca lacaaaaaieat ayateia of a atrict pay ia adraaca rate. Tha
lahal aa aacfc papar aaat oat afcawa tha atandiag of tfca accoaat. Aad
wa daaira that aacfc aabacriber look at tfca lahal and if tfca paper ia ia
arraara aaad or bring a payment, and aat wait ualil we hare te ga te
tha eapaaaa of avnding a statement. Once we drop a name from tfca
Nat wa expert pay la advance.
RIFLE AGAIN DESTINED
TO COME INTO ITS OWN
Now American Army Expects
to Uphold its Tradition For
American Training Camp In France,
Friday, Aug. 24.—(By the Associated
Proa*.)—Convinced that marksman -
ahip with the rifle in not altogether a
lout art, even if it ha a been somewhat
neglected in these later day* of war.
the commanders of the American for
ces now preparing in France for the
battle front are giving their men a
thorough course of instruction in the
school of rifle Are. It always has
been a tradition among European
armies that the United States had the
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finest shooting army in the world, no
matter what might be its shortcom
ings in other respects. This tradition,
the new American army hopes to ful
fiill and there is a general belief
among the officers of the expedition
ary force that the time will come when
rifle fire may be of the utmost impor
tance.
The old regular British army, which
virtually was annihilated in the first
six months of the war, also was a fine
shooting army and its ability with the
rifle cost the Germans dearly on many
occasions.
Ever since the battle of the Rom
me, more than a year ago, there has
been a tendency among the armies en.
gaged in the European conflict to re
gard the rifle merely as a staff for
the bayonet or as a firearm especially
designed for sniping. Advancing in
fantry have been taught to rely first
of all on the protection of an artillery
barrage, which moves 50 yards or so
in front of them and is supposed to be
of sufficient intensity to keep any en
emy machine guns and gunners well
below ground until the assaulting
waves are right upon them.
Once in or near the enemy positions
infantrymen have used bombs and
bayonet* alone with seldom a rifle
shot heard. In othei words, artillery
barrages, laid by gunners far in the
rear, have had the effect of bring in
fantry fighting to quirk hand-to-hand
eacouaters, which the technique of
modem war had discarded as obsolete
until a year ago. These barrages have
double purpose, acting as a shield of
protection and also concealing the at
tacking waves until the storming
troops are right up to the enemy's
dugouts and trench* shelter*.
There now in a feeling, however,
that these .ctics in an attack may
not always endure and that rifle Are
again will come into its own. Even
the German* are according to prison
t. -iC'-xy 1 f'-rnt
training rati* for much time at rifle
practice and each soldier mint remain
before the target until h* makes a
satisfactory score.
Both rifle practice and machine gun
work appeal to the American soldier*;
it i» a phase of training about which
they are particularly keen and ai
ready they have been making some
marveloua scores with both weapon*.
What Our Neutrality Brought
ua.
Congressman G. K. Koss, of IUinoia.
"As a reward for our neutrality
what have we received at the hands
of William II?
"He has set the torch of incendia
ries to our factories, our workshops,
our ships and our warw*.
"lie has laid the bomb of the as
sassin in our munition plants and the
holds of our ships.
"He has sought to corrupt our man
hood with a selfish dream of peace
when there is no peace.
"He has wilfully butchered our citi
zens on the high seas.
"He has destroyed our commerce.
"He seeks to terrorize us with his
devilish policy of frightfulness.
"He has violated every canon of in
ternational decency and set at naught
every solemn treaty and every pre
cept of international law.
He has plunged the world into the
maddest orgy of blood, rapine and
murder which history records.
"He has intrigued against our peace
at home and abroad.
"He seeks to destroy our civiliza
tion. Patience is no longer a virtue,
further endurance is cowardice, sub
mission to Prussian demands is slav
V
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Summer Complaint.
During the hot weather of the sum
mer months some member of almost
every family is likely to be troubled
with an uiuiatural looseles* of the
bowels, and H U of the greatest im
portance that this be treated promptly,
i which can only be done when the medi
cine Is kept at hand. Mrs. F. K. Scott,
' Seottsville, N. Y., states, "I first used
I Chamberlain's Col.r and Diarrhoea
ReniMly as much as five years ago.
At that time I had a severe attack of
I summer complaint and was suffering
Intenue pain. One doee relieved me.
I Other menhers of my family have
since used It with like results.*
STATEMENT TO CLEAX UF
STATUS OP MAJUUED MEN
(Mm Arm l>—4 lartwly
ChM|M| tfa* MiWImHw
Washington Aug. 26,—At the dliMt
uflMtlm at PmHwt Wilton, Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder tele
cuptml to ill governor* tonight a
supplemental explanation of rogula
Ikon governing tho status at narrM.
resn under the draft law. No change
In regulation ia made, and the purpose
of the statennt ia to rlear up misun
derstandings.
In a letter to Secretary Baker, quot
ed by General Crowder, Preeident Wil
son atatoa hia opinion that the regu
lation directing local boards "to es
tablish the fact of dependenta In addi
tion to the fact of marriage ought not
to be abrogated." This leaves the re
gulations aa they are and the supple
mentary statement is designed mere
ly to make the application of the rulee
uniform.
While the statement regarding mar
ried mon was in preparation orders
were issued changing entirely the mo
bilisation arrangements previoualy
made. Congestion of rail traflc and
the necessity of making bettor provis
ions for receiving the men at the can
tonments dictated the changea.
Take rive »r ( <M rirM.
Under the new order*, five per cent
of the white men, preferably those
with military experience, from each
local area, will be started forward to
the ramp* September 5, instead of 30
per cent. They will go in five daily
detachment* of equal size and form
skeleton company organization* and
set up a going concern into which the
remainder of the total quota can be
absorbed without confusion a* they
will go forward September 19, when
the second 30 per cent originally was
scheduled to go; a second 40 per cent
will go forward October 3, instead of
the third 30 per cent and the remain
ing 15 per cent will be called up as
toon thereafter as practicable.
Local boards are directed to disre
gard order of liability numbers to
some extent in selecting the first five
per cent as men of experince such as
cook* and former soldier* are denired
| at that time. Warning ia given
again**, getting into this levy by reas
on of hi* experience, any man who
might otherwise have been included in
the first increment of the district at
all.
next forty par cent of the quota
ita.
Following is the text of the mesxage
tent to the governor*, dealing with the
statu* of married men, prepard at a
conference late today between Sec
retary Baker and General Crowder:
Message to Governors
"A feeling has been exposed that, in
passing on claims for discharge on the
ground of dependents, local boards
ought, in no case, to refuse to dis
charge a married man or to the head
of a family. The law under which Vo
cal boards act require* that, before
such a discharge can be granted, de
pendency as well as relationship must
be established. The matter having
been presented to the President the
following are his orders thereon:
" 'We ought as far as practicable to
raise this new nation*) army without
creating the hardships necessarily en
tailed when the head of a family is
taken and in hope that for the most
part those accepted in the first call
would be found to be men who had not
yet assumed such relations.
" The selective service law makes
the fact of dependents rather than the
fact of marrige. the basis for exemp
tion. and there are, undoubtedly, many
rases within the age limits fixed by
law, of men who are married and yet
whose accumulations or other econo
mics surroundings are such that no
dependency of the wife exist* in fact.
| Plainly, the law dees not contemplate
I exemption for this class of men.
" The regulations promulgated on
I June M, l»17,should be regarded at
to
fact of dspsad—ts la
tact of ■irrtip ought not to be
attontloa at thla oAca h
invited to the faet that, to a law I
to diatrict boards aa bald tor
ally depending upon than far support
on tha theory that tha wife it aMa to
work and should ba put to tha naee
sity of goiag to work to support bar-,
self and children. This litaaUon ia
addraaaad la tha following opinion of
tha district board of Naw York city In
which opinion thla oAce concurs, with
tha understanding that tha phais
"support partial or total previously
extended to tha applicant hiaualf.
" 'Wo do not concur in th view sug
gested in some quarters that in case of
wifa and children actually dependent
on applicant's labor for support, and
where there are no other means of
support, the wife should ba pat to tha
naceaeity of going to work to support
herself and children. Bona Ada da
pendency of wife and children en labor
of applicant when his absence they will
ba left without reasonably adequate
support, after duly taking Into consid
eration any assistance which may ba
given by relatives aa stated in the rul
ings of the provost marshal general, is
ground of discharge.'
c*pi intern 01 L#aw.
"Thin opinion clearly and adequate -
ly expresses the intend of the law in
this regard.
"Paragraph D, compiled rulinga of
this office number 8, addressed a state
of affairs where the parents or other
relatives of the wife or husband are
able, ready and willing adequately to
support the wife aad children, if an*.
th. .>■ in. rt ». hail
This ruling was rcsponaive to • class
of cases that had been brought to the
attention of this office where claims of
discharge had been made in the
ground of dependency on a husband
who, as a matter of fact, was not de
pendent upon himself. The ruling
directed the attention of the local
boards to the fact that^ scrutiny of
canes of discharge was advisable.
"It was not intended that paragraph
B, of the compiled rulings should ap
ply to the case of the head of a family
whose family, at the time of his sum
mons and prior thereto, were and had
bean mainly dependent upon his labor
for support.
"Instances in which local boards
have been in error in rupect to these
two classes of cases are rare. It was
to be expected with some 4,500 local
boards there would b« -om* un-unifor
mity of decisions in this rgard. To
guard against this un-uniformity, sec
tion 27 of the regulations provides for
the automatic appeal of all depen
dency cases to the district boards.
District boards should scan the decis
ions of local boards on questions of de
pendency and wherever it appears
that such decisions are illegal (as in
the two cases just mentioned or other
wise) or wehre these decisions seem to
be so far un-uniform as to result in an
unequal operation of the law the dis
trict board should reverse or modify
the decision of the local board."
GIRLS! LEMON JUICE
IS A SKIN W gTENER
How to make a craamy boauty lotion
for • (aw canto.
/
Th» juice of two freak fcauina vtraiaed
lata a bottle roatalniaf Uraa ouocea of I
or* hanl white make* a [whole quarter
pint <>f the aiiwt r<taarkap>le k-aoa Mia
WautlArr at *l«>ut the toot ono teiut
pay fi>r a •mull jar of I lit ordiytfy cold
nwii Car* should be iakrtyto (train
U>«- I. moil juice through a ta<- rloth aa
fto hnion pulp gets in, #».af tbia lotioa
Will keep IniS for Mthl Ktwt
Woman know, that Um<4 juice la and
to hlrach an<l remove aiiek blaaUakva aa
freckW. i»!!swacaa and to* aad la
4h« W««l akia softcaer, whltaaar aad
fcaautiOrr.
I Ju«t try Itl (M three oaaaaa of
orchard wkita at aajr drug (tor* aad
two k-ainaa (roa» tb. vroaar aad waka up
S quarter pint of thin aweetly trunal
lemon lotion aad aiaaaafa It daily lato
the face, aeek, anaa aad kaada. > j
NO SECOND DRAFT
TILL NEXT SPUING.
Op«Moa ©I Army Oftcari rlw
!y With Work of
Washington, Aug. 28.—Thra will bo
no Mcond draft Mon nnt ifrhf.
Thia m tha opinion of army nffii w a
h«r* today who hava boon (My foo
nactad with tha work of drafting tha
now army and preparing quartan for
thoir training. Evary availabla camp
aita will ba crow dad by tha M7.000
nan eallad in tha Brat draft according
to thaaa official*, and training and
trana porta tion facilitiaa thay baliava
will not pormit of tha army using any
additional forea of nan within tha
naxt ilx month* or mora.
Gonaral Crowdar atatad today tha
■ubjoct of a aacond draft had navar
baan takan up at any eonfaranea at
which ha had baan praaant and that it
had not baan takan up with him
through military channala aa a poaibit
ity of tha naar futura. Ganaral Cro
wdar ia undaratood to ba praparing a
complaat raport showing atatistics of
tha draft and making recommanda
tion* far poaaibla futura drafts. Tha
oxact charactar of tha raport has baan
made public*
Prepare Far Mobilization.
Active pra pa ration* for mobilisa
tion of tha Ant increment of national
army recruits on September 6th be gran
today with tha receipt by tha quarter
ma liter general's corpa of tha meal
tickets to be furnished the men en
route to their camps. T.nrh ticket is
made out in triplicate form and pro
vides for meafs not to cxceed 60 cent*
a piece in value. The local boards will
issue these tickets to restaurants and
boarding houses where the men take
their meals after reporting to their lo
ot boards for entrainmcnt. In moat
cases the men wilt report Tram It to
24 hour* in advance of entrainment
and their meals will have to be pro
vided for.
Five days will be allowed for trans- 1
portation of New York's first 30 per!
cent increment to carapUpton at Yap-1
hank, and they will be grouped by
boards so that one-fifth of the 30 per
cent will arrive in camp on each of tha
five dayn beginning September 5.
Once the men are on the trains their
railroad fares and meal certificate:.,
will be turned over to a leader select
ed by each local board. This man will
be responsible for the care of the
group from his board. The railroad
officials will provide places where the
men can eat, or else furnish them box
lunches. The public are warned that
the vouchers the leaders will turn over
for meals must be accepted when pro
perly endorsed and are as good as cash
when turned over to the nearest army
quartermaster, whose location will be
stamped on each ticket.
atrp lor bconomy.
The War Department today issued
orders aimed toward economy in cloth
ing allowances and quartermasters
are instructed to All requisitions only
for necessities. This will discontinue
the former practice of giving soldiers
upon enlistment an extra allowance of
$3.05 in clothing.
The national army men are due for
a surprise when they arrive in camp.
They will first be examined by army
surgeons and will then be immedi
ately provided with uniforms. It is
calculated the supplies being distribu
ted to all camp quartermasters will
enable them to flt all the rookies in re
cord time, at least for the flrst 60 per
cant of the new army men.
The report that Colonel Roosevelt
Is to lead a hundred thousand men to
Russia was discountenanced by army
men today who pointed out that there
were available neither transports or
training camp facilities for such •'
large force.
There are faaiiliee who always aim
to ken a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic
and IMsrrhOee Remedy in the house
for use in ease it is needed, and find
that it is not only a good tnveetssent
but saves them no end at suffering.
As te its reliability, ask anyone who
has used it.
At ■ nmllng of the nemtlr formed
OrMniboro Rllb rlub laat night ll Ik*
county courthouae • deciaion *N
twM to ardor 1M riflea at cmee far
nee by membera of tha organization.
A meeting of tha dob will ba held at
rhtmbar of taaaarea headquarter*
thia morning at • o'clock and tha gnae
»UI go to tha drat 100 man who ap
paar and contract for than.
Perhape tha moat remarkable faa
tura in connection with laat night'*
mooting waa tha fact that after atre
nuoua effort on the part of the clob'a
committee, including voluminoua In
terchange of lettara and telegrama,
thoee gentlemen had been able to aa
cure aaeurance of only 100 riflea and
thaae only upon condition that tha or
der be placed at once. The fact that
practically no riflea are available
aeema to be attributed to conditiona
imposed by war, moot of the output
of the munition* plant* going to tha
United Stataa government.
However, another fact which proved
moat pleasing to rifle club enthusiast*
is that the hundred rifles, which are
of the Martin 30-30 type, will be ob
tained at $17.50, each, notwithstand
ing the price that the name gun sella
for 927.50 at retail—when it can be
procured. This fact alone, member*
of the club are confluent, will rsult in
one hundred individuals agreeing to
purchase rifles as soon as they can
reach the chamber of commerce rooms
•
this morning. Late arrivals will be
unable to benefit by the reduced price,
it was stated last night and indeed
mav not b# able tc sfc ura
rmrsnsry pA. Uto"imMRH
the government's demands on the
munitions makers are less urgent.
At last night's meeting 1,001 diver
gent views as the most feasible meth
od by which the guns should be se
cured and kindred questions were voic
ed, but in the en 1 harmony prevailed
and members of the Greensboro Kifle
club expect to pridetuily exhibit the
coveted shooting pieces within a very
■ihort time.
The new organization is patriotic in
cope, the prime object being to ac
quire skill in marksmanship, so that if
the fortunes of war would necessitate
home protection of this nature the
members will be ready. Of course, the
riflemen may use the weapons for
many other purposes.
Gen. Pershing Sees
Fighting at Verdun.
American Training Camp in Franca,
Tuesday, Aug.21.—By The A*, vciated
Pre*».—The French offenaive at Ver
dun was witnessed by a number of
American army officers, some of whom
returned to the training camp today.
Major General Pershing and Geo. Pa
tain, the French Commander in
Chief, saw much of the fighting.
Officers belonging to varioua
branches of the American sen.it* Vrft
for Verdun last week to study the pre
parations for the attack. The artil
lery officers watched the preparation
with the guns, while others studied
the details of the co-operation of the
infantry with the artillery. Geo. re
tain took Gen. Pershing with him
when he went to congratulate one di
vision which had especially distin
guished itself, the American comman
der adding his words of praise.
Some of the Americas Nicer* talk
ed with German^officers who had beea
taken prisoners, the German*
they were not surprised to
American officers at the front, but
that they did not believe there ware
more than a few hun.ired American
soldiers In France. They were told
that they had a distinct surprise earn
ing to them.
South American canned goods have
been found among the
plies.