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I. W. WEST DRUG CO. MAIN STREET MOUNT AIRY. N. C. N. C. FARMERS TO GET TRACTORS AT COST. Mr. r. J. DcTamMa mi Rd«|b to Look Alter Dwtritatioa; Will ba aold diroct to tfca far mars at $750. Raai.ish, N. C„ J una Int. In ra sponce to • wnaatlon by the Feder al Fond Administration ami ratnfort ad by a personal I at tar from (iovaraar T. W. Bickett, Henry Ford haa allot ted 100 farm tractor* for rintribution in North Carolina. Mr. E. i. DeTamble of Raleigh, distributor of ford automobile* ,haa hern selected to place tha ar* in tha hand* of tha farmers of lh« State and bs« formed the DeTamble Tractor Co., fo rthia purpose. Tha new Ford tractor* will ha sold direct to the North Carolina farmer* at $7W>. the price at which the Britiah and Canadian government* and • number of States in thin country have paid for the tractor* which have al ready been turned out by the Ford plant. The Canadian government has taken 2,1)00 of the output to dat<;. The latter from Governor Ru'kett to the ford Company in which the placing of thene tractors in the farm er* hand* was urged, is an follow*: Tha Governor's Letter. May 7, 1»18. Henry Ford & Co., Dearborn, Mich. Gentlemen:— I have just read in the last number of the Country Gentleman an inter esting article on the solution of the labor problem by Canada. In thia article it appears that the Canadian government has purchased one thous and tractor* for the purpose of d» j/ tributing them among the farmers, and it is believed that these tractors will go far towards the relief of the ahortage of labor on the farms. I am advised that your Company is contemplating placing one hundred of these tractors in the State of North Carolina t:i be sold to farmers in the State by representatives of your Cum pany without any middle man's cost to the purchaser, a.« the Company is desirous of getting these tractors into the hands of the farmers at a mini mum cost to them. This purpose on the part of your company impresses me as being in harmony with the public spirit that the people of North Carolina have learned to expect from your organiza tion. On the part of the State of North Carolina 1 desire to thank you for the contemplated actioft..and fjua . J cerely trust that arrangements can lie made to get these tractors into the hands of our farmers at the earliest date possible. With assurance of try very great respect, I beg to remain, \ery truly your, —T. W. BICKETT, Governor Ford Company'* letter. The following letter from the Ford Company wan received in answer to teh one written by Governor Bickett. May 9, 1918. Hon. T. W. Bickett, Governor of North Carolina. Raleigh. N. C. ^Dear Sir:— We thank you very much for your latter of May 7th. The government plan of distributing our tractor to the farmer at the factory price with out profit to the diaburier, has had very great success in many of the States where this plan is now in effect. We are very glad to note that you are deeirous of enabling farmers of Br state to be benefited by a plan similar worked out in your State, la this connection we are pleased to allot one hundred tractor* to fanners •f North Carolina to be distributed by the De Tamble Tractor Company, the whole arrangement being a war meat are to increase food production. In oriUr to (at the |mUit poaaible re aulta (liMf tku Una, the tractor ta to distributed only to fanners who agree Ca kaap the tractor working constantly tf not an their own than on their neighbor's land. Tha financial arrangements in re ■part to thie distribution ara being satisfactorily taken care of by tha Tamlde Tractor Company, but wa look to your offlca working through tha Federal Feod Administrator fir North Carolina to aaaura to ua tha propriety and fatrnaait of tha distribution, ami for your haarty ro-oparation in tha carrying out of thia plan. Wa thank yoj vary much for tha intaraat you hava takan in thi* mattar and' trust that crop production Will ba benefited in your .State a* it ha^i else whara, by thi* aanc arrangements. Your* very truly, —HENRY FORD A .SON, Inc. Forsyth County Lead* In Sale of War Stamps. Winxton-.Xalem, N. C. — Forsyth county is atill leading the »tat« in the ale of War Savinp* Stamp*. A re port issue today from the State Head quarter* for War Savings shows that Forsyth ha* sold 30 per rent of her quota. Franklin County in next with a sale of 21 per rent anil Cleveland is a close second with 20 per cent. The counties of Cabarrus, < atawha and Pan<|uotank have raised 17 per rent while Fdgeeombe has rained 15 per cent. The counties raising 10 per cent but not as much as 15 are: Alemance 11, Burke 10, Buncombe 12. Cherokee 10, Chowan, Currituck 14, Davidson 14, Durham 13, Granville II Greene 13, Guilford 14, Haywood 11, Henderson 10.Hertford 10. J one* 11. I,ee 14, Le noir 10, Mi-Thiwell 10, Montgomery 10, Moore 14, Northampton 13, Orange 12 Perquimans 12. Rockingham 13, Row an 13, Scotlond 12. Stanly 13. Union 11. Wnrren 10 ami Wilson 14. CoonMe- that hjwe raijed only 1 per rent of their quota are Graham, Macon, P^lk, Wilkes ami Vadkin. rho« that have not yet rea< he<l the 1 per rent mark are: Bnjrr.wick. Clay, [>are. Gate;. Mitchell and nWttauga. While the States ha raised only 0 per cent of it* qj'.'-a, the figures show that du.mg the month of April the State's «ale< were afmo-t double. The amc increase wa- shown in the nun l>er of War Savings Societies organi zed. While Guilford and Forsyth have organized m.re societies in numbers, Osa'i^e and Kirhmond counties have more nearly reached their quotas of ocieties. No ales were report«l for the month of April for Ashe Couilty. As Vvery's apportionment has not yet been determined, the per cent of her sales is not known. No Hope is Entertained For Charles W. Fairbanks Indianapolis, June 2.—Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice President, who is ill at his home here lost ground con tinually during today and no hops is now entertained for his recovery by his chief phycician, Dr. J. A. McDon ald. Dr. McDonald said tonight that the former Vice President'* condition is more critical than at any time dur ing hi* illners. Mr. Fairbanks has been seriously ill for about four weeks Mats of Ohio. City of TolMs Lucki County, u Frank t. Ckenay makes ostk that bo Is senior partner of the firm of F. i. Ckeaey A Co., doing bualnesa In tho City of Toledo. County and llalt afore said. and tkat said firm will par lb* sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for sack and every rase of Catarrk that cannot he cured by the uae of KAUJB CATARRH CURB. FRANK J. CHKNbT •wora to before me and subarrlbed In my preaenre. iMa «th <l>r of Decem ber. A. D. 111*. A. W IlLKAKON, (Seal) Notary Public. Rail's Catarrk Care la taken Intern ally and arts through the Blood oa tba Uucoui Surfaces of the System. Bead for teetimnnlals. free r. J CUENET * CO. Toledo, a Bold by all druggists, tie HaU's Family Fills for constipation. rOC BROUGHT TO A HALT. Attempt by th« Imdcri to C ram tk« Mum. The IKrmftii of General Ptdi'i r*-; Mr*« Nu bam fail by tha armiea of I ha (iarman crown ponce in Um "IiM Ua for Pun." Eaat of tha Una running from Sola nana ta ( hataau Therry, where tha (Jarmana Saturday In a continuation of Ifcaur mighty rtrokea gained aavar al additional village* ami than at tamp tad to proceed furthar waatward. magnificent oppoaitlon waa impnaad by tha nawly atrengihenad linaa, ami, with tarriflr amaahev the franch for caa rarapturad Lmfpunt, Corry Rav orellea and Troaana*. vantage point* in tha ran tar of tha lina leading Ui tha foraat of Vlllera f'.ittertta, which »eema to be tha praaant objartive hara of the enemy. Tha Oermana, howavar, *till have in I their pnaaeaainn tha village nf Vaura ill, lying to tha weat of Soiaaun.a ami | furthar aouth of Haronin Et ilreiiil, I l.haudun l.iry and Houraachea tha laat I named dirartly weat of t'hateua Thiar ry. A little to tha amithwext of ( 'ha-j teau Therry tha enemy ban reached | tha Marne. Nowhere has thara bean any at tempt by the invader* to rrnaa thai river and at all pointa, eaat of Chateau Thierry thay are hugging the northern j bank of the at ream. It i» not im probable, however, that tha tactic< of tha (.erman* have in view tha fording' of the river when the time ia mora propitHiua, for in the renter of the lina; lietween Chateau Tnarry and Rheim* | they have puxhed back the allied front arroaa the Rheima-Rorman* road ha twnan Olizy-Violaine and Ville Kn Tardenoi* ami arc pr«H*in£ onward toward the Mump. This in the only point on their left wing however. j where the enemy ha* been able to make fresh gain*, notwithstanding the fact he ha* thrown new division* into the battle, Mime of them the Im- t trained troop* in the German army. Havirlg failed in all their effort* to conquer Rheim* by derect assault, it now seem* to be the intention of the German* further to widen their occu pation of the territory lying south of the Rheim*-I>orman* rood and thereby onttlank the cathedral city, and bring about it* capitulation. In the fight ing in the immediate vicinity of Rheim • the enemy won Fort de I.n Fompelle but hi* tenure of the posi tion was *hort lived, for the French troop* in a counter attack reconquer-' ed it. Taken all in all the seventh day of, the new battle found the allied line from Soi*son* to Kheim>. although it had lieen bent back at variou. point*, not no bard pre-ved a* oh previou* day* and seemingly more capable of restating the enemy' onslaughts. Just how many men the alii** are opposing agnin.it the 45 German division* that are not actively engaged on the Sois- j sons-Rheims front ha.- not k'ome j apparent, but the fact that on the we«t the £n$jjjy i* being not only held but driven back at point* and on the south end of the »alient he has been un able to make but alight new progre**1 is apparent evidence that a turn in, the battle ix not far di*tant. The British in the regions of Arran Urn and Bethune are keeping up their trench raiding operations apain nt the German*. Saturday night con tingents from the London force* in vaded a German tr*nrh southeast of Arras and took 27 prisoners and a machine (run, while east of Lens and north of Bethune similar maneuvers were successfully carried out and oth er Germans made prisoner*. Ai the expected great battle has not broken in the Italian theater there hat been only moderate artillery activity along the whole front. The Italian and allied aviators, however, are busi ly engaged in reconnaissance wot k and bombing attack* over the enemy line*. German airplane* again have de livered an attack on Pari*. Several persons were injured by the bomb ex plosions. Stomach Trouble* and Constipation. "I will cheerfully say that Cham twrhun's Tablet* are of the moat sat isfactory remdy for stomach troubles and constipation that I have sold in thirty-four year*' drug stor» service," writes a. H. Murphy, druggiat. Walla bug, N. Y. Obtainable everywhere. GERMAN'S DEATH LOT GOES TO THKEE MILLION Both Cantral E«*ir«a Sulfarmg HmtiIt by Mmmpmwwr Drain and Birth Dmmm. London, June 2. —British Admiralty Per Wireless )—Tha drain of man pnwar tha fall in tha numbar of births and tha ioaa of tha population through •k-kpaas and underfeeding la fait mora aaverely by tha central power* than by tha pauplaa at tha antanta. Whereaa tha annual gain in population in Gar many in Auatria and in Hungary has given place to a serious Ioaa, tha peo plaa of'tha antanta hava suffered a eery *mall dlmunitlon in comparison. Great Britain'* total population ha* an far ramainad at about tha him ' «rura, galna balancing loaaaa. That rata of mrrease in tha United Stale, ha* not been affected at all. Aa tha »•! got* on thir. growing disparity in tha losses of population between tha ■•antral powarn and tha psoplaa fight ing thorn ia likely to inrraaaa. If tha war ir»*« on into next yaar tha popula tion of the Carman empire, on which reliance was placed for the enlarge ment of Germany's prosperity and in dustry and for repairing tha injury to trade and commerce after the, war. will have loat 10 per rent, of it* num ber* and a still greater proportion of it* industrial strength. Reduction of Fir* per rent. The German empire which in June, 191!), should have had 72,000,000 peo ple, will have no more than sixty-four anil a half million*. Germany ax a whole will have Ave per rent lea* po pulation than when the war began. Of tho'e that have been killed the greater number were men in the prime of life ami energy, whom Germany could least apart. By death* in til* battle zones the German empire has lost at lea-1 .1,00,000 men. The birth rate hn; sunk to t_ch a figure that by next year the number of birtlir. will have I fallen short of what they would have been had there been no war, by three and a third million children. Inrrpiw of Death*. In the ume period the annual num ber of deaths among the German civilian population has, owing to the stresi and anxiety of the war ami ow in ' to slckne h and disease which have been activated by hardships ard i food trouble-, increased by 1,000,000 over the normal. Rut tH* i* perhap ■ to be regarded as merely weeding and ' no great biological loss. Much of the mortality among children an I among the civilian population a- a whole has been caused by the way in which the food supply of Germany has r.een mi'maraged in the- interesti of the landlords and of the farming class and to the detriment of the poor. The landholder* ;»nd farmers have prosper ed while the poor in the towns have | (rone short of bread ami potatoes. On the other ham! because of the | liberal separation allowance* and the! high wages the vital condition* of the working classes in Great Britain have j been better since the war than when the war began. By next year the Ger-. man empire will be 7,026,000 lower in population thin it would have t>een had the war not taken place. Reduction in. Austria. The vitality of the peoples of Auj-i tria and of Hungary has suffered even more. This, perhaps, was to be ex pected. The peoples of Austria will' lie 11 per cent poorer in numbers next year than if the war had never taken place. They will lie eight' per cent lower in numbers than they were in 1914. Hungary will be (till worse off. It will have a population nine per rent lower than before the war and 13 per rent lower than if there had been no war. A* the war continues so will these tosses increase. Meanwhile, notwithstanding the los es which England has suffered in the war zone, the British population has been growing. By the middle of 1919 this population will be only three per cent lower than it would have been without war. Breat Britain in 1919 will have a larger population than in 1914. Fare (bought. People are learning that a little forethourh often saves them a big ex pense. Here is an instanee: ff W. Archer, Caldwell. Ohio, writes: "I do not believi that our family has been without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Dirrhoea Remedy since we com menced keeping house rears ago. When we go on an extended visit we take It with us." Obtainable every where. YOUR RED CROSS Am Army Without * Gum By MEREDITH NICHOLSON Of «*• Vl«ll«rta» THE Red Cross is the greatest instrument oi * mercy the world has ever seen. Noble ss the service of mercy and helpfulness was in Civil War days, the Red Cross surpasses it immeasurably not only in the range and variety of its effort, but in efficiency and effectiveness. The Red Cross is, we may say, the arms of the mothers of the world reached out to their sons to bind up their wounds and comfort them. The Red Cross is an army without a gun that wages war only upon suffering and heartache. Where the flag of the stars goes there the banner of the Red Cross must fly beside it. We watch our boys go forth to war with a spirit of hopefulness because we know that this great agency of humanity presses close behind them; that its work is not incidental, but the intelligent directed etiort of one of tne most marvelous organizations ever contrived by American genius. We have all contributed to the Red Cross; we shall be called upon again to contribute to its funds,—again and perhaps again. And we will respond again and yet again! For this is a W Ml * V* the defense of civilization, and we of great, free, splendid, glorious America, have every intention that it shall be fought with the army of the Red Cross solidly supporting our soldiers. STRETCHING PARIS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF FRANCE THE RED CROSS HAS HELPED WHERE GOV ERNMENTS WERE HELPLESS I Til* avalunche of refugee* that ■wept Into Carta from the mirth of France h»'t hern the deapalr of the ct»tl autlmrltlea. Thea* bonwleaa. •tanned people were a new reapooal Ullty to be ad<le<1 to the thouaand* of Wounded men that ran* ureadlly from the ahamhlea of the weat front. Carta la an old city. It waa not' ready to take In lta neighbor*' chil dren. I La population waa already a tight fit. So It made the beat of lta poor boapltaJlty by offering up lta gar rata. New building conatructlon aeem ad Impoaalble. Men were acerce. The Mechanic waa either manning the tranche* or fighting the tight In the War fact or! ea. Carta waa dlatractad. It la wonderful Indeed how nobly Pari* triad to meet thla condition. And It la remarkable how Carta met It with the aid of oar own Red Croaa. 1 Cnhampered by red tape or precedent, •or Red Croaa put on oreralla and jumper, carried the hod. became archi tect, engineer and contractor and went Into the balldlng of homea. Here waa ■ chnrch lot that lay vacant; here an anfinlahed hoapital; there ■ worn oot J building, >11 of whtch In a fortnight were *tarted on thelrway toward new i|iiriwn«, room* and Sleeping war da. We here at home who a*s<>rlate th« gren- Ked Croaa movement with band age* *bd white g»wne<l nnr*-* muat ioae thia old IIlo«ion In the tight of a thousand other worka for humanity. In thia raae w« aee the Red < 'roaa flrnt a* diplomat.* convincing the civil authorities of Farla a* to their ability to remedy the *u nation, then at architect* remodeling building*, chanc ing building plana, hiring labor gath ered by ilieinaetvM from the ex aok diery and the older man. all the while working nnder every Imaginable hand Irap. while Father Time cried, "Oct II done, get It done." So out of the garret* came theae d» •pairing people to find new hope l» clean homea, to get new cheer oat of sheer bodily comfort and freah roar age to again take np the (rest truat that Franc* ha* kept «o well—"to car ry on." It la sot (tranga that on French brothera believe In your owl Red fraea Ju*t a little more than yo» do. But *hould thia be? THE RED CROSS MAN By AMELIA JOSEPHINE BUR*. Of Of Vigilant**. Broken with pain and weariness And Mpped with vile disease. Back to the land of ruined towns. Of murdered men and trees. Through Switzerland from Germany The trains of wreckage ran,— And on the French frontier they found A Red Cross Mas. And whsa to what had ones been homs Those haggard exiles came, Young wheat was green above the sears Of steel and blood and flams Round new built houses where oaee more The work of life begaa. And still thsy found to welcome them A Red Cross Mas. There the husband clasped again The wife he mourned as dead— The ehild was on its mother's breast. The old were comforted. What wonder if thejr hope to And The Angel of God's Plan Whs meets them at the heavenlv gate . A Red Cross Mas I
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