LIBERTY LOAN GOES
OVER THREE BILLION
Largest and the Most Popular
Loan Nation Has Ever
Attempted.
Total of More Than 4.000.000 People
Subscribed. Mostly Small Amounts.
Of the Four Million Subscribers
3.900.000 Were For Bond* From
$50 to $10,000. Few Into the Mil
lions. On Subscription* I p to and
Including $10,000 the Full Amount
Will He Allotted.
(Greensboro News.)
Washington, June 22. ? Liberty loan
subscriptions totalled $3,0:15, 22'!, 8f>0,
un over subscription of nearly 52 per
cent.
The final tabulation was officially
announced tonight, showing that
more than 4,000,000 persons bought
bonds. Ninety-nine per cent of sub
scription or those of 3,900,000 per
sons were for sums varying from $50
to $10,000, while 21 subscribers ap
plied for allotments of $5,000,000
each or more.
The New York fcdernl reserve dis
trict led the list with subscriptions
totaling $1,180,788,400, or more than
three time the amount subscribed in
the next district, Chicago, $357,195,
950. The other districts sent sub
scriptions as follows:
Boston, $332,417,000; Cleveland,
$2K6, 148,700; Philadelphia, $232,
309,250; San Francisco, $175,623,900;
Richmond, $100,737,100; Kansas City,
$91,758,850; St. Louii, $86,134,700;
Minneapolis, $70,255,500; Atlanta,
$57,878,550, and Dallas. $48,948,350.
These subscriptions include those sent
direct to the treasury and apportion
ed among the various reserve dis
tricts.
Allotments will be made, Secretary
McAdoo announced, as follows:
On subscriptions up to and includ
ing $10,000, full amount. These sub
scriptions totalled $1,296,648,850.
More than $10,000 up to and in
cluding $100,000, 60 per cent of the
amount subscribed, but not less than
$10,000 in any instance. These sub
scriptions totaled $560,180,060; allot
ments to subscribers in this group
will aggregate $336,061,850.
More than $100,000 up to and in
cluding $250,000, 45 per cent of the
amount subscribed, but not less than
$60,000 in any instance. Subscriptions
in this group totaled $220, 455, 600,
and allotments will aggregate $99,
205,000.
More than $2,000,000, up to and in
cluding $2,500,000, HO per cent, but
not Jess than $112,500 in any in
stance. The total of subscriptions in
this group was $001,514,900; allot
ments will aggregate $184,381,800.
More than $2,000,000, up to and in
cluding $(>,000,000 each, 25 per cent,
hut not less than $600,000 in any one
i* stance. Subscriptions in this group
totaled $234,544,300; allotments will
total $58,661,250.
More than $6,000,000, up to and in
cluding $10,000,000 each, 21 per cent.
Subscriptions in this group totaled
$46,674,150; allotments will aggre
gate $9,801,600.
Two subscriptions of $25,000,000
each were received. The allotments to
thesv subscribers will be at the rate
of 20.2? per cent and they will re
ceive bonds of the value of $5,055,000
each. One subscriber to $25,250,000 ?
the largest ? will be given 20.17 per
cent or $5,093,650.
The paring down process thus will
apply chiefly to the large subscribers.
In cases where larger subscriptions
have been reported to the federal re
rerve banks as consisting of a num
ber of small subscriptions, provision
has been made for allotment in ac
cordance with the several amounts
of the smaller subscriptions.
"One of the chief purposes of the
campaign was to distribute the liber
ty bonds widely throughout the coun
try and place them as far as possi
ble in the hands of the people. This
was important because the strength
of government finance, like the
Btrength of government policies,
rests upon the support of the people.
The large number of subscribers, es
pecially the large number of small
subscribers, is most gratifying and
indicates that the interest of the peo
ple was aroused as never before in
an issue of bonds.
"The widespread distribution of the
bonds and the great amount of the
over-subscribed constitute an elo
quent and conclusive reply to the
enemies of the country who claimed
that the heart of America was not in
this war."
State Makes Gains.
On April 10, North Carolina had
143 officers and 2,438 enlisted men in
the National Guard. On June 10 the
State had 165 officers and 3,913 en
listed men. The total Rain for the two
months was 1,497.
Uruguay sends agricultural stu
dents to the United States.
WILLIAM L. SAUNDERS
William L. Saunders, head of the
naval consulting board, who said some
of the inventions submitted to the
board give excellent promise of solving
the submarine warfare problem.
Prepare the I. and Karly for the Fall
Crop of Irish Potatoes.
The South ought to grow a large
supply of Irish potatoes for its own
use. It is true that the fall crop is |
uncertain and much difficulty is ex
perienced in obtaining stands, but a
special effort should be made to over
come these difficulties. The question
of seed is important, hut at this time
we wish to especially call attention to
the prepration of the soil.
In the first place, no one should
attempt to grow Irish potatoes on
poor soil, and this is especially true
as regards the fall crop. A soil well
supplied with humus is desirable for
any crop, because of the superior
physical condition it insures. A rich
mellow soil is of vital importance for
the production of Irish potatoes; but
for the fall crop such a soil is doubly
important. Moisture is absolutely es
sential to a fall crop of potatoes, and
the absence of it is responsible for a
large part of the failures.
Much can be done to preserve the
required moisture if the soil is well i
supplied with humus. Hut even a mod '
erntely rich soil fairly well supplied i
with humus can be handled in a man
ner that will overcome much of the
lack of moisture which causes so many
failures.
To have a soil in condition for,
planting before August 1, pro pn ra
tion should begin as early as July 1,
and when it can be made, even an t
earlier start is desirable. If the land !
is not too stiff and hard and was well
broken this spring, it may not lie
necessary to rebreak it, but if it is to J
be rebroken this should be done as
early as possible. In any case, the j
land should be thoroughly disked |
and then harrowed regularly and suffi
ciently often to keep a good mellow |
mulch of three inches on the surface. I
Level cultivation and level planting
preserve moisture best and are there
fore bent for the fall crop of potatoes.
When there are roots which may be
injured the cultivation should not be
as deep as three inches, although that
is probably the best depth for saving
moisture. Hut in preparing the land
for the fall crop of potatoes we
think the land should be regularly
cultivated to a depth of about three
inches. If the soil has been broken to
a depth of six to eight inches, say six
weeks before planting time, and is
then harrowed every ten days or two
weeks there will almost certainly be
moisture enough to bring up the crop,
provided suitable soil and seed have
been selected. We know of no other
way to insure a fall crop. It requires
work and attention and in that regard
is expensive, but we can afford this
expense to insure a crop. Land pre
pared beforehand in this way will al
most always receive sufficient moist
ure during. July, which will be held
for future use. In fact, such prepa
ration is necessary in the South to
make any early fall-seeded crop rea
sonably, certain. We cannot afford to
take any chances on the failure of the
fall crop of Irish potatoes. We need
them for food and for seed next
spring. ? Progressive Farmer.
Every now and then somebody
mentions the name of former Con
pressman Robert N. Pape, is men
tioned in connection with the Gov
ernorship three years hence. If he
catches Max Gardner in the race he
will have to do some running. Max
remembers the way Governor Bickett
acted before he reached his present
position.
Russian leather stocks are ntaring
exhaustion.
H!(i DAY IN SELMA JLI^ 24TH.
?
The Helm a Melon. Tomato and Better
liaby Fair For 1917.
The M yor has appointed Messrs.
I. T. R: inn, R. L. Ray und John A.
Mitchincr as the executive commit
tee of the 1 air. The committee are
now planning for the biggest and
best Fair ever held, and ask the
hearty co-operation of all of our cit
izens. They have decided, owing to the
growing intere t and annually in
creasing attendance to add one more
day. The opening day this year will
!>?? July 2ird. July the 24th ? "Wyatt
Day" ? will be the big day as usual.
The 2'5rd is to I e known as "Ilouse
keepers' Day," and competent speak
ers will address them on how to han
dle the high cost of living proposition
now before the world. Also on the art
of canning and preserving. On this
day everything for exhibition to com
pete for premiums must be placed,
and all of the babies must be exam
ined on or before this day, as re
quired by The Baby Committee to be
published later. The executive com
mittee is anxious for everything that
can be done to be done before July
24th, bo that all committees may be
as free as posible that they too may
enter into the enjoyment of the day.
One of the committee will call upon
our citizens next week for the dona
tions to the Fair fund. We hope for
a liberal response. Watch the pa
pers and posters for further informa
tion, premium list, etc. "All for
Selma's Annual Meet is now the slo
gan."
JOHN A. MITCHINER,
I. T. RAINS,
R. L. RAY,
Committee.
AMERICA NOT YET AROUSED.
Gen. Leonard Wwk! Swh bloody War
Ahead For United States.
Atlanta, C!a., June 20. ? The apa
thetic spirit of the American people
in regard to the war was the keynote
of an address here today by Major
General Wood, commander of the
Southeastern Department, U. S. A.,
before the eighth annual meeting of
the International Association of the
Rotary Clubs. The nation, he said, has
not yet awakened to the fact that "we
are lighting a powerful foe, and the
quicker we realize that sacrifice must
be made in order to win the war, the
quicker the war will end."
With a soldier's bluntness, General
Wood told the delegates America
would win in the end, but not until a
"terrific price has been paid in blood."
There is n general feeling throughout
the country, he said, that young men
were not raised to be soldiers, but "all
boys are raised to be soldiers and to
furnish the sinews of war, and there
will always be war as li ng as there is
bitter international business competi
tion."
General Wood's address late today
closed the regular business session.
Pomerey Burton, international
journalist, of London, delivered the
principal address at the morning ses
sion, in which he prophesied the war
would lust from five to twenty years.
The nomination of officers was
made today, and the election will
take place tomorrow. Kansas City, it
was said tonight, would probably be
selected Friday as the 15)18 conven
tion city.
See that your garden produces dry
Weans, cabbage, potatoes and root
| crops that can be kept without can
; ning.
MISS EDITH GRACIE
Miss Edith Gracie, whose engage
ment to Dunbar Burchell Adams of
New York has recently been an
| nounced, is the daughter of the late
Col. Archibald Gracie of Washington,
one of the few male survivors of the
Titanic disaster. Mios Gracie Is well
known In both Washington and New
j York society.
ELIOT WADSWGRTH
'*? "? ?
Eliot Wadjworth, active head of the
American Red Cro6s, has been direct
< ing that organization since last Sep
j tember, when he resigned from an en
! ginetring firm to take up Red Cross
work without compensation. He it
only forty years old.
Fertilizers Are IMant Foods.
We must not get away from this
idea if we would put the proper esti
mate on manufactured fertilizers.
Plants require a definite amount of
mineral salts to enable them to grow
to a certain size. In fact, what is
there in a plant other than what it
takes up from the soil and gets out of
the air? The plant is made out of
these original elements, such as pot
ash, phosphorus and nitrogen, which
it takes up from the soil, and from
{carbon, most of which it gets from
! the air.
j Whatever we can do to keep the
? plant supplied with an abundance of
jfood will insure for us quicker and
j better growth. A plant has a very
limited range. It cannot roam the
' fields as animals can, but must re
.
i strict its pasturage to its root area.
; For this reason, it quickly takes ad
j vantage of readily available plant
1 food that happens to be placed near
I its roots.
The manulacture 01 icrtuizers is
phased on this principle, that fertili
zers arc food for plants, and better
and more readily available foods
make better plants. It has been well
established through experiment and
practice that fertilizers improve the
' quality of vegetables and fruits and
I of all kinds -of farm crops. We there
fore have from their use ft double ad
vantage of increasing the quantity
and quality of farm crops.
Some plants are large and some
small of the same species. This dif
; ference is principally a matter of
the amount of food found and taken
up by the plant. The condition of
I the soil and the amount of moisture
must have their part, but other
I things being equal the supply of
( plant food always determines the size
of a plant.
All soils contain these plant food
elements to a degree, but no soil has
ever yet been found where an applica
tion of some one or two or all three
in combination would not pay, and
usually the more fertile the soil the
more profitable to apply fertilizers.
Prof. R. J. II. DeLoaeh, in Indiana
Farmer.
Hoover's Creed.
I Herbert C. Hoover, who heads the
j Food Commission of our National De
ftnsa Council, servos his native land
without salary, just as he served Bel
gium until the German submarine
blockade began.
lie is a man of wealth, by profes
sion a mining engineer. The war has
brought fabulous riches to mining
companies the world over. His two
years in Belgium cost him thirty mil
lion dollars, say the people that know
him best.
Meanwhile America, the richest
country on earth, gave him ten mil
lion dollars with which to feed the
starving Belgians. One man sacri
i fices thirty million dollars while a
"hundred million people give only ten
million dollars!
And his wife is as great in soul as
he is. "If this thing goes on we may
be poor at the end of the war, and
may "have to start all over again,
i Shall we go on?" "Of course," said
Mrs. Hoover. ? University News
I Letter.
J. F. Dobson, a prominent Repub
lican of Goldsboro, died Tuesday. For
14 years he was postmaster and at
one time served as register of deeds.
He was born in Duplin County Sep
tember 15, 184.1, and served through
out the Civil War, enlisting at the
'age of 16.
YPRES.
Christian Science Monitor.
The little Belgian town of Ypres is
sure enough of a place in history;
but, in England, at any rate, it will
always be specially sure of it under
a nam" which no cloth worker of
Flander ever heard, and would cer
tainly never recognize. The British
"Tommy," who for over two years
has held up the German forces
around the famous Ypres aslient, in
sists on calling it "Wipers," and the
name has "taken on," as he would
say. It traveled over to England, and
"Wipers" began somehow to be asso
ciated with "hot corners." The pres
ent prime minister, in the course of
one of his speeches, some months
ago, alluded to the place by this name,
and "Wipers" it is likely to remain,
and as "Wipers" it is likely to be
discussed for many years to come.
Curiously enough, it is not the first
entry of Ypres into the English lan
guage in this, or at any rate a sim
ilar, form; for it was in the looms of
Ypres that was made, in the middle
ages, the famous "loiles d'yper," the
costly table linen, or diapers, which
the great ladies of England admired
so much. Today, of course, the town
is a battle-scarred shell of its former
self. It was occupied by the Ger
mans in the course of their forward
march on October 3, 1914; but a
month later the British regained it,
and, since then, the buildings of the
old town .have been steadily crum
bling before an intermittent shell
fire from the German lines. Ypres,
however, will rise again, and amongst
the buildings to be restored will sure
ly be the great cloth hall, the old,
turreted, three-storied building,
whose belfry at one time rose 230 feet
above the street below. The great
cloth hall of Ypres was indeed the
most famous building of its kind in
Belgium. Begun by Count Baldwin IX
of Flanders, it was over a hundred
years in building, and for more than
three centuries after its completion,
was the center of the world's market
for cloth. More than 4,000 looms
were kept busy in the town in those
days, and merchants from far and
near attended its great cloth mart.
The population then numbered over
200,000. It was indeed, to the intro
duction of clothmaking, towards the
end of the eleventh century, that
Ypres owed all its subsequent pros
perity.
Towards the end of the fourteenth
ccntury, however, popular uprisings
and an ocean of other troubles dealt
hardly with the city. The population
began to dwindle, the weavers, on
whom the prosperity of the town
largely depended, began to migrate,
and when the student of history
takes note of Ypres, say towards the
end of the sixteenth century, he finds
it a little place of not more than
5,000 inhabitants.
One of the great events in its his
tory was, of course, the battle of
Courtrai, "the battle of the spurs,"
which was fought under its walls. In
that battle, which recorded the first
imortant victory won by infantry
since the battle of Hastings, it was
the red-coated contingent of Ypres
which, joined with the men from
Bruges and Coutrai, defeated the
French under Count Robert of Artois.
Ypres, indeed, like so many of the
towns in this part of Flanders, has
seen its share of fighting. During the
sevententh century, it was four times
captured by the French; but, many
years before the present war, it had
ceased to be a place of any military
importance, and some thirty years
ago its old fortifications were dis
mantled, the ramparts being con
verted into boulevards and prom
enades. In quite recent times, Ypres
devoted itself chiefly to the making
of Valenciennes lace, although it also
carried on a large trade in butter. It
is a city of the plains, the wide, sandy
Flemish plains; a city, too, of wide
streets and old-world buildings, past
which the little river Yperlee makes
its way to the Yser.
Many British Prisoners Have Died.
London, June 20. ? The correspond
ent of Reuter's in Cairo says he
learns from most reliable sources
that a large number of British and
Indian prisoners taken by the Turks
in Mesopotamia have succumbed to
ill treatment or lack of proper medi
cal attention.
"A resident of Taurus," says the
correspondent, "testified that in the
prisoners' camp more than half the
men captured at Kut-el-Amara are
now dead. It is noteworthy that the
Turks would not allow a Swiss com
mission to visit this camp, or other
camps of the same type.
"Thirty-seven British prisoners
were sent to a hospital under Euro
pean management, but soon after
their arrival the European doctors
and attendants were driven away,
and a fortnight later twenty-two of
the prisoners died ^of sheer neglect.
Fifty prisoners who were captured
at Kadia, when they arrived at the
hospital in Aleppo, could hardly
stand owing to weakness from dys
entery and starvation."
SOME FACTS ABOUT OUR ARMY.
I'ay of Army Enlisted >lan and Non
commissioned Officers.
The War Department has authoriz
ed the following:
As a convenient reference and a re
ply to numerous queries as to the pay
of enlisted men and non-commission
ed officers now in force the forth
coming statement might be of use.
These figures are based on the United
States Army bill approved by the
President May 18 and which went into
effect June 1.
Briefly, it provides that men of the
Army whose base pay does not ex
ceed $21 a month shall receive an in
crease of $15 per month; not exceed
ing $24 a month an increase of $12
a month; receiving $30, $36, or $40
a month an increase of $8; and $45
or more an increase of $0.
The new scale means that privates
of Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry, Sig
nal Corps, or Quartermaster Corps
receiving $15 a month according to
the old scale will now receive $30
a month. First-class privates of En
gineers, Ordnance, Signal Corps, and
Quartermaster Corps receiving $18
will get $32. Second-class privates of
Engineers and Ordnance receiving
$15 will get $30.
Corporals of Engineers, Ordnance,
Signal Corps, and Quartermaster
Corps formerly receiving $24 a
month; they will now get $36. Corpo
rals of Artillery, Cavalry and Infan
try getting $21 under the old scale
will now receive $36.
Sergeants, first-class, of Signal
Corps and Quartermaster Corps who
formerly received $45 will get $51.
First sergeants of Artillery, Cavalry,
Infantry, and Engineers who were
paid on the same basis will get a sim
ilar increase.
Sergeants of Engineers, Ordnance,
Signal Corps, and Quartermaster
Corps paid $36 according to the old
scale will now get $44.
Sergeants of Artillery, Cavalry,
and Infantry paid $30 will get $38.
The general term "sergeant" in
cludes supply, mess, and duty ser
geants.
Bandsmen were formerly paid as
follows: Sergeants, $36; corporals,
$30; and privates, $24. They will now
receive $44, $38, and $36, respectively.
Hospital Corps members received
$50 for sergeants, first class; $30,
sergeants; $24, corporals; $18, pri
vates first class; and $16, privates
second class. The new scale makes the
pay for sergeants, first class, $56;
$38 for sergeants; $36 for corporals;
$33 for privtes, first class; and $31
jfor privates second class.
Enlisted men of the United States
Army are now receiving the benefits
of the pay increases provided for in
the National Army act approved by
President Wilson May 18. The new
pay schedule went into effect June 1.
The act calls for increases of $15 a
month where the base pay does not
exceed $21 a month; $12 a month
where it does not exceed $24; $8 a
month for $30, $36, and $40 grades;
and $6 increase for grades paying
$45 a month or more.
LOSSES BY U-BOATS IS THE
LARGEST IN PAST SIX WEEKS
Washington Post.
Last week's figures of British
shipping losses as the result of Ger
many's submarine warfare show a
llarger number of vessels sunk than in
any of the six preceding weeks. Not
since the seven-day period ending
April 28 has a greater number of
ships been destroyed. During that
'week 51 vessels ? 38 over and 13 un
!der 1,600 tons ? were sunk. The heav
iest totals since the Teuton submarine
campaign was opened in February
last was registered in the week ended
April 21, when 40 steamers of more
jthan 1,600 tons were sunk and 15
vessels of the smaller tonnage were
sent to the bottom.
Since the middle of April when the
; undersea boat activity recorded its
highest toll 303 British vessels, of
which 220 measured more than 1,600
tons, were sunk, the weekly total be
ing as follows: Over Under
|WTeek ending tons tons
April 21 40 15
April 28 38 13
May 5 24 22
May 12.
| May 19.
' May 26 .
June 3.
June 10
June 20
18
18
18
15
22
9
1
3
10
5
Revivals on Newton Grove Circuit.
Rev. T. W. Siler, pastor in charge
of the Newton Grove circuit, re
quests us to announce the dates of
his protracted meetings as follows:
At Antioch Methodist church, be
ginning fourth Sunday in July, first
sermon will be at 8 o'clock P. M.
| At Ebenezer Methodist church,
first Sunday in September, first ser
mon at 7:45 P. M.
Home preparedness ? cans loaded
with food.