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MI ST GO TO HIGHER I P BOARD. Claims of Exemption for Industrial Reasons Must Go To the District Hoard. Registrant Has Five Days in Which to Make Hit Appeal Af ter Being Certified by the Local Board. Provost Marshal General Issues Statement That No Ques tions Concerning Draft Will Be Answered From His Office. A Washington dispatch dated July 27, says: A deluge of personal in quiries concerning future steps in the army draft and of pleas from in dustrial concerns for exemption of their expert workers, drew from the provost marshal's office today a statement that questions must be ad dressed to local boards and that claims for industrial exemption muBt go later to the district boards. No general class of workmen will be exempted, Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder told the coal produc tion committee, which sought infor mation whether miners would be left at their work. Appeals to the pro vost marshal's office from employ ers on behalf of their workmen can accomplish nothing, it was explained, as regulations promulgated by Presi dent Wilson govern all exemptions. "The question of whether a man is more useful to his country in a peace ful pursuit than in military service is a matter to be taken up with the district board," said an announce ment, "and for that board to deter mine in the light of the circumstan ces surrounding each individual case. "Procedure in a case of claim for discharge on ths ground of industry or agriculture is explicitly outlined in the regulations. Only the upper or district board has jurisdiction ov er an industrial or agricultural claim for discharge. Before a mun has a standing before the district board he must first be certified to it by the local or lower board as physically qualfied for service, and must have had any discharge claim made be fore the lower board decided adverse ly to him. "He has five days after he is certi fied to the upper board in which to file claims for discharge and five days more in which to file proof. All claims for exemption or discharge, except claims for discharge on industrial or agricultural grounds, are decided or iginally by the local or lower board." Most individual queries to the pro vost marshal's office come from men who are absent from their place of registration and who have been sum moned for exemption. Such a man Bhould apply in writing to the local board in the district where he reg istered, and request an order direct ing him to appear for physical ex amination, and possibly exemption or discharge claim, before the board of the district in which he is now living. His request should designate defi nitely the board having jurisdiction over the district in which he is liv ing; for example, "local exemption board, Division No. 9, New York City." SUPPLYING A MILLION MEN. To Get the Necessary Thing* for Uncle Sam* Big Army is the Big gest Job He Has Ever Tackled. An idea of Uncle Sam's big job may be gained by reading the fob lowing sent out from Washington City to the daily press: "Buying the things an army must have, getting them to the training camps and, later on, putting them across the sea will be the biggest feat of merchandizing Uncle Sam ever attempted. "Consumption of food, clothing, bedding, hardware and other necessi ties by an army of 1,000,000 is rough ly calculated to be three times as great as for the same number of men in peaceful occupations. "Aside from arms and ammunition, 561 different articles must be supplied to equip an army. The government is rapidly completing the purchase of enough items to supply 4U,000 officers, 1,018,270 enlisted men and 926 civil ians for a year. "Manufacturing and transporting this mountain of goods will be felt in every business channel. It means prosperity, but also higher prices. Everything men use in ordinary life, except extreme luxuries, ' will be drawn upon. Women are affected by the use of raw material for army needs, otherwise devoted to their de mands. . "Following is part of the army's de mand, for a year: "Garbage cans, 55,011; whistles with chain, 129,011; saddlers' wax, 28,936 pounds; soap, 18,690,153 pounds; soup kettles, 89,991; small field deaks, 27,126; hats, 2,291,109; extra shoe laces, 10,182,700; nose bags for "horses, 72,240; brooms, 54, 720; white wash brushes, 27,796; blacksmith shops, 344; camp chairs, 8,532; tooth brushes, 3,054,818; face towels, 3,054,818; complete company barber shops, 19,624; tent stoves, 198,348." 'some money to run big war. McAdoo F-timates One Year's Cost of War at $10,735,807,000 Exclusive of Loans To Allien. Congress In formed That $7,000.000, 000 New Revenue* .Must be Raised This \ eur. (Washington Dispatch.) Estimating tho ccst of the wur for the coming year at $10,735,807, 000, exclusive of loans to the allies, the administration informed Con gress Friday that new revenues total ing $7,000,000,000 must he raised from taxation or issuance of secu rities. If advancement of credit to the Al lies is continued at the present rate, the year's total of war expenditures wll pass $16,000,000,000, and the amount of additional revenue requir ed will increase accordingly. How Congress will meet the enormous new revenue requirements remains to be determined, but there is a distinct sentiment in favor of offsetting most of the expenditures by bond issues. Many leaders on both sides of the Capitol predicted that not more than $2,000,000,000 of the $7,000,000,000 asVed would be raised hy taxation, and that the remainder might be met partially by bond sales and partially by issuunce of Treasury certificates of indebtedness. Equipment and stores for the Na tional Army, particularly artillery, will resuire the lion's share of appro priations under the administration's estimates. Of the year's total of $10,785,807,000, the War Department alone expects to spend $7,8(54,240,000, or $5,310,000,000 more than has been appropriated thus far for its ex penses during the year. The navy expects to spend $1,200, 000,000, of which $288,000,000 re mains to be appropriated. The Ship ping Hoard, whose ship-building projects place it third on the list, exjeets to spend $700,000,000 of which $350,000,000 remains to be ap propriated. These figures cover the cost of war from July 1 Inst to June 30 next. They do not includy the money spent prior to the first of this month. Estimated receipts for the war were placed by Secretary McAdoo, in transmitting the estimates to the House Ways nnd Means and Senate Finance committee, at $1,333,500,000. This estimate of receipts did not in clude revenues to be raised under the pending war tax bill, estimated by administration leaders in Congress at $1,670,670,000. Revision of the bill will begin immediately. Uncle Sam as a Shopper. Have you a government contract? If you are in the manufacturing bus iness, there is scarcely a line in which Uncle Sam is not buying something with which to equip the big army about to be called into service. Most people have familiarized themselves to a certain extent with one feature of conducting a war, the raising of the army itself, but have the most nebulous and inadequate no tion of those other features which are of equal importance. They have no idea of the cost of outfitting an army before it is ready to take the field. That is what Uncle Sam is doing now. He is spending about $50,000,000 through his quartermaster's depart ment to equip the first army of half a million men, something like $100 for each soldier, exclusive of his rifle and ammunition. It is a big shopping tour on which the government is engaged. The fig ures seem almost incredible, but they serve to give some idea of the cost, not of war, but of maintaining an ar my. Some of the principal items, taken from the books of the War De partment, are as follows: 2,500,000 hats ti cover the heads of the soldier boys. 2,000,000 cots for camps, barracks and cantonments. 5,380,000 blankets to keep the khaki-clad boys warm. 4.700,000 pairs of russet shoes and 2,500,000 of field shoes. 54,000,000 yards of duck with which to make tents. 9,000,000 yards of cloth for shirts and underwear. \ 45,000,000 yards of cotton cloth for coats and trousers. 14,000,000 yards of woolen cloth for suitings. 10,000,000 yards of woolen cloth for overcoats. 16,000,000 pairs of cotton and wool en stockings. We all have heard much of the military side of preparing an army, but of the other side we hear little. Yet consider their magnitude. These figures give an illuminating idea of the quartermaster task of war before fighting is b"gun. Next comes the provisioning of an army, and there the figures are equally vast. Multiply our army by ten and put it into the battle line and no longer will you marvel at the tremendous cost of war. ? St. Paul Pioneer-Press. THE WAR SITUATION' IN Rl'SSIA. | ^Government's Policy of "Blood and Ircn" To IU* Carried Out in Way That Bode* III To Traitors. Korni loff Rrportrd To Have Had L>ivis ion of Cowards Blown To I'im-sJ by Former Brothers-in- Arm*. (War Summary for Thursday.) The Russian government's policy of "blood and iron" is to be carried out along lines which bodes ill for the seditious troops along the eastern front and those persons within the country who arc trying to nullify the good work that has followed in the wake of he revolution. Capital punishment, abolished with the advent of the new government, again has been put into force on the demand of the military commanders at the front, who now will be able to I assemble field court martinis and put to death summarily traitors in the army. General Korniloff, commander of the forces in Galicia, whose dis affection and desertions have wrought I havoc in the Russian morale, was the most insistent of the military chiefs in calling for a free hand to check the refractory troops declaring that the death penalty was the only means of Baving the army. Prior to the acquiescence of the I government General Korniloff is re- 1 ported to have taken the drastic step I of having a division of fleeing cow- I ards of the Eleventh Army shot to I pieces by their faithful former broth- I ers-in-arms. Meanwhile, pending the tighten ing of the reins of repression, the Russian troops everywhere in Gali- 1 cia from the region around Tarnopol southward to the southwestern Huko- I wina border, are continuing to give way with relatively little fighting, before the Germans and Austro-Hun- I garians. The important towns of Buczacz, Tlumacz, Ottynin and I)e latyn have been captured by the Teu tonic allies and the Russians also have been driven from the Tartar I'ass in the Carpathians and their positions in the Kirlibaba sector, to the southeast. The withdrawal of the Russians in the latter regions apparently paves the way for the Teutons to recapture Bukowina which, if accomplished, possibly would make lees stable the Russo-Runianian line running through Moldavia to where the Danube bends eastward for its last race into the Black Sec. Already Berlin reports the Germans debouching from the Tartar Pass to be headed in the di rection of Czernowitz, capital of Bu kowina. In addition to breaching the Ger man lines south of the Carpathians, the Russians and Rumanians made large captures of men and guns. To the Rumanians there cams r.s a re ward for their part in the concen trated attack more than a thousand prisoners, 33 guns, 17 machine guns and other war equipment, while the Russians for their took approximate ly the same number of prisoners and 24 guns. WAR SUMMARY FOR FRIDAY. Friday Was Another Had Day With Russians Still Retreating in Fast Galicia. The Russian retirement in East ern Galicia continues. There has been a noticeable slackening irt the Austro German advances north of the Dniest er, where the Russians now are of fering more spirited resistance, but south of the river to the Carpathians the Teutonic forces are moving for ward almost unimpeded. Around Tarnopol the Austro-Ger mans have met with a stubborn re sistance from the Russians, but Prince Leopold's soldiers were able to enlarge recent gains on the east ern bank of the Sereth. Between Trembowla and Skoromocze, south of Tarnopol, the Russians were forced to yield the crossings of the Sereth and Guiza rivers on a front of about eight miles, according to Berlin. Southeast of Tarnopol, Petrograd reports, the Austro-German attacks were repulsed. The Russians have retired to new positions southeast oY Trembowla, but whether they also surrendered the crossings of the Sereth there, Petro grad does not say. Between Czort kov and the Dneister, Russian caval ry has repelled Teutonic assaults and driven the attackers northwestward toward Monasterzyska. South of the Dniester into the foot hills of the Carpathians the Russians are retiring eastward. Kolomea, about 50 miles northwest of Czer nowitz, capital of Bukowina, has been occupied by Bavarian and Austro Ilungarian troops. The town is an im portant rrilway junction and lies north of the Pruth. An unofficial report from Austrian sources says the Russians are evacu ating Czernowitz. The advance of the Rumanians in the Nuchitnea Valley northwest of Focsani, has resulted in the abandon ment of that valley as far as the northern course of I'utna by the Aus tro-German*. The Rumanians have moved their line forward 7 1-2 miles, c; rung all their objectives. , More thi.n four hundred additional 'prisoner* and guns and war material were captured by the Rumanians. SATURDAY'S WAR SUMMARY. Russians Continue to Fall Hack In (ialicia But Forge Ahead In Rumanian Theatre. Still the center of military inter est, the Russian front from Volhy nia southward to the bend in the line near Fokshani in Rumania presents the curious spectacle of the Russians still in retreat on a wide front in Eastern Galicia and of Russian and Rumanian forces victoriously ad vancing in an important sector along the western Moldavian frontier. Petrograd has little to say of the situation in Eastern Galicia, but in dicates a considerable resistance by the Russian forces to Austro-Hunga rian pressure in the Carpathians, not withstanding which a Russian re tirement was forced under a Teuton ic attack. Berlin is more specific regarding the Galician campaign. It announces the Austro-German troops as near ing the Pruth plateau below Kolo mea, on the road to Czernowitz, and further gains effected along the line both north and south of the Dneister. Teutonic Line Bent Hack. On the Moldavian frjnt, the Rus sians and Rumanians are carrying out an effective operation which has bent hack the defensive line oppo site Kczdi-Vasarhely, Transylvania, and farther north. Important heights have been occupied by the Rumanians near Bedesczi, while in the vicinity of Kalakul mountain the Russians are pushing toward the Putna river and have occupied Boduple on the left bank of the Putna. Possible indications of further re organization of the Russian military machine are seen in the summoning of two famous generals of the old re gime to Petrograd. The men summon ed are General Ruzsky, formerly com mander-in-chief of the northern ar mies, and General Gurko, former commander of the southwestern front. SON OF PRESIDENT MONROE. Still Living at Jacksonville, Fla., Al though Past the Century-Mark. The oldest and most vigorous cen tenarian in Florida, Major James Monroe, of this city, only surviving son of President James Monroe, cel ebrated his 101st birthday here Sat urday. Major Monroe is a widely known figure in the neighborhood in which he lives. A small pension from the State, which he gets for having serv ed in the Confederate army, is his chief support. His home, a dilapidated houseboat, is drawn up on the bank of the St. John's river, in the heart of Riverside, the most exclusive resi dential section of Jacksonville. Sur rounding it are the homes of many well-to-do citizens. Major Monroe wears his years lightly. He is as sprightly as some men of fifty. He works in the gar dens of the wealthier residents of the Riverside section, and is a favor ite with the children, for whom he has a constant fund of stories relat ing to the Mexican War, the Civil War and antebellum days. He has been married three times and has lost five sons fighting for this country. Two of them were killed in the Civil War. One daughter remains alive. Her home is at Richmond, Va. ' At the side of the houseboat home of Major Monroe, a Confederate flag flies, but in the place of honor is the Stars and Stripes. Each Fourth of July, Major Monroe salutes "Old Glory" with a volley from a flintlock musket. A prized photograph of President James Monroe is owned by Major Monroe. ? Jacksonville, Fla., Dispatch to the New York Herald. Esprit De Corps. The son of the well to do family had recently joined up as a private and was spending his Christmas leave at home. Returning from a walk, hio mother espied a fijture in the kitchen with the housemaid. "Clarence," she called to her con. | 'Mary's got sume one in the kitchen. : She knows perfectly well that I don't ' illow followers. I wish you'd go and ell the man to leave the house at I >nco." Clarence duly departed to the kinhen, but returned in about half a minute. "Sorry, mother, but I can't turn him out." "Can't turn him out?" Why on earth not?" "He's my sergeant!" ? Saturday Night. We spend our years as a tale that is told. ? Bible. RU8S WOMEN FALL IN BATTLE. Five of "Let'ion of Death" Killed or Wounded in Fight With Kaiser'* Troops on Ea*t Front. Petro^rad, July 26.? Russian wom en have laid down their lives on the battlefield of democracy. Against the reports of traitorous retreat < f some of the Russian male divisions before the Austro-Germans cj'me word to-day of how the women's "Legior. of Death" on the Vilna front fought and died in repulsing an enemy attack. For the first time in the history of the great world war casualty reports to-day chronicled the death and in jury of women in the trenches. Five women of the "Legion of Death" were killed and wounded in the first engagement in which they were called upon fo resist with arms the invasion of their country. The "Legion of Death" left Petro grad barely two weeks ago, its girl soldiers garbed in trousers, puttees and tunics a trifle longer than the usual army coats. They wore the reg ulation army caps over bobbed hair and carried packs only a trifle light er than those of the regular Russian soldiers. They entrained amid the proud tears of their families, soberly, like veterans. The girls were of Russia's best blood, of the strong stock of some of the city's intellectual, finan cial and social leaders. Most of them were students at universities. Some were wealthy. All pledged to "do or die" for Russia. To-day Petrograd proudly realized the Russian women were capable of the supreme sacrifice of their lives for the new democracy. Except for the women of Belgium, none have suffered so in the years past as those of Russia. Through the years of the Czar's autocratic grip they were ground underfoot. When the war be gan their men were taken for the Czar's service. No word ever reach ed them from those who left in the Russian army's ranks. No kindly government told them of their fate. At home, only the zemstvos ? citizens' organizations ? kept many women from starvation. The Government had no heed for their fate. Then came the revolution and all was swept aside. Russia revived again. Russia's women, trampled through centuries under the iron heel of autocracy, sprang to the opportunity for the supreme sacri fice of life to cement their new liber ty. The Legion of Death was the ut termost exemplification of this spirit of sacrifice. One other thing that gave Petro grad pride in the women fighters was that they were in action at a front where Russia's troops were victorious. They speculated on the possibility that it was this small unit of ama zons that shamed some of the insecure Russian men fighters into such fierce ness of purpose that the Teutonic line gave way. Great preparations were in prog ress here to-day to care for the wounded girl soldiers. It was expect ed that those who could be moved would be brought here immediately from the front. Meantime, reports from the front said those whom Teu tonic bullets had struck were bear ing their suffering with stoical forti tude. ? William G. Shepherd, in New York Sun. Siam's Entry Important. The announcement that Siam has declared a state of war with Ger many carries greater significance than might at first be supposed, ac cording to John Barrett, director of the Pan-American union, Washing ton, and formerly United States min ister to Siam. "Siam's chief importance in the present war crisis is that it is prac tically the rice granary or source of food supply for China, and its action may have a direct effect upon China's attitude toward Germany," said Mr. Barrett Monday. "It also gives the allies now for the first time an un broken favorable coast line all the way from China to the Mediterran ean, for Siam was the only neutral territory in that entire distance of many thousand miles. It also possess es an excellent little navy, adequate to patrol the Gulf of Siam coast line of nearly 2,000 miles." You are liable to an attack of Bowel Complaint and should provide yourself with the best known Remedy. Dr SETH ARNOLD'S BALSAM. Warranted by HOOD BROS., Smith field, N. C.? Adv. 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