SECOND LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE.
Five Million ltond? and Ten Million
Subscribers is the Coal Set by Offi
cials. McAdoo to Start 011 Speaking
Tour Which Will Last Throughout
Campaign.
Washington, Sept. 30. ? The second
Liberty loan campaign will open to
morrow. For four weeks the entire
nation will be a recruiting ground for
money with which to carry on the
war. To obtain three billion dollars in
subscriptions, the minimum set by
Treasury officials, a gigantic machine
of many parts stands ready to be set
in motion with the opening of the
campaign.
Fifty per cent greater than the first
Liberty loan, the present offering is
the largest the American people have
ever been called upon to absorb, and
to make certain it will be more than
fully subscribed officials for months
have been busy perfecting the
elaborate sales and publicity machin
ery.
Five million bonds and ten million
subscribers ? that is the goal to which
the officials hope to drive the cam
paign during the next few weeks.
The services of every industry in
the country have been enlicted to this
end.
Secretary McAdoo will open the
campaign formally with a speech in
Cleveland, O., the first of many he
will deliver in a transcontinental tour
which will take him into virtually ev
ery section of the country and keep
him on the road until October 26, the
day before the subscription books
close.
More than 26,000 banks will co-op
eratc in floating the huge issue. These,
working under the guidance of the
12 Federal Reserve banks, regional
headquarters for the loan, will be the
Treasury's agent.
LEADER OF I. W. W. ARRESTED.
Secretary Haywood With Many Oth
ers Indicted for Conspiracy
to Hamper Government.
Formal return of a blanket in
dictment charging a nation-wide
conspiracy to hamper the govern
ment during the war was made Fri
day in the United States District
Court in Chicago against 166 lead
ers of the Industrial Workers of the
World.
Arrests speedily followed the re
turn. Almost before the court pro
ceedings had reached the State of
the discharge of the jury, deputy
marshals were on their way to the
local I. W. W. headquarters in auto
mobiles, donated and driven by wom
en, and quickly returned to the fed
eral building bringing prisoners with
them.
In the first hour 35 men wero thus
haled into the marshal's office and la
ter were questioned by investigators
for the Department of Justice.
Among the first to be taken in cus
tody was William D. Haywood, sec
retary cf the National I. W. W., who
was questioned September 5th, when
the headquarters of the I. W. W. in
various cities were raided by the gov
ernment.
TOO MANY MEN ARE
REJECTED AT CAMP.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 2D. ? North
Carolina sent fifty-four men of the
National army to Camp Jackson to
day. The arrivals for the day from the
two Carolinas and Florida totaled
154. Rejections for physical reasons
are altogether too high, according to
Lieutenant Colonel James M. Gra
ham, chief mustering officer. Over
eight hundred men have been sent
home, approximately 10 per cent.
Colonel Graham declares that the men
should have been so carefully examin
ed before arriving that not one in
one hundred wculd have been sent
home after reporting.
Liquor Coming High.
A traveling man, who was in town
yesterday, said that he was in Nor
folk Saturday and made an effort to
buy some whiskey. He finally secured
a pint which cost him $3.50.
It is reported that a Smithfield
man, who was found to have too much
fiery stuff on hand and which was
confiscated by the officers of the law, 1
paid eight dollars a gallon for some '
brandy. 1
Some people seem to think the truth I
will last longer if they stretch it a bit. h
F1KE PREVENTION DAY.
Supr rintendent of Public Instruction
Urges That the Schools Observe
This Day on October 9th.
In a Utter to the Superintendents
md Teachers of the Public Schools of
STorth Carolina, Superintendent J. Y. i
Foyner says:
"In accordance with an Act of the i
jieneral Assembly of North Carolina, i
he 9th day of October has been des- 1
gnated by proclamation of the Gov
ernor as "Fire Prevention Day."
"I urge the co-operation of Super
ntendents and Teachers with the
State Insurance Department in its
commendable efforts to prevent loss
if property and life in North Caro
ina from fire. Let every teacher on i
VIonday preceding "Fire Prevention
Day" read to the school children the i
jroclamation of the Governor and the
etter and practical suggestions of the
Insurance Commissioner for the pre
vention of fires. Post these suggest
ons in the schoolroom and carefully <
observe them, not only on "Fire Pre
vention Day,*' but throughout the
school term. 1 have no doubt that the
oss of many schoolhouses in North
Carolina by fire can be prevented by
:he observance of these simple pre
cautions, and that the destruction of
nuch other property by fire now and
lereafter can be prevented by in
structing the school children to ob
serve these precautions for the pre
vention of unnecessary fires."
A Proclamation by the Governor.
Taxes are a great burden, and a
source of constant i itation. The in
genuity of statesmen is being taxed
10 reduce and to equalize the tax
Durden, and yet the fire tax annually
evied upon the State of North Caro
ina is practically equal to the entire
taxes levied for the support of the
State Government. We may equalize
the governmental taxes, but they
must be paid by some one. Two-thirds
jf the fire taxes are wholly unneces
sary, and are due to lack of reason
able care.
Realizing this, the General Assem
bly of North Carolina has set aside
the 9th day of October of each and
every year as Fire Prevention Day,
and makes it the duty of the Governor
to issue a Proclamation, urging the
people to a proper observance of the
day.
Now, Therefore, I, T. W. Bickett,
Governor of North Carolina, in ac
cordance with this statute, do issue
this my Proclamation, and I do set
aside and designate Tuesday, the 9th
day of October, 1917, as Fire Preven
tion Day, and do urge all the people
to a proper observance of this day in
obedience to the law of North Caro
lina. I urge the public schools of the
State and the municipal officers there
of to give proper and formal recog
nition of the day and its meaning,
and request the citizens generally to
give special attention on that day to
the condition of their premises, to the
end that the waste and loss of prop
erty and life may be reduced in this
State.
Done at our City of Raleigh, this
the fifteenth day of September, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and seventeen, and in the one
hundred and forty-second year of our
American Independence.
T. W. BICKETT,
Governor.
TWO TRAINS MEET HEAD ON.
Twenty-Seven Persons Killed in Col
lision in Oklahoma.
Twenty-seven persons are known
to have been killed and more than
a score injured in a head-on collis
ion late Friday between a west-bound
St. Louis & San Francisco passen
ger train and an empty train which
had been used for transporting
troops, one mile southwest of Kelly
ville, Oklahoma.
At 9 o'clock Friday night the bod
ies of seven white men, three Indians
and seventeen negroes had been tak
en from the wreckage of the passen
ger coaches, three of which were
telescoped.
The passenger train is said to have
been ordered to wait at a siding for
the empty troop train to pass, but
for some reason pulled out of the
station i.nd met the east-bound train
head on at a bridge over Polecat
creek.
Speed up and feed up. You will go
farther and live longer.
rftAVIS FAILED TO LAND JOB.
North Carolina Delegation at Wash
ington Much Disappointed That
President Did Not Appoint Their
Man.
Washington, Sept. 29. ? The refus
al of President Wilson to name E. L.
Travis, of Raleigh, as a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
came as a distinct shock to Senators
Overman and Simmons and the entire
North Carolina delegation in the
House. The two Senators had been led
to believe that Travis certainly would
be named and in fact every one in
Washington, with the exception of the
President and Joseph P. Tumulty, his
secretary, seemed to be of the same
opinion.
All hope of Mr. Travis being nam
ed went glimmering today when the
President sent in the nomination of
Robert W. Woolley of Virginia, Clyde
B. Aitchison of Oregon, and George
W. Anderson of Boston, to fill the va
cancies on the commission. Woolley
will be in charge of the section which
includes North Carolina and practi
cally all those States which have
commercial relations with the State.
The appointment of Woolley came
as a surprise even to Senators Swan
son and Marion of Virginia. These
two Senators had a candidate of their
own and were in no way interested in
the appointment of Woolley. Woolley
moved to Virginia soon after Mr. Wil
son became president and has been
holding either a government job or a
position on the Democratic committee
nearly ever since. ? Wilmington Star.
MIZZLE NEW HANOVER DOGS.
Board of Health Takes This Action to
Guard Against Rabies.
(Wilmington Star, 30th.)
As a matter of precaution to safe
guard against infection resulting from
the bites of rabid dogs, the Board of
Health at a special session yesterday
afternoon passed a resolution to muz
zle all dogs running at large "in Wil
mington and New Hanover County,
for a period of 42 days, beginning
October 4th.
The oriental suggestion from Or.
Charles T. Nesbitt, County Health
Officer, was to make the muzzling ef
fective for a period of four months,
but Dr. Slocumb and Dr. Wessell, the
two medical members of the board,
were of the opinion that 42 days
would be a sufficient length of time
for the present, and if there were still
evidences of danger among the ca
nines of the county at the end of that
period that it could be easily extend
ed.
Under the statutes of the city gov
erning this matter, the police will be
instructed to summarily destroy all
dogs running at large on the streets
without a muzzle.
REWARD FOR DESERTERS.
The Military Authorities Are After
Those Who Fail to Report to the
Local Board for Service.
The Local Exemption Board asks
us to publish the following telegram
from Provost Marshal, General Crow
der:
"Number 8215. A reward of fifty
dollars is payable for the delivery at
the nearest army camp or post of a
deserter. This reward is in full satis
faction of all expenses incurred in
said delivery. A person who fails to
report to his Local Board for military
service, at the time specified in his
order to report, is a deserter. A per
son who fails to report for military
service to the Adjutant General of the
State, by the date specified in the or
der of the Adjutant General to said
person, is a deserted. It is highly de
sirable from every standpoint that
an effort now be made to round up all
persons who are delinquent in report
ing for military service. It is thought
that if the fact of reward is given the
widest publicity, we shall have a
great force of public officers and even
of individuals interested in bringing
such delinquents under military con
trol. If, after such persons are
brought to a military authority, it ap
pears to the military authority that
their delinquency is not wilful, they
will be forwarded to a mobilization
camp, and their Local Board will be
given credit. If it appears that the
delinquent was wilful, they will be
prosecuted before court martial as de
serters. In either case the reward is
payable."
ACTIVITIES IN CAMP LEE.
The Members of Ambulance Company
No. 43 lla\e (iot New Uniforms.
All GettinK in Readiness for Ser
vice.
Camp Leo, Petersburg, Va., Sept.
'Jy. ? The hearts of every man in Am
bulance Company No. 43 were made
glad Wednesday afternoon when the
order went forth that full uniforms
and equipment would be issued, and
before the cun set those who had
seen our men in their civilian clothes
and then viewed them in their spick
and span army uniforms, would have
been startled at the transformation.
From now on the company will be
held to a stricter accountability so
far as military affairs go. Prior to
being uniformed the army regulations
were not closely adhered to, but with
uniformity the position and carriage
of a soldier will be demanded of all
men.
The men of Ambulance Company
No. 43 are daily expecting the arriv
al of Company No. 40 from Richmond,
Va., and are planning to give those
men the same cordial reception that
was given to No. 43 by Provisional
Ambulance Company "A," which is a
part of the 305th Sanitary Train, to
which wc are attached. Company No.
46 was recruited and will be in com
mand of Lieut. C. Howard Lewis. It
is a part of the base hospital unit of
the Medical College of Virginia and
its personnel includes several from
North Carolina who were too late in
their application to join Company No.
43.
I he .505th Sanitary lrain is com
posed of four ambulance companies
and four field hospitals. The field hos
pital units are already in camp and
consist of 80 enlisted men and 4 com
missioned officers each. The ambu
lance companies are of two kinds ?
motor f.nd animal driven, and we will
have two of each kind. Nos. 415 and 46
will be motor driven units and Pro
visional Ambulance Company "A" and
one other company, yet to be desig
nated, will be animal driven ambu
lance companies.
A brief visit to the organizations
comprising the 305th train disclosed
the fact that North Carolinians are
in all of the Companies. R >bert H.
Wells, of Princeton, N. C., is a Ser
geant in Company "A" ? the most
cosmopolitan company, perhaps, in
this entire camp. Its personnel hails
from about twenty States and in
cludes a large percentage of college
and university graduates. "Top Ser
geant" Joseph Lee of this compr.ny is
a .grand nephew of General Robert E.
Lee. Other home boys in "A" Com
pany are Charles Swofford and Har
ry Bowman, of Morganton; Argus W.
Storey from Buncombe County, and
George Kerlee from Black Mountain.
Also, F irst Lieut. James W. McPhee
ters, of the same Company is regis
tered from the State of Kentucky, but
he looks and acts like he belongs to
the illustrious McPheeters family of
Raleigh. In one of the field hospital
units is Lieut. Boyles, of Greensboro;
Lieut. Boland from the Western part
of the State, and Private Craig froin
Wilmington.
One of the nightly diversions of the
men of No. 43 are the impromptu
sparring matches in the Y. M. C. A.
and also in the open near the 305th
Field Artillery ? our immediate neigh
bors, and considerable talent in this
line has been discovered. In the pro
cess of developing this talent, howev
er, it was the misfortune of one of
the Forty-third's men to be matched
with a semi-professional from Dart
mouth College ? he lasted p. brief part
of one round, and upon arising re
marked that the knockout blow was so
severe it caused his wrist watch to
run backwards.
Private Cook, who hails from Fre
mont, r.nd as Sergeant Mumford, of
Greenville says, "seems to be proud
of it," is anxious for the newsboys
who visit camp to sell a regular news
paper ? something like the Fremont
Messenger. Each morning he inquires
of each newsboy who hails him and
wants to buy a Messenger.
In the issue of the uniforms Ser
geant Allen Zollicoffer stated that he
never longed to change his name to
something like Abraham Aarons be
fore in his life (the uniforms were
issued to the men in alphabetical or
der, and it was a long wait from Al
phin to Zollicoffer).
As an idea of what a uniform will
do for a man, one of the rookies was
heard to state soon after he received
his outfit, that he could feel the pa
triotism rising; in his spine just as
soon as he began to pull on his army
shoos. Too, there was a noticeable
"perkiness" about the men as soon as
they appeared in line all dolled up.
Their carriage, their step, their unan
imous desire to see the entire com
pany "well dressed" was one of the
results of Captain Scott's gladsome
order to report for clothing.
Some of the men failed to recognize
others in the same company, as the
sudden change from civilian to soldier
dress was so great. Sergeant Peedin,
one of the "natty" dressers of the
Forty-third, was asked by a man in
his squad yesterday afternoon what
outfit he was with. The laugh, as well
as the grape juices, of course, was on
the man who made the error.
Can you imagine Alger Byrd, Roy
Bailey and Percy Youngblood all do
ing their own laundry, washing their
dishes after each meal ? You should
see them. Yet we all are having a
very good time ? just like a big family,
each pulling together.
SCRIBE.
VILLA IS HEARD FROM AGAIN.
Bandit Fixes Food Prices, Levies
Taxes and Distributes Seized
Wheat To Poor.
El Paso, Texas, Oct. 1. ? Francisco
Villa, leading a band of his followers,
swept down from the Durango moun
tains last week and captured the town
of Rosario, Durango, according to an
employee of an American corporation
operating there, who arrived here to
day.
He said Villa had declared himself
supreme dictator of the district sur
rounding Rosario, had regulated the
price of foodstuffs, levied taxes and
seized a quantity of wheat for distri
bution among the poor.
UPTIRN IN COTTON CHECKED.
Movement Halts After Rapid Rise of
500 Points. Market Highly
Unsettled.
It was considered sufficiently note
worthy and surprising at the time
this journal went on the press last
week that cotton prices h:.d risen to
the basis of ibout 23 V6 cents for Octo
ber and 23% cents or better for the
other deliveries, but a further gain
of a cent and more since then has
made the situation appear even more
astonishing. In actual figures, Octo
ber reached 29.99c. on Monday of this
week; December 24.60c.; January
24.50c. and March 24.70c., while the
local spot quotation soared to 26.30c.
All who have followed the market
know that tl.ese are not the top levels
of the year; yet it was little mere
than a fortnight ago that the option
list fell undir 20c. and middling up
lands below 21 '?c., so that there has
been an extreme recovery in each of
over 500 points, or $25 a bale. From
the best figures of the present week,
however, there wr.s a decline of about
100 points in futures.
As usually happens after a great
speculative rise or fall, sentiment in
cotton has become highly unsettled
and opionions are mixed on the im
mediate future course of prices. But
not a few far-sighted observers even
now can see nothing really convinc
ing in the recent striking upturn, and
still insist that decisive reaction is
inevitable, always barring sudden and
unexpected peace. Whether another
decline to around the 20c. bnsis will
be witnessed, as some people have
predicted, remains to be seen; yet it
is argued that only an oversold mar
ket made the late advance possible,
and that there has been nothing in
the crop situation to have warranted
it. Of adverse news from the fields,
there has been not a little; but none
of it has been actually alarming and
the Gulf storm, of which there were
fears this week, failed to do much
harm, if any. In considering the prob
able future action of prices, the
money situation is not to be disre
garded. Meanwhile, it has been an
nounced that trading in the Liverpool
market v/ill be resumed on Monday,
but under rather rigid restrictions. ?
Dun's Review, Sept. 29.
Music is the safety-valve of emo
tions at all times, and therefore a
necessity; but it is never so necessary
a necessity as during war-time when
emotional feeling runs high. Germany
built up the most coldly efficient fight
ing machine in the world ? and she
has trained her soldiers to sing as
they fight. ? Selected.
FINISH 1,200 SHIPS IN YEAR.
Shipping Board Issues Statement
Kevealing Magnitude of Govern
ment I'rogram. Country Will Have
Fleet of 1,600 Ships With Tonnage
of More Than 9,000,000.
? *1%
A Washington dispatch says:
The magnitude of the American
government's shipbuilding program
was revealed recently for the first
time in a statement by the Shipping
Board showing that nearly 1,200 mer
chant vessels of about 0,000,000 tons
will be completed within a little more
than a year.
Completion of ships commandeered
in shipyards and of vessels actually or
about to be contracted for will give
the country a fleet of 1,600 ships with
a total tonnage of more than 9,000,
000. In addition to this the board will
complete in 1919 vessels already con
tracted for and under negotiation of
about 4,000,000 tons. A billion dollars
has just been asked of Congress to
VV...J/.VVV VHV UIII.
The United Str.tes now is leading
the world in shipbuilding and if the
present rate of construction were kept
up would become the leading shipping
nation of the world in a few years.
The British, whose present ocean
going tonnage is about 15,000,000, are
hampered in building by lack of men
and materials. In all other countries,
except Japan, building virtually is at
a standstill.
America now has a total overseas
tonnage of 2,400,000 to which has been
added about 700,000 tons of German
and Austrian shipping. Japan has
2,000,000 tons; Italy 1,950,000; France
1,880,000; Norway 1,650,000; Holland
1,475,000; Sweden 860,000; Denmark
61)0,000 ; Spain 750,000; Russia 550,
000; Portugal 200,000, and all of
South America 800,000.
MONROE DOCTRINE I AR EAST.
Viscount Ishii, Head of Japanese Mis
sion to the United States Warns
Against Aggressions on China.
Proclaiming a Monroe Doctrine of
the Far East, Viscount Ishii, head of
the Japanese mission to the United
States, warned the nations of the
world Saturday night in New York
that his country will not tolerate ag
gressions against the territory or in
dependence of China. At the same
time, he pledged Japan not to attempt
similar aggressions on her part.
Speaking at a formal dinner, in
honor of the imperial envoy's visit to
New York, the ambassador of Empe
ror Yoshihito outlined publicly for
the first time since he set foot on
American soil, the policy of his gov
ernment, as it relates to China.
"Circumstances for which we were
in no sense responsible gave us cer
tain rights on Chinese territory," Vis
count Ishii said, "but at no time in
the past, and at no time in the fut
ure, do we or will we seek to take ter
ritory from China or to despoil Chi
na of her rights."
Then, with dramatic earnestness, he '
exponded the "hands off" policy of
his government.
"We v/ish to be and always to con
tinue to be," he declared, "the sin
cere friend and helper of our neigh
bor, for we arc more interested than
any one else, except China, in good ;
government there. Only we must, at
all times, for self -protection, prevent I
other nations from doing what we '
have no right to do. We not only will
not seek to assail the integrity or the 1
sovereignty of China, but will event- |
ually be prepared to defend and main
tain the integrity, and independence
of China, against any aggressor. For
we know that our own landmarks
would be threatened by any outside
invasion or interference in China."
Door to Trade Open.
While he boldly warned the world |
any attempt to invade the rights of :
the republic of the Far East, Viscount
Ishii promised with equal earnestness >
that the door to legitimate trade in "
China never would be closed by Ja
pan. This declaration was cheered by |
the 1,000 public men, bankers, mer-H
chants and captains of industry, who '
heard him.
Three White Men in Jail.
Charley Morris, Henry and Ben j
Langston, all white, were brought ~
here late yesterday and lodged in jail,
charged with an assault on Grand
berry Hales, near Kenly. Hales w?s
cut, shot and beaten with a pair
knucks.