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if SON ISSUES BIG ARMY DRAFT PROCLAMATION President Designates June 5 As Registration Day HEAVY PENALTIES FOR. FAILURE TO ENROLL All Males Between 21 and 30, Inclusive, Are Liable. Absentee Registration May Be Done By Mall. Federal and State Officials to Appoint Registrars. Washington. President Wilson's proclamation, putting Into effect the selective draft provision of the war army bill, follows: A proclamation by the President of the United States. Whereas, Congress has enacted and the President has on the eighteenth day of Ma, one thousand nine hun dred and seventeen, approved a law which contains the following provis ions: Section 5 That all male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, both Inclusive, shall be subject to registra tion in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the President and upon proclamation by the President or other public notice given by him or by his direction, stating the time and place of such registration, it shall be the duty of all persons of the de signated ages, except officers and en listed men of the regular Army, the Navy, and the National Guard and naval militia while in the service of the United States, to present them selves for and submit to registration under the provisions of this act; and every such persons shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this act upon the publication of said proclamation or other notice as afore said given by the President or by his direction; and any persons who shall wilfully fail or refuse to present him self for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the District Court of the United States having jurisdic tion thereof, be punished by imprison ment for not more than one year, a-nd shall thereupon be duly registered. Provided, that, in the call of the docket preceding shall be given, in the courts trying the same, to the trial of crimin al proceedings under this act: Pro vided further, that persons shall be subject to registration as herein pro vided who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day set for registration, and all persons so regis tered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby author ized unless exempted or excused there from as in this act provided: Provid ed further, that in the case of tem porary absence from actual place of legal residence of any persons liable to registration as provided herein, such registration may be made by mail un der regulations to be prescribed by the President. Penalties Are Fixed. Section C That the President is hereby authorized to utilize the ser vice of any or all departments and any or all officers or assets of the United States and of the several 6tates, territoies, and the District of Columbia, and sub-divisions thereof, in the execution of this act, and all officers and agents of the United States and of the several states, terri tories and sub-divisions thereof, and of the District of Columbia and all persons designated or appointed un der regulations prescribed by the Pres ident whether such appointments are made by the President himself or by the Government or other officers ,of any state or territory to perform an duty in the execution of thi3 are hereby required to perform, duty as the President shall orde direct, and all such officers agents and persons so designated appointed shall hereby have full au ortty for all acts done by them in execution of this act by the direc Of the President. Correspondenc the execution of this act may ried in penalty envelopes bearin frank of the War "Department persons charged as herein n with the duty of carrying into any of the provisions of the ac regulations made or direction io'f 7 thereunder who shall fail or neform Hlir-h rfntw onrl o, "u mV, Diifli 4iir f V ' v autnon s or cerunca-ie us Jbility or himself or any tn for service under ! the provisions of this act. or regula tions made by the President there under, or otherwise evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act or of said regulations or who In any manner, shall fall or neglect J fully to perform any duty required of him In the execution of this act, id 4 bef J rv ar-- tO tlieV shall, if not subject to military law, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction in the District Court of thd United States having jurisdiction thereof be punished by Imprisonment for not more than one year, or, if sub ject to military law, shall be tried by court-martial and suffer such punish ment as a court-martial my direct Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, do call upon the Governor each of the several States and Territories, the Board of Commissioners of the Dis trict of Columbia and all officers and agents of the several States and Ter ritories, of the District of Columbia, and of the counties and municipali ties therein to perform certain duties in the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will be communicated to them directly In regulations of even date herewith. And I do further proclaim and give notice to all persons subject to regis tration in the several States and in, accordance with the above law that the time and place of such registration shall be between 7 a. m., and 9 p. m., on the 5th day of June, 1917, at the registration place In the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. Those who shall have attain ed their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty first birthday on or before the day here named are required to register excepting only officers and enlisted men of the regular Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States ,and of ficers in 'the Officers' Reserve Corps and enlisted men in the Enlisted Re serve Corps while in active service. In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii! and Porto Rico, a day for registration will be named In a later proclamation. And I do charge those who through sickness shall be unable to present themselves for registration that they apply on or before the day of regis tration to the county clerk where they may be for instructions as to how they may be registered by agent. Those who expect to be absent on the day named from the counties in which they have their permanent homes may register by mail, but their mailed reg istration cards must reach the place in which they have their permanent homes by the day named herein. They should apply as soon as practica ble to the county clerk of the county wherein they may be for instructions as to how they may accomplish theiT registration by mail. Tn case such persons as, through sickness or ab sence, may be unable to present them selves personally for registration shall be sojourning in cities of over 30,000 population, they shall apply to the city clerk of the city wherein they may besojourning rather than to the clerk of the county. The clerks of counties and of cities of over 30,000 population in which numerous appli cations from the sick and from non residents are expected are authorized to establish such sub-agencies and to employ and deputize such clerical force as may be necessary to accom modate these applications. The power against which we are arrayed has sought to impose its will upon the world by force. To this end it has increased armament until it has changed the face of war. In the sense in which we have been won't to think of armies, there are no armies in this struggle. There are entire nations armed. Thus the men who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army that is in France than the men beneath the battleflags. It must be so with us. It is not an army that we must shape and train for war; it is a Nation. To this end, our people must draw close in one compact front against a common foe. But this can not be if each man pursues a private purpose. All must pursue one pur pose. The Nation needs all men; but it needs each man not in the field that will most please him, but in the endeavor that will best serve the common good. Thus, though a sharp shooter pleases to operate a trip hammer for the forging of great guns, and an expert machinist desires to march with the flag, the Nation ia best served only when the sharp shooter marches and the machinist remains at his levers. The whole na tion must be a team in which each an shall play the part for which is best fitted. To this end, Con- s has provided that the Nation be organized for war by selec- f ana tnat each man shall be clpssi- 1 for service in the place to which it im. significance of this cannot be Vated. It is a new thine in- our r and a landmark in our V Issential that the day be ap 1 in thoughtful apprehension Yiificance and that we accord Vhonor and the meaning that Our Industries need pre it be not made a techni but the stern sacrifice that is urges that -it be carried hearts as a great day of votion and obligation when shall lie upon every man. e is himself to be registered o see to it that the name of ale person of the designated ft written on these lists of honor, witness whereof I have hereunto get my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this ISth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-first. By the President: ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of Stat. i t Willi I ADMINISTRATION'S Washington President Wilson has outlined the administration's food con trol program In a statement. The president's statement follows: "It is very desirable in order to pre vent misunderstandings or alarms and to assure co-operation In a vital mat ter, that tlie country should under stand exactly the scope and purpose of the very great powers which I have thought It necessary in the cir cumstances to ask the Congress to put in my hands with regards to our food supplies. Those powers are very great, indeed, but they are no greater than it has proved necessary to lodge In the other governments which are conducting this momentous war, and their object Is stimulation and con servation, not arbitrary restraint or Injurious interference with . the nor mal processes of production. They ar eintended to benefit and assist the farmer and all those who play a legitimate part In the preparation, distribution and marketing of food stuffs. Sharp Distinction. "It is proposed to draw a sharp line of distinction between the nor mal activities of the government rep resented in the department of agri culture in reference to food produc tion, conservation, and marketing on the one hand, and the emergency ac tivities necessitated by the war in ref erence to the regulation of food dis tribution and consumption on the other. All measures Intended directly to extend the normal activities of the department of agriculture in refer ence to the production, conservation and the marketing of farm crops will be administered, as in normal times, through the department and the powers asked for over distribution and consumption, over exports, imports, prices, purchase and requisition of commodities, storing and the like which may require regulation during the war, will be placed in the hands of a commissioner of food adminis tration appointed by the president and directly responsible to him. "The objects sought to be served by the legislation asked for are: Full inquiry into the existing available stocks of foodstuffs and Into the costs and practices of the various food pro ducing and distributing trades; the prevention of all unwarranted hoard ing of every kind and of the control of foodstuffs by persons who are not in any legitimate sense producers, dealers or traders; the requisitioning when necessary for the public use of food supplies and of the equipment necessary for handling them properly; the licensing of wholesome and legiti mate mixtures and milling percent ages, and the prohibition of the un necessary or wasteful use of foods. Authority is asked also to establish price, but not in order to limit the profit of the farmers, but only to guar antee to them when necessary a mini mum price which will insure them a profit where they are asked to at tempt new crops and to secure the consumer against extortion by break ing up corners and attempts at specu lation when they occur by fixing tem porarily a reasonable price at which middlemen must sell. Hoover Accepts. "I have asked Mr. Herbert Hoover to undertake this all-important task of food administration. lie has ex pressed his willingness to do so on condition that he is to receive no payment for his services and that the whole of the force under him, exclu sive of clerical assistance, shall be employed so far as possible upon the same volunteer basis. lie has ex pressed his confidence that this diffi cult matter of food administration can be successfully accomplished through the voluntary co-operation and direction of legitimate distribu tors of foodstuffs and with the help of the women of the country. "Although it is absolutely necessary that unquestionable powers shall De placed in my hands in order to in sure the success of this administra tion of the food supplies of the coun try, I am confident that the exercise of those powers will be necessary only in the few cases where some small and selfish minority proves un willing to put the Nation's interests above personal advantage and that the whole country will heartily sup port Mr. Hoover's effort by supplying the necessary volunteer agencies. "The proposed food administration is intended, of course, only to meet a manifest emergency and to continue only while the war lasts. Since it will be composed for the most part of volunteers, there need be no fear of the possibility of a permanent bu reaucracy arising out of it. All con trol of consumption will disappear when the emergency has passed. It Is with that object in view that th Administration considers it to be of pre-eminent importance that the ex isting associations of producers and distributors of foodstuffs should be mobilized and made use of on a vol unteer basis. The successful conduct of the projected administration by such mrans will be the finest possi ble demonstration of the willingness, the ability and the efficiency of de morcracy, and of its Justified reliance upon the freedom of individual ini- 'ntive. FOOD PROGRAM GOVERNOR BICKETT URGES ECONOMY RECOMMENDS DISBANDING BASE BALL CLUBS AND INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. In an address "To All the People of North Carolina." Governor Bickett de clares that with the world war on "we are face to face with famine" and de clares that unless revolutionary ef forts are put forth to increase the food supply, the per capita amount on hand by next Christmas will be less than it has been for a thousand years. The address follows: To All the People of North Carolina: The world war is on and we are face to face with famine. Millions of men whose business in time of peace it was to produce are now called upon to destroy. Unless drastic and revolu tionary efforts be made to Increase our food supply the per capita amount on hand next Christmas will be less than it has been for a thousand years. The great Northwest advises us of ficially that it cannot next year furn ish us the food we have heretofore bought from it, but that its surplus must be sent to feed the men who fight. In this emergency we are not called upon to feed other nations, kut simply to take care of ourselves. We are not rqeuired to go into all the earth, but our work is both to begin and to end at Jerusalem. Much time has been lost, but there is still time left to provide against the coming day of want. We still have six months of sunshine. We have abundant vacant lands. And we have the people to cultivate these lands if they have a mind to work. I think the farmers are doing what they can. The duty rests upon the people in the towns and cities to util ize their idle hours and idle men in making food for themselves. Let the cities and towns take steps to have vacant lots plowed and turned over free of rent to people who will culti vate them. The teams and labor in control of the cities might well be taken from the present work during the month of May and used in prepar ing vacant lands for Immediate cr vation. The towns should also arrange for the purchase by wholesale of con tainers for the use of canning clubs and of fertilizers and distribute these to the people at prime cost. Public funds could well be employed in this way and it would be better for the streets of a town to be unswept for two weeks in May than for our pan tries to be bare next winter. I urge every man in town to go into the surrounding country and procure from one to five acres or land and plant it in corn, potatoes, peas and beans and thus make sure provision against want in his own family. Do not expect your neighbor to do this, but do it yourself. I earnestly urge every man in this state who has an idle acre to list it with the mayor of the nearest town as rent-free land for any person who will plant it in fooc and feed crops. All forms of idleness and waste of time should be discouraged. I love a game of baseball, but it seems to me that the summer of 1917 is no time for professional baseball, and I think all professional leagues should be dis banded. The man who is able to play professional base ball ought to be either i a trench or in a furrow. And the "fans" and "fannies" who hold clown the bleachers can find recom pense and recreation in a corn field. Let the automobile joy ride be given up entirely. Surely this much of self denial can be practiced by every man in the state. If every man who owns an automobile would cut his gasoline bill half in two much would be saved to meet the necessities of the people and a vast quantity of gasoline would be made available for the uses of war. I am advised that Mr. Rockefeller could In the face of this economy on the part of the people still manage to get along. We should make a frolic of our ne cessities and should force our fads and fancies to furnish us food. As the children would say, let's all play at farming this year. Seriov.sly, men and brethren, let us shake off our fatuous complacence and tjive ourselves no rest until we know that we and our loved ones are se cure from the wolf whose gaunt spec ter even now looms flarge against the skyline. Let us work while it is summer. Winter cometh. T. W. BICKETT, Governor. Accepts Wilmington Cavalry Troop. The state headquarters for North Carolina National Guard, received from the war department official ac ceptance of cavalry troops B. of An drew, and C, of Wilmington, recently formed. The sessions of the efficiency board of the North Carolina Guard continue here, going into the inner life status of the guard with a view to grounding out the most cohesive and well ordered conditions possible In preparation for putting the guard units in Federal service again. The ses sions are all strictly secret. Emergency Is Not Yet Met. Notwithstanding the fact that the campaign for an increased acreage in and production of food and feedstuffs has been pushed in every section of North Carolina there is a distinct fear yet that the emergency has not been met and that many people in this state are going to find themselves In a very uncomfortable position during tho coming fall and winter. "We know that the rorces working in this campaign have gotten excel lent results In practically every sec tion of the state," declared John Paul Lucas, executive secretary of the North Carolina Food . Conservation Commission, "but we are not fooling ourselves. We know that an increas ed acreage has been planted in food and feed crops already and that the planting season is not yet past. But we also know that it is hard for our people to appreciate Just how much more we must produce than we ordi narily do to make up for what we have been importing" each year We know that we have not yet in sight, either already seeded or under prepa ration for planting, a sufficient addi tional acreage to anything like make up the deficit that will be caused by the withdrawal for military purposes of the huge amount of food and feed supplies we have been importing from the West and other sections "I believe that our rarmers, as a general thing, are going to do their utmost to meet the situation. "We have many opportunities of observing this. They are rallying nobly. From almost every county we have reports of farmers who realize that in this fight to the death the farmer occupies a strategic position and are acting ac cordingly. One farmer in Moore coun ty had 100 acres of land prepared for cotton. Ninety acres of that land was planted in corn instead. An Edge combe county farmer seized 12 acres of land of one of his tenants had pre pared for cotton and planted it for his tenant in corn. We have urged a reasonable reduction in the tobacco and cotton acreage and have secured some reduction, but we must look mostly to the extra acres that will be cultivated and to the increased produc tion per acre as a result of good til lage methods and heavier fertilization for the greatest results." Building Funds Apportioned. The State Building Commlsion In session here authorized the expendi ture of practically $100,000 of bond is sue funds for permanent improve ment ; in state institutions. Only three members of the commission were in session here. They' were Mr. R. F. Dalton of Greensboro chairman, Mr. J. H. Bridgers of Henderson secretary, and Mr. D. W. Patrick of Snow Hill. The commission determined that all institutions receiving funds from the proceeds of the bond issues should file with the commission preliminary state ments of what they propose to build, the purpose of the building, the gen eral description, materials to be used. It was decided that all plans and sketches submitted by the architects, engineers and contractors for the vari ous boards and institutions whose buildings, improvements and additions come under the supervision of the building commission, shall be submit ted to the building commission with recommendations of the superintend ents and board. The commission ad journed to meet against May 31 at 10:30. One of the largest single appropria tions authorized was that of $40,000 to be spent with the approval of the In surance Commissioner for installa tion of fire protection apparatus at the various state institutions. Other appropriations were: State Santatorium for Tuberculosis, $5,000 for biler and deep well hereto fore contracted and $20,000 for water works system, fire protection, sewer and sewage disposal plant. Eastern State Hospital, $13,844 for steel water tank, coal trestle, addition to kitchen, and canning plant. Test Farm Crops Are Fine. Commissioner W. A. Graham, of the department of agriculture, returned from a visit to the state test farm in the black lands of Hyde county, and says that he found crop conditions in that section the finest he ever saw anywhere. He saw two huge fields of Irish potatoes of 350 acres each, nearly ready to dig. The potato crop all through that section is fine. The cultivation of these black drained lands, he says, is marvelous in many respects. He found men who had paid $40 per acre for these lands, cleaned them out and put them in cul tivation by planting corn with sticks in unbroken lands and raised a crop that paid for the land the first year. Governor Bickett Grants Pardon. Governor Bickett granted a pardon for Claudius G. Buffkin, Bladen coun ty, who has served seven years of a thirty years' sentence for second de gree murder. Ha has made a good prisoner and his health is greatly im paired. Very many of the best people in the section where the killing oc curred urged the pardon. Save the Hogs from Cholei'a. Write to the state depadtment of agriculture for a bulletin on hog chol era symptoms and the control ofthe disease by means of the hog cholera serum. In this time of high prices of meat and the certainty that these nrices will continue or even Increase later In the fall no one should lose a single hog. Hog cholera Is one of the most deadly and costly animal diseases with which the farmer has to contend and he should lose no oppor tunity of acquainting himself with the methods of Its control. MAY GROW MORE FOOD CROPS County Homes Have Fifteen Thou sand Acres of Land, Only Four Thousand Cultivated. Raleigh. The county homes In North Carolina in 1915 had fifteen thousand acres of farm lands with, only four thousand under cultivation; This fact has stirred the North Car olina Food Conservation Commission ty commissioners of the hundred coun ty oommisioners of the hundred coun ties in North Carolina to rally to the cause and put every available acre into cultivation. "It hardly seems fair," says Mr John Paul Lucas, Executive Secretary, in a letter to the commissioners, "to ask tax-payers of the county to pay the prevailing prices for feed stuffs for the inmates of the institution when the institutions themselves, with little or no help, could produce approxl- "The attention of the North Caro lina Food Conservation Commission has been called to the fact that the county homes of the state in 1915 re ported a total acreage of approximate ly 15,000 acres with considerably less than four thousand in cultivation. Now we understand, of course, that a considerable part of this fifteen thou sand acres of lands Is in woods and pastures but we also know that, in many instances there are idle lands upon the farms of our county homes. It hardly seems fair to ask the tax payers of the county to pay prevailing prices for food stuffs for the inmates of these institutions when these insti tutions themselves with little or no help could produce approximately everything they need. "Certainly, no county home in North Carolina should1 'ask the tax-payers to buy corn, meal, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, syrup, ,oats or other crops that are adaptable to their section of the state. It seems even in normal times this would be a normal activity of the homes and, certainly in this time of scarcity of food and high prices such an opportunity to produce should not be overlooked." I. O. O. F. Selects Wilmington. High Point. The most interesting matter, to many, coming before the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in session here, was the selection of a meeting place for the 1918 session. Wilmington and Rocky Mount waged a hard battle among the members but , Rocky Mount soon saw that the dele gates had their eyes on the City by the Sea and gracefully withdrew and Wilmington was unanimously chosen. Rocky Mount let it be understood, however, that she was going to land the 1819 session. Officers of the Grand Lodge were elected as follows: Grand Master, Calvin Woodard, of Wilson; Deputy Grand Master, C. G. Smith of Golds bor wh ohas been for 16 years secre tary and treasurer of the Odd Fellows Home and secretary to the board of trustees; Grand Warden, Chas. O. McMichael of Wentworth; Grand Sec retary, J. D. Berry, of Raleigh, who has been assistant secretary to B. H. Woodell who voluntarily retired under 32 years service; Grand Treasurer, W. L. Smith of Wilmington succeeding Richard J. Jones who died recently; Grand Representative for two years, Guy Weaver of Asheville; Trustee of Orphans Home for five years, Dr. L. B. McBrayer. Missionary Conference Ends. Asheville With a short session of the executive committee and the elec tion of officers for the coming year, the annual session of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Western North Carolina Methodist Conference came to a successful conclusion here. Mrs. Lucy K. Robertson of Greens boro, was re-elected president; Mrs. R. W. Harris, of Asheville, was elect ed first vice president, and other of ficers were elected as follows: Miss Amy Hackney, of Asheville , second vice president; Mrs. H. A. Durham, J corresponding secretary, re-elected; i Miss G. W. Whissett, of Greensboro, recording secretary; Mrs. P. N. Pea cock, of Salisbury, treasurer; Mrs. F. P. Ingram, of High Point, superintend- I ent of mission study; Mrs. W. A. New i ell, of Salisbury, superintendent of social service; Mrs. J. N. Hauss, of Thomasville, superintendent of sup plies, and Mrs. W. C. Huston, of Con cord, distributor of literature. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Swansboro and White Oak township In Onslow county have voted $20,000 bonds each for their links of the Kin-ston-to-Swansboro highway, to be built and maintained by three counties. Because the Burke county $300,000 road bond bill was not put through roll call vote when the House concur red in certain Senate amendments the Supreme Court declared the law in valid when it found error in the case of Claywell et all vs. Road Commis sioners of Burke et al. Out of a quota of 4,412 North Caro lina has enlisted but 619 men. Rep resentative Lee D. Robinston voted to recommit the selective draft bill to provide more pay for the enlisted men. i All the other North Carolina Con gressmen voted the other way. The five-monthsold .infant of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stiller, of Salisbury, was burned to death. The mother had left the little one in the kitchen on a pallet and fire from the stove fell out and ignited it. The little baby was terrblly burned before the accident was discovered and died from the Injuries.
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