North Carolina Newspapers

STATE LIBRARIAN RETIRES ON ACCOUNT OF HEALTH. GREATEST NEED TO BE ELECTED MARKETING SYSTEM DUMBER OF APPLICANTS FOR PLACE AND FRIENDS ARE ACTIVE. HOLDBACK TO AGRICULTURAL j DEVELOPMENT AND PROSPER ITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. w. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH MEET PRESENT EMERGENCY STATE LIBRARIAN fi Wftf&3 t&t: J0hs&t-ijW C. ..... y.i f tit I gs and Happenings That Mark Progress of North Carolina Peo , Gathered Around - the State Capital. , Raleigh. Indications are that very soon after Governor Bickett returns - from his present sojourn in the mountains, which , will be in about a couple of weeks, there will be an election of a state librarian to take the place of Capt. M,. O. Sherrill, who resigned on Account of advanced age and en- feebled health. There are a number of candidates lor tne place, the friends of whom are especially active in the meantime. Miss Carrie Broughton, who has been the assistant librarian for a '". long while, is an aspirant for the place and there are a number of others. Marshall Delancey Haywood, who was assistant librarian for a year and was librarian" at the A. & E College for two years, is being urged for the place. . W. F. Marshall of the Mutual Publishing Company is an aspirant and it is understood that friends of Col. Alex. I. Field3 are urging him for the place. State to Grind More Limestone. - With the state's limestone posses ions sixty miles beyond Asheville analyzing beyond 95 per cent calcium carbonate, according to a triple analy se on the part of the State Geologi cal Board, the State Oil Chemist and IhQ Federal Bureau of Soils, Com missioner of Agriculture W. A. Gra Jham Is. proceeding toward the estab lishment of a crushing plant hv the lear future having an output of 100 sons per, .day. At the last meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, Major Graham .requested authority to overdraw suffi ciently to establish this plant. Then the board required the commissioner to have the limestone where It was proposed to establish the , crusher, analyzed by the state geological board before spending the extra money in the erection of the plant. Major Graham has made public the analysis of the geological board3, the .state oil chemist and the bureau of soils, Washington. The geological board found' the calcium carbonate contents of the lime to be, In five isamples, 93.7? per cent; 93.34 per cent; 93.78 per cent; 97.54 per cent., and 88.61 per cent. , ' . Mr. Plummer, the state oil chemist found samples submitted to him to contain 94.79 per cent; 95.68 per cent; .88.61 per cent. The bureau of soils found two sam ples to contain over 95 per cent. Major Graham, who has made a pet of the, state's lime producing qualities fcj several years, is enthusiastic about thepresent prospect. In 1915, lie persuaded the legislature to make provision for furnishing lime to the farmers of the state at cheaper rates. Under authority then granted, the state secured control of lime deposits In Eastern North Carolina. Work Without Compensation. . , The designation of. persons to take appeals for the government to the dis trict boards in cases of exemption does npt carry with it rental of of fices or compensation, according to a ruling received by Director of Mili tary Enrollment J. J. Mackay, Jr., from the provost,, marshall general. The ruling follows: .. "Number 3160. " Reference person designated to take appeals. It was not contemplated that this designa- ion should carry rental of offices or ompensation. Where In your opin- ion there is sufficient work to justfy clerical assistance, such assistance will be allowed on your recommenda tion. Reference first sentence, ' sec-; tlon 25, regulations, wherever infor mation Is laid before person designat ed, indicating that claims of exemp tion or discharge before the local board are unmeritorious this person may inform the local board, or if the case has already been decided, should take an appeal. He should also tako appeals In cases where he thinks the government's interests have suffered VVhe action of the board. He should .oMAr himself rather as one work ing In co-operation with the board tnan ttS UU niiuiuc; ayyvai iu& uoiuio It. The boards are not courts and their procedure is not controvarsal. Of course,, appeals must be taken in all dependency cases." Investigate Miners Death. Deputy Mine Inspector T. P. Browne, of Commissioner Shipman's office, returned to the city after a trip to Eldorado, In Montgomery county, where he went to Investigate for his department the fatal accident at the Rich-Cog mine on August 7, re sulting in the death of Griff Parrlsh, one of the miners. According to his ireport, the accident was in no manner chargeable to the neglect of the min ing concern. Parrlsh, it seems, was under ground some distance when he fell from a rope and landed on the 460 foot level, 120 feet above bottom. J CAPT. MILES O. SHERRILL. No Vacant Land This Fall. , "it would be a wise move for every county in the state to adopt the motto of 'No Vacant Land This Fall,' says Mr. S. G. Rubinow, Assistant Direc tor of the Agricultural Extension Ser vice. Where rye, wheat or oats will not be sown, other cover crops should be put in. Not only is such a step very patriotic but it Is also very-profitable. . With wheat at $2 per bushel for next season and with a short rye and oat crop this past season and high prices likely to be obtained for these crops, there should be no doubt as to the financial end of the situation. But even more important than all that with ammounia selling at $6 a unit in some cases, making a 10-4 fertilizer worth $40 to $45 a ton, cover crops this winter can assist materially in reducing the amount of nitrogenous material that should be used. The farmer can meet these high prices next spring by having a crop of nitro gen to plow under in the form of green manures;, rather than in the form of high priced chemicals. The supply of these latter is also liable to be short during the coming year, making them still harder to obtain by the average farmer. '' ' The farming public of the state re sponded nobly during the past season by increasing the acreage devoted to food crops and they are now busy sav ing perishable food stuff. By contin ing these efforts throughout the win ter, putting in land to fall grains, planting winter gardens, and seeing that enough cover crops have been put in to do away with the nitrogen bill next season, they will again prove that they are most patriotic and thorough ly foresighted." Idle Land Means Exhaustion. Idle land in winter means that the soil is being exhausted both winter and summer In summer by growing crops and in winter by the rains leach ing but valuable plant food, is the thought being put before the county agricultural agents by 'C. R. Hudson. There is an economic necessity that all agricultural lands in the state have some growing crops on them this fall and winter but the reason that most North Carolina soils sadly need a good content of humus is one of the most Important from the standpoint of the. farmer who want sto keep the fertility of his land to the highest point. Humus comes from decayed vegeta ble or animal matter and from that only. Cover crops in the winter are one of the best agencies for supplying this organic matter. This in turn is a plant food and helps to make other foods available for the plants. It also improves the physical condition of the sou. These cover crops also will Jhis year help in the production of cheap feeds for livestock. Concentrates and grain feeds of all kinds are going to be high in price, scarce, and much needed by humans. Where there is home grow ing crop, a good reduction may be made in the amount of grain feed3 given.' In most cases the animals may be nut on a half ration of grain when this Is supplemented by a green grow ing crop. - Permitting the soil to lie idle thru the winter is equal to robbing it of valuable humus. This is because the rains take pleasure in removing all soluble material. In mild climates like that which prevails in our state during the winter, bacterial activity goes on uninterrupted eqcept in cases of extremely cold weather, these bac teria turn all available supplies into a form that makes them easily dissolv ed by rain water and carried water. If there was a growing crop to take this material up, it could be turned in to the soil next year in a concentrated form by plowing under the crop or feeding It to animals as pasturage. New Enterprises Authorized. The Pinehuret Plateau Company, of Pinehurst, capital $75,000 authorized and $7,500 subscribed by erecting and operating hotels, cafes and develop ing real estate generally. The incor porators are James Barber, E. J Barber and A. S. Newcomb. The Badtern Telephone Company, of Robersonville, Martin county, capi tal $20,000 authorized and $5,400 sub scribed by S. L. Ross and others for maintaining rural and town exchange telephone service. State Food Conservation Commission Issues Statement to Bankers, and , - Business Men. Raleigh. That the agricultural de velopment and the prosperity of North Carolina are being held back by the lack of an adequate and fair system of markets for corn, wheat, oats, hay, beans and other staple food and feed stuff is a striking, declaration in a I statement issued by the State Food i Conservation Commission to the sup , ply merchants, bankers and other bus 1 iness men of the State. The Food Commission for several weeks has recognized the great econ omic importance of adequate markets, not only as a means of meeting the present emergnecy but as a necessity ' under normal conditions. "We cannot ' expect our farmers to diversify their j agriculture and raise a surplus of ! corn, wheat, oats, hay and other crops I unless they can sell these products at fair and equitable prices," says the I statement - "In spite of this very I evident fact, however, it is a notorious I fact that in the majority of cities and towns in this State the merchants ' have been prone to take advantage of the absence of such markets and pur chase the small amount of products offered on a long margin instead of of fering fair prices and finding a mar ket themselves for the vastly increas ed amount of products that would re sult from such a course. This Is a shortsighted policy, and the prosperity not only of our rural sections but of our cities and towns as well is being throttled by Its operation. "The big essentials are: "First, a disposition to give the farmer a square deal, to give him preference over the farmers of the Central West, and, "Second, warehouse . space and equipment for shelling corn, grading and cleaning corn, wheat, oats, beans, peas and other products and for bail ing hay. "Merchants have- excused them selves for their failure to develop a market in the past by the statement that the farmer did not have his corn, for instance, properly graded, or even shelled, perhaps. The farmer who has a surplus of only 25 to 200 or 300 bushels of corn cannot afford to pur chase shellers and graders for so small an amount, yetthe possibili ties of production lie with the farmers of thi3 class. The merchant must provide the shellers and graders. "The fact that the farmers will ap preciate and utilize a fair and ade quate market has been demonstrated, even in the South, too often to be questijbnedy Gainesville, Fla is a fair example. Here a market was established by a North - Carolinian, by the way, and was able to purchase from the farmers of the community three carloads of corn and two car loads of hogs, among other things, the first year. The second year the farm ers of the community, produced and sold 20 carloads of corn and 19 car loads of hogs. That was last year. This year an increase of more than 100 per cent above these figures is looked for. What was done at Gainesville, Florida, can be duplicat ed at almost any county seat In North Carolina while large markets should be a normal development In Wilming ton, Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, Winston-Salem, Greensboro and pos sibly a few other of the larger busi ness centers of the state." Director B. W. Kilgore of the Agri cultural Extension Service has ad dressed a letter to 3,000 bankers and merchants of the State, calling atten tion to, and embracing, the statement of the Food Commission. Confidence Is expressed that these men will rise to the situation and see to it that better markets are provided than have heretofore been available. Holiness Camp Meeting. Dunn. The eighteenth annual Holi ness camp meeting begins at Falcon August 23 and will continue through September 2. Drs. R. E. Erdman, of Buffalot N. Y., and A. G. Doner, of Ontario, Canada, will be the leading preachers during the meeting. Pre parations for the entertainment of several thousand visitors are now under way. Julius Culbreth, a Dunn banker, head of the entertainment committee and leader of the Holiness movement in this section, will leave this week to complete details. A Mammoth Wheat Yield. Durham. The champion wheat grower of Durham county has reap ed a harvest, and the yield reads like the productive efforts of a West ern grain grower. Joe Tilley, a rar er, onecmlle westof Bahams, sowed one bushel of seed and garnered therefrom 58 1-2 bushels of the beard ed crop. A friend and well-wisher of the Bahama farmer is prone to nudge Mr. Tilley when he intimates that it took two years to get in readi ness for the crop. ' 1 Secretary of War Baker giving commissions to 1.8JO new officers from American troops undergoing morning inspection In their camp. In France. 3 at Athens. 4 Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary, who helped Pope Benedict EWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK British and French Give Enemy Another Smashing Blow in West Flanders. CANADIANS STORM HILL 70 Peace Proposals From the Pope Are Coldly Received by the Allies Hoover Takes Control of f American Wheat Train ing Camp Men Get Commissions. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Another smashing blow at the Ger mans in Fhmders was given last week by the British and French. General Ilaig first sent his hard-flghtlng Cana dian troops after the defenses of Lens and in an irrestlble charge they j quicklycaptured Hill 70, the eminence i that dominates that center of the coal i region and the Loos salient and which i the allied forces had been aiming at for two years. The men from the Do- minion pushed on into Lens itself, but i as this is written the Germans are still j clinging desperately to the center of the city, though' every movement of t the troops there is covered by the guna i of the British. As usual, the Germans at once began a series of counter-attacks on Hill 70, but these were re pulsed In every instance by the Cana- ; dlans, with severe losses to Prince Iluprecht's forces. Meanwhile Halg directed another great attack on a nine-mile front east and north of Ypres, with the efficient co-operation of the French on their left. The latter occupied Drelgrachten and shoved their positions forward to the edge of the flooded area, and then forced the crossing of the Steenbeke and took German positions to an ex treme depth of 1,000 yards. The Brit ish took - the village of Langemarck and occupied much territory there and about St. Jullen. Increasing resistance by the Rus sians and hard fighting by the Rouma nians slowed up somewhat the prog ress of the Teutonic forces through Moldavia toward southern Russia, but the advance of the enemy continued, never iheless. Von Mackensen's most imporiant victory of the week was the capture of I'anciu, a big railway junc tion. Unless there should be another collapse, the further east the Germans go, the harder they will "find the going. Fearing that enemies of the new re public would attempt to liberate the ex-czar, the government had Nicholas and his family , removed secretly and swiftly from Tsarkoe-Selo and sent them to Tobolsk, a Siberian town that isn't even on a railroad. Peace Proposals From the Pope. I'ope Benedict last week submitted to the warring nations a definite pro posal for peace. In all the capitals it was received with the serious consid eration due It because of Its Impress siveiiess1 and its distinguished source, but the general trend of opinion among diplomats was that It would result in nothing. Despite the evident sincerity of the popes' plan, the peace he pro poses is too much of a "German peace" to suit Great Britain, France and Italy, and It Is not conceivable that Presi dent Wilson and the United .Slates would accept it as stated. Germany and her allies doubtless would i)e only too pleased to end the wur on the terms suggested ; Indeed, the pope's ap peal at this time is considered by many to have been inspired by Austria. Briefly, his holiness would have all conquered territories restored, includ ing Germany's colonies, and the peace ful settlement of the questions of Alsace-Lorraine and Italia Irridenta left to the future ; he thinks there must be no reparation for losses sustained, and no continuation of the war by an eco nomic struggle thereafter ; and for the avoidance of future wars he In dorses President Wilnon's plan of in ternational agreement to reduce armaments,- enforce peace und obtain rec ognition of the national aspirations of the smaller peoples. Do Not Seem Reasonable. Unless the utterances of their lead ers do not represent fairly the senti ment of the Americans, the British, the French and the Italians, those peo ples firmly believe the defeat of the central powers Is certain and will not be satisfied with the restoration of the. "status quo ante,"' leaving Germany unpenallzed for the tremendous losses and suffering she has Inflicted. One other thing, which may sound more un important than it really Is the Brit ish have sworn that Justice shall be ad ministered to those individuals who were responsible for the murder of the Lusltanla victims, Nurse Cavell, Cap tain Fryatt, .the women and children slaughtered In the oir raids on Eng land, and the others In the long list of those noncombatats slain In cold blood by the Teutons. The English are not a revengeful people, but their cry Is "lest we forget," and they are not going to forgt. The pope's peee proposals have many good points, but they seem im possible. Not so Impossible, however, as the plan presented by Senator La Follette In a resolution submitted to congress that the American govern ment should declare that all the na tions at war should "chip In" and pay for all the damage done by the con flict. This, of course, Implies that all the belligerents are equally guilty which Is going rather far even for the pro-German La Follette. Hoover Gets Busy. Herbert C. Hoover is wasting no time in taking up his duties as food administrator. 'Most of his plans were made in advance and are now being put into action as rapidly as possible. Some of them are proving very painful to the speculators In foodstuffs, but they are reassuring for the consumer. Among the first things Mr. Hoover did was to form a corporation to take over the control of the country's grain sup ply. The same day a committee was appointed to negotiate the voluntary regulation of the milling Industry. On September 1 the food administration will undertake the purchase of wheat for the government at Iifterlor termi nals, and at the request of Mr. Hoover the grain exchanges ordered the dis continuance of all future trading In wheat after August 25, In order not to Interfere with the government's efforts to stabilize prices. On Thursday Mr. Hoover announced that all processes in the production of distilled spirits for beverage purposes must cease at 11 o'clock p. m., Septem ber 8. ' Guardsmen Going to France. The next American expeditionary force to be sent to France will be the "Rainbow division" officially the Forty-second and will Include National Guard troops from 25 states and the District of Columbia. The war de partment plans to assemble these men very soon and ship them across for In tensive training. Some of the troops already overseas were .marched through London the other day. In response to the demands of the English, and were greeted with wild enthusiasm. The cabinet ad journed to watch them pass by, and at Buckingham palace they were reviewed ny King George and Ambassador Page. Meanwhile the boys In France are con tinuing their closeup training and now and then even getting a shot at the nemy. The safe arrival of the en gineer regiment of railway men was announced, giving the lie to another of the many pro-German rumors of disaster. Thousands of young Americans last week received the commissions they have earned In the qfflcers' reserve training camps and are ready now to help make the national army out of the drafted men in the cantonment camps. The first 200,000 of the latter will be mobilized in a few days, and the work of examining the others will be con tinued. In the main this great task is proceeding smoothly, though In New York at least one board was accused of corruption. China at War With Teutons. China formally declared war on Ger many and Austria-Hungary on Tues day, making 17 nations now actively against the central powers. In return for her action, It Is understood, the en tente powers will grant a suspension of payment of the Boxer indemnities and will help China In her preparations to make her participation In the war of full value. Duties on Chinese Im ports are to be raised about 5 per cent. Japan's mission to the United States, headed by Viscount K. Ishli, landed safely in America, and its members the training camp at Fort Myer. 2 Greek battery guarding the Acropolis formulate' his peace proposals. lost no time in assuring Americans that their country is firm in its deter mination to stand by Its allies until Germany is brought to its knees. The conference of these commissioners with the officials of the United States In Washington Is recognized as being of the utmost Importance, both in re gard to the war and In regard to the relations between America and Japan. That Stockholm Conference. The Socialist conference at Stock holm Is causing trouble out of pro portion to the probable importance of Its deliberations and conclusions. In the different countries the Socialists themselves are spilt over the advisa bility of attending It, and the govern ments of the entente allies and of the United States, recognizing that It is pro-German In Its Inception, have re fused passports to would-be delegates. The English Labor party decided to send representatives, whereupon Ar thur Henderson, Labor member of the war cabinet, was accused by Premier "Lloyd-George of double dealing and resigned. His place was promptly filled by George Nicoll Barnes, minis ter of pensions, and the crisis was passed, at least for the time, although a general election may be called If the Laborites insist on sending delegates to Stockholm. Marked reduction in the number of vessels sunk by German submarines is shown in the British admiralty's week ly statement, while the number of ves sels unsuccessfully attacked Increased. A story from Copenhagen says the big commercial submarine ,Deutschlacd has been converted into a war U boat and may soon be operating in the Paciflc against ships from San Fran cisco. The same dispatch says the Germans have lost about 26 subma rines and now have nearly 300, these, however, Including many small ones built for passage through the Belgian canal. The newest and largest carry six-Inch guns. Premier Lloyd George made two speeches last week that heartened up the British people Immensely. Declar ing that the high point of Germany's strength had passed, he said the diffi culties of the allies from now on would grow less and their power Increase steadily, and that with patience, cour age and endurance the foes of the great military despotism could not ?all to win. He called .attention to the waning efficiency of the submarine campaign, that though the U-boat loss es In April were 500,000 tons, In July and August the average was only 175, 000 tons a month. So far from being reduced to starvation, he said, Great Britain is now in better position so far as food is concerned than for years past. The premier admitted that the Russian collapse upset some of the plans of the allies for this year, but culled attention to the fact that Ger many, even with one of her most pow erful opponents paralyzed by Internal troubles, is falling to hold her own on the west front. , Tired of Spies and Traitors. Throughout-the country the demand is becoming Insistent that the author ities put an end to the almost unham pered activities of the pro-German propagandists, the traitorous I. W. W. leaders and pacifists and the cowardly draft-dodgers who are making the con duct f the war as hard as possible. The .demand was voiced by Ellhu Hoot In an . address at the Union League club in New York. The spies and traitors, he said, should be shjt down without mercy, and he included auSwhein, as worthy of death, the e wt certain papers. In some 1 councils of defense are or ampaigns of education so cple may learn what the I) us and why we are in It tin it; but this Is not tnakes must be crushed. rfal Workers of the are about to be made I Uncle Sam is awake. Iral broad demands in Tfcwl aeciareu that niiey ould bring on a general strike If these were not granted. Such a strike would seriously retard the harvesting of crops and the production of the spruce lumber necessary in the building of airplanes, and while the I. W. W. leaders cannot be prosecuted merely for strike activities, they can be dealt with swiftly and severely for Interfering with the government's pros ecution of the war. That, according to advices from Washington, is Just what is going to happen to those disreputa Me and disloyal agitators. Tl