ERS IIIEU
WHEAT SUPPLY
MILLING DIVISION OF FOOD AD
MINISTRATION ISSUES MORE
RIGID ORDERS.
DISPATCHES FROM HUH
Doings arid Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
pie, Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raieigti.
As a consequence of the necessity
for absolutely rigid control of the dis
tribution and consumption of wheat
flour until the next harvest, the mill
ing division of the Food Administra
tion has promulgated an order govern
ing the amount of flour that wheat
and rye millers can sell to farmers or
give in exchange for wheat.
The order limits all millers to the
Bale of not to exceed 49 pounds of
wheat flour to a person living In a ru
ral district. ,In addition, no miller
may sell quantities to exceed a cus
tomer's 30 days' requirements.
The miller must require me custom
er to accept wheat substitutes of equal
weight to the flour purchased, unless
the customer submits in writing a
certificate showing that he has on
hand a sufficient, supply of such sub
stitutes. These are defined as hom
iny, corn grits, corn meal, corn flour,
edible corn starch, barley flour rolled
oats, oatmeal rice, rice flour, buck
wheat flour, potato flour, sweet pota
to, flour, soy bean flcuor, milo, kaffir,
feterita flour and meals.
Each miller must forward to the
ederal Food Administrator of his State
on the first of the month the certifi
cates thus received.
When a farmer brings wheat grown
by himself to the mill to exchange for
wheat flour, the amount of the flour
that may be exchanged shall not ex
ceed in amount that, with flour al
ready in the hands of the farmer, will
reasonably meet the requirements of
hi3 household or establishment during
the next 30 days. In determining the
quantity of flour to be consumed mill
ers are requited to conform to Food
Administration's statement of March
24, asking all persons to cut their
consumption of wheat flour by 50 per
cent and limiting the amoount of the
sale for exchange to a monthly basis
of 6 pounds for each person.
Food Administrator Henry A. Page
has made one exception to the new
orders as they apply to North Caro
lina. This exception allows mills to
supply farmers who live more than
three miles from their mills and are
not accessible to another mill their
requirements . up to a CO days supply.
Truckers Not Discouraged.
April frosts have not discouraged
gardeners and truckers in the Kiflston
vicinity, and the next warm spell will
bring out of the ground the largest
crops of edibles this section has ever
known, it is predicted. In places peas
are bearing. First ripe strawberries
were shown here recently. Frosts on
two mornings recently were heavy,
but apparently did no great damage.
The Kinston official gardening com
mission, representing the municipal
and school boards, the chamber of
commerce; and the home and farm
demonstration services of the agricul
tural department, is encouraging the
growing of vegetables new to or not
well known in this section. Some -of
these are carrots, saify, spinach, rhu
barb, esfplant. parsnips, parsley, brus
sels sprouts, and hohl-rabi. In order
that enough r-f the vegetables may be
saved to supply the community next
winter, the chamber of commerce is
selling a carload of cans to housewives
and canning clubs at cost. Gardeners
In the outlying territory are being in
vited to participate in contests started
by the gardening commission.
Antl-Typhoid Work Pays.
According to figures just compiled
by the State Board of Health, it ap
pears that those counties that have
had special anti-typhoid campaigns
during 1915 and 1916 have reduced
their typhoid death rate nearly twice
as much as these counties that had
no such campaign.
Another interesting fact noted is
that in at least one instance in Samp
eon county where good consistent
health work has been carried on for
a number of years the typhoid death
rate for the last four years is oniy
20 9 per hundred thousand population,
while the rate in every county that
borders on Sampson is higher, the av
erage for Sampson's seven neighbor
ing counties being 33.2 or about 59
per cent higher.
Wheat on Hand Called For.
No general order requisitioning
wheat has been sent out by the food
administration. The various state
food administrators have been instruct-ed-in
order to enable the continuous
shipment of wheat to the allies-to ap
peal to farmers in the middle and
southern states, that they should
market their residue of wheat after
seed requirements by May 1. and in
the extreme northern states by May
15th.
FARM
01
BONDS THAT BLESS.
' (By.Gov. T. W. Bickett.)
Liberty Bonds, ' like mercy, are
twice blest.'
They bless the folks who stay at
home and the men who ar going f
tn fViQ f i1 n n f I.
They test and declare the physi
cal and spiritual dynamics of this
Republic.
They appeal to the commonest
kind of sense, and to the rarest
sort of sentiment.
In them will be found more of
strength than in the lordly head of
the herd, and more of warmth
than in the fleece of the leader of
the flocks.
They will carry one farther than
a "Ford" and faster than the fleet
est descendant of "Nancy Hanks."
They will yield more solid com
fort, for the inner man than 'pos
sum and potatoes, and more Juicy
sweetness than the apples for
which our first ancestors threw
Paradise away.
They are absolutely free from
the uncertainty that racks the
nerves of men, and from the taxes
that make the grass-hopper a bur
den and mourners go about the
streets.
They will add to the glory of
youth and to the grandeur of age.
In them one may hear ten thou
sand cannon roar to save a little
child, and see ten million men leap
forward to die that .others may
truly live.
They are preferred stock in The
Gem of the Ocean.
They are Star dust from Old
Glory.
They are the soul of the Red,
White and Blue.
They are messengers of hope to
our friends, and missiles of terror
to our foes.
They are harbingers nf peace to
all lands, safety to seas, and
freedom to all of the children of
men.
They are badges of chivalry, cer
tificates of nobility, memorials of
love.
Euy one! Buy today, and live
forever in your own esteem and in
the gratitude of a world you help
to save. n
Base Hospital No. 65 Under Way.
Major J. W. Long of Greensboro,
who is organizing Base Hospital No.
65, a strictly North Carolina unit for
service in France, advises that this
unit will consider applications for ser
vice from persons both within and
without the draft age. There is at
present special need for orderlies,
nurses, stenographers, clerks, pharraa'
cists, barbers and men of various spe
cial training. Those entering th-3
service will go in as an enlisted man
with opportunity for promotion to the
rank of non-commissioned officers.
The Surgeon General has appointed
Major F. M. Hanes of Winston-Salem,
a recruiting officer for the hospital
personnel, and all those desiring to en
ter this service should apply to him
at once either in person or by letter.
remium List Being Printed.
The North Carolina Extension Serv
ice makes the official announcement
that the composite premium list is in
the hands of the printer and will be
ready for distribution this month.
Secretaries of fairs are urged to wait
until this list, which has been assem
bled to aid the fairs of the state,
reaches them, before going to press
with their own catalogues.
This bulletin contains the rules and
regulations governing State aid, pro
vision of judges and other items or
interest to the secretaries of fairs.
ADDlication blanks, asking for State
aid and the furnishing of judges, will
be mailed out with the bulletin. A
new plan places the county farm dem
onstration agents in closer touch with
the officials of the fairs.
A North Carolina Distinction.
John R. Kneebone of Flint, Mich.,
has been appointed city manager of
Beaufort, N. C, under the city com
mission headed by Mapor C. F. Dan
ner. Mr. Kneebone has the unique
distinction of being the first person
to take up an outl.'ned course of study
in the city managers' profession at
the University of Michigan, the first
university in the country to offer such
work. He completed the five-year
course in 1916 with the degree of
tration of arts in municipal adminis
trate nand for the past two years has
been in the city engineering depart
ment at Flint, Mich., as chief account
ant and assistant to the city engineer.
Convention Is Postponed.
The convention of North Carolina
fair secretaries that was scheduled to
be held in Raleigh on April 10-11 has
been postponed until some date in the
summer. This announcement has just
been made by S. B. Rublnow, chair
man of the fair committee of the agri
cultural extension service.
Flour Offered Government.
"We have 30 barrels of flour. If
Uncle Sam wants it at cost wire quick
where to ship." (Signed) O. L. Clark
The above telegram is typical of f
number of communications Statf
Food Administrator Henry A. Pag
has received during the past severa
days since it was announced in th
newspapers that the bread ration o
the French soldiers has been reduced
and the statement was made that th
flour situation was such as to lead scl
eral hundred hotels to pledge thetr
selves to banish wheat products
mmm ISlMil Ifa-ltty - ggfawyM)
1 Market quar and town hall of Aril s, which city the Germans tried
Pershing Inspected a detachment of hi.s stalwart troops in France. 3 Guy
in City Hall square, New York, at the opening of the campaign.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE m WEEK
Germans Divert Their Attack to
Flanders, Again Failing to
Break Through.
BLOODY FIGHT AT GIVENCHY
Kai6er Seeks to Annihilate British
Army Americans Now in Great .
Battle Premier Lloyd George
Proposes Conscription for
Ireland.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
"They shall not pass."
Not glossing over the increasing
seriousness of the German offensive,
on the west front, not making vain
boasts, but with unfaltering courage
and dogged determination, all the
allies, French, British, Americans and
Portuguese, in France and Belgium,
have adopted the Verdun slogan and
refuse to let the Huns break through
their line. Weary and battered,
drenched with gas and explosive shell,
pushed back here and there by power
ful attacks of massed infantry, greatly
outnumbered all along the line, they
cling as long as possible to every de
fensive position and exact a terrible
price for every yard of terrain they
give up.
Failing to push his way through to
Amiens, the kaiser last week turned
his , attention to Flanders, and after
three days of intensive bombardment
attacked the British on a 25 mile front
of which Armentieres was the center.
In the three days of fierce infantry
fighting that followed the Huns shoved
back the British and Portuguese line
some five miles between Armentieres
and Givenchy, and three miles at the
north of the former city. On Thursday
the British retired from Armentieres,
which is of little importance as a strat
egic point and is now but a heap of
ruins. They also had abandoned sev
eral villages but still dominated the
battlefield from Messlnes ridge on the
north and Givenchy on the south. The
latter place was the scene of the blood
iest fighting, being taken and retaken
several times. The British were out
numbered there more than four to one,
but defended It splendidly and retain
ed possession of the town, which is
situated on high ground. The losses of
the Germans here as well ns elsewhere
were very heavy, and n considerable
number of them were captured.
Though the Immediate object of the
Germans In this sector apparently Is
to take Bethune, an important center
of British operations, and then by a
wheeling movement push on to the Eng
lish channel, their greater purpose, ac
cording to prisoners and captured doc
uments, is nothing less than to annihi
late the British army. It Is expected
that the kaiser will direct his full
strength to the accomplishment of this
nlm and that the battle In Flanders
will be considerably extended to the
north and continued with desperation.
On the southern front of the Ger
man salient the French, nt the begin
ning of the week, withdrew to the west
bank of the Alyette river in the Coucy
region, thereby rectifying their lines
and leaving to the Germans the marsh
es of the Oise. Since then the enemy
have been greatly harrassed by the
French outposts and have been unable
to carry on any operations In the
swampy ground. A little further to
the west Chauny has been the center
of furious struggles but up to the time
of writing the French had repulsed
every attack, and were In possession
of the town and the nearby cemetery.
For the present, at least, Amiens
seems to be safe for, though the artil
lery activity In that sector has been
continuous and violent. Infantry oper
ations almost ceased during the week.
ta
As has been said, the allies do not
;eek to minimize the menace In the
".eeesses the Huns have gained, but
hHr commanders are as confident as
vcr that the kaiser cannot accomplish
aims, and the men in the ranks
have no other thought than victory.
The allies have ample supplies of guns
and ammunition, but what they must
have is more men, and that quickly.
England is sending troops across the
channel with speed not heretofore
equalled, and America's fighters are
being hurried over as fast as possible
in response to the call. Secretary of
War Baker, who Is still in France, has
learned his lesson, and it is understood
he is urging the greatest expedition in
getting our army across.
Hay by day the American troops are
being hurried up to the fighting front
and brigaded with the British and
French, who greet their arrival with
cheers. That they are now taking an
active part in the great battle is evi
denced by the lengthening casualty
lists sent over by General .Pershing.
In their own sector the Americans
continue to do fine work. On Wednes
day, just northwest of Toul, they were
subject to the strongest attack the Ger
mans had made In that region, after
three days' heavy shelling. The Yan
kees not only broke up the advancing
ranks by their artillery fire, but
promptly emerged from their shelters
and chased the shattered Hun troops
from the field.
Id .
The German press has ceased to
sneer at American participation in the
warfare and admits that this country
will be a great factor in determining
the result and that it Is preparing for
a long conflict. The turn events have
taken and President Wilson's power
ful speech In Baltimore have convinced
the Germans that the result of the
war Is to be determined by force of
arms.
Count Czernln, Austro-Hungarian
foreign minister, finds his position
shaken since Premier Clemenceau dis
proved his assertions concerning peace
talks, and the Czech opposition to him
Is increasing. In Germany there is
growing dissatisfaction with Chancel
lor Von Ilertling and Foreign Secre
tary Von Kuehlmann, and there -is a
movement to make Dr. Von Ilelfferich
Imperial chancellor.
Germany's forces In Russia, after
capturing Kharkov, proceeded 1"0 miles
further to the northwest nnd occupied
Lgo7. They then sent an ultimatum
demanding the surrender of Kursk,
capital of the government of that name,
but the local soviet decided to resist.
The Germans also are continuing their
operations In Finland, in aid of the
government and the White guard, and
have compelled Russia to remove or
disarm Russian warships in Finnish
waters.
Ira
The bolshevikl government of Russia
was concerned mostly last week with
the landing of Japanese troops in
Vladivostok. The press expressed the
fear that this was the first step in the
occupation of Siberia, nnd the commis
sioners demanded that the Japanese
depart, threatening otherwise to de
clare war. If the Japanese really are
on conquest bent, they would ask noth
ing better than that, but America and
Great Britain probably stand In the
way for they do not wish to havi Rus
sia throw herself utterly Into the lvmds
of the Germans. Indeed, the foreign
consuls at Vladivostok promised the lo
cal authorities the troops would be
withdrawn soon.
Delayed dispatches from Harbin said
American marines also had been land
ed at Vladivostok and were in control
of the docks, while the Japanese were
guarding the railway and ammunition
depots.
The diet of Bessarabia, the Russian
province which borders Roumaniu on
the east. Is reported to have voted In
favor of union with Roumanla. Uk
raine has signed an agreement to fur
nish to the central powers about C,;,
000,(XX) pounds of foodstuffs and deliv
eries of grain already have begun.
George Creel, chairman of the com
mittee on public Information, brought
a storm about his head by saying, in
a public address, that he would thank
God to his dying day that the United
States was unprepared when it went to
war. because otherwise it would have
been false to Its traditions and policy.
In both houses of congress he was de
nounced bitterly, the senate seemingly
overlooking the fact that only a few
days previously it bad voted to make
that state of unprepnredness perman
ent by refusing to vote for universal
military service. Creel made his out
to take from the British. 2 General
Empey speaking for the Liberty loan
rageous statement when acting as
spokesman of the administration at a
meeting of Liberty loan lecturers, and
his dismissal from government employ
was demanded by the indignant con
gressmen. Pa
On Wednesday the senate passed the
amendment to the espionage bill, mak
ing it the most drastic anti-sedition
measure ever proposed in this country.
It is designed to expedite punishment
for disloyal acts and utterances, but
was changed to permit of. just critic
ism with good motives. Fear of antag
onizing loyal citizens of German de
scent caused the elimination of a clause
barring from the mails publications in
the German language.
Pi
The senate had another exciting de
bate over the conference report on the
bill for punishing sabotage and wilful
destruction of war material. As re
ported, the measure provided that It
should not be construed as making It
unlawful for employees to agree to
gether to strike or refuse to work for
the purpose of securing better wages
or working conditions. Senator Un
derwood and others strongly criticised
any such government Indorsements of
strikes during wartime. Next day the
senate rejected the conference report
by a vote of 34 to 25. At the same
time Samuel Gompers was warning
congressmen not to commit the "devil
try and folly" of passing the proposed
law to prohibit strikes and lockouts.
Too many of the laboring men of the
country fall to recognize the fact that
when they are working for the gov
ernment on war tasks' they are doubly
working for themselves.
Premier Lloyd George again has
staked the political existence of him
self and his cabinet on one measure,
the new man power bill which includes
the conscription of all men between
the ages of 18 and 50 years, and which
furthermore extends conscription to
Ireland. The latter feature of course
put the Irish Nationalist members in
a rage at once nnd the premier was
warned that any attempt to enforce the
draft in Ireland would result In civil
war; that it would take an army to
raise a regiment. He stood firm, how
ever, declaring the time had come when
Ireland must be treated like the rest
of Great Britain In the matter of mil
itary service, and that If the bill was
defeated his government would give
way to another. The measure passed
Its preliminary readings by a large
majority, but the press and people of
England are decidedly anxious about
its success should it become law.
?ca
Submarine sinkings as reported by
the British admiralty showed a great
falling off in number, only six vessels
being listed as lost, but both here and
abroad there is a feeling that this
presages a concerted movement of the
U-boat against the transports that are
now carrying American troops to
France in great numbers. However,
the convoy system has been so per
fected and so many warships are avail
able for it that no grave apprehension
is felt for the safety of those trans
ports. fca
The Dutch have quieted down con
cerning the seizure of their vessels by
America nnd Great British, but Minis
ter Phillips has left Washington for
home, ostensibly on account of ill
health.
President Wilson last week com
mandeered the Clyde, Mallory, Mer
chants and Miners and Southern
steamship lines and turned them over
to Director General McAdoo. This
added (53 coastwise vessels to the 48
already under government manage
ment. Three Russian ships in a Pa
cific port also were taken over by the
shipping board.
fca
General Allenby's forces In Palestine
are still pushing forward north of
Jerusalem, despite stubborn resistance
by the Turks, who have been re-enforced
by German troops. In Berlin there
is a belief that the Holy City will be
recaptured, but this Is based on false
ideas of the British action in falling
back after cutting the railway at Es-
.
The Liberty Loan campaign was
most successful during the week. Iowa
lead Ihe nation, subscribing Its quota
with'n four days.
NERVES GAVE OUT
Serious Kidney Trouble Had Made
Life Miserable, But Doan's
'Removed AH the Trouble.
Hasn't Suffered Since.
"I had such severe pains in ,1117
back," says Mrs. Albert Akroyd,
304 W. Indiana Avenue, Philadel
phia, Pa., "that they almost 'doubled
mfl nn Af-onv n rlav I could not dO
my housework and At 'every., move
it seemea as lr my
back would break in
two. My feet end
ankles swelled until
I had to wear large
sized slippers nnd
sometimes I couldn't
stand up.
"I had dizzy ppells
and dreadful head-
ntttac? n ti H fl aiir
II T. It 13 lJ
flfi3h(j nnsser. he- Mr. Akroyd
fore my eyes. Had a heavy weight
been resting on my head, the pain
could not have been more distress
ing. The least noise startled me, I
was so nervous. . I couldn't control
the kidney secretions and the pain
in passage was awful.
"It began to look as though my
case was bevond the reach of medi
cine until I used Doan's Kidney
Pills. The first box benefited me
and four boxes cured all the trou
bles. I have had no further cause
for complaint."
Sworn to before me,
Thos. H. Walters, Notary Public.
Get Doan'i at Any Store, 60c a Box
doan's yID.Nf,v
FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. V.
Save the Calves!
Stamp ABORTION Out of Your
Herd and Keep It Out !
Apply treatment yourself. Small
expense. Write for free booklet
on Abortion, "Questions and
Answers". State number ol
cattle in herd.
Ir. David Hobsrtt Vet. Co. iOO Grand Avenue. Wauketha, Wit
Bilious? Take
m Tonight
Nature' Remedy Is Better and Safer
Than Calomel. Cloane Out System
Without Griping;. Stops Sick
Headaeho. Cuarantesd
Bilious attacks, constipation, sick
headaches, etc., are in the great ma
jority of cases due to digestive trouble
and no reasonable person can expect
to obtain real or lasting benefit until
the cause is corrected.
Nature's Remedy (NR Tablets) Is a
vegetable compound that acts on the
etomach, liver, bowels and kidneys,
the purpose being: to bring: about
healthy and harmonious action of all
the organs of digestion and elimina
tion. It acts promptly and thoroughly,
yet so mildly and gently that there.
Is never the slightest griping or dis
comfort. But that Is not alt Nature's
Remedy (NR Tablets) havo a benefi
cial effect upon the entire body. By
Improving the process of dlfestjon
and assimilation, the nourlshmmt Is
derived from food, the blood qua ity Is
enriched, vitality is increased aa.l the
whole system strengthened.
Once you get your body in this
splendid condition, you need not take
medicine every day Just take an NR
. Tablet occasionally when Indigestion,
biliousness and constipation threatens,
and you can always feel your best.
Remember keeping well is easier and
cheaper than getting well.
Get a 25c box of Nature's Remedy
(NR Tablets) and try it. It is sold,
guaranteed and recommended by your
druggist
Horses
Horsemen agree
that Yager's
Liniment is the
best and most eco
nomical liniment
for general stable use.
For strained ligaments, spavin,
harness galls, tweeny, wounds or old
sores, cuts and any enlargements,
it gives Quick relief.
A 35c bottle contains more than
the usual 50c-bottle of liniment.
35c PER BOTTLE AT ALL DEALERS
GILBERT BROS. St CO.
Baltimore, lttd.
Hove you
RHEUMATISM
Lumbago or Gout?
TakRHEUMACIDKtoreiroT9 .reeanae
una drive tbu poisun lroiu tile jiWiu.
"U11M Hf IHK OS TIIR INSIPI
1US I.HklJUliS OS TBI 0CTS1BS"
At All Druggists
Ja. Baily k Son, Wholesale Dittriaaters
Baltimore, iWd.
utmmBvmmmmam
7F
KODAKS & SW
R-TABLETS- MS
mm
LIMIMEMf
rA We also do hlfrlient cl
;L Prices aud Catalog 1
S Gales! i Optical C
J