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LAW tc UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA LAW SCHOOL Excellent Faculty Reasonable Cost WRITE FOR CATALOGUE THE PRESIDENT, 7 - CHAPEL HILL, N. C. ' '''Tiki I& . t'i'- !fcXef"t -?r I I iMV'ni '.f l Guarding II V s - III I I i I jmwttlt 1151, T ?ShVi7A S'-l I I iV I hLjk J H African rM8 Nour nnnfinf nder supervision of Secretary of War Baker the nation held the Wiriest lottery In neWS onapSllOlS history when nearly 10.0tt0,000 men between the ases o t wehty-ohe kiiH thirty-one lenrued Of lhf Wpk the order I1 wnlcn tDe.v become liable to serve their country in the national army. Soon after the crown council was called by the kaiser, in which the crown prince took part after being summoned from the front and Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg resigned his office. Ir. (leorg Mlchnells succeeding him, it was generally believed that another peace movement would be launched by (Jermwny. Internal troubles in Russia gave comfort to the enemies of the youthful minister of war. Kerensky. and It is said he favored moving the capital from Tetrogrnd to Moscow. Through the mobilization of the national guard over a hundred thou sand men are now awaiting the call to go to camps. The $140,xK),OfjO aero war program t ame up before congress; anti aircraft guns are now being placed on many of our army planes. SELECTING ARMY WAS A BIG TASK Capital Is Glad That tm Hu man Lottery Is Over. OTHER WASHINGTON GOSSIP Rear Admiral Grant la Mad. a Vic Admiral and It In Command of On. Section of Atlantic Fleet Figurti 8how Many Men of German Blood In Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, D. C, July 23. Now that the great lottery has taken place and the 1 0,000,000 men between the ages of twenty-cn. and thirty-one know In what order they will be called for physical examina tions, Washington, especially the offi cials of the war department, are breath ing much easier. It was a tremendous task and one that the officials In charge performed with dispatch. Ilowcver, without the valuable assistance ren dered by the governors of all the states and the exemption boards it would have been almost impossible. The cleverly devised plan for draw ing only 1,000 numbers to determine the order in which every man register ed will be liable for military service was knocked to smithereens at the last minute when It was discovered that certain local boards, mainly in New Jersey, had blundered in numbering their registrants serially according to registration districts. As a result Secretary Baker announc ed that the master key plan, as explain ed confidentially to the press and as described in detail In press association dispatches, had to be abandoned and a new system of drawing adopted. Instead of being completed In an hour it took approximately ten and a half hours. This was because the plan for drawing 1,000 numbered capsules and then drawing ten master key numbers to make it possible for the government to determine the relative order of 10, 000 numbers by picking only 1,000 gave way to a new system of drawing. Under this new system it was nec essary to actually draw 10,500 numbers. They were picked at the rate of about 1,000 an hour. These new capsules were numbered consecutively from 1 to 10,500 and the order In which they were picked determines the eligibility of men in each of the 4,559 registration districts. The smallest district has about 138 registrants. The largest district, in the city of Detroit, has 10,391 regis trants. Consequently in order to draw enough numbers to determine the elig ibility of every man registered in this mammoth district it was necessary to draw 10,500. This is a few more than are registered, but allows for any addi tional names added since the formal report. The majority of the districts have about 3,000 registrants. But as the number 2,999, for example, might have been the last figure drawn it was necessary to go through the drawing of the 10,500 numbered cap sules in order to be sure that every red ink number on a registration card has been chosen. Grant Mad. a Vic. Admiral. Reorganization of the Atlantic fleet has been ordered by Secretary Daniels to meet new problems resulting from expansion of the force to almost twice Its normal size Cor war service. Details of Uw step are withheld for military reasons, bat the secretary has snaooaced that the reorganisation (Ra -O VICE ADMIRAL GRANT. Placed In Command of One Section of the Atlan tic Fleet. , - ' r - -v - Photo by American Press Association. involved the addition of another vice admiral to the fleet and that Hear Ad miral Albert W. Grant, now command ing the submarine force, bad been uamed for the place. Admiral Siayo, the secretary said, will remain in general command, with tle immediate authority under him di vided letween Vice Admiral Coffman, at present second in command, and Vice Admiral Grant. The former Is to have direct command of a division con taining most of the suierdreadnauglits and designated as "force No. 2," while Vice Admiral Grant will command the remainder of the fleet under the desig nation of "force No. 1." It is understood that the reorganiza tion will not affect the division of the fleet now in European waters under Vice Admiral Sims. 'This carries into effect a plan worked out by Admiral Benson and Admiral Mayo, which has been under considera tion for several months," said Secre tary Daniels regarding the reorganiza tion plan. "There are now twice as many battleships In commission as we "ever had before.. In fact, every battle ship we have Is now in fall commis sion. The whole purpose of the, new organization is to keep, our battleship fleet in as perfect condition as possible." Calls' German Anwrium LoyaL An officer of high rank In the United States army said the other day: "The best thin? we can do la this country Is get away from the idea that every citizen of German blood Is a spy. The German American is, primarily, a man who respects the law. I Ten tore to say that the. percentage of citizens of German blood who are disloyal to the United 8tates Is very smalL ' " "It would be the better plan for cs Li -it rTz't - - t i 1 1 " l bS r ) -" to recognize our fellow citizens of Ger man blood as Americans. Of course, the call of the fatherland is felt We cannot expect a man of German ances try to forget his forefathers or entirely subjugate his natural feelings. "What we want from our citizens of German blood is co-operation. We can't get it by abusing them. If we keep on as we are going we are certain to build up a disturbance within our borders which will interfere with the operation of our armies across the At lantic. Internal differences will be as disastrous to us as reverses in France or wherever our armies are sent. "I don't know bow many German spies there are in the United States. I do know that Germany has a very In telligent and efficient department of in formation. But In so far as anything we are doing is concerned, the veriest fathead could post himself Intimately. We have no military secrets. Our pub lic documents and the Congressional Record are open to anybody. Our mili tary system is elastic, and we change so often that no foreign secret service can keep efficient tab or. us. "Of course it is necessary to protect from the knowledge of the enemy the movements of our forces. If we can't take care of that we might ns well throw up our hands. Rut to carry out this design it Is not necessary to brand publicly all our citizens of German blood as disloval. It seems to me that we should bend our energies rather to ward stiffening their adhesion to the Stars and Htripes than toward forcing them to sympathize with their mother country' through innuendo, accusation or ridicule." These remarks led to an Investigation of the loyally of the American citizens of German blood as applied to the army. Here are some figures to think about: Many Are of Gorman Blood. First. Approximately 33 1-3 per cent of the strength of our army in enlisted men Is of German blood. Second. Of the 8,000 or more com missioned officers in our army the latest lists are not complete close to 10 per cent are of German blood. Third. Our new selective draft army will be made up of more than 25 per cent of citizens of German ancestry. Fourth. Figures at hand Ln the war department show that since the decla ration by the United States of war against Germany between 23 and 30 per cent of the men who have enlisted are of German ancestry. Fifth. ln the operations thus far at tempted men of German blood in high places ln the United States army have been among the most efficient and in itiative fa t rs Sixth. Since the declaration of war not a commissioned officer of German descent in the United States army has resigned, whereas at the leginnlng of the civil war alout 50 per cent of the officers of the federal army resigned to follow Robert E. Lee and the call of their blood and principles. 8outhern Campa Beat. Major General Gorgas, surgeon gen eral of the army, expressed strong ap proval of the selection of sites in the south for the army cantonments. Gen eral Gorgas said: "The outstanding fact is that men trained ln the south will have weather conditions permitting their being out of doors practically all of every day. In certain regions wisely chosen for our national guard camps rain is scarce ln the winter when the heaviest training wQ be done and at night soldiers will sleep In quarters where there la free sir circulation, plenty of fresh sir all the time means that any germs which may be about are kept on the move and are given slight chance to Increase. Fresh sir and health are synonymous to military as well as ln dm Ufa. , The few weeks ef summer weather which soldiers In the south tnay en counter will be more than offset by the long autumn and mild winter during .which, the troops win undergo the .larger part of their training ' ; .'y.r -V- - " -; . . ... , A Girl's Impressions In the War Capital By KIWA HUBKR, Intern, tional News Service HtalT Cor. respondent. CiKKAT FASHION PUOMKXADK 8TAGKI KVKHV AFTKllXOOX IX WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON. July 21. War hasn't made much difference on Fifth avenue. C hestnut street in Philadel phia is still full of pretty women ev ery afternoon about o'clock, and Kuclid avenue in Cleveland is stiii a show place for Middle Western, fash ions, but I didn't expect I would find the most fashionable street in the country in the midst of the nation's Rreat war seat. F street in Washington is Just full of stunning women and striking fashions every sinKle afternoon. Military fashions have crept In, though. Everywhere I have seen tne influence of the war on costumes, but never has this influence seemed so impressive as here in Washington. You have seen those rather jaunty scarfs that the aviators wear wound round and round their Throats. The girls here all wear them. They are made of gray-colored silks and do look stunning, even though I imagine they are a trifle hot and uncomforta ble. - Trench sticks the kind that the English officers carry are gaining favor here. too. 1 have seen a lot of dashing young women striding up F street, swinging trench sticks in a soldierly fashion. Swagger sticks seems to be a trifle too feminine for Washington women. Those natty little two-cornered hats that the English "Tommies" wear are also being worn here a good deal. The girls have them made out of heavy gray linen and 1 Imagine they must be mighty fine Tor motor ing. Lots of the women here are ln Red Cross work and they wear the best looking uniforms. They use them for street wear, too. They are made of gray denim, w ith a three quarter length belted coat. White riding breeches and tan leather boots added to the costume make the girls look mighty cute. Military capes and trench coats are very opular, too. One doesn't have to look far on F street to sen the war influence on women's dress. It's a striking sight, too, this F street afternoon promenade. rxiFon.Ms ;ivk Washington (X)MH' OI'KltA ANPI-XT. WASHINGTON. July 21. Wash ington is just a blaze of uniforms, it's really the most striking sight one sees on the streets. It looks like a foreign capital. Of course, the khaki uniforms of our own soldier boys predominate, but the horizon blue of the Frencn officers, the olive-drab of the Eng lish, the sea-green of the Russians, the glaring red of French flying men and the blazing white of our own naval officers give Washington the gayest appearance of any city I have seen on this side of the Atlantic. War is really picturesque. Looking at it from the standpoint of a woman, I should say that the United States soldiers have rather the worst of it for uniforms, In tlie matter of appearance and comfort. The slouchy, loose-fitting uni forms of the English soldiers really look awfully comfortable. They wear their coats loose and nice and our boys look as though they w ere mould ed Into their garments. The French soldiers look "all dressed" up, too. I don't really be lieve they do any fighting In those liKht blue uniforms. Some of them wear the tightest red trousers, too, but I guess those are just for dress uniforms. They wear a terrible lot o' gold braid, too. Russian soldiers aren't half bad looking. It's rather a weird sort of dress for a man, though black trousers with a green coat. They are terribly close fitting, so much so that they always remind nie of the hero in "The Chocolate Soldier." Our own I'nited States naval offi cers are the very best looking men in town, though. Their white duck uniforms always look so cool and they are really wonderful looking men. It almost makes a girl wish she could be a sailor. I like our own fighting boys the best, though the enlisted men. They are such a daring, wholesome loos ing crowd of chaps, tanned and bronzed and strong looking. They are not at all larking in gallantry, either, for I have watched them and they are every one gentlemen. Washington just seems to be full of soldiers. They are here from ev ery country, it make? the city real ly quite gay. though WOMEN FINH WASHINGTON M IX AT NIGHT NOTHING TO IK) HIT HIDE AIING THE lOTOMA WASHINGTON. July V.'. . War seems to have cast a powerful gloom over Washington. Nights here are the most boring things ever. Really, no one seems to stir out at all. and the streets are just deserted all or the time. Perhaps it is Summer and not the war. but anyway Washington isn't the gay place I had expected to find. There is no entertaining a: tne White House and that may have set the example for the rest of the socie ty here. Everyone is knitting and no one is dancing. There are four roof gardens in town. One of them is exclusively for men, and of the other three there is only one that has dancing. There is only one cafe where they dance dur ing the dinner hour, and the city must be terribly dull for the hun dreds of . girls and women who have been brought here by the war. White House garden parties were the real big events of the Summer season in Washington In former years, so I have been told, but there will be none this year. I don't know, though, as it will make much differ ence to the girls and women from other towns, for they must find that Washington functions sre terribly functional, I am sure. garden party In the Pan-American Union gardens tor one of the rts- ltlns war missions was the most rig id affair I have ever attended. ' It Is all probably due to the dignity of di plomatic courtesy, but it was truly just too stiff and formal for anything. It was a terrible .shamT too, for tna Pan-American lnfon gardens are wonderful, and tarnish an ideal spot for such a reception. v. It's so terribly hot here that after noon teas should be very popular, but they aren't. Tea dances which enliven the twilight hours ln New York and other Eastern cities don't seem to be known here. Washington's entertainment seems to be the "evening drive." It ap pears as though every one gets Into a motor car or a Victoria haek and drives along the Potamac river drlro right after dinner. It is a wonder fully pretty1 drive, too, and the early evening is really brilliant along the river bank, for one sees hosts of cel ebrities rolling along in a coach or motor, enjoying the cooling breezes from the river. KYEItYHOHY IN WASHINGTON IIFSY IX WAIl WORK. WASHINGTON, July 24. We may be at war, but it really doesn't seem to be serious business. Everyone ln " Washington seems to be going along with no very serious thoughts about war, and about everybody is engaged In some sort of war work. Perhaps it is too womanly, but it does seem to me that war is grave and serious business. No one tn Washington seems to think that way. They take it as a matter of course. "Wait until the first casualty list comes in," an old officer told me to day at luncheon. He seemed to think that would wake the city up to the horrors of war, but 1 am begin ning to doubt whether these men and ' women who are carrying on the war will ever get the truly horrible lm- , presslon of war that the people of Europe have. War today seems to be a distant and foreign undertaking to most Washlngtonlans. The city is too far away form Europe to ever really realize that our men and boys are go- Inr tn milTpr hnrrfhlft thine Thar can never bring many wounded back here to Washington, and they will probably never bring bodies back. There will never be a funeral cortege across the great bridge over the Po tomac to Arlington, where other dead heroes of the nation are laid away. I have wondered since I have been here if America isn't going to suffer ' . too much because she is too far a- way irom tne rront line irencnes to ever know what her men are actually undergoing. American women have given their sons, and it seems to be the duty of the Government to take just the best care of these American boys. Per haps they are doing it, but every one I have talked to has talked only of guns and troops and shells, and none have said anything of souls or : bodies or young lives. War Is not in women's vocabulary. She suffers too much from war to be able to face It. But Washington Is all war, every one talks and eats . war. It wears terribly on a woman. 1 am heartsick and weary of war talk and 1 am going back to a little house on the Schupklll, In the shadow of the battlefields of old, and see If I can forget amid the peace of Valley Forge the horrors of the war across tho seas. IX MEMOKIAM. MIMA MAMSSIE CIARK. Mima Malissie Clark departed this life the 7th of July. It was hard to part with her. No one knows how hard It Is to give up mother until they have experienced it. She has been called to her reward, where parting is no more. It is a blessing to know that there is a way to meet her. Kind friends, pray for us that when we have served our days here upon this earth that we may meet our loved one who has gone before. "Sleeping sweet within her grave (), mother we know thou art. Where there is no mournful yester day To disturb thy peaceful heart. t Mother. O mother. In Jesus sleep No pain or aching heart hath she. Awaiting loved ones to meet her Come over, dear ones, to thee. To sing sweet Psalms and praises With Jesus oh. tis so sweet To know our dear mother In heaven We shall soon meet. May the Ixird guide us and give us strength that we will be able to meet our dear mother who has gone and is waiting for our coming. We desire to thank the people for their tender care, which they gave her through her illness. A FRIEND. . Lincolnton. 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