HpSid
MONEY DISTRIBUTED TO COUN
TIES WHEREBY SCHOOL
TERMS ARE LENGTHENED.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ale. Gathered Around the State
Capital.
Raleigh.
The apportionment of the $447,432.85
State Equalizing Fund among the
counties of the State to bring the
school terms up to the limit required
was approved by the State Board of
Education. The apportionment was
worked out by Mr. A. S. Brower, sta
tistical loan clerk of the State Depart
ment of Education. Each county was
apportioned sufficient funds to bring
its school term up to four months and
thpti each county, including those
with less than four months term and
those with a four months term or
more were apportioned an amount suf
ficient to extend the term for 15.2
days.
The apportionment! thus arranged,
showing the number of dayn by which
the term was extended follows :
Alamance, 15.2 days, $4,752.28; Al
exander, 42.2 days, j $7,743.70; Alle
ghany, 43.95 days, $4,878.45; Anson,
15.2 days, $3,448.50; Ashe, 43.9 days,
$11,457.90; Avery, 50.7 days, $6,413.55.
Beaufort, 15.2 days; $5,525.50; Ber
tie, 15.2 days, $4,351.00; Bladen, 20.1
days, $5,512.12; Brunswick, 15.2 days,
2.660: Buncombe, 15.2; days, $8,140.36;
Burke, 15.2 days, $2,815.80.
. Cabarrus, 15.2 daysj $4,537.2,0; Cald
well, 17.2 days, $4,153.80; Camden,
2S.7 days, $1,800.92; j Carteret, 15.2
days, $2,644.80; Caswell, 15.2 days, $2,.
135.80; Catawba, 15.2 j days, $5,447.30;
Chatham, 15.2 days, $4,130.98; Chero
kee, 15.2 days, $2,530.80; Chowan,
15.2 days, $1,697.27; Clay, 15.2 days,
$562.40; Cleveland, 15.2 days, $6,
117.24; Columbus, 15.2 days, $5,943.20;
Craven, 15.2 days, $3,838; Cumberland,
15.2 days, $4,995; Curituck, 36.2 days,
$4,175.62.
Dare. 60.7 days, $8,520.60; Davidson,
15.2 days, $5,445.40; Daviefi 15.2 days,
$2,271.20; Duplin, 15.2 'days, $4,931.64;
Durham, 15.2 days, $6,177.05.
Edgecombe, 15.2 days, $4,277.66;
orsyth, 15.2 days, $8,240.44; Franklin,
15.2 days, $3,733.50.
Gaston. 15.2 days, $7,266.80; Gates,
19.7 days, $2,703.82; Graham, 15.2
days, $845.50; Granville, 15.2' days,
$4,290.20; Greene, 15.2 days, $2,205.90;
Guilford, 15.2 days, $11,859.80.
Halifax, 15.2 days, $4,995.10 1 Har
nett, 15 2 days, $4,753.80; Haywood,
15.2 days, $2,933.60; Henderson, 15.2
days, 2,758.80 ; Hertford, 15.2 days, $2,
667.90; Hoke, 15.2 days, $1,503.66;
Hyde, 33.2 days, $4,382.40.
Iredell, 15.2 days, $6,479.
Jackson, 19.4 days, $3,210.70; John
ston, 15.2 days, $6,472.54; Jones, 15.2
days, $1,787.90.
Lee, 15.2 days, $2,287.60; Lenoir,
15i days, $4,411.80; Lincoln, 15.2 days,
$3,504.36.
Macon, 15.2 days, $2,093.80; Madi
son, 15.2 days, $3,028.60; Martin, 15.2
days, $3,062.80; McDowell, 15.2 days,
J3.178.70; Mecklenburg, 15.2 days, $10,
749.44; Mitchell, 31.2 days, $4,005.30;
Montgomery, 15.2 days, $2473.80;
Moore, 15.2 days, $3,957.70.
Nash. 15.2 days, $4,660.70; New Han
over, 15.2 days, $4,112.90; Northamp
ton. 15.2 days, $4,081.20.
Onslow, 15.2 days, $3,678.40; Orange,
15.2 days, $3,325.
Pamlico, 47.5 days, $1,210.62; Pas
quotank, 15.2 days, $2,234.70; Pender,
15.2 days. $2,707.12; Perquimans, 15.2
days, $2,979.80; Person, 15.2 days, $2,
648.60; Pitt, 15.2 days; $7,144; Polk,
26.2 days, $2,744.45.
Randolph. 15.2 days, $4,507.56;
Richmond, 15.2 days, $8,515; Robeson,
15.2 days, $7,660.80; Rockingham, 15.2
days, $6,752.60; Rowan, 15.2 .days, $7,
068; Rutherford, 15.2 days, $5,318.10.
Sampson, 15.2 days, $5,236.40; Scot
land, 15.2 days, $2,371.20; Stanly, 15.2
days, $4,039.90; Stokes,' 29.2 days, $7,
467.90; Surry, 15.2 days, $5,321.78;
Swain, 15.2 days, $2,310.40.
Transylvania, 18.1, days, $2,045.30;
Tyrrell, 15.2 days, $1,010.80.
Union, 15.2 days, $6484.50.
Vance, 15.2 days, $8,235.70.
Wake, 15.2 day. $10,347.50; War
rer. 15.2 days, $3,"22.40; Washington,
15.2 days, $1,679.60; Watauga, 22.7
days, $3,387.97; Wayne, 15.2 days,
$5,833.50; Wilkes, 28.5 days, $11,784.
73; Wilson, 15. 2days, $4,797.50
Yadkin, 32.3 days, $5,163.15; Yancey,
41.95 daysfi $6,418.35.
Total $447,432.85.
Bickett at Kinston.
"No nation is fit to endure upon thi
earth which does not stand ready to
lay its all of today upon the altar of
tomorrow," said Governor Bickett in
a, war aaaress irere. Hundreds or a
crowd which greeted him were turned
away. Several of the hearers and
would-be auditors were women.
The governor, speaking for over an
hour, touched upon the sins of Ger
many, the steps this nation has token
for the prosecution of the war, the
debt to France and other phases of the
"great enterprise." He told of what
kind of soldiers North Carolina is fur
nishing and declared he is proud of
them.
He characterized the selective draft
as the fairest thing of its kind ever
conceived. It is not right that any
man should demand equal rights and
oppose equal duties, he asserted.
When the coming draft is finished
there will not be a loafer between th
ages of 21 and 31 left in North Caro
lina. He issued an invitation to wom
en claiming worthless husbands to no
tify him on the quiet, guaranteeing
that any such women should imme
diately face to the world "another
chance."
! GOVERNOR BICKETT
ill ATnnim innnrnn
i in I HAH)
j -yv.
ASKS GODWIN TO SPEAK OUT
Wants to Know Why Shipyards Are
Located in North When We Have
Such Ideal Climate.
DECLARES DOUBLE STANDARD
OF MORALITY DAMNABLE
NATURE KEEPS BOOKS.
HOLD SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING
His Address Before Conference
Social Service Wins Wids
Commendation.
for
SECRETARY BAKER
IS NOW IN FRANCE
Maternity Deaths Reduced.
Three hundred mothers and three
hundred new born babies saved last
year as a result of a public health
nursing service among policyholders,
is an accomplishment to which a large
life insurance company noints with
pride. According to Miss Irene R.
Foote, field supervisor of the nursing
service for this company, the mater
nity period for the average woman is
one fraught with many unnecessary
dangers. One of the chief sources of
danger, according to Miss Foote,
comes from carelessness and igno
rance on the part of the midwives in
many sections of the country. Where
physicians are in attendance, accord
ing to Miss Foote, many of the dan
gers, complications and ill effects fol
lowing child birth never occur.
As a direct result of only one year's
activity along this line, this company
reports a decrease in the mortality
among policyholders who became
mothers of eight and one-half per
cent, while in the general registration
area of the United States there has
been found an increase in the mortal
ity of mothers of 1.9 per cent among
such cases.
Stirring Up Trouble for Themselves.
The attention of the Food Adminis
tration has been called to the fact
that in spite of the high price of cot
ton? seed during the past two or three
years there are farmers in North Car
olina who persist in the once profit
able custom of composting cottonseed
with their manure. Farmers who pur
sue this course this year may be stir
ring up trouble for themselves In ad
dition to refusing to hear the cries for
food from famished millions abroad.
The situation is this: Cotton seed
may be exchanged for cottonseed meal
of three tim'es their value for fertilizer
purposes. Cotton seed contains ap
proximately 320 pounds of fats , per
ton. This fat or oil is absolutely
worthless as fertilizer while it is des
perately needed as fats by our ar
mies and by millions of people who
are famishing for fats and other food
products in Europe.
"The double standard of morality Js
damnable. The colossal folly of the
ages is the belief that a man may sin
against his body, and then about face
and wipe it all out with a sigh and a
tear. He can't do it. Nature keeps
books, and with a heavy hand collects
every debt contracted by sin or folly.
In the economy of nature there is no
pardoning power; we may look for
mercy beyond the grave; here there is
none."
So declared Governor Bickett speak
ing before the North Carolina Confer
ence for Social Service, his subject be
ing "State and National Efficiency."
Expressing the belief that the object
of the Conference is to get results
rather than to confine itself to the
realm of purely academic discussion,
uovernor Bickett spoke straight from
the shoulder in language that could
not be misunderstood, his address be
ing the outstanding feature of the first
day of the Conference.
For one of the few times in his ca-
j reer the Governor reaa nis speecn
: from carefully prepared manuscript,
delivering the words slowly and with
j impressive forcefulness, the while his
audience sat tense in silence unbroken
I until the round of applause that greet
; ed his conclusion. He said in part:
! "The Athenians were not a peculiar
; people in their fondness for new gods,
j The Israelites revealed a trait of char
; acter common to mankind when they
shifted their religious allegiance be
cause as a war measure the food ad
ministrator ordered them to substi
tute manna for onions and garlic. In
the presence of discomforts and dis
appointments it is hard for men and
nations to hold to the faith that the
sources of power and joy are simple
and the same yesterday, today and for
ever. To power add joy and there Is
wholesome efficiency. The unfailing
Wilmington. In an open letter to
Congressman Hannibal Lj Godwin,
copies of which were furnished the
press, Walter H. Blair, . former city
tax collector, a successful student at
the Oglethorpe training camp and a
former campaign manager of Mr. God
win, has asked Godwin to come out
flat-footedly and say so without con
tinuing to beat about the bush if there
is any particular reason why Wilming
ton and North Carolina generally has
been passed up whenever government
appropriations were to be expended.
Mr. Godwin is told that North Carolina
has been considered a mere strip of
land lying between Virginia and South
Carolina sufficiently long and It is
either up to him to do something or
come out and say why he hasn't, hint
ing at a possible reckoning in time to
come. Mr. Godwin is told that there
has been only six days during the win
ter too cold to permit outdoor work
while government shipbuilding in the
east and north has been deadlocked
because of the extremely cold weath
er that forbade outdoor activities.
Added to this, are statements con
tinually emanating from Morehead
City relative to the activities going
on there in the government shipyards
whilethe state's chief port gets noth
ing but 18,000 bales of cotton moved
through the port-
HIS VISIT TO FRENCH SOIL IS
PURELY MILITARY AND NOT
DIPLOMATIC.
EAGER TO 60 FOR SOME TIME
Thinks Trip Will Better Fit Him for
Meeting the Many Needs of Gen
eral Pershing.
Paris. The American secretary of
war, Newton D. Baker, has arrived at
a French port.
source of this combined happiness and
force Is the home builded in the fear
of God and on the unselfish and un
bounded love of a good man and a
good woman. The anchor and the
hope, the sword and the shield of civ
ilization are found: in
Appoints Good Roads Delegates.
Governor Bickett appointed eighty
five delegates from North Carolina to
attend the sixth annual session of
the Unitfed States Goods Roads Asso
ciation which will be in Little Rock,
Arkansas, April 15-19.
The delegates are: Hon. E. T.
Webb. Shelby; W. A. Mauney, Kings
Mountain; R. L. Stowe, Belmont; A.
G. Mangum, Gastonia; A. M. McDon
ald, Charlotte; Col. A. L. Smith, Char
lotte; Thomas H. Webb, Concord;
Hon. J. P. Cook, Concord; Hon. Ar
chibald Boyden, Salisbury; E. E. Grey,
China Grove; W. E. Holt, Lexington;
G. W. Montcastle, Lexington; J. W.
Lambeth, Thomasville; C. M. Van-
Story, Greensboro; Clem Wright,
Greensboro; Robert Brockett. Hign
Point; A. W. Harper, Elon College;
Ernest Holt, Burlington; R. L, Holt,
Graham: W. S. Crawford, Mebane;
Shepherd Strudwick, Hillsboro; Paul
C. Collins, Hillsboro; S. W. Andrews,,
Chapel Hill; E. L. Buggs, Durham ;j
John Sprunt Hill, Durham; J. M5
Broughton, Jr., Raleigh; E. C. Duncan,
J. M. Allen, Louisburg; H. G. Cooper J
Oxford; R. S. McCoin, Henderson; J
M. Deaton, Statesville; Hon. W. D.
Turner, Statesville; E. H. Yount, New
ton; J. D. Elliott, Hickory; J. H. Pear
son, Morganton; J. Ernest Erwin, Mor
" 'The wee cott and jthe cricket's chirr, I gan ton; W. S. Butler, Glen Alpine;
New Insurance Company.
A new North Carolina fire insurance
company received its charter, the au
thorized capital of the new company
being $250,000. The company is the
North Carolina State Fire Insurauce
Company, with its home office at
Rocky Mount. The authorized capital
of $250,000 is divided into 2,500 shares
of the par value of $100 each, the char
ter providing that the shares shall be
sold at $125 each in order to provide
a surplus of $62,500 in addition to the
capital. The company is authorized to
begin business when a total of 500
shares of the capital stock is sub
scribed. Among the incorporators are some
of the leading business men of the
Twin-County city, these being Messrs.
W. S. Wilkinson, George l. wimoer-
ley, Jr., Frank S Spruill, George S.
Edwards, M. R. Braswell, Blake Willi- :
ford. W. H. Newell, D. J. Rose. James j
C. Braswell and J. P. Bunn.
Charlotte Leads In Recruiting.
The recruiting stations and th-3
stated number of men accepted for
the army at each follows: Charlotte,
548; AsHeville, 526; Raleigh, 375;
Greensboro, 350; Gastonia, 296; Winston-Salem,
196; Hickory, 163; Dur
ham, 151; Lumberton, 146; Salisbury,
122; Kinston, 55; Reidsvllle, 14; For
est City, 13.
The love and the smiling face of her.'
"Destroy or in any way discount the
power and the joy of the home, and
the devil will find a world plastic to
his touch
"The most powerful incentive to a
man to be clean and strong, to be and
do his level best is the perfect love
and perfect faith of the woman who
walks by his side, and the finest force
in the life of the woman Is born of
such perfect love and perfect faith
Such faith, like mercy, is twice blest.
It blesses the woman who believes
and the man who is believed in
Whatever tends to conserve and td
justify this boundless love and bound
less trust, this relationship of mutual
helpfulness and mutual dependency
between the man and the woman at
the head of the home protects and pro
motes personal and public efficiency.
Any fact or fancy, reform or revolu
tion, that tends to discount this basic
relation and send the man and the
' woman along separate ways in quest
of happiness or of the fullest and fin
est expression of their lives under
mines the foundations of all life, of
love of law, and Is costly at any price.
Double Standard Damnable.
"Every child has a God-given right
to be the final expression of a great
love, and not a mere by-product of a
heartless convention. The vigor and
the purity, physical and spiritual dy
namics of those who make marriage
vows fix the measure of personal and
ultimately of a national efficiency.
The double standard of morality is
damnable. .
P. H. Washburn, Old Fort; N. Buck
ner, Asheville; W. E. Johnson, Asae
vllle; C. P. Ambler, Asheville; C. E.
Chambers, Asheville; Gallatin Rob
erts,, Asheville; Plato Ebbs, Marshall;
Guy V. Roberts, Marshall; E. Rum
bough, Hot Springs; T. L. Gwyn, Can
ton; Kelly T. Bennett, Bryson City;
S. W. Black, Bryson City; T. C. Bowie,
Jefferson; Gov. R. L. Dough ton. Spar
ta; H. A. Chatham, Elkin; Merieath
er Lewis, Mt. Airy ; Senator J. L. Nel
son, Lenoir; W. C. Ruffin, Mayodaa;
R. L. Mitchell, Yanceyville; D E. J.
Tucker, Roxboro; Tasker Polk, Wa
renton; Lunsford Long, Roanoke Rap-
Ids-; Frank Wood, Edenton; Francis
D. Winston, Windsor; T. L. Bland,
Rocky Mount; C. M. Parks, Tarboro;
P. M. Pearsall, New Bern; W. D Pol
lock, Kinston; Nathan O'Berry, Golds
boro; Wm. Hill. Warsaw; W. A. Mc-
Girt, Wilmington; J. D. McNeill, Fay-
etteville; T. ' Y. McAllister, Fayette
ville; Samuel Strange, Fayetteville;
Leonard Tufts, Pinehurst; H. E Stacy;
Lumberton ; W. N. Everett, R ck:ng-
ham; W. S. Fallis, Raleigh; Alfred
McLean, Lillington; Walter WooJard,
Wilson; J. W. McQueen, Pinehurst: P.
H. Hanes, Winston-Salem; W. D. Mc
Millan, Wilmington.
Washington. Upon hearing of Sec
retary Baker's safe arrival in France
through the Associated Press dispatch
from Paris, the war department an
nounced that the secretary's visit is
purely military and not diplomatic,
and is for purposes of inspection and
personal conferences with military of
ficials. Mr Baker is accompanied by
Major General William M. Black, chief
of engineers; Lieutenant Col. M. L.
Brett and Ralph Hayes, his private sec
retary. No official report on the secretary's
arrival had been received. The de
department issued this statement:
Sailed February 27.
"A cable dispatch from Paris to
the Associated Press announces the
arrival at a French port of the secre
tary of war.
"For some time Secretary Baker has
desired to visit the headquarters of
the American expeditionary forces.
He sailed from an American port
about February 27.
"Secretary Baker has not determin
ed the length of time he will remain
in France but his stay will be long
enough to enable him to make a thor
ough inspection of the American forces
abroad and to hold important confer
ences with American military officers
"It is expected that not only wil
Secretary Baker visit the American
headquarters, but his inspection tour
will cover construction projects, in
eluding docks, railroads and ordnance
hiina now under way back of the
Amerian lines.
"The secretary's visit is military and
not diplomatic. It is essentially for
the purpose of inspection and personal
conference with military officials.
Secretary Baker plans to spend a
brief time in France, inspecting in
person the concrete results already
achieved in the efforts of his depart
ment to place in the field this year
an army that will be a factor in the
campaign. On the eve of his depart
ure, Mr. Baker told members of the
press who had been .in the habit of
seeing him every day that he did not
expect to be away for any considerable
length of time.
The secretary and his party left
Washington without any other at
tempt to conceal their movements
than a request that the press refrain
from reporting his departure. The
newspapers again worked in hearty
co-operation to make the journey as
safe as possible from German subma
rines for the party. No hint of tne
trip has been printed.
scours
(Conducted by National Council of the Boy
Scouts ft America.)
WORK OF A SCOUTMASTER
A big work, this being a master I
scout. What manner of man Is needed j '
to do it?
First of all, the scoutmaster must
be a real man himself, the kind of a ,
man boys will naturally follow, admire,
respect, emulate and obey. No amount
of book knowledge, no degrees In peda
gogy will avail if he doesn't Impress
the boys as the "real stuff."
He must possess that indefinable
quality we call personality or 'person
al magnetism." He must be a man of .
proved worth of character. He must .
stand four-square to the scout princi
ples In practice as well as precept.
To be a successful boy leader, a man
mut know human nature in general
and boy nature in particular. He must
be able to remember back to bis own
boyhood clearly enough to be able to
get the boy's viewpoint. He must be
enough of a boy himself, whatever his
years, to put himself into a relation
of sympathetic comradeship with boys,
and at the same time be enough of a
man and a master to keep sufficiently
aloof, so that his boys will recognize
his authority and accept it as final.
He must possess tact, Initiative, pow- t
er of quick decision and action, for al
most any emergency calling for the"
practice of these qualities may arise
at any time in his work with boys.
The scoutmaster Is also expected to
get In touch with such experts as his
community offers, and enlist their serv
ices in scout training.
Boys have an Immense respect for
anybody who can "do things." The
wise scoutmaster frankly owns himself
an amateur, and a learner if neces-'
sary, at the same time keeping himself ;
In so far as possible ahead of his boys.
Three hours a week Is probably the
minimum time required. Nevertheless
It Is true that some of the best scout
masters are otherwise the busiest men.
Just because they are busy men, they
are apt to be efficient men, men of
power and personality, accustomed to
putting their margins of leisure to '
profitable use. Certainly no better use
could be found for the spare hours of
a good citizen and patriot than to help
In the process of making men, men who
are to be the hope and salvation of our
war rent civilization.
TORNADO TAKES TdLL
OF LIVES WRECKS HOMES
MNUTE SCOUTS IN THE SOUTH.
Birmingham (Ala.) boy scouts have
an organization known as "Minute
Scouts." They are selected with a
view to service entirely, the runk of
the scout not being taken Into consid
eration. He Is first recommended by his
scoutmaster. His parents and the
school authorities certify as to wheth
er the boy Is keeping up bis studies
to such a point that he will be excused
at any time for scout work.
The organization Is limited to 100.
divided Into four divisions. Each
member wears the gold 100 per cent
duty badge procured from national
headquarters, and this Is the only ex
cuse he needs from school when an
emergency call is sent In for any work
connected with wartime activities.
If a member of the first division
falls down in his studies or in his
home duties or in his service or In his
troop, he Is dropped and a member of
the second division fills his place.
Agent for Pamlico County.
The county commissioners at their
meeting at Bayboro decided to employ
a home demonstration agent for Pam
lico county. The Importance of em
ploying such an agent was presented
to the board by Mrs. Sue Hollowell,
of Goldsboro, and Miss C. C. Coble,
of Edenton, working under the State
department.
New Enterprises Authorized.
Donnell Farm Company, of Wash
ington, to do a general real estate
business. Authorized capital $120,000
with $10,000 paid in. Incorporators
N. L. Simmons, H. C. Carter, Jr.,
and Harry McMullan of Washington;
R. R.-Grant, of Swan Quarter, and J.
W. Ferrali, of Petersburg,' Va.
Proctor " Long, of Cornelius, amends
its charter by cancelling $1,000 of
treasury stock and thereby reducing
the capital stock of the corporation
j. D. Dawson Company, of Belhaven
authorized capital $50,000, with $7,500
paid in, to conduct a wholesale gro
cery and mercantile business. The
incorporators are C. P. Aycock, of
Pantego; J. D. Dawson, of Belhaven;
C7 C Jacksbn, of Yeatesville, and J.
F. Bishop, of Belhaven.
The Kenllworth Company, of Ashc
rille, amends its charter reducing the
guaranteed Interest on preferred stock
from seven to six per cent, and pro
viding that in the event of the liquida
tion of the corporation the preferred
stock must be paid off first.
Lima, Ohio. Five persons are
known to be dead, several other are
reported killed, scores are injured,
scores of homes were completely or
rortlir H Pi-nnlish erl and hundreds of
hams nad outbuildings were razed by.
the tornado which traveled across
nortwest Ohio. Estimates of property
rlamage was one to five million dollars.
No serious damage was done in any
of the larger cities, most of the de
struction having been reported from
country districts. The tornado began
in Vanwert county, on the Ohio-Indiana
state line, and traveled in a
northeasterly direction, lessening in
Intensity until it died out east of Tif
fin. Towns suffering tne most were
NEED OF SCOUT LEADERS.
Never Misses Sunday School.
Gastonia. Miss Madge Hanna,
dauehter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hanna,
of Chester street, has made a record vanwert, MIddlepoint, Convoy, Lima,
of having not missed a single meet- Deshler. Hamler, Continental, Ottawa,
ing of the First Associate Reformed pindlay Napoleon, Holgate. Miller City
Presbyterian Sabbath school ior more and Tiffin
than 11 years.
State Convention April 10.
The Democratic State Convention
will be held in Raleigh this year on
April 10, according to a decision of
the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee in session here, recently. The
session itself was a model of brevity,
and except for the adoption of a few
changes in the plan of organization
made necessary by the primary law,
the meeting was devoted to the rou
tine of selecting dates for precinct,
county and State conventions. March
30 was determined upon as the date
for the precinct meetings. . ,
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
SAYS WE TALK TOO MUCH
INSTEAD OF GETTING TO WORK.
The special drive for more scout
masters to head troops for the many
boys who want to join the Boy Scouts
of America but cannot has especial -significance
because of the need of'
offsetting the Increase In Juvenile
crime.
Massachusetts has an increase of 65 :
per cent in crime among the boys
within the last twelve months. Detroit
reports an increase of nearly 50 per
cent. Newark and Toledo boys courts
have noted a large access of mischief
due to the war excitement and the
lack of proper direction for their ac
tivities.
The Scoutleaders Reserve corps
offers opportunities for men of high
ideals to lead American boyhood in
national service, as commissioners, as
scoutmasters, assistant scoutmasters,
members of troop committees, special
Instructors, examiners or lecturers.
The Jury In the case of Mrs. George
M. Spittle, administratrix, agamsi i"
Southern Public Utilities Company,
Charlotte, awarded the plaintiff $11,500
-m i 1 2 .
damages. Mrs. spittle was sums
company for $40,00 damages ior tne
death of her husband. -
Five members of the same Immeai
Daytona, Fla: America's reasons
r entering the war were outlined by
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall,
in an address here before the com
munity forum in which he criticised
Americans for "talking too much in
stead of getting to work and winning
the war. Don't talk about what you
On Way Seventeen Years.
Kinston. It took a postcard mailed
at Dover, nine miles from here, nearly
seventeen years to" reach Mr. Lovit
Hines. whose street address is not
Tiftrfissarv on his mail. Where the
card was all those years Is not certain.
Apparently it was lost in some crack
or crevice of a postoffice or mail car.
ate family bought $1,000 worth of sav are going to do ater the war," he
ings stamps each. They were f . n aaid Dut talk about winning it. I be
Fairley, Mrs. F. H. Fairley, F. H. Fair- Ueve j am aDOut the only man who
ley, Jr., J. M. Fairley ana Mrs. air- has kept siient.
all of Monroe.
Preparations are being rapiaiy com DEPARTMENT STANDS fikwi
SCOUTING ACTIVITIES.
Scouting activities during the year
1917 set a new high-water mark in the
history of scouting.
There were 27,041 merit badges Is
sued as compared with 19,047 in 1916.
Two hundred and nineteen boys quali
fied as eagle scouts as compared with
99 in the year before.
Five hundred and twenty-nine life
scout badges and 508 star scout badges
were also issued.
i.tri for the meeting of the Baptist
Woman's Missionary Union, which will
be held at the First Baptist church
Raleigh, for four days, beginning Tues
day. March 26. More than 500 dele
gates are expected at the meeting. thif
number having attended the Golds
boro meeting a year ago.
Max Levin, of Raleigh, formerly
ON CASUALTY ORDER.
The writer did not live to get a reply. travellng passenger agent of the Sea
He was Seth West. The card con- unarit is now in France
l.l.tJ in a mfnni TlliainASS deal I IraV POTlt alTlln ET &bOUt 10
LCi X0 . I W "
in which the two men were Interested.
It was written March 26, 1901, and de
livered to Mr. Hlnea a few iays ago
gallons of Ink, was received at Camr
Greene, Charlotte, by the Y. M. C. A
to be used by the soldiers.
Washington. The war department
gives no indication of yielding in Its
determination to withhold the home
addresses of soldiers killed or wound
ed, or who die of other causes in
France. Basing its position on the
objections the French government
made to General Pershing against the
American method of issuing casualty umier sixteen years of age and
lists, the department intends to meet other wm receive n0 large boy at
objections with the answer that the a wneQ lt comeg t0 a question of
system betrays military informatics -pep" the little fellows are right there.
SCOUTS ARE CIVIC WORKERS.
Two boy scout troops in Birming
ham, Ala., are connected with the
Chamber of Commerce and the Civic
association, each constituting a junior
membership in the organization to
which It is attached.
These troops are specializing ; In
civic matters and are destined to be
very keen rivals. One will receive no
from 15.000 to 14.000