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TWO LENDING UNCLE SAM $82.40 AND GETTING BACK $100 A great war saving campaign by T H1VU fc. 1 V . . V are to add $48,600,000 to the war loan of Uncle Sam began Monday, the 10th. This vast sum is to be loaned by the people to the government' through the purchase of thrift stamps and war savings stamps. These stamps will be on sale at every post office and every incorporated bank arid trust company and 'within a few days at stores and business houses all over the., state. By this campaign, which is to be carried on simultaneously throughout the United States, the government plans within one year to raise a new loan of two billion dollars and have the entire sum come out of the peo ples savings for the year. The state headquarters, in compil ing the figures to give to each town ship in the state it allotment, has made estimates which ihow that a -saving of $8 by each family each month during the year 1918 will raise the allotment- F. H. Fries, of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., "Winston Salem. N. C, who has been appointed by Secretary McAdoo as director of the war savingB committee for North Carolina,- has announced the appoint ment and organization of a state exec utive committee of 50. This commit tee is the most representative group "of citizens ever brought together to work for any cause. Among its mem bers are Governor Bickett. Judges Pritchard. Connor and Boyd, J. W. Cannon. X. O'Berry, E. L.. Travis, Wal ter Murphy, Clarence Poe, Clement Manly. Jof. G- Brown, and other per sons representing every interest In the stated and will work shoulder to shoulder in the great campaign which will last for one year and which has for its slogan, "Save and Serve'." "The state director appointed a chair man in each county in the state and called a meeting which was , held in Raleigh on. the 7th. Ninety out of the 100 accepted the appointment and about 75 counties were represented in the Raleigh meeting by their county chairmen. "Within a few days It is hoped to have an organization of ten thousand men, and women at work in the state, and the organization is built somewhat pn the plan of a political machine with 7.500 school districts in the units and each district will be in charge of a vice chairman and a. com mittee of workers to spread the sav ings propaganda, who will be under the direct supervision of the county chairmen with the co-operation of the county executive committee. Volunteers for the distribution : and sale of war savings certificates and thrift stamps are requested to send their county chairmen with a state ment of their present occupation. In addition to this statewide organ ization of workers. Mr. J. Frank Mor ris, head of the Retail Merchants as sociation, and Mr. J. Paul Leonard, secretary, have offered the services of their organization as boosters for the war savings plan. Each trade will be organized and the business men pledg ed to encourage and air their em- I ' 1 A, - -. " 11. ; 1 J ' luoyees in me puifiiase mint vliiu war savings stamps. At one of our meetings, in discuss ing the. campaign to save approxi mately 50 million dollars, one of the "As an educator or monitor the Lib erty bond blazed the way, but it did not wake up everybody. . Its solicita tion' was mainly to the adult popula-, tion. Men and women who never sav ed before are now practicing thrift to pay for their bond.- But Liberty-bond issues do not glean very close, or they have not done so yet. The pennies , of the people are needed as well as their dollars. Hence, the war savings cer tificates and thrift stamps which have I been put on sael. They will wake up j all of us to the emergency and we. shall better understand the dire con- i sequences of defeat. The 'little red school house. using the term as a symbol, is going to play a leading part, in the new loans. In devastate-! France the children do not have to be told what the war means. They are the greatest sufferers. Here in America, the most favored of lands more favored Ufa never before the war has not touched the children ap preciably. It is at the most, an echo to them of -something "mysterious and terrible and no one would wrant them to visualize it; but even American children now have to learn the lessons of sacrifice in the shadow of a con flict that spares no one."- If we can win the war and at the same time, conquer our national" sin of wastefulness, if we can make our own private good contribute to., the r general good, then .we will have done something memorable. The two-fold purpose of the thrift campaign is to raise money for the use of the gov ernment and cultivate the habit of sav ing -among the people. The two ob jects depend on each other. If the people do not save and give their sav ings into the caer of the government, the war will not be won. If the war is not won, this country will never again see the days of security and abundance which makes saving possi ble. . The present obligation-; is imper ative; the future need is equally press ing to ajl who sse what the conse quences may be of private extrava gance continuing while government expenditures are as enormous-as they are today. This plan 6f the. treasury depart- -ment provides a way by which every man who saves a quarter of a dollar can help his , country while at the same time helping himself. It is perhaps the best plan. for general savings ever devised. The person who buys these stamps is guaranteed repayment by the highest guarantee in the world the credit of the United States gov ernment. The value of these certifi cates increases every month auto matically. They will be easily purch asable and quickly redeemable. They cannot be monopolized by any one be cause the maximum that can be allot ted to any individual is ?1,000. Depos itors in urgent need of money can cash in their certificates at any time within the five years with interest. Any business man can pecome an authorized government agent and get the privilege ofi selling these stamps by making propeu application to the secretary of the treasury. Application blanks may be obtained at any post office. The stamps of the smaller de nomination are called "thrift e tamps." Tlveir value is 25 cents. When you purchase your first thrift stamp you are given a thrift card. On this card there are spaces on which to paste 16 thrift stamps, a total of $4. When your thrift card is full, take it to any place where the stamps are sold, and on the payment of an additional fee of 12 cents, you can transfer the thrift card for a war savings stamp. This stamp therefore, costs you $4.12. the govern ment pays you $5 for that war savings stamp. So, you have saved ?4.12 and loaned it to your country at 4 per cent interest to help win the war. When you get your' first war savings stamp, you will be given a card on which to paste it. This card is called a war savings certificate. There are places on. each certificate for 20 war savings stamps. When you paste one war sav ings stamp on this certificate, you have the equivalent of a $5 govern ment bond . which costs "you $4.12. When you paste up 20 war savings stamps, you have the equivalent of a $100 government "bond, which costs you $82.40 for which Uncle Sam . is obligated to pay you $100 at the end of five years, and which is your money back with interest at the rate of 4 per cent compounded quarterly. This computation , is. made on the price of stamps for December and Jan uary. Beginning February 1. 1918, one cent a month is added to the cost of each war savings stamp. The price increases because the stamps 'are earning interest from January 1, 1918. Provision is made for you to with draw your money plus interest to date, at any time after you have pur chased, your first war savings stamp. All that - 4s- necessary is " to. give ten days notice at 'the post office. The five dollar war savings stamps are not transferable after they have been attached to the war savings cer tificate. , Before they are pasted on the certificate they may .be given away. You can buy 5-dollar stamps for $4.12 and give them as Christmas presents to . those who have already begun to save and have started to fill their certificates. Or, you can buy a 5-dollar stamp and have a certificate issued to a friend. When the certifi cate is issued the name of the holder is written on it, and a certificate may be registred at any post office and the holder is thereby protected in case of loss by destruction of the 'certificate. It must, however, be redeemed at the office of registry. Thrift stamps do not earn interest. They are issued for convenience to enable the people to save small sums and accumulate the price of a war savings stamp. They are not redeem able but the thrift stamps can be giv en away and are of value to any hold er just as a postage stamp is. v Both kinds of stamps are green. The thrift stamps are slightly larger than a 2-cent postage stamp, and the war savings stamps are "about four times the size of. a postage stamp." Every time you buy a 25-cent stamp you pay for a dinner for one of our boys at the front. Some Industrial Fallacies By RALPH M. EASL.EY Chairman Executive Council, National ' Civic Federation. At the moment the press of the country is generous and warmly en thusiastic in its prai3 of the patriot ism and high statesmanship of -Samuel Gompers and this praise has been just as unstinted from papers which have always criticised and freqxiently denounced him, as from those which have always supported him.' While there is now this friendly feeling and an absence of threatening labor disturbances -in the important industries connected with the winning of the war, it is well to call attention to Some matters which may make it easier to understand the situation when in the future things are not n propitious as they are at the moment 1 we not having- reacned that state of society where "solutions" for indus trial problems have been found. If a-big strike should cccur in a month from now, in any of the ship building plants, along the docks, in one of the munitions works or in any of the thousand or more plants making supplies for the army and navy, at once would be heard sneers. "So Gom pers was only four-flushing, after all!" "If he is not a hypocrite and iS the na- triot he claims to he, why does he not call off those strikes." They would mvTCT ano'ffesf that the Oresirien n.ll o o v 1 - il - vail on his friend "Sammy iompers to "make good," and . so forth and so forth. : TrA cr an nral BUbliC doe3 not n-nn-TA- eiftt the fact that Samuel Gomnera as president of the American Federa tion, of "Labor, has not a vestige of authority to call a strike on. or ofr, ex cepting in the case of certain local unions which are nov yet oi sumcient importance to httve developed national organizations and which have nothing to do with war production. The Amer ican Federation or Labor itself can not call a strike on or off, because it is made up of representatives from the 115 international craft organiza tions international, in this sense mean ill sr thft TTnitArl Ktirfr tA Pn. ada. In the case of these crafts those or the coal miners, street car conductors, plumbers, painters, mold ers, machinists and so forth each has an Internationa lorganization of its own with its local unions in every city. Each has ts own. constitution and by laws and each would resent any inter ference by the American Federation of Labor or Mr Gompers in any 'of its own internal affairs and a strike is a purely internal matter. To hold Mr. Gompers responsible for a street car tie-up in Cleveland, a smelter strike in Colorado or a car penters' strike in Boston shipyards President Wiilson responsble for whaH uune uy uovernor tapper in nansas. Governor Lowden in Illinois, or Gov ernor Whitman in New York. Each governor, would resent interference by the president, just as the head of the United Mine Workers organization would resent suggestions from the president of the American Federation of Labor. In fact, every labor organ ization is intensely jealous of its pre rogatives and there are no questions with, which Mr. Gompers has to deal that are any mpre troublesome than those termed jurisdictional disputes among the organizations of the A. F. w - itsfut. his voice in the trade union hall is always for conciliation and arbitration, although there have heen' times when the organizations themselves , in narti stood against arbitration and while Mr. Gompers had done everything he could in the coiinrir. t- r.V.--,c . -w vuu ina. i view, he has had to bear the onus of standing Derore. the public against ar bitration, or make public cause against a union whose servant ho in- -f a. president of the American Federation U1 Jor, ne.ia-a servant of tius 115 international organizations, hi3 sal ary being paid out of the per capita tax thit coir.es from all those unions. It is not to be implied that Mr. Gompers has not a tremendous moral influence, for he has but only he knows" where he can best exercise that for the general good. While on. many large - economic questions Mr. Gomp ers is a leader, he-is not a "boss" and when he leads, it is because, by the sheer weight of his intellect, he con vinces his people that he is right. If he fails and they do not accept his views, he is a loyal soldier and obeys their mandate. Some years ago when the "free silver" craze was. the American Federation of Labor declar ed in favor of the "16 to i heresy" and although he personally was a "sound money" man, Mr. Gompers took the stump and supported the position of the A. F. of A. as its president. That he is a. leader of men can well be admitted whe none considers that he has been passed upon 37 times by an annual convention made up of over 500 delegates from every state in the Union and every Industrial center in each state and yet the last five times he has been elected practically with out opposition. There are congress men who have been re-elected ten times but that means only within a single congressional district, and then the election occurs every second year. There are United States senators who have been re-elected four times, but that is only in one state and every six years whereas, Mr. Gompers has been re-elected, as stated, every year for 37 years with but one exception, and at a national convention a record un paralleled. Much has been said of the superior loyalty of the trade unions in England in comparison with those" of our coun try, as indicated by the smaller num ber of strikes over there. This com ment has been very general since the members of the English commission have recently told us here how a truce had been made between capital and labor which had resulted in perventing all labor troubles in England. In the first place, that "truce" proved in many instances to be only a "scrap of paper," if recent reports of the British Industrial Unrest commission and the acounts of strikes in the English pa pers are to be believed. But even if there were no labor troubles in Eng land, there is no basis for comparison between the two countries, because the English trade unions are so much more thoroughly organized in the ba sic industries concerned in war pro duction than are those in this country. The steel industry, the metal trade, shipbuilding and ammunition Indus tries In England are unionized, so that the question of dealng with non union men, the most prolific source, of trouble, is not an issue there; where as in this country, as is well known, the U. S. Steel and the Bethlehem Steel corporations, the largest steel produc ers, have no relations with the unions and. furthermore, the metal trades. such as the machinists, molders, black smiths, and so forth, do not contorl so great a proportion of the industries in this country as they do In England. Another serious obstacle in dealing with thei labor situation in this coun try that" does not appear in England is that of the enemy alien workman, as well as the "neutral" alien work man who is pro-German. Tn some of our large industries, over fifty per cent of the employees are of that character, whereas England is practically homo genous. During the yfar. there have been strikes in this country which, al though they were vigorously opposed by all the union leaders, were forced by alien members clearly acting in the interest of Germany but not in a way where it could be easily proved tlradi ually instigators of this type are be ing "tagged," and they power for evil rendered neglible and some of them are 'being interned. in connection with the strike situa tion, there is always a fallacy looming up large in the public mind: That ie. that because some morning we find three or four strikes played up on the front pages of our dailies, we con clude that " there "is great industrial unrest and that revolutionary times are immediately ahead of us. On this point, it may be consoling to consider that there is neevr at any one time in this country more than a very small fraction o fthe wage earners on strike. The "scare head" statisticians make great capital out of it but the real statisticians have discovered that there are more days of labor loBt on the Fourth of July and Christmas than through all the strikes in any given year. When we consider the other regular holidays that every wage earner takes New Year's. Thanksgiv ing, Labor day. Memorial day, Wash ington's birthday, etc., to say nothing of the numerous religious holidays, the actual losses in days of labor through strikes are seen to be of com paratively minor importance. ."There is another apprehension that strikes the average business man when he reads of the socialists' and anarchists capture of Petrograd and recalls that Morris Hillqult received 150,000 votes at the recent election in New York. He fears that these revo lutionary forces are going to sweep this v. country and destroy all of our property values, our government and our hope for future happiness. There' is no use in worrying about Petrograd; the socialists and the anarchists will kill one another off there before they get through. On the Hlllquit vote, it is quite eaBy to become over-alarmed; but when we subtract all the pacifists. Germans and Sinn Feiners who have nothing to- do with socialism but who were only enamoured of Hilquitt's German peace program there is little left of that cote. Only last week, the New York Dally Call published the re port of the referendum vote on filling the vacancy in the national executive committee o fthe socialist party creat ed by the resignation of John Spargo. There was a spirited campaign waged by five candidates for the position. The entire vote cast for all five in the whole United States totalled less than 14,000., Last year a referendum vote on the party platform, after a three months' bitterly contested campaign in the socialist press and on the soap boxes, showed less than 20,000 members.- So, despite their noiary boast of adding two or three hundred thousand men to their party, they have instead lost a third of the few , they had. The measure of socialism is its vote on its own internal affairs, for there only dues-paying members can register the will. The strength of the party cannot be measured by a conglomerate mass vote of discordant elements possessing nothing in common except their devo tion to Junke'rism. So, in . reassuring our business man who is alarmed, we come back to Mr. Gompers, the American . Federation of Labor and the great railway brother hoods that have so strongly put their seal of condemnation on the Hillquits, the pacifists and the Huns who make up the American Bolsheviki. Organ ized labor will take care of socialism and ; anarchy, but others must take care of the pacifist and pro-German Jraito.rs. GERMAN "PILLBOXES" TAKEN BY EXACT SKILL (Continued From Page One) falling On hands and knees in the mud. Here ."nd there a soldier helped a fall- j ing comrade to regain his balance. Voices cursed, laughed, or complained, non-commissioned officers - herded on their sections and te attack was launched. Right and left the plough ed and cratered surface of the barren earth seemed to disgorge men who moved slowly, some at wide intervals, some grouped together circling the edge of some quagmire. . Noises were all confused and indis tinct; enemy shells burst overhead, bat their report was drowned by the thun der of tho British barrage. Somewhee up-wind smoke bombs had been light ed and the wind carried down a pro tectlng veil of mist and the acrid scent of chemicals. An occasional man fell face downward in the mud; others, not so badly hit, rolled into the decep tive cover of water filled craters to flounder there till stretcher bearers could recover them. Unwounded men who had been engulfed by mudholes to the thighs appealed to comrades to pull them clear, but the wind bore their voices away and the ranks plod ded on unheeding to the assault. Gradually the men struggled up the crest of the ridge, panting and out ot breath. Concrete pillbox emplacements bulged shattered and exposed among the craters. One pillbox atop the crest was still in action. From its mound of earth came the familiar rat-rat-tat, and the air seemed full of the whip-lash of bul lets. Someone shouted, and gesticulat ed. The men broke into a shambling run. A hnd. grenade burst in the mud a yard of -two short of the embrasure, then like a pack of hounds men crowd ed forward to the quarry. A section circled the rear and rifle firing broke out at' close quarters. Bullets were aimed at the slits, and the bullets tha.t went true ricochetted inside the pillbox in search of their target. Sud denly a wild figure in khaki appear ed gesticulating on the doomed con creted, .top... knelt down and threw something into the embrasure. A mo ment and the harrow , slip spouted flame and smoked wreathed the group. Then all was quiet. Three minutes later two wounded British soldiers were keeping watch over the three remaining live members and captured garrison. The wave of attack had passed on over the. defense and -the ' pillbox had fallen. SHOUT OF; SHOE LEATHEB. Germany Han Lms Than One-Seventh Enough for Her People. Zurich, Nov. 30. Significant in part because a German newspaper, the Con stance Gazette, publishes the inform.ir tion, comes word that Germany today possesses less than one-seventh enough leather and completed shoes to supply its population for the coming winter. The figures, says the newspaper, ire the more alarming because they fcre based on a population of fifty million which averages but one pair of shoes, and three sets of soles, per year. Since certain classes Of workers, adds the Gazetter, must absolutely have more shoes than this ,the gravity of the situation Is increased, and is not apt to be allayed by the production, as planned at present, of shoes of cloth with wooden solos. w iart i a Man or (uiiostm as (Printed in the desire to serve woman) When a man want to be "dead sure" of the right thing for a woman's Christ mas gift, he goes to a woman's store; there he sees what women buy for themselves, and gets the expert advice of other women. Copyright Xbrt Scaaffaw A ICm The rule works both ways, and the resource ful woman seeks out a man's store and the advice of other men. This is a store for men; it sells the things a man enjoys owning; the things he gets for him self. And it's a place for both men and women to buy gifts for men. Our stock is generous and varied: Hart Schaffner & Marx suits and over coats, of course; shirts, hats, a new ar ray of ties, cuff links, and scarf pins; suit cases, bags, robes, smoking, jackets,', leather novelties, initial and plain linen handkerchiefs, & Etc. There are many others, some "that you will think of at once, others you'll appreciate having called to your attention. That is -where we can be of service to you; we can share the advantage of our acquaintance with men. We'll be glad to do it. . v Til DAVID COM? A NY The home- of Hart. Schaffner & Marx clothes OXaPOraTaTaTl SEAMED FIL,IE1 TO PROVE , HARDSHIPS THEY ENCOUNTER Ixmdon. Dec. 15. The British sailors society, in the belief that the British public does not yet realize the hero ism and sufferings of the mercantile marine-in facing the submarine men ace, has just prepared a moving pic ture film showing actual scenes in con nection with its work. The pictures were tRken of definite events in the west of England. In one case shown on the film the eight men from a ship that had been torpedoed 600 miles from land, had been in an open boat for five days when they were picked up and photographed by an enterprising moving picture opera tor. - CR ED 1 OF KIDNEY AND Greenville, S. 0. Man Says Acid Iron Mineral Cured Him Two Years Ago and He Hasn't Been Troubled Since INDIGESTION GET PERMANENT RESULTS As proof that most psopl- only lack blood to feel well all the time, the following statement, is published: "I gradually began to weaken and before I knew it I was having pains in my back that made bending over a tor ture to me. . Then I noticed that sleep was hard to get. .1 would sleep in fits and starts and my kidneys bothered me. Then my stomach started to, re bel at favorite dishes and before I awoke to my condition I couldn't eat vegetables without - being' distressed and bothered the whole night through. My back -was weak and pained me at times and cramps like the colic would COLIC TROUBLES attack me unless I was awfully partic ular what I ate," says a well known Greenville, S. C, cotton raill employee, H. A. Burdett. If your -digestion isn't extracting the nourishment and your blood being en riched as it should be doctors will tell you to do just as Mr. Burdett did. Con tinuing his statement, he said: "A friend urged me to get busy and take sonie Acid Iron Mineral and be fore I had taken a 50 cent bottle I was immensely improved and after fin ishing that half dollar bottle I was cured. It absolutely cured me and that was two years ago and, not like when you take other -medicines, I haven't been sick or bothered since. I can eat anything I want and never be troubled with it," declared this man who sums up his experience with Acid Iron Min eral in t hgee words, "It cured me of indigestion, colic and kidney trouble two years ago and I haven't been trou bled since," Get : a bottle of this natural, highly concentrated medicinal iron which so many And unexcelled for the blood, di gestion, kidneys and as a tonic to tone you up. Get a larger dollar size bot tle of your nearest druggist. Ml What More Can You Get by Paying More? When you drive away in Saxon "Six" you are in possession of a car complete in everj detail of costly car features, equipment and comforts. You have a car not to be surpassed in beauty, or in road performance. Tour six-cylinder, genuine Continental motor wings you along with effortless ease; your cantilever springs shield you from road shocks and Jars. - Your ample Ipeat and leg room, ease of driving and control offer you comfort and satis faction. From every point, of view Saxon "Six" at J935 is a b'ig motor car value. You can prove to your own eatisf action that you can't buy a better car for $200 or $300 more. BUT BUY NOW! Motor car priees are bound to advance soon. By placing your order right away .you not only get the immediate benefits of Saxon "Six" ownership, but you also save on the purchase price. It us give you your demonstration today. SAXON SIX Five Passenger Touring Car . 9933 Four Passenger Chummy Roadster 935 Five Passenger Sedan . S1S95 SAXON FOUR Two Passenger .Roadster . . . aas F. O. B. Detroit. Here is Quality at a Price Tbat Surpriee Yoo Continental Motor. Tlmken axles and bearings, front and rear. Stromberg Carbureter. Fedder Radiator. Where Cm You Equal Tkie at the Price? 8KB US BEFORE YOU BUY Wilmington Motor Company, Inc. Robert G. Barr, Manager Sales and Service Station 210 Dock Street Phone 549
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