MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC
SERVICE RESERVES MEET.
MANPOWER BILL PASSED
BY THE HOUSE 336 TO 2.
Burke County Committee Held
Meeting Last Friday Mr.
Payne Spoke on Work.
Members composing the Burke
County Board of the United States
Public Service Reserve met in Mor
ganton last Friday morning to discuss
the work that the government expects
them to do.
Meeting with the members was Mr.
Max T. Payne, of Greensboro, who is
assisting Mr. T. L. Bland of Raleigh,
the State director.
The .Public Service Keserves in
each county is composed of members
from each township and also a local
community board composed of three
men one who represents the govern
ment, one representing the employer
of labor and one the employee of la
bor. In Burke County Mr. W. I.
Davis is chairman of the local com
munity board and Messrs. B. E. Cox
and A. C. Chaffee on the other mem
bers. All matters pertaining to the
labor situation will be conducted
through them.
It is the duty of the community
board and the township representa
tives to get a list of all men between
the ages of 18 and 45 years who are
in non-essential work. This list is
sent to the labor department in
Washington. In the near future a
man from the department of labor,
MR. BOGER WRITES ON
BOSSES, BALL GAMES, ETC.
working through the State director, I part of the week.
Congress Does, However, Re
verse Itself and Exempts Con
gressmen From the Draft.
The new manpower bill extending
the selective draft to all men between
the ages of 18 and 45 years was pass
ed by the house Saturday night with
only minor changes in the original
draft of the war department. On the!.
first roll call only two negative votes
were cast Representative London the
Socialist of New York, and Repre
sentative Gordon, of Ohio, Democrat.
The final vote was announced 336 to 2.
The final vote was preceded by three
days' debating, during which the chief
contention was an amendment to de
fer the calling of youths from 18 to
20 years until older men had been
summoned. A final effort was made
by Chairman Dent to place 18-year-old
boys in a deferred class, but a mo
tion to recommit the bill to the mili
tary affairs committee with instruc
tions to incorporate that amendment
was lost, 191 to 146.
The bill now goes to the senate,
where leaders predict its passage ear
ly next week. The seate plans to
substitute the house bill for the mea
sure favorably reported by the sen
ate military committee and thus ex
pedite its final enactment. Con
gressional leaders hope to send the
measure to the President by the latter
INVENTOR WOULD
PETRIFY
ENEMY.
Dr. Geo. Ramsey, of Raleigh, will
come to Morganton to secure a cer
tain quota of .labor. From the list
furnished the government represen
tation with the assistance of the
community board, will select the men
whom he desires. He will have the
power to insist on these men going
" The senate, soon after convening
unexpectedly abandoned plans for a
vote and adjourned until Monday.
An attempt in the house to insert a
work or fight amendment by which
those exempted from military service
on occupational grounds would be re
quired to remain at their civil tasks,
to the essential work or either report j failed, 52 to 91. The amendment was
Directs His Communication to
Mr. Cox and Writes on One
Subject Interesting to Both.
Aug. 24, 1918.
Mr. X. It Pays to Trade at H. Cox,
Broadway, Morganton.
Dear Xennie:
It might be said that certain lay
ing of concrete on the streets of our
old town had quite a sufficiency of
supervision, superintending, over
seeing, bossing, reviewing. Control
generally, to have gotten it put down
right.'
Let's see. There was the mayor,
town manager, Hawk Ward, the board
of aldermen, city clerk, chief of po
lice, Isaac Wortman, the contractor,
abutting property owners, contract
or's foreman, me and yourself gener
ally and quite often, if the hour was
propitious, the city engineer appeared
in the offing.
That little John Pearson fellow,
from out "fernenst" Sandy Run, al
ways seemed to me to be the brains
of the whole works.
(Along about the shank of the af
ternoon, poor little John would have
to be
"The cook, and the captain bold,
And the mate of the Nancy Brig,
And the mid-ship mite, and the
bos'n tight,
. And the crew of the captain's gig."
He remained, like Casabianca,
"Whence all, but him, had fled"
to the base ball game.
If that little dinky steam engine
had a blowed up before 3 p. m. any
day, the very flower of Morganton's
A GUILFORD COUNTY WOMAN WHO
HAS AMPLE CAUSE TO BE
directed against strikes and was char
acterized by officials of the American
Federation of Labor as a conscription
of labor.
The house reversed its action of
Friday in voting to include members
of Congress in the draft. By a ris
ing vote, 98 to 143, it defeated an
amendment by Representative Gregg,
of Texas, which would make members
of congress. State legislatures and
Federal and State executive
liable to the draft.
them to- the local draft board when
they will be reclassified and sent im
mediately to the army.
In talking to the committee Mr.
Payne said:
"The labor shortage is so serious
that completion ofimportant war pro
jects for the army and navy is being
delayed.
"The time has come for the entire
nation to realize that business as
usual is no longer possible." Nathan
A. Smyth, assistant director of the
employment service has said, "If we
are to end the war quickly the pro
duction of luxuries and non-essentials
in this country must come to an end.
It is a question of winning the war
quickly or having it drag on indefi
nitely. "Manufacturers must give up the
creation of needless goods, workers
must be willing to change from non
essential to war production even at a
hardship to themselves; the public at
large must stop buying luxuries and
thereby make the problem of curtail
ing non-essentials easier." juP ano- fight a white soldier, he now
Following the the industries whirb i flings down his rifle and shouts "Kam-
are held as non-essential:
Auto industry accessories, drivers
of pleasure cars, cleaning, repairing
and delivery of same, sight seeing
cars, auto trucks other than those
hauling fuel or doing government
work, teaming other than delivery of
products for war work; bath and
barber ?hor attendants: howli nop. hil-
' " 07
Another Suggests Freezing
Clouds and Mount Artillery
On Them.
London Correspondence Associated
Press.
If the dreams of numerous British
amateur inventors, who have been be
sieging the Ministry of Munitions,
could be realized, the war would have
been over long ago, and little would
be left of the German army. Recent
proposals include the following:
"Freeze the clouds and mount ar
tillery thereon; train cormorants to
fly to Essen to pick the mortar from
Krupp's walls, so that they will
crumble; trail from balloons prodigi
ous magnets that would snatch rifles
from the hands of the German sol
diers; perch men on shells to steer
them."
A suggestion often submitted is to
attach a searchlight to an anti-aircraft
gun, project the light on a
Gotha and shoot along the beam. Un
fortunately, shells will not follow a
path of light.
Other schemes for dealing with hos
tile aircraft are to suspend heavy
guns from captive balloons; to arm
defense airplanes with scythes; to
provide heat rays for setting Zeppe
lins on fire, and to cover the moon
with a big, black balloon. To prevent
polished rails shining at night and
acting as a guide to enemy aircraft,
the last coach of the last train is to
drop blacking on them.
A shell containing gravel is to lay
a pathway over mud, and another,
She Wants Other Women to Know How She Gained Such r
Satisfaction and Believes That They Can Ac-
complish Just as Much.
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an advertisement" of Peplac a f
ata Laments 0 i
people who were benefitted
There is at least one satisfied wo
man in Guilford county, and she came
into Greensboro the other day to make
a statement for publication tiling just 'medicine, so I decided to tr V
how happy she is.
L. Clapp, whose
This lady, Mrs. J.
address is Rural
Route No. 2, Grensboro, now knows needed.
will always be thankful that i f
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iur it was me very mediei
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It quickly banished ii
knit n 4 I 4- wt striven 4-s V f n rj11 nrAtM A m I 4- -i -- J T m 1 1 . ?
w ua i ib means w uc a vrcii nuuiau
and enjoy life. This is the expert
ence Mrs. Clapp relates:
"A deranged stomach has been the
cause of my being miserable for the
last eighteen years. I was unable to
take hardly any food without becom
ing deathly sick, frequently vomiting
and suffering intense pain, my nerv
ous system was also affected. I took
all of the usual remedies for stomach
trouble, and a lot more, but they had
no effect whatever on my case. I saw
tnrripH nnrl T who qK1 v
I ate. I sleep much better;
a bit nervous and feel fing
time. I gained all of this kj
ment through Peplac and I cannj
derstand why everyone who is I?
bled in this manner does r.ot take '
wonderful remedy.
This great constructive tonic i$ '
and recommended in Morgan
Leslie's Drug Store. Buy a bottle
day. t
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virile manhood would have composed containing an irritant powder or a
the casualtv list j sticky substance, is to hamper ma-
Except two blooms. Maybe three. chine 2uns
Cousin Peter Newton and A. M. In-! The "relav she11" is a favorite pro
gold would not have been ushered into j Fsal, the plan being for a shell at
eternity thataway, and maybe thethe heiht of its flight to expel a
city engineer would have escaped, these 1 smaller inner she11- As a she11 does
three not being among those present. !not Point directly along its trajectory
And, Xennie, en passant, wouldn't ! would be impossible to secure ac-
you put these two, who certainly
would not have been there, wouldn't
you put them down as the two most
politest people in town.
My cousin Peter can sell you a pa
per sack of fresh roasted, and make
officials - uu ieei 11Ke you naa clsed a deal
with him for a Cadillac limousine.
Mr. Ingold can send you a notice,
with a vague reference to a past due
note, or overdraft, or something, and
make you feel like you had received
an invitation to some sort of free
curacy of aim for the second shell
Among the miscellaneous projects
are: To petrify German soldiers by
I squirting cement over them; to throw
snakes of pneumatic propulsion into
the enemy trenches; to penetrate and
attack Germany itself via a "tube"
built "all the way" from England.
It is said that about one suggestion
in ten that reaches the Ministry of
Munitions Is novel and possible.
The Air Ministry announces that
its air inventions committee, formed
The American Negro is "Some"
Fighter.
France has her "Blue Devils"
fierce fighting men. The negro race j feed. Of course you and I know noth- aDOut mne months ago, has examined
nas already proved itself in this war. ling about this, but it is said thatimore than 5000 inventions and sug
Hundreds of African colonials serv-jhe can turn down a proposition to
ing in the French and British armies lend money with such a courtpmm nnt
showed the Huns how a black man! that the would be borrower feels so
jean fight but it took the American good over it he thinks ho dnn't ncA
negro to put the finishing touches on the money, anyway.
their education. The result is that And he goes away with a smile on
while a German soldier might stand j his face, and nothing- else.
xuu never Knew onver ureeK Sam
Pearson, Xennie. I did. He wns
erad!" with all his lung power when (more polite than Mr. Newton and Mr.
a negro face shows behind an Amer- Ingold put together,
ican bayonet. So furiously did they If, however, that biler had busted
fight that they earned a contemptu- after 3 p. m., when "politics wn? A.
ous but appreciative place in the Ger- journed" to the ball same onp littlp
gestions.
STRAIGHTFORWARD
TESTIMONY.
man official reports of the defeat.
Two negro divisions the 92nd
and the 103rd are known to be in ac
tion on the western front.
Under the first draft there were
liard and pool rooms .bottlers and I
bottle supplies, candy manufacturers!737'628 Regro registrants, or nearly
and delicatessen establishments, 8 Per cent of tne country's total reg
builders and contractors not engaged istration- tns number 100,000
in erection of structures for war work; have been caed to camp and the ma
dancing academies, mercantile 3rity of tnem are now at the front.
stores; florists; fruit stands; junk!About 1'000 negroes, including 250
dealers; livery and sales stables;
pawn brokers; peanut venders, shoe
shining shops, window cleaners, softiand Eecond lieutenants. In addition
medical officers, have been commis
sioned as captains, first lieutenants
drink establishments, soda fountain
supplies.
The following men attended the
meeting in Morganton: Messrs. W.
I. Davis, B. E. Cox, F. J. Wortman,
W. K. Houk, E. W. Price, C. V. Cline,
D. W. Alexander, N. O. Pitts, W. Y.
Frazier, Francis Garrou and R. O.
Huffman.
to the fighting men there are 34 col
ored chaplains in the army, and 150
negroes with the negro branches of
the Y. M. C. A. at the camps and in
France.
Keep Your Liberty Bond.
Liberty Bonds are not intended as
currency; they are intended as a loan
to the Government and at the same
time a gilt-edged investment for the
purchaser. Trading a Liberty Bond
defeats the Government's plan of
financing the war.
State College at Raleigh has sent
this office a very interesting 16-page
pamphlet about its "Military Train
ing and War Courses." Well illus
trated and carefully prepared, it gives
a. V.ef y f avorable impression of the ac
tivities of that strong and useful
technical college and its efforts toward
winning the war.
Rheumatism Arrested
If you suffer with lame muscled or
Y stiffened joints look out for impuri
ties in the blood, because each at
tack gets more acute and stubborn.
To arrest rheumatism you must
improve your general health and
purify your 'blood; the cod liver oil
in Scott's Emulsion is Nature's
great blood-maker while it also
strengthens the organs to expel the
impurities. . ScotVa is helping thous
ands who could not find other relief
8tt ft Bewrn. Btoaafeld. H.J.
War Will Make Men Scarcer in
the World.
There won't be enough men to go
around if the war lasts for more than
a year longer. That's the dire proph
ecy of an Italian professor of sociol
ogy and statistics who has just pub
lished a learned work entitled "The
War and Population."
He figures that if the war ends
in 1919 there will be 121 women be
tween the ages of 20 and 44 to every
100 men of the same ages in Eng
land. In 1910 the proportion was
108 to 100.
In France the situation will be
even more dreadful. There will be
124 women to every 100 men. In
Germany, where the sexes were al
most evenly balanced before the war,
there will be only 19 surplus women
to every 100 men . hardly enough;
the author says, to make polgyamv
practical.
The scientist holds the comfort
able doctrine that eugenically the!
race will improve after the war, be
cause thete will be so many women
for every man to choose a wife from
that he will choose the healthiest.
handsomest and strongest.
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this old world needsl
. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
pine coffin would have been sufficient,
and the only plaintiff in the damage
suit would have been poor Little
John's administrator. The dama?p
suit would have been tried without
even having Hickory or Lenoir legal
talent in.
- Speaking of bosses.
There are five hundred people in
Washington who are my boss. About
a dozen of the smaller ones have no
ticed my name on lists or something,
and three of them know me when they
see me, but only one of all my su
periors exactly know what my name
is. Several ought to know it ,and
you ought to hear them "stall" when
they can't recall it, and try to do so.
The President, of course, gave Mr.
McAdoo his job and so I guess he
bosses Mr. McAdoo. Mr. McA. is the
head of a whole lot of big government
activities, among which, one is the
treasury department I'm in this.
One branch of the treasury depart
ment is the internal revenue bureau
Mr. McA. has a man who looks af
ter the internal revenue bureau for
him, and that man, representing Mr,
McAdoo, bosses Mr. Roper, who is
Cnm m iccmn at Ix i
...uuluutl inrerna rairamiA
This bureau comprises all the differ
ent activities tliat collect revenue to
run the government. One of these
many sources of revenue is tax. So
Mr. Roper has a man to boss, among
others, who is the head of all the tax
ousmess.
Then there being many sorts of tax.
there is a big chief for each kind of
cax.
One of the kinds of revenue produc
ing taxes is the Excess Profits Tax.
xere is a head man over the excess
pronts tax division, and there are
some six or eight different branches
of the E P. action, each with a boss-,
and each boss has a chief clerk, and
cuca cmei cieric designates men to see
Many Morganton Citizens Have
Profited By It.
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1 jou nave DacKacne, urinary
troubles, days of dizziness, headaches
or nervousness, strike at the seat of
the trouble. These are often the
symptoms of weak kidneys and there
is grave danger in delay. Doan's Kid
ney Pills are especially prepared for
kidney ailments are endorsed by
over 50,000 people. Your neighbors
recommend this remedy have proved
its merit in many tests. Morganton
readers should take fresh courage in
the straightforward testimony of a
Morganton citizen:
J. M. Patton, agehc Standard Oil
Co., Anderson St., says: "I had a
dull pain across the small of my back,
caused by disordered kidnes. I had
always heard Doan's Kidney Pills
highly spoken of and I got some at
the Burke Drug Co. Doan's
the soreness and pain in my back after
i naa used the tirst box. My experi
ence has taught me Doan's Kidney
.mis are a nne Kidney medicine."
rnce buc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mr. Patton had. Foster - Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Ask Anyorfe Who Has Used It
There are families who alwavs "aim
to keep a bottle of ChamberWs Co?
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has il dS anyone who
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after seperate details. They call these
last "straw bosses."
My work is that of an auditor or
reviewer of excess profits tax returns,
as made out, by taxpayers and sent to
collectors, in the different districts,
thence to Washington for corrections,
correspondence, adjustments, etc.
So, H. X., should you wish to see
mee when in the-city, call on Mr.
W. Wilson, and he will send you to
Mr. McAdoo, and he will send you
on, and on, and on, and on, like Co
lumbus sailed, and in about three
weeks you will be piloted right to my
desk.
Please wake uj gently, as you ap
proach, because my nerves are un
strung from the effects of a ball game
I-recently saw, with Ty Cobb in it.
Tell Jim I'm going to write him all
about that game and that Cobb.
Cobb's worth all they pav him'
One other thing, Xennie, who else
says it pays to trade at Cox's?"
I thank you.
DERR BOGER:
Meadorsvllle, Ky. Mrs. Cynthia
Higginbdtham, of this town, says: "At
my age, which Is 65, the liver does
not act so well as when young. A few
years ago, my stomach was all out of
fix. I was constipated, my liver
didn't act. My digestion was bad, and
it took so little to upset me. My ap
petite was gone. I was very weak...
I decided I- would give Black
Draught a thorough trial as I knew it
was highly recommended for this
troubld. I began taking it I felt
better after a few doses. My appetite
improved and I became stronger. My
bowels acted naturally and the least
trouble was soon righted with a few
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doses of Black-Draught" i j
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standard, household reinedj. If f J &
member, of every family, at tf j g
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