THE SALISBURY WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. C.
STARS AND STRIPES
IS
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT AMERICAN
GET FIRST MONEY
PUT UP TO SENATE
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UNITED STATES WILL - MAKE
FIRST-' BIG WAR LOAN TO
THAT 'COUNTRY. .
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DUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
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CAPITAL,
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THE LIVER
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DETAILS TO BE GIVEN OUT
WAS "UNITED STATES DAY"
ASKS FOR AN APPROPRIATION
GREAT BRITIAN TO
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Amount of Loan and Other Matters
Concerning Loan Will Be 'Made Pub
lic In a Few Days by Secretary
McAdoo.
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Washington. The first American
loan to the Allied Nations, will go to
Great Britain.
The amount and other details prob
ably will be made public by Secretary
McAdoo within a few days.
Whatever the sum, the amount will
be available out of the proceeds of
the $5,000,000,000 bond issue soon to
be offered to the public, of which
$3,000,000,000 will .be loaned to the
Allies. . . ..
Announcement to this effect was
made at the treasury department after
a day crowded withi conferences be
tween Secretary McAdoo and Federal
Reserve Board officials and American
bankers and bondholders and official
representatives 01 ureal .Britain ana
France. Another development was the
announcement that the size of the first
issue of bonds authorized under the
$7,000,000,000 war finance measure
will depend largely upon the immedi
ate needs of the Allies. Reports as
to this have yet to be received in
detail.
The entire $5,000,000,000 of author
ized bonds will not be offered in one
lump sum, according to present ten
tative plans, but probably will be call
ed for in several installments or issues.
By this course, it is believed that
financial disturbances which might re
sult were the country called upon to
absorb the whole issue at once, will
be averted.
Details as to the amount of the first
issue, its distribution among the Allies,
the character and terms of the bonds,
methods of disposing of them, and
other questions will engage the atten
tion of the treasury department and
Federal Reserve Board officials during
the next ten days.
The first -of these conferences began
with" the visit of Lord Cunliffe, Gov
ernor of the Bank of England, upon
Secretary McAdoo and Governor
Harding of the Reserve Board. Nego
tiations will be conducted with a view
to disposing as rapidly as possible of
a mm . m . , m '
aetaiis eo mat tne Dona issue may oe
offered without delay.
SENATE BEGINS WRESTLING
WITH FOOD. PROBLEMS.
Hearings By Agricultural Committee.
Houston Outlines Plans.
Washington. Congress took up the
food problem in public hearings by the
Senate Agricultural Committee, at
which Secretary Houston set forth the
Administration's food control program.
At the same time, the Federal Trade
Commission, directed by President
Wilson to investigate with the Agri
cultural Department the causes of high
food prices, asked-all state governors
to send representatives to Washing
ton April 30, for a conference on state
co-operation in the inquiry. Before
appearing at the commission hearing,
Secretary Houston put his plans be
fore the heads of five of the leading
farmers ,6rganizatkns and received
assurances of support for. any meas
ures the Government contemplates for
getting a firmer grasp on food pro
duction and distribution. The farm
ers' representatives promised even to
give their endorsement to legislation
giving the Government power to fix
maximum and minimum prices ' in
emergency. As its part in the Govern
ment's plan, the Department of Labor
announced that it had undertaken the
mobilization of a million boys through
out the country as active farm work
ers for the Summer. An organization
will be formed to be known as the
United States Boys Working Reserve.
Its operations will be directed from
Washington.
GERMANY TO TORPEDO
ALL HOSPITAL SHIPS.
Paris. "Contrary to all the rules of i
fnternatidhal law and humanity," says
an official note issued by the govern
ment Monday,5 April 23; "the Germans
have ahnbuhced thltthey have decided
that they will torpedo all hospital
ships without warning. .
"Under these conditions, the French
government gives notice that German
prisoners ' will be embarked on thf
vessels."
OFFICIAVNOTICE OF
SEVERANCE OF RELATIONS
Washington. Official notification oi
the Turkish government breaking off
diplomatic relations with the United
States, was received by the state de
partinent in a dispatch from Ameri
can Minister Stovall of Berne, Switz
erland. The communication came from
G. Cornell Tarler, secretary of N the
American legation at Constantinople,
acting for Ambassador, Elkus, who is
ill. It was sent to the American lega
tion at Berne and forwarded.
Great Day In Paris. Twenty-one Guns
Are Fired and Procession Marches
to Statue of Washington at Foot of
Which Bronze Palm is Laid.
Paris. The Stars and Stripes were
flung to the breeze from Eiffel Tower
and saluted by 21 guns. This marked
the opening of the, ceremonies of
"United States Day" in Paris. The
French Tri Color and the Star Spang
led Banner were at the same hour un
furled together, from the residence of
William G. Sharp, the American Am
bassador in the. Avenue D'Eylau, from
the American Embassy, from the City
Hall and from other municipal Gov
ernment buildings.
It was a great day for the Red
white and Blue. Over all the Capital,
street venders did a thriving trade in
the colors of both Allies, while 40,000
American flags, handed out gratis by
the committee, were waved by the
people who thronged the vicitity of
the manifestations.
Jules Cambon, General Secicary of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Gen
eral du Bll, Military Governor of
Paris ; the members of nhe commit
tee and others were received at 1:30
o'clock by Ambassador Sharp at his
residence whence they preceded to
the Place d'lena, where a bronze plam
was deposited at the foot of the
top of Eiffel Tower.
Members of the American LaFa?
ette flying corps, a delegation from
the American Ambulance at Nuilly,
and the American field amblances,
with a large representation from the
Association of Veterans of the Marne,
were the guard of honor before the
LaFayette statue at the Tuilleries
Gardens, where the official proces
sion halted to deposit a bronze plam.
WASHINGTON WELCOMES
ARTHUR BALFOUR AND PARTY
Greeted at Station by Lansing and
Other Officials Soldiers Guard.
Washington. The American capital
extended a stiinple, but heartfelt wel
come to the British minister for for
eign affairs, Arthur Balfour and the
other members of the British com
mission which has come to Washing
it, "to make co-operation easy and ef
fective between those who are striving
with all their power to bring about a
lasting peace by the only means that
can secure it, namely a successful
war."
There was no music to greet the
visitors, the original plan, including
the presence of the Marine Band, hav
ing been amended to conform to the
view expressed by President Wilson
and Secretary Lansing that this was
a grave and serious event in American
history, and not to be lightly treated,
or regarded as a social affair.
On the Union Station plaza were
gathered some 5,000 people waiting
patiently for a glimpse at the nation's
guests, restrained at a proper distance
by hundreds of blue-coated policemen
ond by two troops of the Second cav
alry, commanded by Colonel Fenton,
part of the garrison at nearby Fort
Myer.
Within the station lines had been
drawn separateing the traveling pub
lic from the space at the eastern
end of the concourse across which
the visiting party was to pass on the
way from the trafn shed to the presi
dent's room. All of the police captains
of the district had been ranged here
in a double line as a guard of honor to
keep back intruders. Two score news
paper men, standing to 'the east of the
concourse, were the only unofficial per
sons permitted in this section of the
station. Detectives swarmed every
where through' the crowds and at va
rious angles where any danger1 might
lurk. Altogether, the precautions tak
en to insure the safety of the nation's
visitors exceeded anything ever known
in the history of the District.
BIG BRITISH GUNS
HAMMER GERMAN LINES.
'Apparently a big battle is brewing
along the front between Arras and
Lens, where the British guns are again
hammering the German lines. Except
for this artillery activity and some
gains south of Loos and between Ar
ras and St. Quentin, in the region
of the Havrincourt woods.
Likewise on that part of the front
held by the French, artillery duels
predominated, being intense between
the Somme and the Cise.
! BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIP
SUNK, MANY WOUNDED.
London. The British Hospital ships
Donegal and LanFranc, with many
wounded aboard, have been torpedoed
wi'hout warning. They were sunk on
April 17. Of those on the Donegal,
twenty-nine , were wounded men and
twelve of the crew are missing. The
LanFranc carried German wounded as
well as British. . Of those aboard,
nineteen British and fifteen Germans
are believed to have perished.
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BRITISH VISITORS HERE
CONFERENCE IN HISTORY
Some Of Empire's Most Prominent Men, Headed By Foreign
Minister Arthur J, Balfour, Arrive To Take Part In War Coun
cil To Convene In Washington As Soon As France's Repre
sentatives Arrive Port Of Arrival Kept Secret.
With the Balfour Party. Great Brit
ain's high commissioners to the inter
national war council to begin in Wash
ington this week set foot on American
soil and made their way to the capi
tal. Arthur James Balfour, secretary of
state for foreign affairs of the empire,
formerly premier and often called the
dean of the world's elder statesmen,
was the central figure of a party that
Included some of Great Britain's most
promient men. With a genial emdlt
playing over his features, "he consent
ed to a brief interview, warmly ex
pressing his appreciation of all the
United States has done as a neutral In
charitable and relief work In Belgium
and German prison camps, his gratifi
cation that England and the United
States now were allied for a common
purpose, and his conviction that tills
country in its war efforts would as
tound the world, particularly Germany.
The object of the commission, Mr.
Balfour said, was to "make co-opera
tion easy and effective between those
who are striving with all their power
to bring about a lasting peace by the
only means that can secure it, namely,
a successful war.
"Your president, in a most apt and
Vivid phrase," Mr. Balfour added,
"has proclaimed that the world must
be made safe for democracy. That
self-governing communities are not to
be treated as negligible simply because
they are small, that the ruthless dom
ination of one unscrupulous power im
perils the future of civilization and the
liberties of mankind are truth of polit
ical ethics which the bitter experience
of war is burning into the souls of all
freedom-loving peoples."
Received With Honors.
England's leading statesmen, hav
ing safely evaded the German subma
rines and mines which sent Lord Kitch
ener to his death, were received with
the highest honors as guests of the
American people when they arrived at
a nlace in America which cannot be
named. A delegation of state, war.
and navy department officials wel
comed the commission in the name of
the Government, and set out with them
to the capital for what is admittedly
the most vital conference in American
history.
The commission was received with
the utmost simplicity and cordiality,
and with every recognition of the fact
that Great Britain had given of her
very best. It is said, indeed, that no
foreign minister has left England for
the length of time that Mr. Balfour
will be away since the Congress ot
Vienna a century ago.
The formal welcome was extended
by , Third Assistant Secretary of State
Breckinridge Long, through the pre
sentation to Mr. Balfour of a letter
of greeting from Secretary Lansing,
which the British statesmen acknowl
edged with equal simplicity while Brit
ish and American officials mingled to
gether. A -special train of five oars, which
had been waiting with steam up and
crew aboard for five days, at once got
under way for the capital, guarded as
almost no other train ever has been
guarded in this country. Double pro
tection had been afforded at all tun
nels and- bridges, and every mile "of
the track had been gone over within
the previous 24 hours to guard against
a possible fanatic. No detail of any
sort whatsoever which could betray
the place of arrival or route of travel
was allowed to escape. t
Break Into Groups.
Almost immediately when the train
started, the large party broke up into
groups, of army, navy and state de
partment officials to begin at once the
informal conversations which are ex
pected to sketch out America's part !n
the world-fight against German autoc
racy. Mr. Balfour and Secretary Long,
TJfeut. Gen. T. Bridges, who drew the
first blood for England in August, 1914
and Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood and
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FOR MOST IMPORTANT
OF THE UNITED STATES
Rear Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair and
and Rear Admiral F. F. Fletcher were
soon in deep conversation on the va
rious phases of American participa
tion. Om all sides it was reiterated that
the British had come to a spirit of ser
vice and appreciation, and that it
was their hope that leseonjs they had
learned in the war at such cost might
be of service to this country in avoid
ing similar mistakes. Similarly, as one
official expresed it, the commission
was moved by exactly the same feel
ings which raised the Stars and Stripes
to the flag tower of the Parliament
building in London for the first time
a foreign flag has ever flown there in
history.
Secretary Balfour, a tall, slim,
white-haired man of 69 years has held
the highest posts in the empires since
he first entered parliament 43 years
ago, saw today the completion of one
of his life hopes expressed under vast
ly different circumstances on January
15, 1896, when he was largely instru
mental in averting war between Eng
land and' America over the Venezuela
dispute.
NATION-WIDE ADVERTISING
CAMPAIGN DECIDED UPON.
Best Means of Disposing of War Bonds.
Department Flooded With
Offers.
Washington. A nationwide adver
tising campaign of extraordinary pro
portions has beeii decided upon by
Secretary McAdoo as the most effec
tive means of disposing quickly of the
$5,000,000 bond issue soon to be offer
ed to the public.
So many patriotic offers of aid have
poured into the Treasury Department
recently that practically every method
of publicity in the country will be at
the Government's disposal, without a
charge, in helping to make the issue a
success.
Newspapers, magazines, street caf
advertisements, even the "billboarks,
soon may be proclaming the issue in
t)ig type and summoning every Ameri
can to his duty to his country by sub
scribing. Large advertising agencies
have offered their services, free of
cost, in writing the advertisements
and otherwise assisting in the cam
paign. Many newspapers have opened their
advertising columns, without charge.
Officials have welcomed such offers
and expect others of a similar nature.
There will be no general campaign of
paid advertising, ,it was said authori
tatively, nor the incurrence of any
items of expense whatever that are
not absolutely essential.
Five million dollars will be avail
able for all items of expense. A force
of approximately 1,000 , persons will
be added to the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, already working night
and day, to meet the present heavy
demands of the Government, and at
least 200 clerks will be employed in
the clerical work incidental to the big
bond issue. . This force will be ob
tained through the civil service.
Offers of assistance have been re
ceived from many unexpected sources,
epartment stores have offered not
only to accept subscriptions, but to
solicit them-
There probably will be at least
150,000 places in the United States
where bonds may be purchased.
REPORT IS ALSO
RECEIVED AT BASAL.
Basil, Switzerland, via Paris. A dis
patch from Constantinople dated
April 21 says the Ottoman Government
has notified the American Embassy
that following the example of its
Ally, Austria-Hungary, it has broken
diplomatic relations with the United
Stales.
Secretary Houston in Communication
With Senate Asks For $25,000,000
Ho Put Plan Into Operation. Wants
to Fix Prices.
Washington. The Government's
program for food control during the
war was put before Congress by Sec- !
retary Houston in a communication
to the . Senate asking power for the
Department of Agriculture to take
direct supervision of food production
and distribution in the United States
and requesting a $25,000,000 appropri
ation for putting the plan into opera
tion. Authority was asked for the Council
of National Defense, in an emergency,
to buy and sell foodstuffs and to fix
minimum or maximum prices.
As outlined to the Senate, the Gov
ernment's plan is first to make a com
plete survey, of the country's food
supply to determine its ownership and
distribution, then If necessary to
license and control the operations of
all concerns engaged in the manufac
ture of foods or feeds, agricultural
implements and all materials required
for agricultural purposes. Authority
is sought for the Agricultural Depart
ment to take over and operate the
concerns if it appears at any time that
course is demanded, by the public in
terest. . Giving the Government power to
deal directly in foodstuffs probably
would make its application unneces
sary, Secretary Houston declared, as
its very existence would tend to keep
conditions normal. Market grades and
classes for farm 'products, Secretary
Houston said,, is one of the chief needs
of the country to insure proper condi
tions In producing and marketing
farm products.
Authority also was asked for the
Department ito ; require of transporta
tion companies preference for the
movement of farm machinery, seeds,
fertilizers and materials that enter
into the processes of food production.
The Department wishes to allow its
market service division to assist in
obtaining rerouting of foodstuffs to
relieve congestion on transportation
lines.
In its plan for an investigation of
the present food supply, the Agricul
tural Department has arranged for
the help of the Federal Trade Com
mission, which, with the Department,
was directed by President Wilson
early in the year to make an inquiry
to ascertain the amount of food stocks
and determine if the anti-trust laws
have been violated in food produc
tion, storage and distribution. As soon
as Congress makes the necessary ap
propriation for this specific inquiry,
the Trade Commission will proceed.
Some officials believe the Trade
Commission has enough power to
make unnecessary the use of extreme
legislation in regulating the control
of food, although additional powers
should be given for an emergency.
Officials of all Departments and
divisions of the Government realize
that the facts of the situation exist
ing muSt be learned before remedies
can be planned.
STEADY PROGRESS BEING
MADE BY THE FRENCH
Driving Back Germans in Soissbns and
Rheims.
Steady progress is being made by
French troops in driving hack the
Germans in the regions of Soissons
and Rheims. In a new offensive, the
French also have entered the German
second line in the Argonne forest. Ger
man counter attacks on the Vauclere
plateau, south of Laon, have been re
julsed. Since the beginning of the French
offensive last Monday, more than 19,
000 Germans have been taken prison
ers." Guns captured exceed 100, not
Including machine guns.
OFFICIAL ROUTE OF
BANKHEAD HIGHWAY.
Birmingham, Ala. The official route
of the Bankhead Highway from Wash
ington, D. C, to Little Rock, Ark., will
be seelpted by a pathfinding commit
tee, which will make the trip in the
next 30 days, the Bankhead Highway
Association in convention here de
cided. Points to be reached by the
Bankhead Highway Include Lynch
burg, Va Reidsville, Greensboro and
Charlotte, N. C; Atlanta, Ga., and
Holly Springs, Tenn. 1
MANY GERMANS IN THE
COUNTRY ARE BEING WATCHED.
Washington. Approximately 3,000 .
German residents of the United States
are under close surveillance, Depart
ment of Justice officials announced,
because of their activities in behalf of
the German Government. The De- 4
partment's field force of officers is
keeping so close a watch upon the
suspects - that it would be possible to
arrest virtually every man under sus
picion within 24 hours.
OSTETTER'S
ILlLStoinach Bitters
Try a bottle at the first sign
of Indigestion or biliousness
Worm Turns on Practical Joker.
"It's a long lane that has no turning"
and "He who laughs last laughs best"
are time-honored axioms, but never
theless true, as Al Baumgart, a South
St. Paul commission man, is willing
to admit. Some time ago Al sought to
Initiate a new employee, but the
"worm turned" and the real joke was
on him, says the St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
He sent the youth about half a mile
down the yards after a "cow anchor."
The youth, when he returned with a
150-pound sack of iron, w'as 'given
"ha, ha!"
In- the office was a box of flowers
which Mr. Baumgart had ordered for
a dear friend. His victim carefully re
moved .the flowers and filled the box
with paper. Unmindful of the change,
Mr. Baumgart carried the box to her
home. What she said when she opened
it is not known.
To make matters worse, Mr. Baum
gart was obliged to carry the cow
anchor back to the scalehouse. Now
he's through with practical jokes."
Don't Neglect Kidneys
Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's Prescrip
tion, Overcomes Kidney Trouble
It is now conceded by physicians that .
the kidneys should have more attention
as they control the other organs to a re
markable degree and do. a tremendous
amount of work in removing the poisons
and waste ' matter from the system by
filtering the blood.
The kidneys should receive some as
sistance when needed. We take less ex
ercise, drink less water and often eat
more rich, heavy food, thereby forcing
the kidneys to do more work than nature
intended. Evidence of kidney trouble,
such as lame back, annoying bladder
troubles, smarting or burning, brick
dust or sediment, sallow complexion,
rheumatism, maybe weak or irregular
heart action, warns you that your kid
neys require help, immediately to avoid
more serious trouble.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
most remarkable success as a. kidney and
bladder remedy is Dr. Kilmer's Swamp
Root. There is nothing else like it. It
is Dr. Kilmer's prescription used in pri
vate practice and It is sure to benefit you.
Get a bottle from your druggist.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
Something Like !t.
In going down the elevator at a ho
tel the other day a little tot was being
taken to the basement barber shop to
have her hair trimmed. A man got on
at one of the floors and accosted her
Cheerily with the remark:
"Well, Isabelle, and what are you go
ing to do this morning?"
"I'm going down to the cellar to
have my hair hair to have my hair
" the word would not come, so she
finally concluded with, "to have my
hair sharpened." "
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Rivalry. i
"Have you given up your singing les
sons?" asked Maude.
"Yes," replied Maymie. "Father's
fond of music and he says he's tired of
having me break in and interrupt the
phonograph."
Allen's Fool-Ease for the Troops.
The antiseptic powder to be shaken into the
shoes or used In the Toot-bath. Young men in
every community are using Allen's Foot-Ease
raheir drills for Military Preparedness. Used
by the Allied, French and English troops be
cause it rests the feet, takes te friction from
the shoe and makes walking easy. A4t.
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