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Official Instructions Concerning tho Raising of MiiryJrceC - :t Determined On. : POLLING PLACES TO BE USED All Persons Within Ihe Age Limit Prescribed by the Law Must Pr ent Themselves There Gover 1 Mrs of States at Head of Registration Work. iWMngto With ' the object of stimulating publicity to the work , of raising the military forces called for under-thef army f draft law the' war. de partment has Issued the following in structions, .'which will govern the work: A&biltrtrtiiiiibirerCrti-b-iitiitiiiiiitititi&ii There was a time in the coun try's history when military enumerators, backed by bayo nets, went out among the people to ttake a. compulsory service census. Today, under the prin ciple of universal liability to service, the execution of the law is put into the hands of the people. , The approval of the new national army bin and the president's proclama tion thereunder have been coincident. All persons within the age limits pre scribed are required to present them selves for registration at the customary voting places in the voting precincts In which they have their permanent homes, on a day .which the president will announce. The governor of each state is the chief of registration therein. The ma chinery of registration in each county is in charge of the sheriff, the county clerk, and the county physician, act ing ex officio, unless a different board shall be announced by the governor. In cities containing populations, of more than 30,000, the registration will be under the control of the mayor and se lected boards of registration. In order that the . dlslgnated county and city officials, and the people generally, can get a clear understanding of the cen sus methods the following brief out line is given: .. The sheriffs, or other designated offi cials, immediately upon receiving no-, tlce from the governor, shall appoint registrars for each voting precinct.' . Apportionment of Registrars. The proportion of registrars shall "be one for each 170 persons to be regis tered. Each age to be registered will comprise about 1. per cent of the popu lation. ' If, for instance, all men between nineteen and twenty-five years of age, inclusive, are to' be registered, the reg istrar would have to enroll 'about 7 per cent of the precinct population. It is desirable to accept the services of competent volunteer registrars to serve without compensation. ; All reg istrars must be sworn. The voting place in each precinct must be prepared for registration. Full printed instructions covering every de tail of registration will be In the hands of sheriffs and mayors on the fifth day after the president's proclamation. Cities of Over 30,000 Population. The mayor of a city containing more . than 30,000 inhabitants, or the officials designated by the governor therein, shall, with approval of the governor, appoint for each ward or convenient minor subdivision containing about 30, 000 people one registration board, and shall designate one officer of each " board to perform duties similar to those Imposed on the sheriff, as here tofore outlined. If the mayor desires, he may appoint a central board to cc ordinate the work of minor. boards. Duties of County Clerks, and of Clerks of Cities of Over 30,000 ! ..- - People. On the fifth day after the president has issued his proclamation, clerks of counties, and cities of over 30,000 must secure a supply of blanks and copies of the registration regulations from the sheriff or from the mayor. Absen tees and the sick will apply to such clerks to have their registration cards filled out. In no case shall such per sons be given registration certificates. They are to be Instructed by the clerk that the burden is on them to see to it that the cards reach the registrars of Jtheir home precincts by registration day. Absentees and the Sick. Persons absent from their home counties may be. registered by mail. If so absent, a man should go to the clerk of the county where he may be staying, on. the "sixth -day after the date of the president's proclamation, if he is in a city of over 30,000, population, the city clerk Is the official to whom to apply. The absentee will be told, how to reg ister, but he .must mail .his card in time to reach his precinct by registra tion day. . Persons too sick to present them selves for registration must send a competent person to the county or city clerk on the sixth - day after the- is suing of the proclamation. t The clerk .will give instructions for registration. Colleges, Universities, Homes and Oth- - "; er Institutions. Officials of educational;! charitable and other Institutions should apply for Instructions to the county or. city clerk on the sixth day after the date of the proclamation f or Onstrxictkmsasto convenlent-method of regtstratipnT' . Th. wardens of jails, penitentiaries, and reformatories should apply, to the county or city, clerk for instructlons.on the- sixth da"y :V-.vr -.:- ' r 'vtr "i-' Five uya after the flatejof ,the presr . ident's proclamation complete regula tions will be in the hands of all sheriffs nd pfthe officials of 'cities of over 30,000 population. ;; " " ' : The 'president is authorized to call upon all public officers to assist in the execution of the law. The plan is, however, to rely oa the people for the proper execution of the law. It 'is ex pected that patriotic citizens will offer their, services free as registrars. . Such services will ": be gratefully acknowl edged. ,. Volunteers for this - service should communicate immediately 'with the proper official. - ; BANKS ASKED TO CO-OPERATE Secretary Authorizes Financial lnsti tutions to Receive Subscriptions for the Bond Offerings. - Washington. Secretary McAdoo tele graphed the entire list of 27,518 nation al and state banks and trust companies In the United States, authorizing them to receive subscriptions for the $2,000, 000,000 bond offering, enlisting their jco-operation, and requesting them to telegraph a rough estimate of the amount of bonds each would take for itself and its patrons. "' "You can render an invaluable serv ice to your country," Mr. McAdoo told the banks, "by receiving subscriptions and co-operating with the federal re serve bank in your district.? Loan Subscriptions Pour In. To all clearing house associations in the country Mr. McAdoo sent a tele gram in which he said : "The amount of the initial loan has been determined by the needs of the government and not arbitrarily. The enthusiastic and patriotic co-operation of the banks and bankers of the coun try will guarantee the success of the undertaking." The result of the first announcement of the loan has been a deluge of sub scriptions, aggregating many millions. Most of these came in by wire to the treasury. Virtually every large city and every state in the Union was rep resented. Lend $100,000,000 to Italy. Negotiations, continued today with representatives of the nations to which the United States is extending credit. Count di Cellere, the Italian ambassador, received the full amount of the first $100,000,000 loan made by this government to Italy. Subscriptions to the second offering of .treasury certificates were received during the day by the federal reserve banks. Indications are that the secre tary will call for the proceeds within a week, possibly a few days. . . The $100,000,000 loan to France will be turned over to Ambassador Jusser and, in whole or part, within a day or so. MAY CENTER IN WASHINGTON Probability That One Committee Will Purchase All Suppliel Needed by the Allied Countries. Washington. Creation of a central purchasing committee in Washington for all supplies bought in the United States for the allied governments was forecast here by Sir Hardman Bever, financial expert of the British war mission. The committee will supplant J. P. Morgan & Co. - Discussing the world financial situa tion, the British expert expressed the opinion that Germany will be practical ly bankrupt in, the credit markets after the war. "Our enemies," he said, "for all their boasted efficiency, have never had the courage to face their financial prob lems, fvlth the result that when the war is over they will be hard put to It." The Teutonic governments having pyramided one internal loan upon an other, he explained, their interest charges would be so great that he be lieved they would either have to repu diate a large part of their debt or face inability to buy the enormous quanti ties of material they would need for reconstruction. "The allies, he added, had paid their way In the war "by the straightfor ward and natural means, by pouring out their gold, by selling enormous masses of American securities, by rais ing loans." As a result, he predicted that the end of the war would find the allies in good shape financially, despite their enormous permanent debts. Agree on Paying Men in Training. Washington. Conferees on the army bill agreed on a provision to pay $100 a month to men in training' camps seeking to qualify , as members of the officers' reserve corps. Although the full allotted quota of 40,000 men probably will be enrolled in the officers' training camps when they open May 15, there still is "plenty of loom fomen of the right qualities," the war department announced. - In a statement saying that each of the sixteen camps seemedassured of Its full allotment of 2,500 applicants for commissions, the department .ap pealed for further recruits among men of proved ability. -Chicago to Furnish Chasers. . Chicago. This city is now mobil izing Its naval resources. Acting, under orders from the navy department. Capt. W. A. Moffett, commandant of the Great Lakes naval training station, began rounding up hundreds, of small power boats preparatory to equipping them as submarine chasers. Captain Moffett expects to rush them "to the seaboard" as rapidly as possible. 1MMI1W0E ENGINEERS WILL' BE ORGANIZED . BY WAR DEPARTMENT FOR SERVICE IN FRANCE. n BY V0LUH& Will Get to . Europe "At the Earliest Possible Moment" Each Regiment to Be Commanded By Regular Army Colonel. Composed of Railroad Men. Washington. -Nine new regiments of army engineers, to be composed ex clusively of highly trained railway men, will be the first American troops to be sent to France. They will go "at the earliest possible moment," the War Department announced, for work' on communication lines, but specula tion as to' exactly wnen or to what points they will be sent is forbidden because of the submarine menace. The new forces will be volunteers, raised at the nine great railway cen ters of . the country. Each regiment will be commanded ,by an engineer colonel of the regular army, aided by an adjutant. All,.. other officials will be railway engineers or officials. The expedition will have a total strength of between 11,000 and 12,000 men, each regiment being composed' of two battalions of three companies each. Every branch of railway work ers necessary to the building or opera tion of lines will be represented in the ranks, and the War. Department expects a response to the call that will permit a careful selection to be exercised and insure a force already trained to the minute, an army of ex perts in railway operation. The De partment's statement follows: "The War Department has sent out orders for the raising as rapidly as possible of nine additional regiments of engineers which are destined to proceed lo Franceat the earliest pos sible moment for work on the lines of communication. It is requested of the prees that no speculation or rumors regarding this force be carried other than that given out. All details re garding the force will be given out as fast as compatible with the best pub lic interests." Recruiting for the regiments and the organization of each force will be directly under the colonel of each regiment. The recruiting points will be New York, Chicago, S!. Lduis, Bos ton, Pittsburg, Detroit Atlanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia. HERO. OF MARNE LAYS WREATH ON TOMB OF LINCOLN. French Commissioners Honor Memory of Emancipator. Springfield, 111. Marshal Joffre, hero of the Mime, paid high tribute to the memory of Lincoln, at the eman cipator's tomb here, and with the oth ers of the French commission received an enthusiastic welcome to the Illi nois Capital. Marshal Joffre silently placed a wreath upon the Lincoln sarcophagus. With bowed heads and doffed caps, the French hero, Rene Viviani, Vice Premier of the French Council of Min isters, and the military and civil offi cials who accompanied them, fifed Into the tomb, paid honor to the war President and left without a. spoken word. DOUBLES TAX ON WHISKEY OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE. Washington. In an extended ses sion the House Ways and Means Com mittee wrote new and drastic liquor and inheritance taxes into the war revenue bill, but were still in dis agreement over many sections and about $.200,000,000 short of the $1,800, 000,000 It has voted to raise. The lead ers hope to complete the measure Im mediately, and a proposed retroactive income tax amendment, which would yield $140,000,000 during the coming year, and other far-reaching proposals, are held in abeyance to be inserted at the eleventh hour, if necessary to make up the desired total. Several members of the House, in cluding at least one member of the Ways and Means Committee, already are planning to carry their fight for changes in the bill to the Senate Finance Committee as soon as hear ings on the Senate side begin, prob ably this week. Proposed taxes on whiskey were in creased by the committee from $1,101 to $2.20 a gallon and on beer from $1.50 to $2.75 a barrel. The amount of exempt liquor in a dealer's pos session at the time the law becomes effective" was reduced fro man unlim ited quantity to 50 gallons. MAILS TO BE USED TO GIVE PUBLICITY TO LOAN. Washington. The unfathomed "pos sibilities of the United States mails as a medium of governmental publicity are to be developed at once-to bring home to every person in the country the heed of .subscribing to the "liberty loan." Every letter of the many mil lions that pass, daily through the mails soon is to' bear a special, .cancellation stamp: of striking design to notify ail persons receiving mail that the Nation is calling for contributions. PASSED tjh. H-: ?-. ' NSi " - CONTROVERSY B ETW EEN WO RK MEN'S COUNCIL AND GOVERN MENT SETTLED. PREPARE NBV DEGLARATlQfJ Government's , Foreign Policy Explain etfln Definite Tejitis and -la Accept ted by Soldiers and Workingmen's . Delegates. , ' ' ; ? Petrograd, via London.-O'he contro versy between the Council of Work men's and Soldiers' Delegates and the Provisional Government that for a short time had threatened such serious consequences in which; in fact, the fate of the nation and possibly of the war were involved has been settled. . Prince Tseretelli, speaking before a tremendous assemblage of soldiers and workmen, declared that the govern ment had prepared a new declaration concerning itv foreign policy, which was in definite- language and corre sponded to the proclamation of April 9 "and embodied the views of the pro letariat. When the speaker declared that the temporary government had acquitted itself of the charge brought against ft by explaining in concise terms what it meant by the vague form of yester day's declaration, a great cheer arose from the assembly and lasted for sev eral minutes. It apparently voiced the relief which all present felt at the solution of the utmost serious diffi culty which had confronted the country since the revolution. Prince Tsertelli then read the new declaration sent the council by the government, and explained that the trouble was over and that the provi sional government would remain in power. Democracy, he announced amid continued cheering, had won great victory. GOLDEN FLOOD POURS IN FOR "LIBERTY LOAN OF 1917." Small Investor Not Yet Been Heard From. Payments on Easy Terms. Washington. The golden flood of subscriptions to the "liberty loan" con tines to sweep in upon the Treasury without abatement... Officials estimat ed that since the books were opened for subscription money had poured in at the rate of $7,208,260 per hour and the first three days business showed a total of about $500,000,000 or one-tenth of the total. Thus far only the banks and weal thy individuals have been heard from. The small investors voice has not been heard, except indirectly. 'Offi- cials believe that a great army of men of moderate means are . willing and anxious to invest in the bonds, and to this end a program is under considera tion which will enable virtually every one In. the country with only a small amount to spare to buy at least one bond. "It is intended to make the bonds of such denominations," Secretary McAdoo announced, "and the pay ments on such easy terms as will give every inhabitant of the land the op portunity to help. Announcement as to the denominations and payments will-be made in a few days." Consideration of this and other de tails indicates that small investors will be permitted, in some manner yet to be formulated, to jay for bonds by installments lasting over a consid erable period of time. In this, Treas ury officials have the support of many banks, some of which have offered to accept payments, .as small as $5 a months. Department stores and other agencies also have offered to co-operate, on this plan. MORE ENROLL THAN CAN BE ACCOMMODATED. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Tabulation of the enrollment for the reserve offi cers' training camp here indicated that thirty-eight more Tennesseans "and Carolinians have qualified for admis misions than the camp can accommo date. -. GREAT BRITAIN SECONDS FRANCE'S REQUEST TO SEND MEN Washington. Great Britain formal ly Joined France in expressing the. hope that an American expeditionary force .would soon takeN its place on the western; front, in Eurdpe. Foreign Secretary -Balfour told the Council of National Defense ' that the British wouldThe -overjoyed to welcome an American force in France, and that its early dispatch would have an enor mous psychological effect, both on the Allied and . their enemies. . FOR CO-ORERATION WITH TEDERAtrtGOVERNMEWT. Washington, -r Administrative offi cials of 7180 leading " institutional of learning inthe United States con ferred with a committee . of the Advis ory Defense Commission 'and arranged machinery for co-operation with the Government during the war. Secre tary Baker addressed the conference, pointing out that important defense work can be done by the schools of the country, and the educators adopt ed resolutions for active serive IS SAFELY ah Ml I-1 Ml NO RTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE IN . SIXTH DIVISION. FQRF.1 EIGHTEEIJ OIVESlOriS aeh WUl&TComple Arm of Services-All Detail Forpelsing -New Army Completed By the War Department. Wa8hihgton.The full strength of the first war army organized under the selective draft bill will bst 18,538 officers and 528,659 enlisted men, mak ing up eighteen, war- strength divis ions complete' in every- arm z and - sup-: plemented by sixteen regiments of heavy field artillery equipped with large caliber howitzers. ; Virtually every detail of plans for raising, training, equipping and - or ganizing this force has been acrefully worked out by the War Department, and the selection of the men will be gin as soon as the draft measure be comes law. v Conferees of the Senate and House hope to agree upon disput ed, features at once so as to send the bill to the President for his signature early this week. A revised list of officers', training camp districts issued . by. the Depart ment' indicate ; that the divisions of the first half million new fighting men will be formed as follows: First division Troops from all New England States. Second New York Congressional districts one. to'twehty-sixth, (includ ing Long Island and New York City. ' Third- Remainder of New .York State and Pennsylvania Congression; al districts-10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 21, 25 and 28. Fourth Remainder of Pennylva nia State, including- Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Fifth New Jersey, Delaware, Mary land, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Carotjnas. Sixth North and South Carolina and Tennessee. Seventh Georgia,. Alabama and Florida. Eighth Ohio and West Virginia. Ninth Indiana and Kentucky. Tenth Illinois. Eleventh Michigan and v Wiscon sin. ' Twelfth Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Thirteenth Minnesota, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota and Nebras ka. Fourteenth Missouri, Kansas and .Colorado. Fifteenth Oklahoma and Texas. Sixteenth Montana, Idaho, " Wash ington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. In addition,' there will be two separate-cavalry divisions which prob ably will be situated in the Southwest, near the Mexican border. Strength of Division Each infantry division will consist of nine full regiments of infantry, three regiments of field artillery, one regiment of cavalry, one regiment of engineers, ene division hospital and four camp infirmaries. The total strength of the sixteen will be 15,022 officers and 439,792 men. The two cavalry .11 visions combined will have 1,214 ojflcers and . 32,062 fighting men, including mounted en gineers and horse artillery units, and each will have also its divisional hos pital and camp infirmaries. The proportion of coast artillery troops to be provided eut of the 500, 006 will be 666 officers and 29,000 men, with requisite medical troops. . Supplementing - these .tatical units will be the sixteenth regiments of heavy field artillej'3 strength 768 of ficers and v21,140 men; eight aero squadrons, or one new squadron to each new ifffantfy division; eight bal loon companies, ton field hospitals ten ambulance companies; twenty-one field bakeries; sic telephone battal ions, sixteen pack companies, six am munition trains and six supply trains. In preparation for the enormous task of training this great army, the existing regular establishments and the National Guard is being brought to full war strength's The regulars, when all five additional' Increments provided for in the National -defense act have been added, will total 11,233 officers and 293,000 men of all arms.. Upon the President's approval" of the army bill, the first Increment will be added to the regulars. . As soon as possible thereafter; the remaining In crements will be -created, existing reg iments being divided and .expanded, to form the new units.. FOUR DROWNED IN - . - . - ; FRENCH BROAD RIVER Ashevllle .W.-'Sellars, of Cow pens, ! S. C, in charge of the boya home and farm, onnecfdd with, Dor land Institute, at Hot. Springs, " N. C, Miss Daura Davifl, matron, of Siur gis, Ky.; Miss Fei en Wilcox, of Lans ing, Mich.; teacher; and Edgar Nicjhols, of Schoolfield, Va , a student were Hm-ornAd in : the P'ftnch Broad River two miles west -of Hot springs abeut midnight when their boat filled with water and eank. - prljjNotejfCoverlng Happenings in This; States' That Are of Interest to V 'fiVAII the People. Governor Bickett his issued reqwlsj. tion papers on the Governor of Mis. eouri for the retnrn to this state 0f J.-jr.- Clark, wanted in Franklia county under charge of seduction. ' "Representative Charles M. Stedmaa was introduced to Marshal Joffre ia he House as one-of the surviving vet erans of the Confederacy and as on of the very few survivors of that war now- serving in Congress. Capt. Joe Darden, a noted Confed- mortal six nunared of the Confeder acy, died athis home a few miles from mnston, Monday. rm a. a. j ine mniea uounty Meaical So ciety, at: a special session, adopted the following resolution: "Be it resolved, that the Harnett County Auxiliary De fense. Committee for Medical Prepar edness be formed." v The North Carolina Academy of Science closed its sixteenth annual meeting at the University with a luhchon in Swain Hall, given by the University. Development of 3,000 acres of land in Pender and Duplin counties has been announced. An attempt as col onization is to be made. The land is In the berry and trucking section. Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Health, was in Washington to attend a con ferences with the United States Health Service officials. He tola the Federal authorities that his state is ready to do its part as soon as a call is made. The University of North Carolina Annual "Yackety Yack," came from the press and both in size and in at tractiveness - fulflills ,the promise of its editors that It would be one of the best ever published by the university. Mr. 'Franklin Sherman, State Ento mologist, urges bee-keepers in the state to produce honey this year to the limit, since the raw material costs nothing, and .there is bound to be a great demand for all sorts of concen trated" sweets. Marshall E. Bagwell, Raleigh boy, now on the U. S. S. Jupiter, writing from "Somewhere . in the United States," makes a fervent appeal to the young men of North Carolina "to do their bit and not to stand back until Uncle Sam lays his hand upon your shoulder and' says "You must go!"' Dr. Amad J. Ellington, of the State Board of Health, has gone to Ala mance county to begin the preliminary series of meetings preparatory to the free medical examination offered in the county ' by the co-operative work of-the State Board Of Health and the county board of health. Attorneys for Congressman Weaver and ex-Congressman Britt returned from Sylva, after concluding the Jack son county hearings in this case there. The Weaverites claim to have brought out evidence that means from 40 to 50 votes for the Congressman, in the con test that is to be placed before the House. Full five hundred men, It is estimat ed, will have been discharged from the National Guard, service In North Caro lina when the last of the discharges are issued. Practically all of these are on the basis of the provision for discharge of men with dependent fam ilies. This represents more than fif teen per cent of the entire guard. More than ever convinced of the absolute necessity of the South's rais ing its own food and feedstuff s this year, John Paul Lucas, executive sec retary of the ' State Food Concerva Jtion Commission, has returned to his office after attending the conference held at Washington at the instance of the Federal Trade Commission for the consideration of the production, trans portation and distribution of food and feed products. United States Commissioner Fred erick Howe Is In Asheville to estab lish a camp for interned German's in National Forest lands. The best piece, of news that has gone out, from, Louisburg in many a month is the fact that the board of town commissioners have authorized the issuing ;of $125,000 in bonds for the purpose of paving 50,000 square yards, of streets and sidewalks. .... . Editor Leon S. Daniel .of the Wilson Dispatch, has enlisted in the army. . According to ;Col. Joseph E. Pogue, Secretary of the State Fair Associa tion, the. present indications point to the finest harness races this year ever 'seen atjthe State Fair. e :. ." : K- A..":earee,. .Norm taruim physician, with the American Ambu lance Hospital, Paris, France, has ten dered: his services to' the Governor of the state . for use -in the Natonal Guard or elsewhere and' the letter of tender has been referred to the Ad jutant General. '
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