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r f i 4 1 . THE CAROLINA WATCHMAN, SALISBURY, N. 0. , " """"""""" . i . , . RUSSIA FACING INDUSTRIAL CRISIS IS SO ACUTE THAT ONLY MIRACLE CAN SAVE COUNTRY. MAY BRING WAR TO A CLOSE Demands of Workmen So Enormous it Seems Impossible to Keep Industrial Wheels Turning. Minister of Fi nance Speaks. Petrograd, via London. The indus trail crisis in Russia is so acute that, according to a recent utterance of the Minister of Finance, M. Shingaroff. only a miracle can save the country from economic ruin. The demands of the workmen were so enormous, he declared, that it seemed impossible to keep the industrial wheels going for any great length of time. . The Socialist ministers at a recent ministerial council said that the only possibility they saw of settling the difficulty was to bring the war to a close. Neither the coalition Cabinet nor the newly appointed Commission to regulate the difficulties between capi tal and labor has yet found a way to settle the industrial crisis. The Com mission is composed of the Ministers of Finance, trade and industry and labor, but since there is a wide diver gence of views between the Minister of Finance and the new Socialistic Minister of Labor, it seems probable that this Commission will be confront ed with the same difficulties that at tended previous efforts at reconcilia tion. An investigation of the factory con ditions in Petrograd leads to the alarming, but inevitable, conclusion that unless the Government soon finds a means of adjusting the present dif ficulties, most of the industrial enter prises working for National defense will be compelled to close within a few months. An investigation shows that virtually the same difficulties prevail in all the big factories in Petrograd and apparently authenticated reports from the Moscow, Donets and Ural dis- j tricts indicate general disorganization. In many of the factories, the demands by the wworkmeh for increased wages are actually greater than the entire profits of the factories under the best conditions of production. HOUSE PASSES FIRST OF FOOD CONTROL BILLS. Provides For Survey of Food Supply, Appropriates $14,770,000. Washington. The Administration's food survey bill, first of the food con trol measures, was passed by the House without a record vote. It ap propriates $14,770,000 for an immediate investigation of the country's food re sources and for measures to stimulate production. A similar bill is under de bate in the Senate. The Agriculture Department expects to present a fairly accurate estimate of food resources within three weeks after the bill is signed by the Presi dent, Secretary Houston said. As soon as the measure becomes a law, the Department will start its 17,000 employee and the 150,000 voluntary crop reporters to work oh the investi gation. The preliminary report to be made within the three weeks will be supplemented with monthly reports and probably by a further complete report within six months if necessary. Material gathered will be turned over to Herbert C. Hoover, who was named as head of the food adminis tration, as soon as the pending regu latory food measures becomes law. ' In the survey bill, passed virtually as it came from the committee, Miss Rankin, the woman representative from Montana; inserted an amend ment which would require the Depart ment of Agriculture to use women in the survey work whenever practica ble. An amendment by Representa tive McKenzie of Illinois would make all persons employed' under the bill liable to military service, and another would permit citizens to refuse to go more than-300 miles from their homes, or places of business to testify in a food inquiry. RAPID PROGRESS ON REVISION OF REVENUE BILL. Washington. Making rapid prog ress in revising the House war tax bill, the Senate Finance Committee decid ed to exempt from taxation many articles, to substitute stamp taxes for the manufacturers' gross sales plan of the House, and to consider new taxes upon second-class mail matter. The latter were advocated by Senator Hardwick and Postoffice Department heads,, and would be based upon the advertising space in publications. It was agreed that there should be no direct taxation on jewelry, motion picture film, chewing gum and pianos and self-played musical instruments. For the House gross manufacturers' sales tax of five per cent, the commit tee determined to ubstitute stamp taxes on mechanical musical instru ments, including talking machine rec- ords, athletic goods, perfumes, cos metics and patent medicines. For the House five per cent tax on yachts and other pleasure boats, a new tax based upon tonnage or length was consider A new tax upon confectionary was pro proposed by Senator Williams. ECONOMIC RUIN ii i REMEMBER FACTS ABOUT DRAFT ACT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED OF ALL BETWEEN THE SPECI FIED AGES. INDIVIDUAL IS RESPONSIBLE Eaoh Man is Held Under Penalty For Putting His Name on Rolls. Rules of the Registration and Other Infor mation Every Man Should Know. PENALTY FOR FAILURE TO REGISTER ON JUNE 5. Failure to reigster on June 5th renders one liable to a year's imprisonment. The fact that ojne is not entitled to vote does not excuse him from registra tion. White and colored, between the ages of 21 and 30, both in clusive, must register on June 5th. E. H. CROWDER, Provost Marshal General. Regulations for registration June 5 under the selective draft act for the national army have been delivered to every county and city in the Unit ed States.. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 30, both inclusive, will be required to register between 7 a. m., and 9 p. m., June 5. Failure is punishable by a year's imprison ment, without the alternative of a fine. Here, in brief, are the points which the secretary of war and the presi dent wish to have clearly fixed in the minds of the people. All men are required to register Who are 21 years old. Whose 21st birthday comes before June 5. Whose 21st birthday comes on June 5; excepting Men now 31 years old. Men whose 31st birthday comes be fore June 5. A man who will become 31 years old on June 5. Men in the regular army or navy of the United States, the marine corps, and the officers' reserve corps. Members of the National Guard and naval militia actually in the service of the United States on June 5. Men in the enlisted reserve corps actively in the service of the United States on June 5- Sickness, physical disability of any kind or absence from home does not excuse failure to register. National guardsmen not mustered into the ser vice before June 5 must register. A year's imprisonment is the penal ty for making false statements, whether about oneself or some other person. Where the person registering is subject to military law he will be courtmartialed. Failure to register is punishable by imprisonment, without the alternative of a fine. The registration In each county or similar subdivision in any state and in cities of 30,000 population or over shall be made in the customary vot ing precincts thereof in the places and in the manner ordinarily employ ed in the registration of voters so far as the same is not inconsistent with said act and these rules and regula tions. Though very positive in terms, the regulations to effect registration for the selective draft June 5, are reason able in their provisions, relative to ab sentees. The place of registration is the domiciliary precinct, but adequate provision is made for enforced ab sence. The burden rests on each in dividual between 21 and 30 years, in clusive, to see that registration certi ficates are entered at his domiciliary precinct on registration day. Absen tees may procure registration blanks from the office of the county clerk of every county or the city clerk of cites of 30,000 population or more. "Upon application by you, your card will be made out by the clerk, turned over to you and by you it must be mailed in time to reach your domi ciliary precinct by the day set for reg istration." Eligibles, whose permanent - homes are in cities of 30,000 or more, may direct the registration card in - care of the mayor. A self addressed enve lope should be inclosed with the regis tration card for the return of the reg istration certificate. Failure to get this certificate may cause serious em barrassment. . Persons in training camps, schools or colleges or other institutions may register under the above provisions for absentees. "However, for their convenience, the county clerk or clerks of citiea of 30,000 or more are authorized to deputize a competent persons to certify to the registration cards of non-residents in such institu tions and to furnish a sufficient sup ply of cards to do so. It must be borne in mind that such registration must be made in sufficient length of time before the date set by the presi dent for registration to enable such student to mail the card. The burden of registration in his own domicil iary precinct is on every man; and persons must see to it at their peril that their registration cards are in the hands of the registrar of their domi diary precinct at the time prescribed in the president's proclamation." Form 1 REGISTRATION CARD Name In full. (Given name) Home address. (No.) (Street) Date of birth. (Month) Are you (1) a natural-born citizen, have you declared your Intention, Where were you born? (Town) If not a citizen, of what country are What is your present trade, occupation, or office ? 8 By whom employed?. Where employed?. Have y6u a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12, solely dependent on you for support (specify which)? 9 10 Married or single (which)?. 11 What military service have you had? years ; Nation or 12 Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?. I affirm that I have verified co. ool V RULES FOR Questions will be asked for you to answer in the order in which they ap j pear below. The questions are j set out below with detailed infor mation to help you answer them. All answers will be written on the Registration Card in ink by the Regis trar, who should be careful to spell all names correctly and to write legibly. 1. Name In full. Age In years, This means all. your names spelled out in full. State your age to-day in years only. Disregard additional months or days. j Be prepared to say "19," or "25," not j "19 yre. 3 mons.," or the like. 2. Home address. This means the place where you have your permanent home, not the place where you work. Be prepared to give the address in this way: "232 Main Street Chicago, Cook County, Illinois;" that is, give number and name of street first, then town, then I county and state. , 3. Date of birth. Write your birthday (month, day, ! and year) on a piece of paper before I going to the Registrar, and give the ' paper to him the first thing. Example: . "August 5, 1894." I If you do not remember the year start to answer as you would if some I one asked you your birthday, as "August 5th." Then say "on my birth- j day this year I will be (or was) i years old." The Registrar will then fill in the year of birth. 4. Ars you (1) a natural-born citizen; i (2) a naturalized oitlzen; (3) an alien; (4) or have you declared your inten ! tion to become a citizen (specify which)? (1) If you were horn in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii, you are a natural-bom citizen, no matter what may have been the citiz enship or nationality of your parents. If you were born in Porto Rico, you are a citizen of the United States, I unless you were born of alien parent age, it you were born abroad, you are still a citizen of the United States if your father was a citizen of the ! United States at the time you were j born, unless you have expariated. 5. Where were you born? j First name the town, then the state, then the country, as "Columbus, Ohio;" "Vienna, Austria;" Paris, France;" "Sofia, Bulgaria." 6. If not a citizen, of what country are you a citizen or subject? This need be answered only by aliens and declarants. Remember that a "declarant" is not yet a citizen of the United States. If an aHn nr ! declarant, state the name of your country, as "France," "Japan," I "China," etc. ; 7. What is your present trade, occu J pation, or office? j This does not ask what you once did, or what you have done most of the time, nor what you are best fitted to To. IT ASKS WHAT YOUR JOB IS RIGHT NOW. State briefly, as "Farmer," "Miner," "Student," "La borer (on farm, in rolling mill, in auto mobile, wagon, or other factory)" "Machinist in automobile factory." etc. If you hold an office under state or federal government, name the office you hold. If you are in one of the following offices 'or employments, use one of the names hereafter mention ed: - " "Customhouse clerk," "employed in the transmission of the mails," or "employed in an armory, arsenal, or navy yard," "mariner, actually employ ed in the sea service of citizen or merchant within the United States." 8.. By whom employed. Where em ployed? If you are working for an individu al, firm, corporation, or association, state its name. If in business, trade, profession, or employment for your No.. Age, in yrs (Family liatne) (City) (State) (Day) (Year) (2) a naturalized citizen, (3) an alien, (4) or (specify which)? (State) (Nation) you a citizen or subject ? Race (specify which)?. Rank, State. .; branch.. above answers and that they are true. (Signature or mark) REGISTERING self, so state. If you are an officer of the state or federal government, say whether your office is under the United States, the state, the county, or a municipality. In answer to the question as to where you are employ ed, give the town, county, and state where you work. 9. Have you a father, mother, wife, child under 12, or a sister or brother under 12 solely dependent upon you for support (specify which)? Consider your answer throughtfully. If it is true that there is another mouth than your own which you alone have a duty to feed, do not let your military ardor Interfere with the wish of the Nation to reduce war's misery to a minimum. On the other hand, un less the person you have in mind is solely dependent on you, do not hide behind petticoats or children. 10. ' Married or single (which)? Race (specify which)? This does rJot ask whether you were once married, but whether you are married now. In answer to the ques tion as to your race, state briefly whether "Caucasian," "Mongolian," "Negro," "Malayan," or "Indian." 11. What military service have you had? Rank? Branch? Years? Nation or State? No matter what country you served, you must give complete information. In answering these questions, first name your rank, using one of the fol lowing words: "Commissioned offi cer," "Noncommissioned officer," "Pri vate." Next state branch in which you served in One of the following words: "Infantry," "Calvary," "Artil lery," "Medical," "Signal," "Avia tion," "Supply," "Marine," "Navy." Next, state the number of years' ser vice, not counting time spent in the Reserve. Finally, name the Nation or state you served. If you served under the United States or one of the states of the United States, name your ser vice in one of the following terms: "National Guard (of such and such a state)," "Militia (of such and such a state)," "Volunteers of United States," or "Regular Army (Navy) of United States." 12. Do you claim exemption from draft? Specify grounds. Because you claim exemption from draft, it by no means follows that you are exempt. For the information of the War Department you should make a claim now if you intend to prosecute it. Some persons will be exempted on account of their occupations or offices, some on account of the fact that they have relatives dependent upon them for support. Your answer touching these things will be important in sup porting the claim you now intend to make in your answer to the present questions. Be sure, therefore, that the grounds you now state are in con formity with your answers to ques tions 7 and 8. In stating grounds you claim as exempting you, use one of the following terms: If you cTaim to be an executive, legislative, or judi cial officer of the state or nation, name your office and say whether it is an office of the state or nation. If you claim to be a member of a relig ious sect whose creed forbids its mem bers to participate in war in any form, simply name the sect. If you are em ployed in the transmission of the United States malls or as an arti ficer or workman in an armory, arse nal, or navy yard of the United States, or if you are a mariner employed in the sea service of any citizen or mer chant within the United States, so state. If you are a felon or otherwise morally deficient and desire to claim exemption on that ground, state your ground briefly. If you claim physical disability, state that briefly. If you claim exemption on any other ground, state your ground briefly. OVER 150 KILLE T SEVERAL SECTIONS OF COUNTRY SUi FER DAMAGE TO CROPS AND PROPERTY. OVER THOUSAND ARE INJURED Property Damage Amounts to Millions in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ken tucky and Tennessee Caused By Winds Frightful Play. Chicago. More than one hundred and fifty were killed, a thousand or more injured, and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed by torna does which swept through Kansas on j Friday, Illinois and Indiana on Satur j day, and parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and southern Illinois Sun day. Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements, needed j to produce the bumper crop desired this year, was ruined, although the spasmodic wind struck only here and there in its frightful play through the rural regions. Crop damage is said to be not heavy in grains. The heaviest toll of life was taken at Mattoon, 111., a city of 10,000 pop ulation in the broom corn country of Central Illionis, where 54 are known to be dead and 500 injured, with a property loss of $2,000,000. Charleston, 111., ten miles east of Mattoon, was also partly wrecked Sat urday evening with a loss of 38 lives and 150 injured. The property loss there is a million dollars. The next most serious loss was at Andale, Kan., where 26 were killed and a score injured on Friday. Dub lin, Ky., suffered 3 dead and 17 In jured. South Dyersburg, Tenn., was report ed to have lost 2 killed and 15 injured in a tornado that swept Dyer County Sunday. Near Blytheville, Ark., 9 per sons, were reported killed and 12 hurt. Reports from Indiana show at least seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts and other places and the death list may reach twenty. More than two hundred were injured in the In diana territory swept by the storm. Smaller towns in Illinois lost a doz en dead on Saturday with two score Injured, while in the southern point of Illinois windstorms Sunday killed a Valf dozen and injured a score. Summary of tornado dead and in lured : Dead. Injured Mattoon, 111 54 500 Charleston, 111 39 150 Andale, Kan 26 60 Other 111. towns 18 65 Arkansas 9 12 Indiana 7 200 Kentucky 3 17 Tennessee 2 15 Totals 157 1,019 Property damage, $5,000,000. SEVENTY-SIX KILLED- BY GERMAN AIRPLANE RAID. Most of Victims Women and Children at Foodstuff Sale. A town of the southeast coast of England, via London. Women and children who had stood for hours In a long line in the busiest street here waiting to purchase potatoes were the principal victims of the German air plane raid. The women and children had little warning of the raid and were easy victims of the air vultures who dropped their deadly bombs in discriminately. The raid, which claimed the lives of 76 persons and caused injury to 175 others, proved more deadly than any raid made on England since the beginning of the war. GUARD SHOT IN EXCHANGE OF BULLETS. Norfolk, Va. Frederick Rooch, a guard at the Virginia Beach wireless station, was shot and slightly wound ed in an exchange of bullets with two men, who were apparently attacking the net around the station. The men escaped. BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ASKED TO ABANDOON NEUTRALITY. Rio de Janeiro. The committee on foreign relations in the Brazlian Con gress drafted a measure recommend ing the cancellation of the decree of April 25, 1917, which declared the neutrality of Brazil in the war between Germany and the United States. Pres ident Braz, under the bill, would be authorized to take necessary steps for the carrying out of this law and to put into practice the acts which result from the cessation of neutrality. ISSUE REGULATIONS FOR GUIDANCE OF THE PRESS. Washington. Regulations for th? guidance of the American press in carrying out the voluntary censorship the" newspapers have imposed upon themselves since the United States entered the war, were issued by the Committee on Public Information. Virtually all of the matter specified by the committee as dangerous and liable to be of value to the enemy is of the character which most of the newspapers have eliminated. il IN DISAS ROUS STORM OLD NORTH STATE NEWS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This States That Are of Interest to All the People. W. D. Moore, aged 71, a Confederate veteran of Wake county, died last week. The North Carolina Nurses Associa tion selected Kins ton as their meeting place for 1918. A Red Cross auxiliary has been or ganized at Lincolnton with forty char ter members. Nurses attending the state conven- j tion at FayettevHle visited the state i tuberculosis sanatorium at Montrose. May 31 Is named by the Corporation Commission as the date for hearing arguments for and against the propos ed increase in intrastate freight rates !n North Carolina. Two hail storms that hit Wilming ton and outlying districts did damage to crops, fruit trees and buildings that will run far into the thousands of dollars. of Pender county met at Burgaw to' receive and canvass the returns of the ; stock law election held last Saturday. ! Official and unofficial returns gave the vote as follows: For stock law, 153; against stock law, 852. Z. Paris, Sr., one of the oldest citi zens of North Carolina, died in Pam lico county, Monday, May 21st. He was the father of Rev. Dr. Z. Paris, well known throughout the state. He was 93 years old and had been a leader in his county in agriculture, commercial, school and chuiyh life. Private Harry E. Orrell, of Company A, Engineers, while on guard duty at the Pedee river bridge, twelve miles east of Hamlet, kas killed by a freight train. His remains were brought to Hamlet, prepared for burial and sent to Wilmington, his former home. He was the son. of E. H. Orrell, of Wil mington. Clint N. Brown, an old newspaper man of Salisbury, died at his home several miles from the city. His body was found in the bed, he having died peacefully some time after neighbors left him. He had been in ill health but it was not thought that he was in more serious condition than he had been recently. What is said to be a precedent for Chamber of Commerce work in the United States was set by the Hender son chamber when the Board of Direc tors last week adopted suggestions in creasing the number of the directors by four and making one of these a woman, the first time, it is declared, such has occurred in this country. The mobilization of the labor avail able in the cities and towns of North Carolina for the benefit of the farmers who are suffering for lack of labor is the latest movement in the campaign being waged by the North Carolina Food Conservation Commission for in creased production of food and feed stuffs in this state. According to a telegram received at Henderson ville from A. L. White of Spartanburg, work on the great water power development at Tuxedo, seven miles from Hendersonville, was be gun last week. The contract has been let to Williard, Boggs & Co., by the Blue Ridge Land Company, a corpora tion made up of Charlotte and Spar tanburg men. The contract calls for a dam 121 feet high, which will back the waters of Green River so as to sub merge over four hundred acres. Soon on the battlefields of France an ambulance bearing the name "States ville" on its side will be run ning its errands of mercy; two States ville boys will be drivers. At a gath ering of the citizens of Statesville at Broad Street church more than $1,000 was raised to make the $1,800 to fur nish ambulance and drivers will be raised shortly. t Julian Morrison, son of the late J. K. Morrison of States ville, has volunteered and been ac cepted as an ambulance driver. Gov. Thos. W. Bickett delivered the annual literary address, before the graduating class of Greensboro Col lege for Women. Members of local military units ar somewhat elated over the fact that May is the last month that the privates will receive $15 per month. Begin ning next Saturday, June 1, the , pri vates of the various organizations, as well as the regular soldiers, will draw larger pay. The increase is $15 per month for privates, making $30. with board, clothing and quarters. The State Council of North Caro lina Sons and Daughters of Liberty were in session at HighsPoint for two days. There were some three hun dred Sons and Daughters in attend ance. Rocky Mount was chosen over Greensboro and Durham for the 1918 session. Decision practically has been made to send 3,000 interned Germans to Pisgah forest near Hendersonville. This seelction will be based on a fav orable report by the commission of inspection.
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