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THE CHATHAM RECORD Chatham tmxA THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $L50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance VOL. XXXIX. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JULY 18, 1917. NO. 50. 1 FORGET PROFITS; WIN THE WAR President Wilson Appeals to Bus iness interests of Country. JUST PRICES IS HIS DEMAND Should Not Take Toll Off Business Men m ' rent,nc, -j Executive Ship Owners Are Condemned. Washington. Preside Wilson ap nea! to the country's business in sts v. lesday to put aside every lfis . ration and to give their ij to the nation as freely as those who go to offer their lives on the bat flefifld. In a statement addressed to the coal rat( rs and manufacturers he gave assurance that just prices will be paid by the government and the public dur Ing the var. but warned that no at tempt to extort unusual profits will be tolerated. ' Y patriotism." said the presi dents appeal, "is of the same self denying - 'iff as the patriotism of the men .lead and maimed on the fields of France, or it is no patriotism at all. Let us never speak, then, of profits ail(1 patri sm in the same sentence. -I shall expect every man who is not a slacker to he at my side throughout this creat enterprise. In it no man can win honor who thinks of himself." Condemns Ship Owners. The president declared there must he hut one price for the government and for ti e public. He expressed con fidence that business generally would he found loyal to the last degree, and that the problem of wartime prices, which he declared will "mean victory or defeat." will be solved rightly through patriotic co-operation. In unmeasured terms, however, Mr. Wilson condemned the ship owners of the country for maintaining a schedule of ocean freight rates which has placed "almost insuperable obstacles in the path of the government. President's Call. The president's statement follows : "The S' ver: ment is about to attempt to determine the prices at which it will ask yon henceforth to furnish va rious supplies which are necessary for the prosecution of the war, and vari ous materials which will be needed in the industries by which the war must be sustained. We shall, of course, try to determine them justly and to the best advantage of the nation as a whole: but justice is easier to speak of than to arrive at, and there are some considerations which I hope we shall keep steadily in mind while this particular problem of justice is being worked out. Promises Just Price. "Therefore I take the liberty of statins very candidly my own view of the situation and of the principles whih should guide both the govern ment and the mine owners and man ufacturers of the country in this dif ficult matter. "A just price must, of course, be paid for everything the government boys. By a just price I mean a price which will sustain the industries con cerned in a high state of efficiency, provide a living for those who con duct them, enable them to pay good wages, and make possible the ex pansions of their enterprises which will from time to time become neces sary as the stupendous undertakings of this great war develop. Must Face the Facts. "We could not wisely or reasonably do less than pay such prices. They afe necessary for the maintenance and development of industry, and the maintenance and development of in dustry are necessary for the great task we have in hand. "Knl I trust that we shall not sur round the matter with a mist of sen timent. Facts are our masters now. fe ought not to put the acceptance of such prices on the ground of patri otism." "Patriotism has nothing to do with s in a case like this. Patriotism and ; fits ought never in the present nees be mentioned together, "it is perfectly proper to discuss s a matter of business, with a maintaining the integrity of capital rid the efficiency of labor in tragical months, when the lib- roe men everywhere and of itself trembles in the bal it would be absurd to dis n as a motive for helping to ii.i I save our country. tism leaves profits out of the In these days of our su e trial, when we are sending hun thousands of our young men the seas to serve a great cause, man who stays behind to for them and sustain them by hor will ask himself what he is Uy going to make out "of that labor. riot will permit himself ' t(,!i of their heroism in money to grow rich by the shedding , eir Mo",i- He will give as freely iji as unstinted self-sacrifice When they are giving their ;i he not at least give his taoney? Assails "Briherw a , hear 11 insisted that more than will Prie' more than a Price that sustain our industries, -must be Paid : !hnt it libera V necessary to pay very 'stirn i unusual Profits in order to "mutate' production; that nothing Pecuniary rewards will do re- wnrrts nnlrJ in .. r. ixivuvy, uoc in tne mere liberation of the world. "I take it for granted that those who argue thus do not stop to think what that means. "Do they mean that you must be paid, must be bribed, to make your contribution, a contribution that costs you neither a drop of blood nor a tear, when the whole world is In travail and men everywhere depend upon and call to you to bring them out of bondage and make the world a fit place to.Bve in again, amidst peace and justice? Appeals to Honor. "Do they mean that you will exact a price, drive a bargain, with the men who are enduring the agony of this war on the battlefields, in the trenches, amidst the lurking dangers of the sea, or with the bereaved women and piti ful children, before you will come for ward to do your duty and give some part of your life, In easy, peaceful fashion, for the things we are fight ing for, the things we have pledged our fortunes, our lives, our sacred hon or to vindicate and defend liberty and justice and fair dealing and the peace of nations? "Of course you will not. It is in conceivable. Your patriotism is of the same self-denying stuff as the pa triotism of the men dead or maimed on the fields of France, or else it is not patriotism at all. Full Dollar's Worth. "Let us never speak, then, of profits and of patriotism in the same sen tence, but face facts and meet them. Let us do sound business, but not in the midst of a mist. "Many a grievous burden of taxa fion will be laid on this nation, in this generation and In the next, to pay for this war: let us see to it that for every dollar that is taken from the people's pockets It shall be possible to obtain a dollar's worth of the sound stuff they need. "Let me turn for a moment to the ship owners of the United States and the other ocean carriers whose ex ample they have followed,' and ask them if they realize what obstacles, what almost insuperable obstacles, they have been putting in the way of the successful prosecution of this war by the ocean freight rates they have been exacting. Making War a Failure. "They are doing everything that high freight charges can do to make the war a failure, to make it impos sible. "I do not say that they realize this or Intend it. The thing has happened naturally enough because the commer cial processes which we are content to see operate in ordinary times have without sufficient thought been con tinued into a period where they have no proper place. "I am not questioning motives. I am merely stating a fact, and stating it in order that attention may be fixed upon it. "The fact is that those who have fixed war freight rates have taken the most effective means in their power to defeat the armies engaged against Ger many. When they realize this we may, I take it for granted, count upon them to reconsider the whole matter. It is high time. Their extra hazards are covered by war risk insurance. Warning Is Sounded. "I know, and you know, what re sponse to this great challenge of duty and of opportunity the nation will ex pect of you ; and I know what re sponse you will make. "Those who do not respond, who do not respond in the spirit of those who have gone to give their lives for us on bloody fields far away, may safely be left to be dealt with by opinion and the law for the law must, of course, command those things. "I am dealing with the matter thus publicly and frankly, not because I have any doubt or fear as to the result but only in order that in all our .thinking and in all our dealings with one an .other we may move in a perfectly clear air of mutual understanding. Must Have Same Prices. "And there is something more that we must add to our thinking. The public is now as much a part of the government as are the army and navy themselves; the whole people in all their activities are now mobilized and in service for the accomplishment of the nation's task in this war; it is in such circumstances impossible just ly to distinguish between industrial purchases made by the government and industrial purchases made by the managers of industries, and it is just as much our duty to sustain the indus trials of the country with all the in dustries that contribute to its life as it is to sustain our forces in the field and on the sea. Think Not of Self. "We must make prices to the pub lic the same as the prices to the gov ernment. Prices mean the same thing everywhere now. They mean the effi ciency or the inefficiency of the na tion, whether it Is the government that pays them or not. They mean victory or defeat. They mean that America will win. her place once for all among the foremost free nations of the world or that she will sink to defeat and be come a second-rate power alike in thought and in action. This is a day of her reckoning and every man among us must personally face that reckoning along with her. "The case needs no arguing. I as sume that I am only expressing your own thoughts what must be in the mind of every true man when he faces the tragedy and the solemn glory of the present war, for the emancipation of mankind. "I summon you to a great duty, a great privilege, a shining dignity and distinction. I shall expect every man who is not a slacker to De at my am throughout this great enterprise In it no man can win honor who thinks of himself." BETHMANN HGLWEG RETIRES FROM POST POLITICAL TURMOIL CULMINATES IN, RESIGNATION OF THE CHANCELLOR. GEORGE MICHAELIS SUCCEEDS Chancellor's Resignation Came Unex pectedly. His Retirement Seems to Have Been Forced by the Crown Prince May Affect War London. (British Admiralty per Wireless Press). Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, the German imperial chan cellor has resigned. Dr. Georg Michaelis, Prussian un der secretary of finance, and food com missioner ' has been appointed to suc ceed Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. The message relating to the resig nation of the imperial German Chan cellor was circulated through the wire less stations by the German govern ment and was received by the British admiralty. It says also that the em peror has accepted the resignation of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg and named Dr. Michaelis to succeed him. The political turmoil which has been convulsing Germany ever since Russia's first startling success on the resumption of her offensive, has culmi nated for the present in the resigna tion of the imperial chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, but all indi cations serve to show that his resigna tion, ,far from being the last act in the drama, is but the beginning of far reaching developments which are bound to affect the fabric of the Ger man empire and have momentous consequences on the progress of the European struggle. The resignation of the chancellor came in the end quite unexpectedly, for Dr. von eBthmann-Hollweg, in the prolonged party discussions and heated debates of the main committees of the reichstag, which have been pro ceeding all through the week, seemed to have triumphed over his oppon ents, who have been clamoring for his head, by making concessions which were tantamount to the formation of a kind of imperial coalition ministry. NAMES OF HEROES OF FORMER WARS GIVEN TO CAMPS Washington. Names of American military heroes of past wars, includ ing several Confederate- leaders, have been given by the war department to the thirty-two cantonments in which the national army and the national gaurd will be mobilized for training. In announcing the designations, the department revealed that the subject i has been given consideration by a I board of officers headed by Brigadier General Kuhn, chief of the war col lege division, and the selections were governed by a carefully prepared pol ivy. In each case the name selected i3 that of a man from the section repre sented by the troops concerned,, but not unpopular in the vicinity of ths camp. Short names were chosen for convenience, names like Washington and Lincoln were omitted because of the temporary nature of the camps and other names were avoided be cause they are duplicated by promi nent men now living. In part the names chosen follow : For National Guards: Camp Greene, Charlotte, ,N. O, af ter General Nathaniel Greene, of the continental army, a native of Rhode island. Camp Wadsworth, .Spartanburg, S. C, after Brigadied General J. S. Wadsworth, ,U. S. V., born in New York. Camp Sevier, .Greenville, ,S. C. af ter Brigadier General John Sevier, U. S. A. member of congress from North Carolina and first governor of Ten nessee. For National Army. Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C, af ter Major General Andrew Jackson. U. S. A., born in North Carolina and chosen president from Tennessee. Camp Gordon, Atlanta, after Lieu tenant General J. B. Gordon, C. S. A., a governor of Georgia. SOLDIER TOOK HIS BRIDE TO FRANCE An Atlantic Port. "Somewhere in France" is a sergeant in the American army who was married just before he left the United States and ventured to take his bride with him on the transport which carried his regiment overseas. She was with him as a sol dier, dressed in regulation khaki and with her hair cut short. The young woman has returned from France, her efforts to pose as a '"Sammy" having failed. HEAVY GUNS USED IN PONTA DELGADO ATTACK Paris. Advices from Ponta Del gado in the Azores, regarding the re cent attack upon that port by a Ger man submarine declare the shells fired were of fifteen centimeter cali ber, indicating that the U-boat was probably of unusual size, probably 1,000 tons. The vessel is said to car ry two or three guns. The submarine attack on Ponta Delgado occurred on July 4, th.e result in casualties be ing a girl killed. FORMAL ORDER TO DRAFT M N IN ARMY PRESIDENT ISSUES ORDER PRO MULGATED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT. CALL 687,000 FOR SERVICE State Apportionments Are Announced. Regular Army and National Guard to Be Filed Up. Credit for Enlist ments. Washington. A formal order by President Wilson drafting 687,000 men into the military service under the selective conscription law, was promulgated by the war department together with an afficial a llotment showing what part of the total must be furnished by each state and ter ritory. The only steps now remaining are distribution by the governors of state quotas among the local exemption dis tricts and the great lottery, which probably will be held next week in which registrants are to present them selves for service or exemption. The men summoned for service will be used to fill the regular army and national guard to war strength and to organize the first 500,000 of the new national army. The total of these three forces will be 1,262.985 men. Later another 500,000 will be called out, In computing the number of men to be required from the various states, the government put to the credit of each state every man it now has in the national guard and every man it has contributed since April 1 as a war volunteer to the regular army. Apportionment Basis. Placing on the debit side of the ledged the national army 500,000, hte entire national guard at war strength and the number of war volunteers needed April 1, last, to bring the regu lars up to war strength, the grand total was aportioned according to pop ulation. This gave a gross quota for ech state, from which a net quota was computed by checking off the number of national guardsmen avail able for federal service and the num ber of men given by the state to the regular army since April 1. The appor tionment was made on the basis of an estimated grand total for the Uni ted States and its possessions, of 105, 366,056 inhabitants. This is a paper estimate, computed from registration returns, which comes within the law requiring distribution of quotas by population, but which equalizes in a great measure the burden that is to ifall upon the 4,559 exemption dis tricts. Each will furnish under this apportionment the men its total reg irtation would indicate as a fair pro portion, rather than the actual popula tion in the district would indicate. The total of these gross quotas is 1,152,985 men. Credit is given to the various states for a total of 465,985 voluntary enlistments in the national guard and regulars, making the total net quota for all states 687,000. South's Quota. Following are the net and gross quotas for the Southern States: State. Net. Gross. Florida 6,325 10,129 Georgia 18,337 27,209 Kentucky 14,236 22,152 Louisiana 13,582 18,481 Mississippi 10,801 16,429 North Carolina 15,974 23,486 South Carolina 10,081 15,147 Tennessee 14,528 22,152 Texas 30,545 48,116 Virginia 13,795 21,354 SWEEPING PLANS FOR BUILDING MERCHANT FLEET Wooden and Steel Ships Will Be Built. Washington. Major General Goeth als, manager of the shipping board's emergency fleet corporation, took full charge of the government's shipbuild ing program and announced sweeping plans for constructing the great mer chant, fleet with whfch the United States hopes to defeat the German submarine campaign. CHANG HSUN IS NOW REFUGEE SEEKING SAFETY Washington.-Chinese legation dis patches from Peking said that quiet tiad been restored in the capital after a battle in which the monarchist troops of General Chang Hsun were overwhelmed by republican forces. The republican victory was com plete the dispatch said the last con tin gents of Chang Hsun's men having been forced to surrender. The mon archist general, himself was reported a refugee in the Dutch legation. BRITISH BRING DOWN THIRTY GERMAN PLANES London. British airmen have been victorious in the most severe aerial fighting since the beginning of the war. On the front in France on Thursday, fourteen German airplanes were brought down and sixten driven down out of control says the official statement from British headquarters in France. Nine British machines are reported to have bene lost in the fight ing. - TRAINING GAMPS ARE ALL SELECTED CHARLOTTE IS OFFICIALLY DE SIGNATED AS TRAINING CAMP. NO CAMP AT FAYETTEVILLE North and South Carolina and Ten enssee Troops Will Train at Green ville. Other Assignments Are Made Public. Washington. Charlotte, N. C, was chosen as a site for a national guard camp over Fayetteville, N. C, "solely on the ground of the accessibility of an enlarged and adequate water sup ply," according to a statement from the committee on public information. The statement said that Secretary Baker expressed approval of the hearty co-operation of the people of Fayetteville and their generous atti tude, but pointed out a new water supply would have to be tapped to supply the Fayetteville site, and this would take considerable time. In announcing the selection of Hat tiesburg, Miss., and Alexandria, La., as guard sites, the statement says: "This decision was delayed only by consideration of the splendid facilities offered at Jacksonville, Fla., which were highly rated by General Wood. The Jacksonville site is one which has some peculiar advantages and will be considered by the department in connection with further plans." The Charlotte camp will get the fifth division, composed of Maine, Massa chusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Is land and Connecticut troops, thirty thousand men in all. In addition, there will be an avia tion camp with 2,500 men and 1,200 aeroplanes. Twelve thousand horses is another item in the Charlotte camp. Conservative estimates place the monthly payroll at $1,225,000. The more enthusiastic say ?1, 500,000. Encampment affairs are now about concluded. North Carolina "troops will go to Greenville, along with those of South Carolina and Tennessee, con stituting the ninth division. The tenth division, composed of Aalabama, Georgia and Florida will go to Macon. The sixteenth, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky, will go to Augusta. The eighth, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia and Virginia, goes to Spartanburg. The eighteenth, Arkansas, Lauisiatta and Mississippi, goes to Montgomery. EVERY TIME WHEEL 18 TURNED 4000 MEN CALLED Washington. Drawing of lots for the selective draft not only will deter mine what men are to be caled to the colors in the first war army, but will sbo in what order the others regis tered wil be liable for service when later armies are organized. It was revealed that a plan of draw ing will be followed under which a def inite place in th ewaiting lists will he given every one of the millions who registered. Those standing at the heading of the list in each county or city district will be called before the first examination boards and then the obligation will pass on down the line as long as men are needed. This does not mean that a separate name or number will be drawn for every one of the country's 9,800,000 registrants. In fact, every number drawn, under the theory of the plan, will represent more than 4,000 men, o-e for each of the registration dis trict. BETHMANN-HOLLWEG SENDS RESIGNATION TO KAISER Berne. British Admiralty per Wire less Press. The Vossissche Zeitung, of Berlin, says the German imperial chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, has resigned. Emperor William, the newspaper adds, has postponed his decision. A telegram from Berlin says 'hat it was the intervention of the crown prince that caused the chancel lor to tender his resignation. STEEL TO BE AVAILABLE AT REASONABLE COSTS. New York. Conferences between government and officials and repres entatives of the steel industry concern ing the nation's steel requirements during the war and prices to be paid by the government ended in an under standing announced by Secretary Bak er that the country's entire steel out put will be made available at reason able costs to be determined after com pletion of the steel investigation now being made by the trade commission. ESCAPE OF GENERAL CHANG IS IMPOSSIBLE. London. Peking is surrounded by 60,000 republican troops with seventy heavy guns, says an Exchange Tele graph dispatch from Tien Tsin. This force makes impossible the escape from the capital of Gen. Chang Hsun, the imperialist leader. Chang's sol diers are reported to be entrenching themselves in the imperial city. Med iators apparently had been unable to 'arrange terms. SENATE AGREES TO VOTE ON FOOD BILL MOST DRASTIC FEATURES WERE STRIPPED FROM MEASURE BEFORE AGREEMENT. VOTE TO BE TAKEN JOLY 21 It Is Now Proposed to Limit Federal Control of Foodstuffs, Feed and Fuel. Forbids Manufacture of . Dis tilled Beverages. Washington. A Senate agreement to vote on President Wilson's food control bill on July 21, five weeks after its submission to Congress as an ur gent war measure, was followed by is suance from the white house of a de tailed report by Herbert Hoover de claring that both the farmers and the public are threatened with serious losses unless food control authority is given quickly to the federal govern ment. Democratic senators secured the agreement for a vote only after they had consented to strip the bill of some of its more drastic features, in cluding the stringent prohibition pro visions. So far-reaching was the re vision demanded, in fact, that all-day conferences of the democratic steer ing committee and the agriculture committee resulted in presentation of a substitute for the entire measure. There was no expression of opinion from the white house regarding the provisions of the substitute bill, but It is expected to be agreeable to the President in the main. It follows gen erally the lines of the administration bill as originally introduced, with power to control other industries be sides food and fuel eliminated. It would prohibit manufacture of dis tilled liquors, without provision for government purchase of existing stocks, and would place in the Presi dent's hands the power and responsi bility to decide whether prohibition shall be extended to beer and wine. No White House Comment. Neither was any comment on Mr. Hoover's report available at the white house, but the fact of its publication at this time was regarded as another evidence of President Wilson's dis appointment over the failure of Con gress to act. He repeatedly has sought to impress upon leaders the import ance of quick enactment of the legis lation, and was particularly anxious that the food program be complete by July 1. He has made it clear that he regards it as one of the first tasks in the war against Germany. EDITORS VOICE OPPOSITION TO ALL FREE PUBLICITY Taxation and Print Paper Are Also hwn Consideration. Minneapolis, Minn. Opposition to free advertising and publicity by newspapers of the country was voiced by speakers at the session of the Na tional Editorial Association conven tion here. S. G. Goldthwaite, of Boone, Iowa, president of the Iowa Press As sociation, recommended the appoint ment of a field secretary of the organ ization to conduct a campaign against free advertising. "Despite the great progress of the last twenty-five years, too many news papers still run a column of free reading matter to obtain a space ad vertisement," he declared. He said further that editors should contribute freely their space to the government during the war, but pre dicted that a new arrangement would be entered into after the war. "The government has commandeer ed advertising space in newspapers for many years. Payment should be made for this space." Necessity for organization, economy and co-operation among newspaper publishers was emphasized in the re port of the legislative committee., which was presented by G. E. Hosmer, chairman. His report dealt with the efforts of publishers to obtain print paper at reasonable prices and also touched on economies which should be practiced by publishers. SECTION STRICKEN FROM TRADING WITH ENEMY BILL Washingtoh. A section of the ad ministration's trading with the enemy bill, making it unlawful to mail let ters, pictures, maps and similar arti cles to enemy countries, was stricken from the measure in the House. Re publican Leader Mann and Representa tive Gard, of Ohio, Democrat, led the fight against the provision which was said by its sponsors to be desired by several members of the cabinet. MUST FIGHT AND CONQUER, SAYS HOLLWEG Berne, Switzerland According to Berlin newspapers the German chan cellor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, said to members of the Reichstag: "I repeat that the formula peace with out annexation is unacceptable to us. We cannot declare our terms of peace. We must fight and conquer." The chancellor made a strong attack on Mathias Erzberger, leader of the Catholic cents; who assailed tit pan Germans, CONVENTION LARGELY ATTENDED ANNUAL SESSION GOOD ROADS CONVENTION AT ASHEVILLE ADJOURS. RE-ELECT VARNER PRESIDENT Meeting Most Successful In History of Association. Number of Trophies Awarded. Asheville. With the election of of ficers and the adoption of resolutions the annual convention of the North Carolina Good Roads Association end ed. The following officers selected by the nominating committee were unani mously elected: H. B. Varner of Lex ington, president, re-elected; Dr. Jo seph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill, secretary-treasurer, re-elected; Benehan Cameron and Julian S. Carr, vice president; R. P. Cabe of Sanford, G. D. Cansfield of Morehcad City, W. O. Howard of Tarboro, Geo. E. Butler of Clinton, Joseph C. Brown of Raleigh, W. C. Boren of Pomona, W. D. Mc Millan, Jr., of Wilmington, Frank Mc Cauley of Mt. Gilead, W. W. String field of Blowing Rock, W. McCauley Brown of Greensboro and Dr. M. H. Fletcher of Asheville directors. The executive committee is com posed of the general officers and the following who were elected: W. C. Hammer, of Asheboro; D. A. McDon ald, of Carthage; R. R. Cotten, of Bruce; W. A. McGirt, of Wilmington; James A. Gray, Jr., of Winston-Salem; N. Buckner, Asheville. This commit tee will decide the next meeting place. Kinston, Greenville, Greensboro and Wrightsville Beach are asking for. the convention. Silver trophies were awarded the following: Mayor E. V. Webb, of Kinston, for the largest delegation from a North Carolina city; McD. Hor ton, chairman of Pitt county commis sioners, for the largest county dele gation, and J. C. Askey, Jr., for coming the longest distance in an automobile. Resolutions were adopted urging the use of all able-bodied convicts on state roads, and pledging the efforts of the association for legislation to this end. The resolutions also call on the legis lature to provide adequate funds for the State Highway Commission. Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt secretary treasurer of the association, made his annual report showing that 172 active members belonged to the association during the past year. He made a plea for more members. K. E. Bennett, W. S. Fallis and R. S. McCoin led a discussion on road legis lation passed by the last session of the legislature. D. M. Clark and W. S. Wilson dis cussed "State Security for County Bonds," and this brought out a general round table discussion for and against the idea. State Engineer W. S. Fallis and Senator Benehan Cameron made short addresses, pointing out the bene fits of the bill providing for the ui of automobile tax for road mainten ance, showing the immense amount of good accruing to the state highways through this measure. Bruce Craven talked on road bonds and the prison reform bill in regard to hiring convicts to private corpora tions was discussed by Senator W. D. Turner and Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt. Gen Carr Refused Passport. Durham. Gen. Julian S. Carr, com mander of the Northern Virginia Con federate veterans and Durham's "first citizen," who recently made up his mind to join the allied forces in France, has been refused a passport by the war department. In refusing the passport war de partment officials informed General Carr that passports are being allowed to only those persons having official business for the government, and en listed men. As a confederate soldier General Carr made a splendid record and al though his hair is gray and his age past seventy, the Lurliam citizen be lieves himself still good for war duty. He had planned to ask admittance in to the army of General Pershing. Sheriff Commits Suicide. Kinston. Seadla Allen, deputy sher iff of Lenoir county, and former alder man of this city, committed suicide in the warden's apartment at the coun ty jail here. Allen, who was jailer of the county, was to have been supplanted on August 1st because of excessive dissi pation. He had been drinking, and despondency, prompted by a knowl edge that he was to be dismissed soon, caused him to take his life. Sur viving him, besides a wife, are four children. "At the Front," Is Card's Message. Durham. The laconic message, "A man from this house is at the front," was conveyed to Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc Lennan on a postcard as testimony of a son 'somewhere in France.' James McLennan, the 21-year-old son of J. McLennan, of the city tax collector's office, was on one of the warships that escorted the transports bearing Gen eral Pershing's troops across the At lantic, and that communication told the story to his parents of a Durham boy on ths battlefronts.