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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance ttmA THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $L00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XL. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 29, 1917 NO. 4. HOW AMERICA CAN FEED ITS ALLIES Important Message to People From Herbert C. Hoover, Administrator. WORLD SUPPLIES ESTIMATED Increased Production, Elimination of Waste and Careful Control of Food Exports Form the Solution of This War Problem. Washington, Aug. 20. What the peo ple of the United States not only can but must do in the matter of food pro duction and use in order to help win the war is set forth la detail in a statement issued today by Food Ad ministrator Herbert C. Hoover. If we fall to do our part in this respect, he says, the people of the allies cannot be maintained at war, for their soldiers cannot fight without food. The normal Imports of wheat and other cereals by France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Belgium, and the estimates of the 1917 crop in those countries compared to the normal pro duction are given by Mr. Hoover in tabulated form, and the conclusion is drawn that in order to provide normal consumption it will be necessary for them to import in the next 12 months 577,000,000 bushels of wheat and 674,000.000 bushels of other cere als. If the crops of the United States and Canada all mature safely, North America will have an apparent sur plus of 20S.0O0.OOO bushels of wheat and 950,000,000 bushels of other cere als. The allies, therefore, must use Jther cereals than wheat for mixing In their war bread, and the people of America must reduce their consump tion of wheat flour from five to four ponnds per week per person. Decrease in Food Animals. A careful estimate of the world's food animal position shows a total net decrease of 115,005,000, and this will be greater as the war goes on. As the increase of herds and flocks takes years, we must reduce the consump tion, eliminate waste and carefully con trol meat exports. Oar home dairy products supplies are decreasing, while our population is Increasing, and we must ship in creasing amounts of such products to our allies. Consequently this indus try must be stimulated, and home users must save the wastes in milk and butter. Much the same may be said in the case of suga. Mr. Hoover urges a greater con sumption of fish and sea foods, in which our coasts and lakes are enor mously rich. The products of the land, he reminds us, are conserved by the eating of those of the sea. Our Duty. In conclusion the food administrator says: I have endeavored to show in previ ous articles that the world is short of food; that Europe is confronted with the grim specter of starvation unless from our abundance and our waste we keep the wolf from the door. Not only must we have a proper use of our food supply in order that we may furnish our allies with the sinews with which they may fight our battles, but it is an act of humanity towards fellow men, women and children. By the diversion of millions of men from production to war, by the occu pation of land by armies, by the iso lation of markets, by belligerent lines, and by the destruction of shipping by submarines, not only has the home pro duction of our allies fallen by over 500,000,000 bushels of grain, but they are thrown upon us for a much larger proportion of their normal imports for merly obtained from other markets. They have reduced consumption at every point, but men in the trenches, men In the shops, and the millions of women placed at physical labor re quire more food than during peace times, and the Incidence of their saving and any shortage which they may suf fer, falls first upon women and chil dren. If this privation becomes too great, their peoples cannot be main tained constant in the war, and we will be left alone to fight the battle of democracy with Germany. The problem of food conservation is one of many complexions. We cannot, and we do not wish, with our free in stitutions and our large resources of food, to imitate Europe in its policed rationing, but we must voluntarily and ntelllgently assume the responsibility before us as one in which everyone has a direct and Inescapable interest, we must increase our export of foods to the allies, and in the circumstances of our shipping situation, these exports must be of the most concentrated roods. These are wheat, flour, beef Pork and dairy products. We have oth er foods in great abundance which we can use instead of these commodities, Panf, a PreVeDt WaStes in a thou" orair, eCtinS- We must the sXelw 6XP0rtS from the UnItd for WG retaiQ a proper suPP!y adon? 7D CUDtry' aild we must te measures as will amelio- o arjfn T !e8S fortunate. We might To jvf the PP" fro the country ouid foiw :6" 1 shorten k . ce our PeoPle to ation of e. r ConsumPon. This oper woll'nmal econ forces" uiu starve thnf -i .. munitv I cieuieut or tne corn Son w h0m we owe the most Pro-brden-Je,must tr to impose the aen equally upon all. There is no royal road to food con servation. We can only accomplish this by the voluntary action of our whole people, each element in propor tion to its means. It is a matter of equality of burden ; a matter of min ute saving and substitution at every point in the 20,000,000 kitchens, on the 20,000,000 dinner tables and in the 2,000,000 manufacturing, wholesale and retail establishments of the country. The task is thus in its essence the daily Individual service of all the people. Every group can substitute and even the great majority of thrifty people can save a little and the more luxuri ous elements of the population can by reduction to simple living save much. The final result of substituting other products and saving one pound of wheat flour, two ounces of fats, seven ounces of sugar and seven ounces of meat weekly, by each person, will, when we have multiplied this by one hundred million, have increased our exports to the amounts absolutely re quired by our allies. This means no more than that we should eat plenty, but eat wisely and without waste. Food conservation has other aspects of utmost Importance. Wars must be paid for by savings. We must save in the consumption in commodities and the consumption of unproductive la bor in order that we may divert our manhood to the army and to the shops. If by the reduction In consumption of labor and the commodities that it pro duces and the diversion of this saving to that labor and those commodities demanded by the war, we shall be able, o fight to eternity. We can mortgage our future savings for a little while but a piling up of mortgages is but a short step toward bankruptcy. Every atom that we save is available for sub scription to Liberty bonds. The whole of Europe has been en gaged ever since the war began in the elimination of waste, the simplification of life, and the increase of its indus trial capacity. When the war is over the consuming power of the world will be reduced by the loss of prosperity and man power, and we shall enter a period of competition without parallel in ferocity. After the war, we must maintain our foreign markets if our working people are to be employed. We shall be in no position to compete if we continue to live on the same basis of waste and extravagance on which we have lived hitherto. Simple, temperate living is a moral issue of the first order at any time, and any other basis of conduct during the war be comes a wrong against the interest of the country and the Interest of democracy. The impact of ilie food shortage of Europe has knocked at every door of the United States during the past three years. The prices of foodstuffs have nearly doubled, and the reverberations of Europe's Increasing shortage would have thundered twice as loudly dur ing the coming year even had we not entered the war, and it can now only be mitigated if we can exert a strong control and this in many directions. We are today in an era of high prices. We must maintain prices at such a level as will stimulate produc tion, for we are faced by a starving world and the value of a commodity to the hungry is greater than its price. As a result of the world shortage of supplies, our consumers have suffered from speculation and extortion. While wages for some kinds of labor have Increased with the rise in food prices, in others, it has been difficult to main tain our high standard of nutrition. By the elimination of waste in all classes, by the reduction in the con sumption of foodstuffs by the more for tunate, we shall increase our supplies not only for export but for home, and by increased supplies we can Help in the amelioration of prices. For Better Distribution. Beyond this the duty has been laid upon the food administration to co-operate with the patriotic men in trades and commerce, that we may eliminate the evils which have grown Into our system of distribution, that the bur den may fall equitably upon all by res toration, so far as may be, of the nor mal course of trade. It Is the purpose of the food administration to use its utmost power and the utmost ability that patriotism can assemble to ameli orate this situation to such a degree as may be possible. The food administration is assem bling the best expert advice In the country on home economics, on food utilization, on trade practices and trade wastes, and on the conduct of public eating places, and we shall out line from time to time detailed sugges tions, which if honestly carried out by such individuals in the country, we be lieve will effect the result which we must attain. We are asking every home, every public eating place and many trades, to sign a pledge card to accept these 'directions, so far as their circumstances permit, and we are organizing various instrumentalities to ameliorate speculation. We are ask ing the men of the country who are not actually engaged in the handling of food to sign similar pledges that they shall see to it, so far as they are able, that these directions are followed, and this is the essence of democracy itself. Autocracy finds its strength in its ability to impose organization by force from the top. The essence oi democracy consists in the application of the initiative in its own people. If individualism cannot be so organized as to defend Itself, then democracy Is a faith which cannot stand. We are seeking to impose no organization from the top. We are asking the American people to organize from the bottom up. The call of patriotism, of humanity and of duty rings clear and Insistent We must heed it if we are to defend our ideals, maintain our fcrm of gov ernment, and safeguard our future welfare. SOME NEW RULINGS ON DRAFT MEASURE ' SHOULD NOT FORCE WIFE TO WORK TO SUPPORT SELF AND CHILDREN. WILSON MODIFIES BOLES Clears Up Contested Points. Orders For Mobilization of First Increment Changed and Experienced Men Will Be Taken First. Washington. At the direct sugges- i tion of President Wilson, Provost j Marshal General Crowder telephoned j to all governors a supplemental ex planation of regulations governing the status of merried men under the draft law. No change in regulation is made, and the purpose of the state ment is to clear up misunderstand j ings. In a letter to Secretary Baker, I quoted by General Crowder, President Wilson states his opinion that the regulation directing local boards "to establish the fact of dependents in addition to the fact of marriage ought , not to be abrogated." This leaves I the regulations as they are and the supplementary statement is designed merely to make the application of the rules uniform. While the statement regarding mar ried men was in preparation orders were issued changing entirely the mobilization arrangements previously made. Congestion of rail traffic and the necessity of making better pro vision for receiving the men at the cantonments dictated the changes. Under the new orders, five per cent of the white men, preferably those with military experience, from each local area, will be started forward to the camps September 5 instead of thirty per cent. They will go in five daily detachments of equal size and form skeleton company organization and set up a going concern into which the remander of the total quota can be absorbed without confusion as they reach the contonments. The next forty per cent of the quota will go forward September 19, when the second thirty per cent originally was scheduled to go; a second forty per cent will go forward October 3 instead of the third thirty per cent and the remaining fifteen per cent will be called up as soon thereafter as practicable. Local boards are directed to disre gard order of liability numbers to some extent in selecting the first five per cent as men of experience such as cooks and former soldiers are desired at that time. Warning is given against getting into this levy by reas on of his experience, any man who might get otherwise have been includ ed in the first increment of the dis trict at all. GREAT VICTORY CROWNS ITALY'S NEW OFFENSIVE With Austrian Line Broken Italians Pursue Enemy. The battle along the Isonzo has de veloped further brilliant successes for the Italians, who it is now plain are making one of their greatest efforts of the war thus far. General Cadorna's men, who at the beginning of the offensive effected a new crossing of the river north of Go rizia, at a point where the Austrians believed such a feat was impossible, have won another spectacular victory by scaling Monte Sano, 2,245 feet high and placing their flag there. Farther south, on the Carso, fight ing continues violently and incessant ly. Austrian efforts to win back lost I positions were defeated. New gains have been made by the French in the Verdun front, rounding out the victory won in the offensive begun on Monday. The French ad vanced last night north of Hill 304, Paris announces, and captured three fortified forts near Betbincourt, the official German statement however, says French attacks between Malan court and Betbincourt, as well as near Hill 304, east of the Meuse, were re pulsed. COULDN'T LOCATE LAND PEARY SAYS HE FOUND. Sydney, N. S. Donald B. Mac Millan's Arctic expedition arrived here after four years spent in the polar regions. MacMillan, who was one of Rear Admiral Peary's lieuten ants on his successful dash for the North pole, confirmed dispatches that there was no Crockerland such as has been reported by Peary. Peary's mistake was due to a mirage so real that the MacMillan party had been deceived by it for four days. HOSPITALS NEAR VERDUN BOMBED BY GERMANS. Paris. One of the hospitals be hind Verdun on which German air planes dropped incendiary bombs a week ago is at Vadelainecourt. The fire caused by the bombs spread rap idly to the whole building and the glare showed up more plainly than ever the large red cross painted on the roof. The aviator threw a second bomb, which demolished a pavillion in which were three crews of sur geons performing operation. O.S. MAKES ANOTHER LOAN TO THE SLAVS AMERICA REAFFIRMS FAITH FUTURE OF NEW RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY. IN LANSING IS NOW OPTIMISTIC Secretary of State Makes Public Note Renewing Wilson's Sympathy and Confidence. Money for Supplies and Equipment. Washington. The United States re affirmed its faith in the new Russian democracy and gave concrete evidence of Its confidence by loaning another hundred million dollars to the provi sional government. Announcement of the loan came from the treasury soon after Secre tary Lansing at the state department had denied formally that reports from Russia were of an unfavorable nature and declared that on the contrary con fidential dispatches to the government were the basis for his belief that the administration at Petrograd was strengthening its position. "I regard the government of Rus sia as stronger today than it has been for a month," Mr. Lansing said. "I mean in general, both from political and military points of view. This opin ion i based upon reports more or less confidential that we have been get ting." So far as the military situation is concerned the secretary said he felt little concern over the advance upon Riga by the Germans recalling that the place had been evacuated five times during the war. Major General Scott, chief of staff, who was a mem ber of the Root commission, agreed that the capture of Riga would not be an important strategical loss. A German advance upon Petrograd from Riga would be followed by removal of i the seat of government to Moscow, seat of the conservatives upon whom the allies are counting to maintain a firm republican government and the city looked upon by million of Rus sians as the natural capital of their country. In addition to his statement Secre tary Lansing made public a note he had just sent to Ambassador Bakmet eff replying to a message of assurance from Foreign Minister Tereschtenko. NEGRO TROOPS WHO KILLED MANY CITIZENS DISARMED. Houston, Texas. Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infantry, who shot up the streets of Houston, were be ing entrained to be removed to Colum bus, N. M. Capt. L. S. Snow, commanding the battalion, said that the action of the negroes was "practically mutiny." A scene probably unique in the an nals of the United States army was enacted at Camp Logan during the afternoon when the six hundred sol diers cf the battalion of negro infan try were disarmed. Flanked-by a full bataalion of the Nineteenth infantry under Col. Mil lard F. Waltz and three companies of the coast artillery from Fort Crock ett, the negro soldiers were marched four abreast to the parade grounds where their arms were stacked. Army trucks then loaded the rifles and am munition and conveyed them to the camp storehouse, where they were placed under heavy guard. FIFTY-THREE CASES OF PARALYSIS REPORTED Richmond, Va. Fifty-three cases of infantile paralysis have been reported to the state health department during August, according to figures secured from Dr. Ennoid G. Williams, state health commissioner. During July there were forty-eight cases, making a total of 101 cases of the disease since the outbreak of the epidemic in the valley of Virginia. While the disease has not been entirely confined to the valley and northwestern part of the state, it is believed by the health authorities that the infection is radi ating from Rockingham, which has taken the lead in number of cases. EARLY REGULATION OF MEAT INDUSTRY FORECAST Washington Early regulation of the meat industry was predicted fallow ing the departure oi Herbert Hoover, the food administrator, for Chicago to confer with meat packers and with federal trade commission representa tives who are investigating packing methods. Government supervision of meat packing and distributing con cerns, with the institution of a licens ing system, may be the next move of the food administration. AMERICAN ARMY WANTS AEROPLANE OBSERVERS Washington. Cand (dates for com missions as observers from airplanes are being sought by the chief signal officer from among graduates of the artillery instruction course at Fort Monroe, Va., or the machine gun course at Fort Sill, Okla., and enlisted men or civilians who are expert pho tographers, radio operators or machine ?un operators. Accepted applicants will be given a tw omonths' course of instruction. MEANS MONEY SAVING SPECIAL STEPS TAKEN TO PRO VIDE AMPLE FACILITIES FOR STORING OF POTATOES. Government Officials Have Worked Out a Plan Which It Will Be for the Best Interests of Growers to Follow. Washington. Active efforts are to be made by the federal authorities to secure concerted action in the effort to conserve the country's supply of potatoes. In this connection the fol lowing statement has been issued : Unusual facilities for financing stor age are offered American potato grow ers as a result of war conditions. The federal reserve system is at their dis posal, and farmers who store their 1917 potato crop in approved local ware houses, may obtain, upon their storage receipts, 90-day loans from member banks of the reserve system at a rate not to exceed 6 per cent. Mr. Lou D. Sweet, potato expert with the food ad ministration, was instrumental in bringing this matter to the reserve board's attention. New England growers have started a movement to take advantage of this ruling to help them solve their market ing problem. The prospect which the growers of this group of states face is that of handling 45,000,000 bushels of potatoes one-tenth of the entire United States crop without causing an overstocked market and the result ing loss of all profit on the crop. The growers communicated with lo cal authorities in their respective states, who in turn laid the situation before the food administration. A con ference between the growers, local au thorities and experts from the food administration was held recently at Bostdn, Mass. A plan of action was mapped out at this meeting which in cludes the following: 1. Marketing of only one-third of the crop at harvest time ; another third in 90 days, or placing in storage and later distributed as demand affords oppor tunity; the remaining third to be stored by the grower and marketed throughout the year. 2. All potatoes to be graded with care, taking out culls, cuts, cracks and any that are bruised. It was recom mended that a wire screen grader be used one and seven-eighths-inch mesh for oblong ttlbers and two-inch mesh for round ones. Graded stock then to be placed in good two-bushel sacks one hundred and fifteen pounds to the sack and the sacks sewed tightly so as to prevent shucking and bruising. 3. Increasing the load in each rail road car from the normal 30,000 pounds. That these cars can be un loaded within 24 to 36 hours of their arrival at destination. 4. That municipalities and other bodies provide storage for as large quantities as possible at the peak of the harvest. "A storage house," said Lou D. Sweet, who attended this meeting, "such as will conform to the require ments laid down by the Federal Reserve board, does not call for a specially con structed house. There are innumer able buildings, which, if properly cleaned, ventilation provided, and man aged so as to maintain a temperature of about 35 degrees, will answer ad mirably for this purpose. "This year the United States planted its potato crop from the poorest qual ity of seed that ever went into the ground, and naturally the harvest will be potatoes of poor quality. Strict grading, careful packing, common sense storage, and careful shipping are necessary to Insure just returns to the growers who have responded to the president's call for increased produc tion of potatoes." SHE HAD WAYWARD DAUGHTER Neiphbor Was Surprised When She Found Cause of Severe Rebuke Administered by Mother. A lady living in a large apartment house relates the following: "I had occasion one day to visit the apartment of a neighbor. Such grave and earnest tones of remonstrance reached my ears, as I approached my friend's room, that I hesitated about Intruding. I found her winsome young daughter with her, and the mother had evidently been rebuking her, for the girl's face was flushed, and there were tears in her eyes. "Come in," said my friend. "I have finished what I was saying to Jenny, and I hope she will remember my wifhes." "Ah, these children these chil dren !" thought I to myself. "I have just been telling her," con tinued my friend, "that she must not wear her evening gloves when she goes shopping in the morning. In the first place, it is not genteel; and in the second place, it is extravagant." Her evening gloves ! And yet, I as sure you, her tone and expression, and the impression made on the child, would have befitted a serious wrong doing one that had issues in time and eternity. Military Field Day. American Training Camp in France. Plans for a military field day in which representatives from each regi ment of the American expeditionarv force will compete are approaching completion. The men will contest 'n the various phases of warfare for which they now ire training. Major General Pershing and American Am bassador Sharp already have offered loving cups for prizes. The program of events will consist of rifle firing, bayonet fighting, bomb throwing and automatic rifle firing. WEST TO GAMP GREENE RE T REPLACE NEW ENGLAND TROOPS OFFICERS EXPECT ED TO ARRIVE SOON. ARRIVE ABOUT SEPTEMBER 10 Between 30,000 and 40,000 Soldiers to Train at Charlotte Men Coming From Washington, Oregon, Wyom ing and Montana. Washington. The Forty-first nation al guard division, comprising troops from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, has been ordered to train at Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C, and Camp Fremont at Palo Al to has been abandoned because the California state health authorities have decided that a latarine sewerage' system such as the war department proposed would be injurious to the health of the community. Secretary Baker, announcing the change, said that the war department could not see its way clear to spend half a million dollars for such a sew erage system as the state health authorities thought necessary in a tem porary camp. Decision to transfer the division to Camp Greene caused much speculation as to the possibility that the troops would be sent to France at an early date. No confirma tion of the report could be obtained in any official quarter, however. "It would mean a month's delay to build a water carried sewer system and the camp at Charlotte is now prac tically ready. The transfer of the di vision to Charlotte, Secretarly Baker explained, would make it possible to get the division under training with out delay and bring it 2,500 miles closer to its point of embarkation. A suggestion that the Camp Fre mont site might be used as a national army cantonment was discussed by Senator Phelan with the secretary, but no definite plan for this has been work ed out. , Reports that the Forty-first division might soon follow the Twenty-sixth and Forty-second divisions to France apparently were founded on the fact that the far west is not strongly rep resented in the Forty-second or "Rain bow" division and the Twenty-sixth is composed entirely of New England troops. The Twenty-sixth and the Forty-second are in process of concentra tion and both probably will be ready to go as soon as shipping is available. SITUATION IN RUSSIA GROWS ALARMING Washington. Russia's critical inter nal situation, aggravated by the new German drive against Riga threaten ing the capital, is watched by officials here with grave concern. It became known that official advices are closely in accord with press dispatches de scribing grave political conditions. The outcome of the forthcoming extraordinary national council to be held in Moscow is awaited here with interest scarcely less keen than in Russia itself. The immediate fate of Russia, it is felt, depends upon it. Out of the great gathering, In which the conservative elements of all sorts are expected to unite in an effort to compel the provisional gov ernment to throw off the socialistic control of the soldiers' and workmen's council, one of two results is expected : "The formation of a strong central ized government capable of rapidly reorganizing the army and resuming the offensive against the central pow ers or open civil strife." TEUTONS FAIL TO AGREE TO ARGENTINE DEMANDS Zurich Britsh admiralty per wire less press Germany has replied to the Argentine note which demanded compensation for the torpedoed Ar gentine ship and pledge from Ger many that she would abstain from the torpedoing of Argentine vessels in the future. It is officially announced from Berlin that Germany has not conceded these demands but the possibility of an amicable settlement is not ex cluded. NEW OFFICERS ARE CAMP INSTRUCTORS Washington. The names of the 466 reserve officers, assigned as instruc tors at the second series of officers training camps, which had their pre liminary opening, were made public by the war department, showing that many graduates of ihe first series of camps have been selected for this work. The effect vrill be to release a considerable number of regular of ficers for duty with troops. The camps open formally Monday, August 27. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL TO RESIGN Washington. E. Marvin Underwood, assistant attorney general, has an nounced he would resign August 31. Mr. Underwood decl'-necl to say what his plans were. It was understood he vill become general ocuieel for a ra'I road. Mr. Underwood gave up the practice of law iri Atlanta, February 24, 1914, to accept his prosent position. He has taken part in ,i number of oases under Attorn y Geieral Gregory. GUARD ROM RUM OUT Of MOORE FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE OUT LINES PURPOSES OF COUNCIL OF DEFENSE. SENT OUT TO ALL COUNTIES Folder Used By Moore Council is Sent Out All Over State. Conserve All Food. Raleigh. Food Administrator Henry A. Page, of Aberdeen, chairman of the North Carolina Council of De fense, has put into the memorandum of the purposes of the Council, a clause declaring "it is the special pur pose of the Moore County Council of Defense and the Committee on Law Enforcement to drive liquor from the county." The aims and purposes of the Moore County Council have been tabulated and distributed throughout the Sand Hills, and Secretary W. S. Wilson, of the State Council, thought them so good and so clear in their definition of the purposes of both state and county councils that he mailed copies to every county council In the state. The Moore County Council is com posed of Chairman Page, H. P. Mc Pherson, Cameron; J. M. Brown, Hemp; H. F. Seawell, Carthage; Dr. M. E. Street, Glendon; J. R. McQueen, Pinehurst, and J. N. Powell, of South, era Pines. The folder issued by the Council says: "Our actions now, and our atti tude toward our country's need will determine what shall be recorded ol us, whether of praise and appreciation forever, or Ignomy and shame. Let us not forget that we are now making the history of our home county. Al ready, some of our citizens have laid down their affairs and consecrated themselves to the service of our home land; some are just ready to step out from General Pershing's training camp into the fighting trenches; some have left their Moore county homes and are training with the National Guard for early service at the front; others are hearing the call for re-enforcements and are busy arranging their affairs to answer that call." Praises Exemption Boards. Of the Moore county exemption board the folder says: "The three citizens who have long ago throw their own private busi ness over and given themselves to the high duty of service on the board of exemption should receive, as their ser vice merits, the appreciation, appro bation and sincere gratitude of every Moore county man. Let us sustain them and support them in their labors, and express our appreciation of their sacrifice and service." Continuing, the memorandum ex plains that the business aid commit- tee will attend to the business inter ests of any and every man who finds It necessary to leave home, who has no near relative to look after his affairs. "Or, if you prefer the committee to some relative or friend, it will be glad represent you," It says, "rather than to do so. They will take charge of property for you and conserve it whila you are away; they will answer any business demands that may be made on you; handle suits at law, if you have them, and represent you ad take care of your interests during your ab sence." Committees on information and his tory, on agriculture and food and on law enforcement have been named and are ready to continue the program of work. Away With the Rum Evil. "It seems to be true that there is a tendency to lower all standards of conduct during war-time," says the folder. "It is the purpose of this committee, composed of forty-seven of the leading citizens of the county, with the assistance of the members of the county council to so organize and agitate throughout the county that respect for law shall be supreme and good order prevail everywhere. "It is the special purpose of tha council of defense and the committee on law enforcement to drive liquor from the county." Will Speak to Farmers. Raleigh. Governor T. W. Bickett, who has shown interest in the agricul tural development of the state and especially in increased food produo tion and conservation during the pers ent emergency, has won the sobriquet, "Agricultural Governor," has promised to deliver an address at the farmers' and farm women's convention which will be held at the A. & E. College the 28-30th inst. The convention has secured a very noticeable list of pub lic speakers and lecturers. Secretary to Mr. Daniel. Washington. Secretary Daniels an nounced that Edward E. Britton, edi tor of the News and Observer for sev eral years, has been selected as his private secretary. Mr. Britton takes the place of Frank Smith, who goes to New York to entev business. Mr. Britton was called to Washing ton several days ago for a conference with Mr, Daniels. He was offered tha position of honor in the office of the Secretary and accepted. He will re turn here to take up his new dutiai September L. TO DRIVE 0
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