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VOL. XL.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C SEPTEMBER 19, 1917 NO. 7.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OYER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS J0FTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place in the South
;and Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Eomestic.
Julius H. Barnes, president of the
rood grain corporation, New York, and
James F. Uel5' general chairman of
the milling division of the food ad
ministration, located in the same city,
savs there is absolutely not a scintilla
uth in reports of the possibility
Bour famine in the eastern states.
A troop train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was fired upon near Mingo
j unci ion. Ohio. Four soldiers were
wounded, one seriously. The wound
ed men remained on the train till it
reached Pittsburg. The train was fired
on while going at a rapid rate. In
formal ion is withheld by the authori
ties as to the identity of the troops.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, and
Elihu Boot, ex-secretary of state, de
livered stirring patriotic addresses in
Chicago.
Announcement is made that the
trial by courtmartial of the negro soi
diers of the Twenty-fourth United
Siates infantry charged with having
been involved ir recent rioting at
Houston, Texas, will begin at Fort
Bliss within a week. Col. John A.
Hull and Maj. Dudley Sutphin have
been named as judge advocates of the
court.
Drafting of all aliens in the United
Sta - except Germans, and others
pxempt by treaty and those of coun
tries allied with Germany who have
resided in this country one year, is
proposed in a joint resolution passed
by The United States senate and sent
to the house.
Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth
United States infantry had planned
a riot of bloodshed among the white
residents of Houston two days before
the deadly outbreak, which cost the
lives of fifteen Houston. Texas, citi
lens August 23. according to the re
port of the civilian board of inquiry,
which, it is stated, is concurred in by
General Chamberlain.
Supply Sergeant James M. Thomas,
"3 years old, of Greenburg. Pa., and
Private Jesse Kocknell, of Atlanta,
Ga., 34 years old. members of the
Fifth company coast artillery of the
Chesapeake Bay district, stationed at
Fort Monroe. Va., are dead as the re
sult of drinking grain alcohol. The
army authorities are making a search
ing investigation of the cases.
In a raid on the Philadelphia Tage
blatt, a long-established German lan
guage morning newspaper, which is
charged with having been attacking
government war policies for several
months past, federal agents arrested
'he editor and business manager and
confiscated large quantities of corre
spondence, files and documents.
Equal suffrage for Maine women
was defeated two to one at the spe
cial election, September 10, according
to newspaper returns from two-thirds
of the state.
Fifty-six alleged members of the
Farmers and Laborers' Protective as
sociation were placed on trial in fed
eral court at Abiline, Texas, charged
with activities in opposition to the se
ve draft law which, in some in
stances, is alleged to have amounted
to treason. The government will prob
ably ask that the death penalty be
imposed.
One Italian r;as killed and another
fatally wounded when an attempt was
to break up a patriotic open-air
meeting in the Italian section of Mil
waukee. Two police officers were
-lightly injured.
European.
A marked decrease in the destruc
tion of British merchant vessels by
mines or submarines is indicated in
the weekly English admiralty state
ment issued in London. Twelve ves
sels of more than sixteen hundred tons
six of less than sixteen hundred
tons were sent to the bottom, against
nearly twice that number the previous
asualties in the British ranks re
lorted for the week ending Sept. 11
show a total of 26,626 officers and
of whom nearly fic thousand
were slain.
The internal situation in Russia re
1 ins grave and chaotic, and just how
;; will be solved it is impossible to
ecast. Apparently, the chasm of
hscord has so widened that either M.
nsky, head of the provisional
tnment, or General Korniloff, the
o-sed commander-in-chief of the
my, who is opposing Kerensky and
ho demands dictatorial powers, will
ljl engulfed.
dviees ent out from London sav
the Baltic fleet is faithful to the
nsljy regime. Other advices say
"e commander f the southwestern
H'iy will support Korniloff.
Korniloff declares that his revolt
against Kerensky is animated by the
5 . :"r'otism and a desire to save
aua tom a government dominated
,lf' G-"nan general staff.
A Copenhagen dispatch recites that
Germany ili shortly be able to pub
sn her p-ace terms. This statement
sfd to emanate from Dr. George
Michaelis, the German chancellor.
The Italians have at last secured
positions which will enable them to
completely dominate the Gorizian
plain, but the positions were gained
at enormous loss of life, ard there will
likely be a lull in the figlKing on that
front for several days to enable both
armies to burv their dead.
The Germans delivered an attack
against the French on the Aisne front,
but were repulsed with heavy losses.
It is reported that the revolution
ary faction in Russia are now after
Kerensky, notwithstanding the fact
he has about stopped the revolution
started by Korniloff.
The reply of the central powers to
the peace note of Pope Benedict, be
gins by declaring that they regard the
papal pronunciamento as a . suitable
basis for peace negotiations. Regard
ing the exchange of occupied territo
ries, arbitration, disarmament and all
similar proposals, declarations are
made testifying to the idealism of the
central powers and their sincere de
sire for a peace which will insure hap
piness to all nations. This news is
sent to the world through Amsterdam.
The state departments of allied gov
ernments have been apprised that
Sweden has decided to take steps to
reform conditions in the foreign office
and that there will be no further aid
extended to the central powers.
Washington.
The Netherlands minister to the
United States, Chevalier W. L. F. C.
van Rappard, has been recalled by his
government. He called upon Secreta
ry Lansing to announce the fact that
he has been transferred to a European
post and to ascertain if Mynheer van
Rosen, his successor, will be accept
able to the United States.
A dispatch from Montevideo, Uru
guay states that Uruguayan marines
boarded all the German ships in the
harbor there, and seized them, as a
result of the government having heard
of plans by the Germans to sink the
vessels.
Queen Eleanore of Bugaria died at
the capital city, Sofia. She had been
ill for some time. The queen had
taken an active part in the work of
the Red Cross in the war.
The administration 'trading with
the enemy" bill, which passed the
house last July, has been passed by
the senate, with many amendments,
however, one giving the president the
power to embargo imports and prohib
iting publication of war comment in
the German language unless accom
panied by a parallel column by a trans
lation in English.
A dispatch from Buenos Aires, Ar
gentina, recites that the downtown sec
tion of the capital city was the scene
of the wildest disorders in connection
with the anti-German demonstrations,
in which thousands of Argentine citi
zens took part. Many of those in the
mobs carried firebrands and, as a re
sult, scores of buildings were set on
fire.
The Liberty motor, the airplane en
gine upon which the United States is
relying to establish definite air su
premacy over the Germans in the bat
tlefields of France, has passed its final
test and is a complete and gratifying
success, Secretary of War Baker has
announced in a fifteen hundred word
contribution to the press.
The United States government has
extended Italy an additional credit of
fifty-five million dollars. This brings
the total credit of Italy in this country
to $255,000,000.
The news of the "great victory"
over a flotilla of German submarines
proves a "great mistake," due to a ty
pographical error in transcription of
the official report. Only one submarine
went down, and one steamer went
down.
Comptroller Williams isues a state
ment asserting that investigation dis
closes that the late J. B. Martindale,
president of the Chemical National
Bank of New York, who died in July,
1917, was an embezzler and forger to
the extent of about three hundred
thousand dollars. Capital and surplus
of the banks were not in any way im
paired by the president's peculations.
Presbyterian church authorities
complain to the war department that
restrictions on sale of intoxicants at
American canteens in France are very
lax, and ask the department to rem
edy the evil.
The war tax bill, the largest single
taxation measure in the history of the
United States, has been passed by the
senate. It provides for a levy some
what under $2,400,000,000, as compar
ed with the $1,867,870,000 proposed in
tl.e bill as it passd the bouse, May 23.
The bill will be returned to the house
and then will go to conference with
enactment promised within ten days
or two weeks.
The war department announces that
Sergeant M. G. Calderwood and Pri
vate W. F. Branningan, both of Com
pany F, Eleventh Railway Engineers,
have been slightly wounded by shell
fragments in France. They were on
duty when the accident occurred.
What purported to be an outline of
Germany's peace terms has been cir
culated in Washington for two or more
weeks, but has been regarded, for
the most part, as a "feeler."
Negro troops of the national army
will be organized in separate units as
is done in the regular army and, as far
as possible, will be trained in the
states where they are raised. The call
for negroes to mobilize at their camps
will be postponed to allow the officers
at the camp to arrange for the organi
zation of these separate units.
How a German submarine hid be
hind his schooner until it got within
range to attack an American tank
steamer and later was sunk by the
tanker's gun crew, was told by the
captain of an American sailing vessel
in "an Atlantic port."
RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
NOW PROCLAIMED
GOVERNMENT DECLAREES IT IS
NECESSARY TO STRENGTHEN ..
THE ORGANIZATION. I
DANGER STILL THREATENING
A Cabinet of Five Members, Includ- : Rebel General Himself Offers to Sur
ing Premier Kerensky, Has Been ! render on Conditions Govern-
Named to Take Care of All Matters '
of State.
A Russian republic has been pro
claimed. The provisional government
under date of September 14 issued a
proclamation declaring that to
strengthen the organization of the
state a change to a republican form
of government was necessary.
Danger still threatens Russia, the
proclamation says, although the re
bellion of General Korniloff has fail
ed. The plan of a Russian republic
has been one of the chief aims of
the radicals and the councils of sol
diers' and workmen's delegates and
wa s given approval by the recent
Russian congress at Moscow.
A cabinet of five members, includ
ing Premier Kerensky, has been
named to take care of all matters of
state.
The only party men are Premier
Kerensky and M. Nikitine, minister
of posts and telegraphs, both of
whom are social revolutionists. The
others, including the ministers of war
and marine, are the members of no
party.
Although the position of the Ke
rensky government appears to be im
proving, the action of the grand coun
cil of the Don Cossacks in refusing to
surrender General Kaledines. their
hetman. is ominous. The leader of
the Cossacks is accused of complicity
in the Korniloff revolt. The Cossacks
protest their loyalty to the govern
ment, while ignoring the govern
ment's request for the giving up of
General Kaledines.
RAINS IN EASTERN N. C.
CAUSE MANY WASHOUTS
Wrecking Train Is Wrecked, and
Railroad Service Demoralized.
Wilmington. Reports from flood
: territory indicate subsidence of wa
ter, revealing greater crop damage
than had been forecasted. Country
roads all over the district have been
severely damaged, bridges and cul
verts washed away and traffic sus
pended. j The Atlantic Coast Ine has no
1 fewer than seven washouts between
. the thirty -fifth and sixtieth mile posts
on the Wilmington-Goldsboro branch,
and it is officially announced that
traffic between these cities will be
j discontinued for several days,
fhrough traffic being routed via
Ohadbourn and Elrod for main line
' connections, while local trains will
operate for a distance of 35 miles out
of Wilmington toward Goldsboro.
A wrecking train from Rockv
Mount, attempting to reach scene of
a freight wreck. 45 miles from Wil
i mington, was itself wrecked and En
! gineer J. B. Ericsson and two ne
groes, of this city, were slightly in
jured. Wrecking trains from Way
j cross. Ga.. and Florence, S. C, to
i gether with available work train
crews and much material are being
! rushed to the breaks in the line.
REHABILITATING HOSPITALS
GO TO NINETEEN CITIES
Washington. Sites have been
chosen tentatively in 19 cities for the
"great reconstruction" hospitals in
which the United States will begin
the work of rehabilitating for private
life its soldiers who return wounded
from the front in Europe. The cities
selected as the largest centers of
population, were announced by Ma
jor General Gorgas. surgeon general
of the army, as follows:
Boston. New York. Philadelphia.
Baltimore. Washington, Buffalo. Cin
cinnati, Chicago. St. Paul. Seattle.
San Francisco. Los Angeles. Denver.
Kansas City, St. Louis. Memphis.
Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans.
SENATE PASSES BIG
WAR CREDITS BILL
Washington. The war credits bill,
authorizing new bonds and certifi
cates aggregating $11,538,000,000 and
the largest measure of its kind in
world history, was passed by the sen
ate without a roll call or dissenting
vote. Few changes were made in the
bill by the senate, the bond and cer
tificate authorizations, interest rates
and provisions giving the secretary
of the treasury broad powers remain
ed unchanged.
CHILD LABOR LAW TO
APPLY AT CANTONMENTS
Washington. Secretary Baker or
dered that employment of children at
cantonments and other government
reservations confirm to the federal
child labor act which forbids the em
ployment of children under 14 years
and restricts the Lours of labon; of
those between 14 and 16. State age
certificates for children between 14
and 16 must be obtained by employ
ers in states issuing them, and in
other states federal certificates.
KORNILOFF REVOLT
APPARENTLY ENDED
REBELLION HEADQUARTERS
HAVE BEEN SURRENDERED
TO KERENSKY.
HIS TROOPS DESERT RANKS
ment Commands Korniloff's Abject
Capitulation.
General Korniloff's rebellion against
Premier Kerensky apparently has
been quelled, like other attempts that
have been made to overthrow the
Russian provisional government.
Official reports from Petrograd say
that Korniloff's headquarters has sur
rendered and that Korniloff himself
desires conditionally to place himself
in the hands of the authorities. The
government is demanding his abject
capitulation.
Meanwhile troops that had answer
ed the call of revolt issued by Korni
loff continue to desert his ranks and
return to the government fold, declar
ing that they were misled by Korni
loff's professed aims.
Kerensky has been confirmed by
the cabinet as commander-in-chief of
the army and will have with him as
chief of staff in his prosecution of
the war against the Teutonic allies
General Alexieff. former commander-in-chief
and one of the most brilliant
officers in the Russian army. Added
strength is also expected to be given
Kerensky's rule hy the appointment
of new military officials for the dis
trict and city of Petrograd. 1
SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS'
INSURANCE PASSES HOUSE
Allowances for Dependents of Officers
and Men Equalized.
Washington.- The administration's
soldiers' and sailors' insurance bill,
amended so as to equalize the allow
ances of the dependents of enlisted
men and officers, passed the house.
The vote was 319 to 0, Representa
tives Piatt, of New York, and Hersey,
of Maine, changing negative votes to
aye before the result was announced,
amid thunderous applause.
As the bill went to the senate, pri
vates and officers and their depend
ents stand on exactly the same basis.
Benefits and allowances now provided
for are slightly higher than those
originally proposed as the minimum
for privates by the committees and
considerably lower than the maximum
amounts which officers and their de
pendents would have received.
President Wilson scored a personal
victory in the adoption. 141 to 77. of
an amendment raising from $5,000 to
$10,000 the maximum amount of op
tional insurance policies that the gov
ernment would issue to all men in the
service. The original draft of the
bill carried $10,000, but it was strick
en out in committee. v
Opposition Mild.
The mildness of the attack of op
ponents of the measure on the op
tional insurance section caused sur
prise. It was passed over in a com
paratively short time after a formal
motion to strike it out had been over
whelmingly defeated.
LANSING REVEALS ANOTHER
CASE OF GERMAN PERFIDY
Washington. Another chapter to
the story of German intrigue in neu
tral countries and among neutral dip
lomats was revealed by Secretary
Lansing in the form of a letter to the
imperial chancellor from the notorious
Von Eckhardt, the German minister
at Mexico City, to whom the inter
cepted Zimmermann note was ad
dressed. It disclosed that Folke
Cronholm, then Swedish charge in
Mexico, was depended upon by the
German diplomat to furnish informa
tion from the "hostile camp" and io
transmit communications to Berlin,
and that Von Eckhardt wanted him
rewarded by a secret award Irom the
kaiser of the "order of the- crown of
the second-class."
FORTY-SECOND DIVISION
IS COMPLETE AT MINEOLA
Camp Mills, Mineola. N. Y. With
the arrival here of the first ambulance
company from Michigan, the forty
second division is complete. The di
vision, made up of former national
guard units from 27 states, comprises
two infantry brigades, one artillery
brigade, one engineer regiment, one
headquarters troop, a signal train,
four ambulance and four hospital
units and a machine gun battalion.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY CANNOT
HOLD OUT THROUGH WINTER
Geneva. The Freie Zeitung. of
Berne, publishes an article from a
high Austrian official, who recently
traveled through several sections of
this country, in which the writer
states that Austria Hungary cannot
hold out the coming winter owing to
economic reasons, ris both soldiers
and civilians will be starved. He
gives several reasons, notably, the al
most complete destruction of the crops
in the richest regioi 6 of Hungary.
ARGENTINA HANDS
LUXBURG
PASSPORT
GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS ASK
ED FOR EXPLANATION OF
DISCLOSURES.
CLEAR STATEMENT IS WANTED !
Break In Relations Is Certain Unless
Germany Makes Satisfactory Con
cessions Populace is Angry Over
Expressions.
Buenos Aires, Argentina government
at noon sent to the German legation
passports to be delivered to Count
Luxburg, the German minister in
Buenos Aires. The whereabouts of
Count Luxburg still is unknown to
the Argentine government.
The foreign office sent a communi
cation to the German foreign minis
tery demanding an explanation of
Count Luxburg's action in sending the
secret code messages to Berlin thru
the Swedish legation.
The note sent by Foreign Minister
Pueyrredon to Count von Luxburg, in
which the German minister was ten
dered his passports, reads :
"Mr. Minister: You having ceased
to be persona grata to the Argentine
government, that government has de
cided to deliver to you your passports
which I transmit herewith by order
of his excellency, the president of the
nation.
"The introducer of embassies has
instructions to assist you in your im
mediate departure from the territory
of the republic. God keep you.
(Signed) "H. fTJYRREDON."
"To Count Karl von Luxburg, en
voy extraordinary and minister pleni
potentiary of the German empire."
The Argentine minister at Berlin
has been instructed to inform the
German foreign office that Count von
Luxburg has been handed his pass
ports and to ask for explanations re
garding the telegram disclosures. If
the German government disapproves
of the text of the German minster's
dispatches and especially of the word
"ass," which term the count applied
to the Argentine foreign minister, the
situation may clear. If Berlin does
not disavow the ministers course, Ar
gentina will recall her minister from
Germany but may permit the legation
to remain.
ALLOWANCE OF $5 TO $50
A MONTH TO DEPENDENTS
Scale of Rates Which Have Heen Ten
tatively Approved.
Washington. Provisions of the sol
diers' and sailors' insurance bill for
allowances of from $5 to $50 a month
to dependents during the service of
enlisted men were tentatively approv
ed by the house.
Strenuous efforts of Representative
Keating of Colorado, speaking for va
rious humanitarian organizations, to
have the allowances raised, failed. He
maintained that statistics proved that
the proposed allowances would not
permit families to live in ordinary
comfort, but administration leaders re
plied that higher payments would
make the cost to the government
prohibitory.
These are the amounts, in addition
to any sum taken from the pay. that
dependents would receive monthly:
Wife, no children, $15; one child,
$25; two children, $32.50; and $5 ad
ditional for each additional child.
One motherless child. $5; two chil
dren, $12.50; three children. $20;
four children, $30 and $5 monthly ad
ditional for each additional child.
One parent, $10; both parents, $20;
each dependent grandchild, brother or
sister, $5.
Speical povisions are made for the
allowances of divorced wives.
QUEEN ELEANORE DEAD
AT BULGARIAN CAPITAL
Sofia. Bulgaria. Queen Eleanore.
of Bulgaria, is dead. She had been ill
Borne time and recently King Ferdi
nand and Crown Prince Boris and
Prince Cyril were summoned to her
bedside.
KORNILOFF WITH FOUR
GENERALS DECLARED REBELS
Petrograd The provisional gov
ernment, issued a decree handing over
to the courts of justice as rebels Gen
eral Korniloff. former commander-in-chief
of the Russian armies; General
Denikine. commanding the armies on
the southwestern front; General Lo
komsky, chief of the general staff;
General Markoff, the chief of the
headquarters staff on the southwest
ern front, and M. Kisliakoff, assist
ant to minister of roads.
CAMP JACKSON PREPARES
FOR 12,000 SEPTEMBER 19
Columbia, S. C. Preparations are
under way at Camp Jackson for re
ceiving more than 12.000 soldiers of
the national army from the states of
North and South Carolina and Florida
when the next increment of the first
draft are ordered to camp, beginning
September 19. Of this number about
6,200 will be North Carolinians, and
3,150 represent the draft districts in
South Carolina.
IS REIGNS I
RUSSIAN CAPITAL
KORNILOFF IS REPORTED TO BE
MARCHING ON PETROGRAD
WITH TROOPS.
SITUATION REMAINS GRAVE
Kerensky is Bending Every Effort To
ward Suppression of Revolt, but
Chasm is Wide. Army And Navy
are Lining Up.
The internal situation in Russia re
mains grave and chaotic and just how
it will be solved it is impossible to
forecast. Apparently the chasm of
discord has so widened that either
M. Kerensky, head of the provisional
government, or General Korniloff ,the
deposed commander-in-chief of the
army, who is opposing Kerensky and
who demands almost dictatorial pow
ers, will be engulfed.
At the present moment neither side
seems willing to make concessions.
Kerensky at the head of the govern
ment in Petrograd is bending all his
energy toward the supppression of the
turmoil created by the Korniloff and
his followers, while Korniloff is re
ported to be approaching Petrograd
with troops in order to lay siege to
the capital. To prevent such action
Kerensky's adherents are tearing up
the railroad line and otherwise are
preparing to resist.
vvnue aavices received in n.uonaon
are to the effect that the Baltic fleet
is faithful to the Kerensky rgime,
other advices say that Commander
Denikine, of the southwestern Rus
sian army, sent word to-the premier
that he would give his support to
Korniloff. Official reports are to the
effect that Denikine and several other
generals have been arrested.
Korniloff has declared that his re
volt against Kerensky is animated by
the highest patriotism and a desire to
save Russia from a government domi
nated by the German general staff.
i GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN
NOT TO RECALL MINISTER
Acted in Good Faith and Not Blame
able for Tenor of Message.
Stockholm. Barron Lowen, the
Swedish minister to Argentina, will
not be recalled, according to a state
ment made to the press by Admiral
Liniman, minister of foreign affairs.
The foreign minister told the news
paper men that Baron Lowen was not
blamable for the tenor of the mes
sages which passed through the Swed
ish legation, sent by the German
charge to the Berlin foreiegn office
and as he had acted in good faith and
did not know the contents of the dis
patches, he would not be recalled.
It is the general impression, even
among the strongly political parties,
that Sweden acted in good faith in the
' matter of the German telegrams but
! public opinion nevertheless is stirred
by the fact that German code tele
! grams were permitted to be forwarded
without giving the Swedish officials
the key.
ONE SUBMARINE PROBABLY
DESTROYED, TWO SHIPS SUNK
Washington. A typographical er
ror in transcribing a statement for
the press from an official report to
the navy department made it appear
that six German submarines probably
had been sunk off the French coast
when they attacked a fleet of mer
chantmen including at least one
American vessel. The facts are, so
far as known tonight, that one sub
marine probably was destroyed and
two of the steamers went down.
A corrected statement was issued
by Secretary Daniels as soon as the
error was discovered.
The department has only a meager
account of the fight and additional
details have been asked for by cable.
The report came from the American
tanker Westwego through Paris, the
vessel apparently having reached a
French port after the fight. The
names and nationality of the two
ships lost were not given.
The Westwego was en route to
Europe and from the fact that she
was cruising in company with other
merchant craft, navy officers assumed
that the fleet was under convoy of
naval vessels, probably of American
destroyers. The tanker reported Sep
tember 8, the fight having occurred
September 5. The brief statement
received from Paris said that six sub
marines had made a massed attack
on the merchant flotilla; that two of
the steamers were sunk, and that
one of the submarines probably was
lost. The Westwego is an armed ves
sel. WILSON AND BAKER MAY
VISIT SOUTHERN CAMPS
Spartanburg, S. C. President Wil
son and Secretary of War Baker are
expected to visit Camp Wadsworth
while the twenty-seventh division is
here. It is said the President will
make a tour of the southern training
camps during the fall or early win
ter, but the time of his coming has
not been announced. It is not known
whether the President and the secre
tary of war will come at the same
time or make separate trips.
YELLOW STREAK IS
NOT TO BE F
THERE IS NO DISLOYALTY IN
NORTH CAROLINA, SAYS
GOVERNOR BICKETT.
GERMANY IS WATCHING US
Governor Bicket Urges Perfect
Unity in Address Given Undw
Auspices of "Four Minute Men."
Raleigh. "I know the people of
North Carolina. I have been through
its valleys and over its hills, and if
all the books were torn up I could
make a geography of the state. From
Cape Lookout to Slick Rock creel,
there is not a yellow streak."
This was the declaration of Gover
nor Bickett when he appeared at a
local theatre under the auspices of
the "Four Minute Men," and he was
greeted with tumultuous applause.
"When individuals enter a fight to
the death they light with the whole
force of their bodies," declared the
Governor. "So must nations fight.
In order to have the maximum effect
the entire weight must be thrown
into every blow. If Uncle Sam is to
win against Germany he must fight
all over, from the dig of his toe nails
to the sweep of his whiskers."
"There must be jerfect unity of
purpose and will. This unity will re
sult first in the sureness and the
weight of each blow delivered. It will
secondly have a telling effect on the
j nerves of the enemy.
"When individuals are engaged in
combat they watch with intentness
! the eyes of the other, and when a
j weakness shows in the eyes of one he
1 is at his opponent's mercy. So it is
with the nations. The Imperial Ger
man government is watching with
taut nerves the eyes of America. If
it reads therein a oneness of purpose
'. and will, an inflexible determination
to throw every man and every dollar
into the fight, then the fight is won
already. On the other hand, if it sees
doubt and division then its hopes
are keyed up, its courage increased,
and it will continue the great war
with a still greater fury.
"In this crucial hour of the nation's
history that man who attempts to di
vide the thoughts of the people, or
who in any manner tries to divert
their will and purpose, is an ally of
the German Kaiser. Every move made
by such a man is strength to the
Kaiser's arms, his words are sweet
music to the Kaiser's ears.
"Vet we find men here and there
who do not seem to understand the
difference between a debate and a
fight. Prior to April 6 last, there was
a great debate in progress as to
whether the United States would en
ter the world war. Then it was legiti
mate, and highly proper, to hold opin
ions and express them. But on the
sixth day of April the Congress of the
United States acted. Right then the
debate ended and the fight began.
j Now opinions do not count, it is deeds
for which we look. No loyal Ameri-
can citizen has the right to hold an
opinion save that aimed at the de
struction of the Imperial German gov
! ernment. There are just two sides to
the fight, and there Is no room for
neutrality. Every citizen must be
either on the side of Germany or the
j United States. The only question is
! whether Uncle Sam is going to lick
j Bill Hohenzollern. or whether Bill
! Hohenzollern is going to lick Uncle
! Sam.
"Every man, every woman, every
child is in the fight. Failure to do
: the utmost is in itself aid and com
I fort to the enemy. The question is.
! -. .1 U 1. 1 . . tr ... 1 1 1 rnn f-ckorictor
UUUC1 W11HIL nclfc will JUU ivjftitJ. .
Shall it be the black eagle of Ger
manv or the glorious Stars and
j Stripes?"
In closing Governor Bickett paid a
beautiful tribute to the men who on
the far-flung battle lines will give
themselves for their country, and urg
ed complete concord among the peo
pie at home to back them up.
Head Nurse Has Resigned.
Morganton. Miss Nannie I. Kersey,
who has been head nurse at the North
Carolina State hospital here several
years, has resigned, on accoount of
failing health, to take a much needed
rest. The great responsibility of this
position and the duties connected
with it are very trying and few peo
ple have been able to hold it more
than a few years. Miss Kersey's
resignation is a distinct loss to the
hospital, as she was a woman of
splendid executive ability, as well as
an efficient nurse.
Resisting Draft Law.
Monroe. J. Wesley Helms, young
i white man, was given a hearing be
! fore United States Commissioner M.
L. Flow a few days ago on the charge
of having failed to register. His age
was established at 21, and he was
required to register in addition to
being bound over to the federal court,
which convenes in Charlotte the first
Monday in October. At first young
Helms denied having attained his ma
jority, but the evidence presented by
the government was so strong that
he admitted he was in the wrong.
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