Chatham
IBIIE
Record
sItABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. AUGUST 1, 1918
VOL. XL. NO. 52.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
f NEWS "oTlHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South.
,and will Be Found In
Brief Paragraph
Domestic-
Twenty enemy aljens, including Fe
r somerfteld of Mexican fame, were
in from ew York to Fort gle"
crpe, Ga., for internment for the
oration of the war
tfages of railroad shop men have
been increased to 68 cents an hour
J. Director General McAdoo, with pro
Jtional advances for assistants and
'jiscellaneous classes in mechanical
artments.
Beginning August 1 eight hours will
je recognized as a standard working
jay on all railroads. Overtime, Sun
days and holidays will.be paid for at
tie rate of price and . one-half.
Subsequent to recommending a full
state ticket, headed by Alfred E.
Smith, president of the NewYork City
board of aldermen, Democrats of the
ltate paved the way for party har
mony after the primaries.
The treasury department virtually
Us decided to hold the fourth Liberty
lan campaign in the three weeks
period between Saturday, September
28, and Saturday, October 19.
Fifty thousand negro registrants
qualified for general military service
lave been called to the colors by Pro
Tost Marshal General Crowder.
German submarines twenty-four
tours after the sinking of four coal
barges off Cape Cod, struck again
off the New England coast. The crack
tuoekabout fishing schooner Robert
aid Richard was sunk near Cashe
banfe, 65 miles east by southeast of
Cape Porpoise, on the southeastern
coast of Maine.
AH Pensacola, Fla., saloon keepers
lave signed an agreement to dispose
of stocks on hand, cancel all orders
for additional ' liquors and go out of
business within sixty days.
Officers of the army quartermaster's
department have notified concerns
named by the department of justice in
its expose of an alleged nation-wide
conspiracy of bribery and graft in the
manufacture of soldiers' raincoats, that
no more deliveries will be accepted and
that payment will be suspended on
quantities of goods already delivered
Washington.
Washington officials do not believe it
possible for the Bolshevik! to send
an army to the Murman peninsula be
cause of the difficulty in transporting
and maintaining any force in that re
gion.
G?orge Sylvester Viereck. publish
of Viereck's Weekly and formerly
waor ot The Fatherland, which was
teed from the mails because of pro
Cennan views, has admitted that he
received approximately one hundre
. tousand dollars from Count Bern
storff and Doctor Dumba for dissemi
nating propaganda in the form of
?am?hlets and books,
pie state department has transmit
ea a note to the government of Hon
jaras expressing deep satisfaction at
entrance of Honduras in the war
n the side of the allies.
A fifty per cent increase in the pres-
graduated tax on estates up to and
Jading $8,000,000 estates, with
water increases from larger estates,
2 been tentatively agreed upon by
me house ways and means committee.
Wspatches from Paris say that the
American and French forces are never
Sn;he retreat,ns forces f
alitor haVC been made I the
i;kn0WI1 that the lynchings of
5 ofeU-MattMk8 those
C hlb?g enemies r sya-
Ca throout Central and
to4tnrt aS Wel1 as Europe,
'ed t.f the pretensions of the
ccracy HI fS a tampion of dem
ote 4 m
Wfled th!fautS general have been
be aim, Auust requisitions
Xtmately eual to thoe
caJJed n 367'961 registrants were
llh3tshLSideS of the Soissons
t0g6tHth rming 8teadily closer
generals' ar e. erman crown prince's
kssly in dnving their men mercl-
enouS ?ffrt to hold tnem off
Ned XtrIcate tne armies
Hme. tt bottom, north' of
hS" Clark miiott wa3 killed
hiilfnfire in the Soissons
Uneg nspectinS the American
n used by German
over n 3 Proclamation
ar operate- -the duration of the
aph UWT telephone and tele-
delude roT en lssued. It did
tk toes 1? systems and ocean
l cntrol K 7verniaent operation
sion g ?s knight. July 31.
mS?" 0aon of
Ttion of tC Piaced under the
0staster p Postmaster geheral.
enw General Burlnsnn in o
ng t LTlaini his plans in on-
k'jtochV- systems. aid there
smd Se affecti'the press
'ereTer PosSibtCePt t0 impr0Ve lt
lies.
Local draft boards have been in
structed by Provost Marshal General
Crowder to refuse the release of reg
istrants in class one for enlistment
in the navy, marine corps or the
emergency fleet, until it hiis been de
termined that there will be a suffi
cient number of such registrants phys
ically qualified for general military
service to fill promptly all August
calls.
Col. Hamilton Smith of the United
States army died on July 22 within a
few hours after receiving a machine
gun wound below the heart. He died
near Missy-au-Bois, in France.
The war department announces that
Maj. J. M. McCloud was wounded in
the Soisson sector while leading kfe
men. The extent of his injury is not
yet known.
President Wilson, in a personal
statement addressed to his fellow
countrymen, denouncing mob spirit
and mob action, called upon the nation
to show the world that while it fights
for democracy on foreign fields, it is
not destroyeding democracy at home.
The American troops have occupied
Coupoil, which is on the road to Fere
en Tardenois. '?
It is estimated that, the Germans
have lost to date over two hundred
thousand men.
Dispatches say that the Americans
in the present battle have killed not
less than fifty thousand Germans, and
have taken over twenty thousand pris
oners. More armored cars than usual are
f being used by the French and Amer
icans in the present battle of the
Marne.
An American submarine of the lat
est design has been fired upon by an
allied armed ship off the New Eng
land coast. The submarine was only
slightly damaged and a naval tug Is
taking it to port. No one aboard the
submarine was injured.
Switzerland is determined to end the
Teutonic spy system in that country.
In one town alone 214 Austrian and
German spies were arrested in the
course of. eleven weeks.
Dispatches from Vienna say that
Baron von Hussarek, former minister
of education, has been appointed to
the Austrian premiership
Several epidemics are sweeping Ger
many in addition to enfluenza. - Tv
phus appeared in epidemic form.
Malaria is reported in the Grand
Duchy of Baden
The new premier of Austria an
nounces .that the new cabinet will be
non-political. Just what this, presages
is not known.
The losses to British and allied ship
ping, due to enemy action or marine
risk, for the month of June, totaled
275,629 gross tons, this being the low
est record for any month since Sep
tember, 1916.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says
that Alexis Romanoff, the former heir
apparent to the Russian throne, died
from exposure a few days after the
execution of his father.
European.
. The London Daily Mail says- that
from three to eight submarines were
concerned in the attack on the White
Star Liner Justicia. The fight began
at three o'clock in the afternoon and
lasted intermittently until the next
morning. The ship sank about one
o'clock in the afternoon after nine
torpedoes had been fired.
The Justicia, sunk somewhere off.
the coast of Ireland, was returning to
an American port after delivering a
large contingent of American troops.
The Justicia had a troop-carrying ca
pacity of between 7,00.0 and 8,000 men.
Her crew numbered about five hun
dred.
The Russian Bolsheviki government
considers the action taken by the en
tente powers in landing troops on the
Murman coast tantamount to a decla
ration of war. The Bolsheviki govern
ment has announced that it will take
counter measures accordingly.
Japan has decided to accept the
American proposal to assist the Cze
choslovak armies in Siberia. The sov
ereigtny of Russia is in no way threat
ened, it is declared, and as soon as
the' mission has. been accomplished
every soldier will be withdrawn from
Russian soil.
More than five hundred airplane pi
lots, members of the best families of
Bankok, have been trained in Siam
and are now ready to take up active
service in France.
The hardest part of the job is still
before us. The enemy knows the war
is about to reach the points of de
cision and is summoning all his
strength for a final defense and coun
ter offensive." This was the obser
vation of the German emperor on the
eve of General Foch's offensive.
General von Hindenburg has given
out the following statement:., "It is
to be hoped the people at home are
full of confidence; but they are not
learned in patience. Preparation is
half the battle. Our last reserves
must be strong men, who will return
from the trenches to take up peace
tasks. We must not be left at the
end like smashed machines, but aiust
be strong 'and unweakened."
The French attack near Montdidier
was very well executed and success
ful minor operations were presumably
designed as a diversion, aiming, for
instance, at keping the enemy's
mind diverted.
The French have captured the vil
lages of Sauvillers, Aubillers and Mail-
ly-Raineyal. This was accomplished
in fifteen minutes.
The fighting along the Soissons-
Rheims front is very strenuous, both
sides fighting like mad hornets, but
the advantage so far is with the alp
: :
GERMANS GREATLY
STRENGTHEN LINE
DESPITE OBSTINATE RESISTANCE
ENEMY BATTLE LINE FORCED
BACK AT ALL POINTS.
THE FIGHTING IS SANGUINARY
Americans Prove Themselves Masters
of Picked Enemy Troops in Sev
eral Bloody Combats.
Notwithstanding he fact that the
Germans have powerfully strengthen
ed their battle line running across
the Soissons-Rheims salient with ad
ditional reserves and have stubbornly
disputed further passage northward to
the entente allied troops, the enemy
front has been compelled to bend back
appreciably on all sides ot the salient,
except at the anchor points resting
immediately on Soissons and Rheims.
South of Soissons further wedeea
Fhave been driven eastward into the
enemy front down to the Ourcq river;
eastward along the Ourcq, French and
American- troops have crossed - the
stream at various points and advanc
ed their line well to the northward,
while -southwest of Rheims the allies
have debouched from the wooded sec
tosr and gained the. plains, notwith
standing the violence of the enemy's
counter maneuvers. At some points
the Germans succeeded somewhat in
checking the forward movement.
The retirement of t&e Germans still
remains orderly, but everywhere the
allied troops, and especially the Am
ericans near Fere-En-Tardenois, are
pressing them hard. Particularly bit
ter fighting has taken place around
Fere-En-Tardenois and at Sergy, both
of which towns are now well in the
hands of the French and Americans.
At Sergy the Germans paid the Amer
icans the compliment of reinforcing
their battle line with two divisions of
well-trained Bavarian troops, men
wneas courage previously has been
tested when the tide of battle was go
ing against the Germans. It was an
effort either to destroy the Americans
or to herd them back across the
Ourcq. The effort resulted in failure.
The battle line shifted back and
forth and Sergy changed hands four
times, but the Americans proved to be
the masters of the picked enemy
troops and finally drove them out and
retained the village. Heavy casu
alties were inflicted on the Germans.
GERMAN RELATIONS
WITH TURKEY PART
London. "The , relations between
Germany and Turkey have been sev
ered, according to direct information
from Constantinople."
This announcement is made by the
Copenhagen correspondent of the Ex
change Telegraph company.
The excitement against Germany,
the advices further say, has been
growing, particularly after last week's
events.-
The Germans recently demanded
the cruiser Hamidieh, the only- large
ship then in possession of Turkey, as
compensation for the Breslau, the for
mer German cruiser which was de
stroyed in the Dardanelles, while un
der the Turkish flag. Despite Tur
key's protest the Hamidieh departed.
WASHINGTON OFFICIALS
NOT MUCH SURPRISED.
Washington. While no official no
tice of the breach of relations be
tween Turkey and Germany or rath
er the central powers, for without
doubt Austria is involved with Ger
many in thdispute with the Ottoman
government has reached Washing
ton, officials expressed little surprise
at the Copenhagen dispatch that
uermaoy and Turkey had severed "re
received from London saying that
lations. In official circles here' for
some time past, it has been realized
that Germany, in her efforts to serve
both Turkey and Bulgaria in the divi
sion of spoils resulting from the en
forced peace treaty with Rumania, had
incurred the ill-will of both her allies.
TREMENDOUS STORE OF
GERMAN AMMUNITION
NWith the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front. The tremendous
stores of German ammunition found
by the Franco-American troops in the
forests of Fere and Ris, leads officers
to believe that the allied offensive
nipped in the bud German plans for a
momentous drive upon Epernay.
The forests and the surrounding
country north of the Marne were vir
tually one great arsenaj for German
ammunition of all kinds.
VIGOROUS FORWARD
ALLIED PRESSURE
Washington. French and American
trops 'were still pressing forward vig
orously the campaign that has up to
this time succeeded in ejecting the
enemy from more than half of the
Aisne-Marne salent. Belated an
nouncement from Berlin that further
withdrawal had been in progress since
last Friday night left it greatly ,in
doubt' as to where thei German high
oommand plans to make a stand.
ALLIES HAVE TAKEN
FERE-EII-TARDEIIOIS
FRANCO-AMERICAN TROOPS CON
TINUE PURSUIT OF HUN8; CAP
TURE GREAT SUPPLY BASE.
RETREAT IS NOT YET A ROUT
Expected That Enemy Will Succeed In
Retreating in Orderly Line When
Stand May Be Made.
The Franco-American troops, con
tinuing their pressure on the Ger
mans in retreat from the Marne, have
reached and crossed the Ourcq river
and penetrated the town of Fere-En-Tardenois.
one Of the great German
supply bases for the enemy troops in
side the Soissons-Rheims salient.
Meantime on the center of tne al
lied right wing, southwest of Rheims,
attacks by the French have forced
the enemy to give further ground and
enabled the French to capture sev
eral towns of strategic value and to
draw their front appreciably nearer
the high road which runs northeast
ward from Dormans to Rheims.
On the extreme wings of the grad
ually decreasing pocket near Sois
cons and Rheims the enemy, heav
ily reinforced, is holding tenaciously
to his ground realizing that successes
there would result in- a general crum
bling of his plans of defense against
the locking up of his entire armies in
side the big bag.
The crossing of the Ourcq, even if
only by advanced elements of the al
lied forces, ' presages a general cross
ing later on. The French official com
munications thus far during the bat
tle have been remarkably conserva
tive in their estimates of the gains
that daily have been made and it is
indicated in unofficial dispatches that
allied troops are considerably in ad
vance of the line as announced offi
cially. Where the Germs os are in retreat
from the south the cavalry has been
brought into the fighting and numer
ous tanks and machine guns in pro
fusion are everywhere harrying the
enemy whose losses are heavy.
Meantime, airplanes are flying over
the retreating hordes dropping bombs
while the, big allied guns from the
sides of the salient are keeping up
their intensive firing from all angles
into the densely congested area.
The retreat of the enemy has by
no means become a rout, and so long
as the picked troops around Soissons
and Rheims are able to keep well
open the mouth of the bag through
which the Germans are falling back
it is expected that the greater portion
of the armies of the crown prince
will be suceessful in reaching in order
the line where it is intended for them
to turn and make a stand.
Just where this stand will be made
Is problematical. More than half the
pocket has been recaptured by the
American, French, British and Italian)
troops opposing the enemy, and there
have as yet been no signs of a let up
in the retrograde movement.
FIVE AMERICAN ARMY CORPS
ARE ORGANIZED IN FRANCE
Washington. No additional Ameri
can forces have" been thrown into the
Aisne-Marne battle as yet, General
March said, although he announced
the formation of two additional army
corps, the fourth and fifth. The
chief of staff explained, however, that
the assignment of the 30 divisions
which compose the five corps now or
ganized to their respective higher
units, did not mean that the corps
uad been actually drawn together for
operations.
Members of the senate military
committee learned from General
March that the July movement of the
troops to France probably would reach
a total of 300,000, making a new rec
ord. Incidentally the movement last
week was, put at 50,000 men, or about
one-half of what has been the rule.
With the shipmenfof men last week
the total number of troops embarking
for France was 1,250,000.
COMMITEE ADOPTS
GRADUATED 8CALE
Washington. The graduated excess
profits tax of from 30 to 80 per cent on
net income beyond exemptions practi-
clly as adopted.
Treasury experts have advised the
committee that by doubling the pres
ent tax on liquors, tobeco, soft drink3,
admissions to amusements, transporta
tion, clubs and excise on such articles
as automobiles and perfumes, the pres
ent revenue from those sources of
$961,000,000 can be doubled.
TITANIC TASK TO FEED
OUR CANTONMENTS
Washington. Feeding .soldiers in
the cantonmentes and abroad is taking
a large proportion of the countrv's
farm products. August requirements
of the army, the department of agri
culture estimated will call for 25,157,-
000 pounds of potatoes and 1,7331,000
pounds of onions. One-third of the
output of .canned tomatoes, 25 per cent
of the total output of canned peas,
corn and string , beans and one-half
that of dried peaches.
ALLIES ARE STILL
AT
ALONG MARNE AND SEVERAL
OTHER SECTORS, STRUGGLE
CONTINUES UNABATED.
IMPORTANT POINTS ARE MEN
Considerable , Fighting In Macedonia
and Albania with Alles Hold- .
ing the Upper Hand.
The ninth day of the allied offensive
on the Soissons- Rheims salient saw a
lessening in the intensity of the battle
along the western side of the salient,
where only mutual bombardments
were in progress. Along; the Marne,
however, and southwest of Rheims';
the Franco-Americans, British and
Italian troops were still at deadly
grips with the enemy on various sec
tors. The Germans strove hard In the
forest region north of the Marne to
hold back the French and American
troops, debouching from the woods in
strong counter attacks The enemy,
however, everywhere was forced
slightly further back to the north and
the forests now have been almost en
tirely cleared of Grmans.
Southwest, of Rheims heavy rein
forcements evidently have, been
thrown along the front, where the
British, French and Italians are fight
ing. In the immediate region of Reuil,
where the battle line turns sharply
towards Rheims, the French have cap
tured several important points of
vantage, including the village of Reuil
and also advanced their line north
ward, notwithstanding the violence of
the German counter move.
Before the fighting died down along
the western side of the Rheims-Sois-sons
salient the villages of Ouichy le
Chateau and Ville Monoire were cap
tured by French and American troops.
Big allied guns have been pulled up
in this region end are heavily
shelling the sectors before them over
which it Is purposed to push forward
for the capture of Fere En Tardenois.
In France and Flanders the British
have been compeled to withstand
several violent attacks by the Ger
mans, near Hebuterne and In the vi
cinity, of Meteren. The enemy in both
sectors was repulsed with heavy cas
ualties. On the other battle fronts the mili
tary activity is nominal, although con
siderable fighting in Macedonia and
Albania with the allied troops holding
the upper hand.
MAY BE SETTING STAGE
FOR DECISIVE BATTLE
Washington. Behind the apparent
lull in the struggle around the Aisne
Marne salient the high command of
the allied and German armies may be
setting stage for the decisive battle of
the war. In that event it seems more
than likely to .obs erver's here . that
the fourth annivereary of the begin
ning -of the world conflict will see a
flame of fighting raging from east' of
Rheims to the North sea; but with the
crucial conflict in pi ogress somewhere
Just north of the historic Marne where
the Germans have twice tasted the
bitterness of defeat.
There is nothing i.s yet in unofficial
reports, however, ror In official ad
vices so far as known, to show the
plan of General Foch. Flickers of
fighting Jiave' occurred to the north
that may have more ' han local signifi
cance behind them. There is some
evidence of feeling here that the
time has not yet come when a suffi
cient American army has been assem
bled in France to warrant passing def
initely to offensive tactics. It was
recalled that General March recently
indicated to membeis of Congress that
this was not to be expected until later
in the year. The siruation has chang
ed greatly at the front since then,
however, and ctoly developments there
will show what decision has been
made.
BRITISH CRUISER. AND
DESTROYER TORPEDOED
London. The British armed cruiser
Marmora was torpedoed and sunk by
a German submarine.: according to an
announcement made by the British
admiralty, v Ten members of the crew
of the vessel are missing and it is pre
sumed they were killed. The admi
ralty also announces that a British
torpedoboat destroyer ran ashore and
later sank, Thirteen of het crew are
missing and it is piesumed they were
drowned.
GERMAN EMPEROR. THINKS
FINAL DECISION IS NEAR
The Hague. "The. hardest part
of the job is still . before ns.
The enemy knows the war Is
about to reach the point of de
cision and is summoning all his
strength for a final defense and
counter offensive." This was the
observetion of the German em
peror recorded by Karl, Rosner, In
the " Ber"un Lokal Anzeiger and ap
parently Aade on th eve of General
Foch's offensive.
DEADLY
GRIPS
ENEMY LOSES ARE
ESTIMATED 200,000
AMERICANS ARE CREDITED WITH
ONE-FOURTH OF LOSSES IN
FLICTED ON GERMANS.
FOCH'S TRAP MAY BE SPRUNG
Will Foes Yield . t Fate and With
draw, or Continue the Fight
to a "Finish? '" :
With the American Armv on the
Aisne-Marne Front. With' the sides
of the Soissons-Rheims sack coming
steadily closer together, the German
crown prince's geneials are driving
their men mercilessly in an effort to
hold them off long enough to extricate
the armies threatened at the bottom,
north of the Marne.
The American and French troops
are never far behind the retreating
forces, and the vicious rear guard ac
tions are not sufficiently resistant to
enable the Germans to proceed in the
orderly manner planned.
At Dormans, north of the Marne and
east of Chateau-Thierry, the Germans
counter-attacked, taking the position,
but weer promptly driven out.
Minor advances have been made by
the allies in the woods Jn that part of
the sector ; .
The Americans have occupied Cour-
poll on the road to Fere-En-Tarde
nois, and the French positions have
been advanced until Oulchy-Le-Cha-
teau is dominated by the guns.
It is estimated unofficially that the
enemy losses are more than 200,000,
of which 50,000 were inflicted by the
Americans. The prisoners alone num
ber over 20,000 and the losses in dead
and wounded am a.nna.lliner.
Should the Franco-British forces be
able to enlarge their advance mate
rially, the great trap might be finally
sprung by final overwhelming blows
on both sides. In that event, all of the
victories pictured in . tonight's . ru
mors might be well realized.
To the cool judgment Of army offi
cers, . however the situation did not
warrant, on the basis of any informa
tion available at a late hour, the as
sumption that the time had come
when the jaws of Foch's great vise
might be crushed together. Knowing
what they know of the strength of the
Germans massed to hold back the
menacing flank attacks, they believed
it entirely possible for the enemy to
escape northward. The question in
their minds was whether he had final
ly determined to retreat and surren
der all the ground gained in his ef
forts since he struck the French
lines on the Chemin-Des-Dames last
May, or had resolved to fight it out
to a finish where he now stands or on
lines slightly withdrawn from their
present position near the Marne.
Late advices indicated that further
withdrawal was in progress along the
southern loop of the line. Franco
American advances north of Dormans
shows that points to which the enemy
has clung tenaciously for days arte
being taken. Pressure all along the
line from Jaulgonne. to the Ourcq
probably has made these most south
erly German positions untenable, it
was said.
SIX NEW DIVISIONS TO BE
ORGANIZED AT EARLY DATE
Washington. "With reference to
the American program," General
March said, "I have directed to be or
ganized in the United States six new
divisions during the month of July.
These six divisions will be organized
at Camps Devens, Meade, Sheridan,
Custer, Funston and Lewis, and will
be numerically designated from 9 up
tol4. In the organization of these
divisions, we intend to use as a nu
cleus in each one of them two regular
regiments of infantry which have been
taken from the regular regiments still
left in the United States guarding util
ities, quietly replacing them during
the last month or two by home guards.
These regiments are now moving into
the designated camps as the national
army. -
MOUTH OF POCKET REDUCED
TO 21 MILES IN WIDTH
London. British and French troops
have advanced, to Gueux and Mery
Premecy, in the battle sector just
west of Rheims, according to infor
mation received here from the battle
front. The new line shows ' an ad
vance of about two miles, toward
Fismes. The mouth of the pocket Is
now only 21 miles wide and the whole
distance between the two sides is
under the range of -the, entente al
lied guns.
TO STOP PROFITEERING
x IN CEREAL PRODUCT8
Washington. Fair prices to govern
the sale of flour and milling products
at every milling point In the United
States have been worked out with a
view to stopping all profiteering. Lo
cal prices represent the freight de
ductions from the . seaboard prices.
Jobbers prices are required to be not
more than 25 to 50 cents a barrel ovei
the delivered cost,' and retailers' prices
not more than $1.20 a barrel over' h8
cost price.
EDITORS ENJOY
RUE PROGRAM
CONVENTION OF N. C. PRESS AS
SOCIATION AT A8HEVILLE
WAS UNUSUALLY LARGE.
WHITEHEAD ELECTED CREST.
Sherrill Again Secretary George
Creel and Senator Overman Make
Addresses .
With a good attendance and one of
the best programs In the history of
the organization, -the North Carolina
Press Association met in Ashev'ille
July 24 and 25 for a two days' con
vention. The features of the program were
speeches by George Creel, chairman
of the Committee of Public Informa
tion, Washington, and Senator Over
man. '
President Martin's annual address,
an address on "War Savings Stamps"
by Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson, ot
Winston-Salem, and the annual , ora
tion by W. T. Bost, of Raleigh, were
enjoyable numbersv of the first day.
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State superintend
ent of schools, in an address, urged
the editors to work for . six months'
school terms throughout the State...
An important step was taken for the
press of the State when the editors di
rected the formulating of a resolution
asking the State legislature to place
legal advertising on the same basis as
commercial advertising. Previous to
the instruction for the resolution,
M. L. Shipman, commissioner of ldbor
and printing, of Raleigh, and H. B.
Varner, publisher of The Dispatch,
Lexington, spoke on "Legal Advertis
ing," maintaining that under present
arrangements the publishers' do not
get just compensation for their space.
"The Editor's Duty in War Times',
was discussed by T. . W Chamblfss,
Times, Asheville; W. H. Harris, Ob
server, Charlotte, and Archibald John
ston, Charity and Children, Thomas
ville. R. F. Beasley, Journal, Monroe,
spoke on "Democracy In Action."
The executive committee reported
new members as follows: J. Leake
Carroway, Charlotte; W. G. Campbell,
Winston-Salem; W. J. Martin, Ra
leigh; L. M. Allen, Gastonia; Bion H.
Butler, Southern Pines.
Officers elected for the following
year are as follows:
. President, Z. W. Whitehead, of the
Southern Labor Journal, Wilmington.
First vice president, R. T. Wade, of
the Morehead City Coaster.
Second vice president, Ike London,
of the Rockingham Post-Dispatch.
Third vice president. Miss Beatrice
Cobb, of the Morganton News-Herald.
Secretary, J. B. Sherrill, of the Con
cord Tribune.
Historian, M. L. Shipman, Commis
sioner of Labor and Printing.
Orator, H. R. Dwire, Winston-Salem.
Poet, Dr. William Daurle Hill, Ra
leigh. Executive committee, H. B. Varner,
W. C. Hammer, J. F. Hurley, James
H. Cain, and Santford Martin.
Henry M. London and W. T. Bost
were made members of the legislative
committee. , (
In electing Miss Beatrice Cobb third
vice president the association will
have a woman president In three years
if precedent is followed at subsequent
meetings. Miss Cobb is a zealous
worker in the association and her
newspaper, the News-Herald, Morgan
ton, reflects her ability to. handle the
presidency of the association.
The election of J. B. Sherrill as sec
retary is the beginning of his thirtieth
year in this position.
ORGANIZATION U. S. EMPLOY
MENT SERVICE PERFECTED
The organization of the United
States Empolyment Service in North
Carolina is about perfected now for
the mobilization after August 1 of
unskilled labor In North Carolina for
the benefit of employers, contractors
and industries engaged in war work
and employing more than one hun
dred men.
STATE BOARD SUCCESSFULLY
COMBATS 3PREAD OF TYPHOID
. The nine counties in North Carolina
which are co-operating with the state
board of health through the bureau of
county health work were particularly
active during the past month in their,
efforts to combat the spread of typhoid
fever, the great scourge of the 'sum'
mer months. These large and popu
lous counties contain large negro pop
ulations. These counties reported 49
cases of typhoid fever for the month
or less than five per cent.
MANY COLLEGE MEN ARE
IN SERVICE OF AVIATION
North Carolina colleges hare sent
many of their men to the front. While
comparative figures , would be difficult
to obtain, it is practically certain that
if they could be had they would show
North Carolina well up to .he front in
this respect. Estimated figures for the
various colleges are as follows: The
University in excess of one thousand;
State College, 700; Trinity College,
over 500; Davidson College, 400; Wake
Forest, 40); Elon, 400.
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