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VOL. XVIIL-No. 22
KINSTON, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1916
PRICE IFIVET CENTS
-w - , i a i w m-r - - A A A
GERMANY WILL
REJECTION PEACE PROPOSALS WITH BIG
ACTIVITIES IN FIELD; OFFER
England Prepares, to Put Anther, Million Men In Field
Berlin JSxpects Enormous Allied Offensive Jn Spring-
Proposals, Together With
State Department Britain Has Put Out Great Arm
ies In .Year What Ym
ducting Mostigorous Winter Campaign Still Stands
Indications Against Cessation Hostilities in the Near
Future
(By the United Press)
Washington, Dec. 14.
carrying out the wishes of
Powers as their diplomatic
capitals was taken today.
ceipt of the official text of the Teutonic peace proposals,
which already has been published, Secretary Lansing, at
the President's orders, dispatched it to London, Paris, Pe-
trdgrad and Tokio and, to the
mania, Serbia and Belgium.
to her enemies was sent without suggestions or comment
by theasresiflent.
TMsction completely fufillled the request of the Cen-
L ! 11 TT.'l. J r(J-J Tj. - - i.J.1
trai empirasjzisae oi we unuea siates. u is .s.aieu on
highest authority that ,the President's mind is still entire
ly open. He Ssjstill undetermined. He will reach no de
cision until frfi has confidential advices from American
rejjfresentatives at the Entente Allied capitals.
faB foint, however, became clear. This was that
holder careful the President and his advisers are, that
np Ujove be made that 'might be received unfavorably by
thje Aped govrnments, it has been suggested -to him that
I$d3j3S,fi statement, concise, clear and full, delivered to
the &43Ja,i.an people and to the world, might be the en
tering wedge to be adopted.
Washington Gets Text.
Washington, Dec. 14. Germany's peace
reached the State Department over n ight.
Grew of the Berlin, entbassy transmitted with the note a
confidential memorandum for the President and Secre
tary Lansing, to be used as a guidance for them in deal
ing with the peace subject. The text to all intents is iden
tical', with press, dispatches received earlier.
England to Arm Another Million.
jLondon, Dec. 14. A war office supplementary estim
ate provides for an additional million' men of all ranks
in the army for the year ending March 31, 1917, making
a total of five million for that twelve months' period.
Germany i Figbt as Though Nothing Had Happened.
Berlin, Dec. 14. Despite Germany's peace proposals,
Von Hindenburg's declaration that there will be no rest
tfus winter still stands. A military authority repeated
this quotation of the field marshal's today arnon re
marks in commenting on the fact that Germany had
weighed carefully the peace question before the an
nouncement was made, knowing that England did not
desire peace because the Allies intend to launch an enor
mous spring offensive.
SENTENCE MILITIAMEN
Washington, Dec. 13. 'President
Wilson today approved the action of
an army court-martial in sentencing
Lewis O. Gardner of the New Mex
ico Militia, to dishonorable discharge
and a year in prison at hard labor far
failure to obey the Federal call for
border duty test June, but remitted
the prison sentence because the case
had been pressed as a test.
War Department officials regard
the decision as important because of
the warning it give? p jnose than
1U.000 enrolled member of the Na
tional Guard who have not appeared
for Federal service.
Farm: Demonstration Agent O. F.
McCrary twants to establish six mod
el orchard 1 in ' Lenoir county," on
scales of one acre and one-half acre.
The trees for a one-acre orchard1 jaay
had for $20, he says. ."These
would not be trees that some agents
ttitfit offer for tale, but of varieties
JKWen in .this section." Mr. MoCra
T has blueprints 'showing how "ah,
rcaard should' ba laid off. Oh 0pe
. ?uriiCi jr&U can be nade,
e says, planting '""apples, peaches,
cherries and several other fruits and
FOLLOW UP ANTICIPATED
IS IGNORED
Confidential Matter, Reach
Hjndenburg. Said About Con
America's first step toward
Germany and the Centra
representative in the Entente
Within a few hours after re
provisional capitals ot Kou
The German communication
proposals
Secretary
BRIEFS IN THE NEWS
NEIGHBORING CITIES
John Crabtree, 15, accidentally shot
by a companion on a hunting trip in
Pamlico county, died at New Bern.
Miss Huldah Bowen 'of New lrn
was seriously burned when her Iwth
robe took fire from a heater.
Col. James Bryan, a prominent
New Bernian, is seriously ill follow
ing a stroke of apoplexy.
Prophet George, East Carolina's
colored soothsayer, declares then? will
be no snow tjhis Winter. George's
predictions in some matters, certain
ly have not come true?
Washington will send its soldiers
on the border a community Chist
mas box, if a plan being agitated is
carried out
KANSAS HAS WORST
COAL MINE DJSASTER
'Pittsburgh ansas., D.ec. 13.
Twenty miners were killed -and seven
Jnjiyed in an explosion jate tfifcy in
the Ree': and Ryan Coal Mine at
Stone City, 16 miles southwest of
here. Th injured men will recover,
it was .believed. A combination of
gas and powder explosion It said to
have 'caused the disaster, '
t d iflss of life today: yas5 the
greatest one in the history of Kansas
coal mining, mine ofTwials said to-
MORGAN 4 VISITOR
TO BRITISH EMB'SSY
ft, . : !
ON SECRET MISSION
(By the United Press)
Washington, : Dec. 14. J. P. Mor
gan, financial representative of the
Entente Allies in America, was a se
cret visitor at the British embassy
today. ' His purpose is Assumed tt
have been to gather information as
to the possible attitude of the Enten
te Allies toward Germany's , peace
proposals from Ambassador Spring
Rue. It is further assumed that his
visit may have a broad effect" upon
future developments of internation
al financing.
MOTHERS: CLUB WANTS,
BUSINESS EN'S HELP
WITH CGfilKITY TREE
Docs. Kinslon want a Communi
ty Christmas Tree this year? .If
so, the Mothers' Club is ready to
arrange a program and undertake
the leading part. The club has
already gone to record as favoring J
n public celebration again .this 1
year. The plans do not contem
plate the distribution of gifts or
confectionery from the tree, but
for the arrangement of a suitable
musical program,, a prettily dec
orated tree and an emphasized op
portunity for bringing gifts for
the poor of Kinston. Such- offer
ings will be given over to thn su
perintendent of the Associated
Charities for proper distribution.
But! The Mothers' Club must
have some help. Men are needed.
The volunteer services of some of
Kins ton's good business men must
be enlisted if the undertaking is
attempted.
Who will volunteer? Call Mrs.
H. Gait Braxton, president, or
Mrs. J. II. I'arham, secretary ot
the Mothers' Club, at once if you
will help, Mr. Businessman.
RE LOVES THE CITY,
BUT OH, YOU PULLETS
AND .COWS, HE SINGS
Butter Bean" Sidney Arthur.
18,
going to the country. If mors
jnir fellows would follow Arthur's
xamnle and experiment, me uue
ounl turn back to the little white
cottage and red barn. Sidney Arthur
last spring took over not quite half
an acre cf ground in the outskirts oi
Kinston. He did not diversify. Young
Arthur broke the ground and started
in to cultivate it after the most ap
proved fashion. He put in 1,540 hills
of butter beans. His about three
sevenths of an acre of city land net
ted him $107.20. "The harvest was
945 quarts, retailing for about 15c.
He marketed methodically. During a
part of the season butter beans could
be had here almost for the picking.
The local crop was a bumper one. Did
Sidney Arthur put his product on the
market when the market pulled off a
disastrous slump? He did not.
Sidney Arthur purchased his own
clothe:;', which is more than a lot of
Kinston 18-years-old are doing,
and has a neat num left He is going
to buy "cattle" with the remainder.
Yes, Sidney is going on a farm next
year. He looks forward to the time
with tio misgiving; he is plotting and
planning; there are a lot of big
things to be done .with" little seed on
a little plantation, he says.
WANT WAG? INCREASES -FOR
GOVT EMPLOYES
Washington, Dec. 12. An organ
ized effort directed by the American
Federation .of Labor to induce Con
gress to graftt wage and salary in
creases to all employes of the Unit;
ed States government from President
down to the humblest laborer, 'was
planned at a meeting here today pre
side 1 cer by Samuel Combers.' r '
COMMERGlE MEET G
WILL I WED IN
U YOajffi YEAR
Congress Accepts Invitation
of Maor "and Business
smen-r-lSt Time Out of
South Review of Atlan
tic Fleet
(Special to The Free Press)
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 14 Three days
of the "eighth annual convention of the
Southern Commercial Congress have
seen a considerable accomplishment
of the many BUhjects to have been
completed, the Congress as a body
has been able to carry out substan
tially the great program.
Public festivities reached a climax
yesterday with the reviewing of the
Atlantic fleet of battleships and
fleet of vessels of the -Department ot
Commerce by three cftbtnet officers
and many other distinguished guests,
among them the governors of several
Southern 'States. The fleet was an
chored off HamDton roads in three
long columns past which the review
ing vessels headed by the presiden
tial yacht Mayflower, carrying the
naval comimittee of the House, accom
panied by Secretary Daniels, swept
majestically as the warships boomed
fotth the regulation salute. ,
Last night the fleet was resplend
ent in myriad electric lights, besides
which there was a searchlight drill.
Together these illumination features
presented a fitting climax to the
day's activities. '
' The committee on resolutions,
which was organized early in the
Convention, already have indicated
that many of the propositions before
the Congress will be recommended
for adoption. Chief of these is the
M.ussel Shoals development for a
power site and nitrogent plant. This
is regarded as one Sf the most im
portant matters now before the peo
ple of the South, and it is expected
the Congress will recommend its
construction.
Conspicuous among the very few
resolutions tabled.? was tke following,
which was introduced by Delegate F.
B. Wins'ton of North Carolina :
"Resolved, That the complete in
dustrial, intellectual and social' devel
opment of the Southern States can
be secured only when the negro race
is segregated and becomes a part of
the citizenship of our sister states,
and that we will encourage all move
ments tending to an equitable distri
bution of our negro population
among the other States of the Union,
and that we favor an immediate re
peal of all statutes which in any
way retard such a movement. The
motion to table the remarkable res.
olution precluded any debate. Had
there been any discussion many dele
gates are certain that considerable
opposition would have been aroused.
Meets New York Next.
Norfolk, Hcc. 13. The Southern
Commercial Congress will hold it
191 convention in New York City, it
was announced tonight, the directors
accepting an invitation .presented this
morning from the New York Retail
Merchants Association and Mayor
Mitchell. -This will be the firPt time
the congress has met in a city out
side of the South.
OflScers also were elected ;by the
directors tonight, Senator Duncan U.
Fletcher of Florida, again being cho
sen president. All of the other offi
cers were re-elected except that Ice
land Hume of Nashville was: named
second vice-president to succeed Al
bert P. Btifh, Jr., of Mobile. fhe of
fice of counsellor of the colonoziation
bureau was created end George W.
Km'ner, agricultural commissioner of
Virginia was selected to fill it.
'-WARSMAN ,
CHARGE STRICKEN Sflip
.. ;
(By ih United Press) 'fy.
Norfolk, Dee. USow I. C.; Liev-
ine of tilt battieshia Nevada, if jias
senger, .assumed command when Ae
steamer Powhatan was struck by an
Tfcnlmowrr h1jj last' night, and averted
a panic, was tojd by passengers land-
ed here pf C;e eutter -aw.
CASE SCHOOL MET
TiilSD'Vt SCH'OL
. J
Pr. McN.airy Made Encour
aging Report and Rccom
mended Doubling Capac
ity of Institution by 1918.
Entertainment
The Board of Directors of the Cas
well Training School met Thursday
at the school. All the members pf
the board were present except Jipn.
W. C. Xewland of Lenoir. The .board
heard a most interesting and encour
aging report from Supt. C. B. Mc
Nairy, and witnessed a presentation
of a school exercise which demon
strated to them that much progress
Is being mad? by the school. The .chil
dren, although deficient mentally
show marked improvement from the'
training' that ia being given .them and
their faces give evidence of the in
creasing intelligence which. the
schpolin,g ,is bringing Ho them in their
unfortunate condition.
Dr. McNairy to)d of the work being
done and of the urgent needs of the
school. His budget for the ensuing
two years, recommended to the board,
contemplates doubling the capacity
cf the institution.
A dinner recess was taken and the
members of the board and some oth
er friends were ,th,e guegts of Dr.
:nd Mrs. McNairy at their hospitable
home, where the inner man was
bounteously and most palatably taken
care of in the u MeNairy style.
The board resumed its .meeting af
ter dinner.
Those in atisndar.ee at the meet
ing were: Dr. j. i . joyner, presi
dent, Hon. J. K. Baggett, W. A,
Thompson, R. F-. Austin, A. B. Jus
tice, J. 1). Boushail, Mark Majette,
Kev. D. N. C'aviness, Dr. L. B. Mc-
Eraycr, Dr. W. H. Dixon, C. Dewey,
D, F. Wooten and Dr. McNajry.
Superintendent's Report.
"For the sake of posterity, I want
lo make a personal appeal that ade
quate provisiqn be made for the se-
grcgatiqn of all the high-grade men-
1 defective or feeble-mmded chil
dren," aiJ the superintendent, Dr.
McNairy, in his annual report to the
trustees. "I 'honestly believe that if
for a period of two or three genera
tions, mental defective men and wo
men were prevented by segregation
or sterilization from propagating,
mental dgftciency would be very ma
terially decreased ;;,and if 11 the men
tal . defectives were segregated or
sterilized, in a period of 100 years
mental deficiency and insanity would
be almost wholly eliminated. The
Jysh-grade mental defective child to
the casual pbseryer is apparently not
far from normal; physically man of
them appear normal many of them
are good-looking and but for their
mental defects would get along well
in the world. They usually raise
large families. Heredity is regarded
i f i ii .. ,
as a tremenaous iacior in me cuso-
tion of all mental defection. Statis
tics show that at least 65 per cent,
of all mental defective children
come from mental defective par
ents." A smaller number, probably
two per cent, come frpm trauma
tism; possibly five per cent, from
.diseases qf he brain and other dis
eases. "Vtt have no ngni 10 auow
the defects of this generation to be
stamped 'pon the children Ot coming
generations when we have the power
to prohibit and control."
Dr. McNairy reviewed the work of
thesch'ool for the feeble-minded
since ita opening in the summer of
1914, and dwelt upon the need ior
immeiiiSe enlargement jtrf its facili
ties. '.Statistics ferej iyen of the
work in the institution, including the
scheoljahich has a, faculty' of .three
literary- and one music teacher. The
J$V$t .dairy and industrial -' depart
ments -have each ..jpeen frattryingiy
successful. "The progress made by
the children has been wonderful," he
declared. . - '' '
XrCTt needs for next .ypsr r
rated by, Supt-MMcrNairy i- '
dormitory' to fccommo
which with rep - s r 11
present 1 " '
"j 1 1 '1 " 1
TEMNS OUGHT SELL
THEIR Clip J
Border Summer Is Bad,
Border Winter Awful
Carolina Boys Won't Be
Home for Christmas Hol
idays iand Won't Beg
Anybody
(Special to The Free Press)
.1 t'aso, uexas, Uec. v. ihis u
the finest cCmate in the world that
we have around Fort Bliss. The na
tives say so. We don't believe it.
Honest, it's been colder here in No
vember and December than it ever
gets in Carolina in January. One sol
dier the other day suggested that
they bundle up what they're giving us
here and sell it to the Chicago cold
storage people. We will never, nev
er again knock a delicious border
summer, with an average tempera
ture of 110, as long as we live.
We want to go back to the States.
Nearly all hands down here do. But
few so badly as our Northern cousins
from Pennsylvania. They did have
demonstrations a few days ago. They
howled and; yelled: "We want to go
horrte; we want to go honiejVfe want
a, want-a, want-a go home home!"
It was amusing. No North Carolin
ian would dare anything like it. The
discipline isi a little different. Now,
here we've been out just ns long as
they. True they were here first,
but we were sweating and struggling
back at Canjp Glenn all the time. Wt
are willing jto go home any old day,
but now, we're not going to keep
folk.? up all night a&out it. A stray
note found its way pver into one of
the Pennsy regiments. "We're going
to send you' all bottles and condensed
milk for Christmas. Get the depart
ment to let'your mothers come fix it
up for you.V
They have one bear over there. It
was a perfectly good bear. But we
cannot prove proprietorship. There
are lots of bears like it. But we are
going to get even. One morning that
bunch will wake up and find their
shoes gone. We can't well take their
shirts; they sleep .in them. I forgot
in my last i to mention the football
game. It was interesting- Just as
nice a game as you could wish to set
until a Pennsy doughboy said the
fqrbidden thing in the direction ot b
Tarheel opponent. Aftjer the mixup
and the separation of the elevens all
hands went back to their quarters.
The next two days were spent in ex
plaining to; visiting Philadelphians
and Pittsbiirghers that "we don't
have those things in North Carolina.''
The North Carolina eleven so fa;
has cleanediup the local corps, and is
claiming the championship of the ar
my, Philippines, Hawaii and all other
divisions included.
We won't be home for Christmas.
INCREASE IN COTTON
USE?) THIS NOVEMBER
Washington, Dec. 14. Cotton con
sumed in 'November exclusive of lint
ers amounted to 584,082 running
bales, against 514,743 in November
of last yeajr, the Census Bureau to
day announced.
an industrial building containing a
laundry, domestic science department,
sewing room, glove and knitting ma
chines, overall and dressmaking de
partment, etc., to cost $15,000;
changes in jthe present laundry bdild
ing, $6,000 farm and other equip
ment, $6,000; a cottage for employes,
11,000, and: other improvements, the
whole totalling more than $100,000.
JSeventy-fivip thousand dollars is ask
ed for maintenance next year, and
10S,000 fop maintenance and $5,Q0p
for a power plant for 1918, a total qf
$293,000 for the jwo jars. Te 1m
f'" "ents: asked would about dpu
" - capacity " of . the lnstitgtiop:.
on file which it has Tot
1 1
.eve rn
REFRIGERATOR
NORTHGLIFFE SAYS
PMMOPTipi
S A VEILED FRAUD
Internal and International
Troubles Cause Kaiser to'
- Seek Peace :Ji;,
LONDON MORE RATIONAL
Would Not Turn Down Of
fer Without Letting Cen
tral Powers Know; Just
What Entente Will Ac
cept With Peace
By LORD NO(RTHCL)FFE.
(Copyrighted I9i hy JUniUd frees)
London, Dec. 14.-Germany's peace
proposals were due ty a fact which
leutral correspondents were not al
lowed to indicate during the last feflf
weeks. .
Grave internal dissensions bava
arisen owing to the food shortage.
There is a virtual xeign of Jterror ' hi
Germany. Relations are strained be
tween JMin Sn0 Trl Jitati, hM
wth Turkey. i,
Proposals have been received with
ipntem.pt. Fraoqe, jRyssia, taly and
Belgium are Arm aa Plymouth Rock
London Would Give Terms. "'K
London, Dec. 14. entimfJ in-
:reased ,tpday in favor of including ia
Sngland's answer Xo Gecmany'a peacW
note a definition M the esV basis
!rm s. It pertatn hst ,tHf nwer
will be a ejectiprfat this ,time, but It
Is Ve,U hat the Allies ehpuld ' mejj!
Germany's strategy by a move which
would put the Allies first to; waka
known demands and concessions. : ',,
SOLDIER; DIFFICULT;;
TOOT AT THE TRUTH
fSxplanatory -This came Ute ' ill
the Pternoqn.) , ' '
El Paso, Dec J14. Lt. W.;', A.
Faulkner ,of Company JJt, ni N., .
C. infantry, ahot .Cprnoral .Br-,
teur accidentally last night.
a'oiknr was officer .f the day
at the time, which accounts for
his being armed.
fferbour's condition is not seri
Wofs. Reports that Faulkner is
tottfofr fcrrest are, of course, e-
roneous.
A Wilson report says a telegram
received there stated that Norwood
Barbour, a soldier of (the Second
North Carolina infanbry, had been
shot and seriously wounded by
"Lieutenant Fauljiner," organization
and home not given.. Tlje shooting
was said to have been accidental.
One lung was pentr.ltef ,bj ,1jne bul
let and 'Barbour, prominent in - hie
home town, was in a serious condi
tion. There is but one Lieutenant Faulk,
ner from North Carolina. H is Lt.
W. A. Faulkner, of Barbour's regi
ment, from this city. A.n Ohioan
bears the same name and rank, sec
pud lieutenant. ' -
The plot thickens, - The Free Press
at 8.-30 a. m. Thursday wired it tor
respondent at Fort filiss for particu
lars. The whole ,mschjn.er)y of tha
Western Union has been arable to
extract a reply from tha worjfliy." tie
evidently was not located. the! tele
graph people have been instructed to
leave no stone unturned in 'tio be
lief that he might he under a stone
but just figuratively speaking. -' Ala
to look in every place where a sol
dier might be three days after pay
day. . ".. 7'viC"
CRAZED BY REGION-?
TRIED KILL CIIILDM
Wilson, Dec. lS.-Luke'Teddor.':
white man from pringhilltownship,
jraa fcrough,t to Wilson, this' pveniny,
a TBvi, i maniac. lie s" 1 t
tuai t of h!s " ' '
chair. .. I is c ' f