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JUST AS WELL PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW AND HELP A YOUNG Lf DY WIN ONE OF THE PRIZES-YOU NEEDN'T WAIT AT AL the Monroe journai PUBLISHED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. VOL.20. No. 68. MONROE, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1914. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. SHOULD WORK HARD THIS WEEK CONTESTANTS WILL GET BENE FIT OF EXTRA VOTES XOW. Subscription to The Journal Will Xev. er Be Lest Than at Present And Everybody Will Want the News WhUe So Much is Going On in the World Reader Should Pay Their Subscriptions When Called Vpon 80 As Xot To Make Second Calls Xecessarv. This week should be one of hard work by the contestants in The Jour nal's big annual subscription contest The extra vote period has been ex tended for the week, making it a most profitable and effective time to push up the standing of the various work ers. Contestants should have their re ports in promptly by Monday night fo that they may be counted and cred ited in the next issue of the paper on Tuesday. There will be some new noniina tions. Several young ladies are get ting into the contest who have not before been working. The beautiful bracelets, solid gold which make up the twelve district prizes, are now on exhibition at The W. J. Rudge Co's. Like the other prizes, they are the objects of the greatest admiration from all who have seen them. The wonder is that such handsome and solid prizes can be given. Well, we have explained how we are doing this, to the great profit of the workers who take part in the contest. Now, a word to readers of the paper. That word is don't disap point the young ladies. Don't turn them off with a promise. Promises don't help them. Give them your subscription or renewal and let them go for others. Don't compel them to make two or three trips to see you The amount Is small, and while times lire hard, It is true, (still, we cannot do without the news at this time, Never before in our life time, r.nd per haps never again, will uch things be going on in the world as at present We must learn about them. While we must all economize, no one will want to economize by doing without the twice a week visits of the paper, especially when greater economy can be secured somewhere else and not missed half so much. The Journal will never be cheaper than It Is today It never can be. The paper Is going to great expense to make it convent ent for subscribers to renew their subscriptions, and we will appreciate the fact if each will promptly and cheerfully aid the young ladies when they call. RULES. 1. To enter the contest, fill In the nomination coupon found in this is sue and mail to The Journal office, The nomination coupon will be worth 5,000 votes. 2. No one connected with The Journal will be allowed to participate In this contest in any way. 3. Subscriptions turned In by con testants will be accepted in exchange for voting certificates. These cortlft cates may be cast at any time the holder sees fit, provided that no con testant will be allowed to cast more than 10,000 more than tho leader of the previous week. All certificates over and above this amount must be held in reserve. This rule will be suspended beginning with the last week of the contest and nil certifi cates mny be cast whenever the hold er sees fit. The standing of contest ed r.ts will he published in the Tuesdny edition of The Journal and the fig ures in this published score shall represent the official count. If an error occurs tho attention of the man ager must be called to it before the next Tuesday. 4. Votes are not transferable. 5. Any contestant may have as many friends as she may wish to as sist her in securing subscriptions. Subscription books, etc., will be fur nished upon request. 6. Monday night at 8:30 marks the closing hour for the week. Your re port must be in the office by that time if you wish your standing to be changed in the issue of next day. grand prizes shall not be elliglble for the district prize. 7. Vote coupons will be published in The Journal of each issue. Watch the paper and have your friends do the same and get as many of these coupons as you can. They may be exchanged for voting certificates any time you wish. 8. All books and records of the contest will be open to the public im mediately after the close of the .con test. Every contestant gets a square deal and we want her to know it. MERIT not money WINS. 10. There will be three grand prizes and twelve district prizes. The grand prizes will go to the three young ladies having the highest score regardless of district. The nine townships In Union county, also Lan caster and Chesterfield counties in South Carolina, shall constitute a district each, exept nroe town ship shall constitute two districts the City of Monroe one and the bal ance of the township the other In which a grand prize for the highest vote In each district will be awarded, provided that a winner of one of the 11. If you send In a new subscrip tion or a renewal at the same time and in the same letter that you send 1n your nomination you will receive 8,000 extra votes (over and above the regular vote allowed) for each subscription or renewal which will be credited to your account at the same time your nomination Is published, which will make your standing the first week 15,000 votes as all con t"?ants start evenly with 5.000 v s. See wale of votes for value of subscriptions and renewals. 12. Anyone who was receiving The Journal regularly when the contest opened will be considered as an old subscriber. No subscription will be consldred as new when changed from one member of the family or house hold to another. 13. No subscriptions for less than a year wll be accepted. SCALE OF VOTES FOR NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS. A 1- year subscription 5,000 votes. A 2-year subscription 12,000 votes. A 3-year subscription 20,000 votes. A 4-year subscription 30,000 votes. A 5-year subscription 40,000 votes. FOR RENEWALS. A 1-year renewal .... 3,000 votes. A 2-year renewal .... 7.000 totes. A 3-year renewal .... 12.000 votes. A 4-year renewal .... 18,000 votes. A 5-year renewal .... 25,000 votes. WHAT IS LEFT FOIt FARMERS. Progressive Farmer of this Week Snys There In Absolutely Xo Hoe For Conceited Government Action. Progressive Farmer. The cotton farmers of the South must prepare themselves to work out their own salvation. Saturday, Oc tober 17, determined that fact. On that day the Southern Senators fail ed almost utterly to get support on their final plan for giving cotton growers relief, thus dissipating all hope of National legislation at this session of Congress; and on the same day an effort to have a Conference of Southern Governors in Memphis found no representatives present from either of the three greatest cotton-producing States Texas, Geor gia, and Alabama nor yet from Ok lahoma or Florida. The Governors of Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina were on hand, and Editor Toe of The Progressive Farmer was present as the officially commissioned representative of Gov ernor Craig of North Carolina. Gov ernor Hooper of Tennessee sent th Immigration Commissioner as his representative. No other Slate was represented directly or indirectly. The members present, seeing that they represented only a third of the South's production could agree on no uniform plan for South-wide action and simply issued a statement de 1. For the Wade plan for raising $150,000,000 to lend on cotton, and promising their support. 2. For a reduction in acreage next year of at least 50 per rent. 3. Declaring that better marketing facilities must be provided for hand ling the diversified crops made neces sary by present conditions. Perhaps the most notable result of the conference was negative. It was made plain that no South-wide plan can be worked out for acreage re duction by law; and no Governor present favored bond Issues to buy cotton. We might as well face this fact, that if any State wishes to pass a law to reduce its own acreage, or to issue bonds to buy half its own crop, It may do so; but nobody should be deceived into believing that all the cotton states are going to join then on either proposition. Such then is the general cotton sit nation today. ' The Wade plan promises some re lief, but apart from it, farmers must d"pend upon their bankers and thei creditors. It still seems wise to us In fact, absolutely imperative, for the farmers to hold. It will be re called that eclton was eight or nine cents this lime three years ago; then after Christmas climbed to ten, then to eleven, and then to twelve cents. We cannot prophesy, of course, but there may be similar Increase after this Christmas. At any rate, this is Just the season of year when the mar ket is flooded with "distressed cot ton," and unless a man is forced to sell It seems to us the height of folly for him to put his cotton on the mar ket at such a time. The following program seems to be sound and timely: 1. Hold your cotton In the seed If you can, as this plan Is said to help the quality of lint, and it will keep down ginning receipts. 2. If yeu must get some money on cotton, gin It and try to borrow from a bank. The bank will frequently lend direct to the farmer for half the cost of getting the money through a lawyer or professional money lender. 3. If you must sell outright, pool your cotton with that of your neigh bors who must sell; see that It Is properly graded, and work together to see that you get full market prices for both lint and seed. 4. Face the fact that we must cut our cotton acreage 50 per cent next year. Make plans to raise all the feed stuffs needed on your farm; and make plans, too, to co-operate with your neighbors in growing, grading, shipping and selling the excess prod ucts which you must grow on tho acreage you take from cotton production. 5. Finally, demand that your Slate Agricultural Department, Agricultur al College, etc., arrange to givo next year the same effective aid in crop- marketing through Institutes, bulle tins, personal assistance, and demon strations that they have heretofore given in cropMiiaking. THE COTTON RELIEF MEASURE KILLED. Republicans and Northern Democrats Voted It Down, While Southern Congressmen Voted For It. Washington Dispatch, Oct. 21. The compromise cotton relief plan, proposed by Southern Congressmen to relieve the situation resulting from the decreased European demand for cotton on account of the continental war, was defeated in the House today, 123 to 91. The proposal contemplat ed the deposit of 1250.000.000 of the Government funds in Southern banks to be loaned to cotton and tobacco growers. Southern members of the House fought strenuously, but In vain, for the bill. Chairman Glass of the Banking and Currency Committee and Republican Leader Mann opposed the plan as "utterly unsound," de claring it would contract the credit of the South rather than expand it. The cotton belt members led by Representatives Henry and Hardwlck insisted that the plan followed past treasury policies and that the treas ury often made large deposits of Gov ernment funds to avert a financial stress in various sections of the coun try. "Printing large sums of money nev er will help the cotton situation," Re publican Leader Mann told the House. "The proposition to increase the legal tender notes by $-50,000,-000 without any additional gold re serve" is a dangerous proposition. "What the South needs is a market for the cotton." "If $1,000,000,000 were placed In the South I doubt if money would be any easier. The people of the South or elsewhere will not loan money on cotton or anything else unless secu rity Is good. The more asset curren cy you have without sufficient assets behind it the less credit there will be." Representative Class said that the cotton amendment was unsound and without precedent in the history of the country, that shrewd business men would not buy the vast amount of bonds proposed and that the amendment would contract credit in stead of expand it. Lack of a quorum prevented action on the bill to permit National banks to issue circulating notes bared on commercial paper up to 10 per cent of unimpaired capital ami surplus and also on (lie measure to license cotton warehouses. Indications to night were that both of these meas ures would be "pocketed" in the rush for adjournment tomorrow. The cot ton relief compromise bill provided that the $250,000,000 be raised bv the issue of United States notes or the sale of Panama Canal bonds. CONGRESS COULD XOT ADJOURN'. Southern Senator Rlocked Resolu tion" After It Had Passed the House. Washington Dispatch. Oct. 22nd. Filibustering by Southern Demo crats fighting for legislation to re lieve the cotton situation upset plans for adjournment of Congress at six o'clock tonight. Led by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, Southern members at the last n-oment prevent ed action in the Senate on a Joint resolution to adjourn sine die already passed by the House, and It appeared tonight unless an agreement could be reached tomorrow for a recess until after thti November elections. Con gress would stay in session indefi nitely without a quorum. The collapse of the adjournment plan came after every hope for Its success had been held out and su preme efforts made to conclude the session after adoption in both houses of the conference report on the war tax bill. A spectacular feature of the situa tion was a dash by President Wilson in an automobile from a golf course to the Capitol to reach there In time to sign the war revenue bill before adjournment. The President rushed into the Capitol, followed by secret service men, at 5:45 o'clock. Attired In his golf clothes and without his reading glasses, he hastened to the President's room, where the revenue measure, signed by Speaker Clark and Senator Clarke, president pro tern of the Senate, awaited him. Borrowing glasses from Senator Hughes of New Jersey, the President signed the bill and several others. AUSTRIAN'S CRAZED HV WAR. Tt) AID STARVING ItELGIANS. Initiations From the United States and Other Count l ies Will lie Han dled by Americans. London Dispatch, Oct. 22. After diplomatic negotiations last ing several weeks, in which Amerlcr.n Ambassador rage acted Is Intermedi ary between Belgium, England and Germany, an agreement has been reached by which the starving Bel gians will be fed by a commission of Americans in London and Brussels, headed by Herbert C. Hoover of Cali fornia, who has acted as chairman of the American Relief Committee In London. It is estimated that 700,000 Belgians who are still In their own country are on the verge of starva tion. Early In the negotiations regarding means to relieve these people Germa ny declared her willingness to Rssist but declined to give guarantees re quested by the British until England lifted the embargo on food stuffs. The situation was becoming desperate when Ambassador Page proposed that Mr. Hoover undertake the work. Ger many immediately acceded to this plan and England promptly removed restrictions on food exports. Formal organization of the com mission will be completed today. Mr. Hoover already has purchased with the funds supplied by the Belgian re lief committee $150,000 worth of food, which will be sent to Belgium Saturday on a specially chartered ship by way of Rotterdam. The food situation In Belgium Is critical. Already more than 500,000 persons are being assisted through bread lines. According to the com mittee's report there are more than 300,000 of these persons In Brussels alone. The supply of food for these bread stations, it Is estimated, will not last more than a week longer. It Is expected the number of persons re quiring relief will increase to a mil lion within a month. A stream of chartered steamships will soon start from Holland with their cargoes consigned to officers of the commission at various places in Belgium. These officers will be un der direct control of the commission and will be located In London, Rot terdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Liege and other points. When necessary the commission will co-operate with the Belgian Na tional Relief Committee In Brussels. To Insure effective working of this co-operation, members of the Ameri can commission In Belgium will be made members of the Belgian com mission. Care will be taken to see that this co-operation does not affect the neutrality of the commission. Half a million dollars were placed at the disposal of Mr. Hoover yes terday from the various Belgian fund and Ambassador Page said $75,000 would be turned over to the commis sion today. j Records Show Women of Other Na tions Not Affected. New York Sun. One result of the European war Is that half a dozen or more Austrian women in New York city have fallen a prey to despondency end are now either in the psychopathic ward at Iltilevue Hospital or have been sent for recovery to the State institution. Otherwise, so far, tho strain induced by tho war has not had rn appreci able effect upon natives of other coun tries now engaged In the eonilict. No German mn or women, r.' French English or Russians have PUT'iii'.bed to it, so far as tho authorities have discovered. What mny appear if the rf niggle is prolonred is another mailer. . "One might think that owing to the gigantic task Germany has as sumed there would be a number of persons affected," said Dr. Menas S. Gregory, head of the psychopathic ward and a leading alienist, jester day. "The contrary in the case and the reason Is easily discoverable. "The Germans believe they have a righteous cause in this war, almost a holy cause, and therefore the minds of those who dwell upon it have the exaltation of the ancient crusaders. They cannot become frenzied bv sue cess, nor can they become vndulv de pressed by defeat. In the latter case they would have the thought of mar tyrdom to sustain ther.i through every trial. "In the case of the Austrian women there appears to be no strong su taining thought. The conscience does not offer to the many solace. They have had only defeat and the possi bility that out of it r11 will come only death and destruction; therefore, there is nothing to relieve the des pomleneey which follows the bad news." STAND EACH OTHER OFF. NEITHER SIDE CAN" GAIX AX AD- VANTAGE. FIELD SPO.'.TS. When you keep a bey interested In foothill, baseball, ternis, and th" like, you lessen the ciianeps that he will get interested in things not so good for hi in. The Youth's Companion, since Its enlargement, gives generous space to this matter of athletic training, and gets the best coaches in the country to write for it. How to practice to become a first- rate pitcher, how to train for a race, how to learn the newest strokes in swimming these and a hundred other topics of the greatest Interest to hoys to girls, too, for that mat ter are touched upon in this im portant department of The Companion. And this only a small part of the service which The Companion renders In any home which it enters. It has points of contact with a hundred In terests. If you do not know The Compan ion as it is today, let us send you one or two current issues free, that you may thoroughly test the paper's quality. We will send also the Fore cast for 1915. Every new subscriber who sends $2.00 for the fifty-two weekly Issues of 1915 will receive free all the is sues of the paper for the remaining weeks of 1914; also The Companion Home Calendar for 1915. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION. 144 Berkley Street , Boston, Mass. Acivnge Measure Killed in Texas. Austin, Texas, Oct. 20. Proposed legislation to reduce cotton Rrreage In Texas next year was killed In tne legislature last night when the house defeated this measure, 84 to 12. The bill would have made It a felony to raise cotton In excess of a fixed per centage of this year's crop by acre age. This percentage, according to amenments offered at various tbrea, ranged from 25 to 50 per cent. The house still has before It a pro posal to recommend voluntary acre age cotton reduction. The Armies in France and Rrlgiuin re so Evenly Matched That Each Holds Its Own Counter Claims by Each Side The Poor Belgium Still Suffer. London Dispatch, Oct. 22nd. Desperate fighting continues tn West Flanders and Northern France between Germany's armies, reinforc ed by virtually all her forces in the occupied portions of Belgium, and the French, British and Belgium troops, aided by British warships. Along the coast the Yser River still divides the contending forces. Neither side apparently has advanced but in the interior, according to Ger man report Issued tonight, the Allies are retiring from several important positions. This statement of the Germans is contradicted, however, by the French comunication issued in Paris late to day which says the Allies have not been moved, despite violent attacks. All along the front from the North Sea to the Swiss border, in fact, each side claims to have repulsed the oth er or to have made slight progress at various points. EQUAL STRENGTH. The contending armies seemingly are so nearly equal in strength that neither can force the other back, pierce the front or get around the wings. In Poland the preiminary battle, at least, has moved a little more swiftly. The Russians report that they have driven back the first Ger man offensive move against Warsaw, the polish capital, and the fortress of Ivangorod. All the Russian accounts refer to this as a great victory. They declare the German?, besides losing many prisoners ami guns, have left large quantities of animunitiop and provjsions in the trenches they had prepared for their defense. German he:dquart is heretofore had not referred to this struggle, hut today it says that after several days of battle no lighting was repor'ed yesterday. Apparently there has been more fighting on t lie East Pruss ian front ier, where the situation has been quiet for some time, as the German j report says: i "Our troops are pursuing the re treating enemy in the direction of Os se wetz." Ossewetz Is the fortress which was in the range of the German guns sev- era days ago when their advance on the Niemen failed. The battle around Pryzeniysl and south of that city Is going on but fur ther south the Austrians claim they have cleared the Russians out of Hungary and are advancing toward Bukowina, in Eastern Galicia, with the same object in view. BELGIANS SUFFER. As though the Belgians already had not suffered sufficiently from the war, villages along the coast north of Os- tond are suffering severey from shell fire. Lying, as they do, between the Germans and the British warships off the beach, some are reported wiped out and others badly damaged. It Is beieved virtually nil the Inhabitants fled when the Belgian army retired behind the Yser River. Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for India, officially disclosed in a speech delivered Tusday, but made public only today, that the Indian troops in Trance have not yet taken part in any battles. The men and thc-ir horses required considerable time to become acclimated but the belief here is that they soon will be ready to take tiieir places at the front. The hospitals have been advised to pre pare next week for their wounded. Again today it was reported that Italy had landed marines at Avlona, Albania. Such a step, it is believed here, would not be resented by any Power now when the situation in Al bania Is serious because of the war ring tribe and the strife between contendents for the Crown of the new nation, surrendered by Prince William of Wield. disadvantage especially along the coast, as the British ships agisting the allies' land forces have long range guns capable of seriously men acing German troops and men in the trenches as well as the ammunition trains and convoys. While no official information is available as to the ships being used, it is probable they are the three mon itors which were being completed in England for the Brazilian govern ment when the war broke out and which were bought by the admiralty. inese monitors draw less than nine feet of water and could take up po sitions not far from shore from which their six-inch guns and 4.7-inch how itzers could throw shells nearly four miles across country, the ranee heine given them by airmen. The vessels assisting the allies have not been allowed to carry out their operations in Deare. for German sub-marines have followed them down the coast end attacked them while shelling German nnsilinna These efforts, however, were made futile by the presence of British de stroyers. SAFER IN WAR. It has been remarked th:it the sub marines and areeplanes, which iu times of peace have proved them selves dangerous arms of r.rmy and navy, have suffered little loss and have been doing splendid work. Land battles are being contested with a fury and tenacity that would Indicate stragetic importance is at tached to the positions held by the opposing armies. When a town is reached, street fighting genernllv de velops. One side gains an advantage only to lose it when the other side brings up reinforcements. Thus far the allies have held Ypres which is considered an important point, as it supports the allied forces thrown up towards Roulers nnd seemingly endangers the rf:,r of the German army advancing toward.-) Uixmude and the coast. The Germans are striking herd nt the French line In the vicinity of Ln basse and have made counter attacks against the force which for many days has been endeavoring: to nlieve Li!!e. Along the rest r.f the line to the i cast the French crmuiiii .i:cn savs tl.eio is no notable change. Heroic Hcsc-iio cl' n Cii'd I'lotsi a Well. A special to the Chariot!" Observer from M;,rsliville n;vs: Wi;h a leg which had been broken the day be fore when he fell from n scaffold and fractured a rib, in addition to the limb. H. J. Holliman, a machinists of this place, rolbd out of his 1 ed to day and In some way managed to res cue his wife from a well into which she had plunged to save a neighbor's six-year-old son. The neighbor's child, Tom Caudle, fell head downward Into the well, which wrs not completed but had in It eight feet of water. Mrs. Hollman saw that the child would drown nnd jumped arter him. At this juncture a five-year-old son of Mr. Holliman ran into the room where his father lay with his leg encased In plaster of Paris and told him something of w hat had happened. Mr. Holliman carnot explain how lie managed to roll out of bed nnd get to the well, but get there he did, and, crippled as he was, tot them boih out. Mrs. Holliman says that yours; Caudle was at the bottom of the 10 foot well, head down. v. hen she reached him and floated Ii :u to the surface. She was then lti,iH lo make sufficiently strong leaps liom the bottom of (he well to get n'r enough to hold out until her husband cam It has been hard Tor the communi ty to understand how the te.-cne was effected, but opinion is uiid I"d that both Mr. and 'wis. Ilollimt'n should receive a Carnegie medal. London Dispatch, Oct. 21st. Herce attacks and counter attacks delivered almost continuously for a week or more by the allies and the Germans have resulted In no defiirfte decision in the battle raging In west Flanders and northern France. The contest In the eastern war aYena In East Prussia, Poland and Galicia has been equally undecisive. This is clearly evident from re ports Issued officially at various head quarters which content themselves today with recounting the fact that violent attacks have been trade. The French, however, claim the allies hnve repulsed German offensive movements at various points in the west. According to the French comuni cation, the Germans also made at tacks against the allies' lines at Nieu- pnrt, Dixmunde and Labasse. The German general rtaff declares fight ing continues on the Yser canal and that the Germans, taking the offen sive west of Lille, have repulsed the I rench at several points. These reports seem to controvert optimistic accounts appearing In England newspapers from correspon dents who claim they are la west Flanders and who stated that the Germans had been driven back. UNDER GREAT DISADVANTAGE. The Germans, however, are be- lived here to be fighting under great Cotton n Little Steadier. New York Dispatch, Oct. 21. Reports that cotton bills were of fering more freelv in Ihe fore! irn py- change market and Predict irns nf in creasing exports imparted a steadier tone to tne cotton situation today. It was also reported that some Eastern mills were beginning to buy more freely around the present level of prices, while inquiry regarding the purchase and probable cost of carry ing spot cotton in Southern ware houses were said to be Increasing and were supposed to reflect a better in vestment Interest. Local spot people, however, said that their offers from the South showed little change. Ex ports of 20,000 bales for the day brought the total so far this season up to only 362,560 against 2.053,140 last year, while export values aver aged about 3 cents a pound lower than last year during the nionlh of September. Wants to Hu:nnnim the Law. Washington, Oct. 20. Improve ment of the law from within to stem tho present tide of popular criticism was the key note of the first day's session of the American Bar Associ ation here. President Wilson In his nddrer-s of welcome, pleaded for the humaniza tlon of the law by incorporation of more justice and less citation in legal cases. Former President Taft, speak ing to the Judges of the country, gathered for the first time In the history of the country in formal meeting, emphasized the necessity of removing delays in legislation. Associate Justice McRevnolds, of the Supreme Court, urged the Judges to give more attention to public sentiment.
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