Twwt> -ine large vinril m npirtii
sunk for the week Maine I p- *»-. Aug.
a This number inrludeo two «unk
4tnn( the week ending July 29. Two
veaoels under 1SO0 Icm won sunk and
IS viirii altogether woro unauccee*
telly attacked. Tha latter Agure in>
dado* two attack* la tha previous
wook and on* attacked during tha
woak ending July 22. No Halting vaa
aala wora Mink.
nguru for arrivals and aailing aro
■673 arrival*, 27M aailing of mer
chant *hips of all natlonaltioa over
100 toon not, at and from tha Unit ad
Kingdom porta.
It will bo notad that the fall in tho
loam of veseeie of tho a mall aite con
tinue*, tha Gorman* apparently con
centrating their effort* againat largo
voaaels. The proportion of thoae to
the total number of attack* alway*
average* out a very high figure and it
la obviou* that deapite the more opti
mistic attitude that prevail* regarding
the (ubmarine campaign It ha* by no
mean* been overcome. At the name
time it ia probable that Germany,
deapite all her preparation* for this
submarine campaign, has shot her bolt
again.
Figures complied from British Ad
miralty atatements show the results of
24 weeks of unrestricted German sub
marine activities against British ship
ping, exclusive of Ashing craft, to be
as follows:
Week I Arrival 4 VmmIi Baa tan off
ending departure* aunk attack*
Feb. 26..4,641 ..21 12
March 4. 6,006 23 12
March 113,944 17 16
March 18 6.082 24 19
March 26 4,747 25 13
April 1. 4,(WO 31 18
April 8. 4,773 19 14
April 29 6,408 61 24
May 8... 4,871 48 34
May 13.. 6,130 23 ' 19
May 20.. 5,422 27 9
May 27.. 6,487 19 17
Jon* 3...6,836 18 17
Inn* 10. .6,688 a 2$
June 17. .6,800 32 >1
June 24.. 6799 28 28
July 1... 6,691 20 18
July S... 6,898 17 17
J«ly IS.. 6,748 It 12
July 22.. 6,682 24 15
July 29.. 6,621 21 9
Aug. 6...6,589 23 IS
WAR TO END ERE FALL
OF 1»1«> BICKETT SAYS.
Aahevilla, Aug. 12.—"By the time
the last Im*w fall in the autumn oi
1918 and tb« boy« com* marching
horn* crowned with victory and suc
cess the whole nation will liee to a
higher position in the Mtow of the
whole world than it ha* ever hold bo
fore and the world will know that Old
Glory ha* aaved the civilization of the
world."
Thi* striking statement wa* made
here tonight by Governor Thoma* W.
Bickett, (peaking to an audience that
jammed the large auditorium here,
while hundred* of other*, unable to
obtain entrance to the building, were
tamed awa}, disappointed. Gover
nor Bickett was introduced by James
J. Britt, former congressman from
thi* district.
The meeting wa* held under the au
spice* of the First Baptist church.
Dr. W. F. Powell, pastor of the church,
arranging for the presence of Gover
nor Bickett, and transferring the ser
vice* from the church to the auditor
ium, in order to accommodate the
crowd. Former Governor Locke Craig,
and other distinguished cltixens occu
pied the stage with the speaker of the
evening.
"We can't stay out of the fight one
minute longer and preserve even the
semblance of self-respect," the gov
ernor declared. "They are coming
from Greenland'* icy mountains and
from India's sunny shore* to battle
with the Goliath of autocracy, and
America Must do her share for the
democracy of the world."
All the local guard units attended
the for vices in a body, and Dr. Powell,
on behalf of the Baptist Baraca class,
presented each soldier with a Testa,
went. A splendid musical program
proceeded the speaking.
Governor Bickett was In splendid
farm, and hi* addre** tonight Is be
lieved to be one of the beet ever de
livered by the goverMr.
MHHHKbs or food.
M Maura it Nat a Print Piaiag
Bill m Many Htw Beea Lad
to Bdim.
Wiihtnfto*, Ai*. 19,—Those «ka
have believed food prices wiU drop af
tar the feed Kill whicn freeideat Wll
<M aignsd today, became a law, wiU
ha disappointed. A greet number of
man and woman tkink tha faad bill ia
a priea fixing bill. They have baan
lad to believe by tha tpiwhii of mem
beta at tho senate and hoaae that tha
food bill la a bill, now almost a law,
to reduto tho root of livid*. It Is In
reality an attempt to roduco waste,
and thoroby bring about t xituatioa
whs re tha p'ricas of food will soak ths
propar Isvsl. A Ion* with ths food bill
is ths law creating a food survey,
which provides for ths dspartmant
•>f agriculture to stimulate production.
I Also there is the foodstuff embargo,
i which may have more effect on tha
food situation here than anything con
tained in the food bill. The Presi
dent has flopped the shipment of food
xtuffs abroad sxcept where it is do
finitely known none ui It can get to
Germany. Food exports say that
enough food has boon shipped from
here to Denmark and from there to
Germany to faad all tha soldiers in
| tha kaiser's armies.
The food bill hIi up over-night a
irreat ayatom, the Ilka of which this
country ha* nevar *een. It ft rat de
claraa that it ahall ba a crime, puniah
abla by aevereat maaaurea, for any
man to deetroy and waatc foodstuff*.
Tha food purveyor, who buys (term
upon acraa of growing plant*, only to
lat them ramain unharvestod and thu*
affect tha markat, will ba in tha aama
claaa with tha thiaf who breaks into a
houaa and roba tha rafrigarator. Tha
fallow who (tart* to buy all tha agga
in tha country that ha may charga a
big prica for than all winter long,
will And himself a criminal. It allows
tha Praaidar to become the leading
green grocer of the land. Under the
food bill he can be the center point for
the distribution of each eeeentiala as
wheat, floor, meal, beans and potatoes.
Whereerer he sees hoards of thsaa and
other necesaitiea he may take them at
a fair price. If it should he necessary
to can them or pack them, he may
take over the canneriee and packing
Wherever there are storage ware
houses, cold storage plants or main
centers offoodstoff distribution there
also will be government agents watch
ing the operation of such centers. A
federal license win ha required to da
business. No one who speculates in
food will have a chance to get a fed
eral license.
One of tha features of tha food
bill is the minimum price of a bu
shel sat upon wheat. People have
asked why no maximum price is
placed upon breed as well as a mini
mum prica on wheat. The food ax
pert* declare that in order to stimu
late wheat production in auch time*
as these a minimum price absolutely
must be made. In Europe the food
administrators are said to have placed
a maximum prica on bread. Later on.
farmers found they could make more
money with their wheat by feeding it
to hogs and cattle and there was no
wheat for bread at any price. Conse
quently there was a bread famine.
One of the first thing* the food ad
ministration under Mr. Hoover will do
is to take up the wheat question. Mr.
Hoover will also look into the milk sit
uation. He will endeavor to *top the
slaughter of young cow* and baby
calves. For years law-makers have
endeavored to stop the slaughtering of
ralvee without succees. Under the
drastic and autocratic wartime food
dictatorship this may bo brought
about over-night.
SAYS LEMON JUICE
WILL REMOVE FRECKLES
Olrtal Maka Mil* cheap baauty tot tan
to olaar ana whltan your akin.
Squm* the juice of two Wrnona lata
a bnttla containing tbrea ouneaa of
orchard wklto, akake well, and you kara
a quarter pint ol the brat frwkla and
tan lutloa, and eoaplnka beautifUr, at
rani, »ary —all aaat.
Your *ro»r ha* the l.aioni and any
dru( «tnr* « toilet cuanUr *111 aupaly
thrw mum of on-hard whit* for a frw
o-ata. Mmap thin awcetly fragrant
lotion Into tike tmrr. neck, arm* aad
hand* nuk day aad aw In* frerklca and
I'l'-mUhra dlaapuear aad how clear, aoft
aad white tba akta built Yaal It
la kanalaaa.
WELCOME GIVEN
AMERICAN ARMY.
RfwUI to 11m Christian griwn Mon
itor.
Paris, Pranc*—Deafly appreciative
to tlM arrival of the Amer
ican Army hava baan madi by the
Franca press. Ilia following an <|Ua
Utiuiia from a faw <■I tba Pari* nm
papers:
Tha Journal dee Debate: Two and
a half months after Amartea joioad
tha belligerents. an Amarican army
has arrivad fur Um front. Not moral)
thornodaet vanguard of an army,
whclhwas all that ovon tba moat opti
inuiM of us darad to hops for. Um
forras which hava just disambarkad on
different points of tha coast—after a
crossing, tha succaos o4 which alons is
tha most severe ilisoppointmsnt to tha
German submarins campaign—ars far
mora substantial than anything that
could raasonably hava baan thought
possibla in ao short a timo. When it
is racallad how long it took England
formerly, at a time whan the aaa caus
ed no obstruction or anxiety—to send
anything like the number of troops to
the Transvaal; whan we rememeber
how long we and our allies took to
carry to their destination tha Saloniea
contingents, and we realise the full
significance of the American acheve
ment. » » » Tfcaa* wfco still
doubted—not the efficaciousness but
the proximity of the American aid—
•xcum them nelves by their ignorance
ir incorrect estimation of the just val
ue of the material and moral power of
the formidable factor which German
brutality ha» mobilised against itself.
And this la only a beginning. We have
often spoken of the (lawn of victory,
and have spoken of it prematurely,
but is not this something more than
the dawn which la lighting up the hor
ison?
Gustave Herve in La Victoire:
Well! They have arrived, these Amer
icans of whom certain people said that
would take three years preparing to
take their stand on the front; instead,
the vanguard of their army reaches
our coast barely two and a hall
■wnthi after they have em tared the
list against Germany. • • • The
Germans know full well what the ar
rival of this vanguard means. They
know that nothing now can save
them from defeat. American friends
belonging to the oAcial world, after
having said the most moving things te
me about Prance, only the other day
asked me what their country could do
really to show the French people their
brotherly feelings and their admira
tion for the magnificent effort which
France has sustained for the last
three years. 1 will tell you what you
can do, my American friends, you can
just hurry up and com. And by that
I do not mean to say that our poilus
are at the end of their tether. How
ever «MT7 they may b« they will hold
on, rrubbling like tha true descen
dants they are of the "tfrognanis" of
the Revolution and of the Empire;
but om May b« certain that they will
hold on at least a quarter of an hour
longer, than the Germans. But all
the same, when a country has for the
laat three years had all its men capa
ble of bearing arms from 18 to 48 on
the front, it has a right to ffel a bit
weary. The sooner you come the
sooner our government will be able to
return some of the old classes. The
sooner you come we shall be able to
shorten our front line and mass more
troops behind it, thus making it pos
sible to give our young recruits more
rest behind the army sone, and mora
leave to visit their Aresides. Even
the news that the vanguard of the
American Army has arrived will im
mensely hearken the whole country.
La Rap pal: The first American
soldiers have arrived in France. They
will proceed to the front after a la pee
of time not yet determined upon.
They will then enter upon the im
mense European encounter. We are
Mi told the number of men who have
landed, but assuredly, in a few months
tim* they will form a considerable
army. Like the little army of French
the little American army wilt see its
effectives become 10 times, perhaps
lOOtimes greater. Of this future re
enforcement of our military strength
there can be no doubtj America has
not entered the war with the idea of
limiting her aid, but of giving it with
out any reservations She knows the
reason why we are fighting, and at our
••da aha will put forth har wfcatoj
auangtfc to baat Q«n— ■iltUrt—.'
tha cmh of all oar ■!airy u4 our
mourning. It if to tha valiant Amy
of tha Praak Mapublir, victoriaaa oa
tha Manx, tba Yaar and at Vardaa, to
tha BrlUah Army, ao eaargatia and ao
tanarioua ami airaady aa glorioua,
that tha Aimarican aoldiara hava coaaa
to axtond thair valuabla aid. for
tham aa for oa tha taak coaaiata of
fraaing Kuropa and tba world frooi
tka I'rusaian vampira. Tha fraadom
of huouuiitjr I* at ataka.
Reprisal*.
Berlin, Germany (via AmiUnltm)
-According to ■ semiofficial commu
nication from Brussels to the Gorman
press, the Gorman authorities, aftor
duly warning the Belgian Government
and roeoiving no «a lis factory reply,
have proceeded to arrest 20 Belgian*
belonging to eminent colonial families
aa a reprisal for the treatment of a
number of civilian!, including women
and children, taken prisoner at the
time of the occupation of Tabor* by
Belgian troop*. The communication
complains that instead of embarking
these people, who had already suffered
from two years of privation in a tro
pical climate, from the East African
coast, and sending them home, they
were transported, after being im
prisoned for some time in Tabora,
through the marshes of the Congo,
and suffered severely from the hard
ships of the 10 weeks' journey. Their
transference to their home country, or
at least to a neutral country, was,
therefore, an obvious behest of hu
manity, runs the communication, but
this behest has been disregarded by
the Belgian Government despite re
peated demand on the part of the Ger
man authorities. Instead it haa had
the prisoners coveyed to different in
ternment camps in France, after first
landing a section of them in England.
Aak Aayoa* Who Haa UmI It
Thar* lire faraiHoa who ilwtfi aim
to kaop • bottla of Chamborfakin s Colic
sites. trEIrtJxs
that it is not omly a c*mI lnv»yant
but invaa than no aid at nrilarinc.
Aa to ita^raUahilitjr, aak anyeoa who
WANTED!
BLACKBERRIES, TOMATOES AND OTOE*
CANNED GOODS IN LARGE QUANTITIES
We will furnish cans an! pay Ufcifafp rices to
have them tilled by reliable puclMfC We also sell
cans for cash. We also have canning outfits and
supplies for sale. See us at once and make contract
G. C. LOVILL CO.
MOUNT AIRY, N. C
MOUNTAIN PARK SCHOOL
The Fall Term of Mountain Park School opens
August 14th, 1917.
Two men and four ladies will do the teaching.
Classes carried from 5th through 11th grade.
Agriculture and Home Economics will be added to
the regular course of study.
Board and tuition charges reasonable.
Mrs. C. H. Utley will be in charge of the dormitory.
For further information address,
CHAS. H. UTLEY, Principal,
Park Mountain, N. C.
OUR MOTTO: To train pupils to make life worth
living and a living worth having.
peace iNSTrrttrt, — \ — luuigb, n. c
r«T Um UmsKm art CmHmn at tmmg Wmmm.
Saaaioo bagiaa Sapt. 18, 1»17—Far cataloc and infer—Hon addraa*.
MISS MAKY OWEN GRAHAM, Pr>iiJ—fc
FarmersW arehouse
The undersigned have again leased the Fanners Warehouse for the
coming season and desire to sell tobacco for the planters in this section of the
state. A word about the men who are to manage this well known business
will not be out of place at this time.
Joe Dobson was bom and reared here in Surry county. Every one
knows of the Dobson family. Joe in his early life got employment in a tobac
co factory in Winston and worked in all the departments as a trusted foreman
for several years. It is not saying too much to say that there are few men who
know the tobacco business as well as he does. After spr^ndiW some years in
Winston he married and settled on a large farm inline centdr of the county
and became a large grower of tobacco himself, /kndi so he V in position to
know of every desire and need of the fanner wjro comes to him. No man on
the market can judge better of the worth of^a pile of tobacco than Joe Dob
son. He will be on the floor of the Farmers Warehouse each day during the
season and see to it that every pile brings its worth.
Bausley Beasley has\spent the forty odd years of his life right here in
Surry and knows the tobac A busings from the plant bed to the sales floor.
He has farmed and operate<NojMs and sold tobacco both as proprietor and
auctioneer until his reputation as a judge of tobacco and all-round safe bus
iness man is too well known to need comment The man who allows Bausley
Beasley this year to sell his tobacco will have one of the best, judges to sell it
that can be found on any market And he will not only be auctioneer but he
is one of the proprietors of The Farmers Warehouse, and will see that every
farmer gets the worth of his tobacco.
Courteous and fair treatment is promised to every citizen of this sec
tion, and the patronage of all the growers is desired, for it Is a well known
fact that farmers who have sold with this house in the yeara past have made
no mistake. Yours to serve,
Farmers Warehouse 1
JOE DOBSON,
BAUSLEY BEASLEY,
Proprietors.