Washington. Nor. 12,-Copiae of tin now array draft nplatloni will bo In the bands at all board* next wook They will gaveni all fature draft*. Under tko now plan Bis bunion at applying information, which wil re ault In his being placed in hia proper classification under the »o)octire ser vice law, rests squarely upon the in dividual registrant. All iaatroctionn now in the hands of the boards will be annulled upon the receipt of the now regulations which are greatly reduced in extent and sim plified in process. Included ta the new book la every thing bearing on the draft processes as now organised, from the time the «|uastionnaire to be sent each regis trant are Ailed out, and returned to the boards until accepted men are actual ly in tha military service. Each book carries a copy of the statues and also a vended copy ef the master list of the drawing. The questionnaire process will eli minate from consideration for military esrvics probably 06 per cent, of the ■ten who wouljAave been discharged or exempted under tha old plan. Un der the first call the average board was compelled to examine five men to obtain one for service. In some cases not more than one out of 10 or 12 were aeat to the camps. It ia expected that under the new scheme not more than one man in ftve called up, will be rejected. Aft* doctor* to aid registrant* in their vi cinity in filling oat the questionnaire*. With the aid of these associations it is hoped a high percentage of the ques tionnaires will come hack in such form that the boards will have little more than a rubber stamp proceeding left to select the men to All any call. A place will be arranged near each local board headquarters where the men may All out their questions. A committee will see that there are plenty of lawyers to help the regis trant do this. Questionnaires will be mailed to 6 per cent, of the registrants each day, beginning December 15. Each man has seven days to fill out and return the list. December 23 the boards be gin placing the men in Ave classes. They should finish their task about February IS and soon after the se cond draft may be expected. The President's foreword is as fol lows: The task of selecting and mobilis ing the National army U nearing com pletion. The expedition and accuracy of its accomplishment were a most (ratifying institution. The swift ness with which the machinery for its execution had to be assembled, how ever. left room for adjustment and im provement. New regulations putting these improvements into effect are, therefore, being published. There is no change in the essential obligation of men subject to selection. The lint draft must stand unaffected by the provisions of the new regulation*. They can bo given no retroactive ef "The time has come for • Hare perfect organisation of oar man pow er. The selective principle mast bo carried to ha logical conclusion. Wo must lake a complete Inventory of the qualification! of all registrants in or der to determine, in each man not al ready selected for duty with the col ors, the place at each'man In the In dustrial, commercial or agricultural ranks of the nation In which his ex perience and training ann beet h« made feet. to serve «he food. TMa pro doted i ooaapicneae wite 11m ««k MM 4mm without rtfinl to twnaal tnaarfiaU necessity which Iwpwwl frnt sacriAcaa. Yet th. services of m.n trained by th. experience at the Ant draft an** at narsssifcy ha re tained and Um selection board* must pndii th* directing mechanism far tka now classification. The thin* they have dona to of scarcely one-tenth Um magnitude of the thing that remain* to ba dona. It to of groat importance, both to our military and our econo mic interaeta, that Um clarification be carried swiftly and accurately to a conclusion. An eetimate of the time necessary for the work lead* to the conclusion that it can be aecompltohed in SO day*; but only if this great mar shaling of our resources of men to regained by all as a national war un dertaking of such significance as to challenge the attention and compel the assistance of every American. "I call upon all citizens, therefore, to assist local and district boards by proffering such service snd such ma terial conveniences a* they can offer and by appearing before .the boards either upon summons or upon their own initiative to give such infor mation as will be useful in classify ing registrants. "I urge men of the legal profes mni to offer themselves an associate members of the legal advisory boards to be providod in each community tor the purpoae of advising registrants of their right* and obligating and of as sisting them in the preparation of their answers to the questions which all man subject to draft are reqoiad to —bllt cal advi—ry boards which are to be constituted in the various districts throughout the United ^States for the purpose of making a systematic phy sical examination of the registrants. "It is important also that police officialh of every grade and class should be informed of their duty un der selective service law and regu lations, to search for persons who do not respond promptly and to serve the summons of local and district boards. "Newspapers can be of very great assistance in giving wide publicity to the requirements of the law and regu lations and to the mjpihers and names of those who are called to present themselves to their local boards from day to day. "Finally, I uk that during the time hereafter to be specified as marking the 60-day period of the clarification, all citizens rive attention to the task in hand in order that the process may proceed to a conclusion with swift ness and yet with even and considerate justice to all." Asheville's Wood yard Sella Quantity of Wood Asheville, Nov. 12.—During the short time the Municipal woodyard has been open, approximately 100 cords of wood have been delivered to various parts of the city, or. as much as three teams and one truck could deliver. The yard is well stocked and contracts for other wood are being made daily. The city ia paying $4 a cord for wood de livered at the yard in eight-foot len gths and 4s receiving a quanity in this ■tanner. The commissioner of public safety, under whoee supervision the yard ia he. >g maintained, stated yes terday afternoon that it was necessary that the wood be cant's Had far in ad vance as It waa on thn market far all that waa brought in. * During the coming week, it is hoped by the i ammUaleaar that the yard can tlollver an even larger quantity. In —alter Iota. At praecnt the wood la delivered only in one quarter „ one half, U-ce quarter ar-' oord lota at a maxim un coat at |SJ0 A Mid far < eteve length blocks. Amy hi Fnuic*, Hor. 11.—(By th* Associated Praaa.)! —Coaplti* ihuilt awl vmrttm at the retient G«n—11 trench raid i that th* American troops on that oc-] Nt an sxaraple for i of verifying tba accounts of the raid mid to the uorisepondsnt today: "I am proud to say that our man en gaged in tha ll|kt did everything with in thair power. Thay Jumpad into tha fight and stuck to it. In tha first place tha troop* had baan in th* trenches l**a than thraa hours whan th* bar rag* fir* of tha Gorman* b*gan. Th*y had marchad a good part at th* pra vioua night and war* tirad. Soma of tham war* alow*4 to go to *l**p in a dugout 26 fa*t under ground. "Wh*n th* barrage bagan these man did not haar tha rackat. It ia appar ent that tha ft rat thay know of it waa whan th* Carman* atartad throwing grenade* down upon tham. It waa th*a* who war* taken prisoner*, but th*y fought well, even whan surprised that way for tha stairs of tha dugout were covered with blood, especially the top half, showing that tha Germans there must have been hit. The en trance to th* dugout also gave indi cations of close hand-to-hand fight ing. "From tM dugout through the tren chaa and over th* top through the barbed wire and wall into No Man'* land there was a wide red trail. How much of it waa American and how much Garmaa blood ia not known. and batteries at the rear war* cut by fragment* of German shell* which numbered approximately 50,000. The German* cro***d No Man's land rolled up Ulephone wire* behind them and let up a small field telephone, ex change outside the American barbed wire with branch line* running to at least three points while the rade wa in progress to direct the enemy artil lery." Billion Dollars for an Air Floet is Advocated New York, Nov. 12.—Resolution* urging the appropriation by Congress of not l«s* than $1,000,000,000 to build "an emergency air fleet of huge war planes." to offset the mobility of Ger man forces on their interior lines of communication, wer* adopted at the annual meeting of the Aero Club of America here today. The resolutions recommended that this sum be in *ddi-| tion to $1,000,000,000 Mtdxl to carry out tb« general aeronautic program of training aviators and building mili tary aeroplanes. The recent German occupation of the Maltic islands and the Italian reverses could have been prevented by a sufficient number of torpedo planes and bomb-drompinff machines, it was declared. The appointment of an allied air board to co-ordinate the aeronautic % efforts and resources of the allied countries also was proposed. mmmmmm1—1 • F a ravers N«ed Helpers Chicago, III.—B. W. Snow, Bartlett Frazier Company's crop expert, says:; "Kaim work is beck wo, a . rops are not yet gathered in full. What farmers need is help, and unless help in shape of available labor is provided before next spring, volume ef agricultural production next year will be smaller than this year, and we will loee our battle for human right* through our inability to see those things which til NtJj outside ear windows." Preparation We prepare ourselves for sudden leads hy the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually istonaiass WE AJtC NOTWINNI.NG WA* T» That Om Mbii Spnl>i (Mm «ka TWm Crwt D— WMklHtdo, Nov. I.—The WmUh tonal under the caption: 'Kmnt ing Um Advanct Toward Berlin,'' will "About mm more weak that mm ha devoted to major military upauatluna on tfca wastarn front la Flanders aad Franca retnaine to tba allied British, French and American armies. Um campaign at 1917 alone tfca Una from tfca aaa to the Lorraine harder is draw ing U» a close. On the whole It has been a tremendous disappointment to the ho pea of the united anemiea of Germany. "Since the spring tba allies have generally bean on tba otfanaira, an encouraging indication of renewed de termination and morale. The entrance of America into the war bad a psycho logical influence of vaet significance, and every new diviaion that crosses the Atlantic takes with it something more than mere military strength. It carries a moral support that could not be measured in terms of guns. There is no thought of defeat among all those mud begrimed veterans who have saved the civilisation, not alone in Europe, but of the world. Their courage and confidence are sublime. Nat Winning the War "But the fact remain*, nevertheless, that although we are not losing, we are not winning the war. To that one definite and specific object the three great democracies upon whose shoul iTi ■" energy, every dollar. If aeed he. every drop of Mood. The cooling winter must be a period of precaution, the spring the time of fulfillment. We must win in 1918 or *ee the war drag on another three long year*. There is no escape from this conclusion short if the adoption of an aggressive na val policy that might accomplish on the sea more than has been done so far on land. "This year soon to close has been one of bloodshed and sacriflce. It I has seen on the principal battlefrontj encounters without number, has been, on the whole, twelve months of op timism with respect to the future. But much of the blood has been shed for advantages so slight that they can scarcely be measured upon the map of Europe; much of the optimism is bas ed upon generalities. The allies have been winning—this is the prcvaling opinion. The facts are they have been holding their own and doing very littla more. The military gains of 1917 on the western front are not im posing. Can't Wii bj Stand ins Still Since July 1, 1916, the French line hase advanced at the Chemin-des IKimei where the most recent rains have b«rn made, only from two to nine mile. This represents the maximum rains on the entire French front for a period of almost a year and a half, .luring which time France has put forth her most superb efforts, the en tire republic magnificently mobilised behind the line of men whose bayonets have saved her from conpuest. For a year and • half France, In her ex tremity, haw repul&ed the attacks of German's finest troops. She has hurl ed back the Piussiann regiments that before the war were trie boast of mili tarism. Cut she has gained only from two to nine miles, and the time has now come whoa we can no longer claim that we are winning by stand jig Btffi. "Disnatchc from Londdn tor day* past have brought news tkat Haig'i spectacular attack in Mm lowlands that has had for Its apparent object the cutting off of the German submsrirs hates at Oetend aad Sesbragge. His Ueoss hare been heavy, tks heroism n held by U» far into the (lswaaa ItaM. It a little l«M tkta «is miles to advaoce at Ik* Um held by Um Britfeh to Mchua on July I, 191 A. UMi n.iMufc. WlMtT "OiMtod UMt Haig ud Petain are forcing Um fighting; granted that mi peririty, military and moral, now rests with Um alllee; granted that to roramt battles along Um antiro wee tern lino Gorman counter attack* have failed ta materalise to Um extant erf thoir far mer itrsngth, Um fact (till remains that at hi* rata of gtoclal progres* the allied armies hare hope to enter Ber lin a little to advance of the millan ntum. For Haig's thrust to Paaschen daeie represents the maximum Bri thi* advance to a year and a half. Six milae! "If this situation, from Flanders to Verdun, is net only a deadlock, what is it? By what terms (hould it be desig nated ? It to not only a deadlock, but recant lighting has disclosed no indi cation of the ability of either the British or French troops to give a mighty heave and rush through. The German trench lystem that has oblig ed her encodes to change their histor ic methods of fighting, has proved an insurmountable obstacle, and to dodge this conclusion la to shot one's eyes to the plain but eloquent story of the map. "TBM ability to pusfl through though It cost the losses of a Gettysburg muat ba obtained, else the war cannot ba won on the waatorn front. It moat ba obtained by mora power, and that wa shall supply. It must je obtained in the expenditure of Meod and trees are without parallel, in the history of released from their sphere of duty on the Russian frontier, herself takes the offensive, bursts through her own in trenckments and thruats the sword one* more into the bleeding heart of France? "Here is a situation for the con-1 sideration of which the commissioners of the Paris conference need only a map and a compass. "A year ago the fighting on the western front ceased on November IS This year's campaign doubtless will close, except winter months, on about the same date. It is of 1918 that thought must now be taken." Reynolds Factories Girls Provide Christmas Gifts Winston-Salem No*. 12.—The young ladies of the four Y. W. C. A. girls' in dustrial clubs in the Reynolds factor ies, says today's Sentinel, have just closed a successful campaign for the funds with which to provide Christ mas packages for the Amsri^ui sol diers in camp and at the front. When the announcement was made that the Red Cross was arranging to present each soldier with a Christ mas package from home the members of the clubs immediately set about to aid in this work. As a result of their efforts an aggregate of $264.00 was contributed by members of the clabe, and this fund was this morning turn ed over to a committee of ladies of the I city to purchase the articles for the packages and materials with which j to wrap them. American Infantry gat First gas Shell With the American Amy in Franca, Nov. II.—(By the Associated Press.) —11m American infantrymen in the trenches and srtillsrists in the gun pita have had their flrat real exper ience with gas shells.) The Germans Lava tot luee many daring vu wiy*, making the tue of gas masks] iMtswr. Shrapnel also have freely need by both sides. During a recent night mmmj chine guns were again toned ea npijtog with i ITALIAN RETMATS CONDUCTED WITH SKILL Washington, So*. I,—(Mtotol cable grams received here today fraa the Italian hatllefront say the rati—t to Mn| conducted with akill. It to etor actarisad by many brilliant examples of >atfsacriftre and personal hravery and tha now tinaa, which it to hoped will ha pa rm it tad, ton baan canflUf prepared. Tha oArial account follows: "Dm ratiramant of tha Itaitaa arm ies to the Livania was conducted to strict conformity with tha plana al ready laid and has baan >u til* enatnias' advance. • "The army corps commanded by General di Giorgio, and sosna parts ad the third army corps retreated on tha extreme left to the hills above Pto xano, and by a maneuver succeed ad to greatly retarding tha anemias' tinea ing of the Tagliamento river, preeent ing a serious menace to the Austro German right wing and threatening hU communication, in the direction of Codroipe. Meanwhile, the retirement of the main body of the Italian amy to the Liven za waa greatly aided by the configuration at the ground and the itmai which dslags* the | Italian general staff regard* it as only a temporary line capable of favoring rear guard actions and delaying the enemies' advance while the Italian army is finding a stronger position in the rear. In these rear guard en gagements the territorials have given an admirable account of themselvee in machine gun work. The Bersagtoiri and mounted bicycle troops, the third division cavalry, the fourth brigade at grenadiers and other contingents have distinguished themselves in furiooa counter-attacks, showing high courage "Great valor also was displayed above all by the army corps under General di Giorgio, which sustained the heaviest enemy onslaughts and succeeded in checking them, thereby giving time to the remainder of the Italian army to straighten its Unas. Most important also were the opera tions of the army corps of the Comnia which while retreating, never ceased to counter-attack the enemy." Dim Suddenly In Tobacco' Elkin Not. R. L. Roberta a high ly respected aid well to do firau of Salenui'ork died in tk« office of Glnnt tobacco warehouse here Thurnkjr. Leaving hi* home early in the mnmhf j ha drove a bunry to Mttle Rich mood, where he joined a friend aad motaead to thii place. Before reaching he**, paralysis if the brain had rendwad him apeechleiu and anable to mora. Phyilciann were hastily ummonad a* eoon a* the ear arrived here, bat death occurred ia a few minotea. Tfc* da ceased wai about BO >ears if age aad leave* a wife and eight children. Million* of Dollar* ia Stored Foodstuff* Fc New York, Nov. 11.—Secret agent* have discovered feedstuff* aad other property valour at Mere than $7S,000,000 stored ia waretumm to tkia city which ha* never *d to the gevera—at • with the eaeaay act, it <*i.ht. no* I* oaly a part *< what ia * *