N. C. MILLERS MUST ALSO OBEY THE LAW. Utter ImumI to Them hy State Food Administrator Pag*. Stat* Food Administrator Ptpi has bautd the following latter to the mil iar! of the state which explains It aelf: Tha Page Circular "We are writing to bring to your attention the new order of the food administration prohibiting the sale of flour except in combination with an! equal amount of other cereal*. The rulea under this order applying to manufacturers of flour are aa follows: 'Special rules 23 to 32, inclusive are promulgated for the purpoee of a sour- ( ing an adequate supply and equitable distribution of wheat flour for pur poses essential to the national secur ity and defense and to the successful prosecution of the war. Under exist ing conditions, the present unrestrict ed distribution of flour is deemed to be clearly an unjust, unreasonable and' wasteful practice. "Rule 23. No license shall sell, use or deliver to any person any flour oth «r than the grade generally known aa "second clear" or "low grade" for any purpose other than the manufacture of human food. "•(») Millers. « * 'Rule 24. The licensee manufactur ing wheat flour shall distribute his output not sold to the government of the United States, to the food admin istration or for export, thru his custo mary markets and channels of distri bution in such manner that each of his customers receives his fair bhare thereof, and that during the three months' periods from February 1, 1918, to April SO, 1918, and from May 1, 1918, to July SI, 1918, no towm dt| or state or district iwthn front the licensee's mill more than 70 per cent of the amount it received the corres ponding quarter of the year 1917. He shall not seek new markets or chan nels of distribution, and sales of large quantities j new customers will be regarded, prima facie, as violation of this rule. " 'Rule 25. The licensee manufac turing wheat flour shall not on and af ter February 24, 1918, sell or deliver to any person engaged in the business of liaking bread or rolls any wheat flour, except whole wheat flour, un less the buyer purchases at the same time or the licensee satisfies himself that the buyer has purchased one pound of wheat flour substitutes for •very four pounds of wheat flour pur chased. " 'Wheat flour substitutes for the purpose of this rule and of rule 30 shall include shorts, and middlings, corn flour, rornmeal edible com starch hominy, corn grits, barley flour, rolled oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, buckwheat flour, cottonseed flour, mila, kaffir and feterito flours, casava flour, taro flour banana flour and other products of a similar nature. in maKing any combination sales under this rule, or rules 26,29, 30 and 81, the licensee shall name a price for «ach of the articles so sold, which shall not represent more than a nor mal pre-war profit on any of such articles. " 'Rule 2tf. No licensee manufactur ing wheat flour shall, without the per mission of the United States food ad ministyitor, sell or deliver such wheat flour to any retailer or consumer ther of, unlc: i t!.e buyer purrha e- at the same time or the licensee sati.-fies himself that the buyer has purchased one pound of wheat flour substitutes for every pound of wheat flour pur-; % chased. "Wheat flour substitute ■ fi r the purpose .' thU rule o:s Undtr the naw order thay bum not ratall flour axarapt in roaihinatiom >ther sources. "Tl^.-' means that the retailer mint purchase from one iouno or another a pound of cereal substitute for every pound of flour. Since there Is nor mally a lanrer ilcmand for flour than for all othar eereal* combined, the re- { toiler aa ■ matter of bunimu policy •aid* from hi* dan i r» to observe the law, mu-t refuse to sell (lour to any consumer except in combination with other rarmli. Thar* i* 110 objection to the rata it er purrhaaing corn meal from farm ar customers and selling them back a part of their own meal. _ In fact th)a practice Is highly desirable, be rauae our merchanta are («in( to And it rather difficult for a little while to aecure a rufllcient quantity of oth er cereal* to sell with their flour. Thia ia a seeming hardahip upon the ffirmer who has been accustomed to having his own com ground into meal for his own uae, but it la an inflnitoa .«imal inconvenience compared to the hardrhipa and inconvenience that are being suffered by many other class es of our people au a result of one order or another of the food adminis tration, fuel administration and oth er branches of the government. "Every one, mennant and consum er alike may be sure that no such or der would ever have been issued un less it was absolutely necessary. It ia necessary as a military measure and as a means of saving the livea of many aa possible of the thousands of starving women and children, in Eu rope. Thia order really doea not im pose hardship upon our people, be cause we have an ample supply of a large variety of substitutes which we may use in the place of flour. There is not the slightest danger of any of our people suffering for want of food. This is merely a systematic and economical means of meeting the food requirements that are justly made by us." More American Troop* Get Over. nouncemant that 16 former German merchantmen and two former Aus trian steamships have arrvied in Eu rope bringing great number of Amer can soldiers and that their hold car ried thousands of tons of supplies. The steamer Leviathan, formerly the Vaterland, the transports Coving ton, Cincinnati, President Lincoln, President Grant, Powhatan, Made waska, America, all of which were seized by the United States at the out break of war, and the former North German Lloyd steamships George Washington, the Mount Vernon, Agamemnon, the Aftolus, Mercury, Pocahontas. Huron and AntigoneTiave reached port. All these vessels had a safe passage. They caried thousands of American troops and thousands of tons of sup plies. The announcement may also now be made that the steamships Baion vonSteuben and Karon de Kalb are now actively engaged in service. BACK BAD TODAY. Backache is usually kidney-ache and makes you dull, nervous and tir ed. Use Doan's Kidney Pills for weak kidneys—the remedy recom mended by your friends andneighliors. Mrs. C. Walton, 12S Wilson St., Mt. Airy, says: "1 suffered something awful from my ba.-K and it felt as though it was broken. I couldn't lift anything without sharp pains catch ing me in my kidney*. When I l>ent over or sat down for a little while, I could hardly stand un. My kidneys acted irregularly. I was to run down and my nerves were in such an awfu! '.tnte tli»* t CMi'dn't rtar.il the lea t exciti ment. A few doses of Moan's Kidney Pi'ls, proceed at Cwyu'i Drug Store, helped me wonderfully. After 1 had finished one box, hy bark Mt as wind as »v< r and my kidnoys acted as they should. I haven't had any trouble since." Price 6(>c at all dealer*. Don't sim ply ask for a kidney remedy—get Poan'i Kidney Pills- the same that Mrs, Walton had. Foeter-Milhurn Co., Mfgrs., Hoffr'n, N. T. COMPLETE STORY OF THE BRITISH TANKS Capacity of "Common Sotdior" to (Coop • Socrot Resulted in Grant Surpriao for Gormana —How Word "Tank" Ori^i-1 London, England A couple of nights before Sir Julian Byn('i attack at Csmbrai the Germans made a local raid aiul captured a number of British prisoners. Ordinarily a raid is no great matter, but this one caused no 'ittle consternation at headquarters. Preparations had bwen carried for ward under the densest cloud of se crecy that could be produced but every soldier in Sir Julian Byng's army by this time knew all about the attack. The whole thing hinged on surprise Would the Germans get anything out of their prisoners? The Germans got nothing out of their prisoners. Not a single man said a word. At the appointed moment everything went forward—(including the tanks—"according to plan" These untalkative soldiers deserve a place in the history of the war. It *u in this capacity of the com mon soldier,'* to keep a secret, with a closeness which must have surprised many people, that the original con sternation caused among the Germans by the first appearance of the tanks, must mainly be traced. Tank talk began as far back as the early months of the war in circumstances already explained. Colonel Swinton, Assistant Secretary to the War Council, and known to a wide public as Ole Luk-oie the writer of extremely ingenious mil itary problems in the form of short stories, put forward the first practical proposal in October, 1914, for a cat erpillar tractor armored car to unaoh machine-gun embankments. His idea was experimented with only the Com mittee of Imperial Defense and the War Office. Simultaneously similar ideas had occured to officers in the Royal Naval Air Service, and their proposals had been enthusiasticall> backed up by Mr. Winston Churchill then First Lord of the Admiralty, wh< appointed a small expert committee presided over by the chief director of. naval construction, and including a few civil engineers. In June, 1915,» Viscount French, then Commander-in Chief in France, sent home a memo randum which amounted to an appeal for the expenditing of this work. The Imperial Defense Committee coordi nated the different activities, and a committee which included Mr Church ill, was formed to distribute the work. The first wooden model of the pro posed type of caterpillar tractor, with internal driving wheels traveling over in endless self-laid tract, was inspect ed in the middle of 1^15 by experts, ind the serious work began. .Mci-r.anics in me ^worKsnops wno were specially trained for the work, haufeurs who were specially trained in order to test the cara, all "jot into the known" during the succeeding >ear, in addition to workshop mana gers, contractors, engineers, military ifficers and the experts. The first trial, early in 1!H6. involved more peo ple. including soldier guards and oth ers getting to know of and to see the ars. Finally in July, t9lfl, when the first consignment began to be deliver ed at the special camp in the out-of h • way district where training wa in V. undertaken, tilt Inrger numbers ere let into the .-eu'et. It i* safe t ' tr. that by July, I'.lKi, thousands ol ,>*• {>!■• had teamed of this new w.^a ■ n and had en it, only »h>n in; *c;-f-mber the tanks i-nblod forward1 >t the battle of the i mie, did th ■cman* learn an., thint definite of f' • »r existence. It ma. , th»T«f»,ct| !>e aid that one of tf.e Ji cove >» of !h» war l« the rnpnrity rf nrd'r^ry| ilutl'h citi en* to Keep a seriet and a thrilling ,-ecret to hoot. Durin* certain days in lulv a large instruction heavily shrouded in tar-' paulin might have been seen by the i t ■id* of -ertain English country road*. with • taciturn (roup of lotditra lounging about it. By night the tar paulin covering waa removed and tha jbatruction began a alow prograaa, roughing and grumbling along tha road. This waa tha first tank on ita way to tha special ramp for training purpoaea. A littla latar a wiard scene waa to ba witnaaaad any night at tha iparially built railway aiding naar tha ramp. By tha light of flaraa which raat mysterious shadows around, tha tanka rumblad from tha wagon* on which they had laid rovarad up during ( tha day. Again, toward tha and of August, tanka traveled along the' roada by night and retired to (lum ber by day on their journey to the em barkation port fo{ France. Thia de Irree of secrecy waa maintained from the flrat rough experiments until the embarcation of the finished article*, and waa considerable factor in the German surprise. ine cnier piece 01 camouflage apart from the lurid and veriegated color ing painted on them, was the use of the word by which they are every where known. Some general title had to be adopted which would not give away any information nor rouse cu riosity and would permit of a good deal of talk in front of the uninitiated "Landships" was altogether too com municative a title, and in different government departments letters were filed under different strange titles. Some material in connection with the tanks having been sent forward la bled "For drinking purposes only" led to the adoption by a general con nected with the uirtiertaking, of the word tanks. It exactly served the purpose. The tank department could be spoken of openly without rousing inspicion, for a tank department al ready existed and it was notorious tlMU tank* were reqturad to hti.wi ter tor drinking purposes in Vaeopo Lamia. The first consignment sent ■broad was tabled for Mesopotamia via Petrograd, the touch of "veri timilitude" which imparts conviction to "an otherwise bald and unconvinc ing narrative," being provided by printing theword Petrograd in Rus sian. In this way a good deal of work was done fairly openly without pro voking suspicion. In the villages round about the camp the guard were hard put to it more than once to keep their secret, and ultimately, in des peration, some of them told stories of mechanical burrowing serpents that were to crawl under the German trenches and destroy them. Ine history of the evolution of the tank is one of difficulties repeatedly arising and as often overcome. The committee worked upon Colonel ? win ton's idea and the small expert committee at the Admiralty were en Tared in research and experiment un til the call from France in June, 1915. rhese various activities having been coordinated the special committee set jp advised the War Office as to the conditions to be laid down in con tracting the new weapon. Among >ther things it had to be able to climb > five-foot rampart and cross a ten root ditch, smash machine gun em placements, be impervious to close -tinge and machine gun fire and con 'orm to War Office standard bridge knd railway transport requirements. Consequently it could neithur be too »ide nor too heavy and it had be be^ ver uneaven ground, . ma-hing tren hes and climbing wnlls was consider-' ■d to approximate to those endured .y a ship laboring in u heavy sea. thrf* > perime'ital wnV was left in the ■>nd» of the Admiralty committoe hortly after Pir J hn French's ap j •*l, the wooden model was built and fiipect^d by U -Idlers wV.<. ioposed various improvements. IM 'e -ent machines by American and • ritiah firms w« # experimented with, I >ut either broke down completely1 *hen they attempted to cmrry the ar 1 nor and guns or, if they carried the irmor and gune, broke down in at-1 tempting to climb parapet». AI must •vary single detail In connection with the tank had Its own difficulty TWu •acuta ta drive wrh a heavy weight nod *uch • eon plica tad gearing *>■ a problem. Steering waa another pro. Mam. One by one thay were »vrroK and in February, 191(1, a complete ma rhina waa inapected by Sir William Robertson, various cabinet ministers, engineer* and othar experts. It prav ad so successful in ita tests that an order for (0 wan pat in hand imme diately. In July, ISld, the lint of thaaa arrived simultaneously with ita personnel at the training ramp. A good f.'eal hail mill to ba dona. The idea waa to train the crew* go that any man of them could ft tear, do repaira. Are the gun* or undertake any job required The tanlu ware wanted for the Somme battle and the work had to be done very hurriedly, but nearly 4TI the men eventually sent out to Franca practically attained thia high standard of all-round efficiency. During the training the men had not only to learn all Wtey required to know, but had to become inured aa much aa any seaman on board ship, to living in a narrow compartment IS feet long, 4 feet high and 9 or 10 feet wide with a 100 horsepower engine, two gun* and several machine guna ammunition and equipment and three days food amid almost unendurable noise and smell and unable to see any thing except through a few extremely narrow slit* in the armor. Two typea of tank were handed over to the heavy armored car section of the machina gun corps on their arrival at the camp in July. "Mr. Tank" or "Big Willie," carried two Hotchkiss quick firing guna and several machnia guns, % while the other carried machine guna only. As orders were delivered new name* were adopted without a mon to name one tank McKay, several ex perts maintaining that the spelling was McKie. and the name had finally to be abandoned in favor of McTavish no one being in doubt as to the spell ■ng of that name. For the tests and training, a life size model of an actual section of the battle front in the west had been made with trenches a mile long and twe miles deep, with 15 miles of communi cation trenches, shell holes, mine cra ters barbed-wire entanglements, ma chine gun emplacements and all the other adornments of this part of the front as it existed in France. In Au gust a mimic battle on a large scale, was carried out under the gaze of the experts, who were so thoroughly sati sfied that they ordered 50 tanks to be sent immediately to France. On Aug ust 29th the tanks disembarked at Havre and proceeded ap country by ro«d and rail to the battle front. Save The Hens. Washington, D. C.—Every laying hen sold from the farms before the first of May means a loss of about 30 eggs to the food supply of the Nation. These eggs are valuable food, manu factured largely from insects, weeds, and grass, garbage and waste. The *ggs. therefore, are almost wholly a net gain in human food. Moreover, the hen is just as good meat a'ter she has laid these e»gs as before. Save the Hens u the message that the United States Department of Agriculture is'sending broadcast thru press notices and pooturs, an i thru its cornty agents, especially in the southern poultry-ra.ing sections. Kentucky Dry Amendment Passes. Islington, Ky.—The ftr«t state wide prohibition bill was fa cd by '.he House by • vote of 76 to 11 on Wednesday. It bad already pssssd the Senate. The amendment Ices not require the signature of Uu> GovweWfc snd it is therefore new In form te ha • ubmltted to the people at the ltll ilirtta.