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v 1 ' THE ; -O.F.73 DAE SLY FREE .11. il ii ' '! THE' WEATHER !( 1 I i " . ' f , Fif toniihi ind tomorow. - VOL.XVII.-N. 163 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. Cm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, SIX PAGES TODAY - PRICE TWO CENTS FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS mimm OFHTCHM --COITEIfS AS ya EE .STEP rn ,a i All TMtl STATEMENT TF7K) . 'it if 1 FOKECA JT1 F ' . , . ' kl ' ' i 1 t ALliuES PROPOSED NAVAL w i- -"tf-rt-- i. T - ,T- V ,. . - ffijPlGlffijlSiiJp POWERS IN ANYONE SINGLE VERY MUCH Says "Year J5ook" ts Faulty As Dreadnaughfs, Which York, because of Limited Massachusetts, Which Are Not Listed Because Considered Obsolete, Are Far Su perior In Every Respect rTrea,sjury Is Unable to Stand increaseMaintains "Cordial" Disagreement With President Wilson, and Position Unalterable Regardless of Consequences to Self. As . promised readersof The Free Press in Friday's issue, Congressman Claude jKitchn today released "his statement, setting forth his position in regard to the much-talked of "preparedness program." This is perhaps the most interesting state merit that has emanated from any source within the past twelve months, and The .Ifree Press is gratified that it has been favored with the first release, and that it is pf the two or three papers in all the country which are permitted to carry the story today,. The statement conforms generally to the nq4ay-'s issue f The Free Press. Mr. Kitchm s statement gram.": He charges, that the people of the country have been alarmed by false rep resentations of the. Navy League and other militarists, and that the United States is amply prepared already to care for itself. Its navy, Mr. Kitchin claims, is second only to Great Britain's; is far superior to Germany's and France's, and more than double the strength of .Japan's, to say nothing of the other smaller and insignificant navies. He charges 'that the "Navy YearBook" carries the names of twenty Ger man battleships as dreadnaughts, which are incapable of traveling more than one thousand miles from their base, and could not get within five' hundred miles of New York!"' These ships, he .says, are not the equal of either the Oregon, Indiana or .Mas sachusetts of the United States Navy, which have been omitted from. the Year Book as obsolete .and out of date.', t , r-Mr. Kitchin iays the present program of the Administration exceeds greatly that which was proposed by Messrs. :,Hobson and Gardner last year, and if carried " but, "will exceed the combined, increases of all the navies of the world in any single year of history It will shock the world, he says, into another armed camp, and will mean that jtfae United States will lose "the greatest opportunity ever given to any nation to play the part of peace-maker. The Treasury is less able now to stand the tax than ever before, and the burden will be very heavy, he alleges. Mr. Kitchin claims that with a navy,, half as strong as at present, and with adequate mines and submarines to augment the icoast defenses, wbich he says experts say are superior to any'ijt the world, the United States could protect itself from invaders. He main tains thjj,there is a perfect understanding and sincere mutual regret existing be tween hjinejf and the President,' and that they agreed after a cordial conference to disagree, fie pays his respects, to the New York Herald and in conclusion, affirms that having made up his mind after due deliberation he will stick to his position re gardless of consequences, political or otherwise. Propaganda of Misrepresentation. : ' MR. EDITOR: " , The Seven Seas Magazine, the organ of the Navy League (the organ-. i i&ation which, has created, by deception and misrepresentation, the appar. enfciy big sentiment for the militarism and navalism now proposed, and ;,, yhkrh aeema to have stampeded many patriotic, and usually level-headed people J declared in its October issue, that I had the right "to vote for Or 'igainst" the preparedness measure, but that I had "neither the right nor fhould he (I) be allowed even to discuss it in the House," etc. I trust, however,' that the press of my State, though most of it differ widely with ne, will 'jiot refuse the privilege .which I ask, to express through it to the people some of the reasons for my position and give some of the facts with espect tp ihe question wlikrh has been withheld from, or certainly not given to public. - I ask .this privilege, with confidence that it will be granted, cspecjally in view of the fact that many of the State papers have severely criticised nie, sme going, to' the extent of bitterly denouncing me. I, have r.i criticism to make of tho press and the people in the State who differ tf.'jth me. Having heard only on side, and, owing to the tons of literature jt deception and misrepresentation on the subject, being poured out .,daily lo the people, by the metropolitan ' press and magazines many, perhaps, innocently and by the so-called "Patriotic Societies" of which the JJavy league is the head, it is but natural that s large, majority of the people jh,oujd oppose my position, i With your permission, I shall now proceed give-some of the facts and reasons which impel mo to oppose the big limitary and naval program which will be proposed to Congress. - Na?y SecjMy to Great Britain s. 1.' As to the. Actual Condition of Our Navy. All the talk and ,writ ings by the press and the so-called "Patriotic Societies" about our gutter helplessness," our "dangerous unpreparedness," our : 'defenseless condi tion," our "growing weakness," our 'having fallen to the third or fotlrth grade of inferiority in naval strength" etc., is pure ioromy-rot! basd on not a single .fact . " . . ' ' , 'Let it first understood -. that in the "Preparedness", program the Navy of Great Britain is-eliminated. . This was so testified by the Secre tary of the Navy, Admiral, Fletcher, and other naval experts, and even by Hqjwon, in the hearings before the Naval Committee at the last ses sion of Congress, all declaring that we do not need or desire a navy as strong as hers. Notwithstanding the metropolitan press, magazine writ ers and the 'Tatriotic Societies" and our Navy Year Book (which was xposed in the last Congress, and will be so exposed in the next, as unre liable and misleading), the fact is,' that we have built -and building the (Continued on page five) IN CREASE'APPRflPR AT i. " TTi.r . '171 S .77... . 1 GREATER THAN THE and.ContainsNames of Twenty German Ships, Classed Could Not Get Withm Five Hundred Miles of New Fuel Rapacity, and That U. S. S. Oregon, Indiana and Speaks of "Terrible Burden is a torcetul argument against tne "excessive pro ION EXCEEDS HOBSON GARDNER PLANS OF ONE YEAR AGO of Taxation," and Says the forecast carried in the Wed rnnti n :ii i riiuivi d FOR SUPPLIES FOR "Sensational Disclosures" . In Monday's Hearing of Case Against Hamburg American Officials Proba ble Boyed's Part (By the United Presa.) - New York, Nov. 20. Sensational disclosures are promised by Federal officials in the American trial of the indicted Hamburg-American line offi cials which begins Monday. It is stated that Capt. Boyed, the German embassy attache, and other German representatives will be in volved. Counsel for the steamship of ficials today admitted that Boycd wa consulted regarding $50,000 sont from Germany to buy supplie sfor Ger man commerce raiders. COSTLY BMZE IN TOWN IN ALABAMA (By the United Press.) -' Montgomery, ; Ala., Nov. 20. A hundred thousand-dollar fire today resulted in the destruction of the rail road aection of ' Union Springs, Ala. A thousand bales of cotton wero de stroyed. , THAT OF THE YEAR IN HISTORY- FOR BETTER HEA LTH IN THE OLD NORTH STATE Medical Examination Day Feature of Tuberculosis Week Diagnostic Teat for Tuberculosis; -Serum Free to Physicians State Should Care for Narcotic Habitues, Says M. D- Following are excerpts from the bulletins issued by the State Board of Health, which department is ac complishing much for better health in North Carolina through the pub lication as well as in other ways) One of the chief features of the annual Tuberculosis Week which will be observed this year, December 6 to 12, will be a nation-wide medical ex amination day. This announcement has just been made by the National Association for the Prevention of Tu berculosis, which association believes that the next great step in the pre vention of disease is the inaugura tion of an universal periodical medi cal examination. , Arrangements have been completed whereby the State Sanatorium, Sanatorium, N. C, will be able to furnish, free of charge, to any physijian in the State a suf ficient, amount of tuberculin for the Van Pirquet diagnostic vtest for tu berculosis. 'She tuberculin will lie kept in capillary tubes, each twbe to hold enough for one test, and will be sent by mai!,4ne" orfntfre at a time, to any physician in the State, who will report to the Sanatorium, with in a week,' the results of the test. The, plan of closing school in case of an epidemic of some contagious disedisease is the old and ineffective way of dealing with such a situation, and was adopted for the reason there was apparently nothing else to do But, according to a bulletin recently issued by the Stato Board of Health, there is another way, a scientific and an efficient means, of dealing with an epidemic in school. This1 way does not close the school at all, but uses the school as a most valuable aid in keeping the children under observa tion, that early cases may be detect ed and removed before they become a source of infection to the other children. It is the opinion of Dr. J. Howell Way, of Waynesvillo, president of the North Carolina State Board ' of Health, that the State should pro vide for the examination and treat ment of narcotic habitues as a wise and patriotic public policy. BULLETINS (By the United Press) LARGE ITALIAN STEAMER POSSIBLY SUNK. Paris, Nov! 20, Destruction ' of the Italian steamship Verona, of 8,00 tons, is feared, following a radiogram that she had been pursued by a submarine off the 'Medlteranncan .'coast of Spain. Furious artillery and grenade fighting at many points on the Franco-German front is reported . at tho war office. , GERMAN LINES IN EAST GROW THINNER. ' Petrograd. Nov. 20 Dispatch es today reported! that the Ger man lineJn Russia is thinning ' ' out rapidly. It is believed the : men are being sent to the Balk ans.' . A SUCCESSION OF - SUSPICIOUS FIRES South Bethlehem, Pa., Nov. 20. Five small fires have been discovered in a few days in the projectile depart ments of the Bethlehem Steel Works. It is rumored government secret ser vice agents are investigating. MONASTER IN HANDS I Northern Army Can Reach Montenegro If It Starts Right Away DP TO THE ANGLO-FRENCH To Continue the Campaign In Serbia Goritz Fired By Italian Shells, Many Inhabitants Killed De feat for Montenegrins (By the United Press) Berlin, Nov. 20. GoriU is burning in many places. The Italians have thrown 3,000 shells into the town. Many inhabitants have been killed. The property damage is enormous. From a military standpoint; the Ital ians have accomplished little. The Austrians are holding the original po sitions, repulsing successive attacks. The bridge-head has been under in cessant bombardment for many days. Austrians Defeat Montenegrins. Vienna, Nov. 20. The war office to day announced that tho Austrians have erushingly defeated the Monte negrins near Preboi, a Serbian town on the edge of Austria and close to the Montenegrin border. Monastir in Hands of Enemy,. Paris, Nov. 20. With Monastics fall it is believed tBe Southern Serb army's independent resistance to the Bulgairs has ended. The French and British are expected to do only the fightin gin this region henceforward. The Sarbs are expected to continue guerilla fighting. .Serbs in North Must Flee Quickly. Berlin, Nov. 20. Flight or capture are tho alternatives before the North ern Serb's army. Headquarters ad-. mits the Serbs can reach Montenegro if they move quickly. If they hesi tate they will be surrounded. German Statement of Situation. Berlin, Nov. 20. The Germans have captured 2,800 more Serbs. They are pushing southward up the Idar Valley. The Austrians are trying to surround the Serbs and have occu pied Dren and Prepolac, the war of flee announced. - FASHIONABLE FOLK SEE STARS FIGHT Segurela and Thome, Singer and Teacher. Mix In Presence of a So ciety Audknee in the Biltmore Ho tel . iU'cause Thorne Criticizes the Voice of Richmond Vocalist, Miss . Fitziu (By the United Press.) New York, Nov. 20. Andre ade Segurola, Metropolitan Opera House, singer, and William Thorne, music teacher, exchanged blows before a smart audience in the Biltmore Hotel today because Thorne criticised the voice of Miss Anna Fitziu, opera singer of Richmond, Va. WILSON DONT LIKE "INDIAN MAID" SONG Asked That Composition Dedicated to Him, Probably Instigated by His Love Affair, Be Suppressed Is Be ing Printed by New York Publish er Notwithstanding,' It Is Stated (By the United Press) New York,.' Nov. 20. Despite the White House protest, the song, "Pret ty Little Indian Mair," dedicated to the President, is being printed. The words are supposed to relate the Pres ident's wooing of Mrs. Gait, descend ant of Pocahontas. Michael J. Fitz patrick, author, sent a copy to . the White House. ". Tumulty replied that the President wished ths song sup- SAY BRITISH HAVE PAINTED TRANSPUT SHIPS M CROSS Seventy Vessels With Insig nia of Sanitary Depart ment Look Fishy to Ger mansSubmarines Fool ed by the Trickery, Said By CARL W. ACKERMAN, (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, Nov. 20. That English transports are using Red Cross flags to get troops and munitions to the Balkans, is charged in a wireless message from German submarines in the vicinity of Salonika. It is stated that 70 British transports, heavy la den and painted as hospital ships, passed Gibraltar en route to Saloni ka. It is stated by an Admiralty offi cial in closest touch with German submarine activities, that the said ships were loaded to their f attest capacity, and it is not likely that Eng land is sending 70 vessels with hos pital supplies or wounded to Saloni ka. TOO MANY TURKEYS FOR WHITE HOUSE If All Promised Are Received There Will Be Nothing Else In the Presl dent's Mansion Mrs. Gait, Miss Wilson and the MeAdooa to Be at the Thanksgiving Day Dinner (By the United Press.) . Washinton, Nov. 20. If all ths turkeys offered the President for his' Thanksgiving dinner arrive there will be scant room left in the White House for anything else. It is understood Mrs. Gait, Miss Margaret Wilson and Secretary and Mrs. McAdoo will be guests at the Thanksgiving dinner in the White House. KINSTON A MIGHTY GOOD TOWN WITH FINE CO-OPERATIVE SPIRIT, BUT IT NEEDS SOME THINGS YET, SAVS NO TED LOCAL CITIZEN Dr. B. W. Spilman, one of the city's most distinguished residents, who is field secretary for Sunday school work of the Southern Baptist conven tion, and has traveled all over this country and some others, loves to boast of Kinston's good points. But in the following, given The Free Press today, he makes a number of helpful suggestions: Is Kinston to be a city or a big overgrown town? Land is already bringing city prices. When the trav eler arrives at our depot he naturally thinks that he has arrived at a small village on circus day. The depot in dicates the village, and the normal travel looks like the circus. , When the new settler starts to housekeeping and the good housewife starts to market, and is told that there is not a market house the vil lage idea comes to the front. Ten thousand people and no market house! We are in the exact center of East ern North Carolina. If you happen to come from Missouri and have to bo shown, measure the distance by rail from Raleigh to Beaufort; then find the halfway spot. - Try a measure straight from Weldon to Wilmington. A fine place for district conventions to meet; or for a State gathering which passes from east to center and then west. But when the inquiry is made for hotels and Tan . adequate hall for meeting the village crops out again. Our hotels are good, but inadequate in the number of people who may be eared for. We would be "swamped' if a big convention should swoop down on ns. MANN NOT WlUIG TAKE tIRDERS FROM WILSON ilBEFENSE Republican Leader Agrees to Join President In Con-, ference, Though GAIIINGER A1S0 ASKED "Not Willing to Be Inform ed of a Program Which I am Expected to Support," Says Illinois Congress manHas Own Ideas (Py the United Piesa.) Washington, Nov. 20. Told that he would,, be invited to the White House for a conference on the Presi dent's preparedness program, Repre sentative Mann of Illinois, Republi can leader, today said: "I am willing to consult with the President en preparedness but not willing to '3 informed of a program which I am expected to support. I favoi the policy of preparedness, but have my own Ideas on the subject. I do not propose to take orders from the President." . -. . The President has written k Mann and Senator Gallinger, asking eon ferences. NO DOUBT AUSTRIM , SUNK THE ANCONA Washington, : Nov, 20. Ambassa dor. Page, at Rome, today cabled the State Department that there is , no doubt that the submarine which sank the Ancona was Austrian. He h&i confirmed reports that she carried the Austrian flag. He said the Ital-; ian government had not questioned the fact. , ' Numbers of people want to S do tight housekeeping. "Any gas avail able?" is asked. No. The village again crops out. We were in sight of a gas plant some years, ago; : A number of our citizens raised enough sand to make Kinston resemble . ft section of the Sahara Desert because they were not given a chance .to build the gas plant If anybody can find out who the distinguished gentle men were who wanted Kinstpn capi tal invested in the gas plant It might be a very favorable time to solicit stock from them. J A tour of the grocery stores of Kinston would lead one to think that we are half city and half cross Nads village. Wanted, a live Civic League to inspect the grocery stores mad to grade them and publish the grade, of each. Some . of them would stand the test but there are others. There is hardly a city in this country hut that lets the buying public know the conditions of the grocery stores do ing business in 'the city. All of these things are on the way. We are emerging in the street busi We cannot do it all ki a single year. We are emerging in the street busi ness; some traffic laws are creeping on the statute books; some of as even dream of the day when we shall have good sanitary laws and an officer who will be "on the job' without fear of losing his Job. Gas is on the way. We will be there after a while. Give U3 a little time. It takes twenty-one years to grogw a Toter. Kinston w&$ a country village twenty-one years ago. . I know, because I came to Kin ston first just twenty-one years f ;o this month.
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