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PARE TWO THE DAILY FREE PRESS (United Preaa Telegraph! Reporta) , , ; EL Gait Braxton, Editor and Manager ', rabHsned Every Day Except Sunday y th Kinston Ttm Praia Co. In&. Ktnetcn, N. C. : . Saaaerlpttoa Bates Parable I AdvaaetV 1 , Ooa Week ....... i..$ .10 ,lTjre Monthi ...... .TXH Ore Monti M Six Uontiu ..'LOO . :, Ooa Yar ...... ..MOO Communications received and not published win not b re tamed tmleu atampa to cover postage accompany aam NEW YORK OFFICE 38 Park Row. Mr. Ralph R Mulligan. In aole charge of Eaitern Department Filet, of Free Preaa can be seen. , ' WESTERN OFFICE In charge of Mr. C. 3. Andei-soii Marquette Building, Chicago,; where filea of The Free . Prase eaa ba Man. :.'. - Sobacribera are requested to notify, by Telephone"" 75, The Free Press of any hrrecularity' of delivery o Inattention whatsoever on tie part of the carriers After Six P. If. subscribers are requested to call West en Union and report failure w get the paper. "'A copy wOl be aent promptly, if eomblalnrii made-ef ore Nin' F. Mn without epet to subscriber. ' Entered at the postofflce at Kinston. North Carolina. a eeond-class natter under act of Congress, March 8, 1879 FRIDAY EVENING,, AUGU8TV. 18, 1918 ,' Col, Fairbrother la authority for Greensboro depot is "still In the air." paring far an aerial line. Remember the dates I October. 24 th to ?7th. the four big days far the 1916 ,Kln&taa.JE!ftU'Jie secopd annual exhibit'! We want fifty thousand people to accept our ."Kumi Kami? for the occasion. ' The Winston-Salem Journal refers canaiuate as rne -arsiwnue aigmnea anu august vmei Jus' Ice." This Is making bad matters worse. We would remind our contemporary that he was only an Associate Justice. , j , The News and Observer of Raleigh tells us that Bud Fisher, the creator of the Mutt and Jeff funny pictures, draws a thousand a week and participates in the proceeds ! of the syndicate distributing the series. Lot of money for nothing. 1 V - ; 1 ' 1 ( . We note that 5am Farabee continues to look on the bright side of the prospective strike situation, and pro claims in positive termst "We will have no eta-ike." We . can all join In the chorus anieXBlfisaJ&s hope that Sam is right. ! . : , The guests of a resort hotel at Wrightsvllle, who lost thousand In jewels and money while 'enjoying: the surf, , will In future, probably remember, from the dear ex- ' perience, that it is safer to take the gestion and leave valuables at the office, when going for a swim. A 'Kinston boy has told, according to figures furnished The Vree Press for its Thursday tuVf our hundred and thirty-six quarts of butterbeans at an average of 15c a quar since June 29. We, therefore, move that a atate .wUoJbean club be added to the pig, corn, canning and numerous other associations for the promotion of spec ial industries. V The publishers gathered at Greensboro this week to discuss the nigh cost of paper and other shop matters. Comparatively apeaking, there were few present at the talkrest, but it can be safely aid that every publisher in the ; United States, who wasn't on hand to do his pmrt.of the talking, was thinking pretty strongly. ' l , , L. ' . - Some of our contemporaries in .reporting tobacco sales of the opening day seem to have looked only at our head lines and have put the Kinston market down at 15c. Our average was estimated from 15c to 18c, and in Wednes ' day's' paper we gave the exact figures showing the aver age soles for the opening day to have been $18.36. Our good friends will accord us justice to use the latter fig ures, if they have occasion to refer to the comparative maikets again. Thursday the average jumped above 20c. the report that the (Evidently pre. tunlttes before it to the Republican raising possibilities there has been no this Important industry. Some of our the season's sales, so low that little It. Yes, thirty fall a little short. the sales or to find place among her pull together and from far and near hotel manager's sug EXTRAVAGANT. Norfolk any other line of ing squad operating for several weeks, sent of one young fense of his country.' "We suppose that ties. National and right, but it seems 82,000 a recruit, ny angle from the longer they o cspturing them. remarkable. t1IKETHE MESSEWGER THE KINSTON FREE PRESS NOW FOR "BABY BEEF CLUBS., '.. J; " One of the many interesting plana recently auggested for community and State uplift by the University News Letter, la the Idea of establishing Baby Beef Clubs in order to stimulate "the production of native beef in larger oroportions. .' The following is taken from the News Let ter: ' '.' v "We found In Mississippi the, other day that the banks of the State are quite generally back ",. ing the Baby Diet Clubs. , ; "For. many reasons, Beef Cluba are more im portant, in the South than Pig Clubs. For in ' stance,' lean meat-beef, mutton, and poultry " needs to -be a tremendously ' increased Item of common daily diet'' In 65 country homes in Gas ton county in 1913 the Federal Dept. of Agri etiUure found that the average annual consump- tiojjfpfjmeat per person was 122 "pounds; which, ' hy thejway, is 34 pounds below the average for the United States; ' "But the aignificant thing was the fact that ' tfttai total consisted of 120 pounds of pork and only 2 pounds of beef! ''" "Pellagra threatens to be a devastating scourge , in our country (regions. Last year there were 76,000 cases in the United States and 7,500 . deaths mainly in ihe South; in North Carolina, ' 651' deaths, ' ' f. - "This dread disease is sourced, says Dr. Gold- bcrger of t3ie U. S; Public Health Service, in . an ill-balanced diet; too much com bread, fat meat, molasses, and the like, and too little beef, mutton, poultry, eggrs, milk, peas, and beans. Aid the cure lies in a well-balanced diet. "Domestic beef production needs to be stimu lated In North Carolina as in Mississippi. , "Why not Baby Beef Clubs as well as Pig Clubs in North Carolina T Cannot our banks take the lead?" ' The question asked is an interesting one, and one won thy of consideration. Nortb. Carolina has many oppor. for developing its products. The stocl have not been realized. At least. evidence of any movement commen surate with the opportunities in the production of live stock. Very happily, there is evidence of an increasing interest, which tends to the hope that the day is not far removed when North Carolina will come into its own in tobacconist friends think our goal for twenty-five to thirty million pounds, too high. We believe that it is better to trive to reach the apparently unattainable than it is to put the target trouble will be experienced in hittinj million is our goal for the season. We will, be agreeably surprised and even more proud of Kinston than ever .if the saiea for 1916-17 approximate aueh figures, and we will not be'distfppointed if they do Wo wild (regret to see any falling off in the Kinston market in any but first sisters' of the East Carolina belt. Let's invite the boys who produce the weed to'.'tfCuml Kum!" WHAT OTHERS SAY IF TRUE. Ledger-Diopatch: "There is more money being wasted in Virginia today in the attempt to secure re cruits for the army on the Texas border than in almost expenditure. ' ' "We hove recently been informed that it was costing about 82,000 a recruit. It was reported that the ream it at Cape Charles had been over there and had succeeded in gaining the con man to leave his happy home in "de the wisdom of the military authori State, have this thing figured out all to us that recruiting, at a cost of is rather an expensive proposition from which it is viewed." A HIGHWAYMAN'S CHANCES. ' Columbia State: "So far, the men who robbed a 'pay automobile' in Detroit have made good their escape, and evade the law the less chance there is That highwaymen eould successfully execute such robbery in the neart of a large city is f . "Robbcnos somewhat similar to the one in Detroit have -iiiyi2i&n -Missi Fw7 : km xsnLh 'j I"'' ' often been perpetrated, and it ap pears that their day is, not yet. .oyer. The bandit usually succovds in. 'get ting the drop andthat is always a powerful, factor -m such a situation. Tha aciual holdup i a erowdod city Is really not much more dangerous lhar. one alonVa lonely.road. for the liiehwayman relies upon the astonish ment which his deed create and the general unpreparedness of passersby to cope with the situation. His chief difficulty is in escaping, but the mod cm holdup man conducts his own op rations from an automobile and dashes sway in it when the job is fin ished. "However," the arm of the law is as far reaching as it ever was. in some cases at least, and a highwayman's escape may be only temporary, as the Detroit case may yet prove." MEDICINE FOR MOROS - TO HELP CIVILIZE 'EM New York. Aug. 17. In an at tempt to advance civilization through the medium of medical relief the Philippine government co-operating with the international health board of the Rockefeller Foundation, it was announced here tonight, will send a hospital ship to th Sulu ar chipelago, which is inhabited by ap proximately 200,000 Moros and other savage tribes. The medical service will be maintained for five years. 5 1 (I L ZJ C h Mi 1 SMOE POLISHES : am'm, B lac k-Wh it e '? ta n - io f KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT Jiin M-M.wi..-W,r i fc I II , ' .lajj. . ... n i ,L .,' I Emerson Mowers I and Rakes Arc the standard the worid over for light draft, simple mechanism fast cutting and long life. Let us demonstrate to you how we can sell more mower for less money. All who are interested in buying farm machinery, esptcially mow ers and rakes, will save money by getting our prices. B.IW. Canady &Son ' HIS MOTTO IS SAFETY LAS I A NO ALU?THE LATIN-AMERICANS HAVE ENCOUNTERED HARD LUCK Ashevlile, Aug." 17, II'. C. Tuck er of Rio Janeiro', Brazil,' agent of the American Bible Association, address Ing: the conference of.the Laymen's Missionary "Movement of the Method ist Episcopal , Church, South, , today declared Utat South Americans have never UY Inane to develop aocial - ly, politically, economically, .educa - tionally or religiously. " Yet that cDunvry.- oe &uii, is vuiy ncn ana , has the foundation for supporting a great and intelligent people. TJve speakers at the day session were F. P. Manget of China, who discussed medicine as practiced by the Chinese, and Dr. Paul W. Harrison, mission ary from Arabia, who spoke on "Mis sionaries at Home." . , RAILROAD TAKES ON A NEGRO AGRICULTURE "Roanoke, Va., Aug. 17 Officials of tha Norfolk and Western , Railroad av the general offices here today an nounced that an expert negro agri culturist has been employed by the company to teach ne;rro farmers liv ing along the Norfolk and Western's iinss how to get the maximui.i of production from the land they culti vate, and how to harvest their crops .o the best advantage. FIRS Tll.fE Friday THE CENSOR IS NOT THE BLANK FOOL YOU TAKE P TO BET HOW BRITISH OFFICERS IN FRANCE AND tl am niian irmrn nrrt mm fir irf Tnrr m Wlt5 Al ilUMt IKltU 1U By HAL O'FLAHERTY. ' (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Aug. L (By Mail) "The censor is not the damn fool you take , to be" 15,8 above lme W" I by a E'riUsh censor upon a let- ler from an ofllcer th,e rontJto hw f... in which an ineenious code was discovered. It meant to disclose H t.h anxious wife just where her hus band was fighting, but it was spoiled by the censor and an order was is sued by the war office, prohibiting such practices. - Before the officer who -wrote the tcde letter, left for the front, he se cured two maps showing the entire British fighting line. The maps were identical. One he left with hia wife and the othr he took with him. Thereafter, each time he wrote a letter, he placed the stationery on hU map, stuck a pin through it di rectly over Paris, another directly ever Brussels, and a third at the point where he was stationed. Upon receiving the Ict'cr. r.!3 vr.fs vro-U superimpose it on her map, adjust ing the extreme pinholes over Paris and Brussels, and her, husband's Whereabouts would be indicated by the middle hole. This is but one of a score of codes EAST CAROLINA ROT. Imprtred Passenger Service of the East Carolina " Railway, Effective Train 1, Motor Car. Leave Ilook erton 7:10 a. m., Maury 7:20; Farm October 20, 1912. ville 7:40; connecting with Norfolk Southern train No. 17, Raleigh and train No. 12 to Washington. Leave Fountain 8:00 a. m., Macclesfield 8:20; Pinetops 8:30; arrive Tarboro 9:10; connecting with A. CX. train No. 90 for Norfolk. Train 4, Motor Car, Leave Tar boro after arrival of A. C. L. train 49 from Norfolk for Farmville. ar rive Farmville 2:00 p. m connect ing with No. 50 for Maury and Hookerton. Train 3, Motor Car. Leave Farm ville 3:00 p. m., arrive Tarboro 4:20 connecting with A. C. L. train No. 64 for Plymouth and points in Eastern Carolina. Train 2, Motor Car Leave Tar-1 We don't guarantee the operation of I the motor, cars, nor do wa guarantee connectiuis. ... , . Train 51, Mixed. lave Hooker- ton 3:30 p. m, Maury 3:40, Farm ville 5:12, arrive Tarboro, 7:00 mak ing connection with A. C L. train 41 for points South. No baggage will be handled on mo tor cars except hand-bags. All bag gage will be checked and handled on trains 50 and 51. now. CAROLINA RAILROAD TIME TABLE No. 1 . FIRST-CLASS FREIGHT AND . PASSENGER SERVICE. , Southbound Northbound 332 , 333 , A. M. P. M, a 7:29.... Hines Junction . ...s 5:05 ,7:06......... Pools .........f 5:20 a 7:00...... Dawson ........s 5:27 s 6:47 Glenfield .......6 5:41 f 6:40 Suggs Siding..... f 5:50 6:30 Lv.. ; .Snow Hill.. . Ar. 6:00 All trains governed by the Norfolk Evening, August 18. 19is ruUL lilt tM-H-UUlQ and secret signals discovered by the sensors recently.- (England- does no Mnsure the relatives of men at the front for wanting" to know the local. Ity in which they are fighting tn perhaps dying, but such disclosure! became a menace. No one knows how extensive Germany's espionage sy, tern may be, and England is taking no 'chances., , Another code system used ' by ' certain officer , was more ; elaborate than the ons pointed out hy the cen sor. It was arranged by 1ie officer, and his wife, juet before he sailed' for France, and consisted ,. of two charts of the -battle . line, ono . of whicli he retained while the wife kept the other. Each map was laid out in blocks an inch square; reach square could, be identified by combinations of letters indicating" each line of squares from left to. right.- Down the left hand side was another row of ' letters. In writing home, the officer would ayrGive my regards, L, A,' "sUh. Wng a fictitious name, the wife would know it as a key to her secret . code. ? Putting' her "finger on the ''A" line of , . the squares on her chart, she would follow along under the "L" rquares, in 'whicli 'was ler husband's position at the front. Southern rules while 'using hVrack" from Kinston to Hines Junction and subject to the orders of its superin tendent -; ,.--, WM, HAYES, -Genl Supt., Kinston, N, C G. A JONES, Freight & Passenger Agent, Snow Hill. N C. EXCURSION VIA NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO NORFOLK, VA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 22,. 1916 Schedule and Fares: Leave. ; -....-.-."" ' '.H 1 Goldsboro 6:55 a. m. $2.50. LaGrange 7:24 a. m. $2.50. Kinston 7:50 a. m. $260. w , Dover 8:10 a. m. $2.50. ' Beaufort 6:35 a. m. $3.00. ' Beaufort 6:35 a. m. $3.00. Morehcad City 7:00 a. m.-3.00. Newport 7:23 a. m $3.00. ' Havelock 7:39 a. m $3.00. Oriental 7:00 a. m. $3.00. Bayboro 7:23 a. m. $3.00. New Bern 9:26 a. m..SO. Arrive ' ,. , Norfolk 4:30 p. m. ' - Fares in same proportion from in termediate stations. Regular morning trains from Golds boro, Beaufort and Oriental , connect with special fast train leaving New Bern 9:20 a. m.,i August 22, arriving Norfolk 4:30 p. m. same date. Re turning special train will leave Nor folk 10:30 a. m, Thursday, August 24thconnecting at New Bern with regular trains for points beyond. For additional information consult nearest Norfolk Southern agent or address ,- , .. . H. S. Leard, General Passenger Agent, Norfolk, Va. J. F. Mitchell, Traveling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C. y. Subscribe to Tha Free Press. o" Mo v a a r
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