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PAGE FOUE nocitiiianA!!,- pc dispatch, i EDITO RIM COLllM ; The Absent Voters law was enacted so that tne soldiers CQuld register before going away arid thus be able to voteby mail while in the service. Unless they reg ister before leaving their home precinct, they cannot vote. The law requires every registrar to keep his registration books open at all times for the registration of these soldier-voters. Persons otherwise entitled to vote ftiay send their ballots by mail if they are registered, but there MUST BE PERSONAL REGISTRA TION BY THE VOTER ' BE FORE HE LEAVES HOME The right of absent voting ap plies to the primary election to be held June 1, 1918, as welLas to the November election. If your soldier-son or friend is en titled to vote, but is not register ed at his home precinct, be sure to have him personally register the next time he visits ,home; and when the new draft is called, be sure to have every man reg ister before he leaves. Bfe'll feel mighty lonely and left out when voting time comes, witlf&ll ls comrades voting and he left out all because of his own neglect. 5 Try as hard as you please, you can never get the knocker to be lieve his home town is anything but a modern Nazareth. Nothing good can come from it.-: Even when some bit' of successful hustling or unusual generosity sets the outside world talking, he finds some flaw, some manner in which the deed would have been bettered had it happened else where. Personally, his brains, if changed to water, would not - be sufficient to dampen the dust on a gnat's whiskers, but he consid ers himself capable of giving" 'ad vice to old man Solomon. The seventy-second South Car olina General Assembly adjourn ed sine die shortly after midnight Tuesday night, after the shortest session in many years, adjourn ment coming just 35 days after convening on January 8th. Gov ernor Manning signed 127 acts as the work of the legislature. Just before adjourning the Gov ernor signed the resolution rati fying the new amendment to the federal constitution. Trading in live or freshly killed hens and pullets anywhere in the United States is forbidden in an order announced Monday by the United States Food Ad ministration. By restricting the killing of fowls that should now be heavy layers, the food admin istration hopes to increase the eggs. Out of a total of 6,000,000 farms in this country, 1,500,000 reported to the Department of Agriculture that they produced no eggs. If each of these henless farms would keeplOO hens, a low estimate of ten dozen eggs each, or a billion and a half , dozen, would result in a year. At the average price of forty cents a dozen, they would be worth $600,000,000! Do your bit by raising a few more chickens but ingoing in for poultry bear in mind that. there is a law that prohibits your fowls encroaching upon the property of a neighbor, to his or her garden or flower destruction. GEE WHIZ; what a' rwpH crt that CH KVRCJLKT KTfrHT" CYLINDER is! Have you seen it? Ask for demonstration we will be delighted to show "you what they will dv .See our add in this issue ot Pbst-Dispajtchta-WestBros. - WHttft somfc'folkV unpatrioti cally inthis country may grum ble about the wheatless and meatless orders, they can get consolation from the knowledge that in England the meat ration ing order gives each civilian just one pound of meat a week; chil dren under ten are entitled to half a ration. The meat ration in Germany is three-quarters of a pound weekly. So take heart, and think what might be and what most likely WILL BE un less every man of us strictly adheres to the letter and spirit of the food regulations. Congress last Saturday ex tended from February 12th to April 12th the time within which soldiers and sailors may file ap plication for war risk insurance. For the future happiness and comfort of the soldiers, it is im perative that they take out the full insurance. There'll be no pensions paid after this war is over. ' The government insur ance takes the place of pensions. Therefore it is up to our Rich mond county people to see to it that every Richmond county sol. diere white or black, be insured tttte full $10,000 limit. The time has been extended until April 12th. Don't delay with this mat ter, but write your soldier-boy at once ' and if he doesn't feel like paying the small premiums, you do it yourself for him. .. In a personal letter to the edi tor received today from James H. Pou, of Raleigh, is the following: "1 think it is highly, important that we shall impress upon the soldiers and their parents the importance of the soldier taking the full $10,000. He should be satisfied with nothing else. I would suggest that in, your paper you strongly urge that the maxi mum be taken. A soldier need only take $1,000 if he wishes; but in case of permanent disability that noli-, would only pay him or his dependent, if he be dead, $5.75 a month; while a $10,000 policy would pay him or his de pendents $57.50 a month." WARMS Events of the Past Week. The Republican national exec utive committee in session at St. Louis yesterday elected Will H. Hays, of Indiana, as chairman, and he is the man who is expect ed to bring harmony in the "n.g." G. O. P. A statement issued by the com mittee says, "Republicans throughout the country will be sincerely gratified to learn that the national committee adjourn, ed with complete harmony pre vailing on every side." Get the two words "COMPLETE HAR MONY?" But does anyone sup pose for a minute that Teddy has "taken back" the terms of 'thieves,' 'rascals 'robbers,' 'crooks,' etc. he so freely lavished upon Taft, Root & Co. in 1912, again in 1914, and still again in 1916 ? "Complete harmony !" Suspension of the heatless Monday program was announced yesterday by Fuel Administrator Garfield with the reservation that it may be put back into force before the ten weeks period expires if a return of bad weath er brings another breakdown in railroad transportation. Ten heatless Mondays were decreed by the fuel administration Janu uary 17th and four have been observed in all states east of the Mississippi river except those states south of Virginia; the or der was enforced in the south on but three Mondays, the requir ment for last .Monday having been lifted. And so now there'll be no more closing Mondavs un less the weather gets on a real rampage jagaiiv , As a result of the sinking of the British liner Tuscania off the. coast of Ireland on Tuesday night of last week, 159 persons lost their lives. There were 2179 troops from Wisconsin and Michr igan on board, but all were saved except 159. Although no formal treaty has been signed between the Rus sians and the Central Powers the Bolsheviki government Tuesday ordered a cessation pf hostilities and the withdrawal of its troops from its trenches and fortified positions. It long has been' fore seen that such an outcome event ually would follow upon the revolutionary movement in Rus sia where for nearly a year civil strife proved most potent factors in weakening the war front Long ago the German forces were practically entirely withdrawn from this front. And now with Russia out of the war, Germany can devote her strength and re serves to a , supreme test on the French, British, Belgium and American front Estimates are that Germany has available for this mammoth effort fully 2,400,000 men. The weather on the western front has been exceptionally clear and dry. for the past few days and it would not be surprising if the big drive so long predicted should shortly start If our Allies can hold these immense hordes of Germans in their supreme effort, then we can rest assured the final victory is ours. Germany realizes that her biggest effort, her deciding and final drive, must be made this spring before America gets her strength into the game; and so this big drive is looked for just any day now. President Wilson appeared be fore Congress Tuesday and deliv ered a speech wherein he defined anew the war aims of America and what we would expect" in order to get . peace. He again asserts that we are, in the war. for a just cause and that when ever the German PEOPLE really desire peace they can get it on fair and honorable terms. . Civil Service Examination. The United States Civil Serv ice Commission announces an open competitive examination toi be held on March 1, lyio, at any first or second-class postoffice in North Carolina to secure eligibles from which to make certification to fill vacancies in first grade or clerical positions in the various branches of the Field Service. It is expected that a large number of vacancies in the In ternal Revenue Service will be filled from the first grade or cler ical register. Competitors will be examined in the following first grade sub jects, which will have the rela tive weights indicated on a basis of 100: Spelling 10, arithmetic 30, penmanship 15, letter writing 30, copying and correcting man uscript 15. . The requirement that competi tors shall receive a rating of at least 70 per cent in arithmetic and 65 per cent in report writing (now letter writing) to become eligible, has been omitted. The scope and character of the examination and the rules gov erning certification are shown further in Form 1372. "Instruc tions to Applicants, Fourth Civil Service District." Five hours will be allowed for this examination. Age, 18 years or over on the date of the examination. Applicants must submit to the examiner on the day of the ex amination their photographs, taken within two years, securely pasted in the space provided on the admission cards "sent them after their applications are filed. Tintypes, group photographs, or proofs will not be accepted. For application blank (Form 1371) address postmaster at Rockingham. - ' Applications must be properly executed and filed with the Civil Service District Secretary at Washington, D. C, in time for him to arrange for the examination. i if if r r-i jr f- r l n UVJ Vii..uJ n ' See Ruth Roland at THE STAR THEATRE Thursday, Feb. 21st v r MR. BUSINESS MAN,- farmerVorJ; C PROFESSIONAL MAN,- Better Stop Just a Minute and READ THIS. Did you know there is one Automobile in use to every twenty fourth person in the United States ?-over four million cars in actual service in this country. Over one and three quarter million new cars actually sold during 1917. During 1918 there will be only 60 cars built to every 100 that were built in 1917,-meanirig there will be only about one million cars, or less, built during this year. This reduction made necessary through require ments made upon Automobile Manufacturers by the Government for munitions purposes. AUTOMOBILES ARE ADVANCING YOU CAN EASILY UNDERSTAND WHY-. -cost more to build them-not enough to go around.-- No doubt you are figuring on buying a car during this year 1918. TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT, r3( D D mm 3 DC --buy that car just as quickly as possiblebuy it today, -less than 30 days, they will be higher. D D r We have just received an allotment of BUICKS and CHE VROLETS, in FOUR, SIX and EIGHT cylinders, and can now show you the Most Attractive Collection of Automo biles Ever Exhibited in This Section. AH the NEW 1918 MODELS, in FIVE and SEVEN Passenger. Get yours now,--while you can get it. WE SELL'M ON TIME,-if you like. CHEVROLET - Four and Eight cylinders. BUICKS - Four and Six cylinders. ALL AT THE OLD PRICES, CHEVROLETS ADVANCE MARCH 1st. Get the best selection, see us quick, - We've always got our trading clothes on. THREE ros. ROCKINGHAM, N. C. PHONES: 170, 228 and 231.
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