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i i j i i i ii i - - mm : r,m m &"!J&mrt.il- : i ' ,1 - SALISBURY 3RTH CAROLINA,. VrIDAY, JUig, VOL. 3. iNO. 65. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT 1917. $10 A YEAR AND WORTH IT PRICE TWO CENTS f. DAY ..SPEEClh LONEL ROD THEPACI V1 AM '' I w.i'.F. v. . s,i? . - . - -. i- . . 1'. ; f-Aani W V A- fell ; : SfrAV. M in - J t - "T t : ; . T . J j FLAG Al EVENT SEVELT SCdiES CO FISTS I Ar J 4 r v V 6 1 iw 4 - - - - V-'. V.jr C .-',' J SEN OVERMAN IS AFTER CAMP Calls on Secretary of War Baker and Other War Department Officials. Seeking Camp. EITHER CANTONMENT SITE OB NATIONAL GUARD CAMP Either Would Be Made Up of 20, Q00T Men, Cantonment Build- . ings, National Guard Tents. Wlashing-ion, June 13. Senator Ov erman conferred xwitb Secretary of war Baker and, other war aoax t.nonf officials todajr m an effort to have some, or 'at least one of the canton ments or national gTJard camps estab lished, in North Carolina. There will be but three cantonments established for General Wood, which includes North .Carolina, but there will be at teast nine national guard camps in this division and the state stands a good chance of securing one of the latter. THe only difference between the cantonment and national guard camps is that the cantonment will quarter the soldiers in buildings, which will be erected at government expense, while the national guards will be quartered in tents. Senator Overman said that there will be 20,000 men in each camp and the city securing either a national guard or cantonment, camp will derive as much benefit from one as the other. Tlie junior senator believes the de part will select one camp in the state and the cities desiring such camp should get in touch with war officials an4submit data as to the desiratili- T3C4jjMUcn a lorafion and u'wnonni vf- to nf. ZJL1 1 . fs&&titx& good, ater -1 will -be required fo rthe canvps. It takes juite a farm to even ta'.e care of the tents necessary' to take care of 20,000 men and in addition the gov ernment will want land enough for drill grounds. Mrs. Gregory Appointed. Mrs. George Dewey, president of the woman's section of the Naiy League, today appointed Mrs. Edwin C. Gregory of Salisbury, organization chairman of the work in North Caro lina. Mrs. Gregory who is here visit ing her father, Senator Overman, hopes to interest the women of'every city in the state. KING CONST ANTTNE LEAVES, GREECE. Athens, June 14, via London Former King Const antine left Ath ens late today to embark on a Brit ish warship. Entente forces are now landing at Piralus and Castella. Some of the troops are occupying the heights of Phalarum bay while others are mar ching on to Athens. MANY KILLED BY EXPLOSION. London, June 14. .Fifty persons were killed today and many injured bv an explosion at A sh ton-Under - Lyne, according to announcement made in the House of Commons by Andrew Bon3r Law. Ashton-Under-Lyne is a small manufacturing town near Manchester. JAPANESE MISSION COMING TO UNITED STATES. Washington, June 14. Japan will send a mission to the United States. The mission will have broad powers, especially in diplomatic consulta tions and is expected to leave Japan early in July. ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN. .London, June 14. Zeppelin L-43 has been brought down over the North sea by naval forces, announced An drew Bonar Law in the House of Commons this morning. Sit ' PRESS SERVICE CRIPPLED TODAY. The Post is short its usual amount jf Associated Press news today n account of crip pled wires. One call over 'the leased wire was. very unsatis factory, and while on the sec ond call the line went "dead," and as this is written it is hot known the result of an attempt to get the third installment of news will be be. 4 GERMANY INTRIGUING FOR PEACE SAYS PRESIDENT W00R0W WILSON In His Flag Day Address the President Declares That Ger many Has Cemented the Autocracy-ridden Empire and With This Advantage Would Force Peace-Germany's Re alization of Her War Aims Would Be World's Undoing. (By Associated Press.) Washington, ' June 12. President Wilson warned the American peo ple in a Flag Day address on the day that Germany has carried into effect the greater part of her im mediate plan of her conquest and is negotiating a new "intrigue of peace" designed to end the war while, her aggressions arc secure. AH the Central Empires, the Presi dent declared, have been cemented into one great autocracy empire, "throwing a broad belt of German military power and political power into the heart of Asia." This accom plished, he said, it is easy to under stand why Germany is fostering a propaganda for an early peace. "Peace, peace, peace, has been the talk of her forign office for now a year and more," said the President. "A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me and in all sorts of guises. The military masters under whom whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. If they can secure peace now with the immense advant ages still in hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have justified ther&Selves before the German people; th$y will have gained the force what, they .... . 5i... - promised to gam by it. -J. i. German aggressions which drove the United States to war. He declared the purpose for which Ameican sold iers now carry the Stars and Stripes to Europe for the first time in his tory, are not new to American tra ditions because realization of Ger many's war aims "must eventually mean the undoing of the whole world. Extracts from President's Address. "It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraor dinary insults and aggressions of the Imperial German Government left us no self-respecting choice !but to take up aims in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honour as a sovereign government. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the poinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found they could not do that, i their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from the allegiance and some of those agents were men connected with the official Embassy of the German Government itself here in our own capital. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her and that, not by indirection, but by direct sug gestion from the Foreign office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeat edly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our j people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe. And many of our own people were corrupted. Men be gan to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment and surprise whether there was any community in which hostile, intrigue did 'not lurke. What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms? Much as we had desired peace, it was denied us, and not of our own cncice. inis nag- under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very cen tre of Europe and beyond the Mediter ranean into the heart of Asia; and Austria-Hungray was to be as much their tool and pawn as Servia or Bul garia or Turkey or the ponderour, .states of the E,ast. Austria-Hungary, indeed, was to become part of the central German Empire, absorb ed and dominated by the same forces and influences that had orginaily cemented the German states them selves. The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart nowhere else. It rejected the idea of solidarity ox race entirely. The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. It contemplated binding to- WIRELESS JNVENTOR IS HONORED BY COLUMBIA i jj Gugiiemo Marconi, inventor of the wireless, was made a doctor of science at the commencement exercises of Columbia University. Marconi is a member of the Italn War Commis sion how in the United States.- mmmm Officers Elected With Dr. Clark Grand Chancellor and D. W. Sor rell, of Durham, Grand Vice-Chancellor G. L. Hackney Supreme Representative. Rocky Mount, June 13. Henderson was selected as the 1918 convention city and Dr. Byron Clark, of Salis bury, was elected grand chancellor of the Grand Lodge-of Knights of Pythias of North Carolina at today!s session of the Grand Lodge in 47th annual convention here. Other offi cers elected were: D. W. Sorrel!, Durham, grand vice-chancellor; grand prelate, Rev. R. B. Owens, of Char lotte; grand keeper of record? and seals, W. T. Hollowell, of Goldsboro; fand master of the exchequer, Geo W. Montcastle, of Lexington; grand master at arms, W. W. Branch, of Rhodiss; grand inner guard, E. M. Gier, of Canton, and grand outer guard, H. L. Holder, of Rocky Mount. George L. Hackney, of Lexington, was elected as supreme representa tive, succeeding Thbmas H. Webb, of Concord, whose term expired. As trustees of the orphan home at Clay ton, C. H. Herbert Smith, of Acme, and Thomas S. Webb, of Concord, were elected to succeed themselves. gether racial and political units which could' be kept together only by force Gzechs, Magyars, Croats, Serbs, Roumanians, Turks, Armen ians the proud stars of Bohemia TT ,1. . ... . , . . . , nuiig-ary, me stout little ' common wealth of the Balkans, the indomit able Turks, the subtile people of the East. These peoples did not wish to be united. They ardently desired to direct their own affairs, would be sat isfied only by undisputed independ ence. They could be kept quiet only by the presence of the constant threat of armed men. They would live under a common power only by sheer com pulsion ana await the day of revolu tions But the German military and they were feady to deal with it in their own way. And they have actually carried the greater part, of that arnazing plan in to execution. Look how things stand. Austria is at their mercy. It has acted, not upon its own initiative of upon the choice of its own people, but (Continued on Page 6.) Another Knitting Mill Chartered. Raleigh, June 14. The Jewell Knitting Mills, of .Statesville, was chartered today by the secretary of state. The concern has a capital , stock of $100,000 and will do a gen eral knitting business. Jack Dillon and Battling Levinsky, the famous Jew boxed will meet on June 26 at the Brooklyn elub. IKRIYIMHS' BONDS SAIEM .. ;i The closing hours "of tht Loan bond sale are A hand. Libert Tomor- row is me day set for closing te books on the $2,000,000,00ol bond ri sue which the government' setting as the first war loan and while the ju dications are that the sale with ese over the line, many sales must fbe made the remaining hours of the $ile to put the loan across the two billion mark. . i "The bonds have not so'd stron in .Salisbury, there remains y,et iifiany to 'e sold' to place this eorflminv'Vv abreast with the average in the mat ter of placing Liberty "loans. Let us make th closing hours count. Let us buy the tonds in earn est and let Friday's close find us with the bonds in hand and the government relieved of this much :houht in the grave matter of financing ;he war. The banks of this city can and will give such information and re.ider all necessary aid in taking care ui the bond buyers. These banks are adver tising to this effect. HAYS COLLETT KILLED BY LIMB OF FALLIN8 TREE Body of Young Member of Aviation Corps of United States Arnty 'Ar rives Home from Texasviccom panied by Member of, Cditpsf-Fun- Friday Afternoon, The; bod v of youna Hvs . Collett , who was Silled -tfrfaayl morning", he being a member of the army aviation corps, arrived in Salis bury on No. 36 shortly before noon today and was conveyed to the home of his father, 810 South Fulton street. The funeral will be held from the residence Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock, being conducted by Rev. Dr. J. C. Rowe and Rev. W. A. Lambeth of the First Methodist church and the interment will be in Chestnut Hill cemetery. The pall bearers will be H. T. Simpson, M. G. McCurdy, S. J. Horton, J. Thos. Smith, D. W. Mor ;ris and A. R. Lazewby. ' Efforts will be made to have the Baraca class of the First Methodist church, of which the deceased was a former member, attend in a body as strong as possible. Accompanying the body here to day was a young man, Kimmerele, a member of the aviation squad at New Braunsels, Texas, where young Col lett met death. Awaiting at the sta tion with the bereaved father were quite a number of friends. The body was taken to Summersett's undertak ing nflrlnrs direct from the train and were later removed to the home on South Fulton street. Hays Collett met death in a pecu liar and unusual manner. He, with a party of four other members of the aviation corps, had keen on a little outing at a nearby laie and Sunday afternoon were sitting under a large trpp pniovins lunch when all of a v,nr lim.h fell from a tree, strik ing young Collett on the head and fracturing his skull. He lived a short timo Hit never reerained conscious ness. The body and escort left Texas Tuesday, morning for Salisbury. South River Prcnic. A number of girls and boys had a most delightful time last evening while on a picnic to South River. The party was chaperoned by Mr. p.nd Mrs. Early and those enjoying the occasion were iMiss Lois Hill, Agnes Loflin, Lillie Mae Robinson, Nellie and Mary Monroe, Juanita Hariood, Gertrude Hayes, Evelyn Briggs, Ef fie Brandon, Cora Sloan, Elsie Lee, Messrs. Eugene Armstrong, Carl Bradshaw, Wilmer Julian, Ed Quil lan, Paul Blalock, Dave Bradshaw, Foster iRitchie, James Marsh, Floyd Trexler, Lewis -Stirewalt and Mr. Gay. 7 The bear that for a time walked like a free man seems inclined to get down on all fours again. New York World. No man can be provident of his time who is not prudent in the choice of his company. Jeremy Taylor. There are in business three things necessary 'knowledge, tamper and time. Feltham. COL0NE ROOSEVELT AND APPEALS FOR Pormer President Makes a Speech at the Centennial of the Statehood of Nebraska and Make a Strenuous JSppeal for Support of the Government and the War Goelfter the Pacifists With Gloves Off. A CHICAGO. WAR WIDOW This is a new photograph of the Countess of Suffolk, once Marguerite Leiter of Chicago and Washington, whose husband, the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, was killed in action on the western front not long ago. Many Drop Out of School Too Soon and the Night School Opens a Door of Help for the Many Boys of the Community. A steady stream of boys dropping out of school before they have laid even elementary foundatior.3 for their future is flooding our communi ties with inefficient workers and med iocre citizens. Fifty per cent cf the boys of the community get no more than six years of schooling and eighty-five per cent never enter liigh school. There are boys and yung men in Salisbury being wasted and quickly thrown on 'to the junk heap of a purposeless army of unskilled. The -parent may be at fault, the school or the boy, but let it be as it may, this waste must be checked. The business and industrial wjrld to day calls loudly for skilled workers and pays them in direct proportion to their efficiency. But how can in adequately trained toys and young men attain efficiency-? Leaving school early in their teens they are worth but little, having poor foundat;ons up on which to build, drift about aim lessly for years and finally settle where the business or industrial swiil leaves them. (But much however can he done. As a suplemental agency the Young Men's Christian Associa tion already enrolls over 20,00-0 young men and boys who are employed, in classes more or less adapted to meet their needs. The Community Y. M. C. A. of Salisbury throws out the challenge to every young man or boy who desires to take up some couise of study., which will better fit him for his every day work, and 'mveitse his efficiency and thereby put him m line for greater promotion Any young man or boy who desires to take UtP this night school wor.'i should be present at the meeting in the Commu nity Y. M. C A. Offices tomorrrv ev ening at 8 o'clock. Dr. S. O. Holland, who has performed such valuable work with the young men of the Sal isbury Mill will help to direct this ed ucational work. Tluu-e is no .est at tached to the school, but ihe Young Men's Christian Association is anx ious to render help to ihi fellow who wants to help himself. 1200 privately owned boats have been offered to the navy to be used in the present war. Women letter carriers have made their appearance 'in Paris. There are many religious, but only one mortality Ruskin. Tl IrLHiAKlltll lis .. a'ikM- SCORES PACIFISTS SUPPORT OFiATION (By Associated Press.) Lincoln, Nebr., June 14. jColonel Theodore Roosevelt, in a Speech which he delivered here today at the cele bration of tae semi-centennial of the Statehood of Nebraska, criticised the national policy of the United States for failure to protest promptly against German ruthlessness and bru tality, deplored national failure to prepare for the war, pleaded for un divided loyalty to the American fiag, denounced the pacifists, and a?ked for generous support and for the tse of the Red Cross in caring ior American" troops on European ihattleifiekls. It would be impossible to state the damage done to the morale fibre of our country by the profes sional pocifists propaganda, the peace -at-any-price .propaganda. The pro fessional pacifists dtiring the first two and a half years of the war, haye occupied .precisely the position of the" copperheads during the time of Ab raham Lincoln. "The fact that sheer cowardness was more potent than the love of peace was proved by the fact that the leading pacifists dared not condemn a single sperffi.2 act of wrong-doing if such act was committed by the power ful and brutal foe they most feared .Germany. They clamored for neu trality between Germany andBel aium. TChev denounced : war iaUan- ves and- 'daurhteri' from outrae as upon the aggressors who ystemati cally practiced rape and torture. By their failure to protest against the inhuman torture of the poison gas they made it necessary hereafter to accept this as an ordinary instrument of warfare;, just as, by our failure to take immediate action in connection with the murder of innocent non-com-battants by submarines, we .commit ted an offense against humanity the effects of whifth cannot 'be completely eradicated by any subsequent action on our part: "From this time on let us insist on an absolute and undivided American ism in this land, untempered by any self-allegiance to the countries from which our ancestors may severally have sprung, and untainted by any unworthy national animosity towards any other country. Let us prepare ourselves spiritually, economically, and in all military and naval matters including as a .permanent policy the policy of universal military training and service so that never again shall we be utterly unready, as we now are, to meet a great crisis. Finally, in the present war, a war for liberty and democracy against the ruthless militaristic tyranny of the Prussian ized Germany of the .Hohenz oiler ns, let us as speedily as possible train our giant, but our soft and unready, strength so that we may use our hardened might to bring the slaugh ter to a real and final end m the only way honorably possible by securing for ourselves and our Allies the peace of justice based on overwhelming victory." In his appeal for support for the Red Cross, Colonel Roosevelt said: "The most important thing is to send abroad at the earliest .possible moment a ?reat fighting army. Sec ond only to the army in the work of winning this war comes our Red Cross. Indeed the importance of this work is so great that the President of our United .States has set apart next week from June 18-25 as a period for sacrifice and unseWish gen erosity, a week in which the whole American people will be asked to join in raising funds to enable our Red Cross to perform its vast and indispensable duties in this war. "The 'President has also commis sioned several of the ablest business men of the country as a War Council of the Red Cross, to administer this service on behalf of a stricken world. This War Council tells that a fund of $100,000,000 must be raised at once in order to meet even the most urgent nee8s. "Here, indeed, is a summons to ev ery American. It is an enormous sum of money; but what comfort can we tal-e in withholding that or any other sum of money if it is needed to relieve the suffering of our own sons or the sons of our allies who are FIMDAN - Number of Lives Lost When Su gar Refining Co's. Brooklyn Building Was Burned. FIRE FOLLOWED EXPLOSION AND. BLOCKED RESCUE Investigation is Being Made Into the Cause of the Explosion Which Caused Loss Life. - (By Associated Press.) iNew York, June 14. -Twenty-one workmen ..are believed to have been killed and (buried under a pportion off the falling wall of seven story building owned and used toy- the Ame rican Sugar Refining Company in Brooklyn- which was ripped apart by an explosion last iiight. ! Fire fol lowing the explosion was not brought over-l.undr control until early today and firemen and other rasfcue workers were unable to enter the building in search" of the dead. Several investigations were started today to find the cause of the ex plosion'. ., The refining company had a large order from the entente nations and the building was one used to store the- sugar Into and from which it was loaded for export to Europe. (When the search of the ruins be gan this morning twenty-six persons were unaccounted for, but it is be lieved that of these half were em ployes who fled from the building andjf-wjjjt.J, their homes. all thatkelrfstftfe "Into our :Red Cross without stint should te .poured a heartfelt offering of thanksgiving that we are permit ted to join in this great service to all mankind. Our soldiers and sailors ''A ill do their part without flinching; we may rest assured of their cour age and fidelity. The Red Cross of fers to us who are not allowed to fight, the opportunity for secrifice and for help. "We little realize what is before us. Our own sons and brothers will soon be going into battle. They will be three thousand miles from home, in a land already wasted by war, a land threatened by famine, a land smitten by disease. They tell us that in many cases today the wounds of soldiers in France must be tied up with newspapers for want of the necessary surgical bandages. When our own men are wounded as they surely will be in great numbers are we going to allow t'. .m to suffer yet more because we fail to provide those things which can at least mitigate distress? Surely not! But we must do it in advance. If we wait it may be too late. Do it now!" PROCLAMATION OF RED CROSS WEEK. INASMUCH as our thoughts as a nation arc now turned in united purpose towards the performance to the utmost of the services and duties which we have assumed" in the cause of justice and liberty. INASMUCH as but a small proportion of our people can have the opportunity to serve upon the actual field of battle, but all men, women and chil dren alike may serve and serve effectively by making it possi ble to care properly for ihose who do serve under arms at home and abroad. AND INASMUCH as the American Red Cross is the offi cial recognized agency for vol untary effort in behalf of the armed forces of the nation and for the administration or re lief. Now, therefore, by virtue of my authority as President of the American Red Cross, I, Wood row Wilson, do hereby proclaim the week ending June 25, 1917, as Red Cross Week during which the people of the United States will be called up on to give generously and in a spirit of patriotic sacrifice for the support and maintenance of this work' of national need. W0ODROW WILSON. Washington, D. C, May 25, 1917. "4 ft 1 i'V' r-'O 'ft. i i ' r 4
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