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?THE ROXBORb COURIER, MAY 2, 1917. PAGE SIX- - ' - ' "? '' ' , ',1111 ,1 III! Il' 117' 'ill II 'I II ll I II IT! 1st.. CONGRESS PASSES 1 CONSCRIPTION BILL ' BY VOTE OF 397 TO 24 BILL FOR SELECTIVE DRAFT . ALSO PASSED BY SENATE Age. Limits Will Probably Be From . 21 to 17 Years; -Senate Passes " Amendment Which Allows Colonel .Roosevelt to Raise His Army of Volunteers for Immediate Service at the French Front; Liquor Laws " Considered in Debate 1 J" J i; ' Washington, April 28. The Ameri- "can army in war against Germany ! will be raised by conscription. The fight in congress for the ad flministration's selective draft measure iTf.'wM won tonight after days of the hottest kind of debate when the house passed the bill by a vote of 397 to 24. iWt.One voted present. The bill, in some- ; what different form, was passed later ; ''"'.by. the senate, the vote being 81 to 8. "7 The senate then recessed until the ; 'house bill was sent over. Upon its ' receipt in the senate, the bill was re i if erred immediately to the senate mili tary affairs committee, where the sen . ate bill was substituted for it. Both houses then adjourned. j i;;"7 . v As passed, the house bill would ! Pfr draft single men between the ages of 21 and 40 years, with the presi y dent having authority t) designate which ages shall be called to the col ' ors first. The senate measure would - conscript single men between 21 and , 27 years, inclusive. This difference rn the provisions will make it neces sary for the measure to be sent to a joint conference of the house and senate members, where the ages pre . . scribed may bs altered altogether. .'.''It appears certain tonight, however, : that the senate ages would finally be " adopted, with a modifying clause -V leaving to the designation of the --.president as to what ages shall be called upon to form the first big ! army. : Provisions were struck out and in serted in the bill in rapid action in the house. By unanimous vote an amendment was included in the house bill to increase the pay of enlisted .'men and non-commissioned officers in the army, and in the national guard, by $15 a month, making the pay of enlisted men $30.30 a month. ..This would add about $20,000,000 to the army and national guard payroll monthly, if an army of 1,000,000 men is raised. The house also struck out all ap propriation provisions of the draft J bill on the recommendation of Chair- j - man Fitzgerald, of the house appro 1 priations committee. Representative j j Fitzgerald said the bill, which would i . have appropriated $3,700,000,000 for jV the army, contained $7(51,000,000 i t more than necessary. The appropria- '.'.tions committee, he said, would be . ready to report on Monday to the j " , house a corrected bill containing the j - proper appropriations, about $2,950, 000,000. The house then, sitting as ' ;a committee of the whole voted to in-f-iv-sert the selective draft provision in 'to the army bill,-by a vote of 313 to : .109. The final passage of the meas ! - ure was thus rendered certain, i-" With only slight discussion, the 'house without roll-call, adopted an -''amendment by Representative Lever ' fexenpting all persons engaged in ; raising food and all other articles needed in war from the provisions j of the bill. j". "In the senate the discussion was .onJyp'eriunetory. By a vote of 56 tQ 31 an amendment introduced by Senator Harding was passed, which p would permit Col. Theodore Roose--velt,to raise an army division vof in j fantry volunteers for immediate ser vicejn France. Three other divisions , would be permitted. The senate also - adopted an amendment by Senator Fall calling for the raising of three ; j- -volunteer regiments of calvary for ' patrolling the Mexican border.' The .Vote was 53 to 25. ' - The senate went on record early 5 in the night in favor of the selective ' - draft in preference to the volunteer system by a vote of 69 to. 18 the Mc- Keller amendment providing for a , f trial of the volunteer system before resorting to conscriptions was de ".feated. The senators favoring the ."Tolunteer plan were; Borah, Cu'm mings, Curtis, Fall, Gallinger, Gore, Gronna, Hardwick, Johnson, of Cali fornia, Kirby, Lafollete, McKellar, Nofris, Reed, Sherman, Thomas, Tr&mmell'and Vardaman. '...: Senator Stone presented an amend ment, fwhich was adopted, designed to prevent universal military training from ; resulting from the draft bill, . .The amendment specified that the selective draft plan should cease at ? the end of the war. There was on rollcall. FOR SALE I have eleven Poland ,Chinajpigs about one week old now. Pric? reasonable. R. L. Day, Moriah, NaC. ' LOST-A small gold filled friendshiD i circle, set with amethyst and pearls, Auras Incf rr 1fn.nL 01 .1. J.. was, lost pn March 31st. Finder please yafnni',.w.. i. 11 --APi xtvMiysame 10 me courier, onice and receive reward. A. r-r-- Bflfif WHERE SAFETY-FIRST WOULD HAVE SAVED HUMAN LIFE C. H. Williams, a Wake county farmer died in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, Sunday, April 1, from burns sustained in the explosion of an oil stove. The 21-months-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Bryan, Jr., of Wilmington, died March 27, as a result of burns from falling in a tub of boiling water which had been placed on a porch for scouring purposes. A negro, named Renfrpw, near Bai ley, bled to death, March 28, as a result of being struck by an .axe which slipped from the hand of a fellow chopper severing an artery. Know ledge of first aid work on the part of the fellow laborer would have saved the man's life. George Williams, an aged blind ne gro, was burned to death in the fire which destroyed a three room cottage about five miles from Raleigh, March 28. The negro had been left alone In the house and when fire was dis covered by neighbors It was not known he was there. Nq blind person should be left alone in a house. A fire at Wilson on Thursday, March 29,' resulted in the loss of two lives, a negro woman and her child. News- paper accounts of the incident stated that the woman was subjected to fits and it was supposed that she fell in the fire Screens for the prevention of such accidents can be purchased as cheaply as. fifty cents. PREEMINENT PERIL OF ARSON Any material evidence found at the scene of an incendiary fire should be carefully wrapped, marked with the date and place found, as well as the name of the finder in order that U may be identified in court. I would be much pleased to be call ed bytelephone or notified by tele gram immediately, when guilt is ap parent, for it is much easier to trace arson before things at the scene of a fire are disturbed. From the instant that the arsonist applies the match, he sets into action our most destructive agency; a force, which under circumstances favorable to its spread, baffles man with all fire-fighting agencies at his command. The man who would burn to obtain insurance can be prevented by mak ing it imposible for him to secure a policy in excess of sound values. If he cannot profit by a fire, he will not burn. One of the greatest hazards' that we have to contend with is over Insurance. We can force the removal of any other, but that one we cannot 1 touch. . , The maximum Insurance on a build ing should be the value that the as sessor has listed it for, and two-thirds of the invoice should be the limit on any stock of goods. These inventories should be made and certified to by a disinterested party. How many build ings would be burned to obtain insur ance if this were done? A mental test should be made of the pyromaniac and he should not be re leased from the institution into which he is committed unless fully cured. Fire Marshal B. B. Buckley. HE THOUGHT HE COULD. There was a man who fancied that by driving good and fast He'd get his car across the track be fore the train came past. He'd miss the engine by an inch and make the train hands sere. There war, a man who fancied this; there isn't any more. There was a man who though that he could win a bet By quenching in some gasoline, a light- ed cigarette. He thought the fluid, being wet, would drown the fame somehow. -Thore was a man who reasoned thus. He isn't with us now. 1 Says 65 year Old Kentucky Lady, After a Few Doses Meadorsvllle, Ky.Mrs. Cynthia Hlgginbotham, of this town, says: "At my age, which Is 65, the liver does not act so wel as when young. A few years ago, my stomach was all out of fix. I was constipated, my liver didn't act My digestion was bad, and It took so Uttle to upset me. My ap petite was, gonev I was very weak... I decided I would give Black Draught a thorough trialas I knew it was highly recommended for Hhis. trouble, I began ,takiig it I felt A better after a few doses. My appetite Improved and; I became stronger. My i " .wow. bowels acted naturally and' the leasti rouble was soon righted j with a lew !ARGH AND CONFLAGRATIONS GENERAAL .OC CUR BETWEEN FEBRUARY 25 AND MAY 3. LETTER OF WARNING ISSUED Gome Interesting Statistics Concern ing Spring Fires Which Should In terest Citizens of North Carolina. A letter Issued by the Georgia Fire Prevention Society and circulated throughout the State of Georgia is worth attention in North Carolina or any other State. It points out that during the past twenty-five years, ?77, 749,513 of the losses . in the South have occurred between February 25 and May 3. Some of the spring conflagrations are enumerated as follows: April, 1892, New Orleans..? 1,500,000 May, 1901, Jacksonville. . . . 10,000,000 February, 1904, Baltimore.. 40,000,000 May, 1904, Yazoo City, Miss. 2,000,000 February, 1905, Hot Springs February, 1906, New Orleans May, 1907, Atlanta February, 1906, New Orleans March, 1908, Tampa. ...... . 1,500,000 5,000,000 500,000 5,000,000 500,000 4,500,000 250,000 250,000 5,999,513 1,500,000 5,000,000 February, 1912, Houston... April, 1912, Columbus, Ga.. May, 1914, St Augustine.. March, 1916, Augusta, Ga.. March, 1916, Nashville March, 1916, Paris, Texas.. The above figures represent the amount paid by insurance companies, and are naturally much less than the property losses. The great conflagra tion of San Francisco, which resulted In a property loss of about $350,000,000, occurred In April, 1906. It is on account of the danger of spring fires that the Georgia Fire Pre vention Society Is issuing Its warning to the people of Georgia. The society is also conducting a vigorous campaign along other lines to aid in tne preven tion of fires. School children are be ing interested in the crusade, and re cently 400 fire inspection blanks were filled out by the pupils of Fitzgerald schools, showing the condition of dwellings in that place. The society is also calling atteniton to the danger ous hazard of storing collected waste paper in school houses, basements, etc. In North Carolina during six days from March 27 'to April 1, Inclusive, newsnaner reports indicate rather a close adherence to custom. The tan n nery or the unitea states earner Company at Old Fort was destroyed financial loss of between $750,000 and $1,000,000. At about the same time on the same date the lumber plant of the A. T. Griffin Lumber Company at Goldsboro. was damaged, entailing a loss of about $25,000. At the alarm of this fire in Goldsboro thousands of people visiting the camp of the Sec ond Regiment North Carolina Na tional Guard nearby, were thrown into a panic and in the stampede that fol lowed a number of 'persons were in jured and several women fainted. Fire at Turnpike, a small village ttrelve miles from Asheville, was practically wiped out by fire Saturday, March 31, when a large saw mill with quantities of lumber, several other buildings, and two cribs of corn ($1.40 a bushel) were burned. A hotel and store -nearby were damaged, but sav ed from destruction by the work of a bucket brigade. A railroad trestle was damaged and traffic on the Mur phy Branch of the Southern Railway tied up for several hours. This record shows, that if there is a time when special vigilance is rissded In fire prevention work and the pur suit of the "Safety First'.' idea it is at this particular season of high winds. There is no closed season for hunt ing and exterminating fire hazards Who Tells How Sk Was Relieved of Black-Draught doses of Black-Draught" Seventy years of successful use has made Thedford's Black-Draught a standard, household remedy. Every member, of every family, at times, need thejielp that Black-Draught can give in cleansing the system ank re lieving thei troubles that come from constipation, indigestion, lazy lfver, . etc. You cannot keep well unless your stomach, liver and -bowels' are In good ' working order. Keep them that way; Try Black-Draught- It acts promptlyT gently-and; In a, natural way. -If. you feeBluggyx, ,take . dose tonight : You wilL feel: fresh tomorrow Prlce 25c. s a packageOne cent a-- dose " All druggists ' T ' j. eg, CataithalDeafnes by lccal applicatloti8, L8. th"ey cannot-reach the diseased portion of the ear.- There is only; one way to cure catarrhal deaf nes and that is by . a constitutional -remedy Catarrhal DeafneBS is caused ty an- flamprt nnridltioii of the mucous lininff rthelEustachian Tube. " "When this tube ' Inflamed yock have a tumbling sound or lm perfect hearing;, ana wnen it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result. v Unless the inflammation tan be reduced and this tube, restored to its normal condition, hcarinff will" be -destroyed forever.- MnyN cases of deafnew are eaued by catarrh, vrhich is an inflamed condition of. the mucous surface.- Hall's Catarrh Medicine- p.cts thru the blood on. the mucous eurfaccs of the system. - We will p'ive One Hundred Dollars fci any case of Cntarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by Jail's Catarrh Medfrcir.e. Cir eulars free. M Druggists. 75c. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. PRESIDENT OPPOSES STRINGENT CENSOSHIP Washington. April . 26. -President ( April Wilson, wrote Arthur Brisbane, of New York, today, that he is opposed to any censorship that would deny to the people of the United States "their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials." He said that he will not expect or permit any law that may be enacted to Shield him against criticism. Replying to a letter from Mr. Bris- ban on the esponiage bill now pend ing in Congress, Mr. Wilson wrote: "I sincerely appreciate thr frankness of your interesting letter of April 20, with reference to the so-called esponi age bill now awaiting a:tion of ths Congres3. " "I approve of this legislation, but I need not assure you and those inter ested in it, that whatever actien ths jCongress may decide upon, so far as I am personally concerned, I shall permit any part of this law to apply to me or any of my official acts or in any way to be used as a shield against criticism. "I can imagine no greater disser vice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that wo 3 II deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. ! While exercising the popers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we, are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. Does War Mean Socialism After All? "Germany, the most aristocratic and autocratic of all governments, Lhas set the pace in having the gov ernment take over complete control of industries and activities previous ly handled by private interests, and England and France have followed, this example," declares one financier in an important confession of econo mic faith in Hearst's Magazine. "The first thing England did was to take ovex-the running of the .rail roads, guaranteeing the maintenance ofvth .current dividend rates. She' has now placed her coal lnines under, gov-1 ernmental control; the Government has rJscome a partner inthe produc-i tionjf chemicals on a large scale; the. law is laid down with an iron hand to shipping companies and there is hardly an industry in which the gov ernment has not a hand. The goy,- ernmjnt has also fixed wages in may lines;, including agriculture. It has named the price that must be paid' the farmers for their wheat and oats and other products for several years! to come. No capital can be raised without the consent of the govern ment, I tell you, England to-day is Garments Dry Gleaned or Dyed " Equal to New". We absolutely guarantee OUR WORK. Use our Parcel Post service. POWELL'S DRY CLEANING & DYE WORKS Danville, Virginia; Biggest Dry Cleaning and Dye Works in the State of Virginia WANTED! We will pay cash for cedar logs delivered on mlil yard at Brooksdale or on RR. siding for convenient loading on cars, in sizes 6 inches nd larger across the small end and in lengths of 6,j7r 8, 9, and 1 0 feet. Logs to be sound and have the ends sawed off and not chopped with atf axe. For ririhes ahdlPtrfer particulars All n U Y George J2. Brown & Gomany,". i-ir Experience nasiprbycll tEaillaws 'in-- fcaxen iamuy::are.ery.,apivWDeacr. Ol - a i . j.i . .it. ... 1 . ' Y i i "uiu a i3 cepiea uy ine pmer urancn. x -mean , nervous nreaKaown ana terrible hpd that there" has been- of late years a Rtr-n- tv fnr A Ipo. i . s . - lators to adopt measures introduced n..: auruau. vvuo can uuuut mai ourgov- eminent if it gets into to war deeply, will enforce; ons after another of the socialistic steps, taken in Europe V -t J n tt j j t i a. j y Over Hundred, Men Entombed By Colorado Mine Explosion Trinidad, Colo., April 27. One huh- dred and twenty-five men caught in the Hastings mineof the Victor-Am- erican Fuel company by an explosion at 9:30 this morning, still were eh- tombed: Saturday while squads of res cuers were sowly work jng their way through the smoke filled stope'to the main workings. Whetker any of the "men are alive is unknWn. , OR A GENIUS OR BOTH IS THE MAN WHO GUESSES RIGHT MOST OF THE TIME AND THEN DOES IT. IF YOU HAVE ANY ACCUMU TATIONS' SUCH AS OLD AND ANY KIND OF OLD RAGS RUB BER AND METAL EITHER BRING OR PHONE W. J. 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