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VOL. XXX!
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915,
NUMBER 37.
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Succoaor Dr. A. C. Livcrmon
Office up-stairs in the Whitehead
building. OfTice hours from 9 to 1
a'i 2 to 5 o'clock, 7 to 9 p.
m- ljy appointment.
Willie H. Allsbrook
Life Insurance
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
.Hepresenting the Metropolitan
Insurance fV - t.., v,vrb-
Hon. Claude Kitchin's Letter
on the Nation's Preparedness
Scotland Neck, N. C, Sept., 4th, 1915.
Mr. H. E. C. Bryant,
New York World Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Bryant:
I am in receipt of your letter. I didn't intend my
little hurried talk of three or four minutes, just as I
was leaving Washington for North Carolina the other
day, witlx a personal friend, a newspaper man of my
State, relative to the hig naval and military program,
now being agitated throughout the country, to be pub
lished, though I did not caution against it. Since,
however, my position has been so frequently misrepre
sented by the press, no doubt, unintentionally, it would
seem not improper for me to state my position, rath
er, my views, with more clearness, in compliance with
your request.
I at once wish to say that I have never stated,
as appears in the clippings you kindly send, that I
would oppose any appropriation exceeding $10,000,000
to $20,000,000 for national defense. I have been vot
ing for the last several years for appropriations in the
annual Naval Bill exceeding $120,000,000 and for near
ly $100,000,000, in the Military Bill; nor did I say that
Congress would not vote for increased appropriations
for naval and military purposes and that it would take
the position which I do. I am confident that the next
Congress will vote for larger appropriations and will
not take the position as to the naval and military ap
propriations which I will. In other words, I admit that
I will be a minority on the question. Nor have I said,
as the press would have it, that the present European
War has demonstrated the uselessness of the battle
ship or dreadnaught. I have said, though, and repeat
it now, that it has demonstrated, beyond any doubt,
that our Navy was lacking in submarines, destroyers,
scout-ships and other auxiliaries, including air craft,
far more than in battleships, or dreadnaughts, a view
which many "members of Congress, including myself,
held and expressed long before the European War.
While I was a member of the naval committee I insist
ed that the Navy Department was paying too much at
tention to and h-ad too much faith in dreadnaughts and
paying too little attention to and had too little faith
in submarines, torpedo destroyers, etc. I, together
with other members of the committee, urged, in vain,
an increase in such smaller craft, in order to have a
better proportioned and more' efficient Navy. The war
has certainly demonstrated the wisdom of this posi
tion. However, I assert now that the lessons of the
present war furnish many good reasons for their prob
ability that the war will demonstrate that the dread
naught, nine of which we have now under construction
and authorized, costing over $120,000,000 and which
the big Navy propagandists insist that the next Con
gress should largely increase, will not hereafter be the
prime weapon of offense or defense in naval warfare,
and some reason to believe they will become obsolete
after the termination of this war, if not before. A year
ago Sir Percy Scott, one of England's ablest and wisest
officers, declared that the submarine was the most ef
fective ship for the Navy of the future ard advLed a
cessation in the rapid construction of dreadnaughts
and the utilization of the money thus spent in build
ing a larger number of submarines. And this long be
fore the two or three German submarines had played
such havoc with the British fleet. Has not the war
demonstrated conclusively the correctness of his opin
ion and the wisdom of his advice? If reports from the
British, German and other belligerent ship yards are
true, are not England, Germany, and other warring na
tions now taking his advice? So far, this war has
proved that the most dangerous naval weapon of of
fense, and certainly the surest and most efficacious
weapon of defense, is the submarine.
When the real, sea-going submarine, one that
can go through the seas and attack an enemy fleet
thousands of miles from base, many of which are now
being built by Germany, according to reports, (the last
Congress authorized the construction of three for our
Navy) is put into service in this war, it may, and prob
ably will, revolutionize the war-ship construction pol
icy of the world. The dreadnaught advocate in our
country repeatedly asserts that the war has demon
strated the absolute usefulness and necessity of the big v
dreadnaught or battleship; that the superior battle
ship fleeTof Great Britain and her Allies swept the Ger
man fleet and German commerce from the seas. If
Great Britain and her Allies had not had a battleship,
German commerce and the German fleet would have
been swept from the seas exactly like they were
Great Britain aiher Allies had enough torpedo boats
and destroyers and enough submarines to have- sent
after each battleship, battle-cruiser, and armored
cruiser of tho entire German Navy, ten torpedo boats
and destroyers and three submarines; enough to have
destroyed, or driven to harbor, under protection of
submarines and mines, as the German fleet was, the
combined battleship fleets of the world, if located
where the German fleet then was. Great Britain alone
had four destroyers and two submarines for each of
the big warships of the German Navy.
Now, a more direct reply to your letter: I am
opposed to the big Navy and Army program now be
ing agitated with so much energy throughout the
country, especially by the jingoes and manufacturers
of war equipment and their subtle, ramified, organized
and powerful influences. I shall not support in the
next Congress the eight, six, or four battleship or
! f drendnano-ht rvrnnosifirm iinr iha 500 000 nr 950 000
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army increase proposition, nor the $500,000,000 (more
than double the annual appropriations heretofore) ap
propriation proposition for the Army and Navy.
Whether Congress will vote for such an immensely in
creased appropriation depends on the President's at
titude. If he insists on the increase, Congress will vote
for it. If he does not insist, in my opinion, Congress
will not vote for it. This answers your specific ques
tions. In further answer to your general inquiries, I
shall not vote for any increase in the Naval Appro
priation Bill for an extra-battleships program. If the
Government has any extra money to spend, and must
spend it on an extra increase of Naval Construction,
then, in my judgment, it should be spent on the in
creased construction of submarines, torpedo destroy
ers, scout-ships and other auxiliaries, including air
craft, and in enlarging our capacity to manufacture
and lay mines mainly on submarines and mines (the
laying of mines is a function of the Army, and not
of the Navy, however) and not on additional dread
naughts or battleships. If no increase in the Naval
Appropriation Bill over the last Bill is made, I think it
wiser that every dollar authorized and appropriated
for new construction should be for submarines and oth
er smaller craft above mentioned. For the cost of one
or two dreadnaughts put into such craft, including the
auxiliaries, we would have a better proportioned and
more efficient Navy than if put into dreadnaughts,
and most certainly more efficient for defense. If this
war has not as yet demonstrated the uselessness of
the modern dreadnaught, it has surely demonstrated
the marvelous usefulness and absolute necessity of the
submarine a.s a weapon of offense and defense. For
the cost of one dreadnaught, with the submarines we
now have, and those building and authorized, we could .
build enougli to keep the combined battleship fleet of
the world hundreds of miles from our shores. We
would have the largest submarine fleet in the world,
larger than Great Britain's and Germany's combined
at the outbreak of the present war. For the cost of a
dreadnaught we could build from twenty-five to thir
ty submarines, as many as Germany had at the be
ginning of the war. Who, unprejudiced and disin
terested, in or outside of the Navy, in the light of the
experience of the present war, does not know that twenty-five,
or even ten or five, well equipped and well
manned submarines, are more efficacious for offense
and defense tha.n one, or exv e n f o u r dread
' naughts? ' The dreadnaught costs $14,000,000 and up- -wards;
requires a thousand men and officers to man
her; a million and a half dollars or more for her an
nual up-keep including crew; while a submarine costs only frcm
4400,000 to $600,000; requires only about twenty-five men
and officers to man, and its up-keep is negligible as
compared with a battleship. Of all war craft it is by
far the cheapest in men and money and most effective
protection. Hasn't the submarine in this war fully vin
dicated itself ? Have not three little German subma
rines, costing each less than hralf a million dollars,
and manned by not over twenty-five men, destroyed
nearly 10 per cent, of a bi? warship fleet of Great
Britahij costing over $75,000,000 and over two thous
and lives, and, in addition, destroyed many thousands
of tonnage of smaller war craft and merchant vessels ?
To accomplish what these three submarines, costing
a little over a million dollars, with seventy-live men,
did, would take, in a naval engagement, more than a
dozen battleships and cruisers, costing, according to
what we pay, more than $100,000,000, and from 7,000
to 10,000 officers and men, with the probability, even
if successful, of losing many of the vessels and thous
ands of lives. Did not one little submarine, costing
less than half a million dollars, with only twenty-five
men, worming itself through thousands of miles of
sea, creep into the Dardanelles, send to the bottom five
warships of the Allies and disable tho others, driving
the straggling, crippled, remnant of the Allies' fleet
out, While it survived, unharmed and untouched? To
accomplish this, it would have taken eight or ten war
ships, costing from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000, and
from 7,000 to 10,000 men, with the risk of many ships
being destroyed and many lives lost. Germany has her
big, magnificent fleet of battleships, cruisers, etc., lying
unmolested in her harbor. Great Britain and her Al
lies have a battleship fleet nearly four times as large
and powerful and a torpedo fleet over four times as
large. Why don't the Allies go in and destroy the
German fleet! You answer, submarines and mines.
That answers largely the question of our 4 'defensive
preparedness." If a few submarines and mines (and
Germany hasn't as many submarines as we have) can
protect, and keep unmolested, the German fleet and her
harbor and hold at bay for hundreds of miles a fleet
four times as big and as powerful, why couldn't sub
marines and mines protect with equal assurance our
fleet and our shores?
But why should we be in such a hurry to make
big appropriations for the Army -and the Navy? Why
should Congress make such a wild rush to tax the peo
ple more? Where is the necessity or the wisdom? If
there ever was a time in the history of our Govern
ment when the Administration, Congress, and the peo
ple, could consider with deliberation, and without ex
citement . and without haste, military and naval con
struction policy it is now. Just stop and give a mo
ment's calm thought to the situation:
1st. Our Navy and Army is stronger, better
equipped, with more ammunition and in every re
spect more efficient today than ever before. We have
now under construction and authorized for the Navy
more vesels than ever before 50 per cent, more in
money and in numbers than ever before; more dread
naughts under construction than ever before nine in
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A PPnn AMnTinu nv
THE GOVERNOR r T
. Wanted
Old Rubber, Brass
Other Junk
Saturday, October 9, Designated as
"Fire Prevention Day" in
North Carolina.
The General Assembly of nineteen
hundred and fifteen amended the
insurance laws of North Carolina,
and, among other things, enacted:
"It shall be the duty of the Insur
ance Commissioner and Superintend
ent of Public Instruction to provide
as far as practicable for the teach
ing of 'Fire Prevention' in tht col
leges and schools of the State, and,
if the way be open, to arrange for a
text-book adapted to such use. Also
by adding to said section as section
four thousand seven hundred and
twenty-one (b) the following: 'The
ninth day of October of each and
every year shall be set aside and de
signated as Fire Prevention Day,
and the Governor shall issue a pro
clamation urging the people to a
proper observance of the said day,
and the Insurance Commissioner
shall bring the day and its observ
ance to the attention of the officials
of the municipalities of the State,
and especially to the firemen, and,
where possible, arrange suitable
programs to be followed in it's ob
servance.' "
Now, Therefore, I, LOCKE CRAIG
Governor of North Carolina, in ac-
coraance witn tnis statute, do issue
this my Proclamation, and I do set
aside and designate, Saturday, the
9th day of October, 1915 as Fire Pre
vention Day and do urge all the peo
ple to a proper observance of this
day in obedience to the law of North
Carolina. I urge the public schools
of the State and the municipal offi
cers thereof to give proper and for
real recognition or the day and its
meaning, and request the citizens
generally to give special attention
on.that day to the condition of their
premises, to the end that the waste
and loss of property and life by fire
may be reduced in this State.
The loss by fire amounts approxi
mately to three million dollars a year
in North Carolina. A large per cent
of this loss is unnecessary and can be
preventea. Human lire, too, is
needlessly sacrificed.
We should remedy the conditions
that entail this enormous expense
and loss suffered, not only by those
whose property and lives are de
stroyed, but by all citizens in the
high rates of insurance caused by
unnecessary fires. The prevention
of the needless destruction of the
e . nit i i i i
rruits or laoor ana or numan lire is
a duty dictated by economy and hu
manity.
T J i"tJ C T - 1 - 1- 1 1
.Loiie at our VjiLy ui naieign, uns
the sixteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen, and in the
one hundred and fortieth year of
our American Independence.
By the Governor:
LOCKE CRAIG,
Governor.
JNO. P. KERR,
Private Secretary.
Insurance Commissioner Young
and State Superintandent of In
struction Joyner have addressed let-
i'ters to citizens and school superin
tendents respectively, urging them
to co-operate for the success of the
day.
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S. H. ALEXANDER, Mgr.
Albemarle Presbytery
The Nahalah Presbyterian Church
and neighborhood had a very pleas
ant time and a profitable one in en
tertaining the ministers and elders
of Albermale Presbytery
There was most excellent preach
ing Tuesday, Thursday and Fiiday
nights and a lecture wdth stereop
ticon views on Wednesday nignt by
Rev. Chas. L. Crane, from Africa.
The business of the Presbytery
was quite satisfactory, and the re
ports of many evangelistic meetings
were most cheering.
Rev. Lewis Collins, of Henderson,
remained over and preached Sunday
morning and night.
The following ministers attended
Presbytery.
Rev. Chas. L. Crane from Africa
Rev. W. D. Morton, D.D. of Rocky
Mount: J. N. H. Summerel D. D.
of Newbern: R. A. White, of Hen
derson: S. K. Phillips, of Oxford;
H. B. Searight, of Wasmngton; J. 13.
Black. Elizabeth City: J. S. Kennison
of Stokesville : J. M. Millard, Little
ton: G.B. Hanrahan. Kinston; A. G.
Harris, Greenville, H. F. M. Roanoke
Rapids; R. E. Henderlite,
Belhaven. H. M. Shields. Townes
ville. H. N. Mc Diarmid. Goldsboro
J. H. Jarvis. Washington; elders
George Howard, Tarboro,S. K.Foun
tain, Rocky Mount; L. H. Fountain,
Leggetts; J,H. Bullock, Townesville,
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