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COMM&NWEA it nrv VOLUME XXXIV. TWICE A WEEK SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY FEB. 27, . 1917 TELEGRAPH SERVICE NUMBEH 29. anas nay s hews From V U M II M lie UNITED STATE! ANIZING FOR WAS SUHFS TO RAINBOW THE WHITE I Legislature May Continue in Session Some Days After The Time Quietly the Government is Blend- President Is The Only Stumbling ing all Branches Into Concrete i 'M1 Block to Woman's Form of Preparedness i W SOUSE w v viljslw& O IL TV T-'f? Expires BILLION DOLLARS IN RESERVE-. PARADE ON INAUGURATION DAY President Desires Power To Arm And Defend Americans And Their Property LAWYERS IN CONTROL IN THE SENATE UNITED STATES PREPARATIONS WASHINGTON, Feb 26. This coun try is proceeding unobtrusively in the (BY UNITED PRESS) MOST SERIOUS SINCE LUSITANIA INCIDENT (By Maxwell Gorman) RALEIGH, N. C., Feb 26. The leg islature -will continue its session well over into next week, as it will be im possible to complete its work before then, although the sixty days limita tation expires with the close of Satur day's sittings, March third. However there will be no "extra ses sion" unless the governor changes his mind, and the law-makers who remain over will' not only receive no pay from the state, but be required to meet their own expenses out of their private means. There are, as usual, many who will not do that, and scores of them will board outgoing trains for home Saturday night as soon as pay stops, for they are the poorest paid of all the State's servants, and some of them serve at a pecuniary loss. The latter are necessarily men of means, or "well fixed" financially, and all of these viU stay until the gavel falls with the sin? die adjournment. A quorum of other's less well-to-do, but willing to serve the state free for a few days, wil remain and complete all important work. Law Compelling Prison Reform Washington, Feb. 26. President : there comes to light that a law was greatest mobilization o energies and Wilson, leading suffragists declared to f-uetly slipped through" early in this resurces that has ever been known in the history or the world. So quietly is this work being carried on that the public is scarcely aware that it is in progress. Yet definite ar rangements for the co-operation with the Government of all the great indust rial, financial, commercial, scientific, labor and educational forces of the na tion have advanced to the point of the selection of trained experts to head the several branches of allied forces, which ultimately will bring the United States to a condition of thorough prepared ness for any eventuality. While the enormous sums contained in the various appropriation bills al ready passed, or in course of being pas sed, will be utilized to some extent in the plans now being prepared, the lat ter are in a sense independent of the items for naval construction and in crease in military efficiency. In working out the scheme for mobili- ! zation there have boen called into con j ference army men, railway heads, navy i .te j-Mch county guards were empoweTcv3 ' boys senten ced to the roads lux ..... - j y days for misdemeanors. One of inem was produced (17 years of age and senten ced by Judge W. C. Harris, of the Ra leigh court, for thirty days for getting drunk) and his flesh was sh&wn to be torn and lacerated. He swore the guard who whipped him had a "grudge" a gainst him because he had once report ed him for cruelty to prisoners. Road supervisor Miller, of Wake County, who endorsed the whipping, says he thinks Senator Bunn, of Wake, got the bill through for us." Not three senators who have talked with me knew such a bill had ever been introduced this session. It will probably be repealed before the end of the week, for there is a wave of protest, and indignation, that threatens to get somebody's goat about this affair. It beats anything how persistently the attempt of a few lawvers in the dayyis the only obstacle now to the pas-j sage of the Federal Suffrage Amend- i men, j Tiat is why they are picketing the White House. That is why they will (BY UNITED PRESS) Washington, Feb. 27. It is believed in official quarters that Germany has now committed the overt act which the whole world has bean dreading, bat " :: " " wx feared would oeCur. Tt only lacks re- Raow" March 4th. That is why coipt of confirmation that te Laconia ten-ghousand voting women began ar- was torpedoed without warning, and rxvhere from all over the country .that the two American women declarci todfor the big March 4th., demon-; to be missing ished to the fc stratum. . . , - I into the war arena. Ttouff ragists are concentrating on , President Wilson faces the most crit Wifconj and they think they can feel ; ieal situation since the sinking of the proof President Wilson," said Miss Alice - of precipitate action without due Paul,- Chairman of the Executive Com ! which would undoubtedly throw the cred in this city think that with Wilson ' 1 1. 1 J 1 j . "l j ! senate, like Person and Jones and Burg- ! "s, eaus oi me larger manorial wyn can keep the newspaper publish- j Plants of th United States, the head Senator W D Turner, of Iredell, ers bill in the legislative incubator so I UJ- lu "tuicuu reucrauou oi i.aooi chairman of the - joint legislative com- long. For the fourth time it has been ! and the lading financiers of the coun mittee investigating state farms and favorably reported by three different ! tr7- These, have mapped out in almost camps where convicts are worked, has ' committees to which it was repeatedly j complete detail the plans for mobiliza PT,tPrl n Wll PHicmPrl th mnv. sent, in the hor,e of mittine- it to sleet) ! tlon not onl7 of men and munitions and both conditions and treatment of con- and it may get through this week, but victs. It is being printed, and distri- there seems to be no certainity about buted among the legislators so that 1 it. everyone can familiarize himself with : its provisions and will be acted on the latter part of this week. Gov. Turner has been closely study ing the subject and the enactment of this measure will provide the machinery and open the way for the reforms so clearly shown to be needed and correct miftaun n-P f" TTI A ""!FV 1110 "S'iuiun umuii, io- country into immediate war.. dayHS now the one great obstacle, Qn the other hand the more conserva- ; ""J- aic UiI1S LU CBUl" tive of the diplomatic body now gath our greatest errorts in gaming nis sup port We believe he is more and more meaning to the Federal Suffrage Amendment. JRWe are going up to the White '-House and register our willingness to 'wait; longer for the ballot. It's ffoinr bune. Mrs. P. E. Harris, wife of lieutenant Colonel Frank E. Harris, Uuitod States coast artillery corps, stationed at Fort DuPont near Philadelphia. Arthur T. Kirby, Bainbridge, N. Y. Mrs. Mary E. Hoy, Chicago. Miss Elizabth Hoy, Chicago. Rev. James Wareing, registered from New York but said to be from Norfolk, Va. The Americans among the crew iwcre signed here to take the place of others who failed to appear when the ship was ready to sail. The men weie re cruited mostly from shipping eflicea and gave New York and Brooklyn as their places of residence. They were stokers, coal trimmers, wipers aul sea men. While details of the cargo of the uiu ueim ne can steer tne country . Laconia are withheld under a recent ruling of the customs officials, it was CITIZENS TO ATTEND COUNCIL MEETING WITH BRICKBATS AND HEMP ROPES (BY UNITED PRESS) through the difficulties and avoid a de claration of w7ar. It is further stated that the Presi dent has asked Congress only for. auth ority for armed lieutralitv to nmtptet Jo; a. demonstration of protest and A;uei.icau livC3 aild 1)r0)ertv. Xo cf. fort is being made to conceal the fact; 1,0 58 boxes of fresh fruit; 'H-'f "Mir cnvr-riir-ionf pnTici1ora 1 a 1 o 3rly in the afternoon in the "lit- couia incident-the" most. serious yet Germany it is said promised not to I an4eipression of confidence." ' lltKe ( colorful suffrage armv assem learned at the ofiice of tl that the following items were the principal ounnidit'u's :;n One thousand bnv.s of fil v:-: bualsels of wheat. L!,S4:! bak- of tie White' House, ' ' diagonally across from the Executive Mansion and direct- cniiipaitv a.mor'i: d. o,f;)( '(?"!. toi' : tons of shell casings and other war and 9,000 tons of provisions. It was positively stated by officials ly opposite Lafayette Park. The doc- sink liners unwarned that carried Am- 0f the line that there were no exjdo- ericans. all things that are essential to bring- , tors will be lined up in one squad, the . The mini)rity leaders and the house ing the defense" of the nation to the j lawyer in another, and so on. Each foreign affairs committee have consent- highest point ot Perfection - squad will be preceded by a standard ed upon two poinnts to grant the preg. Luc ccuiiu mccLiiig ui lxic uuiiciij Dearer ana a Dana. of National Defense, held in Washing- , ident an unlimited authoritv. but this Promptly at three o'clock a bugle nt hft arPfia.w tn ' wilsnn who ton a short time ago, there were pres- wm blow and the procession will start insists broader ers to take ent Secretaries Baker, Daniels Berfield , for the White House. It will be head- j care of evcntualities, and it is expect and Wilson. At this meeting Brigadier . ed by Miss Vida Milholland, whose ; cd that Co ess toda will vote to vjrenerai vviiiiam jviiuii, miiiLiiry attaciie CICERO, ILL., Feb. 26 With brick- the abuses which unquestionably exist. bats and heinP r0Pes one f or eacl1 mem" Gov. Turner expresses himself as being ber of the city council to back up their in Germany at the outbreak of the war, described at length the system by which Germany mobilized her men and mater ials. The following are some of the de- greatly shocked at some of the revela tions made before the committee and voices his indignation that such things should occur in the name of the law in the great and proud state of North Carolina. Stringent Liquor Laws These being strenuous days for the "wet prohibitionists", the aforesaid W. P. being that class of reformers who have been exploiting their prohi bition views for exhibition purposes, only, and getting their shipments of wet goods secretly for private consump tion, mainly. There are hundreds of them around here and thousands in the state. The recent act of congress was more than they had bargained for and now they are predicting that there will be a large increase in the home manufac tmed article, as that does not require "y such tiling as 'interstate shipment' to got from the manufacturer to con sumer. 1-ut "Brother Davis" has got his ouster bill through the house and it Vvlil pass the senate and become law tins week if Matt Allen, of Wayne, doesn't stop it somewhere along the protest, a hundred citizens of Cicero ( tails of this nation-wide movement as threaten to attend the meeting of the municipal fathers tonight to voice their disapproval of a contemplated sale of the municipal light plant to the Pub lic Service Company of Northern 111. Several weeks ago the citizens com mitteemet at the Hawthorne Auditor ium to devise ways and means of bring ing the recallcitrant to their way of thinking. An invitation was accept ed by but one of the alderman, Joseph Laska. Miss Margaret Haley, president of the Chicago Teachers Federation, spoke contemplated under the charge of the men selected to look after the complete ordering of equipments and supplies in the departments in which they are recognized- specialists, in co-operation with the Governmenet. The committee on labor will be head ed by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor. Matters of transportation and com munication will be in charge of Presi dent Williard of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Science and research, including engi- i j i : i. ;i -ui -.:n v at the gathering and recommended the j nee"S -uu-1-a- uuiu, rope as a Convincing and persuasive ar-! handled by Commissioner Godfrey of gument the Council of National Defense. "A few years ago there was a fight Bernard Baruch will be in charge of in Toledo, Ohio, similiar to this one," rounding up raw materials, minerals she said. ' 1 The citizens met in a body 1 and metals. and went to the council chamber bal-j Howear E. Coffin of Detroit, presi conv. They dangled ropes in the faces .'dent of . the Hudson Motor Co., will be of the council members and the traction i in charge of munitions, manufactures sister, Inez, led the suffragists in the ; doIegate to the president power to arm suffrage parade at .the inauguration j merchant ships with guns, gunners, and ceremonies four years ago, and died 1 .1a ,10canr r.o f- w - 1 irilf fill, 11 l l ..ltlll & V ill r A.M. v -A- r A. m.r i v 1 J A. while campaigning for the Woman 's Party last fall in California. Miss Mil holland will be followed by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York City, Mrs. paredness. sives on board. (BY UNITED PRESS) WASHINGTON, Feb., 20. Full and complete authority to take the fateful 'next step" in the German -ri:is w;is demanded of congress today by I -resident Wilson and a grimly silent joi.t session of the house and senate litcuod intently as the president demanded the power to place the United States n a basis of "armed neutrality" to icct the German campaign of submarine ruthlcssness. Declaring that he Vlid ( BY UNITED PRESS) New York, Feb. 26. Twentv six ; not propose or contemplate war the Florence Bayard Hilles, of Delaware, . American, among whom six were cabin j president asked the ominously attent MrSi J. A. H. Hopkins, of New Jersey ; passengers and twenty paid members ! ivo representatives of the people of the and Miss Anne Martin of Nevada. ; of thc crew werc ou board the Cunard j United States to do these things: These women have been selected to pre- iner Laconia frcm xew York February sent to the President the request of 18 for Liverpooi wjth 75 passengers j our merchant ships with their unfranchised sisters m all parts . i crew of 216. when the vessel was "That you authorize me to nopply rlefekve of the country. SCRAPPLE BARRED FROM LON DON BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE SHRAPNEL sunk by a German submarine Sunday i night. One casuality, as yet unidenti fied, was officially reported by thc Liv erpool office of the line to officials here, j The names of the American passen gers and their addresses as given by the line here, and confirmed in part by arms, should that become neccHBary and with the means of using them, and to employ any other instrumentalities or methods that may be necessary and adequate to protect our ships and our people in their legitimate and peaceful pursuits on the seas. "That you will grant me a sufficient PHILADELPHIA, Feb., 26. Far- famed Philadelphia scrapple, a concoe- rcatives in the United States, are as ! credit to enable me to provide amo tion once eaten always remembered 1S f follows- ! ouate means of protection where they (now barred from entering Britain be- American Passenrrers ! are lacking, including adequate iir- company was not sold as planned. ' ' ' ' You citizens take ropes and do the same thing. Let them know that you j and the work of standardizing indus trial processes for war. The rounding up of supplies, includ ing food and clothing, will be under the Frank E. Klines, a prominent citizen Section of Julius Rosenwald of Chi- UlCU Ullctl ail v yj j v.-i o c.li v-t s i j v m are in earnest Medicines and problems of general sanitation will be handled by a com- Floyd P. Gibbons of the Chicago Tri- i ance against the present war risks." CUSS WAR AID POLICY WASHINGTON. Feb. 27. Prior to ners attend armed with a plentiful oad. But in;,in.n 'ate the office of T.rnhihltioT, r,Wpr I ThTlan was unanimouslv approved ! mittee under Commissioner Martin of , (With the - snug salary attached) to ' and leading citizens say they intend to correspond with thc new. office in Vir-j carry out their coup tonight. cause of its name, which sounds like . shrapnel. Henry W. Thornton, Ameri can General Manager of the Great East ern Railway being a native Philadel- DAWES HOTEL FOR WOMEN OPEN- SUFFS TO CONVENE AND DIS- phian, fond of scrapple, recently wrote ED IN CHICAGO from London to a friend to send him rT-IC O Feb 27. The Mary some scrapple, ine iriena never receiv- Dawes hotel for wonieilj the gift of the Vvhitc- House demonstration the ed the letter. Inornpson mvesxigateu Chareg G T)aTres jn honor of his mo-j Congressional Union and The National ther, has been opened for business. j Woman 's party will hold conventions The hotel, modeled after the Dawes j at the national headquarters of the liv hotels for men in Boston and Chicago, i ion here, beginning day after tomorrow, is a $150,000 stone and brick building, J Two important subjects are to be cn with rooms for 250 guests. It is run sidered by the delegates the adv'iH;. on the same principle that the other j bility of framing a war time policy and found that the British .censor re fused to pass the letter, because of the belligerent sound of the word. EIGHT THOUSAND TEACHERS ARE HEADED FOR KANSAS CITY ginia on the ground that it is not nee- j ssnry. 1 low-ever that may be, the fact , ls obvious tlmt lining i,fl 0-,n,;fa ! their deputies are more effectively vig laut in enforcing the law, in some sec- t0lls' than they have been, the opera tions of ill'r.'t 1?t:-llc r?n vuotliici O Will CUUtlUUp, .Hill ' FARMERS , MOVEMENT TO CON TROL MARKETS BECOMES NA- . TIONAL BODY TODAY ST. PAUL, Feb. 26 National head quarters for the Farmers Non Partisan "1 - 1 - Oi T I ;i,wi i , . ' league were openeti in uuuis iuudj. tue occupation of the blind-tigers,- . . ,i . . rttpttriw runners" will not bo wholly sone. ! . , ni in tn ri 1 1 -4. , swept iortn jjaKotu s uiu. imc puini- ZZTr , It Part f from, control and took over the 'rn(o,,t"1Shea the P'amIy needC'1 , legislature to enact legislation favor- j able to farmers. Legislative Notes . j Bettering of marketing conditions, Queer things '-happen" yes, they ' and entire elimination of speculative just ' happen ' ' in legislatures. For marketing of foodstuffs, and of manip stance, while the senate is demanding ulation in food, through state owned prison reform, and the abolishment of terminal elevators and warehouses, was e -tash, except in very extreme cases, balance on proof marked X. IV . ,Tm, , 07 . IIillclIlLUI UPI'O lilSLlLU liUllt tl- C 1U! f.UUI di;i.-m ciliU l"t iv luoni i"'" the Council of National Defense. j JvAJNOASs Uix, - " thot Mn u-lmlMnfflfi hntol ap.rnmn.la-; Ims r.feii made to combine, the votinsr v.o notinn ' firnTipp'? are efFect-School men and Ma'ms from every see- ; , , 1 -, x- c lhat the nation s nuances are enecx 1 ... tions can be furnished at much less ; and non- voting women of tue countrv rcv TnnViilWpil tn meet mv situation ' tion of the United States were arriving 1 i . . ,0lv mODllizeu TO meet a,a biiuaiiuu . -htn tTA nrpv.nlmcr r-nst if nnprnted i into fine h'.r noliticnl ordain nation bv a here today to attend the National ;du-: . " - ' 1 . . 1 . T ' . ,r , T ' . . . , , , t ! without profit under scientific manage- lneiircr 01 the Lmon Woman s Party, cation association convention to be held : f ; here beginning Monday, February b. ; " , and closing March 3. . Rooms rent for ten to thirty cents ; LONGFELLOW WAS BORN 110 'There will be from six to eight . a day, and guests may be either per-' YEARS AGO TODAY thousand teachers here next week, " ! manent or transient. Each room has a I (BY UNITED PRESS) Otto F. Dubach, Kansas City school i window, rugs, lockers, mirrors, bed j PORTLAND, Me., Feb 27. One hun- is the opinion of the Federal Reserve Board. The board reports that there are at present on deposit with Federal Reserve agents in the various reserve districts approximately $300,000,000 in cash, and the huge reserve of $600,000 000 is available at Washington for use wherever it may be needed. As a pre cautionary measure the board has re ouested the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to engrave a large additional sum ' of reserve notes, which will be ready for use in case occasion may re quire. It has been estimated that the banks of, the country are at present able to withstand a financial strain in: volving eight times the sum involved in 'the panic of 1907. man in charge of hotel arrangements, with an abundance of clean linen, and drod and ten years ago today one of the declared todav. "We are doing the f access to toilet and bath' facilities. Ai world's best beloved poets was born in best we can to make them comfort-; cafeteria in the basement provides j Portland. His name was Henry "Wads able. " j wholesome meals at cost. Breakfast j worth Longfellow. What is said to be the head liner of j may be secured for 5 to 6 cents, and j The three story franip building at the convention wrill be the meetings of 1 dinner 10 or 12 cents. Sewing rooms, 1 the corner of Fore and Hancock streets the department of superintendence. ! a beautifully furnished lobby, and a ' where he was born still stands and has u-- -n rr-,-0 nnrtimibr attention to comrJete laundry for the use of guests been made an international muiiwiai the stronger foundation for, and a bet- j are provided. ter command of, spoken and written j Miss Frances Cowley is in charge of EngllSD- - j Lilt: jic t :z?v jx tv t j nui. bv the International longrenow so ciety, which has been organized for that purpose.
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