Commonwealth.
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VOLUME XXXIV.
AFTERNOON DAILY
SCOTLAND NECK. N. C.
TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1917.
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
NUMBER 50.
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FEATURES ARE
Yesterday the Scotland Neck
Chautauqua was officially organi-
i l -.o,nr ,P 1 a I i n or eiti-
Zl'U illHl 1 1 1 til IJ "J i" ivtn.10
I1H1 class amusement and educa
tional rally week, which is to be
DrOUlK'i lr nCl C tt matn-i yjJL iwcu
Dl ide as it Will make tlllS town I
a centre that will draw people
from all the surrounding counties
and rural communities, not only
for this year, but if the people
will support it, for all years to
come.
Towns of the size of Scotland
Xock are besieged in the early
summer by carnivals, circus, and
other tent amusements, that are
more or less objectionable, and
which frequently leave belaud
thorn a stigma that is1 difficult to
break loose from.
The business men have hereto
fore considered the question care
ful lv and decided that if a chau-
taiunia was brought here it would j By UNITED PRESS)
fully satisfy the people for the ! London, April 23. The British
amusement feature, give a much forces north of Bagdad have a
higher class of talent than can chieved another brilliant victory
usually come into small communi- over the Turks, driving them from
ties, and also be of lasting benefit "their important positions aWLsla
iu an educational way. i bula. W
Lot us see what the talent is Ic ,
ho that will grace Scotland Neck greater than most of the people
hy its presence in June.
First comes Governor A. C.
Shallenhcrger, of Nebraska, a
member of the military affairs
committee in Congress who is said
to he an orator of tremendous
power, and with the timely sub
ject, "Political Patriotism," dis- The local officers elected yester
cusse.l in a non-partisian way, day are, Dr. D. F. Keel, president ;
should be worth the money that j Four vice-presidents to be an-
will he asked for the entire tour,
'hiys pleasure.
Xext comes
John Kendrick:tne community; Mr. Lester Cher
Bangs, an orator of note, and an
author who has given pleasure
to many a home in his book
Houseboat on the Styx." His sub
i(l'"t here will be "Salubrities."
Another speaker, of national
rpute is Dr. E. L. Williams,
kiuwu throughout the conn ry as
''Uiieago's 'Fighting Par so .1 5
Dl- Williams has been one of the
v'tal powers that has eld k. 1
tho most disreputable 32 :tions of
tll(1 ;nvat western 3ity, his
Mivss will naturally be interest
ln and breezy.
the amusement feature that
1,111 he distributed throughout
tlle tour davs will be the Royal
mssars Band; James b.
KlKjv .
x the Hawaiian Singers and
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a.m-s: the Boston Concert Co..
,atlu'iug the harp: Josephine
Chilt
reader; the Tschaikowsky
Quart e
tte; Mendellsohn's Sex-
- f six girls, 011 Violin, Flute
Dr
Ulli
s and Cello., and the Pearce !
a.veis. io a unit rlnvlat n
n "Iii the land of happiness. ' ;
li such an array of talent,
Neck Chaii-
Juine 6-
Speakers and Amuse
PATRIOTIC
Report Says Stand
ard Controls Gasoline
Washington, April 24. That
the Standard Oil interests sub-
hiauuau uuiuiuaie me yawiiue
industry is the finding of the Fed:
eral Trade Commission in its re
port to the Senate made public
today.
It is shown that the Standard
Oil interests control the refining
pipe lines and marketing of oil
products, and with this goes the
control of the many by-products.
. Real competition, the report
says, does not exist between the
various standard companies.
BRITISH DEFEAT TURKS IN
BATTLE
in this vicinity have had the pleas
ure of hearing, and , considering
that it will all be played in a man
ner absolutely beyond criticism it
does appear that the Scotland
Neck Chautauqua is due a sure
success from the start off.
uuuuccu ldtex uy lug pieaiuuiu.
but selected from leading men of
ry, secretary, and Mr. (j. liofiman
Treasurer.
The committees are :
Ticket committee, B. W. Mar
tin, chairman, with power to add
several ladies to the committee
Messrs. R. L. Hardy, Joseph
. House, Ray Boyette, Mills Kitch-
in and Mrs. R. P. Byrd.
Advertising committee, Mr. N.
A. Riddick, chairman, with auth
ority to increase the number.
Messrs. G. C. Weeks, Ashby
Dunn, Peyton Holloman, J. II.
Alexander, Jr., R. A. Phillips, W.
II. Allsbrook, W. L. Harrell, E. J.
Proctor and R. G. Shackell.
Reception committee, Mr. W. E.
Smith, chairman, Mr. J. L. Josey
assistant chairman, Messrs. Tyler
Wheeler, Hugh Johnson, G. Hoff
man and Rev. R. A. McFarland.
Grounds committee, Mr. R. D.
Jenkins, chairman. Messrs. Jr L.
Josey, A. Paul Kitchin and Rob-
ert C. Josey, Jr.
.TnnirkT " f!hfliit.flnmifi e.ommittee.
Mrs. J. A. Pittman, Mrs. H. T.
Clark and Miss Eva Moore.
10
The French Repulse
AH German Attacks
Holding on to the Positions Gain
ed Last Week Against Severe
Counter Attacks
OTHER ACTIONS REPORTED
(By UNITED PRESS)
Paris, April 24. The French
are holding the positions wrested
from the enemy last w eek despite
all the German counter attacks.
An official statement mentions
a number of these German as
saults which were descend to
break the French grip on their
line.
All were repulsed, and several
other scattering actions were re
ported.
FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN
ATTACKS
(BY UNITED PRESS)
Paris, April 24. The French re
pulsed twTo violent German at
tacks in the vicinity of Moronvil
lers and Monthout.
Fierce fighting announced three
German surprise attacks on the
Woevre and Arosges which were
designed to create diversion and
relieve the pressure of the great
French offensive, likewise to bear
back the active artillery combat
south of St. Quentin and Rheims.
(By United Press)
London, April 24. General
Haig's forces gained more ground
in the resumed British offensive
today.
It is reported that further pro
gress east of Money, Lebreuex
and Rouex. Progress has also been
made south of Baupaume o nthc
Cambrai road over a wide front
east of Epseny, reaching to the
St. Quentin canal.
The villages captured are Vii-
leiers, Plouics and Ooaucamp.
(BY UNITED PRESS)
Washington, April 24. Includ
ed in the French mission are for
mer premier Vivane, General Jof-
fre and Major Dreyfus.
PRESIDENT SIGNED BILL
BOND TODAY
(By United Press)
Washington, April, 24. Presi
dent Wilson this morning signet
the seven billion dollar bond issue
bill, which has now become a law
COTTON MARKET
Open. High. Low. Close.
May 19.50 19.40 19.62 i9.;2
July 19.2:; 19.22 19.47 19 47
Oct. 19.07 19.07 19.47 19.17
Dee, 1S.22 18.22 18.56 18.56
Jan. 18.24 1S.24 18.56 1S.56
WAR COMMISSION DISCUSS
.ES NEEDS
(By UNITED PRESS)
Washington, April 23. What
the allies want more than any
thing else is food. This fact em-
erged above diplomatic courtesies
while attending the initial recep
tion of Foreign Minister Balfour
and the members of the British
war commission given by the Pres
ident today. These officials Avhile
apparently giving themselves ov
er principally to diplomatic gret
ings the various experts of both
England and America have plun
ged immediately into the consid
eration of vital problems, such as
shipping, munitions, finance, and
military and naval affairs.
Haig Says British
Progress Satisfactory
Laconic Statement Means That
the British Are Almost in Con
trol of St. Quentin
ARE FORWARD ELSEWHERE
(By UNITED PRESS)
London, April 24 The greatest
gain, achieved in the thrust a-
gainst Cambrai and St. Quentin
line is contained in the curt mes
sage from General Haig who'
states that his forces have rearch-
ed the St. Quentin canal in the '
neighborhood of Vendhuile. ;
Meanwhile there appears to be j
no dinnrhition of the power to j
smash the Germans east of Mon
chy and Leprecoux.
BERLIN SAYS THEY v
REPULSED THE BRITISH
(By United Press)
Berlin, April 23. After fight
ing on a wide front we have suc
ceeded in repulsing the British at
all points, is officially announced
today.
GERMANY DENIES DEFEAT
Amsterdam, April 24. The en
tentes heaviest attack has failed.
The Germans have yielded certain
points along the line in accord
ance with the original plan of
keeping the fighting line moving
and to shorten the line. This is
the explanation made by Major
Moraht, the critic, in the Berlin
Tags Zeitung.
The Italian Army
on the Offensive
Rome, April 24. The Battle in
- , 1 S
Carso is becoming increasingly
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violent. Dispatches from the
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front indicate a terrific Italian!
fire.
The morale of the Italian troops
is excellent and General C'ardcr
na expressed an utmost confidence
in his men.
Whilst the censor of news is
strict there is an apparent belief
that Italy is about to start a
great offensive although the cen
sor will not permit a direct state
ment to this effect.
FINED FOR DEPORTING
NEGROES
Danville, April 24. J. II. Sud-
Lerly, vice president of the Sutto -.1
Suderly Brick Company was fined
five hundred dollars here today,
which is the maximum penalty
for drumming colored help from
here.
WEATHER REPORT
Fair tonight and Wednesday. Cooler
Wednesday in
north Winds.
North portion. Fresh
UNITED PRESS GETS INJUNCTION
John H. Berry, counsel for the
United Press, suported his peti-
j tion with a large number of affa -
davits from nrnminpnt newsnaner
publishers and several members
of Congress stating they received
liquor propaganda literatures
from Shimansky under the name
of the United Press Association.
"The Cleveland company is a
publicity bureau." said Perry to
day4 It's aim is to get advertise
ments for special interests into
the newspapers as news matter.
In recent instances it has been
paid by the liquor interests.
A
rmy Leader i ells
nnsh
Says If Conscription Had Been Enforced
Early Losses Would Have Been Saved
EVERYBODY MUST BE IN WAR
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iCWS rfOlIl 106
State Capitol
(By Maxwell Gorman)
Raleigh, April 24. If the un
official reports from over the
State reaching here this week are
fairly indicative of the real con
ditions, North Carolina is respon
ding well to the urgent appeals
of President Wilson and Gover
nor Bickett, and the lT. S. and
State departments of Agriculture
to largely increase tiie yield of
food crops and live stock and cut
down the acreage in tobacco and
cotton this year.
Secretary McCullough, speak
ing of the State Prison manage-.jaeiit-
lie.? jhIuj-J i.iJ: ..nily ou
thousand acres of the seven thou
sand acres, under cultivation at
the big state farm on the Roanoke
river tilled by convicts, will grow
.cotton this year. Five thousand
acres will be planted in corn, 500
acres in wheat and the balance
planted in corn, 500 acres in
wheat and the balance in peanuts
tin-1
of course, a sufficient quantity 01
' .
vegetables for use ot prisoners,
to . . ... '
conspicious among which will be
1 "
water mnlom.
Government JVEust Regulate
Prices
But the subject of most imme
diate concern along this line is
the militant and very positive de-
; mand now being made all over
this country that Congress shad
at once get a throttle hold on the
lieartless shyloeks who by specu
lating in the Chicago wheat pits
and corn market are running the
prices for the "staff of life so
high that a flour 'famine is al
readv threatened flour the same
1 flour that a few weeks ago sold
j f)r njne ti0nars being held now
. at neariy $15 a barrel, with the
i flirpflt tIMt u ,v;n re;j(.j) s20 per
barrel.
The growers who marketed the
wheat get none of this inhuman
profit. The wheat has been in
the hands of the speculators a -
Hone and there will be trouble if
the extortion goes on. Probably
some of the men in Congress may
be justified indirectly through i,y the British on April 10 the day
speculation to extort money from)iPfore the party sailed.
' our own people because of our;
necessities.
The people of the United States
will not stand for this sort of j
tiling very long, when Congress
has the undoubted authority and
power to correct such a diaboli
cal evil. It is worse than treas
on or the taking up of arms a
wainst one's own government and
a situation in America that would
deprive the women and children
of the necessities 01 iiie,-n allow-
-j" -A. I . A' -
ed by the government to go un -
rip
Mistakes
I ( Special Convspon.lo'it-iu-o. ilartin)
! Washington, April 24. "Con
scription is vital to Antci
ica bv
foiv the nation can
have anv sue-
ees in the war'
Lieut. Gen. Bridgcrs, of the En
glish Commission, stepped out of
j the international war council of
allies to deliver this message to
America.
While Congress is wrangling
over the conscription bill (Jenetal
Bridgers counted Ihc cost of the.
volunteer system to England.
"We were saddled with the vol
unteer system at the beginning
of the war," said. Bridgers ''we
would have given anything to tref,
rid of it for it hampered every
phase of war development.
"The volunteer system threw
the best industrial forces into the
trenches when tKey were sadly
needed, ai home, ;od K'i't. uf hu:ue
those whose places were at the
front. '
"If we had had conscription at
beginning we would have obviat
ed later difficulties in munitions in
co-ordination in national forces
and other vital things.
"If 3'ou are going to war you
must go the whole hog. You must
go at it intelligently and syste
maticallv. Men, women and chil
dren must all fight whether it be
at home or at the front. It is no
longer a war merely of expedi
tions, it is a war of nations.
CHAMP CLARK IS AGAINST
CONSCRIPTION
(BY UNITED 1J?KSS)
Washington, April 21. Champ
(lark bitterly opposes conscrip
tion, lie told the president of
the National Se.-urily League
that he never woidd vote for con
scription, and he did not believe
that any such bill would pass con
gress. It was he said a bulldozing
of the country by the war depart
ments. He was in favor of Jet tin
the flower of youth volunteer be
fore fastening the disgrace of con
scription upon them.
j TWENTY SUBMARINE CREWS
j CAPTURED
j (By UNITED PRESS)
1 Washington, April 23. One of
the British War Commission de-
t dared todav that twenty German
, submarine crews were captured
! FIRST WAR LOAN ISSUE
IS OVER SUBSCRIBED
(By UNITED PIJKSS)
Washington, April 24. Ameri
cans grabbed the first two hun
dred million dollars worth of
treasury certificates so fast that
the administration ordered the
boks closed. The issue was over
subscribed one hnnderd per cent.
-
corrected would lie a most
dan-
Jgerous thing imaginable.
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