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Com mom AFTERNOON DAILY WEALTH. u. VI Number RA SESSION OF CONGRESS I MAY CVEN CABINET MEMBERS PREDICT MTG o- ,- Associated Press jjju.oton March in. -An extra f (,'ongress before June ei ol .lii'veti to be certain by . M'.ciniiu'nt officials and mem v,r Congress, although these predictions are without suppoot jnir .vi(len.-i to show that Pres- 'iion has changed hi' iuVnt julr.i'i nt,t to summon Congress ,.v his return to Washington. i'..i.;p.('t officei have made it n..vu that they believe the ex tni M.ssion will begin in May, o;: .' setting the'time at the mid dle of the mouth, others sugges t;.i earlier date, probably May FRENCH WON'T ISSUE PASSPORTS l'.v Associated Press lu-is, March l.-The govern ment refused threesoeialists, se lected lo go to Russia to investi- uit" the, liolshoviki government, ;,;sperts to pass out of France GREAT AERIAL FLIGHT DELAYED i I. ! ( As M-i-itt'-l Press) London, March Is. -Lieut. Foil lain', who started on a flight I'roni Senegambia to Pernam i iico. Brazil, decended at Blois "ii account of a cracked cylinder. He- is now in Paris and will make another start in a few da vs. FIGHTING AGAIN !N LITHUANIA fty A?sojiated Pre?? 1 Mmkholm: March ls.-Fighning I ins hvn resumed against the I Holshoviki along tlm entire Lith ;j 1;ldan front, according to offi j -!i information from Lithuanian ; ';Hi(iiartei-s at Kovno. English Brides Of Arriving In i POUR O'CLOCK EDITION RAINBOW DIV COMING HOME By Associated Press Coblenz, March 13. -The third army has been notified that the "Rainbow Division" will sail from St Nazaire instead of Ant werp. The division will entrain for France the first week in April. VICTORY CROPS GOOD When you have a chance to lay in a few more government borid3 as a good investment for your family, by no means neglect the opportunity. There cannot be a better invest ment than a Victory Liberty Bond, with first call on all the resources "of the United States. The crops of "Vic tory Year." as reported by the govern ment, added about $17,000,000.00.) to our wealth. Here are just x tew of the principal items: Corn 2,5 S2.S14.000 bushels, $3,52S,- 313.000. Wheat 917.100,000 bushels. $l.J?74.-i 623,000. Oats 1,538,359,000 bushels, $1,032.- 423,000. I Barley 256,375,000 bushels, $23?, i 269,000. ! Rye 89,103.000 bushels. 5134,947.- 000. i Potatoes 397,676.000 bushels. $475, ',751,000. s-. .... Hay 75,459.000 tons. 51,522.473,000 j Tobacco 1.340.01!, 000 pounds, j $374,318,000. Apples 173.632.000 barrels. $220.- j 990,000. OFFICIAL TRADE MARK OF THE 1913 WAR SAVINGS STAMPS (Tu- picture of Benjamin Franklin reproduced above appears on the War. ) Savings Stamps of the new series.) American Sailors New York ! 1 1 i SCOTLAND NECK, N. C Tuesday,; March 18, 1919. FARM PROFITS WILL AID LOAN Pwirral Business Men Are Well Able to Take Up Their Share in the "Victorious" Fifth. More than ever before the American icirmer finds himself iu the nosition ol comtort and prosperity which is ais just due. Lean years are for him no longer. Last year the average of farm earnings broke all records. Six million farms in 191S produced crops worth $12,280,000,000. This year it is estimated that a greater wheat acreage than ever will be sown. Naturally, the farmer is making the most of his opportunities, and with, guaranteed wheat prices and hiVti prices for everything he grows, the outlook for him is most encouraging. And Europe will fur nish a market for his fat hogs and steers. It would be interesting, if possible, to assemble comparative statements of the farmers' bank accounts now and five years ago, and the list of mortgages that have been cancelled. And it would be more interesting per haps to have a statement of the Lib erty Bonds now in the hands of these tillers of the soil. Very soon the farmer will have fur ther opportunity to prove that he is not without loyalty as well developed as any man's. For another loan is almost in sight, a loan that will draw upon us all. Because of his orioe aruarnntea nf $2.26 a bushel. Uncle Sam stands to lose from 50 to 75 cents upon every i bushel of wheat harvested next seas- on. Having given this guarantee to me iarmer. lie will make, it good. That is Uncle Sam's way. ' But wha't is Mr. Parmer going to do for Uncle Sam in the Victory Liberty Loan? In every Liberty Loan to date the farmer, as a class, has bought less bonds than men in other prosperous classes. He has been able meantime to get more sugar and everything else upon which the government put a restriction, than others have. The big question now. when he stands' to -cash ir at f?- 25- per -cent-premium upon his wheat crop, is what is he going to do next Liberty Loan drive? j Some Liberty Loan officials are j suggesting that the farmer should buy h $100 bond for each 100 bushels of wheat he sells to the government. He has made the profit and should have no hesitancy in taking a high grade security in payment for the dif ference between what the govern- ment sets and his whept. what he receives for LEfl PLEDGES LL HOLD GOOD Earnest Request is Made to! a n o t- m j All bllDSCITberS tO Redeem Promptly Their War Sav ings Stamp Pledges. Pledges made to invest in War Sav ings Stamp?:, have been automatically extended to 1919 by the government, which has made official announce ment that persons who, for any rea son, did not complete their pledge? by December 31. 1918, may and gre nx;r r-ted to liquidate these pleases by inve- .:.:ng in War Savings S"t:imps of the nov 1 91 9 issuf. Th 1919 War Savings Stamps arc blue in color and a trifle smaller than rho'-.e :s:-ued last year. They ie;,r l:"ei":e;?s i;f Benjamin Franklin, th .n.-tl." of thrift v.r.d economv. Tb- a i a 'V I fi rvi a: I T 1. 1 ! ' 1 ' 'Z ' ( 1 Thrift S ':St '919. and Thrift P :i 3-ivings Stamps whicli yield -i'. four oer cent interest, vl cu irter'y. may 'S- obtain i.y postof: ,'ce, ban!-:, or other agent. tamps and Thrift Card year remain in use during filled Thrift Canls. th.at is. 'ds on which sixteen Thrift Stamps. have ben affixed, may bp ex changed for 1919 War Savings Stamp? upon the payment of the few addi tional cents' which represent the dif ference between the price of War Savings Stamp and $4. the value of the sixteen Thrift Stamps. Purchasers of 1919 War Savings OtOlUyo Oliwum til m ilium tuuv iwi, 0. , - j War Savings Stamps are to be affixed i only to 1919 War Savings Certificates. Although one may have a 191S War Savings Certificate (the parchment on which War Savings Stamps are af fixed) which has unfilled space on it. such 191 S certificate should not have 1919 War Savings Stamps pastel on it; nor should 1 91 S War Stamps be placed on the new 1919 War Savings Certificate. Keep the two years separate. hm L WHY ONE IRE LOAN IS NEEDED It Will Settle Nation's War Debts and Will Care for Sick and Wounded. Once in a while some one asks: v u.m b .ine need ot another Liberty' Loan now that the war is over?" uevenue jtrom taxes will not be suf ficient to pay all the bills, so th people will be called upon to provide xne money by subscribing to govern ment borids. This money is goint, to pay off the army of producers at home the farmers, merchants, manufac turers anl others. America had just begun to fight when the'. Hun decided it was time to quit. Allied leaders expected the war to last another year and the United States government was turning out ships,' arms, ammunition and food to overwhelm Germany in one big drive. Treasury officials have revealed that in lDi9 America would have had a tank at the front for every seventy five feet of line. We would" have had ten tons of mustard gas ready for smpment tor every ton Germany could produce. Thousands of batter- ies oi guns would nave been in act ion for every one America had in 1913. Everything else was being produced in proportion. ' This gigantic preparation brought an early end to the war and aved thousands of lives. Victory Libertv Bonds will pay lor this work which had been contracted for and was be ing delivered when the armistice was signed. . ( There kre other purposes for which J money is need. Part of our army of j 2,000.000 men must bp kept in Europe ; until the peace treaty is signed. These soldiers must be fed, cloth! and otherwise maintained. Then they must be brought home. The sick and wounded must be car ed for in hospitals. The army must be demobilized. There are thousands of maimed soldiers, heroes of the great war, who must be taught, self supporting trades and given an oppor tunity to earn their living. This rVtonstruction work at home must be carried on. The job must be finished. The American people who furnished the money to win the war must supply it also to bring the na tion back to a peace basis. BIG APPETITE FDR SAFE INVESTMENTS Between Twenty and Twenty Five Million Bond Buyers Take Billions tn Short Pe riods. Pessim;fs who ?hake their heads and join the chorus of "I dunno" bovs at. the nmsnppt rf flnsUn? -a fifth T.ih- erty Loan in April are administered a ! knock -out by figures which have re- rently boon compiled by officials of I the Treasury Department at Wash j ir.oton. The figures give an idea of just now Dig an appeuie ior saie investmeni j this country has attained in its war j year. Some of the more striking of ! the figures referred to follow: A bond market which had less than 300.0011 customers two years ago had at the close of 191S between 20.000.- 000 and 25,000.000 buyers. The army. of buyers absorbed $11,156,565,800 ! worth of bonds in Liberty Bonds alone in 1918. I In the two years of the' war count ing the first and second Liberty I Loans which were floated in 1917 these hond buyers digested a total of S16.974.329.S50 in Liberty bonds. Th i s healthy- condition of the bond market is explained, perhaps, by the ract tnac me entire inueoieaness or the United States todav amounts to j slightly less than 7 per cent of thej(lay. estimated national wealth. The na-1 1 t.ional debt amounts to onlv about ' " j $170 per capita. j I Some of the national debts are: j Great Britain, 44.3 per cent cent, of j j national wealth or $360 per capita; j France, 41.25 per cent of national ' wealth or $296.90 per capita; Austria, I S4.6G ner cent of national wealth or ar-, AAA S242.90 per capita ;and Germanv, 38.7 1 , . ' per cent ot national weairn or $oo.y per capita. These figures on Germany are ex clusive of the ninth war loan, accu- rate returns of which never were had, j and in the cases of both Austria and! , , j i i nm !ttl J chili uuiiuu t . n. vui ujini; Germanv no account is taken of any? - indemnities which those nations will j disbatches printed here, which have to pay. j indicates a national independence TELEGRAPH SERVICE AE D LEADERS mi DECIDE LEAGUE BE R. R. CLERKS A n A MIS1V? nnnnifrn ttDAWDyW 1 Kill i im between, the Great nUfllWjn liWllii powers on all phases of the peaco Atlanta, March 18. -Fifteen hun-1 treaty and its early presentation died clerks of railroads other j to Germany. that N. C. and St. L.. returned! It is expected an agreement jto work yesterday after being on a strike since Friday, during which time traffic had been tied up in Atlanta. ESTHONIANS HOLD SITUATION Ceoenhogen, March 18.- The Esthonian forces are again the masters of the situation on the TJ.,1-. P . , T . xx num. uecurumg to an oi .nciai statement irom ibsthonian headquarters, j . msma WRIT E LLOYD GE URGES HIS STAY IN HOFFMAN NOW BAVARIA'S HEAD By Associated Press Basle March ls.-Herr Hoffman, socialist minister of worships in the Eisner government, has been elected premier of Bavaria by the diet, according to Munich dispatches. oath r OUin UlVlJlUf SAILED HOME By Associated Press Washington, March 18. -A lar ge part of the viOth division, com prising ten thousand men, has sailed irom t ranee Land will ar - rive at Newport News March 2U, states tae War Lepsrtmei t. ELLISON DIED IN RICHMON! By Associated Press Richmond, March 1 -.-.. Taylor Ellison, former Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, and one of the most widely known men in the , . , , . fste, died at Ins home here to- KOREA MAKES DEMONSTRATION By Associated Pre?? Tokio. March 1. The Koran Satur- demonstration continued ; movement, remarkably extensive PRICE TWO CENTO MOLD INO "- I TREATY By Associated Presn Paris, vlare.h Isu.Tho ..w;,. -- . v-' vjm,-n;nJl jto be discussed is one of secur- will be reached as to the inclu sion of the League of Nations in view of the recent reports of div ergencies between the powers as to the inclusion of the "Leaguo plan" in the treaty. Paris, March 18. -President Wil son will hold an important con ference with Premiers Lloyd George, Clemencau and Orlando at the Paris "White Hous use to- day. The meetinrr tnlre t-i " I'lV.-Tj. t'l - jthe Supreme Council session, l which has been postponed until 1 tomorrow. ERIEMCEAU PARIS FOR 2 WEEKS o By Associated Press Paris, March 18. .A letter sign ed by President Wilson and Pre miers Clemenceau and Orlando was delivered to Premie)- Lloyd George last night urging lu.-n t, postpone for two weeks his re turn to England in view ol thi urgency of the problems before the Peace Conference. Lloyd George wiii submit the Britisn cabinet and it is under stood lie will act in accord with its views- SPAIN FAVORS LEAGUE-NATIONS By Asso.-ntr-.I Press Madrid, March IK- The com mittee appointed to study th : snl;or-t F Hx T,,w,im f x'..-;. has submitted report to be cou- sidered at a special cabinet meet ing. The government endorses President Wilson's proposals but reserves its decision as to reduc Vions in armament and fixing military forces by members of the league. SINN FEINERS NEW CAMPAIGN London, March 3 8. -The Sinn Fein party is planning an aggres sive campaign similar to that of the militant suffragettes. It is hoped to have the Peace Conference intervene. This is for the purpose of fo cussing public attention on the demands of the party. COTTON MARKET Closing Prices Old New 22.74 21.25' , j.if I j July i Octobet ' TV i Decern bet- Lo;al Market NOMINAL n d well organized.
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