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WEATHER FORECAST. North and South Carolina- Gener- ally fair tonight and Saturday, not jCh change in temperature. nit VOL. XXIII. NO. 1 54. Mission Given an Ovation When it Appeared on Floor of Congress. VICE PRES. MARSHALL STIRS ENTHUSIASM Head of Mission Declares Every Belgian Subscribes to The Principle That "It Is Better to Die, if Needs Be, Rather Than Live Without Honor." (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. The Belgian rasion was received today in the Senate chamber with a grent demon stration. An address by Baro-.i Mon rheur. expressing Belgium's gratitude for American aid and sympathy, was punctuated with frequent applause. All Senators were introduced to numbers of the mission. The Baron's address said, in part: You allknow the unspeakable evils which have befallen my unfortunate country -X- . "But Belgium, even in the midst of the terrible misfortunes which have bet-n brought upon her by her fidelity to treaties and by respect for her plighted word, does not regret her decision; and there is not a single Belgian worthy or the name, who does not now, as on the first day of war, approve the judgment of our govern ment that it is better to die, if need be. rather than to live without honor. Like Patrick Henry, all Belgians say: " Give me liberty or give me death.' - . . - "This sentiment will be shared by all the citizens of the great Ameri can nation. . "The courage of my fellow country men has been strengthened also by the sympathy for our misfortunes which has been manifested through out your great land. "Yes, gentlemen, the sympathy of America gives us new courage, and while King Albert, who has remained steadfastly at the front, continues the struggle with indomitable energy at the head of our army entrenched upon the last strip of our soil that remains to us, while the Queen, that worthy companion to a great sovereign, ex pends her unceasing efforts to comfort and relieve the victims of battle, on the other side of the enemy's line of stcvl, stand the Belgian people, bowed beneath the yoke, but never conquered, a martyr whose courage Is upheld by our great Cardinal Mercier, awaiting silently in the sacred union of all parties the final hour of deliv erance. "That hour, I am convinced, will fcr greatly hastened by the powerful aid cf the United States, and the tune approaches when Belgium, re stored to full and complete indepen dence, both politically and economic ally, will be able to thank in a fitting manner all those who have aided her to emerge from the darkness of the tomb into the glorious light of a new life." Vice President Marshall stirred Senators to enthusiasm in presenting the mission. Asserting that the war will demonstrate that "treaties are made to be kept and not broken by walking over-he dead bodies of high Jdeals," the Vice President said: "I believe Belgium shall rise. The morning of day and joy shall break owr her desolated homes, ruined fields and profaned altars. Humanity will find that when men gamble with truth and honor, the dice of the gods are always loaded. There is no sweet er, more sublime, story tlian the story "I Belgium. Out of the depths and aci'w.s the deeps the representatives of her people and guardians have (me to us today." SUFFRAGETTE PICKETS ARRESTED BY POLICE ' (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. The police to day bgan dealing with the suffrage Pickets about the White House with a firm hand. ' It was ordered that no banners were to be permitted to be displayed and pulicemen were stationed about the White House fence. Miss 7icy Burns, of New York, and s Cathrjlne Morey, of Boston, car ers of a banker who refused to move 'torn in front c.one of the White House gates were aTTfSted and taken Jo police headquarters. :' -3f 4fr -3fr ' & ROUMANIAN MISSION COMESu (By Associated Press.) A Pacific Coast Port, June 22. A Roumanian mission to the United States arrived here today. CMEilEl If I WILMING PROTEST AGAINST WAR TAX j Executive committee and Members or .American Bankers Ass'n Named t K IK 1 m RESOLUTIONS SENT ON TO WASHINGTON Claim Check Stamps Will Cause Withdrawal of Sav ings and Demobilize Country's Finances. At the closing business session of the North Carolina Bankers' Associa tion, at the Harbor Island auditorium, Wrightsville Beach, yesterday after noon, 'the adoption of resolutions pro testing against the government's pro posed tax on all bank checks on the grounds that it would tend to cause a demobilization of the finances of the country, the election of members to the American Bankers' Association, and election of members ta the 'ex ecutive .committee of the State Asso ciation were the important features. In the resolutions adopted by the bankers in regard to the tax p, all bjuile checks, - it wa made clears that it was not the purpose of the bank ers to" evade the payment of the tax on the checks, but because they feel that it has taken some time to edu cate the public to place their savings in the banks and thus mobilize the country's finances, and the placing of the tax upon the checks will cause them to withdraw their savings and dispose of it otherwise. The resolu tion will be forwarded to Congress. Tho following bankers were, elected to the American iaankers' Association: First Vice President W. S. Blakley, Monroe, retiring presICent or the State Association; George A. Holderness, Tarboro, elected member of the ex ecutive council of the American Bank ers' Association, succeeding W. Pi Wilkerson, of Charlotte; Col. P. HI Fries, Winston-Salem, general nomin ating committee American Bankers Association; C. E. Taylor, Wilming ton, vice president of the trust com-' pany section of the American Bank ers' Association; F. p. Spruill, Rocky Mount, vice president of the savings bank section American Bankers' As sociation; A. M. Dumay, Washington, N. C, vice president of the national bank section of the American Bankers' Association; O. W. Lane,. New Bern, vice president of State bank section, American Bankers' Association. The following were elected as mem bers of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Bankers' Associa tion: Messrs. H. G. Kramer, Eliza beth City; W. W. Griffin, New Bern; B. A. J. Idol, High Point; David East erling, Hamlet; J. Lee Robinson, Gas tonia; P. E. Brooks, Hendersonville. CERliN T TO THE (For Allowing lime to Trans fer Troops to Western Front Renew Fighting (By Associated Piress.) Petrograd, June 22. Along the Rus sian northern front south of Smorgon, German airplanes have dropped leaf lets which read: "Thanks for the long rest during which fraternization enabled lis to transfer troops to the western front to hold up the attack of the English and French. Now enough are trans ferred. We are going to fight and will fire on fraternizers." ARMY RECRUITING STILL LAGGING (By Associated Press.f . Washington, June 22. Regular army recruiting suffered another set back Wednesday while President Wil son was issuing his proclamation call ing for 70,000 volunteers to come for ward during the week of June 23-30. The daily total dropped to 982, this be ing the second time since April 1 that the figure has been below 1,000. New York led with 147 men for the day, u ta still more than 5,000 short of Mm " . ... i- lt jtraote. Pennsyi van) a was seuouu BIERS ON BANK CHECKS HANKS RUSSIANS FULL WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, FRID AY, AFTERNOON. JUNE 22, 1 9 1 7. TEXTILE MEN OF SOUTH ASSEMBLE AT THE SEASHORE Eight States Represented at Opening Session of Con vention Today. PRESIDENT UNABLE TO ATTEND MEETING Over Four Hundred Delegates, Many of Them Accompa nied by Their Families in Attendance. With eight States represented, the eleventh annual convention of the Southern Textile Association was con- vened in the delightfully cool assem- bly hall of the Oceanic Hotel this morning at 11 o'clock by Vice Presi - dent John M. Davis, of New Bern, S. c. in the absence of Presidpnt. Fr nk E. Heymer, of Alexander City, Ala., who was unable to attend, but who wired his regrets and forwarded by J I mail a copy of his annual address. j There are over 400 delegates in at- tendance and many are accompanied by their wives and daughters. The convention will be in session today and will conclude its business tomor row, although many of the delegates will remain over for the week-end. President Heymer was unable to at tend and a telegram expressing his regrets because of his inability to be here was read and applauded. A copy iOf his annual address was presented, but upon motion and vote was incor porated in the minutes without having been read. Another telegram was re ceived from the North Carolina Bank ers' Association, who closed their an nual convention yesterday afternoon, welcoming the textile men to the city and extending felicitations. Upon mo tion the secretary was instructed to send a telegram to the secretary of .the Bankers' Association, expressing appreciation of the consideration and kindness shown. "That the South has the best class of cotton mill workers in the world more intelligent and more willing to co-operate," was, the statement of Mr. Gordan A. Johnston, agent for the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, of" At lanta, Ga., who declared that he spoke with authority because he was a Canadian by birth, received his train ing in the cotton mills of New Eng land, and has been in the South suffi ciently long to judge and know what he was talking about. This statement was made by Mr. Johnston during his talk on "Is it practicable to pay loom fiiers by the piece," and was warmly applauded by the audience that filled to capacity the spacious assembly hall of The Seashore. The address of welcome was deliv ered by Mr. J. G. McCormick, vice president of the Chamber of Com merce, and he gave the entire assem blage to understand how very glad the city and beach were to have them come here for their annual meeting. He was preceded by Lieutenant Gov ernor O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, N. C, who spoke along lines of patriot ism and who held the very close at tention of his audience during the en tire time he was on the floor. The response was by Mr. James A. Greer, of Greenville, S. C, who stated! that the members of the association came to see Wilmington's pretty women as much as for any other pur pose, and he advanced as his opinion that they could not be seen to better A. B. CARTER, GREENVILLE, S. C. .,,.,,,.-11.. 7 Secretary of the Textile Association "at his desk at the convention -at WNghtsville Beach. advantage lhan on the beach. He stated that the association was de lighted to meet at Wrightsville the members delighted at the opportunity of leaving their inland cities for a brief period on the beach. Mr. Greer declared that the associ ation represented more than 800 tex tile plants, representing invested capi tal in excess of $330,000,000. He stat ed that North Carolina ranks second in the consumption of cotton of the United States and third in the con sumption of Sea Island cotton. He pointed out the great gains that have been registered by the South in the textile industry and especially the gains of this State. .V He declared that the men who oper ate cotton mills are not the heartless i. . wu lm many well-meaning but ON LEASED WIRE SERVICE .' 1 - ' . 4 LIBERTY LOAN OVER THREE BILLION. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. Sub- scriptions to the Liberty Loan have surpassed the highest esti- mate of treasury officials and ex- ceed $3,000,000,000. " v 4 ARTILLERY STILL OF BOTHJI LINES French and Germans Still at Grips On The Western Front UCAVY PIPI4TIMP JraiLy. rLV. T. . ' ALSO IN CHAMPAGNE j I A ,,0f-. UJ; I ff Austro-ltalian Line Continues Scene of Great Activivty Driving Towards Tren tino. The engagement between the French and the Germans, which began Wed- Inesday with a German attack near Vauxaillon, southeast of Laon, is be ing continued spiritedly by the artil lery, the infantry fighting having tem porarily died down. Paris today re ports an extension of the artillery duel eastward from Vauxillon. It was rag- , ing last night along a front of appro j imately ten miles as far as the vicinity of Brave En Laonnis, reaching what the official report characterizes as "extreme intensity." The infantry battle, after initial suc cesses for the German Crown Prince, came to a halt after his troops had lost virtually everything they had gained. Only one small sailient re mained to the Germans. In the Champagne, also, heavy fight ing is in progress. After the disap pointing result of yesterday's attack by the Germans between Mont Carnil let and Mont Blond, in which the Crown Prince's forces were not only repulsed, but afterward driven from their own positions, they attacked again last night, this time at Teton Height. Thiftassaultalso failed at Paris announces, aft rtfce positions re- maining in French hands. Along the British front In France and Belgium only raiding operations are reported. The Austro-ltalian front continues the scene of active operations but offi cial dispatches are lacking today to throw additional light upon the situa tion. General Cadorna apparently is exerting heavy pressure along a wide sector of the Trentmo front, where Trent is the Italian objective. The iatest announcement from Rome re ported the capture of an important height by Alpine troops on the Laga zuoi Piccola, in the Dolomites. THE GIFT OF LIFE. Forty million men under the 4 colors six millions on beds of 4 pain, the whole of Europe taken up with hostilties. i Already many thousands of our 1 men are on the battle fields of 4 Europe making- a record with their life's blood and for US. 4 4 In a few months perhaps a mil- lion more will begin to cross the 4 seas many of them never to 4 come back. They go o make 4 your fight. 4 4 You cannot exaggerate the f unc- 4 tion that the Red Cross will have 4 4 to perform in attending the 4 4 wounded of our army and other 4 v4 armies carrying on this fight. We 4 will not realize what war is until '4 4 our boys have been exposed, to 4 4 its dreadful toll of life and limb, 4 4 to the character of wounding that 4 4 is so terrible under this system of 4 4 'modern warfare; and until we all 4 ' go to the bulletins and study jthe 4 f names to see whether the'who 4 4 are near and dear to jas ; have 4 Deen, taken for their country's 4 sake. Then the war will? come 4 4 home to us. Then ther will be 4 4 nothing but the war and every-' 4 4 thing else will be incidental. 4 "War is Hell." Never were 4 Sherman's words more true than 4 4" now. But wherever our boys 4 4 may go there may be found the 4j 4 protection, the bit of home, the 4 4 inspiration and the spiritual min- 4! & istration that are so splendidly 4 'b provided by the Young Men's 4 Christian Association. 4 4 We must stand behind the man 4 4 behind the gun. That means con- 4 servation in WILMINGTON, N. C. 4 No more diabolical deeds are 4 4 recorded in history than the 4 4 Turks under the inspiration of 4 f Prussianism are visiting upon the 4 4 helpless Armenians and Syrians 4 within their borders, whose agony cries to God in Heaven. Every 4 " form of barbarity has been heap- 4 RAKING RANKS 4 ed upon them and now they are 4 4-' being starved under conditions 4 4 too revolting for words. 4 4 Out of our abundance and from 4 4 our scanty store we must send 4 4 them the bread which we alone 4' can provide. May we at our well 4 4 spread boards remember the 4 4 starving in a faraway land and 4 4 give them bread. 4 4 When we say Grace today shall 4 4 we not thank God, our Father, 4 4 that we can send a morsel to 4 f other mouths that without our 4 4 aid shall not again taste bread? 4 WAR RELIEF (COMMITTEE. 4v ' 44' II GOVERNOR BICKETT PROTESTS AGAINST INC PIGS Raise Them and Devote the Price to the Red Cross Work. LET STATE TROOPS GATHER THE CROPS Is the Suggestion of Commis sioner Graham Caustic Editorial on Collector Bailey. (Special to The Dispatch.) Raleigh, June 22. Governor Bick ett's suggestion to Durham friends who had invited him to a barbecue that they save the pig and put the price of the food into the Red Cross will be an executive policy. The Durham fraternalists who asked the Governor to come over and eat with them accepted in fine spirit the suggestion. Governor Bickett was merely practicing what Mrs. Bickett has been preaching and prac ticing consistently. The pig, he said to his hosts, will be a fine hog before this time next year; 300' pounds and more of pork would be sacrrnced in the face of a world need for food. Governor Bickett then announced that he would adopt this policy in all the invitations received by him. Where barbecue is held up as the special attraction, Governor Bickett will ask his friends to forego the meat and put into the Red Cross fund for the treatment of the maimed and sickened soldiers the equivalent ot the barbecue. Hundreds of fine pigs are every week slaughtered in North Carolina to crowd stomachs which daily send up prayers against such torture. Kinston, after roundly swearing at the Norfolk Southern, the Coast Line and Chairman E. L. TjraVis, of the Cor poration Commission,' took heart to day when the Commission ordered new plans for a union station. The railroads had presented their specifications and the Commission sent them back. The Kinstonians were red hot about it. If there is any thing upon which they felt more in tensely than they did this railroad station it was the informal, call of Judge W. M. Bond last year and his protracted stay in the effort to find out who were the chivalrous gentle men who murdered in a mob old Joe Black. And if there, is anything upon which the Kinston people felt even more bitterly than they felt in that lynching investigation it was the re marks of Chief Justice Clark on chain-gang conditions as detailed in the Mincher decision. Major W. A. Graham, Commissioner of Agriculture, today suggested that since the. cantonments in North Caro lina cannot be built before November 1, sixty days later than at first sug gested, the boys who make up these soldier cities might be put into the fields to gather the excess crops which are to be harvested this year. The Raleigh Times this afternoon fires at Collector Bailey one of the most interesting editorials printed on that resourceful man since he became a resource. An editorial in the News and Observer-this morning,, suggesting that, the blind -tiger interests are engaged in an effort to control the city courts through the solicitor brought to Col. lector Bailey the implication that he should not attempt to boss the city anonymously. The1 article using Bryan as the author of the suggestion that all editorials should be signed that their authors and the sinister influences might be known, holds the publication under criticism to be using the impersonal coliynn improperly. "Bryan did not contemplate the use of the editorial columns for the pur pose of borrowing fO individual ends their supposed impersonal strength of influence," The Times says. The Times suggests that if Mr. Bailey did not writd the article he should find out who has mastered his style. At the same time the paper thinks he is on tbfc sheer edge of criminal libel when it quotes him: " 'The blind tiger business at Ra leigh is well organized. It has a po litical department, a legal department and a business department. It has a transportation department and a "fix ing" department. " Tt is right at this moment putting up the fight of its life' to have elected as prosecuting attorney for this city some man whom its legal department can control or "fix." People have won dered why there has been such delay in electing a prosecuting attorney. Here is the secret: The legal and po litical department of the association of blind tigers, has blocked every ef fort to elect a clean, straight-out-and-out reliable man at every turn.' "Mr. , Bailey has not openly an nounced whom he has pitched upon as the 'clean, straight-out-and-out re liable man' to succeed to the position now held by W. By Snow. If he would do so, the public might be enlightened and the City Commissioners helped in a decision, whether that of 'Mr. Bailey ECU or themselves- In BD CALL NEW COTTON PEST IS THE SOUTHWEST The Pink Boll Worm Makes it Appearance on Mexican Border. MOST DESTRUCTIVE OF LIKE INSECTS Congress Asked For Half Mil lion Dollars For Preventing Introduction Into United States. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. An emer- gency appropriation of $500,000 to. THREATENING prevent the introduction of the plnk)Were enrolled. : boll worm into the United States States from TVlexico by creating a cot ton free zone 50 to 100 miles wide in Texas next to the Rio Grande, was asked of Congress today by Secre tary Houston, of the Agricultural De partment. In letter to the chairmen of the .Senate and House Agriculture com mittees, Secretary Houston said that the pink boll worm, the most destruc- tive of all cotton pests, is in Mexico near the Texas border, and that the sum asked is necessary if the coun-1 try's vast cotton growing industry is to be protected. He pointed out that this worm has reduced the Egyptian crop about one-half in late years. The insect, the Secretary wrote, is distributed in Mexico much mo"re gen erally than was at first supposed. It extends through the 'entire Laguna district, covering an area of some 12,000 square miles. Seed for plant ing has been sent from this district to other points in Mexico near the United States, undoubtedly carrying infection to those districts. The dan ger to this country has been height ened recently by the establishment of a cotton seed oil mill at Piedras Negras, on the Mexican-Texas border, to which large quantities of seed in fested by pink boll worms are being moved. Secretary Houston informed the committee chairmen that the estab lishment of the cotton free zone will be done in co-operation with the State of Texas, while surveys in Mexico to determine the distribution of the pest will be made co-operatively with the Mexican authorities. SOUTH BACKWARD Collections Slow Only Two States Report Half Amount Raised. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. Alabama and Kentucky are the only Southern States to-report more than half their allotment in the Red Cross $100,000, 000 campaign. The former has reported $162,434 to headquarters here out of $300,000, and Kentucky's $500,000 is pared down by $257,695. Virginia leads in the amount collected with $463,445, but its goal is $1,000,000. Louisiana has $276,547, more than $271,000 of which comes from New Orleans. Tennessee has collected $299,796 out of its $700,000 The other States have : not done nearly so well. South Caro lina has only $87,923 out of $300,000; North Carolina has $77,310 of $500, 000; Florida $88,000 out of $400,000 and Mississippi $11,105 out of $150, 000. Georgia's totals are not given, but headquarters announced that Savan nah leads with $84,636 of he $100,000. Atlanta and Macon will hot begin their campaigns until next week. Mobile started its campaign today and that, is expected to help , swell 'Ala bama's totaL, ? .... - IN RED GROSS FUND til FINAL EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. Over Ten Million Men Will bj ' On the Eligible List, Esti mates Government. nation's'report 1 has been completed TPolitics and Favoritism Will Not Play Part in Selection of Men for Service North Carolina Exceeded Her; Quota. (By Associated Press.) Washington, June 22. Following rei ceipt of war registration returns from" Wyoming and Kentucky, making th4 nation's final total enrollment 9,64?,' 938, Provost Marshal General Crow der announced today that draft resov lutions will be ready for publication July 1, two months before the first call to the colors. Details of the machinery governing exemption boards were -not disclosed. In addition to the regularly tabulate ed to8 Making allowance for the 600,000 ofl more men already in military or naval service, not required to register, tha provost marshal general's office flg ured the Census Bureau estimate ofi 10,375,604 ellgibles as approximately, correct. ., General Crowder foresees jio moral -V f compUcatiojis.w(tt,4hf; pelecUoa-ftd., exemption machinery than was exp rienced.with registration." Secretary; '; Baker repeatedly has given assurance r that the selection system will be so fair that there wnnlri Ha no rrnniiff for fears tnat any man w,n he favor .ed by reason of political or other re lations. in order that neighborhood knowledge of a man's work and his de pendents might aid in the task of sending to the front men who cap; be spared at home, the country un , doubtedly will be highly sub-divided and the exemption districts be smalL North Carolina's Big Record. ..' Raleigh, N. C, June .22. Complete figures are expected to show that oa June 5, North Carolina registered be tween 'twelve and fourteen thousand men in excess of the number estimat ed by the Census Bureau, officials it is said here. Final tabulation of registration cards of white persons, completed shows a total of 138,853, a gain of 4,054 over the total of whites' reported by Governor Blck ett from telegraphic returns. As 64,700 negroes weer included in the Governor's report, it Is believed final figures will show a gain of 2,000 . among the blacks. Registration after June 5, nd not yet reported, is ex pected to add another 1,000. . Governor Bickett's report placed the State's total registration at 200,032 as against the Census Bureau esti mate of. 194,068, an excess of 5,966. ADVERSE REPORT ON TOWN CREEK WORK Washington, June 2.The War l"e partment today sent adverse reports to Congress on proposals to make im provements, on Town creek, in Bruns wick county, near Wilmington, and on Northwest river, in the northern part of the . State. The report shows that the projects are not deserving at this time. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE TO MEET JUNE 28TH (By Associated Press.) 1 Copenhagen June 22. A Budpest dispatch says that the Hungarian So cialists have received a telegram from, N. C. Tcheidse, the Russian Socialist leader, announcing the convocation by the Petrograd Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates to an interna tional Socialist conference at Stock holm from June 28th to July 8th This is the first chronicled direct commu nication between the belllgeernts. ' . AUSTRIANS HELD FOR NOT REGISTERING (By Associated Pnu.) Leadville, Colo., June 22. Forty-two Austrian prisoners, held in the county jail here on charges of evading the selective draft law, were removed to day by a squad of National Guard troops, after threats had been made by . their .countrymen here to, ne them. In charge of a United States marshal, the prisoners were . taken by special train to Sallda, where they were arraigned and held for the Fed eral grand Jury. A. crowd of Austrian friends and relatives of the prisoners followed' the men to the station here, sfnglagj na tional; war songs and making threats, but there-was no violence. V5S..' is l.i., S 'I' L J 14 ' 'if i ; W; !!!'.' ! 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