A WORK FOR MEN AM) WOMEN.
l ood Administrator, Henry A. Page,
Makes Strong Appeal to People to
Mobilize and Utilize the Non-Mili
tary Forces of North Carolina For
Home Service in World War. Pre
dicts Service Will Take Every Man
and Every Woman Within Another
Year of the Great War.
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Raleigh, Sept. 10. ? The machinery
for the mobilization and utilization of
the non-military forces of North Car
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olina for home service in the World
War is being rapidly perfected by
State Food Administrator, Henry A.
Page.
Mr. Page has called to the execu
tive secretaryship of his organization,
John Paul Lucas, of Charlotte, who
directed the effective campaign of
the North Carolina Food Conservation
Commission during the summer. He
has appointed an executive committee
consisting principally of the heads of
various activities whose co-operation
will be effective in carrying out the
programme of the Food Administra
tor. The executive committee con
sists of the ^following named: Dr. B.
^ W. Kilgore, Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Dr. D.
H. Hill, Major W. A. Graham, Dr.
Clarence Poe, Mrs. Jane S. McKim
mon, Mr. W. C. Crosby and Mr. James
H. Pou.
Mr. Page's work is the organization
of North Carolina into shape to do
its part toward feeding the United
States and the Allies so long as the
war shall last. This must be done by
sending the Allies wheat, beef, pork,
dairy products and sugar. The solu
tion individually is to eat less of these
and more of other foods, eliminating
waste always. He enjoins upon all
families the salvage of bread and
cereals by having one wheatless meal
a day. Corn, rye and mixed cereal for
muffins and breads in place of wheat
bread are suggested as substitutes.
These work no hardship in a country
which Las so many substitutes for
wheat bread.
Mr. Page is urging the greater use
of poultry, fish and rabbits as shbsti
tutes for the beef, mutton and pork
which must go to the Allies in great
er quantities. He asks the freer use
of soups and beans which have sub
stantially the nutritive value of
meats.
Mr. Page do?r not minimize the
work ahead of him. "Convincing a
commonwealth accustomed to eating
as it pleases and wasting without a
Caesar to whom it must pay the trib
ute of economy, is big business. But
Mr. Page and 47 other food admin
istrators mustw organize against a
country which has not allowed an in
dividual to own for his own use a
particle of food since August, 1914.
The German government even super
intends the planting and working of
private acres. Everywhere Mr. Page
foes and in all that he writes for his
people he urges the people to be
hold how Autocracy has armed itself
to overcome Democracy.
So the Aberdeen farmer and busi
ness man is now feady to organize
the ^State into lesser machines for the
work. There will be county food ad
ministrators and under them minor
organizations that go to every home
in North Carolina. Nothing like it has
ever bein done in this country but it
iias been ordered and the enforcement
of the bill be in the hands of Mr.
Page and his several hundred co
workers.
Very early he is putting out the
word that the boys betwedh 21 and
31 are not to be the only conscripts.
Standing before his home audience a
few days ago he declared that those
who sit in snug complacency and lay
the burden of battle on the soldiers
alone will find that every person in
the .country will be, a conscript of
some kind if the war continues an
other year. The Government will not
penalize youth solely. It will take
every man and every woman able to
render it service and place them in
some work vital to success.
Appreciates The Herald .
Mr. J. W. Creech, of Porthmouth,
Va., who was once a resident of
Smithfield, writes as follows in re
newing his subscription for another
year: "Enclosed you will find P. O.
Money Order for $1.50 to renew my
subscription to The Herald for an
other year. Surely, we could not
think of stopping your paper as we
all prize it as the best paper that
enter? our home. It gives us the
news of our old home county."
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GUARDSMEN AT CAMP SEVIER.
Arrival of North Carolina Guards
men Numbering 2,000 Men From
Camp Greene and Other I'oints
Completes Mobilization.
Greenville, S. C., Sept. 10. ? The
mobilization at Camp Sevier of all
former national guardsmen from
North Carolina was completed today
v, ith the arrival of approximately 2,
000 men from Camp Greene and oth
er North Carolina points. A battal
lion of the Second North Carolina in
fantry, Company D, of the First in
fantry and a machine gun company
of the some regiment and Company
B, engineers, attached to the Second
Regiment came here from Camp
Greene, arriving on the first troop
train.
On *wo other special train^ that
reached Camp Sevier later in the aft
ernoon were batteries B and A of
the North Carolina field artillery and
the headquarters and supply company
from Raleigh; a sanitary detachment
from Hamlet, and batteries C, I) and
E of the North Carolina field artil
lery.
All former national guardsmen
from North Carolina and Tennessee
are now at Camp Sevier and all from
South Carolina except three battal
ions now doing guard duty at Camp
Jackson. The soldier population of
Camp Sevier tonight is estimated at
over 18,000.
RECONSTRUCTION HOSPITALS.
Will Be Used For Rehabilitating Sol
diers Wounded At Front In Europe.
Will be Located in Nineteen Cities.
Washington, Sept. 16. ? Sites have
been chosen tentatively in nineteen
cities for the great "Reconstruction"
hospitals in which the United States
will begin the work of rehabilitating
for private life its soldiers who return
wounded from the front in Europe.
The cities, selected as the largest cen
ters of population, were announced to
night by Major General Gorgas, Sur
geon General of the army, as follows:
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Buffalo, Cin
cinnati, Chicago, St. Paul, Seattle,
San Francisco, Los Angeles^ Denver,
Kansas City, St. Louis, Memphis,
Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans.
The hospitals at Boston, New York,
Washington and Chicago probably will
be the first built. They will have 500
beds, with provision for doubling their
capacity if necessary.
"The whole conception of govern
mental and national responsibility for
caring for the wounded," said Gen.
Gorgas in making the announcement,
"has undergone radical change during
the months of study given the subject
by experts serving with the medical
officers reserve corps and others con
sulting with ihem. Instead of the old
ide^ that responsibility ends with the
return of the soldier to private life
wit"h his wounds healed and such pen
sion as be might be given, it is now
considered that it is the duty of the
government to equip and re-educate
the wounded man after healing his
wounds end to return him to civil life
ready to be as useful to himself and
hi# country as possible.
Mr. Stancil Sees Frost.
? Wc quote below part of a letter
from Mr. J. C. Stancil written Wed
nesday, September 12th, at Hacken
sack, N. J.:
"We bad a killing frost here yes
terday morning which did a great
deal of damage to crops. It is said that
ice formed in exposed places. There
was a heavy frost again this morn
ing. Owing to the lateness of the
spring very little corn had matured
except the early sweet corn which
was planted for early market. To
matoes, beans and other truck crops,
of course, are killed."
Johnson-Penny.
Invitations have been received by
friends in Raleigh reading:
"Mr. nnd Mrs. Ransom Penny re
quest the honor of your presence at
the marriap r <ieir daughter, Ruby
Genevieve, to Keverend George Hen
ry Johnson, on Thursday afternoon,
the fourth of October, at three o'clock,
Clayton Baptist Church, Clayton,
North Carolina."
Cards enclosed read: "At home,
after October the twenty-second, En
field, N. C."
CONGRESS PLANS TO ADJOURN.
Speed in Senate Alone Essential to
Make Plan Effective by October 1st.
Wilson I'nderstood to He Ready to
Have Congress Go Home. Rig Mills
in Conference.
Washington, Sept. 10 ? Congress
ional plans, completed today, contem
plate adjournment early in October.
Speed in the Senate alone is essential
to carry this plan into effect.
The House has almost completed
its work and conferees are making all
possible haste to reach agreements on
measures that have passed both
houses.
Indications r.re that the Senate
will <w-operate in the effort to reach
adjournment at the time tentatively
set. It rushed through the trading
with-thc-enemy -and war bond bills
last week in record time and has tak
en hold of the soldiers' and sailors'
insurance bill, one of the two remain
ing big measures, with an apparent
determination to expedite considera
tion of it. Cloture may be resorted to.
President Wilson has no new legis
lation to present and is understood
to be ready to have Congress go
home. His insistence that the in
surance bill be passed before ad
journment, communicated to the Sen
ate last Friday by wireless, is said
to have been through no desire to
have Congress remain here for any
other purpose than to get the bill out
of the way. .
Aside from the insurance measure
and the $7,000,000,000 war deficiency
bill, most of the big legislation of the
session will be in conference this
week. They include the war tax, war
bond and trading-with-the-enemy
bills. The war bond measure will go
to conference from the House tomor
row, and the other two are in fcon
ferees' hands. * . * .
SAMPSON'S SEVEREST
RAINFALL IN 25 YEAHS.
Clinton, N. C., Sept. 15. ? Samp
son County was visited by the sever
est raifall in 25 years last night ac
companicd by high winds which level
ed crops to the ground. The principal
damage was to bridges and dams of
the county roads, many of which are
gone and travel across the CoheriCs
and Six Runs stopped.
The Clinton train got to Warsaw
this morning, but the rising flood
in Six Runs has cut it off and it is
marooned at Warsaw. There are two
or three fills washed ^way and some
trestles gone. It will likely be Mon
day before Clinton will have another
train, or any mail, express or freight
from th<? outside world.
A wall of water coming down the
river caught' the man who operates
the pumping statiop on Six Runs
and forced him to climb a tree where
he was at last accounts. Help was
wired for to rescue him. It is im
possible yet to estimate the damage
done in the county. ? Wilmington
Star.
I"he Valuable Gas Engine.
TJjyt the gas engine ranks first
among lrbor saving machinery and
fills the most important place on the
farm machinery list, is the opinion
of W. II. Sanders, instructor in farm
motors in the Kansas Agricultural
college.
"Internal combustion engines in
their present stage of efficiency can
be relied upon to a greater degree
than any other type of farm machin
ery, if they are properly handled by
an operator that understands the prin
ciples of their construction," says Mr.
Sanders. "The average farmer with
a little, study and the application of
common sense will find that he is cap
able of running and caring for any of
the engines on the market.
"The gas engine is an economic ne
cessity to the modern farmer, not only
because of its wide adaptability but
also due to its time saving qualities.
The modern type of farmer finds that
he must keep everything and every
body going at top speed every day
during the rush season. He also finds
that the pace is too much for either
man or beast to stand and it is here
that the gas engines show their true
value.
"The rush season always arrives in
hot weather when the horses are un
able to give their best efforts to the
farmer. The gas engine will travel
through the hot weather with the
same efficiency and is able to keep up
the pacs without a waver for 24
hours at a stretch." ? Indiana Farmer.
COUNTY MUST FIGHT DISEASES.
New State Law Requires Physicians
and Housekeepers to Report Cases
of Infectious Diseases to Mrs. Thel
Hooks, Count> Quarantine Officer ?
Law Now In Force.
To reduce the number of infectious
diseases in the county and thereby
prevent numbers of deaths, and save
thousands of dollars, is the task that
has recently been set before the peo
ple of this county. The new State
Quarantine Law imposes this task?
but with it, it does not impose any
hardship or impossibility. It requires
only that every citizen shall do his
duty in reference to any contagious
disease in his household or communi
ty. It presupposes that every citizen
wants to see his power to bring this
about.
The State quarantine law, which
went into effect August 1, requires
that every case of certain infectious
diseases in any home shall be report
ed within twenty-four hours by either
the physician in charge or, in case no
physician is called in, by the house
holder, to the County Quarantine Of
ficer. The diseases to be reported are
whooping cough, measles, diphtheria,
Scarlet fever, smallpox, infantile pa
ralysis, typhoid fever and cerebro
spinal meningitis. Any home having
a case of any of these diseases, when
it has been reported, will have placed
on the front of it a large yellow pla
card bearing the name of the dis
ease. If there is no yellow card on
the front of the house and if there is
a case of any of the above diseases
in the house, either the physician or
the householder has violated the law,
and, consequently, is liable to indict
ment and to the penalty of the law.
The quarantine officer of this county
is Mrs. Dr. Thel Hooks at Smithfield.
Reports giving the name, address and
school district of any child or person
having a case of any of the above
named diseases must be made to her
within twenty-four hours after the
disease is recognized. She will, once a
month, publish all the names that have
been reported to her in the county
newspapers in order that all the
public-spirited citizens of the county,
and those who would have less sick
ness and death, particularly among
babies, children and young adults, may
report to her any case that has not
been reported. They may send her the
name of any person who, they know,
has had any of the specified diseases
and whose name does not appear in
the paper. Such a service on the part
of any citizen will be held in strict
confidence by the quarantine officer
and will be considered a service done
for the good of humanity and for the
protection of life in the county.
The names of those reported to the
quarantine officer as having a conta
gious disease last month are:
Typhoid Fever.
Henry Lee, Four Oaks, N. C.
J. W. Jackson, Four Oaks, N. C.
Lillie Sanders (col.), Smithfield,
N. C., Route No. 1;
Jas. Gilmore (col.), Selma, N. C. V
Aaron Birdsell (col.), Selma, N. C.
Scarlet Fever.
Son of Chas. T. Eason, Selma, N. C.
Infantile Paralysis.
Retha Hargis, Angier, N. C., R. 1.
Smallpox.
Sandy Boling and -family (number
12), Archer Lodge.
Frank Taylor and family (G), Arch
er Lodge.
Justis Whitley, Archer Lodge.
Vick Turley, Archer Lodge.
Arthur Barnes, Archer Lodge.
Whooping Cough.
Parents names in whose homes this
disease was found:
Doc Richardson, Zebulon, R. 1.
W. S. Ragsdale, Smithfield.
Carl Ennis, Smithfield.
Mrs. Flora Moran, Smithfield.
Fred Hill, Clayton.
J. F. Martin, M. D., Benson.
J. E. Wall, Benson.
Oscar Johnson, Benson.
G. W. Rollins, Benson.
Ezra Parker, Benson.
J. F. Woodall, Benson.
E. F. Moore, M. D., Benson.
Darry Allen, Benson.
J. E. Wilson, Benson.
Phillip Edwards, Benson.
Eli S. Turlington, Benson.
C. W. Anderson, Benson.
M. T. Britt, Benson.
J. W. Whittenton, Benson.
Carson Clifton, Benson.
C. E. Spence, Benson.
W. P. Reaves, M. B. Porter, M. V.
Cavenaugh, P. B. Johnson, Walter
Johnson, E. H. Dixon, all of Benson.
SEVEN WASHOUTS IN 25 MILES.
Coast Line Hit ILN-d by Torrents in
East. Wrecking Train Wrecked.
\\ ilmiiiKton-iioldshoro Line Cut.
Body Missing.
Wilmington, Sept. 16. ? Reports
from flood territory tonight indicate
subsidence of viator, revealing greater
crop damage than was even forecast
ed yesterday. Country roads all over
the district have been severely dam
aged, bridges and culverts washed
away and traffic suspended.
The Atlantic Coast Line has no
fewer ? than seven washouts between
the thirty-fifth and sixtieth mile posts
on the Wilmington-Goldsboro branch,
and it is officially announced that traf
fic between these cities will be dis
continued for several days, through
traffic being routed via Chadbourn
and Elrod for main line connections,
while local trains will operate for a
distance of 35 miles out of Wilming
ton toward Goldsboro. The Atlantic
and Yadkin division will probably be
opened for traffic tomorrow.
This morning a wrecking train from
Rocky Mount, attempting to reach the
scene of a freight wreck, 45 miles
from Wilmington, was itself wrecked
and Engineer J. B. Ericsson and two
negroes, of this city, were slightly in
jured. Wrecking trains from Way
cross, Ga., and Florence, S. C., to
gether with available work train
crews and much material are being
rushed to the breaks in the line.
The body of Brakeman II. T. Moore,
who was killed in tlfe wreck of a
freight on the Atlantic Coast Line
Saturday morning, had not been found
tonight. No further loss of life in
the flood area is reported. The weath
er continues threatening but with no
heavy rainfall during the past 12
how. ?
WILSON'S MILLS NEWS.
Wilson's Mills, Sept. 17. ? Our
school opened last Monday about
seventy strong. Of these some nine
teen were high school students. More
pupils will enter as the crops arc har
vested .Irt the meantime Professor
Pope is seeking out the parents who
may be likely to have children to send.
For he expects to greatly increase
the enrollment of the High School.
We are glad to know Wilson's
Mills High School will continue to im
prove the already high standards set
by her teachers. Many of the colleges
now require fifteen units of high
school work for entrance. The High
School Course has been planned to
meet these requirements.
A program of supervised play will
be in force. Teachers trained in this
work-play will instruct in this as much
as in text book work. In line with this
a new game, in fact a number of new
games, are being learned, has been
introduced. The new game of greater
interest is volley ball. The boys are
eager to challenge teams from neigh
boring school already.
Also at noon passersby observe a
lady with a hook in hand (the teacher
of the day), garbage barrels, etc., all
of which lend emphasis to the fact
that Sanitation is being made very
practical.
The usual speeches of welcome and
cheer with the unusual spirit that
arises from the hearts of our citizens
were delivered. Patriotic songs were
sung. The policy of the school admin
istration was announced. And Wil
son's Mills High School began work.
Those gone or expecting to depart
for college are as follows: Misses Mil
dred Wilson, Lottie Wilson, Marga
ret Wilson, Ellen Uzzle, Maggie Par
rish, and Messrs. Preston Turnage,
Battle Tomlinson, Marshall Uzzle,
Gilliam Wilson, and Ralph Wilson.
The rain and wind storm of Friday
night did considerable damage to
crops in this locality. Cotton was the
worst damaged product.
Mr. Pete Price grew the first bale
of cotton to be ginned in this town
this year. It was ginned Thursday.
Trains Running Behind.
Trains on all the roads seem to be
running behind time. There are two
reasons for this. There is much trav
el now with nearly all the trains
crowded. It take/ more time to at
tend to the extra numbers who are
traveling. But the main reason is that
the railroads have taken off part of
their trains. Just before the increas
ed fall travel opened up the trains
were taken off. The railroads claim
they had to do this to accommodate
the soldiers.
WAR CREDITS BILL PASSES.
Largest Measure of the Kind in World
History Passes Senate Without
Roll Call or Dissent and Is Ready
For Conference. New Changes Made
From Form in Which Bill Was
Passed by the House. One LaFol- (
lette Amendment Is Adopted,
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Washington, Sept. 15. ? The war
credits bill, authorizing new bonds
and certificates aggregating $11,538,
000,000 and the largest measure of
its kind in world history, was passed
by the Senate late today without a
roll call or dissenting vote. It has
already passed the House and will go
to conference Monday.
Few changes were made in the bill
by the Senate, the bond and certifi
cate authorizations, interest rates and
provisions giving the secretary of the
treasury broad powers to determine
the life of the issues, remaining as
they camt from the House.
The most important Senate amend
ment was that of the finance com
mittee in increasing from one-seventh
to one-fourth of on?J per cent of the
bonds and war-savings certificates au
thorized, the expense allowance for
their flotation, and decreasing the al
lowance for the indebtedness certifi
cates from one-tenth to one twen
tieth of one per cent.
As the Senate did not revise the
amount of security issues proposed,
they cannot be changed in confer
ence. They are $7,538,945,400 of con
vertible four per cent bonds, subject
to income surtaxes and war excess
profits taxes, and $2,000,000,000 each
of war savings certificates and tem
porary certificates of indebtednessv
The Senate late today adopted an
amendment by Senator LaFolette lim
iting the interest rate on the sav
ings certificates to four per cent, but
the rate on the certificates of in
debtedness is left to the secretary of
the treasury. Other amendment by
Senator LaFollette, including propo
sals to issue the bonds in denomin
ations of $20 and multiplies; to limit
their life to 30 years, and to permit
their retirement after seven years,
were rejected.
Of the new bonds authorized $3,
000,000,000 are to convert the 3% per
cent liberty loan securities at the new
four per cent rate and the remainder,
excluding the new $4,000,000,000 for
the allies, are to take up the outstand
ing Danish West Indies, Alaska rail
road, naval bases and Panama canal
bonds.
Senators Stone, Smith of Georgia,
and Smcot were named the Senate
conferees.
NO APPEALS TO THE PRESIDENT
All Appeals for Exemption Must Be
Made In Regular Form Through
The District Boards.
Last week a ruling was sent out
from the Provost Marshal General in
regard to appeals to the President
which reads as follows:
"First. By the Regulations of the
President governing appc-.ls from
the ac tion <jf district boards the claim
of appeal i mst be filed with the dis
trict board and cannot be received if
sent direct to the President, the Pro
vost Mar; hal General, members of
Congress or to i.ny other place than
to thi District Beard itself.
? "Second. Papers, evidence, and af
fidavits nut considered by the Dis
trict Pr>"- 1 cann> be considered on
appeal from the District Board.
"Third. The only cases in which
there is an appeal to the President
are cases in which a claim for dis
charge on the ground of engagement
in agriculture or industry has been
made in the District Board. There is
no appeal to the President from the
action of the local board in depen
dency or other cases whose deter
mination within the jurisdiction
of the Local Board.
"Fourth. All attempts to appeal
cases other than those involving the
decision of the District Board on ag
riculture or industrial exemptions
from whatsoever source received; all
affidavits, letters, arguments, evi
dence, papers or other matter not
considered by the District Board; all
appeals made to the President direct
or sent to any- other official or per
son in Washington, will have to be
returned to the sender."
The latest news dispatches from
Eastern North Carolina tell of in
creased damr.ge and property losses
in many place*, to the extent that
mxnv people are rendered homeless.