VOLUME 37.
ALL MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES
TO SHUT DOWN TODAY FOR FIVE DAYS
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Fuel Administrator, Dr. Harry Garfield Issues
Order To Meet The Coal Famine.
DRASTIC ORDER CAME
AS A GREAT SURPRISE.
For the Next Ten Mondays Most j
Stores, Plants and Office
Buildings Are Required to
Take a Holiday. Food Stores
and Food Industries Are Ex
empt From Order. Railroads
Are To Re Served First With
Coal.
Yesterday's daily papers
brought the most startling news
heard in many days. It shows
how desperate the fuel situation
is and how important it is for
the people to stand absolutely
by the Government. The news
of the day is told as follows:
Washington, Jan. 16. ? Ameri
ca's manufacturing enterprise
with but few exceptions in all
states east of the Mississippi
river, wTas ordered by the gov
ernment tonight to suspend ope
rations for five days beginning
Friday morning as a drastic
measure for relieving the fuel
famine.
At the same time as a further
means of relief it was directed
that industry and business gen
erally, including all normal ac
tivities that require heated
buildings, observe as a holiday
every Monday for the next ten
weeks. This will close down on
Mondays not only factories, but
saloons, stores, except for the
sale of drugs and food, places of
amusement and nearly all office
buildings. While the order does
not mention shipyards, it is
known that they will be permit
? ted to continue operation as
usual, although munitions plants
will be closed.
The government's move came
entirely without warning in an
order issued by Fuel Adminis
trator Garfield with the approv
al of President Wilson prescrib
ing stringent restrictions gov
enring the distribution and use
of coal. It was decided upon
hurriedly by the President and
government heads as a desper
ate remedy for the fuel crisis
and the transportation tangle in
the eastern states. Even mu
nition plants are not excepted
\ from the closing down order.
Officials tonight would not
discuss the far-reaching effects
the action would have on the in
dustrial fabric, and questions as
to how the order was to be in
terpreted to meet specific prob
lems went unanswered.
The order prescribes a pre
ferential list of consumers in
whose interest it was drawn.
These users will get coal in the
following order:
Railroads, household consum
ers, hospitals, charitable institu
tions, and army and navy can
tonments.
Public utilities, telephone and
telegraph plants.
Strictly government enter
prises, excepting factories and
plants working on government
contracts.
Public buildings and neces
sary government, state and mu
nicipal requirements.
Factories producing perish
able foods and foods for immedi
ate consumption.
Announcement of the provis
ions of the order was made by
Fuel Administrator Garfield
after a White House conference
which was attended also by Sec
retaries Baker and Daniels. Ear
lier in the day Dr. Garfield had
sought the views of other offici
als and it was said tonight the
unanimous opinion that the
measure contemplated was ne
cessary under the circumstan
ces.
As fir's t drawn and as approv
ed at the White House the ord^r
called for the closing of fac
tories beginning tomorrow
morning. This was changed
upon consideration of the con
fusion which would result when
millions of workers went to their
duties unaware of the govern
ment's step.
Formal Statement Closing Industries
for Five Days.
Fuel Administrator Garfield issued
this statement:
"Adverse wfeather conditions in the
recent week and the inadequacy of the
present coal supply and transporta
tion facilities to meet the war time
demand, have made necessary immedi
ate restrictive measures as to the use
of coal in that part of the United
States east of the Mississippi river.
"The movement of coal in transpor
tation must be so directed as to aid
the director general of railways in
dealing with the railroad emergency
created by recent blizzard conditions.
Domestic consumers of coal must be
kept warm and other absolute neces
sary consumers must be supplied.
"All industry must be fully restrict
ed in its use of coal in order that the
available supply for the remainder of
the winter may be properly distribu
ted and may be made sufficient for
absolutely essential needs during the
remainder of the winter.
"To meet these necessities, the fuel
administration has ordered as an im
mediate emergency measure that on
the days of January 18, 19, 20, 21 and
22 preference and priority in the use
of coal shall be given only to those
consumers whose consumption of coal
is absolutely necessary. These in
clude in order: railroads, domestic
consumers, hospitals and charitable
institutions, public utilities, ships at
tidewater for bunker purposes, United
States government use, municipal or
county governments for necessary
public use: manufacturers of perish
able food, or food for immediate con
sumption.
"During the five days designated,
no manufacturing industry shall be
allowed to operate, even if it has its
coal supply on hand. By this fheans
all industry will be placed on an equal
footing and each will be called upon
to make its share of the sacrifice
necessary to maintain the nation at
the highest possible point of military
and economic efficiency for the prose
cution of the war.
"In addition to this emergency re
striction over the designated five days,
the fuel administration has ordered
that all use of fuel except by consum
ers classed as absolutely necessary
shall be prohibited on Monday of each
week from January 28 to March 25 ?
that is on January 28, February 4, 11,
18, 25, and March 4, 11, 18, and 25.
"The order under which these re
strictions are made i9 designed to
distribute with absolute impartiality
the burden of patriotic denial. All
classes of business are treated alike.
"Except on the days covered in the
SUGAR ONLY TEN CENTS NOW.
Merchant >Vho Charges vMore Than
The Price Fixed May Have to An
swer to Food Administration. The
Limit to Consumers is Five and Ten
Pounds.
State Food Administrator Henry A. |
Page announces the following regula
tions with regard to the retailing of
sugar:
"The maximum retr.il price allowed
on sugar from this date is 10 cents a
pound. Retail merchants who have
purchased sugar on such a basis that
they have not a reasonable profit
within this price may appeal to the
Food Administration, stating that
cost price in detail, but none of these
shall sell for above 10 cents a pound
unless they have the specific written
pei mission of the Food Administra
tion.
"Until further notice sugar must
not be sold to city or town consumers
in quantities in excess of five pounds
nor to consumers in the rural districts
in quantities in excess of ten pounds.
"Any merchant refusing to conform
to these rulings will invite prompt
action by the Food Administration."
Raleigh, N. C. January 17, 1918.
A BROOD SOW WORTH HAVING.
Mr. Ben Casey Has Sold Over Four
Hundred Dollars Worth of Pork
Produced from Her a Year for Past
Two Years.
The pork question is a very live one
these days. The apparent and the
positive high prices make all news
about pork production very interest
ing.
Mr. Ben Casey, who lives oat a few
miles in the country, was in town yes
terday and gave us some figures about
his pofrk production that we think
worth while. Of the pork killed by
him last winter he sold meat and lard
to the amount of $4o5.49, and all was
raised from one brood sow. In ad
dition to the amount sold he has had
a plenty of meat for his Own use.
Mr. Casey's pork production for
last winter and this winter together
will total about 5,400 pounds. His
meat crop this year will be about 400
pounds under last, but he expects to
have enough to sell to bring in as
much monef as he got from his meat
last year, owing to the increase in
prices. The reason of this year's
shortage is the lack of peas and po
tatoes to fatten his hogs well.
All his pork for the past two years
has been killed from the same brood
sow. She is now a little over four
years old and has a litter of ten nice
pigs three months old. In all, this sow
has brought 66 pigs. She is a mixed
breed, part Duroc and part big bone
guinea. She is a valuable hog.
Wear Expected of Shoes.
It is very evident, according to au
thorities in the shoe trade in this city,
that the thrift brought on by war con
ditions will result in a demand for
shoes which will give the maximum of
wear. Novelty colors and fancy styles
it is felt, will give place to practical
shoes from which may be gotten the
most service even though they may be
a little less elegant in appearance.
The condition that has prevailed for
the last few years, which made the
highest-priced lines the best sellers,
it is generally agreed has gone, and
moderate prices are predicted to be
second in importance only to dura
bility. ? N?w York Times.
order, the normal supply of coal to
all consumers will be maintained. The
necessary consumers designated in
the order are given preference and
priority in the delivery and use of
coal at all times as well as on the
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days when other use of coal is pro
hibited. .
"The United States fuel administra
tion counts upon the complete patri
otic co-operation of every individual
firm and corporation affected by the
order in its enforcement. Every effort
will be made by the fuel administra
tion and other government officials
charged with the enforcement of the
order to carry out the plan proposed
without undue interference with
the ordinary course of business.
"It is the earnest desire of the fuel
administration to prevent entirely cny
permanent dislocation of industry or
of labor."
SELMA'S LIVE NEWS BUDGET.
Selma Supply Company and People's
Bank Hold Annual Meetings and
Show Good Year's Work. Many
Personal Items.
Selma, N. C., Jan. 17.? Mr. T. C.
Henry, Wilson, was a business visitor
to the city last Monday.
Mr. W. 11. Kemp spent Sunday with
friends in Raleigh. ?
Mr. J. A. Jones spent Sunday with
friends in Benson.
Corporal J. A. Haynes, of Camp
Sevier, S. C., is in the city on a five
days visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. llayncs.
Mr. W. A. Strickland spend Sunday
the guests of friends near Wilson's
Mills.
Mr. B. H. Woodard and Miss Bertha
Woodard, of Princeton, are in the city
the guest of relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Wiggs moved
this week into their handsome home
on Green street formerly occupied by
Mr. R. E. Richardson.
Mr. E. W. Onei.l has purchased a
house and lot from Mr. J. T. Price on
Sumner street and will move his
family there immediately.
North Carolina Day Exercises will
be held at the Graded School building
this afternoon. These exerciscs were
to have been held in December, but
the date was continued cn account of
the snow. Supt. Moser proposes to
make of the occasion a real patriotic
really and a good crowd of the pa
I trons of the school are expected.
Dame Rumor would have us be
ilieve that the silvery chimes of the
weddhig bells are soon to peal forth
again in dear eld Selma.
Mr. F. B. Whitley, the popular man
! ager of the Selma Supply Company
j. spent Tuesday in Goldsboro on busi
ness.
Mr. W. L. Stancil made a business
trip to Monroe, N. C., returning Tues
day. _J
Mrs. Roland Parker is spending this
I week in Raleigh the guest of relatives
and friends.
Miss Grace Bateman, of Columbia,
S. C., stopped over for a few days
here to visit the family of Mr. J. T.
Newberry. She is enroute to school
at St. Mary's at Raleigh.
The Municipal Woodyard has re
cently secured three cars of coal, and
it has been sold to our people in half
ton lots. This coal came when the
towrn was badly in need of fuel, and is
another demonstration of the useful
ness of the Municipal Woodyard.
Mr. J. L. Debnam spent Tuesday in
Fayetteville on business connected
with his live stock business.
Mrs. J. D. Massey will return today
from the Strout Circle hospital in
Richmond, where she has been for
some time, and her many friends will
be glad to learn that she is very much
improved in health.
Mr. J. P. McCullin, of Goldsboro,
has recently purchased the farm of
Mr. C. G. Wiggs near town and has
moved his family here.
The annual stockholders meeting of
Selma Supply Company was held in
the Merchants Association office last
"Thursday at noon. The President,
Mr. F. B. Whitley, reported the best
year's business in the history of the
corporation. After the business meet
ing was over Mr. Whitley invited his
guests to a temporary dining room on
the second floor of the Company's
building, where they were feasted
with turkey, barbecue, and a host of
other palatable eatables. The officers
for the coming year were: F. B. Whit
ley, President, Secretary & Treasurer,
J. M. Vinson, Vice-President; Board of
Directors: P. B. Whitley, J. M. Vin
son, L. D. yebnam, D. B. Oliver, R.
E. Richardson, L. W. Richardson, W.
I). Anderson, J. W. Creech.
Miss Mavis Richardson who has
been employed in the offices of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company
here resigned her position this week,
and left for her new home in Wendell.
She will be succeeded in the office
here by Miss Sarah Creech.
Messrs. W. A. Green, .T. L. Cocker
ham and C. P. Harper returned Tues
day from a trip to Jacksonville and
Tampa, Fla.
The annual stocksolders meeting of
the Peoples Bank was held in bank's
offices, Tuesday, January, 8th. The
report submitted by the cashier, Mr.
M. R. Wall, showed the bank in a
sound and healthy condition, the past
year having been the most prosperous
y?ar in the history of this growing
institution. The officers for the com
ing year, were elected as follows:' L.
D. Debnam, President; D. B. Oliver,
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Associated I'ress Summary for
\\ ednesday'g Events.
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Although the peace pourparlers be
tween the Bolsheviki and the Teu
tonic Allies have been resumed at
Brest-Litovsk the peace by agreement
section of the German populace and
some of the newspapers continue their
expressions of dissatisfaction with the
ambitions of the Pan-Germanists and
the terms that have boen rdvanced by
the German delegates at Brest
Litovsk and the basis for a peace.
Amsterdam dispatches announce
that an understanding has been reach
ed between the political and military
parties in Germany on the basis of the
Russian program of no annexations
or indemnities in the East and leav
ing to Field Marshal von Ilindenburg,
in case of a German victory th#-Hl>er
ty of dealing with possible annexa
tions in the West but the evidence
tends to show that the factions are
still at odds. Additional meetings at
which speitkers endeavered to out
line the viewpoint of the militaristic
element have been broken up and it is
announced that Chancellor von Hert
ling is to be permitted to deliver his
delayed address on Germany's war
aims to the Main Committee of the
Reichstag next Friday, for which the
country has been clamoring.
Adding to the political strife in
Germany and Austria comes the an
nouncement of the resignation of the
Hungarian cabinet due to the conduct
of the war. Failure to obtain ade
quate support for the* military pio
gram put forward by the cabinet is
given as the reason for the resigna
tion of the ministry. The program
included the formation of an inde
pendent Hungarian army, which Em
peror Charles vetoed. ? '
The situation between Russia and
Rumania apparently is growing acute.
On demand of the American Ambas
sador and the heads of the other diplo
matic misions accrcdited to Russia,
the Bolsheviki authorities have re
leased the Rumanian minister and the
attaches of the Rumanian legation
who were arrested Sunday. The coun
cil of national commissioners of
Russia now has sent an ultimatum to
to Rumania calling for the immediate
release of members of the Bolsheviki
arrested recent% in Rumania. A
rupture of relations with Rumr.nia
and "most energetic military meas
ures" are threatened for non-com
pliance within twenty-four hours.
Except in the Italian theatre the
military activities are still confined to
small affairs carried out by raiding
parties and bombardments on various
sectors. The Austro-Germans both
in the mountain region of Northern
Italy and arcund the lower Piave river
have made vicious counterattacks,
after heavy preparatory artillery
work, to recapture the positions
wrested from them early in the week.
All the attempts were without result.
Again there has been considerable
aerial activity in this region in which
five enemy airplartes were sent to
earth ? four by British and Italian
aviators and the other by anti-air
craft batteries.
Eight British merchantmen were
sunk by mines or submarine last
week. These figures given out by the
British Admiralty in its weekly state
ment of shipping losses, shows a great
decrease in the number of vessels sent
to the bottom as compared with the
record for the two previous weeks, in
each of which the aggregate was 21.
The Red Cruss War Council has
appropriated $4,771,990 for activities
of the American Red Cross in Italy
from Nov. 1st, 1917, to May 1, 1918
Vice-Presidcnt; M. R. Wall, Cashier;
Junius Peedin, Assistant Cashier;
Board of Directors: L. D. Debnam, D
B. Oliver, Dr. Geo. D. Vick, T. M.
Benoy, W. B. Driver, II. B. Pearce, Jr.,
L. W. Richardson, N. E. Ward, J. M.
Vinson, J. W. Bailey, and Jno. W
Futrcll.
Mrs. C. D. Wocd and children re
turned to their home in Wilson Tues
day afternoon spending sometime here
with Mrs. Wood's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G. H Morgan.
The annual stockholders meeting of
tie Selma Insurance, Loan & Trust
Company will be held in the Com
pany'^ office Thursday night, January
24th. All the ffockholders are urged
to attend.
Miss Viola Morgan and Mrs. C. W.
Wood spent Monday afternoon with
relatives in Clayton.
GENERAL NEWS MATTERS.
Items of Interest at Home and
Abroad Told in Brief for
Busy Readers.
Two persons were killed and six
teen wounded Monday when a traction
car crushed into the rear of an inter
urban car at Louisville, Ky. The trac
tion companies were unable to assign
a cause for the acifient.
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Last year 367 Norwegian vessels,
with an aggregate tonnage of 566,000,
were sunk, an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen reports.
Since the beginning of the war 215
Danish ships, with a total tonnage of
224,000, have been sunk and 234 Danes
have been killed.
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There are 1,26(5,001 women in the
United States engaged in industrial
work directly or indirectly necessary
to carry on the war, according to an
estimate based on surv 'ys made in
fifteen SU tes for the National League
of Woman's Service by Miss Marie
L. Obenauer with the assistance of
the Department of Labor.
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The food administration is consid
ering1 legislation to mako the saving
of wheat compulsory and has ap
proved a bill drawn by Representa
tive Lever, author of the food con
trol bill, to enforce wher.tless days.
Proposals for mixed flours and for a
form of war bread of mixed grains
also are under consideration as pos
sible measures to reduce the use of
wheat flour.
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The United States Shipping Board
expects to place at fewest 100,000
additional skilled workmen in ship
yards within the next three months
to speed up its program. To accom
plish this, and with the ultimate ob
ject in view of putting on three eight
hour shifts wherever practicable,
a reserve army of 250,000 mechanics
is to be organized in co-operation with
the Labor Department and the Statn
Councils of Defense.
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In April, 1917, the regular army
. comprised 5,571 officers and 121,797
enlisted men; the National Guard in
Federal service, approximately 3,733
officers and 7<>,713 enlisted me^i, and
the reserve, 4,000 enlisted men. On
December 31, 1917, the regular army
consisted of 10,250 officers and 475,
000 enlisted men, the National Guard
of 10,031 officers and 400,900 enlisted
men, the National Army of 480,00.
men, and the reserve of 84,575 officers
and 72,750 enlisted men.
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Less than one per cent of the 800,
000 men examined for the United
States ::rmy were found to be tuber
cular, Col. George M. Bushnell, of the
surgeon geheral's department, de
clared Monday in addressing a war
conference at Denver. Measures
were being taken, Colonel Bushnell
said, to keep infected men from enter
ing the army by draft and from re
maining in the army after the disease
has been discovered. He declared that
the United States army was "the
best cared for in the world."
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China already has 125,00 men be
hind the firing lines in Mesopotamia
and France, Dr. Wellington Koo, Chi
nese embassador to this country, said
in an address at New York Thursday
before the chamber of commerce of
the State of New York. When the
Chinesei commissioners now in the
United States return to their own
country their advice to their govern
ment, Dr. Koo said, undoubtedly
result in increased military activity
"China intends doing her ut; ~t in
this struggle against autocracy," he
declared.
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The United States food administra
tion is planning a consistent cam
paign to increase the use of Irish
potatoes. Groc?rs will be urged to
inaugurate a "potato day" each week,
selecting whatever day is slack of de
liveries and making a special price for
potatoes delivered on that dr.y.
Housewives will be asked to buy po
tatoes, a week's supply, on each po- k
! tato day. The administration wishes
to place the Irish potato, every day in
the year, on every table in America.
Co-operating with the department of
agriculture, the food administration
has taken definite measures to stabil
ipe the potato industry, both as a pro
duction and as to distribution. Stan
dard grades and the system of sale by
hundredweight basis have already
been introduced.