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News Without! ' '. 5 Bias Views Without Prejudice The Only Dc Newspaper' Published in Elizabeth ' : City . VOL. 2 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 33, 1917 NO. 47 National Food Problem Claims First Attention President Puts Matter Before Cabinet And Congressional Leaders Con tinue Work Though Fight for Ap propriation Lost in Committee. CHAIRMAN DENMAN MAKES3SUGGfESTION . x Press Into Service for the Coastwise Trade Foreign Vessels Construct ed in American Shipyards Thus Relieving Railroad Congestion,! Germany Offers Sweden'Apology (Br United Press) Stockho'm, Feb. 23 "The sink ing of the Swedish steamer, Edda, nt a mlstafce on the part of the s imarine commander' the Swed 1: ii government was informed to day by the German minister, who expressed Germany's regret at the occurence and promised this gov ernment indemnity. JAPAH FRANKLY WARNS AMERICA (By United Pre?-" Washington. Feb. ,v' rnment from WTm'u to Congress has turned its at.entien i. the Na tional food probh m The President before his cabinu time Congressional ed their fight neeespnrv for lwirosf.ili.il Hill l)V tilt' rVimmissh n. although the appropriation 111 'I- mil, i . leader- for tin' apr use in com! Federal '1 r.uic Hi.- light lor had alre.id been matter Mean los'.llll rule iat ion ;n: CRISIS IS TEST OF NATIONAL GRIT DEATH IS HOT WORST OF HI .UNITED PRESS CORRESPOND ENT TELLS OF WHAT TO HIM SEEMED MOST TEERRIBLE AS PECT OF EUROPEAN WAR. an lost in the committee. In the effort to Jive relief in the acute food Hit nation in the East. Chairman Penman of the Vml eral Shi win "''' "i,l'm"1 with the President . today He suggested the plan o, press coast wide trade, loTeun constructed in American fleet of Ing Into vessels ci .iiinvurrtii to rpolace the merchant ship which deserted the service following tne oui- The necessity of foodstuffs that pre by wateT .from me Pacific to the Atlantic seaaboaru Ii understood t be one of the rea sons for the present freight con gestion, i SAYS PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE IN DISCUSSING SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF BRITISH TON NAGE AND URGENT NEED OF SHIPS st coastwise break of war. hlnDlnK by rail .Tiously went ASKS H! FOR Elms id in BUT GOVERNMENT FEELS THAT GUNNERS MIGHT RASHLY PRECIPITAATE WAR LEAVING RESPONSIBILITY ON UNITED STATES bv New York -garded an a Japan that United Press) Keh 211 - What is re frank warning from something must be done to. .stop iestrtctive meaur(. agalnBt the Japanese in America was voiced at the World's Court meeting today by Dr. lyenaga. It Is supposed that he was ofli-i clal spokesman for his country. He pointed out that the .laps are treated hospitably, even royally, east of the Kockles. but that; those on the Pacific coast are treated harshly and in some instances are deprived of their rights. It is time, he said, for Arnrelca to doi vise some metms to unify the method of treatment by a treaty of oh1icatin. dispensin ; qal jus tice to ail aliens. (By United Press London. Feb. 2 :! The univ. measures aie neressarv. ollerwlse. there will le dfsaster" I'lemr Lloyd (icorge decaied in the House of Coinmniis today in dis cussing tJie shortage o )trlti.-.ll tonnage. "There Is shortage in tonnage not only for ordinary need but for mi'itnry necessities as well" he said. "More than a million tons of shipping has been assigned to France as It's share. We must find ships to bear the iron ore at all costs." Continuing, the Premier proposed to dispense with all non-essential Imports, including timber. Me as serted that pnormou,, sacrifices were required from the British people in order to achieve victory, but that such saerllicec were a test of a nation's grit . "The government hopes lo deal effectively with the sul marine question, but it follow that wo ratinnt. rest nil this llOIIC. There Is no sure means of victory without buntlnc the submarines from the deep. In addition Lloyd George an nounced that the importation of tomatoes and fruits must be prohi bited . ' The' premier proposed that the government empower the Hoard of Agriculture to enforce the cultiva tion of food products, and taht the importation of all luxuries be prohibited. THROUGH ONE OF LEADERS OtCLARES THAT SOMETHING iAVT BE DONE TO UNIFY TREATMENT OF ALIENS IN THIS COUNTRY . (Py United press" Washington. Feb 23 -If the Navy Department will furnish de fensive guns and gun crews, the American! line will .keep Its ships renning on regular schedule through all barred zones of the seas, submarines or no submarines. This, in effect, is what President Franklin of the American lioe told Secretary of the Navy Daniels In their conference. Franklin de clared that he had tried to get ar- hiament from private corporations and failed and that if he should get guns he would be unable to rfet gunners unless the, - navy fur nished them. Nevertheless, there Is every indication that t'lls government has no intention' immediately, at least, of complying with Franklin's request . Tli' govrriimc.it dry that possi bly the gunners would accidentia prceipitat..' nctu.il warfare through haste o, accident, leaving Ibis gov ernment with He responsibility tliioimh frrnishltig the guns or the gunners. The President bas re iterated many times that he is de termined that responsibility for war T.'sm rest on uermany. Program For New Theatre 73 r Japan Will Arm All Merchantmen (By United Preisi Toklo. Feb. 23 The Nippon . Yu sin Kashl, Japan's biggest steam ship line has decided to arm all merchantmen destined for American and Furopean ports. Governor Signs Suffrage Bill By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD (Quoted From Monday's Issue of Every W,;ek) New York, Feb 1 Those of you .who followed the things I wrote for The Advance and the United Press may have been Impressed with the horor of glaughier among the fighting people In Europe. ihu there are worse things in war than slaughter. In the cur rent issue of Every Week I have to'd what those flings are; and a summarized quotation from that ia -ue niav interest, you: "Isr.'t the slaughter t n ible? ' Everybody who returns f: the I'niied States from the war in Ku ro; e is asked this question.. Irit ,:s :i seems. My answer must always be: "Ding or killing are nut the most terrible things that war brings lo a man, woman or child. In Europe you see worse things than dying or' killing. Woie things happen to Furopean folk than be ing killed or crippled." The first dead man I saw In the war. back in those eariy ami old time days In Belgium. struck me as having been uselessly murdered, and the sight left a baleful impress ion on my mind for a time. 1a surprise, however soon be held dch" sights wtthnTifTemotlon. tint there was one sight one man ifest'ition of thn horrors of war that I could not accustom mvself i' view without a mental shudder. This was the right of vast bodies of men niarchin.; or camping. There the were, n.en f family. of husineMs ,,f Ideals, nr religion, all brought down to the same level I'll alike Like banc's nho'c hoops have been remo.ed, these men. individually In thlr lives anil in their cliaracteis have fal'en apart since the binding support of their home environment- has been taken away from round about them The impression that they were like animals. like herded, unthinking beasts, was so strong upon me that at nUht in my gleep Instead of seeing dead and mangled bodies. I saw in by dreams vast) bodies of soldiers passing before me. each man wearing the head of some beast Instead of his own. They were not brutal. leonine men-i animal I saw: only patient- dumb, obedient. Ion,; suffering. kindly ones, such as cattle, deer, horses. (logs . T(i lie turned into such a worse than death, and thinking men in the si Ths programs of the New Thea tre vary In them with each perfor mance, depicting the many aspects of life from every angle. This afternoon's matinee. The Unattain abe", a Bluebird feature, was a dra ma of American society, with the glamor of the footlights and tjhe glitter of the social whirl, but the story culminated in a supreme sac rflTve. "The Unattainable la the Pro gram for tonUht. ' Saturday's matinee wll show Violet Mercerean In "Autumn." Tonight's Showf At Alkrama . ii. "The Shielding Sh ulo,'. " will he .-lio w n tonight, and those who h,ie I ecu waitiiu imi at.enliy tor the next installment of this interesting serial will e rewarded. The hist chapter published in The Advance is repeated today. The pit tares and story will continue without In terrupton each weei, from this time. The Easy of the Cumberlands" and "The Wronj Punch'' are other features of tonight's program . LILLIPUTIAN WEDDING MATINEE The George Washington Lillipu tian wedding glen by the l-.ulief of City Hoad Church thls week will Ibe repeated at. tlie.JJaturday mat,-. lnee at the Alkrama. Admission Is five and ten cents. The regular matinee pictures will also lie shown, and the attraction wll! be a doub'c on". The matinee be- fins at three o clock . BESS CITY BOYS . iMSlEPtP (Uy Unites r'ress) Augusta. .Me . Feb S-V -The gov ernor today signed the resolution siitmiitting the eijusil suffrage amendment to the constitution to the voters In September. Orleans Makes SafeJVoyage that I found r )' bad just man lis among armies ose range I often officers who beings thev become. There ar" pencil les shoil of death for men in th" saw i" I soldiers and I what sort of 0 I VISIT E. cm LETTERS FROM ' EX-PREIDENTS TAFT AND ROOSEVELT RE CEIVED BY MR. PUGH EX PRESD APPRECIATION OF INVITATION COME WITHIN CLOSE, MARGIN OF COPPING GAME FROM 8 fcONED VETERANS OF NEW PORT NEW8. The fastest game of basket ball on the Y. M. C. A. floor tbJ season ' was played Thursday ' night : when the Newport News Highs if defeated the Elizabeth City quint, by the score of 23 to 20. Th closeness -of the score does sot tell the whole story for Elizabeth ' City had the lead at the close of , the first half by margin of foruf points, the score standing' 14 t , 10. The summary reveals the fact, however, that all the way throofV Elizabeth City was clearly OU ' censed by the visitors In goal , throwing from the field, EllxabetH ." , Oi.y's scoie representing by far the larger number of goals from'-' Ibe foul line. That Elizabeth City', was able t() put up so close a fight Hgalnst rhe seusoned aggregation '' from Newport News and to giro the visitors considerable uneaslaesi ' nn to the. outcome of the gam, however, -speaks vol u meg for what " eood co:i hlng and hard practice) Ims'donu for the local quint thl season Indications are that bJT another season E'izalieth City will : have ni't ouly a strong team but :i winnii g team one that will ' able to make it Interesting for til ' comers . '' The line up: , ;-?e N. News JloffmfT'n CJiristianson Sie?ul Smith flutist It ntes Position P y c c - V'ynn E. City - -Wyna riTates II ' Sawyef Lan EvajDt for Evans i McMnllnn for Wynn. Summary: Fle'd goals Jenkln I 1 1 off inn n I: ChrisManson S; Sle ei. ! . libides. M , .1: Sawyer, 1. 'S I-oiil . -o lis -.renklns. 5: Wynn, ST ,' Hltiib"". r; SMwyer. n ; McMuIlan, 1'J Mr, W. 0- Scott Dead MOYOCK CHIEFS THEATRE TRAIN FEP. 27TH Moyock. Keh L'2 Hupt. K W. Isley was in Moyock Tuesday In the interest of the High school. Mr. V C. Saunderp left Mndaf afternoon for Ohio, where he will spent some time. Mrs. Mark Hathaway spent Mon day in Norfolk. Mrs Fiit? Hitter ppent Monthly in Norfolk shopplnp. yva Lccbi l.ane spent' Sunday The Norlolk S.u.t'uni will run a miecial tbea.re t ' ain ' Nnrfnllc on ' Tuesday. Februafv 27th for th" ben (-fit of tho:e wishing to attend Nor folk theatres. Amen? tne attrac tions bl'lei for that day are .'.'""air and Warmer" at the Colonial, Tri mngle plays at' the" No wWells, and Keith's "Vaudeville at the Academy with b'-r parents. Mr. L. l.anc. of Vine. Ya. Tiev. M. W. Hester dav !;i Snowden, N C. ,1 II Mil ! Ill" -r Of Music. The train beth City at B:15 p. at Stations between Norfolk. '' - itid Mrp, F. siirnt jMun-' leaves Eliza m. and stops Edenton and iRy I'nlted I'resf, New Yor. Feb 21'. The freighter Orleans.- one of the first American ships lo defy Ccrmany's subninrinl order, is expected to reach Itordeaux tonight or tpmorrow. Word has 4:een received by her owners here that convinces them that the voy ace has been made safely. Watsfieldls Reported Sunk (ity . London, Fel. 23 steamer, . Watstield, sunk today. United Presal The Britiflh Is reporteth various armies who siihcn of be in.; unthinking men-animals and try to find a way out of their plight, by suicide -who slick their heads above the trenehes or who wound Ihemse'ves with their own rifles. The' moral and menta dlsintegra tlon that is caused hy the sur roundiims of military service In In dividual cases Is shocking. This applies to all armies that I Jiave seen . "That fellow would be better dead.'' said a friend of mine, as nn Kn'ishman whom we had known in peace times walked away from us after a chance meeting In thu Strand "Kvery thing that was good In hlm is dead already." Onlv a vear before, this , man st I r of Fleet Stree' 'h a Kvmpathy and iinder'st indLii; or l,!im: n naMire that made hi.- nor', stand o-it . Itul a? v,! s;.w him ;;f! r a year in the arrn s an uiif i 1 1 in i si: :.ouoil officer, the limn of war was on .his soul iy. i II as on hi1! body. I've emit writing" be slid, with a weak rin that displayed the ab wnce of two front teeth. "Some thing's happened to mo. I can't ever write again. I don't even The Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce keeps its eyeg open, or rather it has a secretary who does. Among other things Secretary I'ugh extended Kx-t'resldent Taftj a cordial Invitation to stop hy the Picture City on his way to or from (ireenshoro where he speaks on March 22nd . Mr Taft has Just replied most courteously and ex pressed regret that Ills schedule had been previously arranged so that such a stopover will be Im possible . A similar invitation extended to I'.x President Hoosevelt lirinns a nearly word of appreciation I rem feildy of the strenuous life. and adds: 'am simp'y overwhelmed with work just now, and it Is a physical Impossibility for me to make an other engagement of any sort." In (I been a II" Lw rote wl' Mr. W. Q. Scott died suddenly at his day night. He was apparently health and worked Thursday and went to bed as usual le was not sick more than" tell minutes when his death occurred. at lit'. 30. Mr. Scott Is survived hy his . wife; by three brothers, Mr. C T. Scott of this city; Mr. 8.-W. Scott of Weeksvllle, Mr. W.' T. - ' Scott of Weeksvllle: by two Sif ters. Mrs. W T Ila'.stead and Mr leiiul" Ferrer, both of Weeksvllle.., The funeral was conducted Frl ' dav bv Kev, I) 1' Harris aft Salem ehiiri h . Interment followed at the church burying ground. CANDIADTE FOR ALDERMAN 1 hereby, announce my candidacy for alderman from the Fourth Ward, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. Your vote and vour Influence wl 1 he nppm- eiaied . H. 0. P.MIKS. trv to do it. Anyhow, what s ih use''. it's all war." The man that be hud been verr ago would have kil'ed him -idf with Ins own irini rinlier tlyui ''(nine the man we saw aid t;,l' m with 'I rand . "No mere ho no more worn t tin menta 1- ." cerg make this Unit aft "i noon lb ' ' 1 of NUt onion',? home Thuf In his usual t on farm On' WILLIAM H. GARRETT DEAD William H. Garrett died at his, home below Weeksvllle Thursday : nUht about midnight at tilfe age of eighty He had been sick for a l0BJ time and had been confined to Ml room for the past three months. He is survived by three gons, Wll Ham, James, Henry, Tom and younger son; and by two daughter Cattle (larrett and Mrs. I.ela Dow DEATH AT BELVIDERE Mr Henry White of Pelviuero died Tuesday following a stroke ol pualvsis a few days earlier, it WM leireeii here today. Interment wa.: made on Wednesday, hundreds I" at Ktidl'ig the sfervice. a or music I'm s(nii) I have h ('(iiilesbin 1, in five dlfferetyy langMiiees In different srinies. "I'm and I can't help It." Not all the "bad things happen to human bodies. ,i i WEATHER OR NO rot o!ri in,' five I roMlng, of war t : i i , l.'iiH.t iter Stiturday A smart man i nd warmer. Much and probably rain. , is one who can change his mind, his collar Or a thousand dollar bill when necess-
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