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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1917
NO. 99
Must Feed Ourselves a
Or Else Go Hungry
Other Sections of Nation Warn
fi. South Not to Look Elsewhere
2 For Foodstuffs This Year.
PamlicQ'OffFor
By (JOHN PAUL LUCAS)
"Grow your cwn food and feed
-crops or go hungry." In less abrupt
phrasing but ln lanugage Just as eas
ily understood, this Is what the rest
of the country Is saying to the South
this year.
The South has been depending up
tha North and Central West for
-food and feed and feedstuffs to the
value of approximately $700,000,000
a yef7t. present prices the fig
ures would no doubt pass the billion
dollar mark. North Carolina's part
. of this tremendous- aggregate of im
ports bas been in round numbers
$80,000,000. For the fiscal year be
ginning July 1, 1916 and ending June
v,31, 1917, because of a combination
'Aft high prices and poor crops in
--!i)flie sections, our Importations will
no doubt reach j the staggering figure
of $100,000,000.
This State in common with all of
the South has received solemn warn
ing from pfflcials of the National
Government, including the Secretary
and Assistant Secretary of the De-
martnKtnf Ml Acrrlpliltnrn that, thw
' tood and feedstuffs we have been
Importing will not be available this
year' beacuse they will be required
for our armies nrtd the armies of our
allies. The Governors, agricultural
leaders and far-sighted farmers and
buiinesa men of the South, have
Bounded the warning also. So grave
ia the situation that President Wil
son himself has made a spechl ap
peal t0 the farmers of" the South.
The State of North Carolina has
teen early to take stepg to meet thn
situation. Even before war wss de--clared
Governor Blckett took time
hv tha tnrainok anit laanafl a nrn.
clamatlon urging upon the people of
our cities and towns as well as
those on farms the importance of
planting ample home vegetable gar
dens. Following the entry of this
Nation Into the war Governor Blck
ett appointed a State Food Conser
vation Commission whlih promptly
met and has planned and TS putting
into execution under the direction of
"Its executive Secretary a vigoroui
campaign for greater feed and feed
production. A sub commission is be-
ing apyoinrcu iu cttcu t;uuiiij in mo
State, to have representation from
. every school district. The newspap--era,
of the State, thn commercial or
ganizations, ministers, mayors of
s -uVwns and cities, bankers and other
sons and agencies will be called
Upon to assist In this campaign. In
addition tn thn fitatn Do-ortmonf ,,p
Agriculture, the Farm Extensios
Service, the boys' and 2irls' corn flu
and tomato clubs and other orRanl-
aations. In short every possible
agency Is being mobilized to meet
the situation.
;There are several means of in
creasing production. Where farmers
can see their wsy cleir. they are
urged t8 reduce sllebtly their scre-
, Bge of cdtton and tobacco, especially
the latter, giving more acres to corn,
soy beans, peas,' potatoes, hay and
other food and feed c-ons. Even
' where they do not reduce their
acres en nf pnttnn i.k.. i
; -v liVT
arenrged to trv to tpke care of a,
slight additional Rcreare, If they
y. can ao so witnout neglecting, their
accustomed crops. Increased amounts
oi ierunzers may ce nsefl to fdvant-
age where wisely apnlled. ' County
comrnlpsloners are ur?ed tj use con
...ylft and their work on, ten
' jfcvF ,arniB 'or M cultivation of
ori and hay especially, even to tha
. .. f
' to rary neglect of road work.The
pui.yia ui our cuioa ana towns are
urged to titillM T8ant lota and
1""'' Hose hy for tbe growing of
BESS CITY BOY
KILLED III GUARD
William Henry Hill Meets
Death At Wilmington
Delaware While Serving
In National Ouara.
Mr. G. W. Steger of tfeis city re
ceived by Ions distance telephone
tis morning newr of the death of
his nephew, William Henry Hill of
the National Grand, who was killed
nhilo on guard duty at a railroad
brldBi at Wilmington, Deleware. Mr.
Steger ha on,y meager details of
how the young man met his death
but understood thae he was ruijovep
by a train.
William Henry Hill was about
twenty seven yeara old and the son
of the late H. O. Hill of this city.
He grew to manhood here ani a'Bouf
eight or ten year8 ago left here and
married ln Baltimore where a wife
survives him. He is also survived by
four sisters. Mrs. Leah Moffett of
Berkley, Mrs. Kate. Whitehurnt of
Norfolk, Mrs. Ida Robinson and Mrs
Sadie Davis of Portsmouth; also by
two brothers, Horace Hill of New
Rem and Joseuh Hill, a farmer in
the western part of New York.
Hill had been at El Paso with his
regiment and had but recently got
back from his term of service on
the border.
Dare County
The . Cutter Pamlico, leaves here
Tuesday for Manteo to enroll t men
ln the Naval Coast Defense Reserve.
"This Is a branch cf-the' aertlce,"
saya Lieutenant Scott, aide to Com
mandant of the Fifth Naval District,
"which, being comparatively new, Is
very little understood; but It is one
that offers peculiar opportunities
and advantages to the men of this
section who want to "do their bit"
and yet donot want to -enlist in the
regular service.
A man enrolls In this Reserve
for four, years and under peace con
ditions Is required to. serve only
three nlonths during this enrollment
about three weeks each year. While
actively serving he gets the same
pav as a man of corresponding rat
In? in the Navy. After his enroll
ment la confltiued'he gets tjvo months
pay each year as a retainer, this
being ln adltion to what he. gets
while employed on active service.On
reporting for active duty he gets a
uniform ,gratuity of $30., in time of
peace, and of $60.. in tim nf war
While employed in active aervtra
men are furnished with subsistence
eo that the pay which may to an out
sider appear small, is actually all
clear money. And with th ntiin
pay it will be seen that a man kept
on active duty for a year gets four
teen months' pay ln a year.
"The men enrolled ln thlsreserve
ere not required to serve outside the
district in which enrolled: in this
district from Assateague, Vlrglnia.to
New River,, North Carolina so tint
their work will be guarding their
own homes and people. And because
they wi!l he already serving thev
wjjjtt.pt -be subject- to , raf t under
the universal service law.
Gas Company
Gives Benefit
The ladles ot Elizabeth city are
to be given an unusual opportunity
this week to hear Borne interesting
lectures on fancy cookin"?.
These lectures are t3 be given
through the generosity of the Gas
Company, and are under the auspices
of the Parsonage Society of City
Road Methodist Church. There will
oe tnree lectures to be piyen on
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from
4 o'clock until 5:30 ln the after
noon.
The lecturer is M's. Florence
Wright, of New York Citv. Mrs
Wright is a gfaduate of Simmons
(College and the Bopton Cookln;
Schools and Ins had ten years' ex
on domestic science. The lectures
on domestic science. The letures
wllf b planned with especial stten
tlon to unusual recipes for salads
and desserts, also some new and in
expensive meat dishes.
Lawyer Shot
At Richmond
Richmond, April 2 John A.Lamb
a prominent attorney of this city
I was found by his family on his bed
room floor with a dangerous revol
ver wound in his head this after
noon. The family expressed the be
lief that the shooting was arclden
tal.
British Get
Many U-boats
. Washington. April 24. One mem
ber of the British .War Commissi
declared that up to April- 10th, the
f y ' ' 5 j ' ; " 1 f r
"There must be no Idea that they
will not have to server men enrolled
now, will go Into active service at
once. The. country needs them now,
though neither . Virginia nor North
Carolina seems to have waked up to
the fact that we, are at war. The
apathy of our young men, is as
tounding; each one hangs back
waiting for some one else to do it.
Can it be that the state that a little
over fifty vears ago sent a greater
number of her sons than any other
Confederate state to defend her lib
erties has meanwhile bred a race
of cowards? This were incredible';
still their country needg - them and
calls for them and yet tney ao noi
cpme. It may be that reading for
two years of tike horrors of a dis
tant war has dhlled their sensibili
ties; surely It has not made them
afraid to defend the right. Perhaps
they can not see that the cloud that
has nun,? so long over devastated
Europe has spred its threatening
shadow to our happy land and al
ready begins to obscure our sun.
They do not know that ,our ships
muft now slip secretly from prt
to port with darkened lights, and
that a constant patrol with shottel
guns has to be kept to make this
passage possible.
"Pick up a Norfolk paper and
glance at the Honor Poll for a day,
for a week, for the month. and then
O son of Virginia and son of the
Old North State, go hide your head
in shame. Yet these are our heroes;
and It seems to me that we must
pive them double honor or they not
only rtand forth to do their duty but
they have stepped to the front when
all the rest stepped back.
"I hope The Advance will give
this as much publicity as It can. and
ven we get down there, I hope w
msy Jhave a real Honor Roll tor
Manteo."
0
To The Citizens Of
Elizabeth City: .
As y.i'j kniv, ourlPresident his (filled upon the va
rious Governois of the State throughout this Union
and the Governors in turn hav requested the execu
tive heads of the vanous towns and cities in their res
pective states to do all things possible to relieve the
food situati6n and reduce the high cost of living large
ly the result of the conflict in which we are engaged
as a people, I am calling upon each and every one of
you owning or controllingany vacant lot or lots in E
lizabeth City suitable for cultivation, to immediately
plant and raise everything possible for the relief of the
people, and should any of you not be in a position to
use these lots yourself, then I( earnestly request that
you tile the same with me, giving description there
with,1 that I may turn these lots over to a committee
of good women whohave this matter upon their hearts
and who will furnish the seed and see that jt is Culti
vated. I know of no more patriotic duty that we can
perform at this time than that oi aiding our people
who suffer because of high prices.
In earnestness and sincerity I call on you and ask
that you render tjiis service to humanity, and I fee1
confident that it needs only to be called to your at
tention to be granted.
- V
t; Any service that I can render as ihe official head of
h this city will be a pleasure, and I ask: that you call upon
"me at anytime. ' s ."'
. .. ' Respeatfully,
V. ' ; V C it If, rV'. KG. SAWYER. - Ti
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third .-non
SECONO TERM APPROACHES END'
WITH GOOD RECORDS FROM
MANY ELIZABETH CITY PUPIL8
The honorrtnf"tor Elizabeth City
schools for the third month ot the
second term, ending April 13th, is
as follows:
HIGH SCHOOL
Thelma Sykes, Margaret LeRoy,
Frances Williams, Ja,nle Mercer.ElU
abeth Kramer, Ina Mae LeRoy.Marie.
iLowry, Maude Leigh, Helen Wil
Hams, Clarenoe Ashby, Graham
Evans, Francis Seyfert, Gardner
Bennett, William Jennings.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
Fourth Grades
MIs Holt, teachers-Margaret Gor
don, Rebecca Mfler, Howard Berry,
Oscar Williams, Oscar Oaskins.
Miss Cobb, teacher Mary Harney
Prltchard, Hilda Nooney, Annie Mae
Winslow, Elisabeth Harris. Mary
Dozier, Ada Belangia, James Hill,
William Scott, .Joseph Feregee, ' Oli
ver Evans.
Miss Weather!y .teacher Mbt.?
ret Hoilowell. Mary Lo, Jackson,
Margaret Nash, Nannie Mae Stokes
Wilmer Ballard, Willie Dosier. Tom
" Gray, Edward Old, Marlon Sey
fert. Fifth Grade.
Miss Faiaon, teacher-Mittle Fear
Ing. Lillie Mae Harris, Evelyn Hoop
er, Ida Jones, Elsie Pugh. Paul Mil
ler, Bradford Sanders, Elliott Ward
Marvin Williams.
Mrs. Pearson, teacher- Margaret
Commander, 4 Mary Trueblood Ul
Hatt Harris Cora ' fianderlfn, Albert
Bright, Stuart Wood.
Miss LeRoy, teacher Margaret
Bondurant, Wllljam Dailey, Joseph
Porter. Randall Hollomnn, Joseph
Sponce, Carlton Woodley, Ju!lan
Ward, Wilborne Harrell, Ernest Cor
bett. Sixth Grades
Miss Lasslter, teacher Mllllcent
Hayman, Anna Belle Abbott. Luther
Davis, Alonfco' Rolllnson, Arthur Pad
gett. Mrs.' Roberta, teacher, Eliza Spen
cer, James Hathaway, Larry Skin
ner, Joseph Wlnslow.
Mrs. Poo!, teacher Ernestine Bal
lance, Leona Lewis, Susie Rhodes,
Ruth Willlami, Weymouth Davis,
Dennis Gaskins, Hoilowell Goodwin,
Claibonw Qnlnn,
Seventy Gralies
Miss Elliott, teacher Margaret
Spragins, Eunice Goodwin, Goldie
8tokes. Lottie Drlnkwater, Elizabeth
Etheridge. Margaret Chesson, Doro
thy Zoeller. Emily Jennings, A!ma
Hayman. Laura Plrtchard, Gertrude
Stokeley. Ooldie Baker, Margaret
Mann. Billy Houtz, Olaude Ward,
George Owen, Ju!e Modlln. Grafton
Love, Sidney Evans, Charlie Sand
ers. Mian Harney, teacher Sophfa
Davis, Elizabeth Hathaway. Odell
Long, Nellie Meads, Annie White.".
Frank Dawson, Robert Kramer. Sel
den Lamr, Robert Lowry. Wergman
Mundcn. Charles Reyfert.
First Grades
MIrs Griffin, teacher Joseph Bak
er, Adrian Davis. Linda 'Humphlett.
r.ssie Miller, Zean Bunch. Charlie
Sawyer.
Miss Stevens, teacher Vlrgilla
Banks, Carrie Card. Flora Grlis,
Mary Johnson, Evelyn Puckctt, Re
becca Stevens. Helen Stokes. Elva
Mae Swain, William Anderson, Geo.
Bembury, James Ferebee. HalMe
Payne. William Pnckett, Selby
Stokes. Charlie Spear, Milton Self,
Julian Raper.
Miss Zoeller, teacher Naomi Bag
ley, Edna Sinderlln, E'izabeth Ste
ger, Susie Wilier, Earl Dean. Edison
rarkenton, Bertram White. Nathan
White.
Mrs. Fearing,' teacher In mih
Louise Harris. Cornelia JnHn. nn-'
Miner, Frances McClennnv. a
- ti u
wnue, Kurua Bradley, John Chad-
wick, wuilara Mettrey, Keith Saund-
erg.,:., .. - . , ,r .'.
Mrs. Brooks, teacher Sudie Bak
0t, Violet .."Baker. ItfarV TIiiiIIbv f m
cilfl Trueblood, Walter Albertsln.EJ.
ward Oakin, Bennle Gendason.FcI
t a V,T"i, ' '
L'JQRST OF 1'JM
raima
Past Week Has Meant Mora
Of Disaster to J Teuton
Arms Than Any Wec!i
Since Opening of Hostili
ties. . " 1
'With trench Armies Afield, April , .
what for her la the moat dlaaatrou ,
weel of the war. '
Today , marka the anniversary of
the great spring drive and the French
army staff permit! me to aay Ahat .-,
tho coming seven dayj are likely ;
to unfold the nature of . ,new ; ot
tensive more clearly to the people ,
of France. ... , ....
The British offensive fighting now ,
In progress Is regarded aa. of trH
mendously vital Importance', , ; ,
The French accomplished, wonderi
during the past week, taking twenv
ty thousand prisoners, ccupylnf
twenty large villages, not lnoludlnz
hamlets, wresting fifty squire mllei f:
of French soli from the invader, and
infllctine losses on the Germans con
servatively estimated at 100.Q0O kill;
ed, wounded and missing. ' A
HAIQ'S SMASH DRIVES OH , ' 'i
Tnndnn. Anrll 51 flvnr a mtAm '
front on both side of the ( rife?
Scarpa. Halg today resumed the Bri" ,
tish drive wtln a tremendously force- '
ful attack. His report describee the
progres. made as satisfactory,, tnd ,
says, "South of rflpaume on fr the .
Cambrli road we captured the, . re ,
malnder tit the village of . Tresoauit,
and gained a greater part of Havln-..
court weed." Indications are , that
the Franco-British plans , contemplate .'
alternate smashes on the German-;
line forcing Hindenburg to eep busy y
concentrating his forces at , , the t
point of attack while the resting
army consolidate, its new position.
The renewed British attack ,'WM,
begun this morning atfer weiM
Interval. x ,
It is Indicated that the British ad-'-1
vance carried them well toward the
Vimy positions on the North and i
beyond the Arras Cambria road to ''
the South .This tends' still further "
to envelop Lens and threaten Douat
an important distributing point; .OR ;
the German line,
Cartwrlght, Katharine Duff, Mary
Gladden Gregory, Helen Leljh, Ent''
ma Owens, Evelyn gnoref, Marthe fS
Scott, Roy Berry,, Curtia Forbes.', V"! r
Miss Bell, teacher Mary Owens,-.
Lilian Twtfnrd. Helen Kramnr. ''
Clura Carter, Hazel Perry, Margaret' .
Wells, Katie White, Bertha vSimp-
son, Alien Bell. Archie Turner, .
Clarence Prltchard, Clarence Sand- '?
ers.
Mrs. Etheridge, teacher Marga- '
ret Connery, Ida Lasslter, Virginia
OwAna Tlltln Qrftln. II ... -.1 t.L..
son, Iva Mae Sprulll.
Third GraWea
Miss Marshall, teacher Katie Car
ter, Olivia Benton. Margaret Ball- '
Ruth Gaskins, Edna Miller, Cecil ,'
'""i murniiu.1 DitrKiey, waiter
Betts, Wllli-.m DHnkwater, Fank .
Jenkins, Jesse Perry.
Miss Ferebee, teacher Sarah
IT.1 . - . .!-
noien i.ewis, Annie Midgett, Mary.
Tarkenton, Laurence Aydlett, Wll-v
bur Madrln, Charlie Price.
Miss Skinner, teacher Lyda Craw
ford, Camilla Hopkins, Luclle Jen
nett, Mary. Louise James, I pulse
Outlaw, -Bonnie Parks, Margaret W. .
Sawyer, Margaret E. Sawyer, Annie ,
Seeley Marjorle SMnner, Myry
Frances Thompson, Lillian Wllklns, -
Grace Pendleton. Carroll Abbott,
Vernor Chappell, Kennedy Houtz, ,
Eugene Palmer. Joseph Pool, Wil
liam Perry. t j 1
Hoiisft Arts on
Big Bond Issue
Washlngt6n, April 24.- The Con
ference report on the seven billion "
dollar bod Issue waa adopted by, the ,
House today.