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.ft tlXO a Yr In Advance "FOR QOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." Slngl Ooplc Cent. "' " ' - """""" ' 1 -' ' " T" ' ' 1 , , - i 1 VOL. XXVII. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1917. NO. 43. . 1 1! V 7 AT BRITIAN TO GET FIRST MONEY UNITED STATES WILL MAKE FIRST BIG WAR LOAN TO THAT COUNTRY. DETAILS TO BE GIVEN OUT Amount of Loan and Other Matters Concerning Loan Will Be Made Pub lic in a Few Days by Secretary McAdoo. Washington. The first American loan to the Allied Nations will go to Great Britain. The amount and other details prob ably will be made public by Secretary McAdoo within a few days. Whatever the sum, the amount will be available out of the proceeds of the $5,000,000,000 bond Issue soon to be offered to the public, of which $3,000,000,000 will be loaned to the Allies. Announcement to this effect was made at the treasury department after a day crowded with conferences be tween Secretary McAdoo and Federal Reserve Board officials and American bankers and bondholders and official representatives of Great Britain and France. Another development was the announcement that the size of the first issue of bonds authorized under the $7,000,000,000 war finance measure will depend largely upon the immedi ate needs of the Allies. Reports as to this have yet to be received in detail. The entire $5,000,000,000 of author ized bonds will not be offered in one lump sum, according to present ten tative plans, but probably will be call ed for In .several installments or issues. By this course, it is believed that financial disturbances which might re sult were the country called upon to absorb the whole issue at once, will be averted. Details as to the amount of the first issue, its distribution among the Alljes, the character and terms of the bonds, methods of disposing of them, and other questions will engage the atten tion of the treasury department and Federal Reserve Board officials during the next ten days. The first of these conferences began with the visit of Lord Cunliffe, Gov ernor of the Bank of England, upon Secretary McAdoo and Governor Harding of the Reserve Board. Nego tiations will be conducted with a view to disposing as rapidly as possible of details so that the bond issue may be offered without delay. SENATE BEGINS WRESTLING WITH FOOD PROBLEMS. Hearings By Agricultural Committee. Houston Outlines Plans. Washington. Congress took up the food problem in public hearings by the Senate Agricultural Committee, at which Secretary Houston set forth the Administration's food control program. At the same time, the Federal Trade Commission, directed by President Wilson to investigate with the Agri cultural Department the causes of high food prices, asked all state governors to send representatives to Washing ton April 30, for a conference on state co-operation in the inquiry. Before appearing at the commission hearing, Secretary Houston put his plans be fore tbe heads of five of the leading farmers organizations and received assurances of support for any meas ures the Government contemplates for getting a firmer grasp on food pro duction and distribution. The farm ers' representatives promised even to give their endorsement to legislation giving the' Government power to fix maximum and minimum prices in emergency. As its part in the Govern ment's plan, the Department of Labor announced that it had undertaken the mobilization of a million boys through out the country as active farm work ers for the Summer. An organization will be formed to be known as the United States Boys' Working Reserve. Its operations 'will be directed from Washington. GERMANY TO TORPEDO ALL HOSPITAL SHIPS. Paris. "Contrary to all the rules of international law and humanity," says an official note issued by the govern ment iMonday, April 23, "the Germans' havea1 :junced that they have decided that' ships". "Un. govern yiisont vessels. I will torpedo all hospital iout warning. these conditions, the French .t gives notice that German will be embarked on the STARS MID STRIPES HONORED IN PARIS AMERICAN FLAG IS FLUNG HIGH TO BREEZES IN FRENCH CAPITAL. WAS "UNITED STATES DAY" Great Day in Paris. Twenty-one Guns Are Fired and Procession Marches to Statue of Washington at Foot of Which Bronze Palm is Laid. Paris. The Stars and Stripes were flung to the breeze from Eiffel Tower and saluted by 21 guns. This marked the opening of the, ceremonies of "United States Day" in Paris. The French Tri-Color and the Star Spang led Banner were at the same hour un furled together from the residence of William G. Sharp, the American Am bassador in the Avenue D'Eylau, from the American Embassy, from the City Hall and from other municipal Gov ernment buildings. It was a great day for the Red white and Blue. Over all the Capital, street venders did a thriving trade In the colors of both Allies, while 40,000 American flags, handed out gratis by the committee, were waved by the people who thronged the vicinity of the manifestations. Jules Cambon, General Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Gen eral du Bail, Military Governor of Paris; the members of the commit tee and others were received at 1:30 o'clock by Ambassador Sharp at his residence whence they preceded to the Place'd'Iena, where a bronze plam was deposited at the foot of the top of Eiffel Tower. Members of the American LaFay ette flying corps, a delegation from the American Ambulance at Nuilly, and the American field amblances, with a large representation from the Association of Veterans of the Marne, were the guard of honor before the LaFayette statue at the Tuilleries Gardens, where the official proces sion halted to deposit a bronze plam. WASHINGTON WELCOMES ARTHUR BALFOUR AND PARTY Greeted at Station by Lansing and Other Officials Soldiers Guard. Washington. The American capital extended a simple, but heartfelt wel come to the British minister for for eign affairs, Arthur Balfour and the other members of the British com mission which has come to Washing it, "to make co-operation easy and ef fective between those who are striving with all their power to bring about a lasting peace by the only means that can secure it, namely a successful war." There was no music to greet the visitors, the original plan, including the presence of the Marine Band, hav ing been amended to conform to the view expressed by President Wilson and Secretary Lansing that this was a grave and serious event in American history, and not to be lightly treated, or regarded as a social affair. On the Union Station plaza were gathered some 5,000 people waiting patiently for a glimpse at the nation's guests, restrained at a proper distance by hundreds of blue-coated policemen ond by two troops of the Second cav alry, commanded by Colonel Fenton, part of the garrison at nearby Fort Myer. Within the station lines had been drawn separateing the traveling pub lic from the space at the eastern end of the concourse across which the visiting party was to pass on the way from the train shed to the presi dent's room. .All of the police captains of the district had been ranged here in a double line as a guard of honor to keep back intruders. Two score news paper men, standing to the east of the concourse, were the only unofficial per sons permitted in this section of the station. Detectiive-s swarmed every where through the crowds and at va rious angles where any danger might lurk. Altogether, the precautions tak en to insure the safety of the nation's visitors exceeded anything ever known in the history of the District. BIG BRITISH GUNS HAMMER GERMAN LINES. Apparently a big battle is brewing along the front between Arra3 and Lens, where the British guns are again hammering the German lines. Except for this artillery activity and some gains south of Loos and between Ar ias and St. Quentin, in the region of the Havrincourt woods. Likewise on that part of the front held by the French, artillery duels j predominated, being intense between 1 the Somme and the Cise. i UNITED STATES yWSff if?' . X teiilst ' l ,f of V BUSINESS MUST KEEP UP HOWARD S. COFFIN WARNS THE NATION A GREAT DANGER OF ILL-ADVISED ECONOMY. Wheels Must Be Kept Turning. Prosperity is Needed More In War time Than In Peace Say National Defense Council. Washington. Warning-to the nation against a real danger in hysterical and ill-advised economy and interference with normal pursuits of the people, is given by Howard E. Coffin, of the Ad visory Commission of the Council of National Defense, in a statement just made public. Just returned from a trip through several Middle Western States, Mr. Coffin deplores the fact that condi tions of unemployment and close fac tories should arise as a result of in discriminative efforts, public and private, toward war time economies. "After nearly three years of re fusal to take the European war and its lessons seriously," Mr. Coffin said, "we suddenly launched forth jn a most feverish acticlty to save the country overnight. Patriotic organi zations almost without number are milling around noisily, and while in tentions are good, the results are oft en far from practical. . "Because of an impending and pos sible shortage of foodstuffs, we have hysterical demands for economy in every line of human endeavor. Waste is bad, but an undiscriminating econ omy is worse. "Some states and municipalities are stopping road building and other public work General business is be ing slowed down because of the emo tional response of the trading public to these misguided . campaigns for economy; savings are being with drawn from the banks; reports show that some people have begun to hoard food supplies and thousands of workers are being thrown needlessly out of employment. All this Is wrong. "We need prosperity in wartime even more than when we are at peace. We need more business, not less. .There is real danger In hysteria. In discriminate economy will be ruin ous. Now is the time to . open the throttle. "It seems to me, therefore, that a plain statement of general policy is most desirable. "Upon the industrial side of the war three great problems, or per haps I should better say tasks, con front us. "First and foremost, we must fa-; cilitate the flow of raw materials and ; finished products to our Allies and must provide the means of rail and water transportation theretor. "Second, we must meet our own great military and naval building schedules. "Third, we must plan to do all this with the least possible disarrange ment to our vast commercial and industrial machines. "Through it all we must keep a close eye upon the possible condi tions of peace following the present war. We must insure the business process and general prosperity of the cour.-.-y during the war, if we are to hold our present strong place among j nations In the commercial compe tition of the future." BATTLESHIP UTAH TRAINING GAMPS DESIGNATED RESERVE OFFICERS AND APPLI CANTS FOR COMMISSIONS ARE TO ATTEND. Will Be Established May 1. Caro linians Will Go to Fort Oglethorpe. Will Give Intensive Military Train ing. Washington. Establishment of 14 citizen training camps where reserve officers and applicants for commis sions in the new war army will re ceive intensive military instruction was authorized by Secretary Baker. The camps will be opened May 1 and the courses of instruction under officers and non-commissioned officers of the regulars begin May 8. In selecting locations, the war de partment was guided largely by the lines of the proposed divisional train ing areas. The places selected are For the New England States, Fort Ethan Allen or such other points in New England as may be designated by the commanding general of the Eastern Department. For Long Island, New York City and territory immediately north of New York City, Plattsburg Ballacks. For the remainder of New York state and eight congressional districts of Pennsylvania, Madison Barracks, New York. For the remainder of Pennsylvania including Philadelphia and Pittsburg, Fort Niagara, N. Y. For New Jersey, Delaware, Mary land and Virginia, Fort Myer, Va., or such other places as the commanding general of the Eastern department may designate. For North Carolina, South Caro lina and Tennessee, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. For Georgia, Alabama and Florida, Fort McPherson, Ga. For Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. For Michigan, Illionis and Wiscon sin, Fort Sheridan, Illinois. For Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana, Fort Logan H. Roots, Ar kansas. For Minnesota, Iowa, North Da kota, South Dakota and Nebraska, Fort Snelling, Minn. For Missouri, Kansas and Colorado, Fort Riley, Kansas. For Oklahoma and Texas Leon, Springs, Texas. For Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico, the Presidio at San Francisco. COAL MEN BLAME HIGH PRICE ON CAR SHORTAGE. Tell Trade Commission That Rail roads Are Responsible. Washington. Lack of transporta tion facilities was blamed for the ad vanced price of bituminous coal, by leading operators of the East testifying before the Federal Trade Commission, which Is investigating high coal prices. Several complained against the alleged practices of the railroads of delivering cen cars from the coal carrying trade to the transportation of commodities, for which, they claim, high rates were obtained. IS PUT UP TO SENATE GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF PRO DUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION IS PROPOSED. ASKS FOR AN APPROPRIATION Secretary Houston in Communication. With Senate Asks For $25,000,000 to Put Plan Into Operation. Wants to Fix Prices. Washington. The Government's program for food control during the war was put before Congress by Sec retary Houston in a communication to the Senate asking power for the Department of Agriculture to take direct supervision of food production and distribution in the United States and requesting a $25,000,000 appropri ation for putting the plan into opera tion. Authority was asked for the Council of National Defense, in an emergency, to buy and sell foodstuffs and to fix minimum or maximum prices. As outlined to the Senate, the Gov ernment's plan is first to make a com plete survey of the country's food supply to determine its ownership and distribution, then if necessary to license and control the operations of all concerns engaged in the manufac ture of foods or feeds, agricultural implements and all materials required for agricultural purposes. Authority is sought for the Agricultural Depart ment to take over and operate the concerns if it appears at any time that course Is demanded by the public in terest. .Giving the Government power to deal directly in foodstuffs probably would make its application unneces sary, Secretary Houston declared, as its very existence would tend to keep conditions normal. Market grades and classes for farm products, Secretary Houston said, is one of the chief needs of the country to insure proper condi tions in producing and marketing farm products. Authority also was asked for the Department to require of transporta tion companies preference for the movement of farm machinery, seeds, fertilizers and materials that enter into the processes of food production. The Department wishes to allow its market service division to assist in obtaining rerouting of foodstuffs to relieve congestion on transportation lines. In its plan for an investigation the present food supply, the Agricuy tural Department has arranged rc the help of the Federal Trade CojjjJ tYiicoInn wii-V wrifti t-ha flano r f m or was directed by President WI1 early in the year to make an inqi to ascertain the amount of food s and determine if the anti-trust have been violated m rood proc tion. storage and distribution. As as Congress makes the necessary propriation for this specific inn the Trade C6mmission will proc Some officials helieve the Commission has enough power! make unnecessary the use of extrj legislation in regulating the cof of food, although additional af should be given for an emergen Officials of all Department divisions of the Government that the facts of the situation ing must be learned before re can be planned. STEADY PROGRESS BEING I - MADE BY THE FRf Driving Back Germans in Soissoj ermans in Soissof Rheims. f ess is being ri in driving baj e regions of t Steady progress French troops Germans in the and Rheims. In a new oft'en French also have entered thr" second line in the Argonne f5 man counter attacks on thf plateau, south of Laon, hay julsed. ' 4 since me oeginning oi u . , . ! offensive last Monday, moil 000 Germans have been tas ers. Guus captured exceef including machine guns. OFFICIAL ROUTE OF BANKHEA D Birmingham, Ala. The officf of the Bankhead Highway 'fro j ington, D. C. to Little Rock, A be seelcted by a pathfindin tee, which will make the t trip iiv the next 30 days, t-he Bankhead Highway Association In convention here de cided. Points to be reached by the Bankhead Highway include Lynch burg, Va.. Reidsville. Greensboro and Charlotte. N. C; Atlanta, Ga., and Holly Spri--" rr"" 0 no WILL ENROLL ARMY OF CLUBJEWBERS BOYS AND GIRLS OF STATE TO HAVE OPPORTUNITY TO AID IN FOOD CONSERVATION. 20,000 MEMBERS WANTED More Than Five Hundred Have Al ready Begun Activities Others Are Urged to Enlist Raleigh. A tremendous effort will be made by the Agricultural Club agen cies to enroll a great many more mem bers in the various clubs in the state during the next two months, the pur pose being the stimulation of the pro duction of food and feed crops. An enrollment of two hundred boys and girls in each county in the state would mean an army of 20,000 industrially inclined, productvie young men and young women. Already 5,071 club members have begun their activities. The following is a list of the lead ing counties, based on the total enroll ment for all clubs: Guilford, 249; Buncombe, 242; Wilkes 226; Iredell, 201; Wake, 188; Madison. 186; Stanley, 176; Cleveland, 167; Johnston, 131; Rutherford, 130. "With the entrance of this country into the European theater of war," states Mr. S .G- Rubinow, of the agri cultural club work, "will come not only the call for a display of military spirt and patriotism, but the assur ance, on the part of the citizenship of the United States, of maximum in dustrial and productive development. As a tangible part of such prepared ness measures, the members of the various Boys' and Girls' Agricultural and Live-stock Clubs, in a nation-wide movement, will do a great deal toward contributing feed and food-stuffs for the maintenance of both the military and civilian population. "In North Carolina this year an army of 5,071 boys and girls have al ready begun work on their productive projects. This effort will resolve it self into 2,234 acres of corn, 82 acres of cotton, 1,215 pigs, from which may be expected a very large progeny; 72 acres J'is'S1aJ pouJtrt 9 ward! -r be oo 4 sTs- J first .-6 man re s fecruit from era, this city is Mls. fer Miller, who writes that she sfad at Philadel phia. She has ben commissioned to work in the Navy yards there, and holds the commission of "Chief Yoq. man." Miss Miller ig a stenographer of much experience, and her work will consist of stenographic work. J