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On 9 IS FIRE PREVENTION DAY COMMISSIONER YOUNG IS URGING EVERY CITIZEN TO EXAMINE HIS PREMISES. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. Only about six weeks now Intervene before the day appointed by law in North Carolina as Fire Prevention Day. James R. Young, Commissioner of Insurance, is urging that necessity of a strict and careful observance of this day in this year is manifest. Con servation is on the lips of every patriotic citizen in the state. Ameri ca has her hands full this year, with an enemy outside her borders. It is up to the citizens at home to see that no great damage to life and property can come to us from our own neglect. It is the intention of the law in this Bpecial Fire Prevention Day, which is October 9th, to set apart a day when every citizen will look into the condi tion of his premises and remove the things that make for danger. The 4ay is set apart at this season of the year when the time draws near for the starting of the winter fire3. The "lim bering up" of heating systems that have laid idle all summer begins. You don't know what may have happened to yours during the summer months. Have an expert go over the system when you get ready to turn it on, and see that there are no hazards there. There services of an expert to do this little bit of inspection may cost you two or three dollars. The saving of this fee might cost you your home or your business. You are going to start fires in stoves and fireplaces about this time. Take a look at the flues and see what the conditions are. It may be a little trouble, but it's worth the effort. Look at the rear of stores and bus iness blocks in your town, whether it's your property or not it's your town. There may be an accumulation of rubbish in the back lots and tho starting of fires in the store buildings may burn some soot in a dirty flue. A litle wind, a little spark, the back lot rubbish and thousands of dollars go up in smoke. Another thing: sup pose a small fire starts you know they're all small at first there" is a lot of rubbish in a back lot nearby, boxes, bits of broken glass, pieces of board with nails in them, a fireman steps on this, is cut, blood poisoning occurs. You'd hate to think you caused that, wouldn't you? Look the ground over thoroughly on Fire Prevention Day. That is what this day is set apart for. Clean up your premises thoroughly, inside and out. Tell your neighbor about it. If he does not take an interest in the matter, make him clean up. The law is on your side. On the Service of the State. The gathering of practically 600 boys and girls at the Short Course held at the College of Agriculture and Engineering proves again that the work of the Agricultural Extension Service, conducted jointly by the college and the State Department of Agriculture, is more than justifying Its existence. It is not believed that another state in the union his had such an attendance on any short course given at their state college of agriculture. Looking for an attend ance of about two or three hundred, the authorities were surprised when train after train came in loaded with members of the agricultural clubs coming to join their fellows for a week of inspirational work and fun. Wednesday, 17th, is Woman's Day. The Woman's building committee appointed by President R. O. Everett at the recent meeting of the executive committee of the State Fair Associa tion, decided to have the dedicatory exercises for the new woman's build ing at the fair grounds on. Wednesday, October 17, and to Invite Congress man Jeannette Rankin of Montana to deliver the principal address on the occasion. The meeting of the com mittee was in the office of Judge R. W. Winston. An Invitation has already been ex tended to Congressman Rankin to speak in Raleigh on this occasion andj'y-re is time to select only a small It is tnougni mat sne win accep Other speakers wiu aiso niaae a dresses on the occasion of dedkaV the new building. Poultry Clubs Show Results. After inspecting several large on which poultry club work has ronducted for the last two years, Allen G. Oliver, poultry club agent V the extension service, states that won derful Improvement has been noticed In the way the poultry is being han dled, improved, and looked after. The farm flocks are being given better care and are being better feed this year than at any prevluos time in the his tory of th work. This Is largely true because of the practical meth-"i ad Tocated by the poultry club office. f Y Governor fo Red Croct Work. Governor Bickett took a hand In furthering the movement by the To bacco Association of the United States, headquarters at Richmond, Va., looking to the inducement of every tobacco grower to contribute to the 'Red Cross fund for war relief, the proceeds of the sale of one pile of leaf tobacco sold on the warehouse floor. The governor wrote personal letters to each of the designed leaders in this movement in the various tobacco grow ing sections of the state endorsing most heartily the plan of the Tobacco Association of the United States, as promulgated by President T. M. Car rington, Richmond, Va., and express ing the hope that the North Carolina tobacco growers and warehousemen will do their full share In the success ful carrying out of the movement. In his letter to the committeemen, Governor Bickett .after speaking of the resolution recently adotped em bracing the plans says: "I desire to commend most heartily this resolution, also the plan outlined by the Tobacco Association by which it is hoped that thousands of dollars will be raised for this worthy cause. Permit me also to urge that you give to this cause your wholehearted and enthusiastic co-operation. I am sure, if you will do this, you can make it count for much in your section of the state." The representatives named at the various markets are: W. T. Clarke, Wilson; E. B. Ficklen, Greenville; Edgar W. Smith, Rocky Mount; E. V. Webb, Kinston; G. A. Jones, Farmville; . . Dance, Golds boro; Charlie Jones, LaGrange; James Exom, Snow Hill; A. L. Curl, Ayden; John H. Carter, Warsaw; Clyde B. Al stin, Richlands; John Goode .Ahoskie; Harry Penu, Madison ;J. D. McDear man, Spring Hope; A. S. Smith, Elkin; J. I. Smith, New Bern. List of Chairmen (Tobacco) Red Cross W. A. Jamison, Oxford; S. W. Ven able, Durham; E. D. Wott, Reidsville; B. F. Sparger, Mt. Airy; W. T. Clary, Greensboro; J. K. Norfleet, Winston Salem; C. B. Cheatham, Henderson. Physicians Under Thirty-two Drafted. Physicians under thirty-two years of age are amenable to the draft for soldiers, according to information re ceived from the War Dpartment at Washlniton. As the law now stands every physician who Is physically fit and under thirty-two years of age is a drafted man whether his name has been called. or not. The need of young physicians in the army is imperative. Major Joseph C. Bloodgood, chairman of the Southern Committee on National Defense, says: Every physically fit doctor thirty-one years old owes (it to his country to be in the Medical Reserve Corps. As a matter of fact, he is a drafted man whether his number has been called or not." The army calls for young physicians for two reasons: they can stand the strain of army life better than the older men, and, as a whole they are not held by so many family and financial obligations. Dr. J. W. Long, of Greensboro, chair man of the State Committee on Na tional Defense, Medical Section, will upon request furnish suitable blanks for making application in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps. North Caro lina has not yet given her quota though she ranks ahead of the aver age state in the number of medical men she has furnished the army. Control Cotton Anthracnose. - Each year along about this time the agricultural experiment station of the college and department of agricul ture receives a number of speciments of diseased cotton bolls. These bolls are more or less affected with a fun gus diease known as "boll-rot" or anthracnose. It is a disease which Is spread by seed having been obtained from rotten or half-rotten bolls the previous fall. Hence, it may be seen that to properly control it the seed must-be free from disease. As it first appears the boll has a small pinkish looking rotten spot which entirely destroys certain bolls and leaves oth ers partially destroyed. When the seed is saved from partially rotted bolls it has within it the fungus and when the seed Is planted it will pro duce plants' bearing the "boll-rot." ' From this it may be seen that the disease is controlled by planting disease-free seed. But it also has been found that the disease will live over In old stalks and bolls left in the field. Where cotton is to be planted on the same field the next year these stalks and bolls should be plowed under at least six Inches. By far the best plan, however, is to rotate the crop, putting no cotton on the same land each year. Where disease-free seed cannot be obtained in the neighborhood it is a good idea to go into the field and se lect such bolls as are not affacted and save the seed for next year's planting. According to Dr. F. A. Wolf, plant Tvithologist, this should be done even this should be done even nt of bolls. . By planting these itely in a small plot enough will led to make a patch free from l:nose disease. eastern part of North Carolina iome to be a section noted for the production of peanuts. The major- J -if fnrmpra In th! Rpr.Hnn eTOW waese as a commercial crop. Those who grow the large varieties of pea nuts know that a heavy percentage of the crop is left In the ground. There is only one possible way of making use of this waste and that is by em ploying hogs. As a matter of fact, the hcg business has followed the pea nut business but this year there la ' not enough hogs to eat them. stai. y-m-tmmmmm I i ju i j U i i f mm 1 Official photograph from the west front showing a shellhole used as a canteen by British soldiers. 2 Free balloons ready for flight at the army balloon school at Fort Omaha, Neb. 3 All that is left of a once beautiful bridge somewhere in northern France. 4 Gen. Sir Douglas Haig telling Premier Lloyd George of progress in driv ing back the Germans, while Marshal Joffre listens. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Wilson Tells Pope Peace With German Autocracy Cannot Be Considered. KAISER NOT TO BE TRUSTED President's Sweeping Embargo Procla mation a Severe Blow to the Teu tons Russians in Council ' Agree to Continue War Italians Keep Up Drive on Trieste. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. There can be no peace with the em peror of Germany and the German au tocracy because no reliance can be placed on their pledges unless ex plicitly supported by the will of the German peoples themselves. Such Is the gist of President Wil son's reply to the pope rejecting, on behalf of the United States, the peace proposals made by his holiness. It was delivered at the Vatican Tuesday and was regarded as the reply of all the nations leagued against the cen tral powers. Mr. Wilson's note Is the climax of the series of magnificent state docu ments In which he has set forth the claims of world democracy and Is an other stirring indictment of the auto cratic government of Germany. It as serts that peace on the terms pro posed by the pope would only give Germany time to recuperate for a re newal of Its "furious and brutal" pol icy by which it seeks to dominate the w-orld; would make necessary a per manent hostile combination of nations against the German people, and would result "In abandoning the new-born'1 Russia to the intrigue, the manifold subtle Interference, and the certain counter-revolution which would be at tempted by all the malign Influences to which the German government has of late accustomed the world." Again the president makes it clear that America Is making war without desire for gain or revenge, and does not seek the infliction of punitive damages, the dismemberment of empires or the es tablishment of selfish and exclusive economic leagues; but he says no man, no nation could depend on trea ties or agreements made by the pres ent German government and "we must await some new evidence of the pur poses of the great peoples of the cen tral powers." German People See the Light. It is thus made evident that a great change In Germany's form of govern ment, involving the fall of autocracy, is requisite to peace negotiations, and that the German people themselves are becoming convinced of this is shown by the developments of the week In their struggle for democratization and parliamentarism. Not since the war began has there been such freedom of speech and of the press as now exists, and correspondents report that there Is now a solid political block In the reichstag In favor of effective guaran ties that the imperial government no longer shall make vital decisions with out the full knowledge, advice and con sent of the representatives of the peo ple. It Is considered likely that Austria, and perhaps Bulgaria and Turkey will soon declare war on the United States, because cf the loans our government has madfj to Italy and other nations that are ut war with the kaiser's al lies. Diplomatic relations, of coarse, were several long ago, and Uncle jSam can contemplate with serenity a decla ration of war because it will really serve to free him from some embar rassments in the combating of j spy work and other activities of those who have been his actual if '' not avowed enemies. Embargo Is Blow t.o Kaiser., One of the most serious blows the kaiser bas yet received was delivered by President Wilson at the beginning of the week when he proclaimed an embargo that gives the United States absolute control over Its exports. It prohibits the export of nil articles of commerce to enemy and neutral coiin tries, but It is' the intention to care for the needs of neutrnls, by licensing shipments of such exportations as can be spared after the wants of the Unit ed States and its allies have been sup plied. A large number of commodi ties are added to those named in the original embargo order, including fats of all kinds, other foods, construction materials and other articles necessary to the successful prosecution of the war by this government; also gold, bullion, currency and evidences of In debtedness this in order to conserve the immense store of gold that has been accumulated by the United States in the last three years. In a statement accompanying the order the president said: "The purpose and effect of this proclamation is not export prohibition, but merely export control. It is not the intention to Interfere unnecessar ily with our foreign trade, but our own domestic needs must be adequate ly safeguarded and there is the added duty of meeting the necessities of all the nations at war with the Imperial German government. "After these needs are met it Is our wish and intention to minister to the needs of the neutral nations as far as our own resources permit. This task will be discharged without other than the very proper qualification that the liberation of our surplus products shall not be made the occasion of bene fit to the enemy, either directly or in directly." Kerensky Wins Support. The Russian national council in ses sion in Moscow promises at least to clarify the situation there and defi nitely line up the forces that are striv ing to gain control In the new republic. Premier Kerensky admittedly is anx ious as to the future, but has stated flatly and fearlessly the position of the government of which he Is the head and leading spirit. He warned those who thought the time had come to overthrow the revolutionary power with arms that his patience had Its limits and that those who went be yond them would have to settle with a "government that will make them re member the time of czardom." He continued : "We shall be implacable, because we are convinced that supreme power alone can assure the salvation of the country. That Is why I shall oppose energetically all attempts to take ad vantage of .Russia's national misfor tunes, and whatever ultimatum is pre sented, I shall subject It to the su preme power and to myself, its head." Then came Commander in Chief Korniloff with a dramatic speech in which he declared that restoration of the death penalty, stern discipline and unlimited supplies were necessary to restore the morale and fighting spirit In the armies. General Kaledines, leader of the Don Cossacks, followed with a resolution adopted by the Cos sacks demanding, for the salvation of the country, the continuation of the war In close union with the allies until complete victory was attained. These and other speeches checked the plans of the discontented, and the leaders of all factions united 'in dec larations that Russia must continue the war and. that everything possible must be done to strengthen the provi sional government. Whatever the United States can do to relieve the more pressing of Rus sia's needs will be done. This Presi dent Wilson pledged anew in a mes sage to the national council in which he assured the government every ma terial and moral assistance that the people of this country can give will be given. The reading of President" Wilson's message by Premier Kerensky brought the entire assemblage to its feet with wild and prolonged cheering. Great Work by the Italians. General Cadorna's brave Italian troops continued their successful drive against the Austrians throughout the week, gaining more ground and more glory each day. No one who does not know the cfimtry or who has not at least seen the moving pictures show ing the warfare in the Alps has any conception of the difficulties that con front an advancing army on this front. It is a perfect region for defensive fighting, and now that the Italians have shown the determination and ability to go forward, the alarmed Aus trian commanders are hurrying great numbers of troops to the fighting lines and their resistance is increasing. Some of the heaviest fighting of the week took place on the Bainsizza pla teau, where the Italians pushed stead ily eastward toward the Upper Car nlola border and Laibach. At the same time Cadorna's men have been making considerable progress In their advance on Trieste on the Carso front, though details of this movement were with held by the Italian war office. On Wednesday it was reported that prac tically all civilians had evacuated Tri este. , The German crown prince has been keeping up his continual counter at tacks on the French In the Verdun sector and on the Aisne front, but has been repulsed In every instance, losing great numbers in killed, wounded and especially prisoners. The scene of bloodiest fighting about Verdun shifted to the east bank of the Meuse, where the village of Beautnont was the cen ter of desperate combats. At Dead Man hill, also, the Germans made re peated attempts to regain the posi tions they had lost. With bulldog tenacity the British hung on to parts of Lens they had cap tured, and consolidated them despite almost daily and nightly attacks by Crown Prince Rupprecht's forces. Though heavy rains hampered opera tions, the English took some more positions east and southeast of Lange marck in the direction of Poelcapelle. On the Eastern Front. The advance of the Germans In Rou manla, Galicia and In the region of Riga slowed up very considerably, and what little news came from those fronts indicated that both the Rouma nians and Russians were putting up a creditable fight, except in the region of Fokshani. Perhaps they cannot keep the foe out of southern Russia, but even so the possession of that fertile region would help the Germans little because of the wretched transportation facilities westward. What Germany needs now and Is going to need much more In the near future is food, and that cannot be carried long distances Inland without railways. A modification of Germany's policy toward neutrals is Indicated by her backdown In the negotiations with Ar gentina. She has promised Indemnity for the destruction of the steamship Toro and virtually pledged the free dom of the seas to vessels flying the Argentine flag. America's Heavy War Bill. More than nineteen billion dollars will be required to run the government during the fiscal year 1917-1918, ac cording to the statement of the house ways and means committee made last Monday. This is about fifteen times as much as for an ordinary year. Chairman KItchin said the loans to the allies would aggregate $7,000,000,000, the shipping board' will require about $1,000,000,000, and the other expenses of the government will bring the total to about $19,300,000,000. The finance committees of the house and senate have tentatively accepted the recommendation of the treasury department that the proportion of this sum to be raised by taxation to that raised by bond issue's shall be about 3 to 7. All but $2,000,000,000 of the money to be raised is provided for in bills already passed or now pending before the senate or before the house committee. President Wilson has approved Sec retary Daniels' estimates for the con struction of a great flotilla of destroy ers, for which congress Is asked to authorize the expenditure of $350,000, 000. The destroyer seems to be the best weapon yet devised to combat the submarine. Apparently in no way related to the murderous outbreak of colored troops at Houston Is the warning issued by the Patriotic Education society, that the Germans are conducting a propa ganda In this country to start a gen eral uprising of negroes against the whites, promising German aid and money to finance the insurrection and telling the Ignorant negroes that when Germany rules America the blacks will have equal rights with the whites. The story Is not so fantastic as it may ap pear and the society Is said to have authentic Information supporting its statements. TAKES UP BIG FOOD TASK Mr. Henry A. Page, North Carolina. Food Administrator, Opens Office In Raleigh. Raleigh. Mr. Henry A. Page, of Aberdeen, North Carolina's Food Ad ministrator, has opened his office in the Federal Building with the pros pects of a vigorous war-time task of co-ordinating and maintaining, for the duration of the struggle, the efforts of all the food producing and food con serving agencies of the state. The perfection of state machinery will be undertaken on the basis of pacrineial service. Mr. Page himself will work on the munificent salary of one dollar per annum. This Is no time to preach profits, Mr. Page asserts. Men who are not giving: themselves can do no less than give the utmost of what Is theirs. In ad dition, for the money which could, un der .ny circumstances, be paid for the efforts asked, the right calibre men could not be secured. "No man should come out of this, war wealthier than he was when he entered it," Mr. Page says. "Making money out of the war, before it came to our shores, honestly taking advan tage of the business opportunities which offered themselves is not to be condemned. After we have become a party to it, profiteering must cease. To make money out of the war now is a disgrace. This 13 the doctrine I shall preach." War is the Reason. As Mr. Page puts it, the fixing of prices by the government is an in tensely undemocratic thing, permissi ble in a democracy only on the ground that the war has destreyed moral con- i ditions and threatens to destroy the world. The people of the world must ! be fed. The emergency must be met by drastic action. i "As soon as the war is over and the need for food administration passes, , every visage of this machinery now ; being created for the occasion must : pass away. With a salaried machine this couldn't be done In ten years. On , the basis of personal sacrifice .by the men who are of a type to render the service, as soon as the need for the work has passed, the machinery will pass away overnight." This, as Mr. Page explains is the wisdom of the non-remunerative offices being created for the administration of the food laws by Mr. Hoover and1 others. : Mr. Page last week was in confer- ' ence with Mr. Hoover and others of the food conservation forces in Wash ington. He has wound up such of hia ! private business as needs immediate attention and is into the task of food administration in North Carolina to the finish. His plans are not yet work ed out. v i In the near future he will call into 1 conference In Raleigh a number of the leading men in the state. Out of the ( views "and opinions then voiced the j program will be formed.' In each county in the state a man will be se i cured as county food administrator, i He must be the type of man who can '. and will make the sacrifice of organ- izing the county for a house-to-house, man-to-man campaign, undertaking to , make addresses himself throughout the county. German Prisoner Escapes Camp. Asheville. Sigfried Sonneck, one of the Germans Interned at Hot Springs, escaped, according to a message from that point to the office of the United States marshal here, and a general alana has been sent out for him. I The German, who is about thirty two years of age, is the first of the prisoners to attempt to leave the j camp. I Sonneck is about five feet five inch es tall, has brown hair and gray eyes : and speaks English fairly well. A j thorough search is being made i throughout this section for the es caped prisoner. Inspect Gunnery School Site. Fayetteville. Captain Sharpe, of departmental headquarters at Char leston, inspected a proposed range site here for a school of rapid fire gun nery. Captain Sharpe furnished no intimation of the nature of the re port he will make. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. R. S. Sloan, of Kenansville, who has been in the office of Senator Sim mons for months, has joined the army field service and is secretary to Col onel Brown, of the 48th Division. J. A. Williford, while mowing hay on his brother' farm two miles from Aulander, was caught by a mowing machine and his leg was seriously crushed. The Concord Dall Tribune press room was entirely destroyed by fire a few nights ago. The First North Carolina Motor Truck Company No. 65, has arrived at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. It is estimated that 10,000 people at tended Ball's Creek camp meeting at Newton Sunday. There were 3,000 automobiles on the grounds. Deputy Sheriff Bert Kelly of New Hanover county, shot and probably fatally wounded George Galloway, near Wilmington a few days ago. John Houser, a prominent farmer who lives near Cherryville, dropped dead in a physician's office in Cherry ville. He was in apparent good health. J
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