f STATE EQUALIZING FUND APPORTIONED MONEY DISTRIBUTED TO COUN TIES WHEREBY SCHOOL TERMS ARE LENGTHENED. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. The apportionment of the $447,432.85 State Equalizing Fund among the counties of the State to bring the school terms up to the limit required was approved by the State Board of Education. The apportionment was worked out by Mr. A. S. Brower, sta tistical loan clerk of the State Depart ment of Education. Each county was apportioned sufficient funds to bring its school term up to four months and then each county, including those with less than four months term and those with a four months term or more were apportioned an amount suf ficient to extend the term for 15.2 days. The apportionment thus arranged, showing the number of dayn by which the term was extended follows: Alamance, 15.2 days, $4,752.28; Al exander, 42.2 days, $7,743.70; Alle ghany, 43.95 days, $4,878.45; Anson, 15.2 days, $3,448.50; Ashe, 43.9 days, $11,457.90; Avery, 50.7 days, $6,413.55. Beaufort, 15.2 days, $5,525.50; Ber tie, 15.2 days, $4,351.00; Bladen, .20.1 . days, $5,512.12; Brunswick, 15.2 days, 2,660; Buncombe, 15.2 days, $8,140.36; Burke, 15.2 days, $2,815.80. Cabarrus, 15.2 days, $4,537.20; Cald well, 17.2 days, $4,153.80; Camden, 28.7 days, $1,800.92; Carteret, 15.2 days, $2,644.80; Caswell, 15.2 days, $2, 135.80; Catawba,, 15.2 days, $5,447.30; Chatham, 15.2 days, $4,130.98; Chero kee, 15.2 days, $2,530.80; Chowan, 15.2 days, $1,697.27; Clay, 15.2 days, $562.40; Cleveland, 15.2 days, $6, 117.24; Columbus, 15.2 days, $5,943.20; Craven, 15.2 days, $3,838; Cumberland, 15.2 days, $4,995; Curituck, 36.2 days, $4,175.62. Dare, 60.7 days, $3,520.60; Davidson, 15.2 days, $5,445.40; Daviefl 15.2 days, $2,271.20; Duplin, 15.2 days, $4,931.64; Durham, 15.2 days, $6,177.05. Edgecombe, 15.2 days, $4,277.66; orsyth, 15.2 days, $8,240.44; Franklin, 15.2 days, $3,733.50. Gaston, 15.2 days, $7,256.80; Gates, 19.7 days, $2,703.82; Graham, 15.2 days, $845.50; Granville, 15.2 days, $4,290.20; Greene, 15.2 days, $2,205.90; Guilford, 15.2 days, $11,859.80. N Halifax, 15.2 days, $4,995.10; Har nett, 15.2 days, $4,753.80;. Haywood, 15.2 clays, $2,933. GO; Henderson, 15.2 days, 2,758.80; Hertford, 15.2 days, $2, 667.90;' Hoke, 15.2 days, $1,503.66; Hyde, 33.2 days, $4,382.40. Iredell, 15.2 days, $6,479. Jackson, 19.4 days, $3,210.70; John- Bickett at Kinston. "No nation is fit to endure upon this earth wMch does not stand ready to ; lay its all of today upon the altar of tomorrow," said Governor Bickett in a war address here. Hundreds of a crowd which greeted him were turned away. Several of the hearers and would-be auditors were women. The governor, speaking for over an hour, touched upon the sins of Ger many, the steps this nation has taken for the prosecution of the war, the debt to Fraace and other phases of the "great enterprise." He told of what kind of soldiers North Carolina is fur nishing and declared he is proud of them. He characterized the selective draft as the fairest thing of its kind ever conceived. It is not right that any man should demand equal rights and oppose equal duties, t he asserted. When the coming draft is finished there will not be a loafer between the ages of 21 and 31 left in North Caro lina. He issued an invitation to wom en claiming worthless husbands to no tify him on the quiet, guaranteeing that any such women should imme diately face to the world "another chance." Maternity Deaths Reduced. Three hundred mothers and three hundred new born babies saved last year as a result of a public health nursing service among policyholders, is an accomplishment to which a large life insurance company points with pride. According to Miss Irene R. Foote, field supervisor of the nursing service for this company, the mater nity period for the average woman Is one fraught with many unnecessary dangers. One of the chief sources of danger, according to Miss Foote, comes from carelessness and igno rance on the part of the midwives in many sections of the country. Where physicians are in attendance, accord ing to Miss Foote, many, of the dan gers, complications and ill effects fol lowing child birth never occur. As a direct result of only one year'3 activity along this line, this company reports a decrease in the mortality among policyholders who became mothers of eight and one-half per cent, while in the general registration area of the United States there has been found an increase In the mortal ity of mothers of 1.9 per cent among such cases. ston, IE days, $6,472.54; Jones, 15.2 days, $1,787.90. Lee, 15.2 days, $2,287.60; Lenoir, 15.2 days, $4,411.80; Lincoln, 15.2 day3, $3,504.36. Macon, 15.2 days, $2,093.80; Madi son, 15.2 days, $3,028.60; Martin,, 15.2 days, $3,062.80; McDowell, 15.2 days, $3,17f.70; Mecklenburg, 15.2 days, $10, 749.44; Mitchell, 31.2 days, $4,005.30; Montgomery, 15.2 days, $2,473.80; Moore, 15.2 days, $-3,957.70.. Nash, 15.2 days, $4,660.70; New Han over, 15.2 days, $4,112.90; Northamp ton, 15.2 days, $4,081.20. Onslow, 15.2 days, $3,678.40; Orange, 15.2 days, $3,325. Pamlico, 47.5 days, $1,210.62; Pas quotank, 15.2 days, $2,234.70; Pender, 15.2 days, $2,707.12; Perquimans, 15.2 days, $2,979.80; Person, 15.2 days, $2, 648.60; Pitt, 15.2 days, $7,144; Polk, 26.2 days, $2,744.45. Randolph, 15.2 days, $4,507 56;" Richmond, 15.2 days, $3,515; Robeson, 15.2 days, $7,660.80; Rockingham, 15.2 days, $6,752.60; Rowan, 15.2 days, $7. 068; Rutherford, 15.2 days, $5,318.10. Sampson, 15.2 days, $5,236.40; Scot land, 15.2 days, $2,371.20; Stanly, 15.2 days, $4,039.90; Stokes, 29.2 days, $7, 467.90; Surry, 15.2 days, $5,321.78; Swain, 15.2 days, $2,310.40. Transylvania,' 18.1 days, $2,045.30; Tyrrell, 15.2 days, $1,010.80. Union, 15.2 days. $6,184.50. Vance, 15.2 days, $3,235.70. Wake, 15.2 davn. $10,347.50; War ren, 15.2 days. $3.-22.40; Washington, 15.2 days, $1,679.60; Watauga, 22.7 days, $3,387.97; Wayne, 15.2 days, $5,833.50; Wilkes, 28.5 days, $11,784. 73; W Json,15. 2days, $4,797.50 Yadkin. 32.3 days, $5,163.15; Yancey, 41.95 daysfi $6,418.35. Total $447,432.85. Stirring Up Trouble for Themselves. The attention of the Food Adminis tration has been called to the fact that in spite of the high price of cot ton seed during the past two or three years there are farmers in North Car . ina who persist in the once profit able custom of composting cottonseed with their manure. Farmers who pur sue this course this year may be stir ring up trouble for themselves In ad dition to refusing to hear the cries for food from famished millions abroad. The situation is this: Cotton seed may be exchanged for cottonseed meal of three times their value for fertilizer purposes. Cotton seed contains ap proximately 320 pounds of fats per ton. This fat or oil is absolutely worthless as fertilizer while it Is des perately needed as fats by our ar mies and by millions of people who are famishing for fats and other food products in Europe. New Enterprises Authorized. Donnell Farm Company, of Washing-on, to do a general real estate business. Authorized capital $120,000 with $10,000 paid in. Incorporators N. L. Simmons, II. C. Carter, Jr., and Harry McMullan of Washington; R. R. Grant, of Swan Quarter, and J. W. Ferrall, of Petersburg, Va. Proctor Long, of Cornelius, amends Its charter by cancelling $1,000 of treasury stock and thereby reducing the capital stock of the corporation from $5,000 to $4,000. New Insurance Company. A new North Carolina fire insurance company received its charter, the au thorized .capital of the new company being $250,000. The company is the North Carolina State Fire Insurance Company, with its home office at Rocky Mount. The authorized capital of $250,000 is divided into 2,500 shares of the par value of $100 each, the char ter providing that the shares shall be sold at $125 each in order to provide a surplus of $62,500 in addition to the capital. The company is authorized to begin business when a total of 500 shares of the capital stock Is sub scribed. Among the Incorporators are some of the leading business men of the Twin-County city, these being Messrs. W. S. Wilkinson, George L. Wimber ley, Jr., Frank S. Spruill, George S. Edwards, M. R. Braswell, Blake Willi ford, W. H. Newell, D. J. Rose, James C. Braswell and J. P. Bunn. Charlotte Leads In Recruiting. The recruiting stations and th3 stated number of men accepted for the army at each follows: Charlotte, 548; Asheville, 526; Raleigh, 375; Greensboro, 350; Gastonia, 296; Winston-Salem, 196: Hickory, 163; Dur ham, 151; Lumberton, 146; Salisbury, 122; Kinston, 55; Reidsville, 14; For est City, 13. Agent for Pamlico County. The county commissioners at their meeting at Bayboro decided to employ a home demonstration agent for Pam lico county. The importance of em ploying such an agent was presented to the board by Mrs. Sue Hollowell, of Goldsboro, and Miss C. C. Coble, of Edenton, working under the State department. J. D. Dawson Company, of Belhaven, authorized capital $50,000, with $7,500 paid in, to conduct a wholesale gro cery and mercantile business. The incorporators are C. P. Aycock, of Pantego; J. D. Daw?on, of Belhaven; C. C. Jackson, of Yeatesville, and J. F. Bishop, of Belhaven. The Kenilworth Company, of Ashe ville, amends its charter reducing the guaranteed interest on preferred stock from seven to six per cent, and pro viding that in the event of the liquida tion of the corporation the preferred t Etock must be paid off first. e 5 r (wc imfk is hk 0& tod- i urn mm f -s ' fciJ The Albert Memorial. A S SO many American soldiers are passing through London on their way to the western front, the following article from Country Life on "How to See London in Two Days," is timely. In normal days, when American visi tors filled the hotels, sight-seeing was, in spite of American hustle, a fairly leisurely thing. It is the soldiers who are here today who have to be the real hustlers. Their sight-seeing has often to be crammed into a day or two's leave, and the problem of how to see all possible, and yet so to see as to store up mental pictures, clear, definite and full of color, on which to draw in pleasurable restrospection for the rest of life, is one which probably few of them are solving. Now, the secret of success in sight seeing Is discrimination and selection. Try to see everything and you see effectively nothing. Your thousand impressions are mixed, in a week they are hard to disentangle, in a year they have vanished. On this principle I throw out ideas for those who have no more than a couple of days to give to the work and the pleasure. On more than one ground I should counsel the giving up of at leqst half a day to out door sight-seeing. The. hugeness of London strikes everyone who gives days to its discovery. The best way of getting the same Impression quickly is to travel from end to end of (the route of one of the great London lin ers the "General" motorbuses. It matters little which you take. Service 3S Victoria to Walthamstow will show you much of west and central London and of the northeast. At Dal- than anywhere, you need the help of selection and restraint. If you give yourself up to the vergers they will tell you all about the royal tombs. When they have left you, think for a moment of my idea. Remember that the Ab bey has been three things: First, a monastery ; next, the royal church and the tomb of many kings ; and, then, the grave of great men. As to the first, do not leave till you have seen the cloisters, the chapter house, the under croft and the chapel of the Pyx, the little cloister and, if you are there on Saturday, the hall of Westminster school, which was the dormitory of the monks. These things illustrate the daily monastic life and are without question the most picturesque thing remaining of the middle ages. As to the next, the vergers will have shown you the coronation seat, and the tombs of the great kings, to that of Henry V who fought at Agincourt. As to the third, I counsel you to see Poets' Cor ner the south transept for its re minders of the men who have knit the empire together in the poetry of a com mon speech. What to See In the Tower. , You will go to the Tower. Here, again, remember that the Tower has been three things: a fortress, a royal palace and a prison. The White Tow er is the oldest complete building in London. It was the keep built by the Conqueror to overawe the city. It never ; wnspfMthejcl,y1 lil ? hjt of the 1 i ASKS GODWIN TO SPEAK OUT -yULHW "Ml I - j' n ii v ir- . - i-rn -r i; " '"" ' - . : . I Li 'it . t i V. m pi 1 Poets' Corner, We ston you can pick up No. 106 to Milei End station, thence you can return by the Mile End road to the city and by Fleet street and the Strand to the heart of things, having seen something of the real and wonderful East End, alien, cosmopolitan; and having passed through the Mile End road. But this is only one suggestion. If you are for less of variety and for more of the splendor, you can as easily go south, west or north out by Kens ington and Hammersmith to Richmond and this will be for many a more de lightful excursion, since it would give time for a peep at the wonderful view from the hilltop; or from Charing Cross to Golders Green. Country Walk in London. Of the half day I should counsel you to leave an hour for what has been called "the finest country walk in Lon don." For that you should contrive a 'bus ride that will leave you in the Bayswater road, near Lancaster Gate, with still an hour to spare. Then walk by the flashing waters of the Long Wa ter and the Serpentine, and under the noble trees, through all the beauties of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park to Hyde Park corner, down Constitution Hill to the Mall, and so to Charing Cross. You will then have seen in the best possible way the verdant belt in the heart of London kept inviolate in the royal parks, Rotten Row, Bucking ham palace, the Victoria memorial, St. James' palace, Marlborough House nnd the palaces of Carlton House Gardens. Evoryon will want to see West minster Abbey. There, nlmost more c tc tin jus por fea: 1 1 6uses of parlia- m erXiw-. .rothe outside, but do not let the opinions of certain critics rob you of a right appreciation of this modern work. See Westminster hall, however, if you can, as the ancient court of justice, and for its magnificent timber roof. There yet remain, of the major in stitutions, St. Paul's and the National gallery. They are more easy to deal with than Westminster or the Tower. St. Paul's has no secrets as Westmins ter has. It is revealed at one view. To Lave seen it from outside is to carry the memory of its huge bulk and form forever, and in the main that is true of it internally, though a few minutes ciin be spared for the tombs of Nelson, Wellington, Lord Roberts and other great soldiers. The National gallery, too, Is comparatively easy to see on the principle of restraint. One thing remains. Do not fail to walk the embankment from West minster to r.lackfriars, both for its river views and for the finest live? frGnt of buildings in the world. Wants to Know Why Shipyards Are Located in North When We Have Such Ideal Climate. Wilmington. In an open letter to Congressman Hannibal L. Godwin, copies of which were furnished the press, Walter H. Blair, former city tax collector, a successful student at the Oglsthorpe training camp and a former campaign manager of Mr. God win, has asked Godwin to come out flat-footedly and say so without con tinuing to beat about the bush if there is any particular reason why Wilming ton and North Carolina generally has been passed up whenever government appropriations were to be expended. Mr. Godwin is told that North Carolina has been considered a mere, strip of land lying between Virginia and South Carolina sufficiently long and it is either up to him to do something or come out and say why he hasn't, hint ing at a possible reckoning in time to come. Mr. Godwin is told that there has been only six days during the win ter too cold to nermit outdoor work while government shipbuilding Jn the east and north has been deadlocked because of the extremely cold weath er that forbade outdoor activities. Added to this, are statements con- i tinually emanating from Morehead ; City relative to the activities going I on there in the government shipyards while the state's chief port gets noth- , ing but 18,000 bales of cotton moved j through the port- j HOW Hi! AVOIl Ok Canton, Ohio. "I female trouble which cau: 6unen doctor v that I to go t operatic could gc "My re had bee; LydiaE. vegett pound, to try it muting tion. It ItUUI 1 so I can do mv house work 4 oimcuity. l aavise any wo afflicted with female trouD pound a trial and it will do tf them." Mrs. marie eqx St, N. E., Canton, Ohio. : Sometimes there are Be tions where a hospital ope onlv alternative, but on the so many women have been c famous root ana nerDremeej Pinkham's Vegetable Com doctors have said that an oij necessary every woman j to avoid an operation shouj fair trial before submittin trying ordeal. If complications exist, wr E. Pinkham Medicine Co., I for advice. The result of experience is at your servic Appoints Good Roads Delegates. Governor Bickett appointed eighty five delegates from North Carolina to attend the sixth annual session of the United States Goods Roads Asso ciation which will be in Little Rock, Arkansas, April 15-19. The delegates are: Hon. E. Y. Webb, Shelby; W. A. Mauney, Kings Mountain; R. L. Stowe, Belmont; A. G. Mangum, Gastonia; A. M. McDon ald, Charlotte; Col. A. L. Smith, Char lotte; Thomas H. Webb, Concord; Hon. J. P. Cook, Concord; Hon. Ar chibald Boyden, Salisbury; E. E. Grey, China Grove; W. E. Holt, Lexington; G. W. Montcastle, Lexington; J. W. Lambeth, Thomasville; C. M. Van Story, Greensboro; Clem Wright, Greensboro; Robert Brockett, High Point; A. W. Harper, Elon College; Ernest Holt, Burlington; R. L. Holt, Graham; W. S. Crawford, Mebane; Shepherd Strudwick, Hillsboro; Paul C. Collins, Hillsboro; S. W. Andrews, Chapel Hill; E. L. Buggs, Durham; John Sprunt Hill, Durham; J. At. Broughton, Jr., Raleigh; E. C. Dincan, J. M. Allen, Louisburg; H. G. Cooper, Oxford; R. S. McCoin, Henderson; J. M. Deaton, Statesville; Hon. W. D. Turner, Statesville; E. H. Yount, New ton; J. D. Elliott, Hickory;, J. H. Pear son, Morganton; J. Ernest Erwln, Mor ganton; W. S. Butler, Glen Alpine; P. H. Washburn, Old Fort; N. Buck- Asheville; W. E. Johnson, As.ie le; C. P. Ambler, Asheville; C. E. ambers, Asheville; Gallatin Rob s Asheville; Plato Ebbs, Marshall; y V. Roberts, Marshall; E. Rum- ugh. Hot Springs; T. L. Gwyn, Can- i; Kelly T. Bennett, Bryson Ciry; W. Black. Bryson City; T. C. Bowie, fferson; Gov. R. L. Doughton. Spar- H. A. Chatham, Elkin; Merip.-enth-Lewis, Mt. Airy; Senator J. L. Nel- n. Lenoir; W. C. Ruffin, Mayodan; L. Mitchell, Yanceyville; E. J. fucker, Roxboro; Tasker Polk, War- nton; Lunsford Long, Roanoke Rsp- Frank Wood, Edenton; Francis Winston, Windsor; T. I.. Bland, ocky Mount; C. M. Parks, Tarboro; M. Pearsall, New Bern; W. D Pol- rck, Kinston; Nathan O'Berr;,', Golds- aro; Wm. Hill, Warsaw; W. A. Mc- Irt, Wilmington; J. D. McNeill, Fay- tteville; T. Y. McAllister, Fayette- ille; Samuel Strange, Fayetteville; eonard Tufts, Pinehurst; H. E Stacy: umberton; W. N. Everett, R ck:ng- am; vv. s. Fams, Kaieign; Aitred CTcLean, Lillington; Walter Woc,lard, rilson; J. W. McQueen, Pinahurst: P. . Hanes, Winston-Salem; W. D. Mc illan, Wilmington. Not to Taste. "Did your attentions tq bear any fruit?" "Oh, yes ; she handed ni Wright's Indian Vegetable nothing but vegetable ingredif Heredity. "How bent that young "No wonder. He comes family. Heal Baby Rsst That itch, burn and tor Cuticura Soap bath give lief when followed by a cation of Cuticura Ointmrf samples address, "Cuticu Boston." At druggists Soap 25, Ointment 25 and! Some. men never do thiif They go out to have a to come back full all over. 1 Never Misses Sunday. School. Gastonia. Miss Madge Hanna, aughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hanna, f Chester street, has made a record rf having not missed a singly meet rig of the First Associate Reformed 'resbyterian Sabbath school for more han 11 years. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. The Jury in the case of Mrs. George M. Spittle, administratrix, against the Southern Public Utilities Company, Charlotte, awarded the plaintiff $11,500 damages. Mrs. Spittle was suing the company for $40,00 damages for the death of her husband. Five members of the same immedi ate family bought $1,000 worth of sav ings stamps each. They were F. H Fairley, Mrs. F. II. Fairley, F. H. Fair ley, Jr., J. M. Fairley and Mrs. Fair ley, all of Monroe. Preparations are being rapidly com pleted for the meeting of the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union, which will bo held at the First Baptist church, Raleigh, for four days, beginning Tues day. March 26. More than 500 dele gates are expected at the meeting, this number having attended the Golds horo meeting a year ago. Max Levin, of Raleigh, formerly 'raveling passenger, agent of the Sea Niard, i3 now in Francft. A whole keg, containing about 1C 'illons of ink. was received A.t Camp 'reene, Charlotte, by the Y. V. C. A j be used by the soldiers. WAS DISC0U Lost 65 Pounds in Had to Give Up Work. Well Since Using "Being exposed to when working as an e then going outdoors caused my kidney tr Karl Goering, 8513 N., Philadelphia, Pa. "in er and when it wa damp, my joints an muscles would swell and ache and often m limbs were so badly aif fected It was only wit great misery I was abl to get around. For week I was laid up i bed, hardly able t move hand or foot. "Another trouble wr ular and scanty pas kidney secretions. I and weak and had to work. Headaches anc nearly blinded me and uur to 200 in weig helped me and I felt 1 to suner. "At last I had the e hear of Doan's Kidnem gan taking them., I s my strength and weig rheumatic pains and troubles left. ' I ha cured." Sworn to be WM. H. 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