THE DUNN V.L ■ DUNN. N C, , OUR EXPENSES IN THE WORLD WAR Ovar Eighteen Billion Dollnri Spent end Loaned to Our Allies MORE SPENT IN DECEMBER THAN ANY OTHER MONTH ElfnJHurw far Ik* Month Alana Tara Billion Dollars i Coal Still Growing Washington, Dae. SI.—It coat the American people about I IK,160,000. 000 to run its war government and make loans to the allies in the year ending today, according to computa tions from treasury reports. December expenditures which were above two billion dollars, the record of the nation's history, sent aggre gate costa to date to approxlmataly I24.b00.000.000. Of the $1R, 160,000,000 paid out in 1918, probably ten billion dollar* went lor the army and the general military establishment, about two billion dollar* for the navy, a billion for the shipbuilding program, a bil lion for other civil government need* 84,150,000,000 as loans to the allies Although hostilities ceased neatly two months ago, the government's outlay each day Is mounting, buesuse of the liquidation of war contracts, and treasury officials said indications are the demands on the government in the first month of the new year may be even more than for this month. With estimates of expenses in the last few days, not yet actually com piled, officials believe Dcccrabsr ex penses will run to 82,100,600,000 or near 8200.000,000 more than last month’s high record. This Includes nearly 8450.000,000 estimated for al lied loans, and 81,670,000,000 aalima ted for the government* actual ex ptnditum. That tha public has paid only about one-third of tha war's expenses, exclu ding foreign loans in tasss, In rash, and two-thirds as loans to be repaid in another generation, ia indicated by treasury figures of coUectiona from various sources. With the last four . days of tha yaar not yet tabulated, receipts from taxes, customs and mis cellaneous revenue amounted to $4 - 607.068.000, of which 82,949,032,000 came from income and excaea profits taxaa alooa.ll. 124,518.000 from otb ■ *««»: ' 1171,000,000 $13^02,000,000 worth of certificates of indebtedness have been sold and subsequently largely redeemed from Liberty Loan receipts. War savings •tamps and certificates have brought 8968.000. 000 into the treasury, which with the exception of $10,000,000 worth of these small securities sold in December 1917, represents the en tire from the war saving* aad thrifts in the year they have been on the market. War saving* receipts this month arnonnt to about $60,000,000. The way In which war sxpendlturcs b*v* mounted from month to month la shown by the following tabic of ex penditures: January, 1918-$1,090,000,000 February. 1,012,000,004 March. 1,186,000,000 April. 1.215.000,000 Mey. 1,408,000,000 Junue... 1,512,000.000 •!»Iv .-. 1.608,000.000 . 1,805,000.000 . 1.887,000,004 Oetober.-. 1,864,000,000 November . 1,988,000,000 December ..(partially aatlmated). 2.100.000,000 These figures include the loans to Allioi which have run at an average of about $340,000,000 a month. DON RICHARDSON RETURNS TO STATS. Gifted MwitUa Lay* Dawn VIeiia end Bales. fee MwwallU. Field "Glad to be back in North Carolina? Yea, 1 should aay that I am,” said Don Birhardaon, the gift tad violin so loist and director of orchestra In New York, who has met Urith wnfwtaw. itetMi in the manic world, at thr Yarborough hotel loot evening. **My deeire hoe always been U eom« back to mjr native state. I am now her* to stay anil am going to ■*»)>« mT headquarters hi Ralclirfi. "Hav* I given op music? 1 have “ a profession. What playing I do hereafter will be for ewoet charity’s •ake or where the music will carry cheer. So more playing for money I am representing ths Visible Moae Orp Oaaotine Dispensing Company of Uoolavflle, Ky„ and will travel the State to place these machines which shows a customer exactly what he Cand Is not guilty of short-chan* him as k charged against soma rotary dispensers Mr. Richardson is a University of North Carolina man and is the only profeeeienal musician that R kaa turned out In ite 123 years exktenea Ha began hk musical career here a bowt 20 years age and his rise In the musical world was rapid. For the *“*■}■• years be has been In New '°n( where He directed hk own or caotlrm and wharo ha has bean a coiv snlruous figure In the musical world. Hs has made records for all the pho nograph companies of (he country. He I, still in the prime of life. He baa a host of friends throughout (he 8Ute srho will be glad to Cam that be has returned to Tarheelia. .. Mr Rkhardeon came here from N*ur Tork. Mrs. Richardson will Join him shortly -News A Observer Beekeeping should hT generally eo rouragsd ever ths State Death ta the hen convicted of pro fiteering. OLD HICKORY BOYS CAUGHT 3,900 HUNS 30th Division Alone Broke The Hindenburg Line, Bryce Little Seys TELLS OF FIGHTING DURING LAST DAYS Raleigh Ray. Army Fraud Clark With Headquarters Staff. Writs* Friends Here Writing from 30th division head quarters overseas to n friend in Ilal elgh under date of December 1, Bryce Little, a brother, of J. C Little of Util city, who was formerly employ ed in (flic* ef the Secretary of State, gives eotnc interesting sidelights on the 30th, ‘‘Old Hickory,” division of American troops. "Sines the historical hour of 11 n. m. on November 11,” he lays, “was the re ml annuel anniversary of tha hour on which the “Old Canada” Bail ed out from a New York harbor with the headquarter* of th* 'Old Hickory' division, it U fitting that, now the cen sorship regulstlons have been partia lly lifted, 1 tell you a bit about what has happened to me and th* division of which 1 have been a part." Narrating the trip across the At lantic, he says that after th* fifth day it was not one for th* men to be ‘at ease.’ He tells of landing at Liver pool and being sent to Nurdeuequaa, France, about 20 miles from Calais, where the outfit put In "one month of the eevertet kind of training.” After, that, th* headquarters compa ny was moved up into Belgium. Assistant to Fourth British Army “Upon our relisf in Belgium,” the letter continues, “w* were sent down to Join the British 3rd army for rec reation and more training, at the com pletion of which wc were transferred to the 4th British army and sent di w un vim j urv nuivu v> wv. Quentin to participate in the drier of the German arfny. The 4th British army area commanded by General Rawlinxon, of whom so much has been written in the Slate*. He had in ad dition to the 27th and 30th Ameri can divisions, one Australian aad two British corps It waa among these people that ws did our notej fighting which broke th* Hladenburg line, cap tured ( I mean the 30th division alon* did!, .l.OiiO prisoners, about "W bee vy cannon aa well aa mo eh other ene X material sod «4Wws4 pgr turn mt .13 kilometers, fighting--with ^^5c?S55*JniSHBflflsS5^^F out a reel. Naturally, we loet a great number of man out of th* division which neeetaitated our being sent beck to a rest area for recuperation and refilling. Vi went back to aa area near the city of Amirno with Qucrrieum as headquarter* and It was at th>* place that the wires announced to us that the armistice had been signed. Things ware then a bit re organised end tho 80th division Join ed the American expeditionary forces for the first time. We came all the way down to the Leman* aad are just ■bout 100 miles southeast of Paris— ami. by the way. I must not noglael to say that I was permitted to spend 24 hours In Paris, which Is some city —and I hope the plan la for us to re main her* until our host is ready to convey us back home again After relating hi* promotion from army field clerk to confidential clork to the chief of staff, he says: “In a way, I have no reason to be dissatisfied with my lot Some times 1 feel that a girl could do almost anything that I have had to do and on two or three occasions I have been guilty of begging the chief of staff to let me go to the front as a private that 1 might get Into the actual fight ing. He discouraged me by saying that it was my duty to serve where the fellow whoee place [ might taka at tho front could not, that I stuck it uut. However, I have taken ad vantage of every opportunity to vis it the front and see what was going on. Quite a bit of my work haa been in the most dangerous spots. For In stance, always just before we start an stuck, we move an advance P. C. or battle headquarters right up be tween the infantry and artillery, but u ■ iraucr jaw n more iikv No Man'* Land for Uia lint hour or two after tho »how Mart*. Wa man aged to carry os by dragging ona typewriter, a few, maps and papeT down In a hole, ditch or tnnnol of aorae kind. "Now that it la all over, 1 don’t bellcvo I could have boon where my work would have counted for more about tho operation of an army on the field of battle. Tbs only thing I ee riounly regret Is that I did not have sn opportunity either by eapturii* or killing, to knock one cog out or that machine we were fighting.’’_ w» and Obaarvar. "THE THIRTEENTH CHAIR To say that a play did capacity bu einem for an antira yaar la oftan look cd upon an axaggeration, yat tha truth Is that there an probably many peopla In hit city who acts ally wars enable toaecun seats to son “The Thirteenth Chair" during tha visits last year to Now York. Tha myrtie melodrama which will bo presented by W.Hiam Harris. Jr., its producer, in VayctlovIHe Wednesday, Jon. 8, bo ram* a tarnation tho night It was pro duced in Now York and daring tha year R played at the Forty-Kighth Strict theatre, tha management esti mated that nearly half again an many people aa did see it. would hava, had tha capacity of tho theatre been great er. ’'The Thirteenth Chair" la from tho pen of Bayard VolUer. known to theatre-goer* tho world aver aa tha author of "Within tha Law." Groat as wa* that play R U tha firm belief of thee# who follow tha theatre that hi* nawaat play will actually a real in popular Interest and rapport that really remarkable play. NEW PENALTY FOR FOOD VIOLATORS Tea Rocky M*. Grocer* Mail AdvertiaB Their Violation* in Newipaper FOOD ADMINISTRATION STILL FUNCTIONING Penalties On a Number of * North Carolina Cooeoroi Are Te Be Announced Raleigh, Dec. SO.—Something new in penalties has just been infhetad by State Food Administrator Henry A. rage upon 10 grocer* of Rocky Mount who were found by Inspector B. I- Harris to be oxcecdiiv the mar gin* of prvflts allowed on floor and other food products. Contributions to thr Red Cram are a thing of the part and the offenses were not seri ous enough to warrant the black list which * (Tee lively and quickly puts a merchant out of basin res. This be ing the cate Mr. Pag* advised the merchants in question that if they would publish a statement la thair local paper explaining to their pa tron* and the public that they had exceeded the allowed margins that no further action would be taken as a result of pagt offenses The mer rhenta involved were: T. L. Wore ley, F. Y. Arrington, H. C. Joyner, E. T. Joyner. J. w. Davenport, Pow er* and Millar. R T. Bartholomew, G. C. levy A Brother, Jenkins A Jef frie* and G. G. Bobbin*. As an evidence of the fact that the Food Administration is (till doing bo since* at the old aland. Food Admin iatrator Page is considering and will probably announce within a few day* the revocation of lirtnae or the black listing of one wholesaler, ono ginner, on* roller mill and two retailer*, all of whom have been found guilty of violating Food Administration rules and regulations affecting their busi ness MUST CONTINUE FICHT ON VEN ERA L DISEASES. Army Hu Dm* Mere lUa it* Fart ■ad Civil CmnnliUi An Now EiyrctW to Carry Oa. Three per rent of the million men Inducted into the National Army whoar exami^ton blank« Aral reach ed tha office or the Adjutant General *a-Maah teflon had a vn total dhtmt Arc r in.r to (he itetrmmt of the Surgeon General of the War Depart ment, venereal disease constituted the greatest raoas of disability In tho army. For this condition civilian communities have been responsible. Moat cases of venerable disease in the army were brought in upon the In duction of registered men. Vir tually all raavs ware contracted with in communities over which civil au thorities have control. The army has done more than its part in combatting venereal disease. With the demobilisation of the more than four million man gathered to gether to form the fighting fore# a gaiart th* Hun the responsibility for continuing th* fight with vigor is transferred to the home communities. in comparing (be figures from tha several states Oregon is found to havo had th* lowest percentage of in fected men inducted into Service, its percentage having bean 0.5B, while Florida had the highest, its percent age having been 8.BO. Among the forty eight states and two territories included North Carolina stands forty-first, it paraentage of men In fee ted having been 8.80. In other words, out of every hun dred men from North Carolina the Selective Service Act. approximately four when reporting at camp for ear vice ware found to have a venereal disease. Only the states of West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Vir ginia, Alabama, and Florida held re cord* which were worse. It is of particular interest to not# that the state having tha lowest per ceataKe, Oregon, is the one that hat lead th* entire country in tho intelli gent and vigorous manner in which irnmg the people. For nearly ten yean a campaign of adoration against venereal dleoasee has been waged In Oregon under the dhrsetion of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society. That remarkable results have bean achieved Is shewn by the record of Oregon men inducted into military In North Carolina an active cam paign for education and for the erad ication of lhear disease* baa been In augurated throngh the Bureau of Venereal Diseases of the North Car olina 8tate Board of Health. Clin ics will be eeUbliahed in all the larg, er cities of the state for the treat ment of those affected, and lecturers, exhibits, moving picture*, and apec *■! literature are being utilised te show the people the effect* of these diseases and the importance of keep ing ‘At to dght” even though the scar la over. "when'dreams comfTttiue - The attraction at the La Peyett* Theatre, Fayetteville, Monday Jan. « will he "WREN DREAMS COMB TRUE,” A musical comedy that had a great rogue in Chicago and Nee Tork and other Urge rttiaa in whiet '* »•* J’,,*ed *• crowded houaea When Dreams Come True” la dog eerlbed as a musical comedy of youth, •nd was written by Phillip Barthold mas, the anther of "UtUo Mlai Brown” dnd "Over Night." Clarion, utrlhood, gorgoouety gowned" might “•< to describe the charm of ‘*When Dreams Come True." Th< girls are all pretty and the gowaln. le the meet t la berate that over grace, a musical eesnedy. FLU DEMAND! A.^AVT TOLL JmML FdMMtn Be neon, N. C.. DlBf'f.—Mr W N Stewart.died »t htySjsfa here this rooming wtth pr*omSi following in fluents Mr. StonSss shout 37 run old was aan.Mli Id had two children, whoa uMt With kit widow, surrlre hitJBfe* had been sick only f f«w MB Hit remain* will be buried this^Mynoon at the Benton cemetery. S^Stewart was engaged Ul a rennSaerraoLil. bu sinaaa in Benaon aS Jba4 bora be ing hare a number Shears. He vu a mu Who bad magMiuds and was liked by all wte]M Ida for hit gene rout way* »nd ■fcy di^osWon. Huswife sod ehUS^ars still sick Mr. a C. Fool ILpd at bit borne l**' pneumonia following (la H.wBabont 66 years of B4T« and had rNlflfin Bnuor for •evtfr*) yaw*. HtKtM mtv irin* o wUf and two Tha nulni wen. buried Wedns&f.afternoon at Hodge* Chapel, OeSfeltson, the fu neral being condo^Bhy Bee. ctaa Johnson and MrBfla, of Dnnn Mr Pootihm a » of the Pm Will Baptist ehort^KF Benson and was a man much H^Kfer his strong great faith' ud X* personality. He win be greaUy^Kd. Mr. Isaac WO^K. of Newton Grove, died at thSLo. Sanatorl um in WUaon tast^May afternoon Her remains wars ^Bfefct to Benson Monday night and«fmm here to her Newton Craw^Kpa, where the bun.i took pUes^Kay afternoon. She had been la C^SepHal for sev eral week* e»A nd^Hr was not al together un«me few day* with pneumonia f< ^ al *«I condo. y. Hr. Patton hia pastor, of IKE COTTONSEED PROGRAM THE SAME PrK:»» of Cottwna^d and Cot. tooraad Product* To Fnsnain 5*«i»e Throughout tba Season Food Admdniatratum Con trol Conttaoaa. Raleigh, Jan. 1st-A number of in farmara of good ,or •r<). “d allowad crueller. * ThI "4rT,a °“ °**fr oparaUoiia. ./Try?11 ,r°» »*r. ?.«.•. r"" *• «» ran ova uncar j*?Vr *"<* apprehanalon from tha mlnda alike of producer. who atill bava aeed on band, eottonaaad Heal cruahera a ad the ennaiancn of rottonaead meal and hulh. THE HEAJURt OP A NATION'S CKBATNEJS. A man rich only for hlmaalf haa a ** oarran and chaarlaaa aa that Of the aarpant aat to guard a buried treaaorr. I am aaddanad whan I aea our aucceee aa a nation moaatuwd bp tho number of aerrn under tillage of III* *ha^ Mtport^d; fat the real value of a country moat ha wuighed in acaiaa more delicate than lha Balance of Trade. Tno garnam of Sicily are empty now hut tha beea from all clime, rtlfi fotehhoaar from tha tiny garden of Theoeritne. On a map of tha world yon may cover Jidea with yonr thaml Athena with a Anger Up. and neither of them figure. hi tho Prieea Currant hut they atm lord it tn tha thought and action of every etvlllaad man not Daata cover wKh hi. hood all that waa Italy Us hundred yean •got Material auceaat la good, bul only aa tha mramary prelWilnary ol hatter thing. Tho moaauro of a nation', true nr ceaa la tha amount It haa contributor *•**>• ihought, tho moral energy, tin ’ l»tv>Wctual hayataraa, the awtrltaa hope and ronaetntion of aannblnd. Jamat Ramal) LowatL FIRST YEAR’S WORK FARM LOAN SYSTEM Features of Aamal Report of Board Made To Com grass Yesterday GREATER LENDING POWER OF FEDERAL LAND BANKS Croat of Authority For Them Te Writ# Fire lerersaoo Aloe U Ashed Waduagton, Dee. II—-Increase la the lending power of Federal land banks and the rrant of authority for them to write fire insarance on farm property were advocated by the farm loan board In its annual report aoh miOcd today to Congress. Modifica tion of the Federal farm loan act so as to make the minus tun loan $800 In stead of $100. and raaxtaaa loans t$$,000 instead of $10,000 alao was anted. The report was described as eov aring “the first year of operation” of the farm loan system, the find year of the board bring spent In organiaa Uoa." Ymi mf PrhfTMl “The year was one of very evident pregmadeclared the report, which contained a table showing that farm loan MMdttioni inrrttMd from 1,. 83$ to 3,438 daring the reer; that the capital of the twelve Federal laad banks increased from $10,433430 te $18,230,286; that loans in fore, la crossed from $28,318,304 to $141, 004,431; that joint stock land banks Increased from four to nine; and their loons bow amount to $T480,734; and that Interest rates of the land beaks was l or i 1-2 per rent and that of stock laad banka was six per cent. Interesting Information as te the application by borrowers of t~— ?r#“. **• •o*”3 banka was gtven in a bet**^3 etatrment dealing with about one-third of all the loans cloned kv tka bank*. This statement showed that eight per cent of tho proceeds of tho loans ware used to hay land; ten par cant far buildings and impsoVaamute; Ua par cent for payment of other debts; Ira par cent for purchase of hank mock; four par ccat for purelmae f1 J?T? ***ck’ “d thj»« P«r cant for imgmwata *»d equipment. p ib-Shf'airi'iarts: At U mare than 14,000 ktmstn," <*• "tort. “and has^aaa of “A dlatinrt ’redaction, not only of the rats of Intoraat on soch laaaa. hut »*»• m the accompanying charge*, waa manifest immediatoly after the P»—gs of the act. r ~?TUVtK* brans mad* by Fadaral Land banka in the last year’probably represent only about one-elgth of the total loans mads by all agendas, they ara far greater than nay other tingle U- tK* l*r*'e production and high pricer, net returns of the 1818 crop yaar “was much leas than U pop ukrly supposed,’’declared the re£rt W* ProAta seers eliaitatad by tho scarcity of farm •mot. ill high coat as also that of fer tilisers, implements and machinery. SOME TAR HEEL MEN COMING FROM FRANCE. Aassma Soldiers -n 11 Vsarets Hama •"d *ssst .n UU North Caraliwiaas. Washington. Dec. 80.—Taro battle ships. the Kansas and the Georgia, and tho armorod cruiser North Caro lina, ara among the 11 vessels which tb* smr department announced today had sailed from France between Dec ember 26 and 27 srith returning seL ?"rv. Uf* *f this A eat ef troop •hipe Is due cither at New York or Newport News January 18. The ll ships carry in all approxi mately 16,878 oilcan and mi. The nary craft, especially fitted for this work because of tho shortage of too “«• te gat the army home, card*, the following quotas: Georgia, 867; U288* 1 428 N0’'0* (Carolina, inciDQM tn ih# uniU «n n>ut* houftwirf m tnnouncod today art ftv» complete field srtUlery rernnonte. A* l*Wt, 127th. 14C, ltlat and .133 Each has In the netehberhoed 0f i(. 500 men sad mere than 50 officer*. There are alto an mate 2S trench n>°ttar battalions, the sixth and ear enA, wlA about 30 officer* and 700 men each. DEATH OP MRS. NEATH KEY. Tba fMaral services of Aa late „ ' M.8 Neathery, widow ef Jobs *' ,N^*t!r77' W® be cend acted at < o dock Ala afternoon from the first »•£•* P~rtsh by Dr. T, W. O'Ketley. j.Y'cbo^T, of Mm. Neathery, who died December 27 to San A a Ionia, Ttaaa, wbflo the waa on a vIsK to bar irraadooii. Captain John N. Harrell, reaebad Raleigh yesterday afternoon sad we* taken to tba rooidenee of Mm. Heatheryt oelce, Mr* Harrey J. Johnson, oa Hillsboro street. Cant, and Mrs HerreU accompanied the hod* to Ale eity. Mm. Neathery waa born la 1B37 In Walce county and woe a eonoietont member and regular attendant of the Plmt Beptlet Church for more than half a century. 8be waa well known f?T ,rh*«rf»l disposition and thoufhtfolneaa of others Bcfora her deaA ebe selected boa pallbcarm who will ba Mooem. Thom •• H- ■*«** W. M Jonoo. C A. Shor -mod, K W. Weather*, C. W. Mow. ®°"b and J. B. Paaro* Tba inter meat will be In Oabwood cemetery, i —Newt A Observer lot CeneldeT the weedHnd to keep K prodoetteo. TO TRAIN SOLDIERS FOR BETTER JOBS Govurnnnat Urga* All DiaabUd Men to Taka its Free INFORMATION DIVISION OPENED IN NEW YORK Tbusu Whose Awllnlim An As • •»•■*, Draw MWasa Wage •I Ml Monthly (New York Tims*.) A nationwide campaign to Inform disabled soldiers of tbs advantages of rveducation to rnabls tbrm to find butter Jobs than they had before the war, and of ths causes offered by tha Federal Board for Vocational Edu cation, has boon started by the gov ernamt An information division baa base established in ths Longaerc building in Times Square, and tha New York offices where soldiers ap ply for admission to tho courses is at 2*0 Broadway. Soldiers from Con nect teat and New Jersey apply also st the seats office In ths bulletins sent oat by the Federal board for dis tribution among ths aoldlars it is emphasised that all disabled soldiers whose applications for r*-«ducatk>n srt accepted, receive a minimum wags of 1*6 a month daring train ing, with as additional allowance for dependents Every disabled sol dier is advised to take tha train lag, but no soldier is ruqoirod to taka It After the soldiers have Unbind their toucans ths govonuncat will find Jobs r«r them. "Nat only la ths VnHcd Statue pro elding for ths adoration and train ing of her wounded soldiers, sailors end marines on a vastly larger and ■ore complete scale than any other tountry," mid Dr. Charles A. Prosser, director of tha Federal board of In formation. "bat it ouw. -.rii. »or«. It it paying those of Ha dia-1 ebled NUkn who undergo vocation-] tl tratotag a monthly salary which! earning of the No other Mw*a <• ouch Sal you must Urn a part the government will nay you »o»U> and your wtfZfti. Month.” Additjona1 pay of »10 ■ month far rach child up to throe, making 880 for three children, alto ispaid to aol Sitn who have families. rntemlM lonad officer* who undertake course* receive the same amount of pay aa they drew in their last month of ae ’ ,*•* tb*y •*» expected to maiataia their dependents out ef that ro«n. ea was the ease whan they were on active daty with the army. AhUhedW May Trsia Tee. Even if disability does not prevent him from returning to active work aa “ b» *■ veHeved of active miU Cary utttifs md therf || go nr id for re-faction to enahW him to ,22 him Bring, any veteran may take the re-education course* at the expense of the government. In addition to his Instruction ha will receive the compensation due him under the wnr rtMk insurance act or an amount canal P-7 on aSjU"S£ vlea If that it greater than the Ineor mkc. It || the rale that all aoldlera. £ "‘“i*** vircum^S dim utdn,Tr^“i^“iLri^: sntce of (68 a month. . “Thor* are fourteen branches of ,b* ,n important cities through wj foantry.’' mid Director Prea *er. Experts In every known occu E**"j *VWtP,U *» •»«* these oicn in Ending the occupation best reitod to them, mid ofllciahl^f board are rationed la the army and navy hospitals to apprise the fltsHxl of their opportunity to fit themselves w »v vtvi- IM top" la mg life. The **!" w»°* war, f,n'« “ » day from Um neck down in many cum will bo taught—a, , one-armed man—to «arn much moro from tho nock op. Ia short, a largo proportion of our disabled fighters con and win bo rootorod to economic “nd *• pm»* of miad." Tb« Federal boon! la not only pro imrod to train for all such ocrupa. tiono aa those in which instruction hos boon given satessofuliy fan athor countries,” says a monograph dtotrl bt«sd among disabled soldiers aad sailors in all the hospitals, “but be. eaaae of the wider variety of oecupa tiono in American Ufa it to prepared to train for a groat many mofo ooea* potions than have horn offered In other countries. la the case of each ■non the whole matter should start with Ms own Interest aad preference ond previous experience and ability aa •sit as hte s si sting handicap. This means a conference between the —— and the representatives of the Fed eral beard. List of OecwpotlasM. “Many thousand. .7 wounded ond otherwise disabled men have boon trained and placed In now occupu £S SisSiThMS^ 2s potions In which instruction boo boos *Wee include professional occupation! sueb aa lev. medicine, tonehhig. on gin soring and even theology; agricol tund occupations. Including profs* Monel agriculture, forestry, tans management, general forming, dairy SSftWTSurwS (Continued on Pago 8) WANTS PROMOTION IN NAVY OH MERIT AthwIVclteZr Ob' Naval Affairs URGES INCREASED PAY FOR MEN OF THE NAVY T#H» CammMtee AW lasroaoo la Enlisted Itnte aad Other Me Mere Washington, Dee. II. Iiuaaty Daniel*. In appearing today Mm (hr How Kovel CmwIHtt to n plain the navy's nerds aa regards ana tonal, imtS a pomuuwat wtaMA meat eaa bt determined te Aa light of tha action of the poses teeferases urged that hereafter naval tSetn be promoted oa Merit. Toe sacra (ary rraomaianfleil aa a* mendmrnt Aat weald withdraw aV appHeatioa of sonority in making promotions and alas saggaated Aat officers in each grade Vo ponaittad to (elect men for pavmotUaa to aao> c cast rv grades Instead of oonttoata* Aa pressat ayatem at keying aS ao lactiona atada by a stegte board. For Retention of froWw Wages Increased pay fpr tha man of the navy was also recommended by Hr. Daniels, who asked the committee te write into the now naval bill a provi sion making permanent the war tea pay increase* of tram M te fid for rnlieUd awn. This weald make the nay rang* from IU to Ml a swath. The sacretarv also asked that one awnA's pay be given navy awn aa a rrTm^L liSr***7 IF*® uM Mrvici. In explaining* to'a* i naamlllas that Ac department woald aat naw te for aay lorrvaw in tha rmmaaaiil Ba ll**U"**?? * **“ ****■ a,”«»nr Datiirb mid temporary teersaaa should he authorised to lacked# Mr ennntmeed a Mala ef graallj rrfirrf rat's far short onr-aUt ■ s» distinguished from fkiInnsir alibi Istur*. Thr aaw rata* go late affect •a Jsaaary 1st and should pram to ka «f great value tn ronjonetiou with Uto*t coauaaalcatiara which should » * th. deter. Intemt la phy net trsnsportafi.ij uy tha rsltwav mvl service but which ara not of aaf llcift urgency or importance to war-nat tha payaMnt of the tambaua charc^s harstofors In offset far Me erunblc transmission. Under the aaw Mb- Hale short ovar-nlght memagea •sv mt a eoaaidarabla dhtancefor as W as (Oe, while the unlaM rate it snip 50c as against a dollar auVraum which baa iirsiailad M— agrr Wilson of tha local Western Un to'1 ffieu advima that this aaw night me* tags service doe* not latarfara m sir way with the popular night latt'r aerates, hut Is Intended to sup plrn-nt it in conjuactlea with tert rr r mm an .cations which have bean goi»'' by mail Hat which should daair abl- to by tetrgraph. Now that tha tel'" sphs ara operate Id aa aa tate m1 i*rt of the post office service K is u lentood to Imi the policy of Post ma*: T Oeneral Burleson to give tha Pnk!*e an opportunity to auks tha y . *be telegraph sarvfea In th’ elimination of delays to cam mu. .'stions due to aaparadoa of dia UOf at the lowest rates which tha act •! cost of performing the service on a •tandardiaed basis, wIB permit. (LI MP m PRICE! Or USED CAM «tr -* or ArrnMIm M*hn New Car r radactlna rater la At !to beat th« used ear marbot baa alwny-r bean umrewhat anatabla. Va rloor make* of cam hare at dtfforent llm bean in nett demand, aad dur* iny rhta period naturally tha price bar l-eaa hifh. Fravioaa te Norember j|, when the * raiitire eu riaaad, any sort ad an a itamabile, ao lam a» M weald run. commanded a road price,-W* eau e orator rar auaufaetarern had baer inetrurted by tha rooenuaoat to be o.i a 100 par rant war work basis by .Vnuary 1, 191*. This amt ae more new eare balk. Ia fact, many mar.uraetare*» already ware out af prod i lloa aad these waa ao tonic wbc;r new ear* would be offered for tale. Consequently any ana wha «am» tom'llatod the purchase ad aa aoto* mol 1- areeaaded to buy. >n of this has been apaat by tha rim ■ e of tiro armistlee aad tha yrani -iy of penalmieer far motor aw ma'iifyturore to to pa t with their ears ate or two months aye It win be a dMInet •boi> when they try to Nip in ad them now ta Aad that there la a treat ▼»r r -e la tha price they ware offer. Good ear* and m -iraimllij fc jrle-totot I* uryed fur thu (torn Aoe if Atop.