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HOKE OOUNTT JTOtPRNAL. KAEEOBD. M. 0.
mis
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challenge to^ patriotism
THAT FtW WHO tEAD WILL
FAIL TO HEED.
DISPATCHES FBI BALEI6H
Doing# and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple, Gathered Aroand the State
Capital. .
Raleigti
“Here is a message that should go
direct to the hearts of the people of
North Carolina; one that challenges
their paIJrtbtism in a manner they
cannot fail to heed,” J. T. Mangum;
ptMe recrudting secretary for the
»rmy Y. M. C. A., said. Mr. Man-
*uln is from the headquarters of the
southeastern department at Atlanta.
The telegram was as follows:
“Rapidly expanding program war
department makes imperative we pro
vide increased leadership home
camps. Recruit now to January 1,’25
nen each month from your state to
work in home camps. An Immediate
and whoflehearted response to this
appeal alone will save home work
from paralysing handicap.
In his conversation, Mr. Mangum
stated that the need fOr overseas sec
retaries is as great now as ever, as
each departing transport means that
more “Y”.^ secretaries are needed at
the front. But while the need “over
there" Is imperative-it is no less so
"over here" he said. Of the 4 000
secretaries already in France, Italy
and the other battlefronts, he said,. a
large percentage were recruited from
the home camps. This, taken togeth
er with the fact that the war de-r
partment is constantly expanding its
equipment for the training of soldiers
In this country, malrcF nefussury a
large response from the men for
yrork in the camps.
"The army Y. M. C. A. gives some
valuable training to the men .who en
list for service,” said Mr. Mangum.
“At Blue Ridgee a training school
for war secretaries is constantly in
progress. The Blue Ridge school has
one of the finest and most complete
equipments in the United States. The
next school there begins August 29,
continues through September 25 and
•0 on.
Paying^ Alletments and ‘Mipwaneea.
If allotment checks sent to Telatl^ef!
of soldiers and sailors are late or of
reduced amount, don’t worry. Don’t
write to Washington either, ,because
letters will hinder rather than help.
Have patience, and if necessary apply
to the Red Cross Home Service Sec
tions.
This is the request of the Bureau Of
War Risk Insurance, which hereafter
will handle only those allotments
which carry family allowances, and
only in amounts (either ^15 or $16
',nd $5) necessary to support the gov
ernment allowances, AH other allot
ments will be paid in separate checks
by the service departments—War,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Cpast Guard;
An allotment is part of a soldier’x
pay deducted for a beneficiary or set
of beneficiaries. An allowance is an
amount paid by the government to
the family of a man in service. Al
lowances range from $5 to $50, ac
cording to the number and personnel
of the family. For example, a sol-
d.er's motherless child receives from
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance a
$5 allowance in addition to the alIot
m(nt; a wife witht5irt.,children receives'
a $15 governiAent allowatice plus the
$15 allotment; a wife witlTTwo chil
dren receives $32.50 allowance plus
the $15 allotment.
The recent changes in the allot
ment-allowance system are essentially
two. (1) The enlisted man, formerly
required to allot a certain proportion
of his pay, must now allot a flat $li6-j''
it his de'pendents are all in Class A
or all in Class B; if he has depends
ents in both classes, he must allot $15
plus $5. Class A depehd^ents' includes-
wives and children; all other benefi
ciaries are In .Class B. (2) Allotments
in excess of the required amounts
($15, or $15 plus $5, as the case may
be) must be voluntarily made by the
men in. service, and are now paid
through the service departments. Al
lotments which' do not carry family
allowances—allotments to friends or
cousins, for example—are also paid
'through the service departments. Vol-'
HAV FEVEI^d
A. V E.I..TE-C - f/tl-lt'-Er-
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1—Old Glory Implanted on Geruinu soil for tlie tir.st time, at a review oi -A.mencaii troops in Mu^sevau.^,
Alsace. 2—Wounded Arab soldiers of ,the ariny of Hedjaz being removed after a battle with the 'Turks. 3—
Funnel of American lorpedoboat bearing the star tliat is awanled each of the.se vessels that has met and de
stroyed* »-^ubmarine.
September Sugar Allotment.
The sugar allotment for September
will be the same as it was for August,
two pdunds a person, It was learned
from the food administration. Retail
ers of this state will receive their
authority before September 1 to buy
stated quantities of this commodity
for the needs of their trade. North
Carolina’s allotment of sugar for
September for all purposes is 5 518,000
pounds. This Includes a slight addi
tional allotment for canning and pre
serving which Is being apportioned
to the various counties by the food
admlnlstraflon offices at Raleigh upon
recommendation of the county food
administrators.
Bee Industry Growing.
Recognizing that each grain of
sugar saved is a bullet shot at the
Hun, North Carolina farmers are be
coming more and more Interested in
sugar sub^itutes such as sorghum
syrup ani honey. Beekeeping is stead
ily growing in value and Importance
In the state and the keepers are more
and more demanding accurate infor
mation in regard to the Industry. Mr.
C. L. Sams, specialist in beekeeping
for the agricultural gxtenslon service,
states that many meetings are now
baling held over the slate where good
crowds are in attendance.
Nsv) Enterprises;
A charter Is issued for the Up
church Milling and Storage Co., of
Raeford, capital $100,000 authorized
and $26,475 subscribed by T. B. Up
church and others..
Another charter is for the Lucas
Lewis Co. of .New Bern, capital
$160,000 authorized and $70,000 sub-
•oribed by W. J, Lucas and others for
a whdlesale a>end retail grocery and
supply business.
Mory Than 200 Fairs.
With a total of 202 fairs making ap
plication to date for state aid, the fair
season of 1918 gives promise of being
-one of the largest yet had ip the state
abd presumably the south. 'To date
SO negro fairs, 138 community fairs.
S7 county fairs, 6 district fairs and
one state fair, or a total of 202 have
been registered with the fair com
mittee of the agricultural extension
service. Mr. S. G. Rublnow, chair
man of the committee, states that
around fifty more are_ expected _Jo
come In within the next day or two.
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A Spry Old Veteran.
John C. Mangum, well-known Confed
erate veteran in charge of the agricul
tural department buildlngM here, Is the
proud bead of a. family with four gen-
arations represented In the home.
Thet-e is his abn John Mangum; his
grardson, Inglohardi Mangum, who
now- has a little son. John Mangum,
that makes the fourth generation
John C. Mangum is 73 years old, re
markably spry for his age and ITavlng
a war record most creditable with
•e»p»By k 44th rerlmeni
untary allotments, deluding excess al
lotments to wives and other depend
ents, were formerly paid through the
War Risk Pnrcuu; they are now paid
through the’War Department, Na-vy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
If the allotment sent by the War
Risk Bureau is smaller than test
month, the difference will probably
be made up by a separate check
through another department. If not.
It Is because the soldier or sailor has
neglected to make the voluntary al
lotment. Men in service have been
supplied with the necessary applica
tion blanks.
The family of a married sergeant
who makes $48 will now receive from
the War Risk Bureau (1) the allot
ment, fixed at $15, (2) the government
fahilly allowance, the amount depend
ing on the make-up of the family. If
the sergeant wishes to allot $10 more
than the required $16, he makes ap
plication to his own service depart
ment. In this case 'the extra $10 is
paid by a separate check through the
service department.
The change of system may delay
seme checks and may cause temporary
anxiety. But its result will be to
simplify enormously the work of the
War Risk Bureau and to speed the
delivery of allotment-allowance checks
during the remainder of the w'ar.
Recent N. C. Casualties.
Casualties among North Carolina
troops overseas, as shown by late re
ports are as follows:
Killed in action: Corps. J. B. Fa»-m-
er, Wilson-; John R. Massey, Prince
ton; Private J. S. Whitson, Rosemary.
Died of wounds: Privates Geo. Har
rell, Hobgood; A. T.^Carpening, Le
noir.
Died of disease or accident: Jos.
R. Lawrence, Como.
Severely wounded: Lieut. H. L.
Lewis, Charlotte; Corps. M. L. White,
Stocksville; D. R. Roark, Ashland;
Carl M. Lewis. Whiteville; R. L. Wlth-
erlngton, Kinston.
Prisoner or missing: Lieut. Paul
Montague, Winston-Salem.
NEWS REVIEW OF
THE GREAT WAR
Allies Continue Their Advance in
Picardy Steadily but
More Slowly.
ROYE AND NOYON IN DANGER
Charters and Commissions.
The Hanover Bonded warehouse
Company of Wilmington was charter
ed with $50,000 capital authorized and
$5,00(t subscribed.
The Cockey Bros. Co., of Wilming
ton, IS also chartered with $20,000 cap
ital by M. T. Cockey, Dora D Cockey
and' others.
First American Field Army Is Formed
—Situation in Austria and Russia
Improved—Man-Power Bill In
troduced in the Sen*i9te. *?
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
Moving more slowly but steadily and
with determination, the allies last
week pu.shed the Germans further
back in Picardy. General von Boehm,
the Hun “retreat specialist,” having
been placed In coiuniand on the Somme
front, put up an increasingly strong
resistance to protect his withdrawal,'
and the fightiqg became rather local
ized. The fiercest struggle was' toward
the south end of the battle linq^ where
the French were forcing their way to
ward Noyon. Overcoming tremendous,
resistance, they drove the Germans j
from most of the mrisslf or heights of
Lasslgny early in the week, and also
moved forward in the GIse valley.
Then they gained a secure footing on
the Thiescourt plateau and thus dom
inated most of the country northeast
of them for miles. This ^iipvement and
tlie unceasing pressure of the British
from the nortliward imperiled the en
emy’s po.sitioii in Roye, although he
clung with desperation to that city
and to Chaulnes further north. Along
much of the line lie was holding he
had the advantage of tlie old trenches
and wire entaiigleinents built by' liiiii
prior to July, 191G.
Whether Von Bochin would elect to
try to make a prolonged stand there,
or fall back on the much ^ stronger
Peroiine-Noyon litie was not revealed,
but observers believed he would choose
the latter course, and the fact that
he was withdrawing his troops north
of Albert strengthened this view. He
evacuated the towns of Beaumont,
Hamel, Serre, Pulsieux au Mont and
Bucquoy, taking up positions on
heights more easily defended. Along
the Somme, on both banks, the Brltisli,
with the able assistance of some
American troops have been advancing
slowly, taking Bray and Etlnehera.
In the advance on Roye and Noyon
from the southwest the French have
been fighting over extremely difficult
ground with numerous ravines that
furnish cover for the innumerable ma
chine gun.s the Germans have been us
ing. But the French kept bringing up
their artillery and cleaning out the.se
nests, and long before the end of the
week they had taken Rlbecourt, on
the Glse, and had Noyon under con
tinual'fire, rendering It almost unten
able.
Gn the Solsson.s-Relms front the
fighting was mostly confined to repeat-.
Farmers Warned Against Fire.
With the advent of the harvesting neighbor-
season when farmers all throo'gh region. Artillery of both sides was,
thpir .-rain anrt %esle river.
North Carolina gather their grain and
other crops Into their barns in prepa
ration for its use for feed and food
purposes, so tremendously 'important
in these war times, the farmers are
being especially wqrned by Insur
ance Commissioner James R. Young
fire marshal for the state, against stor
ing any gasoline or other ^’articles
about the barn that might start fire
jandL.Jttot-lo use the„barn_as a garage
for an* automobile, ' ■
Pressing Call^Tor Labor.
Due fo a shortage of labor and dif
ficulty in securing necessary road ma
terials, the state highway commis
sion is having a hard time of it at
present. The commission, however, is
contriving to keep up its end of the
load, that is. it is keeping all the
promised federal aid money lined up
for. the benefit of U\e state. The rest
Is up to the eoantleB. The highway
commission has secured the approval
needed lor aecuring the tedarul aid
offered hjr the atate, Part *f the
mnney hem ref*el»ed
Although the Picardy offensive was
slowed up somewlint. army ottlcers see
no indioatfon of a letting down on the
part of Marsliaf Foch. On the con
trary, they predict that another great
drive will'come soon, either In Flan
ders or between the Oise and Soissons,
and expect movements of far greattr
scope In the near future. The Ger
man higli comTnanti"SeFIirsnio“hnveTc'
cepted defeat and to be trying to get
out of Its difficultres as best It may.
The effect of this on the morale of the
soldiery Is quite evident In the pris
oners fnken, and its effect in Germany
Is reflected Inf-ttreTuess. which admits
failure on the west front, as else
where
Early in the week it was announced
that the FirSt American field army, of
five corps, had been constituted with
General Pershing as coiuinnnder. It
Is understood that this arra.v will by
Itself hold the eastern part of the line,
to ^Isace, and some officers belleye an
all^merican drive east Vardnn may
Geneva 'llspatches said the Austria-
Swiss froH^tier wa.s closed for sorne
da.vs and alk trains were full of Aus
trian troops ^ing to the Italian front,
which was takm mean another com
ing offensive there. However, the Ital
ians were reatij^^for it and daily Ini-
•proved their pbsltior.s, especially in
the mountains.
In Albania the .Austrians evacuated
all points held by them south of the
Senienl rjver.
An amazing development is the seiz
ure of Baku, center of tlie Caspian sea
oil district, by a British force which
muile its way up through Mesopotamia
and Persia.
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The parlous cor-lition of the central
powers resulted In a “kaiser., confer-
ence” at German main headquarters
which was attended by the rulers of
Genua ivy and .Austria and their chief
advisers and liy representatives of the
Turks, Bulgiirians and Russian hpl-she-
viki. The Internal situation in Au.s-
tria-IIungary especially is growing
worse—or rather better—daily ; an ex
plosion there: almost any day would
not .greatly surprise anyone. Bulgaria
shows sign? of breaking away from
its confederates, and as for Turkey, the
general public knows nothing of what
is going on there or what is expected.
' —Ml— ->
-^TJie situation in Russia, Including
Siberia, also iS improving for the
forces opposed f the bolsheviki and
the Germans are growing stronger and
amalgamutiiig. The possibility of es
tablishing ail eastern .front that will
seriously worry the Htm.s is being con
sidered, especially since, tlie “supreme
goverument of tlie northern territory,”
embracing linlf a dozen districts, has
declared itself opposed to tlie Germans
and ready to tlglit them. Posse.s.,sion
of tlie port of Ardiaiigel an.d tlie Miir-
mnn coast gives the allies an inlet
for troops to help this movement. That
Germany recognizes the mcnuce is evi
dent from the facts .that slie is sending
more soldiers'from the west front to
Ru.ssin, and has ordered Finland tp.
prepare to make war on, tlie people of
Murinan.sk and tlie allies tliere. Dis-
patclies from Helsingfors declared tlie
Germans intend to. occtipy I’etrograd,
though what they would gain by pos
session of that hunger-stricken city is
not apparent. Leniue and Trotsky
and their soviet, government were re
ported to have tied fr'.an Moscow to
Kronstadt, the great fortress near
I’etrogrud, ami to liave placed tlie exe
cution of power in the hands of a tri
umvirate compo.sed of Lenlne, Trotsky
and Zlnovieff. Lenine also issued a
manifesto urging the pitiless annihila
tion of all counter-revolutionaries.
Moscow being admittedly in. the con
trol of the counter-revolutionists, the
German embassy also fled from that
city to Pskov, which greatly perturbed
the German press.
The diplomats of all the allied pow
ers, now living on warships at Arch
angel, have demanded of Trotsky an
explanation of his threat that Russia
would declare war “against Anglo-
French imperialism.’’
— iMr-
* The first American reglmenf sent to
Siberia, the Twenty-seventh regular In
fantry from Manila, landed at Vliidi- ,
vostok Thursday, and other Yankees
are on the way.
The Czecho-Slovaks iii eastern Si
beria now have the as.sistance of Brit
ish and French forces wliich landed at
Vladivostok and Joined tliein in the
Usurl river valley,. Tliose in western
Silierln were last reported as engaged
in a desperate battle with a large bol-
.••lievlk army,
A long step forward in the inonil
support of these flghtipg Czechs and
of-thelr fellow uationals who are In
relielllon against Austria-Hungary was
-8riT-L- K-dt
nin of the Czecho-Slovn'ks as an al
lied nation and of their armies a.s an
allied force regularly waging warfare
against the'centnil powers. It Is
hoped and believed America and other
allied nations will follow tlie example
of Great Britain.
Last week’s dispatches-told of furi
ous and bloody riots against the Ger
mans in several Russian cities, cau.sed
by the attempl^s of the tiuns to, seize
foodstufifs.
The activities of German U-boatJf off
them and (he ways of combating
them. The subiuarines, In addition to
sinking a number of steamers and at
tacking others. In some cases only a
few miles from the harbor of New
Y'ork, also destroyed a- con.slderable
number of fishing vessels off N^w Eng
land. Several fights'with these CJ-boat».
were reported and it was believed that
at least one of them was sunk. What
was helleifed to he. a gas attack on
the coast guard station and lighthouse
on Smith’s Island, Sor.th Carolina, In
which several men were overcome, has
not yet been explained though the
tiiedry tliiit the poison g«s came from
a submarine was discarded. Presum
ably the fact that-our naval vessels
are pretty busy on convoy duty accounts
for the comparative immunity of these
U-boats along the Atlantic coast.
The steady decline of the German
submarine campaign is emphasized by
the official reports on sinkings and
shlpliuilding for Jul.v. The allied and
-neutral shijiping sunk during the month .
amounted to 270,000 toms, compared
with-534,830 tons sunk In July, 1917.
During the month tbe allied nations
coixstructed a tonnage in excess of
280,000 to that destroyed by enemy oi)-
erations.
— fe —
I'he adniinlstrntion's man-power bill
extending the draft age to eighteen
and forty-five years was reported to*
the senate Thursday and. that body
f epared to take it up and act on It
^dlly. Chairman Cliumberlain in
reporting tlie measure said General
March told the military affairs com
mittee tliat he believed 4,(X)0,000 Amer
icans under one cpininander could go
througli tlie Germa'li.., linps whenever
tliey pleased and that, IF the ages are
fixed as asked, the voluntary enlist
ment system automatically ends. He
also said ail tiie men called for active
service under the amended act would
be in France by next June. The new
American war program, it was re
vealed, calls for SO" (livisions, or about
.3,01X1,000 men, in J-’rance and 18 more
divisions in training in ‘America, by
June 30, 1919.
Ml". Chamberlain told the senate
that President Wilson’s program called
for coiicentration ,of -Amei-ican- forces
on the western front, incUiding Italy,
and that the theory of the fighting In
the future is tliat we must force the
issue iiiid win on the western front.
Tlie liill as reported contains a work
or fight provision to ,.which organized
labor, through Samuel Gompers, has
filed empiiatic objection.
The imniedinte need for more fight
ing men induced the president to issue
on Wednesday a proclamation calling
for the registration, on August 24, of
all young men who shall have become
twenty-one years of age between June 5
last.'^nd that day. This extra enroll
ment, it |s believed, will Include about
150,000 men, one-liaff of whom are fit
for mllltni-y duty.
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IN BAD WAY PHYSICALLY
Physician’s Verdict Made Recruit Won-
der if Any Disease Had Got
Away From HimX
The curiosity of Henry James, who
applied for enlisfment in the United
Stiite.s Jlaritie j-orps at Los Angeles,
remains unsatisfied.
James was taken tiefore Pr. G. J.
I Ilihlehiand. tile txaminini; physician,
ami, after tlie usutil physical examina
tion, was tiild that he failed to meet
tlie i-equireincnt.s.
“l\'liat’s tlie matter with me?" quer-
I lel the prospective Hun liestroyer.
“Yi'u've got scoliosis, plitiiisis and
Rynoiriis," was tlic-surgeon's reiily.
'I'll* would-lie marine blushed to he
told so frankly what prevented.iiis be
coming a 'de_vil dog. :!nd turned to go
out, wlien tile doi-tor .hot a few hl>t
I'artiiig words after liitii.
“.Not only tli.-it—you're rrouliled with
slight astigmatism, otitis media and
chiluiii- furmunculosis.'’ ^
[ "GcsIl.’’ was all tile lad could say as
he tfi'd in confusion.
Chairman Kltcliin and other mem
bers of the house ways and meafis
conimltt.ee being wedded to the idea
that the best way to raise more rev
enue l.s, to increase the excess profits
tax. rather than to impose a war prof-
GIRLSI USE LEMONS
' I^OR SUNBURN, TAN
Try itl Make this lemcn lotion
to whiten your tanned or
freckled akin.
Squeeze the juice of two lemons lo«
to a bottle containing three ounces of
Orchard White, shake well, and yoa
have a quarter pint of the best freckle,
its tux. Secretary of the Trea'hury Me- j suiiburu and tan lotion, and complex-
Adoo was compelled to go before the ^ ion whitener. at very, very Small, cost,
committee with a mass of figures to | Your grocer hasThe lemons and any
sustain liis contention that the war | drug store or toilet counter will supply
profits tax method is the best and only
fall- one. In reply to Kltgliln’s asser-
'\ioii tliat a war profits tax was-"only
camouflage to let ouj the big fellows”
the secratary produced figures to show
that ill a grt-nt majority of caSes the
war profits tax would full more hekv-
ily on the large concerns tliau would
the excess profits tax, wliic-h. if fixed
at 80 per cent as tlie committee pro-,
posed, he said would touch not more
than one of the large corporations. He
three ounces of Orchard White for a
few cents. Massage this sweetly fra
grant lotion into the face, neck, hrmi
and hands and see how quickly the
freckles, sunburn, windhurn and tan-'
disappear and how clear, soft and
white the skin becomes; Yes! It is
harmless.—Adv.
me.
Sarcasm.
“It is very, "hot today.’’
“I’m so glad you told
excess prints tax, with corrections but | thermometer. ”
without ihWease. He also urged heav
ier levies on uuearned Incomes than 1 _ I>y«*oierv
r or frun Bit
Sa res
-the-
on earned Incomes, and the imposition
of a tax upon se'rvants ns luxuries.
The secretary, impressed on the
committee the necessity .of passing the
new revenue bill before September 28,
the date set for liiunc-hlug the fourth
Liberty loan caiupaign, saying that
further delay would- Jeopardize the
ability .of the treasury to sell sufficient
treasury certificates -to finance It in
the intervals between the Liberty
the Atlantic coast have grown so an- ^loans. In Washington most of the
nojdng that the cabinet Is said to have lay In passing the measure I* expMB
b -n • fo ort fo (lovelon )n the saitata.
I tr.-m OrinX'Dg K-o Waier or rrun ptns
- Dwtr aa up«o wIimIow bSooia b* rb«ck*a Iwmvdl-
OHOVB-S BASr BOW ML
MBOmiNlI, % aaa kur* rvnoaj lor Suuubr
Uarrbu«u. U la Joali aa aSiMUTa -i r Aauita aa tat
Uhiidian. '
Chicago woman has startetl crusade
sgalnst cats to conserve food.
Texas Is ubandonii^ ostrich gttw
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