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THE CONSCRIPTION BILL
PASSES WITH A WHOOP
Both Senate and House on Saturday
voted approval of the adimlnistratlon's
proposal to raise a great war army
on the principle of selective conscrip
tion, voting down by an overwhelming
majority the volunteer army amend
ments around which opponents of the
administration plan had centered their
fight. ' '
In the Senate the vote on the vol
anteer amendment was 69 to 19, and
' In the House it was 279 to 98, sup
porters of conscription marshaling a
strength which surprised even the
administration leaders.
Among the more important amend
ments adopted in the House was one
empowering the President to exempt
from the draft in hia discretion per
sons engaged in agricultural work.
In the Senate there was a long de
, bate over proposal to prohibit the sale
or possession of liquor during the war.
Several amendments were adopted,
deluding one to make it unlawful to
sell or give liquro to officers or men
in uniform or to members of Con
gress or other officials, and then the
Senate reversed itself and adopted
a substitute simply forbidding the
sale of liquor to soldiers in unifonm
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WHAT FRENCH HAVE DONE
IN ONE WEEK OF DRIVE
In Just one week the French
In their great attack on the front
from Soissons to Auberive, near
ly fifty miles, did these things:
Took more than 100 guns, some
of large caliber.
Took approximately 20,000
prisoners.
Occupied twenty good sized vil
lages, not including hamlets.
Reconquered about fifty square
miles of French soil.-
Fut out of action in killed,
wounded and prisoners, on a con
servative estimate, at least 100,
000 German soldiers, the equiv
alent of seven divisions. .
Forced the German high com
mand to throw In twenty divi
sions from their last reserves,
their "strategic reserves" whom
they were saving for a great of
fensive campaign, to save their 4
whole front In France from dis-
aster. And the battle only be-
gun!
vided for classifying the recruits and
eliminating those exempt
With the rolls of those liable for
service complete, the task of select
ing the men to go in the first incre
ment of 500,000 will begin.
It has been suggested that this be
and giving the President wide discre- one by means of the country Jury
tlonary authority to make other pro- wheel. The first man whose name Is
hibition regulations. 'drawn would go with the first 500,000
An amendment bv Senator Curtis m he railed out. for training within a
stipuating that men subject to draft few months. The second drawn would "itude of the Stones, the La Follettes
THE "DISGRACE OF REIDSVILLE"
(By J. W. Dunn)
The writer cannot help feeling that
Capt Rich failed to strike at the root
of the' matter whien he so forcibly
commented on the sparcity of volun
teers, after his inspection of our local
Company- Thursday night. The show
ing, in point of numbers, was pitiful.
Of that there can be no question. But
the cause does not lie altogether with
the men who have failed to come for
ward and volunteer. They are all right
at heart, but they have been subject
ed to a process during the past three
years that has reduced their patriotic
spirit, and left them guessing what
they ought to do. Whether to come
forward and serve their country, or
hold back and take advantage of the
sippy sentiment that has been permit
ted to exude so freely from the class
of politicians who damned our Predi
cant with the degenerate shibboleth
of "he kept us out of war."
There never was a more edgenerate
cry sent up from a great nation than
this political slogan. It came from
the man who shoots from behind the
hedge. From the German sympathizer.
who knew the alms of the Kals r.
From1 the boodler who wins elections
not on their merits, but by craftily
greasing the open palm of the degen
erate elector, whose right to ballot
would disappear were his works ex
posed to the light.
This cry, which has done more to
mislead men, and pull them down from
high ideals of patriotism' and duty,
rhan anvthfne' th writer tnnwi of-
(supplemented by the intensely selfish
NOW DYNAMITING U BOATS
AS THEY ONCE KILLED FISH
Dynamiting submarines as peo
ple used to dynamite fish before
it became illegal is the latest
scheme of the English, according
to Dr. McKIm, the American
veterinary surgeon who has Just
returned from a German prison
camp, where he was one of the
Yarrowdale prisoners.
"They attach a giant bomb to
the tail of a patrol boat or de
stroyer," said Dr. McKim, "and
drop,, it when a submarine Is
sighted. It explodes at a gl7en
depth and nearly blows the pa
trol boat out of the water. But
the water transmits shock so
readily that it also destroys the
U boat."
and all the unsexed men who have op
posed our nation taking taking its
place beside the other glorious na
tions that have been draining the
blood of their people in defense of hu
man liberty; and the criminal deter
mination of others to keep the nation
in a state of unpreparedness in a
who voluntarily present themselves, go with the second increment, to be
shall be recorded as volunteers, was called six months later; the third with
accepted by Chairman Chamberlain the third increment, with duty a year
and went into the bill. I off and so on.
Another long debate was evoked j With the new regiments assembled,
ever amendments by Senators Tho- ( a rigorous course of training will he
mas and LaFollette to exempt from undertaken. The officer's training
conscriDtion those havintr '.eonscien- camnn to brt estahllshori within a few
tious objections" to military service. ! davs in each district will begin at j flabby condition that would preclude
Roth worn defeated without a roll th Ptid nf thrA mnntha nonHnir new 1 our Joining Issues with any third class
call, and the bill's exemption propos
als left unchanged.
The debate on conscription brought
pome dramatic passages In both Sen
ate and House. In the Senate the is
sue was fought out on Senator McKel
lar's amendment, which would author:
i?e a call for 600,000 volunteers and
not put conscrlptioln Into effect ; un
less the half million men did not re-
ntfipora into ' th. nnraniznt inn nnrt tha nation that maintained a standing
enlisted .men selected from the ranks .""V. ,s something that has caused
of the regulars for commissions will tne wrlter bitter reflection on the
be given special Instruction to lit "name hat would be the heritage of
ihem for officers.
The plans call for the transfer to
the first 500,000 men obtained by
oaft of from 150,000 to 200,000 non
commissioned officers trained in the
regular and national guard regiments.
spond within ninety days. Johnson ef ;t is here that the opportunity lies
alifornia also advocated a call for for men who volunteer now as enlist
volunteers to place an American force 1 ed men in the ranks oMhe two ser
in Europe immediately. .vices.
On a roll call the House rejected
the volunteer army proposal by a vote
of 313 to 109, an even greater majority
than that by which the amendment
had" been eliminated from the bill
earlier In the day on a teller Vote la
committee of the whol.
The parliamentary tangle resulting
from the almost simultaneous action
by the two houses, requires the next
move to be made on the senate sida.
The bill must be repassed there, with
unlimited opportunity, under, strict
interpretation of the rules, for further,
debate and amendment. It then will
go to conference, with the principal
task that of harmonizing the two
houses on the maximum conscription
age, fixed by the senate at 27 and by
the house at 40.
WAR DEPARTMENT IS SETTING
MACHINERY FOR GREAT ARMY
With the enactment of the selective
draft army bill the War Department
has set machinery in motion to nr ry-
ance under the measure within two1 1Ie docs not try to make any funny
years a trained army of 2.000.000 imen. ! mrl r put any scratches or any-
SAILORS' LOVE LETTERS
VERY MUCH TO THE POINT
Nowadays if a young ;n an 15 th'
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vuncu oifiit-o mi j vi ui iu naval i v
serve on duty wants to write home he
receives a postal card upon which are
printed the following terse sentences:
I am quite well.
I have just been admitted to the hos
pital. I have been wounded. I am getting
along well.
I have been sick, but I hope to return
to duty soon.
I have received your letter, telegram,
parcel, dated .
I hve received no letter ftom you for a
lorn f.ne.
(Signature)
"- (Date)
If the sailor desires to send this he
very carefully crosses out the sen
tences which do not fit his case, signs
his name, addresses? the card and there
by finishes his task. He does not
write another word, because he knows
if he does the card will be destroyed.
Within ten days after the bill Is
tiigned, every township in the country
will be registering its young men for
duty, and work will have begun on
the sixteen training; camps, where
preparation of the forces for war will
start in August or September.
Decentralization of adminlsitrative
work will be sought by the depart
ment In every move it makes. Details
will not be disclosed until the bill has
passed, but It Is known that registra
tion will be carried on through Sher
iffs and other officials, aided by post
masters or other federal agencies
where that seems desirable.
On a date to be set every citizen
affected by the act will be required
on pain of heavy penalty to present
nimself at the nearest registration Into trouble.
place, where machinery will be pro-
thing else mysterious on it.
He does not nay vhere he is, on what
ship he Is, wLiere he has been or
where he is jjoing. It's irtlme, and
over in England, where t fey invented
the idea, they found early lu the war
that ingenious individuals who wanted
to tell tilings they should not tell tried
all sorts of things to slip some extra
information home. Some of these in
dividuals faced a firing squad.
Just as soon as one of our armies
gets to a place where there is likely to
be trouble the same censorship will go
these United States in the event of
Trance, Russia and England bringing
Germany down to the dust without
our shedding a drop of blood to aid in
this Godly fight.
Have our pacifist friends save the
mark; but have our pacifist orators
ever for a brief moment seriously con
sidered the fact that werethe present
war to culminate without our physical
aid, we would be the most bitterly
hated nation on this globe? And be
ing hated and heavens knows we
would richly deserve it in view of the
fact that this is not a fight for defence
of England alone, or France alone, or
Russia alone, but for the defence of
the whole world from the domination
of Prussianism being hated, would in
levtably lead to war in the end. If any
of our friends our misguided, or ig
norant friends, have any doubt upon
this subject, and If they are open to
human reason, or comprehend the
meaning of language as it is spoken,
we would refer them to a speech made
by the Kaiser in 1908, at Potsdam, in
which gave Utterance to the words;
' After the war it will be time to set
things right in America, and to teach
my friends over there that I have not
forgotten the objet lesson which Ad
miral Dewey saw At to give me some
years since when we had that little
altercation with Castro," and ask
them exactly what interpretation do
they put upon that speech from1 a
bloody tyrant who broke his solemn
promise, and overran little Belgium?
Li God's name let us have done with
deceiving ourselves, and face stern
facts. It may be all right to deceive
others, but why make fools of our
selves? We are not at war because we want
it. We are at war because our Pres
ident knows, and every man with the
reasoning powers that God has given
him' knows and has known for three
years past that if we did not go to
war, inevitably the war" would Come
to us.
Would ourr pacifist friends rather
LEAKSVILLE-SPRAY
taken Belgium, northern France
(where the retreating Germans inocu
lated the poor people with tuberculosis
germs as a parting giift), or Serbia,
and other destroyed portions of Eu
rope. Give up your sons; send them
forth with a proud spirit, and give
thanks to Almighty God that you have
sons to send forth to do their part in
this holy war, and do not, by break
ing that proud spirit, send them: forth
as paltroons to bring discredit upon
heir fathers, and their nation.
Readers may think the writer pens
Ijhese words without appreciating what
war is. Not so; he has been nursed
hy heroes of Balaclava six hundred,
and Inkerman veterans; the son of a
British soldier who beat the advance
in Burmah at the tender age of eight
jears; was born in the heart of a na
tion that has ever been at war; has
lost hundreds of old friends in the
war, and whose only deep regret is
that the determined policy of unpre-i011
laredness has operated to keep him ig
norant of that military training that
would Justify him now, notwithstand
ing his years, offering himself in de
fence of the great and glorious coun
try that has given hta opportunity
unobtainable in any other country on
the face of the earth. His feeling is
one of envy as he regards the youth
of America today, with its opportuni
ty of doing something for his country
and having some small share in bring
ing to the nations of Europe the bless
ings of freedom that are the heritage
of Americans.
We are at war WAR and the call
Is for volunteers. Shame on the iman
who withholds his service to a coun
try that so richly deserves it.
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Leaksville-Spray's communltiy week
continued through Friday night when
it closed with an excellent program.
Wednesday was health day and in the
afternoon Mr. J. A. Baldwin of Char
lotte spoke on "The Health Condition
of a Community."
Dr. C. C. Hudson, health officer of
the city of Danville spoke on "Tu
berculosis It's Prevention and Cure."
His address was very fine and greatly
appreciated by the large audience.
Thursday was Thrift and Home Eco
nomic Day and Miss Jameson of Ra
leigh spol-! to interested audience
on the best ways in cooking. Her
acvice was very helpful.
Hon A. L. French of Sunny Home
Farm, Draper, N. C, addressed the
audience on Thrift after which Rev.
W. J. Gordon, representing the local
ministerial association read resolu
tions of appreciation voted Miss Maud
Hewetson for her excellent wotk In
our community the past few years.
Friday was Heme Day. The pro
gram Friday evening opened a short
aegro dialogue by the Junior Gymna.
rium Boys of the Y. M. C. A. followed
by an excellent address on "Taking
Care of the Children", by Rev. W. E.
Abernethy of Reidsville.
Rev. W. J. Gordon mode a short talk
on the woric of the Juvenile Court in
Leaksville-Spray. Mr, Lynch pres
ented the premiums for the Home
Products as follows:
Best Loaf Bread Mrs. Nettie Ver
non.
Best Biscuits Dorothy Hodges.
Best Loaf Cake Mrs. Polly Ver
non.
Best Layer Cake Lilly Lee.
Best Pound Butter Mrs. Munsey
Gilley.
Best Jar Jelly Mrs. Dave Robert-
Agricultural Premiums: i
Best Exhibit of Corn A. L. French
Best Exhibit of Wheat J. R. Dunn
Best Exhibit of Rye J. H. Haizlip
Best Exhibit of Rye J. M. Prioe
Leakvsllle-Spray Community Week
opened Tuesday with the session In
charge of the Ministerial Association.
After a Victrola concert Rev. R. B.
WhiOe spoke on "Why the Working
Man Should Attend Church." Rev.
G. C. Brinkiman "The Community's
Debt to the Church;" Rev. W. J. Gor-
dan on "The Churches' Debt to the
Community;" Rev. J. F. Armstrong on
' The Sunday School and Church in the
Community:" Rev. T. M. Green on
"The Graded Sunday School Lessons;"
Rev. C M. Anderson on "The Church
Census."
All these talks were to the point
and very much enjoyed. lie even
ing program opened with a Japanese
chorus by eight girls. P.ev. G. C.
Brinkiman introduced th j speaker of
the evening. Mr. J. A. Bauldin of Char
lotte. He spoke of our splendid re
sults of co-operation in this communi
ty and how much more we could do
with continued co-operation amocg
the people. His lecture was much en
joyed. Mr. Luther Hodges of Chapel Hill
spent the week-end with relatives
here. .
Mr. Jesse A. Self of Lynchburg ia
visiting friends here.
Mrs. M. L. Heiner and daughters
spent Wednesday in Danville.
Miss Irene Dillon has returned rrom
a visit to friends in Greensboro
Mrs. C. H. Jones has returned from
St. Leo's hospital in Greensboro very
much improved.
Prof C M. Beach has been on th
sick list for the past few days.
Miss Florence Hughes who has
been teaching at Spray High School
returned to her home In Grennsboro.
Miss Jessie Knight of Ridgeway 10
Best Jar Canned Fruit-Hazel Prtoe visltlng ,n Leak8V,Ue' i
Best Jar Preserves Mrs. Atkins.
Best Jar Pickles Mrs. D. M. Walk-
Road the paper regularly.
er.
God
rVlvee of Cabinet Membere Make Ap
... ...... pg, p0P Universal Thrift.
'Mrs. Wlbjon, wife of the president;
Mrs. Marshall, wife of the vice presi
dent, and the wives of members of tbe
cabinet have agreed to reduce their
scale of living to the simplest possible
form tn order to set an example to
other women of the country.
To do their part In the movement for
the conservation of the nation's time
and resources the women of the high
est official families have decided to
omit the usual formal entertaining and
calling and to reduce to the minimum
their social activities, so that they will
be able to give more time and money
to constructive preparedness and relief
work.
They have agreed to pledge them
selves to buy inexpensive clothing and
simple food and to watch and prevent
all kinds of waste. They have in
formally appealed to all the women of
the country to Join them, not only as
Individuals, but by organizing to pre
vent possible suffering1 later on.
Mrs. Wilson and Miss Margaret Wil
boij, the unmarried daughter of the
president, are now paying more atten
tloii to the details of the management
of the White House establishment than
ever before.
Best Sofa Pillow Mrs. C. R
frey. .
Best Tatting Mrs. R. L. Lovell
Best Embroidery Mrs. B. F. Ivle
Best Quilt Mrs. C. J. Gilley
Best Bed-Spread Mrs. T. G. Taylor
Best Article of Clothing (By Girl)
Mary Sue Farrell
Best Article for Home (by boy)
Sylvester Green.
Best Handicraft Majie Thomas
The School Premiums are as fol
lows:
Best English Work (primary
grades) Howard Jones.
Best English Work (intermediate
grades) Gladys Owens. -
Best Drawing (primary) Lucy Ste
gall. Best Drawing (Intermediate). Gar
rel Casey. : ; ...
Best Science Philip Ray.
Best History Elizabeth Jones.
Best Writing (primary) Laura
Price). . ..
Best Writing (Intermediate) Mar
garet Marshall.
Best Fancy Work Elizabeth Jones
Best Manual Arts Laura Martin.
Best Geography (primary) Bessie
Clark.
Best Geography (Intermediate)
Walter Pullman.
Thri?t Premiums are as follows:
Best Cartoon on Thrift Sylvester
Green.
Second Best Cartoon Ed Hobbs.
:'" A Card.'"'. -.C.--.)
We, the undersigned candidates fof
'.he position of Town Coantnissloners,
chosen by a mass meeting of represen
tative cltizenc of Reidsvillo, pledge
ourselves, when elected to give to the
people of the town a vote upon the
proposition of selling the light and
power plant, and not dispose of, or dis
mantle same, otherwise. We are will
Ing to abide by the wishes of the ro
ters of our town.
(Signed)
W. B. WRAY.
JNO. F. SCOTT.
G E. CRUTCHFIELD,
N. C. THOMPSON.
J. F. SMITH
(AdT.J
OTHER SUPERIOR
Bays Vinol Creates Strength'
Rosary Hill Home, Hawthorne. N. Y
"I have used Vinol for many run
down, weak or emaciated patients with
benefit. One young woman was so weaic
and ill she could hardly creen to mr doot:
for aid. I supplied Vinol to her liberally
and in a month 1 hardly recognized hen
She was strone. her color charming and
her cheeks rounded out" MoTHia UU
Alphonsa Latheop, O. S. D.
We guarantee Vinol to sharpen the
appetite, aid digestion, enxkfc the blood
and create strength,
C. H. FETZER, Dragglst.
in for the soldiers.
Folk at home, however, can write nave a war on American sou or on
fully, only they should not attack the I European soil? Better have it on Ku
admlnistration, criticise the army an- j ropean soil and do it good and soon,
thorlties and cheer for the kaiser in and make a thorough job of it. And
their communieatiriis. They niljsht get
Read tie paper regularl
NEW CONCERN
For REIDSVILLE!
We 4ish to inform the public that we wiJl on
Saturday, April 28th, open our Atlanta W.nny
Stand nn West Market Street In the quarters re
cently vacated by the express office. We extend a
cordial invitation to she public to call and see us
when in need of a quick lunch. We will carry a full
line of Candies, Fruits and Ice Cream.
Atlanta Wenny Stand
J, G. X01NIS, Manager.
bj going to war now, save our face,
and release our children from the
dread of war that England had writhed
under during the past forty years the
Kaiser was preparing for it, while the
fat headed pacifists of the English War
Office, and the incompetents in the
House of Lords, cried like our friends
in the United States Peace, whils
there is peace.
The Pacifist (with a big P) ought
to be tabula! ed all over this country.
His name ought to be written down in
a book, and whenever the flower of
cvt nnanhood Is wiped out by a thor
oughly well prepared ruffianly nation.
he ought to be taken out at sunrise
ord gvien what is coming to him.
When he is laken out h9 ongbt to
bo permitted to hide his head in the
sand like his prototype of the feather
ed tribe, the Ostrich, so that he might
he spared the agony of facing death,
which is the mark of the coward, and
the badge of his kind.
The sooner we wake up In Rocking
ham county to the the fact that this
country is at war, and at war with the
joost bloodthirsty, unscrupulous and
arrogant nation npon this earth, the
better it will be for Rockingham coun
ty. And, being at war is but one thing
to do give up your sons to die. if
need be so that yon may not be sub
jected to the brutality that has over-
Bad Cough? Feverish? Gripy.
You need Dr. King's New Discovery
to stop that cold, the soothing balsam
ingredients heal the irritated :nem
branee, sooth the sore throat, the an
tipeptic qualities kill the germ and
your cold is quickly relieved. Dr
King's New Discovery, for 48 years
baa been the standard remedy for
coughs and colds in thousands -of
Iximes. Get a bottle today and have
rt' handy in your medicine chest for
coughs, colds, croup, grippe and all
bronchial affections. At your drug
gist, 60c. .
Sixteen Kentucky Distillers 'to Con
serve Grain Supply.
-James 10. l'emer, head of a well
known whisky distilling plant, has
announced in Chkapo that his plant in
Lexington, Ky., will make no whisky
during the progress of the war. He de
clares that his actiou is due to the
shortage In grain ami that it is the
patriotic duty of everj citizen to con
serve the supply.
Fifteen other Keutucky distillers will
take similar action. They all have of
fered to supply the government with
their available stock of alcohol.
Stop Left Over Coughs
Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey will stop
that hacking cough that lingers from
January. The soothing pine balsams
ioosea the phlegm, heals the irrltatod
mtbranes, the glycerine relieves tho
ender tissues, you breathe easier
nd coughing ceases. Don't neglect a
lingering cough. It la dangerous. Dr
Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey Is antiseptic
and pleasant to take, benefits young
and old, get it at your druggist today,
formula on 'the bottle. ic . .
TO HE
VOTERS
Of the Town of Reidsville
At a meeting of a body of representative citizens, be
lieving that no question is too great for the judgment of
the people, and that they can be trusted to vote upon any
problem in which they ae vitally interested, it was d ;
cided: 1st. -That we use this method of announcing the principles for
which said meeting stood and the names of the parties chosen to
represent them.
2nd. That the ticket chosen, individually and collectively, stanrl
for a Progressive and Greater Reidsville, and in Expansion, ConJ
servatism and a policy which would encourage New Enterprises so
necessary to our growth and development, and to help carry thqi
burdens of up-to-date municipal improvements.
3rd. That the people be informed that no sale of the MunicfJ
pal Electric Plant can be consummated except by a direct vote of
the people,
4th That tne question of selling the Municipal Electric Plant
should be eliminated at this time and not made an issue in the
election.
5th. That the following !ticket was named for the various of.
flees at the coming Town Election and we commend the above to
all the people for their consideration.
DR. M. P. CUMMINGS, For Mayor
IRA R. HUMPHREYS, For Recorder
E H. WRENN, for Solicitor
fi. C. THOMPSON
G. E. CRUTCHFIELD - '
JNO. K SCOTT Commissioners
W. B. WRAY
J.F. SMITH
We solicit your serious consideration and suDDort of the aWa
named gentlemen.
JACK PINNIX, Chairman.
April 19, 1917.