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THE REVIEW COVERS ROCMNGHAM LIKE TIIE MORNING DEW AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES LIKE TIIE SUNSHINE ON A CLEAR DAY t if. . ff: . If Km ht n EEIDSVILLE, N. C. FRIDAY,' AUGUST 10, 1917 ISSUED TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYO VOLUME XXX No. 43 WTO M It "Til W II ft UNCLE SAM'S DUTY 10 ALLIES JNJHE CRISIS AMERICA'S DUTY TO FINANCE FRANCE SAYS FRENCH PAPER IN EXHAUSTIVE REVIEW AS SERTS CREDIT MUST BE EX TENDED ON LIBERAL BASIS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE Tho nroduction of over a billion bushels of wheat and over eighty-three million bushels of rye this fall. Is the immediate war agricultural program for the nation announced today by David F. Houston, Secretary of Agri culture. The Journal des Bates in a promi nent review of finance yesterday calls attention that it Is America's Impera tive duty to recognize towards France, which it cannot escape, and that it mutt open credits to the allies as large as may be required without which they cannot continue the war. The article points out that the status of the United States is different now that she i in war and says that it mu:;t not expect the same securities a when her standing was on a pri vate basis. Tin review opens with a resume of existing conditions which require ur gently that purchases outside of France must be restricted to the low est possible limits, for if the country shows a willingness, to cut down inter, nal expenes and do without all im ported luxurules then it will have a right to call on the allies for all need ed financial aid. The allies knew, the revkw add, that. France is in a pecu liar position with the richest districts invaded, dependent a long time sole .ly upon itself and short of labor. "England on whom we depended for coal and many other things, would, not dream of refusing us credit for purchases we make there," the article continues, "we can rely on her loy alty not to demand immediate pay ment lVr our Ipusrchasies. Without granting u any time at a moment when we are short of money to settle would purely and simply put us in a positon of being unable to continue the war. The allies in according the cred it of the allies but give u a chance to live and lght by their sides. What has just been said about our agree ments with ugland applies- equally as wall to the relations petween Eng land, France and the United States. "Th latter are, In effect, suppliers of the rallies of Europe and the allies depend much more on America than we do on England.While America was stil neutral it. could limit its credit to u3 and demand that we pay in gold a large portion of our purchases but now that it has entered the war it would be folly on their part to wish to continue to act this way. It is absolutely necessary that it furnish England and France with all they need, It Is realized that in America everyone has not taken into account the exigencies of the situation . "Some people still figure it is possi ble to make war with peace time fi nances. Likewise many have been somewhat frightened at the amounts of credits necessary for the allies. Americans have not been familiar with um3 current in allied countries, but they will become so by the exigencies of the situation. Already they have slightly relaxed the strict regulations Imposed on banks. They will go by the force- of circumstances, much far ther along this line for it's impossible that a war which overturns the eco nomic life of the country should leave absolutely intact is financial mechanUm. The United States will do as other blligerents and can do so less inconveniently because they have been enriched since the begin ning; of the European war. "They will open to the allies- of Eu rope credits as large as may be need ed, for to refuse them would be to make a continuation of the war Im possible. But it is important that Americans- take account as soon as possible of obligations which they cannot escape. Every delay in their action, every hesitation risked might have the most serious consequences for the allies, This is what jnust be understood in America and what one does not seem to have un derstood yet to judge by the shipping of gold which allies have had to send to America. That neutralB must be paid in gold U easily understood but payments of gold should cot be neces sary between allies who have the greatest Interest in seeing that one does not create embarrassment for the other." Paris Special. A corn crop surpassing any ever grown before; a reduction in wheat prospects, due to damage to the spring wheat crop, and record crops of bar ley, rye, v hlte and sweet potatoes, ;oba-;o and hay were forecasted in the August 1 crop report of the De partment of Agriculture. Canada's war expenditures are now about $800,000 a day the total to July 20: being; $623,000,000, according to figures published. Thi3 sum includes upkeep of Canadian troops in France for which Canada owes Great Britain $272,000,000. Advances to the muni tions board amount to $288,000,000, while $22,00,000 was spent for hay, cheese, flour, etc. Canada is supply ing about $10,000,000 a month to buy cheese and contributing $25,000,000 a month to the impenial treasury for the purchase of munitions in Can ada. CAPITALISTS GUESTS OF REIDSVILLE THIS WEEK CAME ON THE BOOSTER'S SPEC IAL OF THE SOUTHERN RAIL. WAY ENTERTAfNMENT FUR NISHED THEM BY CITIZENS OF THE TOWN. According to War Department offl cials it is practically certain the first contingent of the drafted army will be able to move into camp the first of September. It is developed that the percentage to be called on that date may be raised from 20 to 30 per cent, Army officers are in favor of calling approximately 200,000 of the men to colors in about three weeks time and if that number of men have finally been accepted for service by that time it has been stated the can tonments will be sufficiently complet ed to accommodate, them. Provost Marshal General Crowder is at work on the final set of regula tions to be promulgated this week to complete the organization of the se lective draft war. army. They will govern actual mobilization of the men selected. Preliminary figures issued b.y the' War Department place the to tal force of National guard taken in to the federal service August 5, at 13.093 officers and 419,834 men. An other statement showed 180,766 war volunteers have been recruited for the regular service since April 1, leaving 2,000 vacancies in the reg ulars at war strength. These figures mean that approximately 725,000 men are now under arms, exclusive of the navy and marine corps, to be supple mented within the next few weeks by 687,000 raised under the draft bill. Of the latter about 500,000 will com pose the third element of the war army, the new national army, and the remainder will go to fill up the regu lars and the guard and their reserves. A party of prominent northern cap italists accompanied by Mr. J. C Williams, assistant to President Fair fax Harrison of the Southern Rail way, and Mr. It. G. Henson, Jr., di vision land and industrial agent of the Southern Ry., arrived In Reidsville on a special car attached to No. 12 Monday night. The party spent Tues day here and visited points of inter est in and near Reidsville. Mrs. J. C. Williams was also with the party. She was entertained dur her stay here by Mrs. N. C. Thomp son and other Feidsville ladies. The party was takn in charge by members of the C. and A. Association and several automobile trips were made to nearby farms. The visitors were especially interested in farms and farming methods in this sections A visit as made to Mr. C, L. Mos3' two farms, among others. They had a field photograph with them and pic tures were taken which will be in corporated in a booklet to be gotten out by the Land and Industrial de partment of the Southern. Members of the party also were much interest ed in the new sand-clay roads built in the county. Several snap-shots were taloen o5 th;e THompsonville road. . Messrs, Ira It. Humphreys, F. P. Kemp, Fred Walker, R. B. Chance, E. R. Harris and others accompanied the gentlemen on the country trips. The C. & A. Association arranged an informal Brunswick stew for the party at Smith's Spring, three miles southwest of Reidsville, late in the afternoon, which was enjoyed by, quite a number of Reidsville citizens. ; The visitors seemed to enjoy the informal ' entertainment hugely and altogether spent a very pleasant day in Reids ville. The local tobacco factories sup plied the visitors with an abundance of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. The visitors left on No. 46 Tues day night for Danville where they spent the following day. IS COUNTY MAKING A SPLENDID SHOWING PROBABLY LESS THAN THIRTY PER CENT REJECTED ON PHYSI CAL EXAMINATION, WHILE FIF TY PER CENT. OF THOSE EX AMINED CLAIM EXEMPTION. DRAFT RESISTING PLOT IN OKLAHOMA IS BROKEN The President on, as has been pre dicted, in the fight for the food bills. Tfce country will now see what Her bert Hoover, selected to administer the new law can do. The Senate Wed nesday accepted the conference re port on the food control bill by a vote of 66 to 7. Immediately the conference report on the food surrey bill was accepted. This action wu taken just one hundred days aftT the first legislation affecting food supplies mas formally presented to Congress. It was 78 days after the food control ail was Introduced la th House. Effective September 1, General Jj. W. Young will be the adjutant gen eral of North Carolina national guard according to a commission just is sued by Governor Bickett. General Young waa adjutant general three years of the Craig administration and became brigadier peneral and com manded the North Carolina brigade during its service on the Mexican border. Col. B. S. Royster, who had been brigadier general could not go to Mexico on account of health condi- ditions, becoming adjutant general In the place of General Young. Now General Royster resigns as adjutant general to give place to General Young whi Is not to be mustered into the service by the war department as brigadier general for the new army being formed. Along with the resig nation of General Royster came the resignation of Col. George L. Peter son as property1 and disbursing offi cer, this being also effective Septem ber 1. This is on account of person al differences between Colonel Peter son and General Young. His suc cessor will not be named until Gen eral Young cornea into office Septenv ber 1. With 250 draft objectiors under ar rest and more surrendering, federal and state officials believe the organ ized outbreak against service In the national army to be over. Officers today continued their search for sev eral of the leaders who have not been apprehended and department of jus tice officials continued the preparation of conspiracy information. The re ports today from Seminole, Hughes and Pontotoc counties indicated last night pased without serious disturb ances. The wounding of William McEwett, deputy sheriff, while guarding a rail road bridge, and the capture of John Harjo, notorious snake leader of the Indian working class union of Semi-; Laurel friends of Mr. T. E. Winn, nole county, and the confession ofjJr., were both surprised and delight Mat Harris that he ordered the burn , ed on yesterday to learn of his mar ing of the bridge near Francis, were '. riage. This very interesting news was late developments of the night. j mads known to them through an The home of Che Parney Fixico.'j nouncements, which read as follows: The County Exemption Board Is busy at Wentworth this weeek exam ining registrants for the national ar my. Dr. J. W. McGehee, the board surgeon, is ably assisted by Dr. M. P. Cummings of Reidsville and Dr. J. T. Taylor of Madison In making the physical examinations. The ex aminations, are very thorough and require a lot of work. When the board began examlna tlons Tuesday morning about every man of the 112 summoned for the first day was present. In fact there has not been a failure to answer the call, so far as we know. The first batch examined were whites and then a batch of colored men were brought in. After 112 men had been ex amined the individual records were gone over by the three physicians and those failing to come up to army reauirements were exempted. About 30 per cent, of those examined the first clay wers found physically un fit and were given exemption cards. On the second day those examined made a better showing, the rejections being about 25 per cent. It is thought the board will get through with the third batch of 112 this (Thursday) afternoon. The examinations were held in the commissioner's rooms In the court house. Messrs. R. P. Mitchell and K. R. Thompson of Reidsville assist ed as clerks. After the registrants had filled out the proper blanks and undergone the physical examination those who desired to put in claims for exemptions were directed to an office on west side of the court house where a clerk helped in filling out ex- ?Tption blanks. About 50 per cent. of those examined made formal claims for exemptions. It will depend, of course, on the number of exemption claims allowed by the county and district boards as to,, whether the qounty's quota of 167 men will be obtained from the first call of 336. If this quota is not obtained from the first lot an other batch of registrants (in order of the inability) will be caled in a few days. This county is making a favorable comparison with other counties and exemption districts in both the physi cal tests of registrants and the per centage of those making no claims for exemptions. As soon as we can obtain the data from the county board The Review will publish a lint of those making claims and the grounds for their claims. Also an honor roll of those who are ready and willing to answer the call to arms of their country with out asking for exemptions. COMING AND GOING Of THE PASSING THRONG Mrs. Dickson of Raeford is visiting Mr. and Mrs. D, Barnes. Mr. C. L. Green of Greensboro spent yesterday in town. Mrs. W. H. Plummer of High Point is visiting relatives here. Mrs. J. W. Millner Is visiting rel atives at Stokesland, Va. Miss Estelle Womack of Winston Salem is visiting relatives here. Mr. W. F. Clegg of Greensboro was the guest of relatives here this week Air. ana Mrs. J. vv. uethell are spending some time near Cascade, Va. Mrs. E. W. Harvey and children of Greenville are guests of Misses Womack, Lindsey street. Misses Fannie Gardner and Blair i Spencer are among the Reidsvillje people at Moore's Springs. Mr. S. H. Ware Is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. R. W Painter in Jacksonville, Fla. Lieut. A. E. Worsham of Rufnn has assumed his duties with the 3rd Reg iment infirmary at Henderson. Mr. H. M. Holderness of Charles town, Wi. Va., is visiting in the city, the guest of Mr' B. R. Stone. Mr. Jas, R. Gunn and family, who have been living in Norfolk for some time past, have returned to Reidsville. Mrs. Hugh Hubbard and son have returned to San Francisco after spending some time here with rela tives. . Mrs. H. C. Edrington has returned to Fort Worth, Texas, after a visit here to her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Penn. Mrs. J. W. Turner has returned after recovering from a successful operation performed at a Greensboro hospital. Misses Annie and Jennie Millner will leave this morning for Beckley, W. Va., to sped several weeks with relatives. ' Miss Hunter Irvln of Greensboro who , has been spending the summer in Chicago is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Irvin. ; Misses Lillian Mebame and Ejlla Pinkston of Salisbury were the week end guests ot Miss Audrey Barber on South Main street. Mr. Alex Irvin of Reidsville has en listed In the Grenville, S. C. ambu lance corps and expects to leave for France at an early date. Mr. Wlliamson Mills of Seneca, S. C was here Wednesday to appear for examination before the exemption board. He was rejected on the physi cal examination. His brother, Julius, is a sergeant in the local company. WILL RECEIVE BIDS FOR SALE ELECTRIC PLANT TOWN COMMISSIONERS WILL, GIVE REIDSVILLE AND . OTHER SYNDICATES OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE BIDS AT A MEETING ON. NEXT TUESDAY. MR. T. E. WINN, JR., WEDS NORTH CAROLINA GIRL REIDSVILL TILLER OF THE SOIL HAS A FINE TOBACCO FIELD known as "snake, the young Semi nole, who captured "Bud" Manealey in woman's clothing, near Sasakwa, Saturday night, ws reported to have been burned : early today. Oklohoma City Special' Apache Indians Are On The Warpath1, Apache Indians in the Sierra Anchas mountafns, -,5ft "miles northwest ofl Globe, are on the warpath and the two largst mines in the district have sus pended operations, according to, a tel ephone message summoning help, which was received here at the sher iff's office tonight The messenger of one of the mines informed Sheriff Tom Armor that leaders of the uprising have called out all Indian mine workers and that they were completely beyond controL Deputy Sheriff Dan Armor, at the head of a band of mounted rangers, departed for the Sierra Anchaa at 7 o'clock tonight, but they do not ex pect to arrive before tomorrow morn ing. A call was issued tonight by the sheriff for cowboys to hold themselr in readiness for duty in event the rangers were unable to quiet the In- Try This One. Illnt to husbands: When drying dishes hold the slippery ones over the rest of the dishes. Then when they slip, the chances of breaking more dishes are Increased many times over the more familiar plan of dropping them on the floor. The more dishes you break, you know, the fewer you have to dry. There is no object in dry ing broken pieces ot china. Kansas City Star. Getting Worried. Clarence constantly played with Marguerite, one of twins, until his par ents tessed him about his "girl." One afternoon Clarence's mother was sit ting on the porch. Clarence, Mar guerite, and a few other children were playing in the yard. Suddenly he left the group and coming to his mother said : "Mother, when you marry a twin, do you have to marry both of themr Almost Good for Nothing. "Judging from the paltry salaries some of our ministers are paid,' ob served the near cynic, "one might say with truth that are good for al most nothing." "Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Franklin Tay lor announce the marriage of their daughter , Irene Walton to ': Mr. Thomas Earl Winn, Jr. on Saturday, the thirtieth of June, nineteen hundrd anil seventeen, Reidsville, North Caroleina." , This announcement stands out very prominently among the many June weddings, the popular groom being a member of one of Laurel's oldest and best families. He has always been a very bright and enterprising young man, and since finishing school both at Tulane and the Mlssisssippl A. & M. has enjoyed unusual success In a business way. His talents along engineering lines took him to Reids ville, N. C, where he met and claim ed his bride whom we feel sure is everything sweet, lovable and fair. His friends in Laurel are eagerly Mr. C. L. Moss who came here last fall from Nash county, purchasing two farms near Reidsville, has some new stunts in tobacco raising which have made the natives take notice. He has two fields of tobacco that are wonders. The plants are topped at from 24 to 32 leaves and are higher than a man's head. They tell It that Mr. Moss rode a, horse along the rows when he topped to the tobacco being unable to reach the top of the plants from foot. Mr. Moss used a special fertilizer he had made by Armour and Company at their Greensboro plant. Instead of the usual base used In tobacco ferti lizers he had 600 pounds of cotton seed meal and 200 pounds of nitrate of soda, in addition to the other in gredients usually put in tobacco fer tilizer. The special fertilizer costs about f45 per ton, or about $10 per ton more than the regular kind. Mr. Moss uses from 800 to 1200 pounds to the acre. He is saving1 his to; bacco by priming his leaves off as they ripen. He has a long slide which Is drawn by a horse between the rows to haul off the leaves as primed, being careful not to allow them to become bruised. He has al ready cured a number of barns and has obtained very good color on his curings. The type of tobacco la the ordinary kind grown in this county. His fields will yield at least 1500 pounds to the acre, against an average yield of 500 or 600 pounds. Mr. Moss es timates the cost of production on his plan at not over 15 per cent more awaiting an opportunity to knew her, He and his bride will make their homeujthan the ordinary plan of tobacco cul- in uoiumma, ooum varuini, wurro an important position with the gov ernment cantonment work called him recently. Laurel, (Miss.). Daily Leader. In Other Day. Until a New Jersey man tried to corner the potato crop of his neighbor hood the mosquito was considered the most unaesirable predatory Insect pro due ct section of the country. W F ture. He also has a very fine corn crop The two farms Mr. Moss purchased were ordinary upland. He paid $7, Out) for the two farms and says he ex pects the first year's crops to more than pay for the land. Our farmers would find it to their interest to Investigate Mr. Moss plan of fertilization, cultivation, etc. He is a courteous, affable gentleman and seems to take a pleasure In explaining his method of farming. The regular monthly meeting of thei board of town commissioners was held at the town hall Tuesday after noon . A delegation of ladies pre sented a petition asking the board to Increase the annual appropriation to the library from $150 to $200 per annum. The request was granted. The board then took up the ques tion of selling the electric light plant. Attorney W. R. Dalton, representing Reidrvllle and Danville parties, stated that his clients wished to submit ft bid for the property, but owing to the failure of the board to furnlsU specifications as to what was to be offered whether contracts, for pump ing water and lighting streets were to be included in bids, and number of years for franchlse it was imprac tical to make a bid for the property. He read a letter from Frank Talbott of Danville stating that he had gone over the atenographic report of the conference between Reidsville's board of town commissioners and officials of the Southern Public Utilities com pany last March, wherein tentative offers had been - made for the pur chase of the electric plant, a 60-year franchise and the offer for pumplnj? water and lighting the streets. Mr. Talbott stated that on behalf of him self and associates he was anxious to put in a bid for the Reidsville elec trie light plant in case the board of commissioners desired to sell It He was prepared to make a much lower offer for pumping water and lightingi the streets and a materially higher offer for the plant, with a franchise running for a much, shorter period than 60 years as outlined in the sten. ographic ... report referred to. , Also guarantee of rates of current to consumers and to supply all demands for light and power. Mr. Talbott ask ed for specifications! as to what the board desired prospective purchases to bid upon. Mr. R. P. Richardson stated that on behalf of himself and local asso ciations he was also anxious to put in a bid for the property but could not intelligently formulate an offer without specifications. , Attorney P.- W. Glldewell argued that the publication in The Review of a notice by the board that the matter . would be disposed of at this meeting' was sufficient notice to prospective bidders; that their failure to sub mit bids was. their own lookout The only formal bid before the board was the offer of the Public Utilities company of Charlotte. - There ensued a lot of discussion on the matter. Capt. A. E. Walters made a short talk urging the board to retain ownership of the plant and franchise. He pointed out the great value of a lighting and power fran chise, especially for as long a period S3 60 years. Fifty years ago, when Reidsville had only two or three houses, such a franchise would not have been worth ten cents. Today, a lighting and power franchise was worth thousands of dollars; forty or fifty years hence this franchise would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars he pointed out. The board then went into executive session. It was decided to defer fi nal action on the question until next Tuesday afternoon. August 14th, when, the board will meet in spcial session to finally dispose of the question. Unified Varied Writing Forms. When Charles the Great became monarch of central Europe, among other grcut idenls he set himself to unite the learning of Christendom by purifying and unifying the many and varied forms of writing. To do this he went back to the original Roman model. The invention of printing came as a great advance, and at first the type took the form of a writlns band. tV " 8lmpleat of Cemsntt. Condensed milk applied to the edges of' the pieces of broken china will keep hg article as intact as the majority, of cements on the market today, writes Edwin W. Ely In a letter to the Elec trical Experimenter. Mr. Ely adds that be has mended saucers that bare withstood washings In hot water, and has mended a telescope lens of fairly larce size with this tinlaue cement. r j t - - An Encore. " Camera Man "I'm sorry. Jack, but well have to do that business over again, where you fall off the roof lnte the rain barrel and are run over by tfie rteam roller. My film gave out." Life.
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