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VOL. 15. no. 43.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1918
$1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE
HALF THE NATION
SOUTHERN PLANTS
ALL RETAILERS EXCEPT DRUG 1 BUSINESS MEN OF 80UTH OB
AND FOOD STORES TO SERVE FUEL ORDER FOR
CLOSE. FIVE DAYS.
Milf empty coal cabs 'no violations reported
Prof. Berryhill Gets
Tags For Tag Day
PRACTICAL HINTS FOR SAVING
FUEL SCHOOL CHILDREN WILL
TAQ FIRE SHOVELS JANUARY
30TH.
To Continue For Ten Mondays. Gar
field Requests That Office Building
Be Not Heated. Conditions Better.
The eastei.. Iialf of Hie United
States observed .Monday generally
aa a holiday.the first of 10 hoatless
Mondays decreed by the government
to conserve cnul j ml to clear conges
tion from the railroads:
Although the closing order, promul
gated by Fuel Adral. Istrator Garfield,
goes no further than to forbid the use
of fuel for heating, fuel administration
officials expect business to cease and
Director Garfield Issued a direct re
quest that all retail establishment!,
except food and drug stores, close
their doors for the day.
At the same time office buildings
were requested to observe the spirit
as well as tho letter of the order and
operate no lights or elevators except
to accommodate the few exempted
persons who ar housed In their build
ing. Food stores, which In the original
order were permitted to remain open
only half the day. were grntaed a spe
cial dispensation under which they
may sell goods throughout the day.
It was said that the use of fuel for
lighting buildings and for operating
their elevators probably could be pre
vented during the remainder of tho
Monday holidays. In drawing the or
der this was overlooked and thousands
of telegrams have reached the ful
administration asking for a ruling.
While reports to the fuel adminis
tration told of an Increased movement
of coal to householders and to shlpi
under the three days oper ation of tho
tire-day factory closing order, severe
weather held back the clearing of
freight congestion, which was one of
the chief purposes sought. At th
office of the director general of rail
roads It was said that there was little
hope for material improvement In traf
fic conditions until the weather moder
ated. Moving Empty Coal Cars.
Efforts were centralized on the
movement of empty coal cars back to
the mines, and to the transportation
of bunker coal to the Atlantic sea
board. A total of 150,004 tons of bun
ker coal had arrived or. was en route i
tor North Atlantic ports while 100,000 j
tona had been delivered on the south-,
era seaboard and 200.000 tons more
was on its way. At one southern port
30,000 tons was delivered to ships that
have been tied uo for more than a
week. !
Cotton Interests Are Hardest Hit
With Tobacco Following Industrial
Center at Birmingham Only Slightly
Affected.
Atlanta. Ga. Hundreds of Industrial
plants in the south were closed for
a five-day period tinder the fuel re
striction order and thousands of op
eratives were idle. No reports of vio
lations of the order had been received
and surface indications were that
both manufacturers and workers view
ed the situation philosophically.
The South Carolina house of repre
sentatives, in session at Columbia,
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority a resolution asking Fuel Admin
istrator Garfield to rescind the order
and the Atlanta chamber of commerce
adopted a resolution apprswlng it. At
Roanoke, business men in mass meet
ing voted to observe the order, while
the Norfolk, (Virginia) Retail Mer
chants' Association asked merchants
to close all stores on Mondays during
the ten-week period.
The tobacco Interests probably was
the largest outside of cotton to be af
fected by the order. Cigar factories
In Florida. Virginia and other states
were closed as were tobacco and
cigarette plants In Virginia. North
Carolina and other sections.
The industrial center at Binning,
ham was only slightly affected, as most
of the steel plants there are engaged
on government work and at the coal
mines extra efforts were made to get
out coal. Shipyards, Including the
navy yards at Norfolk, Charleston and
New Orleans and the Newport .News
plant, were In full operation.
Richmond apparently had the great
est army of Idle workers of any city in
the south, thirty thousand having been
reported out of work there. Norfolk
and vicinity reported from 10.000 to
12,000 New Orleans some 15.;000; Ma
con. Ga., 7.000; Memphis from 5.000
to 7.000; Chattanooga from 16.000 to
20.000; Charleston. S. C about 2,500,
and Knoxville, about 3,500.
In the Roanoke district where about
2.000 workers were idle, the Norfolk &
Western railway offered to employ
hundreds of persons In repair and
other work on its lines and in its shops
during the days of Inactivity. Includ
ing Mondays.
RAILROAD WAGE COMMISSION
WANTED BY DIRECTOR McADOO.
CONSTITUENT A9SEMBLY
HAS BEEN DISSOLVED
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AIabaH Bv Sailor Guards Renort Jans 1
Have Landed.
Petrograd (By Associated Press)
The constituent assembly has been dis
solved. The decree of dissolution was
issued last night by the council of na
tional commissioners and adopted
early this morning by the central ex
ecutive committee of the workmen's
and soldiers' deputies.
The text reads:
"When the constituent assembly
voted against the declaration made by
the president of the central executive
committee after an hour's deliberation,
the bolshevlkl left the hall and were
followed by the social revolutionists
of the left on the assembly showing Its
unwillingness to approve the manner
In which the peace pourparers were
being conducted. A decree dissolving
the assembly will be published."
The first hint the newspaper men
received that extreme measures were
contemplated was when they were in'
formed that the Taurlde palace, where
the assembly began Its sessions, would
be closed to the members of the as
sembly, to the newspaper men and to
everyone else.
STRIKERS IN AUSTRIA
OPENLY ANTI-GERMAN.
London. A general strike is on
throughout Austria, according to an
Exchange Telegraph , dlsptcah from
Paris, which reports 100,000 men quit
ting work in Vienna and, Neustadt,
closing down all the war factories.
The strikers are described as openly
antl -German and the ' movement is
both political and economic and espec
ially aimed at securing peace.
Public demonstrations, it Is added,
have been held in many places.
Washington. Director General Mo
Adoo announced appointment of a ra'l
road wage commission of four public
men to analyze and recommend action
on all wage and labor questions pend
ing before the government railroad ad
ministration, including the railway
brotherhoods' demands.
At the same time the director gen
eral put into effect a new system of
government railroad administration by
dividing the country Into three oper
ating regions, south, east and went,
and placed a railroad executive at the
head, of each as his representative.
The wage commission consists of
Secretary Lane, Interstate Commerce
Commissioner C. C. McChord. Judge J.
Harry Covington, chief justice of the
District of Columbia supreme court,
and William R. Willcox. who announc
ed his resignation as chairman of the
republican national committee.
In charge of the eastern railroad's.
Mr. McAdoo retained A. H. Smith,
president of the New York Central,
who has acted as assistant to the di
rector general, with headquartersr in
New York. R. H. Aishton, president
of the Chicago Northwestern, was
appointed regional director for terri
tory west of the Mississippi with head
quarters at Chicago. Southwestern
roads were assigned to C. H. Mark
ham, president of the Illinois Central,
with headquarters at Atlanta.
The eastern division consists of ter
ritory north of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers, "and east of Lake Michigan
and the Indiana-Illinois state line also
those railroads in Illinois extending
Into that state from points east of the
Indiana-Illinois state line; also the
Chesapeake & Ohio, the Norfolk
Western and the Virginia railways "
The southern district Is defined as
Including "all railroads In that por
tion of the United States south of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers and east n
the Mississippi river, except the Chesa
peake t Ohio, Norfolk & Western and
the Virginian railways.
Prof. J. E. Berryhill, superintendent
of the Kings Mountain schools, has
received from State Fuel Administra
tor A. W. McAllater at Greensboro, a
supply of tags for use by the school
children on "Tag-Your-Shovel Day."
On that duy, school children will tie
tags bearing instructions fur coal sav
ing to practically every coal shovel In
the United States, the purpose of this
being to remind each man. woman and
child who uses a coal shovel that a
shovel full of coal is equal to half a
loaf of bread, and that every shovel
full of coal saved means just so much
additional power and health and sup
port for the American soldier and
sailor on the firing line.
The tags bear these hints on saving
coal:
1. Cover furnaces and pipes with
asbestos, or other insulation; also
weather strip your windows, or stuff
cracks with cotton
2. Keep your rooms at 68 degrees
(best heat for health)
3. Test your ashes by sifting. If
you find much good coal, there Is
something wrong with your heater.
See a furnace expert.
4. Heat only the rooms you use all
the time
5. Write to the maker of your fur
nace or stove for practical directions
for running economically.
S. Save gas and electric light as
much as possible this will save coal
for the nation.
DREW ARROWOOD DEAD,
with tuberculosis to which he Dually
succumbed. He was a falthlul mem
ber of long Creek Presbyterian
church In which lie held the office of
elder. Mr. Arrowood was never mar
ried, making his home with his broth
er. Calvin Arrowood. who survives
JENKINS CHILD PASSES.
The 14 months old child of Mr How- j
ard Jenkins, mention of which was I
made in the Herald recenlly us being
very sick, died and was buried lust :
Wednesday. The funeral was conduct
ed by Rev. J E. Berryhill. The child I
had been an intense sufferer for sev- j
oral days. Physicians at one time
were about to pronounce the trouble
Infantile paralysis but finally decided
it was spinal meningitis
IN WAR MACHINERY TO CONSERVE FUEL
MAY CREATE WAR COUNCIL SIM
ILAR TO THOSE OF ENGLAND
AND FRANCE.
ALL MANUFACTURING PLANTS
ARE ORDERED TO CL08E
DOWN FOR FIVE DAYS.
TWO BILLS BEFORE CONGRESS ' JO CLOSE FOR TEN MONDAYS
MARRIED.
Roy Haynes and MIhs Gertie Goins,
of East Kings Mountain, were married
Sunday, January 13th.
Julius Whatey, a Lenoir county
farmer, is exhibiting the talon of an
eagle shot at his place near Kinston
one day last week. The bird had kill
ed and was devouring a two months
old pig when Whaley knocked it over
with a well-directed shot. The eagle
measured seven feet across the wings.
Rosebud French, about four years
old, may die from burns sustained
when her clothing was ignited from
a fire by which she was warming at
the residence of I.. T. Moreadlth at
Kinston.
Mr. Drew L. Arrowood. a very old
and highly respected citizen of the
Long Creek section, died Wednesday
of last week. The funeral was con
ducted by his pastor, Rev. J. E. Berry
hill, Thursday and Interment was made
In Long Creek cemetery. Mr. Ar
rowood had suffered for a long time,
LAND SALE.
By virtue of authority vested in m
by the helrs-attaw of A. F Weir, de
ceased. I will, on
Thursday,
the 7th day of February, 1918. at 10
o'clock, a. m . on the premises south
of Kings ountain, N. C, to sell to the
highest bidder, on the following terms:
One-fourth Cash and balance in six
and twelve months, Lots No. 10 of 4.1
acres and Lot No. 11 of 18,1 acres.
This will close the sale and It will not
stand open. This January 17th, 1911.
S. 8. WEIR.
Attorney In Fact for the Heirs of A.
F. Weir. Deceased
273-3t
KINGS MOUNTAIN BUILDING
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT OF TH ECONDITION OF THE KINGS MOUNTAIN BUILDING
ANO LOAN ASSOCIATION AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS
DECEMBER 31, 1917.
Resources.
Loans and Mortgages t51.627. 25
Installments due 2,866.50
Interest due 601.89
Safe 199.00
Unearned Discount on advance payments... ,.. .. 1,100.00
Personal accounts 17.50
Cash in bank 1.104.24
Total J57.51S.38
Liabilities.
DUE SHAREHOLDERS:
Installments , $45,097.50
Arrears .2.868 50
Prepaid ........ 4.000.00
Profits to date 5.534 3S $57,498 38
Balance on Loans made 18 0
TOTAL ....$57,516.38
Directors:
A. E. Cline W. H. McGlnnls .1. F. Allison
W. P. Fulton M. L. Harmon n. F. Hord
D. C. Mauney J. E. Llpford I B. Goforth
L. A. Kiser R. L. Mauney M. E. Herndon
Officers:
A. E. CLINE, President W. P FULTON, Vice President
W. H. McGINNIS, Secretary-Treasurer
EIGHTEENTH SERIE8 OPEN8.
Books are now open for subscription for shares in the 18th series,
payments to commence with the first Saturday in February. Get your
application in early and if you desire a loan file your application for
same at the time you take shares. We will have $5,000.00 to $10,000.00
to lend to those who desire to build within the next 90 days.
' For the consideration of those who are not familiar with our asso
ciation I give below our plan. '
' . PLAN.
26 cents paid weekly on each share of stock carried or if you borrow,
the Interest In addition. Two shares will cost you 60 cents a week and
so on. This stock matures In about six years and five months, when each
share Is worth $100X10, and the Aesocation then pays off the matured
stock. This makes you six per cent Interest on your small weekly pay
ments. There is no, other institution that will take these small weekly
payments and pay so high a rate of Interest. In this association you get
all your money earns.
PREPAID STOCK.
We now issue 'prepaid stock. This Is for the benefit of- those who
have a lump turn they desire to invest. $72.75 pays for one share. This
stock will be worth at maturity $100 00 for each share. This also makes
the owner six per cent and is free from all taxes to the owner. For an
investment there is nothing that will beat prepaid building and loan
hares. . '.. . .
You desire to see Kings Mountain grow. Put your money in this
Association and help it to grow. We began business in 1907. Since that
time we have loaned several hundred thousand dollars and without the
loss of one cent to the association We know then that It is absolutely
: safe.'
REMEMBER THE DATE THE NEW SERIES OPENS FIRST SATUR
DAY IN FEBRUARY.
KINGS MOUNTAIN BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION.
One Proposes War Council of Five
Members and the Other Would Cen
tralize Munitions Control Li a Direc
tor of Munitions.
Washington Framing of legislation
contemplating drastic charges In the
government's war machinery, includ
ing creation of an American war conn,
ell similar to those of England ana
France and a director of munitions,
was begun by the senate military com
mittee. Two bills one proposing the war
council of five members. Including
the secretaries of war and navy and
three civilians oppointed by the Pres
ident, and a second to centralize muni
tion! control in a director of munition,
were prepared by a sub-committee con
sisting of Chairman Chamberlain and
Senators Hitchcock and Wadsworth.
Chairman Chamberlain announced
that the committee virtually had
agreed upon the two bills, in lien of
his measure for a separate department
of munitions with a new cabinet mem
ber. The attitude of the administra
tion toward them has not been disclos
ed. President Wilson and Secretary
Baker opposed the original Chamber
lain bill.
Independent of Cabinet.
The plan of the committee for the
war council is to have It under the
President, but wholly independent of
the cabinet. "It would sit with and
advise the President In forming broad
policies, similar to the British war
cabinet and the French war ministry."
said Chairman Chamberlain. "It won'.d
give co ordination now lacking in cen
tral direction of all government's war
operations."
The bill to establish a director ot
munitions Is modeled after the Brit
ish law. The committee proposes that
the director should be . subordinate
only to the war council and the Pres
ident and not the cabinet, taking over
many supply functions of the war,
navy, shipbuilding and other branches.
The director would have control of all
war supplies, their production, pur
chase, transportation and distribution.
The title of "director of munitions."
was definitely decided upon by the
committee and written into the re
drafted bill by the sub-committes,
which rejected proposals to call the
head of the new agency the "director
of war Industries."
The committee received from Direc
tor Gifford of the council of national
defense suggestions for centralizing
munitions and war Industrial control.
ADMINISTRATOR GARFIELD
TELLS COMMITTEE WHY.
Imperative Because of Fuel and Trans
portation Crisis.
Washington. Fuel Administrator
Garfield underwent a two hours grill
ing at the hands of the senate com
mittee Investigating the coal shortage,
which called him before it to explain
his reason for issuing the order shu:
ting down Industries by denying them
the use of coal.
At the termination of the hearing
the committee decided to make no
formal report, but Chairman Reed
made a speech In the senate declaring
Doctor Garfield had not satisfied him
of the necessity for such drastic action.
The line of questions asked by other
members of the committee Indicated
that they, too, took the same view.
Doctor Garfield declared the order
was made Imperative because of the
fuel and transportation crisis. If coal
were not cut off to all industries for
a period many of them, he said, would
be forced to close anyhow and the
government in closing down every
thing intended to treat all alike.
BATTLE FLAG ZEPPERLIN
BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON.
Washington. The battle flag of the
Zeppelin L-49. brought down near
Bourbonne. France, October 17, 1917,
has been received at the headquarters
of the marine corps and sent to the
national museum. The flag, deep red,
bears no distinguishing Insignia of any
kind. Acccmpaylng it were small por
tions of the onter envelope and of th')
gas bag of the Zeppelin. The flag was
liven to Major General Barnett.
Industry and Business Generally Af
fected by Order Which Is Estimated
by Garfield to Save 30,000,000 Tons
of Coal.
Washington. America's manufac
turing enterprises with but few ex
ceptions In ull states east of the Mis
sissippi river was ordered by the gov
ernment to suspend operations for nve
days beginning Friday morning, Jan
uary 18, as a drastic measure for re
lieving the fuel famine.
At the same time, aa a further
means of relief. It was directed that
Industry and business generally, in
cluding all normal activities that re
quire heated buildings, observe as a
holiday every Monday for the next ten
weeks This will close down on Mon
days not only factories, but saloons,
Btores except for sale of drugs and
tnnA nlnces nf amusement and nearlv
I all office buildings. While the order
does not mention shipyards. It Is
known that they will be permitted t
continue operation as usual, although
munitions plants will be closed.
The government's move came entire
ly without warning In an order issued
by Fuel Administrator Garfield with
the approval of President Wilson pre
scribing stringent restrictions govern
ing the distribution and use ot coal
It was decided upon hurriedly by the
President and government heads as a
desperate remedy for the fuel crisis
and the transportation tangle In the
eastern states. Even munition plants
are not excepted from the closing
down order.
Officials would not discuss the far
reaching effects the action would have
on the industrial fabric and questions
as to how the order was to be inter
preted to meet specific problems went
unanswered.
The order prescribes a preferential
list of consumers in whose interest it
! was drawn. These users will get coal
j in the following order:
Railroads; household consumers;
hospitals; charitable Institutions, and
army and navy cantonments.
Public utilities, telephone and tele
graph plants.
Strictly government enterprises, ex
cepting factories and plants working
en government contracts.
Public buildings and necessary gov
ernment, state and municipal require
ments. Factories producing perishable
foods and foods for immediate con
sumption. Save 30,000.000 Tons.
It was estimated the enforcement ef
the order would cave a total of 30.000,
000 tons of bituminous coal, which
probably is about halt the present
shortage. The indications wore that
at the end of the ten weeks of Mon
day's holidays a permanent policy of
restricted consumption would have
been determined on.
The critical coal situation Is blamed
on the unusually severe woather which
has made it impossible in many In
stances to move coal at all and which
has cut off the fuel supplies ot whole
cities
Rules on Holidays.
On the Monday holidays besides
manufacturing plants the following
consumers will be forbidden to use
coal: Business and professional of
fices (except to prevent freezing) ex
cept those used for government of
fices or banks and trust companies
and those housing physicians and den
tists; wholesale and retail stores with
exceptions for drug stores and those)
that Bell food ; all amusement places
and saloons. State fuel administrators
msy close the bank and trust company
buildings if they think necessary.
On the holidays, subways, surface,
elevated and suburban cars will bo
permitted to use only the amount of
coal they normally consume on Sun
days. The order was Issued under author
ity conferred in the Lever food act,
which provides a fine ot $5,000 or im
prisonment for violation.
Officials foresaw that the German
government might distort and make
much of the order to improve the
morale ot the German people, but they
said this danger was negligible when
compared with that of permitting the
fuel situation to continue unimproved.
To prevent industrial unrest it was
said the government might make a for
ml request on industries affected by
the order to nay their employes dur
ing the time they are Idle
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