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LEYEB FOOD BILL PASSES COXGBESS Xeassre to Suney and Conserre the Besouroes of the Nation Is Step Jiearer Law. "Washington, May 28.?Without a roll call the Lever bill lor a food survey "was passed by the house today. The Wll allows the secretary of agricul ture to spend $14,522,000 for a food survey and stimulation of production. The senate has yet to pass the meas ure. Today by a vote of 35 to 34 that body cut down an appropriation of i ,500,000 in the Core-Lever food sur-1 vey bill for the eradication of diseases and pests of cattle to $825,000. Fur ther efforts will be made to cut down Otner appropriaxions ueiure LUC uut: comes up for a final vote, probably to-; morrow. j Penalties. j Senator Poindexter's bill providing three years' imprisonment for persons In interstate or foreign commerce at tempting to corner food or fuel, was snorted favorably bv the senate ju diciary committee this afternoon. Anj attempt will be made to tack the "bill i to the pending food survey bill. Two or three weeks is the limit set by Secretary Houston for taking of the food census. | Another point emphasized by Secre tary Houston was that there seemed J to be a popular misconception as to the cost of taking the food census.1 ua.ii a mimon auuars is mc mga wa ter mark, because most of the ma chinery for making a food survey is part of the department of agriculture's organization. In the taking of the census, postmasters, State food or ganizations and other local agencies -will he employed. f!?nserre Seed The total appropritaion asked by the department of agriculture is made, up of many items. One of them as; passed in the house bill is $5,778,000 for conserving next year's seed sup-i plies. The department is authorized j to purchase seed if necessary and sell or distribute as circumstances de-; xnand. Other big items provide for fighting plant and animal diseases! and the increased activities of the va rious bureaus. i Although Secretary Houston's esti mates of $18,500,000 were cut to $14, was contained in t yWjV w v ?* ?? ? items which would not materially af fect the work of the department. Explaining how the department of agriculture could take a food census - so quickly and at such a small cost, Secretary Houston recalled that the department has 150,000--"reporters" who collect the data for the various . crop estimates. These men are locat ed in every section of the country and will be one of the greatest aids in de : Ti-Vtot fnnH ctnrV?; there Vtjruiiiimg juot Tiuub iwvu ? are in every section. AN PLANT SWEET POTATOES AND COR> >AS LATE AS JULY "West Raleigh, N. C., May 6, 1917. "Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co., Rich mond, <Va. " Gentlemen: For a week I have tried to find time to write an article urging the farmers to plant heavily <iwpp.t notatoes If the war con tinues for another year the production cf human food crops will be a serious problem not only in the South but throughout the world. The Northwest has annually been supplying the South with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of food necessities to feed the people of the South. The enormous quantities of food that the United States have been shipping to Europe must continue, and hardships are in evitably coming if the war continues six months longer. There is no crop grown in the South that will furnish as T1Q1. a/irp Or CIO fh P3 D - ! ly as will the sweet potato. A dol lar's worth of sweet potatoes used as, human food has practically doubled the food value of a dollar's worth of wheat and corn. An acre of average land in; sweet potatoes will produce more food than two acres of corn and more than four acres 01 wneai in me t-uuuu ucn, "Sweet potatoes may be planted as late as July and yield twice as much,' human food as corn on land of aver age fertility. It is the most important crop that the Sotuh can now grow, and there remains May, June and a part of July in which this crop may he planted. "The sweet potato has a higher food Yalue than the Irish potato, and it is now too late to plant the latter with any assurance of success, and then there is practically ao seed available. There is ample sweet potato seed avail able, and a bushel of sweet potatoes "will produce piaius euuugu iu piaut from six to ten times as much land as a bushel of Irish. "An acre of land that will produce 15 or 20 bushels of corn, eight to 12 bushels of wheat, or 150 to 200 pounds of lint cotton will produce 50 and mav J? 1AA KnoViolo nf curoot prouuce ou ui iw uuoiau vi potatoes, depending upon the good preparation of the soil and good fer tilizers. No crop will yield so much per acre of so high a food value on so poor land as will this highly nutri tious root crop. Sweet potatoes mayj follow the various early truck and! farm crops harvested in May and June, such as cabbage, Irish potatoes, etc., small grain, crimson ciover, eiu. "In view of the scarcity of potash I "would recommend for sweet pota toes between 600 and 1,200 pounds of a fertilizer analyzing 8 to 10 per cent, of phosphoric acid, and 2 to 4 per cent, of nitrogen. On very thin land I would use the higher per cent, of nitrogen, and on better land the lower per cent. ?Yours sincerely, 4<C. L. Newman, M S.. "Professor of Agriculture." We are so^ much impressed with the force and strength of ^hat Prof. New man says in the above letter to us, that for the purpose of calling tho at tention of the country at large -to the enormous increase in food products that may be had by the heavily in creased planting of sweet potatoes we have decided to publish this letter and distribute it, trusting that it may aid in largely increasing the planting of this, one of the very test and most easily grown food products. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. LA[W AGAINST CHILD LABOB. Will Be Enforced to the Letter, Par ents Are Warned, and So Are Employers of Children. Charleston American. Columbia, May 28.?The department of agricultui commerce and indus tries is exper- >cing considerable dif ficulty in the enforcement of the child labor laws, due to lack of cooperation on tlie part of parents in some in stances, and of manufacturing estab * * A TVa /^nnoirfmDTlt lisnmenis in oiuere. iuc uc^a. wu^v,, however, is determined to reach every violator of the law if it be possible to do so, and a number of prosecutions have recently been issued. The fed eral law goes into effect on September 1, and after that time the enforcement of the State law will be rendered less difficult by federal aid and the rigid penalties of the act of congress. In some cases which have arisen in this State it has been found that par* ents have gone so far as to change records in family Bibles as to dates of births. Where employers of chil dren under the legal age have been convicted, small fines have been im posed, the penalty provided being not * - ? --* ~ PI A over $;*U, ana tne miuimum' uem& The federal law will prohibit the of fering for sale in interstate commerce of any products of mills, canneries, workshops, factories, mines or quar ries, where children under 16 years of age are worked longer than eight hours Der day. The penalty for the first offense is not more than $200 fine or three months' imprisonment, an'l for any subsequent offense it is not more than $1,000 (fine, or three months' imprisonment, or both. Federal certi ficates of age are required and penal ties are imposed for false certificates j similar to the penalties imposed upon i manufacturers violating the l&w. In any State designated by the federal board, an employment certificate or other similar paper as to age of the child, not inconsistent with the pro visions of the federal act, shall have the same force and effect as the certi ficate provided for in that act. It is probable that permits issued by the State commissioner in this State will be acceptable to the federal government, and with that in view, I Commissioner Watson nas . aireauj j given solemn warning to both parents i and employers to exercise the greatest care to insure accuracy the prepar ation of birth statements* The mak ing of a false statement even through j canessuess, is uauic tu . wj ' serious matter, not only for the par ent, but for the employer. | Employers violating the law will not , only be subject to the penalties ol j fine and imprisonment, but also tc i having their products forbidden to in j terstate commerce. j Under the South Carolina law, nc I child under 14 is permitted to be em ! ployed in any factory, mine or textile ; establishment, and every child em j ployed who is between 14 and 16 years of age" must be covered by a sworr statement and a permit issued by the department of agriculture, commerce and industries. Same penalty applies to parents consenting to children un der the legal age being employed oi making false certificates in regard tc the age of their children, as applies to employers knowingly employing children under the legal age. I Thorn well Haynes and Family Sail for Enrope. Greenville Piedmont, 28th, i Mrs. Tliornwell Haynes and Miss Sarah Haynes, wife and daughter of ! former consul to China, who have been visiting Mrs. Haynes' brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Bo^rs, on Manly street nave Deen suuueuij called away to join Mr. Haynes in Washington, from where they will sail to Europe at an early date. It is not known just where they will be sta tioned. HI idT HBB Brik Si 98 $$ Hair Made fn Grow ! Long, Soft | and Silky j AJHY STARNS sa>3 her hair vras nappy I and short until she ! 'use4 Exetento, and now she c&a comb it, I as it i? 2-t inches long, soft and sillry. rDon't be fooled all year life by using^^ some fake preparation which claims | to straighten kinky hair. You are just I fooling yourself by using it. Kinky I hair cannot be made straight. You f I must nave nair iirsu rs ow uiis EXELENTO pomad! is a Hair Grower which feeds the scalp and roots of the hair and makes kinky nappy hair grow long, sofi and silky. It cleans dandruff and stops Falling Hair at once. Price 25c by mail on receipt of stumps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE Write for Particular* EXELENTO MEDICINE CO. ATLANTA, CA. "Buy a Liberty Loan Boad Today." 'BORROWING ON UNCERTAIN FUTURES Carleston American. Columbia, May 2'S.?That the State health officer can not pledge an ap propriation^to be made by the next nnmAoo r?f hnrrnw J J iOIClOU I C 1V1 pui v* MV* * w ,. j ing $20,000, although authorized to do so by the legislature or 1917, for thvj ; purpose of erecting new buildings and making other permanent improve ments at the State tuberculosis hos pital at State Park, is the effect of an opinion rendered by the attorney gen eral's office today. The legislature appropriated $20,000 to be available this year and provided that the State health office might borrow $20,000 additional, to be in cluded in the appropriation bill at the next session. Anticipating no trouble in making the necessary arrangements to secure the additional '$20,000, con tracts wer recently awarded tor tne new buildings authorized and other work which is contemplated to fee done at a cost of $40,000. The case differs from that of items ttfavirtiic annrnnriation hills where I iix ~rr I the governor, State treasurer and comptroller general were authorized j to borrow and pledge the credit of I the State for certain amounts in that : the courts have held that it is un ! constitutional for any legislature to j make an appropriation binding upon the next or subsequent legislature, j It will now be necessary lor those ! in charge of the work to proceed with only half of it this year or to make ' arrangements for securing the money through personal sources with a view j of having it repaid by the legislature. ' PUT DOWN OPPOSITION i TV JUfitriSTJtAHV3 i ? . Attorney General Gregory Orders I federal Officers to Arrest All Per i sons Responsible for Agitation. Washington, May 29.?Attorney Gen eral Gregory today insaructed United States attorneys and marshals throughout the country to nse theii , utmost efforts to arrest and prosecute ! all persons responsible for the agi I tation which has manifested itself ii j localities from New England to Tex ' as against registration June 5 of mei I subject to selective draft. This agitation has made itself fel ' somewhat in many sections, but thui ; far there apparently is little connec i tion between the outbreaks. Official, i "have undertaken an exhaustive inves ; tigation to determine if the whole anti ! draft sentiment is not rooted in ex I tensive macninauuHs ui ucimau ^ | pagandists in this country having j central headauarters. Similarity Ib Methods ! Color to this theory is lent in som' degree by the marked similarity ij the method of procedure in "vvidel; separated communities. Some official believe that the entire agitation i; manufactured by German agents, wh< zaffled in their orginal program call ing for an armed uprising of Germai reservists in this country upon Ameri ca's entry into the war, having tur ned their energies to this method o , hindering the military plans 01 in . government. j If such is the case the conspirac: j will come to nothing, officials believe J The Department of Justice, it wa ,! authoritatively announced tonight, ex j pects 100 per cent of eligibles to reg I ister and prompt prosecution unde . the criminal provisions of the law wil be instituted in the few cases wner the law is not observed. j To bring out the full registratio] j Attorney General Gregory today in ! vited the entire nation -to constitut itself a committee of the whole ant every man of military age a commit tee of one to report slackers. Thi 1 Attorney General in a statement als? said: Attorney General's Statement. "Determined to crush in incipienc; every movement designed to thwar ' or interfere with regulation as pro vided for in the law, the departmen ( is having its officers throughout th< , country arrest promptly all agitator: ) against compliance with the law. 'i "The department is not dependen | eneirely on its agencies to discovei disloyal activity. State and munici ' pal police are cooperating and mem |! bers of national patriotic and commer ! c-ial organizations which were enlistee !' after the declaration of a state of wai < to guard against all acts inimica ! to the general welfare are engage( j in bringing to the attention of th< I United States attorneys and marshal ! all instances of attempts to discour : age registration. On Duty June 5 I "These several agencies will be or duty June 5, honeycombing tne coun try to see that every man subject tc registration complies with the la^ *r,d that every official delegated tc carry out its provisions performs nis duty properly." All ?hese officials will be protected in1 the performance of their duty? neavny prum^icu m tuiuiuumnuj where the agitation has manifested it self. Instructions snet to all United States atorneys and marshals say: "Rumors with respect to possible resistance to the registration on June 5, under the Selective Draft Act. having reached the Department of Justice, it is deemed expedient ta issue the following instructions to you : "Attention is called to the duty en joined.upon you of protecting to the fullest extent the registrars and others carrying the law into effect, and to the corresponding duty to arrest and prosecute all persons evading or en couraging evasion of law. or seeking to hinder, prevent or delay those who are well disposed and would otherwise be inclined to be obedient. "Furthermore, the utmost efforts of your respective omces snouia ue uj rected to ascertaining the name and finding the locations of men subject to registration who fail or refuse to register, in order that crimnal prose cutions may be instituted as directed by the act. Other Federal Statutes. I "In addition to the penal provis t ions contained in the said Selective f I Service Act, approved May IS, 1917,; other federal statutes which are ger-j j mane and may be effective according j to the circumstances of particular of; fenses, are these, namely: Sections j 6, 37, 332, of the Federal Criminal Code." Men who wish exemption from draft may claim it before local exemption boards, regardless of whether they answer "yes" or "no" to the question. "Do you claim exemption from draft?" before registration officials next Tues day. "The answer of 'yes' to this ques tion does not exempt one from draft," said Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder tonight, and the answer 'no' is no bar to making a claim for exemption later." President "Wilson's war message' of April 2 will be handed to every J man who registers as he leaves the registration place by women working under the direction of the women's committee of the Council of National I Defense. ; HOOTER OUTLINES FOOD REGULATION Washington, May 29.?Herbert C. Hoover, President Wilson's food ad 1 ministrator, outlined his plans this afternoon for organizing the country | so that it may be properly fed. At the same time he will feed the allies of the United States. A central body will be composed of executives who , will have charge of the various ,food . stuffs. Under them will be boards ; which will be consulted on all big j problems. These will gather infor 1 - - A I mation to guiae uie iooa aumiuisira* tion through various national, state j and local organizations. ; "There will he no government cor porations to buy and handle food," said Mr. Hoover. "That is not our idea. It never has been and since every branch of food production, I manufacture and distribution has con i ferred with us and offered to cooper More stylish in extra rubber?th greater comfort i slightly higher ft r asruoned witn only, these are resilience doubles tb Cost Little More T! t f Vi Goodrich ! sively IMcHa > ate with us. no such action could be contemplated. Mr. Hoover emphasized the fact that the food administration would deal directly with the purchasing agents of the allied governments. In this way, he said, allotment would be made to the foreign governments and thus ' eliminate the furious competition which has sent prices up." Plants ai k o xra mof x iiavw juot i wv of Sago Palm Bu! niums, Coleus PI Butterfly Bush, 1 rlants, JTerrywin Pepper, Tomato Plants. Mayes' B< TheJHouse of a 1 Lift Your Ford Car with wuaBuammmsBmBammsm 3QDBIC '5 SIZEfttxyU INSKZS) 2?1 K SAFETY TREAD Tl >UR Ford car stands hig and haughtier on those r Super-Tires?the Ford 1 of heroic size: ch's?"Three-Seventy-Fi i their extra size?more re ey give your Ford car a sir n smoother riding that thr rst cost the five-finger Goodrich De Luxe tires for your > the life of your car and to e joy of your motoring. Tiat is more, they OUT] iinary tires. Hie B. F. Goodrich Comp Akron, Ohio ^ /y>n/r T2ifrt" I i ires are s in Newber rcfy JV Before and After. "Before we were married, Richard! reproached the young wife, "you al ways gave me the most beautiful Chr :tmas presents. Do you remem ber?" "Sure," responded Ricnard cheer fully, "but my dear, did you ever hear of a fisherman giving bait to a fish after he had caught it?"?Life. 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