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CENSORSHIP BLLL KILLED BY LEADERS IN CONGRESS Espionage Bill Sent Back to Commit tee With Orders That Censor Rule Be Dropped. i, Washington, May 31.?The hopes of the administration for a censorship provision in the espionage bill were practically killed this afternoon. By a vote of 184 to 144, the house recommitted the' espionage bill with explicit instructions to the conferees to eliminate the censorship section. The provision authorized the president to declare what would be publishable. Although it had been anticipated Chat the Democratic ranks would stand strong for the administration's policy, "bo less than 37 Democrats bolted and voted with the Republicans against censorship. On the other hand, de spite the recent caucus of Republi cans against censorship, ten of that political persuasion voted against their fellows. A boat Dead. There seems small chances now that the censorship will sui vive the decis ive blow. Twice has the senate re jected application to include such 1aws in the espionage bill. It is said Senator Overman will be unable to force censorship through the uppei house. The debate today was long and not without acrimony. At one time Car lin of Virginia, Democrat, and Gra ham of Pennsylvania Republican, in dulged in a heated argument. They are both members of the judiciary committee. Carlin accused Graham ol vaccilation in his ideas on censorship "Graham said the committee had de clined to hold a meeting when lis could be present. "The gentleman is here to seldom we usually have great difficulty in finding him." caustically said Carliri. "A man who takes refuge in a ques tion of facts in personal remarks is ot worthy of being noticed." mapped ack Graham, while the Republican ?ide applauded. It was Graham who led the fight gainst censorship and who made the otion which carried by such a de isive vote. Pernlcions. "This section 4. giving the president the authority is pernicious," said the Pennsylvanian. "There are in the bil] two other sections under which the obtaining and the publication of mat ter connected with the national de fense is made a crime. No man car sit down and sanely and fairly read these two sections without concluding that there is already in the bill ample power to punisn any vmanous news paper for attempting to publish any thing for the benefit of the enemy. "The section 4 is a mongrel produc tion. Under it the condition not alone of the press but of every member ol this house would be tenfold worse 'ihan under the amendment provided T)y Mr. Gard. If one of you told me information you had heard from the war department that might constitute "publication.' "The president 'may* from time to ^osiPTintp what mav be Dub^sh ed. Suppose he makes no proclama tion, then what could a paper publish. The section is a press muzzier and this is not merely a question of a free press, hut it involves the sacred and inalienable right of an American citizen to free speech/' Mr. 'Webb, chairman of the judiciary committee, fought valiantly for the bill, but to no avail. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF IN FEDERAL SERVICE Charleston American. Columbia, May 31-?The entire State administrative staff of the National Guard of South Carolina is authorized ^ind subject lo call into the federal service, as other officers and men of K" the line and staff, under a telegram received today by Adjutant General William 'W. Moore from the war de partment, as follows: "State administrative staffs as au * thorized by letter December 11, 1916, and table therewith, are authorized under the act. May 12, 1917. New oaths office subsequent to May 29 re quired. New commissions not neces sary. Federal recognition will be ex tended upon receipt new certified list ? *AV ??? m An TVlin IltJW UOXIISl. C.HU3LCU U1CU not reenlist. New oaths for veterinary ^orps. dental corps and chaplains not necessary.*' The administrative staff is compos ed as follows: Maj. J. Shapter Caldwell, adjutant general. Charleston. Maj. John D. Frost, inspector gen eral, Columbia. Maj. Francis H. Weston, judge-ad vocate geenral, Columbia. One chief surgeon, with the rank o! major?not yet appointei. One assistant surgeon with the ranK of captain or first lieutenant?not yet appointed. . Quartermaster corps: Maj. Frank "W. Glen, Columbia, quartermaster and disbursing officer; Maj. A. C. Doyle, Columbia; Capt. Andrew N. Ancrum, i font Ttaniei H. Cotter. Co Vuiuuiwm, , lumbiaj five sergeants, first class; five , ?ergeant^lO privates, first rank, and two cooks.v Ordnance department: Maj. Henry E. Raines, Charleston; six sergeants, 11 privates, first class. * Maj. James W. Bradford of Sumter. Second regiment, South Carolina in fantry, and Maj. G. H. Mahon, Jr., of Greenville, First regiment, South CaroJina im<muua?c uccu uiuu&u to Fort Sill, Okla.. for a course of training in the school of musketry. These two officers were recommended by the adjutant general with a view to tMir special fitness as instructors in rifle, machine gun and grenade training. _ NoT 666 -l"! This if t prescription prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or tix dotes will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel sad does not gripe or sicken. 25c ft [no prohibition DIKING the war ! Washington, May 31.?No action | will be taken by this congress toward ! prohibition, in the opinion of Senator ! Simmons of North Carolina. This is an interesting prediction coming from the North Carolinian. He is the chairman of the senate "llnance com i the great war revenue bill. The com mittee is now puzzling how it would ; be possible in the case of prohibition to raise a substitute for the vast rev enue from the tax on spirits. i'he senator thinks that no matter [ what rate of taxation is now agreed . upon, there is a strong likelihood that , this may be increased further next : year. The committee shares this view ; and is therefore more anxious, it says to adopt an equitable taxation rate as a basis. ; Some interesting changes were made today by the committee in the revenue ' bill. It was decided to increase the 1 excise tax on coffee to 2 cents per - pound and to 5 cents per pound on tea. It is expected that the coffee tax will ' realize some $18,000,000 and the tea L tax about $3,000,000 annually. The : committee figures that these taxes to 1 eether with the taxes to be imposed ' upon sugar and cocoa will produce ! about $80,000,000 a year. A very important change agreed by * i the committee was the elimination of j the present pd cent, tax on war munitions. This now raises about . 523.U0U.UUU annuaiiy, dul me uuijuuu , tee thinks that the munition manu 'i facturers are sufficiently taxed under ' the levy and excess profits tax, , The 10 per cent, tax which the house | proposed upon railway. Pullman au.i L1 other tickets, connected with transpor , tation. was cut in half. However, the | newtax of 5 per cent, would apply to .j steamship tickets as well and this new j! phase is expected to make up the de [ j ficiency. jlLTALY NOT SEEKING CONQUEST. ! Prince t'ndine Tells Senate His Na? j tion Will Do Nothing to Interfere With Peace. j 'Washington, May 31?"Italy will never allow her aims to be a block to 1 any peace terms that the allies may > see fit to accept." ' This statement was made tonight by J a member of the Italian mission in an l 'attempt to spike persistent rumors I that Italy's aims in the war were ; such that they would hold the rest of i the allies .from making any peace | terms until Italy had accomplished her ' aims. | '"Italy is fighting with the same aim that every one of the other allies is," 1 the mission members said. "We seek ' ? ?'i? /Mtm forT>ifnrv OTlf? io rci<t|ir umj uui vmi ici?nu. j wuu reports that we are fighting for the cosquest of large sections of Austria are too ridiculous for credence." To Montenegro. "Cable dispatches from Austria have said that the Vienna administration has decided they can not make a peace unless they dominate Mount T^oveeen. Whether or not this is true, i we do not know, for we have no over tures to that effect from Austria. How ever, even though Mount Lovecen is a most dominating and strategic point , we are not worried ove#* Austria's at I tempt to gain it and should she do this we know it will not hinder any peace . move, for the allies have said there can be no peace until every nation holds its on territory. Mount Love cen rightfully belongs to Montenegro and we want it to go to Montenegro. "However, no one is talking peace and there is nothing to fear. Italy vijl prosecute her great drive and when the time comes for peace we .are certain'Italy's aim will have been ac complished by the overthrow of auto cracy in the favor of liberty." Prince Udine. head of the commis sion, spoke to the senate today. Stand ( ing in full uniform behind the vice | president's desk he said in broken English: "You, America, bring us* something far greater than the help of men, of wealth or of food. You bring us the sacred recognition of our right and moral confidence and the conviction, ' rather the fa'th that our cause is holy and that the free democracies and even the greatest among them share our feelings, our spirits and our h< "Rv nronlpiminor that risht is . re ! than peace, that autocratic gov'era ' ments supported by force of arms are a menace to civilization by affirming the necessity of guaranteeing the ; safety of the world's democracies; the ! - ! -t XV. ?11 Kt7Q j rigm OI tile sman imuuua n?&. j America has through the action of her president acquired a title of merit that ! history will never forget/' The prince was accompanied by all I the members of this commission. Senator Tillman Better. | Charleston American. j Columbia, May, 31.?Capt. Henry C. | Tillman of Greenwood, who was in ! the city tfday, stated that his father, : Senator Tillman, who is in an Atlan ta hncr>itfll fnr treatment, was getting along very nicely. Senator Tillman underwent an operation yesterday to remove a sore on hJs left wrist from which he has been suffering. Capt. Tillman stated that he had a telegram to the effect that he operation was en tirely successful. Capt. Tillman is i member of the* Greenwood bar and *as in Columbia on legal business. He is in command on the Fifth company, coast artillery. National Guard of South Carolina, which is expecting to be called into the federal service on July 15. JCOLUMBIA PI KFF> AS CANTON5TEXT SITE Washington. June 2.?Columbia, 5. 1 C., and Linna Vista, Cal., have been se j lected as sites for cantonments in which forces of the war army vrill be , trained. The designations bring the number of sites determined upon to six, four having been announced yes , terdav. Ten are yet to be chosen. ,1 n , "But a Liberty Loan B?md DEPARTMENT CITS ROWN GEN. WOOD'S ARMY PLANS Only Six, Instead of Twelve, Perman ent Army Buildimrs to Be Erected in Sontheast. Charleston American. AN astungton. .way oi.?ouuuiem members of congress who are interes ted in the location of army canton ments and camps for the conscripted army wepe thrown into a frenzy to-! r?i5T?t hv the information that came ; from the War Department hat the, ' number of cantonments had been re duced from 32 to 16 and that the de partment of the southeast would se cure only six cantonments instead of 12 as originallv nlanned. I Silent The War Department is ' absolutely silent as to its plans but from infor-' I mation that is authentic it is sure that 1 the general staff has completely re vised the original plans under which; Gen. Leonard Wood has been work-; I ins: and that there will be only 16 can-, ! tonments and these for the new army; ' and 16 for the national guard. A cantonment being a permanent in stitution built of wood for extended | use. it has been found by the con struction department of Council of National Defense that it will be im j possible to secure lumber an.i mater : ial and labor to coustruct 32 can tonments by September 1, for $200 .000. 000. as planned, and tentative plans i have been made by the general staff ; to have only 16 of these with six in ' the southeast. , >To Reduction. The number of army 'sites will not be reduced, however. The 16 camps, or tented institutions for temporary ~ * ?"1 ^ 1 -. vfinofoa rl r?f tllflt j 11S6. win ut; tri clccu xuotvwu i number of cantonments as orignally j planned, and in tnese the national : guard regiment units of the six de ' partmente will be sent. The best information obtainable here is that cantonments will be located at Columbia and Greenville. S. C., At j lanta and Fort Oglethorpe ' and that I one will be given to Tennesee and an | other to Alabama. , j The Alabama nantonment will prob * - ' " ?^ fKo Ton I aDly go TO MOniKOUiei.v auu mc i ne?ee cantonment to either Knoxville Nashville. Important plans for the movement of the army are also i involved which for the public wel I fare will not be announced. , WHERE THE WOOL C03TES FROtf. ! In addressing a group of small children recently, one of the workers of the American Humane Education i Society tried to impress on their "* 11 - * 1 nKfdin Ck mmas inc iiiui mat lucj umaiu ? ! great many of the necessaries of life from the animal kingdom. Her diffi i culties are told in Our Dumb Animals. "Where do you get your milk and ; butter and cheese?" she asked, i "Cows," answered most of the chil : dren, although some replied. "From j the store." 1 I "And eggs?" demanded the instruc tor. "Hens," answered those who did not answer "Store." "And wool?" asked the instructor. There was only one answer to this question: "The store." "Yes," said the instructor, "but how does it get into the store? Now think, wool?wool, you get wool from the back of?what?" ; Expectantly she waited the answer;1 presently it came from a small girl in the front seat: I "Back of the counter!" ?The Youth's Companion.' Jfo Kick in It. ! "How much cider did you make this year?' inquired one farmer of another who had offered him a sample t ro" "ia 1. j i "Fifteen bar'ls," was the answer. - The first man took another sip. "I I reckon, Si," he drawled, "ef you'd had another ar?Dle you might ha' made another bar'1."?Country Gentleman. It's Variety. 1 Br^'more American. "The neoDle who have charge of the m^kinc of coins ha >e the cream of government jobs." i "Yes?the cream of mint, as itt were." Whole Family Benefited By Wonderful Remedy nrt . ? -, JL UCI C ai- UltfUljr HX.IC mmi,.' annoy us, under preset conditions of life. 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Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills are relied upon to relieve pain, nervousness and irritability in thou sands of household;. Of proven merit after twenty years' use, you can have no reason for being longer without them. n At all Druggists, 25 doses 25 cents. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. I I'xder fire l\ the air Canadian's Story of Thrilliner Fight With German Machines * A vivid and thrilling account of the kind of experiences the Allied air fighters are undergoing daily is given in a letter written by Capt. Eric Rob ortson, of Walkerton. Canada, writ ten to his sister. Miss Ruth Robert-' son, superintendent of St. Lukes Hos pital, in Richmond. Va. The letter is published by the Richmond News Leads and was as follows: Somewhere in France. April 14. 1917. I wrote you about my scrap on Eas ter Sunday, didn't I? I had an even more exciting time yesterday. -We were sent out in a formation of six ma-1 chines to bomb a certain point about j ten miles behind the German lines.: We got up to 10.000 feet before going j nvp.r and then fell into our places: and made a dash for it. Of course, we were well above the clouds and had' to rely on our compasses to know when we had reached the point where j we should come down through. We! followed our leader and when he gave! the signal to descend we all dived. The clouds were very thick?about 4,-i 000 feet thorugh?and when we came; out on the other side the formation j had ceased to exist. In fact as far as 1 could see we were the only machine J in the sky. However, I did see ourj objective, and dived down to 4,000, feet to be sure of getting the bombs i on it After dropping our pills I turn ed and made for home with throttle, wide open, and climbing to the ex-j treme limit of the old bus' capacty| knowing that we would get mighty hot reception and hoping to gain the shelter of the cloudsi Then came the, "Archie"?hotter than anything I havej otot. coon hpfore. three suns giving their entire attention to poor insignifi cant me. There are no anti-aircraft j guns or gunners, that can compare with the Huns an dthey say they can! get a direct bit on any machine at any! height in three shots if it does not' alter its course. The natural result of j course is that we never fly-for morei than a few seconds without swerving left or right or up or down, and as a| general rule we dodge them without! much trouble?but with three guns it' is different and I was keit pretty j busy. My observer stood up in front and motioned to me as each shell burst so that I would know how to steer. As it was they knocked a lot of holes in my wings, some of them big enough to put your head in. Sud denly, it all stopped, and then I knew we were in for some real trouble. T stood up on my seat and looked over the top plane and sure enough, climb ing up to us as fast as a~ *!*vator in a city office building were .our o! fh^se hateful little beasts Albatros scouts, the German's newest and fast est single seaters. For the next half hour I was too busy to be scared. Fortunately only the first two Huns! attacked us?why I don't know, unless! 1 al- - -a^ +tt*^ fVinn orVif Hia ( [ it was inai uie yul CI t TT U tuvugiig v?*?* V it was too small a job for them all. and they had every right to think so for the Albatros scout is practically twice as fast as t"he machine I was flying. In An Aerial Hornet's >"est. My observer, a man from South Africa, was right on the job, as cool, as a cucumber, and working his twoj machine guns as though he werei shooting at a bull's eye in a shooting] gallery. One came up under our tau,| Knowing, of course, that that is ourj "blind" and defenseless quarter. The other one did half circles around us from one side to the other and both kept pouring a continuous stream of lead into us at anywhere from ten to .50 yards range. A half dozen or so of the first bullets put our engine out of action, and after that it was just a case of putting my machine into as many funny positions as possible so as tn hamnpr their aim. I can assure you it was ten times as exciting as any game of croquet you ever played. That ceaseless pop-pop-pop-pop on the right, on the left, behind, underneath ?and the corresponding phit-phit-phit of the bullets as they went past us, or pierced some part of the machine never let euner oi us iuigci iui ?, I ment that there was a war on, believe | me. I had no idea that you could doi so many things with an aeroplane. l| tried them all I think, my one thought! being to get that eld bus safe on terra firma again. The thing that put them off more than anything else was a div ing side slip, for we lost far more height than the Bosche could in a nor mal dive. So I think probably three quarters of our descent was made in that position. It's surprising how quickly you can lose height that wav. The pilot tube registerd up, to 180 miles an hour, and when I looked at it, it had gone over the top. ai tnai time I had left my seat and was kneel ing on the instrument board in front. My companion was hanging onto some wires or something and managed to keep in the machine somehow. Sever Out of Control. Thank God, none of my controls were shot away and the machine was quite manageable. The Huns followed us down to ?.bout 81) feet and then buzzed off?doubtless, to report to their headquarters that another Brit ish machine had be*in driven down "out of control." With a little diffi culty I got her on an even keel, flat tened out and made a sale lancim^ within a few feet of the British third line trenches. Neither of us were hit. though I got two billets through my sheepskin thigh boots, and another came through the center of the back of my seat, which would have caught me between the shoulder blades had I not been perching on the instrument board at the time. The machine and engine were, of course, snot 10 una. i am going to have one of the bullei pierced propellor blades as a souve nir. Able to Read. Louisville Courier-Journal. "Oh, say, can you see?turn ti turn," warbled Wombat. 'Tan you see?" inquired Flubdub. "Of course, I caii see." "Then why don't you learn the rest of that song?" / Knows All About Good Pipe Tobacco.! There's a young man in a down town Philadelphia office whose chief boast concerns the things he does not do. He hasn't smoked a'Cigarette for two months. Instead he has taken up the pipe,, at which he puffs continual ly. He knows all about good pipe to baceo. so he says, and talks all the time about the lack of will power on; the part of his companions who stillj inhale the vapor from the "coffin i nails." To test the judgment of this person concerning the worth of tobac- i co, some kind friends a few days ago i removed the contents of one of those: patent pencil sharpeners, which re- j tain the shavings in a celluloid bowl | underneath the grinding wheels. These j shavings are ground fine and are j brown in color, looking not unlike very fine cut tobacco. Some of this wood, was mixed with the tobacco in this man's can. All week he smoked this mixture of wood and tobacco without discovering the difference. Bad Flan. Puck. Teacher?If you are kind and po lite to your fellow pupils, what will be the result? Pupil?Why, they'll think they can lick me. Excursion Fares \ way System from Lake Junaluska ? N.C. Account Chautauqua Period, ers' Conference, Board of Missi on sale July 15, 16, 17, 21/22, io, ii, 12, 13, 17, ,ii> ana 19, 11 sale. Rock Hill, J Account Winthrop College S June iS, 19, 22, July 4, 5, 6, fi Nashville. T< / Account 12th Annual Sessi< (colored) tickets on sale June 1 21. iqi7. Nashville, T< Account Peabody College Sui Jtine ii, 12, 13, 14. 21, 22, Jul days from date of sale. Charlottesville Account Summer School Uni sale June 17 to 25, final limit 1 Atlanta, ( Account International Associ on sale June 15, 16 and 17, lim Black Mountain i *5 Account Various Religious A: 31, Jane i, u, 12, 13, 21, 22, : 27, 30, August 1, 6, 10, 14, 17, of sale. a Athens, C Account Summer School Uni 30, July 1, 2; 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, : from date of sale. Proportianately rec points. Call on local agei tion or address S. H. McLI S. C. An Ambition and yHE needs cf the South are idei of the Soctbera Railway: tbc tro^rtb tbe npbuildine of the other. The Southern Railway asks bo favors accorded to others. The ambition of the Southern Railva; unity onnteresi ioai 13 win vi the railroads; to sec perfected toat fair and f mrnt of railroads wbieh invites tbe coi agencies; to realize that liberality of treat to obtain tbe additional capital needed for ti enlaced facilities incident to the demand service; aud, finally? To take irs niche in tbe bwty politic other tfrea: industries, with no Liorc. uu; riebtfl and equal opportunities. " The Southern Serves Southern Rail A Si? AWAKENING The foreman of a construction gang was walking along Ms section of tho railway one day when he eame upoa a laborer fast asleep in the shade of a fence. Eying the man with a stent smile, he said: *'Slape on, ye idle spalpeen, slaps on. So long as ye slape ye've got a. job, but when ye wake uf ye're out of wurrk!"?The Youth's Companio*. How Did He Know? Little Helen was dreadfully ia qusitive one evening and her father became exasperated after answering questions for two hours. " -What dry von do at thp r?ffw\p all day, papa?" she inquired finally. "Nothing," snapped papa. Helen pondered over the answer for a minute, then returned to the charg? with: "Then how do yon know when yoa are done?"?Town Topics. The Long and Short of It. Poa rcnn 'c Customer to grocer)?I wish yoir would not give me such- short weight for my money. Grocer?I wish you would not give me such a long wait for mine! fia Southern Rail N AVAT KiQVIfTT <1 r L J y V* / ind Waynesville, $5.45 Sunday School Board, Work ons, Epworth League, tickets 23, 24, -25, August 2, 3, .5, mited 17 days from date of 5. C. $3.65 ummer School, tickets on sale rial limit August 6, 1917. snn. $13.80 )n Sunday School Congress, i, 12 and 13, final limit June enn. $13.80 mmer School, tickets on sale y 20, 21, 26. final limit .15 Va. $16.50 versity of Virginia, tickets on 5 days from date of sale. aa. $6.15 :ation of Rotary Clubs, tickets it June 25, 1917. Ridgecrtat, N. C. 10 seemblies, tickets on sale May . _ ^ a T1 ? _ tl - ~ , ^o, juiy 5, u, ly, final limit 17 days from date ?a. versity, tickets on sale June $e, with final limit 15 days luced fares from other its for further informa EAN, D. 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