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rK-' '-* '&.&> ' JL ' ' : \ ,' . ? ', '; ' r . * t* . ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ2ZZIZZIZZ . M'SWAIN ELECTED TO INSURArlGE JOB I , TATE A88EMBLY ELECTS SOME OFFICERS AND ATTEND TO OTHER BUSINESS. DISPATCHES FROM COLUMBIA uoinga and Happenings That Mai* the t Progress of 8outh Carolina People, x Gathered Around the State Capital. Columbia. ' W. A. McSwain at Newberry was j elected insurance commissioner of ( South Carolina to succeed P. H. McMaster, resigned. Only one ballot was taken. Mr. McSwain receiving 100 votes. II. G. Coker of Columbia 19. J.!. R: Fulmer of Columbia 12 and S. L. I Mller of Columbia two. Mr. McSwain I will enter upon his duties as soon a.x | lie can arrange his private business. a-??. it is Mr. McMuster's desire to retire i so soon as his sucessor may quality. . The name of S. M. Grist was with- , drawn by Mr. radford and that of W. < A. Burton by Mr. Long. , ''-e now official is a resident o' < Newberry and Is 4<> years old. He i has had much experience with insu*- ! ance and trust company management, being now vice president and munugcr ( of the Security I>oan und Investment j Company of Newberry. He la a natlv; j of Cross Hill, bnf has resided in New- . s berry 18 or 19 years. He holds a hign j ( piace in the esteem or the residents < of his community and is an active i participant in all efforts for cone 1 munlty upbuilding. He Is a brother i of Capt. John J. MeSwain of Green- < vjlle, recently commissioned in the c National Army. ? August Kohn of Columbia and Dr. W. E. C. Bates of Columbia were elected members of the board of trus- 1 tees of the University of South Caro- 1 Una to succeed themselves. B. A. Ha- ' good of Charleston was eloctod to sue- ' ceed J. Q. Davis of Wlnnshoro, retir1 Ing voluntarily after rendering the institution faithful and distinguished * service. 1 r?? t a j _.. j tit i t?-j 1 &/i, *. \/iawiuiu mm yv. J. I dey of Rock Hill and D. S. Henderson of Aiken were elected truRtees of Winthrop. Senator J. G. Padgett of Walterboro was elected trustee of the Citadel. Two vacancies are to be filled and four names were placed before the Joint assembly. Mr. Padgett was the only one to receive a majority on the first ballot, the result of which was: J. G. Padgett, Walterboro. 95; Col. E. M. Blythe, Greenville, 5:1; D. A. Splvey, Conway. 57; the Rev. A. N. Rrunsoti, Columbia, 59. . Agitation to declare vacant the seat cf Victor E. Rector In tho lower house of the general assembly from Darlington county was effectively and pns- j siblv finally laid when tli? in,H..i??o I committee made an unfavorable report *n the Kelly resolution, which report < was accepted by a vote of 76 to 4. Those who voted against the committee's report Justifying the retention of I the seat hy Rector were: Railey of I Beaufort, Boinest ftf Newberry, J. O. I Kelly of Darlington, the author of the ' resolution, iwtd W. L. Piekens. Mr. ' Rector is also a menther front Darling- 1 ton courtty. The resolution was ttfbled ' immediately thereafter. A similar report was rejected by the honse one week ago. ( Members of the house passed to J * third rending the resolution to ratify ! , the federal prohibition amendment hv j a vote of 66 to 28. Prior to taking ; ' this ballot the house refused by a vote j ' ?f "ft ?r> ~ ~i.. -* - '' ... ... ?? vw |>iuic uiir queHUUll 111 ( the primary nett summer. The motion to strike out the enacting words of the resolution was lost by a* vote of 31 to f?8. | Severn! hours of continuous debate i I ' was indulged in nguin, during which , i time the martyred ghost of sta'e ! rights was again widely stalking ! ( abroad, accompanied by its phantom ' | rival, negro domination or equality. ' i Champions of the violated "Issues" exhausted their "munition dumps" ? against an invincible war machine < The hosts hnd come, not to pruise, but i to bury Caesar. The gnllaries were < filled with enthusiastic spectators, who t occasionally slipped the clutch, ramped the floors with their feet, yelled in 1 response to sarcastic repartee and fol- 1 lowed the arguments with resounding 11 applause. Those voting against pan- | i sage of the resolution to third reading ? were: Bclley, Barnwell. Bolnet, Clink ji seal?r. Crews. Davie. J. E. Duncan. ; * Faddy, J. J., Evans. H. II., Fromherg. 11 Hall. A. Jr.. Hammond. Hughs, John- I son. W VV.. Keenan. Kelly. H.. Kelly, i J. O.. I.eseane, Don*. Mason. Mc- ' Cannts. Moore. Rivers. Scott. Sea?' brook, Season. Summers and Young. !1 The senate passed and ordered sont to the house a hill exempting strictly ' local building and loan associations, j which are purely mutual and whose sole business is the lending of money for the building and repairing or 1m- i proving of houses. The present tax ' laws bear so heavily on such lnstltu- j * tlons that many of them are going out j of business. As there are no other j < financial agencies through which the 1 poor man or the mar. on salary may j secure loans on such advantageous | terms the passage of the bill means : much to that cla?s of cltlsep* 11 The i Mr. Moor* of Abbeville led the fight n opposition to the measure, which he characterized as a "shackle." It was regarding every man as a grand rascal. His observation was that men vere "better when put on their honor han by circumscribing them. * The Killot was a God given right and voters should not 1* held In duress. Mr.' Hughes of Oconee agreed that voters should not be held In duress, 'but If the provisions of ths bill are luress, Ood knows we need more of it."- Its chief objent was to protect he voters from "bootleggers" and jthers who voted those unable to nake out their own ticket, "often lynx to the voter and seeing that the vrong name is scratched. How often loes the will of the bootlegger go into he ballot box and not that of the man vho casts the vote." Mr. Llles of Orangeburg made an earnest appeal for the passage of the jiJl.. "We have heard much about the iesire to protect the white man in the 3allot. If this doesn't protect him. hen he can't be protected." Mr. Young of Charleston led the deoate with an explanation of the successful working of the law in Charleaon and of the smuli amount of money necessary to introduce the system. The members of the senate unanimously joined the forces for eonserva.ion which are led by Herbert Hoover, I'nited State food administrator. A resolution was adopted indorsing the work and the policies of Mr. Hoover, rhis means that the members favor wheatless days, meatless days, leae consumption of sugar and pork products. The resolution wast proposed by Senator Beattie of Kershaw. The Stnte senate In one hour passed and ordered ratified four bills, and massed and sent to the house nine bills, utd then began the consideration or tecohd reading bills. When it udjourn?d to meet with the house to elect cortuin State officers, it had under consideraton a bill to put boon the aonor roll all bona fide Confederate soUUeu M J * J luiuicm auu attnurn ii:iu WUIOWS Ot Confederate soldiers and sailors and ouipcnsate them for services renderd from 1861 to 1865. Adjournment sine die when the ounty supply and appropriation bills ire disposed of was proposed in a resolution introduced by Representative Moore of Abbeville. Immediate consideration was Objected to. Asked to Pay Full Time. The house accepted a resolution, reluesting Industrial and manufacturing; plants in South Carolina suspending operation for a five day period under the Garfield order, to puy their employees full time during ttie period of suspension. The resolution was offerad by Mr. Moore of Abbeville. Prior to the acceptance of this resolution. the house was thrown into a considerable turmoil by a resolution tjy Messrs. Toole. Duncan.' Keenun and Hamer, authorizing the speaker of the House to telegraph Mr. Garfield the ??:? tional fuel - administrator, to rescind >r modify so much of the order "as lpplles to and affects the manufacturing plants in this State engaged in making cloth and other products for the government of the United States md the other allied countries." This resolution was rejected practically unanimously in that the house liad pledged its loyaly, and such action would give cotufort to Germany and Herman sympathizers. Wanted to Recess. Considerable effort was mude to liave the house adjourn for 10 days in view of Iho pressing coal shortage. Investigation rAvnnlcwt ?lia? ?? m supply is now on hand and that two idditionul cars of soft coal have been diverted. With this information in hand, the house adjourned until next ruesday at 1 o'clock. Debate on the Toole resolution occupied a large part of the first hour if the session. It read: "Whereat, Dr. Garfield, fuel administrator of the United States, has orlereu the closing of all manufacturing dents of this State for a period of five lays and subsequent legal holidays; ind "Whereas, the manufacturing plants if this State are engaged in making sloth and other products for. the French and United States government in furtherance of the success of the *ur from standpoint of the allies; and "Whereas, the said order will work i great hardship upon the laboring [ieople and the operatives in the said manufacturing plants; .end "Whereas, the production of the mid plants will be considerably lessjned and the labor of same domorlllzed and the pjyigress of the allies' cause thereby endangered and cuused o suffer great injury; "Be it resolved by the house of representatives. that the speaker of this louso be and is hereby authorized ind instructed to immediately telegraph to Dr Garfield, fuel adminisrator. entering our soleipn protest igainst his said order and most jn iivoi.ijr itM|iif?uiiK aim 10 rescind or modify so much of his order as applies to and affects the manufacturing plants in this State engaged in milking cloth and other products for lie government of the United States md the other allied nations." The Australian ballot bill, introduc* f?d *by Speaker Cothran last session was passed to third reading in the house of representatives by an over whelming majority. A stubborn tight was made to postpone consideration until 11:15 o'clock this morning This was rejected by a vote of 51 to 42 On the motion by Representative Moore of Abbevlle to ntrtke out the enacting words, only 29 members vot ed to kill the bill, with 6ft voting to save it. The bill was then sent tc third reading and the parliamentary cllncner applied to proven* reoonstA eration of the vota hi^hh f" "5 J V'-' y' > -. ' For FORT MIL LIEUT. PATRICK O'BRIEN ^VMAihh^HH Sm^Mh MBHIBB5 IbbHB^SmoI^ ik 11 Lieut. Patrick O'Brien, an American > member of the Brltlah flying corps, ; who was brought down in a one-sided battle by the Germans, and who had been taken into Germany on his way to a prison camp, Jumped from a train which was going 30 miles an hour, and by many heroic and clever moves managed to get Into Holland, and then back administration asking for a ruling. While reports to the fuel administration told of an increased movement of coal to householders and to ships under the three days oper'ation of tho five-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 railroads it was said that there was little hope for material improvement in traffic conditions until the weather mode, ated. Moving Empty Coal Cars. Efforts were centralized on the movement of empty coal cars hack to the mines, and to the transportation of bunker coal to tho Atlantic seaboard. A total of lfiO.OOO tons of hunker coal had arrived or was en route for North Atlantic ports while 100,000 tons had been delivered on the south , ern seaboard and 200.000 tons more was on its way. At one southern port "0.000 tons was delivered to ships that have been lied up for more than a week. | STRIKERS IN AUSTRIA OPENLY ANTI-GERMAN. London.?A general strike is cn , throughout Austria, according to an Exchange Telegraph disntcah fr* Paris, which reports 100.000 men qui' ting work in Vienna and Neustadt, closing down all the war factories. The strikers are described as openly anti German and the movement is bolh political and economic nnd eap*"iAlly aimed at securing peace. Public demonstrations, it is added, have been held in many places. NEED 30,000 MORE WOMEN IN ARMY NURSING SERVICE. Washington. ? Enlisting of 30.000 more women in the military nursinrr Bervloe will be required if prospective needs of ihe Rovornment are to met. the American Red Cross announced It* an appeal for volunteers. In order to meet the Increasing demands of the army and navy nurse corps, the Red Cross has modified somewhat it sformer requirements for I enrollment. The aRe limit has been I lowered to 21 year*. tc England. MOVING EMPTY GOAL GARS ALL RETAILERS EXCEPT DRUG AND FOOD STORES TO CLOSE. u v/urmtiuc rur i cn mongayi.?u?r* field Requests That Office Buildings Be Not Heated.?Conditions Better. , The eastoi.. half of the United States observed Monday generally as a holiday,the first of 10 houtless | Mondays decreed by the government 1 to conserve coal t nd to clear conges| tion from the railroads. Although the closing order, promulgated by Fuel Administrator 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 request that nil retail establishments, 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 the lrtter of the order and operate no lights or elevators except to accommodate the few exempted persons who ar<? housed In their building. Food stores, which in the original order were permitted to remain open only half the day. were grntaed a special dispensation under which they may sell goods throughout the day. It was said that the use of fuel foi lighting buildlugs and for operating their elevators probably could be prevented during the remainder of the Monday holidays. In drawing the or der this was overlooked and thousands >f tolficrnma linvo rnn/.Ka/l tl?-> v r * ."V*V ffr * ' -;tl > , 'X \ .. ' .*/ * . > l/*5 * I., S. 0.. THURSDAY, JANU, LOOK FOR NEW FLOOD JHRAFFIC j ADMINISTRATOR 6ARFIELD URGES EMBARGO ON ALL BUT | nici Akin cnnn IS OPPOSED BY MCADOO Placing of Embargo Is Urged by Garfield at Once. Owing to Deep Snows and Intnese Cold, Which Is Tieing . Up Traffle. Waahiugton.?An urgent recommenidataion that an embargo be declared for a few days on acceptance by the railroads of any freight except coal .and food was submitted to Director General McAdoo by the fuel administration. This action is imperative. Adminis(Vator Garfield said, to assure ade quale movement, when the general transportation situation oast or the Mississippi throatens to become wors? daily, owing to the prolonged strain on railroads or deep snows and intensely cold weather. The five-day period of industrial suspension ended Tuesday, amh with the 'resumption of manufacturing, railroad vofficials look for a new flood of traffic which the railroads cannot handle i until normal weather is restored. Director General McAdoo was no: ! inclined to look with favor on the em bargo proposal. He held that under government operation and consequent pooling of facilities and short haul 'routing, the railroads would be able to clear all freight offered for transportation without priority und without embargoes. Coal and food already have preference over all other classes i of freight, lie pointed out. and are bej ing moved to tidewater and to localities where domestic needs are greatest. as fast as Is physically possible. NO SIMILAR BODY HAS EVER LED CLEANER LIVES D.nkU. D.nll.a >. I to Reports About United States Soldiers. Washington?There has never been a similar body of men to lead as clean lives as the American soldiers in France. General Pershing said in a ' cablegram to Secretary Baker in replyto inquiries us U? the truth of reports of immoderate drinking among the men. General Pershing's message was made public- by Mr. Baker in his letter to Governor Capper, of Kansas. "You may recall writing to me coni cernlng 'persistent reports' as tp the i immoderate sale of liquor among our 1 forces in France. My impression was I that these rumors were not well founded in fact; but I felt it my duty to i convey their content to General Pershing. and rto ask him to communicate with me as to the facts. You tfill be glad to know that I have Just received the following words from the comi j ntaniier of the American expeditionary I forces; " 'There has nevei5 been a similar I body of men to lead as clean lives as i our American soldiers in France. They have entered this war with tho hlohnu ; devotion to duty and with no other j idea titan to perform tVese duties in ' the most efficient . manner possible i They fully realize their obligation to their own people, their friends and i the country. I " 'A rigid program of instruction is carried out daily with traditional i American enthusiasm. Engaged in healthy, interesting exercises in the open air. with ample diets, officers ! und men. like trained athletes, are : ready for their task. Forbidden the use of strong drink and protected by stringent regulations against sexual j evils, and supported by their own : moral courage, their good behavior 1 is the subject of most favorable comi ment, especially by our allies. I " American mothers may rest assured that their sons are a credit to them and to the nation, and they may well look forward to the proud day when on the battleflelri these splendid men will shed a new luster on Amerij can manhood.' " SITUATION IN AUSTRIA GROWS BUT LITTLE BETTER. While the hitter internal political stiuation in Austria-Hungary seems ro have abated somewhat In intensity, the latest Indications are that benoa'h the surface the tire of discontent is merely smouldering and that at no distnnt date it again may break out in a veritable conflagration. The politicians apparently with optimistic utterI nnces have quieted a situation that Is , fraught with grave possibilities so far as the dual monarchy ie concerned PLANS FOR CONDUCTING PROPORANni IN 9no?i? Washington.?Plans for conducting a propaganda In Russia to acquaint the people there of the friendship of this country and prevent them from falling under German influences have been launched here by members of Congress. As part of the plan, It was ! learned that labor organizations -1 :many parts of the country are nrcnar.. ing to hold meetings on Lincoln's b'rf'iday, February 12. a' which ?n;>c?he' [will be made end resolutions adopted. ? , ~ , . -. y? *T T I LL JL IKY 24, 1918 MISS HELEN D. M'COKMICK ^toBSkv i' ^UHV > ., . By^' VBh^ ^^BFfrflflM^Bl^^B84-''3bB^<,-' Wff 1 Miss Helen D. McCormick has enterod upon her duties as an assistant district attorney in New York city. Hsr excellent work as state factory inspector brought her to the attention of District Attorney Lewis of Kings county. Miss McCormick is thirty j years old and is a graduate of the ' Brooklyn law school. She was admitted to the bar five years ago. She has always bcrn an active worker for worn- ' an suffrage, being chairman of the Tenth assembly district. I NO VIOLATIONS REPORTED! | i i BUSINESS MEN OF SOUTH OB-, SERVE FUEL OROER FOR FIVE DAYS. Cotton Interests Are Hardest Hit ' With Tobacco Following?Industrial j Center at Birmingham Only Slightly i Affected. Atlanta. Ga.?Hundreds of industrial j i plants In the south were closed for a live-day period under the fuel re-1 i striction order and thousands of op- ] i eratives were idle. No reports of vio- I latlons of the order had beeu received I and surface indications were that j i both manufacturers and workers view- , ed the situation philosophically. The South Carolina house of representatives. in session at Columbia. \ "Voted down by an overwhelming ma- j Jority a resolution asking Fuel Admin- | ! istrator Garfield to rescind the order I , and the Atlanta chamber of commerce j adopted a resolution approving it. At Roanoke, business men in mass meeting voted to observe the order, while < the Norfolk. (Virginia) Retail Merchants' Association asked merchants to close all stores on Mondays during , the ten-week period. Tliu ! , a taw iw>>u? v W IUIOIC91B |II UUUUI.Y WHS | the largest outside of cotton to be af- j fected by the order. Cigar factories ! . in Florida, Virginia and other states ' were closed as were tgjmeco and ( cigarette, plants in Virginia. North Carolina and other sections. The industrial center at Birtning-1 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 j 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 16,;000; Ma-; con. Ga.. 7.000; Memphis from 5,000 j j to 7.000; Chattanooga from 15,000 to 20,000; Charleston, S. C? about 2,500, | and Knoxvllle, about 3,500. In the Roanoke district where about 2.000 workeiR were idle, the Norfolk & j Western railway offered to employ i hundreds of persons in repair and ( other work on its lines and in its shops , during the days of inactivity, including Mondays. FREDERICK SPOEMANN AND ASCH LIBERATEC. ; Rolllrnxx/. 1 tl " " I f waniuivic.- ricuci 1VR II. * . fl|IOIT- j Imnnn. brother of Walter Spoermann, 'alleged German spy. held In jail here,, and Marias Ast h. both of whom wee 1 arrested in Baltimore shortly aft >r ; Walter Spoermann was taken near | Newport News. Va.. were liberated.' Assistant United States District Attor- j ney Latane said the two men had been j arrested in order to get certain infor j matlon and that such Information had been obtained. New Liberty Loan Plans. Washington.?As the first financial step in preparation for the third Liberty loan. Secretary McAdoo announr president of the New York Central. ! ! who has acted as assistant to the di- : rector general, with headquartersr in j V, V..1. T? 11 - - I limn iuia. n. ii /MniiKiii, president of the Chicago & Northwestern, wan . appointed regional director for terrt- ' tory west of the Mississippi with hen 1- j quarters at Chicago. Southwestern roads were assigned to C. H. Markhais president of the Illinois Central, with h<.adouarfers at Atlanta i * - ' i"' \ * .' % * ' '' / * jf j&V ^ : ' ' \ * J ' IMES AUSTRIAN CABINET ; HAS RESIGNED SCARCITY OF FOOD AND GENERAL DESIRE FOR PEACE BRINGS RESIGNATIONS. HUNGARIANS ARE DISCONTENT I i Minister of Interior Will Form New Cabinet at Once.?Count Czernin Was Head.?Held Portfolio of Min istcr of Foreign Affairs. The crisis in Austria, arising from the discontent of the people over the continuation of the war, the scarcity of food and a general desire for peace, has *esulted in the resignation of the Austrian cabinet. For weeks there has been bitter opposition to the government on the part of the people and during the last few days this lias resulted in nationwide strikes and some disturbances. The internal strife in Austria, apparently due chiefly to war-weariness, the high cost of living and the dislocation generally of economic life, contiiAies to be of absorbing interest. Although the exact situation resulting front the troublous times is not giv on in the extremely meager details available, the dispatches that have crept through are indicative of a situation that will require skillful handling by the authorities again to bring the dissatislled populace into a stat"? of tractuhillty. No newspapers in Vienna were permitted lust Saturday. The only publication allowed was a single sheet bulletin, which told some of the dotails of the nation-wide strike and the developments in the peace discussions at Brest-Litovsk. As usual the hand of the German propagandist was *o be seen in this one-sheet publication, for the chief announcement in it was from the German social democracy cf Austria. This lav stress on last year's declaration of the Austro-Hungarinn foreign minister. Count Czerin. that , the central powers were ready to make an immediate general peace, 1 without annexations or indemnities. j Evidently, however, this statement failed to placate the strikers in Vienna, who sent a large delegation to wait upon the food minister to inform him of conditions among the working classes and to impress on him that their desire for peace overshadowed and took precedence over all other demands. In Hungary also the people are endeavoring to ascertain what are the prospects for a cessation of hostilities and a return to normal. So insistent has been their efforts in this direction that the Hungarian premier has been forced to announce in the lower house of parliament that the government adhered to the principle of peace without annexation. GOVERNMENT MAY HOLD RAILROADS AFTER WAR McAdoo Says It Would Be Injurious to Stockholders to Turn Them Eack Washington.?t'hanggs In the funda mental prim-Heps of railroad operalton under government control will make it inadvisable to turn the roads back to private ownership immediately after the end of the War. Director Cleneral McAdoo urged before the senate J interstate commerce committee. I'nitl "comprehensive and rational legisla- ] Hon" to meet the changed conditions | is enacted it woldu. be Injurious to the > stockholders for the government to re- > linquish control, he added. .Examination of the director general on the administration's railroad bill may be resumed later by the committee. but Chairman Smith announced that the hearings, including arguments, will be completed later. The committee plans to begin work on the bill and report it to the senate as soon as possible. The chief questions at issue are whether the measure shall fi xu definite time for the return .of the roads to private ownership and tlie basis of compensation. STONE'S SPEECH IN THE SENATE STARTS A BLAZE Washington Smouldering lire* of partisan feeling were set ablaze in the senate by Senator Stone, veteran Democrat, with a long prepared speech accusing Republicans of playing politics in their criticisms of the government's conduct of the war. There had been plenty of advance notice of the speech, which administration leaders sought vainly to induce the Missouri senator to abandon or postpone. TWO N. C. SOLDIERS DIE OF DISEASE IN FRANCE Washington.?Sixteen deaths among members of the American expedition aij miic, iu hup iu natural cauKcj [ and one from drowning, were reported by Pershing, among them were: Private Joseph Bonner, engineers, January 10. pneumonia. Mother. Sa a Bonner. Box No. 6. Ransomville, N. C. Private Roiund F. McArthur, marines. January 19. cerebro spinal meningitis. Mother, Mrs. Irene Jessie McArthur, Carthage. N. C. wmSBM - ' $1.25 Per Year. j|i%M SATURDAY NAMED US PORKLESS DAY I FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PAGE ANNOUNCES ONE DAY* TO CONSERVE PORK. BIGGER SUPPLIES FOR ALLIES AJI Food Saved By People of This State Means More Food For Our . Allies. Raleigh.?A Porkless Saturday and one wheatless and one meatless meal each day of the week are announced hy State Food Administrator Henry A. Page as a part of the more intensive program that must be followed If the American people are not to fall down on their job of supplying the fighting forces of our Allies with foodstuffs. In addition to the voluntary co-operation, the Food Administration nrnnoscs t o i-pnniro nil linkers to use 25 per cent as much of other cereals as of wheat. Mr. Page and Mr John Paul Lucas. . executive secretary of the Food Administration. who have just returned from a conference of Food Administrators at Washington .are deeply Impressed with the urgent necessity for the co-operation of every Individual in the matter of saving by economy and the use of substitutes for these fool products which are suitable for export. Mr. Page does not hesitate to say that the man. woman or child who refuses to render the utmost service in the mntter of increasing the supply of foodstuffs available for export, is miserably failing in their dttfjf to their government, to suy nothing of their absolute disregard of all humanitarian sentiment. "The situation." declares Mr. Page, "has assumed an aspect as simple as h is urgent. it is purely an lndivftrusi proposition. The Food Administration is gauging the quantity of foodstuffs released for export by the available supply and this available supply is llxed by the conduct in his eating of every man, woman child in America. The exportable fbod that any individual might save but does not will surely cost the life of a soldier or the life of some woman, child or old man . in Europe. It is purely a matter for the individual conscience and individual action. There are no two ways to it. There is no fence to ride. We either line up with patriotic, wholesome decent people and help feed the soldiers and the starving civilian people of Europe, or we line up with tho selfish, mean, ignorant, miserly arrognnt crowd which consinders its own comfort and stomach above all patriotic or liuinan^ sentiments. N<v H Major London Dead. Piltsboro. Admiring friends throughout the state will learn with sorrow of the death of Major Henry A. * London at his home in Pittsboro. He had been ill for several weeks and the end was not unexpected vuiM>r i.tuir.oii whs iu years old anil was the oldest nowspai?er editor In th<* state, being editor of The Chatliam Record. He served with disfinc.iort throughout the civil war and ha.s ^ since been active in North Carolina and rnlted ( onfederate veteran serv* 4 ice. being adjutant general of the North Carolina division. Ho was especially active in all public matters, served a number of times in the state ' c legislature, notably In the senate of 1001 and 100(J. Major London leaves a widow and several children including Lieutenant Jack London, of the Knifed States navy; Henry M. London, chief clerk of the United States collector's office, Raleigh; Ts??c London, of Rocking ham. and Mrs. John H. Andorson, of Fayetteville. Major London was not only a veteran editor, hut a lawyer and pollt Irian. - -**5 Major London was a former prosldent of the North Carolina Press Association ar.U twice member of the state senate. He was a Democrat Of the first wat?*r. Will Rebuild Railroad. . y \ Kenly.?Messrs. Wiley Narron an| son. who live some Hftcen miles northeast of Kenly. have purchased the rails and rolling stock formerly owned by ina iM?nn!n-?iminonn Luiranor company. The property was bought for $:$3.0f?ft. It Is the purpose of Mr. Narron and his son to repair the railroad track, purchase new equipment, and establish In the very near future freight and passenger service frotr xHB Kenly to Narron's store. Thle ar / j rangement will open up a large sec- ^ tlon of fertile farming land. New Farmers' Paper. Wilsons?The Farmers* Union Bttl letln has made its first appearance from tho presses of the Co-operative Publishing Company, in this city. It jfl wilt be published monthly in the interest of the North Carolina Division / of the Farmers' ^durational and Co- /flSHH operative Union of America. Its edt- '> inriai and nusinpRB otricft* are at Ab- >y* 1|H|H errteen. George C- Leach I* manag- < Ing editor and Dr. H Q. Alexander, . associate editor; E. A. Denham, ansa and advertising man???^ i