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^viators Ctfme to j, " 4itempts to Make Long Croz Chantry Ffaght Ends in Chesterfield County. Coluxibia, Dec. 4.~Four of the five aeroplanes which left Langley Fieid, Hampton, Va., last Wednesday morn ing for'the cross country flight of ?7? miles to Emerson Field, Camp Jack son^ arrived at their destination at noon y?isterday after several days of delay incident to unfavorable weath er conditions. One of the planes nafiade ? forced landing at Chester field " yesterday morning and was so badly wrecked that parts intact will , be shipped back to the home base. In making the landing, Lieut. E. C. Smith/ the~ pilot, escaped without In jury, but Sergt. A. Rambicur, the ob server, sustained a broken arm. This is the first cross country flight everi ??cle solely by the point of tha com-! pass. ThV machines start on the re-; turn trip about noon- today. j Prohibition Up-to-Date! T- I Florida Prohibits Tranportation | Liquor by. Airplanes. } *- i Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 2.?Th j house today, adopted the senate bi: to "dry" the State thoroughly afte: ! January 1, when the prohibit!c. ' amendment to the State Constitution; goes Into effect. The measure, know: \ as the Stokes bill,'was adopted by j unanimous vote. , It provider tha- \ no whiskey or other alcohols bevir- ! age can\be transported within the ! borders of the State after January 1 | ?That poasession of more than fou: quarts, of whiskey or similar liquors or more than 20 quarts of beer by any person after that date shall be ? mis demeanor; drunkenness is punishablc by a fine of $500, or imprisonment for j a year. ', it now goes to the governoi ? for his approval. The- bitf ^carries a provision which ? probibits'the transportation of intoxi oat^O liquors by airplane. ? ^.7 j,;.... 1 1 i WOi?rij> HOLD BOENSFS PAY. ftefcator Curtis Blocks Unanimous ? ? Consent to Resolution. "Washington, Dec. 3.?Objection wa: made illy Senator Curtis of Kansas on two successive occasions today to th??: passage-'by. unanimous consent of a resolution introduced by Majority Leader- 'Martin and reported favora bly by the committee on contingent expensed to. pay former Senator Chris tie Be?e* of South Carolina, the sum of $554-for 27 days from Nov. 6 to Dec. 2; during which time he served as senator. . Senator Curtis read from the Stat uses to sustain bis point that salary should not ba paid two men for simi ?ftaseou* service in the same senato rial po^ok ' The vice president bad j>T0Tfoti8ly directed that the salary b.-> withheld after Nov. 6 in Senator Benet'a case. * | \ The ^^nners* license tax and the posting'of laa?s, which is becoming the-.rule rather than the exception. Shoul?^put the pot hunters out of bus i^ess,xpr?vi4ed they obey the law and gespeet*the*rights of property owners., L.J . =^ Peace Stimulates Business .Once More; 'ilie Reaction From War Time; Economy iMotcg in Ak . I Sections or u>antrj. * i - ? ? ! "Washington, i>ec. -Reaction from | war time economy 10 apparent in re*; : ports to various government ageacie* i since.the signing 01 tiie armistice. Wat : : savings coznmiUoee in ail parte oi | i the country have submitfea Btate- ] i ments tenaing to show that persons j j who abstained from buying unneees- ? r sary ciothes during the wi*r nav* i j rushed to shope within the past week I ! or two and oought according- to pre I war standards. Retati businesses report stimula I tion of business by peace news. In ? some cases, the response was irnme- i ! di?te, busmen showing a bv_; jump ! within a' nay or two alter l\ove;abe*. ! This reaction scsma most markeu among the wealthier classes. Reports gathered by the Federal Reserve Board also show actlvit) among wholesale houses to meet tlu ] demand of retailers. The wholesale business, however, is somewhat ref- j stricted by the desire of retail mer- 1 chants to let their stocks run low,; whiie waiting for price.? to come down. Thousands Of retailers quickly arranged special saies of their stocks, at lower prices, in view of the uncer tainties of the future course of prices. huiicting operations havo taken a sudden start after the long cntorcea period of sluggishness during th'-. i war, and building materials are nowj beginning to 3ow away from tormer war enterprisea, toward "peace time building projects. Private building seems to be holding back, however! Municipalities and states have turner their thoughts to building roads and bridges, held up during the war %? shortage of materials^and within the next month officials here look for a multitude of advertisements for bid>. for these projects. At least eight billions of dollars j must be raised in the United State-. | next yeaF fr?nt v;r bonds or war say- ; ings. Officials ar-rue that flea-ting of j these loans without corresponding saving In money and materials mere ly serves to inflate credit, and the practical result of this inflation is a general ris<? in prices. The treasury now is seeking to de velop means of continuing thrift propaganda throughout the nest few years, to educate the public to tlr duty of paying off indebtedness be fore relaxing war time economy. % fact, students of economy in the trcas ury declare that unless the American people learn lessons of thrift Which populations of England, France. Ger many and other warring" nations have learned during" the past four years the country will be in position durin? reconstruction of absorbing much more than Its share, of. the world'f available stock of food/ materit?,? and labor, needed for the physical re building of devastated portions of Eu rope. ; Treasury agencies studying banks j conditions in. industrial communities, | particularly whire war materials were j j*?anufactu'red find that snvings und j checking accounts maintained by j workmen do hot have balances pro | portionatc to their advances in wage: during thewar._ "The Home-cxumug of Tho Thrr^th." Won't that be- a joyful time, When they bid England goodbye, The people over there will .-miss them, Ami some' Of them may cry. i4There goes the bravest lads that ever Come over to fight And how we all miss them. For many a day and night." Our boys will feel :?o happy They will smile and kiss their hand, And think of the homefolks over hero In their own dear native land. . They will march down to the stejimer On the great Atlantic shore, And sail back to America where They won't have ro fight any more. Now won't that be the happiest Boys that ever have been seen7 Nothing now at all to fear Not even a submarine. They will wave their hand, While all the people cheer,. Ana join each othar in the song; "Where do we go fram here." Although they fought ,like de^io^a, Their hearts are of purest gol4 And all the brave deeds? that 'tfeese boys did, Can never all be told. When they were told to go over the . top, ... '' :' They did not lag beh!nd But went on like the heroes that they :?*e. ? ' .k ? And broke the Hindenburg line. Oh.;-how we all should love them, We never can praiqe them enough. Even if they are our wonder boys, They ore diamonds in th,e rough. Their names will go down in history; They have not'a cowardly strjaln, And they are worthy of .all honor. Even the Hall of Fame/ . They will drink their wine with* glad* ness.. And eat the good provision.. God bless the heart of every one . In that dear old Thirtieth Division. TM.-" An Eye on the Futur?.' Maggie had a new baby brother which everybody agreed was such a baby as had never been :;een before. One day the baby was being weighed, and Maggie asked what that was for. "Oh," said . her father, "Uncle George has taken a great fancy to baby, and be**: off ?red to buy him for a shilling an ounee." Maggie looked:?startled. "You're not going to seli him, are . you, daddy?" .7 ' j "Of course not, precious." answered daddy, proud to-see his little girl loved her brother boS. k ;*No. Keep hint till he gets a bit olgger," the chlkJl went on: "he'll fetch ittOre money then."?Tit-Bite. Blights the Soul. "Here is a 'preacher who an nounces that ttk* automobile is a menace/to religio'rf." "Maybe the poor fellow bought :.? second-hand car."?Charlotte Ob server. nxjKiiiBMi 1 1 pi 1111 i, 1 , Abundance of For the 1919 Crop We are prepared to supply users of ? grtf*fe of Po tash goods desired $ 1 77?e Director of S. C Agricultural Experiment Station Says: T will say that a survey made of the cotton situation in South Carolina leads i US to belfere that at least 25 per cent, reduction in the cotton crop has result ed this year frem lack of potash. In some ca es not more than half a crop has been produced on light land that is very deficient in potash. The ance of the plants indicates that what is known as potash hunger is sible for the decreased yield. We.are, therefore, recommending that amounts of potssh be used in fertilizers for cotton next year. At the usual rates of application I feel that it will pay to use as much as 3 per cent, of potash at the present prices." ? 4 ft a appear ^respozi koeral I 1 f Enquire of Royster Dealers. Plaze orders early. F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. NORFOLK. VA. Must Save Armenia SHE EASTERN CHRISTIANS SHOULD NOT BE LEFT UN DER TURKISH RULE. Viscount James Bryce Says Al lies Should Send Army to Occupy Turkish Armenia. i { London, Nov. 25 (Correspondence* j of The Associated Press)'?In the j opinion of Viscount Barnes Bryce, j former ambassador to the United i States, '"it is extremely desirable that : every effort should be made to send ; in a sufficient allied force to Occupy what was Turkish Armenia and re I establish some sort of order there." This view h* expressed in a coni Jmumcation'to the Manchester Guar i dian, coupled will) a regret that the 'conditions of the Turkish armistice i failed to provide for the immediate [occupation by the allies of the six Ar j menian vilayets and also of Cfllcia ; (modem province of Adana on the [Mediterranean.) Lord Bryce says, however: ? "I cannot think that this omission I was due to any doubt as to the ne- j ? cessity, and indeed the solemn duty,! of delivering all the Armenian dis tricts utterly and forever from any j vestige of Turkish, rule." The Brit I ish government, he continues, has I pledged itself "so frequently and j clearly to this deliverance, and, as ; we understand, both President Wil- j ? son and the French government have | I expressed themselves so strongly in j i favor of such a policy, that >ve can not doubt the honest purpose of the] {government." ? { j "It need hardly be said," thP state- , {merit goes on,' 4-that to leave the Bast lern Christians of Armenia- and Syria ? j under Turkish rule wottld excite .trio 1 warmest indignation all over the Couri I try, and if possible still warmer m - dignation in the United States, where ?the interest in Armenia has lWn ex-fl [?tremely! great and has been evinced,! [by "the enormous contributions which.} ! have been made to the relief of the! ! Arriieniari refugees. I ."Can anybody in this country be; .found who thinks that after the; ; three hideous massacres which the ! i Turks have perpetrated in Armenia] j since 1895, culminating in the worst j imarsacre of all in 1315, when 800,000 j I Christians perished. It would be po3- [ j sible, for any Christian power, or In I defed any .power of human feeling, to j leave thfe Turk free to begin oppreo ! sions afresh, or to fail to show by j turning the Turk out of the couniity i the anger and horror which his cruel- ' 'ties have excited? I need hardly adjd'j irfh?t the. presence of Turkish rule" V3xs-j ftheSe regions, with their great strate,-. I j gical- importance, would be material. ? to Germany,' if ever she saw hei'j chance,, in realizing her schemes foPJ pushing her influence towaids Persia'J and Central Asia. . r - J "One-fails to see any reason wfry"] {the Turks, being absolutely at the mercy-^f the allies, and having co-nir j mitYedfWith the tacit approval of .Oer"-1 ; many, jthe.hugest single crime thavj I has been committed in the whole J ; coarse of the war, should not have ; been compelled to an absolutely -un- j : conditional surrender. Why should ; j any fayorable conditions have been i "granted to them who have sho^r iJhat,' whether under Abdul Kamift-b*:; j unciw rutfitLns like Bnver and. Ta^a^y., I tjiej? are^capable of the tmost rev.o.'tipii1 j crimes\ ? *:*.. - . v...1. j' I^orcfBryce points out that thc; d-e-1 : mobilization of the Turkish arm" I 1 wilt let loose a large dumber of aHn-fj j ed men accustomed to acts of yi? ! j leric'e who will scatter over the, coun-j ! try and for'whom the Turkish gcv-j j emment will not attempt to provide, j Another thing to consider, he says, j is that allied forces, If on the spot I could rescue many of the Christian; women seized by the Tur::s ahd cur- j rieil off to be s?ld into slavery or 10 j become inmates 01 Turkish harems. They might rescue too. he thinks numbers of the boys that were seized, given to dervishes arid carried off tt be brought up as Mussulmans. Furthermore one should rrvnera- . ber, he says, the great numbers 0! refugees that fled across the Russian frontier from the Northern Armenian < provinces, and who have ,hot ven tured to return owing to the fear of encountering roving bands of demob ilized Turkish soldiers. Only the presence of Allied troops would in ?:uee them to return to their homes. "For all these reasons." he sums up, "it seems urgent in the interests of humanity that these territories mould be reduced to some sort of. or- ' der at the earliest possible moment. ; It is useless to expect . any of these I ? things will be done by the Turkish government." Government Expenses.! NT? mber's Total of $1,935,-249, 000 Stands as Record. Washington. Dec. 3.?Govern ment expenditures in November reach-j ed the new high record of 51,^95^- j 249,000, the treasury department an-j ?jounced' today. Officials attributed j: Ehese hug:- expenses to the fact that 5 he govorhmeni is now paying for the; tremendous output of war munitions; ? 'C.?! materials reached a mcnih or two}; i.go. .They also expect that the ex- j. ?-.cti'vs. of liquidating contracts anuj >aylng lump sum's to contractors \vill}5 :cccp the month:.'/ Outlay a: high fig-j.j ire;; Jor souk- time; . ;| During November^ ? i.?;:.:>.05 1.00,0 J v.;:s spent for war production and | ?tber expeiiaes incurred by the gov- j ?rnment and $278.948,000 was loaned ;.o the* allies. Becelpts from the 'fourth liberty oan bonds reached $?,142,443,000 inj November, making the total sum paid j .0 the treasury on the fourth loan German Spies at Work. Brussels, Dec. 3.?The German es-i uionage service in Belgium continue*! tctlvo, notwithstanding the armistice.) Recording to the Gazette. In a village j loar Brussels the police arres.ted two jferman, soldiers disguised as women .vhu wore taking.photographs of pass .njfc French troops. J2 "sr> 's ;er Rules 'Relaxed L eader of Peasants Party Op- Restrictions Withdrawn by War posed Alliance With Germ an v. Eondon, Nov. 25 (Correspondence:) ? M. Strambuliwsky, lender oi the Peasants' party and head of the New Peasants' government in Bulgaria, was among those who sought to prevent Kin.';- Ferdinand from committing Bulgaria to war on the Side of the; Central Powers. At a conference of party lenders' held with the King at the palace, M. ' Stambuliwsky spoke his mind freely, I telling the Icing that he was leading] the country to destruction, and that j he would pay for his crime with hi:- j crown and perhaps with his head. . j To this the King replied that Stam- i DUliwskv need have no concern to;-! Industries Board. Washington. Dec. 4.?All restrictions: the use of news print paper were" withdrawn' today by the war indua-; tries' board, effective December 15. In making, this announcement. Chairman. Baruch urged the adoption of per manent' rules by publishers prohibit ing wasteful practices and continued voluntary conservation of reading matte:- space lor a time. ' Restrictions placed by the board several months a wo required publish ers to reduce consumption of hews print paper 15 per cent, in daily, edi tions and 20 per cent, in the Sunday ediiior.s. the royal head, hat bad better t care fo his own. Later Stanibulirc was imprisoned. :ke Where Money Counts. "Darling," he said, "I have lost all! my money." "How careless of you," she replied, j "The next thing you know you'll be ; losing me."?Detroit Free Press. Geo. H. Hurst, Undsrtaksr ami Emisalfssr The Atlantic Coast Lire- is at last | repairing the Manning Avenue cros=- | ing according to the terms of the j agreement made with- City Council j several months ago. Prompt Attenthito Or and r Night' Calls At I. D. CR A IG Otd Stand, N. 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