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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
DATE WILL LIKELY BE FIXED
SOME TIME IN DECEMBER OR
JANUARY.
BIG DEFICIENCY IS EXISTING
National Army Divisions Formed Out
of First Increment Are All Short of
Quota-Room for Regiment at Each
Cantonment.

Observation-Disclosures Of the ad-
the second increment Of the draft army
now is in progress at the a depart
ment and it appears likely that the
late may be fixed for some time in De-
cember or January.
Mobilization of the first Increment
of 6S7,000 men is now oar enough ad-
vanced to show clearly that there will
be a big deficiency for the II national
army divisions. More than 250,O00 or
the first Increment are still to be as
sembled, but it already is evident that
there will be available at the Is can
tonments quarters for an additional
regiment at each post and at some
for a full brigade of two regiments.
The strength of the new regimental
organization is $500 men. With a
regiment lacking at each cantonment,
his alone would mean a shortage of
nearly $4,000 men, In addition, there
has been authorized a separate div1-
sion of negro troops, which means
nearly 3 10000 men withdrawn from the
original number assigned to the Is
cantonments.
The shortage is due partially to the
necessity of tax ng out of the national
army men to fill up national guard d.
visions. Two complete national divi-
sions of southern troops have been
absorbed in this way. The remnants
of three other southern national army
divisions will be consolidated to form
a single divisional unit, and the sur
plus men from other camps will be
sent south to make up the missing
divisions.
Drafts on the national army forces
must be made to fill up the enlisted
personnel of the aviation service, the
medical corps and the service battal-
ions needed behind the fighting lines
abroad. Eventually there will be
100000 men in the last named service
alone. and the aviation and the medi-
cal service will take nearly as many
more though not all of them will be
taken from the national army. d.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
TRADING WITH THE ENEMEY ACT
is PUT INTO OPERATION
Proclamation by President Confers
Authority to Officials.

Proclamation by President Confers
Authority to Officials.
Washington.-Broad wal powers con-
ferred upon the president by the trad
ingwith-the-enemy act were put into
operation under an executive order is.
sued d~elegating the authority under
the claw to various government de-
partments and to a newly created war
trade aboard.
The board is composed of the mem
hers Of the exports administrative
board. which it will replace with the
addition of a representative of the
treasury department n will continue
to license exports.
Trading Or commercial dealings of
any nature with an enemy company
or agent in this country Or abroad is
forbidden, except under license of the
war board. which also is authorized
to license enemy or tally of enemy
companies doing business in the Uni
ted States, excepting insurance com
panies. whose supervision is e~ntrust-
ell to the treasury.
Censorship of mails. cables, radio,
lad telegraph messages passing out Of
the United States Is placed in the
hands of a censorship board consisting
OF representatives of the war. navy
n p~ostoffice departmnt, the war
board trade and of George Creel,
chairman Of the committee on public
Information.
To the treasury is assigned the regu-
lation of transactions IN foreign ex-
change and expectation of gold or sill
YER coin under license, the enforce
ment of the claws provision against
transmission to the enemy of infor.
nation by any other means.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
COAL PRODUCERS HAVE DONE
THEIR BEST, GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY ANNOUNCES.
AN UNPRECEDENTED DEMAND
Due to Increase in Manufacturing
and Transportation Activity.-CoaG
Being Mined at Rate Never Equalec
Before.

Observation-Disclosures of a general
coal shortage was admitted by the geo
logical survey, which attributes the
situation, not to the failure of produc-
ers to do their best, but to the unprec~
edented demand.
The tremendous increase in manu-
featuring and transportation activity
this year." said a statement issued
today, has created a demand for soft
coal in excess of any in the past, an
increase in demand that is difficult
to measure in terms of tons, but that
is certainly more than the 10 per cent
by which the production has increased
To meet this demand the operators
have been mining coal at a rate eve
before equalled."
A serious coal shortage exists in
Ohio, fuel administration officials were
told by a delegation of consumers
headed by Attorney General McGhee.
who came to Washington to protest
against lifting the embargo on coal
shipments to Canada. of 200 towns
in the state reporting more than 100s
the delegation declared, are entirely
without coal and are unable to obtain
supplies because virtually all coal min
ed in the state is going through lake
ports in the northwest and Canada.
The people of the state, spokesman
for the delegation said, are suffering
and cannot wait until the northwest
is supplied under the fuel administers
TONS priority order before laying il
winter stocks. Mayors Of some towns
have seized carloads of coal en- route.
to the lakes and have apportioned 1t
among the inhabitants. Doctor Garfield
assured the delegation that Ohio
would be adequately supplied under a
plan to be announced within a few
days.
The fuel administrations first move
toward a general apportionmeht OF
coal was made in an order directing
that mines along the Pennsylvania
system supply under a pro rata plan
all the coal the road needs. Later
other roads will be supplied in the
same fashion and the final intention is
to distribute coal among domestic
users ard industries where it is mos
essential.
Coal prices in some districts Of
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia
were raised by the fuel administTa~
ton after it was shown operators
could not mine coal at a profit at the
prices fixed recently.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
ATTACK CHECKED
BY DELUXE OF RAIN
Already Swampy Region Converted
Into Quaqmire.

Al C6dy oSeiiPJ SS'
Into Quagmire.
For the first time since he started
his series of attacks against the Ger
man positions in Flanders, Field Mar
shall Haig has had to cease ar opera
ton before all the detectives were at
tanned. 1t was not the German guns,
however. that stopped the British. It
was a more than usually heavy rainfall
which started during the battle and
turned the already swamp region over
which the men were supposed to pass
into a veritable quagmire from which
thew could not uLtrack themselves for
a forward move.
The drive, as has been customry
in Haig's strategy was started in the
early hours of Friday morning and
extended from near the Houtholst
wood to below the Ypres-Menin road.
At several points the British troops
succeeded in gaining ground over
fronts ranging up to a thousand yards
bnt here the rain i%ntevened and the
fighting ceased for the day.
The struggle was particularly bit
te rto the north of Poelcapelle and
around Passachendae1e. In the lat
ter region the Germans apparently
have massed their strongest array of
troops, hopeful of being able to stay
a further press forward by the British
toward the Ostend-Lille railroad.
The Germans were expecting the
battle for several hours prior to the
signal for the British to attack they
laid down a heavy barrage fire all
along the line, interspersing the rain
Of steel and explosive sheels with as
phvxiating gas bombs.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
EAST ST. LOUIS MOB
MEMBERS CONVICTED

Bellevi1le. Wl.-Herbert Wood and
Leo Keane were found guilty of the
murder OF Scott Clark, a negro, who
died as a result Of injuries received
in the recent race riots in East St.
Louis, and the penalty was fixed al
IA years Imprisonment. Wood and
Xeene were the first white men to be
tried on charges growing out of the
ace riot. Ten negroes were found
guilty last Sunday, and each was
given sentences Of IA years.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
APPROPRIATION FOR
RELIEF OF BELGlANS

Washington.-The American hSa
Cross wal council appropriated $5S%
$50 for the relief Of Belgians not M
der German rule, the work to be csT-
ried out by the new Red Cross denar'-
ment for Belgian organized under the
Red Cross commission to France. Com
~prehensive plans for relief work haH"
been worked out as the result of cor
f~erences between King Albert anH
Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, head
of the commission to France.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
PRESIDENT WILSON SOUNDS
CALL-FEDERAL RESERVE
BOARD SUPERVISES.
TO AID IN PROSECUTING WAR
state Banks and Trust Companies
Are Asked to Join in System-Big
Financial Transactions Make Con-
troll of Reserve Imperative.

Washington. - President Wilson
all the nations gold reserves under
the supervision of the federal reserve
board.
In a statement made public through
the board, the President called upon
all eligible non-member state banks
and trust companies to join the federal
reserve system without further delay,
that they may Contribute their share"
to the consolidated gold reserves Of
the country and aid more effectively
"in a vigorous prosecution and sue
cessful termination of the war"
Scores of such institutions have
1ocked to the system within the past
three weeks, among them some of the
largest trust companies of New York,
Philadelphia and other cities. The
movement to the federal reserve sys-
tenn has lacked only a final impelling
force to assume the proportions of a
landslide. Within less than three
weeks, of such institutions
in the system have risen 50, 900 900, 600.
Liberty Loan financing, the result
an activity in the money markets. the
effect of the governments huge inan-
cial transactions upon the bond mar
kets and the stock exchanges of the
country have made it imperative, In
the view Of the administration. for
the federal reserve board to control
not a major fraction of the gold re-
serve of the country but the entire
amount.
Financially lmpregnable.
With the board inactive, daily con
troll of the country's huge store Of
gold, at present more than $4,000, 000,-
900, watching every avenue through
which it may be lessened and vigilant
in its supervision of the country's
banking activities, officials believe
that the financial position of the coun-
try may be rendered as nearly impreg-
nable as human skill can make it.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
DEATH OF TWO U. S.
SOLDIERS is REPORTED

Neutrality-suspicious. Charles F.
Hammond, Jr., field artillery and Ray
mond B. Nye, medical department with
the expeditionary forces in France,
have died from natural causes the
wal department was advised by Gen.
Pershing. Hammond's next of kin is
his father, Charles F. Hammond, II
Kerwin street, Dorchester, Mass, and
that of Nye is J. B. Nye, 1874 Beulah
street, Whitman. Mass
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
STANDARDIZED MOTOR
MOTOR TRUCK ACCOMPLISHED

Washington.-Details of the deT":'
opment of the government new motrr
truck, announced by the COUNCIL Il
national defense reveal an accomplish
ment that officials declare is sec1H1
only to the production Of the liberty
airplane motor. Two of the TRUCKS
have just been completed and are Il"
on their way to Washington for inspe<-
ton at the war department. They are
of three tons capacity.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
GERMANY EXTENDS AGE
FOR MILITARY SERVICE

Copenhagen.-Germany has extend
ed military service to men AZ years
Of age and is calling up those who here
tofore have escaped service on &C.
count Of militay unftness. The army
already included a large number above
the legal limit of 45 years, on the
ground that although nobody above
.slat age could be modified, yet no
requirement existed for the DISCHARGE
Of . soldier reaching that age.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
POLITICAL SPEAKERS
MAY VISIT CAMPS

Washington.-Citizen soldiers in the
national army training environments
will not have to forego the privilege
of attending political meetings this
fall. Secretary Baker announced that
he had approved an order bv Maj.
Cen. j. Franklin Bell, commanding at
Camp Upton, N. Y, permitting politi-
cal gatherings in camp under proper
regulations. and that thu ruling would
apply to all the camps.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
APPEAL COMES FROM WHITE
4oUsE FOR LIBERTY LOAN
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
URGE PEOPLE TO ASSEMBLE
President Makes Stirring Appeal for
People to Pledge to Support Govern
nent.-SpeciaI WORD to Subscrip-
ton Workers.

Washington. - President Wilson in
behalf of the liberty loan issued a
proclamation setting aside October "a
as liberty day and urging the people
of the nation to assemble on hat day
in their respective communities and
pledge to one another and to the gov
nrnment that represents them the full
est measure of financial support"
The Presidents proclamation fol-
lows:
BY the President of the United
States of America, a proclamation:
The second liberty loan gives the
people of the United Staets another
opportunity to lend theier funds to their
government to sustain their country
at war. The might of the United
States is being modified and organic.
ed to strike ? mortal blow at autocra-
~ in defense of outraged American
rights and of the cause of liberty.
Billions of dollars are required to
arm, feed and clothe the brave men
who are going forth to fight our coun-
try's battles and to assist the nations
with whom we are making common
cause against a common foe. To sub.
scribe to the liberty loan is to perform
a service of patriotism.
Now. therefore, I. Woodrow Will
son, President of the United States of
America. do appoint Wednesday, the
twenty-fourth of October. as liberty
dow o-l ,,,~o ool ol,s,r +Io ~oo-1o
to assemble in their respective com.
munities and pledge to one another
and to the government that represents
them the fullest measure of financial
support. On the afternoon Of that dav
| request that patriotic meetings be
held in every city, town and hamlet
throughout the land. under the general
direction of the secretary of the treas
Try and the immediate direction of
the liberty loan committees which
have been organized by the federal
reserve banks. The people RESPONDED
aobly to the call of the first liberty
loan with an over-subscription of more
than SO per cent. Let the response to
the second loan be even greater and
let the amount be so large that it
Will serve as an assurance of unequal
led support to hearten the men who
are to face the fire of battle for us.
Let the result be so impressive and
emphatic that it will echo throughout
jhe empire of our enemy as an index
of what America intends to do to
bring this war to a victorious conc1u-
sion.
For the purpose Of participating in
liberty day celebrations all employees
of the federal government through.
cut the country whose services can be
spared, may be excused at II o'clock.
Wednesday. the twentv-fourth of De-
tober.
I'm witness whereof. I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
Of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia.
this 18th day of October in the year
of our Lord. n thousand nine hun
dred and seventeen and of the indie
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
second.
(Signed) "WOODROW WILSON. "
by the President.
tSigned) ROBERT LANSING.
"Secretarv of State"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-10-17
WILL INVEST MONEY OF
RED MEN IN BONDS

Washington. - Secretary Lane has
authorized Indian Commissioner Sells
to invest 1000, 900 of the funds of the
five civilized tribes in four per cent
liberty bonds. 1t is expected that the
Oklahoma Indians outside the five
tribes will subscribe 1000, 900 mo 3,
making d total of $3,OOO,0 900 subscribed
to the government by the Indians OF
Oklahoma. A large part Of Their
one comes from oil land royalties
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-10-05
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

OUR idea of some Job is that of being Mayor
~ of Memphis. And yet they say 1t pays
real we'll.
CHOULD LAFoLLETTE be ousted from the Sen
~ ate, the good work should not stop there
There are others.
LIKING the price of coal seems to be about
L as easy as the rest and they are having
about the same success.
TOR man who voted to keep us out OF war,
Mr.. MCADoo is the most bloodthirsty man
in the country-after money
IRON the stir in Masonic circles, one IS led
to believe there is more in what loM WAT
SON has been saying than many will admit
WHAT the Administration preached year
w ago and what it is prachcing now IS IN
keeping with the Democratic idea OF consistency.
WOULDN'T the double cross be flne thing
w for the Kaiser to use in rewardIng his
friends! Swedish diplomats should receive MS
earliest attention
CONGRESS had as well admit that it is incom,
" petent to handle the matters before 1t and
90 home. The farther they 60 the worse be-
fooled they become.
THE President is opposed to committee OF
Congressman going to Europe. AS it would
be composed mostly of Democrats, that majority
might be endangered.
MOST of the time of Congress is taken up
Nl with asking for more and larger powers
for the President. Much has already been
conferred without concrete results.
rs Cermanys failure to make known her peace
L proposals due to the fear that she might ask
too little or to the hope that the Allies will be
more liberal to her that she deserves!
LIORSE meat has passed the experimental
Ill stage in Cincinnati. 1t certainly can not
be much worse than some OF the antlquated DO
vines you run up against, now and then.
LAD Washington let the people know the ex,
Ill tent and scope of German intrigue and
treacherv some months ago, there would have
been no need for a selective conscriptlon.
THE election of new Congress, next year,
is accountable for great deal OF Demo
cratic activity, Notwithstanding the fact that poll
tics is supposed to be barred during the war
CANDIDATES for Judge and Attorney-Cen-
~ eral will find this paper an excellent me-
dunn through which to put their claims before
the electorate. Rates will be made upon ap-
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-10-05
THE SUPER YAUDEvILLIANS

THE cruel truth hurts. Democratic politicians
can not be blamed for wincing at the hor-
rifying picture of their follies as drawn by Sen
aor Watson, of Indiana, in his speech to the
Republican State convention of West Virginia.
It is very painful to the Democrats to see untold
thousands of backsIiders from the party which
won the 1916 national election by yellow.
anti-war campaign, with peace as slogan How
can this party, in view of It's monumental de-
ception as practiced on the American people
last year, hope to be believed in the future?
Who are these people who are crying against
war. against the enforcement against conscrlp-
ton. CRYING for peace at any price? Who put
this anti-war thought in their heads, this peace
cry in their mouths?
Let the guilty answer! These raving pacifists
are the men end women who, last fall, were
taught by the Democratic campaign managers to
shont "Thank God for Wilson, he kept US out
var!" infatuated with this catch-phrase, thous-
ands of right-thinking Americans, last year, took
mn Democracy's chant 1t was with amazement
and INDIGNATION that the real friends OF the re-
nublic Witnessed the growth of the anti.war
feeling. 1t was then realized by the Republican
campaign managers, speakers and press that the
-
the towards and that the propaganda was build
inc lp wall of sentiment which could not tail
to obstruct the activities of this Government
when the policies of the Wilson administration
had brought on the inevitable declaration OF
war against Germany. In some sections, the
the anti-war feeling rivaled religious hysterla
Democratic meetings which were addressed by
speakers who made an appeal to cowardlce re-
sembled old-fashioned campmeetings. lhe lie
kept us out of war" slogan by its ceaseless repe-
tition on the platform, on the streets, IN the
homes and in the press, became hypotic in its
anpeal Men and women, whose forebears had
fought and died in American wars to establish
and maintain this republic, were seduced from
their patriotism The picture of the brave
mother in 1861 kissing her courageous soldier
son goodbye was pulled down and in its stead
was hung the picture of the American mother
hugging tight her boy to shield him from the
battle6elds of Europe, where democracy was
trying to throttle autocracy.
Let us put responsibility for the major part OF
anti-war sentiment in America, today, squarely
where it belongs. Let US charge the Democratic
national campaign managers, their speakers and
editors with such preaching of cowardly peace
CONTINUED on Page p
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-10-05
He rednced the cost of living,
He cut the price of coal;
But the Jobs that he's been giving
Out. will put us in the hole.


Out, will put us in the hole.
AT THE present price of collars, it looks to
IA us like the average man is getting it right
in the neck.
THE ability of our Secret Service has been so
marked that one wonders why it wasn't put
in action sooner.
THE weakness of the Central Powers is mani
fest in the proposal to make the King OF
Spain arbitrator of this
THOSE who used to gayly sing II Didn't Raise
My Boy to Be a Soldier are probably
little wiser than they were year ago.
WHEN they fit Deserving Democrat out with
w Federal Job it is mark of patriotism
that has been much out of fashion since 1901.
THREE years ago, German observers reported
that British soldiers did not know when to
run. They will find our boys just as stupid.
THE Kaiser found that the United States
would fight just like a certain candidate
found out that Polk County voters couldn't vote
the Dortch ballot
WHAT has become of that oldfashioned far
w mer who used to be member of the
Grange and put in the most of his time bowling
about monopolies?
WHEN Washington reveals the extent of
w BERNsToRFF's intrigues in this country,
does it realize the reflection that is cast on the
donothng policy in vogue at that time?
Mr., CIRARD'S pedding of State secrets at
IVI so much per is another indication that your
average Democratic official is thrifty as well as
shifty in the matter Of picking up change.
TT MAY or may not have any significance, but
the fact remains that some OF the papers
we're suppressed as much for what they said
about the Catholic church as anything else.
FINDER a Democratic free-trade law, this
y country would never have had an industry
larger than mush factory. Its income would
hardly raise the revenue needed at this time.
THE Democrats are playing the most unscru-
pulous game of politics this country ever
saw. and if Republicans IN Congress can do
nothing to checkmate it they might as well go
home,
THE fact HILARY HoVsE failed to come
L back" doesn't alter the fact that quite
few in Nashville expressed desire to live un-
der another of his famous administrations, with
all the attending conditions.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1917-07-12
A WAR ON CATERPILLARS.

A war on caterpillars that have
been destroying all the foliage of the
trees in the woods of Surrey, Eng
land, has been declared by flocks of
starlings and jackdaws. Battalions
of the birds have attacked the mis-
chief makers, and the trees have
been black with them, while the noise
made by the birds in their search
for the caterpillars can be heard for
half mile away. Only those cater
pillars which have succeeded in hid
ing themselves in particularly deep
crevices of the trees have escaped the
onslaught.