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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Russian ENJOYS Face Fire
And Water in City Greeting
8 Flames Greets Mission at Formal Welcome IN
Which New York Firemen Display Their Skill
Some of the Guests Flee

class he said, "as we'll as our captains
Of industry, of the pressing and patri
otto need 70 adjust their differences
IN a peaceful and amicable way. A
strike, whether in our mines. machine
shops, factories or streetcars. is in
these times strike aginst patriotism
and an encouragement and comfort
10 our enemies"
Ambassador Bakhmeteff said the fut-
ure of the world hangs on the issue
Of this war
Russia is free" he exclaimed. zone
hundred and eighty million men,
women and children have been given
the JOY Of peaceful, self-conscious
existence and the blessings of self
government. The Poles are free; the
Jews are free there the speaker was
interrupted by prolonged applause) .
Let us be one. Let US fight for democ-
racy and liberty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08
Socialists Decry Mitchell
City Convention Also Con-
dennis Acts of Legislature

The city convention of the Socialist
party at the Labor Temple, Fourteenth
Street and Second Avenue, yesterday
adopted resolutions condemning the
city administration for permitting uni
formed soldiers and others to interfere
with their meetings.
Resolutions were also adopted against
the Democratic minority of the Legis-
lature. asserting that it failed to keep
its promises TO bring about the repeal
OF military laws objected TO.
The city administration came in for
criticism also for failure to raise the
pay of policemen, fremen and other
city EMPLOYEES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

politics about it. although it may be
stated emphatically that politics had
not been a serious influence in con-
nection with the recruiting, training,
or leadership Of Canada's oversee
forces. That such is the case stands
TO the enduring credit Of Major Gem
eral Sir Sam Hughes. the former
Minister Of Militia.
The attempt to "popularze' recruit
ing was soon found TO entail serious
evils. Competition for recruits IN an
already we'll combed field became very
keen. The new political colonies real
lied that their regulations were a.
stake. and in the effort 10 I'LL up their
battalions various undigniiied and re
crettable expedients were employed.
Cabarets. bean-counting contests, lot
tories and callithumpian methods gen.
orally marked a period in Canada's re-
cruiting history which is not pleasant
TO review. and which brought discredit
upon the entire voluntary enlistment
system as a permanent method Of till-
ing up armies.
Training of New Men Delayed
Besides the moral influence OF such
schemes to get men in khaki, the re-
eruiting efforts OF the political colonies
had a serious effect in delaying the
training Of new men. With their per-
sonal regulations as organizers in
volved. the commanding officers were
reluctant to admit inability to fill up
the ranks of their units and repeatedly
pleaded for more time.
For months partly recruited battal-
ions made little or no progress with
their training, while the officers devised
new recruiting stunts" and while men
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-08

| ". the cost of recruiting is consider
ably less than $40 per man, even after
! allowing a generous bonus 10 the re-
cruiting sergeants. More serious than
the cost in money has been the delay
in training men needed az the front.
Canada's experience constitutes a
severe indictment OF the voluntary sys-
tenn of recruiting. although sterneI
measures Al the outset we're a political
( imponiblity. The free will enlistment
plan had to be given a thorough test
and its inadequacy demonstrated and
repeatedly emphasized before public
opinion would support resort TO com
pulson.
English speaking Canada at least
has learned that lesson to-day. and
il is extremely doubtful whether the
United States would have adopted the
selective draf. system at the com
mencement of its participation In the
way. IL il had not been that the e.
perience of Canada and the United
Kingdom established the weakness IN
hcrent in the voluntary system.
Lesson for the United States
For the United States this is the
outstanding lesson from the military
history of Canada since the outbreak
OF the war: With the raw recruits
provided for the organization Of com
plete battalions, oversee units can be
made ready for the front in from four
TO six months. But under the volun-
tary enlistment plan, after the initial
patriotic ruah TO the colors, recruiting
necessities delay the preparation or
new troops and the period of training
may easily lie heightened to a year or
even longer.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
MUST OBSERVE RULINGS
OF FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
Heavy Penalties Are Attached
Merchants Must adhere to II ice
of ii Gents for Sugar-Food
Hoarding Prohibited.

To the Merchants of Robeson County:
Mr.. Henry A.Page, food adninistra-
tor for North Carolina, acting under
the authority given him by law, has
fixed the retail price Of sugar at lie
per pound, and has called on all the
county food administrators to see that
this is rigidly observed in their coun-
ties. Most of the merchants are OBJ
serving this ruling of the food admin
istrator, but some have been reported
to me as not observing it, and as hav-
ing said that they don't intend to cb-
serve it. Everyone can see that it
would be decidedly unfair for some Of
the merchants to observe the rulings
Of the State Administrator, and for
others to disregard his rulings. TIC
such as feel inclined to disregard the
rulings. of the food administrator,
would call your attention to the fact
that heavy penalties are provided fol
the violation of the rulings of the focc
ege of revoking the license of such
persons.
would further direct the attention
of the merchants to the request of Mr.
Page that all instances of food hoard
ing be investigated and reported tt
his office. The merchants can be O.
incalculable aid to the food admins
tration by refusing to sell to any on,
person unreasonable quantities @.
flour, sugar, or other necessary com
modities where the merchant has rea
son to believe that such person is buy
ing provisions for the purpose O.
boarding them.
I am persuaded that we have n,
more patriotic men than the mer
| chants of Robson county and the,
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
STATE NEWS

John C. Scarborough, who was a
pioneer in building up the educational
system of the State after the Civil
war, died at his home at Murfrees-
boro Dec &c, aged IS years. Mr.Scar-
borough was SUPERINTENDENT of public
instruction of North Carolina for
twelve years. He also held the posi-
ton of State commissioner of labor
and printing for several years and
for ten years was president of Chow
an Baptist female institute.
Ernest Bryant, colored, was shot
and fatally wounded at his home In
Flea Hill township, Cumberland coun-
ty, on Dec. "a, death resulting later
His wife and small son and another
negro, Ed Tyler, hired man on the
place, said he was shot by his own
hand, but Tyler was arrested and the
| coroner's jury found him guilty.
The Old North State Smoking To-
bacco company's large factory at
Reidsville was destroyed by fire Dec
| a.
Walter Hines, locked in the jail at
Granite Falls for being drunk, was
burned to death last Monday night
when the lookup burned down.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
A FAMILY
MEDICINE
In Her Mothers Home, Says This
Georgia Lady, Regarding Black
Drauqht. Relief From Head
ache, Malaria, Chills, Etc.

Ringgold, Ca Mrs. Chas. CASTOR,
of this place, writes: Il am a user
of Thedford's Black-Draught; in fact,
it WAS one Of our family medicines.
Also in my mothers home, when l
was q child. When any Of US child
rem complained of headache, usually
caused by constipation, she gave US
a dose of Black-Dfaught, which would
rectify the trouble. Often in the
Spring, we would have malaria and
chills, or troubles of this kind, we
would take Black-Draught pretty reg
ular until the liver acted well, and
we would soon be up and around
again. We would not be without IT.,
for it certainly has saved us lots of
doctor bills. Just dose Of Black
Draught when not so well saves a
lot of days in bed"
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
in use for many years In the treat.
ment of stomach, liver and bowel
troubles, and the popularity which 1t
now enjoys is proof Of its merit.
If your liver Is not doing Its duty,
you will suffer from such disagree.
able symptoms as headache, bilious
ness, constipation, indigestion. etc.
and unless something is done, serious
trouble may result.
Thedford's Black-Draught has beer
found valuable remedy for these
troubles. It is purely vegetable, and
acts in g. prompt and natural way
regulating the liver to its proper
functions and cleansing the bowels o
Impurities. Try it. Insist on Thed
ford's. the original and genuine. = I:
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31

teelng pre-war earnings and mainten-
ance of railroad properties in good
repair.
Government backing will be given
to new issues of railroad securities
that ready market may be found.
The Presidents move, although
forecast for weeks, came at this time
as great surprise to nearly every
body in Washington, including rail
road officials. 1t had been generally
believed he would await the reassem-
bling of Congress before taking any
step. He acted through Secretary Of
War Baker, under authority conferred
In the army appropriation act.
Management of the roads will re-
main in the hands of railroad officials
and the railroads war board, compris.
ed of five railroad heads, will continue
to direct actual operation under Sec
retary McAdoo's general supervision
The chief practical effect Of govern
ment operation will be to permit {
complete unification of all rail sys
TENS, impossible under private opera
tion by reason of statutes prohibiting
pooling of rail traffic and earnings
The roads themselves had gone as fa
as they dared in this direction and i
became known only today that the,
had been warned by Attorney Gener
al Gregory that a violation of anti
pooling laws could not be permitted
Although the proclamation apple
to all electric lines engaged in gene1
al transportation, local interurban sys
TENS are specifically exempted.
Congress will be asked to guarante
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31

McAdoO Peculiarly Fitted.

McAuOO fecuiidrly Fitted.
'The secretary of war and I are
agreed that all the circumstances be-
ing taken into consideration, the best
results can be obtained under the i'm
mediate executive direction of the
Hon Jrable William G. McAdoo, whose
practical experience peculiarly fits
him for the service and whose author
ity as secretary of the treasury will
enable him to coordinate as no other
man could the many financial inter-
ests which will be involved and which
night, unless Systematically directed,
suffer very embarrassing entangle-
ments.
''The government of the United
States is the only great government
now engaged in the war which has not
already assumed control of this sort
It was thought to be in the spirit of
| American institutions to attempt to
do everything that was necessary
through private management and il
zeal and ability and patriotic motive
could have accomplished the necessary
unification of administration, it would
certainly have been accomplished; but
no zeal or ability could overcome in
superable obstacles and I have deem
ed it my duty to recognize that fact
in all candor, now that it is dem
onstrated and to use without reserve
the great authority reposed in me. A
great national necessity dictated the
action and | was therefore not at lib
erty to abstain from it.
"WOODROW WILSON,
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31

need only to have their attention call
ed to these things to cause them to
do all in their power to aid the gov
ernment and the food administration
in tying to conserve the food supply
end see to it's equitable distribution
at reasonable prices.
III. z. STACY,
Food Administrator for Robson Coun-
ty.
Lumberton, N. G..
Dec. 27, 1917.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
PEACE TERMS OF TEUTONS
Hedged About by Conditions Not
Acceptable to U. S. and Entente
Allies.

Terms under which the Teutonic
Allies would be willing to make "an
immediate and general peace" have
been made known to the Russian dele
gates engaged in the peace pourpar-
lers at Brest-Litovsk. The terms have
been set forth in an address by Count
Czernin, the Austro-Hungarian for
eign minister.
AS in previous Teutonic allied init
nations Of what would be required
from the Germanic viewpoint to bring
about cessation of hostilities and
eventual peace, the latest terms are
hedged about by conditions which
seemingly are insuperable from the
standpoint of the United States and
the Entente Allies.
The basic principles Of the peace
terms of the Russian revolutionary
masses-no annexation and no indem-
nities-Count Czernin said he believed
could be made the basis of a general
peace, but that the Teutonic Allies
could not bind themselves to these
conditions unless a guarantee were
given that Russia's Allies wohld recog
nize and fulfill them
Notable omissions in the statement
of Count Czernin connected with the
concrete demands of the United States
Great Britain and France as already
made known, are the questions par
ticularly of the e-building of Belgium
and Serbia, the return of Alsace ant
Lorraine to France and the overthrow
of the militarist government in Ger
many and the formation in its plac
of government that can lie 5eliey :,
the latter demand as set forth b,
President Wilson in his address
Congress calling for war with ATS
tria- Hungary.
Pending the placing Of Count Ger
nin's proposals before Russia's allies
the Russian delegates to the peac
conference have asked for a ten day:
! recess in the negotiations at Brest-L
tovsk.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
Chamberlain's Tablets.

Chamberlain's Tablets are intended
especially for stomach troubles, bill
BUSINESS and constipation, and have
met with much success in the treat
ment of those diseases. People who
have suffered for years with stomach
trouble and have been unable to OBJ
tain any permanent relief, have been
completely cured by the use of these
tablets. Chamberlain's Tablets are
also of great value for biliousness
Chronic constipation may be perm
anently cured by taking Chamber.
lain's Tablets and observing the plain
printed directions with each bottle.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
Nation Wide Survey of Food to be


Forty-one counties in 81 States and
New York city have been selected by
the bureau of markets for an inten-
sive store-to-store canvass as a part
of the nationwide food survey to be
made Dec. 81 by the bureau of coop
Grafton with State and local agencies.
All retail dealers in groceries, meat,
flour and feeds in the territory will be
asked to fill out blanks showing how
much they have on hand on the day Of
the survey.
The results from this store-to-store
canvass, the bureau announced, viii
be used in checking up returns to be
received by mail from all other sec
tions of the country. The counties
were selected because of the wide va
riety of agricultural and industrial
conditions found in them. Counties
include Moore, North Carolina.
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31

Of the great systems which the gov
direction or else suffer serious en-
The Robesonian., 1917-12-31
GOVERNMENT TAKES
OVER RAILROADS

McAdoo is Railroad Director Cen
eral-Every Railroad Engaged
in General Transportation Will
be Operated as One-Pre-War
Earnings Are Guaranteed and
Maintenance of Properties -
Present Officials Will be Re-
tanned.
Government possession and opera.
tion of the nations railroads for the
war was proclaimed by President Will
son on the 26th inst, effective al
noon, Friday, December 28. William
G. McAdoo, retaining his place in the
Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury
was placed in charge as director-gen
eral of railroads.
Every railroad engaged in genera
transportation, with it's appurten
ances, including steamship lines, i
taken over and all systems will be op
Grated as one under the director-gen
eral.
In statement accompanying hi
proclamation the President announce
that as soon as Congress reassemble
he will recommend legislation guaran
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
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and child of us Japanese now in the United
States America will see the utter folly and
injustice Of such measures as the alien land
law in California which bars the Japanese
from owning real estate there. Look at these
figures At the time the alien land law was
passed. the Japenese owned little more than
12,7OO acres, the total value of which was less
than 100000 The 1910 census put the i'm
proved acreage of California at 100000
acres, valued at 81 1900, 100000 Less than 49,
900 acres out of II 100000 acres.
"These figures" wrote Mr.. Rowell, well
known California politician, 'are relatively in
significant in a state which has single holdings
of millions of acres. All of the japanese farms
in California, owned or leased, could be located
on the Miller and Lux ranches and be lost in
the shuttle" And he is right. 1t vast has
been-simply case of nerves with the Cali
fornian and the other good Pacific Coast peo-
Pile; they became panic stricken over what
their fancy pictured might happen, not what
they saw with their eyes All that because
they did not have the slightest confidence in
what Japan said she would do and were quite
in the dark as to what Japan was thinking. In
short, whenever she had any dealing with the
Japanese, America thought she was facing
superhuman race of clever fends.
All that is a nightmare history now. The
repeal of the alien land law and all other dis
criminatory measures will no doubt follow
"Patria" into the limbo of things well worth
forgetting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

reading and believing the figures Of her own
immigration officers. in the six years, from
law in California, which bars the japanese
tered this country and in the same space of
time, LIT japanese went home out OF this
country. And what does that mean? 1t means
that there is no such thing as the immigration
problem here any more; that it expired with
the signing of the Gentlemens Agreement.
When America sees this point clearly, when
she is absolutely sure that she will not have in
the Continental United States more than 100
900 Japanese at the outside, something is
bound to happen-something that is of ire
mendous Importance to every man and woman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

States much more effectively than the Chinese
exclusion law did the Chinese coolies.
Here are his own words: with the lapse
of additional time the effectiveness attending
the regulation of japanese immigration by
agreement between the two countries becomes
more forcibly demonstrated. The easy effec-
tiveness with which the japanese coolie labor
problem has been met throws into still sharper
contrast the cumbersome, ineffective Chinese
exclusion law" But America could not see this,
any more than the Saul Of Tarsus could see the
light. Her entry into the world war has
proved to be her own homemade road to
Damascus. She should have no trouble now in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
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Bv ALICE DUER MILLER

Yet our own government continues 10
exclude women from the civil service
examinations for certain positions to
which they are eminently fitted; and to
tempt young men away from military
service by offering men higher pay than
women for the same work as stenogra-
piers?
Compiled from figures in the Bulletin
of the League for Business Opportu-
mites for Women. May. 1910
III Should Die This Year
AFTER BEN KING
If should die this year.
And Messrs. Root and Wickersham ct al.
After election, and my funeral,
If should die this year,
And they should say, evoking wild ap-
plause.
That they had always loved the woman's
| should appear on that same platform,
too,
And say. THAT is not true
If | should die this year,
And wing my way to distant psychic
climes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

the outbreak Of the German American War,
than for Japanese volunteers TO rush pledges
of loyalty to Washington.
When you fight side by side with set of
people in the first line trenches and against a
common foe you can never think of them as
race mad with the passion of knitting you in
the back at the first black chance that might
come their way. California, herself, lately has
forbidden the public presentation of the movie
melodrama of Hate, called "Patria," and that
means lot TO the japanese mind. Americas
entry into the war may or may not toll the
knell of PYussian militarsm. But it has
brought to a sudden and dramatic end the
called Japanese problem in the United States.
1t killed it deader than last years newspaper.
And that is the one big thing which the entry
of the United States into the war on the side
of tho Entente Allies has done for the Jap
anese in America.
There is nox the slightest doubt that from
now on America will look upon the japanese in
this country with brand new pair of eyes.
America saw that in 1917 there were no more
Japanese in the United States than there were
ten years before, in 1907-the year that the
now historic Gentlemens Agreement between
the United States and Japan became effective
but America refused to believe it; she could
not believe the testimony of her own eyes. All
is different now Years ago-as early'as 1910
their own Commissioner General of lmmi
grafton said that the Gentlemens Agreement
kept the Japanese laborers out of the United
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
To Mrs. jerks, of Rhode Island

"Don't agitote against the ants. Remem-
ber that they are human beings like Ourselves"
Oh. Mrs jerks, | know,
know that what you say is so;
know you're really right-that they
Are human in a sort of way;
That they, like YOU, or even me,
Are people, could we'll agree,
II only they themselves, Great Scott,
Would not insist that they are not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
PEOPLE?

After election, and the New York
Times
say if I should die this year,
And it should editorially tell
How women voting, do extremely well,
should, though dead awhile,
Arise and smile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20
Apology to the Twenty-seventh

The smallness of the recent vote in
the Twenty-seventh Assembly District
was due, not to indifference, but to the
fact that not all of the Assembly dis
trict is included in the Fifteenth Con-
gressional District. We, therefore, have
no evidence whatsoever Except a few
private conversational that any man
who voted against allowing women to
vote failed to 60 to the polls himself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

Do You Know?
That in England there are almost a
million more women at work outside the
home than before the war?
That in industrial occupations women
workers have increased by $4,000 and
in 0fnmercial occupations by 26S.OOO?
In government departments, where
there were $500, there are now $4,000?
In banking and finance, where there
we're $500 there are now 46,5OO?
In munition factories, where there
were 1000, there are now $4,000?
In most cases women are replacing
men. In professional occupations $4,000
women are replacing men; and in trans
port services al 900 women are replac-
ing men?
In industry $4,000 women, and in
commercial occupations 264OOO women
are replacing men?