The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-02-28
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South.
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic.

DOUkCSCACS
Four national army soldiers were
held in the guardhouse awaiting a
presidential warrant from Washington
which will mean their internment as
enemy aliens who plotted not only to
shoot their officers the first time they
got into action in Europe, but also to
deliver all the American soldiers in
their organization to the German
army. The names of the men under
arrest have been withheld by the au-
thorities in Washington. The men
were arrested at Camp Lewis, which
is located in Tacoma, Wash.
Coming generations of Americans
are endangered by the indiscriminate
rush of women into industry. Women
should enter only those lines Of work
not injurious to their health and NOR
ais. This is the warning of Mrs. Hill
da Mulhause Richards, chief Of the
+Woman's division of the national Ia
Dor department.
Alleged plots of the Industrial
Workers of the World to poison cat
tile and burn grain, farm houses and
lumber mills along the Pacific coast
were revealed in a confession at San
Francisco of a German who said he
had participated in some of the acr
itions proposed. He came to the Unit
ed States in 1910.
e. B. Deming, salmon administra-
tor for the federal government, has
announced that by order of the food
administration, all Of the unsold sal
mon stock in the United States will
be requisitioned for the United States
army.
! The full influence of the national
administration will be used if neces-
Isary to prevent enactment Of bills
pending in congress to increase the
price of wheat. Wheat is now selling
ON a basis of 1920 a bushel and the
price is maintained by heavy govern
ment purchases for the army and
navy and for the allies.
! Reorganization of the quartermas-
ter corps under Major General Goe-
thals has been completed. Radical
changes are contemplated to insure
1.-THE food and clothing supply of the
army, particularly of the overseas
forces.
Fire, which is believed to have origi-
mated from a defective fue, destroyed
the school house at North Boulevard
and Irwin street, in Atlanta. The loss
lis 100000
Forres Bigelow, Of Columbus, Ohio,
killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter
then went to the home of his mother
!in-law and after wounding her killed
his sister-in-law, after which he re-
turned to his own home and killed
himself.
Secretary Baker issued statement
on his return to Washington from an
inspection tour of the army camps in
which he praised the conditions of
camps at Atlanta, Augusta and Macon.
According to the department of agri-
culture, whether or not the war con-
itinues, the demands on this country,
because of the increasing population
and the needs of Europe, will be great.
:. The South is urged to provide food
for it's own people and feed for it's live
stock and then to plant as much cot
ton as can be cultivated and harvest |
ed by the department Of agriculture.
Planting of increased acreage of
spring wheat and production of an in
creased supply of other food products |
and live stock, especially hogs, is rec
commended by the department Of agri- |
culture.