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The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
EXPENDITURES FOR WAR
Actual Outlays Have Been Far
Less Than Estimates Made Last
June.

Government receipts and expendi-
lures for the first seven months OF
the fiscal year up to January 81, re-
ported by the treasury, show that ac
tual outlays have been far less than
estimates made last June. For
ordinary war purposes, the govern
ment has spent about $3,150,0 600
in the seven months, although esti-
mated expenses for II months we're
$12,316,0 100000. Loans to allies esti
mated fQE.>qO~5 something over
six billions haze been $3,141 ,cooGG,500. coGGS500
Thus, with the year more than half
gole, only about one-third Of the esti-
mates have been expended.
Expenditures are increasing month
ly and if the same rate of increase as
reported for the last few monthscon-
tinues the actual outlay between now
and next June 80, the end Of the fiscal
year, would beabout $1,000, 0,00O, 900
including allied loans.
Ordinary receipts in that time are
estimated at about $500 ,000,0 in
cluding 100000 from interna
revenue, and $4OO,OOO,O00 from wal
savings stamps. Thus making allow.
ances for S75O,OOO, 900 now in the gen
eral fund, and for ,39O,OO0,O00 Ger.
tificates of Indebtedness outstanding
which must be redeemed by June 80
the actual balance remaining to be
raised by bond issues or other mean:
would be somewhat less than $4,000,
100000.
Receipts from the sale Of war say
ings stamps are estimated in varying
amounts, but many officials believ'
that with the augmented sale expected
in the next few months, the govern
lnent will receive $40O,0G0,000 befor,
June 80
The government is now spending
about S24.000,000 a day, or s725,O00,
000)a month for it's own war ex
penses, and ST., 100000 a day, or $3.50,
000,0O0 a month for loans to the al
lies.
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04

For every pound of wheat flour you
buy you must buy a pound of one OF
the other cereals mentioned in a let
ter from the State food administra-
tor published in this issue. Merchants
can't do anything but abide by the law
and no patriotic person who under
stands will ask them to depart from
thatruling Of the food administration.
There is no hardshipa bout it, any
way. One can get along without SO
much wheat flour and fare just as
we'll.
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
Death Of an Infant.

Correspondence Of The Robesonian.
Lumberton. R. 7, Feb. 2.-Jessie
Ray, infant daughter Of Mr. and Mrs.
G. A. Wilkins, died January so, about
10 p. m. She suffered with pneumo-
MIA for 2 weeks. Though her suffer
ing was much, yet we know that it
was not in vain. We know that she is
at rest with Christ in Paradise, be-
cause We hear him say, "Suffer little
children and forbid them not to come
unto me, for Of such is the Kingdom
Of Heaven"
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
ALI Unnaturalized German Males
Must Register This Week.

All unnaturalized German males
above the age Of ID, of whom about
500,0 600 are in the United States, will
be required to register between today
and Saturday with the police of cities
above 5000 population and with post
masters of smaller communities or ru-
raj districts. There will Dc no charge
except for tbe four copies Of photo
graph which the registrant must fur
nish. Subjects Of Austria Hungary
and women are not required to regis
ter. Men born in the United States
OF America Of German parents or full
ly naturalized here need not register,
but those who have taken out only
first papers will have to enroll. Form
er residents Of Alsace-Lorrains born
there after the German seizure in
1871 are registered "a aliens, even
though they are Of French descent
and sympathies.
The Department Of Justice called
attention Friday to the fact that Ger
mans living in a rural community or
a town Of less than 5000 but receiv-
ing mail from a larger postoffcs, are
to be registered by the postmaster Of
that Office and not by the police of
tha larger city.
Special efforts are being made by
the Department Of Justice, by police
and postofice officials and others as
sisting in the registration to eliminate
ary iaee thet the neoie+ration imnlies
any specific blame On t1e larsicu. ar
German. Officials are cautioned to
be courteous to all applicants and the
Germans are reminded that in regis
tering "they are giving proof of their
peaceful dispositions and of their in
tention to conform to the laws of the
United States"
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
women OF
MIDDLE AGE
Need Help to Pass the Crisis Safe.
H-Proof that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
Can be Relied Upon.

Urbana, Ill.-''During Change of Life,
In addition to its annoying symptoms, /
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04

reasonable recommendation of the
grand jury in regard to working and
dragging roads, etc, will be 2roduc-
tive Of good results.
Verify it was a wide-awAke grand
jury, and its report makes profitable
reading.
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04

Observance of wheatless days is
good thing apart from the saving
Of wheat for our allies. Some folks
are making pleasant discovery.
Members of Lumberton family who
thought they could not stand corn
bread have actually gotten so they like
cornbread properly cooked so well that
they don't care if every day is a
wheatless day, and they come mighty
nigh making it that.
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
State Of Ohio, City of Toledo.
Lucas County, IS,

110CdS OUUnIy, IS,
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
~, ~ So l.. -. .1 =. J.
Nts. ~ ny So.' Lolng ,iness in the
said' ana that said firm will pay tho
SUE Ct<E I'M ..7,.l y * Se for
eas; 49, aha evs.y case OF Catarrh that
CATARRH CURE. FRANK ]. CHENMWV 3
Sworn to before me and subscrihell
IN my presence this 9Th day of Dacem.
Der p. 1886. A. w. GLEASON
Halls Catarrh Cure ia taken in+os..
ataY and acts through the Blood on tha
x4ucous Surfaces of the system " senS sns
f0r testimonials, free. ''eni' SEND
u..ss = CHENEY 6 CO., Toledo. O.
Haacs Family Pills for constinat,o,
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04
Chamberlain's Tablets.

These Tablets are intended sspe-
clally Tor disorders Of the stomach,
liver and bowels. II you are troubled
with heartburn, indigestion or sonsti
Daton thsv VIII d yes good.
The Robesonian., 1918-02-04

appeared and your Vegetable Compound
has made me a we'll, strong wornsn so
I do all my own housework. I cannot
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound too highly to women
passing through the Change of Life"
Mrs. FRANK HENSON, 1916 S. Orchade
St., Urbana, III.
Women who suffer from nervousness,
cheat f1ashes," backache, headaches
and 1.-THE blues" should try this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
MEN MUST KNOW EXACT AGE
Failure For Not Registering VIII Be
Called a Misdemeanor.

Washington.-Men likely TO be
affected by extension of draft ages to
include all between Is and As years,
were notified in a statement from
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
that the obligation rested on them to
ascertain their exact age before new
registration day.
Selection of a date in the near
future for registration is known to be
under consideration by the provost
marshal general. Prospective dates
are September 10, IL or IL.
Persons in doubt as to whether or
not they come within the new age
limits of Is to As years should make
every effort possible to clear up this
doubt between now and the day set
for registration" General Crowder
said IN his statement Failure to do
this will not excuse a man from reg
istering II as matter of fact he comes
within age limits laid down by con-
gress. All resources of the nation
will be used to locate persons who so
fall to register Such persons under
the law would be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and, upon conviction, would
De liable to a years imprisonment"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
EXPERTS CLAIM FOE
CAN'T STOP ALLIES
FORWARD MOVEMENT
Hlndenburg Line Practically Made IN
tenabIe BY Yanks and French
Attacks.

Washington Hindenburg line
is no longer tenable." This is the
judgment of military observers at the
war department. 1t is added that GER
tain failure of the Germans to hold
that part of the line, extending from
point opposite Rheims to Laon, will
be due largely to American troops
operating out of Fismes.
1t was pointed out that British hav.
ing crossed the Hindenburg line east
of Croisilles, the thrust that will make
the line absolutely untenable, is that
of Americans, which now is menacing
that part of il east of Fismes.
The part the French are playing TO
bring about complete abandonment of
the line is extension of their salient
between Nesle and Licourt. This is
the deepest salient that has been
effected by any of the Allies or Ameri-
cans since the counter-offensive OF the
mid-July days. 1t is claimed that the
efficient work of the French in this
salient. or to produce 1t, was done by
the French without assistance from
either British or Americans.
South of Scissors, however, in the
last reported advance, Americans are
forging ahead shoulder to shoulder
with the French.
The French advance against the
territory controlled by the linden
burg line is most difficult. 1t is now
fronted by forests, which as general
rule, are harder to carry than en-
trenchments in the open. 1t is realiz-
ed that maintenance of the French
advance in this salient is just as as
sential as the push of British to the
north and Americans to the south but
it was stated that the advance of
Americans is the big factor at this
time.
Strategists here are not willing TO
go any farther than to prophesy
placement of the Hindenburg line.
Beyond that they say there is a big
problem which will depend on rein
forcement of the German decimated
divisions.
Military men seem to have but one
opinion of a yelled threat which is
contained in an interview with the
German acknowledgement, Baron Won
Ardenne, which comes via Amsterdam.
The threat is that Germany has some
thing in reserve which is to turn the
present debacle into a new German
offensive. The American military
opinion is that the threat is:
Either a bold, colossal bluff; OF,
&The assumption that Germany
will be able to force the Russians and
other conquered nations to send
troops to the battlefield to save the
Rhine.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
Vast German Armies Are Retreatng Eastward Toward the
Belgium Border Back to the Rhine-Many
Prisoners and Guns Captured
WHOLE GERMAN Line FROM SCkRPE
To SCISSOR REGION TORN To FLINDERS
British Have Dashed Four Miles Beyond Bapaume to
HapIincourt-Haig Reaches the West Bank of the
Somme On Wide Stretch.

London-Field Marshal Haig re-
ports that along the whole front from
Bapaume southwards the Germans
have been forced to retreat with
great loss in prisoners, guns and ma
terial The British have reached the
west bank of the Somme opposite Brie
and Peronne. The text of the report
follows:
Successful attacks delivered by
the fourth, third and first British
armies have rendered the enemy's
positions on the old Somme battle
field untenable.
ION the whole front from Bapaume
southwards the enemy has been
forced TO abandon, with great loss
in prisoners, guns and material, as
we'll as killed and wounded, the ground
he gained at such heavy cost in last
March and April. We have reached
the west bank of the Somme opposite
Brie and Peronne and have taken
them"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
BAN SUNDAY use
OF MOTOR VEHICLES
FUEL ADMINISTRATION CALLS
UPON PUBLIC TO CEASE USING
ALL CLASSES OF AUTOS.
MOVE TO PREVENT SHORTAGE
Extensive Military Operations In
France Given For Gasoline Cur
taIlment In v. 8.

Washington.-The fuel administra-
ton has called upon the public in
states east of the Mississippi river TO
cease using all classes of automobiles,
with a few named exceptions, motor
cycles and motorboats, Sundays, un-
til further notice, as a gasoline con-
servation measure.
Only voluntary compliance with tho
letter and spirit OF the request will
prevent the issuance of mandatory
order prohibiting the use of gasoline
on Sundays, 1t was declared at the
fuel administration. Automobiles for
hire are included in the curtailment
program.
Motor vehicles to which the re-
strictions do not apply we're announc-
ed as
Tractors and trucks employed in
actual transportation of freight;
vehicles Of physicians, used in per-
Torrance of professional duties; am
balances, fire apparatus, police pa
troll wagons, undertaker's wagons
and conveyances used for funerals ;
railway equipment: repair outfits
employed by telephone and public
service companies; motor vehicles on
evrands of necessity in rural com.
munities where transportation by
steam and electricity is not available.
The action was taken by the fuel
administration, IL was stated, to meet
a threatened shortage of gasoline for
shipment overseas, created by in
creased domestic demands and exten.
sive military operations in France.
After listing exceptions to the re-
quest, the fuel administration makes
an appeal ito the patriotic men and
women of America, east of the Missi-
ssippi river, to undertake, voluntarily,
additional conservation in operating
their own automobiles, wherever pos
sible."
According to fuel administration au-
thorities, 25 per cent of the consump-
ton of fuel oil last year was wasted.
The total production of petroleum for
the United States for last year reach
ed approximately 341,O0O,OO0 barrels,
or 1892 100000 gallons.
Collectively, it is estimated oy the
oil conservation bureau that the an
nual losses from petroleum products
and natural gas now approximate ST.
000,000,000 per year At least $685..
100000 of this amount is chargeable
to fuel oil and $115, 100000 to gasoline.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05

Washington-Both houses OF con-
gress adjourned Immediately upon an.
nouncement of the death in Baltimore
of Senator James of Kentucky, who
had given long service in house and
senate and was universally popular.
Committees were appointed to accom-
pany the body to Kentucky and at.
tend the funeral at the James home
in Marion.
Brief tribute TO the dead senator
were paid by his colleagues and re-
solutions Of regret were adopted The
flags of the capitol were ordered al
half mast for 80 days.
Senator James died at John HOP
kins hospital, Baltimore, of an acute
election of the kidneys. He had been
at the hospital about three months.
An operation was performed. Trans.
fusion O.; blood was made on several
occasions.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
MExIcANs DELIVER UP ARMS
Gen. PIutarco Elias Gales Determined
to Stop Border Shipping.

Nogales, Ariz.-General Plutarco
Elias Callers, military governor of
Sonora, issued a manifesto ordering
all civilians in Nogales, Sonora, to de.
liver their firearms and ammunition
to the general military headquarters
at once, to prevent further sniping
across the border.
The manifesto was distributed in
the form of handful, and resulted in
many rifles, pistols and much am
munition being surrendered to the
military authorities. General Gales
apparently has complete control Of
the situation across the line and no
further trouble is anticipated. The
Mexican town is under martial law.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
BURLEsoN TO OK. PHONE RATES
All Changes In Telephone Rates Must
Be Approved BY Postal Chief.

Washington-Under orders. issued
recently all changes in telephone rates
must be submitted to Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson for approval before be-
coming effective, and the companies
are required to make a charge for
installing new telephones, or changing
location of old ones.
A statement by the postmaster gen.
eral says the new changes are neces-
sary to conserve labor and material.
and to eliminate cost. which is not
borne by the permanent user of tele-
phone.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
Rapaume Falls to Allies.

London - Bapaume, Noyon and
Juvigny, the main bastions in the So
mile German stop-gap line for which
a titanic battle has ragged for week
have fallen to the Allies.
Combles and Nesle are reported Ia
ken and the French stand before Ham,
while the British have dashed four
miles beyond Bapaume to Haplincourt
The west bank of the Somme is re-
ported to have been reached along
wide stretch. Peronne is doomed. 1t
may have fallen by this time.
The whole German line from the
Scarpe down to scissors region has
been torn TO flinders, and fully 1,000,-
900 field-gray fighting men are fleeing
eastward, ever eastward, toward the
Belgian border-toward the Rhine.
Back across the Somme they must
fee before another night settles upon
the desert of the dead" Back to
the Cambrai7St. Quentin-Laon line,
whence they surged westward in their
super-drives of last spring. Mach
Amiens," and Mach Paris" they are
staggering, stunned by the merciless
blows of the Allies, of whom couple
of brief months ago it was written
in the Berlin bible, the North German
Gazette, that there was mo punch
left in them"
From the ancient cathedral of Noy-
on. erected on the site of church
built by Pepin the Short, through the
cracks ripped by many sacrilegrous
shell, rang out lately a solemn
chant; a special service of gratitude
was celebrated From the top of the
town hall the tri-color fiuttered lusti-
ly in the evening breeze, proclaiming
deliverance of the city where Charlie
magne was crowned; where Calvin
was born; where the Merovingians
once held sway, and and where this
summer the Kaiser's generals, over
French Champagne, were fixing the
day for the fall of Paris.
Thirty-six miles to the northwest,
In the shambles that was once the
fiourishing city of Bapaume, French
women and children and old men who
for nearly half a year have been
slaves of the invader, kissed the hands
of husky "Tommies" and babbled sob
bling thanks for the liberation of the
town where France, in 1871, suffered
one of her worst defeats.
But such scenes, though they took
place this very day, are almost a
memory now, so fast are things de-
veloping on the field of battle. Foch
rs marching with seven-league boots.
The real Hindenburg line-Douai-
Cambrai-St Quentin-La Fere-Laon-is
HIS objective, and until 1t is reached
there will be no stopping. In its fore
field the Germans may be expected to
make their final stand. That battle,
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
U. S. AMBASSADOR RESIGNS

Washington.-Walter Hines Page,
Garden City, N. Y, ambassador OF the
United States to Great Britain, be-
cause OF Ill health, has submitted his
resignation to President Wilson, who
has accepted it.
Ambassador Page has been repre-
sentative of the United States at the
Court of st. James since August 81,
1913. Before his appointment he was
editor of the Worlds Work and men,
Der of the firm of Doubleday, Page q
Co, publishers.
Since America entered the war Mr..
Page has been active in conferences
with governmental officials Of the
Allies; has been at sessions of the
Inter-Allied War Council and has Wis
tied a number of the Entente nations
on missions of importance.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
100000 Men Given RaIse.

Washington-The national war
labor board announced final decis-
ion in the Bridgeport machinists'
cases. over $4,000 men are involved
working in 66 munitions plants there.
The decision grants wage increase to
all workers receiving under 7S cents
an hour and establishes minimum
wage of AZ cents an hour for all male
workers 21 years OF age or over, AMI
OF 80 cents an hour for ell female
workers. Women doing mems work
receive equal pay.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05

unless all signs are deceiving, will be
Armageddon's last round.
AT Haplincourt, four miles east of
Bapaume, where the British are re.
ported they are only II IL miles
southwest of Cambria. Byng's left
wing southeast of Arras is only IA
miles northwest of Cambria.
The French, before Ham, are some
13 miles southwest of ST. Quentin.
The British army which links up with
the French east of Chaulnes is little
more away from it,
The British stand on the west bank
Of the Somme opposite Brie and Pc.
rome, while the French have pushed
their lines up to the western embank.
ment Of the canal Du Nord, where
only two miles of front. between Ca
tigny and Sermaize is still stubbornIy
defended by the Teutons.
Pressing eastward from Noyon, the
French bit themselves into the west.
ern slopes of Mont Simeon They
captured Landricourt and Morlincourt,
the Paris war Office was able to an.
nounce.
On the southern end of the battle
line the French, aided by Americans,
crossed the Ailette at many places
north and south Of Champs, overcom-
ing fierce German resistance. Guny
and Pont st. Mard were captured.
The New Zealanders who captured
didn't
dashed straight through and beyond
he shell-battered town. The heav-
lest fighting RACES around Vraucourt,
four miles northeast, and in front of
Haplincourt, four miles to the east.
Four and half miles to the north
west of Peronne, the British have
captured the little town of Hem, not to
be confused with Ham, one of the
strong points in Ludendorff's stop
gap line.
The Berlin war office had a few
things to say. The German day report
shrewdly prepared the public for the
fall of Nesle, Noyon and Bapaume. In
its ingenious way 1t told of the Allies
advancing beyond" the line Dom.
pierre Nesle-B of "Noy.
on lying before our battle line" and
of Bapaume being subjected to heavy
British artillery fire."
BY nightfall Ludendorff felt obliged
to be bit more explicit. He put the
German line least Of" Bapaume, Pc,
rome and Noyon," which, incidentally
implies the German evacuation of
Peronne' also.
ION the whole front from Bapaume
southwark" says Field Marshal Haigs
report, "the enemy has been forced
to abandon with great loss in 'pris
oners, guns and material; as well as
in killed and wounded, the ground
at such heavy cost in March and April
of this year"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
OWN GAS SHELLS FIRED AT
ENEMY.

With the French Armies in
France-The ruins abandoned by
the Germans previously were
carefully filed with mustard gas
For this reason Roye is still mac
cessible for occupation. The Ger
mans were not able to use all the
gas projectiles they brought to the
present front. and large dumps of
them fell into French hands. They
are now being fired against the
enemy from some Of the hundreds
of German guns the French First
Army has taken since August s.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05

Washington-No new school houses
may be built during the war, the War
Industries Board announced, except
for replacement. The board made this
ruling when approval was asked OF
a plan to expend 100000 for schools
in New York, holding that schools
already built will care for the edu-
cational needs of the country with
out detriment until the war is won.
This ruling, 1t was said by officials,
will apply also to the construction OF
any public buildings.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
WIN ORGANIZE Man Power eOdx

washington--The proposed organi-
zation of a committee on military and
industrial manpower was announced
by Chairman Baruch. of the war in
dustries board. The committee is TO
be composed of representatives Of
the provost marshalgeneraIs Office,
the war labor policies board and the
war industries board. Il will operate
in the various draft districts through
local committees TO act in an advisory
capacity to the local draft boards
throughout United States.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1918-09-05
urae seizure Of Packing Firms.

ashington.-Reques that the Fed
eral Trade commission incorporate its
proposals made recently in a report to
the president for government control
OF packing corporations into a legis-
lative measure has been made by the
Farmers National committee on pack
ing plants and allied industries. The
letter as made public here is signed
by c. II. Gustafson, president the
Nebraska State grange, and Is other
officers OF farmers organizations
throughout nation.