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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01

THE Moore County News is
rapidly becoming one of the best
weeklies in the State. The print
secured is excellent, and it's gen.
eral makeup in good taste. While
no editorial name appears at the
masthead, yet it is of common
knowledge that Bion H. Butler
is the editorial power behind the
throne. And anything Bion
Butler is connected with will
blossom.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01

AUNT Becky" (Mrs. A. B.
McElyea) a well known cores
pondent of the Scottish Chief, of
is just now recovering
from an out-of-the-ordinary acct
dent. She was two weeks ago
attacked by a vicious billigoat,
knocked down and her leg broken
below the knee. The boys had
trained the goat to fght-but he
was not trained to discriminate.
"On to Berlin" should be the road
for billie.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01
Editorial Association.

he editor OF the POSt-DlSpatCh
attended the annual session Of
the State Press Association at
Asheville on Wednesday and
Thursday of last week. Despite
the fact that the majority of the
members paid railroad fare lust
like other mortals," the atten-
dance was good-evidencing the
fact that the members were on
business bent, and not pleasure
inclined.
The Post-Dispatch Graves the
indulgence Of its readers while
its editor reverts to the personal
pronoun.
| left Rockingham Tuesday
night, spent part of the night at
Charlotte and left the Queen
City at Ais Wednesday morning
via Spartanburg. Passing out of
Charlotte, on either side of the
track, two miles from the station,
could be seen the lights of the
tented camp-Camp Greene. The
hopes of the camp promoters
were that it would be made a
regular camp containing 10000
and upwards of troops, but the
soil conditions have ruled other
wise. The ground has proved
to be too muddy in winter, and
too dusty in summer. At pres
ent there are scarcely 1000 men
in the camp, though the pros
poets are that it will be further
augmented later, and real aero
training inaugurated. 1t is not
at all unlikely that scores of
planes will be shipped there
shortly, and if so our Richmond
county folks may he treated to
aerial visits. Charlotte is looking
forward to the time when its
citizens will all have the roofs OF
their mouths sun-burned looking
up for the air vessels. AS re-
CARDS the camp, Charlotte resents
the idea of being mistaken for a
bee, or a has been.
Spartanburg is rs miles south
of Charlotte, and here is situated
one of the healthiest camps in
the country-Camp Wadsworth.
At present there are about $4,000
troops there, and the division
will likely entrain for a port of
embarkation in few days. Just
81 miles further south is another
camp-Camp Sevier-at Green
vile. This latter camp was &C.
cupied by the 81st division, which
entrained ten days ago, but the
camp is now being rapidly re-
filled.
At Spartanburg | changed to
the Columbia-Asheville division
of the Southern. The mountain
climb proper begins at Melrose,
and here a helper" was hooked
to the rear of the train to assist
in going up the heavy grade to
Saluda. The distance between
the two towns isonly three miles,
and yet even with two large
engines the time required to
make it is 20 minutes; this is a
rate of 10 miles per hour-a speed
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01

Miss Ida Morrison is the house
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry D.
Ledbetter, having arrived from
Wadesboro, where she was the
guest of Mrs. Henry Little for
sometime.
Miss Lee Aycock leaves for
Gaffney, Sc, Thursday morning
to visit friends for several weeks.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01

R. J. Reynolds, president of the
r. ]. Reynolds Tobacco Co., died
at Winston July 29th, aged 68. He
was one of the States wealthiest
men.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01

that conjures stop watches tc
the city auto speed fend. Prac
tically all the way from Saluda
to Asheville could be seen traces
of the disastrous flood of two
years ago, which put the railroad
out of business for ten days and
caused such terrible destruction
throughout the mountain coun'
ties, Not only is the railroad
bed better ballasted than ever,
but the dirt road that runs
parallel is now in splendid con.
dition, and a joy to the autoist.
The SO mile run from Spartan.
burg to Asheville was completed
on schedule, and in short order
a jitney carried me from the
station to the center of the city
a mile and a quarter. The ses-
sions of the Association were
held at the Langren hotel-a
seven-story concrete building.
Here found about fifty of fellow
editors. Sessions were held
Wednesday morning, afternoon
and night: profitable addresses
were delivered and matters dis
cussed that tends to the better
ment of each individual editor.
Thursday morning the annual
election of officers was held: E.
w. Whitehead, of the Southern
Lumber Journal, Wilmington,
was made President; R. T. Wade,
Morehead City Coaster, first vice
president; Isaac S. London, Rock
ingham Post-Dispatch, second
vice-president; Miss Beatrice
Cobb, Morganton News-Herald,
third vice president; J. B. Sheriff.,
Concord Tribune, secretary
treasurer; M. L. Shipman, Com
missioner of Labor & Printing,
historian; H. R. Divine, Winston
Journal, orator; DR.. VIM. Laurie
Hill, poet.
Thursday afternoon the Asso-
citation was honored with an
address by George Creel, Chair
man of the Committee on Public
Information. Leaving his desk
and work at Washington for a
few hours, Mr.. Creel came to
Ashevllle to deliver our annual
address, and to explain the why
and wherefore of this Committee
of Public Information. This Com
mittee is one of the most import
ant of governmental activities.
The people must have actual
and truthful knowledge of the
necessity and conduct of this
world war-a conflict in which
this Nation participates because
of the fact that the foundation
principles of the Republic are
threatened. This work is under
the personal direction of Mr..
Creel, a man chosen for his abil-
ity by President Wilson, and the
wisdom of the choice has been
demonstrated. Mr.. Creel is
youthful looking, clean shaven,
wears a neat-ftting pinch-back
suit and apparently is not over
3O-though really over 40. He
described to the Association the
many ramifcations of his de-
partment, how our energies are
being devoted to combat the
thousands of German lies and
propaganda that even our own
well-meaning American citizens
oftimes help spread. He told of
the efforts to inform the masses
of the German people that this
country is not wishing THEM
i'll, but merely to crush the I'M
perialistic aims of their Masters.
Of how balloons are sent over
Germany, containing thousands
of phamplets written in the
German language explaining the
purposes and sincere aims of
America, and how by an auto
matte arrangement hundreds of
these phamplets are dropped
every one hundred wards until
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-08-01
to go no faster than eight miles

to the topof Mount Mitchell is 81
miles,and four hours was required
to make it. The ascent is made
by a series of switch-backs-now
forward, now backwards. This
36-inch narrow-guage road cost
100000 to build, and cheap at
that. AS the road climbed high
er, the weather became steadily
cooler. Half way up we saw
beside the slowly moving train a
nest of five rattlers. Closer &C.
quantance was not desired. A
brakeman informed me that there
were no snakes further up the
mountain; the air was too rarified
and cool. In summer the weather
is cool, and winter cold; last Win
ter the snow reached a depth of
ten feet on the level. The road
was built by the Perley-Crockett
Lumber Company for the purpose
of milling the vast stores of valu-
able spruce that abounds on the
mountain slopes. And the mill of
the company is speeding pro-
duction of spruce for government
orders; this spruce is used for
aeroplane construction, and in
shipbuilding. 1t is exceedingly
light, tougher than hickory, and
is vital for our airplanes. Going
up the mountain we passed
through clouds and rain. Here
we would be in the midst of a
downpour, a few minutes later in
the midst of a heavy fog (clouds)
and a short distance higher would
be clear, while underneath just
below could be seen the clouds
we had just passed through.
Wonderful indeed is the scenery,
and it would take more space
and a better pen than | possess
to picture such a scene as the
mountain landscape presents.
Finally at noon we reached the
end-Camp Alice where dinner
was served. This is a large
wooden building clinging to the
mountain side, and built by the
company for serving its sight
seeing passengers. After dinner
we began on foot the ascent to
the top of the mountains "a dis
lance of a mile and a quarter; it
is a steady climb and many of the
party dropped by the wayside; a
three-foot path was the trail. At
the top of our destination was
found a 2O-foot tower from which
the wonderful view is best OBJ
tanned. Three states are visible:
North and South Carolina and
Tennessee. Beside the tower is
the grave of Professor Elisha
Mitchell in whose memory the
mountain is named. In 1885
Prof. Mitchell, a learned professor
of the State University, announ-
ced to the world that Mount
Mitchell was the highest point
east of the Rockies. Ten years
later this claim was disputed by
d Northern scholar, so in 1857
Mr.. Mitchell decided to survey
and definitely establish the truth
ofhis claim. Accordingly he and
his son began at the railroad level.
But in the work he lost his life,
falling off a cliff. His body was
buried at Asheville, but in 1859
exhumed and carried to the top
of his beloved mountain and there
is resting today. And it was
later established that this peak
IS the highest east of the Rockies
being GILL feet above the sea
level.
The descent from the peak was
as tiresome as the ascent, and as
slow. And the same with the
train, the coming down requir-
ing practically as long as going
up.
The station at Mount Mitchell
was reached shortly before dusk
and after a night spent at Black
Mountain I ratI1rnod RI C,,r citx,
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Skilled Labor Draft
Authorized by Senate
Workmen Within Conscription
Age May Be Called for
rr,aJ;o+a Ce~,,;.
Immediate Service

" WASHINGTON, March 1.-The Ad
mlnistration amendment to the draft
law to bring in men as they reach the
age of twenty-one was brought up in
the Senate to-day as emergency legis-
iatlon Tor immediate passage, but final
~ was put over until tomorrow.
Without discussion, the Senate
passed another resolution authorizing
the President to call into immediate
military service skilled experts in in
dustry or agriculture.
The purpose of the latter resolution
has nothing to do with the much dis
cussed conscription ofs labor, but refers
TO men already registered but whose
position on the classification is so far
down on the list that they might not
be called to military duty in the near
future. The purpose is to make these
men available for draft and service in
the lines in (which they are expert
The resolution is yet to be acted upon
by the House.
The hurried consideration of the
first amendment was compelled by the
lnslstence Of Senator New, of Indiana
on action on his amendment for the
registration for military training of all
men between nineteen and thirty
Acting Chairman Frelinghuysen of
the Military Committee explained that
Provost Marshal General Crowder was
eager to have the committee amend
ment adopted without delay, as he
wanted to include in the next draft
the men affected
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Year at Hard Labor
For Refusal to Fight
Draft Evader Tells Court
That Germans Are His
Friends

The opinion, entertained and ex-
pressed by Matthew Choinsky. that
President Wilson, Provost Marshal
General Crowder and members of Con-
gress responsible for the selective
draft must "have screw loose" viii,
result too day in Choinsky being lodged
IN the Mercer County jail to serve a
Vear at hard labor.
From Tlvoli, \. Y, where he was en-
pioy,ed as farm hand, Choinsky some
weeks ago was summoned to appear
pefore his local exemption board. He
tailed to do so. His questionnaire he
returned to the board with profane
suggestions. Then, to show his con-
tempt for the draft and those respon-
sioie for it, he addressed letter to
General Crowder, in which he said:
Where is the truth? Everything
scrap Of paper, Why do | come in
slass /. Not unless you ali-Wilson,
,ongress and you are drunk that you
mango the rules every day. What
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
First Aid by Camp Dix Men

CAMP DIX, N. j., March 1-Mer
from Camp Dix, at Wrightstown, n j.
will give first aid demonstrations and
will reproduce a field dressing station
at Madison Square Garden March Il
to II for the benefit of the Women's
Oversee Hospital.
Under the supervision of Captains
Cary and Dooling, of the engineers
and Captain Paul ConGe, of the French
army, the men at the camp have
worked from fifteen to twenty feet
below the surface of the ground in q
system of modern trenches, saps an(
listening posts. Within a few days
mines will be exploded to form huge
craters ~ the hillside.
A big assignment Of men reached
here yesterday, and more are expecte'
Tomorrow They include infantry and
field artillery quotas from Union, Mon
mouth, Ocean. Middlesex, Hudson and
Orange counties.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Army Signal Corps
To Be Reor ganized
Into Four Divisions
staff Correspondence

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S-Decen-
tralization of the administrative ma
chinery of the Signal Corps of the army
and its division into four departments
will soon be recommended to Secretary
of War Baker by the General Staff
This decentralization is necessary, it is
explained, on account Of the tremen-
dous expansion in the work and per-
sonnel of the Signal Corps since the
beginning Of the war.
The general headquarters of the
corps will be in Washington. It's East
ern department will comprise the same
territory as the Northeastern and East
ern departments of the army, with
headquarters on Governors Island. Its
Southeastern department will be the
same as the army's Southeastern De
partment, and the headquarters will be
in Atlanta or Charleston, probably the
first city named. It's Southern depart
nient viii be the same as the armys,
With headquarters in San Antonio. Its
Western department Will be the COM
bined Central and Western depart
ments Of the army, with headquarters
in Chicago.
The officers who viii command the
new departments have been selected
but their names have not been official
ly announced. 1t is known, however
that Brigadier General A. l.. Dade will
be placed in charge Of one of the de-
partments. The other departments will
be headed by coloncls, who will be
raised to the rank cf brigadier general.
Colonel w. L. Chitty is one; Colonel
II. o. Williams, another.
The growth of the Signal Corps has
been greater than that of all other
technical branches. At the outbreak
Of hostilities the corps was spending
small SUNG Of money and had only
14o officers and 3,400 men. The latest
figures. those made public month ago,
revealed that the Signal Corps was
spending a billion dollars and that it's
personnel at that time comprised 80,
0o0 officers and $50, 900 enlisted men.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
900 Reskrvists to Go
To Naval Academy
Officers Are Directed to Certify
Young Men for Four
Months Courses
TStuF C0,Yespo71dencc1

WASHINGTON, March 1.-Nearly
1000 members OF the Naval Reserve
between 21 and 81 years old, will be
admitted to the Naval Academy at An
napolis June /, to take an intensive
course Of four months training, the
department announced to-day.
Naval rcservists who have had high
school education and are qualified to
pass the rigorous entrance test will be
certified to the Acade.ny by their com
manding officers. Upon completing the
course at the Naval Academy, the re-
scrvists viii be commissioned provision
al ensigns or temporary ensigns. IN
structiols were sent out by the depart
ment to-day to commandments Of all ma
val districts to request commanders OF
Naval Reserve members to certify men
from their commands to take the Acade-
NV course.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02

think is that you all have screw
loose and need it mended.
Well. remember if ] should be
taken the government must pay my
parents Si5 a month and me $50 a
month. And if my feet get worse IN
camp | shall require a pension of $50
per month for the rest of my life and
l will require q contract.
"If you wish any more information
l will gladly respond
Choinsky told Federal Judge Mad
den he was born in New York and at
tended De VIE. Clinton High School.
His parents, he said. were Germans
and his sympathies all with Germany.
Il don't want to fight my friends, "
he pleaded.
Don't you owe this country some
thing?' asked Judge Madden.
"Maybe,' answered Choinsky, "but |
don't want to fight Germans"
81 consider you dangerous man
Just on account Of your frankness,"
said the court in pronouncing sem
tence.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Baker Acts on Report Of
Conditions at Camp
Doniphan Hospital
Due to Senator speech
Ma jor Connolly, OF New York,
and Lieut.. Kirkpatrick To
Be Defendants

WASHINGTON. March 1.-lnve tiga-
ton OF the treatment of Private Albert
Hestwood, Of Liberal, Kan. who died
Of spinal meningitis at Camp Doniphan,
oklahoma, has resulted in Secretary
Baker ordering the trial by court mar
tial OF Major Philip B. Connolly, med
ieal corps, U. S. A, OF New York CITY,
and First Lieutenant Walter II. Kirk
patrick. medical corps, National Guard,
of Haven, Kan.
1t was announced tonight that Maj or
Connolly, who was in charge Of the
base hospital while Hestwood was a
patient, had been held responsible by
the Investigating officer for conditions
at the hospital, characterized as moth
ing short OF deplorable"
Lieutenant Kirkpatrick was the first
Hestwood, and is charged with having
sent the soldier to the hospital with
out making known the fact that he
suspected spinal meningitis.
Generals Asked to Explain
Major General w. NJ. Wright. COM
manding al Camp Doniphan. and Brig
adler General L. G. Berry. who com
manded at the camp while General
Wright was on an inspection tour to
France, have been called on by Sec
retary Baker for reports as to how
such conditions as were found in the
camp hospital came to exist.
Conditions at the Camp Doniphan
hospital first came into public notice
through letter read by Senator
chamberlain, chairman Of the Senate
Military Committee, during speech in
the Senate. The letter was written bv
Private Hestwood's father to friend.
Senator Cham mberlain refused to give
the name of the soldier, but the War
Department later learned it by an in
quiry it set on foot
The report of the investigating off :
GER said that, with respect to the
fathers statement that the BODY was
sent home in a sheet, the, facts dis
closed that the body was sent in a
metal-lined casket and that. ''this being
communicable disease, the body was
wrapped in sheets and cotton to con-
form to shipping laws"
Fathers Charges Sustained
All the other facts set out in the
fathers letter were found to be sub
stantially correct, according to the in
vestigating officer, who said the wards
IN the hospital, and especially the one
IN which Private Hestwood died. were
Iii an unclean condition; there was an
insufficient supply Of bed linen; there
vas a lack of sufficient attendants ON
duty at the hospital, and the small
number present were men OF practi-
ealiy. no experience, and patients went
Tor long periods without bath or.
without even having their hands and
faces bathed
The inspector reported that the con-
ditlons existing when Private Hest
wood died, December %. and for some
time afterward and the emergencies
contributing to them have passed, and
in all probability never would occur
again in that hospital.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Uncle Sam, Theatrical Producer.
Makes His Bow Tomorrow Nioht
'ufn TO the hight Smleage Company No. l. Opens at
Fort lotten for Series of One-Week Stands
in Country's Camps

camoutage kitchen sink and n
stone wall that rolls UP into a suitcase
TO say nothing of collapsiblc peach
trees and wcllsweep that folds into
as many pieces as a bamboo fshnole---
ihese are part of the equipment which
the United States has collected TO do
battle against the Huns. So humble
an instrument as a tin dishcan has its
pace IN the 1918 war policy. Uncle
oan mas gone into the treatrical busi-
ness IN order to drive awav the Ger
man "oIues' from the CAMPS. He will
open his season with Turn to the
lgno Mt fort TOtten tomorrow night.
>, 9Tntteage Company No. l." under the
direction Of the United States Commits
sion or Training Camp Activities, will
produce the play in all the training
camps of the country, in d series Of
one week stands.
Props Are Spilled
Even Uncle Sans own "Smileaoe"
Company couldn't secure permission to
have private car for scenery such as
theatrical companies usually travel
with, on account of the congestion on
the rai!r !roads, so all the properties had
to be designed to so in trunks and one
ordinary baggage car. The entire set
ting Ter Turn To The Right" was
loaded into Liberty motor truck yes
terday and hauled to the Criterion The
atrc, where the dress rehearsal was
neld. Times Square was strewn with
an egg beater, fly swattar and other
props for Mrs. Bascom's kitchen.
which one >of the company volunteered
to transport IL her knitting bag, rot
counting on the slippery state Of the
planks which pave the Once Gay White
Way at that corner However, Mother
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Aerial Photographers
Are Needed for the Army

Men with professional or advanced
amateur experience as photographers
are needed by the army, and will be
assigned to the new school for erial
photography at Rochester, N. Y, if
they qualify.
Preference will be given to appli-
cants under the draft age, but men
liable to call are not barred. The lat
ter should report to their local boards
Immediately for voluntary induction
into the service. Registrants will be
sent to the school at Rochester March
TO-
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02

NEW YORK SUPREME COURT - NEW
York County. In the Matter OF the Appli-
cation Of Guaranty Securities Corporation for
authority to change it's name to Continental
Guaranty Corporation.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that Guar
anty Securities Corporation, a domestic cor
poration duly Incorporated pursuant to the
provisions of the Banking Law of the State
of New York, having it's principal business
Office at No. 2t4 Madison Avenue in the City
of New York, Borough OF Manhattan County
and State of New York, Will apply to the
a Special Term. Part i, thereof. to be held
at the County Court House in the Borough
of Manhattan, City and County of New York
on the 9Th day of March. 1913, at 10:15
o'clock in the forenoon OF that day, upon
duly verified petition approved by the ;Su-
perintendent Of Banks of the State of New
York. for an order authorizing said cor
poration to change It's corporate name to
Continental Guaranty Corporation.
Dated New York. February 5th. 1918.
CH'ARANTY SECURITIES CORPORA-
TlON. by Edward s. Maddox. President.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
Dies in Camp Devens Hospital

AVER, Mass. March First Lieu
tenant Edward j. Haines, of Reading,
attached to the 30lst Field Signal
Battalion. at Camp Devens, died last
night from pleurisy. He returned from
Fort Sill, Okla, Sunday night, and was
taken mmediately to the base hospital.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
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New-York tribune., 1918-03-02
PUBLIC NOTICES

NOTICE TO CREDITORS.--rHE ESTAB-
lishment Of b. Gertz, stationers has
been sold to Sheppard Glucroft and Louis
Iiertz, to whom all bills to date against
said establishment are to be presented for
payment. Jamaica, n. Y.
Information concerning whereabouts
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Perry Place. Yonkcrs. y. Y.