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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26
FURTHER CUR7A|L
The USE Of SUGAR
PRESENT CONSUMPTION WILL
EXHAUST SUPPLY WITHIN
THIRTY DAYS.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
oolnes and Happenings That Marx
the Progress Of North Carolina PEG
pie. Gathered Around the State
Capital.

That North Caroline will he prsc.
tically out Of sugar within 30 DAYS
unless consumers cut Their consump-
ton to much less than the maximum
ration OF three pounds per person per
month is the startling announcement
this afternoon by State Food Admil.
istrator Henry A. Page, following tele
graphic correspondence with the
Washington Office on the sugar stud
ton.
In issuing certificates TO wholesalers
and retailers the sugar division during
July has been issuing certificates tp
TO loo per cent OF the estimated re.
Quirements given by merchants on
their statements All certificates have
not been issued vet Notwithstanding
the overtime working OF a force o.
more than 80 cle~;s In the sugar ~
vision, but part, tabulaion indi.
Gates that certificates have been :.
sued for very nearly double the ap
portionment OF sugar in North Caro-
lima for the month OF July
This means that no certificates viii
be issued for August al all unless
additional sugar Is ava liable from the
markets for this state Adm.nistra.
tor Page instructed county food ad.
ministra,ors that no further sales OF
IS pound lots Of sugar for canning
and preserving purposes would be
made without, the specific authority Of
county food administrators
Heretofore the frs, % pounds has
been sold upon certificates net requ.r
Ing the approval Of auuty food admin.
istrators Emphasis viii also be
placed upon the keeping Of accurate
records Of sales Of suga. in whatever
quantities by retailers
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

A recipe for wheatless loaf OF
bread is soon TO be made public by the
Office of home economics of the depart
ment of agriculture. II is the discov-
cry of the experimental kitchen con-
Quoted jointly by the department of
agriculture and the food administra-
tion. Directions are to be given for
the making of three new wheat substi-
tute breads-the half wheat loaf. the
one-fourth wheat loaf, and the wheat
less loaf. The recipe is expected to
save thousands of pounds of wheat
nour.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26
To Operate E. C. Railroad.

President Henry Clark Bridgers. OF
the East Carolina Railroad Company,
before leaving Washing IN decided TO
operate his own railroad under the
liberal stipustions ~ he railroad ad.
ministrat!on as to satisfactory rout-
!ngs and fair treatment.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26
Paper thread is Denmark wsr sub.
stitue for use In binder twlne.

Bastile day, July IA, the French re-
public national holiday, was observed
and celebrated this year on land and
sea by American land and navy forces
under special orders in like manner as
is observed the American Fourth Of
July.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

Mrs. Stanley Mccormick. in charge
Of the department Of food production
and home economics of the woman's
committee, council of defense, gives
this advice TO farmerettes: Watch
your feet. Don't ignore footwear. You
must have good spinal column TO
keep up with a good Job. The condi-
ton Of the spinal column depends
greatly on the feet. Be picturesque II
you wish. but be sensible. Wear good
stout boots to preserve health"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

Wheat Is selling for $50 a bushel In
Turkey. reports the American and
Syrian relief commission Id Turkey.
Before the war the normal price WA
SO to 90 cents per busheL A
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

The postal censorship board, post Of
fee department announces that trans
lators Of Spanish are in demand AT
New York and other port cities. These
positions are open to women who can
translate accurately and quickly.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

Methods of thrift now enforced In
he army quartermaster generals Of
fee, including the repair Of clothing
ard shoes. where possible, have cut
down the issue OF new clothing and
shoes from 80 10 40 per cent 10 some
Instances
The plants where the mendng is
done are run in connection with forts
and camps by The camp quartermaster.
When soldier tears or rips gar.
ment he turns It in 10 his supply off.
Ger. When the soles OF his shoes wear
out or the heel runs down the shoes
60 back 70 the same officer. These
garments and shoes are taken 10 the
repair shops managed by the conser.
vatiou aud reclamation officer. when
repaired and put in order they are re-
turned % the original owner II pos
sihle and II the original owner cannot
he located hey serve some other sol.
der.
Hundreds Of women are being EN-
ployed by the war department in the
work Of repairing the garments Of sol
diers and In the laundries at camps
and cantonmentS, Preference IN this
employment Is given the wives. sisters.
and mothers OF men In The service. Ry
paying 81 a month soldier il entitled
TO a weekly bundle Of laundry In which
the number of articles is not limited.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

A children's recreation drive Is on
10 continue during July and August
under the auspices Of the childrens
bureau department Of labor. and the
womanS committee Of the council Of
national defense. Il will eliminate
In patriotic play week Ser,enher
II, in which the work Of 1900 900
women In organizing recreation in
10000 communities viii come TO an
end.
TO be strong FOR victory the ma.
ton must LEI her children play" said
Charles Frederick Weller associate
secretary Of the Fairgrounds and Rec
reation Association Of America. No
time nor money can be spared from
UarwInning activities. but the win.
ming ot the war depends on man pow
er, and man power cannot be sustain.
ed In any nation without health and
wholesomsness in the children
Far worse than exhausting Ameri.
cas- financial capital would he the ex-
haustion OF child life, which is man.
power capital
England and France began as the
United States has been tempted TO he
gin-by letting the children pay too
heavily for the war IN child labor in
creased delinquency, oyertaxed nerves.
weakened bodies. and premature
deaths, but England and France turned
to lift war burdens from the children
By giving them a chance TO play There
is urgent need to give our boys and
girls an American square deal-their
safety valve Of play"
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

The war department has established
Ave central officers training camps, at
which civilians and enlisted men will
be trained for commissions In the Of
fcers' reserve corps. Infantry train
ing camps are located at Camp Lee,
Petersburg, Va Camp Gordon, Allan
Ia Ga and Camp Pike. Little Rock,
Ark. held artillery AZ Camp Taylor,
Louisville, KY and machine gun at
Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.
These training schools will be run
continuously, a new class being admit
ted monthly. The course OF training
will be four months at the infantry
and machineg gun schools and three
months nj the field artillery school
The schools are open to qualified en-
listed men In all branches Of the serv.
Ice except coast artillery, signal corps
and labor units. The number OF civil.
Ians admitted will be limited.
To be eligible for admission candi-
dates must be between twenty years,
eight months and forty years; citizens
OF the United States, and not born in
any Of the countries with which the
United States is at war or allies Of
such countries. Enlisted men must
have the moral, educational and ply
steal qualifications required Of nm o.
hcer Civilians must he graduates Of
Il high school or have pursued an
equivalent course Of instruction, he Of
good moral character. and have the re
quired physical qualifications.
In addition to the above quaifca
lions. candidates for the field artillery
must possess thorough understanding
and working knowledge Of arithmetic
and plane geometry Trained civil me-
chanlcal electrical mining and srch.
tectural engineers are desired Civilian
applicants will be certified by the army
officer on duty aS professor Of military
science and tactics AZ the educational
institution nearest the residence OF the
applicant
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-07-26

Do not waste 'ee. says the United
States food administration. Do not use
as luxury 10 serve with salads.
fruits, and sea foods and do not put
more than Is necessary in glasses OF
water, tea, and other drinks.
There is TO be no curtaiment on
the use Of ice as necessity. but II
should be used carefully In localities
where any shortage is indicated. II
is considered necessity when used 10
preserve food and in administering
comfort, and every reasonable effort
win be made to see that families are
supplied with their legitimate needs.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

his overfowing spirits were finding outlet in the wrong direction, and the work he do, and is do ing is of incaculable value. One of his undertak- ings just now securing the woods for black walnut trees from which airplane propeers and rifle stocks are to be made Securing the woods for something is the historic pastime of American boys. Formerly many of them carried little rifles and killed song birds to which the law-and the Boy Scouts-now give protection Formerly the boys were almost crlm
 nally neglected It used be said that Kentuckians
 trained their horses their girls and their dogs and let the boys grow up untrained, but it hardly lack of home training that made the boy of earlier genera tions often oafer and not nfrequently delinquent was socetys failure to utilize the community or gang" spirit through the organization or boys TOT useful activity. The organization of the Boy Scouts of America ideally the existing requirements, and this finds the organization in trim to demonstrate not only its value country, but also it's valua ble influence upon boys.
 American history after the great war will not be written without a chapter being devoted to the work of the Boy Scouts.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
SAVING SUGAR IS BEING CARRIED
 OUT BY PEOPLE

LONDON, June 4.-In a report on the sugar supply question in Great Britain, Professor George Martineau of the University of Lon don, urges the British Government to learn from Germany and the United States which he describes as the two countries which have han dled the sugar question most suc- cessfully." Speaking of GerEany's success with sugar in the past de- cade, he says: ''There are two causes at the bottom of this mys- tery. Energy, ability, efficiency and more than all, persistent research, constitute the first and best cause. But this was supplemented by a stinulous designed to induce capi- talists to risk their money in the beetroot industry.
 ''It was Germany that hit upon
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
AMERICAN BOY SCOUTS.

Man power will win the war, some of the experts say Man power plus woman power, plus boy and girl power is the full human unit power that is to be exerted, and the least considerable element strength is America's boy power.
 The Boy Scouts of America "the gleaners after the reapers whose instructions ere to get many scrhers rather than large subscriptions reported subscription of s52,533, ,900.00 the Third Liberty Loan. Returns are not complete
 Chief Scout Executive James E. West says
 "The work these Scouts doing to win the and the fine experience these boys are getting will give them the proper attitude toward things when they become and take the place of men of today"
 There is good real of the spirit of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer in every normal American boy. That is why two books about boys gave Mark Twain large measure of his enduring fame, and made the great humorist and humanst beloved by gray-headed men while making IIuck and Tom the idols of boys in knickerbockers
 The organization of the Boy Scouts utilized the spirit of normal boyhood for the benefit of boykind which is tomorrow, mankind. iiuck Finn in shreds and patches is picturesque and lovabe figure The Boy Scout in khaki is inspiring figure His ener- ges rightly directed Engaged constructively stead of being engaged the oldfashioned boy was in "deyilment,'' he is having just much fun as if
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
POINT OF ORDER AND ALASKA ROADS.

The Empire has been asked several times how it is that the in the Army bill approprating mon ey construction in Alaska happens to be sub ject to point of order.
 Long ago Congress adopted rule that there can be no new legislation, carrying appropriation, in a general appropriation bill The for the rule is obvious, and wise it is plain. It was made prevent log-rolling and and-baggng. It made that few Congressmen could not get together and make special fayors price for their support for passage of general appropriation measure Notwithstanding this rule great deal of legislation is worked into the appropriation bills but it is by unanimous consent when it is done. A point of order against such item would compel the presiding officer to eliminate the item from the bill without regard to whether majority might dsapproye it.
 The Alaska road commission not established by a regularly enacted measure. The law behind it's operations has been in provisions put into the Army appropriation bills by unanimous consent Last year Representative William H. Stafford of Mil waukee raised point of order against the provision in the Army bill appropriations $500o00 for Alas ka roads and it of codrse stricken from the bill It stated, and denied far know, that Stafford had been wsed to the situation, and put up his action by then Delegate Wickersham The Army bill was not passed by the Senate, how ever and taken up at the extra session of the Congress in April In the meantime MT. Su- ger had become Alaska's Delegate to Congress. By hard work Delegate Suzer got the Senate to restore the item. Nearly half of this is available for this years work, because it provided that the appropriation should two years In addition, however, the House of Representatives has given us another $1o0,000, and MT. Sulzer is urging the Senate to increase the amount
 But Delegate Sulzer this year has done He has secured amendment to the Army bill that provides for estimates to carry Alaska road work in the future just the the estimates for the military academy, the coast defenses and other regular Army matters Hereafter the Alaska item will not be subject to point of order because it will be new legislation It will stand fall it's merits
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Luke McLuke Says


 The young fellow who gets up ear ly in the morning is helping himself rise in the world.
 The job that seems impossible to lazy man doesn't seem so difficult to the man who possesses a willing ness to try.
 A form that looks out of training before it goes down to breakfast is apt to look in midseason form when it is on the street. Q
 A smart salesman doesn't talk too much. Some salesmen talk a man Into buying and then keep on gabbing until they havc talked him out of buying.
 The old-fashioned actor who tried to elevate the stage now has sue cessor who feels that the stage should give him lift.
 What has become of the oldfash- toned man who couldn't drown until he went down the third time?
 The girl who is always trying to attract attention is sure to attract the wrong kind.
 When a circus puts on street parade it conceals most of it's at fractions. But it is different when I woman puts on parade.
 Women may have their faults. But, bless their hearts, one nice thing about them is that they are different from the men.
 The man who doesn't advertise is sure to find business rushing-right past his door.
 A Liar is man who goes to a ball game and sees q rain come up and postpone the game and says he is glad it rained because the crops needed it.
 About the limit is conservation is the way the girls are conserving corset covers and corsets this Sum mer.
 What has become of the wet goods emporium that used to have the sign: Sample Room" on it's window?
 Once in while when wealthy man dies the body is almost cold
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
S8,O00,OCO,Oo0 in Taxes.
(Npw York World. l


 The highest estimate made of the cost of the Civil War is s8 900 900 00S-$5, ,000, 100000 to the North and $3,000,000,000 to the South The most generally accepted estimates fix the total at s4250 GOO, ,0OO. Yet Mir Kitchn, Chairmaa of the House Committee Ways and Means, speaks almost casually of raising $s 900 900 ,00o in taxes alone n the new Revenue Bil for next year This would mean that in year the American people are to pay in almost twice the total cost of the Civil War and much more than twice the total cost of that conflict to the North
 It can be done if it need be done. Ib a revenue act of that scope and magnitude is essential to the winning of the war the American people w VII. find the money and pay it into the Treasury. Iha' goes without saying. But in framing such legisla- tion, responsibility of Congress cannot be toe greatly emphasized.
 MT. Ktchin "the bill will be wise just and righteous revenue measure This IS easy to say, but it is not easy to accomplish With the best intentions in the world Congress that under takes to raise $7,000, ,000,000 or $S,00O,000 ln a single year by taxation may fail miserably in the application of those intentions. Brains and wis dom and experience and a broad understanding are necessary to the framing of such legislation.
 The American people cannot pay 8 ss,ooo @ 100000 in taxes unless they produce $Sooo9oo,ooo in ex the money. It must be done primarily by work, and in framing the bill the first consideration of Con- gress must be to adjust it's taxes in such way that they will hot stife industry or obstruct effort
 MT. Kitchin says the committee will get after the profiteers litte," which is excellent thing to do The committee should get after the profteers little but great deal. Yet one of the first things do is determine what profteering is. A clear distinction has to be drawn between reasonable profits that necessary to the maintenance of in dustry and the swollen profits that come from taking advantage of conditions. This is not so simple matter as it might seem and unless Congress exer- cses great legitimate business will be penalzed while the profteer escapes The present revenue law. drawn to levy heavy taxes excess profits, af- lords a case in point, for as it turns out indus tries that honestly capitalized have been dis criminated against in favor of industries with in fated capitalization.
 revenue bill to meet the needs of the Gov ernment will require all the legislative ability in Congress- It is a which every Senator and every Representative must approach with open mind, and in which Congress must welcome all the honest and disnterested advice that it obtain. Otherwise the may fail a pro- ducer and at the same time nfict untold harm upon the country, which would be double calamity.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Tips from Texas
(Dallas News)

What has become of the old-fash- toned buggy with a horse geared to it?
 As a general thing, the lazy mans idea of pressing his trousers is to sit down i'll them.
 Another reason why door knob is nice for a baby to play with is because he cant smear it all ever his face.
 Our position simply is that it is better for q girl to wear her heart on her sleeve than to st.cx it on her chest like q beauty patch.
 Furthermore. after a man succeeds in growing a beard that reaches to his vest buttons he can wear ten cent cravat, without feeling ill at ease in the presence of a dude.
 It has just about gotten 50 in this country that when a man feels that he is going to hit the ceiling he tries to let on like he is practicing for the aviation corps.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

Those dispatches from the American front in France indicate that the Americans up to their o1a tricks That story of Chateau Thierry where American machine gun men accounted for one thou sand Germans and lost only one man, the account oi thirty Americas cleaning up 200 Germans in the trenches etc, make think of Ticonderoga and Now Orleans and Buenna Vista and San Juan.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
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the right Nnd of stimulus. It was a brilliants idea and carreid out with great judgment. The sugar duty was levied. not upon the su- gar producer to extract from the root the largest possible quantity of sugar. Great pains were taken to breed and improve the variety of sugar beet.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
ou- Joe Miller Contest

Jack Fay, of Middletown, ohio' claims the oldest joke is the one about the Government Agent who was trying to get farmers to plant alfalfa. One old hardshell farmer couldn't see the merits of the pro posed crop. But" said the Agent. you can fatten hogs on alfalfa alone
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

In choosing Switzerland place of exile, above Rumania Nicholas Romanoff displays keen apprecia ton of the difference between sovereign country and one which has signed peace with Germany.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

For little chat ano a bite to eat there's no place like THE GASTl- NEAU - ANY TIME, ALL TIM TIME, ANY TIME. sss
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

But it would take a long time, wouldn't it?" asked the farmer. Well, said the Agent, suppose it does
 What the deuce is time to a hog?
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

What's The Fare To West Union?
 Some women are gadders. But you can see Daisy Work in West Union, Ohio, every day.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Where To Go

Here's one vacation spot to win us Why not try Comfort, West Virginia
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Same Old Story

Sunday-The fellow and the girl Monday-Both bodies are recovered,
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07

Speaking of Italian Day, the first one in Amer ica was the day Columbus landed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
A New Fourth of July.
(New York World. )


 Forty natonalities uniting in the love of their adopted country and "n the supreme service of offering life itself in battle for justice freedom and democracy" will celebrate this year new Fourth of July day of union firmly knit and more strongly cemented.
 This is decreed by proclamation of the Presi- dent, in reply to petition proffered by the repre- senatives of million members of patriotic societies of the foreign born, including the Friends of German Democracy ayd the American Hungarian Loyalty League. All Americans born asked unite with these who have voluntarily chosen Amercanism to make the Independence Day of this, the year when all the principles to which stand pledged are on trial, the most significant in national history" =
 Nothing in the war, the President says, ''has been finer than the manner in which foreign born fellow citizens and the and daughters of the foregn-born have risen greatest all tional emergencies Native Americans may in the emergency serve their country we'll by acceptance of this spirit of brotherhood, swift prompt and un- grudging.
 Details of celebrations will vary widely There need be set form Any means that shall set forth the "new and greater spirit of democracy" with foreign-born American conspicuous in the fore front of it's defenders will properly emphasize what the signers of the Declaration Independence dreamed of for themselves and their fellow countrymen' Let the New Fourth of July impress the lessons upon all.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Paw Knows EuerYthinq

Paw KNOWS EVefythIn4 Willie-Paw, what is the (girl of the period? Paw-One who doesn't know where to put one, my son.
 Maw-Willie, you go out and now the lawn.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-07
Gosh {!

J. Goodner claims that Nashville has the most absent-minded man and the stingiest man. The stingiest man is so much that way that he won't use his judgment, and the ab- sent minded man came home and threw his hat on the floor of his room and spat on the bed.