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ESTABLISHED 1821, GREENSBORO, N. C, f, JANUARY 28, 1918. VOL. S7-NO. 8.
HR BREiD DI8T fH IFPIGT
ORDER ISSUED M A PART Of A
WAR RATIONING SYSTEM TO
AID OUR ALLIES.
S8HK AFTER ILLS64L STIIXS TELLS OF CUP C01
NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN PLAN-NED
BY THE COMMISSIONER
OF INTERNAL REVENUE.
Washington, Jan. 26.-The Amer-ican
people will so on a war bread
diet Monday -3 * part of a war ra-tioing
system prescribed tonight by
President Wilson and ;he food ad-ministration.
"Victory bread" the food adminis-tration
calls it.
The war rations are asked tor the
prjpose of creating a larger export
s..plus of food for the European al-lies.
Curtailment of consumption
w,fl be accomplished largely by ▼»!-
UDtary effort, but force will be em-ployed
wherever permitted under the
food control act.
1918 Food Program.
The rati.-ning system, as present-ed
by the president in a proclama-tion
and by Food Administrator
Hoover in a list of regulations, forms
the food administration1' 1918 food
conservation program. >f which the
chief features are:
A baker's bread of mixed Hours
beginning Monday with a five per
rent subs-titution of other cereils for
%vneai until a -■> per cent substitu-tion
is reached February 2-4.
Sale by retailers to householders
ol an equal amount of substitute
tlours for every pound of wheat dour
purchased at the time the wheat
rtour is bought.
Sale by millers to wholesalers and
wholesaler* to retailers of only 70
■ per cent of the amount of wheat flsur
sold last year.
Two wheatless days a week—Mon-days
and Wednesdays—and one
\\-.eatless meal a day.
One meatless day a *eek—Tues-day—
and one meatless meal a day.
Porkless and Meatless.
Two porkless days a week.—-Tues-day
and Seturcay. '
Manufacturers of macaroni, spa-ghetti,
noodles, crackers and break-
:ast foods, pie, cakes and pastry will
r,e permitted to buy only 70 per cent
of their last year's purchase, and are
asked to perform a patriotic service
by using substitute flours.
Flour wi!'. be sold through the reg-ular
channels and in such a manner
'hat each community will receive its
equivalent share.
Hoover to Buy 30 Per Cent.
The food administration will pur-
-hase for tec army and for the allies.
as announced recently, 30 per cent
of the flour output and out of this
-tore will fill emergency require-ments
if stocks run low in any part
of t'.ie country.
Wl-ea: millers are req.iired to pro-luce
one barrel of flour of 196
pounds from 264 pounds of wheat,
.vhich represents a 74 per cent flour.
No patent or special flours may be
manufactured, although whole wheat
dou.- may be made as usual.
Must Serve "Victory Bread."
Hotels and restaurants will be
classed as bakeries and will be re-quired
to. serve the new victory
t»read.
State food administrators will be
permitted to designate the wheatleas
,-neai in each state. Where this, is
not done the food administration re-quests
that the evening meal be ob-served.
The president's proclamation, be-
-ide* calling on the public for a
rurther reduction in consumption,
makes ar renewed appeal to the^
:ousewife to Stop the waste of food.
it asks a general observance of the
:!ood administration's regulations
nnd calls x»n the people in addition
o hold down their consumption of
sugar.
There 4s no forcible '.imitation -of
purchases by householders, and in
rhis connection the food administra-tor
says:
Housewife Handles the Clab.
"The effectiveness of these rules is
-lependent solely upon the good will
>t and the willingness at the Amer-ican
people to sacrifice. In the last
analysis the success or failure of any
such plan as outlined rests with the
people. We haws- Mfe «n*U 9«*»
force--the Araeri»a|l^am»tt^|n4 *e
depend upon her tb'^ths? fhese
.rifles are obeyed by the gmaH minor- (
it^'who may fail."
Of the nearly 2«,W#,<W» hense-holders
in the Unltedi States about
rtWatrattoii's pled«w to *MttW 9»
Teo4 coMerratiott ddrecttoM «4
SURGEON GBNERAL SAYS BPV
DEMiC DUE TO OVER-Waahlngton,
Jan. 25.—•Discovery
that manufacture of moonshine
whiskey is increasing rapidly in bone
dry states and that quantities have
been sold illicity *> soldier* in South-em
camps, caused Internal Revenue
Commissioner Roper to announce to-day
a nation-wkte campaign against
illegal distillation in co-operation
with state governors.
The military camps where moon-shine
liquor has been sold most in
spite of precautions by military and
civil authorities are Camps Wads-worth,
at Spartanbusg, S. C; Sevier,
at Greenville. S. C: Jackson, at Co-lumbia,
6. C and Oglethorpe, at
Chattanooga.
Investigations about these and
other camps still are under way. The
campaign already has resulted in ar-rests
of hundreds of moonshiners fn
Southern dry states. State laws for-bicding
importation and the federal
tax of *3.20 a gallon havr> driven the
price of crude corn liquor about
many camps to J8 and $12 a quart,
according to evidence gathered by
revenue agents.
Commissioner Roper nas obtained
from many governors specific in-dorsement,
of the anti-liquor cam-paign.
Some state executives and lo-cal
officials however, were reluctant
i~ furnishvthe state agents required
for the work.
Special efforts will be made to
clean out stills in the dry states
where conditions arc reported worst.
IUeiiil manufacture is thriving best
in North Carolina, Virginia. South
Carolina. Georgia. Tennessee and Ar;
kansas. according to reports of rev-enue,
agents. State agents already
are at work vigorously in some of
-BiTUSSDiTS
BNSfFIKD FOOD CONSERVA-TION
PROGRAM HAS BEEN
PLANNED.
MRU! PLUM HI PttCI ISftT TO 001 P8MSB TttW
Washington. Jan. aF.—-Pronv Sur-geon
General Gorgas the senatemil-itary
committee today sought light
upon health and sanitary conditions
-in the army, resuming it* investiga-tion
suspended a tow daye ago *o
present the reorganisation legisla-tion
about which centers the com-mittee
row With the administration.
General Gorgas reiterated state-ments
made,in his official reports to
the department after a tour ol in-spection,
that the crowding of men
into cantonments and camps not
ready to" receive them was largely
responsiBle for the epidemics of dis-ease
at some of the posts. He agreed
with other officers who nave preced-ed
him on the stand, however, as to
WARNS THE JfflUTARY LEADERS
THAT THEY MAY BE HURIiED
FROM POWER.
Ighj- Jan. 28.—Tbe intensified
conservation program that has
. planned by the food adminis-
Jtipn as a result of the desperate
Len of need from the other side
,11*-for the observance Of two
jeatlsas days in the week, Monday
td; Wednesday, and one wheatless
il every day; one meatless day,
(<Sb shall be Tuesday, and two
ties* daye, which shall be Tues-
, and Saturday, in each week.
;Qn the two wheatless days and at
IS meal every day all consumers
foods, private homes, hotels and
aurants, etc., are requested to
no wheat bread, biscuits, craok-
., pastry, macaroni, or breakfast
!ood containing wheat and to use
.eat flour in no form except in such
The vo'ce of peace advocates has
again been raised insistently in the
central empires, following quickly
GERMANY Al» AUSMnTA-HUN-OAKY
CANNOT SEE IT OUR
WAY.
Germany through her imperial
chancellor, Count Von Hertling- and
BUJ.IIII«=>, ■»•»■ ■ ■» Austria-Hungary-, through Its foreign
upon what is largely regarded as a 1 minister. Count Cxernin. have^ mads, j
the necessity for hurried training.
Hospital construction was stopped Ismail amounts that may be needed
last summer that harracks might be for thickening soups or gravies or
erected faster, he explained, en*'** *>r a binder in corn bread and other
camp hospital is conrplete noyrj cereal bread.
though sanitation conditions are ink On meatless Tuesday no meat
proving as shown by recent mortality sbould be used except fish.joultrv
' and game. On porkless Saturda>
rep° S" „ mutton and lamb should be used in
Value of Observation Camps. , pMrference t0 beef ..porldess- m6ans
Gen. Gorgas emphasued the deed; yltnout pork_ bacon. ham and lard or
for observation camps, the ^ablishgV^^ pQrk ppoducts.
ment of which, he said, much slcfBS| l( (he United SUtes meets the
food demands of its associates in the
war and provides for the starving
[neutrals of Europe anything like the
amount which our shipping^ will be
able to take to them our own people
must save at least one-third of their
normal consumption of wheat from
now until the next harvest. The
same thing is true of pork and ap-proximately
true of beef.
thec« states. . ^m.
-To a lesser degree the traffic in
"mountain dew" is reported from
Florida. Alabama, Mississippi. Ken-tucky.
Oklahoma and a number of
other states. Officials have gathered
evidence that in Kansas. Iowa and
Oregon, illegal manufacture is on
the increase.
The campaign now planned is the
result of a special canvass of dry
states started several months ago by
direction of Commissioner Roper.
Vr. experienced revenue agent was
sent to confer with the governors of
dry states and to gather evidence of
uncurbed liquor manufacture in
those states. The governors were
told that the force of the federal in-spectors
is inadequate to ferret out
the thousands of hidden stills and
obtain evidence on which to base
prosecution. The task was made par-ticularly
difficult because the scheme
of giving bonuses to informants on
Illicit stills has been abandoned.
The open refusal or itl-<concealed
refusal of many county sheriffs and
other local officials to assist govern-ment
agents In running down moon-shiners
was a factor in causing Com-missioner
Roper to announce the
open campaign.
In North Carolina fifty-four of the
100 counties are known as "good
moonshine territory,'' and nearly 700
stills have been seized and destroyed
in a year. Conditions are reported
bad in Henderson, Polk..Wilkes, Or-ange.
Johnston, Transylvania, Alex-ander,
Vadkin, McDowell, Burke and
Wake. In a number of counties in
the western part of the state it was
said local officials refused to give I
proper assistance to government
agents and intimated that they were I
friendly to the moonshiners.
Pickens and Horrey. counties, of
South Carolina, wereS-eported Iocali-
| ties where illicit distilling has flour-ished,
and which government agents
are -watching closely. In most north-western
counties, stills are said to be
operated on rather large scale and
moonshiners take their product to
camps in that state.. They either sell
the liquor themselves or gPv^ it to,
their agents, who dispose of It to-sol-diers.
Laxity of a number of county
officials In South Carolina also was
reported.
Almost 600 stills have been diacov-
IICK could have been avoided h
there been such places where men
porting at a camp could Le kept fou
teen days. While he said men shoul
be dressed in warm clothing, th1
generald told the committee he d
not consider clothing shortage as an
important _ factor in the pneumonT^
epidemic, explaining that control «£
avoidance of the germ was the pr
cipal.point to be considered.
Gen. Grogas said he did not
authority and had not* been i
fered with. He said he was not
suited in the selection of ean*p^__ r
but that with the exception of Camp
Funston, Kansas, all were admirably
located from a sanitation standpoint.
Hospital plans are drawn by his de-partment,
he said, but that under a
plan of decentralization he had noth-ing
to do with selecting the place in
camps where hospitals are located.
Hospital Ship.
Questioned about hospital ship
Gen. Gorgas said the question had
bee* taken up by him seven or eight
months, ago and that he was expect-ing
a decision every day. It will take
from two to three months, he said,
to refit a transport for use as a hos-pital
ship..
The general described the exten-sive
plans being made for army hos-pitals
outside the camps.
Army Surgeons the Best.
The 14,000 physicians in the ser-vice,
he declared, are. ample to take
care of the men now under arms. He
Baid the army had the "cream" of
the profession.
Of the new physiological board
which is studying qualifications of
officers and men, the general said he
had little confidence in the system
when first undertaken, but now r*J
garded it a really efficient asset to
the department.
RUSSIAN ARMY IS IN
A BAD CONDITION.
Big Ammunition Ship on Fire.
An Atlantic Port. Jan 26.—Load-eu
with war supplies for the Italian
army some of them highly, inflam-mable,
a tan thousand-ton American
munition steamship, armed force and
aft. and making ready to sail caught
j shortly' before 2 A'clock this after-noon
while tied up at her pier.
I Among the cargo are several hun-dred
barrels of glycerine and ben-zine,
tons _of \tar paper," army-blank-ets
and other supplies. Fire boats
deluged the big ship an 1 more dam-age
was d/one by water than by fire.
Theloss is not yet computed, but will
be heavy. United States officers are
tonight investigating the cause.
Petrograd, Jan. 26.—Major Gen-eral
Bonch-Bruevitch, chief of staff
at the Russian front, paints a gloomy-picture
cf the condition of the Rus-sian
armies in a report to Ensign
Krylenko. the commander in chief.
The army organizations are utterly
demoralized, he says', the officers are
inexperienced, and the maintenance
of discipline is impossible. The only
possible salvation for the army, the
only chance for offering an effective
resistance, he declares, is for the var-ious
sections of the armies to fall
back to their natural nefenses and
undergo a thorough reorganization
of the units under trained leaders.
Many parts of the western front
are entirely open. General Bonch-
Bruevitch reports, at numerous
places there being only 240 infantry-men
to the mile. The reserves are
refusing to relieve the men in the
trenches and the soldiers are desert-ing
in masses. Communications are
rbroken and few horses are aviiable.
'ine wire entanglements have been
destroyed to facilitate fraternizing
and the exchange of commodities
with the German armies.
At many points, adds the chief of
staff, fortified' points have been de-stroyed,
making resistance utterly
impossible on the lines as a; present
located even with good troops. Var-ious
branches of the staffs must soon
cease work, he declared, because of
the disordered conditions, and the
economic life of the army will thus
be ruined.
new declaration of Germany's war-like
purposes in the chancellor's
speech.
Simultaneously a report is current
that the Bolshevik! government in
Russia has decided to-continue the
Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations and
another, quite unverified, that Aus-tria
is prepared to make a peace
with Russia independently from Ger-many.
The peace note in Germany was
sounded by Phillipp Scheidemann,
the Socialist leader, who in his re-marks
following Chancellor Von
Hertllng's speech pleaded for peace
before spring came with its renewed
bloodshed.
Regarding Russia, however,
Scheidemann's speech was more than
a plea, it was a warning that the mil*
itary leaders of the imperial govern-ment
would be "hurled from power"
if they did not bring about peace
with Russia.
Basis in Wilson Speech.
Scheidemann insisted that there
was ground for a general peace on
the basis of the program laid down
by President Wilson, on eleven
points of which an agreement was
easily possible. He was as uncom-promising
as Chancellor Von Hert-ling.
however, as regards Alsace-
Lorraine, declaring this territory
must remain German.
Scheidemann's words comprise,
perhaps the most radical utterance
that *as yet come from his wing of
the pasty in the reichstag the major-ity
of moderate Socialist. In the for-eign
press comment on the speech of
Chancellor Van Hertling. however, it
has been po'inrea ont that there is as
yet no sign of acknowledgment on
the part of the German government
of any responsibility to parliament
replies te the peace terms of the al-lies
and the United SUtes as recently
enunciated by David Lloyd-George
and President Wilson. t
Although both affect to see .he
possibility of coming into agreement
with their enemies on minor points,
the concrete basis essential to peace
are declared to be unacceptable.
Against Wilson.
The German spokesman was un-*
compromieingly hostile to a majority
of the peace aims as put forward br
President Wilson, treating seriatim
in his address those upon which Ger-many
coul£ not come into accord.
Count Czernin was more moderate in
his statement of President Wilson's
ideas, declaring the president's view-point,
expressed in his latest address
to Congress, showed that there waa
less incompatibility between Austria-
Hungary and the United States than
had seemed the case.
Restoration of Belgium.
From the German standpoint, ac-cording
to Von Hartling, the restora-tion
to France of Alsace-iLorraine is
beyond the realm of discussion. Re-garding
Belgium, he declared that its
restorations could be settled only in
peace negotiations, but that Germany
never had demanded the incorpora-tion
of Belgium territory "by vio-lence."
Likewise, methods of pro-cedure
in the evacuation of northern
France must take account of Ger
many's vital Interests and be agreed
upon between Germany and France.
Fate of Poland and Balkans.
The chancellor said the fate of PC;
land and the Balkans and the read-justment
of the Italian -frontier He*
with Austria, while the evacuation Of
Russian territory concerns only Rus-sia
and the central powers. Get-and
that to all appearances the mil- I many, he added, considered that the
itary party Is still in full control and
determined to maintain its grip up-on
the situation.
Cossacks Against Kaledines.
The Bolsheviki are taking even
more energetic action against Gen-eral
Kaledines and "now report an
organization of Cossacks from the
front into a congress Which has de-clared
war on the Cossack chieftain,
driven him and his staff from their
headquarters and announces its pur-pose
of hunting him down.
On War Fronts.
In the military situation .there
have been no developments of note.
Artillery duels at isolated points, oc-casional
raids and plentiful airplane
reconnoitering are reported.. The
French aerial activity has been some-what
marked, the official statements
mentioning exactly successful photo-graphic
work carried out to a dis-tance
of nearly twenty miles behind
the German lines.
integrity of Turkey and i he safety of'
its capital were closely connected
with the question of the Dardanelles,
which was of vital interest to Ger-many.
With regard to Russia. Count
Czernin said Austria-Hungary desir-ed
no annexations or indemnities—
"not a meter of territory, not a
kreutzer of indemnity"—and that
Russia could have peace if she main-tained
the same standpoint, as shs
evidently intended to do.
Starting Place For Discussion?
Both Count Von Hertling and
Count Czernin thought it obvious
that the exchange of peace views
with the United States might form
the starting point for a conciliatory
discussion among all the states
which had not yet entered the peace
negotiations.
MAJOR GENERAL WOOD IS
WOUNDED IN FRANCE.
Eight Killed in Explosion.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Six men
were killed and several injured by
an explosion at the United States
navy torpedo station at Newport, R.
I., today according to word reaching
the navy department late this after-noon.
mainly in Cue *>(<•**' :'««* $»*dite
Atnong'theiodoatlos ettet mmfu
ntn, Putnam, Cobb, Clay. X/umpkin,
Harris, Hherokee, .White, Daweon
and Fayette.
Bandits Get . JRBlion.
Chicago, Jan. 26.-^Four bandits
tonight stole jewelry estimated by*
the police as worth $250,000 froffli
the PelleMBaa*.. Jewelry,. .Oompany-
Frank Ross., one of the owners, warf
severely beaten and two girl employ*
ltd* in o^Mi&^n^iBP^^"^!!^*^ *""" *nac?*Ml1 room-
'tegnfc&ns-irtri'i* tmSS&r
observed.
Bad Fire in Bsttrmsre.
Baltimore, Jsn. 25.—Fire of m?
terlous origin destroyed the Oel
cetton duck mill* at Btticott Ci
Ins
frMttfr •- *mlm«t*4. at «SM.«M
Washington. Jan. 27.—'Major Gen-eral
Leonard Wood, in France on an
observation tour.was slightly wound-ed
today by an accidental explosion
which killed five French soldiers and
hurt two other American officers.
Secretary Baker announced the ac-cident
in this statement.
"A cable dispatch from the head
quarters of General Perishing states
that an accidental'expljsion occurT
ring today killed-five French soldiers
and slightly injured Major General
Wood in the a*m. Lieut. Col. Charles
E. JUIlbourne in the .eye, and Maj.
Kenyon A. Joywe in the arm."
It is understood the'message was
brief and gave no further details.
General Wood's tour would carry
htm both to theNfront and to the
American training camps behind the I
lines, but there is no indeaton as to
Where the- accident ocenrrsd.
AU of, the- divisional commanders
have been or vrfB *•'*■* to Burope
[lor brleg ■.gift Ge—m Wood.
[wsftt'b»W**▼*£! wees* ago
Newport, R. I.. Jan. 26.—Eight
men were killed and seven injured.
The explosion was in No. 2 "bomb
proof, and was due to the accidental
setting off of a quantity of fulminate
of mercury, according to a formal
statement issued tonight. Two other
bomb proofs, numbers 1 and 3 were
destroyed. '.,., . .
Battle Raging With Mexicans.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 25.—Forty
armed Mexicans crossed the Rio
Grande in the southern part of El
Paso tonight. Soldiers- and police-men
armed with rifles" were rushed
to the scfls^Priiate Linn, on out-post
dety.jbeVbjsen. brought Jn with
a bullet* wound tn TTfe "body.
WILL ALLOW PAIR PROFTT
ON FLOUR A«D SUOAJt.
Raleigh. Jan. 26.—.Merchants in
North Carolina who can show that
they have not a reasonable profit in
sugar at 10 cents a pound or flour
at $12.50 a, barrel, the maximum
prices fixed by the food administra-tion,
can secure exceptions to the rul-ing
fixing these prices by applying to
their county food administrator and
showing him the figures.
All county food administrator*
have been instructed to investigate
complaints and grant such exceptions
to the extent of allowing such mer-chants
SheiT normal profit up to one
cent a pound -on*sugar and fl a bar-rel
on flour. These margins are £or
all manner and sizes of packages of
both commodities.
The administration in this matter,
as in others, hap shown Its esmest
desire to co-operate with and bene-fit
the merchant ae tfetl a* the con-sumer
and prodocef,
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New WdrM-s Regard.
Washington* Jan. 2«.—George Mc-
Ouire u the world's most patient.
' ,, ,„„',„ most persistent snd most easily sat-
\mm interred German Coming ^JJJSM 4«W ***-*« »™'
Hot Springs.
San Francisco, Jan. 25.—A party
of 464 Interned Germans, -who have
been datatoed at Angel Island, left
today fer Hot Springs, N.C for per-manent
internment, it was announc-
64 by federal authorities. The party
Included W *©»*»■•■* 1* children.
coneweratton of hi* application tor
a place •« maytory 'watchman at f 40
a mesthv the government today »P-
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