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. • ■ ■- y^W: :'■- ■■^-: ■■ . 0., wilig ir awl less tl bit. I $2.25 land $3.3 [en's Gi as lowI they w«j (utton; ft losei !,£.•*»««" mm - ; - ■ -••.?-•. ■"*,' - -- *■•; ••- ■ ■ PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY ESTA^S|» 1821 GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1917. VOL. 96—NO. 8 SOME REMARKABLE CRAUS ■OMMTIOXS AT THE FARMS UN- ,IT I'OK PRISONERS, EX- <(>\VUT«AY8. Raleigh- J«n- 23-—T,,e joint com" „, ttee on penal institutions. Senator Turner, presiding, heard this after-noon a remarkable series of charges and comments en the conditions at -he Ftatc farm, and arraignment of • , management of the convicts ,•,,.••,,, |iy Roy Traywick. of Union ■o«n:y. presented through Represen- -.live Ueasley, of Union. It was a manuscript of 35 pages and was to jaeral effect that the convict < are unfit for human habita-i'aal tlie white prisoners are . ,,. to use a water pail in common ,■ ■ i negroes, cat in the same room. lisai Ihe supervisors and guards' ,,. cruel and that the whole atraos- ..•,. of iho place hardens the con-v ;- .iiui intensifies their hatred of iety. making them worse than v. ,,i.i iliey were sent to the farm. Traywick is a young white .nan. , . , bet-ante involved with others in *onie insurance high financing in j-■■; m county, and received a peni- .. . i.i-.v sentence. Forgery was imr.ns the charges involved in the conviction and sentence. He was ^:rdi>L-«!iI by Governor Craig just be-fore Christmas, and lias not, accord- :::. ID Mr. Beasley, who believes in :i::n -trongly, yet secured employ- :•. but seems to be making a 4: rung effort to take a renewed hold in life. Chairman Turner, Senator Jones. Senator Brenizer, Senator Ilolder- ,u•.-« and others commented ou the :■•presentation of the conditions and lii agreed that investigation should >■• made. Senator Rrenzier took the view that there is need in this state for adopting prison reforms that iave been successful in many other -rates, including paroles, probation indeterminate sentences and pay-men; of part of the earnings of pris-oners to convicts' families. He moved ihat a special committee be appoint-ed to investigate and report. This .\as seconded by Cray, of Forsyth, nd (he following committee was ap-pointed: Senators Brenizer and ■'. itiderness. Representatives Crier, Oasley and Uenfrow. of Mecklen-inrp. Courts Investigations. Superintendent J. S. Mann, of the prison, was not at the committee .netting, being in Hyde county for a •la> or two. The prison management ia> urged on the legislature the ne- •essity for permanent and more ade-luate stockades for the farm and the ■esult of the investigation is awaited -vitli interest, the cliarge being that 'he farm, being so remote from the i:.ral prison and without the pres-ence of the superintendent except at afervals,these sub-officials in charge •nay not maintain the standards 'here that human prison manage-ment would require. Chairman B. L. Varner. of the •ate prison board, is here and says •• fullest investigation is courted. OVERMAN AMENDMENT STIHS UP HOT DEBATE. :;i:vr-:xiK RETURNS SHOW AN INCREASE. Iiington, Jan. 24. — The '••ml nf whiskey consumed by the ■ a people in 1916 apparently "'•■;'•'!• than in any previous ,: "' - 1909, according to tax re- 'urns 10 Use treasury, department . -ompiled today and the amount of -venue rollei :ed by the government '■'■ whiskey, beer and cigarettes dur- !" the year was the greatest on re-cord. '•'■ ■ '■'■ returns show that the tend-mwnrd prohibition lias not low- '■ government's revenue from "j-key. officials belfeve that a por- '" "f tlm increase—nearly $24,- •'"»> more than in 1915—is at- !' bntable to the fact that the gov- ■" nient is at present collecting tax-s "'1 all the Whiskey produced in '■'■ country, whereas, because of ex-ensive frauds, such was not the case i !"u years ago. Consumption of cigarettes in 1916 eaclied the highest mark ever re-corded. The tremendous increase, 'tore than forty per cent over 1915, * attributed to two main causes: In- ' reased prosperity of the country ■ "'1 growth of the cigarette habit iniong women. Many millions of 'igarettea made for feminine users vftre produced in this country- and mported during (lie past year, 'hereas a few years ago production «nd importation* of such cigarette* were negligible by campsrisoa. Washington, Jan. 24.—Senator Overman stirred up a hot debate in the senate this afternoon by offering an amendment to the legislative bill which would authorize the presi-dent, with the aid of the bureau of efficiency, to make sweeping and rad-ical changes in .the various executive departments. The amendment would authorize the president in the recess of Con-gress to take steps with the aid of the bureau to consolidate or abolish any offices of the government where-by duplications in government work can be done away with. , The amendment would confer on the president absolute authority to overhaul any department and do away with any unnecessary bureau or division or set of employes. Sen-ator Overman estimated that $30,- 000,000 could be saved if the amend-ment were adopted. Under it the president could first act and then re-port what he had done to Congress afterward. Senator Jones, of Washington, de-clared that under it the president without consulting Congress could disrupt any department of the gov-ernment. Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, a member of the appropriation com-mittee, urged the adoption of the amendment. He admitted it was radical and far-reaching. "if the tide of expenditures is ever stayed it must be done on a compre-hensive scale." said Senator Robin-son. "The expenditures have now readied $200,000,000 a year. Some power must be given to some au-thority to act. Otherwise nothing will he accomplished." "This amendment," said Senator Gallinger, "would give power to the president to disrupt every depart-ment and then report to Congress." He.thotrght authority should be given for an investigation by the president and the bureau of effici-ency, with a report to Congress at the opening of the next session. Senator Robinson suggested that under this procedure no economy would be accomplished because Con-gress would talk and do nothing and political pressure would be brought to bear to prevent it from doing any-thing. FIRST N. C. REGIMENT JOYFUL OVER ORDERS. Camp Stewart, El Paso, Tex., Jan. 24.—News that'the first regiment is to go with the first troops sent home under the new orders was received here last night and the boys of the first celebrated joyfully. Headed by their band they paraded Pennsyl-vania avenue while, their less fortu-nate brothers guyed them good na-turedly from the side lines. Official orders have not yet ar-rived but it is expected that the first will be moving within a week. Major Morris, first regiment medi-cal corps, has been ordered to report to the division surgeon for duty as director of the ambulance company corps. Charles K. Coley, company M, third regiment, Durham, and Corpo-ral Billie C. Stacey, company G, same regiment, Reidsville, were to-day promoted t'o sergeants. Lieutenant George L. PHtman, ad-jutant first battalion, second regi-ment, today received his discharge from the service because of physical disability. He expects to leave to-morrow for his home in Goldsboro. Seigeant Archie Nedman, com-pany M, second regiment, left- last night for liis home at Clinton in re-sponse to a telegram announcing the sudden death of his father there yes-terday morning. Capt. Dallas Zollicoffer, company M. first regiment, returned to camp today from forty days leave spent at High Point. Child, Claying With Matches, Burns to Death. Fayeteville, Jan. 22.—The two-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. €. F. Wren, of the Aapin mill village, was fatally burned yesterday afternoon and died last night, as a result of playing with matches. The little fel-low, alone In the room of the house was striking the matches which he had taken from the mantel hy stand-ing on a chair, -when his clothing caught 'fire. Before help could reach* him he was so badly burned that death fol-lowed in a few", hours.. He •nlJ 99.B. fit U§ parents. THE GOVERNMENT BEST EGG PUTS UP MONEY WITH WHICH FEDERAL. FARM LOAN SYS-TEM IS STARTED. Washington, Jan. 23—As explain-ed 'before in these articles, the oper-ations of the farm loan act divided into two main classes—a money as-sembling agency and a money lend-ing agency. "The government puts the first nest egg into the farm loan plan by buying the original capital stock of the twelve federal land 'banks ;if necessary. When this has been' lbaned and farm mortgages taken fn return for the money loan-ed bhe| federal land banks may issue bonds against these mortgages. These bonds will be among the most attractive securities ever of-fered to American investors. As ex-plained before, farmers are permit-ted to borrow only up to 50 per cent of the value of their land. This means that every dollar's worth o* bonds issued represents $2 worth of land as security. The fact that each federal land bank guarantees the bonds of all the other banks also puts behind tihesc bonds as security the $9,000,000 original capital stock of the bank.- and their required sur-plus earnings, plus the required an-nual deduction of the mortgage loan. Besides this, the security constantly increases proportionately by reason of the constantly increasing capital contributed by the farm loan asso-ciation. So the investment end of the farm loan act is fully as important as the money-lending end, because it cre-ates for the benefit of small and large investors a security backed by pooled first mortgages on farm lands, the proceeds being used to increase the productive power and enhance the value of these mortgage lands. Since the rate of interest to the farmer depends upon the rate of in-terest at which these bonds will sell, Congress went the limit to make these bonds attractive so they would sell at a low Interest rate. The bonds are exempt from all form of taxa-tion. The governmnt will not even collect any income tax upon them. No state or municipality may tax them for any purpose. In order to make these bonds appeal to investors of all classes they are issued in de-nominations of from $25 to $1,000. In order to protect them against counterfeiting they are issued by the United States government bureau of engraving and printing and are pro-tected from counterfeiters by the whole force of the United States sec-ret service. Heretofore it lias heen practically impossible tfor the small investor .to buy^real estate securities. A man or woman who wanted to buy $100 worth of farm securities was not able to find a farm mortgage of just that size. In addition, the investor would not buy such a mortgage with-out inspecting the security. Tilie cost and the 'bother were barriers which made it. almost impossible for the small investor to get first mortgage securities. Hereafter it will be pos-sible for any investor who Wants to buy farm securities from $25 up merely to apply for a federal farm loan bond of the denominations de-sired. The investor will know that this bond represents $2 worth of land appraised tinder government supervision and that the bond was issued under «overnment regulation. Rate of interest at which these bonds will be issued has not yet been determined by the federal farm loan board. It is safe to predict that in the beginning it will not he less than 4 nor more than 5 per cent. So the benefits of the farm loan act are not limited to (farmers who need the use of cheaper capital, hut they in-clude also those persons who liave money to invest and are seeking a long time, readily marketable secur-ity of undoubted value. VILLA-ZAPATA CQMBIHATIQH REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS SAID TO HAVE FORMED AN ALLIANCE. Shoes Are $3S a Pair in Gallcia. Kinston, Jan. 23.—There is a big difference in the price of leather in the U. S. A. and Galicia. Ben. Sny-der, a local cobbler, yesterday mail-ed to relatives in the wartorn prov-ince three pairs, not of his bfn making, worth ,$13 in all. The same shoes in Galicia would cost $35 a pair, .Snyder said. Prices of other things are proportionately high. Snyder sent the shoes to relatives. The postage -was only M cents on the whole WWJBJW. Washington. Jan. 23.—Troop movements preliminary to with-draw^ of the American expedition from Mexico are being carried out at the southern extremity of the Amer-ican line under war department or-ders, and as soon as they are com-plete, the main body of the expedi-tion probably will start north. For th* first time officials admit-ted. today that the withdrawal of outposts from El Valle and other points about Colonia Dublan had more than a local significance, and was lieiug carried out on orders from Washington. They made no an-nouncement as to the probable time when tte general northern move-ment would begin, and would not even adi»it that withdrawal of Persh-iag's trtftps after 10 months in Mexi-co was it hand. Officials are inter-ested, but apparently little concern-ed over growing evidences that a de-termined struggle for possession of the territory evacuated by Pershing may bciUb progress soon between Carrania troops and revolutionists. -. Villa and Zapata. TddayV official dispatches said that Villa and Zapata, the two most conspicuous revolutionary leaders, had allied themselves for operations against the de facto armies, and that 8,000 men l)ad been concentrated near Chihuahua for a Villa cam-paign in the north. Since Carranza declined to accept the Atlantic City-protocol officials here have indicated that such problems as the one devel-oping about Chihuahua not only would be left to the /first chief for settlement, but that he would be held responsible by the United States government for their settlement in such a nay as to protect American tnterei*?^ Meantime, raising of the embargo on arms to Mexico and the dispatch of Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico City remain in abeyance, possibly be-cause of two developments construed in some quarters as a renewal of practices of the Carranza govern-ment against which the United States repeatedly has protested. Of-ficials are surprised and perplexed over the drastic measures taken by the first chief against two banks whose metallic reserve recently was seized, and by what some contend is a revival of prosecution of the Ro-man Catholic clergy. Information reaching the British embassy today from an offi ial of the Bank of London and Mexico and the National Bank of Mexico was that the bullion and specie taken from the banks was a loan only in the sense that it was forced. From the Bank of London and Mexico, the amount taken was valued at four million dollars. The National Bank's quota was 6,000,000 pesos. Remain-ing in the vaults of the first are 16.- 000,000 pesos and the institutions officers fear that this may also be removed. Agents of the de facto government are in possession of the building and the keys to the vault. Seizures Make Problem. •The problem presented by the seizures has been called to the at tention of the state department again by representatives of the stockholders, who are for the most part British and French. If repr/ sentations are made by the Ameri-can state department they probably will be based on the assumption that the interests of American stockhold-ers may be injured. The fate of the two priests arrest-ed in Mexico charged with conspir-acy remained unknown here late to-day. The state department already has made earnest representations in their behalf. Both at the state de-partment and at the White House many telegrams and letters were re-ceived today appealing to the Amer-ican government to exercise every power to prevent their conviction and execution, one being from Car-dinal Gibbons. '-'■ Juki's. Say Torpedoes Boat Received No Warning. iNewiport News. Va., Jan. 23.— American muleteers who escaped death when the British steamer Rus-sian was torpedoed several weeks ago stated on their arrival here to-day that the ship was torpedoed without warning. Twenty of these men arived here today from Boston to which place they came from Eng-land: Most of them said that they would sign on another cattle boat. COMMITTEE GETS READY FOR ACTION. Washington, Jan. 23.—Plans for the legislative program the president hopes to have Congress pass before March 4, were made by the steer-ing committee of the senate today. Senator Kern, chairman of the com-mittee, appointed sub-committees to see what progress has already been made on important bills and report again to the committee tomorrow morning. At that time decision will be reached on the holding of a cau-cus, and a tentative plan for work mapped out. The steering commit-tee is exerting every effort to carry out the wishes of the president that the senate speed up business. One of the sub-committees named today was designated to see Chair-man Adamson, of the house commit-tee on interstate and foreign com-merce, and ascertain what time the railroad legislation in the house will be finished and before the senate. The president is anxious that the railroad program be adopted. An-other sub-committee was asked to see .Senator Newlands, of the senate interstate commerce committee, and find out what progress has been made on the Webb bill. The presi-dent has told members of the com-mittee he thinks this legislation, Jield over, ifrom the long session, should be made a law before Con-gress adjourns, so ' exporters can make their arrangements to oper-ate under it. Senator Kern said he some definite program worked out tomorrow, lieved a caucus will be week. The Webb bill has already passed" the house and now is before the sen-ate committee for its consideration. The house, however, so amended the bill, before passage, as to prevent the exemptions from the Sherman act taking effect if there is restraint up-on the export trade of the United States. As such language nullifies the whole purpose of the legislation, and would, in fact, leave the situa-tion as it is at present, some think this language should be eliminated. It was intimated today that the president plans to spend three or four hours a day, three or four days a week at the capitol to speed up the administration's legislative pro-gram and will keep this procedure up as long as he deems it necessary. Secretary Tumulty and one or two other members of the executive staff will accompany him there daily. NAVAL ENCOUNTER HORTH SEA GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK AND OTHER TORPEDO CRAFT SCATTERED. felt sure might be It is be-held this CHANGES IN OFFICERS OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY. President Charles B. Hole, of the North Carolina Public Service Com-pany, announces a number Of changes in the officers of the com-pany and in their duties, effective at once. R. J. Hole, of Salisbury, becomes general man'ager of all divisions, and the change requires his removal to Greensboro. The new orders show a closer knit organization. The changes effect Greensboro, High Point, Salis-bury, Spencer and Concord, in all of which towns the company has hold-ings and run street railways. The announcement of the presi-dent was made as follows: "On and after this date the fol-lowing changes in the organization of the North Carolina Public Service Company becomes effective: "E. C. Deal, vice pi^sident, be-comes also consulting engineer in charge of engineering and new.con-struction work, reporting direct to the president. 1 "R. J. Hole becomes general man-ager in charge of operations in all di-visions, reporting direct to the pres-ident. Local manager in Salisbury, commercial agent and all superin-tendents in High Point and Greens-boro will report direct to the general manager. "J. H. Robertson' becomes local manager of the Salisbury, Spencer and Concord division. "Harold Andrews becomes assis-tant to the president, besides contin-uing Ms present duties as power en-gineer." Cargo of Gold. Baltimore, Jan. 23.—It was re-ported in local shipping circles to-day that three steamers which left Baltimore recently presumably with coal, also took out several million dollars in gold eagles and hsftf eagles for Germany, to be transferred at •ea to the reMsra sweeping the *>*a AjjMUft London. Jan. 23.—In an engage-ment between British light naval forces and German torpedo boat de-stroyers in the North Sea last ni«lrt a German destroyer was sunk and the other torpedo craft scattered, it was officially announced today. The sinking of a British torpedo boat de-stroyer in another engagement with German torpedo boat destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank last night, with the loss of three officers and.44 of the crew, also was an-nounced. , The official announcement says: "Last night, while our light foroes were patrolling the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, they met a division of enemy torpedo boat de-stroyers. A short engagement took place, during which one of the enemy torpedo boat destroyers was sunk and the rest scattered, having suffer-ed considerable punishment. Dark-ness prevented the full results at the action from being observed. "During last niglit there was also a short, sharp engagement between, enemy torpedo destroyers and our own destroyers in the vicinity ©t Schouwen Bank. During this en-gagement one of our torpedo boat destroyers was struck by a torpedo, the explosion killing three officers and 44 of the crew. She subsequent-ly was sunk by our own ships. Rel-atives of the victims have been In-formed. Our ships suffered no other casualties." Attempted to Leave Zcebrugge. London, Jan. 23.—Reports from Ymuiden received by Reuters Tele-graph Company via Amsterdam say that German torpedo boats last night attempted to leave Zeebrugge to avoid the ice, which was very thick. They were immediately attacked by a large-British jquadron, ...The *B»__'. tion opened at short range, and early in the fight the bridge of the Ger-man destroyer, V-69, was swept away by a direct hit, the commander and two officers being killed. The V-69 fired one torpedo end was then hit by another British shell, which knocked the funnel flat on the deck. Still another shell put a hole in the forepart of the vessel. Her gums appear not to have been damaged. The crew of the V-69 numbered about sixty. It would appear from the statements of the men that seven other German vessels were sunk. The V-69-belonged to the home fleet. According to a Reuter dispatch from Ymuiden it was officially stated that four men were killed aboard the V-69, including the commander, Lieutenant Boehra, and the comman-der of the flotilla. Captain Schultz. German officers refuse informa-tion about the engagement, the scene of action 'or the strength of the flotilla. Two Reported Sunk. London, Jan. 23.—According to a Hague report to the Exchange Tele-graph Company two German ships were sunk and three others badly damaged in the North Sea fight. ZEBULON WEAVER suit: OF OBTAINING HIS SEAT. Washington. Jan. 23.—Represen-tative- elect Zebulon Weaver, from the tenth district, arrived in Wash-ington today from Ashevllle to take a look over the ground and to pre-pare to fight the charges made against him in the house by Repre-sentative Britt, who challenges the right of Mr. Weaver to a seat T» Congress. Mr. Weaver had notice served on him January 16, and vn allowed thirty days in which to make reply. While here he will arrangn for counsel to represent him and make other preparations for the case. "I expect to show to Congress, without doubt," said Mr. Weaver, "that in this contest a majority of the votes actually was returned 'ac me. He contests this election on the unmarked ballot, but that was de-termined in a case before the Su-preme court, which decided the bal-lots were legal and ought to have been counted." ■ ^______^___^_ t Woman 110 Years Old Dead. Richmond, Va., Jan. 23.—'Mrs. Hessian Hollin. 110 years old, said to have been the oldest woman In the state, died yesterday; la PstasU county. ..^^•^^.■asa^.....,^.^...^ . ..
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Title | The Greensboro patriot [January 25, 1917] |
Date | 1917-01-25 |
Editor(s) | Underwood, W.I. |
Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.)--Newspapers |
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Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The January 25, 1917, issue of The Greensboro Patriot, a newspaper published in Greensboro, N.C. by W.I. Underwood. |
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Full text | . • ■ ■- y^W: :'■- ■■^-: ■■ . 0., wilig ir awl less tl bit. I $2.25 land $3.3 [en's Gi as lowI they w«j (utton; ft losei !,£.•*»««" mm - ; - ■ -••.?-•. ■"*,' - -- *■•; ••- ■ ■ PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY ESTA^S|» 1821 GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY. JANUARY 25, 1917. VOL. 96—NO. 8 SOME REMARKABLE CRAUS ■OMMTIOXS AT THE FARMS UN- ,IT I'OK PRISONERS, EX- <(>\VUT«AY8. Raleigh- J«n- 23-—T,,e joint com" „, ttee on penal institutions. Senator Turner, presiding, heard this after-noon a remarkable series of charges and comments en the conditions at -he Ftatc farm, and arraignment of • , management of the convicts ,•,,.••,,, |iy Roy Traywick. of Union ■o«n:y. presented through Represen- -.live Ueasley, of Union. It was a manuscript of 35 pages and was to jaeral effect that the convict < are unfit for human habita-i'aal tlie white prisoners are . ,,. to use a water pail in common ,■ ■ i negroes, cat in the same room. lisai Ihe supervisors and guards' ,,. cruel and that the whole atraos- ..•,. of iho place hardens the con-v ;- .iiui intensifies their hatred of iety. making them worse than v. ,,i.i iliey were sent to the farm. Traywick is a young white .nan. , . , bet-ante involved with others in *onie insurance high financing in j-■■; m county, and received a peni- .. . i.i-.v sentence. Forgery was imr.ns the charges involved in the conviction and sentence. He was ^:rdi>L-«!iI by Governor Craig just be-fore Christmas, and lias not, accord- :::. ID Mr. Beasley, who believes in :i::n -trongly, yet secured employ- :•. but seems to be making a 4: rung effort to take a renewed hold in life. Chairman Turner, Senator Jones. Senator Brenizer, Senator Ilolder- ,u•.-« and others commented ou the :■•presentation of the conditions and lii agreed that investigation should >■• made. Senator Rrenzier took the view that there is need in this state for adopting prison reforms that iave been successful in many other -rates, including paroles, probation indeterminate sentences and pay-men; of part of the earnings of pris-oners to convicts' families. He moved ihat a special committee be appoint-ed to investigate and report. This .\as seconded by Cray, of Forsyth, nd (he following committee was ap-pointed: Senators Brenizer and ■'. itiderness. Representatives Crier, Oasley and Uenfrow. of Mecklen-inrp. Courts Investigations. Superintendent J. S. Mann, of the prison, was not at the committee .netting, being in Hyde county for a •la> or two. The prison management ia> urged on the legislature the ne- •essity for permanent and more ade-luate stockades for the farm and the ■esult of the investigation is awaited -vitli interest, the cliarge being that 'he farm, being so remote from the i:.ral prison and without the pres-ence of the superintendent except at afervals,these sub-officials in charge •nay not maintain the standards 'here that human prison manage-ment would require. Chairman B. L. Varner. of the •ate prison board, is here and says •• fullest investigation is courted. OVERMAN AMENDMENT STIHS UP HOT DEBATE. :;i:vr-:xiK RETURNS SHOW AN INCREASE. Iiington, Jan. 24. — The '••ml nf whiskey consumed by the ■ a people in 1916 apparently "'•■;'•'!• than in any previous ,: "' - 1909, according to tax re- 'urns 10 Use treasury, department . -ompiled today and the amount of -venue rollei :ed by the government '■'■ whiskey, beer and cigarettes dur- !" the year was the greatest on re-cord. '•'■ ■ '■'■ returns show that the tend-mwnrd prohibition lias not low- '■ government's revenue from "j-key. officials belfeve that a por- '" "f tlm increase—nearly $24,- •'"»> more than in 1915—is at- !' bntable to the fact that the gov- ■" nient is at present collecting tax-s "'1 all the Whiskey produced in '■'■ country, whereas, because of ex-ensive frauds, such was not the case i !"u years ago. Consumption of cigarettes in 1916 eaclied the highest mark ever re-corded. The tremendous increase, 'tore than forty per cent over 1915, * attributed to two main causes: In- ' reased prosperity of the country ■ "'1 growth of the cigarette habit iniong women. Many millions of 'igarettea made for feminine users vftre produced in this country- and mported during (lie past year, 'hereas a few years ago production «nd importation* of such cigarette* were negligible by campsrisoa. Washington, Jan. 24.—Senator Overman stirred up a hot debate in the senate this afternoon by offering an amendment to the legislative bill which would authorize the presi-dent, with the aid of the bureau of efficiency, to make sweeping and rad-ical changes in .the various executive departments. The amendment would authorize the president in the recess of Con-gress to take steps with the aid of the bureau to consolidate or abolish any offices of the government where-by duplications in government work can be done away with. , The amendment would confer on the president absolute authority to overhaul any department and do away with any unnecessary bureau or division or set of employes. Sen-ator Overman estimated that $30,- 000,000 could be saved if the amend-ment were adopted. Under it the president could first act and then re-port what he had done to Congress afterward. Senator Jones, of Washington, de-clared that under it the president without consulting Congress could disrupt any department of the gov-ernment. Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, a member of the appropriation com-mittee, urged the adoption of the amendment. He admitted it was radical and far-reaching. "if the tide of expenditures is ever stayed it must be done on a compre-hensive scale." said Senator Robin-son. "The expenditures have now readied $200,000,000 a year. Some power must be given to some au-thority to act. Otherwise nothing will he accomplished." "This amendment" said Senator Gallinger, "would give power to the president to disrupt every depart-ment and then report to Congress." He.thotrght authority should be given for an investigation by the president and the bureau of effici-ency, with a report to Congress at the opening of the next session. Senator Robinson suggested that under this procedure no economy would be accomplished because Con-gress would talk and do nothing and political pressure would be brought to bear to prevent it from doing any-thing. FIRST N. C. REGIMENT JOYFUL OVER ORDERS. Camp Stewart, El Paso, Tex., Jan. 24.—News that'the first regiment is to go with the first troops sent home under the new orders was received here last night and the boys of the first celebrated joyfully. Headed by their band they paraded Pennsyl-vania avenue while, their less fortu-nate brothers guyed them good na-turedly from the side lines. Official orders have not yet ar-rived but it is expected that the first will be moving within a week. Major Morris, first regiment medi-cal corps, has been ordered to report to the division surgeon for duty as director of the ambulance company corps. Charles K. Coley, company M, third regiment, Durham, and Corpo-ral Billie C. Stacey, company G, same regiment, Reidsville, were to-day promoted t'o sergeants. Lieutenant George L. PHtman, ad-jutant first battalion, second regi-ment, today received his discharge from the service because of physical disability. He expects to leave to-morrow for his home in Goldsboro. Seigeant Archie Nedman, com-pany M, second regiment, left- last night for liis home at Clinton in re-sponse to a telegram announcing the sudden death of his father there yes-terday morning. Capt. Dallas Zollicoffer, company M. first regiment, returned to camp today from forty days leave spent at High Point. Child, Claying With Matches, Burns to Death. Fayeteville, Jan. 22.—The two-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. €. F. Wren, of the Aapin mill village, was fatally burned yesterday afternoon and died last night, as a result of playing with matches. The little fel-low, alone In the room of the house was striking the matches which he had taken from the mantel hy stand-ing on a chair, -when his clothing caught 'fire. Before help could reach* him he was so badly burned that death fol-lowed in a few", hours.. He •nlJ 99.B. fit U§ parents. THE GOVERNMENT BEST EGG PUTS UP MONEY WITH WHICH FEDERAL. FARM LOAN SYS-TEM IS STARTED. Washington, Jan. 23—As explain-ed 'before in these articles, the oper-ations of the farm loan act divided into two main classes—a money as-sembling agency and a money lend-ing agency. "The government puts the first nest egg into the farm loan plan by buying the original capital stock of the twelve federal land 'banks ;if necessary. When this has been' lbaned and farm mortgages taken fn return for the money loan-ed bhe| federal land banks may issue bonds against these mortgages. These bonds will be among the most attractive securities ever of-fered to American investors. As ex-plained before, farmers are permit-ted to borrow only up to 50 per cent of the value of their land. This means that every dollar's worth o* bonds issued represents $2 worth of land as security. The fact that each federal land bank guarantees the bonds of all the other banks also puts behind tihesc bonds as security the $9,000,000 original capital stock of the bank.- and their required sur-plus earnings, plus the required an-nual deduction of the mortgage loan. Besides this, the security constantly increases proportionately by reason of the constantly increasing capital contributed by the farm loan asso-ciation. So the investment end of the farm loan act is fully as important as the money-lending end, because it cre-ates for the benefit of small and large investors a security backed by pooled first mortgages on farm lands, the proceeds being used to increase the productive power and enhance the value of these mortgage lands. Since the rate of interest to the farmer depends upon the rate of in-terest at which these bonds will sell, Congress went the limit to make these bonds attractive so they would sell at a low Interest rate. The bonds are exempt from all form of taxa-tion. The governmnt will not even collect any income tax upon them. No state or municipality may tax them for any purpose. In order to make these bonds appeal to investors of all classes they are issued in de-nominations of from $25 to $1,000. In order to protect them against counterfeiting they are issued by the United States government bureau of engraving and printing and are pro-tected from counterfeiters by the whole force of the United States sec-ret service. Heretofore it lias heen practically impossible tfor the small investor .to buy^real estate securities. A man or woman who wanted to buy $100 worth of farm securities was not able to find a farm mortgage of just that size. In addition, the investor would not buy such a mortgage with-out inspecting the security. Tilie cost and the 'bother were barriers which made it. almost impossible for the small investor to get first mortgage securities. Hereafter it will be pos-sible for any investor who Wants to buy farm securities from $25 up merely to apply for a federal farm loan bond of the denominations de-sired. The investor will know that this bond represents $2 worth of land appraised tinder government supervision and that the bond was issued under «overnment regulation. Rate of interest at which these bonds will be issued has not yet been determined by the federal farm loan board. It is safe to predict that in the beginning it will not he less than 4 nor more than 5 per cent. So the benefits of the farm loan act are not limited to (farmers who need the use of cheaper capital, hut they in-clude also those persons who liave money to invest and are seeking a long time, readily marketable secur-ity of undoubted value. VILLA-ZAPATA CQMBIHATIQH REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS SAID TO HAVE FORMED AN ALLIANCE. Shoes Are $3S a Pair in Gallcia. Kinston, Jan. 23.—There is a big difference in the price of leather in the U. S. A. and Galicia. Ben. Sny-der, a local cobbler, yesterday mail-ed to relatives in the wartorn prov-ince three pairs, not of his bfn making, worth ,$13 in all. The same shoes in Galicia would cost $35 a pair, .Snyder said. Prices of other things are proportionately high. Snyder sent the shoes to relatives. The postage -was only M cents on the whole WWJBJW. Washington. Jan. 23.—Troop movements preliminary to with-draw^ of the American expedition from Mexico are being carried out at the southern extremity of the Amer-ican line under war department or-ders, and as soon as they are com-plete, the main body of the expedi-tion probably will start north. For th* first time officials admit-ted. today that the withdrawal of outposts from El Valle and other points about Colonia Dublan had more than a local significance, and was lieiug carried out on orders from Washington. They made no an-nouncement as to the probable time when tte general northern move-ment would begin, and would not even adi»it that withdrawal of Persh-iag's trtftps after 10 months in Mexi-co was it hand. Officials are inter-ested, but apparently little concern-ed over growing evidences that a de-termined struggle for possession of the territory evacuated by Pershing may bciUb progress soon between Carrania troops and revolutionists. -. Villa and Zapata. TddayV official dispatches said that Villa and Zapata, the two most conspicuous revolutionary leaders, had allied themselves for operations against the de facto armies, and that 8,000 men l)ad been concentrated near Chihuahua for a Villa cam-paign in the north. Since Carranza declined to accept the Atlantic City-protocol officials here have indicated that such problems as the one devel-oping about Chihuahua not only would be left to the /first chief for settlement, but that he would be held responsible by the United States government for their settlement in such a nay as to protect American tnterei*?^ Meantime, raising of the embargo on arms to Mexico and the dispatch of Ambassador Fletcher to Mexico City remain in abeyance, possibly be-cause of two developments construed in some quarters as a renewal of practices of the Carranza govern-ment against which the United States repeatedly has protested. Of-ficials are surprised and perplexed over the drastic measures taken by the first chief against two banks whose metallic reserve recently was seized, and by what some contend is a revival of prosecution of the Ro-man Catholic clergy. Information reaching the British embassy today from an offi ial of the Bank of London and Mexico and the National Bank of Mexico was that the bullion and specie taken from the banks was a loan only in the sense that it was forced. From the Bank of London and Mexico, the amount taken was valued at four million dollars. The National Bank's quota was 6,000,000 pesos. Remain-ing in the vaults of the first are 16.- 000,000 pesos and the institutions officers fear that this may also be removed. Agents of the de facto government are in possession of the building and the keys to the vault. Seizures Make Problem. •The problem presented by the seizures has been called to the at tention of the state department again by representatives of the stockholders, who are for the most part British and French. If repr/ sentations are made by the Ameri-can state department they probably will be based on the assumption that the interests of American stockhold-ers may be injured. The fate of the two priests arrest-ed in Mexico charged with conspir-acy remained unknown here late to-day. The state department already has made earnest representations in their behalf. Both at the state de-partment and at the White House many telegrams and letters were re-ceived today appealing to the Amer-ican government to exercise every power to prevent their conviction and execution, one being from Car-dinal Gibbons. '-'■ Juki's. Say Torpedoes Boat Received No Warning. iNewiport News. Va., Jan. 23.— American muleteers who escaped death when the British steamer Rus-sian was torpedoed several weeks ago stated on their arrival here to-day that the ship was torpedoed without warning. Twenty of these men arived here today from Boston to which place they came from Eng-land: Most of them said that they would sign on another cattle boat. COMMITTEE GETS READY FOR ACTION. Washington, Jan. 23.—Plans for the legislative program the president hopes to have Congress pass before March 4, were made by the steer-ing committee of the senate today. Senator Kern, chairman of the com-mittee, appointed sub-committees to see what progress has already been made on important bills and report again to the committee tomorrow morning. At that time decision will be reached on the holding of a cau-cus, and a tentative plan for work mapped out. The steering commit-tee is exerting every effort to carry out the wishes of the president that the senate speed up business. One of the sub-committees named today was designated to see Chair-man Adamson, of the house commit-tee on interstate and foreign com-merce, and ascertain what time the railroad legislation in the house will be finished and before the senate. The president is anxious that the railroad program be adopted. An-other sub-committee was asked to see .Senator Newlands, of the senate interstate commerce committee, and find out what progress has been made on the Webb bill. The presi-dent has told members of the com-mittee he thinks this legislation, Jield over, ifrom the long session, should be made a law before Con-gress adjourns, so ' exporters can make their arrangements to oper-ate under it. Senator Kern said he some definite program worked out tomorrow, lieved a caucus will be week. The Webb bill has already passed" the house and now is before the sen-ate committee for its consideration. The house, however, so amended the bill, before passage, as to prevent the exemptions from the Sherman act taking effect if there is restraint up-on the export trade of the United States. As such language nullifies the whole purpose of the legislation, and would, in fact, leave the situa-tion as it is at present, some think this language should be eliminated. It was intimated today that the president plans to spend three or four hours a day, three or four days a week at the capitol to speed up the administration's legislative pro-gram and will keep this procedure up as long as he deems it necessary. Secretary Tumulty and one or two other members of the executive staff will accompany him there daily. NAVAL ENCOUNTER HORTH SEA GERMAN DESTROYER SUNK AND OTHER TORPEDO CRAFT SCATTERED. felt sure might be It is be-held this CHANGES IN OFFICERS OF PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY. President Charles B. Hole, of the North Carolina Public Service Com-pany, announces a number Of changes in the officers of the com-pany and in their duties, effective at once. R. J. Hole, of Salisbury, becomes general man'ager of all divisions, and the change requires his removal to Greensboro. The new orders show a closer knit organization. The changes effect Greensboro, High Point, Salis-bury, Spencer and Concord, in all of which towns the company has hold-ings and run street railways. The announcement of the presi-dent was made as follows: "On and after this date the fol-lowing changes in the organization of the North Carolina Public Service Company becomes effective: "E. C. Deal, vice pi^sident, be-comes also consulting engineer in charge of engineering and new.con-struction work, reporting direct to the president. 1 "R. J. Hole becomes general man-ager in charge of operations in all di-visions, reporting direct to the pres-ident. Local manager in Salisbury, commercial agent and all superin-tendents in High Point and Greens-boro will report direct to the general manager. "J. H. Robertson' becomes local manager of the Salisbury, Spencer and Concord division. "Harold Andrews becomes assis-tant to the president, besides contin-uing Ms present duties as power en-gineer." Cargo of Gold. Baltimore, Jan. 23.—It was re-ported in local shipping circles to-day that three steamers which left Baltimore recently presumably with coal, also took out several million dollars in gold eagles and hsftf eagles for Germany, to be transferred at •ea to the reMsra sweeping the *>*a AjjMUft London. Jan. 23.—In an engage-ment between British light naval forces and German torpedo boat de-stroyers in the North Sea last ni«lrt a German destroyer was sunk and the other torpedo craft scattered, it was officially announced today. The sinking of a British torpedo boat de-stroyer in another engagement with German torpedo boat destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank last night, with the loss of three officers and.44 of the crew, also was an-nounced. , The official announcement says: "Last night, while our light foroes were patrolling the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, they met a division of enemy torpedo boat de-stroyers. A short engagement took place, during which one of the enemy torpedo boat destroyers was sunk and the rest scattered, having suffer-ed considerable punishment. Dark-ness prevented the full results at the action from being observed. "During last niglit there was also a short, sharp engagement between, enemy torpedo destroyers and our own destroyers in the vicinity ©t Schouwen Bank. During this en-gagement one of our torpedo boat destroyers was struck by a torpedo, the explosion killing three officers and 44 of the crew. She subsequent-ly was sunk by our own ships. Rel-atives of the victims have been In-formed. Our ships suffered no other casualties." Attempted to Leave Zcebrugge. London, Jan. 23.—Reports from Ymuiden received by Reuters Tele-graph Company via Amsterdam say that German torpedo boats last night attempted to leave Zeebrugge to avoid the ice, which was very thick. They were immediately attacked by a large-British jquadron, ...The *B»__'. tion opened at short range, and early in the fight the bridge of the Ger-man destroyer, V-69, was swept away by a direct hit, the commander and two officers being killed. The V-69 fired one torpedo end was then hit by another British shell, which knocked the funnel flat on the deck. Still another shell put a hole in the forepart of the vessel. Her gums appear not to have been damaged. The crew of the V-69 numbered about sixty. It would appear from the statements of the men that seven other German vessels were sunk. The V-69-belonged to the home fleet. According to a Reuter dispatch from Ymuiden it was officially stated that four men were killed aboard the V-69, including the commander, Lieutenant Boehra, and the comman-der of the flotilla. Captain Schultz. German officers refuse informa-tion about the engagement, the scene of action 'or the strength of the flotilla. Two Reported Sunk. London, Jan. 23.—According to a Hague report to the Exchange Tele-graph Company two German ships were sunk and three others badly damaged in the North Sea fight. ZEBULON WEAVER suit: OF OBTAINING HIS SEAT. Washington. Jan. 23.—Represen-tative- elect Zebulon Weaver, from the tenth district, arrived in Wash-ington today from Ashevllle to take a look over the ground and to pre-pare to fight the charges made against him in the house by Repre-sentative Britt, who challenges the right of Mr. Weaver to a seat T» Congress. Mr. Weaver had notice served on him January 16, and vn allowed thirty days in which to make reply. While here he will arrangn for counsel to represent him and make other preparations for the case. "I expect to show to Congress, without doubt" said Mr. Weaver, "that in this contest a majority of the votes actually was returned 'ac me. He contests this election on the unmarked ballot, but that was de-termined in a case before the Su-preme court, which decided the bal-lots were legal and ought to have been counted." ■ ^______^___^_ t Woman 110 Years Old Dead. Richmond, Va., Jan. 23.—'Mrs. Hessian Hollin. 110 years old, said to have been the oldest woman In the state, died yesterday; la PstasU county. ..^^•^^.■asa^.....,^.^...^ . .. |