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flft COMMBNCEMEHT WEEK
MONDAY. MAY 21, WI7.
H THK STATE NORMAL AND
*1TV«. i«xww IN THLS
CITY.
pUiniencement week descended
ier suddenly upon Greensboro.
,s. this feeling being attribut-ihe
fact that spring
C>
doubtless to t
arriving, and finals of both
iiere for women came with
week of warm weather. Ser-
, for graduating classes of both
State Normal College and,
•nsboro College for Women were
,1 Sunday morning, the Y. W. C.
REGISTRARS APPOINTED
IX EACH TOWNSHIP.
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ddresses were made Sunday
ii:s. both institutions will have
•mae day today and commence-
.. ,iay Tuesday.
,.v. Robert L. Watson. D. D.. pas-ibe
Scotch Presbyterian
-rli. of New York city, delivered
■-. baccalaureate, sermon at the
;:v Normal and Industrial College
; :i o'clock today. His text was
l-tjew 5.8. "Blessed are they that
anger and thirst after righteous-
;... for iliey shall be filled." The
rrptnre reading was the Beatitudes,
-' ;!ie sermon based on them, as
e.i a? tlie single verse chosen- as
- ;ext. which the speaker declared
.: text. He urged the living of a
B-atltude lit'?.'' The discourse was
.-•.-;. interesting and powerful, yet
speaker attempted nothing sen-
!■ isal in order to hold his audi-
[• was a sermon good to hear,
■ «r by student or visitor.
?.if program of the occasion in-
•■':r' organ prelude by Prof. Seott-
■nter. the anthem. "I Waited For
- Lord." from Mendelssohn, duet
ft'SI Magnify the Lord." by Misses
dins and Clark. "America." and
-r hyair.s. and the prayer by Rev.
T. Chrisco. of Baltimore. Presi-
-■ Ko'ist presided.
J unlay evening Prof. Marvin H.
■■'■>. dean of the L'niversity of
'■:'■•■ Carolina, spoke before the an-
«Jl meeting of the Young Women's
-Mian Association. This gather-
'■• »a> in Peabody park. The re-
: ■> »t officers were read before the
•toss and a suitable musical pro-
'f "M offe-red. Mr. Stacy made
splendid impression upon the audi-
The following men have been ap-pointed
registrars for their respec-tice
townships for the national regis-tration
to be held on June 5, 1917-
Washington township—T J Bu-sick.
Gibsonville—D. p. ciapp.
Whitsett—J. W. Summers
Greene—W. H. Bennett.
South Madison—W. H. Milloway.
North Madison—J. R. Moore.
North Jefferson—David Foreyth
South Jefferson—W. L. Wharton.
Clay—A. M. Hemphill.
North Monroe—J. J. Mitchell.
South Monroe-^J. A. May.
White Oak—C. V. Webster.
Proximity—J. j. McDonnal.
Northeast—J. B. Minor.
Southeast—T. G. McLean
East—H. W. Clendenin.
Fentress—J. R. ROSS.
Center Grove—L. A. Walker.
Southeast—E. P. Paschal.
South—C. F. Johnson-.
West—H. C. Perkins.
Northwest—J. A. Coppedge.
Su'mner—J. H. Johnson.
Bruce—J. H. Barker.
Friendship—M. L. Kendall.
Jamestown—J. H. Smith.
Oak Ridge—J. F. Linville.
Stokesdale—Frank Jones.
Deep River—J. Lee Charles.
High Point, northeast—A. A. Hol-ton.
High Point, northwest—L. J. In-gram.
High Point, southwest—.
High Point, southeast—J. D. Sut-tenfield.
The following volunteers in their
respective precincts: A. K. Moore.
Charles Blake. Weldon Schenck,
George W. White and D. H. Collins.
AH of the above named and others
who may volunteer are required to
meet with the county board of reg-istration
at the court house on
Thursday morning. May 24, 1917, at
11 o'clock, to receive instructions
and registration blanks.
HOT iFTIRJOOD IGTOPUS
CHARGES OF EXISTENCE OF A
VVTIONWIOE TRUST OF MID-DLEMEN.
VOL.96—NO. 60
TRAINING CAMP
INSTRUCTION UNDER WAY.
alumnae of the college win
■'■" tne annual business meeting
^luncheon. la the evening theora-
.'' E1Uail" "III be given in the
--'•'"ape]. Participating in this
' f:»ur solists and a chorus of
au"dred students of the college
;'- »»« of the city. Tuesday morn-
;;- '■" graduating exercises will
~~4Place, with the literary address,
-".at on of constitutions. Bibles
;; ;«Ploma». which will be the last
' * w commencement.
•J;- Saturday afternoon class dav
. ; ■'" "we held in the college au-
. \ :l "y t!,e seniors, assisted by
. w classes. The juniors car-
- - * df w-v <**«• The class his-l0p,
ie,'v an'i Poem were read,
;,u*'f l?ndered •«! features in-
*•-'! m..,- '"e eveni"S the an-i:
|**'«* T the Cornelian and
L ,'' hterary societies were
.j-PMnc. Kilg0 wag the
.,£ *'«''« flrst event of Greens-
... «e f„r Women commence-
'•<iri *■*' Street Met1'-
i: Tu ,1!" South- yesterday morn-
,,. "1S"«P is a frequent visitor
'■ -Mil .. ,'";.,,IU il!S«a'" of finding
rM Ia
n
d'enCM "« "■ a.ways
:. a • '"freased congregations.
' large ■ '" T* "**»■ w''e»
■ ..... ""■« auditorium was
t: *w aa i - K"80 waa at his best.
-,„l:
,0»r he held the close at-
-,„ ",s audience.
«::W J"?; 'or the service wa*
I - -. ,,■ „;,'r'-'""» of Prof. B. S.
K';'a»" irHu.'T mUSi° deparI-L
■'■^!.at , ' ' lnflammat„s"
••Win,, ,', , r' "' sol(> and cho-
I "ls"« and the Nordlca
Washington. May 19.—Uncle
Sam's military machine began in
earnest today to grind out the "first
ten thousand" who will lead Ameri-cans
army. Forty thousand poten-tial
officers got down to business. At
the adjutant general's office reports
coming in today from the sixteen of-ficers'
schools in every part of the
country stated everything is under
way in fine shape in the camps. In
the first day the men were given
i.tringent examinations physically,
then vaccinated for smallpox and
typhoid.
Beginning today the -eal training
started. In a few of the western
camps the full quota of 2,500 men
failed to appear the first day. Their
places are being filled irom the birr
reserve. More than 200,000 appli-cations
have reached the war depart-ment
and the surplus is being he'd
as a reserve for other camps. Under
regular army men the students
swung into a severe routine of train-ing.
The discipline is to be particu-larly
drastic.
Only the finest officer knateria! will
get into the first 10.000. At the end
of twelve weeks' training the best of
the 40,000 in training today will be
picked to officer the first levy of
500,000 drawn by the selective ser-vice
bill. The war department is
planning other camps to bring into
training another reserve. Men for
these camps will be chose from the
flood of applications now on hand. •
Washington, May 19.—Astound-ing
charges of existence of a nation-wide
trust of middlemen, whose op-erations
are said to extend to almost
every state in the union, were laid
before the department of agriculture
here. The charges, made by a na-tionally
known food producer, offi-cials
said, are supported by "excep-tionally
positive information" and
apparently establish "beyond doubt-existence
of a conspiracy to boost
prices.
Department of justice officials
were at once notified and summoned
the informant for immediate confer-ence.
Written evidence, in the form
of letters and documents, it Is said,
are now in the hands of the two de-partments.
At the" same time ap-peals
reached the department for
belp from various sections where
food speculation and price boosting
is charged.
Baltimore charges say speculators
have cornered 15,000 bags of pota-toes.
Speculators, it Is charged, are
preparing to evade food control leg-islation.
Minneapolis charges told of alleg-ed
agreements between commission
men and producers to manipulate
food supplies so as to create artifi-cial
shortages In certain sections
with accompanying rise in prices.
Widespread destruction of fruit to
maintain prices was also charged.
Rochester. N. Y.. reports told of
substantially similar operations.
Danlorth. Me., reported general
dabbling in potatoes with $200,000
worth involved. Farmers here, it is
said, are forced to sell for $2 a bar-rel.
Commission men. in agreement
with wholesale stores, from which
the farmers must obtain supplies, it
is said, are raking off 400 per cent
profit,
Central Illinois cities charge com-mission
men with selling large quan-tities
of vegetables for hogs, rather
than lower prices. Thousands of po-tatoes
are said to be going to the an-imals.
Definite charges against a New Or-'
leans speculator say he has cornered
500 tons of rice at one cent a pound
and is doling it out for eight cents
a pound.
Little Rock, Ark., alleges potato
speculation—twenty cents a peck po-tatoes
selling at $2 a peck.
At the same time, the president of
the Georgia Chamber of Commerce
and others told the agricultural de-partment
that speculators through-out
the South are hindering food
production. They threaten farmers
with not purchasing their cotton if
they start to raise food also. This.
it is said, forces the farmers to pur-chase
their food imported from the
North at exorbitant prices. This
practice is alleged to be of startling
proportions and preventing adequate
food production in the South.
PLAHS ARE JIOI COMPLTEE
FOR HANDLING AN IMMENSE
CROWD FOR CONFEDERATE
REUNION AT WASHINGTON.
Atlanta. Ok., May 20.—Plans for
handling the thousands of visitors
from the South who will attend the
annual reunion of the United Con-federate
Ve'Urans at Washington. D.
C, on June 4 to 8 inclusive, were
made.at a conference of officers of
the operating and passenger traffic
departments of the Southern Rail-way
system in Atlanta Mondav and
Tuesday.
Arrangements were perfected at
the conference for the operation of
between forty and fifty special trains
to Washington in addition to extra
equipment and extra sections on the
regular passenger trains. For the re-union
a special organization will be
formed by the Southern at Washing-ton
to assist the veterans and their
friends in making arrangements for
return trips. A large number of ex-pert
passenger men will be assigned
for this purpose. Special operating
and mechanical forces will be detail-ed
to assure the prompt movement
of trains and special police protec-tion
will be provided.
That this reunion, which is the
first to be held at the.national capi-'
tal, will attract larger crowds than
have assembled at any previous re-union,
and that the war activities
will not in any way interfere with
the program already arranged, was
the view expressed by Passenger
Traffic Manager W. H. Tayioe. The
appearance of the veterans a: Wash-ington
is expected to stimulate pa-triotism
and thus help the present
cause.
A WARNING WORD
SENT TO CUBANS.
ARGEXTINE PUTS
EMBAR<M> OX WHEAT.
^ Havana, May 19.—The United
States government calling the atten-tion
of the Cuban people to the two
great obligations, military and econ-omic,
involved in the entrance of
Cuba and the United States into the
war has Issued a warning against in-terference
With the sugar produc-tion,
which will be considered "a
hostile act" and declares that unless
all those under arms against the gov-ernment
of Cuba return immediate-ly
to their allegiance, the United
States may find it necessary to deal
with them as enemies.
The proclamation embodying this
warning was made public by the
American minister, William G'-nzal-es.
It says in part:
"In calling this to the attention of
the people of Cuba, it is felt neces-sary
to state that in the present war
in order to insure victory. Cuba, as
well as the United States, has two
great obligatiocs, one military and
the other economic. Therefore, as
the allied powers and the United
States must depend to a great extent
upon the sugar production of Cuba,
all disturbances which interfere with
this production must be considered
as hostile acts, and the United States
government is forced to i3sue this
warning, that unless all those under
arms against the government of
Cuba return immediately to their al-legiance,
it may become r.ecessary
for the United States to regard them
as enemies and to deal with them ac-cordinzlv."
SIDETRACKS WOODH SHIPS
GENERAL GOETHAI.S PLANS FOR
ALL STEEL VESSELS—THE
SUBMARINE MEXACE.
SUPPLIES WILL BE
RUSHED TO RUSSIA.
MAY FORBIB THE SALE
OF VEAL AND YOUNG PORK.
AN OPPORTUNITY TO
BUY BREEDING SHEEP.
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»8 Rev. J. H. Barn-
,ns ewer ot the Greene-f
t!'e COltreaChed t0 the men»-
|>»CedeYW-C-A- The
"*•><"offi, V°Cal music and
?^s "S: w"ic"showed a
W' ai"' '« Ui'ia> exercises will be
w> Mil tVeni"e the elocu-
Bicket, M? be 8ive»- Gover-
^uatin, '
l«2!S «M J"**" T-sday :i»S wST e concert Tuesday
wear's work.
Goldsboro, May 17.—As a remedy
for the prevalent destruction of
young pigs and veal in Wayne coun-ty,
the recently appointed committee
from the board of aldermen and
county board of commissioners, have
recommended that the only way to
stop the slaughter of the animals is
for towns and cities to adopt ordi-nances
forbidding the sale of veal
and young pork. Whether the law is
adopted in this city or not, local res-taurant
dealers have declared them-selves
as ready to stop selling barbe-cue,
although they claim it will crip-ple
their business considerably. One
dealer claimed today that he killed
anywhere from 20 to 25 yonng pigs
daily, but was willing to give up the
business in order to assist his coun-try
now that it waa in the midst of
war.
West Raleigh, May 20.—Return-ing
from a sheep and wool confer-ence
held at Philadelphia recently,
Mr. R. S. Curtis, animal husband-man,
North Carolina experiment sta-tion,
says that farmers of the South
now have an opportunity to purchase
Western range breeding ewes at a
very reasonable price. These will be
distributed by car load lots due to
an arrangement made with Western
breeders by the Philadelphia Wool
and Textile Association. The great
value of the Western range animal i3
the comparative freedom from stom-ach
worn, which, as all farmers
know, is one of the most serious
pests effecting the sheep industry of
North Carolina.
Mr. Curtis states that these ewes
are also valuable breeders, and
would do well under North Carolina
conditions. The meeting at Philadel-phia
was largely attended by sheep
and wool men from over the entire
United States and it was agreed that
the Western ramge ewe would suit
our conditions better than any other.
Mr. Curtis would be glad to have all
men interested in the matter of
sheep raising to write him at once
so that arrangements may be made
to have a shipment of the animals
to this state. Many inquiries have
been received in regard to the mat-ter
and others should take up the'
matter at an early date, if interested.
Buenor Aires, May 20.—Argen-tine
today ajfca-aiiced" a. jy.oJHpition
on the exportation of wheat. It was
the government's second announce-ment
of an embargo. The first, ef-fective
early in April, was held in
abeyance through protest of Great
Britain backed by the United States.
At that time the British govern-ment
threatened to cut off all ship-ments
of coal to Argentina. Inas-much
as the republic is entirely de-pendent
on imported coal, paralyza-tion
of its industries was thus
threatened. The United States was
reported tacitly to have joined in
this application of pressure on Argen-tine,
and in the face of this combi-nation,
too powerful for Argentine
to resist, the original embargo was
changed. The settlement provided
that England should be permitted to
purchase an enormous quantity of
Argentine wheat, the same to "be re-paid
late in the fall when the Aus-tralian
crop was harvested. Whether
the embargo today is with regard to
this agreement with England or is an
independent step by the republic,
was not made known.
*I AM REGISTERED;
ARE YOU?" BUTTONS.
Washington. May 18.—Nation-wide
patriotic demonstrations will
usher in registration day for univer-sal
military service. Patriotic
speeches by governors, mayors, pres-idents
of chambers of commerce,
bands of music and what w ill amount
to practically a national holiday will
inaugurate the work of raising an
army to fight Germany, according to
plans being formulated by the coun-cil
of national defense at tiie request
of Secretary of War Baksr. In every
town, city and hamlet throughout
the country on a date to be pro-claimed
by President Wilson, rallies
will be held to do honor to those reg-istering
for service in Uncle Sam's
great army. Committees will be in
every registration booth to present
am emblem to each man who regis-ters.
This will bear the words:
"I am registered; are you?"
Washington, May 20.—Ail avail-able
American ships, the seized Ger-man
liners and all the ships Great
Britain can spare from her own
needs probably will soon be carrying
war munitions and great quantities
Of-»llrpaA_8jipaljbs» ja^Russia, .As
parr of the united effort to hold fast
the Russian provisional government
against German influences ana en-courage
a Russian military offensive,
the allied war committees are mak-ing
preparations to furnish the nec-essary
transportation for supplies to
properly equip and maintain t!^.
Russian armies. The first problem
will be to transport some 190.000
tons of supplies already piled up in
the United States, and the second
will be to keep a stream of supplies
moving.
In addition to supplying war mu-nitions,
the important railway lead-ing
from Archangel is to be equipped
with American locomotives and
freight cars to bring it to its fullest
degree of efficiency in moving the
great quantities of material which
will pour in during the five months
the port is free from ice.
ARGENTINE HAS 450,000
TONS AVAILABLE WHEAT.
Washington, May 20.—More than
450.000 tons of wheat are available
for shipment immediately from Ar-gentina
the embassy of that country
advised today. About 2.500.000 tons
were on hand the first of the year.
The next crop, which promises to be
a large one, will be harvested in De-cember.
In this connection the Japanese
ambassador said today that Japan
has a large number of freighters,
now engaged in local commerce,
which can be used in carrying Ar-gentina
wheat to Europe. All that la
necessary to get these ships, he said,
is the offer of higher freights than
the ships are now earning.
Washington. May 17—Addition of
General Goethais to the shipping
board has resulted in an entire
change in the wooden ship program.
For some reason the wooden ship
idea has been practicality given up,
and General Goethais is planning
for steel ships.
Contractors have received notice
that contracts are cancelled, and in-stead
of tremendous tonnage of
wooden ships to be ready in six
months, the talk is now of steel ships
to be ready in eighteen months.
What is the answer to the German
submarine?
It may be said with authority the
"specific" for the submarine has not
been found. It is being sought eager-ly—
almost feverishly—for on tlte
outcome-of the search may depend
the outcome of the war.
England is being throttled by Ger-man
submarines.
The naval advisory board has bee-a
working on the problem, but without
definite results. Much labor has bean
spent considering proposed solutions.
Some look promising.
This is the situation:
A submarine cannot fight a sub-marine.
Under water a submarica
is blind.
Surface shipping is practically at
the mercy of the submarine.
With increased size and radius ot
new submarines no ports are safe
from surprise.
A nation which can build 100 can
build 1,000. Germany has ceased
building battleships and is concen-trating
on larger submarines.
The most formidable craft known
to naval warfare is no match for the
submarine. The battle fleets of both
England and Germany have been
driven to cover by ecemy subma-rines.
•-
The answer probably is -fo be
found along one of three lines:
1.—New invention for sealing or
breaking up bases from which sub-marines
operate.
2.—Submersible cargo ships of
large tonnage.
"■—Some marvel of electrical in-vention
which will detect a subma-rine
at a distance or detonate an ex-plosive
at a distance and without
contact.
One plan for temporary cargo car-riers
is to build large wooden sub-mersible
craft not unlike whale-backs,
but more on the lines of an
undersea Zeppelin, constructed on
standard barrel lines to be towed by
a gasoline propelled, electricity-gen-erating
barge which would commun-icate
an electric power current to a
subsidiary plant on the submersible.
In case of attack the tow-targe
would disconnect and leave the "bar-rel-
sub" to shift for itself. Such craft
would cost little and be hard for
subs to get.
SPAIN THREATENS TO
BREAK WITH GERMANY.
Roosevelt is Silet.
'New York, May 19.—Colonel
Roosevelt was silent today on Pres-ident
Wilson's declination of his vol-unteer
army. Nor did the colonel
comment on the president's selection
of General John J. Penning to lead
the initial American expeditionary
force to the European trenches.
Pershing was one of Roosevelt's fav-orite
army officers when Roosevelt
was president. He was promoted
over 62 other officers from a cap-taincy
to become brigadier general.
Was Arrested For Firing Woods.
Raleigh. May 19.—The state de-partment
of insurance announces
the arrest of John McEkroy, in Hay-wood
county,on the charge of setting
fire to woods in the Jonathan creek
section of the county repeatedly.
He will have a hearing Monday. The
case was developed by Deputy Com-missioner
F. M. Jordan. The depart-ment
has been keeping a close
watch on forest fires in the western
section of the state where much
property is destroyed every year, all
too much of it through other than
accidental means.
Madrid, via Paris. May 20.—The
Spanish government's note to Ger-many
concerning the attack by a
German submarine or. the Spanisn
steamer Patricio recalis that a num-ber
of notes of protest previously ad-dressed
to the German government
still remain unanswered. It lUM1t.HH
that the transaction of all diplomatic
business with Germany will be sus-pended
until replies are received to
these, according to the newapspers.
It also demands the fulfillment o*
conditions agreed upon by the Ger-man
government to prevent unwarn-ed
attacks by submarines on Span-ish
ships in safety zones and aski
for an indemnity for the Patricio.
Brazil May Revoke Neutrality Decree
Rio Janeiro, May 18.—(Delayed.)
—It is believed that Brazil shortly
will revoke the decree of neutrality
as affecting the war between the
United States and Germany.
TWO MIGHTY FLEETS
HOLDING SEAS OPEN.
London. May 20.—Vice Admiral
Sir David Beatty. commander of the
British grand fleet, has sent the fol-lowing
message to Admiral Henry T.
Mayo, commander of the United
States Atlantic fleet.
"The grand fleet rejoices that the
Atlantic fleet will now share in pre-serving
the liberties of the world and
maintaining the chivalry of the sea."
Admiral Mayo replied:
"The United States Atlantic fleet
appreciates the message from the
British fleet and welcomes oppor-tunities
for work with the British
fleet for the freedom of the seaa."
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