We suggest in order to minimize labor and insure prompt and efficient response that the activities of each committee be communicated to us through the chairman of the committee, although we shall be gratified to receive communications from any one of the 2,000 or more banking or investment institutions to which this letter is addressed, and will do our best to make reasonably prompt reply. This is a great popular loan such as has never been issued by this country. It is new to the experience of the people, and the interest and patriotism of every man and woman is the country should be aroused by one means or another—by private appeal—by written communications—and by newspaper and magazine publicity. All means should be availed of to accomplish the end desired.

DELEGATION ASKS PARDON FOR CONVICTED CASHIER
North Carolina Governor Expected to Free Them From This Term.
RAIjEIGH, N. C., May 4.—In the presence of the tearful wife of the condemned man, a big delegation of Carteret County citizens, backed by a monster petition, including nearly 90 percent of the qualified voters of the section, pleaded with Governor Bickett for executive clemency to save Thomas Thomas, of Beaufort, from convict stripes and the service of any part of the two years' sentence imposed by Judge Stacy last March for the embezzlement of $62,000 from the Bank of Beaufort, of which he was cashier. 