Kinston, March7. —- “No nation is fit to endure upon this earth which does not stand ready to lay its all of today upon the altar of tomorrow,” said Governor Bickett in a war address here tonight. Hundreds of a crowd which greeted him were turned away. Several of the hearers and would-be auditors were women.

The Governor, speaking for over an hour, touched upon the sins of Germany, the steps this nation has taken for the prosecution of the war, the debt to France and other phases of the “great enterprise.” He told of what kind of soldiers North Carolina is furnishing and declared he is proud of them.

He characterized the selective draft as the fairest thing of its kind ever conceived. It is not right that any man should demand equal rights and oppose equal duties, he asserted. When the coming draft is finished there will not be a loafer between the ages of 21 and 31 left in North Carolina. He issued an invitation to women claiming worthless husbands to notify him on the quiet, guaranteeing that any such women should immediately face the world with “another chance.”