Daily Tribune, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1918 — Page 7

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tTnclp Run tnvAded Terr? Haute Frl!ay morning, and William Kepler, former saloon man at 310 Ohio street, Roy Lowery, of 106 South Tenth and One-half street, and Michael Martin, bartender in the place were placed un3er arrest, on a charge of violating the federal liquor law by selling without a government license. One quart of whiskey and three smaller bottles partially filled were seized 6y Special Officer Moore, and taken to the police station to be held as evidence against the men who will be tried by the federal authorities.

On July 1 all of the government liquor licenses issued to Terre Haute saloon keepers expired and to have liquor Jn one's possession for the purRose of sale, became both a federal and A state offeijse. Th« establishment of Camp Rose and a Ave mile zone added to the weight of the federal offense.

The local police department and Mayor Charles R. Hunter's bone-dry squad have Instructions to continue their raids in various part's of the city and to arrest every offender. Instead of being charged with violating the state liquor law, the offenders will be charged with violating the United States government law and will be tried in federal court instead of the state courts. The penalties vary for various offenses against morality within a five-mile zone of a training camp, and fines of from $1,000 to $10,000 may be imposed, and sentences of from six months to twenty years may be inflicted by Judge Anderson w.hen the offenders are found guilty. It is also reported that federal men are in th^ city and are preparing a list of places under suspicion and that wholesale arrests may be made within ,a few days. i Many of the soft drink parlor keepers, who have been selling real liquor, have announced their intention of closing their doors and quit taking chances with the federal authorities.

All of the three men arrested Friday will be held under a heavy bond until the federal authorities have acted in their cases, and in the event of the government not calling them, they will be charged With violating the state liquQr law.

I HAS CLOSE CALL. I Little Child Saved By Prompt Action of Mr* Peyton*

Littto Helen Gorby, five years old, of 504,South Nineteenth street, probably owes her life to John E. Peyton, who rescued her Thursday evening when her clothing caught fire from a sparkler, gome of the children of the neighborhood had congregated a,t the Peyton home and they were enjoying their fireworks together Mrs. Peyton had Just announced that there was only one left, and it waa lighted, and hand, ed to Helen.

Mr. PaytOM fcafl gone lri£o the house preparatory to retiring when he heard the screams for help. He ran to her a»d quickly placed htm hand over her mouth to keep her from inhaling the flames, and extinguished the blase. Mr. Peyton received very painful burns on both hands. Helen wiU retover^ v j'*

V BOY IS RECOVERING. Robert Long, the two year old son of A. W. Long of 328 North Seventeenth street, who was struck by a Koll & Seeman grocery store truck, Wednesday afternoon and his skull fractured, is reported recovering at St. Anthony's hospital. A piece of the skull two inches long was removed in the operation. His father says the first report of the accident was erroneous as the boy is too small to have hung on the wagon in front of the Koll truck •aa reported. He says the child stepped from in front of one wagon, into the path of the truck.

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Secretary Lane Says' Two Million Troops Will Be Added to Force In France.

PlTTSBTTRGH, Pa.. July '5.—Three years of negotiations, patience and appeals showed the United States that there is only one language Germany can understand—from the mouth of the big gun. There will be no limit to the number of troops and cannons this country will send against the forces of the Teutonic autocracy. Every industry and every dollar in the land is pledged to support the war until victory of the allies. -V

Thl# briefly Is the governments fight until victory" program outlined by Franklin Lane, secretary of the interior in an address here today before the closing session of the 66th annual convention of the National Education association.

Secretary Lane said 2,000,000 troops •will be added to the one million already in fYance if needed a year from now. "We realize now what we are fighting for," Secretary Lane declared. "We are not flghtikur merely from pride because Germany flouted us. We are not fighting to make a page in the history of wars out of desire for martial glory. We are not fighting merely to protect international rights guaranteed by treaty and by custom." "We are at war when the last word is said, for the preservation of what we call christian civilization, which is the recognition of the fact that physical force must be limited by moral force, that the WQrldia ttPt to belong to the strongest.

PLANS COKMTTNITT MEET. Residents of Crawford District Discuss Important Matters.

A community meeting of the residents of the Crarrford school district will be held at the Crawford school, Third and Farringtoa streets, Monday evening at S o'clock. The meeting is an outgrowth of the War Savings Stamp meeting held at this school last Friday evening. Leaders in the movement are Mrs. John F. Joyce Miss Edith Fox, l»erey Stout, Robert B. Stimson, Eugene Callahan, Charles H. Metzger, Eugene Christy, ^tfartin Eckhoff and John F. Joyoe.

Matters concerning the material welfare of this section of the city will be discussed, especially with reference to the 26 acres of ground donated along the rived front for a public park by Crawford Fairbanks and Edward P. Fairbanks. All residents of this section of the city are invited. V

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:LAR£l0, Tex., July 6.—If there ever was an outcast, in all the odium that thff word implies, he is the young American who has sought refuge in Mexico to evade military duty. This is the report brought here by arrivals from various parts of that country. It is said the draft evaders who flocked into Mexico, by fair means and foul, following the enactment of the conscription act, are being treated as the scum of creation and that they are forced as a matter of self-protection and common sympathy to herd together.

The American slacker in Mexico has no- place to lay his head he is ostracized by the other Americans in that country he is despised by the Mexicans of pro-ally sentiments and even the pro-GermanS and the German agents, have little to do with these men without a country except to make such use of them as the existencies of any occasion may demand.

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Almost Worth a Life,'

It is almost worth a man's life to show up as a slacker in tfce thriving oil port of Tampico and adjacent territory where there are more than 2,000 Americans abovo draft age employed in various phases of the oil industry. It has happened more than once, during the last several weeks that a new arrival in Tampico who did not take the trouble perhaps to show his registration papers, had to establish his standing as a patriotic and faithful American citizen by one or more fist fights with other Americans who questioned the caus of his absence from the United States at this time

While it is true that many of the men who were employed in the oil industry around Tampico were in the draft call, it is said to their credit, that practically all of them either entered the service voluntarily or responded promptly when their names were reached. On every outgoing steamer and train leaving Tampico for the United States there have been many young Americans returning to this country to

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Colony of Slackers.

In the City of Mexico there is quite a colony of American slackers. They eke out a miserable existence, according to report* received from the capital. In some cases these draft evaders are well supplied with money, in fact, it is notable that for the most part the young Americans who fled to iYIcxico to escape army service belong to wealthy families. These

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the streets like criminals they are debarred from the association of all other Amerioans and of most of the other self-respecting people of the capital. They are subject to constant insults for their cowardice and lack of patriotism.

The American slacker occupies such a low scale in the estimation of the business men, native and foreign of Mexico that it is almost impossible for one of them to obtain a position of any kind. iSeveral weeks ago a crowd of a dozeh or more of these refugees entered the mining town of Guanajuato and applied to different mining companies for work. They were turned down in each instance although employment gladly would have been given them had they not been slackers.

Ordered to Leave Town.

Th© Americans at Guanajuato not only saw to it that the draft evaders were denied work but a committee of the former waited on the visitors and gave them so many hours to leave town. The men left and when last heard from were headed toward Guadalajara where there is said to await them a welcome similar to that which they received at Guanajuato.

The treatment which the slackers receive in the cities and towns of Mexico Is so unbearable that most of these undesirable young Americans have gone into the mountains and rural districts where they are living a hand-to-mouth existence in troops. So far as known here the largest of these camps is situated in, the Santa Rosa muntains, state of Coahuila, a few miles from Musquiz. It may be said to be a sort of slacker headquarters. At last accounts there were more than 500 men in camp. They came from every part of the United States an^ from all phases of life.

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TTt» membership of the colony is changing daily. None of them do any work and but for the doubtful benefactions of some of the wealthy refugees the moneyless would quickly starve even aa it is, the dependent ones are permittd to rmafn but a short time in camp. From this camp the

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slackers have scattered along the Mexican ranches. Many of them are forced to take the lowest kind of labor in remote villages where they do not come in contact with Americans who have legitimate cause for being in that country.

It is a comparatively easy matter for the draft evader to enter Mexico. The long and torturous course of the Rio Grande, the wilderness of chaparral that boroers its banks and the impossibility for all of Its international boundary length to be guarded at all times offers an inviting opportunity for the slacker to cross the stream without detection. It is believed by some United States government officials on the border that there exists an underground system of railway, operated by agents of the German government, for the purpose of landing draft evaders and German aliens and sympathizers into Mexico from the United States.

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For rem to bttr Sherman's clothes at $12.50—?t ts now only a matter of a few weeks before we will be compelled to advance our price. Woolens are scarce and getting higher in price every day, the mills are advising us that deliveries for fall are very uncertain, so you see it is to your advantage to buy your suit now and avoid the much higher prices that are sure to come.". ."

Be Honest With Yourself

Take our advice. We are laying true facts before you—telling our thousands of patron® exactly the conditions we will have to contend with. The drastic conditions are unprece* dented in the clothing industry-^-take our advice and be honest with yourself—come to Sherman's and buy your suits as soon as you possibly can,

Oar Present Complete Stock

Your choice of any suit in the store at our one factory price, $12.50. You will find hundreds of the newest styles and patterns in sizes to fit all. Plenty of summer suits—a full assortment of those nice cool cloth suits—and a lot of medium weights. Suits you can buy now and put away for next fall—it will mean many a dollar saved for you. BEAR IN MIND our price will have to advance very shortly

Our guarantee that the suit you buy must give perfect satisfaction in every way or your money re* funded should give you absolute confidence to buv Sherman's clothes.

I lieved to be as far away as points in New England an] Canada. Information has been received here that the Pacific coast towns of Manznnillo, Mazatian and Acapulco contain a considerable number of American draft evaders and that some of these men are in a pitiable condition, if It can be said that they are entitled to a particle of sympathy. They are in rags, live upon the refuse of the town and sleep withoat any roof over their heads. In Guaymas the Americans and other foreigners belonging to the allied nationalities organized a moppingup system for draft refugees in that port recently with the result that tho undesirables quickly "drifted" to more congenial localities of the country.

It is not only the American slacker in Mexico who is made to feel uncomfortable. The same sort of treatment is meted out to the Canadian, Englishman, Frenchman or Italian who happens to be in that country and is unable to give a satisfactory explanation of why he is not in active army service.

THe best clotfrirtg "buy* yottf rfoTlarS can The economical clothes buyer will never forget the wonderful clofhes value we are offering today, while other clothing stores are a#king sky-high prices for the identical Same quality we are selling at dur factory price, $12.50—not a regular retailer's price, but a wholesale price, $12.50. We believe there is not a Sherman's suit that can be duplicated in any ordinary r,etail store formless than Our factoryv price, $12.50. ig The saving is here for you. You must come and see for yourself, convince yourself that your dollars can buy more actual clothes value at Sherman's,

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MERCHANTS' PAY-UP CAMPAIGN. Great Institution for tht Merchant and for the Customer.

The Terre Haute Retail and Wholesale Credit Men's association la conducting a "Pay-up Campaign," tor tha benefit of everyone buying on credit, aa" well as that of the merchant.

Its object is the betterment of credit I conditions in Terre Haute. It makes' credit accessible to those who are worthy of it and who pay their bills,

But it also protects Its many members, the leading firms of Terre Haute,\ against those who deliberately beat tli ir just debts.

At the same time its help Is extended to these who are unable to meet tneir cli.'nations for reasons beyond their control, and those who have merely been a little careless without any willful irtent. tun ember prompt pay creates credit,

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If you are in need of any wearing apparel to finish the season you will do well to see the wonderful bargains we are now offering.

Coats, Suits, Dresses, Skirts, Shirt Waists, Furs, Millinery

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Notwithstanding the low prices, we will be glad to open a charge account with you. Not hav-, ing the money is no excuse for not attending this sale* -I'*

WHEN "WE CUT PRICES NO CASH STORE DARES CUT TJLLKM DEEPER.

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