The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 April 1918 — Page 2

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I—French patrol leaving its dug-out to make a raid on the enemy trenches nearby. 2—A British soldier looking over the dreary scene of a battlefield in Flanders; in the foreground a disabled tank sinking into the quagmire. 3—Regiment of American engineers in France marching to the front.

newsreviewof THE PAST WEEK British Army, Now Supported by French Troops, Still Holds Sack the, Germans. . DRAWS BACK EAST OF YPRES Huns Fight Furiously to Capture the Messines Ridge and Bethyne—Secretary Baker Returns to Speed America’s Men Across—Schwab Heads Shipbuilding. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. At the- end of another week of the most sanguinary battle the world has ever known, the British army was still undestroyed. Lts lines still unbroken. Overwhelmingly outnumbered in Flanders. Haig's men were forced to give up some important positions, and east of Ypres they withdrew from the bulging Passchondaele salient before the enemy observed the movement, and straightened and shortened their defensive line sot that it was much Strenger and moir secure. Meanwhile F/ench re-enforcements arrived to ass’rt the British, the commanders having decided that the Flanders offensive was not merely a diversion. To the south; on the Somme and the Aisne, ti e French had been stoutly repulsing every attack, and it was predicted .hat the time was near when General Each, the allied commander in chief, might be expected to start his counteroffensil§>.. Though they were still brining fresh divisions into the battle, it v’as figured the Germans must be approaching the point of exhaustion, when a return blow would be most effective. Indeed, it did not seem this .blow could be much longer delayed, for the British, though their spirit and courage were undiminished, were sustaining continuous attacks by an enemy which was immensely superior in numbers and was under leaders whose disregard for life was utterly reckless. —l£B— ’ At the beginning of the week the Germans, finding.they could not make , much progress toward Bethune, at t,he soutli part of their salient, because of the stubborn resistance of the British. at Givenchy, Festubert and Locon. turned to the north and undertook to flank Ypres by driving the British from the Bailleul-Neuve Eg’ise, Wul-verghem-Hollebeke line. For two _ days the attacks. of the Huns were beaten back with fearful 1 slaughter, but then Field Marshal Haig was compelled to give ground and retired from part of the famous Messines ridge, at the same time drawing his lines nearer to Ypres, There was stiU higher ground at his rear, however, and his generals and men displayed a cheerful optimism that contrasted with the depression caused in England and. to a considerable extent, in America by what, looked like serious reverses. Not for a minute did the men who are doing <he fighting admit that they were beaten or could be beaten by any forces Hindenburg could bring against them( and though the Hun. when he had taken Bailleul. was within 24 miles of Dunkirk, they still had no idea of permitting him to force his way to the coast. In the effort to reach the La Bassee <■ canal and'take Hazebrouck, the enemy, after intense artillery preparation, at- r tacked along the front from Meteren to Robecq, but was repulsed at almost every point and sustained heavy losses. The allied artillery was especially effective here and east of Bethune and the Germans found it almost impossible to bring up their transport trains. On Thursday the enemy resumed his attacks in the Bethune region, throwing a number of light bridges across La Bassee canal near Locorv These we?e swept away by the British . artillery and machine-gun fire and large numbers of Germans were killed. Again anti again the Germans renewed the attack, using more than 125,000 fresh troops on the 12-mile front between St. Venant and Givenchy, but each time they were thrown back with appalling losses. French infantry and batteries co-operated with Haig’s forces. — fc — Save for certain engineer units, the American troops had not yet been en-

WILL RUSH WAR PRODUCTION Fuel Administration Orders Still Further Curtailment of Country’s Less Essential Industries. Further restriction of the country’s less essential industries, which will drastically limit nonwar building operations for the duration of the war, was announced by the fuel administration in the issuance of orders curtailing the manufacture of ten principal claj products from 15% to 50%.

gaged in the big battle, but they were steadily and rapidly moving up to their assigned and the news that more and more of them were being hurried across the Atlantic was greeted with enthusiasm by the British and French officers and men. They are needed, and needed quickly, for the allied commanders, though believing their lines cannot be broken, know the enemy is still very strong, and undoubtedly is gathering his strength for further tremendous efforts. While he well might be held by the allied forces now there, he can only be crushed and driven back when they have been greatly reinforced by the boys from America. Moreover, the commanders of the allies say no greater mistake could be made than to think this is the final battle. Even if it can be called decisive, it Is absolutely essential that the United States send over all its men as quickly as possible, that all possible eventualities may be fated and the right kind of a victory ultimately enforced. — . • That this is the view of Secretary of War Baker also is made plain in his report to the president, made on his return last week from Europe. In a sentence this was that the United States must furnish the strength that will crush Germany, and mu§t furnish it at once. If Mr. Baker ever thought the war was “3,000 miles away,” his trip abroad has cured him of that delusion. There is now no warmer advocate of the policy of giving force, precision and rapidity to American activities, and on his own behalf and that of his department better results in hurrying men and munitions to, the fighting front. As for the American troops now in France, Mr. Baker had nothing but praise for their condition and their military qualities. They have made good in every way, he said. Those same troops during the week had opportunity to show the stuff they were ‘made of, for several times -the Germans made fierce attacks in the Toul sector. Each time they were repulsed, and the Yankees went into the fray with a joy that did the hearts of their officers good. Their bravery, coolness and efficiency were so general that their commanders had difficulty in picking out any men for especial commendation. —fc— The evident and urgent need for 1 more soldiers helped to hasten Lloyd George’s man-power bill through parliament. despite the opposition caused by the clause applying copscription to Ireland. The government also prepared to introduce its home rule bill which it announced it would pass or fall in tHe attempt. There was considerable dissatisfaction in England over the fact that the British in Flanders were so badly outnumbered by the Germans, and the blame, if any, was not placed, there were insistent calls for the return of Sir William Robertson to the position of chief of the imperial general staff.. On Thursday Viscount Milner was made secretary of state for war, the earl of Derby be- 1 coming ambassador to France. Since it is still evident that “ships will win the war,” and that America must supply most of the ships, our national shipbuilding agencies were reorganized last week for the fifth time and Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors of the Bethlehem Steel corporation, was given the new position of director general of shipbuilding and placed in supreme control of the construction of merchant vessels. Chairman Hurley of the shipping boai;d and General Manager Piez will work in complete harmony with him, directing the organization necessary to carry out his plans. The necessity for some,such a step was. shown by the official announcement of the change, which said: “The carrying forward of the construction work in, the 130 shipyards now in operation is so bad that it requires a re-enforcement of the shipbuilding organization throughout the country.” The determination to speed up shipbuilding was evidenced by the warning issued by Mr. Hurley that delinquent plants will be taken over by the government unless they show decided improvement. —m— The British admiralty report showed 15 British vessels sunk by submarines during the previous week, 11 of them being 1,600 tons or over. On Monday British warships encountered a fleet of German armed trawlers in the Kattegat and sank ten of them, the nearby German naval forces

Simultaneously the manufacturing program of this industry was ordered rearranged and divided, placing it on the basis of war industry. Face brick, common and paving brick, terracotta, roofing tile, floor and wall tile, and sanitary ware are ordered curtailed 50 per cent; hollow tile, sewer pipe, and drain tile, 25 pet cent; and stoneware, with the exception of chemical stoneware, is curtailed 15 per cent. Another new order curtails the ou*»nt of enamel ware 50 per cent.

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evidently not daring to come out to the rescue. The fact that the British were engaged in clearing the Kattegat of mines may portend naval operationa of moment. j — WB — Turning to the east, we find the parts of the former state of Russia being exploited as fields for German ruthlessness comparable to that which devastated Belgium. According .to advices in Washington, the Huns intend to make Ukraine an Austro-German colony, and are about to dissolve the rada and install a Tenton government. Already they are putting Austro-Germans into all the offices and have cut Ukraine off from all communication with Russia proper. All entente officers in the state have been ordered under arrest. Finland is running red with the blood of the people of the working class and others who oppose the White guard and the Finnish feudal class. They are pointed out to the German troops, which have occupied Helsingfors, and are murdered by the latter in, conjunction with the White guard. The provisional government of Finland and tens of thousands of Finns have retired to Petrograd. The brutalities of the Huns arelSeing exhibited also in Russia itself as the troops push their way north and east. In one village the inhabitants resisted an armed requisition for money by German forces and an officer was killed in the resulting scuffle. Thereupon the Germans burned the town and with machine guns slaughtered the inhabitants as they tied from their blazing homes. Against this and other similar outrages Tchitcherin, Russian minister of foreign affairs, protested to Berlin, asking the punishment of the guilty. But can anyone recall the infliction of punishment on the Huns who perpetrated like outrages in Belgium and northerr France? —to — Any hope that the relations between Germany and Austria-Hungary might be disrupted by the exposure,, of Emperor Charle?’ letter concerning peace and the French claitt- to Alsace-Lor-raine was dispelled by rhe appointment of Baron Burian as minister of foreign affairs to succeed Count Czernin, the official goat. Burian is recognized as a firm supporter of the policy of a continued alliance with Germany and the press of both Austria and Germany j assert that the country's foreign policy will jnot be changed by him. Dr. Von Seydler, the Austrian premier, was emphatic in stating the same view, and said those who looked to the entente for salvation would always be regarded and treated as enemies of the state. In this category he must include many of, the people of Bohemia, for at a great mass meeting in Prague President Wilson was cheered and the kaiser jeered. In Vienna there has been serious rioting by the hungry people. —ta—--8010 Pasha, the spectacular French traitor, was executed at Vincennes on Wednesday, after having made confessions that are believed to involve ipany others in his infamies. In the United States men equally guilty of treason j 1 are allowed to live, and if arrested are ; usually let out on bail to continue their ‘ vile practices until the time comes for , their trial. This may be remedied, ( however, by the passage of the Chamberlain bill introduced in the senate, ; declaring the United States a part of ; the military zone and making spies and disloyalists subject to trial by court-martial. Among those who appeared before the senate committee to urge the passage of this measure, was W. B. Bloodgood, chairman of the Milwaukee council of defense. He warned the senators that dire consequences ’’might result in Wisconsin unless the government deals more effectively with disloyalty and sedition. “Feeling grows stronger with the departure of every army transport,” said he, “and the people are likely to go back to primitive methods.” Mr. Bloodgood asserted that pro-German propaganda has been widely disseminated in the training camps where 'Wisconsin iroops have been quartered, and that German agents have purchased union cards and obtained employment in munition factories when they were unable to hit * nail on the head. Extension of the espionage law to apply to women will lead to the arrest of numerous women, though many of them already have fled from the country. Most of the spies who run away go to Cuba, and it has been discovered that their headquarters are in Havana. — fe — The week was marked by the death of United States Senator William Joel Stone of Missouri.

The of curtailment il each ca*se is based on the average out* put for the last three years. This action by the fuel adminlstra* tion, which was approved by the war industries board, is declared to be the forerunner of similar curtailment of practically every industry considered not vital to the war program. Parts of the plants effected win be converted for war industries, and men, material and transportation will be made available for the necessary war. production.

_ ——— - ; Indiana | ■ Brevities j Crawfordsville.—The Crawfordsville School authorities are proud of the record of the Crawfordsville high school In war work in this city. One hundred and sixty-seven C. H. S. boys are now In the service. Each pupil in the »chool is the owner of a Thrift stamp. The school has adopted five French and three Belgian children. The school membership has Invested $15,101 in Thrift stamps and Liberty bonds and has given to the army Y. M. C. A. The girls have done much work In the Red Cross, in sewing and knitting. Evansville. —The development of southwestern Indiana as a bee-keeping llstrict was proposed by Professor Baldwin of Purdue university, and he Is arranging to hold several meetings with farmers of Vanderburg county. He proposes the abolition of all comb honey in the markets as a war measure, as it means added expense and work at a time when a labor shortage exists and It prevents swarming. Knox county has developed into a bee-keep-ing country through the increased planting of alfalfa, and the wild propagation of a certain species of milkweed, which produces a fine grade of honey. Indianapolis.—G. I. Christie of the food production and conservation committee of the state council of defense has asked garden committees and supervisors of the state bo investigate reports that exorbitant rentals are being charged by lot owners for the use of their lots as patriotic gardens and to take steps to stop this practice. Professor Christie. In his communication, states that garden work is seriously handicapped in some parts of the state by this practice. In some Communities, he says, real estate associations are encoitfaging the practice of charging high rentals for vacant lots. Indianapolis.—A two-day council of the executive board of the National American Suffrage association was held here. The meeting was called by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the national organiation. to make plans intended to assure ratification by states of the federal amendment to the constitution, which will come up in the senate, probably early in May. Other plans will be made to assist in the election or defeat of congressional nominees next fall if the federal amendments fail of passage in. the senate.- ! Huntington. — All .candidates for nomination as candidates for the degislatnre went on record as favoring state-wide prohibition* and the ratification of the national prohibition ameundment at a Dry Federation meeting here. The men are Oliver Kline. Republican, and W. O. Taylor, Democrat. candidates for the joint senatorship nomination: C. F. Juillerate, Democrat: George W. Frazier, Ed Youse and Harley Riggers, Republicans, candidates’ for representative. I Jeffersonville.—A l(|ter has been received by David C. Peyton, general superintendent of the Indiana reformatory. from Tony Staton, chief of police at Collinsville. II!., confirming the identification of Robert Paul Pragbr. the young German, who was lynched there April 4. with the young man of the same name who was committed to the Indiana reformatory from Lake county for petit larceny, December 17, I 1912, and became delinquent shortly after his parole February 27. 1914. to the Howard Institution at Chicago. Lafayette. —Purdue university’s agricultural extension department has issued a bulletin on the home preservation of eggs. The author is A. G. Phillips, head of the division of poultry husbandry. The bulletin says: “When eggs are plentiful in April and May they should be put away to help overcome the shortage of supply in the fall and winter. The housewife can buy when they are cheap and have eggs at a time of the year when retail prices are sometimes prohibitive.” Hattiesburg, Miss. —Hundreds of soldiers at Camp Shelby here will be Instructed in the science of machine gun fire. The. instructors have all been chosen from among the troops at the local camp, and the greater part of them are from Indiana. The problems have been worked out by Maj. William P. Carpenter of Indianapolis, who will command the school, and Maj. A. J. Jackson, machine gun corps, British army, attached to the headquarters of the Seventy-sixth infantry brigade. South Bend. —Commissioners to the general assembly were elected by the Logansport presbytery at the closing session of the state meeting held in Mishawaka, those named being: Ministers—Bev. F. E. Walton, Gary; Rev. M. H. Krause. Hammond. Alternates —Rev. C. A. Lippincott and Rev. G. W. Allison, South Bend. Lay commissloners_A. R. McArthur of Gary; H. P. Sims, Schneider. Alternates —P. .C. Hubbs, Logansport, and J. G. Rice, Hammond. Indianapolis.—lndiana farmers are giving the lie to the charge that they are slackers in the Third Liberty loan drive. Reports received show that the rural communities of the state are making a showing proportionately better than are the manufacturing and urban centers. Warsaw. —Kosciusko county farmers are responding to the governor’s call for wheat, and during the last week about 15,000 bushels were marketed. It had been reported that there was no wheat in storage in the county* but the government’s threat to seize it brought some to light Indianapolis. —The Indiana Federation of German Societies, which is the official name of the German-American alliance in this state, has taken steps to disband and surrender its charter to the state. The Indiana federation Is incorporated under the state laws. Sparksville. —Sparksville boasts the champion chicken raiser of Indiana. She is Mrs. C. C. Hill. She has a flock of 340 hens, from whichI’she 1 ’she gets 300 eggs a day —count ’em. She has 790 chickens in one brood’, and thus far she has sold 6,000 eggq for settings. White Leghoriis’ are Mrs. Hill’s favorite fowls. s ,15. .'C

I Bloomington.-—Before adjourning Its | sessions here, the annual of , the Indianapolis Presbyterian Missionary society elected, officers as iollows. President. Mrs. A. G. Brown. Indianapolis ; vice presidents. Mrs. J. H Holliday and William H. Hubbard. Indianapolih; Mrs. Charles H. Springer, Bloomington; recording secretary, Mrs. Lucy Mayo, Indianapolis; foreign secretary. Mrs. H. C. Robinson, Martinsville; home secretary, Mrs. H. W. Grossman; Indianapolis; home treasurer, Mrs. H. G. Gonghlen, Indianapolis; foreign treasurej, Mrs. William Griffiths. Indianapolis; guild secretary, | Miss Esther Aiken. Franklin. The association pledged to Increase all of its contributions to home and foreign missions over the amount last year, which | was $900.' The conference next year will be held in Indianapolis. Indianapolis.—lndiana educators are worrying over where they are going to get enough school teachers for the next school year. Horace Ellis, state superintendent of public Instruction, declared that it looks very much as if Indiana would tentporurily have to lower its standard requirements for public school teachers oc let down the bars to teachers trained in other states. The shortage is laid to the war. Its call found a qpick response in the virility of the Hoosier school masters and mistresses, according to Doctor Ellis. Especially has the vocational education stock been depleted. Manual training teachers also are scarce. Woman teachers have heard the call of the Red Cross and the whole situation has developed many new problems. Indianapolis.—Just now. when the coal mines should be working to their utmost capacity and the output of coal ; should be at its heaviest point. Indiana coal mines are working only about half time and producing only about half as much coal as they might produce. It Is this fact that caused William Greene, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America; E. I. Lewis, chairman of the Indiana public service commission, and Jihn A. George, president of the Indianapolis Coal company, to agree, in separate interviews, that there is a coal i famine in prospect for next winter that will make last year’s coal shortage fade into insignificance. Washington, D. C.—Pensions have been granted the following Indianians: Thomas Buckner, National Military home, S2O; William F, Porter, T.agro, S2O, and $25 each to Catherine B. Den- ! ius, Newcastle; Mary P. Ciseny, Warsaw ; Carrie B. Cooke, Laporte; Mary , Becker, North Vernon; Sarah W. Woh- I lenord. Huntington; Melissa J. Thomas, Idaville; Clarissa Snodgrass. Sheridan ; Alzina Beckner, Elwood; Ella M, Oliver, Walcott; Evaline McFarland, Southport: Al’Mary Lawrence, Terre Haute; Bridget Kingsley. Inidahapo* ■ lis; Charlotte Hinds. Elwaad ; Bertha I A. Frakes, Laconia, and,, Mary A. Em- i ahlser, Akron. Indianapolis.—Retail coal dealers ; and jobbers are circulating a petition among themselves, which will be sent to the national fuel administration, asking that Illinois coal be permitted ; to be shipped into Indianapolis. The ; zoning system, recently put in force I by the administration, shuts off this cial from Indianapolis, and in the past large quantities of the product have ben sold to local consumers. The shipment of this cial to the city Is by direct rail connection, and is generally speedy. Jeffersonville. —The transfer of 200 men from the Indiana reformatory here to the Indiana state prison at | Michigan City was authorized by the board of trustees at its monthly session, with the approval of Governor Goodrich. The transfer is to be made on account of a demand for men at the prison to work in the binder twine factory, but incidentally it will relieve the pressure' here, where accommodations have been strained for several years, since the number of Inmates has run up to nearly 1,300. Evansville. —Rev. H. J. Schneider has resigned as a member of the city school board, and the resignation has been accepted by Benjamin Bosse, mayor. Rev, Mr. Schneider's action came as the result of a meeting of more than 100 prominent business men, at which the mayor was asked to remove him at once. He opposed the elimination of teaching German in the city schools. Winchester. —The farmers in this county are nearly through plowing for corn. Oats are all sowed and many fields are up. More barley and spring wheat have neen sowed than ever before. Most of the spring seed wheat was shipped from Minnesota. The spring has been exceedingly favorable for the planting of crops. Winter wheat is In excellent condition. Fruit Is safe, except the peaches and plums. , Fort Wayne.—The board of county commissioners offered to Prof. A. T. Wiancko of Purdue university a 20acre tract at the county farm to be used as a new Purdue experiment station. The offer is expected to be accepted, according to the statement of Professor Wiancko. after he inspected the land. Indianapolis.—About 27■' bushels of wheat were hauled to this city by motor trucks, following orders given by Stanley Wyckoff, federal food administrator for Marion county, to Sam Pfender. a farmer living 14 miles southeast of Indianapolis, and Roy and David Pfender, his two sons, whose farms adjoin that of their father. Mr. Wyckoff visited the three farrps. and finding that wheat -was withheld from market, ordered it brought to the city. The farmers did not haul it in and Wyckoff sent the trucks after it. Shoals.—Much anxiety is felt over the fruit and wheat here owing to the severity of the weather. In many fields wheat is jointing, in which stage I It is easily killed by cold weather. Fruit trees are in full bloom and are showing much damage. Nearly all blackberry vines were killed by the ; severe winter weather. Lafayette.—To discuss the part the church can play in winning the world war, and its task in the reconstruction 1 period, a conference of rural ministers and laymen of every denomination in 1 Indiana will be held at Purdue- uni- 1 verslty June 3, 4 and 5. 1

BAKER SAYS ALLIES DOH BINI DEFEAT - •MREtARY URQEB ALL TO BUY* ( BONDS AND BACK UP ARMY. I SPEAKS AT WAR LOAN RALLY — “We Will Do Our Part; You Do I Youra,” Is Message From American Soldiers in France to the American Peapie. Washington, April 22—“ We will do our part; you do yours," is the mes- I sage from the American army in | France to the American people that Baker delivered here at a Liberty loan rally in his first pnbllol address since his return from Europe. “We are fighting an adversary,” Mrj Baker declared, “who has elected t®, make force the canter of his political philosophy and belief — ; pure, naked ' force. "It is not the doctrine upon which a | ipermanent and beautiful civilization ; can be built, but we accept that chai- | lenge as It has been made. There la no answer except cold, relentless, ade- , quate force.” A tremendous twowd that packed Liberty Hut, the great Y. M. C. A. i building, to its capacity roared with , applause as the war secretary reiter- L ated the purpose of America and tha ; allies. “When force is divorced from mor- | I‘allty,” he continued, “there is some- j [thing in morality that engenders the force to overcome It. “There is no doubt as to the outicorne.” Can’t Break Allied Heart. Turning to the German drive Mr. Baker said the people watched the bulletins from day to day and hour to hour, always with the question in their hearts, “Will the line hold?" “The end of this war will not come when a line is broken. This war cannot end until a people’s heart is broken, and those who have looked into the faces of the people of England, of France or of Italy, who have i looked Into the faces of those refugees I leaving territory to be occupied, i know that mere force cau never ' : brcjjk that heart.” Again the great crowd roared its f [appreciation. Mr. Baker spoke briefly of ths ! (events of his trip along the Amerl- : [can lines in France. He pictured for [ I his hearers the gteatness of the task [ (the country faces in setting up a new army there, 3.000 miles from liome, land paid high tribute to General PerI ishlng and his officers for the work they bavq done. All Resources Pooled. s The aid of France and England and ! (Italy had been generous, he said. All i tallied and American men and resources had been pooled until they were merged in one great identity. All the nations had lost their sens® iof distinction between “what is theirs ;and what is ours.” The common 'purpose of all to beat back and crush German force, he said, had welded all into one. Gotng from the ports where American troops land to the front lins trenches, Mr. Baker said, he had seen American soldiers by the tens of (thousands and under every cond>» [ tion. • “And I found them big and strong and brave and tilled with fine deterimination,” he said. “In all that tims| I saw not one of whom I was not .proud that he was an American.” Hand on the Shoulder. The secretary told of the action of an American officer who passed along the front lines on dark night whea his men were in the trenches for the •first time when an attack was in> pending. This officer, he said, patted each oflicer and man of the command on the back as he passed and spoke to them. ’ Later there came the raid. It wag repulsed brilliantly by these new troops, undergoing their baptism of fire. When it was all over a captain told of his own emotions. The higher officer had come to him early in the night, he said, and, hand on shoulder, had asked: “Captain, how goes it here” “Well,” the captain replied. “Good!” said the officer. “Hold ’em.” | “All night long,” the captain continued, “I could feel that hand on my shoulder and hear those words, ‘Hold ’em!?” Mr. Baker applied the lesson. “We must put our hands on the shoulders of those boys in the trenches," he declared. “They hear what goes in America. They hear (what we are talking about. They learn whether our hearts are as stout Bs theirs. “When an opportunity comes for America to express her spirit, as she always has in this war. they hear it, and it is a hand on their shoulders on the dark and moonless nights, saying ‘Hold ’em!’ ” Take Wheatless Pledge. Washington. Auril 22. —About 6ft clubs, ho£ejs and restaurants in Chfe cago areJabw on a wheatless program, accOfcfmg [to a telegram received by the United States food administration. Heads of these establishments havft voluntarily signed pledge cards. Use Old Newspapers. The Hague; April 22. —Owing to that necessity of conserving the supplies of I ttraw in Germany, soldiers’ mattresses are henceforth to be stuffed' with old newspapers. School children/ are being organized to collect the papers for this purpose. Census of Rabbits., Berne, April 22- —A census of all the tame rabbits in the German empire was taken by order of the authorities on March 1, owing to the increasing Importance of rabbit skins for army requirements. « .Vi i,

AMEBIGANS AND TTIUEDEMDCRACY Dollars Are Needed as Exemplification of Spirit. TIME TO BUY LIBERTY BONDS Citizens Must Lend Their Financial Assistance to Government to Forever Eliminate Effects of Germany’s Influence. By GEORGE E. BOWEN of the Vigilantes. In the main, it Cannot be said of I America that she is without her Americans, or thht the faith and service of the mass is un-American in spirit. Dollars do not’ always go with democracy, but when informed, inspired and enlisted they can be mighty useful to it : There has been a mistaken idea in i certain sections of America that dol--1 lars, according to the number of them, I spelled “aristocracy.” j They don’t. That is an imported ■ idea. And that it is perishing in the ' land of its origin, witness" the war and I the consternation of the few aristo- ( erats, both external and inbred. There have been, possibly are, a [ few external aristocrats in America, ' who, in a moment of excessive vanity I measured their social importance by the size of their material fortunes. ( The war erased that absurd notion, almost with the first blare of the ' trumpet. Millionaire Privates in Ranks. . 1 There are millionaire privates in the ranks of the American army and navy who have renounced all the prestige of fortune for the prvilege of comradeship. ’ In the crucial test humanity was first, last, and all the way between. Men are more than money. The outer veneer, has been quickly shed. The man has emerged. 1 What he thought was* his pride, in days of social and financial triumph, he finds was but a cheap and trivial plaything. Now, his real pride is a. thing of purpose, power and dignity. Before the war is over, dollars that hid in aristocratic seclusion or vaunt--1 ed themselves in ostentatious power I are going voluntarily and humbly to I join the forces of democracy. After the war they are going to dei ve/iop a system of P9pular redistribu- 1 ( tiOn relieving the old congestion whose I fevers broke out In many forms of luxury and extravagance* incompatible with universal contentment. The only aristocracy America ’qants or needs is of the heart and of the mind. The shoulder touch cf men on the inarch or in the trenches has welded this feeling into living creed, a saving faith. The escutcheon of American manhood may be either a splash of Belgian mud or a splotch of German blood. " ■ Drawing True Men Together. In place of the dollar crest will be the sign of the courage test. «. There was a lot of sound democracy In the old ultimatum —“millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” Therein is the basic principle of resistance of Prussianism. That principle is drawing all true men together. It is putting service above self. It is [ asking America to take the gold of j and pour it into the cause of humanity. The spirit of democracy is the only vital, uncompromising thing in a human world. It laughs at dollars and dynamite and royal degenerates. The America annotated of this spirit is at last to carry it forth to a perishing world. And the despised American dollar shall, with the courage, generosity and chivalry of American manhood, be the instrument of salvation. The day of contribution is at hand. Where is your dollar? NO EXEMPTION , If you cannot launch a bullet at the fiend across the sea. Buy a bond! It will reach its little target straighter than a homing bee— Buy a bond! If you’ve bought a lot before. Don’t believe you’ve done your chore— Buy a half a dozen more! Buy a bond! —Strickland Gillilan. First Colonial General Hospital. It was on February 7, 1751, that the first general hospital was chartered in the colonies—the Pennsylvania state,, hospital in Philadelphia. Joshua Crosby was the first president of the institution. and Benjamin Franklin, who . had been prominent in urging the establishment of an institution for the care of the sick, was the first clerk. It was In this hospital in 1769 that Thomas Bond gave the first clinical instruction in America. The Difficulty, ' “I understand young Loftus draws quite a small salary in his clerical work. He could make much more just now by going into a factory." “Yes; but then he would have to draw wages.” Some Needed. “That baby does nothing but scream 11 the time.” . “Well, dear, I’m as loyal as you are. but you must agree with me that this is one case where we must be pacifists.” Within Reach. Angelina—You said you were going to encircle the earth before you settled down. Do we have to wait so long before we marry. Edwin —It won’t take long. You’re all the world to me. Why and Wherefore. Mother—lt seems to me, my dear, your gown is cut entirely too low. Now look at Grace Swift. See how modest her gown is. Daughter—lt isn’t modesty with htr, but a mole. ft, ... ■ t