Twin City Star

THE TWIN CITY STAR. St. Louis Negroes in Patriotic Parade. AMERICAN BLOCK DEVILS FROM ST. LOUIS TO BERLIN VOL. 8. St. Louis AMERICAN BLACK DEV FROM STL TO BERL "AMERICAN BLACK DEVILS— ST. LOUIS TO BERLIN"—ON BANNER CARRIED BY CLASS 1 NEGROES IN PARADE No recent parade here has been attended by a larger or more enthusiastic "gallery" than that which trailed a procession of several hundred Class 1 Negroes through downtown streets at the noon hour recently. The crowd of men, women and small boys which followed, on the sidewalks and in the street, was almost as numerous as the procession. WAR DEPARTMENT WILL BROOK NO DISCRIMINATION All Cases of Alleged Unfairness Reported Will Be Fully Investigated —Secretary Baker Says "Any Wrong Done Will Be Righted." Special to The Twin City Star. Washington, D. C., July 1.—The War Department has made it clear that it will tolerate no discrimination against colored draftees by the local draft boards in any section of the country, and that cases of alleged unfairness will be fully investigated and corrected by the Departmental authorities. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, in a recent interview, speaking with reference to alleged discrimination against colored draftees, said, in part: "I have heard that draft boards in adjoining counties take a different view of practically identical facts with regard to colored men; but the answer in all these cases is that a review is provided directly by the President, and all that is necessary for anybody to do who thinks there is a grievance, is to point it out to the War Department, and it will be investigated. If the draft boards act unfairly, we will correct their action. "The War Department will brook no discrimination, and any cases of alleged or suspected discrimination brought to our attention will be investigated, and any wrong done will be righted." BUTLER GETS HAYS' BOUQUET R. B. Montgomery of the Advocate, hied himself to the Auditorium last Saturday night with his accustomed bunch of flowers. He expected to make an impression on Chairman Will M. Hays, of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Hays was absent. Not to be outdone, Montgomery decided to present his floral tribute to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, who was present. The card read, "To our National Republican Chairman, Will M. Hays, from the National Advocate." The name of Hays was scratched out, and that of Dr. Butler inscribed thereon. So Dr. Butler received the flowers, although they were not originally intended for him. Floral gifts are a fad of Montgomery's. It was a bouquet to Mrs. J. J. Hill of St. Paul, which caused him to spend ten days in jail. When Monty brings a bouquet, something is going to come off. Page—Bouquet Montgomery! LOCAL DRAFT DODGER CAUGHT IN NEW YORK New York, June 23.—Leonard Johnson, 22, of Minneapolis, Minn., a waiter, was arrested as a draft evader, and sent to Fort Jay, Governor's Island, for Federal action. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR THAT'S ALLI SINGLE COPIES 5 CTS. his Negroes in Patriotic ICAN DEVILS ATLOUIS RILIN At the head of the parade was a banner inscribed, "American Black Devils—St. Louis to Berlin." William H. Butler of 3510 Cozens avenue, a Negro Spanish War veteran, arranged and led the parade. The marchers formed at Twelfth and Chestnut streets. The vanguard was composed of four mounted policemen and a Negro band. Three Negro women in Red Cross uniforms also were near the front. The men marched by wards. They showed the results of having been drilled for several months. Their evolutions were precise and their bearing soldierly. The crowds on the side- THE MOOREFIELD STOREY DRIVE Report of Local Secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. It is very gratifying to be able to submit at this time the results of the drive which gives us an enrollment of 478 members. The Branch feels proud of its membership, and thanks all those who so willingly contributed in awakening the interest of our people in this very worthy cause—making the drive a success. But especially the Branch feels grateful to its president, Hon. B. S. Smith and his helpful wife, for the very active part they took, bringing in as their combined contribution 253 members. It must be remembered that there are many who have not as yet taken out memberships, who ought to do so, and the Secretary will be pleased to accept the same at any time. The Branch realized $37.59 from the dance given at the Coliseum, and after remitting to New York its portion from the Drive, and defraying all expenses to date, there is now in the hands of the Treasurer. $259.94. A general meeting will be held in the very near future. All members will be notified as to the time and place. Let each member strive NOW to get one more member, and make the Minneapolis Branch foremost in the West. This is your organization, take a special pride in it. Think it! Breathe it! Advertise it! Let us unite in combating the wrongs and injustices heaped upon us and so make America a safe place in which the Negro might live. Pay goodly heed, all ye who read, And beware of saying "I can't." Tis a cowardly word and apt to lead We are living in an age and an epoch which is characterized by a growing and insistent demand for justice and democracy. The United States is sending men, money and munitions to the battle fields of Europe as its demand for justice, freedom and equality of opportunity for all peoples, and it would be well for the Americans at this time to remember that here in our own country for the past fifty years since the abolition of slavery, is a race loyal, patriotic people who are not enjoying at the hands of this government here at home the principles of that democracy for which we are fighting to make the world safe, and in which fight God helping us, we will be victorious. W. T. FRANCIS Port of Naples to Be Enlarged. er, and and, Rome, July 5.—King Victor Emanuel soon will sign the decree for enlargement of the port of Naples, it was officially announced. New quays and docks will be constructed and will be connected by railways. The drydocks will be the largest on the Mediterranean MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JULY 6, 1918. Courtesy of St. Louis Post-Dispatch. walks, irrespective of color, cheered them enthusiastically, and doffed hats as the colors passed. "Who says them boys can't fight as good as any white man?" shouted an old negro. "There's my Jim! Lordy help the Kaiser if my Jim gets his hands on him!" said another. All the marchers carried small American flags on their shoulders. After being reviewed at the City Hall by city officials, the parade continued to Pine street and Compton avenue, where it was disbanded—St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 23, 1918. NEGRO NEARLY TOO OLD TO FIGHT IN '61, DEAD AT 110 Beating the mere centenarians by a decade, Oscar Vaughan, a Negro veteran of the Civil War, died here recently at the age of 110 years. He was born in Kentucky in 1808, and was nearly too old to fight in the war of the Rebellion, for at that time he had reached 53 years, according to the death certificates filed today. Vaughan was a member of Company M of the 125th regiment, United States colored infantry. He fought with that unit throughout the war, being mustered out in 1866 at Cairo, Ill. Shortly afterward he came to Minnesota, settling near Fergus Falls. For years he was a farmer and gardener there. His health beginning to fall about three years ago, he came to Minneapolis to live with his daughter, Mrs. George Lewis, 2709 Twenty-ninth Av. S. He died June 25 in the city hospital and was buried in Layman cemetery.—Minneapolis Journal. Mrs. Mary White Ovington, noted author and one of the leading women of the country, is speaking in Western cities for the N. A. A. C. P. M. PROF. LAWRENCE C. JONES. YOUNG EDUCATOR ON NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA CIRCUIT. Prof. L. C. Jones, principal of Piney Woods Industrial School at Braxton Miss., spoke at the Chautauqua at Anoka, Minn., on June 27. Much favorable comment was made on his ad dress. Prof. Jones is accompanied by the celebrated Williams' Jubilee Singers. They have an extensive itinerary and are appearing in many important cities in the Chautauqua circle in the Northwest. Prof. Jones addressed the State Federated Women's Clubs last week in St Paul, and received an ovation. TO FIGHT UNTIL WORLD IS FREE TO FIGHT UNTIL WORLD IS FREE President Wilson Pledges the United States and Allies to No Compromise Chief Executive Forcibly Outlines Aims for Which America and Associates Will Not Sheathe the Sword Until They Are Accomplished. Washington, July 5.—In his Fourth of July address at Mount Vernon, President Wilson said: Washington, July 5.—President Wilson in his Fourth of July address at Mount Vernon said: Gentlemen of the diplomatic corps and my fellow citizens: I am happy to draw apart with you to this quiet place of old counsel in order to speak a little of the meaning of this day of our nation's independence. The place seems very still and remote. It is as serene and untouched by the hurry of the world as it was in those great days long ago when General Washington was here and held leisurely conference with the men who were to be associated with him in the creation of a nation. From these gentle slopes they looked up upon the world and saw it whole, saw it with the light of the future upon it, saw it with modern eyes that turned away from a past which men of liberated spirits could no longer endure. It is for that reason that we cannot feel even here, in the immediate presence of this sacred tomb, that this is a place of death. It was a place of achievement. A great promise that was meant for all mankind was here given plan and reality. The associations by which we are here surrounded are the inspiriting associations of that noble death which is only a glorious consummation. From this green hillside we also ought to be able to see with comprehending eyes the world that lies about us and should conceive anew the purposes that must set men free. It is significant—significant of their own character and purpose and of the influences they were setting afoot—that Washington and his associates, like the barons at Runnymede, spoke and acted, not for a class, but for a people. It has been left for us to see to it that it shall be understood that they spoke and acted not for a single people only, but for all mankind. They were thinking, not of themselves and of the material interests which centered in the little group of landowners and merchants, and men of affairs with whom they were accustomed to act, in Virginia and the colonies to the north and south of her, but of a people which wished to be done with classes and special interests and the authority of men whom they had not themselves chosen to rule over them. Lofty Inspiration Found. They entertained no private purpose, desired no peculiar privilege. They were consciously planning that men of every class should be free, and America a place to which men out of every nation might resort who wished to share with them the rights and privileges of free men. And we take our cue from them—do we not? We intend what they intended. We here in America believe our participation in this present war to be only the fruitage of what they planted. Our case differs from theirs only in this, that it is our inestimable privilege to concert with men out of every nation what shall make not only the liberties of America secure but the liberties of every other people as well. We are happy in the thought that we are permitted to do what they would have done had they been in our place. There must now be settled once for all what was settled for America in the great age upon whose inspiration we draw today. This is surely a fitting place from which calmly to look out upon our task, that we may fortify our spirits for its accomplishment. And this is the appropriate place from which to avow, alike to the friends who look on and to the friends with whom we have the happiness to be associated in action, the faith and purpose with which we act. There Can Be Only One End. This, then, is our conception of the great struggle in which we are engaged. The plot is written plain upon every scene and every act of the supreme tragedy. On the one hand stand the peoples of the world—not only the peoples actually engaged, but many others also who suffer under mastery but cannot act, peoples of many races and in every part of the world—the people of stricken Russia, still among the rest, though they are for the moment unorganized and helpless. Opposed to them, masters of many armies, stand an isolated, friendless group of governments who speak no common purpose but only selfish ambitions of their own by which none can profit but themselves, and whose peoples are fuel in their hands, governments which fear their people and yet are for the time their sovereign lords, making every choice for them and disposing of their lives and fortunes as they will, as well as of the lives and fortunes of every people who fall under their power—governments clothed with the strange trappings and the primitive authority of an age that is altogether alien and hostile to our own. The past and the present are in deadly grapple and the peoples of the world are being done to death between them. There can be but one issue. The settlement must be final. There can be no compromise. No half-way decision would be tolerable. No half-way decision is conceivable. Why U. S. and Allies Are Fighting. These are the ends for which the associated peoples of the world are fighting and which must be conceded them before there can be peace. First—The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and on its single choice disturb the peace of the world, or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence. Second—The settlement of every question, whether of territory or of sovereignty, of economic arrangement, or of political relationship, upon the basis of the free acceptance of that settlement by the people immediately concerned, and not upon the basis of the material interest or advantage of any other nation or people which may desire a different settlement for the sake of its own exterior influence or mastery. Third—The consent of all nations to be governed in their conduct towards each other by the same principles of honor and of respect for the common law of civilized society that govern the individual citizens of all modern states in their relations with one another; to the end that all promises and covenants may be sacredly observed, no private plots or conspiracies hatched, no selfish injuries wrought with impunity, and a mutual trust established upon the handsome foundation of a mutual respect for right. Fourth—The establishment of an organization of peace which shall make it certain that the combined power of free nations will check every invasion of right and serve to make peace and justice the more secure by affording a definite tribunal of opinion to which all must submit and by which every international readjustment that cannot be amicably agreed upon by the peoples directly concerned shall be sanctioned. Deathless Effort Against Foe. These great objects can be put into a single sentence: What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind. These great ends cannot be achieved by debating and seeking to reconcile and accommodate what statesmen may wish, with their projects for balances of power and of national opportunity. They can be realized only by the determination of what the thinking peoples of the world desire, with their longing hope for justice and for social freedom and opportunity. I can fancy that the air of this place carries the accents of such principles with a peculiar kindness. Here were started forces which the great nation against which they were primarily directed at first regarded as a revolt against its rightful authority, but which it has long since seen to have been a step in the liberation of its own people as well as of the people of the United States, and I stand here now to speak—speak proudly and with confident hope—of the spread of this revolt, this liberation, to the great stage of the world itself. The blinded rulers of Prussia have roused forces they knew little of—forces which, once roused, can never be crushed to earth again; for they have at their heart an inspiration and a purpose which are deathless and of the very stuff of triumph. To Speed Work on Warships. Washington, July 5.—Steps to expedite as much as possible construction of the remaining 18 vessels, including battle cruisers and superdreadnoughts of the 156 authorized in the three year naval building program, approved by Congress two years ago, have been taken by the Navy department. This was disclosed by Secretary Dantols in a statement reviewing the provisions of the $1,600,000,000 naval appropriation bill recently passed by Congress and which was signed by President Wilson. Treasury Certificates Issued. Washington. July 5.—Offering of a second block of $750,000,000 treasury certificates of indebtedness at 4 1/2 per cent was announced by the Treasury department in preparation for the fourth Liberty Loan, which will be floated in October. The second issue of certificates, the Treasury announced, will be offered on the same condition as the first, will be dated July 9 and payable November 7. Washington, D. C., July 1.—Colonel Charles Young, of the United States Army, who has been stationed at his home in Wilberforce, Ohio, since his retirement from active military service, was a caller at the War Department this week. He was presented to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker by Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant. Denver, Col., June 28.—From a childhood of slavery in a southern cotton field to genuine honors in death, signaled by the body reposing in state for forty-eight hours, while a thousand white persons filed past to pay tribute is a far swing. There is really little that Julia Greeley did not have in the eighty years of her life. A solemn requiem high mass was sung in Sacred Heart cathedral for the much loved woman. The Rev. Father McDonnell of Sacred Heart was the celebrant, and acting with him as subdeacon was Prof. John Conway, whom the old woman had nursed when he was a baby. * * * Local Race Man in Casualty List. Pittsburgh, Pa., June 28.—News has just reached us of the death of William Wood, a local race man, of 1847 Linton avenue, who fell in France, mortally wounded, for the sake of democracy. Negro British Subjects Enroll in Large Numbers in Philadelphia for War Service Philadelphia, June 28.—Negro British subjects to the number of 20 per week are being enrolled for service at the British recruiting office, Sixteenth and Chestnut streets, according to information received at the office today. An average of 10 per day, principally those from the Bermuda and Bahama Islands, have applied for enlistment during the past several weeks, and these have been examined and data regarding them recorded. None of these, however, were enlisted until the order to that effect calling for Negroes to be enrolled was received. Young Girl Wins Writing Honors. Omaha, Neb., June 28.—Alice Watson, eighth grade graduate of Howard Kenned's school and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Watson, 2925 Grant street, is the champion writer in the Omaha grade schools, according to awards announced last week, by J. A. Savage, writing supervisor. Theater Manager Donates Freely. Philadelphia, Pa., June 28.—John T. Gibson, owner and manager of Gibson's New Standard Theater, turned over all of the proceeds of his theater on Saturday, June 22, and also on Thursday, June 27, to the Mercy Hospital's base hospital funds for wounded soldiers at Fifty-fifth street and Woodland avenue, the largest base hospital for our wounded in the country. Placed Ban on the Exhibition of the "Birth of a Nation" and All Similar Plays. Charleston, W. Va., June 22.—The Executive State Council of Defense, Wednesday, placed a ban on the exhibition of "The Birth of a Nation" and all similar plays in this state during the period of the war. The action of the state council cane as a sequel to the passage of a resolution by the McDowell County Auxiliary Council of Defense protesting against the showing of "The Birth of a Nation." The McDowell County Council, composed of colored citizens of that county and one of the units of the State Auxiliary Advisory Council, of which J. C. Glmer is secretary, set forth that the attraction is one "calculated to arouse hatred and prejudice between the white and Negro races of the state, and likely to hinder and retard the proper co-operation between the races in promoting the greatest efficiency in war work of all kinds." Mrs. Marguerite Fields-Lee appeared in recital in Des Moines on July 2. (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Jean Coleman looked up as Thomas Waring came into the office. He was half an hour late and there was something unusual in his manner. "Miss Coleman," he began abruptly, "I'm going to get married. I'm going to be called in the next draft and I want something to leave behind me—someone, I should say." The stenographer looked up quickly and smiled slightly. "Nice for the girl," she remarked noncommittally. "I realize that, but she doesn't have to do it unless she wants to. I intend to make it perfectly clear. And that's why I came to you for advice about the matter—you are so sensible. I knew you could help me. I'm going to advertise in a matrimonial journal and I'd like you to see the applicant I think the best before I accept her—will you?" It was almost too much, but Jean was equal to the occasion. Her sense of humor asserted itself and she laughed merrily. "I'll do all I can," she assured him. "Report to me in a week and tell me your progress. Good luck to you. I have to get back to work now so you'd better run along." Tom Waring went to his own desk and pondered on the peculiarities of women. He knew Jean would help him but he did think she might have been a little more interested and not so amused. Her eyes—wonderful eyes she had, too—had twinkled all the time he talked, and he was really very serious. He was also very lonely and his story about wanting someone to leave behind him had been put rather cold-bloodedly because he did not find it easy to say exactly what he meant to Jean. She probably thought him foolish enough already. So he wrote a satisfactory advertisement of his intentions, put it in the paper, and waited for developments with some consternation. During the week that followed he had sixty-five applications. Widows, orphans and maldens read the welcome notice, and he was pursued by thin women, fat women, ugly women and foolish women; but the charming, sweet and perfect young creature for w. f. ross Perfect Young creature. whom he longed did not appear. The majority of them were middle-aged, and few at all good looking. Discouraged and tired out, at the end of three days he dropped into a chair beside Jean Coleman's desk, just after five o'clock. There was no one else in the office. "Well, what luck?" she asked him cheerfully, noticing his defected air. "I'm disgusted—utterly disgusted—I guess I'll never be married. I didn't know there were so many women in this city who wanted husbands. There isn't a single one I could ever learn to love, even if my life depended on it." "People don't generally have to learn to love," ventured Jean. "How do you know so much about it, Miss Coleman?" Jean blushed and began to straighten up her desk. "I learn a lot by observation, Sir Benedict, and just now I must leave you and go to dinner. Your week isn't up and I told you to come to me at the end of a week and we'd see about the bride. Three days is not half long enough, and now you've started it, you've got to see this matrimonial venture through, just to show it's not a joke." Waring agreed grudgingly, and together they left the office. Just outside he had a sudden inspiration. "Won't you go to dinner with me?" he asked her. "We could go somewhere where they dance if you like to—it would be great fun if you would." For a second Jean seemed to hesitate, and then replied somewhat briskly: "I'm sorry, but I have an engagement. You go and see if you've had any more answers and come to me again in four days. Good-night." Warring felt his spirits sink below zero. She talked like a doctor applying some awful medicine," he said to himself, "Who the deuce was she going to dinner with, anyway?" When Jean left him she went directly to a nearby lunch counter, where she dined in state with—herself. But Waring did not know that. He passed an uneventful and very unpleasant evening by himself and finally came to the conclusion that matrimony was a deep problem to be carefully considered. And he wondered what Jean Coleman knew about being in love, anyway—evidently something. He determined to see the thing through honestly, however, and wearly wrote to and interviewed a few more applicants. At the end of that time he was sure of two things—he did not want to marry any of the women he had seen, but he did want to marry Jean Coleman. He began to wonder why he had not found it out before. She probably wouldn't look at him now that he had made such an idiot of himself. He was glad he hadn't told anyone else but her, anyway—he wasn't proud of his venture. The door bell rang penetratingly and he gronned hopelessly. Nevertheless, he was resigned, and when his landlady, Mrs. Morley, ushered in a velled, slight little woman in a dark suit, he was prepared for the worst. "I saw your advertisement in the paper," she began in a clear, strangely familiar voice. "I regret to say I'm no longer in the market," he put in hurriedly, before she had a chance to say anything more. "Oh, I didn't come to apply," she assured him hastily, "I only came to tell you you're all wrong about getting a wife this way. I thought maybe you didn't have anyone to advise you, I'm very old"—her voice belled the word—and I thought I might save you from doing something foolish. Please don't marry in haste—you'll surely meet someone some day who will make your waiting worth while. You can't just make yourself love people, you know, even if you are married, and you mustn't make such a dreadful mistake and ruin your life. Even if you are going away, don't jump into marriage hastily—please believe what I say." In her earnestness and excitement the woman had quite forgotten herself. She was actually pleading with him to save himself, and he was listening, fascinated to what she had to say. When she had finished she stood with her hands pressed together, and he could feel that she was looking at him through the still lowered vell. Suddenly she seemed to recall herself and, with a quick movement, walked towards the door. Waring sprang after her and seized her by the arm. "Let me go!" she commanded him. "I must go at once. I only came because I thought I might help you—I don't want anyone to see my face." "I must," he insisted, and before she had a chance to struggle further, he threw the heavy vell back from her hat. Then he stood fixed. "Jean1" he cried, and gazed into a flushed and tear-stained face. "I might have known it was you; no one else could be so wonderful," he added, still devouring her with his eyes. "I never meant you to know," she said, sinking into the first chalr, "but I couldn't bear to have you marry one of those applicants—it was too much. I never thought you'd be so rude and lift my veil. It was foolish of me to come—please let me go now." "Yes, I'm going to take you home, but not until I know who you went out to dinner with on Thursday. I've thought about it ever since." "Thank goodness! I want to know if you will go out to dinner with me tomorrow night, and every night after that for the rest of your life? I love you—I have for a long time, but I didn't know it and was coming to tell you about it tomorrow. I've been a fool but I'll promise to be wiser after this if you'll only take me." He was kneeling beside her now, and both her hands were in his. "Oh, I do love you," said Jean, softly. "Better than anyone in the world, and if you approve of me really, I'll answer your advertisement tonight. You're right sure I'll do?" "So sure that we'll go out now and have our first dinner!" And together they ran hand in hand down the stairs, laughing as they went. Varieties of Spruce. There are about 15 varieties of spruce, of which the Sitka spruce is the most valuable. Norway spruce, the commonest, so-called because it forms the chief lumber supply of Norway, is also found in middle Europe and in Siberia. Sitka spruce grows on the Pacific coast from northern California to Alaska; it is only found in coast regions, never inland. It grows easily to 150 feet in height, and frequently to more than 300 feet with a diameter of seven or eight feet at 100 feet from the base. In the islands of southeastern Alaska trees have been noted more than 200 feet tall and 25 feet in diameter four or five feet from the base. Shot at a Venture When the result of a certain horse race reached an English mining village, one of the collers remarked to his chum: "Ah've made a nice little dinner out of that race, and by sheer luck, too. Ah chalked all t' names o' t' horses on a revolving target, an' took it into a field and got my own woman to shoot an arrow at it while it wor spinning." "An' it stuck into the winner, did it?" asked his friend. "No, it didn't," said the coller. "It stuck into a fine fat duck that wor waddling along at t' side o' t' field, and we had it for dinner today wf' sage an' onions!" NANCY International Film Service Street Scene in Nancy. NANCIF, the former capital of Lorraine, which was left to France by the Treaty of Frankfurt in 1871, and the chief city behind the sector which the American troops took over from the French, is of historical interest, writes Mme. Marie de Perrott in the New York Tribune. Illustrious at the time of the dukes of Burgundy, their last sion, Charles the Bold, came to a miserable, end there. Thence the three last "Roman emperors" went to be crowned in Vienna. In 1914 another German emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, believed that Nancy would fall three days after the hostilities began and, according to his habit, was already dressed for the part—had his face made up, like the actor he is, for a triumphant entry. But he had reckoned without the defense of the Grand Couronne, and above all without the indomitable will of a nation. As I write I see once again before me the panorama I know so well. From the Plateau Haye there lies before me a view of a long stretch of close roofs, towers, spires, churches, high iron frameworks. This is Nancy itself, united to its suburbs by secluded, shaded avenues. In the distance sparkles the lake of the Selle, which forms a boundary, for it is German today. To my right glides softly the Moselle, no longer dashing impetuously through rough mountains and thick woods, but as far as Metz and Coblenz bordered by vineyards, already so famous in the Rome of old, where big clusters of purple or golden grapes reflect in the water their color and light. Close by the small River Amezule, a tributary of the Meurthe, is dominated by the abrupt hill of Aance and the woods of Champenoux, where so many of our brave dead are lying, for this was the theater of the first German attack in 1914. All those who have visited Nancy before 1914 will remember its churches and public monuments. The ducal chapel, one of the gems of the world's architecture, has been, ever since the eleventh century, the burial place of those proud rivals of the kings of France, the dukes of Burgundy, whose great ambition was to become rulers themselves and make of France and Belgium one kingdom. The great French revolution dragged their bodies from their leaden coffins to put them into the graveyard, but the restoration of 1814 gave them back their legitimate place. The last 40 years and the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany have bestowed upon Nancy, which was left to us, great importance. It has taken more a literary cachet, as well as one of elegance, and become the intellectual brain and the center of spiritual influence of eastern France. Its faculties, grouped in independent bodies, deserve their honorary title and are real universities, attracting students from all parts of the world. As to the professors, their renown far surpasses the narrow boundaries of a provincial town, la province, as we disdainfully call all that does not belong to Paris. Its industries, also, until the great war, were in a most flourishing state; most of the manufacturers and workmen of Metz and Strasbourg took up their abode here after 1871, proudly styling themselves emigres, to show that they had left their homes to avoid German rule, bringing with their skill and activity great prosperity to the former capital of Lorraine. I remember as a small child during the siege of Strasbourg playing sometimes in the sheltered garden of a brewer at Schlitgheim, and was much pleased to find, twenty years or more later, that he had installed a brewery at Nancy on a really gigantic scale. Cabbage pickled in salt, which is a national dish of the Alsatians, is fabricated here for the whole of Alsace and is sent all over Europe. Noted for Many Arts and Crafts. Embroidered and the making of boots and straw hats keep thousands of hands busy in Nancy, which centrals izes the work of the villages and hamlets surrounding it. Before the war the yearly export of boots and shoes amounted to over $4,000,000, divided among 25 manufacturers. They were of a common variety, sewn by machine, generally with nailed soles, and were almost solely destined for export. But the chief industry of Nancy is the making of straw hats, which once flourished all over Alsace, and after our defeats migrated to Nancy. In the town itself, as I saw during my late visit, most home workers are employed at making hats, while the large factories often employed as many as 3,000 work people—and two thirds of these were women. This trade, of which Nancy has the monopoly in France, has been a great loss for Germany, especially for the Rhine and Saar provinces, where, strangely enough, most of the towns continue to work for Nancy. The plaits, however, which serve to make straw hats, are quite an industry in themselves. In their raw state they come chiefly from China, and are sent to Italy and Switzerland for the bleaching process, whence they are imported into France. England, which is the chief intermediary, yearly imported-half a million tons of plaits. But even here Nancy was making great progress before the war, and with groups which had formed in Lyons and Caussade was trying to make herself independent of both England and Switzerland. Straw Hat and Printing Press. The trade of straw hats gives rise to many others, for Nancy, after having received the raw material, turns out every kind of hat trimmed and ready for export, and for this accessories of all kinds are needed. What struck me most when I walked through the large workshops were thousands and thousands of bell-shaped hats, put one into the other, forming immense pyramids. It was the Panama hat, the light, white head cover which is so great a favorite and almost endless in its wear. These hats in their primitive state are the product of the Bourbon palm or latania, and are sent by the republic of Ecuador. The dressing of the Panama hats is one of the great industries of Nancy, and it is all the more important at the present time when our women have been compelled to take the place of men, for this is a light industry, well within their powers. The printing works of Berger-Levrault form one of the most interesting features of Nancy. They are famed not only all through France, but I may say the world. Here is the printing done of almost all the branches of the French government, and the proprietors are the publishers for the ministries of war, finance, police and many other departments, for which they provide millions of copies. Happiness is never more real, more satisfying, than when founded on clean-heartedness. The possessor of a clean conscience sees more beauty in the world around him, because he looks through clearer eyes. He has faith in his friends, because it is so easy for the one who is straight himself to believe the same of others. He gets the best out of life because he unconsciously attracts it. Right living, by whatever name you may call it, has its own reward right here on this earth of ours.—Girls' Companion. A camp fire for cooking will burn with a steady glow if a small bag of charcoal is added to the wood after it has a good start. One successful camper builds his fire in a small trench about 18 inches long and a few inches wide and deep. Two flat stones placed across the top for the frying pan and kettle give an even heat. Meat, potatoes, corn and apples can be roasted by holding them over the fire on the ends of green, pointed sticks. An old newspaper is useful in starting the fire, and plenty of matches should be at hand.—World's Chronicle. Happiness That Satisfies Camp Fire Hints WE ALL SPEAK IT Expert in English Composition May Have Had Some Criticism to Make But She Could Not Misunderstand the Meaning. The members of the English class had filed out of the recitation room, with the exception of Gridley, who, by special request, was now standing at the teacher's desk. To the casual observer, Gridley was a boy of about fifteen, with a wiry frame, a well-shaped head thatched with straw colored hair, a large mouth and gray-blue eyes. "I am surprised that you should offer this as an exercise in English composition." Miss Stanhope said with a note of sarcasm in her voice, pointing to several sheets of paper that lay on her desk. "You told me to take any subject that I was interested in, if it was worth while, and then put plenty of time into it, and I did. It took me more than two hours," protested Gridley. "I should hardly call the subject worth while," began Miss Stanhope. "It was the best game there's been this season," said Gridley. "We will let that pass," the teacher continued. "What I object to is the language that you have used. What am I to make of such expressions as these: 'The south paw artist,' 'a free ticket to the initial bag,' 'Duffy was nailed at the plate,' 'two of the visitors crossed the pan?' Really, Gridley, do you call English?" Gridley's mouth widened in a grin. "I don't know about English, Miss Stanhope, but I guess it's United States," he said. Miss Stanhope smiled herself, although she would have preferred not to. She took her specialty, which was English, very seriously, and it palmed her when her pupils did not. "It might be Choctaw, as far as I am concerned," she said. "It conveys absolutely no meaning." "Why, didn't you ever see a baseball game?" exclaimed Gridley. "No, I believe not," she admitted, and she perceived at once that her confession of ignorance was far more interesting to Gridley than any display of her knowledge had ever been. The happy thought occurred to her take advantage of the fact. "No," she repeated, "I know nothing about baseball, but I should like to learn. Suppose you try being the teacher and see if you can make this all clear to me. You will have to begin at the beginning and be very patient with me." "Do you mean it?" said Gridley, with the joy of the enthusiast in his eyes. the joy of the enthusiast in his eyes. Then for more than an hour he expoured baseball, while the English teacher faithfully groped her way to an understanding. "You must think me very stupid," she said more than once, and Gridley, although he did not dispute her, redoubled his efforts to express his meaning in words fitted to his pupil's capacity. At the end of the hour Miss Stanhope was pretty well versed in the rudiments of the game, and, incidentally, Gridley had gained a little in English and a good deal in his liking for the teacher. "I'll hand in a better composition next time," he assured her as he finally went his way. The promised composition was duly received, although after the lapse of some four years, and it came from "somewhere in France." "Perhaps you have forgotten me," Gridley wrote, "but I haven't forgotten you, or the hour that we spent one Friday afternoon, going over my baseball 'piece.' I little thought that I should not see you again, but we moved from the city quite unexpectedly the next week. Now I am farther away than ever from the old school. But here is the composition that I promised to pass in, not about baseball this time, but about the big war over here. I'm in a harder school than Bayport High and there's no chance to play hooky. But I'm glad to be here and it's up to me to make good." Miss Stanhope accepted the statement, not for its elegance but as evidence of the serious purpose of Gridley—little Gridley of the straw-colored hair and the contagious grin. "There will be something doing when we fellows get into the game," wrote Gridley, "and, take it from me, we will hand the kaiser his all right." The thought was badly expressed but Miss Stanhope thrilled at the spirit behind the words. "It won't be long now before it is all over and I am back in little old America again," the letter went on. The tears came to Miss Stanhope's eyes. "Ah, soldier boy," she thought, "it is well that you over there have faith, while so many of us back here have only hope. Perhaps your faith will help to make your prophecy come true." "I guess," said Gridley, at the end, "that this won't take a very high mark as English, but," and the teacher, although her own eyes were a little dim, could almost see the twinkle in his gray-blue ones as he wrote the words, "perhaps it will get by as 'United States.'"—Youth's Companion. There Are Others. "My husband is sure some paradox." "How's that?" "He's so tight with his loose change."—Florida Times-Union. AMERICAN IS NOT SONGSTER Seems That Real Musical Instinct Has Yet to Be Awakened in the United States. The last quarter of a century the general feeling has spread abroad that America was quite a musical nation, and it is true that in the large cities of the eastern seaboard and quite far into the middle West there is a good deal of listening to music in the form of opera and concerts, given, for the most part, by imported musicians; but when we reach the great heart of the country we find that the natural instincts of the people are almost entirely starved, or at any rate, very poorly nourished. For a musical nation is not one which merely listens to music made by others, any more than a people is athletic if, instead of exercising themselves, they watch others indulge in gymnastics. A musical people is one which considers music such an 'indispensable food and tonic for their own spirits and imaginations that they sing and play in every activity of daily life just as freely and naturally as they laugh and speak. For many centuries this has been true of all the great European nations—the Italians, French, Scotch, Irish, Scandinavians, Russians and others—and the result is the great body of folk song, and folk dance which is the priceless heritage of all these nations. Just why the American has not yet become a singing animal (as Aristotle said everyone was a social animal) is a difficult matter to explain, although, doubtless, if sufficient time were taken, reasonable causes might be suggested; but, at any rate, it is a fact. Surely one of the most direct products of this war will be the bringing home to the whole body politic of the value of music, for by means of the stress of war which is bringing the whole country together, a love of music may be carried into the most remote parts of the country. Good regimental bands have always furnished one of the most sympathetic bonds between the body politic and the government of any given country, and we earnestly hope that more and more, both during the war and after it, we shall have in America a number of such bands which will consider it, their pleasure and duty to play at all public and patriotic meetings, especially on national holidays, thus impressing upon all citizens the stimulating effect of martial music. In a number of the camps in the middle West and in Texas we were told by officers and song leaders that there were drafted men who had come in from remote towns and settlements who had never seen any musical instruments, such as a planoforte and violin, and who had no idea that men could make pleasing sounds with their vocal organs in connection with the uttering of words. Economical Husband. The conversation in the lobby of a Washington hotel turned to a subject of war-time economy when a fitting anecdote was related by Congressman Porter H. Dale of Vermont. Recently the Brown's moved into a new house, and not liking the wallpaper in the dining room, Mrs. Brown decided to have it repapered at her own expense. The work was done while Brown was at the office. "I want you to look at the dining room, Jimmy," said little wifey when the old man returned at the dinner hour and was proudly led into that apartment. "How do you like it?" "I like the paper all right," replied Brown, just a little emotionally, "but why in the world did you use paste in putting it on?" "Paste!" was the wondering rejoiner of the good woman. "How else could I have put it on?" "You should have put it on with tacks," declared the economical husband. "You don't suppose we are going to live in this house forever, do you?"—Philadelphia Telegraph. Munition Brass to Cost Less. Penetration of a new type of electric melting furnace that will reduce materially the cost of making brass for munitions, devised by H. W. Gillett, a government chemist, was announced by the bureau of mines. Patents have been assigned to Secretary of the Interior Lane as trustee. Cornell university and brass manufacturers were among those who assisted during five years of development of the device. It is intended to supplant open crucibles in which zinc and copper are melted by fuel heat under present manufacturing methods. Navy Superstition. A visitor on a British battleship was dining with a group of officers when his fork accidentally struck a glass tumbler. As the glass resounded the officers shouted as one man, "Hun." On asking for an explanation the visitor was told that the ringing of a glass meant bad luck. One officer declared that on one ship he formerly commanded every time a glass was rung a man fell overboard. This is why officers now cry "Hun" when a table accident occurs, they hoping to transfer their bad luck to the enemy. Population of the Earth. In 1787 the population of the earth, according to Busching, was about 1,000,000,000; in 1800, according to Fabri and Stein, only 900,000,000; in 1833, according to Stein and Horschelman, 872,000,000. In 1858 Dietricl estimated it at 1,266,000,000 and Kolb, in 1865, at 1,220,000,000. According to the latest calculations the earth is inhabited by 2,400,000,000 happy (?) human belenga—New York Tribune. eh ee cues) ee ie Re CS atta be RES Mae clh aM a rts tas esc di Mapes Soe OR a ui MOR eee ie ale re eS see Ree ns eae elas Wiuaaistac ea eiea ots eam ep 7 ‘ XX. » = eR my , J REAR OE ICED SEES ESS ne ’ Li, a eee ce: 5 5 le RE SG a KT me arate ee Nar tomer eve) 5: PUN eh = Rect Ace oes I NR SN, co Br ged ees & . ° BS NN eg 74 SES eaten en Rss ces. 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ECENTLY we have had another ree ‘ord of German barbarity in the tor- pedolng of the hospital ship Rewa, made dramatic because the missile Y of destruction struck her where the red cross of mercy was ‘painted on her side, as if it were a bull’seye for just such murderous shots. I was AR uU for just such murderous shots. I was speaking to a merchant ship captain about it and asked him why he had given up the command of a certain British hospital ship, a berth which to my landsman’s eyes had seemed to be the easiest on the sea today in spite of instances like the Rewa. ' He didn't look at me as he answered. He looked far out through his cabin port at the tower of the ‘Woolworth’ building. He finally told:me that in spite of the danger {t was easter on him to take’a merchant ship or a transport through the war zone than to have his heart torn asunder by the suffer- ing of humanity he had seen on hospital ships; men gassed and writhing in agony; men wounded ‘or mutilated out of sheer deviltry. Frightfulness— waste of manhood because the kaiser wanted to onlinate the world—that’s what he saw on a hos- pital ship; and when his ship of mercy, like the ‘Rewa, was torpedoed without warning and he man- ‘aged to beachyher before she sank he simply went to pleces, as have many hospital ship commanders ‘before him, Every hospital ship sunk meaas that the allies must replace it with a ship which has been carry- ing food and munitions. ‘That is Germany's game. Finding her submarine warfare was not succeeding as she had hoped, she lessens the tonnage of her enemies by fouler means still and covers up her dastardly motives by officially saying: “The German government can no longer suffer that the British\government should forward troops and munitions to the main theater of war under cover of the Red Gross, and it therefore declares that from now on no enemy hospital ship will be allowed in the sea zone comprised between a line drawn from Flamborough Head to Terschelling on the one hand and Ushant and Land’s End on the ‘other, If in this sea zone after the’ expiry of the stated time any enemy hospital ship is encountered it will be considered as a vessel of war and {t will be attacked without further ceremony.” + And knowing full well that no allled hospital ships were carrying either troops, munitions or anything which they shouldn't in thelr garb of mercy, Germany has lessened tonnage by sinking the hospital ship Britannic (50,000 tons), Asturias (1,400 tons), Gloucester Castle (7,900 tons), Donegal (1,997 tons), Salta (7,284 tons), Lanfranc {@275 tons), Dover Castle (8,260 tons), Rewa (7,267 tons), Glenart Castle (9,000 tons), Llan- dovey Castle (10,000 tons), and others amounting to over 200,000 tons. Germany has already begun paving the way to Jessen American tonnage by sinking our hospital sbips. whenever we get any. On May 1, 1918, she officially notified the world that “American_aviators are: crossing to Europe a8 members of the Red Cross on hospital ships. This misuse of the Red Cross appears from documentary evidence found on American aviators who have \been shot down, An American brought down in {the region of the army of General von Hutier car- |ried a pass which referred to him as a member of the American ambulance for France. “Prisoners openly admit that it is the general practice for aviators to enter American ambulance service for their passage to Europe and to cross on ‘hospital ships. After they are landed in France they immediately transfer to the automobile corps ‘and thence into the afr service. “The captured aviator referred to had, however, transferred directly from the ‘ambulance service into the air service. Another carried a certificate au which the dates of several transfers were off inlly indicated.” “I Bxcept for the naval hospital ship Solace and ‘hospital yacht Surf attached to our fleet, and two {Ward liners being converted into the hospital ships (Comfort and Mercy, solely for the use of the navy and at this writing not yet In service, the United States has had no hospital ships at all. Conse- quently it would be impossible for American avia- itors to cross on such ships as Germany states they have, The aviators which Germany refers to as having crossed to France for Red Cross work crossed at thelr own expense on regular passenger we : ma 7 : >» ships before we entered the war and were driving neutral ambulances, When we entered the war, naturally they weren't going to return to the United States to enlist when they could enlist in their country’s military forces in France and get at punishing the ‘Hun earlier than the fellows at home. ‘These captured Amerl- ean aviators Germany speaks about apparently had on them certificates of service they had rendered while driving American neutral ambulances. ‘As usual, Germany has distorted the truth. In this instance she simply wishes to give a semblance of excuse for the attempts she 1s golng to make to lessen the number of ships available to transport our boys overseas, because every hospital ship sunk has to be replaced with some ship in military or civil service. ‘The first hospital ship the Huns sank was the Portugal, flying the Russian flag. She was anchored oft Rizek, a Black sea port, when at about elght o'clock on the morning of March 17, 1916, a periscope was seen approaching. ‘The Portugal had no wounded on board—simply her hospital staff, which included many nuns and her full crew.” The Russian government had notified the central pow- ers that the Portugal was a hospital ship and had obtained from them a recognition of her status. She was properly marked under the ruling of both the Hague and Geneva conventions. * Of course, nobody thought for one instant that the submarine would attack the Portugal, and there was no panic until, when about 200 feet away, the submarine fired a torpedo which missed its mark. Then the beast circled around the anchored ship of mercy and fired a second torpedo at close range.° The second missile struck the Portugal in the engine room. There was a terrific explosion within her and the hu!) broke in two. ‘ ‘The loss of life on the Portugal was 21 nuns, who were acting as nurses; 24 others of the Red Cross staff, as well as 21 of the Russian crew and 19 of the French, totaling 85, all of whom were ruthlessly murdered without any reason whatso- ever. ‘The next torpedoing of note was that of the new White Star liner Britannic, the largest British ship afloat and one which the Germans wished to remove from competing with thelr ships at the end of the war. The Britannic was sunk in the Egean sea, and that but 50 lives were lost out of the 1,100 wounded and large crew she had.nboard is remarkable, considering she went down in 53 minutes. A German newspaper, the Kleler Zel- tung, was the first to admit publicly that a torpedo and not a mine had caused the disaster, und fur- ther stated: “The Britannic was transporting fresh troops for our enemfes. If she had not been doing so our sub- marine would never, of course, have torpedoed her” ‘On November 24, 1916, shortly after the Britan- nic was sunk, the British admiralty published a complete list of all persons on board. There were no troops, Germany continued her propaganda to dull the mind of the world as to her real intent in sinking hospital ships by asserting that she had conclusive proof ‘that in several instarfees enemy hospital ships had often been misused for the trans- port of troops and munitions. Under the prinel- ples of the Geneva convention governing maritime war belligerents have the right to stop and search hospital ships. Germany never utilized this right. Evidently it was easter to sink the ship outright and trust the world to believe the imperial Ger- man word, The big Asturias, commianded by Captain Laws, known to many Americans who traveled to Ber- muda, had her first experience with a U-boat on February 1, 1915. She was the star hospital ship of the fleet, for at that time neither the Britannic nor Aquitania was doing hospital work. Only the prompt action of the second officer in turning the ship as he saw the torpedo saved her and the scores of wounded she had on board. Having made one miss at the Asturias, the Germans kept at it till they finally got her. The British ad- miralty announced the following: “The British hospital ship Asturias, while steam- ing with all navigating Ughts and with all the proper distinguishing Red Cross signs brilliantly iNuminated, was torpedoed without warning on the night of March 20-21 (1917). The torpedoing of this hospital ship is included in the lst of achteve- ments claimed by U-boats as reported In the Ger- man wireless press message yesterday.” ‘The Asturias didn’t sink, although 43 died In the tragedy, including two women, and 30 were Injured. he torpedo rendered her helpless, as her rudder had been carried away. Captfin Laws drove the sinking ship for shoal water. As she was off the rocky shore of Cornwall, if he did sue- ceed in beacbing her the chances of saving the ship would be slight. All Captain Laws thought of was to get her somewhere where she wouldn't sink ere her wounded had been removed. As luck would have it, the Asturias took matters into her owm hands and in the darkness missed a reef, rounded a headland and brought up on one of the few sandy beaches to be found along the Cornwall shore line. After three. years in com- mand of her, several times a week crossing the Channel and running the risk of mines, as well as seeing the agony of human beings he transported, Captain Laws, like many other hospital ship skip- pers,-collapsed. He's made several attempts to go to sea gain, but his nerve ts gone. The nation responsible for the murder of Nurse Cavell accepted the Asturias incident with com- Posure, if not with satisfaction, For the Germans stated blandly : “It would, moreover, be remarkable that the English in the case of the Asturias should have abstained from the customary procedure of using hospital ships for the transport of troops and mu- nitions.” ‘The Asturias was returning from France, That is a sufficient answer to Germany. Ten days later the Gloucester Castle was tor- pedoed without warning 1 midchannel. All the wounded were successfully removed from the ship and the casualties were five medical officers, nine nursing sisters and 38 Royal Army Medical corps men, On April 11 the Berlin official wireless again cynically published a notification that the Glouces: ter Castle was torpedoed by a U-boat, thus re moving any possible doubt in the matter. ‘Then on April 17 the hospital ships Donegal and Lanfranc were sunk by U-boats. ‘The British ad miralty announced : “The Donegal carried slightly wounded cases, all British. Of these, 29 men, as well as 12 of the crew, are missing and presumed drowned. The Lanfranc, in addition to 234 wounded British off cers and men, carried 167 wounded German pris- oners, a medical personnel of 52 and a crew of 128, Of these the following are missing and pre sumed drowned: ’ “Two wounded British officers, “Bleven wounded British, other ranks, “One R. A. M. C. staff. “Five crew. “Two wounded German officers. “Thirteen wounded German, other ranks. “One hundred’ and fifty-two wounded German prisoners were rescued by British patrol boats at the Imminent risk of being themselves torpedoed.” ‘And then on the 26th of February they sank the Glenart Castle, bound from France to England. Yes, she carried troops, but they lay in white cots within the Glenart Castle's white sides. Nice chap, Fritz, for he'd agreed to respect hospital ships if they carried a Spanish officer to guarantee their Red Cross mission. ‘The Glenart had her Spaniard ‘and he too was nearly drowned in the catastrophe. One pleasing thing about the tragedy was that It gave an American destroyer, at the risk of being herself torpedoed, a chance to do a rescue work which makes the blood run faster in one’s veins. ‘The sea wgs vile and the destroyer couldn't launch a boat. Yet as she passed men clinging to wreck- fage—men too weak to catch the Iife-lines thrown to them—American seamen jumped overboard Into iey water, swam to the poor devils and held them up till they could be rescued. Mr. Daniels, T'm glad to say, has fittingly rewarded such gal- lantry. And shortly after the Glenart Castle the big Llandovey Castle, on mercy bent, was torpedoed. She also carried a Spanish officer. I have a letter from an officer on the hospital ship Araguaya which has been transferred from passenger and food service to the work of mercy to replace lost hospital ships, and he tells me his ship 1s most par tieular about living up to the Geneva convention No nurses are carried except those who make the round trip between England and Canada. For it Canadian nurses worked thelr passage home Ger- many might say they were troop Quality, Style,’ Timely Question LN ERD aw J e | mm 4D fot A a. A j ’ y i ee by, Sah NS PY) Gi ey Gh Nae i (Opin Jr ae Sd “i J} \ 22 — | ~~ GYPSY GIRDLE GROWS INTO A BODICE; MEDICI COLLAR ARRIVES. The girdle Is shown in this afternoon frock of blue taffeta and silk voile. The bodice is slipped over the head and ends at each hip. with a stream- er, The voile is embroidered in soutache. The Medicl collar is of em- broidered net on this gown of net, which is worn over a black. satin slip. ‘The medieval chemisette is offeet by a black velvet jacket, which fastens in front with a taseel. ‘New York.—One of the several dis- cussions-which have been thrown into the modern hour—which breeds dis cussions as a field does mushrooms— is whether it is better for a woman to look for quality or for style in her clothes, notes a leading fashion correspondent. ‘The argumentative and problematt eal side of the clothes is by no means a small issue in the work of winning the war. No woman has a soul s0 dead that she does not want to con- centrate her efforts in the right direc- tion, and to bring to all the minor phases of life, which she may have heretofore waved away with a care less gesture the deep thought and high efficiency which the hour ue mands, ‘Once upon a time the talk of clothes turned only to fabrics, shaping, acces sorles and colors. ‘This was enough to gossip about, and it gave the public and the dressmakers “a lively time But we have gone upward—or down: ward, whichever one wishes to call i —in a series of spirals to another stratum of air. We are intent upon the discussion of what 1s good ot bad, what is cheap and nasty as op- posed to what is cheap and worthy tn woman's apparel. Intelligent women, and otherwise, find that the gauntlet of argument thrown into the arena {s instantly snatched up by everyone who has a voice, and the problemat teal side of war-time appareling makes an enlivening discussion that puts scandal, society and love affairs in the background. Controversy Between Quality, Style. ‘This problem, which has been pre sented to every woman during the las! six months, as to whether she should buy a gown which lasts and pay a big price for it, or buy one whfch she may discard soon, and at a much low- er price, is of high interest. It is settled by the individual and yet it is Important to the mass. ‘There is an advocate for each side In every crowd that foregathers to discuss the problem; and, more to the purpose, there are many advocates for each side in the commercial world. ‘The people who do exquisite work are loud in their claims that it 1s bet- ter to pay a high price for material and workmanship; that will last as long as economy demands, than to pay a fifth of that price for a ready-to- wear’ gown that will fall apart after a few months’ ervice. Opposing this argument, and con- ducting a brilliant and usually suc- cessful offensive, is another line, made up of those who insist that in a day lke this women prefer style to qual- ity and workmanship; that they would qather pay somewhere in the nelgh- borhood of $80 for a ready-to-wear frock that incorporates the newest fashion features and gives one a ‘smart look, even if it has to be thrown away before long. Tt has always been the method of the woman on a small income, who wishes to dress fashionably, to care ttle for quality or workmanship and spend all on style. It is for this rea- son that America presents the most brilliant and dashing conglomeration of young women in the world. The shops cater to this immense crowd, which prefers five cheap gowns that are smart to one admirable gown that is conservative. ’ | It looks now as though American women are to be divided into two campe—those"who put all thelr money Into one conservative, well-built gown that must last, and those who now and then buy frocks that are chic “and ‘that incorporate the new fashion fea- tures. Heights to Which Cheap Clothes Aspire. America learned a good trick from Paris when she arranged to have the best models instantly copled in cheap materials, and sometimes elipshod workmanship, to be sold at emall prices. It is this trick over here, however, that is the despair of the high-priced dressmakers and the delight of the shops that sell cheap clothes. ‘The dressmakers rest their increas- ing optimism concerning high-priced clothes—an optimism based on the fact that the dressmaking business has not suffered since the war—on the idea that women will always need to be fitted for good gowns. The average figure can buy the cheap gown; but the fastidious woman cannot wear it because it does not fit her, and the woman who has a figure that departs from the normal, cannot even contem- plate such a gown. However, one must say this in praise of the cheap ready-to-wear frock in America: It is cut om the most exceptionally good Ines that can be expected at such a price. Even the best workers of the Galeries La- fayette do not surpass, and some- times do not equal, the American cut- ters, who work by the hundreds on gowns that are sold by thé thousands. ‘We must have an exceedingly good national figure. ‘That is the comment of the foreigners who see our women in the rendy-to-wear, quick-to-buy, sinart-to-look-at, cheap gowns that are sold in every city on this con- tinent. Watch for Medici Collar. ‘Two women have worn French gowns with high, wired, outstanding, Medici collars of lace and tulle. Don't let this fact slip your memory for an instant, if you are yitally interested in the new things that come up sudden- ly over the horizon and promise many followers. ‘The Medict collar is a symbol of the history of human nature pressed into a few short, mad years of French Ife, It represents what the Three Feathers of Great Britain represent. It is more than a fashion; it 1s the symbol of a dynasty. ; Now and then, it has. flickered in ‘and out of fashion. It was taken up by other queens beside Catherine an@ Mary; it was worn by debutantes om stately gowns with trains a quarter of a century ago; it has been maintained in a mensure in half the courts of Europe, and it may be revived this summer. It was made of point lace, wired to Its extremest points and worn with @ black satin dinner gown that was guiltless of all trimming and recelved {ts high light from a etring of pearls. It was also worn in a black embrold- ered net gown dropped over black satin, with a curious Iittle jacket of black velvet fastened in front, below the hip-line, with a glittering tassel. ‘There are one-piece frocks creep- ing into the fashions that show the Medici collar of double tulle, hem- stitched at the edge, and there are soft volle gowns over colored taffeta that have upstanding neck ruffles of white chiffon that are deftly and carelessly held up by wires, * (Copyright, 1918, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL-NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR .....$2.00 SIX MONTHS .....$125 THREE MONTHS ......65 ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch—1 Insertion—One Dollar. Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts. We do not run free ads, or over-run the time contracted for by our ad- vertisers. We respect their right to advertise at intervals, and rather have them do so, than to run continuously an "adv." and an increasing account. Write all Checks payable to MINNEAPOLIS - MINNEA Call at 1317 6th Ave. N. on Wednesday to insure matter for publication. The Star's Phone, Hyland 1205. Send your subscription. Our prices have not changed because of the war. Let your dollar do its duty and The Star will reach a higher standard of service and better circulation. Hamlet B. Rows, Local Agent and Advertising Solicitor. ```markdown ``` "THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS THE SHIP; ALL ELSE IS THE SEA," said Frederick Douglass. Now is the most important time for Negroes to stand by the old party of Lincoln and Grant. Keep Minnesota a Republican State. Tillman is dead, but his program of discrimination against Negro citizens still lives. For that alone, he will be long remembered. Because Dr. R. S. Brown secured a leading white attorney to defend him in the District Court last week, he was classed among disloyal Negroes in an article in last week's Advocate, Montgomery's garbage-barrel publication. Dr. Brown was acquitted. He had the right to employ whom he wished. There should be no color line in business. Negroes cannot invite or promote racial prejudice. If there were any logic in the Advocate's criticism, Negroes should not be allowed to render professional, industrial or any kind of service to other races; there should be segregation and Jim Crow laws, and they should be denied their civil, social and human rights. Mutual co-operation between individuals of any race is an economic factor, protected by real courts of justice. Montgomery's article would not get the approval of the Negro attorneys of the Twin Cities, most of whom are solely dependent on their white clientage, and all of whom, at times, have business and professional relations with white people. Let us not draw the color line. Reciprocity between the races will be the salvation of the Negro. Montgomery is guilty of libel against practice. He is courting the favor of many ignorant unfortunates, like himself, who are jealous of the prosperity and progress of men and women of their race. Montgomery has caused a feeling against our race since he came here, and has done nothing to elevate the standard of his race in the community, but has lowered it to a great extent. Such "germs of degeneracy" as he, are permitted to infest our social body, because they "play the Uncle Tom" and pose as a good old darky, that they may carry out their criminal plans. FINE VERBAL OUTPUT. Congressman Pou, Democrat, North Carolina, said in debate: "As I stand here now I can see all over the South the vine-clad cabins of this kihdly race. They have their faults, but disloyalty is not among those faults. In their homes you will find a burning love of country, a burning love for the flag. From these little homes throughout the South responding to their country's call the young Negro men are now answering, 'Here; we are ready.'" Why then not enact a law that any man, white or black, who serves in the military or naval service of his country in this war, shall have the right to cast his vote in any election hereafter and to have it honestly counted? Why not a law against lynching, which is even more important to the loyal young and old "Negroes" of this country? Why not, by Presidential order, stop the numerous colonies being drawn in the governmental departments at Washington, D. C., principally, and elsewhere in the country against Afro-Americans, who are eligible to appointment to clerical positions as a result of passing civil service examinations? Some one should inform Mr. Pou that fine words are good up to a certain point. Fine acts count—Cleveland Gazette "The colored troops fought nobly." That was more than half a century ago. They "fought nobly" on the plains, in the islands of the Pacific and the Atlantic, wherever they have been called on to fight. Properly led, they are magnificent fighting men; faithful, fearless, devoted, cheerful. And now in France they are living up to the reputation they have won on other, far distinct fields. We have been told of the particularly valorous acts of two of them, Harry Johnson of Albany and Needham Roberts of Trenton, N. J. They have been enrolled among the heroes of the world and have been cited for the Crox de Guerre before the French army. They accomplished some incredible thing—fought with skill and calmness as their wounds accumulated, substituted one weapon for another as their assailants crowded about them, finally beat back a score and more of Germans before they sank unconscious at their posts as help came to them. For the arriving squads there was nothing to do except to carry them back to the lines for transport to the hospital; these two men had finished the job and Johnson's sole thought was of his duty: "Corporal London, turn out the guard!" were his first words when consciousness came back to him. They will get well of their wounds, but not as soon as they want to, and their only wish is to return to the trenches. Of them the French General, a soldier not unaccustomed to heroic and skilful military deeds, wrote to his superior: "The American report is too modest. As a result of oral information furnished to me it appears that the blacks were extremely brave and this little combat does honor to the American." If the good and the great who have preceded the hero of the present are privileged to read the citation for conspicuous bravery that mark their honorable successors, how must the shade of Robert Gould Shaw rejoice!—The New York Sun. We have never known two injustices to make anything right. The Saturday News has prospered by being as just to the white man as it has ever been to the Negro. We have never gone off half-cooked upon any proposition. Whenever we grope, we are in search of the truth. We want to be right and avoid as nearly as possible being wrong. We are not for the Negro right or wrong. We want him to be right. We complain because a majority of white people will always side with a white man when a question arises between him and one of our color; still certain colored newspapers, without making any investigation whatsoever as to the evidence, would have the entire Negro race do identically what they condemn the white people for doing. Be cause the white people do wrong is no reason why the Negroes should do wrong. The best preparedness to receive justice is to be just yourself.—Hopkinsville (Ky.) News. The following clipping is from one of the leading papers of Western Canada. WHY THIS OUTCRY AGAINST THE NEGRO? Editor, The Herald:— The attention of the readers of The Calgary Daily Herald, both broad and narrow thinkers within the city of Calgary and province of Alberta, is called to analyze the true conditions of the labor question, which is causing so much animosity by the colored men replacing the white ones in the dining car capacity. One could readily believe more antagonistic remarks could not have been anticipated had the heretofore white crews been replaced by Huns themselves. We seem to forget we are striving to maintain democracy. We also fall to view the fact that intelligence is the shaping of the fact that destiny. Can we, within our hearts, deny these men who have proved themselves as loyal as any race, with such a catastrophe facing us, the rights to such an insignificant position as has caused this dispute, when we ourselves have closed the doors to him of more intelligent positions which he is capable of holding? As true democrats let us for a moment remove the veil of prejudice and view him from an angle of his true worth; they have more than proven their loyalty to the U. S. A., under conditions I will not mention. France found in them such loyalty and patriotism that her standing army of 200,000 consisted of them. Has France had cause to regret it? No. Let us recall at the outbreak of the war his anxiety to prove his loyalty and patriotism to Canada. Our hearts were so against him, he was plainly told, "This is the white man's war." Since the adoption of the draft law, some of these very same men have been called to the colors. This same rejected man will, at present, and must in future prove himself capable of holding any position the white man holds if allowed the chance. So let us as true democrats cease our hostilities towards him, which is based on account of his color; grant him what the future must give—the right of an equal chance. SYMPATHIZER. The Calgary, Daily Herald. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? Read the Negro Papers. THE TWIN CITY STAR, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MUCH IN LITTLE Duplex springs have been invented by a Californian, an auxiliary spring coming into action if the main one breaks or is overloaded. A man who is connected with the heavy field artillery is no more likely to be killed than one in the employ of a railroad, army officers say. St. Louis is experimenting with surrounding traffic policemen at night with light thrown from searchlights mounted on nearby buildings. Paris has established a museum of the horse, presenting a complete history of the animal from the earliest known period to the present day. To equalize unemployment in the winter months, members of Seattle (Wash.) Painters' union will work five days a week. Saturday will be the off day. Without counting 1,413 men already serving in dockyards and military stations on the outbreak of the war, 5,051 London police officers are engaged in war service. The Great Western Railway system extends over 3,008 miles, thus taking first place in the United Kingdom. The Northwestern comes second, with 1,969 miles. Be a self-starter and get ahead in the world. Don't be the kind that must be addressed in an angry tone if they are to be impressed. Such a man gives honest service at all times, and this is what counts in the work-a-day world. It should be sufficient for any employer or superior officer to pleasantly request certain services from you. Don't be the sort of an employee who must have instructions pounded into him before they have any effect. It is too expensive to hire men to work and then have to hire others to watch them every minute that proper service may be secured. There are two kinds of men in this world—those who have to be "cranked up" and self-starters. As employees the first are unprofitable. Therefore: The willing worker, the man who acts immediately upon instructions which are pleasantly given to him, is the sort of employee who is worth having. The man who must be whacked and pounded into action is no good in any establishment, and the sooner such men get the gate the better for their employers. CHUNKS OF INFORMATION There are more than 200,000 stammerers in the United States. New Mexico has a lizard which is reputed to squirt blood from its eyes. Nine-tenths of Russia's gold mining is done on lands owned or formerly owned by the czar. One of the easiest ways to cool an overheated oven is to stand a basin of cold water in it. Development of water power in Norway has made electricity cheaper than steam in that country. France is the best foreign patron of the United States patent office, with Great Britain following closely. Cameo cutting, one of the most ancient occupations, has recently been introduced into the United States. Most of Japan's pearl divers are women, who begin to learn the trade at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Iron embedded in concrete in Germany has been found to be free from rust after more than forty-five years. California is a large producer of barley, more than 35,000,000 bushels being the 1917 crop in the Sacramento valley. Chicago has more telephones than all France and a single office building in New York contains more than there are in the whole of Greece. A New Jersey woman has invented a mesh bag to hold a door key and prevent it from being lost among the contents of a pocketbook or shopping bag. The average annual meat product from the Tonto national forest of Arizona and the Humboldt national forest in Nevada is estimated at $2,000,000. Having found a way to remove the knots and bleach the pulp, a plant for the manufacture of paper from bamboo will be established in Trinidad by Scotch interests. --- PET SUPERSTITIONS Thousands of intelligent people have their favorite superstitions. When the left hand itches it's a sure sign you are going to have money come to you. It always itches a day or so before pay day, and the proper thing to do when the left hand itches is to rub it on wood, and you'll get something good. If you spill salt you're sure to have a row with someone unless you throw some of the salt over your left shoulder. Never set your shoes on the top of anything or you're likely to be disappointed. If you give a friend anything sharp as a gift it will cut friendship. In walking with a friend allow nothing to come between you and your friend, for it might part friendship. Never walk under a ladder; it's unlucky; especially if the ladder happens to fall on you. It is said that three lighted lamps left in a row are a sign of death. Wisacres claim that a child born with a veil is likely to become rich. Old-fashioned farmers planted in the dark of the moon. Unless a child falls out of bed during its babyhood it's likely to grow up an idiot, although the fall may cripple it for life. A "newlywed" must wear out his wedding clothes before he can expect to prosper. Those who whistle at night talk with the devil. A female child that resembles its father is sure to be lucky. A broken looking glass will cause seven years of bad luck. FLASHLIGHTS The best way to train a boy is to set him a good example. In order to die rich some men make their families live poorly. The trouble with the near-great is that they're not near enough. The best politics and the best religion today is to be a patriot. The man who does his best is usually the man who gives his best, too. The man who is his own worst enemy certainly lives up to the injunction to "love your enemies." The best tailor in the world can't make a suit of clothes to beat the khakl uniform Uncle Sam is putting out. Every woman has a sneaking suspicion that her husband has a source of income that she doesn't know anything about. We can remember the time when the chocolate icing on a cake used to be sneered at if it wasn't at least a quarter of an inch thick. Men do many things in the heat of passion but few of the hot-tempered fellows ever seem to get mad enough at the kaiser to go and enlist. POPULAR SCIENCE Full sunlight is estimated to be 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight. The pearl is the only gem that does not require the lapidary's art to bring out its beauty. The development of water power in Norway has made electricity cheaper than steam in that country. A leather covered metal tube to be slipped over an umbrella to roll it tight has been patented in England. Concrete floors can be made almost noiseless by covering them with heavy tar paper, attached by cement. Pennsylvania railroad states that shippers could save $2,000,000 a year by more careful packing of freight. A gasoline engine driven dynamo that is entirely automatic in its action is attracting attention in England. The natives of New Guinea are the shortest lived people in the world, which is attributed to their diet of the larvae of certain beetles. SHOTS FROM THE MAGAZINE. He jests at scars who never used a safety razor. If you desire to be universally hated, try to be neutral. In the human race, right unsupported by force is soon left. Another Death Valley tourist has died a natural death. He forgot his canteen. TO SEE AND ENJOY THE TWIN CITIES Send for a copy of the unique Picture Map Folder "The Twin Cities Today" Handsomest Booklet of Information About Mineapolis and St. Paul Published Printed in four colors, on finest paper. Tells how to see and enjoy all the interesting sights in and about Minnesota's Two Great Cities, in the least possible time, at the least possible expense. Contains much information and many pictures as well as ten splendid colored maps of Twin City interest. These ten colored maps show attractively Minnehaha Falls and Park, Como Park and Lake Como, Lake Minnetonka, White Bear Lake, the Central Portion of Minneapolis, the Chain of Lakes, Phalen Park and Lake, the University Campus and the Central Portion of St. Paul, while the largest map shows the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs, a territory 16 miles by 48 miles, with their famous Lakes, Rivers and Parks. The folder is most instructive and entertaining. A copy of this interesting publication will be mailed to any address on receipt of six cents in stamps. A. W. Warnock, General Passenger Agent, Twin City Lines, Minneapolis. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WOOLENS AT POPULAR PRICES Your Patronage Desired. A & H. 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The Waiters' and Porters' Club GLOVER SHULL, PRES. 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS EDDIE BOYD, SECY. LEE WHEELER, MANAGER BELL'S BAR CLARENCE W. BATHS, BARBER SH POOL AND B CIGARS, RACE PAP 244 THIRD AVE. SOUTH Phone Northw South Side 212 Eleventh Ave EXPERT BARBERS CIGARS, POOL AND BILLIAR RACE PAPERS— THOMPSON & HARRY BELL'S BARBER SHOP CLARENCE W. BELL, Proprietor. BATHS, BARBER SHOP, POLITE BARBER, POOL AND BILLIARD HALL CIGARS, RACE PAPERS, SHOE SHINING RD AVE. SOUTH ..MINNEAPOLIS. Phone Northwestern, Main 2511. North Side Barber S 212 Eleventh Ave. S., Minneapolis. EXPERT BARBERS; UP TO THE MINU POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES IN CONNE RACE PAPERS—SHOES SHINED. THOMPSON & CARVER, Props. HARRY LEVITO BELL'S BARBER SHOP CLARENCE W. BELL, Proprietor. BATHS, BARBER SHOP, POLITE BARBERS POOL AND BILLIARD HALL CIGARS, RACE PAPERS, SHOE SHINING 244 THIRD AVE. SOUTH MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Phone No. northwestern. Main 2811. South Side Barber Shop 212 Eleventh Ave. S., Minneapolis EXPERT BARBERS; UP TO THE MINUTE. CIGARS, POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES IN CONNECTION. RACE PAPERS—SHOES SHINED. THOMPSON & CARVER, Props. HARRY LEVITON Practical Tailor MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE TO Dry Cleaning and Fancy Dyeing of Ladies' and Gentle Phone N. W. Hyland 2875 1317 No. 6th Av S SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER Mining and Fancy Dyeing of Ladies' and Gent's Garments 7. Hyland 2875 1317 No. 6th Ave., Milwaukee MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. Dry Cleaning and Fancy Dyeing of Ladies' and Gent's Garments. Phone N. W. Hyland 2875 1317 No. 6th Ave., Minneapolis. THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY. If you wish to add to your income, you can do so by accepting an agency for The Twin City Star. Good commission to competent agents. Use your spare time in soliciting ads and subscriptions. Only honest and intelligent agents wanted. Call Hyland 205. --- Drex 1269 A Wash Laundry Cedar Avenue Allists in Wet Wash Family Laundering BEST ADVERTISEMENT BARBER SHOP BELL, Proprietor. DOP, POLITE BARBERS MILLIARD HALL BERS, SHOE SHINING MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Eastern, Main 2511. Barber Shop e. S., Minneapolis ; UP TO THE MINUTE. AND TABLES IN CONNECTION. SHOES SHINED. CARVER, Props. LEVITON COATS MADE TO ORDER. of Ladies' and Gent's Garments. 1317 No. 6th Ave., Minneapolis. AGENTS WANTED—NOW! Reliable and intelligent agents always wanted to solicit business for THE TWIN CITY STAR; also correspondents in principal cities. A chance to earn a good living. Write The Twin City Star, Minneapolis. Read the Negry Papers. Automatic 61809 ```markdown ``` 1 LOCAL NEWS IMPORTANT NOTICE Unless notes are written plainly and properly arranged they will not be inserted. Many people send in notes regardless of names, initials or composition. Arrangement by the publisher will be charged for. Free notices must be correctly written. THE WAY TO MAKE MONEY. If you wish to add to your income, you can do so by accepting an agency for The Twin City Star. Good commission to competent agents. Use your spare time in soliciting ads and subscriptions. Only honest and intelligent agents wanted. Call Hyland 1205. WIEL SHOW NEGRO PICTURES "Trooper of Troop K" and other interesting movies of Negro life, will be shown in this city at an early date. The famous Negro star, Noble M. Johnson will be featured. "Trooper of Troop K" is a reproduction of the Battle of Carrizal, showing a detachment of the famous 24th Infantry in action. It is the movie masterpiece of the year and a military love drama, consisting of an entire Negro cast. Mr. Johnson is supported by Beulah Hall and Jimmie Smith. Notch for the two and also Do Not Forget! The Episcopal Picnic. PARKER'S LAKE, JULY 17TH. The idlers are securing work since the looking for loafers campaign was started. The Negro Home Guard Companies and Band of the 16th Battalion are making rapid progress. They will soon be in uniform. UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC The Annual Picnic of the Sunday Schools of the Twin Cities will be held Monday, July 29, at Como Park. This is the annual re-union event of our people of the Twin Cities and is one of the most pleasant outings of the summer. If you approve of the Colored Y. M. C. A. contribute a dollar to them by subscribing for the Twin City Star for $2.00 per year. They will receive One Dollar and you will get the paper and also become one of the Dollar Donors. CLARENCE BELL MOVES INTO NEW QUARTERS Having secured a more desirable building for my barber shop and pool hall, I have moved to 250 Third Ave. S. (same block), where everything will be complete for the accommodation and comfort of my patrons. Up-to-date service and courteous treatment extended to all. Public patronage solicited. CLARENCE W. BELL. (Advertisement.) This Offer Expires August 1, 1918. One dollar will be given to the Colored Y. M. C. A. in this city for every paid annual subscription to the Twin City Star. (Editor:) SUBSCRIBE NOW. "ENLIST OR WORK" CAMPAIGN. The military authorities intend to push the enlist or work campaign among the Negroes. There are many idlers who have no lawful means of support. They will be drafted into the industrial army. Get work, gentlemen of leisure, even if as a side line. READ THIS CAREFULLY. If you receive a newspaper by mail and do not wish to pay for it, just refuse it by informing your postman, then it will be returned to the publisher and he will be notified to discontinue sending it. There is no reason why a person should pay for a paper forced on them, but every reason why it should be paid for when ordered and accepted. RADIO OPERATOR ARRIVES "OVER SEAS" Chas. Earl Duncan has arrived safely over seas, according to reports received at The Star office this week. Dr. John R. French, of the Dental Corps, is serving in France with a unit which includes many of the Minnesota boys. Secretaries of Lodges may send notices of their newly elected officers for free publication and office information. THE SUNDAY FORUM. The Sunday Forum will meet Sunday at St. Peter A. M. e. church. The Twin City Star stands for equal rights for all American citizens. SEND IN YOUR NEWS ADVERTISE IN THE STAR COLORED Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Secretary Makes Report—Much Interest Shown and Material Aid Given. We are glad to announce to the public in this our first monthly report of the Y. M. C. A. work among our people in this city, that the enthusiasm with which the work has been generally received and the willing cooperation assured by all, to help to successfully push forward the work is extremely encouraging and portends for the future a glorious outcome, and a powerful influence in our city for Christian citizenship and race betterment. We believe by uniting our efforts and entreating Divine assistance, the time will not be long before we shall have an organization and a building of which both the city of Minneapolis and our race will be proud. As the giant oak grows from a little acorn, we hope a great plant will be the outgrowth of our Y. M. C. A work, started one month ago at 1016 Sixth street south. We are gradually getting our house furnished, and the Y. M. C. A. activities started, and within a week or so we hope to have the rooms so equipped that the men can find sufficient entertainment and reading matter as to make the place attractive enough to cause them to spend much of their leisure time there. We are grateful to the following for donations: Mr. Chas. Gibson, a piano. Mr. Skellet, free hauling of piano. Mrs. E. Peale, the loan of two pictures. Mr. James Adams—Pole and fixtures. Mrs. N. Stone, pair, or portieres. Mrs. Hutchinson, one center table. Mr. Trevan, one rug and hammock. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, one large picture. Mrs. Eldridge, magazines. Mrs. Pone, gas fixtures. We also extend our gratitude to the ladies under Mrs. Kennedy who gave the entertainment at the Pillsbury Settlement House on the evening of the 25th of June. $16.50 was realized. On the evening of the 18th of June, at our informal opening, pledges amounting to $24, and cash to the amount of $5.75, was taken. Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith donated $5. A list of those who pledged and the amounts given will be given in July's report. A collection of $3 was taken up at our meeting Sunday afternoon, June 23. Total cash receipts during month of June was $25.25. We hope that our people, as a whole, seeing the much needed work which has been started in our city, will be liberal with the means, and help to speed on its success. Send all donations of any kind to and dus'credit will be given to the dazor. HOME GUARD NOTICE 16TH BATTALION Co.'s C and D of Minneapolis. Company C—Regular drill nights every Monday and Friday. Assemble at 8 p. m. in Room 30, Courthouse. CAPT. GALE C. HILYER. Company D—Regular drill every Monday and Thursday evening at 8 p. m. Assemble at Headquarters in Room 30, Courthouse. CAPT. CHAS. SUMNER SMITH. SERGT. ARTHUR STEWART. The proceeds of the ball given by Cos. C. and D. amounted to over $100. The 16th Battalion Band received $52.06, aside from a paid expense account of over $28.00. Lieut. J. Homer Goins, agent of the Lincoln Motion, Picture Co., was in Minneapolis on Monday night, arranging for an exhibition of "Trooper of Troop K." Watch for the date. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS FOUR UNFURNISHED ROOMS. Four elegant unfurnished rooms, in absolutely modern home, near Lake St. residential section, near two car lines. Call at 3008 Bryant Ave. S. LARGE FURNISHED ROOM—Reasonable rent; modern except heat; one block from car line. Mrs. W. W. Williams, 2900 Eleventh Ave. So. Tel. Drexel 4728. FIVE MODERN ROOMS FOR RENT —Very reasonable; in good order; on the North Side. Call Leviton, 1317 No. 6th Ave. Hy. 2875. Wanted—A live, honest, correspondent and agent. Apply to Twiff City Star. House for Rent, six rooms choice location. 1108 E. 36th St. See McDew, 802 Sykes Block, Call Nic. 621. SEE McDFW! for real estate. SUBSCRIBERS WANTED — Make the Twin City Star a live and dependable weekly Negro newspaper by sending your subscription. Send a dollar on your account, or get a new subscriber. The Star is THE PAPER. AN INVITATION. Visit Simmons Cafe, 500 Fourth avenue south, for Clean Food and Cool Beverages. Popular Prices. Sanitary Service. --- THE TWIN CITY STAR. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. DRAFT NUMBERS DRAWN FOR 1918 ARMY CLASSES Washington.—America's second draft lottery took place June 27. The following table shows you at a glance in what order your number is drawn. The registration numbers—"your number"—are arranged in numerical order. The figure in the first column is your registration number. The figure in the second column tells the order in which it was drawn. You will now be assigned by your board to one of the five classes of registrants. This classification will be based on questionnaires to be mailed out at once. Then you will be placed on your class list (after the 1917 men now on it). The order of this final placing is determined by the "call number" given you by the drawing. GET READY! FOR THE BIG PICNIC OF THE SEASON GIVEN BY THE MEN'S EPISCOPAL CLUB Of Minneapolis and St. Paul on WEDNESDAY PARKER WEDNESDAY JULY 17 PARKER'S LAKE Everybody will be assured of a good time DANCING BOATING McCULLOUGH The committee will see to it that the highly efficient way their pass TO GO TO PARKER'S Leave St. Paul via Interurban cars (Uutes before train time, given below. Walk two blocks to Electric Short L Avenue North. Phone Main 1987. ELECTRIC T IMPORTANT NOTICE—Trains LEAVING AT:— 7:30 A. M. 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The law seems to have an unkind, materialistic lack of sympathy toward this particular psychic who in flowing purple robes sat in his magicians who are to be prosecuted on crude, impolite material criminal charges. One in the Bronx collected a tangible five-dollar bill the other day from a worried and credulous woman who was persuaded that her purchase of a "cryptic name" would protect her son, who is an army aviator, from any harm. The arrest of the Gapper "Oom" and of several others has shown New York that it has not progressed so very altitudinously above the cultural level of savage magic. The amulet has less potency than in the days of Alexander Traillianus, yet there is still a good market for it. The wonder of the faking psychic is the class of people he attracts. Many of his patrons are high up in the social world, hard-headed business men fall and one famous writer was bitten by the psychic bug. The rendezvous or retreats are in the most select neighborhoods. Doors are opened softly, heavy carpets deaden all footfalls and queer Egyptian odors spoil perfectly good atmosphere. Many of the victims fall into stupors after going through the weird practices of the various cults. One actress recently stated at a drug investigation that she became addicted to drugs by visiting these mystic parlor. Isaak Walton Coppers Land Big Alcoholic Catch Isaak Walton Coppers Land Big Alcoholic Catch CHICAGO—The welkin rang right mertly upon the Isle of Joy, some hundred feet or so off the shore of Lake Calumet. It was but one o'clock of a Sunday afternoon, and already there were many good fishermen and true absorbing the good, cheer, and other. Thirty-five minutes after three and 71 men and a few women were betaking of Mine Host Vorak's hospitality, when up spake the fishermen of the muddy sloop. "You're pinched," they said. "You bet you are," chorused 12 other fishermen, displaying police stars. Joy departed from the isle. Several fancily dressed young men departed, also via the lake. The lake's trusty mud held. The fancily dressed bucks stuck tight till hauled out by the grinning coppers. Boats were requisitioned and an hour later 76 men and four women were lodged in the Kensington police station. One of these was Vorak, who was charged with selling liquor without a license, operating a public nuisance, and contributing to the delinquency of children. The others were charged with being inmates of a public nuisance. Gallant Old Skipper and His Sixty Young Girls NEW YORK.—The skipper of a well-known tug was seen hanging around the Battery at a very late hour the other night. He strolled up and down and occasionally went over to the Eastern to gargle his throat and have a up to Captain — and asked him how about it. Just like that. "Can't a man have a date with some girls without you fish gettin' all het up about it?" demanded the skipper. "Girls!" gasped Bill. "Girls! Ain't one enough for an old barnacle like you? How many y'gonna meet, anyhow?" "Oh, 'bout 60," replied the tugboat captain, complacently. That was too much for Bill. He went away and told the rest of the bunch and a close watch was kept on the skipper. "Guess the pore oil' feller's lost one of his oarlocks or sumplin'," sighed Bobby Peach, sympathetically. Then the girls showed up. Sixty of them. And they all cried, "Hello, Cap! Greetings, skipper!" Then they climbed aboard the old man's tug and sailed out into the night. The explanation is that they were all Red Cross nurses (and pretty ones, too), living on Ellis island while awaiting transportation to France. Somebody had given them a theater party and Captain — was delegated to see that they got back to the island, the regular ferry—that most frivolous of vessels—having broken down. Riverside Drive Attracts Visitors in New York NEW YORK—Riverside drive is the mecca for visitors these beautiful days. Its delightful, shady walks are crowded with strangers, both civilians and men in uniform, who represent every nation in the scrap on the side of the city. skill. Vast sums have been expended in its construction and maintenance. Long before the Revolution this portion of Manhattan was occupied by the suburban residences of wealthy New Yorkers, and the banks of the Hudson were dotted with country villas and estates. In most cases these homes were so situated that when the drive was opened they either had to be removed to make way for the roadbed or were set so far back as to be entirely off the lane. The plan of this magnificent roadway was conceived by William M. Tweed when he was in the height of his political power, but it was not opened until 1880. The drive first gained a national reputation in 1885 when General Grant was buried there. In spite of its natural beauty and pure air, Riverside, drive has never approached Fifth avenue as a fashionable residence thoroughfare. When improvements began it was freely predicted that the Drive would fail, if not surpass. Fifth avenue, but this prophecy failed of fulfilment. THIS AMULET WILL COST ONLY $5.82 magicians who are to be prosecuted by charges. One in the Bronx collected a from a worried and credulous woman of a "cryptic name" would protect her any harm. The arrest of the dapper "Oom" in York that it has not progressed so far level of savage magic. The amulet of Alexander Traillianus, yet there is still the wonder of the faking psychic Many of his patrons are high up in the men fall and one famous writer was bribe The rendezvous or retreats are in are opened softly, heavy carpets dead odors spoil perfectly good atmosphere. after going through the weird practice recently stated at a drug investigation visiting these mystic parlors. Isaak Walton Coppers L CHICAGO.—The welkin rang right m dred feet or so off the shore of L of a Sunday afternoon, and already the absorbing the good cheer and other things that were to be had, for a price, within the fishermen's lodge. James D. Vorak, mine host, counted his shekels and grinned. A muddy sloop grounded on the sandy shore. Two fishermen stepped therefrom. "We're hungry and—thirsty," the fishermen said. "Welcome to our city," said mine host. "All's well here. Plenty to drink and not a con in sight" "You're pinched," they said. "You bet you are," chorused 12 o Joy departed from the isle. Sever also via the lake. The lake's trusty mud held. The hauled out by the grinning coppers, later 76 men and four women were leo One of these was Vorak, who was a license, operating a public nuisance, a children. The others were charged with Gallant Old Skipper and NEW YORK.—The skipper of a well the Battery at a very late hour the and occasionally went over to the Ea HELLO CAP! up to Captain — and asked him how have a date with some girls without demanded the skipper. "Girls!" gasped Bill. "Girls! Air you? How many ygonna meet, anythy "Oh, 'bout 60," replied the tugboat. That was too much for Bill. He w and a close watch was kept on the s "Guess the spore oil' feller's lost o Bobby Peach, sympathetically. Then the girls showed up. Sixty Cap! Greetings, skipper!" Then they sailed out into the night. The explanation is that they were too), living on Ellis island while awa body had given them a theater party, that they got back to the island, the vessels—having broken down. Riverside Drive Attracts NEW YORK.—Riverside drive is the Its delightful, shady walks are cro men in uniform, who represent every allies, while the drives stream with vehicles of all descriptions from the filver to the big sightseeing cars, all come to view the picturesque Hudson river and get a glimpse of the foreign warships. This spot is one of New York's most beautiful avenues and few, if any, thoroughfares in America surpass it in natural beauty and attractiveness. The charms of the scenery have been enhanced by the landscape gardener and the roadway, as it now exists, is a triumph of engineering skill. Vast sums have been expended. Long before the Revolution this port suburban residences of wealthy New York were dotted with country villas and esse so situated that when the drive was or snake way for the roadbed or were seated. The plan of this magnificent mansion was tweed when he was in the height of opened until 1880. The drive first gained General Grant was buried there. In air, Riverside, drive has never approached residence thoroughfare. When improvements began it was rival, if not surpass, Fifth avenue, b "Oom" has before been in the toils. In appearance he looks like the flap-pocketed, silkshirted, pomaded parler cobra of the prewar days. He is a devil with the ladies who go in for the cosmic urge, the assorted purple vibrations, astral eccentricities, soul harmonies, luminous personalities, and the rest of the weird sisterhood of psychic catch words. There are many of these spiritual on crude, impolite material criminal tangible five-dollar bill the other day who was persuaded that her purchase her son, who is an army aviator, from and of several others has shown New every altitudinously above the cultural has less potency than in the days of a good market for it. ic is the class of people he attracts. the social world, hard-headed business ritten by the psychic bug. the most select neighborhoods. Doors den all footfalls and queer Egyptian Many of the victims fall into stupors es of the various cults. One actress that she became addicted to drugs by and Big Alcoholic Catch errily upon the Isle of Joy, some hun- take Calumet. It was but one o'clock ere many good fishermen and true YOU'RE PINCHED! and 71 men and a few women were reality, when up spake the fishermen of other fishermen, displaying police stars, al fancily dressed young men departed, and fancily dressed bucks stuck tight till Boats were requisitioned and an hour lodged in the Kensington police station, charged with selling liquor without a and contributing to the delinquency of being inmates of a public nuisance. I His Sixty Young Girls I-known tug was seen hanging around other night. He strolled up and down stern to gargle his throat and have-a contab with Hoboken John. As this particular skipper was seldom seen about after hours, the curiosity of the "regulars" at the Battery and South Ferry was thoroughly aroused. Bobby Peach, the clam sage of South street, and the Battery Dolphin held a conference and Towed as how sumplin' was up, while Joe Mury, the Battery's family policeman, shook his head and said maybe Captain — was going to sow some wild oats in his old age. So Bill Quigley just went right about it. Just like that. "Can't a man you fish gettin' all het up about it?" n't one enough for an old barnacle like 'w?' captain, complacently. sent away and told the rest of the bunch skipper. one of his oarlocks or sumpin'," sighed of them. And they all cried, "Hello, climbed aboard the old man's tug and all Red Cross nurses (and pretty ones, litting transportation to France. Some- and Captain — was delegated to see regular ferry—that most frivolous of Visitors in New York mecca for visitors these beautiful days. weded with strangers, both civilians and nation in the scrap on the side of the A boy and a girl are walking on a street. A man is standing behind them, holding a cane. A house is visible in the background. and in its construction and maintenance. ation of Manhattan was occupied by the Yorkers, and the banks of the Hudson states. In most cases these homes were opened they either had to be removed to it so far back as to be entirely off the roadway was conceived by William M. of his political power, but it was not named a national reputation in 1885 when spite of its natural beauty and pure coached Fifth avenue as a fashionable freely predicted that the Drive would but this prophecy failed of fulfillment. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL (By REV. P. B. FITZWATER, D. D. Teacher of English Bible in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright, 1918, Western Newspaper LESSON FOR JULY 7 BEGINNING THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. LESSON TEXT—Acts 16:13-34. GOLDEN TEXT—Whosoever will, let him eat the water of life freely—Revelation 22:17. DEVOTIONAL READING—John 15:4-16. ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS—Acts 2:37-47; 8:26-40; Romans 5:1-11. PRIMARY TOPIC—Loving and trusting Jesus—John 1:28-51. MEMORY VERSE—We love because he first memory us—I John 4:19. 1. How Lydia Began the Christian Life (vv. 13-15). Lydia was the first convert to Christ in Europe. Hers was a typical conversion. Note the steps therein: 1. Attendance at the place of prayer (v. 13). The accustomed place here was at the river side. The accustomed place today is in church. God can and does save men and women without any seeming connection with places of established worship, but he appears to most people at such places. The very fact that he has established and sustains churches here and there is an urgent call to all men and women to place themselves in the way of salvation. While no one can save himself, yet all can put themselves in the way of salvation by attending church, reading the Bible, etc. 2. Listening to the preaching of the Word of God (vy. 13.14). Paul took advantage of the opportunity which was given him by the assemblage of this group of devoted women to preach Christ to them. He was alert for and prized highly the opportunity to tell the people about Christ. He knew also how perilous it was to neglect to witness for Christ at a time when unsaved people are together. The opportunity is God's call to preach Christ. 3. Her heart was opened by the Lord (v. 14). The individual may place himself in the way of salvation by coming near to the means of grace, and the preacher may preach the Word of God, but there is no hope of salvation until the heart is opened by the Lord (John 6:44, 45). While the salvation of every one is dependent upon this sovereign act of the Lord, yet we can be sure that he is willing at all times to do this for those who, like Lydia, place themselves in the way of his saving grace. 4. She was baptized. (v. 15). This ordinance follows belief in Christ. The invariable rule in the early church was for believers to be baptized. While there is no salivation in the water of baptism, yet hearty obedience should be rendered in this respect (Acts 2:38-41; 8:12; Mark 16:16). Lydia brought her household to Christ. This is as it should be. She showed signs of the new life, in that she expressed gratitude toward those who had been instrumental in her conversion (v.15) by constraining them to share the hospitality of her home. II. How the Philippian Jailer Began the Christian Life (vv. 25-34). The casting out of the spirit of divination from the damsel landed Paul and Silas in prison. The pain of bleeding backs, and of feet in stocks, kept them from sleeping; but not from praying and singing. The Lord heard their prayers and sent an earthquake which shook the jail, opened the doors of the prison, and loosed the bonds from the prisoners' hands. (1) Visitation of the supernatural (vv. 27-29). The jaller was awakened from his sleep by the earthquake. This earthquake was unusual in that it loosed the bonds from the prisoners' hands. In his desperation the jaller was about to commit suicide. This was averted by Paul's assurance that all were safe. The fact that the doors were opened and the prisoners free and yet no one escaped, showed him that something unusual had occurred. Therefore, he came trembling and prostrated himself before Paul and Silas. (2) The great question (v. 30). In the presence of the supernatural he cried out, "What must I do to be saved?" One's salvation is not far off when he utters this cry with sincerity. (3) The vital answer (vv. 31, 32). "Belleve on the Lord Jesus Christ," is the only way to be saved. (Acts 4:12). Though the way of salvation is restricted, it is simple and easy. No one who has believed on Christ has failed to receive it. The jailer's faith was not blind faith, for they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. They were taught the meaning of belief in Christ. (a) The evidence of a transformed life (vv. 33, 34). (a) He was baptized (v. 33). As soon as one believes on Christ he wants to be baptized. (b) He tenderly washed the stripes of Paul and Silas, showing that he was no longer the brutal jailer (v. 34). (c) He rejoiced (v. 34). The one who really accepts Christ is filled with joy. (d) A transformed home (v. 34). He believed on Christ and was baptized, and his household. OUT-OF-ORDINARY PEOPLE C. RARIS & ENTER He enlisted at the age of twenty years in the cavalry. Harbord fought in the Spanish-A the Philippines. He went to Mexico Pershing to France, serving there as until put in charge of the marines. JUSTIN GODART, He enlisted at the age of twenty years in the infantry and rose rapidly, later in the cavalry. Harbord fought in the Spanish-American war and served 12 years in the Philippines. He went to Mexico with Pershing and then went with Pershing to France, serving there as chief of staff of the American forces until put in charge of the marines. JUSTIN GODART, NOTED FRENCHMAN Justin Godart, member of the French parliament from Lyon, and until recently secretary of state for the sanitary service of the war department, who was sent to the United States by his government primarily to convey the thanks of France to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and other organizations, is a lawyer and received his LLD. at the University of Lyon. He specialized before the war in the study of sociology. The city of Lyon sent him as its representative to the house of deputies in 1906. There, as a member of the high commission of labor, he proved himself to be a progressive leader in the framing of laws improving the conditions of labor. When the war broke out he had just been elected vice president of the house of deputies. He joined the army at once as a hospital orderly in the same service of which he was later to become chief. He organized the medi- French expeditionary force in Italy an- The French front M. Godart visited c not an advanced first-ald post from personally visited, often under circum the war cross at Craonne in July, 191 artillery fire. become chief. He organized the medical service on the French front, in the French expeditionary force in Italy and also in the French army in Saloniki. The French front M. Godart visited constantly. There is not an ambulance, not an advanced first-ald post from Flanders to Alsace which he has not personally visited, often under circumstances involving great risk. He won the war cross at Craonne in July, 1917, while visiting advanced posts under artillery fire. WHO IS VON RINTELEN? International City District Frederick William, was Von Rintelen, Henry of Prussia. He was for years His wife, member of a wealthy Berlin society leaders of Berlin. She has be man Red Cross and is said to have bee mission to the United States. Frederick William, was Von Rintelen, the intimate of the emperor and Prince Henry of Prussia. He was for years a high official of the Deutsches bank. His wife, member of a wealthy Berlin family named Kauffman, is one of the society leaders of Berlin. She has been prominent in the work of the German Red Cross and is said to have been cognizant of her husband's dangerous mission to the United States. NEWBERRY IN SERVICE AGAIN Truman Handy Newberry, the wealthy Detroit business man whom President Roosevelt made assistant secretary of the navy, is again in the service of his country, working 10 or 12 hours a day, and at least half that long on Sundy, at a desk in a fourth-floor office at 280 Broadway, New York, headquarters of the Third naval district. The annual salary of a lieutenant commander of the United States naval reserve force, which is the rank Mr. Newberry holds, is less than the monthly dividend he gets from almost any one of his numerous industries in Michigan. The work is hard; the hours long. As principal assistant to the commander of the Third naval district for the management of the naval reserve forces, Lieutenant Commander Newberry has charge of the work in a stretch of country extending from Barnegat, N. J., to New London, Conn., and reaching north to Lake Erie, and including the port of New York and the New York navy yard. As a aid to Rear Admiral Usher, commander of the district, he serves under officers who, a decade ago, looked to him, as head of the navy department, for their orders. Barnegat, N. J., to New London, Conn. including the port of New York and the Admiral Usher, commander of the dl decade ago, looked to him, as head of And Lieutenant Commander Newb in the year or more that he has been York only one day, and then*on a trip And Lieutenant Commander Newberry likes it. He likes it so much that in the year or more that he has been on duty here he has been out of New York only one day, and then on a trip of inspection through his district. Brig. Gen. James G. Harbord, temporarily in command of the marines that are teaching the Germans in France something about American fighting, is well known as a real soldier, a fighter who entered the army as a private and fought his way up through the ranks to the high position he now holds. General Harbord was placed in command of the marines by General Pershing until a general officer of marines is appointed to supreme command of the soldiers of the sea to succeed Brig. Gen. Charles A. Doyen, found physically disqualified for service at the front. General Harbord, as commander of the marines at the "front of the front," is right in his element, officers on duty say. Born in Illinois, he was graduated from the Kansas State Agricultural college and then gave up his career as farmer to shoulder a gun, in the infantry and rose rapidly, later American war and served 12 years in to with Pershing and then went with chief of staff of the American forces NOTED FRENCHMAN C HARRIS & EWING cal service on the French front, in the and also in the French army in Salonikl. constantly. There is not an ambulance, Flanders to Alsace which he has not instances involving great risk. He won 7, while visiting advanced posts under Capt. Franz von Rintelen, alias Hansen, alias Gasche, alias Gates, etc., leader of the German bomb plotters in the United States, and for whom the German government is trying to exchange an American prisoner of war, was said, when a captive in England three years ago, to be the Duke Adolph of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, a relative of the German emperor. At the time of his trial in New York there also were persistent reports that he bore a much closer relationship to the emperor, but one which was not officially recognized. Von Rintelen and ten other plotters were convicted last February of attempting to blow up American ships and were sentenced to Atlanta penitentiary for a year and a half and fined $2,000 each. One of the most prominent members of the German war party, at the head of which was the crown prince, the intimate of the emperor and Prince a high official of the Deutsches bank. family named Kauffman, is one of the keen prominent in the work of the German cognizant of her husband's dangerous T. H. and reaching north to Lake Erie, and the New York navy yard. As aid to Rear district, he serves under officers who, a the navy department, for their orders.erry likes it. He likes it so much that on duty here he has been out of New of inspection through his district. BOY SCOUTS "ALL OUGHT TO BE SCOUTS" "If I had my way," says Edward Bok. "I would have every boy on his twelfth birthday become a boy scout. I know of no single idea in our modern life that has in it so many possibilities for the development of the best qualities in a boy as the scout idea. "It has been the making of several boys that I know; it has awakened even a larger number. My own boy is a scout, and so I speak from personal experience. "The scout idea fits into these busy days for fathers with particular force, since where the father cannot give as much attention to his boy as in normal times, or is away from home on service, the scoutmaster comes in with his steadying influence in a peculiarly happy way." "The entire fundamental structure of good citizenship lies in the idea: obedience, a respect for authority and himself, consideration for the other fellow, honor, courtesy, and a love of country. Where is there a better secular code than this to instill into a boy of thirteen?" SCOUTS IN REAL WAR WORK. The Boy Scouts of America is growing at the rate of 1,200 a day. A regiment of youngsters is being recorded each 24 hours at the national headquarters in New York city. There are now 353,048 of these scouts twelve years old and over. The reason is that the government has given the boys who are scouts many real things to do to help win the war, and they have found out that as scouts they can have a definite and clearly recognized part to play in the winning of it. While other boys are simply tossing their hats up or cheering from the "side lines," the Boy Scouts of America is being called upon by the president, the secretary of the treasury, the war department, the food administration and other branches of the government, the Red Cross, the Liberty loan committees and all factors in winning the war. ASSEMBLY IN THE CAMP. I Scout Routine Is Rigidly Observed at the Summer Gatherings. WHAT THE BOY SCOUTS DO. The world interest in the boy scout movement challenges the intelligent understanding of every one, and yet many people still ask "What is scouting?" and "What do boy scouts do?" The boy scout idea is a movement rather than an organization. It aims to supplement existing organizations such as the home, church and school by engaging the boys' leisure energies in outdoor games and activities of cultural and practical value. The aim of the scout movement is to inculcate character, which, though essential to success in life, is not taught within the school, and being largely a matter of environment is too generally left to chance, often with deplorable results. The scout movement endeavors to supply the required environment and ambitions through games and outdoor activities, which lead a boy to become a better man, a good citizen. GOOD TURNS BY SCOUTS Every pound of tin used in this country is imported. By saving tin we also save cargo space. A manufacturer says that the Boy Scouts of America can patrolly save the empty tubes from tooth paste, cold cream, etc. The scout drive in Waterbury, Conn., for books in co-operation with the Rotary club brought in 60,000 volumes. Cleaned up the town and hauled out 15 loads of rubbish is the report from Salem, III. YANKEE TROOPS WIN ITIGH' PRAISE . a eee" S ——_ French and British Impressed by Lae Splendid Enterprise and ‘The soldier probably will recover, Initiation. but he will never cross bayonets with ¥ rm the Germans again, as he will lose ae ae his leg. Show Great Daring. HEROIC DEEDS AREPREDICTED | stony American oftcers and privates : showed great daring and fortitude In — withstanding the German attacks General Says American spirit at |S/0nE the Mame at Chateau Thierry and Jaulgonne. oe ee Foie “et Capt, John R. Mendénhall of New Rochelle, N, Y., it sl Chateau Thierry. Rochelle, N. ¥., went without sleep for London—The behavior of the American troops at Chateau Thierry has demonstrated more than anything that has happened on the American front the splendid tnitiative and en- terprise with which the American ar- my is endowed, and nothing” has aroused the keener enthusiasm of the commander, says the Dally Mall cor- respondent with the American army in France, 3 He quotes an unnamed French gen- eral as saying that the American spir- ft and enterprise at a critical moment served to mafntain the morale of the French troops around Chateau Thier- ¥y. Among the Incidents of the engage- ment the correspondent mentions Is the steadiness and persistence of the American machine gun fire in the streets of Chateau Thierry. Company after company of the enemy marching four abreast, repeatedly tried to ad- vance, but recoiled sorely shattered before the fire of the American gun- ners. The streets were strewn with German dead and wounded and the American officers estimate . they in- filcted at least 1,000 casualties. Predicts Herole Deeds. When a bridge across the Marne was blown up, the correspondent adds, the Americans were left on the north- ern bank with the enemy in front of them and the river at thelr backs, Car- rying thelr guns, the Americans de- scended to the lower banks of, the riv- er, and under enemy machine ‘gun and artillery fire succeeded in reaching the next bridge. The correspondent predicts that much will be heard of the deeds of the Americans in the next few days, and adds: “American troops fresh from the United States continye to arrive with regularity and in numbers more than sufficient to justify renewed conf- dence in the ultimate trumph of the entente. The Americans at this mo- ment are distributed over a very wide front. . “In some sectors entire American divisions form one unit, holding a certain extent of line, while . else- where they are brigaded with French and British regiments. In the Lune- ville and Toul sectors the Americans hold very difficult sattents—in the ‘Toul sector completely dominated by the German artillery on Moptsec. The Germans recently have bela drench ing these positions with gas, but the Americans stood firm and won the ready appreciation of all observers.” ‘The spirit and morale of the Amerl- can soldiers wounded in the Cantigny battle, 90 per cent of whom will re- cover, is wonderful. ‘The first ques- tion they ask the surgeon fs: : “Doe, when will I be able to go back after the Germans who fixed me?” ‘Two young privates were waiting their turn to enter the operating-room of a large American hospital in Paris. ‘One said: “f have been over the top three times, and it 1s the greatest sport I ever had, Fix me up quick because I want to go back after the Boches again.” ‘The second soldier, who had a seri- ous wound in the thigh, sald: “If I do not return to the trenches I have the satisfaction of knowing BRITON PRAISES “YANK DOC” Officer of Essex Regiment Says Lieut C. T. McCarthy Is Brave and Beloved. London, England.—An officer of the Ninth Essex regiment, in a letter writ- ten home, pays tribute to an American officer ‘serving with the regiment. “Lieut. O, T. McCarthy, medical off cer of our regiment,” says the letter, “is one of the first Americans serving in France to obtain the British milll- tary cross. He was attached to our regiment Inst December. Our ‘Yank doc,’ as we call him, is one of the best of men, He Is loved by all the officers and men, “He is strict, but never has anybody been wounded or sick without the doc- tor going to him, no matter what the shelling or other conditions. He ob- tained the military cross for magnif- cent work in the recent Albert fighting. He went to the front with our regi- ment in motor busses to meet the Boche and during the worst period our vegiment has known he was always in front ‘with his medical ald, At one time he had his aid post in a quarry right in our front Ine and always where the fighting was worst he was with the wounded. In slack times he made ten and carried it to those who could aot make It themselves, Never does he miss an opportunity of per- forming a kind act. Here's to our "Yank doc.'”- GERMAN PRISON CAMPS WHERE YANKS ARE HELD a of aman 7 peut — i s “ rm res t ‘d Soya rn we Noe { nusera EQ’R Wy a Y L | 20 Bie Mame SEL, 7 | | a Be I Se EC ipae 8 > Fak ~ 6 ae Kemi ~ °” ony eal _ at 5 i s waka ¢ "4G ~ Ja Bs po ik alan “eae a a AA ates Bureau of Prisoners’ Relief American Red Cross. Of these 27 German prison camps in which Americans now are held, Tuchel, near Danzig,-is the chief prison camp for our captured boys in uniform, according to advices reaching the American Red Cross. In each of the camps shown by a black square on the map and in one small camp which cannot be located, there are elther captured goldlers or else American sea men taken from submarined merchantmen. ‘Nhe Red Cross had direct rd ports from 231 men in these camps at the beginning of June, and to each 14 sending through Its prisoners’ relief warehouses at Berne, 20 pounds of food a week und 1s supplying clothing, comforts, tobacco, and, in fact, everything the men need. In supplying captured soldiers and sailors the Red Cros acts as the transmitting agency for the army or the navy, which furnishes thi, supplies. In addition to the prisoners actually on its records, the Red Cross belleves that there are some 200 additional American prisoners in Germany who have not yet reached the prison camps whera they are to be located permanently. ‘The Red Cross, however, is already prepared to caro for these fas soon as reported, and in fact has stored in Berne or in transit supplies enough to maintain 22,000 prisoners, if necessary, for six months. Awaiting ‘American prisoners sent to Tuchel 1s a stock of Red Cross packages of food ‘and clothing in charge of three of our captured boys, who are appojnted the Red Cross relief committee for that prison camp. Similar reserve stocks will be placed in other prisons as {t becomes evident that they are to be used ng centers for imprisoned Americans, who thus will be fed and cletkcd imme diately, that I fixed three—two bayoneted and one shot. I am satisfied.” The soldier probably will recover, but he will never cross bayonets with the Germans again, as he will lose his leg. Show Great Daring. Many American officers and privates showed great daring and fortitude in withstanding the German attacks along the Marne at Chateau Thierry ‘and Jaulgonne, J Capt. John R. Mendénhall of New Rochelle, N. ¥., went without sleep for three days and remained steadily at the head of his company during that time, Corp. Jules Mangold of McDonald, Pa., was sent out to investigate Ger man snipers under a heavy fire from the American line. He found the snipers, pointed them out to his com- rades and the Germans fired no more. Capt. George Wakerine, the French Maison officer with the American unit, stood by the Americans in the thick of the fight, encouraging and cheering them. ‘The Americans, he sald, show: ed most wonderful fighting spirit and were jolly, even laughing and joking while a perfect hell raged around them. s 3 HE WAS FOR GERMANY— GOT TAR AND FEATHERS Vicksburg, Miss—“I am for Germany and I am awaiting the day—and it won’t be more than % two or three years at most— when Germany invades the United States, Germany will make a.real country ‘out of this slipshod, grafting nation.” ‘This statement, accredited to W. M. Wilkerson, caused him to be taken from a passenger train and treated to a coat of tar and feathers. He ‘was then commit- ted to jail. heneennpbennnnnbennnen THREE SONS ARE FIGHTING Mother Wants to Engage In Some War Work That Will Take Her to France. St. Paul, Minn.—Mrs, P. Holstrom of No. 690 Conway street has three sons fighting for Uncle Sam, and she her- self 1s planning to go into some kind ot war work that will take her to France. Enoch Holstrom, a graduate of Cor. nell untversity, went to France with an engineering unit, and during a phase of the present German offensive twenty- two American engineers were killed around him, but he came through un- scathed. He was promoted for his brav- ery under fire from second to first lieu- tenant, Harry Holstrom, twenty-two years old, is on the ocean somewhere chasing submarines, Ben Holstrom, twenty years old, who Joined his brother in the fight against the kaiser, though he is not of draft age, is in the aviatton section and now is awaiting orders, , All of the boys graduated from Me- chanic Arts High school. The two lat- ter attended Cornell university. HAS FIVE SONS IN FRANCE Kansas Town Presents Parents With Fine Flag at Public Cele- bration. ) Hays, Kan.—A silk service fiag of five stars was formally presented by the City of Hays to Mr. and Mrs. An- ton Gross at a celebration here recently which packed the largest theater. Five of thelr sons are already in the army and a sixth will enlist as soon as the school where he is teaching closes for the summer. This will make six of the elght Gross sons in the service of Uncle Sam. . One is already in France and another 1s supposed to have sailed. Mrs. Gross, the mother, responded to a speech of presentation. She thanked ‘the people of Hays and said she deem- ed it a privilege to have been the moth- er of the men who would help to make the right more powerful than force and aggression, ‘Martin Gross {s with the 187th Infan- try. John is in France In the heavy ar. tillery. Theodore is at Jefferson bar. tacks. Paul is supposed to have salled for France, and Jacob {s at Camp Greene, N. 0. ETHER MAKES QUICK CURE Negro, Trying to Avoid Draft, Forgets ‘About Back Disease When He Comes To. Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.-A Geor gia negro'selectman was being exame ined by the medical officers and devel- oped a strange case of spinal deform- ity. He declared he had been afilicted for years, When tried at drill he was so drawn and bent in the back that military service seemed an {mposst- bility. He was taken to the hospital and told an apparently stwight story of his affiietion. A ght dose of ether was administered. When the ne- gro returned to semiconsciousness he raised up, stretched himself perfectly straight, walked about the room, and acted normally. Reminded that he was thought a cripple he again lapsed Into a horrible looking deformed soldier, but this time it did not work. “Boss,” he sald, “dat medsun you-all gimme sho’ cured me quick.” SHEARERS ASK $60 A DAY ‘Are Now Making $40 a Day Trimming Sheep in Idaho, but ‘Want More. Boise, Idaho.—Sheep shearers in Idaho are making $40 day, and if thelr demands for more wages are met they will make $60 a day, according to J. B, Whitson, a sheepman, in a com- plaint to the state council of defense, Sheepmen declare they have informa: tlon indicating a state-wide sheep shearing combination has been bullt up. Shearers are getting 15 cents a head and by using machines each man can shear from 200 to 800 head of sheep aday. The shearers have made a de ‘man for an Increase to 20 cents a head, In addition, the boss of the crews is paid for boarding his men, which would bring the charge to about 28 cents 9 head, say the sheep owners. A Case for Hoover. Albany, N. ¥.—Heeding only spring with {ts blossoms and bird songs, Thomas Farrell, eleven, and Frank Redmond, nine, followed the call of the road. ‘They were found asleep in 2 haystack six miles away from home, holding closely six eggs. RALPH DE PALMA PROVES WINNER OF . HARKNESS HANDICAP AUTOMOBILE RACE PS Th hh ee : ca op oe bi Se ag Pe Ce ; 4 cc oe Se = et R, Os a g ea 2s S fC Ea epheE — i A eae 8 Ralph De Palma was the winner of the 100-mile Harkness handicap auto- mobile race at Sheepshead Bay speedway, and not Tom Milton, as at first an- nounced, according to a revised report given out by the American Automobile association. Immediately after the race, De Palma, who had been placed fourth, pro- tested. He insisted that he had twice lapped Barney Oldfield, credited with second place, and that he should have been given second place. Later, the figures of the scorers were checked and De Palma’s claims verified In the report made to the automobile association. UNASSISTED DOUBLE PLAY. Douglas Baird, Card third sacker, made a put-out at first the other day, and incidentally an unassisted double play. The Cards were playing the Reds, and with Neale on first. Wingo rapped a hot liner straight at Baird. Neale was away with the crack of the bat, as the hit looked safe, but the third base- man speared it and then raced across the diamond to first, beat- ing Neale and taking the put-out himself. Ee le op > : ese, [le ee ye ie, |i he of Th (ae Oelkh fe < bee LL ee | Mr 1 E VY, od i ; OE i A fr ao Ci It has been some years since a ball slayer has had the nerve to wear a mustache during the playing season, but this spring Catcher John Henry of the Boston Braves grew one. Mus- taches went out of existence among ball players when John ‘Titus left the big leagues some years ago and none has had the nerve to display one until Henry came to bat this year. He probably beeame brave enough to sprout one because he plays with the Braves. sss CATCHER FOR BILL DONOVAN J. Howard Berry's Father Was Member of Many Clubs—Was Discoverer ‘of Buck Herzog. J. Howard Berry was a name known in baseball circles before the now fa- mous all-round athlete of Penn become a headliner on account of his wonder- ful versatility and skill in sport. J. Howard Berry, Sr. was a profes: stonal ball player who was a member of more clubs than usually is the ex- perience of even the most migratory ball players. le He was a playmate in his youth of Jesse Burkett. He played for Rock- ford, Il, under Hugh Nicol, with the Athletics of Philadelphia, with Tom Burns of Hartford, with Waterbury as catcher for Wild Bill Donovan, with Philadelphia Nationals, and other min- or league and semiprofessional teams. ‘It was Berry, Sr., who recommended Buck Herzog for his first professional engagement with the York York club of the Tri-State league. Chivington’s New Job. Tom Ohivington, former president of the American association, is with tie Colonels as business manager. DIAMOND -NOTES - Baldermo Acosta is back with the Atlanta Crackers. sf ee Bert Gallia ts acclaimed as the best hurler on the Browns’ staff. eee Charley Risberg keeps right on play- ing brilliant ball at third base. eee Hub Perdue's batting record of .014 should elect him to Crowder's idler class. eee Utility Man.Chuck Wortman fs find- ing {t difficult to break into the Cub Uneup. eee Earle Neale of the Reds plays closer to the fence than any other left fielder in the National league. cee J. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher last year for the Boston Americans, has been algned by Minneapolis, eee O'Farrell, a colt, 1s catching regu- larly for the Cubs, who will lose Kil- lefer, Daly and Elliott in the draft. eee Chet Thomas should strengthen the Indians, for when Steven O'Neill is absent only a rookie {s left to catch. eee Buffalo continues to make changes. Among recent acquisitions are Tom McCabe and Marty Murphy, outfleld- ers, eee In “Swede” Risberg the White Sox have as clever a utility Inflelder as 1s to be found in major league com- pany, ‘ eee President Hempstead of the New York Giants has the major league baseball scores cabled to France every evening. iat eae So far Jack Hendricks, the Car dinals’ new boss, has found the pilot- ing of a big league team a tough Proposition. eee It is estimated that the Increased railroad rates will mean an additional expense of $5,000 a year for each ma- Jor league club, : eee yale ‘The Joplin management, in an at- tempt to catch the fans, has decided to try the experiment of starting its games at 4 o'clock. gee ‘The Giants are as unpopular as ever in Cincinnati and verbal clashes be- tween the fans and the New York players followed every game. eee Walter Pipp of the New York Yan- kees 1s the latest diamond performer to talk of taking a shipyard Job to get deferred draft classification. eee Since Rollie Zelder was made the Cubs’ regular second baseman he has batted at a .240 clip, and seemingly is Improving all the time in his bat- ting. ° eee Bill Phelon, the Cincinnati scribe, remarks that as a pitcher Joe Wood, now with Cleveland, was never much ot a hitter. Wrong, Bill—Wood al- ways could hit. eee Baseball does not appear to be suf- fering much as a rival of the war. Large crowds are turning out every- where as if glad of the chance to for- get the war for a few hours. When w team Is playing good ball it is mak- ing no complaints of the crowd, | i JOHNSON LEAGUE GIVES BALL CHEST 7O SOLDIERS , President Ban Johnson of the American League of Baseball clubs, announces that in’ re sponse to an appeal of the Red Cross for baseball equipment for the use of hospital units over- seas his organization has ap- propriated $5,000 for the pur- pose and that shipment of par- aphernalla will start immediate- ly for France. The shipment will include 2,000 balls, 500 bats, 50 first basemen’s mitts, 50 catchers’ gloves, 150 infielders’ mitts, 100 chest protectors and 50 masks. \ - As Enthusiastic Over Hit for Three Bases as for Boot. Have Not Learned That Most Danger- ‘ous Place to Stand and Watch Is Behind Bat—Big Entertain- ment for the Strollers. Are the French people baseball fans? 0 Ia Ia; anyone who was out on the Bols de Boulogne on a recent Sunday and saw the thousands of excited Pari- sians crowding around the two base- ball diamonds would answer that ques- tlon with an emphatle “Out.” ‘The games were staged between the Medical Department Repair Shop No. 1 and the Searchlight Division on one dlamond and the Red Cross drivers and Y. M. ©. A. nine on another. ;But the fans didn’t know who was playing— nor did they care, says Stars and Stripes, Whenever someone cracked out a binger for three bags, a chorus of whatever is French for “Atta boy!” rose from the crowd, And whenever the shortstop de a boot and let the ball get throug to left field, the fans Uked it Just a8 well as if he'd made the assist. And the Paris games are the first In history where the umplre has a chance with the bleachers. The rea- son is that they don't know what or ‘why or wherefore is the umpire. And the ‘umpires, to date, aren't giving in- terviews to the Paris dailles explain- Ing the duties of their positions. But these new friends of our na- tlonal game must learn that the worst place to stand while watching a game is behind the catcher. In the recent games they were crowded within two feet of the plate and it was impossl- ble to keep them back, “C'est danger- eux!” an Ameriean would yell at them. “Ah, oul,” they agreed and moved back all of two inches, Those games ran for only five in- nings, and within that time there were several casualties, When a foul came screaming over their heads, they laugh- ed; when the catcher let a bad one pass and It tapped a fan on the head, everybody came back for more, There are bound to be some serious injur- Tea when the league opens If provisions are not made to keep the enthusiasts from acting as backstops, «As a baseball game It wouldn't have got very many paragraphs on a hone sporting page, but ax entertain- ment for the strollers to Bolse de Bou- logne it was a world beater. CHAPPELL, FORMER SOX OUTFIELDER, IS IN NAVY ite SY fe % en ie Sean! vad Bo he Le Verne Chappell, known in base ball as “Larry,” has joined the navy. Chappell had a brief spectacular ca- reer in baseball. While with the Mil- waukee club in the American associa- tion he was a star and his work was so brilliant that Owner Comiskey of the White Sox purchased him at what was then almost a record price. Sickness, accidents and other mis- fortunes combined against Larry and he was never able to duplicate his minor league record In the majors. He left the White Sox and this season was in the Pacific Coast league. Cardinals Not Hitting Well, John Hendricks, Cardinals’ ptlot, says the reason his team is not win- ning is because his good hitters, Horns- by, Smith, Cruise and Gonzales, are not stinging the ball as hard as they did at this time last year. GO GO Go! to deposit your money in our Savings Department. Any time is a good time, but now is the best, in order to take advantage of the new interest period which closes July 10. NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL BANK MARQUETTE., AVE., BETWEEN 4TH_AND 5TH. RESOURCES $53,000,000 Hennepin Lumber Co. —Main 2869; Auto 36774. 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OBJECTS TO PEACE TREATY Scheidemann Also Asks That the Government Take the Initiative in Stopping Air Raids on Open Amsterdam, July 5—During the debate in the German reichstag on the Roumanian peace treaty, Philipp Scheidemann, the Socialist leader, said that the Socialists objected to many stipulations of the treaty and reserved their attitude toward it. He asked that the government take the initiative in stopping air raids on open towns. Reverting to Secretary von Kuehlmann's speech of June 25, Herr Scheidemann declared that it had created a sensation because "it expressed in the form of a program what has long been known to be the government's opinion." "Unfortunately," he continued, "Dr. von Kuehlmann was obliged the next day to obliterate the impression caused. His retraction before main headquarters opens up unpleasant vistas." Attacking the government for not representing its views as a whole, Herr Scheidemann said: "We want a government which knows, like the army leaders, how to beat its adversary. To the present government we are unable to vote even a budget." George Ledebour, a social democratic leader, was called to order by the president of the chamber for declaring: "It is the duty of the German proletariat everywhere to issue a summons for a revolution." Friedrich Von Bayer, the imperial vice chancellor, replied to Herr Scheldemann: "It is well," he said, "that the Socialist's rejection of the budget is merely a demonstration, for if the other parties acted likewise, the cause of the fatherland and freedom would not be served." Herr Scheldemann's reference to peace, he added, did not call for a fresh governmental declaration. "What would result after our previous experience?" he asked. Fears Misapprehension Abroad. "The usual result is to excite the people and cause a conflict of view in this country and abroad. One sees, indeed, something that looks like a tiny spark and that evokes hope of better insight on the part of our enemies, but it is in general so weak that the disadvantages abroad arising from such declarations cannot be outweighed by it. "These disadvantages are that the enemy government in order to maintain cohesion and incite their peoples, give a false meaning to our sincerely meant words, suggesting that they mean we are unable to bring the war to a victorious end." He assented to Herr Scheidemann's declaration of the German peace terms-"The conclusion of peace with honor and without prejudicing Germany in peace terms"-declaring that the German government had gone beyond this formula. "We must wait until the enemy's will to war and will to destruction are broken," he added. ALLIES PEN RUSSIAN DESTROYERS IN PORT Bar Four Ships From Sea When Czecho-Slovaks Capture Vladivostok. London, July 5.-Diplomatic advices received from Vladivostok said the city was quiet with Czecho Slovak forces in complete control, after enforcing general disarmament and occupying the principal governmental buildings. American, British and Japanese naval guards who have been on duty for months, guarding war stores, were reinforced from ships in the harbor when it became apparent that the Czecho-Slovaks were preparing to take charge of the city by force. They apparently had no part in the fighting, however. The dispatch added that four Russian destroyers controlled by the Bolshevik government had been prevented from leaving the harbor by allied naval commanders. Sweden Proteaste German Mines. Stockholm, July 5—The Swedish government has protested to Berlin concerning the discovery in the Cattagal of two anchored German mines. Sweden was not notified of the presence of the mines. Alleged German Lace Firm Seized. New York, July 5—The International Textile, Inc., a $1,500,000 lace manufacturing company, of Bridgeport, Conn., a branch of the largest corporation of its kind in the world, has been seized by the United States government, it was announced here by A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian. The seizure was determined on when it was discovered that all the company's books, the correspondence files and other documents which would tend to show German ownership had been destroyed. ELKS' ANNUAL OUTING Ames Lodge, No. 100 WEDNESDAY PARKER DANCING BOATING ROUND TRIP TICKETS ADULTS Everybody will be as DANCING BOATING BATHING FISHING ROUND TRIP TICKETS ADULTS 60 CENTS CHILDREN 35 CENTS Everybody will be assured of a good time We offer fifty dozen E erican Panama Hat fine, close weaves, a There is a vast differ called Jap Panama tha the genuine Equadori It will pay you to in STAN CLOTHING NICOLLET AMERICANS RESERVE FIRE Mow Down Germans at Close Range With Machine, Guns. With the American Army in France, July 5.—A heavy German counter attack against the American positions at Vaux was repulsed, the enemy losing very heavily. Not a foot of the ground won by the Americans in their attack on Monday night was lost. The counter attack developed after the Germans had heavily bombarded Vaux and Bols de la Roche. When the German infantry leaped from the trenches the troops came over in close formation. In some cases whole companies were allowed to approach close to the American line, then the American machine gunners, from their hidden nests, let loose a perfect hail of bullets, mowing down the enemy ranks and piling the dead all over the ground where the Germans were trying to advance. BARS TRADING FOR 10 YEARS Liverpool Cotton Exchange Decides to Boycott Teutons. Liverpool, July 5.—At a general meeting of the members of the Liverpool Cotton exchange it was unanimously resolved "that no member or members of a firm shall trade, either directly or indirectly, with the present enemies of Great Britain for a period of 10 years after the war." LORD RHONDDA. PETER H. BURGESS Lord Rhonda, Great Britain's food controller, died at his home in Danwern Park, Wales, as the result of overwork in handling the food situation. VESSELS MAKE GREAT SPLASH ONE HUNDRED MERCHANT SHIPS ARE LAUNCHED. Approximately Half a Million Tons of Shipping Slip From Ways in American Yards. Washington, July 5. — Emulating the "shot that was heard around the world" at Lexington 142 years ago, 100 merchant ships slid into American waters with a great splash that will be felt throughout the universe. Approximately half a million tons of shipping slipped from the ways, constituting another section of that great bridge of carriers to France across which will tread America's immense army of democracy crushers. Without holding back a single ship in order to swell the number, the ship-builders, by brawn and sacrifice, added appreciably to the thin moving life line spanning the Atlantic. More vessels took the water than Germany's entire submarine fleet can destroy in a month at the present rate of under-seas piracy. This achievement, which probably will be accounted among the safest and sanest Fourth of July celebrations in the country's history, was made possible only by the loyalty and devotion of the shipyard workers themselves working under the organization of Chairman Hurley of the shipping board and Director General Schwab of the emergency fleet corporation. Simple ceremonies accompanied the launchings though tremendous enthusiasm was aroused at each yard as the blocks were knocked from under the ships and they started down the ways towards the great American goal. GENERAL PERSHING SENDS GREETINGS Informs Premier American Army Appreciates Fighting Alongside British Paris, July 5.—General J. J. Pershing sent the following message to David Lloyd George, the British premier: "The American army in France feels special satisfaction in knowing that yours is beside it for the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I have learned with equal pleasure that the people of England are uniting with our soldiers and sailors to celebrate Fourth of July with unusual brilliance—uniting for a manifestation of sympathy and international concord, which will remain a memorable date in the history of our nations." DANIELS VOICES HIS CONFIDENCE IN NAVY Says Glee of German Press Over Submarines off Atlantic Coast Cannot Last Long. New York, July 5—"German U-boats are being sunk faster than Germany can build them. "They are impotent as a decisive factor in the war." Secretary of the Navy Dantels stated this flatly, verifying recent claims of Entente representatives as to the submarine situation. "The glee of the German press upon the appearance of submarines off the American coast will be of short duration," he said. "The army and navy merit praise for their work of shaping and shipping a million men overseas." Los Angeles Paper Suspends. Los Angeles, July 5.—Announcement was made that the Los Angeles Daily Morning Tribune "is not a necessity in these war times and the money, material and labor used in its production should be conserved for other important works," and that it would discontinue publication. "If conditions justify after the war, the publication will be resumed," the announcement said. The Tribune was established July 4, 1911, by Edwin T. Earl. A STAG AGE, No. 106, I. B. P. 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