davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-27
All Members of Crew Saved. Ship Was Carrying Con-
 traband to Belfast
MEAGRE ACCOUNTS
 RECEIVED IN LONDON
Fact That Ship Was Warned and Crew Removed I.essens Gravity of the
 Situation

London. July 2e.-Thc American steamship Leelnnaw. from Archangci. July s. for Beifast with n cnrgo of flax. wns sunk sunday by n German subma- rine off the northwest coast of Scot land. All the members of the crew of the Leelannw were saved. They were brought Into KirkwnlI In their own boats.
 CT Leclanaw are expected to reach Dun- dee tomorrow. when 1t will he possible to obtain n full account Of the sink Ing of the vessel by German sub marine off the Orkney Islands sum dny night. The episode has created widespread discussion in England, coming almost coincident with the de- livery of the American note to Ger many.
 Only meagre accounts of the de- struction of the Leelanaw have been received here. but it is clear the sub marine gave the captain ample warn- Ing, even permitting the crew to col lect part of their effects before talk ing them aboard the underwater craft which then sank the vessel by shell fire and bombs
 some London evening papers, telling of the incident, employ suggestive cap tons. such as An Unfriendly Act" but because the American note laid so much stress on the demand that Amer lean lives on merchant ships should not be jeopardized without warning. 1t was difficult for the English mind to determine whether the sinking of he ship after the crew were taken of constituted what America would regard as repetition of acts which ste insists must cease
 E. H. Dennison, the American con SUI al Dundee, sent the Associated lress the following message tonight; No details yet except crew landed at hlrkwaH this morning. Have ordered them sent to Dundee on tomorrow's boat"
 Submarine Glasses Steamer
 When last seen the German submarine was in pursuit of steamer the smoke of which was observed after the Leela- naw's crew had been lowed toward the shore.
 Keen interest was displayed In British official circles today ove rthe news of the torpedoing of the steamer Lelanaw. but comment was withheld until the re- oeipt of further details, which the ad- miralty has requested
 Tomorrow morning the Leelanaws crew Will go to Dundee where the American consul will take their denosi tions.
 American officials will make a rigid in- vestigaton of the incident especially with regard to the point whether the crew was removed before the torpedo was fired, as the Leeanaw was carry ing a conditional contraband cargo from one belligerent port to another The vessel Is believed to have accepted the flax cargo rather than return to a coaling station in England in ballast
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31

disbursements for fghting-men ana
equipment by land and sea were enor-
nous. During the fiscal year or
1913-1914. the cost OF maintaining our
little army equalled the cost Of Ger
many's great military establishment
before she began her special prepare
tons for this war. II was following
the custom OF years. Our naval ex-
penditures were second TO Great
Britain's. Switzerland. for one-ff-
teenth Of the sum has trained an eff
cient army OF half a million men, not
a standing army. but a citizen soldiery
always ready II has taken very little
time out OF their working lives. It
seems advisable 70 spend still more
money for the present. on equipment,
particularly submarines. cruisers, cor
pedO boats. aeroplanes. artillery and
ammunition. But the chief line OF
necessary development, nearly all the
experts agree, is in the direction OF
large. efficient force Of citizen soldiers
and a trained reserve for the navy.
which shouldn't require much larger
expenditure than we have been &C
customed TO. It's merely a question of
planning wisely and spending our
money for genuine efficiency instead of
catering TO the whims OF bureau
cratic politicians.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
NATIONAL DEFENSE.

While We are all so busy figuring
out plans TO put the country in a
state Of defense. let us pause. Has
the nation really turned militaristic
over night; is il on the edge of war.
or what is the matter? We anticipate
that politics has had considerable 20
do with it-republcan politics. in
clined to shoulder the Jack of defense
in the preparations of republican con-
crosses for the last quarter OF CEN
fury, upon the democratic party which
just now happens TO be i'm power.
We doubt if even these republican
howlers want huge navy or a vast
army. Because the democrats are in
power they have merely reached the
conclusion that it is time 10 stop fool
ing and provide be ter defensive ma
chinery. perhaps doubling that the
democrats would do IT, BIT they
will As far as cur naval and military
establishments are concerned. espe-
cially the latter. we haven't got much
10 show for our money. Last year
our war bills-for army. navy and
pensions-amounted TO $4,000. 900.
more than any other nation in the
world spent for such purposes.
Pensions, OF course. was the biggest
item. and one for which there is no
parallel in history. But ssf. actual
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
land EVEN THEE'S \ LITTLE
OIEER.n

A-NtM Olk ArlODG.l
one would think that the at hu-
manitarian principles which lderlie
the temperance cause would be so
commanding that its advocates would
be filled with the spirit of the text,
They who are not against us are for
us.H
But such seems not TO be the case.
All public men and candidates for Of
fee are TO be subjected TO the test Of
their agreement with certain prohibit
ZIONIST methods, and even among
those VINO conform 10 the test there
may be some who are "a little queer. ="
For some reaSOn-eVidently remote
from the cause Of temperance-the So
cial distinctions which differentiate
the eN-sOldier from the eN-prize fighter
make il embarrassing for both 10
speak from the same platform. and
possibly even among members OF the
profession OF arms prohibitiOnist
could ind still further disqualified
tionS-and so on.
If this organization were guided
simply by "a desire for temperance. and
was basing its propaganda upon the
physical i'll effects OF alcohol a man
of Mr. SullivaD's experience might be
a great help TO it. But. OF course. II IL
IS seeking only To increase its influence
III the game of national politics. phys
biological considerations are delegated
TO a second place. for the name OF an
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
UNDOLLARED DIGNITIEs.

I
To those dollar devotees of our
country whose sole criterion of sue
cess is opulence, whose sole standards
of happiness are luxuries, whose sole
measure of distinction is splurge, we
submit for consideration as earnest
as they are congenitally capable of
giving, the $4,000 estate left TO his
wife at his death by Rear Admiral
Alfred T. Mahan.
1t is doubtful if any book in this
generation has exerted profounder
worldwide influence on international
thought and policy than Influence of
Sea Power Upon History"
Here was a man enjoying the hon
or of having risen 20 the top of his
profession. enjoying the creative de-
lights of brilliant literary work, en-
jOying the exercise of tremendous
power through the influence of this
work, a man socially, intellectually,
influentially without a peer in the
United States, living in a most COM
plete cOntentment in a $4,000 cottage
at QuOgue! Power without the aid Of
money, pleasure without the need of
money! Could any career be more
ideal2
And yet we suppose that the first
instinct of thousands Of our worship
pers of the snowy life viii be TO sigh
at the irony Of fate which made 1t
possible for man OF such distinction
TO be so fundamentally incompetent
as 10 die leaving an estate of only
$4,000,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
x X X x x X = x x X =
= WHAT THE PAPERS SAY X
x x X x x X x x X x X x \
YOUTHFUL OBLATIONS.
(Memphis News Seminar. }

AAGIlp PMS news SClnllIdr.)
Perhaps the most pitiful and pa
thetic phase of the war in Europe is
the widespread destruction of young
boys, who have been organized as Boy
Scouts, and whose youthful ardor has
led them into the war. where they are
being offered up by the thousands as
innocent oblations upon the accursed
altar of MOlOCh. These boys are cOuT-
ageOus and patriotic. and cheerfully
so where danger and death Turk. They
should not be allowed TO do so. A
vivid pen picture. with a few bold
strokes, has been drawn by James
Douglass. a writer in LOndOn's Opin-
ion, which conveys a rather clear idea
Of the mOnstrOus crime that is being
committed against youth. He says:
My heart is raked with pity for the
clear-eyed, clean-skinned lads who
have gone and are going to the slaugh-
ter With life fresh and sweet upon
their lips. They are butchered i'm the
beauty Of their boyhood. / feel muir
derous when / see the name of a mid
shipman of Is in the roll of honor
The pity Of it, The shame Of it, The
horror of it, 1t is hard TO sleep with
the sObs Of Rachel mourning for her
children in ones ears. There never
was such lamentatiOn i'm the world. If
all go mad with rage and grief and
remOrse." These children have a right
TO life and it's enjOyments. and no
government has a right to deprive
them Of these blessings. They should
be permitted to grow TO maturity and
manhood, and TO realize what the
world has in store for them. They
should not be cut down in the flower
and blossom of their youth. If after
attaining To their majority they desire
TO go to war. it is their own affair. but
while they are children they should be
withheld from the slaughter From
time to time we hear about laws being
passed prohibiting the killing of calves
and lambs and other animals that are
used for food. on the ground that ii is
economic waste, and that they should
be permitted 10 grow and develop. If
such an argument is logical il should
acquire greater force when applied TO
human beings. who, in addition TO
having material value, have also i'm
mortal souls and intelligential as well
as rational essences that it is a crime
to obliterate. War is bTutes work
at best. and if men Will engage in it
they should at least leave the children
at home as seed corn for the genera
tons L. come.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
EAGERLY WAITING FOR
SUNDAYS PAPER
Thousands of Readers Anxious to
Clip the Coupon From sun
days Ncws-Timcs.

Have you ordered your Sunday
News-Times? il not, do so right now.
Your newsdealer may probably be sold
out by the time you call on him unless
you place your order IN advance You
surely want a copy Of Geo. Randolph
Chester's best ard greatest book,
% 600 an Hour" and the only way
you can get il under this newspapers
gift terms is by clipping the coupon
from the big announcement in Sun
days News Times
Think of being able to get high
grade, copyrighted novel at less than
one-fourth its regular selling pricei
The ten weeks distribution OF stand
ard fiction is a record breaker. There
are no troublesome conditions. Just
clip and present the coupon and the
book is yours for % cents.
Read how a young man actually
and honestly made more than a mil
lion dollars in % days. What was
his incentive? Read the book and
learn the secret The occurrences
in this book have the ring of reality
this is why il is So fascinating-wh
you are filed with regret that the
story is not longer when the last page
is reached
The rush for this beautiful book will
be tremendous. The coupon will ap-
pear but once-in Sundays News
Times. Be sure that you get your
copy.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
CROWDED PRISONS.
(The OVID

I
The warden at the state prison has
petitioned the legislature for money
for more buildings. Those now used
are insanitary because of lack of
room.
Two and three prisoners are kept In
cells built TO accommodate one pris-
oner in each cell.
Why?
Because we cherish the mistaken
opinion that we are not putting
enough men in prison.
No man is made better by prison
sentence. No man is helped by for
chile Incarceration.
Some men must be restrained for
the good OF society. They are the in
sane and the criminally abnormal.
They are a small portion of the
number we imprisOn.
no man should be kept in prison
who is willing TO lead a lawful life.
Every man has done something for
which he could have been legally i'm
prisoned. All those who were not de-
tected or punished are better men on
that account and socially is better off
because of that fact.
Let's give men a chance. Let us
send less men 10 prison. Let US pa
role more men who are in prison.
Let's keep from crOwding the prisons.
Have the wardens report every
month to each judge the capacity OF
the prisons and urge the judges not to
crowd the prisons 1t will pay the
state. 1t will uplift the citizenship.
1t will make many a poor devil a
better man.
We don't need more room in the
prisons. All we need to do is to quit
crowding them.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
FINANCE AND FARM.

1t is only few years since a small
cOuntry-town banker in Illinois was
laboring to interest the American
Bankers association in agricultural
problems. SO quickly does an insti-
tuition grow when it ills a genuine
need. Every banker in the country.
large or small. low recognizes the in
innate relate between farming and
finance. and - glad To do what he can
TO foster progress along all lines. The
same banker who started the ball
a-rolling said at the annual Banker
Farmer conference at Chicago, this
week:
We have led the great move
ment for country farm demon
strators. and urged soil surveys
and the necessity for "a careful
study of the commercial fertilizer
propaganda. our committees are
working for better rural schools,
fitted to the needs OF citizenship
and consolidated wherever pos
sible. We know that commerce
and a better marketin system
begin on the country road. and
that good roads lead in more di-
rectiors than can be enumerated
We realize that the wholesome.
prosperous country town is an alb
solute necessity. and that COM
munity building is one OF the big
needs and tasks of the nation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
An Overworked Adjective.

(Waukomis, Okla. HOrneO
The ladies did splendid at their din
ner, Friday, netting eleven dollars, be-
sides a lot of work in cleaning up the
park grounds. The dinner was also
splendid. In fact everything the Wau-
komis ladies undertake to do is splen-
did, because we have a splendid lot
Of ladies in WaukOmis.
WHATS good for fies?" asks a
correspondent. We don't know and
don't care to. What we are interest
ed in is what's bad for them.
Why People Go TO the Exposition.
personals, San Francisco Chronicle)
POPSEY-Over at Exhibition all
Wednesday afternoon: be sure and
come. WAPSEY.
FALL fashion week is for the fair
the fair is for the fall fashion week,
and the fair are for both.
ANYTHING unfair about that?
c. y. F.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31

the south in 1914 by giving it . g.
600 900 bale crop when there was no
market for the stuff. is king no longer.
The Manufacturers Record. in a re-
view Of the agricultural situation. de-
clares:
The grain crop Of the south this
year will exceed in value 10y sew
eral hundred million dollars the
total OF the most valuable cotton
crop ever produced by this sec
ton.
That may sound incredible. but the
figures submitted admit of little ques-
ton. According 10 the forecast OF
July by the department of agricul-
ture, the production OF important
grains in the southern states will be
1910, OOO.O0O bushels That is a gain
OF 2s6 1900. 900 bushels over last years
output. BY adding the rice crop to
the wheat, corn and oats, we get a
total grain crop for the south of
1870, OOO.O 900 bushels, an increase over
last year Of 100000 bushels
The real significance of these figures
appears in the fact that, while a sub
stantial increase is forecast for the en-
tire country. the gain in the south is
immensely greater than in the great
western and northwestern sections
especially given over TO embarrassing.
For the United States, the estimated
total is 5.414.00O. GOO bushels. an in
crease OF 4OO.OOO,OOO over last year It
is obvious that the south. while still
producing less than 80 per cent of the
total, is responsible for nearly 90 per
cent OF the country's present gain.
That is to say. it is increasing its grain
output about four times as fast pro-
portionately as the rest of the country
1t is pointed out, too, that corn gem
orally commands a price of 10 to 20
cents higher in the south than in the
west. on this basis, the Manufacture
ers' Record estimates that the south
ern grain crops viii represent a gain
this year of at least $25O.OOO,0 900 over
last years figures.
Tn outlook for cotton is rather
gloomy just now, because of the
I'll NeANNAANN tibSAAlb VI Alit NgtA man
Austrian markets and limitations Of
neutral markets by Great Britain But
il isn't likely that any loss suffered in
this respect will be so great that it
won't be more than counterbalanceG
by the increased value of the grain
crops, of whose marketing there is no
reasonable doubt.
"Well may the south take heart and
rejoice" says the Record, lin this
splendid showing Of what it can do in
grain production. Even these figures
can easily be doubled by diversifcation
of its agriculture and to growing at
home all of the foodstuffs needed for
man and beast"
sweet are the uses Of adversely"
In the guise of a misfortune, the war
has shown the south the way TO unex-
pected prosperity
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
GOOD NIGHT,

Bring on your wars.
And trolly cars.
Produce the noise OF land and sea-
\ numbering night,
Use dynamite.
But don't talk Sunny Heights TO me-
Let your submarine
Blow up gasoline.
Bring forth the noise of earth and air.
But nix your card,
To come up, pard.
To Sunny Heights for I'm not there
The most vast sound,
That man has found.
or ever mortal man conceived,
Was that believe me,
Don't deceive me.
That You gave me and I am grieVed'
a big time rumble,
Growing. grumble.
Grooming, moaning. wailing, cry;
Eou may do il,
I'll not rue il.
If l went back there I should die.
At five a. m.
Jerome and Glenn
Begin 10 roll and toss in bed;
And Inez she
Got up with me,
And so did little Will and Fred.
I'll not go back
And good night, Jack,
If ever she survives the trip;
/ think that all
Will surely fall
For home when they once pack their
grip.
That awful sound.
Heard miles around,
Unheeded by its operator.
Is your old dad;
II makes us sad
When you start up your separator.
WRIGHT ATEM.
WHEN this comes TO your ears ours
viii be listening to the tapping Of the
little wayelets against the boat al
Wawasee. With some saturnity wei
be sucking a pipe and suspensively
watching the fluctuations of a cork
floating. not fXed-with anticipatiOns
of an odOriferOus frying pan. To the
first 20 persons of any age, sex OF
condition, who guess what we are do
ing we will award rain checks fol
the press picnic.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
sOUTH Is III MINNER.

The palm ought 10 go 20 the south.
While the country in general is prid-
ing itself OF the splendid grain crop
taken a hand, and the reproach OF the
'one-crop" section has been swept into
he sea. King Cotton. who deceived
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31

expire fighter may not carry much
political influence.
1t is quite natural that prohibition
lists should feel it necessary TO put
themselves on record as opposed TO
the evil of prize lighting, but even tenn
perance movements may occasionally
show a tendency To intemperance In
the number of evils which they under
take to reform all at one time.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-31
THE MELTING POT
COME! TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

AMONG the last vestiges Of the Col
fax administration may be mentioned
the street signs which spontaneously
Those that remain are mere shadows
of their once cubalt blue and white
tastefulness. May we hope that some
time some other administration will
consider the streets worth remark
ing?
The Single Phrase Immortals.
II IS a queer fate to live in history
as the author of a single phrase; but
that, as the new Darwin letters re-
mind us. has been the destiny of the
man who said. Good Americans,
when they die. go to Paris" He was
Thomas Appleton. brother-in-law of
LOngfellow, and his one line is prob
ably as well known as any of the
poets thousands. oscar Wilde. as so
often happened, appropriated the cpl
gram in one of his plays.
THE combatants in Europe agree
on one thing, strange as it may seem.
They agree that the war will he car
ried TO a finish, whatever that may
be.
JUDGE GRAY'S declaration, that
we should have the largest navy in
the world. is impressive, but not con-
vincing in view of the judges en-
tangling alliance with the steel in
dustry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-21
LANG CASE APPEALED
Attorneys For Marshalltown Light.
Power & Railway Co.. Appeal to
Supreme Court From Verdict OF
5000 Awarded Mrs. Julia Lang.

Attorneys for the Marshals;own
Light, Power & Railway Co, wednes-
day fled no,iee Of appeal to the su-
pre-l4 court in the case Of Mrs Julia
Lang *. this former local public utili-
lies company III which Mrs. Lang
vas given a verdict for $1,000 al the
Oc,obe7 term of the district court.
Al appeal bond FOR $4,000 was fled
by The street railway company and
approved by Judge Willetl.
Mrs Lang sued for injuries alleged
70 have been sustained 70 ner neck and
back when she vas thrown from a
street car at the intersection of Main
ard Second streets as she was about 20
a,iEht from the car. The trial was Of
more than ordinary interest because o.
the number OF X-ray Photographic
negatives OF Mrs Lang's back and neck
which were introduced as evidence and
shown TO the jury.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-21
HELP WANTED.
At the odeon Theater Sunday Evening
January 81.

II you are working girl, o. IL you
are thinking OF going TO work in an
Office, the story o. Jack Lait's success.
Help Wanted" which will be seen at
the Odeon Sunday evening viii make
the greatest sort of an appeal. For
thirty nine weeks this play ran at the
Cor. theater. and II is safe to say not
single stsnographer IN Chicago
missed seeing it The action Of the
piece takes place chiefly II business
office and home Of a rich importer.
who. despite the fact that he IS mar
RED. is random in his affections. The
story deals with his attitude toward
young women IN HIS employ One OF
these q seventeen year old girl has
never been in the presence OF men as
2 rule ard in little while she Is forced
20 leave her position In the office. The
I'm porter's step-son IS in love with the
girl and makes up his mind 70 marry
her. and the importer narrowly es-
cepes a calamity with his wife. and he
IS cured This IS q familiar story 70
hundreds Of Aemrican girls, and wiki
what IS already known OF the high
standard OF the play thru the long
1 New Yorl, and Chicago engagements
: the engagement in this city viii un-
I questionably carry with II a capacit!
house Odeon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-21
WILD ROSE TEAM FOURTH.
Neble.t's Five Among Leaders at Fer:
Dodoe Tourney With 1883 Pins.


Neols;-'s Wild Rose team. % this
city, rolled into fourth place al tie
annual tournament Of me state bowl
ing association at Fort Dodge last
night. with 2.S3S pins TO their credit
The tournament viii be concluded to-
day
Rankl-,'s Colts. OF Fort Dodge main
tain first place in the -ve-nen event.
with a score OF 1870 The Alexand-ias
No and S;rorz-S,an team OF Des
Moines. who had led the bowle-s, with
a tie score. we're RELOCATED 70 second
place tie by the wonderful showing OF
the Fort Dodge Youngsters The Des
Moines teams each totalie1 ISIS pins.
The Wild Rose team crowded he Web
s.er City Elks our OF fourth place. top
ping the lodg-1erl's sore by Two pins.
MAYOR John 2 Ford and John Ruge,
! OF Fort Dodge, rolled into frs, place in
the two-nen event yesterday when
they overturned 1883 pins. Joe
/ Sweeney. Of Sioux City. holds the lead
I in the singles.
The Wild Pose team viii participate
| in the Singles and doubles today.