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Evening star., 1915-02-01
AUSTRIA IS CALLED
ENEMY Of DEMOCRACY
DR.. Wood Declares Dual Monarchy
Is a Persistent Champion
Of Autocracy.

Austria, since the first days of the
Hapsburgs. has been the logical, con-
sistent antagonist of democracy and
the persistent and unintermittent cham
pion Of authority and autocracy.
This was the declaration of Rev DR..
Charles Wood In his sermon at the
Church Of the Covenant last evening
on Austria and the War;" one Of a
by that minister on moral and re-
ligious aspects of the great struggle.
The dual monarchy had "scrap-of-
paper" incident of its own. Dr. wood
showed He told of the death of John
Huss at the stake July 6. 1415, when he
had been guaranteed safe conduct out
of the country by Sigismund
1T may have been that very scrap of
paper that lighted the pyre of the great
reformer," DR.. Wood suggested.
Austrian Immigrants.
In referring to the heavy tide of i'm
migration to this country from Aus
tria, the inference of the speaker plain
ly condemned the literacy feature Of
the immigration bill now before Con-
gress. After getting away from the
strait Jacket of their own land, these
immigrants, especially the Slovaks, de-
velop into intellectual and highly desir-
able citizens of the United States, it
was pointed out.
All Europe. DIR. Wood averred, fails
to grasp the idea Of liberty that is
held in America. In this connection he
said:
1T is said that never has foreigner
since Lafayette been greeted with such
enthusiasm as that with which KOS
suth, the Hungarian patriot, was well
coined. Austria could not understand
1t. Here was one of her outlaws COM
ing to America and being greeted here
like a great patriot.
Europe Cannot Understand U. S.
Austria is not alone in finding great
difficulty in understanding the Ameri-
can spirit. All Europe labors under
that same difficulty. 1t seems to them
quite impossible that there should be
for America no interest Imaginable so
great to her as liberty, democracy, the
right of the people to choose their own
rulers and to say how the country shall
be ruled
DR.. Wood foresees dire consequences
to Austria regardless of the outcome
of the war Between the probability
of becoming VaSsal of Germany or
the victim of the allies, the present
position of the empire is held by MN
to be a most uncomfortable one. The
decadence of the once great monarchy
has been gradual, and is the result of
obvious wrong doing that has been
permitted to flourish i'll the midst of
the body polite down the long line OF
centuries.
Evening star., 1915-02-01

Miss Fawn Lippincut received
a beautiful copy o Lucille this
morning from a midd1eaged gen
tIeman she hooked at Bass Lake
last summer.
If you don't know somethin'
good about whoever you're talkin'
about discuss tn probable dura-
ton O. tn war.
Evening star., 1915-02-01

Oakland and San Francisco are agi-
tating for a connection suspension bridge
nine miles in length
Evening star., 1915-02-01
ADVENTIST CONFERENCE
BEG|NSAT TAK0MA PARK
Ten-Day Publishing and Home
Missionary Convention
Opens Today.
Program of Fifty-Four Subjects
P1anned-Stress to Be Laid on
Distributing Literature.

Officers and missionary colporteurs
representing practically every Seventh
day Adventist conference in the New
England, middle Atlantic and great
lakes states are in attendance at
ten day publishing and home mission
ary convention. which opened today in
the assembly room of the general con-
ference of the denomination at Takoma
Park. 1t is expected that presidents of
the Atlantic, Columbia and Lake Union
conferences, as well as members of the
North American division conference
executive committee, will be present
during portion of the convention.
This Is the second of three similar
conventions arranged at the fall coun-
ell last October. and when the third is
held at Mountain View. Cal, next
month. it is stated, every state con-
ference will have been represented
A program Of nfty-four subjects has
been planned and much stress is to be
laid on the Importance of disseminating
the literature published by the Advent
list publishing houses in different parts
of the country with more vigor than in
the past.
Evening star., 1915-02-01
The Washington Maryland
Sanitarium Company

Desires to announce that they have secured the
beautiful Sparrlug estate at Silver Spring. Mary
land. and have converted 1t into SAINT arium.
with the twilight remedies to Relieve
ALCOHOL and MORPHINE ADDICTS.
Sanitarium phone, Woodslde 593.
Washington ONCE. 1922 H st. nv.
Phone Main 1860.
Automobile service.
Evening star., 1915-02-01
At Prominent centers.

December 81 New York had $9.4SS,53s
on deposit, as compared with $4.3S4,0 ,059
June 80. an increase of $5,0s2,47s, or
1859 per cent. The deposits in Brook
lyn increased from $1,501.446 June 80
to s3.002,2SS December 81, gain of
s1,5OO.s4O. or 100 per cent. December
81, Bridgeport. Conn. had s127,47s on
deposit. as against $5s,621 June 80, an
increase of $6s.s57. or 117.5 per cent
Other Offices showing large increases
for this six-month period were as fol-
lows: Newark. 6S.2 per cent; Jersey
City, 659 per cent; Akron, 56.3 per
cent; Rochester. IS per cent: Detroit,
64.3 per cent, and Lowell. sos per cent
The s59.200.ooo on deposit is exclusive
of s5.5oS,0SO. which is the sum with
drawn by depositors for the purpose of
buying postal savings bonds.
December 81, 6,462 qualified banks
had postal savings funds on deposit,
classified as follows: National banks,
3.62S; state banks, 1854; savings banks.
1856; trust companies. SOS; organized
private banks, 25.
Evening star., 1915-02-01
Program of the Convention.

The convention has been arranged so
as to have certain themes discussed on
particular days. Under the title of
The Colporteur,' six different phases
are to be discussed. outlining plans and
methods whereby the colporteur work
will be placed on a higher plane, of in
creasing the force of workers in this
department and of making their work
more. permanent.
Elders N. T. Town. secretary of the
general conference publishing depart
ment; w. W. Eastman, secretary of the
North American division conference
publishing department; f. w. Paap and
Miss Edith M. Graham of the home mis-
sionary department are to take promi-
nent parts in the convention, as we'll as
others who have had much experience
in missionary colporteur endeavor
Preliminary reports showed that last
year the Seventh-day Adventists oper-
ated th1rty-seven publishing houses and
branches, having assets amounting to
$1.488.3SS.46. employing 734 persons,
and the total denominational literature
sales for the year were $1,s69,714
This literature included approximately
$50 bound books. 325 pamphlets, 1900
tracts. 12S periodicals, printed in eighty
different languages. The total litera-
ture sales from the time this work was
organized approximate $19.556,59O. O.02.
This literature was distributed by
1850 colporteurs, 805 of whom are in
North America and 1.255 in other coun-
tries.
Evening star., 1915-02-01

post offices authorized to accept de-
posits, with us branches and stations.
OF the 1851 offices, s,499 were of the
presidential grade and 1,132 fourth
class.
OF the s5s.2oo.ooo on deposit Decem-
ber 81 last about S45,S60.000, or over
three -fourths CTS per cent? was held
in the 1893 offices having deposits OF
$4,000 and over. and about $35.230. 600.
or nearly three ffths (59.5 per cent?. In
the So offices having 100000 and over.
Nearly one-third (32.5 per cent? Of the
total amount on deposit was held in the
six Offices New York, Chicago. Brook
lyn. Boston, San Francisco and Port
Evening star., 1915-02-01
Business of Past Fiscal Year.

During the fiscal year which ended
June 80. 1914, says the report, postal
deposits increased about $9.600.000, or
2s per cent; whereas during the six
months from July 1 to January /,
SIS, 100000, or an increase of 36 per
cent, was added to the aggregate saw
ings in the governments keeping. The
European war more than doubled the
rate of increase.
For forty-three months postal saw
ings accumulated at the rate of about
a million dollars a month"; the report
states. Then, when Europe's conflict
broke out, Withdrawals fell off and thou
sands of strange faces appeared at post
Offices to intrust their soiled and tar
nished savings to Uncle Sam. Hence,
the August figures showed a net gain
in deposits of four millions-four times
the average gain; September and Oc-
tober rolled up over three and one-half
millions each, and while November
and December felt the usual holiday
drains. these months nevertheless show
more than twice the normal receipts,
or about two millions each.
Evening star., 1915-02-01
POSTAL SAVINGS FUND
INCREASED BY BIG WAR
Statement Issued Shows That Thou
sands of Foreigners Are Bank
ing Their Earnings. :.
Advance in the Deposits With Uncle
Sam Averages Approximately
$1,000, 600 a Month.

That the European war has exerted
a pronounced influence in swelling the
list of postal savings bank depositors
is the inference to be drawn from fig
ures contained in report just issued
by the Post Office Department. The re-
port shows that more than 100000 per-
sons have become depositors in postal
savings banks since the outbreak of
the war in Europe, this army of new
depositors increasing the funds placed
with the postal savings bank system at
the rate of approximately $4,000. 900 per
month. In the opinion Of Post Office
Department officials. as expressed in
the report, this condition indicates that
thousands Of foreigners working in the
United States are holding on to their
earnings and depositine them in postal
savings banks instead Of sending them
In the form Of money orders to persons
In their native lands, as heretofore.
At the close of business December 81,
1914, the report shows, total deposits
IN postal savings banks aggregated
$59.200.000, to the credit of $4,000 in
dividual depositors Handling these
deposits were 1851 post Offices, New
York city leading with total deposits
of $9.4S6,5SS. Taking the country
over, the average, per depositor, was
Evening star., 1915-02-01
Increase by Months

The increase of deposits by months,
since July, 1914. follow:
Evening star., 1915-02-01
SPI2ITUALISl.

HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLER. MOST
noted SLATE writer IN the world Daily. for short
time. 1852 Psrkwood place: 1ith 81. Phone
Columbia 227o. 3s
MRS. J. E. MALTBY. KENOIS BLDG. 1lth
and G NV. Room +0s Meetings Wed and
Fri. T:30 pm; a message to each. Daily
readings . m. $50 pm. Phone NJ s643
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
TEXAS VITAL STATISTICS
FOR MONTH OF may
Total Number Of Births 1892, lnclud,
ing 42 Sets of Twins-Twenty-Flve
Homicides and % Suicides,

Austin, Tex. - Twenty-Five homi.
cides and twenty-eight suicides occur.
red in Texas during May, according to
abe regular monthly report issued by
DR.. w. A Davis, state registrar OF
vital statistics, this week.
The total number of births was
1882, including forty-two sets of
twins. Deaths numbered 1859. An
unusually large number of deaths of
children was recorded, there being
5O4 infants under the age of / year
and 242 from l to 5 years. Tubercu.
losis OF lungs again caused the great.
est number of deaths, 3O6. Dlarrhea
and enteritis were second, claiming
24l children under years of age.
The Oldest person to die in Texas in
May was a negro, III years old, in
Tarrant county. A white man. aged
III years, died in Bexar county. The
death of another white man. aged ITO
years, was also reported from Bexar
county.
Smallpox claimed 7 victims out Of q
total of 1853 cases reported; 70 died
from pellagra, and Sc accidental
droWnings were reported.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
ENGLAND ASSERTS Shippers
HAVE NO JUST COMPLAINT
Question Of Rights of Neutrals to
Trade With Each Other or With
ReIIIgerents Ignored.

Washington.-Great Britain, in a
memorandum transmitted to the
United States and made public in
Washington and in London Thursday,
recites at length its efforts 20 mini
mize Inconvenience to neutral com
merce resulting from the order in
council and asserts American citizens
have no just grounds for complaint of
the treatment accorded their cargoes.
No attempt is made to answer the
principles asserted in the American
note of March protesting against the
order in council and insisting upon
the right of neutrals to carry legiti.
mate commerce on with each other
and to trade in none ontraband with
civilians in be!ligerent countries. In
transmitting the memorandum Ambas-
sador Page said it was merely an ex-
PLANTATION Of concrete cases and the
regulations under which they are dealt
with"
In its memorandum the foreign Of
flee emphasizes the various special
concessions made in favor of the
United States citizens" in setting
forth that all British officials have act
ed in every case with the utmost dis
patch consistent with the object in
view, and of showing in every case
such consideration for neutrals as
might be compatible with the object,
namely, to prevent vessels from carry
ing goods for or coming from the
enemy's territory"
According to q summary of ships
detained there are now twanty-seven
vessels which cleared from the Unit.
ed States now held in ports Of the
United Kingdom. OF these eight are
said to be unloading cotton which
Great Britain has asresd to purchase,
seven will be allowed to depart as
soon as items of their cargo placed in
prize court have been discharged,
and the other twelve, three of them
American ships, are the subject of in
Vestigattons not yet completed
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Quarantine Is Being Relaxed,

Washington--Further far-reaching
relaxations in the federal quarantine
against the foot and mouth disease
became effective June %.
Interstate movements of live stock
will be resumed between restricted
areas and points in free and closed
areas for immediate slaughter. Ship
ments for any purpose will be permit
ted to all points except those in
CLOSED area"
In Illinois a large area which does
not include the Union Stock Yards, is
made free. All Indiana became free
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Peace Conference Scheduled.

Ell Paso, Tex.-Jose Isabel Robes
minister Of war in the cabinet of Eu.
lalio Gutierrez, announced Wednes
day that the leaders of the two larger
warning factions have agreed to dis
cuss peace terms, perhaps within two
weeks. Since the overthrow of Gutter
rez's government Robes has not
been identified with either Villa OF
Carranza factions, and was chosen by
those anxious to end the war as an in
termediary, according to his story
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
I'LL AUTO SPEED RECORDS
BEOK: IN BY FRENCH DRIVER
Dario Resta Wins 50O-Miie Derby at
Speed Of 96.6 Miles Per Hour on
eIooden Track.

Speedway, Chicago, Ill.-All COM
petitive speedway automobile records
of the world from fifty miles to 500
were shattered in the running Of the
first Chicago 500-mile derby Satur.
! day, They were not only beaten by
Dario Resta, who won with French
car and captured more than $4,000
In prize money, but by the nine other
drivers who finished in the money.
The previous record, made by Ralph
de Palma at Indianapolis recen&%. was
at the rate Of 1854 miles an hour.
ReSta averaged 976 over the same
distance and J. Cooper, who finished
tenth, bettered the De Palma mark,
averaging 90.9 miles.
Tho result, according to experts, es-
tabliShes the reputation of the new
wooden track as the fastest in the
United States if not In the world.
Eighty thousand persons witnessed
the spectacle.
The performance of the veteran
Harry Grant in driving the entire race
without stop excited almost as much
enthusiasm as ReSta's brilliant vic.
tory. Grant never hesitated during
the entire 5O0-mile grind, although his
average speed, which landed him in
fourth position, was 95.O6 miles per
hour The previous nonstop record In
competition was 305 miles.
TWenty-one cars started and eight
dropped out in the course of the grind.
j. Cooper the last of the ten drivers
to finish, was but twenty-five minutes
and four seconds behind the victor.
Following was the order of the fin
ish; Drivers Resta, Porporato, Rick
enbacker, Grant, E. Cooper, Anderson,
Alley, Chevrolet, Burman, ]. Cooper
Resta was the favorite at the start
and led most Of the way, closely press.
ed at all times. He visited the pit
only three times, Porporato had more
tire trouble than his compatriot, or he
might have landed the race.
A remarkable feature of the race
was its freedom from injuries 10 driv.
ers and spectators. The speed on
the board track is said to have been
shown In its effect on the men timing
the race. The race was nearly over
before the cars had decreased enough
% enable them to catch up with the
electric recorder. Thus the specta-
.ors during most Of the race were in
ignorance Of the relative positions of |
he contestants.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Many Killed in Railway Accident.

Gettysburg, Pa.-Eight persons are
known to have been killed and from
twelve to fourteen were injured in a
head-on collision between the Blue
Mountain special and local train on
the Western Maryland railroad near
the Mason and Dixon line Friday. The
trains met on bridge spanning a
deep ravine between Highfield and
Thurmont. The bridge on which the
accident occurred is 200 feet high.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Noted Texas Ethnoloalss Dies,

Washington.-Mrs. Mathilde Coxe
Stevenson, noted write on ethnolog.
ical subjects and for the last twenty.
six years connected with the bureau
of American ethnology of the Smith.
sonian Institution. died at Oxon Hill
Mo-, a suburb, Friday, aged so years
She was a native of San Augustine
Texas.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
CAMPAIGN AGAINST CATTLE
TICK IN TEXAS Renewed
Great Area Has Been Freed From
Quarantine Section-Further Agi-
tation Pointed Out.

Washington. - Between 1907 and
1914 there was freed from the cattle
tick area in Texas 28,S05 square miles,
and thus far during 1915, the counties
Of Sterling and Wilbarger have been
placed above the federal quarantine
line as cleaned" During the seven
years the bureau of animal industry
has spent in graduating Texas of the
fever tick $110,57O, the state has spent
$36,745, and local organizations Of cat
tie raisers have contributed $4,000.
despite these large sums Of
money" says a statement from the
United States department Of agriCul-
ture, "the great bulk of Texas remains
badly infested with the cattle tick.
Popular sentiment for eradication
however, appears to be steadily grow
ing. In Nolan county, for example,
tick eradication was adopted in March
Of this year by substantial majority,
although it had been defeated in the
same county the year before by nearly
three to one. Progressive cattle men
are also leading movements for tick
eradication in the counties of Clay.
Archer, Wichita, Throckmorton, Stew
ems, Young, COncho and others.
From the point Of view of those
VINO have studied the question, it is
difficult to see how stock raisers can
afford to lose the profits that result
from tick eradication Some time ago
the federal department Of agriculture
sent to number of representative
stock-breeding farmers q series Of
questions on the effect of tick eradi-
cation. From replies it appeared that
in the states of Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma,
Texas, Tennessee and Virginia the
value of cattle in tick-freed territory
increased on an average of 1915 In
Texas the increase was S13.79. The
weight of tick-freed cattle was said
to be, on the average, one-fifth more
than it had been, and the milk produc.
ton one-fourth more"
The census of 1910 showed that 49, |
100000 head of cattle with valuation
Of about $270,OO0,O00, were below the
quarantine line. One-eighth or sS4,.
100000 represents the loss by deaths
alone, the department figures, and the |
statement gives the opinion of a
county stock raiser, that |
.wo men by bringing ticky cattle In
had cost the county from $4,000 to
100000, The department adds:
How long it will be before Texas
rees herself from the burden of the
lick depends upon the strength of the
popular conviction that the tick must
20. In comparison with the size of
he state and the Importance of its
industry the amount of
lctive work that is being done in Tex.
is is very small At the close of 1914
here were only sixty-nine dipping
ats in operation in the state, where.
IS in Mississippi there were 1852 and
n Oklahoma 229"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
slaton Has Left ceoroia

Atlanta, Ga-Former Governor John
M. Slaton, accompanied by Mrs. Sla.
ton, left Atlanta Tuesday for the Pa.
cific coast by way of New York, and
the military guard stationed at his
suburban home since the demonstra.
lions against the Communication of Leo
M. Franks death sentence began
June q, was withdrawn.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
SHORTAGE IN EQUIPMENT
OF TEXAS NATIONAL GUARD
United States Government Claims {
Shortage of 100000, Covering
a Period of Years.

Washington-A statement Of the
shortage in army equipment issued t.
the Texas National Guard amounting
to 100000 and covering a period O;
years is being prepared by the wal
department for transmittal to Govern.
or Ferguson at Austin. OF this about
$4,000 is the amount of condemned
property alleged to have been embez,
zled and for which a federal grand
jury in Texas has returned two indict,
ments against officials of the guard
All government property issued to {.
state is charged against the state until
accounted for. In the Texas contro.
versy there appears to be a discrep.
anCy between the records here and
those in the adjutant generals office
In Austin as to the amount of prop,
erty on hand among the organizations.
In order to bring about a partial ad.
justment Of the equipment accounts
the department ordered a reinspection
of six or seven companies. A mum
Der OF other states are also short in
large amounts.
The departments statement will GO
to Austin within the next ten days for
checking against the states records
Collin H. Ball of the infantry, assign.
ed to the Texas Guard as inspector-in.
structor; Brigadier General Lyon anc
Adjutant General Henry Hutchings
were in conference with the secretary
of war concerning the inspectors re
port.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
EnsIand's Losses Increase.

London.-The following compilation
of the approximate total casualties of
the British expeditionary force during
the past three months was given out:
April, 639 officers and $4,000 men;
May, $500 officers and $4,000 men;
June, 1900 officers and $4,000 men.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
ProhibitlonIsts Win Case,

Shreveport, lathe Louisiana su-
preme court at New Orleans Wednes-
day reversed the decision of District
Judge R. D. Webb of this parish in
the Shreveport saloon license case
and decided the case in favor of the
prohibition forces.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Warehouse Company Formed.

Corpus Christi, Tex-Falfurrias. in
Jim Wells county, has organized a
$4,000 warehouse company, which
will include a 2,O0O-bale warehouse for
cotton, packing shed for citrus fruits
and, possibly, alright bins for storing
seed for farmers or similar products
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
Commission Closes State Rate Hearing

Austin, Textile second hearing
before the Texas railroad commits
sion, affecting the application of the
Texas railroads for an increase in
revenue, came to close Tuesday. 1t
is considered to be the most exhaus.
tive in the annals of the commission,
and perhaps covered a wider range
Of subjects than ever before consider.
ed at one time by the commission.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-07-09
May Rebuild grazOs River grIdo.

Hampstead, Tex-Estimates have
been received by the Hampstead Bus
mess League of the cost of rebuilding
the bridge across the Brazos river
south of Hampstead The figures
range from $4,000 to $4,000 to com,
plete the structure, which is about
400 feet long.