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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-08-03
YERDUN FIELD
AGAIN ACTIVE
TAKES THE CENTER OF STAGE IN
TODAY'S EUROPEAN WAR
STRUGGLE
SlayS Near KOveI as TeutOns Are
Forced Back-Berlin Asserts
Attacks Fail
By ED l.. KEEN

| Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Aug. 3.-Verdun fighting
again took the center of interest. The
Berlin statement frankly admitted that
the French had penetrated the German
defenses at three places there. Ber-
! lin and Paris statements made appar-
ent that the French activity was al
most general in it's offensive against
the crown prince.
Russians Rush TeutOns
PETROGRAD, Aug. st is an
nounced that the German attack this
morning was beaten. The Russians
discovered gas clouds approaching
and rushed in reinforcements. Many
of the Germans died while attempting
to penetrate the barbed wire entangle-
ments. They retreated abandoning
their machine guns and rifles. The
Russians are within IL miles of Koyel.
Berlin is Optimistic
BERLIN, Aug. 3.-It is announced
that British and French attacks have
failed. The statement said: Strong
English attacks on both sides of the
Albert-Baupaume road and east of
Trones wood have collapsed. The
French advances near Barleux and
Estress were repulsed. 4
British Forging Ahead
LONDON, Aug. 3.-General Haig re-
ported that the British continued con-
solidating ground recently gained. He
reported a constant artillery fire on
small mine near Souchez at dawn but
there was no damage. =
German Flyers Downed
PARIS, Aug. 3.-Sergeant Chainat
of the French aeroplane corps de-
stroyed two German machines on the
Somme front. This makes his total
eight. Another German aeroplane was
defeated near Chauny The official
communique detailed material French
gains south of F1eury. The French
captured 700 Germans.
Unarmed Bessel Sunk
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The admiralty
announced today that the unarmed
liner Brittanic had been sunk. No de-
tails were given. The vessel was not
the huge White Star liner but was
owned by the w. II. Cockerline COM
pany and was of 3400 tons capacity.
1t is assumed the vessel was torped-
Oed.
The Zeppelin Raid
LONDON, Aug. 3.-The official an
of last nights Zeppelin
raid said: 1.-The damage was aston
shly small. Seven airships dropped
80 bonrbs in the east counties. Nine
lorses were killed and three horses
INJURED The Zeppelins visited Ner-
ok, Suffolk, Essex, and Kent. British
guns scored several
1itS :"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-08-03
BROWN. SUPREME CHANCELLOR
By the United Press Associations.

PORTLAND, Or, Aug. 3.-The SUI
las today elected John J. Brown of
Vandalia, Illinois, to be supreme
chancellor of the order.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
SAILED THREE TIMES ON
FRIDAY; ALWAYS WRECKED

Boston, Sept. 25.-Capt. Geo. Birnie,
of the Portland schooner Lucia Por-
ter, arrived here last week from Glib
raltar with six members of his crew
aboard the steamship Cretic and re-
ported that his vessel has been aban-
doned 600 miles west of the Azores.
Disaster has ended my last three
voyages" Capt. Birnie said. Il began
them all ON Friday because | thought
that superstition was dream. Now
I've decided I'll never sail again if I
have to start on that day"
In February the Lucia Porter suf.
fered severely in a storm off the
Maine coast, and in May she was
tossed upon the beach at Swampscott,
almost wreck. After being rebuilt
she sailed from st. John, N. B., Aug.
II for Las Palmas an da few days
later encountered a storm.
Capt. Birnie said he and his crew
wer forced to seek refuge ON the aft
erdeck house and had about exhaust
ed their food supply when the British
tramp steamer Knight, of the Garter,
picked them up and landed them Il
Gibraltar.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
INDUSTRIOUS KNITTER

Il never saw a more industrious
woman than that Mrs. Crum," the
teacher remarked before the Kentuc-
ky mountain boys and girls gathered
at the school dinner table. why,
even when l meet her on the road
she pulls out her yarn and needles
and from her pockets and goes to
knitting"
Teachers manifestation of surpris
brought forth a volley of CALCULATIONS
from the children, each of whom had
mother, aunt or cousin who was equal
ly ardent at wool working.
"Oh!" exclaimed one little fellow,
reaching the climax of the discussion.
Il had a grandmother who was the
knittiest woman | ever knowed. She
used axe her knitting to bed with
her, and every few minutes she >wok-
ed up and throwed out a pair o
socks. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
ONLY CRIPPLES WANTED
ATBASEBALL FACTORY

p. Goldsmith's Sons manufacture
baseballs. Some time ago the Off
cials of the company discovered that
a one-legged man can sew covers on
as swiftly and as neatly as his more
fortunate brother with two good legs.
Since that tim ethe firm through the
cooperation with charitable agencies
has given number of one-legged
men employment, and thus has ena-
bled them to become independent, self
respecting ciizens. The officers have
furthermore made it known that they
welcome the application of such men
for employment.
Business men who contribute large
sums to charity. and the heads of the
agencies which administer such funds
will dc well to pattern after the plan
adopted by p. Goldsmith's Sons, as
one of The safest and sanest methods
of eliminating dependents that has
yet beer. devised -Des Moines Capital
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
FARMERS BUILD COMMUNITY
PLAY GROUNDS IN STATE
"All Work and No Play Doctrine Not
Popular in Monroe County

Madisonville, Tenn, Sept. 23.-
Spring Creek community, Monroe
county, is taking an interest in a pub
lie play ground to be used by the
young people of the neighborhood.
This is a farming community but the
citizens are acting upon the idea that
all work and no play is bad doc,
trine for people no matter whether
they live in town or country. Grounds
have been cleared and tennss cuort.
a croquet ground, and basket ball
ground have been laid off.
This work is the result of interest
aroused by the county home@ @emon-
stration agent. Good work Is being
done in gardening, canning, cooking
and the care of the home.
Visitors comment upon the fact
that this is splendid example foi
other communities to follow. Every
neighborhood,' says one visitG1
should be thus provided with play
grounds, and fathers and mothors. as
well as the young people. should meet
together for visiting and for play"
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
MARSHALL ISSUES A
CHALLENGE TO HUGHES

Richmond. Ind, Sept. 23.-vice-
President Marshall, in an address
here last night, issued challenge to
Charles E. Hughes. republican cand-
date for president who spoke here,
to say what he would do under the
same conditions that confronted the
Democratic administration. He alsa
asserted that Mr.. Hughes election
would mean control of the govert-
ment by what he called the stand
patters.' He said:
THE election of Mr.. Hughes will
put the government under the control
of the 'standpatters for the rule of
seenio,ity in the senate will confer
the iiGl ortant chairmanships of the
senate committees upon such men as
Bois Penrose, of Pennsylvania. Reed
Smoot, of Utah, Warren of Wyoming
and Lodge of Massachusetts"
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
MCkELLAR IN
STELLER ROLE
Al THE DEMOCRATIC RALLY OF
SATURDAY
SEVERAL SPEECHES MADE
MAKES AN3MER no CHARGES IN
GOV. iO0PER'S SPEECH

The democratic rally here came to
a fitting close when Congressman
Kenneth d. McKelar, democratic can
didate for United States senator de-
livered a mastery and forceful ad-
dress to a large and enthusiastic audi
ence at the newly completed garage
of Judge Burrow. Democrats were
present from all over Washington.
Sullivan, Unicoi and Carter counties.
The speaking began at 7:15 O'Clock
and large crowd headed by the John
son City band, preceded the speaker
to jbe place of the speaking. Attorney
o. NJ. Fair, president of the Demo-
cratic club, presided.
In few well chosen words he intro
duced Hon. Guy S. Chase, one of the
cig's leading attorneys, who in a
strong but brief address, introduced
Congressman McKellar. AS Mr.. Nc
Kellar arose he was accorded great
ovation of two minutes following
which he launched forth into dis
susSion of the issues of the state and
national campaign. During his ad-
dress he discussed his opponents
GOV Hooper, charges made in his
opening address at Elizabethton dur
the forenoon. His remarks regarding
Hooper and his charges as well as
Hckellar's arraignment of Hoope,'s
past official record received warm ali
plaIse.
Congressman McKellar discussed
at length Gov. Hoopers dealings with
Mayor Crump of Memphis charging
that VIXEN Hooper was aligned with
Crump that the former mayor of Mem.
phis was all right, but that when
Crumt after finding out Floopcrs
game and Crump quit him, that il was
then tbrt Hooper turned against him.
Mckellar charged that when Hoopor
was g"N ernor that saloons ran wide
open IN Tennessee cities, but that
when Gov Rye was elected that they
were closed. Congressman Mcclellan
stated that Hooper was the champion
or prohibition when he talks. but was
champion of liquor when he acts.
Consr ssman Mcclellan discussed
the record of the democratic party
nationally and roundly scored Mr..
The republican candidate for
president He paid a high tribut, TO
president Wilson and predicted his
election. AT the close
Oh MS remarks the speaker was ,c-
corded another ovation and scores or
people greeted him and assured "a
u their support. Congressman Me-
Nellaf retuned to Memphis Sunday
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
100000
TO STRIKE
UNION OFFICIALS so INFORM THE
MAYOR OF NEW YORK
NUMBER WILL INCREASE
MEN TO BE OUT BY THE END OF
THE WEEK

| New York, Sept. 26.--With the an
nouncement by labor leaders that ap
proximately 250,000 union workers il
the various trades would quit thcil
places tomorrow in aid of the strik.
ing carmen here, it was believed to-
day that the effort tie up virtual
ly al il dustries in Greater New York
had reached an acute stage. The
union Officials declared that an ad-
dHional 100000 workers would strike
Friday, making total of 100000 out
by the end of the week.
It was asserted that 5000 brewery
workers, $4,000 employees in the
building trades and 250,000 membr' 5
of the United Hebrew Trades were
in fave" of a sympathetic strike.
Twelve thousand teamsters also
were reported ready to quit work
Thursday or Friday. A meeting of
the exc, uive council of the building
trades was called for Thursday to
take final action after the business
agents in Manhattan and the Bronx
had voted for the strike.
Mayor Mitchell, whose efforts to
settle The differences between the
carmen and thetransit COM
panies have failed repeatedly, sum-
moned hte labor leaders before hil
as soon as ne heard of their pla'.s.
He said he desired to be informed
as to what might be expected
The union officials, he
told him they expected
10000 workers to strike "as a start
En-"
After meeting of the joint labor
conference committee, strikers we're
supplied with pamphlets, for distril ~
lion throughout the city in which at
lacks we're made on the socalled Nor
gan and Rockefeller interests.
Rockefeller, Morgan and their as
sociatcs control the transit of the city
Of New York" the pamphlets read,
and they also control the railroads,
mines, Industries and public utilities
throughout the country aas well as
most Of the banks and nearly all the
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
AMERICAN DENTISTS FIX
Up FRACTURED JAWS

London.-The work accomplished
by the American residents in Par.s
when they founded their great mli-
tary hospital at the Lycee Pasteu
and opened it as "a gift to humanity
is bearing good fruit. In those days
military surgery was comparatively d
young subject, but even then the keen
judgment of the American dentists
notably that of Doctor Hayes-shew-
ed hem how grea a part dental and
jaw injuries were likely to play n
the war and how essential it was that
these should be properly treated.
The Jaw may be broken, a piece of
bone may actually have been smashed
out of it. The loss of that piece OF
bone, that tooth socket, can only have.
one result if left ntreated-defOrmit
of permanent character. Many Of.
these cases are now in existence. One
of them was so bad that the deform-
ity constituted a threat to breathing
The French, like the Americans, have
not been slow to recognize these facts
as the work of Doctor Frey at The
shows.
The dentist comes upon the scene
with difficult task in front of him.
For he has to devise methods of keep |
ing the broken portions of the jaw ia
correct position, correctly spaced |
rom one another, until such time as
nature is about to bridge the gap, and
all the time he has to work against
he tendency of the mouth to infect
lis work and ruin it.
But the problem can be solved, ana
t is being solved. The work of ,hc
Americans at the Lycee Pasteur and
If the French have proved this, anu
f further proof be needed the exhibi-
ion of plates and dentures at present
icing held here at the Royal Society
# Medicine furnishes it. The pic
ures from Paris and elsewhere of
nen before and after treatment are
loquent testimony.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
EDISON, AFTER VACATION,
FANORS TEN-H0UR DAY

Orange, N. j., Sept. "a. Working
eighteen or twenty hours a day him
self when he feels like it. Thomas \
Edison, who returned his home from
ride and camping rip through he
Berkslires and Adirondacks will
John Burroughs and others, advocat d
a 1O-hour working day for others.
Reduction in the number of work
ing hodrs from ten to eight does nor
necessarily make for efficiency" the
invenor said.
He praised President Wilson for
his handling of the threatened rail
way strike matter, but said it was
not settled by the presidents action,
merely postponed.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
WORK NOW GIVEN TO
MANY EX-CONVICTS
Prison Pall0r No Longer Bass Men
From Empl0yment

From Employment ..
A year ago hardly any one seemed
to want to give the released prisoner
jib. A year followed of Mr.. Os-
borne and good times, and the great
change has come. Today the special
employment secretary of the prison
association of New York says he is
able to refute the statement frequent
ly made that discharged prisoners are
returning TO crime because nobody
will hire them. In July, 1916, he re-
ported that every able-bodied man
who applied during the month of June
and was willing to work and axe
what was found for him was Placed
within few days. Wages ran from
SO to $50 a week.
One former prisoner writes that he
is getting SIS a week as bookkeepor
and general clerk and is going to re-
pay the expenses betrayed in his be-
half" Another of the gray brother
hood says that he has suffered an
increase in salary, and that he is not
kicking about the Saturday after
noon holiday that has been dispensed
VITA
Good will toward the released pris-
oners is spreading. Hundreds of New
York merchants were asked last win
ter to give employment to men just
out of prison. A manufactures, hay
ing taken five, telephoned into the
office saying that the men were dong
so well that he wondere if they had
not given false statements as to hav-
ing had a prison record fot the pur-
pose Of securing positions.
The surge in the prisoners behalf
is not /. confined to any one state.
Henry Ford has at least 600 released
prisoners in his works at Detroit.
Miss Katherine b. Davis, chairman of
the parole commission of New York
city has been organizing the relief
societies of the city nto a co-opera-
tive agency for finding employment
for men and women coming out of the
city prisons. The men at Sing Sing
and Auburn prisons are establishing
branches of the Mutual Welfare leag-
lie outside the prisons. In another
state a new relief society has been
organized by man formery in prison.
In Kansas the prisoners are planning
cooperative bureau. Many other
instances might be cited.-O. F. Lew
is, in American Reviews of Reviews.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
THE ARMOUR
PLATE PLAN 7
JOHNSON CITY AND ELIZABETH-
Ton WORK SHOULDER TO
SHOULDER
OUTLOOK IS PROMISING
BOTH JOHNSON CITY AND ELIZA
BETHTON SUBSCRIBE FUNDS

The Joint committee on the Armour
Plant location, composed from the
Elijah 'lhton Board of Commerceand
the Johnson City Chamber of Com
merce, held a meeting Tuesday even
ing at Johnson City and formally or
ganized for business by electing Off
GERS. Il. V. Maxwell, of Bristol was
present at the meeting and made
member of the business committee.
Mr.. Maxwell replied to he honor con-
ferred uron him with a brief address.
More than $165 was subscribed by the
people of Johnson City to carry our
the plans of the committee while
Elizabothton raised $645 as fund Tor
a similar purpose.
1t is lanned to make the subscrip-
tions in Johnson City reach more III Iii
$1,000 with the idea that the cln-
mittee should not be hampered by ,
lack of funds to carry out the exten-
give plans already decided upon. 'Nh
desire was expressed by the speakers
ct the meeting that Elizabethton and
Johnson City should work shoulder
to shot der as one body in their eff
fort to secure the big enter .,lise.
Short talks were made by men
identified with the move |
and tire opinion was unanimous thar
aithel Johnson City or Elizabethton
stood an excellent chance for land |
ing the plant.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
MR.. CRAWFORD WITH FIRST
NATIONAL BANK, KINGSP0Rr

Henry Crawford, who for II years
past has been connected with the
clerical department of the Bank OF
Bolivar, has resigned to accept a po-
sition with the First National Bank
of Kingsport East Tennessee, and
left on Wednesday last to enter upon
the discharge of his new duties. He
is most competent and capable in
business matters and his books have
been highly complimented by numer-
Gus bank examiners. He has the
qualifications to make good and his
friends while regretting his departure
wish him the best of suecess-BoliV-
er News.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
IN THE TARIFF
SYSTEM or r. = Tpc.c

New York. Sept. 24.-Great elastic
lty IN the country's tariff system is
necessary to meet trade conditions
that will arise at the close of the Eu-
ropean war, according to a renort
submitted to the national Foreion
Trade Council by a committe wbicn
mas investigated the foreign trode
aspects of the tariff.
Inc committees report called at
tehtlon to tn ereadjustment of IN.
tariff relations at the close of ~
cohrllct and the possibility that tho
present belligerents will seek recinro-
cdi tarlff concessions from one anoth
er and from neutrals.
1T is obvious" said the ron,rt
mat the United States should have
some method OF adjusting the ta,irf
10 new conditions created by politicoI
OF commercial changes on the mart
OF our competitors and our customers
without resorting to a general rev;e-
ion' The creation of the tariff should
contribute to this end"
Inc national Foreign Trade Conn
Gil ned its third annual meeting last
week, with James A. Farrell presi-
dent Of the United States Steel cor
poratlon' presiding. Mr.. Farrell ure-
ed friendly readjustment of com
lnerciai relations by the United statas
ana European nations without resort
to trade wars.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL Use

Yes" he said, I'VE must cut down
and economize. I've brought home a
sample bottle of very cheap claret,
which l think | shall have to drink
in the future
Good" she responded. and I've
made pint of furniture polish from
an old recpie, ever SO cheaply."
II was a few days afterwards that
the breeze arose.
How was l know" he stormed,
that you'd put your furniture polish
into wine bottle? Great wonder I'm
not poisoned"
And how was | to know was
polishing the table with your old clar-
et?" she fired back, and when you
drank the furniture polish you said
1t was very good wine for the
price. Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele.
graph.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
POISON MYSTERY OF OLD
PEOPLES HOME PROBED

Hartford, Conn, Sept. Evidence
to support charges that Mrs. Amy Z.
Archer-Gilligan, proprietor at Wind
sor of an old peoples home, was e.
sponsible for the deaths of five in,
mates of the home was laid before
the grand jury. The death. for which
Mrs. Gilligan was alresed was that
of Franklin Il. Andrews, an inmate
who died in 1914. AS a result of IN
investigation tn ebody was exhumed
and it is alleged the autopsy showed
the presence of a powerful poison.
Bodies of four other inmates, which
were later examined disclosed, it 5
charged, the presence of like poison.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
WANTED TO KNOW: HOW
DO YOU USE SUNDAYl
Tha "Day of Rest" Amounts to Seven
Weeks Every Year

'NNhH hA'NAt A'oA
Have you ever paused to reali"e
hat with SO weeks in the year. and a
Sunday in every week, there are N
every year more than seven whole
weeks of Sundays?
Seven whole weeks of Sundays.
long time, isn't it? If they all came
.ogether in one long series of Sun
days, you'd be ashamed, wouldn't you,
to have let that length of time go by
without the definite accomplishment
of some one thing? But the Sundays
are divided up by wearying work
days, and there is never, by any pos
Sible chance, more than one of them
at time. And so for most people
Sundays is just an excuse for doing
as little as possible.
What do you do with your Sun
days? Do you get up late and yawn
through cold and greasy breakfast,
and then spread yourself out with the
morning papers and gaze through the
come section, and glance at the head
lines, and sneer at the womans fash
ions-or absorb them-and read the
deaths and few of the liner ads and
say aloud to no one in particuall
This is a funny ease-the boy who
lost his mem'ry', isn't it now" And !
then do you sit down to a large and
indigestible and unnecessary Sunday |
dinner, and then laze some more, or
go out and pay calls on folks who 90
not interest you, and then come back :
and read and ca a little more, and
thus get, somehow, through the day? |
Do you do that with your whole sev-
en- weeks of Sundays?
Or, with reverent spirit and atten-
tive mind, do you attend the services
Of your church and ponder the mes
Sages of love and duty it brings %
you? Or do you on your Sundays get !
up early and go off for the day, for
tramp in he woods or on he hillside?
Do you ge out into the open and chum
up for a littl ewhile with Gods blue
sky and green grass and talking
'eees? Do you set aside, ever for d
Sunday, some worthy work you are4
always too weary to accomplish on a
week day, and then actually complete
hat task? Do you sometimes set
lside some book which is remarkable
n some way for sheer beauty or wis I
lom or strength or sweetness and 1
make its, thoughts your own for that .
me day-and so forver? Do you eat
ust enough-and no more-to keep {
'ou fit? Do you do these things for {
even whole weeks of Sundays dur
ng year? /
What do you do with your Sun
lays? They are the days that belol
o youth edays upon which avarlce l
md greed and capitalism and cum lg
lave not, for most of us, dared to lay ,
| finger.-New York Globe.
The Johnson City comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1916-1917, 1916-09-28
TOBACCO CROP .
HAS BEEN HOUSED

Washington, Sept. 21.-Cool wealth
er in North Carolina and parts of
South Carolina has caused some dam
age to cotton. but picking and ginning
is proceeding under favorable eondi-
tions in most of the southern states,
according to tn eweekly crop bulletin
issued by the weather bureau yester-
day. The bulletin adds hat mos Of
the tobacco crop in Virginia, Ken
lucky and Tennessee has been housed
and is being cured.