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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05


Most of the county commissers
have sent out very neat and epc'ag-
ing Christmas cards to their fefers.
Statistics show that exactly 1or-
mer Traverse City high scheo'tud-.
ents are attending higher Sells OF
learning.
The Portage township so OF
Houghton county has an epment
of 2,088, an increase of II cent
over last year. :.
Fourteen forestry students "A. a.
C. will spend the holiday VI pm IN
West Virginia studying gginR
plants in that state:
A fire caused by spontan com
bustion caused a great deal xcite-
ment at the Croswell schoo dam
age was done.
Sunt T.. p Cummings o |nsing
who accidentally shot M las
week has passed the erisis is ex'
pected to recover.
Royal Oak schools ha' hanget
their starting time TO . O'Clock
The city adopting the eae STAND
ard time is the cause.
With The ob;act of dewd & effici
encv the men teachers Highland
Park high meet every tye eks ah'
discuss various subjects :
While in Salt Lake res; r
Of Mines was rendered. hquet b.
az alumni of the OIr
Mortoa,e b;ob sr-a IS up bas
LothoIl tb;s wear fsHTL #rst time
with schedule fog Yoys d,,'
girls. The schedules co'hp'e'
ed
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
PARNELL
Happy New Year to all,

Happy New Year to ALL,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Ladner and
family spent Christmas with her par
ents in Grand Rapids.
Alden Bush was home from De-
troitst to spend Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Laughlin will
soon move into their new home.
The Misses Catherine Tooley and
Buelah Bush called on the formers
aunt, Miss Julia Tooley, Tuesday.
Thomas Malone lost fine colt last
week.
James Corrigan spent the past week
with his sister, Mrs. John Bird and
family.
Wilbur Berry had the misfortune
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
LONG LAKE

Mrs. Ray Hall and children spent
New Years day with her father at
Efmdale.
John Hartman returned from
Montana, Tuesday.
Mr. Marsh and Dye have been prac-
ticing with a flying machine at the
lake lately.
School commenced in the Chittle
district Monday after a weeks Naca-
ton.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
PEoPLE MUST PICK THE MAN

The people and not the politicians
must pick the next president Of the
United States, says an eastern ex,
change. The needs of the nation and
not the interests of the intriguers
must determine the next republican
nomination. The most calamitous
epoch mankind has ever faced is on
us now; and there is reason to fear
that it may grow frightfully worse
before it can grow better and that
the blacklist phases of the crises lie
still ahead. This is no time for the
game of politics as it has been played
too often in the past. 1t is a time
when the leaders of the party should
show their right to leadership by their
wisdom and subordinate lesser and
selfish interests and ambitions in the
aim and effort to place the greatest
bravest, wisest men to be found be-
tween our circumscribing, oceans at
the head Of national affairs.
Patronize the progressive merchant
who invites your business.
The merchant who invites your
your patronage always tries harder to
please you.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

Editor-in -Chief-Elizabeth Brown.
Athletic Editor-Kenneth Moon.
Social Editor-Joy Harrison.
Reporters:
High School-Elizabeth Sontag.
Grammar Grades-Philip Jakeway
Ellis School-Will Bakeman.
Second Ward-Alvih Davis.
Third Ward-Erwin Burt.
State Educational-Cora Lewis.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

If all women were mind readers
every man on earth would take to the
tall timber.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
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Advertising Y

Display rates on application. Card OF
Thanks--one cent 4 word. Business
locals on first page--12h cents line
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

The Banner is read in more homes
than all other local weekly papers
combined in it's territory.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

entered into the Bedding Michigan
Postofiice as second class matter.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

SUBSCRIPTION Postpaid
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
THE BELDING BANNER
TWENTY SEVENTH YEAR

Mt. In 1852 and published every Wed
nesday by Banner Publishing Co.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
RUSSIA STARTS DRIVE AGAINST
AUSTRIAN FRONT

The Russians have now begun an
offensive against Austria, along the en-
tire Galician front of 275 miles, from
the Pripet to Roumania. The battle
lines are reported as daily growing in
length of attack and frequency of in
fantry rushes.
The Gar is said to have more than
100000 men massed along this front,
while the Austrian defenders total about
100000 in number. With perfect roads
and plentiful supply of ammunition,
the Russian advance is expected to
develop swiftly.
This is said to be careful co-ordin-
ated movement, being under the able
leadership of General Brussioff, who
conducted the brilliant campaign in the
Carpathians in 1914, and who is gener-
ally conceded to be one of the best strate-
gists of the Russian staff.
1t is believed in Petrograd that the
Russian movement will have a powerful
effect in decreasing Austrian pressure
on the Italian front; also in influencing
the situation in the Balkans.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
APPEAL FOR sTRICTEsT ECONOMY

The national war savings committee Of
ly urgent appeal to the nation, especially
to the weather. classes, to observe the
strictest economy. The committee especial
ly refers to the question of motor cars
and petrol.
War economy, it is reported, is being
rigidly practiced in the royal household
at Windsor Castle In order to save petrol
the royal motor cars are now seldom
used No alcohol is used in the CASTLE
either by the kings family or his SER
wants, cider being the strongest drink
served The customary drinks are lemon
AIDE, orangeade, and barley water
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
NEW WOMAN'S PARTY BORN

This country's first national woman s
party was launched by the Congressional
Union for woman's suffrage on the night
of June s. at the Blackstone Theater,
Chicago
The new party has just one plank
banding together of the women voters OF
the suffrage states in an effort to hold
the balance of electral power, and force
the passage of the Susan B. Anthony
national suffrage amendment, which pro-
vides that 'the right Of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States or by
any state on account Of sex p"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
BRANDEIS APPOINTMENT
CONFIRMED

Louis D. Brandeis, Of Boston, who was
nominated by President Wilson. on .Janu-
airy % last, for associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court, was con-
firmed by the United States Senate on
June l, by vote Of At to %.
He took his seat on June 5, being the
siXty-second citizen of the United States
to rise to that high distinction. Mr.
Brandeis's confirmation was fought with
a bitterness perhaps never before dis
played toward any member of the SUI
preme Court, and the majority in his
favor was a surprise even to his friends
AS was inevitable with man of his
type and temperament, he made many
enemies. He was characterized, however,
by the late Chief Justice Fuller as a man
of the highest integrity, and ''the ablest
who had ever appeared before the Su-
preme Court
Every charge brought against him was
fought to the finish, and his confirmation
is regarded as a victory for iberalness
and fair play
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
GREAT CHANGES IN ROAD SYSTEMS
PREDICTED

DR.. FL. M. Rowe, the newly elected
president Of the American Automobile
Association, predicts that in a decade we
will have national road systems covering
every section of the country; also sepa-
rate roads for freight traffic and passenger
traffic, while the horse and mule will have
practically disappeared.
"Our present highways, he says, "will
be greatly multiplied in width and i'm
proved in quality. No other country on
the face of the earth can make such good
and profitable use of good roads as the
United States of America. We will event
ually excel in that as we do in many
other things There have been wonderful
changes in all matters relating to trans
pOrtation since the introduction of the
motor car, but there are still greater
things to come.
"We have worked for unrestricted
intercourse between the states through the
use of motor cars, because that is a con-
stitutional right that has been denied us.
We have asked for equal taxation That
is another constitutional right that has
been set aside, partly because we sub
mitted to it willingly, admit but it is an
injustice and constitutes unfair treat
ment just the same
SIn addition the owners of motor cars
are being subjected to all sorts of petty
Continued on page 68)
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
NAVY MEASURE PASSES HOUSE

The naval appropriation bill, larger by
many millions than any ever before con-
sidered in Congress, passed the National
House of Representatives on June 2, by
the almost unanimous vote of 1853 to 4.
The bill, as it goes to the Senate, carries
total expenditure of 1869, 100000, and
provides for building program for the
coming year Of battle cruisers, scout
cruisers, 10 destroyers, so submarines, and
$50 aeroplanes; also for a government
armOr plate plant to cost 81 100000 en-
largements of navy yards at Norfolk,
Philadelphia, Puget Sound, and Boston,
and an increase in the navy's personnel
to 10000
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10

Jutland with jubilant and grateful hearts.
'EThis is how the war map looks now.
IF our various enemies desire to shut their
eyes to it, then we must and shall fight
on until final victory"
DR.. Gustave Stresemann, national hber-
al, in an address before the Reichstag,
on May 80, declared that if vote were
taken by the German people, only small
minority would accept President Wilson
as a peace mediator, for the reason that
he had rendered it possible for Germany s
enemies to keep going in a military way !;
also because he had done nothing what
ever to utilize the vast power of a great
world state to guarantee the shipments
Of provisions through Germany, and had
even threateningly raised his hand when
ever the Germans had tried to defend
themselves
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
MEAT DENIED GERMAN CIVILIANS
FOR EIGHT WEEKS

A Berlin dispatch states that, for the
first time since the outbreak Of the war,
meat is hard to obtain in the German
capital. Herr Adolph Won Batocki, Ger
many's new food dictator, is quoted by
Carl W. Ackermann, United Press staff
correspondent in Berlin, as saying:
"The cattle are lean now, because Of a
poor harvest in 1915. They cannot be
slaughtered now. We must wait until
they are fattened on pasturage. But
meanwhile we have enough meat for our
military hospitals and places where it is
urgently needed
cat all events, there is enough food in
Germany, but it is necessary that civilians
eat no meat for the next eight weeks
Starvation is out Of the question, but we
must consider not only the present food
situation but the situation Of the coming
winter. In order to insure a supply for
the winter, we must eat meat sparingly
during the summer. Probably meat cards
will be issued throughout Germany, and
there will be a few meatless weeks.
'FThe cause Of the present shortage is
the bad harvest last year If the harvest
this year is even medium, the food situa-
ton will begin to improve the middle Of
July or the first Of August"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
DAYLIGHT SAVING PLAN CROWS IN
POPULARITY

The daylight saving plan is receiving
consideration in all parts Of the United
States, as we'll as the world The very
novelty of the idea seems to have caught
the public fancy.
At meeting Of the Chicago City Coun-
ell, on the evening of June 3, an order was
introduced directing the financial COM
mittee to consider changing the working
hours Of city employees, proposing that
they begin work one hour earlier in the
morning, and quit that much earlier in
the afternoon.
The proposal to turn the hands Of the
clock ahead is being seriously considered
by a subcommittee Of the United States
Senate. 1t has already been adopted by
several European countries, and some
American municipalities It is claimed
that the plan has resulted in benefit to
recreation, and considerable saving in
electric light and gas bills
The Typewriter Emporium, at Lake
and Dearborn streets, Chicago, has
adopted the plan, being the first business
house in that city to take the step
Would it not be much more sensible for
firms to simply change the working hours,
than to change the hands Of the clock?
Twelve o'clock noon is when the sun is in
the zenith, and if a clock registers twelve
o'clock when it is eleven o'clock, it is
Incorrect
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10

By the close vote Of 1873 to 189, the
House rejected the general boards pro-
gram to restore the American navy to
second place in three years, refusing to
authorize the building Of dreadnaughts,
as we'll as battle cruisers
There is feeling, especially since the
great naval battle in the North Sea, that
the building program will be reshaped be-
fore it passes the Senate Admiral Dewey
is quoted as saying that the North Sea
battle should show the futility Of battle
cruisers attempting to cope with battle
ships.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
TORNADOES IN SOUTHERN
STATES

The dreaded southern tornadoes this
week have swept the states of Arkansas,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, and
southern Illinois. At present writing,
reports are very indefinite and conflict
ing, but the death list seems to range
from 100 to 1875, with hundreds injured
Many towns in Arkansas suffered
severely, the worst loss of life being in
Heber Springs and Judsonia. Deaths
are also reported from Jackson, Miss
issippi, Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and other
points.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
PEACE POSSIBILITIES DISCUSSED
IN GERMANY

Herr Won Bethmann-H ollweg, imperial
chancellor Of Germany, has again dis
cussed peace in the Reichstag.
six months ago, on Dec. 81 he said,
discussing our military situation, spoke
here for the first time of our readiness for
peace. | could do 50 in entire confidence
that our war situation would continue to
improve. Developments have confirmed
this confidence. We have made further
progress on all fronts We are stronger
than we were before.
eff, with this development before my
eyes, / declared that we were ready for
peace, [ need not regret my statement,
even if our offer evoked no response frora
our enemies. y
Il told an American journalist how
peace negotiations could only reach a
settlement if they were conducted by
statesmen Of the belligerent powers on the
basis of the real war situation as shown by
the war map. This proposition was re-
jected by the other side
''They will not recognize the war map,
as they hope to improve it in their own
favor. We have added to it since that re-
mark was made
''Thc surrender Of the British army at
kutel-Amara defeats, with tremendous
losses, OF the French at Verdun, the col
lapse of the Russian offensive in March,
the mighty thrust forward Of our allies
against Italy, the strengthening of our
lines before. Saloniki, and just now we
have received news of the naval battle off
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
SHOW REPORTERS COURTESY, SAYS
ZIMMERMAN

That American business men often
make serious mistake by being brusque
with newspaper reporters was asserted by
Warren B. Bullock last week, before the
National Lumber Manufacturers Associa-
ton. He declared that when a reporter
is assigned by his paper to interview a
business man, he feels that he is entitled
to courtesy and consideration, and his
enmity has often been incurred by brusque
treatment; if, on the other hand, he is
treated with respect, he will make every
effort to cooperate with the firm by giving
fair and careful write-up.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10

especially caustic in ridiculing President
Wilson's Mexican policy. The Chicago
EVe21i1lg Post, of June 3, says:
eve are to remain in Mexico; but, we
confess, we share the perplexity Of Mr..
Carranza as to why We are to stay. The
President does not make it clear.
eve went into Mexico to get Villa.
We have failed in that effort and we are
no longer trying. If Villa is alive, he
is beyond the reach of our troops.
eve went into Mexico presumably
with Mexico's permission, but actually,
as later disclosures proved, without it.
We are now in Mexico against the wishes
Of whatever government the country
has.
eff we were there avowedly to restore
order, establish justice, promote the
welfare Of the people, the propriety of
our presence might be argued with show
of justification; but we are not.
Apparently, we are there because the
President thinks it unwise, under the
political conditions existing - not in
Mexico, but in the United States-to
withdraw. We can see no other reason
that is sufficient So we may have to
stay until November.
"But the Presidents insistence on
maintaining an armed force in neigh
Dor country against the wishes of it's
government COMFORTS strangely with his
lofty advice to Europe on the rights of
small nations. Lacking Carranza's con-
sent, it is an act of war, an invasion. If
Mexico fails to treat it as such, it is
because Mexico would rather submit
than fight. She could have no better
cdsus belh.
eve should either go the whole length
in Mexico-do the job that has long
needed doing-or get out. Our present
position is absurd, unjustifable and
perilOus-the last because at any mo-
ment it may precipitate a war which we
profess we are not seeking and for which
we are certainly not prepared"
The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial
of June 2, also has this to say:
'The expedition went in to get Villa,
and has not got him. So long as that
active organizer is at liberty order is as
far away as ever. His bands may have
scattered to avoid pursuit, but there is
no law in Mexico to prevent reorgan-
izing. *
"Our government sent the soldiers
into Mexico on FOOLS errand known by
every military man to be FOOLS errand
as soon as it was discovered how Wash
ington was taking orders from Mexico.
at is not doing anything in Mexico
except aggravating fool Mexicans who
can be angered by the presence of for
eign troops. It cannot be brought out
because that would create a political
scandal at the worst possible moment.
1t cannot go ahead. 1t cannot come
back. 1t has no mission. 1t may be
attacked any day.
"A weak, wabbling, and uncertain
policy could come to no other results.
The American government deserves to
be reminded Of it by Carranza. We
shall be in luck if the expedition escapes
with merely being foolish and not being
disastrous"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
EDITORS RIDICULE WILSON'S
MEXICAN POLICY

While at this writing, no reply has
been given by President Wilson to Car
ranza's last note, it is unofficially stated
from Washington that President Wilson
will not comply with the demand of
General Carranza for the withdrawal of
American troops from Mexico until sat-
isfied that the de facto government is
prepared to establish and maintain peace
and order along the border
Editorial writer's this week have been
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
MAKE CLEAN SWEEP
IN CHICAGO JUDICIAL VOTE

The Sullivan Democrats made clean
sweep of the judicial election in Chicago
on June 5, winning every one Of the
seven seats on the Superior Court bench,
with pluralities ranging from 5000 to
$4,000. This was accomplished in Chi
cago where fourteen months ago William
Hale Thompson, Republican, won out by
a plurality of $4,000 votes.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10

Mr. Bullock declared that one Of the
chief advantages to be reaped by taking
pains to furnish newspaper men with in
formation, was the advertising which such
course would bring. Courtesy to a
newspaper reporter is good investment
for you" said he "Treat the reporter as
a cO-worker'
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
Do not forget
THE SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

to be taken Lords Day afternoon,
July 10Th, 1916. at the Feast of
Tabernacles, in Shiloh Tabernacle,
Zion City, Illinois.
What you do may mean the sal
vation, the healing of some one
Of many. You cannot tell.
While the nations are DESTROY
ing each other, Zion, the The
ocracy-Gods Nation-must go
forward in preparation for the COM
ing Of Jesus the Christ, the King of
kings.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-06-10
NEWS OF THE WORLD
Continued from First Page)
YUAN SHI-KAI DIES AT CHINESE
CAPITAL

Yuan Shi-Kai, President of the Chi
nese Republic, and the most conspicuous
personality of the Orient, died at his
palace at Picking at one o'clock on the
morning of June 6. The official report
is that he had been i'll several days with
stomach trouble, followed by a nervous
breakdown
He was Immediately succeeded to the
presidency by Vice President Ii Yuan
Hung.
Yuan Shi-Kai died while the storms of
revolution were becoming more menac-
ing on every side. A revolt broke out
in December, 1915, when the President
announced his intention of abolishing
the Republican form of government and
establishing monarchy, with himself
at the head. His coronation was set for
early in February of this year, but was
Indefinitely postponed because of the
extraordinary rapidity with which the
revolt spread over southern China. The
establishment of a monarchy was from
the first strongly opposed by Japan, and
this is thought to have been largely re-
sponsible for the final abandonment of
the plan. Yuan Shi-Kai's announce
ment that China would remain a Re
public, however, did not quell the storm
that had arisen, and the revolutionists
demanded his resignation as president.
On May &c he announced his intention
to resign when a suitable successor was
chosen.
The suspicious circumstances under
which he died have given rise to the
report that he was poisoned, but this is
officially denied. An editorial in The
Chicago Tribune, of June 7, says:
at is no violation of Chinese political
ethics to retire" an enemy, and editori-
al comment of month ago in the far
east predicted his retirement. If this is
the case Yuan'S stomach trouble was
merely the Chinese method of easing
over crisis which a suddenly announced
death would have brought on"
Peklng dispatches state that the
death of the President apparently solves
the heated political crisis, and that Ii
Yuan lungs succession to the presiden-
cy meets the demands of the leaders in
the southern provinces. Advices from
Shanghai, however, indicate that politi-
cal conditions in China are extremely
uncertain, and that no one can predict
with any assurance what turn affairs
may take at any time.
The new President of China, in the
regular course Of events, would remain
in office until October Of next year, when
the term of five years for which Yuan
Shi-Kai was elected will expire, but
owing to disturbed political conditions
his tenure of office is uncertain.