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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
ENTERS THIRD YEAR WITH SUP
PLIES TO CARRY THROUGH
TWO MORE YEARS.
CRISIS IS PASSED
There Is No Starvation I'm Germany
and the Empire Is Independent
of the British BlOckade-<Har-
vest Good as in Peace Time.
by Karl w. Ackerman.

BERLIN, August 4.--Adolph Won
Batocki, food dictator, told the Unit
ed Press today that Germany enters
the third year of the war with enough
food supplies to carry her through
at least two more years despite the
British blockade.
"The food crisis has passed." he
asserted. 1.-The harvest is so good.
equaling the average in peace time.
and we are all so well organized
that we can begin the third year of
the war with surplus. which enables
us to hold forth even through this
year, counting on next years crop.
From the food point of view Ger
many is independent of the blockade.
There is no starvation in Germany
despite silly rumors. There shave
been no riots in which women have
been moved down by machine guns.
Similarly foreign reports that extra
ordinary limitations have been plac-
ed on the available supply of food
so as to injure the helpless popula-
tion are based on absolute ignorance
or the intention to falsify. Until re-
Gently our greatest difficulties arose
from imperfect organization, but ae
have overcome our mistakes which
were a failure at the beginning of
the war. For instance, many cities
RECOMMENDED meatless weeks. We
found this unnecessary. The ha--
vest in Poland, Belgium, northern
France and other territories occupied
by the Germans will be enough for
the civil population"
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
EXTENDS COMMODITY RATE
LOANS WILL BE MADE ON ALL
FARM PRODUCTS ON SAME
TERMS AS ON, COTTON.
This Announcement Was Made by
Chairman kell Of the Special
Committee-Board to Issue
a Statement.

WICHITA FALLS. Tex. Aug. 4.
rThe Dallas federal reserve bank
viii extend it's facilities so as to
permit commodity rate" loans on
crops other than cotton, Frank
Kell. chairman of the special COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
proposition, announced today.
The Dallas bank board will short
ly issue a statement on the matter
to member banks. The committees
recommendation that the commodity
rate be extended so as to apply TO
loans on grains. rice. cotton seed,
alfalfa and other farm products on
the same term as cotton-the loans
to be discounted 3 per cent by the
federal reserve bank when it is
shown that the member banks fur
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
CHILD LABOR BILL
STILL HOLDS SENATE

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-The
child labor bill. on which debate be-
gan yesterday in the senate. was up
again today with southern senators
ready to start fight on its consti-
tutionality. Senator Robinson, pre-
senting the measure yesterday. ar
gued that the supreme court ruling
had shown the bill to be constitu-
tional because regulation of child
labor was prevented through pre-
vention of interstatS shipment 81
child labor products. The power OF
congress to regulate commerce is
absolute, he contended.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
MESSENGER HELD UP AMO
ROBBED OF $4,000

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. A bank
messenger of the Burroughs Adding
Machine company was held up by a
masked bandit this afternoon and
robbed of $4,000. A guard named
Cooper who was with the messenger
was shot. The extent of his in
juries was not learned.
The hold up occurred near the
company's plant The messenger
was returning from a branch bank
with the company's payroll when he
was attacked. Half a hundred po-
licemen were rushed to the scene
to cut off the bandits escape.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
BRITISH AOO TO GAINS
IN THE s0MNE OFFENSIVE

LONDON, August 4.--The left
wing of the British army engaged In
the great Somme offensive gained
some ground last night as the result
OF minor operations, General Haig
reported today. There were other
minor operations during the night
north of Bazentine-le-Detit and also
northwest OF Delville woods. few
German prisoners were taken. Fur
ther north along the British front
raiding parties destroyed German
mine shack east of Loos.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
RUSSIAN TROOPS Cross
THE STOCKED RIVER
SEVERAL IMPORTANT HEIGHTS
HAVE BEEN CAPTURED AND
FORTIFIED BY sI.Ays.
A Bloody Fight Occurred In the VII
lage of Rudka Where Bayonets
We're Resorted to In Streets.
Slavs Hold Town.

pETRoGRAD. Angus. A Rus
sian detachment driving in toward
Kovei has crossed to the left bank
of the Stocked river in the region
OF Lubecho. capturing several
heights where they have fortified
themselves strongly. the war depart
ment announced today.
The enemy was forced back be-
hind the river Stayck. tributary to
the stocked. On the west bank of
the Stocked The Russians have ad-
yanced In fighting all the way. A
bloody engagement occurred In the
village of Rudka whore bayonets
were resorted to In the streets. The
village changed hands several times.
hu. was finally retained by the Slavs
who successfully resisted any at
tempt to deslodge them. In the
region OF Korytnik Russian fire re-
PEELED enemy columns.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
WOULD
HURT COUNTRY
III RAUWtY STRtKE CUNEs
THE room sITra ALTON Will.
BE MOST SERIOUS.
GREAT SUFFERING
The Loss and suffering Resulting
From strife Would he Greatest
Ever known - Children
Would Feel nrupt.

NEW YORK. August 4. The
United States would face one of the
most serious food situations in de-
cades II the threatened railroad
strike materializes, according to
opinions collected from scores OF the
larger cities by the United Press.
AS the impending tieup OF 25o.-
GOO miles os railways by an army
OF railway employees would be the
greatest of all strikes so would the
resultant loss and suffering be the
greatest ever known, according to
business men from coast to coast.
The coast cities and cities on
navigable streams would be less
affected. said the symposium of
opinion, but they would be hard hit,
nevertheless.
Babies and children would feel the
biunt of such q strike. II would
10 with the greatest difficulty to-
supply thickly populated cities. even
on the water, with perishable food
A shortage Of milk would be the
first felt. Some cities could get
aicng after fashion anywhere from
two weeks to two months. Steps
are being taken by some city off
Gals looking to motor supply trains
to scour the outlying food districts.
Philadelphia is one of these. At the
city statistician's office there II was
stated the authorities are mobiliz-
ing 10000 autos to covel' the rich
forming lands forty miles to the
west and south of the city. The
supplies now on hand. it was said,
would not last any length of time
l., case of strike.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
Treatment IS WORSE
Than HAVING MEASLES
ALI YOU HAVE TO DO Is STAY
IN BED AND DRINK HOT
LEMONADES.
Well Known Writer Describes Some
i Of the Symptoms Of Well De-
yeloped Case-Is Qnaran-
tined at San Antonio.
By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD.

I SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. A.
There are too many cases of mea-
sles among the troops down on the
lower Rio Grande. Army treatment
for the measles first, and then the
measles.
1t is great to have tho measles.
You must take five or six hot baths
daily. Measles patients are not al
lowed to drink ice water no matter
how hot the sun or how parched
your throat may be- Instead of
drinking ice water you drink hot
lemonade. . Still a little thing like
not baths and hot drinks doesn't t
make a fellow with the measles feel
much worse.
There are ten cases of measles
Gown on the lower Rio Grande-
eight in the Second Virginia, one in
the First Kansas and your cores
pondent. who is telephoning this to
'ne telegraph office from quaran-
time.
Ten cases of measles among 4O.-
ivy guardsmen isn't many. Only
lone too many.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
BELGIANS CONTINUE
PROGRESS IN AFRICA.

HAVRE, August A.. Further
progress for the Belgian forces in
vading German East Africa is an
nounced by the Belgian war office.
The statement follows:
1.-The right wing of the Belgian
troops pursuing its march south
ward has occupied Kigoma, the most
important German post of Lake Tan
ganyika. Kigoma is the terminus OF
the railroad from Dar. .Es-Salaam,
the capital of the colony. 70 the
lake."
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
BLOODY F|GHT|NC NEAR FLEURY
Germans Enter Southern Part Of the Village But De-
spite Desperate Counter Attacks Are Unable to Re-
capture the Station-French Push Way Through
to ThiaumOnt.


The fighting continued throughout the nght and
night
fighting rcoupied Thiaumont redoubt
driven
village Fcury The Gcann
Villages desperate
10
made German
detachment retire In Withdrawing the French brought
" hem
German ri
o
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
PANIC ENSUED ABOARD THE VESSEL
Roas Were Lowered Under Difficulty and Only Three
Have Landed-Steamer Was Sheled by the Subma-
rine and Number of Passengers and Members of
the Crew Reported Killed and Wounded

LONDON miss
the sinking
,.tmrco which been
included
landed at
scuse
, panic lowering boats the
the esel at osera the survivors said
number passengers
Killed edandwou the shell fire.
the first large liner
umarine in Of
the Medi during the days
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
No AMERICANS on
THE LINER LET|MBR0
REPORTS INDICATE THAT NONE
WE'RE AMONG THE GREW
OR PASSENGERS.
II This Is Found to be True the
United States Will Have no
Interest In Sinking Of
Ship.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.--Judg-
ing by reports from survivors the
United States has no immediate In
terest in the Smelling and sinking
OF the Italian mail liner Letimbro
by submarine. state department Of
ficials said today.
No Americans were reported
aboard and the vessel was said to
be attempting to escape. American
consuls near. the scene OF the disas-
ter will make inquiries. however. to
ascertain II any Americans were
among tho crew or passengers.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

toned in "a previous note of this de-
partment."
The points referred to were the
questions of the withdrawal %.
American troops from 9.ctsNan soi',
the border patrol and the fiN'Ag "i
responsibility for border raids.
Washington officials agree mat
Carranza. i'm a manner, is indicat ~
his intention to urge these questions
ahead of all others. No specific men
ton was made of any order - ne
discussed. although The last An'ci-
can note pointed out hat the adn iH'
istration desires to so into a -arSef
discussion of the Mexican problems
than the mere military phase.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
(ARRANzA To INSIST ON
TROOPS BEING WITHDRAWN

"ashiNGfON, August 4.-sien-
=" carranza still insists that the
- 'hing to be decided by the Unit
STATES and Mexico is the with
naval OF the American troops from
dssican soil.
a'"assador Arredondo delivered
a'''hg Secretary Polk today a
y "meh' while naming the Mevi-
commissioners and tacitly ae-
~ 'he last American proposal
JOINT investigation of the bor-
conditions, laid stress on, the fac,
~ Mexican commissioners .'are
'0.e their attention principal
discussion of the points mem
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
% PERSONS PERISH
IN TENNESSEE FLOOD.

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. August A.
Reports from the Blair creek dis
trict today fixed the death list In
yesterdays flood at twenty-eight.
The dead:
Robert Johnson and wife.
Minta and Lille Wiley, Monroe.
Michigan. grand daughters OF Crock
EFT Edmonds.
Mrs. Crockett Edmonds and three
children.
Potter Walker, wife and eight
children.
Buck Ferguson, wife and eight
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
BIC DROP IN PRICE OF
GASOLINE Is EXPECTED

FINDLAY, Ohio, August "A
sharp decline in the prices OF gaso-
line Is anticipated following another
slash of ten centss barrel in CEN
trail and western oils today. The cut
OF ten cents today makes total or
25 cents for the past two weeks.
The new prices are as follows.
North and South Lima, $l.4S;
Indiana, $1.33: Tllinonis and Prince
ten, s1.52, Wooster. $40; and
Plymouth, $1.3S.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
THE GOVERNMENTS APPEAL
REACHED LONDON TOO LATE

WASHINGTON. August 4--The
government offices wore closed when
the message reached London carry
ing the senate resolution appealing
for clemency IN the case OF Sir Rog-
er Easement. and was not delivered
to the British authorities until af-
ter the Irish leader was hanged, Y
was learned today
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

Children.
Those drowned lived In n zone q
few miles long.
Investigation further down the
creek shows that none were killed.
but the property damage Is estimate
ed at $3.50. 900.
Two flour mills. two store hoasess
five dwellings. crops and livestock
we're lost.
Traias ON the Southern railway
between Niiddlesboro and Knoxville
have onIy been able to Get within
ten miles Of each other.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
UK|IEO STATES NOW OWNS
THE DANISH WEST IsOIEs

WASHINGTON, August 4.-Sec-
retary Lansing and Minister Brun
signed i'm New York City today the
treaty between Denmark and the
United states for the purchase of
the Danish West Indies for x2o,-
OoO. 900, the state department an
pounced today.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

vice presidential nominee, will make
a campaign tour of the country SINH
lar to that now planned for Charles
f. Hughes.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
Heads Dominican Monks.

FRIBORG, Switzerland, Aug. A..
Father Lows Theisseling. Dutch
man, has been elected head of the
Dominican Monks.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
SANK EIGHT
ENGLISH SAILING VESSELS

BERLIN. August "A German
submarine sank eight English sail
Ing vessels and one English trawler
off the English coast on July IS. it
was officially announced today.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04
RAILWAY MEN WIN POINT
BEFORE CONGRESS TO-DAY

WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.-The
railway brotherhoods won an impor-
tant point before congress today
when the interstate commerce com
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

mittce of the senate tabled u reso-
luton looking toward mediation Of
the controversy by the Interstate
commerce commission.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

nished funds not to exceed 0 per
cent-h has been accepted by the
board.
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Fairbanks to Campaign.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-The re-
publican campaign leaders announc-
Ia To-Day that Charles w. Fairbanks,
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-08-04

The Daily Light gives tine re~s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Fire Escapes, Not Lumber Rooms.

Commissioner Murphy of the Tenement
House Department announces vigorous
and continued campaign to clear tenement
fire escapes of household furniture placed
there by ignorant or careless tenants. IL
is task of huge proportions. In all parts
of town tenants, particularly of small ten
ements, seem to find the fire escape ex-
tremely useful as a sort of storage room
or play place for the babies. 1t is used
as an extra sleeping chamber by many
families on hot nights, and usually they
neglect to remove the mattress when they
arise. When it becomes a playground for
the baby it is boarded up and fenced in,
generally with old boxes.
Obviously all such uses nullify the value
of the fire escape for the purpose for which
it was planned and to which the law limits
il. Blocked fire escapes have been respon-
sible for much loss of life, yet in spite of
all the authorities have been able to do
there has been scant improvement made.
Commissioner Murphy intends to bring
into court persistent offenders and insist
that fines be imposed, trusting that this
course will convince habitual lawbreakers
that it is for their welfare in one respect, If
not in another, to reform.
East Siders who store provisions IN the
bathtub are not particularly sanitary, but
they do not thereby endanger their own
lives or those Of other tenants Of the build
ing. The tenant who blocks the fire escape
is a menace. Success to Commissioner
Murphy's campaign!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
The Mobilization Fiasco.
tF,on Tn, Boston Journal.


This SOLDERING mess Of a mobilization,
more like a convention than war measure
certainly will damage the reputation OF the
Administration in any state where military
fitness is known and appreciated. The fault
isn't Mr.. Wilson'S; the militia system has
failed before. But most of the blame reaches
Wilson's doorstep.
II we're to talk on the aspects OF pro-
tracted period Of soldering on the border,
we can't help urging that the militia be
kept there long enough so that the country
NAV see Just what the state militia has
lacked, and at the same time gather some
idea Of the difficulties to be met in organ
izing and equipping an army.
That work Of organization is hardly begun
after one month of camp. Shouldn't the
country be curious enough to ask for the
whole lesson this time? Send home the
men who are needed by their families and
try recruiting the outfit to full strength.
Let's find out about "a citizenry trained and
to arms" by slipshop system
of bi-weekly drills and elected officers.
And let's not depend too much on New
England and the East; let's have look at
the Southern and Western militia.
Senator Lodge complained Saturday that
the Southern States have not done their
part on the border. The reason is that the
Southern militia, as a whole, wasn't ready,
and may not be ready for some time yet 1t
isn't a pleasant explanation.
The present Congress has passed futile
and dishonest army bill. harming instead Of
helping the militia. The next Congress will
correct the mistakes and Danish the tricks.
To-day's experience on the border will
holm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07

are afflicted with some sort of notion that
their party has accomplished a partner
ship with Providence akin to that OF
which the Kaiser so frequently boasts.
No other explanation of their present
mental attitude is plausible. Nothing but
a consciousness of equality with the angels
could give such throbbing indignation to
their protests against the baseness OF
ordinary earthworms who fail to compre-
bend the grandeur of their conduct and Its
infallible Righteousness.
What they fail to realize is that the
general public is aware Of no canoniza-
ton of Democracy, the President or Off
cialdom in general. Nor is characterize
ton of criticism as Unreasonable" an en-
tirely adequate defence of any official pol
icy-in this republic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
A Celtic and Anglo Saxon Protest.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: To every man of Celtic and Anglo
Saxon blood and heritage your editorial page
has been a constant inspiration, a beacon
light shining out upon sea Of cowardice and
shameless hesitancy. Now that Hughes has
spoken, we have the candidate of the Repub-
lican party, Endorsed by Roosevelt on the one
hand and by Sylvester Viereck on the other.
Your support Of Hughes was to be expected,
but you cannot expect under such circum-
stances as Hughes has placed himself to have
your readers follow you. Judgment had been
suspended pending the acceptance speech Of
your much Handicapped candidate, but there
is little use in hiding the chagrin of those
Celts who, like the writer, never expected
the name Of Charles Evans Hughes TO find
favor with the tribe of plotters, murderers
and traitors who now take Hughes to their
bosom as their candidate.
Hughes's attitude is as disgusting when re-
lated TO the German question as Wilson,
notes on the Lusitania-there is little 20
choose between them. THISTLE.
Buffalo, Aug. l, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
England's Own Business.
, the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: correspondent to-day, who calls
himself "a stanch Kaiserist," quotes from
Constant Readers" letter: at is only the
COMMUNICATIONS who have conspired, TO-
mented strikes, destroyed factories, blown
up ships and infringed the neutrality of the
United States" The "stanch Kaiserst"
comments: 81 wish for the edifcation of my
self and other readers that you would print
list Of the convictions of German-Ameri-
can citizens for the above crimes If you
think the list would take up too much space
please run it serially." This is intended as a
consummste sarcasm. From the Kaiseristc
viewpoint, it is. One could search the record
of days without coming upon a conviction.
There would be innumerable cases Of bail,
promptly supplied, however large, innumer-
able cases of obscure individuals defended
by the most expensive talent. innumerabe
cases of delay, adjournment and unpro-
nounceable decisions rsked from the musty
tones we know as law, but as for one de-
csive action, as decisive as the innumerable
crimes we know as fact, there is none. Who
blew up the Welland Canal bridge? No one.
There is an arrogant boastfulness, there
fore, about this Kaiserist's sarcasm that
makes one desire to meet him.
There are a great many Of US who are
wishing the British blacklist all success. We
see no reason why England should display
the leniency that we display. We think she
has right TO attend to her own business in
her own way, and We honor her for attend
ing to it in this way, which, If it is rebuff
to us, is only what we deserve. The view
point OF country that is bleeding is not the
viewpoint of country overrun with money
changers. We are silent except for the clam
or of money changers and pandering poll
ticians. But when a Kaiserst actually be-
gins TO boast. we wonder if the day of gen.
eral silence is not soon coming. r.
Cornwall. n. Y. July %. 1916