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LUSITAN|A WAS SUNK
. 'ONE YEAR AGO TODAY
Mlsts Of Time Have Tempered
indignation at Destruction
D of Giant Liner.
tcontinued from rlr.t Pare,

believed the Lusitania could be over
taken7 Germany might concentrate her
entire submarine fleet upon US and we
would still eiude them: for I've never
heard of submarine that can equal
our speed Of twenty-seven knots an
hour"
And now It seemed as II the captains
Optimism would be justified-land al
most IN sight. and not submarine or
hostile craft encountered in all the long
weary ocean miles.
Most Of the first cabin passengers
were at luncheon. But few. among
them Robert Rankin. OF Ithaca, and
Thomas Bloomfield OF New York, stood
about the promenade deck.
Idly Rankin glanced over the rail.
Acroes the waters showed a peculiar
pale splotch-the dread white streak OF
escaping compressed air from the engine
of whitehead. harbinger of shattered
hulls and sinking ships.
my Godr' he cried. that looks Hike
q torpedov'
''ft is a torpedo!" Bloomfield shouted.
pointing cupboard where an instant be-
fore he had caught the momentary flash
OF sunlight on q sinking coming tower
and the threat of lean .periscope just
disappearing beneath the surface.
From somewhere forward there
sounded q dull but mighty thud. The
big boat heaved gently. as from a
steady, unexpected SWELL Then she
settled back upon a surface now marred
with surges, where the mouth OF a great
wound in the ship's side sucked greedily
at the water OF the sea.
The Washington times., 1916-05-07
Russians Make Progress
6 In Asia Minor Campaign

PETRoeRAD, May Kurdish troops.
erum, assaulted the Russian advance
guards in an attempt to halt the
Russian advance on Erzingan, but
were repulsed, the war office reports.
Further south. the Russians made
further progress in their advance on
Bagdad, dis1odging the Turks from a
position near the village OF Serinal-
kerind
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Frenxied Mothers Pushed
Back From Life-Boats.

From boat to boat the frenzied moth
ers ran. fighting to the sides of the
life craft here. only to be turned back
because the boat was full. and starting
again at some other point, only to DO
puahed back again and again.
Over 1t all the thin clear voice Of the
wireless called out over the sun-bathed
sea toward the great Marconi masts on
Lands End:
'Come at once. We have big list. Rush
help!'
And while every available craft, gas.
steam and sail. was clearing from dis
tant harbors for the scene of the great
Disaster. the fight to leave the sinking
ehfp was on.
The first boat that touched the water
laden with women and children was
caught in the swell pushed from the
shfp's sides by the Roadway still MAIN
A, crunch as 1t was dashed back against
the Lusitana's plates. and dts living
freight was plunged into the sea.
Back aboard, many dispairing of gain
Eng the haven of the boats. in despera-
ton climbed upon the rail and cast
friends and relatives who preferred to
chance making boat, called last
"sood-bys" after them.
Oversize such life-boats as still lived
after the launching. criss-crossed the
humantty-dotted sea, picking up a sur
vivor from a bit of flotsam here. and
another from the biting waters there.
On, on. her Roadway lessening, careen-
tng with the weight of water which
poured through her hull gases, the great
liner plunged. Still some of her terror
stricken passengers, believing that the
HIST was caused by shifting cargo held
70 her decks. false confidence In her
double slIin and watertight bulkheads
buoydnR them with hope.
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Sinking Is Pivotal Point
In Submarine Controversy.

The greatest merchant prize afioat
valued at s6,5oO.Oo0 stripped for war.
and at ss,0oO0Oc equipped with her
luxurious fittings. carrying a cargo
worth $4,000. 1t was but natural that
when she went to the bottom carrying
LOO out of her passenger list Of 900
to death. her torpedoing should Re re-
garded as the pivotal poipt upon which
much OF the submarine controversy has
turned.
The Lusitania, too. was the twenty
ninth merchantmen to be sunk in a
single week by mines and torpedoes. A
airy IS. when the war zone decree be-
came effective. until less than month
ago, 2,0l4 lives have been lost in this
warfare.
The prime reason why the Lusita MIA
sinking took rank even above all other
cases OF a similar character Is that on
her passenger list were 1o6 Americans
in the first cabin. sixty-nve In the
second cabin and seventeen in the
steerage. or these more than one hun
The big liner was sent TO the bottom
Immediately, after the publication of
the German warning, which, appearing
In many Of the metropolitan news
paper papers s SSrs The signature of Ambas-
or the situation which has arisen by
reason OF the sinking OF the Idisitania
and kindred acts. Prof. Albert Bush
nell Hart, OF Harvard University. has
said that the two unbounded seas OF
been dashing over the narrow sandpit
of American nautFalitY.b
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Excitement Died Down
Until Arabic Was Sunk.

Notwithstanding the apprehension Of
othcials. excitement over the submarin
controversy died down to a certain ex-
again until August 10. when the Arabic,
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American Celebrities
Among the Victims.

anu on the American dcatn roll Werc
such names as Charles Frohman. he
who had termed death the greatest adj
venture of life: Charles Klein. Elbert
Hubbard. the sage Of East Aurora;
w. q. Vanderbilt. and Justus Niles
Forman. the author.
Then. after that FIRST moment Of
tragic shock came a storm of protest.
While President Wilson and hts Cab
met counciled conservatism, the Amer
lean press denounced the torpedoing OF
the liner rs murder" and war by
Joined the Internntioppa afS hue and cry,
calling the sinking Of the Lusitania
'prcmeditated crime"
CierEymen, politicians. business men.
ess sSoes as srmS Secn Sr
IAN act of piracy" Anthony J. Drexel,
"the most Internal outrage OF the VIVA"
and Billy sunday, the evangelist,
SHOUTED from his pulpit, "damnable, and
shall 81 profit a nation to- gain the
world, yet lose Its own soul7"
Berlin declared that the disaster was
England's fault. Bernard DernberR. the
Kaiser's personal representative in the
British man o. war. which carried
American passengers as n shield. And
the newspapers of Berlin. editorlally.
advanced as their opinions that cash
would appease the Americans" for the
loss of their men and women.
Meanwhile at the scene where the
great liner had gone down, the little
trawlers and the tugs and the steamers
were reaping a deep-sea harvest Of the
dead.
Up from the depths came dead wom-
on still. claspinR In their cold arms the
forms Of little children. Out of the sea
came the bodies OF American men.
some disfgured by the great explosion
which sent the steamer down. others
swollen and bloated by the DESTROYING
embrace OF the sea.
Out from the Irish coast sped many
fast destroyers intent only upon over
hauling the undersea terror which had
cut into the Lusitania's vitals. be-
lievinR that the submarine was the
same boat which few DAVIS before had
torpedoed other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
them the Centurian. the Candidate. and
the Earl NJ I.afhar,
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All the World Shuddered
When Great Liner Sank.

Then came the sinking OF the great
liner. and while all the world shudder-
ed. the real developments began in
the diplomatic situation which culmin-
ated with President Wilson's visit to
Congress April 10.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador. called at the State De-
partment. on May 10. and expressed
his deep regret that the events OF the
war had led to the loss OF % many
American lives"
While the ambassador was at the
State Department. press dispatches
coming from Berlin Via London. stated:
Germany reiterates her dec
laration that the responsibility rests
with the British government.
On Nav IL, the United States Govern
ment sent a formal protest to Berlin.
In this note Germany was called
upon to make reparation so far as
reparation Is possible fer injuries
without measure. and told that the
United states will not omit any word
or act necessary to the performance
Of its sacred duty of maintaining
the rights Of the United States and
its citizens"
The German reply to this note sent
to Washington May 80. charged that
therefore virtually a man-of-war, and
that THE German government believes
II was acting in justified self-defense
In seeking with all means of warfare
at Its disposition to protect the lives Of
It's soldiers by destroying ammunition
intended for the enemy"
Matters came to a climax on June
y. when Secretary of State BRYAN.
known for his pacifist views, refused 70
sign the new note prepared for trans
mission to Berlin and resigned from
the Cabinet.
When the note. which was finally
sent June 10. was published, however.
1t proved to be firm-but hardly OF a
warlike character.
The American Government denied
that the Lusitania was armed and
again. with solemn emphasis warn
ed Germany. The note declared the
United States sis contending for moth
ing less high and sacred than the rights
OF humanity which no government is
justified in resiyninE.'
Berlin replied to this on July 0, re-
iteratinR its assurances that United
States ships in legitimate trade would
not be tnterfered With. expressed hope
that the United States will see that
NIch ships do not carry cnntrabnnd,
and suggested that four passenger ships,
to he immune from attack. ne placed
In the transatlantic service.
The note concluded. however. TN par
ticular the imperial government ia nm
able to admit that American citizens
can protect an enemy ship through the
mere fact Of their presence on board :"
The fourth American note, sent July
u aEkfd for no reDIv '
The Washington times., 1916-05-07

that a state of war exists between
Germany and her allies and Great
Britain and her allies: that the zone
of war includes the waters adjacent
to the British Isles: that. in accord
ance with formal notice given by
vessels fiyinr the nag of Great Brit.
ain or of any OF her allies. are liable
to destruction In those waters. and
that travellers sailing in the war zone
on ships OF Great Britain or her
allies do so at their own risk.
In addition to this. It was announce,
Just before the Lusitania sailed man,
of the passengers received telegram
signed "Morte" death. predicting tina
the liner would never ranch mort
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Boats Bore Tragic Freight
To Queenstown Port.

Over to Queenstown the tugs and the
trawlers bore their tragic freight. Time
after time they came with their lading
of dead men. and dead women. and
little dead children. until the little town
hall became a charnel house of corpses.
Side by side the victims OF the German
torpedo Law under glaring lights. while
between the silent rows walked the sur
vivors. stopping. scanning each victims
face. searching for husbands. wives.
friends. children. who had gone down
Between whiles from the survivors
lips poured stories OF unbelievable suf-
fering. and details of the great disaster
begRartng all description.
Tales there were OF how the passen-
gers OF the first cabin refused at first
to believe that their lives were threat
ened: and how many of them refused
the life belts which walters and stew
ards. chalk-faced with fright. passed
out among them.
Stories there were of how the second
cabin passengers. rallied on from the
upper decks. surged in a wild mob
through the barriers and stormed the
superstructure of the great liner. where
the few boats possible Of launching
wSrs g 81 fbs over the side ~, .,
region termed below decks" came
sagas of horror and nightmare, enacted
In the inky blackness which descended
upon the passengers there with the
first explosion. when all lights were cut
out. Stories of how hundreds persisted
there in the blackness, trampled under
foot. penned in, blinded and confused.
And then came the verdict OF a coro-
ner's jury, which sat to consider the
deaths OF Ave Americans, representing
the scores and scores of others who had
persisted, and it's verdict that these men
had been murdered by the Kaiser and
his officers.
Then the burial in Queenstown of l4O
OF those unidentified.
So little by little the horrors of the
Lusitania disaster were dimmed by the
horrors of other slaughter. Back
across the sea, one by one. came the
American dead. Note after diplomatic
note has succeeded in a long inter-
change of national views. all yart and
parcel no longer OF the supreme horror
OF the century, at which an entire hui
mainly stood aghast. but Of an interna-
tional situation spoken of today as 1.-THE
Submarine Warfare Controversy"
The Washington times., 1916-05-07

BY the time the fishing boats reached
the spot where the great liner had
plunged. two boatioads OF survivors
had made the Irish coast and already
the tragic tidings were slipping across
In Washington the President receive
ed the news In shocked silence, and
his Cabinet members, canceling all en-
gagements, remained within call for
the possibility Of war at that moment,
when more than one hundred American
citizens lay dead from a German tor
pedo. doomed large and threatening.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-14
.u\>puorurHS MEDICINE

our Grtudmoth,r- were w. lu obj"
virtues OF tho herbs of th. t.II I".
u4,l Co gather aud store root.
h.rha and use them tu cor, tu'
ntorts Of thc.t families V0iuuu.H.
fhorourhwort. sage rue. ,ImoUll'
thr list might go ON and ou ut th"
healing plants with which they rHi.
us familiar
NuW th,u granddaughter rot tn'
oxtr.,ts from iust SUCH good old roots
aud herbs. from the nearest dtuFHi p
ready prepared FOR use. ou, H1 N
modi Inc. which women find best l.r
their own ailments BE- th" w"ll-kno"n
INdpt t.. ~riukh1m's vegetable Coon
pound.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-14

in 900 official commission from NOR
iu,pt,t.t ,uuutrlD-. h' ~.u' policy
,ulhf 49, bee pursued ALSO .s uf-tu.t'd
labor movements OF neutral cuuuii.'-
ii % shan DE determined that neutral
countries also VIII paIt.clp''" m the
general peace conference Thus ror-
rcscntat.ve wage Farmers would Poe
seated with other representative "i
.ho nations Boo .onor.! conferences
connected With the formulation Of
peace terms. In this way III" Id'ii'
and needs 81 w-agc-cafucI- would '"
.ul, scented add considered %. the gem
,rI official body
Pan. \mrricnn Federation.
Ia discussing Ipn-Nm'rI,"u labor
relation. the report details confer
.,r..s .u Washington last summer h'-
tween President GoiHp"rs % other
officers ct 10, American federation
'.uf representative. ut organized id'
.hui ia M,,.,o Whom "a, relations be-
tween rh, tVu ,uflu'' "s W'r" must
critical. Th, report suggests THAT ID
Pau-Nm.iI,iu federation '- noe only
ru-s.l i" bras necessary
when conditions % arisen 'h0'
scented go mas, u1r between nc
tinted States and Mexico IuoNiiani'.
continues tho report 'fh' 81
-.urIIu- .,i.,,u 'h' .'ur move
.m,ut~ o.. go, United state. aud Mex
40 ,uuN ,u Moor, definite form and
Was again Instrumental 100 throwing
..ut upon IA" influence ami the
.syut- thai were trying o. Great, war
sentiment aud the seeming necessity
DO. HN4 I'D b.. |.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-14


| H.t .,vtup ,H'.-tru-t Iuj H'Iun....H
lI,sulit,uu the report
I'm ,p.,tmcul of tn, Labor pl,-
Visions OF the clayton Aut.-Trus' act
h,s f,tc,I ,up.u,cr- WIN, wish 90
.,I-tru-i .y.. station Iua tp, .a-
uur,i,, pfo,,.s 10 assist them I, J,.
| f~.,,.ru tho efforts Cd, employee TO -t-
'..,. bt.b,, wages and better tuud-
u,us .l work iu tutusf,y tl,IJ efforts
nan, faJprnl ,u state ,uurt. Tine
rr.ui, make, increasingly important
lth, u,,e.-i,, for tn, enactment 90.
.,,t, nWs fu pr,,.u, tho ab2-, uf
rdic.,l ,ganc.c- and IN, |per,cr-,op
loo LEGISLATION tu exclusive service Iu
lu,haIf or cuplo,or- Tho uses Co.
which wrl's of Injunction 'ud anu
thrust legislation hay, been pat have
lEnGc tl,m virtually -'rik"-urcaknt
Inns, tutiou- and uu.on-i,struyI0e
~aEeucics such q condition d, SUBJ
lvsrsi,o fu proper respect Tor our gov
Icrumcu,,i Institutions ana 10 the re-
public lt-ylf'
such 20 .u.'Iur the report st,t g'
suited 90 tho framing o' a model anti
thrust ana injunction limitation hul
prc-cutcd to 'hc san Franr'-co ted
Grafton convention and nf-'h hN t
Iuuuu central examinations and 'h'
irtrA tuu tlr FEB be Insisted uNuN ha
proper laws
p,cisiou~ of courts fIf urbhl' aud
Iuufl. uruNlc 200 the contentious ~ L.
,...,,I ..fr. ut-
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-11-14

ma, ., crai.catcd f'.r long teaf.
49,. aged. unrm htrnuIt h''irr-
h..o ncuu ordered Go rIF tine Shti"'"
award claimed by 'b, Nu'tHoycuillrs
issuc.ntiuu. The shadow of the hat
ter. case which for years huns Ike a
threatening pan Over 'no 'nhur move
m,ut 4fiI has power tu menace
Thr decision " The tinted states
supreme court N irl. established "A
precedent which judg,- arc trying e"
make l,V. although 'hr highest law
ulLIr- body Of the C~uuutry--thc
a4cnc, 20 which the nation delegated
thar tu.,tiou has enacted legislation
To- remedy the great wrong zone hN
THAT lcc.s ou Justice. h~Iu'pcrei hl
th, i~u4icinr, WORKS slowly o. in
devious way.
IN, report SAYS % decision hy he
United states circuit court oi appeals.
.u IN, ease, of y : noWi AGAINST the
United Nluc Wurkcr- ~ America De
gun .N N.co- before 'h, clayton law
wa4 enacted and involving operation
of Arkansas coal mines seeks 20
/ r.,,t upon wage oirucrs "a piece
! dent. ut toe hutt.f- cas-, ann To
tpur, .nat Interpretation TO oven
gr,ntcr lengths OF Injustice.
Tho report says tho court laid do"n
/ the principle That au u'.n.urpor'''i
/ bod, could be sued 'nr thre"-ioli
| dtml-r. alleged to have been caused
by striking miners and thu' Il strike
Ina, 10. al interference N.th Interstate
commerce. and al m,mncrH ui IN"
uuiuu whether In tn strike ur not.
| fit,I, trr ttmaup%
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-10-20

as an investigator. Once he finds the
trail of bad record he pursues his
investigation regardless of any red
herrings drawn across the trail. 1t Is
idle for Mr.. Wilson to complain of
criticism. Four years ago as a candi-
date for president he criticised con-
stantly and commended the practice
as conducive to good government. To-
day he fiinches in the face of criticism.
Instead of trying to refute the charges
of Mr.. Hughes. he and his spokesmen
ask the self accusatory question:
what would you do?" That Is not
the question in this campaign. The
question Is what the administration of
Woodrow Wilson did. The record Of
the administration Is the issue of the
campaign. and upon that record 1t
must stand or fall.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-10-20
BALLOT TITLES CONFUSING
SSTHE Full Rental Value Land

ct HE Full Rental Value Land
i Tax and Homemakers' Loan
Fund Amendment" is the ballot title
for measure No. 800 and 301. "The
Rural Credits Amendment" is the bal
lot title for amendment No. 31S and
S19. There is danger that these titles
may be confusing. The word loan"
in No. 500 and 307 may lead some
voter to believe that it is THE Rural
Credits Amendment" Voters should
be very careful in distinguishing be-
tween these two measures on election
day.
There is the widest possible differ
ence in the effect which the adoption
of these two measures would have.
Amendment No. 500 and 307 is sim
sic tax measure, and has for its pur.
pose the confiscation of private own
ership in land. Amendment No. 31S
s.nd 31S is just what its name implies:
An amendment giving rural credits or
cheap money to the farmers. The
first amendment. No. 800 and SO1 |
would simply ruin the state of Oregon |
If it were adopted. The last amend 1
ment, No. SIS and 319. will build up .
Oregon by giving the farmer cheap
money with which to bring his farm .
up to a high s.ate of Improvement
and cultivation.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-10-20

ternatiOnal Soil-Products exposition,
which were held here this week,
were given a splendid opportun-
ity to contrast the civilization of the
goth century which they will find in
Ell Paso with the civilization of the
18th century which they will find in
Juarez. Mexico. Just across the mar
row thread OF the Rio Grande.
On one side they will find the pull
sating life which Is the dominant fea-
ture OF up-to-date Americanism; on
the other they Will find men and wo-
men live as they lived In Christ's
time, In houses built OF bricks made
Of mud and straw; using crooked
sticks for plows and bundles OF brush
for harrows, reaping their grain with
stickles and threshing 1t on earthen
floors made of hardened mud over
which herds of ponies or fiOcks Of
goats are kept In motion in order that
their hard hoofs may separate the
grain from the chaff.
FL Paso Is practically the only city
In the world where traveller may
pass In so short time for a nickel,
into foreign country where langu-
age, manners, customs, mode of dress
and styles In architecture are SO alb
solutely different from the American
conceptions of those details of life.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-10-20

Vance Mccormick, chairman of the
democratic national committee, yes
terday virtuously denied the charge
that the democratic organization was
attempting to extort campaign funds
from postmasters and other federal
officials by 10 per cent political as
sessment. To-day he admits the charge
but tries to explain it, Tomorrow he
may have to explain his explanation,
in view of further conclusive and con-
frmatory evidence which has reached
the republican national committee.
When Mr. McCormick's attention
was directed to tie charge that the
democratic campaign committee
through r. Bonna Ridgway, a MEM
Der of the democratic national finance
committee and chairman of the demo-
ncratic central committee OF Texas,
was attempting to hold up the post
masters Of the country by collecting
contributions" OF 10 per cent of their
annual salaries under the threat that
a record would be kept of those who
proved loyal" BY contributing and
OF those who proved "disloyar' by re-
fusing to contribute, Chairman Nc
Cormick said:
These charges are the most arrant
nonsense, and are absolutely untrue.
They are in line with the campaign
OF misrepresentation that the repub.
licans have been making from the
start"
Today, having learned that copies
of the "shakedown" letter were in
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1916-10-20
MEAT INJURIOUS
TO THE KIDNEYS

We are nation OF meat eaters and
our blood IL flllcd with uric acid. says a
Well known authority. who warns us
to be constantly on guard against kid.
ney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost to free
/, the blood Of this Irritating ncid. but
become weak from tho overwork: they
ret sluggish: tho climinativo tissues
clog and thus the waste IL retained In
the blood to poison the entire system.
When your kidneys ache and feel
like Jumps OF lead. and you have sting.
ing pains in tho back or tho urine In
cloudy. full of sediment. or the bladder
is irritable. obliging you to seek relief
during the night; when you have &c.
we're headaches. nervous and dizzy
spells. sleeplcssness. acid stomach or
rheumatism In bad weather. get from
your pharmacist about four ounces
OF Jad Salts: take tablespoonful In
glass Of water before breakfast each
morning and In n few days your kid.
neys will act Ane. This famous salts
is made from the acid OF grapes and
lemon Juice. combined with llthia. and
has been used for generations to flush
and stimulate cloggcd kidneys. to ncu.
tralize the acids In urine so II IL no
longer source of irritation. thus end.
Ing urinary and bladder disorders.
Jad Salts IN inexpensive and cannot