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O,O0O Pairs of Old Shoes
 Wanted for Victims of War
Rotarians Plan to Shoe co French and Belgian Feet
 Through Unique Plan to Be Executed December 26.

brought and placed in pile before the court house.
 The people of Pine Bluff are to be appealed to from pulpit, schools press, theatres and street cars to give their old shoes. To save time of the collectors, the contributors are asked to suspend the shoes from the front door knob or place the shoes on the porch, wheer they may easily be se cured.
 To obtain wide publicity for the collection, and invite the cooperation of all, ministers of all churches in the city will be asked to make announce ment of the "old shoes collection from their pulpits Sunday. Principals and teachers of schools also will be requested to explain the campaign and it's purposes to their pupils, with the request that the children inform their parents.
 Principal J. K. Allen of the high school is to be asked to invite the boys of the school to volunteer to go with Rotarians in motor cars and make the collection on Wednesday The boys will be provided with COW be Ills. that the populace may know the "Rotarians are coming for old shoes"
 The Pine Bluff company has granted space for cards on street cars and theatres have offered to run slides telling of the event. The newspapers of course, will, as usual, do their part In addition, merchants will be asked to insert in their advertisements a line concerning the "old shoes collec tion."
 With these arrangements it might appear that the Rotarians will have little to do. Not so. To execute the plans will be a job-some jobs, in fact The members of the committee divid- ed pthe work, and every detail will be looked after with the usual Rotary care.
 "With the cooperation of the peo- pie of Pine Bluff" said Major Parkes last night, "we are going to put shoes on the feet of ten thousand war vic time in Belgium and France. It is not much we are asking in the name of these sufferers-just discarded shoes probably of no use to their present owners. But they will give protcc- ton from the ice and snow of France and Belgium" 1 The shoes contributed. here will be
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

Hundreds of thousands of people in France and Belgium, especially in the sections recently evacuated by the Germans and in Paris, are destitute of shoes. Despite the cold, aged men and women and little children, as we'll as girls and young mothers, are com pelled to go about barefooted, or with such protection as they can obtain by wrapping their feet in rags. Washing tons men at Valley Forge were in no worse plight than are the war victims of these two countries, whose men, like those of the American revolution, are fighting for national and individ ual liberty.
 Responding to the appeal of the Red Cross society, Rotary clubs of the United States have undertaken to re- lieve this situation, and thousands of pairs of old shoes have been collected, repaired and shipped to France through the Red Cross society.
 Ten thousand pairs of old shoes is the goal of the Rotary club of Pine Bluff, which has designated Wednes- day. December 26, as "Old Shoes Day" in this city. On that day, Ro- tarians will visit every home in Pine Bluff collecting old shoes. All kinds are acceptable--men's women's and children's-just so they are not abso- lutely beyond repair.
 Final plans for the "old shoes col lection" campaign in Pine Bluff were made last night at meeting of the Rotary clubs committee entrusted with this work. Maj. w. J. Parkes is chairman of the committee. Oth,, members are Richard M Knox, K Ray Mcintyre, ]. Frank Franey and Clarence E. Philpot
 Following are the details decided upon:
 Division of the city into districts, with each assigned to one Rotarian and two boys, who will visit each house in the district.
 Rotarians to meet at the cour. house at 9 o'clock a. m., December 26 for assignment and commencement ot the canvass.
 Canvassers to meet at noon at Hotel Pines for weekly luncheon and con ference. If city has not been can vassed, work will continue in the afternoon.
 As each attachments auto is filleG with old shoes, the footwear will be
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

the title role, ano that the Cruikshank drawings have been used as the models in building the backgrounds for the ac- tion of the play. Going still further in their determination to preserve as far as possible the spirit of the original, the producers have actually reproduced on the screen exact replicas of some of the situations which were depicted in the original illustrations, and every player in the cast in making up for his or her role has approached as nearly as possible the exact lines of the drawings.
 Though "Oliver Twist" will live eter- nally as a story and has been a suc- cess as a play-Marie Doro herself
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His Curiosity Aroused.

When Marian was six she had hei drst real birthday party. Among the many gifts she received was box Of candy. After the party was over and Me little guests had departed. Donald. d little neighbcr boy, came back. IL was thought. perhaps. he had forgotten something, and asked him if he had He said: No. but I was just wonder. tng what Marian did with that candy one of the boys brought her."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

making a permanent motion picture record of the Dickens characters, the Lasky Company before filming one foot of this Paramount Picture made a painstaking study of authoritative data on London at the time of which Dick ems wrote and of both the Cruikshank drawings and of the earliest available editions of the story itself. In addition to starring Miss Doro, who had already created a sensation in the stage ver- sion of the play, the producers engaged two of the best known character actors in the country for the important roles of Fagin and Bill Sikes in the persons of Tully Marshall and Hobart BoS- worth, respectively.
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Eat Slowly,

Food eaten slowly and mixed with saliva is quickly made into rich blood and tissues. If swallowed, it lies fer menting, vile-unspeakably vile mass of poison, causing pain and ilE ness. Let's take more time and know the joy which cones with boundin, good health. Stop eating when appe tite is satisfied. We need but little D we eat slowly--taste.-sExc
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Clock Has e2.0oo Pieces.

At Beauvais cathedral there Is 8 clock which is composed of 92,0o0 sep arate pieces, having g dial plates. This clock gives the tune in the big capitals of the world as we'll as the local hour, the day of the week and month, the rising and setting of the sun, the phases of the moon and tides. as we'll as considerable other informa- tion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
Definition Of . Drop.

Tn the British Sharmacopocia . drop" is defined as coming from [ tube of which the external diameter is exactly three millimeters. 20 such Arops of water at IS degrees Cent. grade oetng equivalent t0 ono millilitss ar cubic cendmetar..
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

packed and shipped to the American Red Cross in New York, where they will be repaired and sent for distri- button by Red Cross agents in war stricken France and Belgium.
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TO ENTER Q. M. DEPARTMENT.

Sam B. Sneed. former proprietor of Sneed's Dry Cleaning Establishment, will leave tomorrow for Jacksonville, Fla, for course of training in the Quartelmaster's Department of the United States army. MT. Sneed vol unteered some time. ago, successfully passed all tests, and last night re- ceived his orders and transportation to Jacksonville.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

"\HE characters which Charles
 Dickens described in his novels = have become immortal. Some
 of them are used today as de- scriptive adjectives. Fagin, the teacher of thevery in "Oliver Twist" furnishes an adjective to the English dictionaries. It will be remembered that at the time of the writing of "Oliver Twist" which first appeared in Bentley's Mag. azine in 1887 and 1888, George Cruik- shank, the well known illustrator, made his immortal drawings of the charac- ters which Dickens had so marvelously described. There are many who will recall the great controversy which
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Cuckoo Calls and Weddina Rinos.

For girl to dream of hearing tho cuckoo is said to be a means whereby she may ascertain how many years will elapse before she will wear a wed. ding ring. The number of years will answer to the number of times the hird is heard calling in her dream.
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Dog Came Eirs&

MISS Pansy Pyetin's father had ,s so without his necktie last Sunday. Iansy's pekinese dog needed nev ribbon for his neck. A1S
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TIME

Greece this year grew 10000 tons of currents.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20
Rio Janeiro has 100000 people.

Rhinelanler, Wis, is to have z potatodrying factory.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-12-20

British East Africa las 1000 tons of coffee for export.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
SOCIALISTS ARE DIVIDED
ON THEIR FUTURE ACTION
Series of Meetings Held at Bordeaux,
France, to Decide Policy, But
Factions Differ.
BY ANDRE BLUMEl.
CabieEram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1917.

PARIS, France, October 10.-The So
cialtsts have ben holding a series of
important meetings at Bordeaux to de-
eide their future policy and methods of
action. They are divided into various
factions with differing tendencies. Thu
majority socialists are for a vigorous
prosecution of the war; the minority
socialists are open to peace. The ma
jority whose leaders are Deputy Sem
bat, the Former Ministers Albert
Thomas and NJ. Guesde and Deputy
Renaudel, director of lie Humanite, de-
clareS that the war aims nobly defined
by President Wilson in his reply to the
pcntifical note must be attained by
both diplomatic and military means
adding that military action cannot &C
quire full power unless it sweeps away
all bureaucratic resistance and devotes
to the common good of the allies all
resources of men and material, as
France has done in the last three years
The majority socialists further affirm
thai diplomatic action cannot be use
fully employed unless the allies en-
phatlcally condemn all equivocal poll
tics SuooTdinating the nature of tho
peace terms to the extent of the vic
tory and, frankly following the example
OF tHe / nlted states clearly proclaim
democratic aims in the war These So
ciasists, therefore, continue to vote
war credits and favor participation in
the government on condition that the
abinet offers the political guarantees
mentioned.
1t is the conviction of the minority
socialists that concerted action by the
Pfoietariat OF all countries alone can
end the conflict. They feel that it can
not be terminated by force of arms and
declare that they are determined to try
TO obtain by every means in their
power the passports refused them for
the Stockholm conference. They ask
the government to state the exact con-
ditions on which it is prepared to nego-
tate peace. demanding that these con-
ditions be the same as those of the
Russian revolutioaists. They are OPP
posed to having the socialists repre-
scented in the cabinet
Regarding the question of war credits,
they are divided into two sections. One
headed by NJ. Longuet, a grandson of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
MOST OF MEN KILLED;
THE WOMEN TAKEN AWAY
Reply of Washington Mans Inquiry
About Wife, Mother and Other
Relatives in Armenia.

THE villagers OF Boorhan and Dendil
hid in a big cave and tried to defend
themselves. but their water supply having
been cut off they We're obliged to surren-
der. Most of the men We're killed and the
women and children taken away. 1t is
possible that some men who We're in the
Amelia taboor' may still live. but have
little hope
This is the reply received ~ krkor S.
Ave Dikan Of this city, who made inquiry
through the Department of State in Feb
ruary concerning his mother, his wife and
his brother and his wife and their two
children. who lived. previous to the
deportation of the ArmenianS, at the viii
lage of Boorhan. in the district of Cue
merck 0kaza of Sari- kishla), in the vii
iayet of SivaS.
The information, which came through a
missionary in touch with the facts, gave
the further meager assurance that 1.-THE
whole region was badly devastated, but
from Guemerek just few escaped by be-
coming Moslems." The missionary adds:
''Of course, there are still many hidden
away in dark corners, and there viii be
some glad surprises when the war is over
but the loss has been awful
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germany WEAKENS
UNDER ALL|EDF|RE
Passes Zenith of Her Military
Effectiveness, French High
Commission Says.
UNABLE TO STAND BLOWS

Germany has passed the zenith of her
military effectiveness and now is on
the decline, according to a formal re-
view issued here by the French high
commission, based on data of the French
general staff. While the resources of
the allies, massed to the point of great
est strength, are being maintained
pending the arrival of Americas COM
plete army, the enemy's vitality slowly
is being Slapped under the terrific strain
of the allied offensive.
The attrition of the German forces on
the west front has been marked, and
even transfer of many divisions from
the Russian front to France and the
calling into service of the 1918 and part
of the 1919 reserves have been ineffec-
tual in interrupting allied successes
Diminution of German strength is GO
ing on at the time when the acutenesS
of the situation demands an increase.
This shows says the statement
1.-The decisive character attending the
operations of 1918, when three great
democracies. England. France and
America. will unite their entire strength
in attacking the enemy, in conformity
with the only sound principle OF war"
The commissions statement. issued
through the committee on public in
formation, follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
Fighting Never Ceases.

This is because the fighting on the
western front, as a matter of fact,
practically never ceases. Whether in
the French sectors of Verdun or the
Aisne. or in the English sectors of
Arras and Ypres, the fighting Is only
discontinued at one point to be taken
up at another. In addition to the big
attacks. a quantity of carefully pre-
pared small actions which have been
crowned with success and of which the
bulletins are not able to give clear
idea increase the attrition of the Ger
mans.
This constant activity. coinciding with
the weakness and inaction of the Rus
slams. also explains why the Germans are
obliged to maintain, and succeed in eff
fectually maintaining, three times larger
forces on the French front than on the
Russian front. On the beginning of the
summer there were 1856 German divisions
to 700 kilometers on the French front. as
against 139 AuStro-German and Bulgarian
divisions, seventy-seven of which were
German. on the eastern front.) 1t Is
known that the Russian winter practically
puts a stop to all active operations. and
that the reaction of the internal events
in Russia on the eastern front has allowed
Germany to consider 1t during four
months as a veritable reserve for the
western front.
at clearly appears at present that the
German staff. remembering the critical
situation in which they found themselves
following the Anglo-French success on the
Somme in 1916. fears to see their west
ern front broken by the allied offensives
In 1917.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
NEW FORM OF MILEAGE TICKET.
Coupons to Be Accepted for Meals
and Other Services by B. and O.

A new form of mileage ticket will be
placed on sale Monday, according to
an announcement by the passenger de-
partment of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. The mileage coupons of the
tickets will not only be accepted for
railroad fare, but also will be accepted
at their face value when offered in
payment for --meals in dining cars.
storage charges on baggage, Western
Union telegraph messages and taxicab
or baggage transfer service at Phila-
delphia. Baltimore, Washington and
Pittsburgh.
These tickets will be restricted to the
lines east of the Ohio river and west
of Philadelphia. The tickets will be is
sued in books of 1,000 miles each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
ST. MARGARETS

Day and Boarding School lProtestant).
kindergarten department: playground; rhyth-
mic expression: out-of- door classes. Auto service
Misses Lippincott and Baker. Principals.
2115 California St. Phone North 46il.
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Allies Maintaining str.ns+h

On the ,,,o other sr hand. British ana
strength in men and material ana ara
capable. with help Of America. Of main
tanning the enormous strength which
1asy I'M h.ss s4sd t. the END 81 the
American Army. which viii srriva ~
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quickly as possible, as three years of
war have demonstrated the value of
time and the advantage of each day
gained.
This shows the decisive character
attending the operations of 1918, when
three great democracies. England.
France and America, will unite their
entire strength in attacking the enemy,
in conformity to the only sound prin-
ciple of war"
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that VIII be at once economical and

that will be at once economical and
palatable.
Announcement made public by the
food administration shows q great need
for standardization of bread prices. as
well as a standardized composition.
Prices in various parts of the United
States recorded few days ago ranged
from cents for a pound loaf In Pleas
antville, n. j., while Paragould, Ark.
cents. In many parts of New England
and as far west as Oklahoma bread WAS
selling for Is cents loaf. but in Eagle
Pass, Tex. the price was only TN cents.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
EXPERIMENT WITH BREAD.
Local Hotel Bakers Try for Loaf That
Will Re Economical

While experts from the bureau of
chemistry and the food administration
are experimenting in Philadelphia to
produce STANDARD loaf which will
be recommended by Food Administrator
Hoover at least one local hotel has put
its bakers to work to discover a bread
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10

Karl Marx. by NJ. Pressemanne and NJ.
Mistral. want to vote credits. as they
have done heretofore and to remain.
as they say. faithful to the national de-
Tense in which they have always reso-
lutely participated The other faction.
the Kienthalians. so called because
they adhere to the Kienthal confer
ence oppose war credits. This faction
Is headed by Deputies Brizon. Blanc.
Raffina du Dugens and the syndicalists
Merrheim and Bourderon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10

PRIVATE LESSONS IN MATHEMATICS.
sciences, languages. music; university graduate
20 years exp. Prof. j., Box 5l5. 18th St sta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
Draw From Eastern Front.

"All the measures they have taken
have been defensive in character, intended
to strengthen their resistance in the face
of Anglo French forces Not content with
declining to give battle and Withdrawing
portion of their front on the Hindenburg
position, they have transported to the
western front. between January and April.
a certain number of divisions drawn from
the eastern front. AS this did not suffice
they have drawn the picked men from
each of their companies on the eastern
front, and. with the assistance Of the
class of 1918. have formed twenty seven
new divisions. twenty-six of which have
appeared in France.
"rhey have then exchanged their
picked troops of the eastern front for
the inferior ones of the western front
Iandwehr). Finally. once the battle
begun, in order to hold out they have
successfully replaced. number for
number, sixteen exhausted divisions
from the French front by fresh divi-
sions from the eastern front.
However. in spite Of using all these
methods, of which the latter have only
been possible this year. due to the
trouble made by the Russian revolution,
Germany has made her supreme MILL
tary effort.
This is evidenced by the two follow
ing statements which should be COM
pared for future enlightenment:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-10
Lee Bing Held in $1,000 Bond.

Lee Bing. as Pennsylvania avenue.
who was arrested Manday morning.
charged with having opium in his pos
session. was given a preliminary hear
ing before United States Commissioner
Hit and held in $1,000 bond to await the
action of the grand jury. Lee Gee was
acquitted of a similar charge
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Statement of Commission.

Both Franco-German fronts on the
Aisne. 1917. and Verdun. 1916. have
already been compared and it has been
noted that they are practically of the
same length. 1t has been stated that
the German forces occupying them be-
fore the attack were equally compa-
rable-twelve and fourteen divisions.
1t ia known today that during the same
period-from May to September-the
Germans engaged twenty-five fresh
divisions at Verdun. and that they
have been obliged to engage forty-five
on the Aisne. Furthermore. during an
equal period the French took $3.50
prisoners at Nerdun and $3.50 on the
Aisne.
This comparison included only a
small sector of the French front. But
it showed a very interesting result, due
to the increase of the material forces
of the allies and the improved French
lighting methods. since adopted by the
other armies. and also. as testified by
the German STAFF itself. apropos of the
battle of the Somme, in explaining
their defeat. to the perfect use of
technical methods
IF the above comparison is extended
today to the entire Franco English
front, if you consider that from April
10 to June Is. the enemy engaged 1903
divisions against the Anglo-French
forces, and. finally, if one bears In mind
that the successes of the British often
sive at Ypres obliged the enemy to en-
gage fifteen divisions during the last
ten days you can understand why the
German losses on the western front
grow heavier and heavier. (They ad-
NIT the loss of 10000 men during the
month of May. 100000 men are esti-
mated by the allied staff during the
month of June. etc.)
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Decrease in Total Strength.

Fl. After the formation of twenty
seven divisions above mentioned, Ger
many has intended to create ten moro
divisions with the regiments of tho
series 601-602. Not only has she been
obliged to abandon the latter part of
her program in spite of calling out a
portion of the class Of 1919, but she
has been obliged to break up several
newly formed regiments to reinforce
her fighting units, and for the first
time since the beginning of the war a
clear decrease in the total strength of
the German forces is in record
"2. At the very time that her total
strength is diminishing, Germany finds
herself obliged to increase her reserves
on the French front to forty divisions
with the sole aim of providing relav
and resistance. Therefore, lust az the
offensive strength of the Germans has
been broken in the open field on the
Marine and User and in the trench war
fare at Verdun, her facilities for maneu-
vering, that Is to say the possibility of
transporting valuable reserves from
one front to another, Is prevented at
present by the continuity and fntensity
of the Anglo-French offensive Car,
many has still great powers of res;st.
ance which will take all the oIiiaa
forces to break. She Is capahIe ~ 80
ecuting very vigorous local ofrens,yas
But her resources are dtminishinr -
the very moment when the niItt. a..
situation requires that they shnnid ~
crease. ~
That Is the principal poir+