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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
WILL TAKE CARE
Of DEPENDENTS
DURING THE WAR
Pensions for Dependents Also Proyid-
ed For-Plan Has Presidents
Approval.

Washington, Aug. 10,-The McAdoo
plan of compulsory thrift for soldiers
in the Unitei States army was intro
duced simultaneously in the senate
and senate today and later was refer
red to committees for consideration.
The plan provides for minimum,
allotment Of SIS per mont eacs
solder, with S. adj itional for eacf
child dependent upon him. Ia an adj
ditional allotment out of the soldiers
pay the government is to give allow.
ances ranging from SIS to $50 monthly
according to the extent of the soldiers
allotment and the number of children
dependent upon him.
A private in the army making ar
allotment of SIS per month will be
further aided by an allowance of $32..
so monthly from the government
making s47.5E by reason of depend
ent family.
l. The allotmeRts and allowances will
scale upward IN like proportion to the
figures outlined above.
The plan includes a compensation
system in the event Of total disability
of 40 to $75 monthly, according to the
size of the family, for a private sol
der, up to 5000 for officers. \ partial
disability plan is worked out on a per-
centage basis.
Pensions for dependents also are
provided for in the measure. The plan
has the approval of President Wilson
and the administration officials.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
Opposition to
Gov. T Purchasing
Programmes
GOVERNMENT MAY NEED ADDI'
TIONAL LEGISLATION IN OR
DER TO ENFORCE PLAN

Washington, Aug. 9.-The govern
ment's war purchasing program
was gone over in detail today by
the war industries board. 1t calls for
elimination of excessive profits on war
materials sold to the American and
allied governments and contemplates
protection for the American people
against extortionate charges.
One subject given especialconsider-
alton today was that of compelling
American producers to sell war sup
plies to the allies at the same price
charged the American government.
Protests against this policy, it was
said today, are SO general, the govern
rlent, if necessary, will seek legisla-
ton to enforce it.
1t was reported today that steel pro-
ducers refused to sell the government
a consignment of steel rails for France
because of the low prices offered, indi-
eating open opposition is appearing.
Officials, are divided in their opinions
as to whether the government can en-
force the plan respecting allied pur-
chases without the support of addi-
ticnal legislation. The hope of the war
board, which reflects the attitude of
the administration, is that the indus
Continued on page xour.)
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
HOOVER HAS BEEN
APPOINTED FOOD
ADMINISTRATOR
1SAYS EVERY EFFORT WILL BE.
MADE TO CORRECT
PRICE ABUSES

Washington, Aug. 1O.-The formal
appointment of Herbert Hoover as
food administrator under the new food
legislation was announced at the white
house today,
The government assumed control of
the country's food supply with Hoov-
er's appointment and the signing of
the bills by the president.
Hoover set forth the aims of the.
food administration in statement in.
which he declared it the purpose to
re-establish, not disturb, conditions.
Every effort will be made, he said, to,
correct price abuses. Drastic meas
ures will not be attempted until it Isl
seen that the purpose of the food adj
ministration cannot be accomplished
through constructive cooperation with
the food producing and distributing
dIstries. The very existence
receive powers will tend r
lulation and price imitation
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
BRITISH AND FRENCH
STRIKE HARD BLOWS
AT HUN ANTAGONISTS

Both the British and French armies
facing the Germans in Flanders have
again struck hard blows at their an
tagonists and have been rewarded
with further gains in the line of crown
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. While
the fighting has occurred only on iso-
lated sectors, it appears that the heavy
artillery duels in progress all along
the front from Newport to the Fran
co-Belgian border are the forerunners
of a resumption of big allied often
sive, which the rain and the accompa-
nying mire stopped almost at its in
ception more than week ago.
Driving eastward from the sector of
Ypres in the early dawn of Friday,
Field Marshal Haig's men took for
their own all the German first line po-
sitions east of HODGE, between Freez-
enburg and the Ypres- Menin road, in
GLIDING the village of Westhoek, and
held them in their entirety, rotwith-
standing the usual counter attacks
launched by the Germans under an
extremely heavy barrage fire.
To the north near Bixchoote and
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
Germany Has 100000
Fighters, Russians Say
Eighty-Eight Divisions on oumanian Front
148 on the West

that the German forces comprise
twelve active divisions, eleven reserve,
twenty-one newly formed, sixteen Err
satz, twenty-eight landwehr, totalling
Lightweight. Additional are fifteen
unattached regiments, equaling five
divisions, although usually a German
division is now composed of three reg
iments. The o-Hungarians have
forty-one divisions on the east front,
the Turks four and the Bulgarians two
double divisions, equalling four. Thus
the enemy has 1877 divisions against
the Russo-Rumanians, not counting
the landstrum nor cavalry. The Aus
TRANS have thirty-six divisions on the
italian front.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11

Langwarck, the French troops have
captured several farms held by the
Germans and also have taken a mum
Ter of machine guns from them.
While these gains are characterized
as slight" they, nevertheless, are an
other forward step eastward toward
the Ostend-Lille railroad, toward
which the British drive from HODGE
also is pointed.
The Canadians lying in Their
trenches at the doorsteps of Lens and
the British forces holding trenches
south Of the famous Vimy ridge are
coming in for intensive Smelling from
/ the Germans.
On the long-neglected front near St.
Quentin the Germans delivered a sur
prise attack of considerable proper
lions, but were unsuccessful in gain
ing ground anywhere except at several
weak points in the center of the
French line. Otherwise the fire of Gen
eral Petain's men put down the sally
infiicting considerable casualties or
| the Germans.
Likewise along the Aisne front the
Germans have delivered onslaughts
against the French, but here, also
they met with the same result that
Continued from page ~
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11

Paris, Aug. 8.-Further proof cc..;-
corning the falsifed German census
before the war, which baff1ed allied
military critics because the German
man power has proved greater since
the war than would have been posi-
bic if the population had been only
65,OOO,OO0, was Forthcoming today
from the Russian mission in Paris,
which announced to me that eighty
eight German divisions were now
fighting on the Russo umanian front
and 148 were opposing the French and
British on the west front.
Ca German division, according to
recent authoritative statements from
Paris, is about 13, 900 men. The eighty
eight divisions on the Russo Ruman-
ian front, therefore, would total L.
$4,000 men; the 148 on the western
front, 1, $4,000, making a grand to-
tai of 3,O68, 900 menu
This official statement effectually
disposes of the numerous allegations
of war correspondents during the last
few months that "such and such a
. number of divisions have just arrived
at the Russian front and were thrown
into the fighting by Rupprecht or the
crown prince"
Of course, certain divisions have
been transferred from east to west and
vice versa, but the Germans actually
had stripped the eastern front of the
best troops after the Russian retreat
In the autumn of 1915, holding the
lines thereafter with reserve divisions
of landwehr, landstrum, or Saxon and
Pomeranian troops unequal to stand
ing the tremendous fighting on the
west front. Germany sprang great
surprise last autumn by creating a
shock army for overrunning Ruman,a
and a second surprise last month by
putting another offensive army into
Galicia, which already has reached
Bessarabia. AS ! pointed out ON July
a27, Gen. hm-Ermolli's army IS
composed of young troops, as no land
strura Or landwehr could march so fast
as the Germans were advancing. The
Russian announcement today asserts
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
FINANCES Of CO.
BOARD OF TRADE
IS IMPROVING
COMMITTEES ON DELINQUENTs
REPORT COLLECTIONS
VERY GOOD

The indications are that the county
board of trade will soon be in good
financial condition and ready to be-
gin anew an aggressive campaign for
several movements directed toward
general county improvement. On the
theory that the old members are the
ones who contracted the debts which
are outstanding against theprganiza-
ton, the present effort is being made
to collect back uues from these. Sue
cess is attending this effort in st.
Petersburg and reports indicate sini-
lar success in other cities IN the coun-
ty.
A. F. Bartlett, Paul Boardman, t.
w. Weston and j. w. Coburn are
leading the work of seeing the old
members in St. Petersburg and in
rlost cases it is only necessary to
call the attention of these to their
delinquency to bring forth the money.
H. c. Clayton and J. c. Beekman re-
pert similar success from Tarpon
Springs. The work of rounding up
these delinquent dues of 81 per year
from old members is being handled
by L. A. Whitney, former secretary
and treasurer of the organization, who
is winding up the affairs of those Of
fees so that they can be turned over
to the new secretary, B. o. Baker, of
Clearwater, in good shape.-St. Pc
tersburg Times.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
THIS A GREAT
AGE TO LIVE IN
HEAD OF BRITISH ADMIRALTY
HEARS WE HAVE TROUBLES
SIMILAR TO THEIRS

Pittsburgh, August 10-Sir Eric
Geddes, now first lord of the British
admiralty, has written to Oliver P
Nichols, Pittsburgh real estate man
his employer when Sir Eric worked in
Logging camps in West Virginia.
81 expect the United States is finding
it pretty difficult all of a sudden to
change from peace conditions to the
realization that you are in for big
thing" he says. "From the advices
i get from British representatives in
America, you seem to be having very
much the same kind of troubles that
we had in the early days of the war.
Cali of us here, and Il happen to
know from French friends) the
French, also, have appreciated very
much the extremely helpful and nice
way in which the officers of your ear
ly contingent have discussed things
and have endeavored to find out just
hcw-in the early days, at any rate,
until your army is ready--you can
fit in and help US and our allies
where we are short.
ut is great war and a great age
to live in"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
ALLIES TO WAIT
AID of AMERICANS.
Theatre of Activity Shifts From France to-
Flanders With This Object in View

The entry of Greece in the war and
the completion of Italian railways and
highways across Albania to the Mon
astir front, eliminating the dangerous
water haul and insuring the arrival
of supplies, holsters up the Macedon-
ian situation, especially since the Red
Cross has got disease under control.
The west front, the most vital the
atre of the war, is witnessing the
weight of the conflict steadily sliding
toward the MISUNDERSTANDING from
France into Flanders, where Won Hin
denburg was forced to mass his best
troops for the clash against Britain's
new armies concentrated there. Three
times this year Field Marshal Haig
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
ARREST GERMAN POLE.
HAD POISONED PLASTER

negro arrested recently in Memphis,
who confessed to obya1ning poisoned
courtplaster from an agent in Cleve-
lsnd.
The court plaster bears the mark of
a Chicago manufacturer and an inves-
tigation has been started to appre-
bend the party.
Recent reports state that poisoned
courtplaster has been found in great
quantities at various places in the
United States and federal authorities
are sitting The matter to the bottom
and it is expected a number of i'm
portant arrests will be made.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11

has struck and every time his blow
has told.
Further blows impend-not in des-
perate effort to break through the
German front, as it is realized that the
United States army will participate in
that cataclysm when it is fighting in
force-but blows accomplishing ex-
actly what they are aimed to do. That
is to grind the German army to pieces
weakening it steadily, inexorably, UNI
til the moment when the allies will be
SO superior in numbers and material
that they can shatter Hindenburg,s
line of steel and concrete in a dozen
places between the sea and Switzer-
land, pour through the breaches and
turn the isolated segments Of his
TANKS.
Won Hindenburg's front cannot be
broken by slight numerical superior
.ity of men and guns, nor even by dour
bic his force, but if the proportion
jumps to three to one, artillery and
the flying corps included, the result
will be catastrophe for hin-a the
humiliation of the German army. To-
accomplish this it is the Franco-Brit
ish strategy to destroy as many Ger
mans as possible without regard tor
their own losses so long as they are
less than the. enemy's, SO every arriv-
ing contingent of Americans increases
the ratio of the allied superiority.
France Stronger than Ever.
Much has been limited concerning
Frances weakening morale, and the
| nation indeed bled grievously while
holding the Hun by the throat until
England was prepared. But the crown
princes fighting fol the Cheniin des
Danes in the last three months has
been just as fierce as his most savage
attempts upon Verdun, and he has
failed everywhere 70 retake obsarva-
Eltion points eapsaycd by the French
I fne lIapos rstfice ~ the inc sala siss
Danes fighting has been overlooked
4 because of other events, like the
4 United States war preparations and
Great Britain's opening strokes. But
French doggedness and willingness to
continue fighting for liberty and to
crush militarism have proved just as
| effective this year as last year at Yer
dun. The French situation is improv-
ing continually because of the honora-
bic discharge of the older classes. Of
the army and the continual release of
farmers for agricultural work and ri
skilled laborers for making munitions,
| A subtle and premature peace prop
uganda is afoat everywhere, and while
it is discussed idly and unthinkingly
it is refuted, rejected, repudiated UNI
animously when stripped of its false
hamanitarianism and it's brotherhood
of manism" disguise and revealed as,
a German plot to save the skin of the
Hohenzollerns and militarists.
| With the die cast for the continu--
ance of the war, and the allied bowers
frmer knit together than ever, the,
fiercest fighting yet is coming as the
veterans prepare the enemy for the.
death blow the United States army
will deliver when it takes the field in
foree.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
DETECTIVES RAID GLEVELANT
APARTMENT AND GET TWO
HALF-BUSHEL BASKETS

Cleveland, O., Aug. 10,-Two half
bushel basketsful of poisoned court
plaster were found in an apartment
which was raided by detectives here
this morning. A German Pole whose
name was withheld by the officers,
was arrested and turned over to the
federal authorities.
The arrest of the man was made on
information given the officers by a
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
FINAL LIST OF
So men CALLED
BY THE BOARD
TO APPEAR FOR ARMY EXAMI-
NATION AT CLEARWATER
NEXT WEDNESDAY

The final-at least for the present
SO notices were sent out from the Of
flee of the draft examining board at
Clearwater yesterday, notifying Sc
more citizens of Pinellas county to APP
pear for examination touching their
fitness to become members of the new
n..tional army. These are to present
themselves at the Pearce building,
Clearwater, next Wednesday, Aug. Is.
The instructions from Washington
relative to exemptions are becoming
more and more strict and it is now
thought likely that the quota of Pr
nellas county will be secured from the
first 286 men examined. The quota to
report for examination next Wednes-
day completes the call of these 286
men. As heretofore, the numbers APP
pearing at the left of the names are
merely the identification numbers.
The order in which the men were
drawn is shove by the order in which
they appear in the following list:
1917 Berton Perry McMullen
ot1 Thomas Jefferson McGahagin
488 Robt. C. Avant
704 Harry T. Francis
72 Edmund C. Wright
356 Allen Paul
1867 Henry Thomas
1913 William Quisenberry
679 James Crockett
liz Daniel H. Harden
sos John Vivens
II Ralph c. Bennett
900 Phila Lyman Lindley
1858 Willie Protho
1887 George F. Campbell
1142 Harry Jacobs
8 Harold F. Burrows
327 Nolie Johnson
664 Willie Broxey
SO Joseph A. R. Cusson
144S Louis e. Drane
1112 Evander L. Dunn
Continued on page four.)
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
PAPER FOUND INSTRUCTS Off
GERS TO ENJoIN ECONOMY
ON SOLDIERS

London, Aug. 1O.-Reuter's CORE
spondent at British headquarters re-
ports that an order issued to the group
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-08-11
THE HUN LORDS INFORM
TROOPS SITUATION IS SERIOUS

of armies in France under Prince Rup-
precht has been found which directs
officers to explain to their men that
the economic situation in Germany is
serions.
1t gives instructions that strict econ
ony must be practiced and nothing
wasted.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09
DEATHS.
Yingling.

Miss Dora Yingling, student of
trained nursing at Maryland General
Hospital, Baltimore, died at the hos
pital Sunday afternoon after an ill
ness that began last Monday. She
caught a heavy cold and on Tuesday
the physicians diagnosed her illness
as appendicitis. Peritonitis developed,
and an operation was performed last
Friday. She was 10 years old
Miss Yingling is survived by her
father, William Henry Yingling, of
this city; two sisters, Mrs. R. E. l..
Hutchins, of Pleasant Valley, Md,
and Mrs. A F. Garner, of Ithaca, N. Y,
and three brothers, d. M. Yingling
and w. J. Yingling, of Baltimore, and
Joseph Yingling, of this city.
The funeral was held Wednesday
morning at 1920 o'clock in Grace
Lutheran Church. The Rev. P. H.
Miller, pastor Of Concordia English
Lutheran Church, Baltimore, and the
Rev. W. Fl. Hetrick, pastor Of the
church, conducted the services. Bur
ial was in kreider's cemetery.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09
UNDER SIN FLAGS
Texas In Her Career Has Had Some
Exciting Experiences.

Six flags have flown over Texas, in
Guiding the banners of three foreign
pOWers-France, Spain and Mexico
First came the French flag, which was
carried down the Mississippi river to
the Gulf of Mexico by the intrepid La
Sale. Following this was the Span
ish emblem, first thrown to the breeze
under the direction of the Franciscan
priests. Then came in succession the
the Mexican flag and the Lone Star
emblem of the republic of Texas.
The stars and stripes followed the
Lone Star, but was supplanted for a
time by the stars and bars of the Con-
federacy.
In the struggle for ascendancy
among these various groups it is
needless to say that much blood has
been spilled and countless tragedies
have taken their places on the pages
of history.
The history of the republic of Texas
is one of the most unique examples of
national sovereignty that the world
has ever SEEN
A province of 10000 people won in
depence from a nation of several
millions. But these 10000 were gen
orally men of sturdy Anglo-American
stock.
A few years later these same fear
less and independent Texans volun-
tarily gave up their sovereignty to be-
come one of the galaxy of stars under
the banner of the United States
Chicago Journal.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09
How This Country Can Earn $750,OOO,.
coo Il Year.

In the current issue Of Farm and
Fireside Judge Hughes, chairman of
the House Committee of Education
says:
1--WE are among the worlds great
industrial peoples, and the immediate
problem of vocational education is the
problem of equipping for the success
full pursuit of some useful occupation
the youths who go to work at the rate
or more than 900, 900 a year. If we
assume that a system of vocational
education pursued through twenty
1--WE years of the past would have in
creased the Wage-Garning capacity of
each Of these to the extent of 10 cents
day this would have made an in
crease of wages for the group of 81
100000 a day, or $750,000,000 a year.
This is very moderate estimate, and
the facts would probably show a diff
terence in the earning power of the
FocatiOnally trained and the untrain-
ed of % cents a day. This would in
dictate a waste OF wages through lack
Of training amuOnting to $6,250, 900
every day, or $1,S75 900, 900 for the
year"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09
NO. 1887 EQUITY.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll County in Equity
Elk Parte. In the matter Of the trust
estate Of Malta Virgil Baker and
Annie II. Baker, his wife, Francis
Neal Parke, Trustee.
Upon the aforegoing petition, it is
this End day of March, 1917, by the
Circuit Court for Carroll County, sit
ting as a Court. of Equity, ordered
that this Court assume jurisdiction
Of the trust created by the deed of
Matha Virgil Baker and Annie M.
Baker, his wife, to Francis Neal
Parke, bearing date of December Goth,
1916, and referred to in these pro-
ceedings; and that said trust be ad-
ministered under the supervision,
direction and control Of this Court;
and that said trustee shall report his
proceedings to this Court from time
| to time subject to it's further order
and control; and that the said Fran
els Neal Parke trustee as aforesaid,
be and he is hereby authorized and
directed to give notice to all persons
having claims against the said Malta
Virgil Baker to file their claims,
properly authenticated, with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Carroll
County, in Equity, on or before the
4th day of June, 1917, by causing a
copy of this order to be published in
some newspaper printed in Carroll
County, in the State of Maryland,
once a week for four successive weeks
before the second day of April, 1917
VIM H. THOMAS.
True Copy, Test:
E. O. CASH Clerk
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-03-09
StOckSdaIe.

Mrs. Stocksdale, the wife of Rev
George H. StOcksdale, of the Mary
land Conference Methodist Protestant
church, died suddenly Friday evening
February %, at her late residence
kemptown, Frederick county.
Mr.. Stocksdale formerly lived al
Finksburg, in this county, and has
relatives in that community. Mrs
Stocksdale was from Wilmington
Del. She leaves a daughter by a for
mer marriage, who is trained nurse
residing in Philadelphia. The funeral
was held in Kemptown on Sunday af-
ternoon. Interment was on Monday
in Wilmington.