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The Washington times., 1917-12-31
WAR INVENTORY
Of FOODSTUFFS
BEGINS TONIGHT

All the food dealers in washington,
wholesalers, retailers, commIssiou
merchants. hotel, and restaurant
keepers. are to take an inventory to
night OF the amount OF foodstuffs thai
they have on hand. The informatioV
is to be forwarded to the War Emer
gency Food Survey OF the DeparS
ment OF Agriculture early in the nsW
year. Everyone having on hand morl
than $3.50 worth OF food at the pres
ent time Is required to MI out one q
the schedules.
At the same time food dealers al
over the United States will be bua1
on others OF the 100000 schedules thsa
have been distributed. They viii b
forwarded here for tabulation as soo1
as possible so that the authorities WI
have on hand lists showing when an
where a shortage OF food exists.
As Il is possible that among tAl
thousands of food dealers in the coull
try there may be many that have ne.
received schedules, the survey RI
quests such to write for them at once
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
WANT ESPIONAGE LAW
MADE MORE DRASTIC

Amendments to the espionage law so
as to make II more drastic were urged
today by the American Defense Society
in its anual report to the Committee on
Public Information. in which II detailed
activities for the year in fighting Ger
man propaganda in America
The society reported the organization
Of $50 vigilance corps in the larger Amer
lean cities, who are listing the disloyal
residents and taking the necessary steps
to put down gatherings and utterances
OF the anti-war faction The society has
also perfected an organization among
the public schools to promote patriotism
in young America.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31

fer. who is a boy OF seventeen years,
said that he had been influenced.
One OF the automobiles taken was
that OF Lee Trucks. His garage was
broken into, and after his machine
was used, 1t was left by the roadside
with a laprode and other articles
missing.
Huffer was fined $50 by justice
Sawyer on one charge OF JOY riding.
The boy has been working in Wash
ington lately, with the Fuel Admin
istration.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
New York Hears Of Plot
To AssasSinate Both
Lenine and TrOtsky

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Rumors
OF a plot to Rssassinate Nicholai
Lenine, the Bolsheviki premier.
and Leon Trotsky, the Bolsheviki
foreign minister, have attained
widespread circulation in Petro-
grad according to a cablegram
from the Petrograd correspondent
of the Jewish Daily Forward to-
day.
The plot was attributed to the
Social ReyolutionarieS.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
ENEMY ALIENS MUST
REGISTER ON FEB. a

Another measure OF protection
from enemy aliens will be put in
force by the Department of Justice,
which has set aside February 4 for
the registration OF the 100000 un-
United States.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31

I5 artists, . cartoonists, Al bookkeep-
ers. 10 bankers. Sc brokers, Q manu-
facturers. II saloonkeepers. 10s bar
tenders, o palmists, 8 fortune tellers,
and about 1000 members OF the
trades, including carpenters, brick
layers, machinists, etc.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
HEARING TO BE RESUMED.

The meat packers hearing before
the Federal Trade Board will be re-
sumed in Philadelphia Thursday, Com
missioner Victor Murdoch announced
today.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
coNVIcTs ASK TO LINeER.

OSSINING, Dec. 31.-with the tsn
perature at 16 below. three minated
of Sing Sing prison whose terms eE
pired pleaded to be allowed to remait
another day. The request was grant
ed.
The Washington times., 1917-12-31
Orchestral Concert

AT MARINE BARRACKS. THIS AFT
ERNOON AT 2:SO O'CLOCK,
BY THE MARINE BAND ORCHESTRA,
WILLIAM II. SANTELMANN. Leader.
March. The New York HippOdrome"
SnuSa
Overture. ''Tannhauser". Wagner
AT the Brook .--....-.-.--.---- --bolSdeiIre
Dance of the Egyptian MaidCns" Shelley
Nalth THE Bachelors .Santelmann
Meditation" =" from ''Thais". .Aassenet
Grand scenes from "Hansel and GretCI'
Humperdinck
ssHunrarian Dance No l''... keler-BelA
The Star-SpanEled Banner"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
One Might While Away Idle
Hours Reading One of These

Which is the longest poem in the
world? One generally regards para.
disc Lost as pretty lengthy, and
Thomson's Seasons" and Cowper's
Task" But these are short compared
with Sponsors "Faerie Queene," which
is easily the longest poem in existence
even as 1t stands, and had he attained
his object and reached the twenty
fourth book, no other poem would have
been sin It,"
1t Is only quarter of the original
plan, yet 1t is as long as the Had, the
Odyssey, and the Aeneid put together.
twice as long as Dante's "Divina Com.
media" and three times as long as
paradise Lost and Paradise Re.
gained" In one.
The longest novel In the world be-
longs to Japan. Its author is Kiong TIE
Bakin. 1t was commenced in 1852, and
published volume by volume as it came
out over period of fifty years. There
are l06 volumes, 1860 pages. 1880.
COO lines. and about 3S,000.00O words
A complete copy weighs 1870 pounds.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Over the Fence.

/ have noticed that any fence gives
feeling of protection to the speaker
who talks over it, prompting him to
frankness which he would not venture
without that slight barrier, much as a
child outside the lions cage addressed
1T with bravado. Especially is this true
in respect to the close back fence over
which only the elevated passer-by can
spy the worker In the garden. With
horseback riders, truckwomen, express
men, farmers on hayracks, and bespur-
red linemen-those the Welsh call
"ffolks,"-I am on terms of familiarity
which is never abused when we meet
in other localities. A fat vegetable
woman stopped her horse and wagon
one day to look over the fence. Me
she acknowledged with a smile and
murmur about the pretty garden. Then,
lifting her voice, 81 have great respect
for you, great respect" Eager to rise
to the situation l begged her to come
in sometime and see the garden. II
will do that."-Lucy e. Keller, in the
Atlantic.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Woman Who Gives New Life
To Old Clothes Is Aiding
In Conservation Movement.

In these times when there is a short
age not only of food materials, but also
of textile stuffs, the woman who can
clothe herself and her family at a
minimum expense Is "doing her bit"
just as much as the woman whose
garbage can fills slowly or the man
who makes two potatoes grow where
none grew before, declares Beryl Dix
on, of the Colorado State Agricultural
college.
Many articles of clothing that in or
binary times would be discarded with
out a second thought may, with q lit
tie care, be freshened up and made to
serve another period of usefulness.
Wooden goods may be satisfactorily
cleansed by washing in warm water
with soap solution or soap bark. Soap
bark is prepared for use by letting five
cents worth stand in two quarts of
water for an hour and then straining 1t
into lukewarm water in which the
material is to be washed. Water of
the same temperature should be used
for both washing and rinslng. Press
NtOitHS Nllti dilifVSl Ol lllG WIODS
side, with a warm iron.
Most grease spots may be removed
with naphtha soap and warm water.
Chemical or dry cleaning will remove
grease spots by dls3olving the fat. The
cleaning liquid may be ether, chloro-
form, carbon tetrachloride. gasoline,
naphtha or benzine. The last three
should be used in the open air if pos
sible. They must be used away from
fire or flame of any kind.
On silks or satins, rub the grease
spot with thin paste made Of benzine
and carbonate of magnesa. The ben
zine evaporates and the magnesia will
absorb the grease and can be brushed
off. Very often dry French chalk or
powdered magnesia alone win absorb
the grease. several applications some
times being necessary. A warm iron
and blotting paper viii remove some
grease spots.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Something New.

Peru was the first country to add
instruction In aviation to it's public
school curriculum.
new electric fan can be used on a
desk or attached to a wall without
changing any of Its parts.
Concrete floors can be made almost
noiseless by covering them with heavy
tar paper. attached by cement.
European factories each week make
about 10000 900 pounds of artificial
butter with coconut oil as a base.
Separate wind shields for each of
the two seats it contains features a
new English motorcycle side car.
A French scientist is trying to pre-
vent fogs by floating small quantities
of oil on rivers to check evaporation.
Spring buffers hold new shade roll
ers in position In window without
the use of tools or marring the wood
work.
Platinum deposits recently discoy-
cred in Spain are believed to be great
er and richer than those of the Ural
mountains, which furnish the greater
part of the worlds supply.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Every Bird and Beast Makes
A Noise That's All Its Own.

If complete list could be made of
the distinctive names by which the
noises produced by birds and beasts
are called, it would be found that there
are few duplicates. We may Judge this
even by the most common. says an ex-
change. The horse neighs, the sheen
beats, the COW lows, the pig grunts
and squeals, the turkey gobbles, the
hen cackles, the cock crows, the goose
Kisses, the duck quacks, the cat news.
the dog banks, the wolf bowls, the lion
roars, the bull bellows, the sparrow
chirps, the pigeon COOS, the frog croaks.
the rock caws, the monkey chatters,
the elephant trumpets, the camel
grunts, the stag calls, the rabbit
screams-only when wounded the don
key brays, the bee huns. the fly buzzes.
the grasshopper chirrups, the swallow
twitters, the chick peeps, the hound
bays and the owl boots.
Perhaps the best word for the sound
Il cricket makes is used by Tennyson.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
"WilI You Tell Me Who ! Am7"

half tumbling to her shoulders. The
pallor of her face was like the hue of
a jasmine flower; even her dry lips
seemed bloodless as she moistened
them nervously, leaning heavily on the
little shelf in front of the brass grating
at the entry clerks window. A wave
of compassion swept over Madge, as
she saw the look of utterly dazed help
lessness in her wide, dark eyes.
II beg your pardon" she said, slow.
ly, "but could you tell me who l am
Please, please tell me who am. I've
walked so far and / couldn't find any
one ! dared to ask. l saw the light
from your window. VIII you tell me
who am?'
She suddenly burst into fit of nerv-
GUS weeping, and bowed her face in
her hands. The door leading upstairs
swung open, and little Blair, one Of the
internes, came in, humming.
II say, Miss Laurence" he began, but
Madge motioned him to be quiet.
"Mr. Blair" she cried, pleasantly,
"do you think you could take my place
for just a few moments? I want to
take this lady into the reception ROOM -
Blair gave the stranger "the once
over" as he would have expressed it,
and murmured, as he took Madge's
seat:
Better land her in the dip"
But Madge shook her head. This
was no case for the dipsomaniac ward,
and she knew it. AS they stepped into
the big white marble hall together the
woman put out her hand like a child
for Madge to lead her. and she took
her upstairs. When she came back,
Blair noticed that she seemed excited,
but not one thing would she tell him,
except that she had placed the woman
in care of Miss Gage. and it seemed
only simple case of aphasia. She
told him she would report it as soon
as Doctor Akin came in at six O'clock.
He was the house doctor on nervous
diseases.
Just as soon as she was alone she
lifted the receiver from the phone.
"River, 794. Hello, hello. / want to
speak with Mr.. Latimer, please" Then
after a pause, rs this Mr.. Stanley
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16

Camp Libraries to Supply Soldiers
With Best Reading Matter


Nothing is being left undone for the
comfort and mental recreation OF the
men who are preparing to serve their
country in the various training camps
and environments throughout the coun-
try. The Y. nj. G. A. was early In the
field and besides It's many activities,
providing for the moral and spiritual
welfare of the men. it did all it could
to provide proper reading matter for
them. But the need of libraries fur
nished in a more adequate and scien-
titic way was so largely felt that the
United States government requested
the American Library association to
undertake the work.
At once, it was decided to raise a
million-dollhr war fund; not so much
for the purchase of books as for the
erection Of suitable library buildings
at every cantonment; for the transpOr-
tation of books and for the purpose OF
securing the service of skilled librari-
ans. The first step in the formation OF
the organization in charge of the mil
lion-dollar war fund was the appoint
ment by Secretary of War Newton d.
Baker of ten nationally known men
and women to constitute a library war
council
United, and cooperating with the
war service committee are most of
the prominent authors of the United
States; practically all of the publish
ers, who have proved willing volun-
taprS and Dra cti cal1v all of fhp lon ing
members of the library profession. All
these are working in conjunction with
the library war council, the commits
sion on training camp activities and
the war department itself
One of the heaviest items of expense
at the beginning of the work Is the
erection of 80 c0mp-library buildings
at the various environments throughout
| the country. Each building will be 4O
| by 120 feet in size, one-story high and
will have accommodations for 5000 or
10000 books, newspapers and maya
zines, and living quarters for the staff
1t is hoped and expected that each OF
these libraries will be in charge of q
trained librarian. In each camp it is
planned to have library headquarters
with books and periodicals for read
ing-room use, together with a system
of distributing agencies affording tc
the soldiers kind of first-class city
public library service.
careful survey Of the entire field
determined that 81 is the amount nee
essary for the purchase, maintenance
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
How to Save the Mothers.

According to a circular issued by
the children's bureau of the United
States department of labor there are
annually about $4,000 deaths from ma
ternal causes in the United States, and
available statistics show no decrease
in maternal mortality since 1000. The
Medical Record comments that "these
10000 deaths are but rough indica-
ton of preventable Illness and suffer-
ing among mothers" And it calls at
tention to DR.. Grace L. Meigs' sugges-
ton that centers of maternal and in
FAINT welfare Ee started In every
county.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16

copyright, 1917. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per 6yndicate.)
Madge had been at Mercy hospital
nearly month as a probation nurse.
1t was her first week on duty In the
emergency room, helping Miss Paterson
write the entry record of each patient
as the ambulances brought them in.
Il don't see how you can be So"
she hesitated for word that would
not hurt the feelings of the other nurse
$50 used to 1t all. Seems to me
each case Is worse than the last one.
"Oh, nearly all of you girls play
tunes on your heart strings when you
first land here. 1t just has to be, and
you can't help it. Try to look at 1t in
that way. You can't afford to be sorry
for them all. 1t uses up your nerve
force"
But she did not get used to 1t. Not
then, nor during the whole six months
of her probation. Miss Paterson had
taken fancy to her from the very be-
ginning. She was willing and well ed
ucated and all of the doctors liked her
The last two weeks of her probation
period she was placed at the emergency
desk at night, and it was here she met
Mrs. Crosby Latimer.
1t was wild, spring night in early
May. There had been a heavy rain
storm, followed by high wind, blow
ing in from the sea to the east. Madge
had just stepped across the room tc
close the window as sudden gust OF
wind blew lot of her papers on the
floor, when the door was pushed oper
by a woman. Madge saw at a glance
that she was not the sort who sought
the shelter of Mercy hospital. While
she wore no hat, her long broadclotf
cloak was Enthusiastically correct in Its
lines, and costly in quality. Her heavy
dark hair was streaked with gray and
the wind had loosened it 50 that it was
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16

ana circulation of one book. One dol
lar, 1t has been figured. will furnish
book, keep 1t in circulation until 1t is
worn out, replace it when 1t is retired
Tor physical disability and all the time
pay share of the expense OF properly
housing and caring for these libraries
In the various camps
1t Is not to be imagined that the stu
pendous task of furnishing the sol
diers with books equipping, establish
ing and maintaining libraries, both sta
uonary and travelling is undertaken
with, primarily, an educational idea.
The books are needed not only to pro-
vide recreation for the soldiers when
they are OFF duty, but to help coun-
teract evil influences In the vlcinities
of the camps and environments. Books
to read will help to make the camps so
wholesome and attractive that the
forces that tend to take men away
from their duty will lose, at least part,
Of their charm.
There is no desire on the part OF the
American Library association nor the
library war council to thrust educa-
tional books at the heads Of men al
ready tired from training and from
fighting and who would desire recrea-
ton rather than the acquisition of
knowledge. The aim has been and will
be to provide in abundance volumes of
short stories and novels of the more
popular sort; and these when they are
purchased, from the present fund, will
be selected with all the acumen that
| comes to men whose lives have been
spent In library service. A tentative
list has already been prepared, and
that 1t is tremendously democratic may
be Cleaned from the fact that 1t starts
out with w. J. Abbots "Battlefields
and Camp Fires" and includes novels
by George AIDE, Balzac, John Kendrick
Bangs, James M. Barrie. Rex Beach,
1ilaire Belloc, William Black, Booth
Harrington, Meredith Nicholson, Rob
ert w. Chambers, Hall Caine, Winston
Churchill, G. X. Chesterton, Wilkie Col
Inns, Irwin Cobb Marion Crawford
Richard Harding Davis, Charles Dick
ems, w. nj. Thackeray, Conan Doyle
Lord Dunsany, Jeffrey Farnol, Edna
Ferber Montague Glass and-but one
could go on and make list of prac-
| tically all the popular American and
foreign authors and that list would
probably prove pretty accurate cata
logue of the books that are to be fur
nished the American soldier, wherever
he may be, by the library war council
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Some Observations.

Experience never makes fools
of wise men.
Faultfinding is unlike charity,
yet 1t usually begins at home.
Vanity makes lot of re-
munerative work for the beauty
doctors.
You never really know your
friends until they become your
enemies.
1t is awfully hard to get rich
according to the methods pre-
scribed in books.
Some men don't mind getting
1t in the neck if their neighbors
get it just as hard.
Good sense is better than
good looks, but so few people
are afflicted with eitheri
You may have noticed that
one girl no sooner breaks n
mans heart than another comes
along and bandages it up.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
Chinese Docne Starvers.

No. other race Is as docile as the Chi
nese in times of famine, according to
the National Geographic Magazine.
Their resignation In the face of calam-
ity Is amazing. For instance. in the food
shortage of 1906-7 a starving army Of
3o000o peasants camped beneath the
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16
The New Order

She (belligerently)-- weren't you
at the station with the car to meet me
as usual?
He (meekly)- dear. you ought
get into this habit of some mee.1css
DAYS.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16


walls of the city of Tsnslangpu. The
grain warehouses of the town, place
of 20O,0 900 inhabitants, We're overflow
ing with wheat, maize and rice, and
these supplies were constantly on dis
play, yet there were no riots. The
thousands outside the walls sat them
selves down to die. while those within
continued to transact the ordinary af.
fairs of everyday life.
During this famine parents found ii
necessary to sell their daughters TO
wealthy families In which they became
slave girls. Early in the period of dis
tress girls of ten to fifteen years of age
brought as much as $50 each, but when
the suffering was most severe the Gus.
tomary quotation in the slave market
was GO cents each, while in one in
stance Il father is known to have ac-
copied IA cents and two bowls of rice
In exchange for his child.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-11-16

mot a cricket chirr'd," he writes in
In Memoriam," although the word
would fit the grasshopper better per-
haps. Tennyson prlded himself on his
exact word for the noises made by bird
and beast. Thus he speaks of the
moan of doves" the robins "pipe."
the woodpecker's laugh" the curlew's
whistle" the jays "scritch,' the par
rot's scream" the peacock's "squall, :"
the ocean-fowl's "shriek," and the
eagles ''yelp."
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-12-06
4 Dollar Laid Out 10 Aid Health
Is not an Expenditure, but
a Loan Which viii he
Returned a Hun.
dred Fold.
$AM-YAK
The Remedy That Cheats the
Grave--Does Actual and
Wonderful Daily Good
in Alma.

This IS the age Of efficiency. and
San-Nak is the efficiency in medi-
cine for internal uses. For Throat.
Stomach. Liver. Kidneys. Bladder
and Bowels it proves a wonder in
every case
1t prevents bony-like hardening
eff the arteries 1T ages past 30 years
DIR BURNIIAM'S SAN-YAK is the
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apoplexy IN its use you have pre-
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trouble. II Is the greatest in use to
prevent the clumsy, stiff joints and
muscles and for nvlritis and rheum-
latism and constipation 1t has no
parallel for TIE quality and results.
Il Z. Gray Alma. Michigan, the
leading restaurant man. says. Il was
sick from oyerwork and kidney trou-
be- had paralysis ID mg toes Tor Sew
eral years. swelling d the feet and
ankles San-yak has done wonders
ton me and for my wife also am
willing % boost for j good cause"
j. 3 klein. TIE tailor, Of Alma,
says Il was badly afflicted with
rheumatism sevcn years ago. | found
relief from fAe use Of San-Yak and
keep / ia the house 60 protect my
family
=. G. Johnson, Masonic Home. Al
ma, says Il was nearly dead from
bladder and kidney trouble and rheu-
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relief and / had no trouble for more
than one year"
J H. Waterbury, Alma. Mich.
ays II was nearly helpless with
iEhammatory rheumatism two
months got 40 relief until took
San-Yak. and in three days was
able work without distress. San
Yak is surely the efficient medicine
for the Kidneys
Mrs Allen Sayler or Angola says
Il have been troubled for years
with dizziness and back trouble
After taking three bottles of San
Yak | feel like a new woman. and
want to recommend it to everyone as
f q cure and worth a good deal more
4 than you pay for it.
y. II. James, Homer, Mich. says:
II was greatly troubled for several
years with high blood pressure, short
/ il breath, bad kidney and bladder
trouble, dizzy and sick San-Yak has
zone everything for me and my
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Mrs. f. Colt. Elyria, Ohio:
"Dr. Burnham:
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Mr.. A. II. Blair, Homer, Michigan.
writes Dear Doctor-Your SAN
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at night without inconvenience.
We can tell you of more cures in
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successor Of Rhodes, Alma, Michigan.