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The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
SMALL BENEFIT FROM STEEL CUT
Public Will Save But Little AS There
Is No steel to Buy.

New York-Obscure points in the
governments recent price-fixing an
nouncement for steel, iron and coke
have been cleared up by conferences
of manufacturers with the war indus
tries board. An important point set
tied is that existing contracts will not
be abrogated.
The public, nominally, entitled to
buy at the same price as the govern
ment, will have little benefit from this,
as war needs must be met first and
these amount to 100000 tons. Orders
placed the last few days amounting
TO several hundred thousand tons, all
for deliveries in from 30 days to IL
months. The building program alone
calls for 100000 tons of steel bars,
plates and shapes.
All the Entente governments are in
the market for more steel, England
wanting 100000 tons of shell bars and
forgings, while France and Italy need
several thousand tons of ship steel.
The United States continues actively
to place large munition and war ma
chinery contracts.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
STATE DAIRYMEN WIN So PRICE
Threatened Strike Forces condeDsery
to Pay Farmers Demand

Lansing-Michigan dairymen who
furnish milk to the Borden condenser
les throughout the southern part OF
the state, won a strike Monday be-
fore they had struck.
With all preparations made to start
a strike against the Borden people
work came from New York that tho
Bordens had capitulated.
AS a result the milk will be paid for
at the condenseries at the rate of So
a hundred pounds. The ruling price
for September was $2.40, and accord
ing to the scale as outlined some
months ago by Bordens the October
price would have been $3.50.
That preparations for a strike were
completed was tacity admitted here
by N. p Hull, the president Of the
Michigan Milk Producers association.
when he said: "It might have looked
that way"
"For instance" continued Mr.. Hull.
around the Mt. Pleasant condensery
we had 395 people all signed up who
refused absolutely to sell milk to the
Borden condensery there during Oete-
Der for less than SO hundred. Other
condenseries were paying that figure
or close 10 IL, and l guess the Borden
people simr;y became satisfied that
we meant it,"
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
TEUToN PLANES RAID ENGLAND
Strongest Attack Yet Attempted Car
ried Out by Four squadrons.

London-The strongest air attack
yet attempted on London and the
coast towns by the Germans was car
ried out Monday night by four groups
OF hostile airplanes. Some Of the ma
chimes got through to London and
bombed the southwestern district.
A terrific barrage was sent up from
the defense guns and the roar of
battle lasted internationally for two
and half hours.
The Germans bombed coast towns
as they passed over and proceeded to-
ward London. Two of the groups sue
ceeded in getting a number of ma
chimes through the sky barrage. Nu-
merous bombs were dropped on the
southwestern district, which is thick.
ly populated.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
COAL SHORTAGE IN STATE ACUTE
According to Survey, $4,000 Detroit
Homes Have No Fuel Supply.

Lansing-That there is an alarming
shortage of coal in Michigan especial
ly in the large cities was brought out
emphatically BY survey just complet-
ed in Detroit, under direction of tho
Detroit Board of Commerce.
Fif.y thousand Detroit homes are
without coal, and without positive as
surance of being able to secure a win
ter's supply OF fuel, a condition unpre-
cedented at this time OF the year
The results of the survey have not
been made public in their entirety, but
enough of the chief features of the
report are known to reveal a situation
startling in it's indications of hardship
for the public.
Coal dealers, without a known ex-
ception, are refusing to take advance
orders from their customers.
Dealers, unable TO obtain any in
formation in regard to when the fuel
administration will permit shipments
here, are running no risks of making
promises of delivery that they may he
unable to fill.
Opinion among Board of Commerce
members and Detroit coal men, how
ever, seems to be that Detroit is being
Disseminated against, and that an ear
ly and emphatic protest to Washing
ton is the only course open. II short
age of fuel in mid-winter is to be pre-
vented.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Money Enough to Be Happy.

The American Magazine asked this
question few months ago. One of the
best answers is:
"HOw much money do I need to be
happy? That's easy. l can answer
that without even taking time to stare
into the fire or bat an eyelash-$2, $50
year. That is enough to live com
fortably, save some and do our share
in the social and religious life of which
we are part. Friends, friends are
the gift of God and can neither be
bought nor sold. so money cannot en-
ter into this phase of the question, for,
whether l were a lineup beggar, a
blOated bOndholder or just a fair to
middling everyday person, true friends
are still friends. Now, why the spe-
cific amount. $2,Os0 a year? Why not
$1,000 or $500? For the simple rca-
son that $2,0S0 is the exact amount
that my Peter makes. and because with
love enough the amount of money TO
make one happy is just what ones
got"
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
HEALTH AT CUSTER
NEARLY Perfect
LESS THAN ONE PER CENT OF
MEN ON SICK LIST, SINCE
CAMP WAsoPENED.
MOST SANITARY PLACE IN STATE
Food, Kitchens, Reoeptacles. Barracks
and Bedding Are Inspected Daily
BY Realmental Surgeons.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-1'he
health report OF the first month of the
camps existence shows a sick list of
less than one per cent and not a sin
gle death attributable TO camp con
ditions.
Health conditions are superior TO
those of any municipality in Michigan,
physicians say, and the thousands of
men who are making this their home
have been safe-guarded against dis
ease as they never were before.
There have been a few deaths at
Camp Custer. Epilepsy caused some
and alcoholic excuses practiced prior
20 arrival was responsible for others.
Probably In no other place in Michi'
gan is there such searching inspec'
ton OF sanitary conditions. Each
regiment has it's infirmary with regi-
mental surgeon and assistants. Twice
each day men are requested to report
II they require medical attention. The
infirmary cares for the light cases.
The more serious ones are sent to the
base hospital.
But the preventative work goes deep
er than this, regimental surgeons each
day inspect every kitchen, every ice
box. the food, the garbage cans, the
barracks and the bedding.
They look at the mess kits which
the men use to determine whether they
are clean. II any one company reports
a slight illness among several men, the
matter Immediately becomes subject
for investigation and a report must
be made on the findings.
The blankets in which the men
sleep are hung from the windows of
the barracks and summed and aired. AT
regular intervals bedding and cloth.
ing are washed.
And as for the men, whole cOmpan-
les are sent to the showers and are
accompanied by officers who see that
the matter of personal cleanliness is
not overlooked.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
PLEDGE WOMEN TO SAVE FOOD
Ford Administration Plans State Wide
Campaign.

Lansing-The executive committee
of the state food administration at a
conference of Food Administrator
Prescott and Government Expert S.
II. Freeman, laid tentative plans for
securing the cooperation of every wO-
man in Michigan.
Pledges will be exacted by personal
canvass in every corner OF the state in
the week of October 81. Until that
time the executive committee will
spend most OF its time perfecting an
organization.
The wheatless and meatless days
will not be mentioned on the pledges
to be exacted; instead the housewives
will be asked merely to accept the sug-
gestions of Food Director Hoover in
regard to the conservation of food.
Later will come the pertinent sugges-
tons regarding the substitution of
some other food for meat and white
bread.
The selection of Tuesdays and Wed.
nesdays of these two days will prob
ably stand. although word from Wash
ington indicates that their selection
is only tentative.
The work is to he done by means OF
county committees.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
spies Menace seIfrIdae Field.

Mt. Clemens-More restrictions are
being placed daily on visitors to Self
ridge aviation field. Many passes
have been revoked and parties enter
ing the field are being thoroughly
searched before passing through the
gates. These precautions are necss-
sary because of the spy peril which IN
real menace. It is reported that
many machines bear evidence of hav-
ing been tempered with. Stay wires
show traces Of acid and files. weaken.
ing them to breaking point.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
rraverse civ Dam Blown up.

Traverse City-What was known as
the lower dam of the Boardman River
Electric Light & Power Co., which
concern supplies Traverse City with
light and power. was blown up entaiIing
a loss OF $4,000 on the spillway. pos.
sibly as much on the dam itself and
throwing several Traverse City indus.
tries out of power. Unmistakable evi.
dence shows that the dam and spill.
way were dynamited as bits of the
structure we're found hundreds OF feet
from the dam.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Artificial Leas for Horses.

A new invention of artificial legs for
horses and dogs was offered to the
Philadelphia branch Of the Red Star
Animal relief by French-American
veterinarian who refuses to disclose
his name.
This man. who has taken 81 trips to
Europe since the war started with
horses for France, claims that the
horse or mule may be used for light
farm work If those legs are used.
The leg, or crutch, which has been
used successfully in this country, is
made of steel, with special quadrant
spring initiating the vertical and lat
eral feelings of the ankle and fet-
lock.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
New Circuit Judge only SO Years Old.

Detroit-Harry j. Dingeman, corpor-
alton counsel OF Detroit, was ordered
seated next January as one Of the cir
cult judges in Wayne county in place
OF Ira w. Jayne, by the supreme court.
Dingeman's petition, that the state
board of canvassers had no right to GER
tify Jayne after a recount, was
granted. Dingeman will be one OF
the youngest circuit judges in the his.
tory Wayne county, IL not of the en-
tire state of Michigan. He is only
36 years old.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
WITH THE BOYSAT CAMP CUSTER

Several OF the late arrivals lost
themselves in camp and we're com
PEELED TO ask the Y. NJ. c. A. workers
10 help locate their barrcks.
The state has offered $500 mile
and the government $4,000 mile for
a new paved way to Camp Custer il
the county will pay half. The road
would cost $4,000.
officers have issued the warning
that letters and packages addressed
20 soldiers at Camp Custer must bear
the regimental designation and IL pos.
sible the company or battery desIgna-
ton, or suffer considerable delay.
John Jones, Battery A, 339th Field
Artillery. Camp Custer, Mich" is the
proper form OF address for prompt de.
livery.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
divorce Refused -Four Times.

Flint-For the fourth time Lean and
Sarah Tibbets have failed to gain re-
lease from their marriage bonds.
Judge Fred w. Brennan has dismissed
both the wife's complaint and the hus-
bands cross bill. The original bill
was filed in 1911 by Mrs. Tibbets.
When IL had been dismissed, Tibbets
went TO st. Clair county and began
action and while that was still pend
ing, he filed another bill here in Flint,
which was dismissed by Judge
Stevens.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Frensdorf Serves Without Pay.

Jackson-Edward Frensdorf, chair
man of the prison board OF control,
has assumed the wardenship of the
prison here. With the granting of a
leave of absence TO Warden Disque,
who has left to re-enter the army, Mr..
Frensdorf was appointed as acting
warden. He will conduct the business
of the prison without salary.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
MANY HOPE TO BECOME OFFICERS
Thousands At Camp Custer Aspire TO
Higher Rank.

Camp Custer. Battle Creek-Fort
Sheridan stands as a great beacon
of hope before some of the drafted
men in Camp Custer Waco, Texas,
stands as a possibility before others.
There are thousands of drafted men
who have developed an ambition to
attain to rank as officers. They are
anxiously awaiting the conclusion of
the present term at Fort Sheridan.
There Is quite a general speculation
among army men to the effect that
the next Fort Sheridan class will be
COMPOSED, not OF men from civilian
life. bat OF soldiers selected from the
regulars. the national guard and the
national army.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
SECOND LIBERTY
DRIVE UNDER WAY
TREASURY OFFICIALS EXPECT
HUGE MISREPRESENTATION OF
THREE BILLION ISSUE.
McADoo WILL TOUR COUNTRY
Head Of Treasury Has Mapped Out
Speechmaklne Trips to Stimulate
Interest in Loan.

Washington-The big drive for the
second issue of Liberty loan bonds be-
gan at noon Monday throughout the
country with a multitude of activities
hat will last four weeks.
The campaign is planned to raise at
least $3,000,000,000 in subscriptions
and treasury officials have set the
amount expected" at $5,OOO,O0o,s 600.
Half again as large as the first Liber-
ty loan, the second offering Monday
Is the largest the people of the United
States have ever been called upon To
absorb.
Secretary McAdoo formally opened
the campaign with a speech in CleVe-
land, the first of many he will deliver
on his tour of the United States to
stimulate interest in the sale Of the
bonds. Clubs, chambers of commerce.
commercial organizations, schools.
patriotic societies and like Organi7a
tons have been enlisted in the great
army of boosters" for the loan, and
all over the country the publicity ma
chine set up by the treasury depart
llACll DCCh put III hiOtiOhs ANO vs.
papers, handbills and posters OF eveSy
description will advertise the bonds
and speakers on the bonds
and stage will assist in the great
drive.
Detroit Must Sell $5o,ooo,oo0
Detroit-The big task, the selling az
$50,000,O00 worth of Liberty bonds, Nm
apportionment of the second war issxe
OF $4,000 ,O00, 900, will begin in earnest
Monday, October 8, backed by the
most efficient selling organization ever
perfected here in carrying out a prO-
lie subscription project.
Although the nationwide sale OF
bonds was started Monday, the Detrsit
executive committee voted to withhold
its concerted efforts for a week, dur
ing which a special committee will
draw up plans for a canvass Of the
city that will except no one.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Airmen Begin Leaving selfriaoe.

Mt Clemens-Twenty-five aviators.
who recently passed the tests OF re-
serve military aviators at Selfridge
field, have left Mt. Clemens for rert
Wood, where they will be commisssos-
ed lieutenants.
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Exemption Chatter.

III think Smith has horrible nerve
to claim exemption. Now, 1t was diff
ferent in my case"
IL feel awfully sorry for Jones. ]
| like his wife. But I'm glad about
Brown. hate his wife,"
The Yale expositor., 1917-10-04
Thrift.

Are you going to save your straw
hat till next summerT'
IT thought about it; but feed is so
expensive l thought it more economi-
cal to give it to the goat for his din
ner."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
IN BITTER COLD
 SISTERS BATTLE
 FLAMES UNAIDED
Horrible Scenes at Fire at Insane Hospital, Where 46
 Women Lose Lives.

| Quebec, Jan. 1.--Sisters of Charity
 were without outside aid in resculng inmates of the St. Ferdinand de Hali- 1 fax insane asylum at St. Ferdinand de Halifax, Megantic county, when fire destroyed the building late Saturday night, resulting in the death of 45 wo- men inmates and one sister. The old building was in remote district. far from other habitations, and not a sin gle man reached the place until after the 46 women had perished and the sisters had saved the remaining 135 inmates and 30 girls attending a school conducted in a wing of the structure.
 Advices received here today indicat- cd the loss would not exceed $100,000. The cause of the fire was not known.
 Reports received here described the scenes attending the fire as horrify ing. The inmates of the asylum were uncomfortable, and many of them were said to have leaped from high windows. Others in bewilderment crouched in terror near the windows until the flames caught them.
 Owing to the intensely cold wealth CT, the mercury registering 20 below zero, the water in the hydrants about the building was frozen ad little co.:ld be done to stay the progress of the flames
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
NEW YEAR QUIETLY
 OBSERVED IN D. C..

Washington, Jan. 1.-Celebration of New Years Day in Washington was without many of the official features which have marked. the advent of the new year in the past. President Will son held no new year reception, custom he omitted when he came into office, and Secretary Lansing did not give the customary diplomatic break fast Secretaries Baker of the war de- pertinent and Daniels of the navy de- partment however, held receptions.
 Cablegrams from virtually all rulers of the world, wishing the president a happy new year, arrived at the white house. They came from the heads of the belligerent and neutral na- tions of Europe as we'll as from the presidents of South and Central American republics.
 Government departments were clos ed all day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
FAITH NEWS NOTES.

MT. and Mrs. Oliver Huselton re- turned Wednesday from Fordyce where they spent Christmas with Mrs Huselton's mother. Mrs. w. H. Ellison
 Mrs. Duncan Andrews and daugh- ter, Duncan, of Pine Bluff visited Mrs A. o. Griffin Sunday and Monday.
 MT. and Mrs. George Mitcham of Pine Bluff spent Christmas with Mrs Mitcham's mother, Mrs. Griff Brown.
 Mrs. Mary Jones is on the sick list
 Jacob Helvie is sick.
 H. k. Helvie visited Pine Bluff Fri day.
 Mir. and Mrs. Will Greenlee and fam fly of Millville have been visiting rela- tives here the past week.
 James Dalton of Rison spent the weekend here with his parents.
 James Stump and Luther Nell made business trip to Pine Bluff Wednesday.
 J. T Herr, "Dick" Andrews and Mrs. Tennie Hart were visitors to Pine Bluff Saturday.
 Frank Preston of Pine Bluff was here Saturday.
 W. F. Eaton came from Pine Bluff Saturday to visit his mother.
 Louie Eaton. who was attacked with measles recently, is convalescent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
L o c A L.

If you are interested in truck, call N. A. Anderson, telephone 1435 for a demonstration of Ameston truck.
 12-13-tf For sale-Two used cars for safe cheap for cash. Phone ". 22-24-6t Let us wash your plankets-we know how. American Excelsior Laun- dry Co.,, phone 146. If Anyone wishing to buy or soil Jefferson county script. call on Chas. Veil Supply Co. If You can make your choice in the quiet of your home or office, by hav- ing Graphic classified" ads bring ap- plicants and applications to you. If Our Press Process Is unexcelled. Amerlcan-Excelsior Laundry compa- ny, phone 146. If Send your laundry to the old reli- able, all work guaranteed. American Excelsior Laundry Co.,. phone 146. If Awnings and upholsterIng. Call E. T. Toussaint, phone 1G5O or leave orders at Knox Walker Furn. Co.
 Ask our drivers about laundering your rag rugs. any size, American Excelsior Laundry Co.,. phone 146. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
HAUBER THEATRE.

Violet Mersereau will be the .ttrac- tion at the Hauber theatre on Tues day, presenting "The Honor>bf Mary Blake" Bluebird photoIay written by John c. Brownell andtdirected by Edwin Stevens. Tina Ma 9hall, James O'Neill. Caroline Harris md Sidney Mason will be prominentm Miss Mer- sereau's suppoEgea..a production fully meetips the Bluebird standard of excelIetce in photography and screen Aeduipment is assured. Most of the action takes place out of doors and to find the proper settings MT. Stevens took his company to the Catskill mountains, an all nights run from New York, where among the beauties of this famous locality some Of the prettiest vistas and sylvan scenes imaginable were appropriated as backgrounds for the gripping dra- matic incidents that combine in one of the cleveresr picture-stories ever
 illustrated on the screen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
ANOTHER CHEVY CHASE CAMP.

Washington, Jan. 1.-The second an- nual encampment of the National Ser vice school, similar to that held here last summer to give women military training, will open at Chevy Chase, a suburb. April 16, and continue about six weeks, under the direction of the women's section of the Navy league. it was announced today. Two courses of 20 days each. and possibly third for school girls and teach CTS, will be arranged with military drill, Red Cross, wireless and signal practice in each Fifteen hundred ap7 plications for enrolment are said to have been. received already.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
BORROW BREWsTER'S FORD.
Boys Seen Returning Car Taken Early
 Sunday Evening.

The officers attached to the constab- ulary and the city police department are making efforts to learn the identi- ty of the two boys who. on Sunday night, borrowed" the Ford car of Ed gar Brewster, and used it for several hours. Tracks around the garage back of the Brewster home indicate that two boys were the culprits.S The car was found missing from the gar age about p. m. About 1:30 a. m., Mir. Brewster was attracted by noise and saw somebody placing the car back in the garage. His shouts caus ed the boys to run off, however, before he could identify them. The car. ap parently, was not damaged.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
ADJUSTMENTS All advance notices furnished
 Theatres.
BEST THEATRE.

Today-Fannie Ward, star of ts1f Cheat" and other fine Paramount n,s lures, will be seen in her latest pLI toplay, '"rhe Years of the Locust a story of the South African dismc fields. A capable cast of L.asky pl;S CTS supporting Miss Ward in the c, i, consists of Jack Dean and Charles. ' Ogle. A feature of the play is s ~ wedding gown worn by Miss Wa which is the gown in which she V really married to Joe Lewis, ,s South African diamond mine own Mir. Lewis was Miss Wards first h band. The atmosphere of South rica is good and the scenes realist The photoplay and lighting effe are up to the usual Lasky stands, which is very high.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
CIVIL SERVICE FOR CITIES.
Texas Legislature Will Consider th
 Proposal.

Fort Worth, Tex, Jan. 1.-Civil ser vice for all state, county and city employees who are not elective is pro- posed in bill which will be intro- duced in the newt legislature as the special measure of the state labor de- partment. announced State Labor Commissioner Woodman here today Such law, says Woodman, would re- duce the taxes one-third by increasing efficiency. However. Woodman admits the civil service bill will meet strenu- ous opposition, and probably won't be passed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
HER CHRISTMAS DESIRE.
Cooks Wish Was for the Ingredients
 of Egg.NOgg

A certain Pine Bluff family has in its service a faithful negro cook. and i- has been the custom to make q Christmas present to the cook each year. This year, however it was de- cidcd to give her something particu- Iarly nice, something she would ap- preciate at the highest. The head Of the house. therefore, thought he would ascertain her desires in this respect. and stated the case to her. She listen- ed till he finished and then said:
 "Mister Charley, if you'all wants to gimme what An wants mos, jes' gimme a quart CT likker, a quart CT milk an der dozen aigs."
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-02
lSAACDREYFUS co.
 "4oFrandparents Traded Here"

 Philip Lonergan is said to be an uns usual absorbing study of the soul ol woman. aE
 Peter Milne, the expert critic of tM Motion Picture News, says in his rf view of this picture:
 Miss Eagles registers every poini of her character with skill and charm that will win her many s5ad; mirers. She is real actress and at the same times 8 real beauty. Int story has 8 good many startling sur: priseA, strong ~ ~~WImaTes, and lin2 pected happenil ags."
 It is an inte rest-compelling phd play with really big theme- rebirth Of a SC iul through sympaI understanding md faith.