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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
A. F. and A. M. Mo.
Jurisdiction
Officers-1e17.

w. w. Fields, Cameron, Mo, Grand
Master.
VIM. Green, Plattsburg, Mo-, Dep.
Grand Master.
c. c. Clark, st. Louis, Mo-, Senior
Grand Warden.
Ernest Boone, Louisiana, Mo-, Junior
Grand Warden.
H. H. Walker, st. Joseph, Mo-, Grand
Treasurer.
Geo. W. K. Love, Kansas City,
Grand Secretary.
Nelson C. Crews, Kansas City, Re
lief Secretary.
P. L. Pratt, Cameron, Mo, G. L.,
LIST District.
E. J.. Cooper, Mexico, Mo-, G. L.,
2nd District.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07
sEcoND CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
oath and Woodland Ave.

Bible school at $3.50 a. M; preach
ing and Communion at IL a. M; Y. p.
s. G. e. at Z p. M; preaching at S:15
o. m; prayer meeting Wednesday at
$3.50 D. m; Christian Woman's Board
OF Missions Thursday at 2 p. m
WILLIAM ALPHIN. Pastor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-07

Did you ever attend an Empty
House Dance"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
Spain Faces Difficult
Problem in U-Boat Crisis

Madrid, Feb. 1. - via Paris Feb.
2. - The minister of the interior has
announced that the war and the navy
departments have given the naval and
military authorities instruction re-
quired by the gravity of the circum-
stances. Premier Romanones was in
conference with United States Am
bassador Joseph lG. Willard from
midnight until o'clock.
lie also received the president of
the Mediterranean Maritime Fedora
ton who informed him that the Fed
Grafton had ten ships at sea with safe
conducts given by German consuls.
Later the premier announced that
although Spain had entered a diff
cult hour the government would neith-
er close parliament nor suspend the
constitutional guarantees. lie declar-
ed, however, that the administration
would refuse to discuss the German
note in either House and urged
everyone to keep calm. A subsequent
conference was held between the
premier and the president of the
Chamber of Deputies after which
Count Romanones stated that it was
useless to deny that the country faces
very difficult situation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

New York GIobe-The note of the
German government is tantamount to
a declaration of war against this coun-
try, because it announces that it is the
intention of the German government
people will sustain the President in all
measures he. may take to subdue the
worlds greatest disturber.
New York Telegram - Count Won
Bernstorf must be handed his papers.
The next step is up to the President.
All differences that may have existed
now vanish. The American people
stand behind him as one man. Those
who are not Americans must be
watched.
New York Evening Sun-With our
government showing a resolute and
courageous front and our people
united behind it, in our best judgment
we have little to fear.
New York Evening Post-This does
not mean that the President should
meet headlong folly with rashness.
Having condemned Germany for en-
quilting Europe in war by precipitate
ultimatum, it is not for Americans to
clamor for instant hostilities. There
need be no loss of time in making our
position absolutely clear, and then, on
the first overt act, we can sever diplo-
matte relations with the German en-
pire.
Brooklyn Eagle-The German dec
laration is the last desperate recourse
of a government that recognizes inn
pending defeat. The President has nc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
COMMENT ON GERMANS NOTE

, other choice at this time but to send
Count Won Bernstorff home or to swal-
low his own words,
Washington Timcs-Germany's note
skaters a forlorn and flimsy hope that
the nation that violated Belgium and
threw to the winds all other scraps
of paper" would stand by her reluctant
half promises to this nation.
Boston Transcript - Germany has
replied to the American ultimatum of
last April by action, and action is the
ony answer America can make II 1t
would conserve it's self-respect or re-
tain the respect of the world. The
case is simple and the course is plain.
Providence Tribune-The situation
has now been made more acute than
| it was when the Lusitania incident
shocked the whole American people,
and il must be met in more effective
manner.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch-It is in
conceivable that any self-respecting
nation will accept the conditions laid
! down by Germany. Neither the Presi-
| dent nor Congress can Withstand the
! force of the storm of public opinion
which is rising from every quarter of
| the land.
Cincinnati Timcs-Star-On the face
| of the German note it appears that the
| only way the President Can continue
! friendly relations with Germany is by
J an abject surrender of American rights
/ and n humiliating backdown from q
| position taken by our government pub
l licly and solemnly before all the world
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
THOMPSON KEEPS
HIS. RECEIVER IN
Insurance Tangle Made Worse
by Action of Court in Phil
adelphia Yesterday

In the United States Court. at Phila-
fdelphia yesterday. Judge j. Whitaker
Thompson refused to revoke the ap-
pointment of Samuel w. Cooper as tenn
porary receiver of the Union Casualty
Insurance Company, of Philadelphia,
thus defeating the plan Of Insurance
the recetvership annulled so that the
f., State would be free to dissolve and
| liquidate the concern. Judge Thomp-
son made the Cooper receivership per-
manent. This company was one of the
Lyndon Lyndon Di Wood concerns; which was
Judge Thompson's decision is in di-
rect conflict with a similar one render
ed by Judges Charles r. Orr and W.
II, S. Thomson in the United States Dis
trict Court in Pittsburgh recently,
when they revoked the appointment of
Mutual Life Insurance Company, affi-
lated with the Union Casualty Com
pany.
The status of these two Wood con-
Germs in Philadelphia. The Commits
! by Commissioner ONeil Il short time
since. Attacks were made by both the
State and the insurance officials as to
the motives actuating the inquiry.
Commissioners ONeil yesterday issued
summons for a number of men con-
nected with various insurance con-
Germs in Philadelphia. The commits
sioner is said to be investigating rela-
tive TO securing information OF hush
money" being paid to an employe of the
state Insurance Department.
The bribery charges are said to have
animated from the fight of the political
factions in Harrisburg recently, and
were said to have been made public
here within the past day of two. An
employe of the department. stationed
in the city, has been asked to appear
and answer to the charge of receiving
money for "favors" accorded.
The amount of money said to have
been involved is about $500. given, it
is said, in small amounts.
Il have ordered my chief clerk, W.
| II. ii. Baker" said Commissioner
ONeil yesterday, "to begin an investi
! cation into the affairs of the Insurance
! department under Charles johnson, a
Penrose appointee, and the Senator's
man Friday.
IF the Legislature proposes to in
vestigate my conduct of the office, |
will help to do it, but | will also see
that they go into Johnson's record. a
probe of that nature would reveal some
sensational things"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
MAKE RECORD EARNINGS

New York, Feb. 2.-The Republic
Iron and Steel Company, one of the
Amany industrial corporations which
have profited largely by war contracts,
reports net earnings of SIG, 6,544,6S6 in
it's rannual statement for 1916 issued
.So-day. This is an increase of SILL
1O5,O3S over the previous year. The
balance available to the common stock
after deduction of preferred dividends
and charges is equal to 47.95 per cent.
on that issue compared with S.56 per
cent last year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
German Nation Believes
Unrestricted Warfare Is
Dictated by Necessity

Berlin, Feb. 1, via London, Feb. q
The attitude of the German people in
respect to the new submarine policy
as far as ascertained to-day from con-
versations with persons in various
walks of life in and out of politics, is
that the inauguration of an unrestrict-
ed submarine campaign is dictated by
stern necessity and for self -preserva-
ton and that in such life and death
struggle no regard can longer be paid
to other considerations. The all-ab-
sorbing question in every discussion
concerns the attitude of America.
Little criticism OF the government
is heard. Even a Socialist speaker in
the Reichstag committee meeting to-
day is reported to have aligned the
party behind the government in this
decision.
Don't Want Break
Whatever was said in committee
was confidential, but in outside circles
one hears estimates of the number
of submarines running to several hun
dred, and the conviction is expressed
that amount of tonnage sunk monthly
can be increased to approximately L.
000, 900 tons, In addition to a large
amount of neutral tonnage which will
be deferred from entering the prohih-
tied areas by the submarine terror.
Those who base their opinion on the
merits of the decision upon such fig
ures declare that two to three months
of operations on this scale would =
provided the United States were not
drawn into the war-bring England
to a point where she would be willing
to discuss terms.
The great likelihood that the step
will precipitate q crisis lin German
American relations, severance of dip
lomatic intercourse, and perhaps
further consequences. is generally
recognized and undoubtedly has been
taken into account in the govern
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
WILL ENTERTAIN
PANAMA PARTY
Dinner For Sixty Will Be
Given at the Executive
Mansion

Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh will
give a dinner at the Executive Depart
ment tonight in honor of the mem
bers of the party which made the
trip to the Panama Pacific Exposition
last summer. 1t will he the largest
dinner given at the Mansion under the
present administration, covers for
sixty being laid.
Several of the items carried in the
general deficiency bill as submitted
to the Legislature are to be thrown
out by the appropriation committees
and allowed to take their chances in
separate bills which will be presented
later in the session. This plan has
been adopted because some Legislators
do not regard the items as proper to
go into a deficiency bill.
Adjutant General Stewart to-day
declared that the organizations of the
National Guard to attend the inaugur-
alton had not been selected and would
not be for some days Reports that
organizations NOW at the border would
be sent to Washington failed to get
even serious comment to-day.
A charter was issued to-day to the
State Bank of Lock Haven, capital
$4,000. Prominent residents of that
place are incorporators.
Adjutant General Stewart to-day
announced the following appointments
in the Second Pennsylvania artillery,
all the men named being Philadel-
phians: To be captains, w. A. March,
Battery G; Romans Felman. head
quarters company; Joseph X. For
nance, Battery b; first lieutenants,
George l.. Roth, Battery d; Robert
Adams, Jr., headquarters company;
George S. Stewart, Battery ID; to be
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

[Continued From First Pagel
that the agencies of the government
are ready to take any steps necessary
to follow a diplomatic break.
1t was generally expected that some
announcement would be made from
the State Department or the White
House during the day or certainly to-
night.
Country AnXiously Awaiting
The State Department has made no
reply to the telegram from the Inter
national Mercantile Marine asking in
structions for movements of American
ships. No announcement similar to
Germany's has been received from
Austria.
From the official refusal to affirm
or deny that any message had gone
forward to Ambassador Gerard, an
impression grew that some such mes
sage had been sent but it was thought
at most q. message to outline a first
preliminary statement of the American
viewpoint without definitely commit
ting the country till q final decision
has been reached.
Wilson Plays Golf
1t was pointed out to officials that
the country was waiting for some
statement, or at least an official in
depreciation Of the attitude of the ad-
ministration. Officials declined, how
ever to express themselves in this way
or to say whether the situation was
becoming more or less serious. While
yesterday it was said fatty that no
announcement would be made for the
rest of the day, officials refused to-day
to commit themselves to q similar
announcement
President Wilson had no confer
ences on the submarine question dur
ing the morning but played golf for
two hours.
Tcuton Diplomats Confer
The first act of Count Tarnowski,
the new Austrian ambassador, after
installing himself in his embassy here
day was to hold a long conference
with Count Won Bernstorff. 1t was
said that Count Tarnowski would ar
range to present his credentials to
President Wilson as soon as possible.
The only note of dissent from the
general opinion that President Wilson
was preparing to meet Germany's new
warfare with drastic action, came
from groups in the Capitol which have
been Urging peace moves upon the ad-
ministration. They professed to be-
lieve that the Presidents first step
would be a bold stroke for peace,
and they professed to believe that
every effort would be made to main
tain relations with Germany rather
than to break them. This view how
ever was wholly opposite from that of
officials who ought to know the ad-
ministration's disposition.
Several hundred kilograms bearing
on the submarine questions arrived
at the White House during the day.
Signed by individuals and organiza-
tions, many urged the President to
maintain peace while some counselled
drastic action.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
No Efforts of Germans
Can PreUent Allied Victory,
French Rear Admiral Says

Paris, Feb. 1, - Rear Admiral La
Gaze, minister of marine, speaking
in the Senate to-day declared that
only one"half of one per cent of all
the tonnage which entered French
ports during the last II months have
been sunk by German submarines.
lie said that this percentage might
be little higher in the future, but
that no efforts of the Germans could
prevent the final victory of the allies.
Admiral Lacaze spoke in reply to an
Interpolation by Senator DEstourn-
Giles De Constant in regard to the
responsibility of the government in
the submarine warfare. Senator
DEstrournelles criticised the admin
istration for allowing the Germans to
take the upper hand in the submarine
campaign.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
U-BOAT WAR TO BRING PEACE
DELAYED NOTE PREDICTS

Germany by the entente allies brutal
methods of war and by their deter
mination to destroy the central pow
ers, and that the government of the
United States will further realize that
the now openly disclosed intention of
the entente allies gives back to Ger
many the freedom of action which she
reserved in her note addressed to the
government of the United States on
May 4, 1916.
Under these circumstances Ger
many will meet the Illegal measures
of her enemies by forcibly preventing,
after February 1, 1917, in a zone
around Gret Britain. France, Italy and
in the eastern Mediterranean, all navi-
cation, that of neutrals included, from
and to England and from and to
France, etc, All ships met within that
zone will be sunk.
THE imperial government is con-
fdent that this measure will result in
a speed termination of the war and in
the restoration of peace, which the
government of the United States has
so much at heart Like the govern
ment of the United States. Germany
and her allies had hoped to reach this
goal by negotiations. Now that the
war, through the fault of Germany's
enemies. has TO be continued, the i'm
perial government feels sure that the
government of the United states VIII
understand the necessity of adopting
such measures as are destined to bring
about speedy end of the horrible and
useless bloodshed.
"The imperial government hopes all
the more for such an understanding
of her position, as the neutrals have,
under the pressure of the entente
powers, suffered great losses, being
forced by them either to give up their
trade or to limit it according to con-
ditions arbitrarily determined by Ger
many's enemies, in violation of inter-
national law"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

second lieutenants, Charles ]. Jordan,
e. G. Glenn, Jr., Battery b.
Commissi ioner John Price Jackson,
of the Department of Labor and In
dustry, is in Washington to-day pre-
siding as chairman at a meeting of
the National Committee of One Hun
dred, including educators and repre-
sentatives of industry and labor, or
ganized for the purpose of promoting
the AmericaniZation of nonEnglish
speaking workers in the United States.
To-day's meeting will be attended
by United States Commissioner of Ed
ucation p. P. ClaXton. and members of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce. Plans will be formulated for
an even more vigorous America
First" campaign in view of the pres
ent critical condition in national af-
fairs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

Washington, ID. c., Feb. "A sec
ond memorandum delivered with the
German note was made public late
yesterday by the State Department. 1t
differs in some respects from the SUBJ
stance of the note itself. The under
standing is that it was prepared at the
German embassy on instructions from
Berlin prior to President Wilson s
peace address to the Senate and with
held then on account of the address.
When Count Won Bernstorn received
the note and memorandum yesterday
from Berlin he dcided to deliver with
them the original document prepared
by him The memorandum follows:
After bluntly refusing Germany $
peace offer, the entente powers stated
in their note addressed to the American
government that they are determined
to continue the war in order to deprive
Germany of German provinces in the
West and East, to destroy Austria
Hungary and to annihilate Turkey.
In waging war with such aims the en-
tente allies are violating al rules OF
international law, as they prevent the
legitimate trade of neutrals with the
central powers and of the neutralS
among themselves. Germany has so
far not made unrestricted use of the
weapon which she possesses in her
submarines. Since the entente pow
ers, however, have made ii impossible
to come to an understanding based
upon equality of rights of all nations,
as proposed by the central powers,
and have instead declared only such
a peace to be possible which shall be
dictated by the entente allies and shall
result in the destruction and the
humiliation of the central powers. Ger
many is unable further to forego the
full use of her submarines.
"The imperial government, there
fore, does not doubt that the govern
ment of the United States will under
stand the situation thus forced upon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
Mrs. Byrne in Hospital
After Release From Jail

New York, Feb. - Mrs. Ethel
Byrne is in a hospital to-day recover
ing from the effects of the hunger
strike she undertook as n protest
against a sentence of thirty days in
prison for disseminating information
about birth control. Mrs. Byrne was
released from the Blackwells Island
workhouse last night by order of Gov
ernor Whitman.
Although she did not personally full
fill the condition of the Governors s
pardon and promise in the future to
obey the laws regarding birth con-
troll propaganda, her sister, Mrs. Mar
garet Sanger, vouched for her in this
particular
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

for the most part is also along the
line indicated.
Germany has contracted formal en-
gagements with the United States says
the Petit Parisien. 1T is these en-
gagements," continues the newspaper,
that she is violating to-day, so that
it would seem as If she wishes to
force America into a rupture of rela-
tions for 1t would not be easy for Pres
ident Wilson to tolerate such insolent
laceration for u contract almost
solemn. The German En-
peror's game is clear. He puts his
knife at the throat of neutrals to
force them to intervene in the Euro
pean conflict and to impose peace, but
the maneuver may prove singularly
dangerous one for him. For as a
matter of fact he is driving neutrals
into the camp of the allies by showing
them that their interests are identical
with ours
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
Americans Rush to
Get Ships For Home

London, Feb. 2. - The German
note has resulted in a rush of Ameri-
cans to procure passage to New York
on the first available boat. Large
numbers who expected to sail within
a fortnight have decided to leave Sat
urday and before noon all the first
class accommodations on the steamer
(-) were booked.
Among those applying for passage
are 100 persons who intend to sail
on the Holland-American liner Nieu-
amsterdam, which was to have left
Falmouth on Tuesday. This vessel,
however, has been recalled to Rotter-
dam, whence she sailed two days ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02

ment's calculations. But the belief IL
often expressed that the situation is
not hopeless, and that the institution
of an unrestricted submarine cam
paign may perhaps after the recent
peace discussions not lead to break
with the United States--a consumma-
ton which would be hailed with JOY
by an overwhelming majority in the
nation.
Discussions in the Reichstag COM
mittee revolve largely around the
question of prospective reserve of a
campaign based on the new and etfl-
cheney of the submarines.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
TO KEEP EXCHANGE OPEN

New York, Feb. 2. - The board
of managers of the New York Cotton
Exchange at a special meeting to-day
decided that it was ito the best inter-
ests of the trade" not to close the Ex-
change because of the international
situation. The meeting was held as
a consequence of the action taken yes
terday by the Cotton Exchange in
Augusta, Ca, urging that all cotton
exchanges be closed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
INTRODUCES PEACE BILL

Washington Feb. 2. - A resolution
declaring it to be the sense of the Sem
ate that the President at the close of
the European war should endeavor
to negotiate treaty with the powers
of the world to constitute an inter
national judicial tribunal to settle dis
putes, was introduced to-day by Sem
ator Shafroth and referred to the
Foreign Relations Committee, without
date
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
SUSPEND UNDERWRITING

london, Feb. 2. = a Copenhagen
dispatch to the Time says that un-
derwriting has been temporarily sus-
pended by the Danish war insurance
office. The United Shipping Company
has ordered ships in English ports to
leave before Sunday if possible. The
Scandinavian American liner Hellig
Olav, now in New York, has been
ordered to remain there.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
OHIO BACK TO WILSON

Columbus, o., Feb. 2. BY "a
unanimous vote. the lower House of
the Ohio Legislature adopted a resolu-
ton introduced by Republican, call
ing upon citizens of Ohio to stand
behind President Wilson during the
present international crisis.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
GERMANY's LAST CARD

Paris, Feb. 2. - Germany's last
card is the caption under which sev-
eral morning newspapers print Ger
manys note to the United States
Chancellor Won Bethmann- Hollweg' s
speech, etc. The editorial, comment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
A Winsome,
Bonny Complexion
Produced by Using Stuart's Cal
cium Waters After Meals. They
Purify the Blood and Re-
move All Skin
Blemishes.
Trial Package Mailed Free

TFIHI FHCTNHEe WHIICU HFtc
=, N rev Gays aiter uSlnB oluarl
to see those pimples all gone, the red
ness disappeared, new skin gradually
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-02
ANNOUNCEMENT
EXPECTED SOON

CONTINUED From First Pagcl