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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

County Agricultural Agent Griffith
Richards left this afternoon for Madi-
son, Wis, where he will attend the
wedding of his sister on Wednesday.
This ceremony is to be followed on Fri
day by the marriage of Mr.. Richards
to Miss Marie Chamberlain of Phil
hpps, Wis, at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. NJ Chamberlain.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

The members of the Kenoshs Girls
Club had a personal farewell for the
soldiers of Company M. A large dele
cation from the club, under a proper
chaperone, spent Sunday at Camp
Douglas.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

A letter from Thad Logan, now sta
toned at Ff. Crook, reveals from the
signature the fact that he has recently
been made a sergeant in the supply
service.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Skinner, PSI How
land avenue, had as their Sunday guest,
Rolf Lancaster of Argo, Ill.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

Assistant City Engineer Robert
Smith was home from the training
camp at Ft. Sheridan to spend Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27
Want Shortest Way
To Reach the Kaiser
New Recruits Urge Postmaster German
to Enroll Them in Division Which Of
fers Earliest Service in France.

ROLL OF HONOR.
Enlisted in the Marine Corps:
John Matuszke.
Enlisted in the Regular Army:
Josef Huber.
Bjuarne Udstuen.
Albert Satillo.
James M. Marshall.
William f. BoWlby.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

Adolph Epstein and family motored
to the Training Station Sunday after
noon.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

Mr.. and Mrs John Mahaney visited
their son at Camp Douglas on Sunday.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-09-27

Miss Ruth Melville spent Saturday
"a Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
Government Tests Purchases

Robert Bruere. in Harper's Magazine.
 Doctor Stratton, director of the United States bureau of standards, which keeps check upon government purchases, re- gently told me that In an experience of more than 10 years he had never uncov- cred single instance of deliberate dis honesty. The incompetence which so fre- quently marks government business is due, in his opinion to the failure of ex- perts to devise scientific standards with out which efficiency either in govern ment or private business Is impossible.
 The federal government buys enormous quantities of paper from official linen stationery to the crude wood pulp of pa per towels. Some years ago the bu- reau of standards wanted an especially durable paper for its scientific publica- tioas. It chose a sample containing 50 per cent of rag stock and on this sam ple the government purchasing agent let the contract to the lowest bidder. The first lot delivered looked like clear evil dence of grating collusion between the purchasing agent and the successful bid der; 1t was unmixed wood pulmp The case was so gross that Doctor Stratton made 1t the subject of searching in-
 vestigation. He found that the accepted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

method of Judging a sample of paper practice which had come down from the early days of the industry-was to look 1t over for surface and color, crumple 1t in
 the fingers to determine its folding strength, and chew a scrap to appraise its texture and competition. Upon this crude evidence of eyes, fingers, and teeth 1t was the rule of the trade for the bidder to make one guess at the quality of the sample and second at the cost of pro- duction. The more skilful the appraiser the less likely was he to make the low est bid. The manufacturer in this par ticuar case had followed the custom of the trade had appraised the sample in the traditional way, and executed his ccs-s tract in perfect good faith. He was amazed when the gross inferiority of his product was demonstrated. In chagrin he went back to his mill. bought the best rag stock in the market. and deliv- cred a second lot superior in every re- spect to the sample.
 But this solution was as unfair to the manufacturer as the first had been to the government. Besides, what the bureau needed was not something superior to the sample, but It's exact reproduction. Such an exact reproduction the practical men in the business held to be impossible; they contended that while theorizing gov ernlnCnt experts might analyze paper into it's chemical clements, they could no more reverse the process than the kings men could put Humpty Dumpty to- getker again. And at the time they were right Doctor Stratton canvassed Amer ican and foreign factories and consulted experts the world over in a vain search for scientific formula. Accordingly he set up a paper mill of his own, and a painstaking series of experi- ments learred not only to analyze any given Sample of paper into it's physical and chemical clements, but also to re- produce the sample so analysed with un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

The Elizabeth medal is new decora- tion just created by the Belgian govern ment in honor of the Queen of the Bell gians The medal was designed by tne Belgian sculptor, Victor Rousseau; it bears upon dts face an effigy of the Queen and on the back the figure of a yelled woman bending over flame that swbolizes patriotism. honor and char ity. This figure is surmounted by this device: Pro Patria, Honore ct Cari- tate" The ribbon is blue with rose bor- der Two of these medals have already been conferred, one upon the Princess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

town, and says he is going to stay here the balance of his days He ia also ad- vising all other negroes to stay away
 from that part of the country, and gives narrowing description of the scenes in and around East St. Louis, where he says negroes were shot down and burned without cause or reason other than that they were working quietly and attending to their own bust ness in the mills and factories where white men had gone out on a strike He states that many of his friends and as- sociates were shot down in the streets, being given no chance for their lives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

failing precision. AS result of tfas pio- neer work the government now buys It's paper not by sample and rule of thumb, but by scientific recipes called standard specified tions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

Victor Napoleon, who was Clementine
 Belgium, cousin of King Albert, and other upon the Duchess of vendoi King A1bert's sister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

Ed Brown, delta farmer, who spent day or two in Jackson this week, states that he has been offered 35 cents pound for the first 100 bales of cot ton that he gins this fall. but was afraid to accept for the reason that he feels sure staple cotton, which he sold last year at 32 cents, may bring even a better price this year. MT. Brown states that the cotton crop in his sec ton is fine and that the boil weevil has not interfered with them seriously this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
WARNING TO NEGROES

Scott Wilson, negro, who has lived five miles north of Jackson until he got the moving fever in his veins several months ago and went to make his home In East St. Louis. is back at his old home recovering from bullet wounds re- eeived in the recent riots in the Illinois
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
AN INTERESTING CASE
DOCTORS START MOVEMENT

The example set by Memphis and other larger cities in their efforts to abolish what is known as the restricted dis trict,'' may be followed by Jackson in the near future, the physicians having adopted the following resolution at this weeks meeting of the Central Medical society: Resolved. That the Central Medical society indorses any movement looking to the abolition of the restrict ed district in Jackson, and that every effort be made to aid those who are unfortunate by virtue of such action, if taken by the city commissioners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22

A new road skate with pneuma tires and provided with ball beariH and automatic brakes. is being test by it's inventor. The wheels of skate are nine inches in diameter. a are placed on opposite sides of t skate. instead of at the toe and he The balancing and steering propert are aided by the inside wheel being slightly ahead of the outside. Whetl running on smooth or rough roads t pneumatic skate is noiseless a speedy.
 Tn the city of Herman. Persia, tho are 1000 rug and carpet looms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
thousand ships on short notice from Mir
BUILDING GOOD ROADS

BUILDING GOOD ROADS
 x. A. Kramer, state highway engineer, is authority for the statement that Mis- sissippi is leading all other southern states in the matter of highway im- provements, and that there is now about T,500,000 available for road building in the several counties taking into account about S300,000 from the government. Car shortage has proven a very serious handicap in road building during the past few months but improvement is noted lately, and gravel is moving now quite freely on all railroads except the Southern, on which some of the greatest pits are located. It has been found that those farmers who were at first most violently opposed to taxation for road building purposes are> now it's strongest advocates, this change of heart being brought about because of the increased price at which they can sell their lands and the ease with which they get to and from their railroad towns. Lands in the southern part of the state which were a drag on the market two or three years ago at from S5 to $10 per acre are now quoted at $25 or more, provided they are located on a, gravel road.
 CASH IN THE TREASURY
 Governor Bilbo counted the cash in the state treasury July g, finding just s. s. That is not at all surprising, as there never is any worth mentioning since the state inaugurated it's depository system and lends it's money to about 50 different banks. The same day the treasury had the $S.3S cash, the several Repositories had s670,0l2.7S, on which in- terest is drawn on daily balances and the financial condition is not consid- cred at all bad.
 WILL BE MODEL SCHOOL
 The Hinds County Agricultural High
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
RED CROSS IN MISSISSIPPI

The people of Mississippi gave s1o2,- 60022 to the Red Cross fund, and the city of Jackson lead with S23,76o Me ridian second, with $19,411.24 These fig ures are given by Henry P. Davison, general chairman of the war council of the Red Cross, and includes reports to July g. Other Mississippi towns gave as follows: Aberdeen, 5000: Greenwood, $10,000; Gulfport, $7o00 Hat tieburg, s5000; Indianola, sS000; McComb, s14So 40; Natchez, $12,277.S1; Starkville, 5000; Tupelo, Ss000; West Point, s2O00; Yazoo City. s117077.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
THE BIRMINGHAM AGEHERALD, SUNDAY, JULY g, 1917

school will be dedicated on August 8, with imposing ceremonies Its brick dormitories and administration buildings have been completed and accepted by the board of supervisors, and the faculty with Prof. w N. Taylor as superin tendent, selected. Professor Taylor Is an experienced teacher and recently re- signed the important office of assist ant state superintendent of education to become head of this newest and best county educational institution In the state. The college cost the county sS5 900 so far-the land on which 1t is built be- ing donated by the citizens of Raymond. It Is proposed to make this the model agricultural high school of the state and to affiliate all county schools herewith, and leading up to the "aggies." There are S1 counties in Mississippi and such schools are now in operation and flour ishlng in 45 of them. Six years ago there was not one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14
Rug Specials
Oval Rush Rugs

Oval Rush Rugs
6x9 feet, $1,000 value. Special,
FRIDAY, $1,000
6x9 feet, $16.25 value. Special,
Friday, ................ $3.50
Jap Grass Rugs
9x12 feet, $500 value. Special,
Friday, $6.9S
Bozart Rugs
4.6x7.6 feet, $4.25 value. spe-
cial, Friday, .........$ $2.9S
6x9 feet, $500 value. Special,
Friday, .S3.49
S.3X10.6 feet, $3.50 value. Spe-
clal, Friday, ...........$ .$6.49
9x12 feet, $3.50 value. Spe-
cial, Friday, .......... .$9.49
Rag Rugs
24x36 inches, soc value. spe-
cial, Friday, .............. .39c
24x36 inches, Use value. Spe-
cial, Friday, ............ SIC
27x54 inches, $1.25 value. Spe-
cial, Friday, ............. csc
36X72 inches. Special, Friday,
SLIGO
Rubber Stair Pads
6X18 inches, 12c value. Special,
Friday, &c
7X1S inches, 15c value. Spe-
cial, Friday, .............. .12c
9x20 inches, zoe value. Spe-
cial, Friday, .............1 .15c
Cocoa Mats
$1.25 value. Special, Friday,
$1.00 value. Special, Friday,
$2.25 oval cocoa mats. Spe-
cial, Friday, .$f.07
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart,
Third Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

ana with their prestige their no.
htical power. If they fail, their peo-
PIE VIII thrust them aside; a gov
ernment accountable to the people
themselves will be set up in Ger
many as 1t has been in England,
In the United States, in France, and
IN All the great countries of the
nnooern ume except Germany. If
they succeed they are safe and Ger
many and the world are undone: if
tney rail Germany Is saved and the
world VIII be at peace. If they sue
ceed, America will fall within the
menace. We and all the rest of the
world must remain armed, as they
VIII remain and must make ready
Tor the next step in their aggression;
II they fail the world may unite for
peace and Germany may be of the
union.
Aim to Deceive
DO you not now understand the
new intrigue. the intrigue for peace,
and why the masters of Germany
do not hesitate to use any agency
that promises to effect their purpose,
the deceit of the nations? Their
present particular aim is to deceive
ali those who throughout the world
stand for the rights of peoples and
the self-government of nations; for
they see what immense strength the
forces of justice and of liberalism
are gathering out of this war. They
are employing liberals in their enter
prise. They are using men, in Ger
many and without, as their spokes-
men whom they have hitherto de-
spised and oppressed, using them for
their own destruction Socialists.
the leaders of labor, the thinkers
they have hitherto sought to silence.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

ready to deal with it in their own
way.
Austria at Their Mercy
And they have actually carried
the greater part of that amazing
plan into execution. Look how things
stand Austria is at their mercy. 1t
has acted, not upon it's own initia-
tive or upon the choice of its own
people, but at Berlins dictation ever
since the war began. It's people now
desire peace, but cannot have it un-
til leave is granted from Berlin. The
so-called Central Powers are in fact
but single Power. Servia is at it's
mercy, should its hands be but for a
moment freed. Bulgaria has con-
sented to it's will, and Rumania is
overrun. The Turkish armies. which
Germans trained, are serving Ger
many, certainly not themselves, and
the guns of German warships lying
in the harbor of Constantinople re-
mind Turkish statesmen every day
that they have no choice but to take
their orders from Berlin. From
Hamburg to the Persian gulf the net
is spread.
rs it not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since
the snare was set and sprung?
Pecae, pecae, pecae has been the talk
of her foreign office for now a year
and more; not peace upon her own
but upon the initiative of
the nations over which she now
deems herself to hold the advantage.
A little of the talk has been public.
but most of 1t has been private.
all sorts of channels it has
come to me, and in all sorts of
guises, but never with the terms dis
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

closed which the German govern
no ent would be willing to accept.
That government has other valu-
able pawns in its hands besides those
l have mentioned. 1t still holds a
valuable part of France, though with
slowly relaxing grasp, and practical
ly the whole of Belgium. It's armies
press close upon Russia and over
run Poland at their will. 1t cannot
go further; it dare not go back. 1t
wishes to close it's bargain before 1t
is too late and 1t has little left to
offer for the pound of flesh it will
demand.
Germany Bleeds
THE military masters under
whom Germany is bleeding see very
clearly to what point fate has
brought them. If they fall back or
are forced back an inch, their power
both abroad and at home will fall to
pieces like house of cards. 1t is
their power at home they are think
ing about now more than their pow
er abroad. 1t is that power which
is trembling under their very feet;
and deep fear has entered their
hearts. They have but one chance to
perpetuate their military power or
even their controlling political in
fiuence. If they can secure peace
now with the immense advantages
still in their hands which they have
up to this point apparently gained,
they will have justified themselves
before the German people; they will
have gained by force what they
promised to gain by 1t; an immense
expansion of German power, an i'm
mense enlargement of German in
drstrial and comm ercial opportuni-
ties. Their prestige will be secure
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

Let them once succeed and these
men, now their tools, will be ground
10 powder beneath the weight of
the great military empire they will
have set up; the revolutionists in
Russia Will be cut off from all sue
cor or cooperation in Western
Europe and a counter revolution fos-
tered and supported; Germany hers
self will lose her chance of free
dom; and all Europe will arm for
the next, the final struggle.
The sinister intrigue is being no
less actively conducted in this coun-
try than in Russia and in every
country in Europe to which the
agents and dupes of the Imperial
German government can get access.
That government has many spokes-
men here, in places high and low.
They have learned discretion. They
keep within the law. 1t is opinion
they utter now, not sedition. They
proclaim the liberal purposes of
their masters; declare this a foreign
war which can touch America with
no danger to either her lands or her
institutions; set England at the GEN.
ter of the stage and talk of her
ambition to assert economic domin-
ion throughout the world; appeal to
our ancient tradition of isolation in
to undermine the government with
false professions of loyalty to its
principles.
But they will make no headway.
The false betray themselves always
in every accent. 1t is only friends
and partisans of the German govern
ment whom we have already iden-
titled who utter these thinly dis
guished disloyalties. The facts are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

potent to all the world, and nowhere
are they more plainly seen than in
the United States, where we are ac-
customed to deal with facts and not
with sophistries; and the great fact
that stands out above all the rest is
that this is peoples war, a war for
freedom and justice and self-govern-
ment amongst all the nations of the
world, a war to make the world safe
for the peoples who live upon it and
have made 1t their own. the German
people themselves included; and that
with us rests the choice to break
through all these hypocrisies and
patent cheats and masks of brute
force and help set the world free, or
else stand aside and let it be DOM
mated long age through by sheer
weight of arms and the arbitrary
choices of self-constituted masters,
by the nation which can maintain
the biggest armies and the most ir-
resistible armaments--a power to
which the world has afforded no
parallel and in the face of which
political freedom must wither and
perish.
For us there is but one choice.
We have made it.. Woe be to the
man or group of men that seeks to
stand in our way in this day of high
resolution when every principle we
hold dearest is to be vindicated and
made secure for the salvation of the
nations. We are ready to plead at
the bar of history, and our flag shall
vera a new luster. Once more we
shall make good with our lives and
fortunes the great faith to which we
were born, and a new glory shall
shine in the face of our people"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14
Black Dress Goods

$1.25 black French serge, AZ
inches. Special, Friday only,
yard, -. .05c
$1.25 black wool poplin. Spe-
cial. Friday only, yard, csc
$1.75 black silk poplin, 40
inches. Special, Friday only,
S1.49
$3.50 black mohair, 81 inches.
Special Friday only, yard, $1.19
S1.00 black diagonal serge.
Special Friday only, yard, .75c
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart,
Street Floor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14

at Berlin. 1t could have had a heart
nowhere else! 1t rejected the idea
Of solidarity of race entirely.
THE choice or peoples played no
part in it at all. 1t contemplated
binding together racial and political
units which could be kept together
only by force-CZechs. Magyars,
Croats, Serbs, Rumanians, Turks,
Armenians,-the proud states of Bo-
hemia and Hungary. the stout little
commonwealths of the Balkans. the
indomitable Turks, the subtle peo-
pies OF the East. These peoples did
not wish to be united. They ardent
ly desired to direct their own affairs,
would be satisfied only by undis-
puted independence. They could be
kept quiet only by the presence or
the constant threat of armed men.
They would live under a common
power only by sheer compulsion and
await the day of revolution. But
the German military statesmen had
reckoned with all that and were
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14
Draft Policy Outlined
by Attorney Genera

Washington, June II. Attorney
General Gregory, has outlined the
policy of the Department. of Justice
In handling of registration cases:
In instances where registration
was omitted through ignorance or in1
attention persons are now being perl
I1itted to register under paragraph AZ
OF the registration regulations beford
tne county board, and those so regis1
ttering are held to answer to the grand
Jurles LIES on their own recognizance.
,,Lhose who have knowingly and
wlIlfully failed to register and now
aPpiy are being registered, but placi
eo under bonds with sureties.
All those who continue to defy thd
It's enforcement or aided in its evasiorI
are peing Imprisoned or held to th@
bonds"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-14
GERMANY HOLDS AMERICAN
'y associated Press

Copenhagen, June 14.-Michael ]
Stark, of Chicago, an employee of tn,
International Harvester Company a
Neuss, Prussia, arrived here from
Germany last night. He had beer
trying since February to Obtain
a passport and was just given per
mission to leave Germany. He say
number of Americans of his ac
quaintance have been absolutely rel
fused passports until the war is oven