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The Yale expositor., 1917-03-15
No. 1870.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
First National Bank of AvOca,

at Avoca In the State of Michigan, at the close
of business on March s. 1917 as made to the
Comptroller of the Currency
RESOITRGES
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
MEAT BARONS DEALS EXPOSED
Federal Trade Commissions lnVestisa-
ton Discloses "Hieh Finance"

Washington - Sensational disclos-
ures of high finance" between the
Chicago packers and the Stockyards
and Terminal railroads are featuring
the sessions of the federal trade conn.,
missions investigation TO get at some
OF the !nnermost causes of the high
cost OF living.
Testimony showed how Armour g.
Co, as a bluff, told eastern financial
interests that unless inducements
were made, the big packers would
move out Of Chicago and pack In cit
les further west.
A $500 clerk was the medium OF
forming an $S,000,000 corporation,
which took the risk of the yards be-
ing moved, and testimony showed
how the packers in return, to use the
language of one of the participants.
got their share of "the plumber" and
took their "pickings." Millions of dol
lars in profits were involved.
]. Ogden Armour it was said, got
ell the profits over 9 per cent. The
profits were counted IL millions.
The commissions investigation
Is being conducted under authority of
the president and by means of an ap-
preparation of $250.000, which was
voted after efforts had been blocked
for congressional investigation.
Cattlemen's associations have alleged
that the packers dominate the market
to such an extent that they control the
r.lr
prices at which they sell, resulting in
a continuous "gouge' of the producer
and the consumer.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
GERMAN OFFICERS LEAD RUSS
Released Prisoners Command BoIshe-
viki-PIot to Restore Gar.

London-A Bolsheviki force COM
manded by released German and Aus
trian officer prisoners has defeated the
anti-Bolsheviki at Tashkent, capital Of
Russian Turkestan. according to a Pet
rograd dispatch to the Morning Post.
The Morning Post also prints long
dispatch from Petrograd which elabor.
ates on the recent report that the Rus
sian throne is to be re-established
The gist of the article is that Ger
many is determined to restore the
throne and place Nicholas Romanoff,
or another member of the Romenoff
family on it, as an autocrat
The writer predicts that Germany
in the future will control all of Rus.
STA and oppose the vast power thus ac-
CURED against the democracies of the
west.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
The Magic of Marriage.

Appreciation is the white magic Of
marriage.
Love thrives in appreciation, court
ship, little attention. These are the
food that makes love grow! Don't let
anything crowd them out, writes Eliza
beth Towne in Nautilus.
Above al! things, look after the busi-
ness side of your marriage. See that
you do the fair thing by your wife In
the way Of an allowance for her own
needs, and that you leave her free
to spend that allowance as she
pleases, without accounting to you
More marriages meet shlpwreck on
this particular sandbar. than on any
other one thing. Remove the sand
bar by giving her an allowance.
Then never think what she does with
It
Love has to have freedom IN breathe
in.
And nobody can realize freedom in
this age without some money of her
own.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
KAISER SEEKS PEACE, REPORT
Information From Neutral Sources In
dictates Drive Is On.

MISUNDERSTANDING new peace
drive is now on, diplomats here be-
lieve. With Russia to give the move
ment an added impetus, the Kaiser is
staging another effort to make a favor
able peace before the strength of Am
erica is thrown in the balance against
him.
Circulation here of unofficial reports
from neutral sources of the Kaiser
terms created much interest.
Briefly they are:
To leave the disposition Of Alsace
Lorraine to a plebiscite of inhabitants
England to pay Germany for her
lost African colonies and the money
to be used for the rehabilitation OF
Belgium, Serbia Rumania and north
ern France.
Russian provinces bordering tn
Baltic, the Black sea and Prussia
to become independent under a Ger
man plan.
Poland to be called an independent
state under Austrian suzerainty.
Disarmament, freedom of the seas
and commerce to be left to the peace
conference.
Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro "a
retain their original boundaries with
right of access to the sea being grant
ed to Serbia.
Turkey to remain intact.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
Nearly a REGIMENT Anyhow.

Samuel LevengoOd, who is rotor
man on a street car In Jacksonville,
says the Indianapolis News, has four
fine boys--all patriotic. One enlisted
In the navy year or two ago; another
enlisted last June, soon after Amer
lea decided to take hand in the
European unpleasantness, ard young
Levengood thought he would see ac-
tive service: a third went TO TT. Ben
jamin Harrison and brought back a
commission as second lieutenant in
the officers reserve corps of the Unit
ed States army. Then No. was TAX
en- by. the selective draft. Looks like
Uncle Sam wanted a regiment of Lev
engoods," said the father. However,
the local exemption board held that
the remaining son should he exempt
from service.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
BRITAlNS WAR AIMS OUTLINED
Lloyd George Demands Restoration
and Indemnity.

Eondon-Premier Lloyd George last
Great Britain's minimum condition for
peace. Briefly it is:
There can be no lasting peace un
less Germany gives security that the
world will be safe hereafter from Ger.
man aggression.
There can be no such security un
less Prussian militarism is forever
destroyed and unless the German gov
eminent is democratized.
Supposing that these two funda
mental conditions were fulfilled, which
they are not, then to obtain peace the
first thing Germany must do is
To restore completely all invaded
territories and to make full compen
sation.
The premier said the future fate
of German colonies should be left to
the decision of an international peace
conference.
"At that conference, however" he
added, "the wishes, desires and inter
ests OF the inhabitants of the German
colonies must be a dominant factor in
the settlement of their future govern
ment." He continued:
"The future trustees of the German
colonies must consider the sentiments
Of the people themselves-whetheT
they may desire to return to their
former masters.
"Mesopotamia and Armenia shall
never be returned to Turkish rule.
"The success in Palestine will af
feet the worlds history. Jerusalem
will never be restored to the Turks"
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
DIRECTORS FORM
COMP ANY AT CAMP
THOSE WITH CONSCIENTIOUS
ScRUPLEs ARE PLACED IN
COMPANY g."
ARE NOT MUCH IN LIMELIGHT
Most interesting Members Are Men
From House of David, They Can
not Even Work in Commissary.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-Though
they have been out of the limelight
for some time, because of other activi-
ties at Camp Custer, the variegated
collection of conscientious DIRECTORS
is still on the job. hidden under the
not inappropriate title of Company %
in the One Hundred and SiXtieth de-
pot brigade.
eco. 20" contains aliens who do not
want to shoot at their brothers in enc
my ranks, religious enthusiasts who
believe it wicked to Stay men, even in
the face of present circumstances and
no doubt a few plain towards, for
whom conscientious objection" is a
camoufiage.
The most interesting members of
the company are the men from the
House of David, at Benton Harbor.
They can't work in the commissary,
because they can't handle meats; nor
in the mdical corps, for they can't
touch diseased or deceased flesh. And
they balk at toting guns. They keep
their quarters clean and they take
physical exercise but that's the extent
of their "servcie" so far.
They are still wearing their long
hair and flowing boards.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
MUNITION WORKERS KEPT IDLE
Witness in Senate Inquiring Testifies
clubbing Held Up Production.

Washington-Work in arms
manufacturing plants played checkers
and slept in the shops during August
while the war department quibbled
over non-essential details of rifle de-
signs, Fred II. Colvin, editor of the
American Machinist. testified before
the senate military affairs committee
A Super-preciseness of requirements
in rife making is holding down pro-
duction 40 per cent. he said.
Mr. Colvin declared the government
arsenals at Springfield. Mass, and
Rock Island, Ill.,, do not understand
manufacturing principles and have an
tiquated machinery. Some of the ma
chinery at the Springfield arsenal is
so years old.
Criticizing army heads for spending
too much time on non-essentials. -
Colvin declared their failure to decide
on small details kept workmen idle in
rifle factories.
A letter he sent to Secretary of War
Baker outlining methods of speeding
production was turned over to Chief
of Ordnar &c Crozier. who wrote Colvin
sharply for criticizing him for suggest
ing that army ordnance men didn't
know their business.
Instances of unnecessary change
ability of parts is slowing up rifle pro-
duction, increasing cost and wasting
materials, Colvin declared. Bayonet
blades were rejected on variation of
one-sixteenth of an inch.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
KALTSCHMIDT and
AIDES ARE GUILTY
CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY TO
DYNAMITE PLANTS IN
U. S. AND CANADA.
JURY DELIBERATES IA HOURS
Kaltschmidt, Leader of Gang, Found
Guilty On All Counts--Plotted
to Hamper War Work.

Overwhelmingly morning a jury
In United States district court return.
ed verdicts of guilty of conspiracy
against Albert Carl Kaltschmidt and
four of his aids, two of them women,
Kaltschmidt, leader of the band, is
found guilty on all three counts charg-
ed
Count No. / is that he caused to be
set on foot military enterprise in the
United States against the Dominion
of Canada; count No. 2 that he was
part of a conspiracy to dynamite the
Detroit Screw works; and count No.
3, that he conspired to blow up the st.
Clair tunnel, between Port Huron and
Sarnia.
Fritz Neef, was found guilty on
counts Nos. and 8, but was acquitted
on No. /.
Mrs. Neef, his wife, formerly Ida
Kaltschmidt, sister of Albert Kalt-
schmidt, is guilty on counts Nos. and
3, but not guilty on count No. g
Carl Schmidt is guilty on count No.
1. but not guilty on counts Nos. and
8.
Mrs. Maria Schmidt, MS wife. is
guilty on count No. l, but EGr guilty
on counts Nos. 2 and 3.
Franz Respa is not guilty on all
counts.
The jury arrived at its verdict after
IA hours deliberation.
The illness of a juror delayed the
final verdict.
Immediately after he had heard the
jury's verdict. Jslge futile ordered
Franz Respa into the custody of the
United States marshal, along with the
others.
He announced that. although Respa
had been acquitted on all counts in
the indictment tried, two other indict-
ments still are pending against him.
and that he will remain in custody OF
the other charges.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
Numbering KINGS English.

There seems no limit 10 the outrages
on the kings English wrought by cine
ma theater proprietors, comments the
London Chronicle. Featuring" was
an abomination which moved 20 revolt
all lovers of our language; "picturi-
zation" was worse, but there, it was
thought, atrocities would stop. But
no. From the top of picture palace
in South London flaunts in big letters
the announcement that here Is pre-
scented "the perturbation of Sulllvan's
celebrated son. "The Lost Chord
London Chronicle.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
WAR ORDERS HURT CREAMERIES
Dairy Commissioner Says condenseres
Pay Too Much for Milk.

Lansing-War prosperity in the
condensed milk business in Michigan
promises to harm the dairy butter
business, according to Fred l.. Wood
worth, state dairy and food commits
sioner.
Mr.. Woodwork says the condens-
cries are able to pay a big price for
milk to the farmer, because of the
prices at which the government is buy
ing condensed milk. The government
says to the condenser, your price TO
us must be cost plus 10 per cent.
This leaves the way open for almost
any cost In some parts of the state
condenseries are paying almost 81 a
hundred pounds for milk.
The creamery cannot face such COM
petition. Generally SO is a high price
for the creamery to pay, especially
with the price OF butter being kept
down by the food administration. The
creameries say that their business
will be ruined, If the condenseries are
permitted continually to boost the
price they pay the farmer for his
milk
If prices continue to go up the
creameries feel that they would not
be able to successfully bid on govern.
ment naval contracts next spring.
This year state creameries sold mil
lions of pounds OF butter to the
navy.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
MAKING A MAP OF THE CITY
Drawing of the Heavens Will Contain
Every Star That the Telescope
or Camera Can Find.

Every star that can be found by the
most powerful telescope or camera
lens will be engraved on colossal
map of the universe about to be COM
pieted, after many years work by the
combined astronomical talent of the
world, says the st. Louis GlObe-DemO-
crat. Some of the stars represented
have never been seen by the eye Of
man and probably never will he. They
were caught by the Photographic plate.
Many other millions Of specks, dimly
made out on camera films, will not be
traced on the map because they are too
nehulous 10 he authenticity recorded.
About 100,000,000 stars will be shown
on the map being palnstakingy forged
by the astronomers of the world. The
completion of the map was delayed by
the world war; the Germans and Aus
trian scientists having previously
taken a large part in the formation Of
the huge tracing. Naturally their serv-
ices and their data have not been avail
able since hostilities doomed.
Astronomers for ages have toiled
over maps of the heavens, from the
days Of Ptolemy and the Greclan sages
TO those Of Copernicus, hut with I'M
satisfactory results, for the human eye,
even aided by the primitive telescopes
of II century ago, could not catch near
all the myriads Of stars.
But with the Introduction and per-
lection of the long distance camera,
the hopes of the astronomers were
realized, for the Photographic plate,
far more sensitive to light than the
retina of the human eyes. engraves on
lasting documents thousands and mil
lions Of stars hitherto unknown to
science.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
AUSTRALIA OPPOSES DRAFT
CONSUMPTION Turned Down Second
Time BY Voters.

Vancouver. B. C.-First returns
from the conscription plebiscits in
Australia gave a majority of 10000
votes against CONSUMPTION out of about
half of the 100000 votes cast, accord
ing to a cablegram from Sydney to
the Vancouver World. The 100000
votes to be counted include the SOL
der vote.
In the CONSUMPTION election in Aus.
tralia last year, the issue was defeat
ed by a margin of $1,000 votes, 1885,
900 ballots being cast in favor of con-
scription and 1,146,OOO against it. Wo-
men voted.
Estimates place the number of Aus
tralian soldiers who were entitled to
vote at between 100000 and $4,000.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
FORTY SIX DIE IN
L. N. train WRECK
EXPRESS CRASHES INTO LOCAL
KENTUCKY TOWN SCENE
OF DISASTER.
WORST WRECK ROAD EVER HAD
Virtually Every Person Aboard the
Local Train Was Either Killed
Or Seriously Injured.

Shepherdsville, Ky.-Forty-six dead
and 80 to 40 persons injured, some
of them seriously, was the toll taken
when Louisville & Nashville passenger
train No. Z, from Cincinnati to New
Orlans, last Thursday night crashed
into the rear of Bardstown, Louisville
G. Springfield accommodation train 500
yards south of the station here.
Wreck Worst In Roads History.
The wreck is said to be the worst
in the history of the Louisville &
Nashville.
Virtually every person aboard the
accommodation, both crew and pas
sengers, was either killed or badly in
jured. None of the passengers aboard
the fast train was killed, though a
number were injured. The locomo.
tive was demolished and the heavy
steel coaches making up the train were
thrown from the track.
The accommodation train had just
left the station after making a stop
when the faster train which makes no
stop here, came in sight moving at a
high rate of speed.
impossible to Avert Crash.
Efforts to bring it to halt were fu-
tile and the heavy locomotive with the
weight of a heavy steel train behind
it crashed into the rear of the accom-
mediation with terrific impact
The two wooden passenger coaches
and baggage car making up the small
er train were splintered.
A relief train was made up at Louis
vile and rushed there with physicians
and nurses. By the time it arrived,
most of the injured and the bodies of
the dead had been removed from the
wreckage by volunteers.
Within a short time, this work was
completed and the train was started
back to Louisville with a clear right
# way, taking the injured to hospitals
there.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
Junk Men Taught Boys to Steal.

Detroit-Teaching boys to steal was
the offense charged against Morris and
Isadore Alpert. junk men sentenced
last week by Justice Heston to serve
sixty days in the house of correction.
Detectives say that the men broke
up football game and got Is boys TO
steal $500 pounds of scrap steel from
a freight car on the ID. II. a l. railroad
tracks. Five of the boys, appearing
in court as witnesses, said they were
paid amounts varying from $40 to rs
cents.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
CLOTHING LACK DELAYS CALL
Custer Will Not Accept Men Until
Proper Equipment Arrives.

Camp Custer, Battle Creek-The
S5th division will not permit the g.
600 men who make up the uncalled in
crement to come here until proper
clothing is provided.
Division headquarters has asked 10
cal boards to postpone sending any
more men to camp until the govern
ment supplies the necessary equip
ment.
Despite advices from Washington
that the clothes size tariff is being
revised the revision, it is expected,
will not manifest itself in larger wear
ing apparel for months.
Division officials declare the war de-
partment's provision for the comfort
of selects in the winter has consisted
of a few blanketed overcoats, fleece
lined gloves and winter caps, which
have been sent to this camp for men
doing police and guard duty.
Other selects have sought relief from
the cold in knitted goods obtained
from the Y. NJ. c. A. and Red Cross
depot
In a number of cases men, not
equipped with army shoes, have them.
selves purchased shoes in Battle
Creek or the footgear has been pur-
chased for them by relatives.
The report that Maj. Gen. George
Goethals has been given the post of
quartermaster general was greeted
with pleasure here. Goethals is known
as the slave driver of the American
army" and is said to be a foe of "red
tape" and inefficient methods and an
advocate of system and efficiency.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
PRUDDEN ASKS SHOPS TO CLOSE
Fuel Shortage Prompted step-storm
o. Protest Aroused.

Washington.-Fue supplies in Mich
igan have reached such low ebb that
Administrator w. X. Prudden Friday
asked manufacturers in state to sus.
pend operations of industrial plants
from midnight Saturday until mid.
night December 80 The only excep
tions we're factories making war NUM-
tions needed for prompt shipment.
Mr.. Prudden's request was con-
tanned in kilograms sent after a con
ference here with Fuel Administrator
Garfield
His request aroused storm OF pro-
test from manufacturers.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
Train Hits Custer Bus, 3 Dead.

Battle Creek-Three persons were
killed and six injured when Michigan
Central train crashed into buss from
Camp Custer Mrs. Ford Hahoney and
her 5-year-old son Charles. and Mrs.
George Howells. all of this city, are
dead. The injured are Mrs. George
Newlands. Olivet; Ford Mahoney, Fred
Hines, Mrs. Fred Hines, Sergt. Robert
NJ. Anderson and William Bates. The
crossing is guarded by bell system
which the gateman says was in opera
ton.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
State suffrage Head 10 Resign.

Kalamazoo-When the annual con-
vention of the Michigan Equal Suffrage
association is held in Detroit January
is and 16, Mrs. o. II. Clark, of Kala-
mazoo. who for the last four years has
been president of the organization will
not be a candidate for reelection. Mrs.
Clark has reached this decision be.
cause she wishes to be free to devote
her entire energies to war work in
France, whenever her husband and
two sons. all of whom are in the ser
vice, are called to duty OVERSEAS.
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
Wireless course At U. Of N.

Ann Arbor-On government request,
President II. p. Hutchins and the exc
cutive committee of the board OF re.
gents of the University of Michigan
have authorized a course in wireless
telegraphy for drafted men who want
to fit themselves for radio and buzzer
operators in signal corps.
The new course will begin early in
January. The government needs 15,.
900 signal corps ope -ators, II is re.
ported. No previous training is neces.
sary for the men taking this course
The Yale expositor., 1917-12-27
WITH THE BoYSAT CAMPCUsTER

The entertainment Of soldiers is
gradually reaching a point where the
guests are picked, rather than being
unfortunately invited
The Society of Michigan Danes of
Ann Arbor has furnished a room in
Y. M. C. A. hut sos as a rest room for
women. Comfortable chairs and set
tees have been installed and women
who come to Camp Custer to visit
friends are urged to make This their
meeting place.
The Washington herald., 1917-03-28
CHICAGO GRAIN,

Chicago, March N.-Enomous quantities Of oats
corn, and wheat have been purchased in the Chicago
and smaller markets Of the country by the allies
This grain is all badly needed in the importing na-
tions and according to cable adyices received herr
tonight, the British Commission and other. inter
ested will demand delivery on May and more de-
fered contracts, and those who are unable to fur
nish the grain according to expectation will be
forced either to make private settlement or to cover
ing their outstanding shortage in the various pIts
Oats are wanted abroad for feeding Of animals AZ
we'll as for admixture in making bread and It Is
said that the animals in the various armies Of the
allies are being fed all kinds Of substitutes be-
cause Of the inability Of those who sold this grain
to get it to the seaboard and export II.
The enormous stocks Of oats held in various SEC
tions Of the United States have proved q great
drawback to the bulls at various times, but the
trade on the whole now realizes the fact that the
shorts are likely to face big losses in all grains
mentioned above.
Advances were shown in all the grain pits on the
Board Of Trade today.
With wheat the strongest grain Of the list these
gains were ShaSxc for wheat, la1kc for ccrn, and
8aSc for oats. From the price gains shown the
latter grain seemed to have fewer supporter than
the two other grains. There was some selling
pressure IN the oats market. but this selling was
led by local interests. which were not considered
Sasng 1 any msana Qutdde markets Here bidding