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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-01-11
WA " rs

FOR EXCHANGE-St building.
flats above, grocery below, want
land to amount Of $500. D. S. Dough-
ty, Los Angeles, CAL, 3-3d-3Wp
LOST-A gray pony mare, weight $50
pounds. US brand on right thigh,
halter and bride on. Left my place
Dec. Is. Notify John Cook, Luverne,
N. u. 28-3W
FOR SALE CHEAP-160 acre farm, 1875
broke, new barn and granary. 80
plowed, 3 miles east of Rogers. For
price and terms inquire, Box Ill, Rog-
ers, N. D. 11.1w
LOST-White broncho mare. bride
and halter on when left. Branded
US on right thigh. Notify John Koch,
AuVerne, N. u. 11-w-tf
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-01-11
SOME READABLE VERSE
THE BROTHERHOOD OF BETTER
THINGS

LITE 6nN' n IL n'0OO VI 3 = IN
THINGS
He dreamed of better city, he longed
for fairer fame
For the home of his daily labors, and
he talked of brighter name.
For the scenes of his children's play
time and the place of his child
ren's birth
And he talked as a man who loved his
town and was proud of her splen-
did worth.
He told her needs as he saw them, to
him were her failings known,
And he wanted to build for her great
ness-but he couldn't do it alone.
lie was one of the many thousand who
dreamed of better day
With visions of great splendOrs when
they should have passed away.
And each in his dream, unselfish, could
picture distant goal
When his city would rise in beauty and
throb as living soul.
But the dreams would have come and
vanished, and the vision from
earth have flown
Had each of the dreamers tried to
work for his city's fame-alone.
You may think of great thoughts for
the future, you may fashion and
build and plan,
But you never shall see your dreams
made real, save you work with
your felloWman.
And never a greater city shall spring
into being here
Save that the many have labored to.
gether it's fame to rear.
Out of the hearts of our fellows has all
of our greatness grown,
Together they stood for this purpose
for no one could do it alone.
Stand off by yourself with your dream
ing and all of your dreams are
vain,
No splendor of soul or structure can
man by himself attain;
IT'S willed we shall dwell as brothers,
as brothers, then, must we toll.
We must share in common purpose,
as we share in a common SOIL
And each who would see accomplished
the dreams he is proud to own,
Must strive for the goal with his fel-
lows-for he cannot reach it alone.
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press
-N
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
ARE COAL PRICES TOO HIGH?
Missouri Attorney General Tells
Hoover of Big Profit Made by
Southern Illinois Operators.

Washington, Oct. 4-Representa-
tives of public utilities companies in
Iowa and Illinois, headed by Clifford
Thorne, appeared today before the
fuel administration to protest against
the coal prices fixed by the govern
ment. The fixed prices, they contend,
while lowering the market price OBJ
tanning at the time, in almost every
instance are higher than the average
prices for the last year.
Attorney General McAllister of Mis-
souri, said in an investigation at st.
Louis recently sworn statements of
coal operators showed the cost of pro-
duction in Southern Illinois fields to
range from $1.O4 to $1.40 ton, while
the prices fixed by the government
range from $1.70 to 1920, allowing
coal producing companies a dividend
on their capital stock of from so to
80 per cent as war profits.
Sworn statements of the Illinois
Central Railroad were introduced to
show that the prices established by
the government are more than 80 per
cent higher than that company was
able to contract for the entire output
Of more than a dozen Illinois mines
this year and about 20 per cent higher
than the Illinois Central itself reports
as the cost of production in mines it
controls in Illinois,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
TO PROBE HELM CHARGES
House Appoints Committee to EnVes.
tigate DisIoyaiists Among Its
Members Consent to Act.

Washington, Oct 5.-A committee
Of five members was appointed by
the House today to investigate
charges made by Representative Hef-
lin of Alabama that fourteen members
of Congress had acted "suspiciously''
in connection with the war
A resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Stephens, Mississippi, was
adopted viva Voce. Only two or three
voices were heard in opposition to
it, while a heavy chorus Of "ayes''
demanded adoption.
Speaker Clark first appointed the
following investigation committee:
Webb, North Carolina; Hull, Tennes-
see; Barnhart, Indiana; Walsh, Mas
sachusetts, and Longworth, Ohio.
Members were chary about sitting
as court Of trial on their colleagues.
Almost as fast as Speaker Clark could
name them they resigned
Finally these five men consented to
serve: Barnhart, Indiana, chairman:
Venable, Mississippi; Dewalt, Penn.
sylvania; Longworth, Ohio, and
Walsh, Massachusetts.
The committee was directed to re-
port before adjournment
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
A WORD TO DRAFT DODGERS
Washington Announces That All An
swering Now May Escape Pun
ishment as Army Deserters.

Washington, Oct. 5.-A last warning
was issued today to drafted men who
have failed to answer the call to the
cOlors. The government gave notice
to those who have failed to report
that they will be given an opportun-
ity to escape punishment if they join
the colors now and explain their pre-
vious failure to do so. If they show
a wiIlful disposition to evade service,
they will be charged with desertion,
and every effort will be made to ap-
prehend and punish them
Drafted men failing to report now
will be advertised as deserters and
a reward of $50 offered for their ap-
prehension.
Many men who fail to appear, War
Department officials believe, have Iegi-
innate excuses, while others are
merely careless. For that reason le-
niency will be shown except where
willful intent to eVade service is
clear
Men tried and found guilty as de-
serters will not be permitted to es-
cape their duty as soldiers by dishon-
orable discharge. The policy of the
department viii be, it was announced,
to punish them and retain them in
the service.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
GAMER BY IMPROVED ROADS
Careful Analysis Shows Greatest
Gain Over Present Conditions Is
Man on Branch Road.

The development of sentiment
for issuing bonds to build permanent
roads has brought to the surface many
questions which require careful con-
sideratiOn and demand clearly stated
and convincing replies. OF these, the
one recurring most frequently is:
''What advantage is there in bond is
sue for the farmer who lives several
miles from one Of the improved
roads?'
At first glance it would seem that
the man living directly upon the i'm
proved road obtains the greatest bene-
fits, but careful analysis proves that
the greatest gain over present condi-
tons is the man on the side road.
With the limited road and bridge
funds usually available in any town
ship and the necessity of keeping the
main highways at least in passable
condition, little or nothing is left for
working upon the less Travelled roads.
As repair expense practically ceases
when permanent roads are built, the
road and bridge funds formerly spent
on main roads will be released for use
upon the side roads.
In addition, money spent upon these
side roads will go five times as far,
or do five times as much work, as
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
ROAD
BUILDING
ROYAL LINE IN A DEMOCRACY
"Roads Rule the WorId-Not Kings Or
Congresses, Not Courts, Nor Con-
stables or Soldiers

In an argument for good roads some
wise man, whose name has been lost.
made use OF the following: Roads
rule the wOrld-nOt kings, nor con-
crosses, nor courts, nor constables,
not ships nor soldiers. The road is
the only royal line in q democracy, the
only legislature that never changes,
the only court that never sleeps. the
only army that never quits. the first
aid to the redemption OF any nation,
the exodus from stagnation in any So
ciety, the call from savagery in any
tribe, the high priest OF prosperity.
after the order OF Melchisedec, with
out beginning Of days or end of life.
The road is umpire in every war. and
when the new map is made, it simply
pushes on its great campaign of help.
hope, brotherhood, efficiency and
peace"
The value Of good roads may be
better understood when it is known
that the average cost to farmers OF
the United States TO transport produce
to market is more than % cents per
ton per mile These figures do not in
clude the cost of breakage Of harness
or vehicles. The cost per ton per
mile over hard-surfaced roads is less
than half the present average.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
WAR COST is $4,000, 600, 600
Figures Announced by Appropriations
Communicable Estimate of
Amount for Next Congress.

Washington, Oct. 6.-Since congress
convened in it's extraordinary war ses-
sion last April and up to today, it has
placed at the disposal of the admins
tration ST., 600, 100000 and has author
lied contracts for almost $4,000 ,00O,-
600 more. Most of the money was for
war purposes, including $1,000, 100000
for loans to the Allies.
The appropriations committees,
through their chairmen, Senator Mar
tin and Representative Fitzgerald,
made the figures public today, coup
ling with them the declaration that
congress had done its work in fur
nishing the money for the war very
effectively. Mr.. Fitzgerald announced
that he could not estimate the appro-
priations of the next session of con-
gress for war expenditures until the
various government departments sub
NIT their estimates.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
With the Fingers.
Says Corns Lift Out
Without Any Pain

Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kind OF a corn can shortly be
lifted right out with the fingers If you
will apply on the corn a few drops OF
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
At little cost one can get a small bot
tie OF freezone at any drug store, which
will positively rid ones feet of every
corn or callus without pain or sore
ness or the danger Of infection.
This new drug is an ether compound.
and dries the moment it is applied and
does not inf1ame or even irritate the
surrounding skin. Just Think You
can lift of your corns and caIluses
now without q bit Of pain or soreness.
If your druggist hasn't freezone he can
easily get a small bottle for you from
his wholesale drug house.-adv.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
PLAN MORE TRAINING CAMPS
Civilians Are Practically Barred From
Attending Those to Open on
January 5.

Washington, Oct 4-Privates and
"noncoms" in the national army at
Camp Funston and in the Kansas and
Missouri National Guard will have an
opportunity to win commissions and
attend an officers training camp,
which will open at both camps Janu-
airy 5, under the plans announced to-
day by the War Department. With
the exception of graduates and under
graduates of certain colleges and
military academies, with approved
military courses of ten years stand
ing, the doors are closed to civilians
Approximately two thousand collie
gians will have the opportunity to en-
ter the different camps, so the re-
naming thousands will come from pri-
Yates and 'noncoms", now in services
or soon to be in the national army.
Accredited schools in Missouri and
Kansas are: The University of Mis-
souri,, Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege, Wentworth Military Academy at
Lexington, No, and the Kemper Mill
tary Academy at Boonville. Gradu-
ateS ftom those schools will be taken
in limited numbers. Some married
men will be taken, but preference will
be given to single men.
Men in the national army or the ma
tionaI guard are to have every oppor-
tunity to get in the camp. Whether
they succeed will depend largely on
their efforts in the next few weeks.
They have until December to put in
their applications for admittance to
camp to be held at their post.
Each company commander will Sc
1ect not to exceed 10 per cent of the
enlisted strength of his organization
from the applications. He will recon-
mend them to an examining board.
The board will Gull out the applica-
lions. Not more than II per cent OF
each organization will be finally &C
cepted. There will be a camp at
Camp Funston and another at Fort
Sill. There will be an infantry school
and a light artillery school, with
about 400 men in each camp. These
schools will get the benefit of the in
struction of foreign officers, who will
be at each camp.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
REACH AGREEMENT OH WAGES
Only Difference Now Between Coal
Operators and Employees is the
Duration of Scale.

Washington, Oct 3.-Coal operators
and miners of the central competitive
field, meeting here to discuss a read
full agreement tonight as to the
amount of increases TO be given. They
will discuss further tomorrow the
length of time the new contract will
run.
Pick and machine miners, who de-
manded fifteen cents a ton increase in
pay, will get ten cents and unskilled
labor, which sought a wage raise of
S1.90 a day, will get $3.50. Yardage
and dead work will be paid for on a
basis of a straight 20 per cent in
crease.
The wage increases were granted by
the operators contingent on their alb
sorption in higher coal prices, which
they expect the fuel administration to
give them on presentation next week
of their cost of production figures.
The miners are seeking a contract
for two years, but the operators insist
on a provision for its termination
sixty days after the end of the war.
Miners Representatives said tonight
they would not yield on this point.
Provisions will be inserted in the con-
tract to prevent either side from
breaking it for any cause. This was
demanded by the operators because
the miners in asking the present in
creases are ignoring a contract signed
last April.
Coal mine wage scales throughout
the country are based on the central
field scale and If today's agreement is
ratified, wages will be raised accord
ingly in other districts.
Operators Of the central field are
asking the fuel administration for in
creases Of about fifty cents ton in
the price fixed for coal at the mines
in a recent order by President Will
son. Many mines, they insist, will be
forced to shut down unless prices are
revised. Already Doctor Garfield, the
fuel administrator, has granted in
creases in outlying districts, where
for the most part coal veins are thin,
making the cost OF operation high.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
GERMAN RAIDERS
IN SOUTH PACIFIC
Three American SchOOners De-
strOyed by the Notorious
Sea Adler.
SILL PREY ON ALLIED SHIPS
Teuton Captain and Crew Use Motor
SIoop Armed With Bombs-Their
Victims Marooned.

Washington, Oct 5.-Two German
commerce raiders manned by the crew
of the famous See Adler-which it
now develops stranded on Mopeha Is
land in the South Pacific, after roam
ing the seas for seven months prey
ing upon American and Allied ship
ping-are operating somewhere in the
South Seas, according to a report re-
ceived tonight at the Navy Depart
ment from the commander Of the
naval station at Tutuila, Samoan Is
lands.
The dispatch transmitting the story
of Capt Hador Smith of the American
schooner c. Slade, one of the See Ad
ler's victims, was sent on September
20, several weeks after the two new
raiders left Mopeha Island, where
they had been captured by the Ger
mans. The first put to sea on August
81 and the other one September and
it probably was their operations which
led to recent reports of raiders in the
Pacific
Has Sunk Fifteen Ships.
Before coming to grief on August 2,
the See Adler had added the American
Slade to the list of at least twelve
allied vessels which she sank early
this year in the South Atlantic Ocean.
In the long period from last March,
when she was last heard from, the
raider probably sent down other craft
encountered in passing through the At
lantic, around Cape Horn and across
the Pacific to the Society Group of
French islands, of which Mppeha is
one.
The See Adler, according to Cap
tain Smiths report, arrived at Mopeha
on July 81. Two days later she strand
ed on the island and was abandoned
as total loss, the master and crew,
with twenty-seven white men and sew
enteen native prisoners, making shore
in safety.
Six to Sea in Motor Sloop.
The company remained there until
August 81, when the See Adler's mas
ter, accompanied by three officers and
two men, put to sea in a motor s1oop,
with machine guns, rifles, bombs and
about two months supplies. The re-
mainder of the crew stayed on this
island until September 5 when the
French schooner Lutece, bound out
Of Tahiti, Society Island, arrived at
Mopeha and was seized. The schooner
was equipped with machine guns,
rifles and bombs and the Germans
Immediately put to sea in her.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

agreement on navy yard wage
scales, representing a general average
increase of more than 10 per cent, has
been reached by Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt and the presidents of the
International Trades Union. The new
schedule goes into effect November 1
for one year.
Formation Of the Children's Patri-
otto League Of America has been an
nounced in Chicago. Lillian Bell, the
authoress, is president and number
Of society women are directors. Her
bert c.. Hoover is advisor.
Edward Wilson, a negro, who re-
Gently attacked five white women in
revenge for the death of relatives
killed in the riots in East St. Louis,
Ill, July 2, was shot and killed on the
street at St Louis by Joseph Cipolli,
the escort of a girl he tried to as
sault.
Fire destroyed part of the repair
and paint shops in the section of Camp
Travis cantonmeat, Texas, devoted TO
automobiles and trucks. Several auto
mobiles were destroyed before the
flames were controlled
Two alleged L W. ". leaders have
been arrested at Chester, Pa, on war
rants charging them with murder in
connection with the explosion at Ed
dyston ammunition plant on April 10,
which cost 133 lives. The prisoners
are Nicholas Reckner, Philadelphia,
and Mitchell Lagoda, former resi-
dent Of Chester.
Ottawa county, Ok, viii vote on
$500, 900 bond issue November 20. The
board OF county commissioners de-
cided $3.50, 900 viii be for improved
roads and S5o.0o0 for a new jail
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
SERUM FOR RAT-BITE FEVER
Japanese Physicians Declare Cure 10
Obtained From Veins of Persons
Who Have Recovered.

A group of eminent japanese doc
tors has been busy studying rat-bite
fever ever since Futaki, Ishiwara and
their associates reported two years ago
the discovery of the microbe that
causes it. This is a SpirOchete, So
called because its form is spiral or
zig-zag. Several types of this spiro-
chete were found in men who had been
bitten by rats, and in guinea pigs that
had been experimentally inOculated.
These were identified by Futaki as in
all probability identical.
Doctors Renjiro, Kaneko and Kikuzo
Okuda of the Imperial University in
Kyushu, Fukuoka, Japan contribute
to the Journal of Experimental Medi-
cine a confirmation OF Futaki's belief ;
Doctor RyOkichi Inada contributes a
description of the disease; Doctors Yu-
taxa lido, Rokut0 Holt, Hiroshi Ito and
Hidetsune Wani describe experiments
that prove the rat to be the common
carrier of the SpirOchSta icterOhaemor-
rhagica, as the micrObe of the disease
is called; and Doctors Yutaka lido, Hi
roshi Ito, Hidetsune Wani and Kikuzo
Okuda discuss the possibility OF pro-
ducing immunity
The latter go into details Of their
experiments and come TO the conclu-
sion that the serum OF persons who
have recovered from rat-bite fever con-
tains an immune body which destroys
the spirOchetes of that disease"
The Importance of these articles lies
in the final proof that this spirochete
is the cause of the fever. that rats are
the carriers, and that the disease can
be cured
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
A TYPHOON STRIKES TOXIC
Eighty Persons Killed and $4,000, 900
Damage Sustained by Wind and
Flood In Japan.

Toxic, Oct. 4.-The most destructive
typhoon and flood in twenty years had
destroyed thousands of buildings to-
day, rendered 10000 homeless, para
lyzed railroad and shipping and done
million dollars damage in the city of
Toxic alone. At least eighty are dead.
The storm broke Monday. It struck
first in the vicinity of Toxic Bay and
over the Eastern Pacific. The whole
shore line was inundated. A small IT,
daI wave accompanied the wind and
rain. At Yokohama harbor four cargo
boats were swept under by this wave
Of water.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
ANOTHER REVOLT IN MEXICO

Brownsville, Tex, Oct. ga revolt
against the Mexican government has
been started by Gen. Porfirio Gonzales.
former Carranza commander, who has
modified eight hundred followers at
Aldamas, near the Nuevo-Leon-Tamau.
ipas line. $50 miles west of Mata-
moras, according to reports reaching
here. Aldamas is one hundred miles
south of Roma, Tex.
All trains out of Matamoras, adj
vices received here say, have been
cancelled. Mexican officials, however,
say this is because of high water in
the Rio Grande and San Juan. A re
port received here late this afternoon
said military trains are beginning to
move.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13

Those Concerned Must Commu-
nicate With the Nearest
Revenue Officer.
SLACKERS WILL BE PUNISHED
Federal Government Will Not Take
the Initiative in Any Case,
Says a Statement.

Washington, Oct 6-Notice to the
public to make its tax returns to the
government under the new war reVe-
nue. law was issued tonight by Inter
nal Revenue Commissioner Roper, in
an interpretatiVe statement of the
laws operation. Warning was given
that in no case would the government
take the initiative in getting in re-
turns, although all returns would be
verified, and that everybody concern
ed should communicate promptly with
the nearest revenue officer.
Persons failing to make returns, Mr..
Roper announced, will be regarded as
tax "slackers," and penalties will be
enforced against them. AS outlined
in the statement, the following per-
sons are affected, and must make re-
turns to the government:
All individuals receiving incomes of
more than $1,000 year.
All corporations, joint stock COM
panies and associations.
All distillers, rectifiers, wholesalers
and retailers, holders of distilled
spirits intended for sale or to be used
for manufacturing purposes.
All dealers in fermented liquors or
malt liquors, wines, cordials, liquors,
domestic and imported.
All dealers in soft drinks, table wat
ers and carbonic acid gas.
All manufacturers of and dealers in
cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, snuff and
cigarette papers.
All carriers of freight, express or
passengers and all operators of pipe
lines
All dealers in life, marine, inland,
fire and casualty insurance.
All manufacturers and wholesale
dealers in motor vehicles of every
kind, musical instruments, motion pic
ture films, jewelry, boats, sporting
goods, perfumes; cosmetics, medicinal
preparations, chewing gum and cam
BRAS.
All proprietors of amusement places,
Including cabarets
All persons executing legal docu-
ments of any type.
All traders on produce or stock ex-
changes and boards of trade.
All importers Of merchandise
All manufacturers or importers of
playing cards.
The statement continues:
1.-The law makes it the duty of every
person, firm or corporation whose pos
sessions or incomes are taxable to
make true and correct returns upon
which the tax may be assessed and
collected
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-10-13
l. w. w. Men in Army camp.

Chicago, Oct. 3-Search for alleged
I. W. w. leaders named in indict-
ments returned here last Friday was
made today in various army canton
ments, where, it is learned, number
of the men sought are in national ser
vice. A careful check of all the reg
istered men is now being made by fed
eral authorities, who assert it will
only be a matter of short time until
all Of the 166 indicted men are under
arrest