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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-06-09
Are Rodents WorkingI

Are the rabbits and mice skinnina
your young trees?
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-22
June %, 1917.

the national debt would be it Rus
STA owed 1926 million roubles how
many Jews eat without washing
their hands, and how many match
es are used in the world in single
day.
In a word, the young man let
himself go into calculations. And
if you wished to make away with
statistics he got into rage. When
] came to him to speak of a girl
he at once calculated how much in
terest the dowry would bring him
in; how much an economical wife
could save; or how much a child
costs from it's birth until it gets
married. And he arrived at the
conclusion that young man like
him could not marry on less than
five thousand roubles.
But l didn't care about that. If
you want five thousand, let it be
so. have plenty of goods to
C11OOSC lIOlll.
wrote to my partner in Minsk,
and he sent me word that he had
first-class girl who was of good
family and had money. She her.
self was only $3.50, but one cannot
get everything.
We managed to get round him
all right. He agreed that the cal
culations we gave him were cor
rect. But he saw Chatzkel, the
melamed's daughter-the same
who came back from Warsaw and
opened millinery shop-and he
began to boil.
Where and what were his CAL
culations? Gone. He forgot that
he was a business man or that she
was a poor mans daughter; and
that, according to his own calcula-
tons, he dare not marry on less
than five thousand roubles dowry;
and he forgot to calculate how
much it would cost him to keep her
poor relations. He was simply dy-
ing for her.
Well, as l know of nothing, 1
bothered him about the girl from
Minsk. l saw he took it coolly and
spoke out plainly and asked him
when he would go to see her. He
replied in this fashion:
"Do you know what l will tell
you, Reb Jonah? Let us leave the
Minsk girl alone. Nothing will
come of it. Do not fear, Reb Jo-
nah; if you are a smart man you
will earn your fees. And I will
give you the name of the girl, too.
Go and make up the match"
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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-22

q UedI Ill Cne SKY, IluSI dlSO Ue-
lieve it?
cor let us look at geography.
This tells me-" he went on, "that
Europe is here, America there, here
Africa and here Asia; here the
North Pole and here the equator;
this country contains so many
square miles; that one, so many;
this ocean is so big and that noun
tain so high. Well l ask you,
how do they know all this? Has
anybody measured the earth and
the seas?
'Or take the science of medicine.
One doctor says cupping; another
says leeches; comes a third and
gets into a rage at the idea of
blood-letting. If one says day the
other says night Then how are
we to believe the doctors if they
frequently quarrel between them
selves?"
Of the other sciences he had also
a low opinion. What difference
could it make if bug had forty
eight or eight-eight legs? And if
you know how long an elephant
lives, will it help you to provide for
the Sabbath?"
In this he was quite right. And
he made nothing of every science
in the world. There was only one
that was worth while learning
mathematics. This was science
on which one could depend. Alge-
bra, Euclid, geometry, statistics
were exact, and had a substantial
foundation and admitted of proof.
Twice two must be four. If you
live to be thousand years, and
argue all the time, you will never
get three times three to make ten.
You may be the greatest non-be-
lever, and even doubt that the
Messiah will come, but you cannot
deny the truth of mathematics.
Nor can you 90 without 1t. Wheth-
er you build house, erect bridge,
lay down a railway, you must al
ways calculate how much and
what.
This talent for mathematics
showed itself in him when he was
quite child. When he started to
go to school he counted the steps
there and back; counted the houses
he passed, and the wooden palings.
And for a long time he worried to
find out how many rolls he ate in
the year, averaging six day.
When Chalye grew older and his
father took him into the business,
he sat making calculations all dav
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-06-22

800
NEW MATCHMAKER--S
The Story of a Successful Wooing
the Yddish Vendrof. Translated

MMMmMMMMmMMMwMMMmMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Listen! There is no worse means
of livelihood than matchmaking.
First Of all, every one tries his
hand at it. If a teacher wants to
earn an extra rouble, he tries
matchmaking. A Jew whose bust
ness is dealing in flax or grain sees
a boy and girl somewhere, and tries
to make up match between them.
A young woman, who goes about
with nothing to do suddenly begins
to make matches. And public men
are matchmakers, and muggidin,
and beadles and cantors-every
sort and kind of men and women
are matchmakers.
What more do you want than
this? When l come to speak to you
of a match for your son or your
daughter, you go and ask some one
about them; and this some one be-
comes a partner in the business.
And more than this-there's
Love. Since this peculiar disease
became prevalent among Jews
there's nothing to do. They don't
want matchmakers. And, what
good is matchmaker to them,
anyway? Can't they manage by
themselves-what? Boys and girls
go about the streets, openly and
freely. The minute they meet it's
shu! shu! shu! A silly world!
You understand me? Then what
do they want Jonah for? Well,
we've got used to these troubles.
Those who want may carry on love
affairs and more affairs. There are
still some respectable Jews left who
will not marry off their children
without matchmaker.
But, that all my calculations
should go astray-this has hap
pened me for the first time.
The story runs like this:
Macheal Ginspreger-the same
who exports wagonloads- a
son called Chalye-a clever boy at
his books, at writing, and also at
drinking. He played chess, the fid-
die, knew little Hebrew, and was
a good business man. To tell the
truth, he was a little too much CIV
en- up to mathematics. It was a
sort of mania with him. No mat
ter when you saw him, or what you
said, he was sure to turn to mathe-
mates. Nothing was of any value
to him beside mathematics.
"What use is your astronomy"
he argued. 'They tell me that on
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The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05

The price Of soft coal to the aver
are home will vary with the freight
charges and retailers profits, as it is
announced the miners have agreed to
reduce the price $3.50 per ton.
President Wilson has barred bone
dryness'' from the food control bill.
The bill will probably permit the man
ufacture of beer, wines and other
light beverages.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has denied the plea OF the rail-
roads for a horizontal increase OF 10
per cent in freight rates.
The interstate commerce commits
sion announces that increases in the
freight rates on coal, coke and iron
ore will be granted.
The interstate commerce commits
sion says that the gloomy forecast Of
jeopardized incomes, seen by railroad
officials early in 1917, have not been
borne out. by the figures available for
later months; rather to the contrary.
The United States export policy will
be determined by President Wilson
only after most thorough study Of
it's International aspects. The presi-
dent is anxious that no injustice shall
be done even the smallest neutral.
It is not yet known whether Bra
zil's break with Germany means that
she will enter actual hostilities, but it
is confidently expected that Brazil will
follow the United States.
A Petrograd dispatch says Major
General Scott, chief military member
Of the American mission, is on an ex-
tended tour comprising the whole Rus
sian front.
The advance guard of the mighty
army the United States is preparing
to send against Germany is on French
soil.
thousands of seasoned regulars and
marines, trained fighting men with the
tan of long service on the Mexican
border or in Haiti or San Domingo still
on their faces, will soon be fighting
alongside the French, the British, the
Belgian, the Russian, the Portuguese
and the Italian troops on the western
front of the modern Armageddon.
Press dispatches from France show
the first force sent abroad. General
Pershing is, of course, commander-in-
chief of the expedition.
The United States, it is admitted
in allied capitals, has set a record for
the transportation of troops to the
fighting zone.
The United States troops in France
will put no burden on the allied troops
already there. The troops will be fed,
clothed, armed and equipped by the
United States government.
President Wilson certainly is hav-
ing difficult questions put up to him,
and to his judgment falls the success
or failure of America in the world
war. The latest question put to him
is, whether prohibition shall be put
in the food control bill.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
FOOD NEUTRALS MAY BE
SUPPLY GERMANY FOOD.
Which is Replaced With Imports
BROUGHT From America.


Washington.-Evid that Ger
many is obtaining vast quantities OF
food from the European neutral coun'
tries has been presented to the United
States by Great Britain for the Amer
lean governments guidance in de-
terming an export policy. Much OF
this, the British statistics purport to
show, is replaced by the neutrals with
imports from America.
From Scandinavia and Holland, the
information sets forth, enough fat is
going into Germany to supply 71VVi
600 soldiers, virtually the entire army
Of electives in the empire. German
imports from these countries, II u
declared, reduced to Galleries viii
equal the total ration of 2,5OO,OVV
troops, the size of the German army IN
the west.
German purchases of foodstunS
abroad are made through the gov
eminent department Of the interior
which has organized special dlVF
sion to buy from the neutrals. IN INC
early days of the war, the German
stimulated importation u
food by excluding imports from
Grafton of maximum price laws
this drew such vigorous protest lrou
German producers the practice "S'
stopped.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
ASSUME OFFENSIVE
TROOPS OF NEW RUSSIA Aha,
ATTACK ON EXTENSIVE
SCALE.
STORM GERMAN POSITIONS
Berlin Admits That Attacks W..
Powerful Along Whole Elch+.se
Mile Front--Rritish Are Mest,"r
With Successes in West.

The soldiers of new Russia bo
assumed the aggressive. For tho 49,
time since the revolution last MaroS
Russian troops have begun an attaor
on an extensive scale.
Along a region of eigheen and NM
half miles in the region of Brzazonu
Galicia, Russian troops have stornnns
the German positions. Berlin save
the Russians suffered heavy losses 49,
were compelled to retire before H.
German fire. The attack was modo
between the upper Stripa and Tho
Narayuvka river, a tributary Of tbn
Gnila Lipa, in the section southeast
Of Lemberg, the GalIician canitol
where the artillery firing has been
heavy recently.
The Russians also made night ~
tacks on both sides of Brzezanv and
near Zwyzyn, and Berlin reports that
assaults between the Zlota Lipa and
the Narayuvka have brought on new
battles between the opposing forces
The artillery arm of the Russian
forces has again been active, and from
the Berlin report it is learned that an
intensive duel has been in progress in
the region of Brzezany to as far
northward as the Middle Stokhod in
Vo1hynia, distance Of about ITS miles.
Berlin declares that the Russian
attacks, which it says were power
full, we're brought about through the
pressure Of the leading entente pow
ers, the text Of the official statement
saying:
"The Russian government having
been constrained to yield to the pres
sure of the leading entente powers,
part Of the army has been introduced
to attack"
The region of the Narayuvka and
Upper Stripa rivers has been the
scene of much bitter fighting since
General Brussiloff ended his victorious
campaign last year, and Brzezany is
one of the keys of Lemburg.
Field Marshall Haig continues to
tighten his grip on Lens. On the
north bank of the River SoucheZ,
British troops have captured German
positions on a front of about half
mile southwest and west of Lens The
British army during June captured
1886 German prisoners, including 175
officers and sixty-seven men, including
two heavy guns, as well as much
other war material.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
IMPORTANT NEWS
The WORLD OVER
Happenings Of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What 10 Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.

Domestic
Mr.. Griffin of the Chicago board OF
trade says that the exchanges OF the
country will give wholehearted support
to the administration food control
proposition.
According to information from
Washington, Fort Mcpherson, near
Atlanta, Ga, will be the site for big
disposition will be made of the Seven
teenth infantry now stationed there.
A New York dispatch says that so
quietly did the regiment of marines
sent to France slip out of the navy
yard that not even the men engag-
ed in a baseball game in the yard
know they had gone.
Four hundred coal operators, repre-
senting the great fields Of both btu
minous and anthracite, pledged them
selves at Washington to sell their
products at fair ana reasonable price
after they had been frankly warned
by Assistant Attorney General Lewis
that unless they established fair
selling price and proper regulation
Of the industry, their output would
be taken over by the government.
The United States cruiser Olympia,
Admiral Dewey's flagship at the battle
of Manila, ran aground in the fog off
Block Island, R. l., June rs. The cruz
ser is reported in bad position, with
considerable water in her hold. Will
liam M. Babb, machinists' mate, lost
his life when he was struck on the
head by falling hatch.
The Olympia caught in a fog off
Block Island, R. l., was on her way
to target practice. Details of her ex-
act position could not be learned. The
vessel had been assigned as the flag
ship of the coast patrol fleet Of the
second naval district.
Coal operators say they will confer
with the defense councils committee
ito the end that production may be-
stimulated and plans be perfected to
provide adequate means Of distribu-
ton"
w. J. Harris, chairman Of the req
eral trade commission, in Atlanta, Ga,
for a business trip Of several days, is
out in statement advising against
the purchase of coal at the present
prices, which he says are outrageous
~ high and absolutely without justifl-
cation or fairness.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
European War

Greece has severed diplomatic rela.
tons with Germany, Austria, Hungary,
Bulgaria and Turkey. 1t is expected
that she will soon declare war against
the central powers, due in most part
to the incompatibility of an existing
war in her territory without her act
i've participation.
Premier Lloyd-George, speaking in
Glasgow, Scotland, says the war will
continue until the aims of the allies
have been fully attained.
Lloyd-George says Great Britain's
food supply will hold out if the sub.
marine war is kept within it's present
bounds and the people practice frugal
ity.
Picked Germans are being hurled at
the French front, with success at
some points and failure at others.
It is freely predicted that the pres
emit Russian upheaval will result in a
Russian republic, as that form of gov.
eminent is the lonly possible kind
that will be in harmony with the spir-
it and principles of the whole Russian
question.
The steamers U.tonia of the Cunard
line, 6,593 tons; Haverford of the
American line, 7,493 tons; Buffalo,
Wilson liner, 1853 tons, and The Man.
istee, another GUARD vessel, British
cargo-carrying vessels, have been tor.
pedoed and sunk by German subma-
rines.
General Haig has adopted prize
fighting tactics against General Hin
denburg. He first leads from the
right, then from the left, following
from the center and then mixes it up
so that vonHindenburg is up in the
air, according to dis patches from the
front.
The Canadians have taken another
hack at the German line protecting
Lens, the coal center in the depart
ment of Pas de Calais, and have been
rewarded with fun Their gains.
In Belgium the Germans are bonn
harding French and Belgian positions
necessarily.
The Canadian troops operating
around Lens, the great coal mining
center which the Germans captured
IL OAA IAO l. CASAS al S4OW1y OuClTC11uG
that center, and it is reported that
the Germans have all but ceased min.
ing operations. This seems to fore
cast that the Germans realize that
their tenure of this position can only
be short-lived.
Only partol parties of the infantry
are active on the western front, and
only small bits of territory have heen
attacked for several days.
The Canadians have captured anoth-
er trench on the Lens-Arras road. but
further attempts have been repulsed
by the Germans
Reports from allied centers are to
the effect that the British are now
engaged in blazing the way for a new
thrust at the German lines with the
hope OF driving them farther bach
while the summer weather holds out.
TO strive for the mastery IN France.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
AMERICAN HELP IS REALLY
VERY GREAT

Zurich, Switzerland. -Referring
the arrival of American troops -
French soil, the military critic OF IN'
Frankfurter Zeitung says GermN"
must not overlook the fact that Ame.
lean help is really very great, tnouer
it will come only by degrees. Onuo
these conditions, he says, if Franz o
is obliged to restrict her mllltary
tivities, it will signify no strene'n-
ing of the German situation.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
MANY ARE KILLED WHEN
CAR PLUNGES INTO R'VI

Niagara Falls, N. "a belt lin' The
ON the great Gorge route FlI root
rails. plunged down a t"en!y Ten
embankment and turned over - me
feet of water. on the edge o. ore
Whirlpool rapids. Nine persons ION
known to be dead, two persons ~ not
to have been on the car nave and
been seen since the accident On
probably are dead, an indenni'e ten,
Der, estimated at from two "
are reported missing.
The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-05
Washington

Secretary Daniels, delivering the
commencement address at the naval
academy at Annapolis, stated that the
United States is demonstrating to the
world that a democracy of a hundred
million people can wage war efficient
~ and with unity Of spirit.
Secretary Daniels says that those
who told us men of military men
would not enlist under the selective
draft have been mistaken, because the
facts show that registration day was
indeed day OF conservation to the
ideals Of democracy.
Food prices in the United States
advanced on an average of per cent
from April 16 to May Is, according to
the bureau of labor. During the year
ended May. Is they advanced 20 per
cent
War department officials will go no
further than to say that General Per
'shing's khaki clad men will be aug
mented as rapidly as expedient by a
considerable contingent of other
rained troops.
Commissioner Root is in a Moscow
hospital with severe cold. He made
two speeches there in one day while
the temperature was 1O4 in the shade,
and contracted such cold that it was
deemed advisable to treat him.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that al
though Bulgaria is opposed to break
ing off relations with the United States
the fear is expressed that Premier Ra-
-doslavoff may have been compelled to
purchase concession, for which he
went to Berlin, by a sacrifice Of Amer
lean relations as part payment.
The food control bill has been
amended in the senate so that the food
administrator shall not have power to
impose individuals rations or regulate
their meals.
The members Of the exports council
will meet in few days to organize
and to recommend to the president a
series Of proclamations which will put
the new law into active operation.
President Wilson says the free trade
Of the country will not be arbitrarily
tnterfered with, but will be intelligent
ly and systematically directed in the
light Of full information with regard
to needs and market conditions and
the necessities Of the people and the
armies at home and abroad
When the order came to prepare i'm
mediately an expeditionary force to go
to France, virtually all of the men now
across the seas were on the Mexican
border General Pershing himself was
at San Antonio.
The Russian mission was received
IN the senate June 26, when Ambassa-
dor Boris A. Bakmetfeff made an adj
dress pledging Russia. continuance
in the war.
Washington is running over with
attorneys and others in the interest
OF the whiskey interests and prohibi-
Ton, and President Wilson's life is
anything but q bed Of roses.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-07
Buying a Liberty Bond Will Teach
You To Save Money

This Liberty Bond issue is the great
est thing that has ever been done to
develop the money-saving habit in the
citizens of this glorious, prosperous
country. Millions of men and women
who have never had a savings account
in bank simply because they have
never gone at it in the right way, will
now subscribe for Liberty Bonds They
will pay a dollar or two a week (be-
cause they AGREE to do that at the
bank and almost before they know
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-06-07

it they will own the bonds outright.
They will have $50, 500 or more
THAT THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE
SAVED OTHERWISE, and those
Bonds will earn them at least $40
interest. After having acquired the
saving habit in this systematic way
they will never again squander all their
money; they will be thrifty, thoughtful,
ambitious sand they will thank Uncle
Sam for the opportunity he gave them
to buy LIBERTY BONDS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-10
U-Boat Disappears

The periscope Of the submarine was
sighted about P. NJ. and the Amer
lean vessel Immediately swung
around TO afford the gunners an op-
nortunitv for accurate aim The UNI
der-sea craft disappeared simultane-
ously with the firing Of the first shot
if was said and did not reappear. The
American ship then put on full speed
and proceeded on her course.
On board the vessel were six men,
hers of the crew of the Norwegian
bark Skiold, sunk off the Irish coast
by German submarine on April |
and three members of the crew of the
Norwegian bark Nestelo sunk by a
submarine on April Y.
In addition to the crews Of the Nor
wegian barks the American liner had
On board 30 first class, % second and
"a third class passengers.
The American vessel. armed fore
and aft with 6-inch guns, was detaln-
ed in sailing from the other side for
three days, due to a warning that en-
envy submarines were lying in wait
for her.
Soon after the liner passed out of
the protected zone into the open sea,
at a speed Of approximately 20 knots
the submarines periscope doomed UP
suddenly off her port bow. 1t was
about 200 yards away. The passen-
gers. who rushed to the deck excited
", said the under-sea craft appeared
to be rising and that for a moment
they caught a glimpse of what prob
ably was it's gray stern. The passen
gers remained on deck while the shoot
ing lasted Meantime, the liner kept
to a zigzag course. but all the while
with one or more of her guns turned
in the direction of the submarine. The
Messengers declared that the first shot
fired from the liner struck very close
to the periscope.