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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
SEIZE TEUTOAS's 's2OO,OOO,OOO
U. S. cONFISCATES HUGE GUAM
Titles OF ENEMY SUPPLIES.
Amounts of This German Property
Here, Including Cotton, Will .,
Reach a Vast Total. !

ngton.-Property and monel
amounting to 100000 or more
belonging to German subjects OF
owed to them by corporations and
individuals in the United States will
be seized and used to buy Liberty
bonds with which to finance the wal
against Germany. Already prepara-
tions are under way by A. Mitchell
Palmer, custodian of enemy proper
ty, to employ this money against
| Germany.
Mr.. Palmer, who qualified as GUS
todian and opened Offices at 920 F
street, will be the largest individual
purchaser of Liberty bonds. All the
money he obtains in his official ca
pacity will go toward the purchase
of the bonds.
Upon coming to Washington to
take up his important duties Mr..
Palmer found hundreds of letters
from corporations and others Offer
ing to turn over to him large
amounts of money in the shape of
dividends from German owned cor
porations in the United States as
well as amounts due in settlements
of estates and bills owed German
business houses by American houses.
Inasmuch as the moneys can be
easily received and their status does
not require any great amount of in
vestigation by the custodian they
will be received without delay. Mr..
Palmer completely qualified when he
filed bond as large as that required
by the government of the secretary
of the treasury, $150,000.
Transcending in Importance the
collection of money is the contisca-
ton by the custodian of metals and
materials owned by German citizens
here. among them cotton and other
products that go into the making OF
war materials. These will exceed in
value the amounts owed German citi-
zens in cash. 1t is estimated unoft1-
cially that the value Of cotton, cop
per, steel and oil stored in the Unit
ed States for German corporations
will amount to $150,0o0,000, al
though no official tabuiation has
been made of them yet.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
ER!EFS BY CABLE
WIRE, WIRELESS
Great Events That Are Chang.
ing the Worlds Destiny Told
in a Paragraph.
LATEST WAR BULLETINS
Short Chronicles of Past Occurrences
Throughout the Union and Our
CoIonies-NeWs From Europe
That is Not All War News.
War Bulletins
lllIuTTlIlIulTlllIIHIlEIIIluInInllINIlTln!nI1nH

Berlin announced the capture OF
10000 Italians and vast amount OF
booty in the Austro- German offensive
An Austro- German offensive has
been instituted on the Italian front,
army headquarters announced. Ger
man and Austrian infantry captured
the foremost Italian positions near
Flitsch and Tolmino and in the north
ern portion of the Bainsizza plateau.
French troops smashed German lines
north of the Aisne, capturing 7,5OO
prisoners and 25 guns and advancing
more than two miles, taking Fort Nal
maison on the way. The victory is OF
farreaching Importance.
Gains were made in a combined
advance by British and French troops
northeast of Ypres in the region OF
Houthulst wood and Poelcapelle.
1t is expected that 1000 national
army recruits from Camp Upton, N.
Y, will be sent to Camp WadsWorth,
Spartanburg, S. c., about November l.
British airmen bombed a German
aerodrome in Bruges.
A captured German officer profess
es ignorance of Americas entrance
into the war.
British troops have captured Nyan'
gao, in German West Africa, anu
heavy fighting is in progress.
Owing to the near approach OF the
Germans and in order to carry out a
long decided project it was ofhclally
announced that the government OF
Russia would be moved from Petro'
grad to Moscow.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
BUY 100000 TONS OF SUGAR.

Great Supply of Raw Product From
Louisiana Is Engaged.
Washington.-The food administra-
tion has arranged to obtain 100000
900 pounds of raw sugar from Louis
lana producers to end the shortage in
New York and other large eastern
cities, and shipments will be started
at once.
Every effort will be made by Her
bert C. Hoover, food administrator, to
have the new sugar supply distrib-
uted at low cost to the consumer.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
WASHINGTON SALOON MEN LOSE

A Sahara-Like Dryness to Prevail In
National Capital After November I.
Washington.-There seems practi.
,ally no chance now for Washington
to escape a Sahara-like dryness.
Judge Gould of the District su.
preme court denied the injunction
sought by six saloon keepers who
wished to test the Sheppard prohibi.
icn law.
The law which affects the District
of Columbia was passed by the last
congress.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
Means to Move U. S. Army Will
Be Lacking at the Present
Rate of Construction.
ALLIES BEG FOR TONNAGE
twenty-five Vessels For Use of Italy
Set Aside on Urgent Plea.
Shipping Board Faces Big
Task.

Washington. Ship construction
throughout the United States is lag
ging because of scarcity of labor,
and the government wants 400, O,OO0
more men to bring the shipyards to
the full capacity that is required to
meet the urgent demands Of the al
lied nations. Many of the shipyards,
working one shift day, are able to
turn out only As to so per cent. OF
the output that could be produced with
three shifts of eight hours each. There
are 100000 men employed for the ono
shift IN the yards and the desired ad.
ditional shifts cannot be filled for
want of men.
The shipping board comedies the
ground for Lord Northcliffe's Chicago
statement that the country would not
be able by the exd of 1918 to turn out
the 100000 tons required for trans
port purposes, but, at the same time
it was stated that if the pending labov
troubles could be settled and the scar
city of labor cured a tonnage output
of between 100000 and 100000
could be reached by the end of next
year.
The situation has been relieved
somewhat by the recent announce
ment that the plan of exemptlns
shipyard employees from military
service was under serious considera'
ton by the war department. 1t IS
realized by the war department off,
cials, as Lord Northcliffe plainly
stated, that there is little use OF rails
ing an immense army if there are to
be no ships to transport it and keep
it munitioned and fed once it is on
the other side.
This situation may lead to an ex-
tension Of the exemption privileges
of men who are employed in the con-
struction of ships or who are engaged
in allied trades. This could be
worked out easily under the new
draft system of five classes an
nounced last Saturday by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
The 100000 eligibles will be ap-
portioned to the five classes in the
order they are to be called. The eco
nomic value of man will determine
to a large extent the class to which
he will be assigned.
That is, if he is engaged in a war
industry he will be placed in the
fifth class, which will be the last
called. Many of the officials who are
striving for a maximum ship tonnage
output hope the war department will
decide to place shipyard employees in
the last class.
In carrying out its policy of ex-
tending to the allies the use Of what
ever tonnage the United States can
spare the shipping board agreed to
turn over to the Italian government
100000 tons or American SnlpplnS-
about twenty-five vessels-which will
be drawn partly from the coastwise
trade and partly from the foreign
trade.
This will make $4,000 tons that
the shipping board has released for
charter to the allies in the last few
days, France being an earlier benef-
ciary. The French government was
given $4,000 tons Of shipping for
charter outright and an additional
100000 tons of modern fast sailing
vessels in exchange for 100000 tons
of small slow French steamships
which have been plying outside the
submarine zones.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
JAPAN TO POLICE PACIFIC OCEAN

Believed This Is Allies Plan When
U. S. Ships Are Brought East.
Washington.-Nearly two-thirds OF
the water surface of the world Is
about to be policed by the Japanese.
The navy of Japan may probably
cake up the task of patrolling the
whole sphere of the Pacific ocean, be-
sides the Indian ocean and Australian
waters, which Japan is now guarding.
This is because the Pacific naval
forces of the United States are likely
to be withdrawn soon.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1917-11-02
s7,563 WOMEN IN GERMAN MINES.

Increase of 10000 Since 1o14-12,ooo
More Youths at Work.
Washington.-The extent to which
women are replacing men in the
mines of Germany is disclosed in
government report just issued. Dur.
ing the last quarter of 1916 there were
1858 women so employed compared
with 1896 employed in the same Pc
riod Of 1914
The number of youths employed in
mines also shows increases of 1920
in 1914 and 43,095 in 1916. 7ds '
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-08-29
Partial List of
Those You Know Who
Uncle Sam
Has MQhiIiZQd
Has Modified

Joseph H. Puthoff
Gustave A. Sander
Irwin T. Shultz
Frank J. Klemann
Alfred T. Shoemaker
Carl E. Vantz
VIM. C.. Fur1nan
Lawrence VIM. Duning
Chas. F. Klemann
Chas. w. White
Arthur V. Darby
VIM. B. Conway
Gus L. Milton
Benjamin H. Hickman
Harry ]. Hoff
Erwin R. Knight
Ben W. Beede
Albert R. Williams
Ebert R. Noggle
James T. Killgore
Ray Paul Sparkling
Elmer E. Driscoll
Howard c.. Hunt
Clarence E. Daugherty
Giuseppe Petriella
Mike Marsio
Harold R. Kohler
Charles B. Sharp
Wilbur A. Uhde
Albertus Runkle
Orville Knox
Russell Pitcher
Claud Bozarth
Roy w. Dye
Robert Nelson Land
Nick Delucio
VIM. Edward Saunders
Joseph Mitrone
Edward H. Weichman
Adam Milan
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1917-08-29

Julius VIM. Moelk
Edwin w. Blomeyer
Elmer E. Atkinson
Chaln1er C. Dixon
John H. Thomas
Michele Nicoletta
Paul Hollopeter
Howard B. Jefferies
VIM. McNally
Pasquale Rotdello
Bert D. WEIGH
Harlon Alonzo
Glen S. McConaha
John w. Kemper
Harold William Dilks
A. Chester Mills
Jack E. Uhl
Jas. E. Palsgrove
Frank Martin Minor
Arthur R. Barnes
Everett J. Mitchell
VIM. Fred Niebuhr
Elroy Davis
BENZ. F. Jones
Glenn E. Whitesell
Ernest McLain
Benona H. Parshall
Walter c.. Niebuhr
John Leslie Williams
Robert L. Hungerford
Hugh W. Chandler
Russell HaWekotte
VIM. L. Jones
Wilbur Kamp
John Ralph Ingermann
Chas. r. White
Darwin r .Burelison
VIM. Wilson Zook
Raymond S. Thomas
ET1nal r. Huddelson
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
ACCEPTING THE INEVITABLE.

A man is known by the manner in
which he accepts the inevitable. The
wisest and happiest man is the one
who looks into the future and dis
Germs the inevitable at the greatest
distance. Such man then goes out,
meets the inevitable at least halfway,
slaps it on the back, takes it by the
hand, envelops it with his aura and
asks it to stay to lunch.
The miserable of earth are those
who are continually trying to dodge
the inevitable. Perhaps they shut
their eyes when they hear that it is
expected, or oftentimes they jump into
bed and pull the clothes over their
heads. The Warehouses are full of
people who have quarreled with the
inevitable So much that neither
polite society nor impolite will have
anything more to do with them.
Some of them will not admit that
there is such a thing as an inevita-
BILE even after it has come and gone.
The first lesson parents should
teach their children is that whenever
any one wants to give them the in
evitable they should accept it in.
astanter.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
CAPTAIN PAUL JONES.

History pages do not relate any
more heroic or thrilling story than
that of the triumph won against great
odds by Capt. Paul Jones, in whose
veins, although not an American but
Scotchman, there flowed blood
staunch and true to the American
cause of liberty. While off the coast
of Scotland with the Bonhomme
Richard and the Alliance and the
Pallas he was swooped down upon by
the fiotilla under Captain Pearson
which was conveying merchant
fleet. Jones prepared to meet the
enemy as best he could. The British
guns had long range and Paul Jones
determined to fight close. He brought
his ships up to the enemy until the
muzzles of his guns came in contact
with the enemy ships. Then ensued
one of the most frenzied conflicts in
the history of naval battles, continu-
ing from seven to ten in the evening.
Paul Jones' position was desperate in
the extreme. His ship was so shat
tered that only three guns remained
effective, and he then assailed the
enemy with hand grenades which fall
ing into the Scraps soon set her on
fire. At length her magazine blew up
killing all near it. Pearson commands
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
A QUEER GOBLIN.

Once upon a time in the good old
days when fairies were found in every
buttercup and the little birds and the
wild creatures of the woods were the
friends of the good and true, there
lived in England a wise and great
king, who was said himselh to be kin
of the fairies.
It was known that a wise enchanter
was his friend and often gave him
advice about his kingdom.
And, though this king was so wise
that his name is still known in Eng
land as that Of the most wonderful
king who ever ruled the Britons, he
sometimes made mistakes. His name,
may as well tell you, was Arthur.
Arthur was the strongest man and
the most skillful fighter in the coun-
try. Some persons said there was no
one in the world like him.
But one day the great Merlin, who
was his adviser, or prime minister,
thought he would teach King Arthur a
lesson. So by means of the magic in
which he was skilled Merlin made a
queer creature, all heads and arms
appear before King Arthur and dare
him to a wrestling match.
Arthur smiled when he saw the fig
ure. Perhaps his friend Merlin was
in the habit of playing tricks like this
on the king, for his majesty did not
seem to be in the least surprised and
frightened by sight odd enough to
scare persons unused to such visitors
out of years growth.
"Oh, yes; I'll wrestle with you some
time,' the king said. ''But not today
| I'm very busy, you see"
The next day the figure came again
but Arthur had another reason fol
putting it off. Arthur thought then
but he wasn't sure, that the figure
looked a little larger than on the day
before.
The next day it came back and the
next and the next. Always the king
had some excuse why he had not time
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
FACE YOUR TROUBLE.

You'd scarcely believe it, but I
had plowed around rock in one OF
my fields for five years." said
farmer, land I had broken a now
ing machine knife against it, besides
losing the use of the ground in which
it lay, all because | supposed it was
large rock that it would take too
much time and labor to remove. But
today, when began to pillow for corn,
/ thought that by-and-by / might
break my cultivator against that
rock; so took crow-bar, intending
to poke around and find out its size
once for ALL And it was one of the
surprises of my life to find that it
was little more than two feet long.
1t was standing on it's edge, and so
light that / could lift it in the wagon
without help"
So it is with most Of us; we shiver
and shrink and fret over some difficult
ty which we do not even see distinct
ly or at all understand the nature of,
whereas, If we would face 1t and call
it by its right name, one-half of it's
terror would be gone.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
MuTEs AS MuNlTIoN MAKERS.

The intensive production of NUM-
quirements in hand labor, has opened
a new future for the deaf and dumb,
who before the war were excluded
from factory work. Now hundreds
of them are making shells and parts
of automobiles and aeroplanes for the
army. Some of them are earning the
equivalent of four dollars a day.
Manufacturers refused deaf and
dumb help previously because of the
laws that made the employer respon-
sible for all the accidents to his en-
ployes, and because the accident in
surance companies would not insure
the deaf and dumb. There were also
prejudices against them, arising from
the supposed difficulty of conveying
orders and explanations.
In practice it has been found that
the deaf and dumb men meet with no
more accidents than their comrades
who can hear and talk. They learn
even quicker by sight than do many
workmen by ear, and their attention,
never being divided by conversation,
their count is of the best finish and
equal in volume to that of the best
mechanics. They are even more at
tentive to danger than men who have
possession of all their faculties.
The Minister of Armament, recog-
nizing their services rendered to the
national defense, has issued a circular
| to directors of hand labor in NUM-
lions factories ordering them to pre-
vent discrimination against dead and
dumb applicants for employment as
mechanics, it being officially recog-
| nized that their infirmity is no dis
qualification when in positions in
which they will not be brought into
contact with the public.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14

to wrestle with the goblin, and each
day it grew bigger and bigger until at
last it became of such an alarmingly
large size that the king felt that it
would not be safe to put off the match
a minute longer.
So Arthur rose, and the goblin and
the king wrestled long and furiously.
At first it looked as though the goblin
might win, but Arthur would not give
up. At last he had the goblin down
and ready to say it was beaten.
AS the goblin rose to it's feet it
said:
Never put off a task till tomorrow
that can be done as well today"
Then the goblin vanished and was
never seen more.
Indiana Catholic
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14

exempted from the tithes, as appears
in the law laid down by the Third
Council in 1885.
The secular clergy were anxious to
increase their own numbers and to
assume the care of the Indians whom
the regulars were unable to reach.
From what is known today there is
the regular clergy would have accom-
plished the results if there had been
enough of them, but it was obviously
grossly unjust to expect one clergy
man, secular or regular, to attend to
the spiritual needs and at the same
time alter the material environment
of a community of over sixteen thou
sand inhabitants.
In all this we see no evidence that
the Church or the Spanish government
tried in any way to restrict learning.
On the contrary, both Church and
State were ever active and Jealous
in that regard and were only limited
in their efforts by the money avail
able and enough men to do the work.
Yet, given the resources, it is won
derful what one man can do. Coming
down to modern times We find one
Father Plancarte, sent to Tacoma,
town of some six thousand inhab-
itants, about three miles from Zamo-
ra. Possessing considerable wealth
inherited from his parents and rela-
tives, Father Plancarte was able to
indulge his philanthropic whims. He
found the place squalid nest OF
ignorant people, noted for thieving.
He built tramway from Tacoma to
Zamora-the first enterprise OF its
kind in Mexico. He paved and lighted
the streets He established indus
tries, giving employment to the people
at good wages; and he established
schools and educated the people to
the extent that when he left the place
there were no illiterates in it. He
effected a complete regeneration OF
the community.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14

The worst case of law versus Justice
and common sense is one which Mon
taigne relates as having happened in
his own day. Some men were con-
demned to death for murder. The
judges were then informed by the off,
GERS of an inferior court that certain
persons in their custody had confessed
themselves guilty of the murder and
had told so circumstantial a tale that
the fact was placed beyond all doubt.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
UNDERTAKES

When mother calls me in from play
And tells me l must wash and go
An errand, that's so far away
l guess that you could never know!
The kitchen steps are high for me
The cookie jar is up so tall!
They didn't mean that they should be
For little folks like me at all.
And when go to bring the COW
have to go SO far that then
The sun, that shines SO brightly now,
Is gone when | get back again.
So when you stop to think of it
How tiny are our steps and slow
1t isn't strange, a single bit
That little children tire so.
Buffalo Neps.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
THE WILD PIGEON MYSTERY.

That the wild pigeon, once so COM
mon in the United States, has become
extinct is one of the strangest mys-
teries in American natural history.
1t is a puzzle which has baffled sclen-
lists and which probably never will
be solved. Half a century ago wild
pigeons were abundant in Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and
all the states of the middle west. In
their migrations they travelled in
fiocks numbering tens of thousands,
and it sometimes took single flock
the better part of an hour to pass
given point. Vast numbers of the
pigeons were killed every year by
gunners, but many investigators hold
that the complete disappearance of
the species must have been due in
part at least to other causes. No
other bird was ever so numerous in
this country as the pigeon.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
MAKING THE BEST OF WHAT you
HAVE.

The children lived in a little cabin
home, and all three of them-Nell,
Rob, and Lizzie-were taking a gay
make-believe ride on an old log.
A gentleman who was passing down
the road stopped and said: Good
morning, little folks. That is rather
slow riding. Wouldn't you like a
horse and carriage?"
yes, SIR said Robbie, "but we
haven't any, and so we are getting
the most fun we can out of what we
do have
Was not that wise answer? How
much pleasanter this world would be
if all the little people, and the big
ones, too, would stop fretting about
what they cannot get, and make the
best of what they have.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
MY cooKY MAN.

With currants for his eyes and nose,
And raisins for his ears,
You really cannot think how fine
My cooky man appears.
And when he's baked a golden brown
With sugar glistening white
Upon his face and on his coat
l take tiny bite.
Beginning at his toes, and then
1t is so hard to stop
I eat some more, and then some more
Until I reach the top.
And then my cooky man is gone,
And / am very sad
But Norah says, Cheer up, dear,
You mustn't feel so bad!
you're learning now lesson that
You'll find through life is true:
There's no one ever yet could eat
His cake, and keep it, tool"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
HOW SWIFT OUR LIFE!
Contributed by David c. Nimmo.)

How swift, now swift our life is run
And we give up this breath!
IT'S just one circle of the sun
And we lie down in death.
AS full of hope as morn of life
We come to front the years;
We turn us mangled by the strife
And torn by grief and fears.
Sweet, soft and calm and innocent
We come forth to the light;
Dark, guilty, wretched and misspent
We pass on out of sight.
How swift, how swift our life is rur
And we give up this breath!
IT'S just one circle of the sun
And we lie down in death.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-07-14
FIRST CONQUEST OF THE MAT
TERHORN.

The formidable peak known as the
Matterhorn long remained unconquer-
ed. No less than eight attempts were
made by Edward Whymper alone.
The ninth was successful, but was
marred by. terrible catastrophe.
While descending, soon after leaving
the summit, Hadow, one of the party,
slipped, dragging four others with
him. The remaining three were well
placed and managed to save them
selves by holding firmly to the rocks
The rope between them, however
broke, and they saw their unfortunate
comrade disappear over the edge, to
fall the depth of one mile to the gla
cier below. This was two generations
ago. Now scarcely summer day
passes in times of peace when dozen
mountaineers, men and women, dc
not reach it's summit.