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The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-12-27
r1E pIoKENs sENIINEI. pIcKENs, SOUTH CAROLINA

Nationwide prohibition won In tho
house, and only the adjustment OF Il
slight difference In resolution between
the house and senate now stands IN
the way Of submitting to state loGisla.
ton an amendment to tho fCdrral con.
stituti0n f%0rbidding tho manufacture,
sale or importation Of intONlCatiNH II.
| qu0rs for beverage purposes Nv the
| United Statcs or its territories.
The presidents approval to the ia.
ti0n.widc prohibition measure which
has PASSED both the house AMI the
senate Ia not necessary. and tn" state
legislatures may act M thry pleas"
after The signatures Of tho vie" prr"i
dent and Speaker Clark have hr"n AT
tnchrd to tho resolution.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Can. says
the union government and ronsctip.
ton won Il decisive victory al tho
polls. Virtually completes returns from
the eastern provinces and results not
ruitc SO complete from west OF tn"
Great Lake Indicate that. apart from
the soldiers vote to be counted IN jan.
unry. tho government VIII hav" II ma
jority In KEGS OF 40.
Immediate legislation to hrin; the
crews OF transports. minr lay""" ana
other army vessels into the military
service Is urgently recommended ny
Quartrrmnstrr General SHARP" IN his
annual report. just made public.
Seventeen enlisted men of The Unit.
ed States engineer corps are reported
missing in action by Genera Per.
shing in Il dispatch to the war depart
mont
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-12-27
BABST PREDICTS PLENTY
OF SUGAR DURING NEW YEAF'

Washington.--A plentiful supply O.,
sugar for the American people during
the coming year was predicted D.
Earl d. Babst, president of the Anne
lean Sugar Refining Company, %testif!
ing before the senate investigating
committee. He opposed placing Z
limit on domestic consumption, con
tending that any such plan would re
suit in q larger surplus than could b.
shipped abroad.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-12-27
BRIEF news NOTES
WHAT HAS OCCURRED DURING
WEEK THROUGHOUT couN.
TRY AND ABROAD
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE
Gathered From All Parts OF The
Globe And Told In Short
Paragraphs
Domestic.

A Boston dispatch says Axel Jams
sem, a sailor, WAS sentenced to fou
months In Jail By Judge Morton il
federal court on the charge OF railini
to obey orders and cndnngrring ,
transatlantic liner by going TO slccl
in the submarine zone, while sup
posed to be on watch. The Judge an
nounccd that in future eases OF this
kind he would impose tho maximum
penalty of one year.
The home Of John d.. Rockefeller
at Forest I'LL, Il suburb of Cleveland,
Ohio, took fire at midnight recently.
Tho fire spread with such rnpidity
through the four-story building that
the police said they believed it to
have been OF inccndinry origin. II
vas impossible TO save any of the
furnishings and many valuable paint.
ings, bronzca and tapestries were do.
stroycd.
Tho Southern Textile Exposition "
cotton mill machinery exhibits from
seventeen states, at GrrrIvillr, $. c.,
closed with Il total attendance OF
10000.
The next Southern Textile lixposi-
ton will be held at Grccnvillr. s. G.
in the fall Of 1919, and the Northern
exposition will be hold at Boston,
Mass, next year.
Officers of the Southern Textile Ex.
position will be elected at the semi.
annual meeting 10 be held al Wrights-
Vile Beach, N. c., next June.
A 3-hour battle with riot guns and
rcvolvcrs, in Bridgeport, Conn, be-
tween police and frcqucntcrs Of a ne
gro club, resulted in the wounding Of ]
policeman, 2 white citizens and three
negroes. Two will probably die.
In accordance with q federal decree
p~rOnouncing the organization Of a com
bination in restraint Of trade, disso-
luton Of the News Print Manufacture
crs' association was voted al a meet
ing Of the associations directors in
New York City,
Because Frederick j. Hcusor, a
Yonkcrs, N. Y, confcctioncr. sold
cakes decorated with the German col
ors, candies designed as iron crosses
and PruSsian helmets. and icings rep.
.r"scnting things Tcutonic. federal au-
thoritics decided he was spreading
propaganda. lie was arrested
and informed on ELLIS Island as an
enemy alien.
Tho military correspondent of The !
London Times, in 4 general review of
the military situation, estimates that
there are now about $50 German Iii.
visions on the western front and 10
on the eastern front, but that appar-
entity all men between 10 and 80 years
OF age are being with drawn for the
latter point for service i'm tho west.
writer cOncurS in the opinion that
the Germans probably will try to set
tie matters in tho w"St before Rus
fia RECEIVERS and America is ready,
hoping to deliver Il decisive blow this
winter or in tho spring.
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Washington.

Officials Of the Philippine Island
government have issued Il warning to
ship wncr to beware OF German
raiders suspected to be near Singa.
porN, II Of the strait settlements.
Two "lightlcss nights a week have
been ordered by the fuel administra-
ton. sunday night, December l6, is
the first. and thereafter Sunday ana
Thursday OF every week will sec the
city White Ways and advertising signs
darkcncd, only necessary street lights
used, and only such lights as the Law
requires in Offices and stores not open
for business.
Delays and deficiencies in supplying
the war army With ordnance were de-
tailed and explained by Major Cen
eral Cro2ior, chief Of ordnance. to the
senate military committee al the be.
ginning of the general inquiry planned
by congress INTO the conduct Of the
war. The general admitted that there
is a shortage Of ordnance al home,
a sugar ration of three pounds for
each person a month. a porkless day
and II whcatlcSs and moa,less meal
q day will be recommended to house.
holders in q new kitchen card soon TO
be put out by the food adminisua-
ton. Observance OF whcatlcss and
mcatlcss meals viii be asked in add
ton to the whcatless and mcatlcss DAYS
called for now.
First steps 10 place soldiers of Ger.
man or AustroHungarian birth or ex,
traction at duty apart from the actual
fighting forces appears in army orders
Orders show the transfer OF nearly one
hundred enlisted men Of the regular OF
national army to duty TO the disci
primary barracks guard at For Leav
enworth, Kans.
The Cuban house Of representatives
hes passed n resolution declaring thai
Il state Of war exists between Austria
Hungary and the republic of Cuba.
A number Of American railway en-
gineers have been killed by German
aerial bombs in n town somewhere be
hind the British front. \ German boml
foil In a street in n town through
which American troops were passing
Pieces OF the bomb shattered the win
dows of q house in which there wer,
officers. showeriNg them with glass
but hurting no II Two America,
soldiers have died in hospital from
sunshot wounds.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-12-27
PROPERTY OF AMERICANS
IN GERMANY TAKEN Owe r

Berlin.-Thc property Of American
in Germany has been placed under til
t%rustecship Of the German govern.
ment. There is NJ intention. how.
ever, to confiscatc property or to
infringe on the personal rights Of the
property holders.
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European.

ultIll.
European.
Germany will shortly transmit peace
terms to the allies through nrutrals
and under pledge of secrecy, accord
ing to word from Berlin. Reports de.
clare Germany will assert her "politi-
cal disintcrcstcdncss" rs to belgium,
but will not mention Alsacc Lorraine.
One British and five neutral nlcr-
chantmcn. a l'riti$h destroyer and
four minc swccpcrs have been sunk
in the North sea by German naval
forces. The losses were the result
Of an attack on Il convoy bound from
Scotland TO Norway, Sir Eric G"ldcs.
first lord Of the admiralty, announced.
The total tOnngac OF the lost MGR
chantmcn is 5000.
Two neutral merchant vessels and
December II by German d]oSiroycrs,
Thomas j. Mcnamara, financial soc
rotary to The English admiralty, an
nonnccd in the house Of commons.
The German raid in the North sea
duplicates the successful enterprise
German raiders which attacked a con
voy in the North sea. They sank nine
neutral merchantmen and two Of the
rscorting British d~cStrOycrs. Five
Norwegian, three Swedish and one
Danish vessel were sunk without
warning. Three other merchantmen
escaped.
and Germany have agreed upon the
terms of an armisticc. and Leon Tr0,z-
Ky, Bolslicviki minister, declares that
pence negotiations will he begun i'm
mrdia,cly after the armisticc has been
signed.
Home and industries in Now York
were confronted With the most serious
coal shortage in the city's history be-
OF inability to get supplies
across the river On barges from New
Jersey tidrwatcr points where thou
sands Of ton are icc-bound.
\ slight increase in the losses of
British merchantmen by submarine or
mine in the past week is noted in the
admiralty statement. Fourteen YES
sells Of more than sixteen hundred
tons were sunk, as we'll as seven un-
dor that tonnage.
y London dispatch quotes a Vienna
official statement as saying the Aus.
TRAN battlcship Wien was sunk De.
comhcr g.. Most Of the crew were
saved. The waters in which the YES.
sci was sunk were not named.
The latest order of The fuel admin
istration rccitcs that ii is counted
upon not only to effect d substantial.
saving Of coal, but to provide start
ling visual evidence that the United
States is engaged in the conduct 0
greatest of world wars"
The British line northwest of Jeru
salem, midway between that CITY ant
Jaffa, has beer advanced. contingent.
Of Ghu"Nas carrying positions as ia,
as The mo- Il of the Midieh. FIT,
Turks were killed and ten taken pris
oncrS.
Premier lloyd-Georgc
that General Allenby, the British com
mandcr in Palestine. entered the Hol,
City on foot. General Allcnby wa
well received by the population.
killed and others wounded.
In the case Of professional, mo,
Internal Revenue Commissioner re
per says, anent the operation Of tn
excess profits laws against them, tina
IN" cost Of a small amount of euui,
mcnt Will be considered merely a pr,
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-12-27

French Sink Two U-Boats.
Athcns.-E'rench d~estroyers have
sunk two enemy submarines in the
GulS Of laramie.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22
CASS LAKE WOULD BE
IDEAL ARMY CAMP
PIONEER SUGGESTION

st. Paul, May 22-Any person or
persons having in their possession
a tract or tracts of land in quantity
of $4,000 acres can do stroke of
business by comforting at once with
Colonel George H. Morgan, Federal
building, St. Paul. The enormous
dimensonal size of the concentration
camp for the cOnscripted army to be
ready by Sept. 1, TO provide for men
drafted from Minnesota, the Dako-
tas, Iowa and Nebraska, has swamp
ed the market, it became known to-
day.
The board selected to pick possible
sites for this camp met Saturday for
he first session and only one site Of
fering delegation was present. This
came from North Platte, Neb.
The Pioneer would suggest that
the army officials consider Cass Lake
as a site for the training camp which
is suitable in every respect and ideal
every way Minnesota should by all
means have the camp and Cass Lake
would seem to be the proper spot.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22
SPECIAL MEETING OF
COM MERCIAL CLUB
TO DISCUSS NORMAL

Every member of the Commercial
club is urged to attend the special
meeting of the club tonight at 1880
o'clock as there are several matters
to come up for discussion and action.
Perhaps the most important mat
ter to claim attention is that Of the
normal school. Something has to be
done toward getting busy on the new
normal and it is up to the business
interests of Bemidji to get behind
the project and push it hard, and the
business interests of Bemidji thor
oughly realize it. 1t is a matter of
vital import to Bemidji and should
be taken hold Of and pushed.
The question of the Liberty Loan
is another matter to be discussed and
other topics of interest are to come
before the meeting. The hour OF
meeting is 1880 o'clock.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22
HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ON REGISTRATION CARDS!

"signal,' "Aviation," supply"
Marine" "Navy" Next, state the
number of years service, not count
ing time spent in the reserve.
Finally, name the nation or state you
served. If you served under the
United States or one of the states of
the United States, name your service
in one Of the following terms: Ma
tional Guard (of such and such a
State)," militia (of such and such
a State)," "Volunteers Of United
States," or Regular Army Navy
of United States"
IL. Do you claim exemption from
draft? Specify grounds.
Because you claim exemption from
draft, it by no means follows that
you are exempt. For the informa-
tion Of the War Department, you
should make a claim now If you in
tend to prosecute it. Some persons
will be exempted on account Of their
occupationsh or offices, some on ac-
count of the fact that they have
relatives dependent upon them for
support. Your answer touching
these things will be important in
supporting the claim you now intend
to make in your answer to the pres
ent questions. Be sure therefore,
that the grounds you now state are
in conformity with your answers to
questions Z and 8. In stating
grounds you claim as exempting you,
use of the following terms: If you
claim to be an executive, legislative
or judicial officer of the state or ma
ton, name your office and say
whether it is an office Of the state
or nation. If you claim to be a men,
Der of a religious sect whose creed
forbids its members to participate in
war in any form, simply name the
sect. If you are employed in the
transmission of the United States
mails or as an artificer of workman
in an armory, arsenal or navy yard
of the United States, or if you are a
mariner employed in the sea ser
vice of any citizen or merchant with
in the United States, 50 state. If
you are a felon or otherwise morally
deficient and desire to claim exemp-
ton Oh that ground, state your
ground briefly. If you claim phys
ical disability, state that briefly. II
you claim exemption on any other
ground, state your ground briefly.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22

AID OF COUNTRY,
GlST. TO ADDRESS
0NFRIDAYEYENING
DR.. Effie McCullom Jones to Speak
at Commercial Club; Making
Tour of Minnesota.
WILL OUTLINE PART WOMEN
SHOULD TAKE AFTER WAR
E. E. Mcdonald Will Preside and
Other Speakers Will Be Heard;
No Admission Fee.

Many people of Bemidji are very
much pleased at having secured at
this time lecturer of national prom
inence, DR.. Effie McCullom Jones of
Waterloo, Ia., who will speak at the
Commercial club next Friday evening
at o'clock on National Aid Work,
telling what women can do at this
time to be of service to their coun-
tidy in the line of gardening and
thrift, Red Cross work, and the con-
servation Of food. She will also
speak on the responsibility women
should assume at the close of the war
and the part they should take in
the reconstruction period which will
fellow.
Making State Tour.
DR.. Jones is making tour of the
state, and according to press reports
she is an orator at once eloquent and
forceful, humorous and inspiring, a
keen thinker and carries her discus
sion to a logical conclusion. She
has held many positions of trust and
honor, among them the responsible
position of trustee of Lombard COL
lege, Galesburg, ILL.,, vice president
of the Iowa Associated Charities and
w. &. L. w., aud twice elected preSl-
dent of the Iowa Ministerial associa-
tion DR.. Jones was also elected
dean of women at Lombard college,
but resigned her position to become
field director for the National Wo-
man Suffrage association, who, un-
der the direction of Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, is devoting its en-
ergy to national aid work entirely.
Mcdonald to Preside.
E. E. Mcdonald will preside at the
meeting and other local people of
prominence will also speak. There
is a great deal of interest in this
lecture and a great many will doubt
less avail themselves Of this oppor-
tunity to hear one of the leading
women speakers of the country. Ad-
mission is free and the public is cor
daily invited.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22
BANKERS
RALLY 1oLlBERrY
LOAN; COMMITTEE
IS HARD AT WORK
Meeting Held at Blackjack Last
Evening for Purpose of Organ
izing for Service.
EVERY MAN PRESENT OFFERS
SERVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT
Banks Offer to Loan Money to
Those Desiring to Invest in
Liberty Bonds.

The bankers of the southern por-
tion of Beltrami county were all
represented at meeting last night
in Blackduck for the purpose of or
ganized to sell Liberty. Bonds in
Beltrami county ,, '-.
J The bankers have practically been
drafted by the government into this
service. They are all to devote ev-
cry possible moment to the service
and are to handle all bonds with
out any charge whatever. Every
only willing but anxious to get into
the work on this basis. You are of
course interested in seeing Beltrami
county do it's share. Do not fail to
be at the meeting of the Commercial
will be appointed and full explana-
tions will be made.
Banks Will Help.
It was unanimously agreed that in
order to assist the people in buying
these bonds the banks will loan rs
per cent of the value of the bond
for reasonable length of time at 6
per cent per rannum.' For instance,
if you wish to buy hundred dollar
bond you may pay $25 down, give
your note for SIS. at per cent and
a s1OO bond will be purchased for
YOU and delivered to you as soon as
your note is paid. Think it over
carefully and make up your mind
inst how much you can possibly take
and don't give a thought as to how
much you think the other fellow
ought to take. Don't think that be-
cause you owe some money that you
can't take any bonds. If nobody
bought bond except the people
who are out of debit. GERMANY would
win the war. Make up your mind
that YOU have got to sacrifice a little,
remembering all the time that you
are buying the best thing in the
world.
Time to Act.
Talk the matter over with your
friends and make up your mind lust
how many bonds you can possibly
take before the committees get to
you. You are, of course. going to
take one; there is no question about
that. but if you will decide how
many you want it will save the COM
mittees a great deal of time. Be
midi has a great reputation all over
the state for being alive. Let each
one of us try to do what we can to
show the state that Bemidji is still
alive and if possible let us subscribe
for more bonds than any other city
of our size in the state.
EVERYBODY is Boosting.
The Commercial clubs at Black
duck, Kelliher and Tenstrike are to
be called into the service; the mer-
! chants and professional men of the
different communities are to be draft
ed on the committees, it being the
understanding that every individual
is to work equally hard. The bank
ers have simply been asked to help
push. It is just as much your obli-
CATION to insist gu your ucighbor
buying a bond as il is the obligation
of the banks to help in every way
they can.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22
Horrors! State Official Saws
His Job Useless; Abolished

St. Paul, May 22.-Anton M. Op-
sahl of Brainerd is an object of Gu
riosity around me state capitol these
days. Veteran attaches of the build
ing are pointing to him as the man
who wants his job abolished.
Mr.. Opsahl is state oil inspector.
He was appointed last January for
two years, but on his own recon-
mendation the office will be abolished
next August, and the work will be
done by the state dairy and food
commissioner without extra pay. This
is part of Governor J. \. A. Burn
quist's plan to eliminate unnecessary
offices and consolidate departments.
IT told the governor early last win
ter that there is no need of a chief
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-22

ployed in the sea service of citizen
Or merchant within the United
States"
8. BY whom employed? Where en-
ployed?
If you are working for an indlvid-
ual, firm, corporation or association,
state it's name. If in business,
trade, profession or employment for
yourself, SO state. If you are an
officer of the state or federal gov
ernment, say whether your office is
under the United States, the state,
the county or a municipality. In
answer to the question as to where
you aer employed, give the town,
county and state where you work.
8. Have you father, mother, wife,
child under IL, or a sister or
brother under IL solely depend
ent upon you for support (spe-
city which,?
Consider your answer thought
fully. II it is true that there is an
other mouth than your own which
you alone have a duty to feed, do
not let your military ardor inter-
fere with the wish fthe nation to
reduce wars misery to a minimum.
On the other hand, unless the per-
son you have in mind is solely de-
pendent on you, do not hide behind
petticoats or children.
10. Married or single (which) {?
Race (specify which,?
This does not ask whether you
were once married, but whether you
are married now. In answer to the
question as to your race. state brief
ly whether Caucasian "Mongol-
ian," NEGRO" "Malayan" or "In-
diam
IL. What military service have you
had? Rank? Branch? Years?
Nation or State?
No matter what country you
served, you must give complete in
formation. In answering these ques-
tions, first name your rank, using
one of the following words: Com
missioned officer" ''Noncommission-
ed officer" Private" Next, state
branch in which you served in one
of the following words: Infantry"
Cavalry" Artillery" Medical"
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taken out first papers"); in the
latter case you are only "declar-
ant"
You are also naturalized citizen
if, although foreign born, your
father or surviving parent became
fully naturalized while you were un-
der 21 years of age, and if you came
to the United States under 21.
CD You are declarant if, al
though a citizen or subject of some
foreign country, you have declared
on oath before a naturalization court
your intention to become a citizen Of
the United States. Receipt from the
clerk of the court of the certified
copy of such declaration is often
called taking out first papers," You
are not a declarant if your first pa
per was taken out after September
rs; 1906 and is more than Z years
(4 You are an alien if you do
not fall within one Of the three
classes above mentioned.
5. Where were you born?
First name the town, then the
state, then the country.
6. If not q citizen, of what country
are you a citizen or subject?
This need be answered only by
aliens and declarants. Remember
that "declarant" is not yet a citi-
zen Of the United States. If an
alien or declarant, state the name of
your country, as France" Japan" -"
China" etc.
2. What is your present trade, oc-
cupation or office?
This does not ask what you once
did, nor what you have done most
of the time, nor what you are best
fitted to do. 1T ASKS WHAT YOUR
JOB IS RIGHT NOW. State briefly,
as Farmer" Miner" "Student, "
''Laborer" Con farm, in rolling mill,
in automobile, wagon or other fac
tory)," "Machinist in automobile
factory" etc. If you hold an office
under state or federal government.
name the office you hold. If you
are in one of the following offices or
employments, use one of the names
hereafter mentioned:
Custom house clerk" ''employed
in the transmission of the mails" or
''employed in an armory, arsenal or
navy yard" mariner, actually en-