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The Springdale news., 1917-08-03
BRING MY BOY HOME CLEAN
(Will A. Piper, Local Chairman

(Will A. Piper, Local Chairman)
earnest address for contributions to the Army Y NJ C.
A. fund
Your good intentions do not go far enough. And the
boys good intentions he for the training camp
strong they are will need the homeke influence of the
Young Mems Christian Association to keep him in the
path of honor
sion said recently: Money be turned to the
Young Mems Christian Association with every confidence
that it will be expended scientifically and along lines
MOST ACCEPTABLE TO SOLDIERS" (The capitals
are ours.)
At the meeting Sunday night at the Auditorium the
audience responded with $3.50 in pledges and cash. On
Monday and Tuesday the campaign continued and
draft for S to the State Headquarters Tuesday
evening We approaching the amount asked. $50!
CITIZENS OF SPRINGDALE is it not worth your gifts
to know that there will be one to take YOUR place
before YOUR boy goes to the battle line? Will it not
Cross has done its work and YOUR boy is recovering
from his wounds that the Y NJ c. A. will stand between
him and the many temptations to dishonor? am appeal
ing all those who have aided in this work to do so
at once The First National Bank IS acting
for the funds Your pledge may be filed out and the
DR.. R. T. Phillips Rev. McAdams, Rev. Dulaney, S. R.
Baxter J. S. EWalt W. c. Banks. Or you may de-
post the money the credit of the Y NJ c. A. at the
First National Bank Any way that is satisfactory to
you. BUT PLEASE Do YOUR BIT NOW
Fill out and hand in this pledge
THE ARKANSAS Y. M. c. A. WAR WORK FUND
"Some Can Co. All Can Give
The Springdale news., 1917-08-03

Fault may be found where it IS not
The Springdale news., 1917-08-03

LADIES-Don't forget that you register Saturday
afternoons for service in the National League for Won
ems Service Registration blanks at local recruiting
Office every Saturday afternoon
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26

one in every way. The lease runs
from November L.
we put in q bid of $1,000 for the
postoffice,'' said A. l.. Swim, a stock
holder of the Federal Building COM
pany, but the addition we would
have made would have given consid-
erably more floor space than will be
secured from the part of the Herriott
building which was leased. However,
there is not much profit in the Her
riott building at the rate of $500 a
year; except for the incidental advan-
tages which will result in the increas-
ing of the rental value of the rest of
the building, l am confident that it
would not ray regular rates of inter
est on the money invested. A sidewalk
Will be built from Main avenue back to
Second avenue west in a short time
and this, with the presence of the
pOstOffice. should increase the rental
value of the property facing Second
avenue. There is not much profit in
renting to the government and while
we were willing to build the addition
back to the alley and enter another
lease. at the rate of $24OO a year. we
were not especially anxious to do So
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26

the sporadic military spirit which
found it's first and most pronounced
expression in Barcelona, all that has
since occurred, say Ell Diavio, has
come and passed as a film In a cine
matograph, and affords ample illus
tratiOns from experience to be a warn
ing to other nations who have adopt
ed the same policy as Spain.
Commenting on the position of the,
countries which have kept apart from
the great conflict, now hat the Unit
ed States is self-eliminated from the
number, the editorial continues: I'VE
sincerely believe that there is not one
which has the ability to maintain its
neutrality, however strong may be it's
spirit of nationalism. When even the
United States the richest country in
the world, with a population of a hum
dred millions, with an Industrial de-
velopment superior to all the others,
and possessing all the product of the
earth which are requisite to national
existence and industry, has not been
able to maintain it's attitude of neu-
trality, how can countries which lack
for the most part such essentials as it
enjoys, countries which are in a sit
uation of economic and financial in
ter-dependence. expect to be allowed
to isolate themselves-fo~ neutrality is
isolatiOn-without exro ng them
selves to international r. ,astrophes,
among which the shorta OF food and
the prime essentials for t-eir indus
tries figure among the most impor-
tant?
"All the other countries which feel
that they have the same & saase as af-
flicted Spain" concludes tie editor
ial, may cure themsel- cs without
calling in medical aid; tie remedy is
that they cease to initiate that victim
OF neutrality"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26
DECLARES THAT HE HAS
LEASE CINCHED AND THAT
THE CHANGE WILL BE
MADE
Contract Terminable
by u. S. in 80 Days
Lessee Brings Out Points Of Ad-
vantage in New Building-Says
He Hopes That Government
Will Soon Build.

while the postmaster probably
has not been notified up to the pres
emit" said George Herriott yesterday,
las a matter of fact my bid for the
postoffice has been accepted and the
matter is settled. There seems to be
some misrepresentation about the five
year lease matter. The government
reserves the right to terminate the
lease at any time by the serving of
a n~inety-day notice, so that whenever
the new building is erected my lease
will end. Personally, l hope that this
will be soon, because the construction
of a government building on the cor
ner of Main avenu and Second street
west would greatly enhance the val
ne of my property in which the post
office will be located until the build
ing is finished and | would get a great
deal more rem out of it than l Will
get from the government.
"The new location is about six feet
nearer the center of town than the
old one. 1t has the advantage of more
room. better lighting and other con
veniences including steam heat. An
other advantage consists in the fact
that the mail can be delivered inside
the building in an auto instead of be-
ing carried through a muddy alley as
at present. The lease is for five years
terminable by the government on
three months notice, as said. and the
rent is $500 a year The present To-
cation costs the government $1,000, al
though the get more, the diff
ference being made up by private sub
scription. / am informed that the
owners of the present location bid
S2400 a year for a lease similar to the
one which l secured, with the under
standing that they would build an ad-
dition to give more room. They could
not afford to take it for less.
Il am convinced that the people will
find the new location a satisfactory
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26
NEWSPAPERS OF SOUTHERN
LAND WANT COUNTRY TO
FOLLOW NEIGHBORS
Think Further Neutral
ity to be Impossible
Fact That the United States
Fodnd Neutral Position Unten-
able Urged as Reason for War
On the Teuton.

(By John w. White, Jr., International
News Service Staff Correspondent
BUENOS AIRES, July 26.-Newspa-
per editorials show a growing tend
ency in this country opposed to neu-
trality. Although the larger dailies of
BuenOs Aires have not openly urged
the government to take a position
with the United States and Brazil in
open antagonisms to Germany's cam
paign of horror, they have done so
negatively by heartily applauding the
recently announced policy of Uruguay
and by pointing out the troubles that
are beset, ug the countrier which
cling to their neutrality at all costs.
The present unhappy plight of
Spain leads Ell Diario to comment at
length upon neutrality in general and
the results to which it leads under
such circumstances as have been Gre
ated by the present war. narrowing it's
lengthy article later to the specific
case of Spain. One reading between
the lines. as n must do in reading
all South American editorials, finds a
lesson drawn between the present
plight of Spain and the future posi-
ton of the Argentine Republic.
Spain and other countries which
have tried to initiate its rolicy of
str It neutrality, says Eel Diario. have
learned that their policy has pleased
no one, though well i~ntentioi.sd to
please all. The warning nations on
both sides regard it's course with dis
favor, and not a little suspic' ,usness
as TO the ge%nuineness of its protesta-
/ tiOnS of neutrality. " 1la suf y mol
icT gives Use to dissensions within
the country itself hardly less serious
than would be the consequences of di-
rect participation in the war.
Ever since the ministry of Roma
nones resigned declaring that it could
not maintain neutrality while the in
terror of>the country denounced the
civil government as too neutral to suit
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26
Twin Falls Again
Mentioned in Congress
Senator BOrah Reads Letter From
Commercial Club Urging Further
Legislation.

On account of a letter sent June 26
to Senator Borah by the Twin Falls
Commercial club, this city was put
on the congressional rap again last
Friday by the senior senator from this
state in the course of a debate on
the bill introduced by Congressman
Addison T. Smith and Senator George
e. Chamberlain to increase the recla-
nation area of the country. The fol-
lowing passages from the Congress
siOnal Record show the connection:
On the 9Th of April. 1917, l intro
duced in the senate a bill known as S.
1858. The same bill was introduced in
the house by Mr.. Smith of Idaho. It
was to increase the productive agri-
cultural area of the United States by
the reclamation of arid and swamp
lands therein. This bill has been re-
ferred to the secretary of the interior.
and has met { We approval of the de-
partment. II is constructive in it's
nature, Mr.. President, and supple
ments and extends the of
the reclamation of arid lands to the
drainage of swamp lands. l believe
that if senators will look it over they
will favor the enactment of this meas
ure, and if it is enacted into law it
Will tend greatly to add to the agricul-
tural area of the south as well as
the west. | hope, too. that senators
will assist re in bringing that meas
ure to early consideration.
Mr.. BOrah. Mr.. President, the SEN
ator from Oregon CIR. Chamberlain
has just referred to a bill which he
introduced in the senate some time
ago and which was also introduced i in
the house by a representative from
! Idaho, Mr.. Smith; and / have prepar-
ed this bill in the form of an amend
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26
Offer Postoffice
Building to City
Federal Building Co., Would Lease
Present Home OF pOstOffice for
Term of Years.

The Federal Building company yes
terday offered to lease the structure
now occupied by the postoffice to the
city for five years. the lease to be
terminable on sixty days notice at
option of the city. The proposal was
signed Federal Building Co.. by Geo.
II. Smith," and was filed to be taken
up at the council meeting August 6.
The company made three PROPOSE
tons. The first was for the use of
the room after repairing, painting
and tinting, at a rate OF $125 a month.
The second vas to add to the above
offer, light, stoves and fuel ar
charge $3.50 a month. The third was
to include all set forth in the second
offer and build a modern vault for the
safe guarding of the city bonds. at a
rental OF S175 a month.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26

mcnt to the pending bill, which it had
been my purpose to offer. / wish to
read a telegram here from a section
OF the country which ten years ago
was "a barren waste. 1t was known in
our state as the desert" and it is
now a very large, progressive, active
community. 1t has been reclaimed un-
der the arid-land laws. In my judg-
ment, when you consider the tine in
which the community has beer devel-
Oped and the wonderful state of de-
velopment it has reached, the Twin
Falls country is the marvel of all the
marvellous growth and development Of
the west. 1t shows how well it is to
take into consideration not the things
merely of a day but the permanent
things which nave reference to the
building of our country and to our
food supply. 1t is dated Twin Falls.
Idaho. and is as follows:
Twin Falls, Ida. June 26.
Hon. W. e. Borah.
United States Senate,
Washington, ID. c.:
Twin Falls county. with its strictly
agricultural population of irrigation
farmers. who have redeemed tie land
from a ~sagebrush desert wilnin ten
years, has contributed to the Red
Cross work $4,000, which is 80 per
cent of assessment placed upon entire
state. Notwithstanding the lack Of
adequate water upon the Salmon riv-
er segregation to the present year, the
townspeople and farmers on that Sc
gregation have contributed $4,000 to-
ward the above fund. With proper
new legislation concerning 9 strict ir-
rigation projects partially completed
and new irrigation segregations in the
west, with their freedom from ex
tremes of storms. droughts. and fresh
cts. can be depended upon to duplicate
this effort and assure enormous sup
plies of food to our common country
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-07-26

and its allies during this great crisis,
TWIN FALLS COM. CLUB.
This only shows how these things
in a very short time come to be in
deed a sustaining part of the country,
contributing food. citizenship, sol
diers, and all which the country now
needs.
In view of the fact that this amend
ment will in no wise modify OF
change or alter any provision of the
pill and will in no wise delay it's pas
sage in any way, I do not see why we
should not be making progress in TAX
ing care of the reclamation projects
in our arid lands.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
The household, light, neat and

The household. light, neat and
telephone bills, admission tickets to
amusements, fire and life insurance,
railway tickets, automobiles, auto
mobile tires and tubes, soft drinks.
postage rates, golf clubs and base
ball bats, club dues and a host Of
other everyday necessities or luxu.
ries come under the taxation.
Increased postage rates on news
papers, arranged in a zone system
are such that publishers say they
will force many newspapers out of
business.
Already protests against many
features of the law are pouring in
and attacks upon it will center in
the Senate finance committee which
will conduct public hearings and
probably make some amendments.
When Democratic Leader Xitchin
presented the bill to the House TO-
day he announced that general de-
bate would begin tomorrow. |,
probably would be passed the early
part of next week.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
Items of General Interest.

William Marconi,a member of the
Italian mission to visit the United
States, is taking bronze wreath to
be placed on the tomb of George
Washington in the name of the Ital-
ian nation.
DR. D B Johnson, of Winthrop col
lege, has discovered that a good -four
can be made of millet seed. 1t
makes a very nutritious bread like
graham bread. 1t has heretofore
been used as chicken feed or thrown
away.
The Committee on Statistics and
Standards of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States, after:an
investigation nationwide, has an.
nounced that the United States will
be equal to the world supply food
demand.
The allies Of the United States will
save and a group of New York bank
ers will lose more than 500, 900, 600
in commissions on the SO. 900, 600, ,00G
that this government has appropri-
ated to assist them in prosecuting
the war against the Central Powers
of Europe.
A banquet was heldat Matamoras,
Mexico, Saturday night to commem.
crate the anniversary of the defeat
of the imperialistic French by the
Mexicans. The Stars and Stripes
were profusely used in the decora.
tions. and several American guests
were present.
Banks, insurance companies, real
estate firms and other lines of bust.
ness employing a large number of
men in clerical positions in Atlanta
are beginning already to train young
women to take their places when the
President issues the call for regis
tration under the selective conscrip-
tion act of Congress.
An Orangeburg citizen recently
sent Congressman Lever $40 to be
given to the war department and
said he will send the same amount
monthly during the continuance of
the war and would do better but for
having family dependent upon him.
Mr. Lever returned his money and
assured him that he is the stuff of
which patriots are made.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
REVENUE BILL UP
in THE HOUSE.
TENTACLES OF MEASURE REACH
OUT INTO EVERY HOME--$33.00
PER CAPITA WILL BE TAX

Washington, May 9:-The war
tax bill extending its exercise to the
fabric of every American home, was
formally presented to the House to-
day by the ways and means commit
tee with plans for quick passage.
As forecast of what may come
later, it proposes special taxes to
raise 81, 800. 100000 in addition to
the present normal annual revenue
of 81, 500. 100000. When its terms
are effective the American people
will be paying direct taxes of S33
per capita. The people of the Brit
ish Isles-half as many-now pay
per capita taxes Of $50.
While the principal features of
the new war levy are increases in
income and profits taxes, internal
revenue rates and customs duties,
many of its provisions reach the in.
nermost structure of every home
and make up a list of taxes probably
the most formidable ever faced by
Americans.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
Ex-Slaves Lose Case.

Washington, May 1.-THE su-
preme court has dismissed the suit
of former negro slaves and their
heirs to collect more than sixty-eight
million dollars from the government
for labor on crops in the South from
eighteen fifty-seven to eighteen six
ty-eight. The money was collected
as internal revenue taxes on cotton.
The negroes claim that work was
performed while in state of invol-
untary servitude.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
KAlSER'S POWERS
RESTRICTED.
A RESOLUTION FIXING CHANCEL-
LOR'S RESPONSIBILITY Is
ALSO LAW NOW.

A report from Amsterdam, May
S, says:
A restriction of the power of the
Emperor of Germany has been de-
cided upon by the Constitution COM
mittee of the Reichstag. according
to a despatch from Berlin. The
committee has decided to alter Ar
ticle XVII of the Imperial Constitu-
ton as follows:
Ordinances and DEGREES Of the
Kaiser will be issued in the name Of
the Empire and will require for
validity the counter signature Of the
Imperial Chancellor or his represent
ative, who thereby assumes respon-
sibility to the Reichstag."
The decision of the committee was
in accordance with a joint proposal
by the Centrists, National Liberals
and the Progressives. Four Con-
servative members voted against
the change.
The committee also adopted res
olution by the same proposers de-
manding a bill fixing the Chancel-
lor's responsibility for any violation
of his official duty and the verifica-
ton of such violation by a senate
tribunal.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
COL. ROOSEVELT
RAISES ARMY
OF 10000 MEN FOR SERVICE IN
FRANCE, SUBJECT TO ACCEPT
ANCE BY GOVERNMENT.


Col Roosevelt's military plans, as
revealed in detail for the first time,
will surprise the general public, in
cluding even that portion of it which
halls the colonel as the most strenu-
GUS and influential campaigner of the
age, says the New York World.
While it has been supposed that
he was raising one volunteer divis-
ion for service on the battle line in
France under his command, if the
War Department should grant his
application, the colonel has in reali-
ty tentatively recruited an army ap-
proximately of lS0, 900 men, exclus-
i've of officers, and has perfected ar
rangements so that his entire force
could mobolized in six weeks, and
its first units started on the way to
France for intensive training there.
This Roosevelt Legion. now big
enough in numbers to form two full
army corps and an extra division by
way of good measure. is representa-
tive of the whole Nation. Every
one of the forty.eight States has
contributed volunteers, and not one
of these volunteers. by reason OF
age limit, could serve under the
new selective draft measure Not
one of them has been drawn from
the National Guard of any State.
All this has been carefully super
intended by the colonel, who is just
as strong for the war measures OF
the Administration as he is for the
fulfilment of his own hearts desire
to get into the big fight somehow
Just as soon as he can.
This army which the colonel now
offers to the government double dis
counts the historic Rough Riders in
every element of human interest 1t
is made up of substantial business
men in great measure, and includes
an astonishing list of persons whose
names are known throughout the
country.
All of these recruits, as the official
documents show, are actuated by
two convictions-faith in the leader
ship of Col Roosevelt and faith in
the colonel's theory that they should
be sent to the fighting front at once
to fill the gap until the great army
to be raised by selective draft is
ready.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10
Big Loan to Great Britain.

Washington, May THE govern
ment has decided to lend Great
Britain $1OO,0OO,OOO to meet her
needs in this country. during May.
A second installment Of $25, 100000
was transferred to the British en-
bassy today, making with the $685.
900, 900 loaned her Saturday. total
of one-half of the May loan.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10

Tabulation of the enrolment for
the reserve officers training camp
at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, indicates
that 38 more Carolinians and Ten
nesseeans have qualified for admis-
sion than the camp can accommo-
date.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10

cessful at any time during the pres
ent war in finding a means to check
the operations of German subma-
rines, the information will be shared
promptly with Great Britain. France
and the other nations with which
the United States is aligned.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10

Mrs A P Jones, one of the oldest
residents of Darlington, died in that
city last week. aged IS.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1917-05-10

Visit Odom & Dennis Cash Store,
at Peoples Mercantile Co.'S old stand
on Academy street.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-31
Patriotic Meeting.

In the afternon of Decoration Day,
a patriotic meeting, at which Mayor
R. E. Rose and Governor Alexander,
were the speakers, was held in Ideal
Theatre, and attended by crowd that
tested its seating capacity to the
limit The meeting was presided over
by E. c. Rundstrom, president Of the
Commercial club. Patriotic songs
were sung by double mixed quartet.
: The first speaker was Mayor R. E.
Rose. His was thoughtful, eloquent,
patriotic appeal to service in the
cause of country, liberty and demo-
cracy; to avenge the dastarly outrages
upon American citizens by Germany,
and to establish world peace that
shall be lasting. He said sacrifices of
blood and money would be the price
we must pay, but it was worth it.
Governor Alexander followed and
told of the causes that led up to the
declaration of war against Germany.
This country was long suffering and
patient, hoping for peace, but the limit
was reached when the freedom of the
seas was denied, the rights of Amer
lean citizens ruthlessly trampled upon
and their lives taken. It is war to
the end now and America will stamp
out Prussianism and its attendant
evils forever, he said.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-31
Relatives in Tornado.

J. W. Burton left Saturday for his
old home at Sedwick, Kan, in response
to a message informing him OF the
death of his brother. Saturday morn
ing Mr.. Burton, feeling that ne could
not make the trip in time to be Of
any service to his parents, wired back
that he would not make the trip East
A few hours later he received mes
sage requesting him to come at once
and he left on the evening train Mr..
Burton fears that his brother and
parents were in the district struck by
a tornado last week, that his brother
was killed in that way, and that some
other members Of the family have
been badly injured