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The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
The Fall of Jerusalem

The taking OF Jerusalem by the
British the past week has much less
military than moral and sentimental
significance. 1t lies in an infertile
region. thirty-odd miles from the nearest
sea port, still farther from navigable
river, with scarcely enough water for
drinking purposes, and only one rail
road, and that narrow gauge. 1t is
incapable OF strong military defense,
has little or no wealth and has a
population Of only 10000, land no
trade whatever. Its possession, how
ever, has large moral or sentimental
value because of the traditions that
surround it, and to the Christian world
because it was the scene OF the
crucihction and death OF Jesus. To all
OF the Jewish faith it is the capitol Of
their ancient kingdom and linked with
their racial history. For over six
hundred years it has been under the
control Of Mahomedan rulers.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
ALMIGHTY DOLLAR"
BEHIND IMPEACHMENT

Mayor Hi Gill, of Seattle, is to
face impeachment proceedings, if the
city council approves the report of
the committee having the matter in
charge. The report of the committee
is to be taken up by the council to-
day. In the meantime the organiza-
ton having the impeachment demand
in charge are very active, despite
the fact that Mayor Gill has remov-
ed Chief of Police Rockingham and
appointed ]. F. Warren in his place.
Warren was chief of police in Spo-
kane in the early days and is said
to have killed several men in the dis
charge of his duties. He promises to
clean Seattle up. The business in.
terests of Seattle are behind the inn
parchment move. The order for
bidding soldiers from Camp Lewis to
visit Seattle with a consequent loss
of profitable soldiers trade had the
effect of arousing the business men
as nothing else. The almighty dollar
is a most potent factor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
War viii End Where it Began, on the
French Frontier

1t is now quite generally agreed that
the decisive battle Of the great world
war will be fought on or near the line
dividing France from Germany That
it may, and probably will, be fought
during the summer of 1918 is also
quite probable. Recent news from
that front indicates that Germany is
preparing for the decisive event by
sending all her best troops and ablest
commanders to the western front.
When the United States entered
the conflict the Germans who talk were
inclined to belittle the part the
would play in the great war game.
Whether this conclusion was reached
because ours is system OF government
they hold in toploftical contempt, or
because the German population would
strangle the governments efforts, does
not matter just now. The point is
they have had cause to revise their first
conclusions. They now realize that
the United States is in the fight, or
will be, shortly, with we'll trained,
we'll equipped and amply supplied army
of two or more million fresh fighting
men, and suspect that she has some
thing up her sleeve to spring on
Europe, wherefore she is determined
to try and bring the war to conclusion
before the American army is ready for
battle. Here again she is doomed to
disappointment. The United States
already has million Of well equipped
fighting men back Of the French and
English front lines, eager to get into
the fight to make the world safe for the
kind OF government they are serving
This million is being augmented every
week by more thousands.
We are not in the confidence Of
authority to speak for the government,
but venture the assertion that by the
first OF May the United States will have
fully two million soldiers on French
soil. They will have guns and
ammunition in plenty, and Of a kind that
will be talked about after the war is
over, as it is almost sure to be next year
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
TO SAVE GASOLINE
Call on All to Conserve Essential
Fuel For War Use.
LEAKAGE CAUSES BIG LOSS.

Van n. Manning, Director of the Blu
reau of Mines, Estimates That the
United States Will Need $4,000, 900
Gallons Of Gasoline For AirpIanes,
Trucks, Tractors, Etc.
To guarantee ample fuel for army
and navy needs and for the legitimate
requirements of motorcar users the ma
tional automobile organizations have
begun their Save Gasoline" campaign
among garages, dealers and owners.
In his announcement Van II. Man
ming. director of the bureau of mines,
says it is estimated the United States
army will need 350,000,000 gallons Of
gasoline for airplanes. trucks. tractors,
etc.
The n. A. o. c. is calling upon all
manufacturers in the country and upon
about $1,000 dealers, $4,000 garages
and 10000 repair shops to help in the
movement to save gasoline. 1t has
prepared a placard to be hung on the
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14

walls of service stations, garages and
supply stations urging users to econ
omize in the consumption of gasoline
in the following ways:
First.-Do not use gasoline for wash
ing or cleaning-use kerosene to cut
the grease.
Second.-Do not spill gasoline or let
drip when filling-it is dangerous and
wasteful.
Third-Do not expose gasoline to air
it cvaporates rapidly and is danger
us
Fuurth.-Do not allow engine to run
when car is standing. Cars are fitted
with self starters, and it is good for the
battery to be used frequently.
Fifth.-Have carburetors adjusted to
use leanest mixture possible-a lean
mixture avoids carbon deposit.
Sixth.-See that piston rings fit tight
and cylinders hold compression well.
Leakage of compression causes loss.
Seventh-Stop all gasoline leakage.
Form the habit of shutting off gasoline
at the tank or feed pipes.
Eighth-See that all bearings run
freely and are well fabricated. Eric
ton consumes power and wastes gas.
Ninth.-Protect the radiator in cold
weather \ cold engine is hard to
start and is short in power
Tenth-Keep tires fully inflated. Soft
tires consume power
Eleventh.-Do not drive at excessive
speed. Power consumption increases
at faster rate than speed. Every car
has a definite speed at which 1t oper-
ates with maximum fuel economy.
Twelfth. Change gears rather than
climb hills with wide open throttle. 1t
saves car and gas.
Thirteenth.-Do not use cars need
lessly or aimlessly. by exercise of fore
thought a number of errands can be
combined so that one trip to town OF
elsewhere will do as well as two.
Fourteenth. Reduce the amount oil
riding for mere pleasure by shortening
such trips or cutting down their fire.
quency.
The government Is not contemplat
ing any drastic action to compel car
users 70 give up riding. and if there Il
a general and concerted effort to save
gasoline ii is believed there will be am
pie to meet all reasonable requirements
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
BOIsheNki Receive Two BeatingS

A counter revolution in Russia,
headed by the Cossacks, has already
administered two defeats to the Russian
Bolsheviki, which in plain English is
l. w. w. From such information as
one can CLEAN from the news dispatches
the Bolsheviki has little following out
side Of St. Petersburg. In Russia, as
in this country, the I. W. W. sympathise
with and play into the hands Of the
Germans. who already have the chains
forged with which to make slaves of all
the Russians il they win the war. A
condition Of the peace terms with the
Rumanians is that they shall accept a
German prince for their king
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
Old Coin a Puzzle.

Philadelphia peculiar gold coin,
dated 1906. and about the size of s.
gold piece has been received by Re
ceiving Teller Keifer at the subtreas-
ury. The gold in the coin is nearly red.
1t bears the head of the Goddess of
Liberty. 1t is not the product Of any
government mint and must have been
coined by private concern. The gold
is of higher grade and weighs more
than that OF the 81 gold pieces now in
circulation.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
BOLSHEVEKI GALE

SAME w. W.
That the great bulk of the Russian
people, those who love the land of
their birth, who want freedom and
equal opportunity for all, with Sc
curity for the rights of the person
and protection for the property
rights of those who work and save,
it is inconceivable that they should
be satisfied with the crazy, impracti-
cable schemes of the Bolsheviki,
whose sole aim is to divide the prop
erty of those who have, with those
who have nothing, just like the Nv.
w. of our own country. They make
no distinction between the man who
acquired property by foul means and
the man who acquired property by
hard work and saving. There is no
more question that many rich men
acquired their wealth by legitimate
means, by hard work and the prac
tice of economy, than there is that
some men acquired wealth by means
that are unlawful and wholly wrong.
The man who acquires wealth wrong
fully, takes unfair advantage of his
fellow man has neither legal or NOR
al right to keep it, and it should be
taken from him. Our l. w. W. and
the Bolsheveki of Russia is made up
of those who want to divide with the
just and the unjust. They are lazy,
shiftless and thriftless, and when
they come in possession of a dollar
their whole thought is how quickest
to get rid of it. The great mass of
the Russian people are just about
like the great mass of our own
people. They believe in a square
deal. They believe the man who &C
quires property by fair means has
moral and legal right to its pos
session as against those who do not
want to work and do not want to be
bothered with taking care of and saw
ing anything. Wherefore we say the
saving grace of the great mass OF
the Russian people will not uphold
the Bolsheviki government. 1t was
doomed to failure from it's inception
just as our l. w. w. are doomed to
failure. Why does almost every man
who is arrested for committing crime
have in his possession an I. w. w.
card? |. w. WIS are not all
criminal by any means, some of them
are simply shiftless and thriftless,
and others, perfectly honest and in
dustrious, but for some reason, hav-
ing worked hard all their lives and
lived saving, and yet were unable to
accumulate wealth, in some instances
smarting under the wrongs of some
INSCRIPTIONS fellow man, have join
ed the l. w. WIS under what to them
appears justifiable reason.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14

Tom Carlisle is authority for the
assurance that a lie cannot live, but
some of the made in Germany var
ieties were doing we'll at home re-
sorts.
A promise to pay from the Boil
sheviki bank is good enough for the
Russian peasant, but Lenine can't
get over his prediction for German
gold.
1t is said that Tammany will
hold the balance of power in the
next Congress. But how can that
be when Congress hasn't got any
power. Our great and wonderful
dictator, has all power during the
war.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
Skull FIattened Bullet.

Atlanta, Ga Harriet Owing, nine
year-old negro girl would he safe at
the front without a steel helmet. Hos
pital doctors extracted bullet from
her forehead which I'D not penetrated
the skull The bullet was a % and
was smashed perfectly fiat. 1t had been
a stray shot The girl at once returned
to her home.
Correct printing at The Echo.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
Catholic Church Notes.

Mass Sunday morning at 10. De-
votions Sunday evening at 1880.
Choir practice Monday evening at
1880. Catechism Saturday afternoon
at 2. Mass on week days at 7:30
a. m,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
Peshastin Church Services.

Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preach
ing at II. Glass meeting at $50.
Epworth League and preaching at
p. m. A. H. MORTON, Pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
CHURCH SERVICES.
Methodist Church.

melHOuIsh ShuhNhs
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preach
ing at II. Epworth League at $50
D. m. Preaching at 7:30. Prayer
meeting at 7;30 p. m, Thursday.
We will be pleased to meet you at
any and all of these services.
F. L. MOORE, Pastor.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-12-14
Lutheran Church.

Services at 10:45. Sunday school
at Gas. Preaching in the evening at
7:3O. REV. HAASE.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-13

to the minors at the end of the train
ing season. Manager Griffith is plan
ming to make a pitcher of Jameson,
who was an Outfield relief man in
1916. Jameson has not pitched for
several seasons, but his left arm is
strong, and in practice he has de-
q, Veloped terrific speed. Jameson and
Harper will share the sOuthpaWing
and Gallia and Walter johnson will
round out the regular quartet.
There are hints that all is not peace
and happiness in some of the big
league training camps. Salary cuts
have left bitter scars and the play
ers are not taking kindly to drill.
There are Tumors from the Pirate
camp, but there are more than Tu-
mOrs from the Brooklyn outfit at Hot
Springs. The National league cham
pions are getting beyond Manager
WiIbeTt Robinson and doing about as
they please.
The race track bug, bane of so
many managers lives, has bitten the
noble athletes and they are more in
terested in the hOrsehide of the track
than the diamond. One day last week
the players pool cleaned $500 on
race and there was a jubiliation.
For a time Robbie had two training
periods. Then the shower baths al
Ioted the players were cut off and
they were only allowed under the wa
ter once a day. Promptly the play
ers refused to go through two train
ing sessions. Robbie suggested
sponge baths, such as he used to take
when he was a regular, but the ath-
letes of today are far above such
makeshifts.
The strong tip is that the players
are doing about as they please. Pres
ident Ebbetts, when asked about the
two training periods, said the play
crs might as well do as they pleased
in that affair as they had been doing
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-13

seems all shot to pieces and they viii
not be jOllied into a pennant this
season.
Phil Harrison, West Side middle
weight, did everything but knock out
Joe DOry in ten rounds at Racine. At
the end of the battle Dory had to be
assisted from the ring, leg-weary and
bleeding from several cuts. The
bout was as one-sided as could be
imagined. Only exceptional game
ness enabled DOry to stick through
the final round. Harrison's only
mark was a slightly cut ear. In the
same show Sunburst DOlan handed
an artistic trimming to Matty Nc
Cue.
George Chip stopped Bob Mocha in
the fourth round of a scheduled p
round go at Youngstown, o. A right
uppercut spelled curtains for the
cave man.
John Olin, Finnish wrestling cham
piOn, defeated Doc Roller in straight
falls at the Coliseum. The Finn
showed exception strength, but was
DAAy O4A AuCOos AC ulDL 1clll
came, i'm 47:51 with a reverse body
lock, and the second in 1850 with a
body scissors. DIN through his
great strength was enable to break
the best holds of the wrestling
medicO. In the semi-windup Charley
Cutler won from Mort Henderson in
straight falls.
Minnesota defeated Northwestern,
80 to 20, and shares the Conference
basketball championship with Hi
nOis. Each team won 10 games and
lost 2.
Benny Leonard defeated Johnny
TiIlman of Minneapolis in six fast
rounds at Philadelphia. Each man
scored two knockdOwns, but the New
Yorker put the most force into his
punches.
Basketball Scores
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
Value Of Dairy Cow.

r. NJ. Washburn, in the Lippincott
Farm Manual, Productive Dairying,"
predicts that in short time the United
States will be largely devoted to dairy
products, instead of beef production.
For he tells us the food value produced
by May Rilma, the Guernsey COW,
equaled in one year that of 80 steers
weighing 500 pounds apiece. 1t would
take, he assures US, eight acres of
good wheat land to produce an equal
food value TO the years production Of
Duchess Skylark Ormsby, and this is
coming to be typical of the value Of
the dairy COW. Now the cow does this
by working over hay, corn. ensilage,
and various rough or by-product
grains.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
FACE ONCE WAS EXPRESSIVE
In Modern Times, Says Writer, Gen.
eral Aim Seems to Be to Conceal
Emotion Of Every Kind.

We are accustomed to the idea that
our facial expressions are keys to the
lives we lead, and that one who I'M
derstands human nature may easily
read human faces. That this is true
to large degree is unguestioned, for
we have only to look about us TO Judge
for ourselves of the happiness or I'M
happiness of those with whom we
happen to come in contact. Indeed,
in the ages long since past, before
even spoken language permitted the
freer Interpretation of mans emo
tions, the human countenance was
the chief means of expressing, says
the Charleston Eews and Courier.
One by one the great thoughts of the
human race have been reproduced as
far as possible in the eyes and gen.
eral expression of the face, now HASH.
ing out with startling significance,
now shining with tranquil assurance,
now displaying ugly lines and charac-
teristics. As civilization advanced,
however. and the means of human
4tercourse broadened and developed
the need for translating the inner
needs and energies into facial express.
sion lessened, until, unfortunately, II
is ofteA difficult to read4 correctly the
message of the countenance.
Where in former days the natural
effort of all human beings, uncon-
scious though it may have been,
seemed to be to reveal their wishes
openly upon their faces the general
aim nov is to conceal emotion of ev-
cry kind.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
Nitro-starch New Explosive.

Nitro-starch, more compact than the
allied nitro-cellulose or gun cotton,
seems to promise great efficiency as a
blasting explosive. The original dyna-
mite of Nobel was nitroglycerin alb
sorbed in kieselguhr, siliceous infu-
serial earth, but sawdust, mica and
other absorbents have been since used
and blasting gelatin and gelatin dy-
nantes have been formed as jelly-like
masses by dissolving gun cotton in nj
troglycerin. Nitro-starch is produced
by dissolving starch nitric acid in
a manner similar to the use of cotton
and gIycerin. Ease and cheapness of
manufacture, convenience and safety
in use and great explosive power are
mentioned in Its favor, and the adj
vantages include non-lia%ility to go
off except when exploded by a cap,
giving off no bad fumes, non-freezlng
quality, and a stability so great that
no change was seen after ten months
of storage.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
When the Statue Nodded.

Before he attained to the front rank
in his profession, Fred Kitchen, the ia
nous comedian, used to tour Europe in
an acrObatic turn with a partner named
Royal.
One week they were at the Edo
RADIO theater, Naples, and after the
performance they went for a stroll
along the famous embankment, known
as the Waterfront.
pretty soon." said Fred, In tell.
Ing the story, I'VE reached statue
and 10 IT nodded gravely toward us
"Did you see that statue nodY said
my partner.
II certainly did, said I.
"'Well,' said he. I'm going back to
the hotel and to bed before / get
run in. It's that COMPOUNDED Capri
wine
$50, ashamed OF ourselves, back we
went, and sneHRed up to bed.
But at breakfast time next morn.
ing both Of us seemed to be amazing
ly fresh considering our dissipation of
the night before, and we could not un-
derstand why we had such good ap-
petites until the waiter said:
did the gentlemen feel last nights
slight earthquake?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
MEANING OF s7,ooo;ooo,OOo
Spent at Rate of a Dollar Minute, 1t
Would Take 1888 Years to Dis
pose of 1t All.

Americas war loan of $1,000, 100000
surpasses the powers of the mind to
grasp, Thomas f. Logan writes in Les
lies. Spent at the rate of 81 a minute
it would take 1898 years to dispose of
the appropriation. Loaned out at 6 per
cent, $13 could be spent every second
for an indefinite period without touch
ing the principal.
Converted into silver dollars, the
coined pieces laid end to end would
reach more than four times around the
earth at the equator. Piled on top Of
one another, these silver dollars would
extend nearly 600 miles in the air.
Made into dollar bills, they would
cover 26,6S6 acres.
The interest on the loan is greater
than the entire running expenses of
the government less than half a CEN
fury ago, while the amount itself would
conduct the affairs of the government
for fully seven years, on the basis of
the annual expenditures of the last
decade
Another and more cheerful way of
looking at the situation is that, great
as the loan is the wealth of the United
States is such that it amounts to the
lending out of 81 out of every $40 of
our existing tangible resources. A
penny day saved by every inhabitant
would cancel the principal within 20
years.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
GOT HIS FRYING PAN BACK
Nevada Gold Mines In New York Loses
utensil. Valued Not for Itself
but for Its Contents.

Not many persons who come ia the
Waldorf-Astoria travel with frying
pan as an important part of their bag
gage, and when a guest from Nevada
telephoned down to the office that his
frying pan was missing. and that he
was anxious to catch n train for his
home inside of half an hour, there was
CONSERVATION among the clerks, says
the New York Times. Investigation
showed. however, that the man from
the quick divorce state had not been
trying to lower the cost Of living by
turning his room into llitchenette
during his visit. He is parg owner of
a gold mine out in Nevada, and when
he came east he brought the pan along
to show his old friends here what pan.
ming gold was like. He had been dem.
onstrating this during the morning he-
fore an interested group, using the
waShstand as a Sluice. when, receiving
sudden call, he put the pan with
some gold in 1t in the handiest spot
and hurried downstairs. When he
came back later TO pack his grips, the
pan was missing. Investigation re-
vealed that the maid who attended
the room had found the frying pan,
and its presence was such an unusual
thing that she had plrned it over to
the housekeeper for safekeeping. With
its contents intact, it was restored TO
its owned in time for him to catch his
train.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
VenaI Justice.

Former President Taft. during a
visit to Texas, said at a dinner In
Galveston:
There is story which illustrates
the Importance Of keeping our judges
out of business or trade.
ITS story about magistrate who
was also a flour and feed dealer. A
farmer was brought before the man for
falling TO notify OF case of cattle
disease. The magistrate delivered
judgment as follows:
"You are fined SIS for this offense,
with $3.50 costs, making $3.50, and 50
you owe me Cor your last bill of feed,
or $I~.5C in all-$lG50, or thirty
days."
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-06-22
With the Fingers!
Says COrnS Lift Out
Without Any Pain

Sore corns, hard corns. soft corns or
any kind Of a corn can shortly be-
lifted right out with the fingers If you
will apply on the corn few drops OF
freezone. says a Cincinnati authority.
At little cost one can get small bot
tie of freezone at any drug store, which
will positively rid ones feet OF every
corn or callus without pain or Sore
ness or the danger of infection.
This new drug Is an ether compound.
and dries the moment 1t is applied and
does not infame or even irritate the
surrounding skin. Just think You
can lift off your corns and calluses
now without a bit Of pain or soreness.
If your druggist hasn't freezone he can
easily get a small bottle for you FROM
his wholesale drug house.-adv.