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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18
- % ANsllsE'
Funston's Nickname.

General Frederick Funston was a
member Of the Phi Delta Theta frater-
nifty at the University of Kansas. The
generals fraternity brothers at Kansas
knew him as "Timmy." This nickname
came about through the poor writing OF
the fraternity member who sent in the
names Of the pledges the year Funston
became a Phi Delt. The name was
printed ''Timston" in the Phi Delta
Theta magazine, and in the form Of
''Timmy" stuck to the stocky, cocky
cOllegian throughout his college career.
Kansas City Star.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18

stream at each other which was as
cold as it could he without freezing
Peter did not seem In the least trou-
bled by his cold bath, but his enemy
collapsed in five minutes. He dropped
his weapon and ran for the house.
As soon as he had Put on dry cloth
ing and poured & hot drink into his
stomach he was told to leave the place
at once if he wished to save himself
from the diSpleasure Of the citizens.
\ month later the revolution broke
forth.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18
CROWDED SHIP RAMMED
1,4O0 United States Soldiers on
Transport Are Saved.

Transport Are Saved.
The United States transport Sara
toga with 1,4OO soldiers on board was
rammed and badly damaged off
Stapleton, Staten island, by the steam
ship Panama of the Panama Steam
ship company.
AS the Saratoga, in sinking condi-
ton, made for dock, all boats were
lowered and filled with soldiers. Craft
of all kinds rushed to help in the res
cue work The transport was at an
rhor, waiting orders to sail
At the office of Colonel ]. M. Car
son, superintendent of army transpor
tation, it was said that all reports re-
ceived there had been that there was
no loss of life and that everybody
had been accounted for. No further
comment was made there on the acci
dent
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18

in this respect Is
very high, and
they have a great
number of sue
cesses. The latest
will be released
in the week Of
March u, and is
a mystery-serial,
the plot of which
is absolutely un-
sOlvable. 1t is
called lne voice
on the Wire" and
is q screen adap-
tatiOn by J. G. AL
exander of the
popular novel of
the same name,
by Eustace Hale
Rail The serial
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18
RECIPROCITY.

There is one word which may
serve as a rule of practice fer all
ones Iife-that word is reciproo-
ity. What you do not wish done
TO yourself do not do TO others
Confucius.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18

The Japanese war commission to
the United States is due to arrive
shortly. The mission will be headed
by Viscount Kikuliro Ishii, formerly
foreign minister. BY virtue of spe-
cial ordinance by Emperor Yoshihito,
Ishii is designated as temporary am
bassador extraordinary.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-08-18
BEN WILSON IN NEW SERIAL

A new Universal serial is an event,
for the standard set by the company
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH MAKES FINE
SHOWING.

Washington, April 25.-The African
Methodist Episcopal Church raised
1929, 1906 in dollar money collection
last year, an increase of $9,476.44 over
the previous year, according to the
annual report submitted by John r,
Hawkins, financial secretary of the
denomination, at the annual meeting
of the finacial board Wednesday OF
last week. Bishop B. F. Lee presided
OF this sum, ~sS9,51S.45 was for
general church purposes, $50, 566.5S
for the local needs of annual confer
ence, and ~$l7,9O3.6S each too the
boayds of church extension, education
and missions.
Secretary Hawkins was highly com
mended for his report and all of his
recommendations were passed.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Try This.

If you will take a pavement that is
clear, and walk briskly in the center,
you will find that before you have
gone SO yards you have unconsciously
veered very much to one side. To
make this test accurate you must not
use any effort to keep in the center.
If you think of something else and
endeavor to walk naturally, you will
find that you are not able to keep
going in a straight line. In the same
way a person lost in a wide expanse
of level country will describe a com
plete circle as he Peeps walking on
and on. The explanation of this lies
in the propensity of n foot to walk
faster than the other, or to take a
longer stride than the other, causing
you to veer to n side or the other.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Good Done by Birds,

The department of agriculture in
forms us that out of so species of
hawks and owls, only four are actu-
ally injurious TO crops. Our observer
tells us that he has seen with his own
eyes an owl of his acquaintance swal-
low nine field mice, one after another,
until the tail of the last remained in
evidence. However, in a few hours,
this meal having been digested with
no apparent effort, the owl was ready
for four more mice. The old hawk
and his wife will consume a round
dozen of mice each during a single
day, and in two months time their
youthful brood will devour a similar
quantity. 1t has been stated that a
colony of hawks will kill 10000 ro-
dents in three months time. We all
know what damage mice perpetrate
in our grain fields. The farmer may
well spare a chicken or two from his
henyard in payment for service rem
dered him by these birds of prey
Life.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
HAS ITS PECULIAR QUALITIES
Junction, Powerful Explosive, viii
Simply Burn Rapidly When It
Is Unconfined.

If someone should place a wad of
guncotton on the palm of your hand
and threaten to touch it off with a
lighted match, you would be fright
ened. Yet you need not be. Though
guncotton is one of the most powerful
Of ordinary explosives, 1t would not
hurt you. .
When. dry %guncotton is exposed to
the air it does not explode when ig-
nited, but burns with great rapidity.
So rapidly does the Burning take place
that If a loose wad of the material be
held in the hand and touched with
fire, there is a sudden flash, and an in
slant later not a trace of smoke or a
mark on the hand remains to indicate
what has taken place. Guncotton does
not detonate unless it is confined, as
in the barrel Of a gun.
When dry, however, g%uncotton can
be made to explode with great vio-
lence by being struck sharply between
two hard surfaces. Defamation, as
such an explosion is called, is quite a
different phenomenon from burning. 1t
seems to consist in the instantaneous
disintegration of the molecules of the
exploding substance. 1t is as though
all the bricks in a great building were
in a fraction of a second to be scat
tered about Greater New York.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
PHYSICIANS WIFE PREFERS LIFE
IN EXILE WITH THE OTHER
MAN TO HOME AND HON.
OR WITH HUSBAND.

Mrs. j. H. Bryant, wife of DR.. D.
w. Bryant, a physician of Tulsa, Okla,
and proprietor of the Peoples Drug
Store, disappeared Saturday night or
early Sunday morning, presumably in
company with -- Bailey, we'll
known in the gambling fraternity of
Tulsa, and who it is said was known
to be rather attentive to Mrs. Bry.
ant.
DR.. Bryant said the day after his
wife's disappearance that they had
been On the verge of separating for
some time because he had objected ia
her attending public dances and
dancing with Tom, Dick and Har.
ry.' The crisis came one night last
week, however, when DR.. Bryant
found his wife playing cards with
Bailey and he issued to her his ulti
matum which was to give her the al
tentative of giving UP her habits and
associates or leaving him. She evi
IDENTIFY chose the latter since she
moved her trunk the same night ant
subsequently left the city with Bailey
Tulsa Star.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
EASY FOR THE PROFESSOR.

And now" said the professor, as
the regular class exercises were fin
ished, lis there any question any of
the young ladies' would like to ask?"
How is it, professor asked the
fiuffy-haired maiden at the pedal ex-
tremity of the feminine bupch, that
Father Time is always represented as
being bald h~eaded?"
That is easily explained, the learned
one replied. so many young young
people during their school days grasp
Time by the forelock in trying to get
away from the foot of the class that
his hair has all been pulled out. See?"
And the girl at the foot said never
q word in reply.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Washington. y. c.. Nav 4.

Washington, d. c., May A..
The people of this city and the mem
in particular, are wild in their nenun-
citation of Bishop j. Albert Johnson
for removing without warning and
before the expiration of his five years
period, their popular and able pastor,
Rev. C. H. Stepteau. From present
indications it looks as though there
will be a spit in this historic church.
which has had some stormy periods
in its career. With but few excep-
tions, it is said the immense member
ship of this church demanded the re-
turn of DR.. Stepteau; but judging from
results it apparently fell on deaf ears.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Styles Soon Chanqe.

$50 you are going to motor across
the continent, Mrs. Whyffer?"
Eyes. We start tomorrow"
81 dare say you anticipate a pleasant
timer"
Eyes, but there is one thought that
troubles me-"
"And what is that?"
I'm afraid our car will be out of
date when we reach our destination"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
CoLoRED MAN kAlSER'S BAND
MASTER.

Sabac -El-Cher, whose mother was a
native African of color, bandmaster
of the First Grenadier Guards of the
Imperial German army, was born on
the grounds of the Royal Palace in
Germany, educated and schooled in
music in that country. He was a
musical prodigy. His parents were
taken to Germany from Africa by
Prince Albrecht. an uncle of the pres
ent Emperor.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
A WAR DRAMA IN ONE ACT
By
Roscoe G. Jamison

Time-Last Night. Place-Southern City.
Scene-Public Street.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
COLORED TROOPS REACH
ENGLAND,

Toronto, Can't has been officially
announced through the Chief Press
Censor's office that the No. 2 Con.
.struction Battalion, made up of Col.
ored men, has arrived safely in Eng
land. The Colored troopers sailed
from Halifax March %. Several hun
dred American Colored men are in
the battalion.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
CAPTAIN DAVIS RELIEVED.

Wilberforce. O.-Captain B~enjarlin
o. Davis, L. S. A. has been withdrawn
as military instructor at Wilberforce
University and will be sent to the Phil
ippines.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
TRIAL DATE SET.

Chicago.-The trial of former Alder
man Oscar DePriest, indicted for al
legged connection with the graft ring.
will begin on May 10.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05

Speaking to me? What do you sayP
The War brings Freedom? Yes it may.
You came from Europe here to make
How's that? You want us to forsake
This Country and help you to thrust
It's Flag and Pride into the dust?
Say, Who are you? My Friend? You lie!
You are a sneak-thief, foreign spy.
Take that, You scoundrell That, and That!
| wish [ had a baseball bat
I'll teach you how to talk to me
About money, and more liberty!
Yes, Officer, | struck the man.
Let him explain why, if he can.
| knocked him down, and BACKED his eyes
Wy look at me in such surprise?
Because he's White and | am Black?
Give me protection. Hold them back!
Just see them come. The Mob grows bigger.
They shout, Lynch him, the dirty Nigger!"
Because | dared to knock and beat
A White man in the public street.
It's the same old song. They pay no heed
TO right or wrong, but just the deed.
This man | met just while ago,
Called me by name, and whispered low,
Asked me to help him get the ear
Of all my people living near.
Offered me money just to say.
We would desert the Flag today.
Said that my folk might swiftly rise,
If we would help the foreign spies
Wreck buildings, bridges, loot and spoil
The Country where we gave our toll;
Help bring it low with bomb and fame,
Until it lisps the kaiser's name.
Oh, many things he said to me,
Of Burnings. MObS, and Liberty,
And while he talked my eyes saw red.
| knocked him down, sir! Say he's fed?
Why has all the crowd grown still?
Lead on, Officer, as you will.
I care for neither BOND nor bail,
For the first time, l go to Jail.
You won't arrest me? Why the shout?
What s the people cheering about?
|, a Hero? Well, that's good.
I've done no more than thousands would.
We want the World to understand,
Though oftimes scourged with cruel hand,
Always held up to the light for flaws,
And girded round by Jim-crow laws,
The Negro will not seek revenge,
To force bound Justices prison hinge.
We are standing by the President,
To do his will with full intent.
Where he sends us we will go,
70 face undaunted any foe.
We love the Flag that makes men free,
We pledge it whole-soul loyalty.
From Lexington to Carrizal,
Black-men did fight, Black-men did fall,
And ever at the high command,
The Negro proudly takes his stand.
Thank God! He knows no traitors ban
He's a true, blade-straight American!
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-05-05
Great ADVANTAGE.

What is your idea of the zero of en-
joyment?"
'Why-er-a m~onologue on a pho
nograph."
81 know something less enjoyable
than that"
"Yes?"
"A m~onologue on the stage. You can
shut on the photograph"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
ALL INCOMES OF
MEN EARNINGOVER
$4,000 TO BE TAXED
Exemption Limit $1,000 for
Unmarried Men - Heavy
Levies on Big Incomes
Required by Bill.

Washington. May 7.-Incomes of
all Americans earning above $1,000
FOR single men and $4,000 for mar
ried men are to do their bit toward
raising $1,S00, 100000 of taxes in
cluded in a revenue bill to be re-
ported tonight or tomorrow by the
house ways and means committee,
Incomes of $500, 900 or more are
to pay new tax Of 35 per cent, It
is understood-a total tax includ-
ing normal and surtaxes Of from
As to so per cent.
Under the old tax law all in
comes under $4,000 were exempt.
Single men paid per cent on $4,000
or more. Married men paid per
cent on $4,000 or more. Under the
new law, men subject to this tax
who earned less than $4,000 will pay
an additional per cent, a total Of
4 per cent,
Single men earning from $1,000
to the old taxing minimum Of $1,000
will pay new tax of per cent
as will married men earning from
$4,000 to the old taxing minimum
Of $4,000.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
AMERICAN navy WILL
PLAY IMPORTANT PART
IN FIGHT ON U-bOATS

Paris, May THE allies greatest
concerted effort to stamp out the Ger
man submarine menace is being PLAN
ned with an American naval officer in
the conference on ways and means.
He is Admiral w. S. Sims.
On authority of a high British off,
clal attending the conference during
the past week, the United Press is
authorized to state today that the
American navy will play a great part
In this organized co-ordinated plan.
This official said Premier Lloyd
George and the other notables on the
British commission were highly salts
ned with the results Of the conference
with Paris governmental and military
and naval chiefs and that on their re-
turn to London the most vigorous an
t-submarine campaign may be expect
ed"
The conference he said, "solely
concerns the naval and military situa-
ton, and the submarine question. The
latter Is one which much be freely dis
cussed between the allies. The French
are concerned equally with the British
In the requirement that the U-boats
must be destroyed.
THE Germans are beaten on the
land. Now they are playing their last
ace-the submarine"
The conference has brought together
In Paris the most notable assemblages
Of governmental heads and army, navy
and food control chiefs in the history
Of the war.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
SAUNDERS TO TELL
SECRETARY DANIELS
ABOUT INVENTIONS

New York, May William L. Saun-
ders, chairman of the naval consulting
board, will so to Washington today to
tell Secretary Daniels what he has in
view for ending the submarine men
ace.
Saunders created a furore Saturday
when he said he believed some of the
inventions now before the board
would solve the submarine problem.
A number of different constructions
were placed on his words, until Saun-
ders made it plain that he was only
voicing his private opinion, and that
other board members failed to agree
with him.
1t is believed Daniels asked q con-
ference with Saunders. The naval
board chairman put the lid on" to-
day and said he could not talk until
after he had conferred with the secre-
tary
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
AMERICAN UNITS WILL
CARRY AMMUNITION TO
THE French FIGHTERS

Paris, May IA unit of Americans
who will be officially classed as fight
ing men will begin work at the front
Wednesday carrying munitions TO
French fighters.
A. Piatt Andrews. in charge Of the
American ambulance corps, made this
announcement today.
Andrews indicated that the work of
carrying munitions to the French
fighters was being organized as a sep
arate branch of the American ambu-
lance corps and that hereafter attempt
would be made to send a unit a week
IA men-to the front in such service
French army trucks will be used for
the transport. Heretofore the Ameri-
can ambulance corps has confined Its
activities to furnishing purely nom
combatant forces to the French army.
With the organization of munitions
supply branch. however. the Americans
enter the scope of cooperating in ac-
tual fighting forces. The work of car
rying munitions forward is one fire.
quently fraught with great hazard.
Such supply trains are always sought
for by German guns and the uninter-
rupted flow Of ammunition to the
men in the trenches is of the
utmost importance.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07

Forecast for Boise and vicinity.
FAIR AND COOLER TONIGHT
WITH HEAVY FROST. TUESDAY.
FAIR. Highest Temperature yesterday,
68; lowest temperature this mornina.
a.; mean temperature yesterday, 50.
Total precipitation for the 24 hours
ending at a. m, .05 Of an inch.
lo temperature prevails over the
entire middle and southwest today.
Roswell, N. NJ, is the eoldest report-
ing station, with a temperature Of q
degrees, which is the lowest tempera.
ture ever recorded there in May.
Precipitation has occurred on the
north Pacific slope, in the southsru
plains and west gulf states and on N
New England coast 5
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
TWO VOLUNTEERS IN
THE AVIATION CORPS
MEET DEATH IN FALL

Hampstead, N. Y, May Peter
Merritt and John Stenderf, privates In
the army reserve corps. undergoing
training as aviators, were instantly
killed today when their machine
plunged from a height of more than
1000 feet. Eye witnesses disagree on
the cause of the accident. some saying
that the tank exploded, others that the
steering gear jammed.
Merritt was a resident Of Roosevelt,
N. Y, and Stenderf Of Tonawanda.
They are the first volunteers for the
new aviation corps to lose their lives
in training for war.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
CALLED THE PRESIDENT
JEllYFISH; UNDER ARREST

Cedar Rapids, IA, May 7.-Albert Lee
Roberts Of Kansas City, Mo-, was taken
into custody here today by federal
authorities for making alleged tt<ason-
able remarks against President Will
son. Roberts was later released on his
own recognizance to await further ac-
ton by the Justice department at
Washington.
j. j. Donoghue of Davenport caused
his arrest. declaring he overheard Rob-
erts refer to that jelly fish down at
Washington who Is directed by Tu-
multy who wears a cross on his back
and does as the pope SAYS"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
LABORLEADERSOF
ENGLAND CONFER
WITH AMERICANS
Chiefs Come to the United
States to Tell of Their
Mistakes and Prevent
Their Repetition.

Washington, May Tabor chiefs of
two nations representing millions of
workers. today took up the problem of
turning England's costly labor mistakes
into guide chart for the United
States.
In the first Of a series of conferences,
the labor mission sent by England to-
day met with labor leaders of this
country.
The English mission is headed by
Right Hon. &. w. Bowerman, privy
councillor, member of the house of
commons, and secretary of the Brit
tsh Trades union congress. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor and chairman Of
the labor committee Of the Council of
National Defense, led the American
delegation.
TO AVOID ENGLAND'S ERRORS.
I'VE are laying before your govern
ment through the labor committee Of
the council all we have learned in the
last two years of bitter experience
about directing organized labor in
time of war;" said Bowerman. "AAer-
ica can avoid all Of these errors and
start right
I'VE hope also to bring about a bet
ter understanding between labor Of
England and labor of your country.
PURPOSES OF CONFERENCE.
Three aims were today formally out
lined as the object of the visit here:
To knit the organized labor of the
United States and England together
for closer cooperation during and af-
ter the war; to guide the United States
around the mistakes of England and to
help the American government to get
the best results out of organized labor,
That the United States may adopt
the English system of priority" for
speeding up work on war material was
forecast by one labor leader after the
conference. Under this system any
material in any stage Of manufacture
which is to be used for war purposes is
given priority over other work. BY this
method the government does not com
mandeer factories nor direct labor but
attains the same results.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
THREE AMERICANS
HONORED BY FRANCE

Paris. May 6.-Three Americans-all
in the American ambulance corps
were honored for bravery by the French
government today. being decorated
with the war cross.
They are G. B. Struby, of Denver;
William Bigelow. of Cohasset, Mass,
and w. H. Wallace of New York City.
The citations Of the case of Bigelow
and Wallace declared they performed
services of extraordinary valor last
December in bringing in wounded
under fire.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
ADDITIONAL LOAN
TO GREAT BRITAIN

washington, May 7.-An additional
loan of $26,0oO.o0o was made today to
Great Britain.
The transfer was not attended by the
usual formalities. Secretary McAdoo
sent a treasury warrant to British
Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring Rice at
the British embassy and received in
return Great Britain's obligation for
the sum.
The loan is a part of 100000. 900,
which will be turned over to Great
Britain at intervals during the month
Of May. The first portion was trans
ferred Saturday. The remaining $780,
100000 will be transferred in either one
or two installments within the three
weeks
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
CIPHER EXPERTS At WORK
ON SEIZED PAPERS

Chicago. May 7.-"Somewhere in
Chicago" today a gray-haired woman,
stout and comfortable, bends over a
pile of interesting papers. She is
reading ciphers for the government
just now batch of wireless messages
confiscated in a recent raid.
Her cousin Peter is doing similar
work in Washington now. Both are
experts and volunteered their services
to the government when war was de-
clared
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-05-07
ENGINEER CORPS FIRST TO GO
ORDERS WAR DEPARTMENT
FOR RAISING FORCES TO BE
SENT TO FRANCE AT ONCE

Washington, Tho
raising Of the first American
earliest possible
Pisburg Detroit
will be released
inter- ~ Wv '' TNo'>
Tho
thus toned. - ~''
Authorization
ene act which service such
engineering andth O ~N'
officers Of tho each neo;m.,. ~
engin - ~ o"' '0s'"e"e OF