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| animals. as well as being eaten OF
bread by the human population.
Feed Stuffs Scarce
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
BARTER POPULAR
In RUSSIA NOW
Fluctuation of Ruble Makes Farmer
Prefer Commodities.

The Russian farmer is back at
work on the land and living on his
cwn produce" reports Charles l..
Preston, a prominetn New England
shoe and leather man who has lust
returned from a trip to yladiyostoIl
on special mission for the Bureau
or ofreign and Domestic Commerce.
Department of Commerce. so far
as food is concerned he is not badly
on, but he is putting very little
on the market. He barters for the
little he needs in the way of manu-
factured goods. but will not ac-
cept money for his produce. He re-
fuses to worry about the fiuctua-
tons in the value of the ruble."
Mr.. Preston. who has spent MANY
years In Russia. went to Russia on
thls occasion in behalf of the gov
ernment to find out what could be
done to facilitate the shipment of
hides and skins to the United
States. but found little encourage
metn for the near future. Farmers
are not allowed to kill calves for a
period Of three years and onIy small
Quantities of other hides and skins
are being bartered by the raisers
Tne business stagnation in Rus
sfa- Mr.. Preston explains, is due in
part to the depreciation of the ruble
and to restrictions on the banks.
Transfer of money by banks from
one city to another is forbidden. and
depositors are not allowed to draw
more than ESQ rubles at time
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
GERMANS MAKE
new ATTACKS
UPON LONDON
Air Raiders Kill II While
Two Machines Reach
English Capital.
MANY SUFFER INJURY
Houses Demolished When
Enemies Drop Bombs
Into British City.

London. March S-London was
raidsd by enemy airplanes last night.
Lord French. commander Of the home
defence forces. announced today.
Eleven persons were killed and
forty-six injured. the official state
ment said. II was feared that six
others were still buried in the wreck
age.
Two enemy airplanes of a fleet of
seven or eight succeeded In reaching
the city. 1t was stated. These dropped
several bombs.
Two other planes. coming up the
Thames estuary, were turned back
before reaching London.
Other crossed Essex. dropping
bombs southwest. northwest and north
of London. Several houses were de-
molished.
The air raids on London have re-
Gently become unusually frequent hut
not invariably successful.
During the early part OF last Feb
ruary the Germans evidently en-
barked on q new campaign of air
frightfulness, and made almost daily
attacks on the city.
On Feb. IS last the German Crown
Prince in a spirit OF great elation
telegraphed his congratulations to the
airdromes in Germany on havrlg
negotiated their Tooth air raid on
London.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO
HELP LIBERTY LOAN
Noted Comedian Among Corps Of
Speakers for Third Issue.

william Jennings Bryan. former
SECRETARY Of State: Charlie Chaplin,
movie comedian, and others were an
nounced last night as speakers who
will aid the third liberty loan
other speakers viii be DR.. L. S.
Rowe. Assistant Secretary of the
Treasurer: Gaylord Saltzgaber. United
States Commissioner of Pensions;
william s. Hart. motion picture star;
Miss Katherine Synon and Mrs. Hal
lie Linn Hill, Woman's Liberty
Loan Committee; and Mrs. Cora c.
Lewis, Kinsley, Kan.
Mr.. Bryan will open the campaign
at Little Rock, Ark. April s. DR..
Rowe will speak In the South. be-
ginnins April 9. at Asheville. n. C.
Chaplin will speak in the South.
beginning April Is: and Hart will
tour the Pacific States.
The message Of the third liberty
loan will be given TO every rural
community of the country through
about loo. 600 school house meetings
the night of April -.
It will be the first time in history
that all rural school houses have
been given over on the same night
to . national government meeting.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Slackers Must Face
Service with Troops

A uniform and a gun imme-
diately on arrest. instead of a Jail
sentence.> Is the treatment for
slackers. decided on by the Depart
ment of Justice. 1t was learned
last night. -
The Department has recon-
pended to- the Provost Marshal
General an amendment to the Sc
iective service regulations that
will permit the Department of
Justice agents to induct at once
into military service the men ar
rested for violations of the draft
law. and the suggested amendment
is being drafted now by Gen.
Crowder.
Federal agents are making nu-
merous arrests now throughout
the country of men who failed to
obtain registration or cIassifica-
ton cards. and the arrests have
oveFerowded the jails in some
places. particularly in Pittsburgh.
Other special quarters have had to
be rented to house the alleged
slackers.
The amendment Is designed to
dispose of the men at once. either
in the army or by restoration to
their industrial pursuits.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
WILSON WANTS VOTE
ON WAR MEASURES
President Urges House Committee
Chairman to Hasten Work.

How to speed up the crowded calen-
dar of Congress was discussed last
night at a White House conference
between President Wilson and Chair
man Pou, of the House Rules Com
pittee.
'Pou was surprised to find, as he
went over the situation, that not one
bill of major importance has as yet
beer approved bg the two Houses. He
reported, too, that due to a parlIamen-
tary situation 1t would be impossible
to approve the conference report on
the railroad bill before the first OF
next week.
Legislation which the President de-
sires pressed with the greatest possible
dispatch includes the following bills:
Price fixing. water power, rationing.
war corporate financing. and the Ov-
erman bill consolidating executive de
partments: some of these have been
approved by one branch of Congress.
A number OF tremendous appropria-
tion bills. together with many local
measures, has congested the House
calendar. Pou told the President. so
that heroic steps must be taken to
clear il up.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
UNION
SUPPORTS D. G..
LABOR PLEA
Employees Meeting Backs
Demand for More Pay and
Other Concessions.

BY unanimous adoption of a IA
vorable resolution, the board of rep
resentatives OF the Federal EN-
ployes' Union. at a meeting in Per-
petual Hall last night. lent its sup
port to the demands of a committee
of laborers and mechanics of .the
, District service. which Is to ap-
proach the District Commissioners
today with plea for wages equal
to those paid to their respective
crafts outside local governmental
service.
II. Z. McLarin, representing the
District branch of the union, ex-
planned the situation.
After Investigation" he said, I'VE
find that rates in the District service
are on an average 81 a day less than
outside Of 1t. The employees OF the
! District are net asking for thirty
days annual leave and many of the
benefits o. government clerks"
What they are asking for. accord
ing to Mr.. McLarin, is:
An eight-nour day with per diem
scale OF wages: five and n half days
work week; pay and a half for over
! time; pay for a holiday itself, in ad-
dition to pay by the hour on a holi-
day; basic minimum rate of s275 a
day for laborers and a minimum wage
equal to the minimum union rate
outside the District service for me-
chanies 80 s-@,.ss.----... p
The board went on record, and, In
its capacity of legislative and exec
utive body Of the union. put the
entire union on record as favoring
such betterments of conditions.
A resolution was adopted provid-
ing for the establishment of a COM
mission on reclassification OF wages
and positions OF government EN-
rloyes in Washington. It Is ex-
pected that this measure will be in
troduced into Congress within the
next month.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
HOUSEPASSES
BILL FOR CAMP
TOHELP LPFARM
On Voluntary Application
Draftees May Be Furlough-
ed FOR Civil Pursuits.

A bill designed to relieve the labor
shortage on farms was passed yes
terday by the House. 1t provides
that, upon their voluntary applicd-
tion. men i'm the army may be fur
home for civil purpuits."
The last clause, it was explained
by administration leaders. Is worded
as it Is to avoid class legislation. The
army's intention is to furlough farm
boys almost exclusively. Discussion
of the measure revealed widespread
anxiety, particularly by members
from farm States, that next sum-
mer's draft would leave them unpro-
tected at harvest time.
The measure is almost identical
with Senate bill already passed. A
conference is Expected at once.
Representative Saunders, of vir-
ginia, attempted to insert an amend
ment that a soldiers parent, or
guardian might have him furloughed
home without his consent.
He and members from the Middle
West predicted the soldiers would be
"shamed' out of going home by their
comrades. After farm State members
had emphasized farm labor shortage,
the amendment was defeated.
Opposition developed yesterday to
Gen. Crowder's plan to place men
who have attained the age of q. since
last June. in the same class with the
original registrants. Crowder said
he planned a special registration for
these men.
Republican members and q few
Democrats insisted that all the orig
inal registrants should be called be-
fore the men who are still to be
placed In the draft classes.
Representative Gordon. OF Ohio,
plans fight on the floor against all
further draft changes. He says that
rulings. unwarranted by the draft
law. have made conscription wholly
a matter of selection, and that the
men who gained favorable numbers in
the first drawing are losing their ad-
vantage entirely.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
BOMB DAMAGES
CHICAGO THEATER
Labor Troubles Thought Response
bic for Damage to Playhouse.

Chicago, March S-The explosion of
a bomb in the Al Woods Theater.
early this evening, wrecked the front
of the building and badly damaged the
interior. The theater, recently COM
pleted. was to have been dedicated
next Monday night. Labor troubles
are believed to have. been behind ef-
forts to destroy the structure.
Lou Houseman, Western manager
for Al H. Woods. said the damage
would be repaired in time for the
opening Of the theater.
Hundreds of people in the business
section. attracted by the explosion,
surrounded the building. One mar
was cut on the hand by flying glass
Officials of the construction company
intimated that they have knowledge
of who placed the bomb and limited
arrests will soon be made
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Finland German
Ruled Monarchy?
Possibility Looms Large that Paper
..Repablic" Will Be Dominated
Directly by One of Willie I'm s
Brood on Prussianized Throne.

Amsterdam March 8-The possibility of the republic of Finland
being converted into monarchy with Hohenzoen
ths throne doomed large odays dispatches from Sweden The
k.s 9th Prince Oscar Of Prussia mentioned ean
s M prospective Finnish Finland herself asserted
had requested the Berlin government consider this proposal
R, throne throne the very vassalase which Russia. Ire
ad has been reduced through the of signed between
hsr and Germany regarded Sweden well in the other
Scandinavian kingdoms with grave forebos Whmstra.se
drawing spuatons which Finland observe shewy
por.ted pdg the Hemsfo eede territory
% foreign power without Germany consent.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

try Is being reduced to an alarming
extent by the blunders of men ut
terly ignorant of the laws of sup
ply and demand.
1.-The time for blunders is passed.
The individual who fixes an arbitrary
price is setting his judgment against
that of mankind. The task of the
world is increased production. in
stead Of trying to decrease prices.
You cannot increase production by de-
creasing prices.
I'VE have been told to eat chickens
and conserve meat. Now we are told
the opposite. Nowadays you can't sell
chickens-anything of the female va
riety that wears fathers is unmar-
ketable.
"Petty Contemptfble Tyrant.,
price fixing Is as old as mans fool
ishness and-futile as the Food Admin
istration. War always causes storms
that throw up strange, peculiar things
on the stream Of events. This is one
of them.
"And II you do not obey every man.
date OF some petty, contemplate lit
tie tyrant you are met with the as
sertion that you are a Stacker.
And now the unholy hand of the
Food Administrator has fallen like a
blight upon the tomato crop"
At this point Senator Reed swung
into long denunciation Of the Fuel
Administration.
He closed by saying: 'Tell the mire
owners what prices they will get, or
the mines will slack up.
Tell the farmers what they can
raise before the spring planting.
Up to this time the farmers have
suffered under a usurpation of power.
And any man who has done this is a
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
SERVICES IN GERMAN
DROPPED BY CHURCH
York. Pa. Lutherans Abandon Lam
guage of Enemy.

York. Pa, March s-The council of
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church
Of York. has announced Its de-
cision to suspend all services in the
German language. For 100 years this
church. Se oldest Lutheran congre-
cation wtyt of the Susquehanna River,
has been alternating English and Ger
man services.
Its pastor. Rev. DR.. George Wen
ders. in an interview recently, de-
clared in favor of continuing services
in German, for the benefit of those
older members of the congregation
who still cling to the tongue of the
Fatherland.
The church councils action was
taken In response to the desires Of
the younger element and in reeogni-
tion of "the necessity OF the times.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
|BELGIANS BEAT
BACK GERMANS
new ATTACKS
Severe Defeat for Huns Re-
ported to Legation with
100 Prisoners Taken.
FOE ABANDONS DEAD
Retreats After Two Un-
successful Attempts to
Pierce Allies Lines.
FOE ABANDONS DEAD

Severe defeat for the Germany. IN
the Belgian front was reported It the
Belgian Legation in an official dis
patch received last night.
The cablegram which was sent from
Harve. read:
The Germans have met with serious
defeat on the Belgian front Last
night several attempts were directed
againstt two places in the Belgian line.
The first attack, which took place in
q section more than a mile wide
against the positions on the Beverdyk,
was completely repulsed by a barrage
OF artillery and machine gun fire.
Numerous corpses were left by the
enemy on the battlefield.
1T is obvious that the Germans
had attached great Importance to the
second attack. which was made south
Of Stuyvekenskerke against our po-
sitions at Reigersvliet, which were
held by unmounted cavalrymen- They
had prepared this attack by violent
artillery action. in which three diff
ferent regiments took part. Picked
troops OF young men from 20 to IS
years Of age. succeeded in setting foot
In a part Of our posts, but after a
strong artillery preparation a counte--
attack was made by our cavalrynen.
which succeeded completely.
THE Germans were dyiven ont with
very heavy losses from the positions
which they had been ordered to keep
at any cost. In spite of their en-
argetic resistance. they were unable.
however. to check the advance OF our
men. who captured more than 100 un-
wounded prisoners. including four Of
ficers and seven machine guns. A
great number of dead and wounded
-7ere found en- the field after the. ac-
ton. Several German detachrents
may be considered as being complete
Iy wiped OUT
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09

AIand Isles n Pawn.
THIS was done. it Is not doubted
here. with the object OF retaining an
Invaluable pawn In future dealings
with svedsn-the AIand Islands As
was pointed out In these dispatches
last week. as long as the Germans
held these isles they can at any mo-
ment bottle up the Finnish Gulf ana
thereby cut OF the northern two-thirds
Of Swsdsn's east coast. This menac~.
only speeulated upon a week ago. has
meanwhile become an actual fact. ana
it Is believed only a matter of time
before Berlin shows her full hand by
making proposals to the Stockholm
government that may have weighty
influence upon the whole course OF
the war. particularly as regards navaI
warfare.
In return for Finland's promise not
10 make territorial cessions on her
own initiative, Germany promises to
obtain recognition of Finland's inde-
pendence from all foreign powers In
this pledge Is seen by diplomatic OBJ
servers here a German hint to other
Muscovite states that have seeded
from Great Russia since the revolu-
ton. and to Belgium, Montenegro and
Serbia as we'll
1t Is m this connection also, stu
dents of the German tactics point
out, that the Kaiser, much against
the true desires of his heart which
thirsts for vengeance against kinS
Ferdinand, finally agreed to consider
the Rumanian dynastic question an
internal one. He thus wishes to ahay
possible fears by other defeated
rulers that separate peace will cost
them their crowns.
The Russian situation underwent no
important changes during the last
twenty-four hours. There nas 6ceiI
much talk of a continuance of the
German drive on Petrograd. but as
was indicated here some days ago.
the movements have been, and are.
pof a purely local character. Narva.
on the Finnish Gulf, man. miles from
the capital still marking = deadline
of the Teuton advance.
Marking Time In Russia.
The Germans are marking time
now awaiting the result of the
Moscow meeting of the Soviets next
Tuesday. at which the peace treaty
is to be either ratified or rejected
In their peace agreement with Ru-
mania. which is not yet finally rati-
fed, the central powers took par
ticular pains to make sure of DOM
mating in the future the vast Ru-
manian grain and petroleum resour-
ces. -
The chief Rumanian oil well are
at Prahova. Dambovitza, Bacau
and Buzau. Rumanias total output
Of petroleum in 1915 amounted to
1,673.145 metric tons, representing
an increase of 423.145 metric tons
since 1900. Her export in 1914
amounted to s54.024 metric tons.
Rumania in 1915 turned out S.
57s,SOO bushels of wheat. 1881. Sis
bushels of barley and 2s.156.00C
bushels of oats. The exported in
1918 Sss.6s2.450 worth of grain, and
S2s,296,165 worth Of petroleum.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Huns Want Dollars
Back Of New Drive

Paris, March 8.-Within the next
two or three weeks the German
people will be called upon to sub
scribe to a new war loans Hin
denburg, It Is said. expects to have
his long heralded Western drive in
full swing by that time.
At verdun and on the British
front the German big guns dis
played intense activity during the
last twenty-four hours. The har-
RAISING campaign directed against
the American sectors also con-
tinued unabated. All Europe is in
tension. Let them come, we're
ready" Is the keynote Of every dis
patch from the allied side Of the
Western battle line. The fighting
men Of France, Britain and Amer
lea are eager, almost impatient for
the German to make his last try,
because they are confident It will be
a failure.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
c. OF c. COMMITTEE
DROPS PHONE DEBATE

Let Congress decide" was the seL.-
timent Of a meeting OF the public utn-
tiles committee OF the Chamber OF
Commerce yesterday. when the oue,-
ton OF government ownership and op-
Grafton of telephones was brought ny.
Technically OF the situation WAS tse
reason for refusal to dabble in tke
matter. Former Representative James
T. Lloyd. OF Missouri. chairman OF
the committee. told the members thar
government ownership Of telephones
was too deep and technical a propo-
sition for lsymen to handle. Bots
sides presented interesting arguments.
he declared.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
Kaiser Sees Gods Hand
h Defeat Of Russia

Amsterdam, March ITO a mes
sage Of congratulation from the
vice president Of the Reichstag over
the signing of the Russian peace,
says a Berlin telegram. Emperor
William replied:
The complete victory nils me
with gratitude. 1t permits US to
live again one of those great mo-
ments In which We can reverentIy
admire Gods hand In history.