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The Raymer enterprise., 1918-05-23

UP about Greeley look like city streets
and If it is fact that the people OF
this district voted for the splendid
school building at Raymer before
there was residence in Raymer.
and now the towns people have its
benefits at their door for school and
social functions. Why should they
not do their best to provide nea and
comfortable buildings in the country
so that good teachers would not be
adverse to going into the country
Before coming to Colorado | lived in
Nebraska near Ia good town. never
having saloon and only two years
pool hall, but when the farmers
organized to do some business of
their own, and bought an elevator
put in store and butcher shop, the
business men were against us to a
man, although it brought business to
the town and the third bank began
business soon. This is no exceptional
condition. They say that the Ray
mer business men are broader minded
than this.
As far as roads are concerned, If
the country built the school house
at Raymer, why should not Raymer
people help build some roads to in
crease their business and bring in the
country children to school. The
folks in the north end OF the district
only ask Raymer to oeontribute hershare
Of he school fund to build them a
comfortable school house up there
and they will not worry about the
'oads. | have not seen signs of very
much road work near Raymer but /
will volunteer as much work on pub
lie roads as any one man in town
will do or pay for. am for the Ray
mer country you bet and Colorado
except the school law. For Uncle
Sam all the time and for the Kaiser
where he chicken got the axe.
by d. II. Burton.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-05-23

See us for job work.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-05-23

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The Raymer enterprise., 1918-05-23
by II. II. Burton

titude OF the city or town people
toward farmers organizing In s#y
manner for their own special bene-
fit, and now 1t seems few town
boosters would deny those people
living a distance from town. the priv
lege to have school where they
want 1t and are willing to pay for.
They say we cant secure teachers
for the rural schools. They do in
Nebraska sHd We often receive ap-
plications from teachers, and II this
state would build good school hous-
es and furnish good equipment. there
gould be no trouble In securing good
teachers In our rural schools.
am really proud Of Mr.. NorthuR
for his fairness In this scAael matter
and II we all had the fairness Of mind
that Mr. Northup has, we would have
little difficulty In settling this school
problem. | would not for Q minute
tssr anything down the people In
Raymer have built. but would help
build schools In the country that
would answer the needs Of he chill
drsn In the remote parts Of the dis
rict.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
OFFICER AT FORT MYER
INQUIRIES AFTER PRIVATE

An officer from Fort Myer last night
telephoned police officials to inquire as
to the whereabouts of Peter Frederick
Christian Wilsmark, private in Com
pany c. 30th United States Corps of
Engineers. who was arrested by De-
tectives Baur and Sweeney and In
spector Charles G. Lambert of the de-
tective force of the American Express
Company on charges of having forged
the name Of Alfred May to express
money orders for $110. He was told
that the prisoner had been returned to
a cell in the first precinct station.
Wilsmark spent several hours in the
Office of Assistant United States At
torney Arth yesterday afternoon. He
was questioned as to his movements in
Denmark. his native country, prior to
December "a. 1916. when he reached
this country. and during the time he
las been in this country. 1t appears
that he shared a room with Mr. May
while he was in San Francisco. and it
was while there that the express money
orders were missed
May told the detectives that Wills
mark said he had been arrested for at
tempting to smuggle goods from Dem
mark into Germany, and when ques-
toned about that statement Wills
mark, 1t is stated, admitted having
made 1t, but said he was only joking
Not until his arrest in this city, he
stated, was he ever taken into custody
Nor anything.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
ST. MARTINS EXPECTS
TO CLEAR DEBT TODAY
North Capitol Street Church Near
$4,000 Mark, Set for Cam
paign Of Week.

The parishioners Of St Martins
Church, North Capitol and streets, will
make a final drive today to "go over the
top" in their one-week campaign to clear
the $4,000 debt on the church.
When yesterdays results had been
compiled. the total was s1s,552. The
campaign does not close until tonight,
and Charles w. Floeckher. chairman of
the campaign committee predicted last
night that the remaining $500 would be
forthcoming today.
The teams conducting the campaign
will start out again this morning and
Will meet in the clubhouse, II T street,
at o'clock this afternoon. At that hour
they confidently expect to have $4,000.
Plans have been completed for a big
mass meeting Of celebration to be held
in the church tonight, at which Rev.
Eugene A. Hannah will express his ap-
probation of the manner in which the
people Of his parish worked through
out the week to make the campaign a
success.
Approximately half Of the amount al.
ready raised is in cash and the balance
in notes payable within three months.
The subscriptions also include a num-
Der of 800 and $50 liberty bonds.
The money will pay the debt on the
present basement church and will make
possible the erection of proposed
superstructure.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
OUTLINES DUTY OF SOUTH.
Clarence Ousley Says People Must
Grow Vegetables, Corn and Oats.

People of the south this year must
grow vegetable gardens, keep milk
COWS, pigs and chickens. grow plenty
Of corn. oats, peanuts. etc. and then as
much cotton or tobacco as can be cul-
tivated well. Otherwise. said Clarence
Ousley, assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, in a statement last night. the
people of the entire south are likely to
suffer serious privations. put burden
on the nation that may prolong the
war, and even imperil victory in the
war.
Basing his conclusions on reports
from forty-eight agricultural colleges.
several thousand county agents, data
gathered by $4,000 representatives of
the Department of Agriculture, the re-
suits of personal observation and in
quiry in the course of tour from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and on Secre-
tary McAdoo's recent statement as di-
rector of the nations railroads that
transportation may be lacking this
year to haul food and feed to parts of
the country that have not provided for
themselves, Mr.. OusIey asserted that
the food and feed problem in the south
can only be solved by southern farm
ers themselves producing the commod-
tiles necessary for the support of the
people of that part of the country.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
EDGE NAMES DAVID BAIRD
TO SENATOR HUGHES SEAT
New Jersey Republican Leader
Pledges Support to Presi-
dents War Aims.

TRENTON, y. J., February 23.-David
Eaird today was appointed successor to
the late Senator Hughes Gov. Edge in
a telegram to Mr.. Baird, now in Flor
ida, told him that the people of New
Jersey. while recognizing necessity of
individual thought and action under
ordinary conditions insist that their
representative. in Congress, in all mat
ters pertaining to war, absolutely sup
port the President as commander-in-
chief Of our forces on land and sea-"
Mr.. Baird in reply wired, in part:
I want to assure you, and through
you the people of New Jersey. that
during. my brief occupancy of the dis
tinguished office Of senator, my age pre-
cluding consideration of the long term,
every interest, party, personal or
otherwise. will be subordinated scrupu-
lously and loyalty to the patriotic duty
of supporting the President and
Strengthening his arm.
81 am an apostle of the creed that a,
united Americanism will win the war.
That creed knows no political division"
The new senator. south Jersey re-
publican leader. is seventy-eight years
old.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
STOP BURNING THE GARBAGE,
NEW CONSERVATION SLOGAN
Food Administrator Wilson Estimates
Practice Causes Loss Of $4,000 In
Washington Annually.

is what the garbage can Of an average
family Of four persons will do in one
year: 1t will produce enough nitroglycerin
for three three-inch shells and enough
fatty acids to make fifty cakes OF soap.
The residue, reduced to tankage, will
furnish the fertilizing elements neces-
sary to grow three bushels of wheat.
If the family Of four burns it's garbage
there are three less shells to fire at
the bOches, fifty less cakes of soap and
three bushels less of wheat.
Twenty-nine cities are disposing OF
the bulk garbage by reduction, one OF
them being. Washington. They have
total population of about 100000.
The reduction plants in these twenty
nine cities reclaim each year 100000
pounds Of grease. This amount Of
grease will produce 100000 pounds
Of nitroglycer1n. enough for the pow
der charge Of 10000, 900 three-inch shells.
After the nitroglycerin is extracted
from the grease there will be left
enough fatty acids to manufacture
about 200. 1000, 900 twelve-ounce cakes Of
SOAP And the fertilizer produced is
sufficient for the growing of 100000
bushels Of wheat The present estimated
value of the products reclaimed is
s11.1O0.000.
But thesee twenty-nine cities do not
reduce all their garbage. About -150. 900
tons is destroyed each year. The esti-
mated loss is nitroglycerin enough for
10000 shells; fatty acids enough for
100000 cakes of soap, and fertilizer
enough to grow 100000 bushels of
wheat.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
BAKER TELLS
DUTIES OF ASSISTANTS
Declares Nominations Of Men to Be
Chosen Rest With President
Wilson.

With the administration bill creating
two additional assistant secretaries of
war before Congress, Secretary Baker
yesterday explained the functions to
which his new aids would be assigned.
He could not indicate who he had in
mind for the posts, saying that the
nominations were matters for the
President only. but names unofficially
suggested include those of Edward R.
Stettinius, new surveyor general of
War Department purchases; Maj. Gen.
Goethals. acting quartermaster general,
and Raymond D. Fosdick, chairman of
tho commission on training camp ac-
tivities.
Mr.. Baker said that Assistant Secre-
tary Crowell would become the direct
understudy of the Secretary and as
sumo the duties Of the head of the War
Department in his absence. The new
second assistant will have supervision
of all industrial and commercial" ac-
tivities of the War Department, act
ing in the name OF the Secretary on all
matters of this character and super
vising the purchases of all bureaus.
The appointment of Mr. Stettinius as
second assistant would be in line with
Mr.. Bakers statement to congressional
committees that the place Of Mr. Sret-
tinius in the department was one OF
growing functions" In that connec-
tion. however. it was recalled that re-
Gently the name of Gen. Goethals had
been prominently mentioned as an as
slstant secretary of war in discussions
of changes in the War Department.
The third assistant. Mr. Baker said.
will have direct supervision of ali
non military activities of the SOL
diers."
The position of fourth assistant will
be held by John C. Scofield, now as
sistant and chief clerk and as such, in
charge of administrative matters not
directly under the various bureaus and
of the entire clerical personnel of the
department..
Evening star., 1918-02-24

Stop burning garbage! is the latest
conservation slogan of the United States
Food Administration. 1t is held to be
an unnecessary waste of materials vi
tally needed in the winning of the war.
This waste goes on in Washington
and other cities. even where there are
plants for garbage reduction. Clarence
r. Wilson, food administrator for the
District. in cooperation with the gar
bage utilization division of the National
Food Administration, has launched a
campaign to stop the burning of gar
bage in this city. Hotels and apart
ment houses are the chief offenders. 1t
is estimated that 5000 tons are burned
each year. The gross value Of a ton of
garbage is figured at $40. SO that the
practice represents a loss in Washing
ton of $4,000 a year.
When Mr.. Wilson started his cam
paign for garbage conservation in
Washington one of the first discoveries
he made was that garbage was being
burned at the White House. The White
House was first to stop the practice.
All hotels and apartment houses and
private homes are expected to follow
the example.
What Garbage Can Will Produce.
Put through a reduction process here
Evening star., 1918-02-24
POLICEMAN CUT ON HAND.
Tailor Hiram Blum Stabbed in Back
E. W. Brown Arrested.

In a three-cornered combat in the
tailoring establishment of Hiram
Blum, 22s G street, last night about s
o'clock, Blum and Policeman Mont
gomery were cut with a knife. Edward
William Brown, twenty-eight years
old, 513 Sd street. is locked up to an
swer for it
Brown had had his coat repaired, and
when he went for it he got into an
that he picked up case knife and in
fiicted stab wound three inches long
in the tailor's back.
Montgomery appeared on the scene.
but his police uniform did not end
hostilities. He received slight cuts on
his hand. Blum was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital, while Brown was lock-
ed up. He is charged with assaulting
the tailor and policeman
Evening star., 1918-02-24
MEADE BAND TO ADOPT
METHOD FRANCE USES
Camp Will Have Organization
Which Embraces Large Number
Of Trumpeters and Drummers.

CAMP MEADE. Md. February "a
Camp Meade is to have the first band
organized along the lines OF the mill
tary bands of the French army. which,
in addition to the regular musicians
Of the United States bands have ten
or twelve rumpeters and ten or twelve
drummers. This makes possible a vol
ume and orchestration impossible in
bands composed Of about twenty-eight
instead OF thirtyafve or forty musi-
clans
Col. Howard Landers, who only re-
Gently returned from France, where he
had an opportunity to study the work
Of the French military musical units.
has organized such a band in his regf-
ment the 310th Field Artillery, sta
toned here.
Enthusiastic over the playing of the
French, Col Landers declared that he
had promised himself that as soon as
try to organize his regimental band
along the lines Of the French
Devising Song Book.
Col. Landers has purchased privately
at a cost of more than 500 the instru-
ments needed to build his regimental
band up to the French orchestration.
book, which will contain 100 selections
that are favorites with the men and
battery commanders The national airs
of all the allies will be included.
1t is likely Washingtonians will have
the opportunity to hear this band very
soon. for Col. Landers says the band
can be sent to any city nearby which
is willing to pay the expenses of the
men. Army bands are not permitted to
accept pay for engagements
There is a movement on foot to i'm
prove the status of all bands in the
United States Army, and Mrs. Newton
D. Baker, wife of the Secretary of War.
is understood to be taking much in
terest in this movement. Mrs. Bakers
interest in the recreational activities
of the soldiers in camps around Wash
ington is well known. and she takes
every opportunity of participating in
their entertainments by singing and
making arrangements for entertain
ments by others
Evening star., 1918-02-24
FAIR WEATHER FOR TODAY
Continued Warm Is Prediction
Yesterdays Sun Made Snow
Go a-G1immering.

Another Sunday of fair weather was
predicted by the weather bureau last
night. It will be continued warm to-
day, with fresh southwest winds. The
temperature tonight will remain prac-
tica1ly the same in the states adjacent
to the District of Columbia.
Attaining a height of so degrees, the
temperature yesterday afternoon did
much to thaw the snow. which fell on
Washington's birthday anniversary.
The downtown streets were cleared OF
snow and in only few remote streets
was snow seen last night.
Forty-eight degrees was the maxi
mum temperature which prevailed a
year ago yesterday. The minimum tenn
perature a year ago, however, was only
81 degrees, while yesterday morning
the mercury went down to IA degrees
at s o'clock.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
ROBERT W. BELL on STAFF OF
TRAINING CAMP COMMISSION
Son of Charles ]. Bell Has Been
Active in TheatricaIs at
Cantonments.
Heretofore a Volunteer to Dis
trict War Camp Com
munity Service.

Robert w. Bell. son of Charles ]. Bell.
president of the American Security and
Trust Company, and nephew of Alex
ander Graham Bell inventor of the tel
ephone, has been appointed to the staff
OF representatives Of the War and Navy
Departments commission on training
camp activities.
Mr. Bell has for some time been de-
voting his services as a volunteer to the
district war camp community service
OF the commission as producing man.
ager OF the entertainment committee
which sends vaudeville shows and
other entertainments to thirteen camps
each week.
He has superintended not only the
production of the shows. but also the
rehearsale of some 800 professionals
and amateurs who have volunteered
their talents to the community service.
His appointment to the training camp
commission is without salary, and he
has been assigned to the duties which
he has hitherto been conducting.
Mr.. Bell has had considerable expert
ence In the theatrical world. He was a
Evening star., 1918-02-24
TO GIVE PERMISSION
TO RAISE TELEPHONE
RATES IN DISTRICT
Continued from First Page.)

month, with limit of 200 calls a month
and an excess charge of cents call.
took the stand in the afternoon and
modified his original statement. He
stated that it might be more advisable
not to increase the present f1at-rate
charge, but to establish a call limit and
fix a small excess rate as an experiment
which could be changed when it was
found to what extent it would produce
additional revenue.
DIR. Bemis' recommendations figured
to give the company an increase of
about $4,000 year. Sangster pre-
sented two sets of calculations based
on different excess call rates. one fgur-
ing additional annual revenue to the
other of about $2s4.000. Testimony of
all the commissions witnesses was to
the effect that the telephone company
must be given relief il it is not to incur
. deficit.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
ARMY REG|STRANTS
GIVEN PROTECTION
Provost Marshal General Has
Announced Regulations to
Cover MisappIied Rules.
FOR REOPENlNG OF CASES

CompIete protection for registrants
from misinterpreted or misapplied
rules and regulations governing de-
ferred classification is granted by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder in regu-
lations Just announced.
Reports from states and the char
aeter of papers accompanying appeals
to the President indicate a lack of un-
derstanding concerning discretionary
powers of boards to extend time limits
receive new evidence. reopen cases and
reclassify registrants." says the order
Of the provost marshal general.
sThe governor, adjutant general or
scsernment p,s appeal agent may rsg;strant na amt
into military servicA suggest to boards
an extension of time limits or tne
reopening of a case or the reclassinca-
tion of Resistant on add,sioha quo ai.sriv srv
misinterpreted or misapplied rules ana
regulations.
Proof in Support of Claim.
~Rexistrants or other interested per-
sons may also file with local or district
boards additional evidence or otnef
7erred classification at any time be-
fore the induction Of a registrant.
such suggestions OF extension OF
reopening, and such fling Of additional
proof are not binding upon boards,
who are to exercise wise discretion in
All cases in order to do complete JUS
fice," Provost Marshal Crowder warns.
mo appeal lies from refusal OF
boards to extend time or reopen or re-
classify
The selective service regulations pro-
hibited such reopening of cases, and
the new order is regarded as being in
line with the policy of the provost
marshal generals Office to do abso-
Lutte justice in so far as it is humanity
possible, to each and every registrant.
1887 Now Available.
District registrants to the number of
1.937 are now available for general
military service, according to figures
made public by Acting Adjutant Gen
sral Donovan. This number constitutes
So par cent Of total Of 3,7s1 examined
to date by the eleven local boards of the
District.
OF 1883 ordered to report for physical
examination to date, 56S failed to ap-
pear. Physicians disqualified ISL men,
or per cent. and certified to medical
advisory boards 1926, or A per cent of
those examined
The following table shows the prog
Teas Of physical examination of class l
man of the District to date:
Evening star., 1918-02-24
D. C. Student Commissioned.

Walter Jerome Cahill. son of Mrs.
Mary C. Bryan of 1411 N street north
west. was commissioned second lieuten-
ant in the Regular Army Friday, fol-
lowing a three-nonth course in the of
ficers' training camp at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan. Lieut.. Cahill is twenty
one years old and a graduate of Mount
St Joseph's College of Baltimore. He
was in his second year at Georgetown
University Law School when he enlist
ed in the Army last fall and was sent
to Fort Leavenworth. being assigned to
the ohicers' training camp which
opened there in DecembaD
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Cancelled Stamps Not
Wanted by Red Cross

~Please don't waste time and
energy collecting Cancelled post
age stamps for MS" pleads the
AneFicaA Red Cross.
Somebody, somehow, not long
age started the idea that the Red
Cross lad devised = method of
extracting the dyes from cam
ceIed stamps and utilizing the
colors.
The Post once Department re-
ports. that several bags OF can
celed stamps have accumulated
through the misled goodwill of
persons who thought they were
doing something to help win the
war. Withih the last two weeks,
also, scores of letters have Seen
received mt Red Cross headqunr-
tiers from persons asking infOr-
nation regarding the Cancelled
stamp idea.
The Red Cross announces that
these secondhand stamps are abb
solutely useless.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Sugar Profiteer Closed Up.

Convicted of sugar profiteering, An
tonia Morano. a Philadelphia whole
saler. was deprived of his license yes
terday by the food administration. Evil
dence was produced to show that
Morano had sold sugar at SO per hun
dred pounds wholesale, the food ad-
ministration announced.
Evening star., 1918-02-24
Pershing Reports Five Deaths.

Gen Pershing last night reported to
the War Department the following deaths
from natural causes: Sergt. Joseph =.
Reed. Hillsboro. Ohio, meningitis and Pri-
Yates Thomas P. Martin, Holyoke, Mass.
meningitis; Douglas N. AstalL Calves
ton, Tex, nephritis; Ray H. Griffin. Sher-
odsviIle, Ohio. scarlet fever, and Leander
Olsen, Koosharem. Utah, no cause as
signed
Evening star., 1918-02-24
$3.50 More for Chinese Relief.

Americans in charge of the Red
Cross flood relief work in China have
asked the society here, through Am
hassador Reinsch. at Peking. to trans
NIT an additional $4,000. Since the
hsgiAning of the foods In China the
1ed Cross has expended $125.OOO out
81 the $200. 900 appropriated for that
Evening star., 1918-02-24

Oate still Undetermined.
All available outward indications
would seem to point to some time dur
ing the month of April or, at the latest.
early in May as the date for the calling
Of the second draft for the National
Army. War Department officials re-
iterate. however. that no date has been
definitely fixed.
Such estimate is based on the known
Preparations for eQuipping and housing
the men. 1t is no military secret that
equipment and supplies for men Of the
second draft will become available soon
after April 1, and careful observers look
for the FIRST increments to be called
soon afterward-
The number Of men to be- called in
the 1rst increment has not yet been de-
tsrmlned. because the question Of
Aeusing them. has not been disposed of
There will be room for some of them in
camps and cAntonments now occupied
hy troops. and it Is possible that addi-
tfonal cantonments may have to be
provfded. 1t also is possible that some
Of the National Guard camps may be
used during the period.
This phase of tho subject is being
given careful study. but nothing has
been decided.
Evening star., 1918-02-24

member Of the Mask and Wig Club o4
the University of Pennsylvania and has
been prominent in many dramatic orr
ganizations. He left the University OF
Pennsylvania to take up his present
work.