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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12
CLERGY EAGER
TOPLAY GOLF
Three Hundred Ministers
Personally Invited to
Participate Monday
I8.HOLE MEDAL PLAY
By WILLIAM II, EVANS

If you should drop into any of the
publication rooms of the various denom-
nations next Monday, the chances are
that you would find none of the clergy
men there. although any young couple
in search of a minister to marry them
on an ordinary Monday morning would
not have the slightest trouble in locat-
\ ing one. But all the ministerial meet
| ings are off until the influenza epidemic
| Is over. so most of them will be playing
| Monday in the Red Cross golf match
| at the North Hills Country Club at
Edge Hill.
The Rev. DIR. Aquilla Webb. pastor of
the Central North Broad Presbyterian
| Church. is the originator of the plan.
and ne has sent the SO0-odd clergymen
of the city a cordial invitation to play
in an eighteen-hole medal play competi-
ton. Already twenty have entered the
| lists.
Will Be Profaneless Tourney
It ought to be a very pleasant day
for the caddies, for at times these young
| sters hear some weird cuss words when
| the players miss or top shots. Natu-
| rally, where We have tournament re-
| stricied to clergymen, there is very little
| likelihood that any of the dignified
| wearers of the cloth would resort to
| phrases which the unregenerate golfers
occasionally employ.
But they tell this story of distin-
guished divine at Washington who was
playing. with a United States Senator
at Chevy Chase, and during the round
the clergyman missed shot completely
He said nothing, and the Senator after
watching him in silence for a minute OF
two remarked: Doctor that was the
most profaLe silence | ever heard"
So If you should be at North Hill
next Monday and you should see a
clerical-looking golfer standing silently
alongside an inoffensive golf ball, you
will recall this tale.
How to Reach the Course
For the benefit of the clergymen who
do not know where the North Hills
Country Club is 1t may be reached from
the Reading Terminal, trains leaving for
Edge Hill at s:i7 and 1915 a. m. and
:02 and $500 p. m. The course is
about two hundred yards from the sta
ton.
Much has been done TO improve the
course and some OF the holes are OF
very fine order. There are a number
Of new greens and every green is In
excellent condition. There are no hills
to climb and the ministers may be sure
Of a delightful day on the links.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12

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bokes
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with it,
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Battling handled his financial affairs
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12
LOCAL GUN EXPERTS
OPEN SEASON TODAY
Where Today's Shoots
VII BE Held by PhiId.
Trdpshooters' League

Pennsylyania r, r.. at Wilmington.
=, y. White at Lnnsdale.
Glen Willow at Clearyiew.
Meadow Springs at Camden r. X. X.
Chester mt West Chester.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-12

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
Cost of Conflict for the Fiscal
Year 1918 Is Placed at
$50, ,4O5, 223.
EXPENSE IS INCREASING
Money Now Is Being Spent at the Rate
of Twenty-Four Billion Dollars
Annually, Nearly Double
Since January.

Washington, Oct. 29.-Should Amer.
lean industries be able to handle all
war orders authorized for the fiscal
year 1918 by Congress the nations
war bill for hat period will be $780,
29S, 405, 223.07, a sum within $1,000. 00O,.
600 of the amount spent by Great Brit
ain in the first four years of war.
Appropriations for the year total
$26,S77, Asa, 1893 80, which means that
the next session Of this Congress or
the ~Sixty-sixth Congress must appro.
pirate $9.421 900, 122.O0 to take care
of authorized contracts, provided those
in power can spend that much money.
For the fiscal year 1917 our appro'
priations and authorizations totaled
s21, $3.50, 3 0,840.46. OF this amount ST.,
000, 000, 600 was for loans to our Allies
Contract authorizations totaled So,
511, 553, 1926. so.
AT the present time money is being
spent at the rate of approximately
twenty-four billions annually. II has
nearly doubled since last January,
when the expenditures, exclusive OF
loans to the Allies, were about one
billion dollars monthly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
new BORN DEMOCRACY
Delegates Declare Freedom of
Eighteen Teuton States.
History Making Convention Is Held In
independence Hall at Phil
adeIphla.

Philadelphia, Oct. ga newborn
democracy has been proclaimed here
for the Go, 200, 900 people of the misgov-
erned nations of Central Europe.
Assembled in independence Hall,
Americas cradle of liberty, the &C.
credited representatives of these
states rang out defiance to autocracy,
a%ristocracy and Imperialism, and pro-
mulgated a declaration of indepen-
dence in the very chamber in which
the declaration of 1776 was read by
the colonists.
To fittingly proclaim hat the
eighteen Slav states of the German
emperor's once subservient Mittel-
Europa have united under a banner
of their own and shaken off the yoke
of domination, the Mid European
Union had a new Liberty bell cast,
as we'll as a new national flag, which
was unfarled alongside the Stars and
Stripes flying on the ROOT of indie
pendence Hall.
AS the new bell pealed forth it's
chimes of liberty for the Slav ma
lions, Prof. Masaryk, president of the
Mid-European union, read the decIara-
ton from the steps Of Americas birth
place of freedom.
Previously, the document had been
signed by the representatives of the
new federation, composed of Czecho.
Slovak, U~krainians, Lithuanians and
Jugo-Slavs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
Enemy Exit Cut Off BY Execution
of Yankee Long-Range Can
non Smelling Longuyon.
FRENCH FORCE RETREAT
Debeny's Army Skaters German De.
lenses In Center-Whole Teuton
Line In Danger of Being
Turned on Serre-OIse Front.

With the American Forces North.
west of Verdun, Oct. 29.-American
long-range guns are firing on Lon
guyon. The American l%ong-range fire
also Is being directed against the vital
Vote de Rocade, on the railway line
p%aralleling the front.
B"ombardment of Longuyon with big
shells is achieving the purpose of the
American advance northwest of Yer
dun, in which 10000 Germans have
been killed, wounded or captured in
the last month. That purpose is to
put out of use the railway line running
through Longuyon, which is the only
communication between all the Ger
man armies west of the Mouse river
and Metz and Luxembourg.
With that railway unserviceable, the
enemy will have no line of retreat or
means of obtaining ammunition and
other supplies from Germany except
through Belgium by way of Liege.
Turning German Line.
With the French Armies in France,
Oct. 29.-General Debney's army has
won a signal victory. The German
forces holding the Serre-Oise front are
In retreat and the whole German line
between Chateau Porcien and the Ar
gonne is in danger of being turned.
Persistent attacks by General Debe-
ney's indefatigable infantry have
broken the river line, which is the last
water line commanded by the enemy
between the present front and the
Meuse.
1t is reported that the Hunding line
is broken les Guise. If this is a fact,
the whole German line south and north
of that city is in danger. Collapse of
the enemy's front there would weaken
the lines along the Aisne near Rethel,
where the French have been virtually
held up for some time. If the line of
the Aisne gives way, the Germans fur
ther east around the Argonne forest
and nearer the Meuse must readjust
their lines, 1t would seem.
British Advance in Italy.
Fighting continues in the Italian
theater with the British extending
their lines east of the Piave in the re-
gion of Monticello, where they have ad-
vanced more than two miles from the
river. In these operations the British
have captured more than $500 prison
ers. Vienna reports the recapture of
Monte Asolone, between the Brenta
and the Piave, and the repulse Of
Italian efforts elsewhere on the noun
tain front.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
VESSEL STRIKES ROCK
Canadian Pacific Steamer Found
erS in the Lynn Canal.
Accident Results In 343 Persons, Men,
Women and Children, Losing
Their Lives.

Vancouver, b. c., Oct. 20. - The
Canadian Pacific steamer Princess So
phia, bound southwark from Skagway,
f%oundered in the Lynn canal after
striking a rock. Three hundred and
forty-three persons, men women and
children, lost their lives.
OF the number lost 268 were passen.
gers, and the rest members of the
crew.
According to a wireless message re
ceived here from Juneau the vessel
was caught in a sudden gale, which
picked up the ship and threw 1t with
terrific force on the rocks of Wander
bilt reef, and then sent 1t to the bot
tom on the other side.
Lynn canal, which is an arm OF
Chatham strait, extending ~northward
from the Pacific in the vicinity OF
Juneau, Alaska, Is a natural body OF
water, 100 miles long and five to ten
miles wide.
Captain f. l.. Locke was in charge
Of the vessel.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
Rioting In Germany.

London, Oct. 29.-(Via Montreal.)-
1t is persistently reported that riots
are Of daily occurrence in various
parts of Germany, resulting In con-
flicts with the police' and loss of life.
The lack Of raw materials, especially
of explosives, is seriously hampering
munitions works. 1t is stated that
Krupps have been compelled to dis
miss many workers. A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph from Zurich,
Switzerland, says the revolutionary
movement is spreading.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
1872 AMERICANS DIE IN ACTION
Last Casualty List Received Contains
933 Names.

- w.
Washington, Oct. 29.-Names of 1872
Americans killed i'm action are an.
nounced by the war department, which
issued a casualty list carrying 1888
names.
Other casualties announced were:
Died of wounds, 119; died of disease,
147; died of accident and other causes,
6; wounded, 400; missing Including
prisonersl, SO.
This list brought the country's war
losses to 81, 1909.
Died of Wounds-Private Percy w.
Wymore, Minot, S. ID. Died of Dis.
ease-Sergeant James Higham, LIE
Roy, Mimi; Private Charles p. Beck,
Lake City, Mimi; Private Lawrence
F. Bosstod, Fosston, Mimi; Private
Ewald N. Erickson, Constance, Mimi.
Private Bernard Fallon, Brainerd,
Mimi; Private Michael J. Ford, st.
Paul, Mimi; Private Jay p. Weak,
Worthington, Mimi. Wounded Severe
ly-Private Paul F. Brollard, Prince
Edwin Jacobson, F1om, Mimi; Private
Ole Staxrud, Minneapolis; Private
John s. Alne, Vermillion, 8. D.; Pri-
vate Charles s. Mantle, ST. Paul;
Private Nicholas Spoden, Cold Springs,
Mimi; Private Helmuth A. Thomas,
Bird Island, Mimi; Private Olaf Knut-
son, Hatton, N. ID. Died of Wounds
Private Jesse A. Tiedemann, James
town, N. d.; Private Emanuel Traut-
man, Atlas, S. d.; Private Raymond
A. Cooke, st. Paul. Died of Disease
Mechanic Charles w. Forney, Oelrichs,
s. d.; Private John Cronen, Markville,
Mimi; Private Nels Kleppy, Bagley,
Mimi; Private Ward l.. Knoder, st.
Paul; Private Joseph Le%wandowski,
Silver Lake, Mimi; Private August v.
Lindgren, Sandstone, Mimi; Private
William Fl. Marsh, Princeton, Mimi;
Private Albert s. Andrews, Messing
ton, s. D.; Private Jesse Markesdh,
La Sale, Mimi; Private Ned N. WI
gel, Ulen, Mimi.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
Wheat Sweepstakes Prize.

Kansas City, Mo-, Oct. ga worlds
sweepstakes prize for wheat has been
awarded to Seeger Wheeler of Ros-
thern, Sask., Can, by the international
Soil Products exposition, 1t was an
nounced here. Awards were made to
exhibitors on a ribbon and trophy ba-
sis. First prize for the most artistic
exhibition was awarded to the prov.
ince of Manitoba. First prize for best
display of sorghums fell to Florida.
The greater part OF the other awards
we're given to Kansas and Missouri
exhibitors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
New Air Record Made.

Belmont Park, N. Y, Oct. 90
Sergt. Coombs of Hazelhurst Field,
Long Island, o the airplane flight to
the Status of Liberty and return at
the army aviation carnival here. Driv-
ing a De Haviland plane with Liberty
Motors, he covered the SO miles in Is
miles and 80 seconds, which is said to
establish q new record. Seven ma
chimes, all of the De Haviland type.
made the flight and finished with only
80 seconds time between the first and
last competitors.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
KAISER WILL NOT ABDICATE
Willing to Be Hereditary President
of Republican Kingdom.

London, Oct. 29.-Emperor William
has no intention of ~abdicating, but Is
willing il 1t is for the good of the peo-
pie, to ordain that his rights shall be
revised, according to a statement at
tributed to German court circles. The
emperor is said to have remarked: 81
will not abandon my sorely tried peo-
pie, but If necessary | am ready to
become something like hereditary
president of a German republic, like
the kings of England and Belgium
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
GENERAL LUDENDORFF QUITS
German Military Genius Reported to
Have Resiqned.

Copenhagen, Oct. 29.-General Lud-
,ndorff, first quartermaster geenral of
the German army, has resigned, says a
telegram from Berlin. In accepting
has resignation, the emperor has de-
creed that the lower Rhenish infantry
regiment No. 80, of which General
Ludendorff long had been commander,
shall bear his name.
In the resignation of General Luden-
dorff, Germany loses what often has
beer described " her military
BRAIN"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
PRISONERS ARE MISTREATED
Escaped italian Officers Tell of Aus
TRAN Cruelty,

Washington, Oct. 29. - Official dis
patches from Rome describing the
cruel treatment accorded Italian sol
diers in Austrian prison camps as re-
have just reached the Italian lines in
Albania, were made public by the
Italian embassy.
At Camp Sigmund Sherberg, from
which Lieutenants Vincenzo Emma
Calico Ianiello escaped, the prisoners
are naked, and have been reduced to
skeletons owing to insufficient food.
Last winter, the officers said, from
80 to so prisoners died daily from hun
ger and cold.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
EXPERIENCING HARD TIMES
Berlin Public 10 Alarmed Over SoIv-
ency of Empire.

Amsterdam, Oct. 29.-Public anxiety
over the s~olvency OF the empire ap-
parently is becoming acute in Ger
many. The boarding of money has be-
come SO rampant as to cause great in.
convenience. There has been a gen.
eral run on banks.
The government has been compelled
to make var loan coupons legal ten
der. 1t also proposes to issue a sim.
pier form Of paper currency, and the
municipal governments in Berlin and
other centers have been authorized to
issue temporary token money.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
FUEL HARDSHIP Is AvERTED
Garfield Says Supplies Are Adequate
for Winter.

Washington, Oct. 29.-There will be
no coal famine this winter or even an
approach to the hardships of last win
ter, Fuel Administrator H. A. Gar
continue to cooperate with the fuel
administration in conservation meas
ures. DR.. Garfield said the nations
fuel supplies are adequate and well
distributed; that coal stocks on hand
are greater than aver before.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
ALEPPO FALLS TO BRITISH
Asiatic Railway Center Is Occupied by
Cavalry.

London, Oct. 29. - The important
city of Aleppo has been occupied by
British cavalry and armored cars, says
a British official statement.
The fall of Aleppo is the GROWING
event of the victorious campaign of
General Allenby, in which he captured
Jerusalem and Damascus, on his way
northward through Palestine and
Syria. Aleppo is 1856 miles north of
Damascus and 20 miles east of the
Mediterranean sea-.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
AUSTRlA'S HANDS ARE TIED
Emperor Charles Is Unable to Make
Separate Peace.

Berne, Oct. 29.--Prof. Lammasch re-
gently was asked to form an Austrian
cabinet and accepted on condition that
Austria Hungary Immediately make a
separate peace with the Allies. Re-
ports from Vienna say that Emperor
Charles declared such a thing was i'm
possible, saying he had given his word
OF honor to the German emperor never
to make q separate peace.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
GERMAN TROOPS ARE D0PED
Officers Tell Them Americans Behead
All Prisoners.

With the American Armies, Oct. %.
German officers are telling their SOL
1iers that all German prisoners taken
by the United States troops have their
heads cut off when taken to the rear.
The obvious purpose OF this is to
prevent the men from giving them
selves up voluntarily to the Ameri.
cans, az hundreds of them have lately
done.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
BOMBING AlRPLANES ACTIVE
Sixty American Machines Attack Foe
Concentrations.

With the American Army Northwest
OF Verdun, Oct. 29.-German troops
concentrations in the region of Bri-
Quenay, north of Grandpre, were bomb
by so All-American bombing airplanes,
with 80 pursuit planes protecting
them.
Formations of from 10 to 20 German
machines attempted to drive off the
Americans and several aerial combats
resulted.
Lieut.. Edward R~ickenbacher was
among the pursuit planes accompany
ing the bombing squadron. He en-
gagged In two aerial combats and
brought down a German machine with
in the American lines near Evermont.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
North Carolina Educator Dead.

Chapel Hill, N. c., Oct. 29.-Dr. Ed
ward Graham, AZ years old, president
Of the University OF North Carolina
aud widely known as a writer, died at
his home here of pneumonia.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05
GENERAL FOCH.

Says the New York Times. "For
the first time since the world was be-
gun, the allied armies OH the west
ern front have been placed under one
supreme command. For the first time
one brain co-ordinates, one vision COM
prehends, and one will directs that
long line from Switzerland to the son
For the first time the five million SOL
diers of the Allies are welded into ono
force to meet mighty enemy that
has been from the start unified in
strategy and operation. Now, Mt last.
IN sight Of the end, the Allies plav
Their ace of Ferdinand Foch. "
Upon the shoulders and mt the dis
posal OF this one man, have been
placed weighty responsibilities. ale
must be big man." is the comment
among the people. He is not "a big
man" physically. He is 5 10 feet
tall, weighs 1865 pounds and is &c 10
years old.
In brain power, initiative and of
strength of character, "hc weiehv n
ton" General Foch was born in
Southern France, the same as Gen.
elSl Joifre and has military record
OF brilliant achievements in several
wars, and it is said, that it was his
brave and determined attack which
scattered the army OF Won Bulow nj
the battle of the Marine and stonnod
Won Kluck and saved Paris
With Foch in the saddle ncw vioor
new life and stronger determination
has been infused into the armies of
the Allies. Foch against Linden
berg and he has great task and a
heavy job on his hands. May success
crown his efforts and this hideous
war ceasel
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

dom of heaven for neutral" as there
is for an out-and-out enemy. There
is, likewise, just as much room in the
United States, or in the world, as to.
that matter, for neutral" We love
our country or we do not We are
for it or against it. If for t we have
abundant opportunity to prove it. If
we do not love and honor the Stars
and Stripes in this crisis we have
about as much business wearing and
bearing the name of American as a
wolf would have parading i'm the fleece
of sheep. When liberty, honor and
all that is held dear and sacred on
earth and in heaven trcmbles in the
balance as is the case, there is no
place or room for hesitation-no time
to mince words, or to hide behind
some flimsy prctext. We must all face
.hc facts. We must be but ONE
we can't be TWO. There is room
on the human body for only one head
and brain. one mouth, one pair of
eyes, one face. We can only speak,
look, think, one way at n time. Which
way are you headed? Where do
you stand? Are you in the right
pew or the wrong one? Are you
running with the hare and barking
with the hounds or trying to do both
Show your patriotism by subscrb-
ing to the war funds, even though it
be patriotism at 4 l-2 per cent. pre-
MUM. Observe whcatless days and
meals. A patriotism claimed in the
face of a refusal TO make any sort
Of sacrifice in this hour of peril, is Il
sham and a deusion. Where do you
stand?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-04-05

Governor Stuart proposed u toast to
the King of England in water, and
this is what ne said:
''In this gicss of water I hold that
which, by the sovereign will of the
leopie - Virginia, is today the WINE
Of the country: clear as the princl-
PIES Of liberty and justice i'll which
we make common cause; pure as the
union Of heart and purpose typified
by the three flags entwined before
US; strong. i'll that it supplies in this
hour the most vital needs of both
statesmen and soldier; distilled on the
hills overlooking the noble James, OH
whose banks the first permanent ELL
giish settlement in the Western world
was established; spontaneous as the
good will toward our distinguished
guests which springs from our hearts
and our lips-in this and bythese
tokens l propose the health of his
Majesty, King George of England"
| TO which Mr.. Balfour replied:
81 cannot rival the eloquence with
which our host today has eulogized
the legal wine of the country, but /
can, with enthusiasm not less sincere
than his own propose toast which
has always been dear to the hearts
of all Englishmen, but never so dear
as now-The President Of the United
| States.