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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-02-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Stock
ford of Monroe, Mich, were guests
Sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Vietch.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
SINGLE WORD HOLDS
Up NEW LOAN BILL

The small word prohibit" was all
that stood in the way OF a complete
agreement between House and SEN
ate conferees on the McAdoo bond
bill last night.
The. word prohibit" appears in the
fifth section OF the bill as passed
by the House. 1t refers to the pow
ers OF the President in regulating
transactions in United States securi.
ties and bonds to prevent fraud. The
Senate conferees. yielding to the
plea of Secretary McAdoo. are will
ing to give the President every pow
er proposed in the House bill except
the power to prohibit transactions in
bonds.
1t was expected the conferees
would be able to reach an agreement
on the bill late yesterday afternoon
and the Senate was held in session
several hours, while they negotiat e
ed. Finally when it was apparent
no agreement could be reached last
night. the Senate adjourned, and 1t
could be expected in time for the
Senate and House to act on the con-
ference report Monday afternoon.
Since the bill proposed to exempt
fourth liberty bonds held in amounts
up to $4,000 from taxation, Secre-
tary McAdoo believes 1t is important
that it be passed at the earliest pos
sible moment, in order to aid in SELL
ing bonds when the campaign opens
late next week.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
10000 CHILDREN
MOURN CARDINAL

NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Ten thou
sand children. it was estimated, pail
a last mark OF respect to the mem
DRY OF Cardinal Farley. as they flled
st. Patrick's Cathedral at a special
mass for children. The body Of the
dead cardinal lay before the high
altar
Auxiliary Bishop Patrick B. Hayes
was celebrant OF q high requiem mass
and Mgr. Lavelle. rector of the Catho
lice Cathedral, delivered the sermon
No adults were admitted to the
church while the service for chill
dren was in progress. but at its con-
clusion there began a steady process
sion of mourners who filed slowly
past the body.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
CALL 10000 FOR
LIMITED SERVICE

A call for $1,000 white selective
service men for limited military serv-
ice was issued last night by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. They will
be modified during the period from
September 30 to October 4, and will
be sent to various forts and barracks
throughout the country. Thirty-five
States will furnish men under this
call
At the same time General Crowder
called upon Alaska to furnish 574
white and five colored men for gen.
eral military service, and -277 white
men for limited military service. They
will be assigned to Fort william
Seward, Alaska. and will be mobil-
lied during the period from Septem-
Der 80 to October Is.
The State quotas follow:
Alabama, 20. Fort Thomas. KY;
Arkansas, 40, Jefferson Barracks,
Cal; Connecticut, 200, Fort Slocum.
N. Y: District of Columbia, 20, Fort
Thomas, KY; Georgia, go, Fort
Thomas. KY; Idaho, 100. Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-; Illinois. $500. Jeffer-
son Barracks, No: Indiana, as, JEFF
ferson Barracks, Mo: Iowa, $50, JEFF
ferson Barracks, No: Louisiana, Is,
Fort Thomas, KY; Maine, 100, Fort
Slocum- N. Y; Maryland, $50, Fort
Thomas, KY; Massachusetts,, 500,
Fort Slocum, N. Y; Michigan, 1000.
Columbus Barracks, Ohio; Minnesota,
$50, Jefferson Barracks, Mo-; Mon
tana, 275, Jefferson Barracks, Mo-;
Nevada, so, Fort Logan, Col; New
Jersey. 1855. Fort Thomas, KY; New
Mexico, so. Jefferson Barracks, Mo-:
New York. 1000. Fort Slocum, N.
Y and $50, Columbus Barracks.
Ohio; North Carolina. 430. Fort
Thomas, KY; Ohio. $50. Jefferson Bar
racks, No; Oregon, 800, Fort Nc
DowelL Cal; Pennsylvania, 1850, Fort
Thomas, KY: Rhode Island. %, Fort
Slocum, N. Y; South Dakota, $50.
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-; Texas, 90.
Jefferson Barracks. Mo; Utah. 400,
Fort Logan, Col; Vermont, IS. Fort
SIocum, N. Y; Virginia, 100, Column
bus Barracks, Ohio; Washington, 200,
Fort Mcdowell. Cal; West Virginia,
80, Columbus Barracks, Ohio: Wis
consIn. 400. Jefferson Barracks, Mo;
Wyoming, so, Fort Logan, Col.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
God Will Damn German
EMPIRE" Says Minister
Who Saw Hun Atrocities

CLEVELAND. Sept. 22.-"God
will damn the German empire"
Before an audience OF 1000
Methodist ministers and laymen
OF the northeast Ohio conference
here, DR.. W. H. Crawford. presi-
dent OF the Allegheny College,
called down divine wrath on the
German empire in these words,
charging that entire RESPONSE
bility for "the greatest crime OF
all history now and to come"
rested on Germany.
when I recall the high and
awful crimes OF the German gov
eminent, the ruthless raping of
Belgium and the sinking OF the
Lusitania, say with holy impre-
cation, God damn the German
government. And God will damn
the German government. He will
damn any government that will
throw a whole world into conster-
nation by the unspeakable policy
OF might makes right"
DR.. Crawford has just returned
from a year and a half OF serv-
ice with the Y. NJ. c. A in Europe.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
WAR.CONTRACTORS55
ARE OUT ON BALE

NEW YORK. Sept. %. = Charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Gov
eminent. Morris Rosenwasser and
Leo Rosenwasser. president and vice
president of Rosenwasser Brothers
Long Island City. are out on $10,Oea
bail today. AZ
They win have a hearing wedDqpv
day. -.-s-
1t is alleged they delivered avisA
tors leather Jackets and spiral puts
tees which were found to be below
specifications. The arm had GoveEnr
ment contracts running into
81, 0Oo, 900.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
CALLS AMERICA
|. LAND OF MIRACLES
By Briggs

ROME, Sept 22-Minister OF Treas
ury Nitti, in a farewell audience with
State Senator Gothic. of New York.
before the latter's leaving for Amer
lea, said:
-one OF the wars greatest wonders
was the heroic behavior and GOODNESS
under IRE of your valiant boys who,
lacking full military training. have
shown that for a just cause they
can tight with efficiently trained vet.
terans.
America is a land OF miracles.
The world Is amazed at the rapid
Transformation of a peaceful nation,
unframed and unprepared into q ma
ton seething with the war spirit OF
the ancient crusaders and organized
to turn out guns, men, and materials
In such vast quantities that they will
sweep away the last traces Of Prus-
sian militArism."
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
Meade Man Sentenced
For Wiping Out Mess
Kit With Old Glory

CAMP MEADE, Nd, Sept. "a
Guasin Hussini. Of the 324th
Field Signal Battalion, was found
guilty of desecrating the Ameri-
can flag by using a nag to wipe
out his mess kit He was SEN
fenced to three months at hard
labor. after the reviewing au-
thority had taken into consIdera-
ton some Of the testimony or
fered in his defense with regara
to his ignorance Of the insult to
the emblem OF the nation
Flags that have become torn
or weather beaten here are burn
ed and never used for any I'M
worthy purpose.
HussIni was a bootblack In
Worcester, Mass, when he volun-
teered for service in the army.
Originally he came from Abys-
sinia.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
PERU CONSIDERS WAR

Pro-ally sentiment on the South
American west coast continues to in
crease. according to Latin-American
advices. A Lima dispatch. comment
ing on the possibility OF Peru en-
tering the war. declares that the
moral effect OF having a majority
OF the nations OF the New World
aligned together on the battle fronts
is held to have considerable import
ance, as Germany would thus be
warned that after the war she could
not with impunity come into Central
and South America with her propa-
ganda and her commercial schemes"
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
BIC NAVAL GUNS
PASS RIGID TESTS

Heavy naval guns made in the new
gun works Of the American Radiator
Company at Bayonne. N. J.. have been
rigidly tested at the Indian Head
proving grounds in Maryland and
found satisfactory, the Navy Depart
ment announced last night.
The radiator concern has a Govern
ment contract for 1000 guns for mer-
chant vessels. gunhoats, and destroy
ers. The first guns were received
and tested under the direction of
Read Admiral Ralph Earle, chief of
ordnance, and his stan, and repre-
sentatives of the radiator company.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
NOLAN WAGE BILL
: MAY Be LAW SOON

The Nolan minimum wage biz,
which hxes 50 per day as the mini
mum wage OF Government employees
and employees OF the District. WIN
probably pass the House this week.
This Is the hope of Congressman
Uolan.. and inaSmuch as House sentE
ment Is strong for the bill his hope
seems to be well founded.
The rules committee IL friendly %
the bill and has brought out q rule
for the consideration OF the measure,
The rule was introduced by Con-
gresham Kelly OF Pennsylvania
While the prospects for the bill IN
the House are good, the Senate -
likely to take its time. and there -
no certainty 1t will be put through
that body. The revenue bill Will ID
before the Senate without many
days OF delay and this will shut OF
most other business.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
MAY Be HIGHEST "AoE."

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY on
THE LORRAINE FRONT. Sept q
(nigAt)s-Sub-Lieut< Frank Luke, q
Phoenix, ARK, may be the America
"ace" who will succeed to the late
David H. Putnam'S honors II it, Is
officially confirmed that he has Just
brought down four German airplanes
and three balloons as reported.
Adjutant Reginald Sinclair Coningy,
flying with the French. has brought
down eight boches: Sub-Lieut- Edwih
C. Parsons, of Springfield, Mass. afso
attached to the French, has doWrsd
six enemy planes. -
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
How and Where to
Use Your Credit
In Buying Furniture

First, convince yourself by careful comparison
that our credit prices-MARKED IN FIGURES
YOU CAN READ-are as low, and in many in
stances lower than those asked in any other house
in Washington, for goods of corresponding quality
Then come in to do the real buying. Look
through our Zines thoroughly and select just what
you really want. Remember, it's economy to buy
furniture of the highest grade, and we'll make it
possible for you to afford this kind.
We 60 INTO the credit proposition with you in a
way that will mean the greatest possible degree
of helpfulnesS to you. We ask only your own
statement regarding your circumstances and the
small weekly or monthly payments on charge
account are arranged according to the wishes of
each individual customer.
Such an account with us combines convenience
with the means of having just what you want,
just when you need it. Your purchases will be
charged at the plainly marked prices, or for cash
or settlement in 80 days we always allow a 10
per cent discount
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
ARRESTED Stacker
SLASHES HIMSELF

VALDoSTA. Ga. Sept. 22.-wesIey
Ricketson. a Federal prisoner. ism
the hospital ward Of the county jafi
here in critical condition, follow
ing an attempt to end his life ~
terday. -
Ricketson. with q ja>sed edge jdf
glass. cut four-in1a cash in his
throat hacked his right wrist. Gun
deep cash in the calf Of his rygbt
leg, another in his right thigh. Ihd
slashed his left leg.
Ricketson was being held in 5000
bond for falling to register for the
draft.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
DEFER IRISH DRAFT

LONDON, Sept. 22.-The period OF
voluntary enlistment in Ireland has
been extended from October 1 to oc-
tober Is, when parliament reconvenes,
the official press bureau has an
nounced.
The statement added that II the
voluntary system by that time proves
a failure the government may take
steps toward CONSUMPTION.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
A,55O,OOO FOR DOCKS

Chairman Padgett. OF the House
Naval Committee, today introduced a
bill to appropriate S4.550.OoO to take
over drydocks and adjoining lands
now being built by the State of Mas
sachusetts in Boston.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
SEEK YANK GARDENERS.

The vegetable gardens for conva-
descent soldiers at the American
army hospitals in France have proved
so successful that the American Red
Cross has sent a representative to
this country to secure ten expert
market gardeners to direct such ac-
tivities at all American hospitals in
France.
The Washington times., 1918-09-22
DISPATCH TRIBUTE
TO BELGIAN QUEEN

Gas a woman and as a Queen you
have suffered, and as a woman and
as q Queen you have endured, and we
OFFER our tribute Of admiration to
your devotion and your courage"
This is q part of the message
which has been sent to the Queen Of
the Belgians, through the State De-
partmeI1 by the woman's committee.
Council OF National Defense, it - an
nounceo here.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

repairs would never happen-appealed
to the Consumers and Workingmen's
League, which stepped in and organized
the rent strike.
A rent strike in this case consists
Of a mild-mannered person walking
up and down in front of house mur-
muring the while, trent strike, rent
strike in this house." with the object
of discouraging any homeseekers that
come along. Signs are placed in the
windows announcing "Rent Strike,~ in
Yiddish. The Consumers League, tax
ing the strike into its hands, managed
the picketing within the law, so that
no opportunity should be given for
police interference. and some of its
members--Gitlin, the president of the
league, who is fired with great friend
liness toward these people, among
them-took their turn at it.
Eviction notices were served on the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

with any knowledge of how much the
justice of their case and the law were
in accord.
BY the first of March three or four
large apartments in Brownsville were
involved in the rent strike, the league
was very busy and the Taxpayers
Association found itself obliged to
unite more solidly to protect itself
from public opinion, which was decided
ly going against it. Instances of in
justice and even brutality on the part
Of landlord and police, tenants dispos-
sessed at days notice, tales of the
street, the Jail the courtroom-all this
would fill a book, and every incident
can be verified, but the story of Spain,
at 1885 Pitkin Avenue, his tenants and
the Consumers League alone furnishes
a sufficient example Of the methods
employed by both sides to gain their
objectA
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Leo Gitlin
And the League

Leo Gitlin is young Russian who
seven years ago started in Brownsville
welfare organization called the Con-
sumers' and Workingmen's League, in
viting wage earners, tenants, landlords
and manufacturers Of the district into
union in the interest of the people
against the high cost of living. Its
members are family men with a rea-
sonable and creditable intention Of
bettering conditions for these families.
The cry Of "Bolshevik" and Socialist"
is raised against them, which is pos
sibly not SO much a reflection on them
as on those people with whom any at
tempt by the workers to better their
condition invites a contemptuous "Bol-
shevik."
The fact is that the league is non
partisan, has incurred the enmity of
the Socialist party by not using it's in
fiuence for their candidates, and it,
members-99 per cent of them citizen,
are divided pretty evenly among tn.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
systems Of thought on which the art of
Eastern and Western peoples rests. OF
this something more presently.
Something About
Politeness

1t may be that East and West NAV
meet some day-pray God, soon!-on
the steppes Of Siberia, or in what once
we called Russia-meet not in mind
and wish only, but physically; meet
with the German between them, grind
him to atoms and send him as far tow
ards his internal destination as that
Chinese agency of civilization-run-
powder-can blow him. Which of the
armies then will stand for the culture
which has long been tho boast of the
Occldentf VIII 1t be the Jap or the
Hun? When the German stronghold
fell before the guns Of Nippon, whose
conduct displayed the fine flower of
chiyalry in warfare7 Was it not the
little yellow man who turned the
leaves Of the book Of international law
with gloved hand. observing every pre-
cept Of humanity and justice with even
greater scrupulousness than the big
white man Of Britain? OF late we
have been asked to admire the German
U-boat captain who was SO polite as to
refrain from shelling the small boats
which he permitted to put off from the
ships which be sank off the American
coast He gave them fair words and a
cigar, also an umbrella and left them
to survive or pe<ish-men and women,
non-combatants alias the uncon-
cerned winds and waters might decree.
We neither admire nor marvel, No
who know the purpose of tbs pirate
and the meaning Of the term courtesy
in German. AS for those who do not
know, let them learn from the dialogue
between Mephistopheles and Wagner
IN Goethe's Faust The speech Of tho
arrogant little pedant disturbed even
the cultivated serenity Of the devil
himself, and this colloquy ensued Il
quots the original from memory, not
having Bayard Taylor's translation at
hand):
Aeph.--"Dq wsisst wohl nicht, mein
Freund. vie krob du bist"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23

Mrs. Stein, on the curbstone with
goods, chattels and children, found it
impossible, the day being Saturday, to
get an empty fat until the following
week. In all Brownsville there are
about half {, dozen unrented fats, no
new buildings are going up, of course,
and the population increases apace.
Neighbors in 1886, who had found Mrs.
Stein valued friend, took her fur
niture into their fats, and friends else
where took her in oyer Sunday, until
she was finally placed.
Gave Up Belief
In Promises
But-in the meantime Spain had
gone to the tenants having her fur
niture and threatened them with evic-
tion if they didn't throw it out.
The tenants, outraged-it was ev-
ident by this time that hot water and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Spread of Operatic
Airs and Lyrics
Shows Results Since
Introduction Into
Nippon

"Pelleas ct Melisande"; Dvorak's
symphony "From the New World";
Cesar Franck's "Beatitudes"; Masca-
gni's "Cavalleria Rusticsna" and "Iris";
Mendelssohn's "Elijah," his "Songs
Without Words" and organ pieces;
Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounoff"; Mo-
zart's "Cosi fan Tutte," "Don Giovan-
nj" "Nozze di Figaro" and "Die Eau
berfote"; Puccini's "Madama Butter
fly" (three copies), "La Boheme,"
"Tosca" and "Manon Lescaut"; Saint
Saens's Samson ct Dalils" and sym
phony in E fat; volumes of Schubert's
songs and the great symphony in c;
Schumann's string quartets and piano
forte trios; an entire page of titles of
compositions by Tschaikowsky; seven
Of Verdi's operas, besides the Manzoni
Requiem" and the string quartet;
nine Of Wagner's operas and lyric
dramas; Weber's "Freischutz" and
"Oberon," even Montemezzi's "LiAmore
del tre Re-" There are q few
translations into Japanese OF IA
miliar lyrics and operate airs and
over hundred Japanese compositions
published in Toxic by about half %
many composers, some of the titles Of
which indicate that they are Occidental
in type. This fact, together with the
American visit Of the composer, vhe
brought the letter Of introduction from
the American Legation, is strong proof
of the results which have followed the
Introduction Of American music Ia
the Japanese schepls by one of tbs
Mason family, who went to Japan on
the. invitation Of the government soms
forty years ago. East and West have
met in the homes and music rooms Of
Nippon.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
The League
And the Taxpayers

Before the talking began he set me
straight on quotation which want
ed about Saxon and Norman and
Dane are We" and gave him Lincoln's
with malice toward none, with char
ity for ALL" for a text that he used
with splendid effect. But this, too. is
'mmaterial-merely a passing memory
which forced itself upon me when the
purpose seized me to write something
pertinent to the present about the
East and West matter.
That the East is East and the West
Is West is, no doubt, sound PROPOSE
ton from an astronomical point of
view, but even in this physical sense
the terms are not exact, but only COM
parative. In the popular mind, at
least, even the points Of the compass
are changeable, like the movable ieasts
OF the Church, which change their
dates in obedience to the moon. San
Francisco is west of New York. but
east OF Hong Kong, and East and West
may be conceived IS meeting at San
francisco or anywhere else on the
globe. Bless you, it all depends" as
Gilbert's Japanese schoolgirl sagely OBJ
serves. But, I take it, Kipling was not
speaking Of things geographical, but of
things racial, mental or morsl-of
something like that which the Germans
used to call Kultur-a word which is
now become hateful to tho decent
world, which might well wish it con-
signed to some place east Of the sun
and west of the moof, preferably to
hell.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
Russian Landlord and Renter Come Face to
Face Again in Brooklyn Suburb, and
Result L. Rent Strike

TO the mission couch, disgracing her on
the curbstone, after the manner Of
moved things that have . way Of put
ting their worst foot forward to our
undoing, even in the hands Of profes-
sional movers. The orthodox Jews do
no cooking on Saturday, and little Mrs.
Stein found her holiday dinner in sad
intimacy with her clothes and bedding.
1t was, in fact, a scene Of such con-
fusion and distress that from this mo-
ment the entire affair lost its charac-
ter of simple lutte between Spain and
his tenants and became matter Of
public interest in the district, demand
ing partisanship from the courageous
and diplomacy from the timid. But be-
clouded as it has become by the riotous
gossip and by the personalities and
temperaments involved, it never FOR q
moment lost sight of the issue AZ TO
the right Of the landlord to raise the
rent under Whatsoever conditions he
wills.
There are-frst, the strikers; re-
spectacle men and women with fam
lilies, with good standards of living
not fiat entered but proved to be as
neat as a pin, whatever the hall-the
landlords province-might be. They
are industrious people; in Southern
parlance they "know how to do," bu.
are without inhuence and have for
friends others with NO more than
themselves.
Over against them are not only the
landlords, but now the police-big,
jolly Irishmen, full Of animal spirits
and perfectly incapable Of understand
ing what these small mental types Of
Russian Jews are made of; wishing
no man any more Ill than he brings
on himself by inviting their interfer-
ence, but still-with life job Of ar
resting people.
There are the tenants that stayed
| and paid the new rents. There are
the landlords with daughters and sis
ters-in-law. whose marriages have let
in small wedges of influence; land
lords, many of whom are merely the
leasers of fat buildings, making their
profits over and above the income the
owner would receive from the normal
rents; landlords who have banded To-
gether to strengthen their position
against the other side, though the last
thing they desire is solidarity for
anybody's benefit but their own. There
are the gossiping neighbors, partial to
the side they happen to be talking to.
And there is Leo Gitlin.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-23
East and West
Meeting in Music

Again the personal pronoun regret
fully comes into play. At intervals
during the last decade I have 1ectured
to Chinese and Japanese young
women at the Institute of Musical Art
in New York City. From some of them
! receive Christmas and New Years
cards even now. A young woman
from Japan, whose husband was a ma
tive musician, sent me photograph of
the opera house in which she was sing
ing, or which she had founded with
her husband, in Yokohama. Last win
ter received letter from a secre-
tary Of the United States Legation at
Toxic, introducing a Japanese musi-
clan who was composer of Occidental
music. In February last l, and doubt
less other American critics, received a
letter which is interesting enough to
print in full.
THE MUSICAL DEPARTMENT
Of
Nanki Bunko
IA, 8 chome Iiguramachi
Azabuku Tokyo
Dear Sir: "'
Allow me to write you without anv
introduction Ny namA ia Yaxisads