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New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Crowder Places Salary
Feature of Classihcations
on Cost Basis
80 Cents a Man Paid
That Sum To Be Allowed for
Each Registrant Finally
Classified

WASHINGTON, Jan. y. ENtrava-
giant expense bills filed by many mem
bcrs of local boards for their services
classifying registrants have led Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder to ac-
cept the recommendation of board
members and others connected with the
administration of the selective draft
to place the salary feature of the clas-
sification system on cost basis.
In telegram sent to-day to all state
governors General Crowder promul-
gates new regulations, approved by
President Wilson, under which the
boards hereafter will receive An aggre-
gate of 80 cents remuneration for each
man finally classified, exclusive Of COM
pensation for clerks or examining
physicians, who are not members Of
the board Unoer the old rules, the
boards were allowed q maximum Of
$3.50 month for each member, exclu-
sive OF clerical help.
Many Boosting Expenses
While many board members have re-
newed their offers of gratuitous SER
vices and others have held their eX-
pense accounts down. General Crowder
said in his telegram: "a conside rablc
number, regardless of the size of reg
istration in their respective jurisdic-
tlon, have made their estimates on so
eXtravagant a scale that the total cost
could not be paid out of any appropria-
tlon which Congress would be willing
10 make. or which the people of the ma
ton would approve"
Under the new regulations, expenses
already allowed board members will
be "considcrcd to have been based upon
the provisions OF this regulatio on aRp d
any and all further payments shall be
computed accordingly"
The boards, by unanimous vote, may
distribute the so cents allowance per
man among their members as they de-
sire, provided that no member shall re-
ceive more than 10 cents and no two
members more than % cents.
General Crowder praises the patri
otto members oil the boards who are
giving their time 20 the government
without pay, and adds:
personal sacrifices are beng made
on every hand The soldiers who are
being selected by the local and district
boards have given up comfortable
homes and in many cases sacrificed
large incomes in order to fight for their
country twenty-four hours a day for
$50 month.
Sacrifices Expected
''Thereforc, it is not unreasonable to
request the great army composed Of
local board members to meet the gov
crnment and cooperate with it in the
matter Of minimum cost.
"This is their country. They are
part of it's army. And it is confidently
expected that they will give the gov
crnment in the future as they have in
the past. the best that is in them, and
that they will receive compensation
~slly to the extent that may be neces-
sarY in their condition Of life"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Camp Dix Quarantined
Because of Measles

CAMP DIN, n. j., Jan. IA COM
pletc quarantine of Camp Dix will be-
come effective Monday under orders
issued to-day by Major General Scott
upon recommendation of the division
sanitary Inspector, as a result OF the
increase of measles in the cantonment
All week end passes will be suspended
during the period Of quarantine, which
viii last at least eighteen days. The
men will not be permitted to enter any
place of amusement in the camp or in
Wrightstown.
There are ffty-six cases of measles
in the camp at present, the Medical
Corps reports less than in any other
National Army training camp. 1t is
explained that the quarantine is merely
a precautionary measure designed tc
stamp outsthe disease at this time.
Y. NJ. c. A. and Knights of Columbus
buildings in the cantonment will be
closed to the soldiers, but the secre-
taries of these organizations will be
permitted to arrange for entertainment
for companies or batteries in THEN
separate quarters.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13

Senator Wadsworth insisted that the
War Department had developed in the
Mexican border service that shoe sizes
were not properly standardized.
Chairman Chamberlain declared san
itary conditions and overcrowding OF
men, with lack of clothing, at Camp
Bowie were reported to the department.
in September and should have been
called to the Secrctary's attention, as
epidcmics, predicted by the camps
commander, had followed in December.
Secretary Baker replied that his ad-
| visers said no trouble in canvas hous-
ing OF men was probable.
''It turned out that the camps in
which there was the most sickness
were the canvas camps" said Mr..
Baker.
Haphazard Methods Charged
Senator Weeks said Major General
reported conditions to four high off,
GERS in the department.
THAT is the trouble with the de-
partment.' Senator Hitchcock inter-
rupted. "Nobody knows where to sub
nit anything, being shunted from pill
lar to post
Senator Frelinghuyscn asked if all
clothing manufacturing facilities of the
country were used.
"The sweatshop system was prohib-
tied from tho beginning" Mr.. Baker
replied. disclaiming knowledge that
large and we'll known Rochester, N. Y.
factories were not used.
Turning to cantonment health condi-
tions, Secretary Baker needed there
were complaints and differences Of opin.
ion regarding architecture Of hospitals
Senator Wadsworth said the Spar.
tanburg. S. c., camp hospital was built
with open roofs, like the Panama Zone
hospitals, and had to be rooted over
when ncar-zero weather came. Secre-
tary Baker replied that all hospitals
had been built on plans recommended
by Surgeon General Gorgas.
Recent reorganization Of the depart
ment and its bureaus, especially the
Ordnance Bureau. was detailed by Sec
retary Baker The old system, he said,
imposed impossible" burdens of CO.
ordination on the Secretary.
Senator Wadsworth and others criti-
ciscd details of the reorganization plan.
Manufacturing and military problems
are coordinated under the reorganiza-
tlOII, NcCIctdIN DuheI ueClHTcU, ny CTc-
atinc bureaus OF production, inspection
ard supply. The reorganization, Mr..
Baker insisted, accomplished Exactly"
what the British munitions dictatorship
does. He added that Chairman Willard
of the advisory committee 5f the Coun-
Gil Of National Defence and other men,
bers have approved the reorganization.
Secretary Baker conceded that the
War Industries Board would not have
power to speed up industrial produc-
ton, which would be the work of the
War and Navy departments respective
bureaus. A very wide" extension Of
functions Of the board is contemplated,
he explained.
Senator Weeks thought Mr.. Baker
might have delayed his reorganization
until the committee concluded its work.
Mr.. Baker denied that the investigation
prompted him to reorganize.
When Senator Weeks asked if Mr..
Baker were satisfied with the work of
Quartermaster General Sharpe and Cen
eral Crozier, chief of ordnance, the Sec
retary replied:
"Yes, perfectly; under the circum-
stances, they did the best that possibly
could have been done"
! sibility.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Evidence Against
"Draft Brokers'"
Laid Before Court

Deputy Attorney General Alfred L..
Becker, in charge of the prosecution of
"brokers in exemptions" Yesterday
placed evidence before Justice John ].
Freschi, of the Court of Special Ses-
sions, regarding the alleged malprac-
tices of scores of lawyers, notaries pub
lie and commissioners of deeds who
participated in the filling out Of ques-
tionnaircs Independently of the Legal
Advisory Board
Sitting as a special magistrate, des-
ignated for the purpose by Governor
Whitman, Justice Freschi heard specific
complaints against six men only, these
being called "specimen cases." The
magistrate issued summonses for Aaron
j. Jaffe and Harry Succalow, notaries
public. They are asked to answer
charges of taking false jurats and over
charging.
Bronx Action Withheld
In the cases Of David SchiH, Alex
ander Wasserman, Isadore Daniels and
Harris A. Radin, other notaries whom
Mr. Becker accused Of irregular prac-
ticcs. Justice Freschi withheld action,
because it appeared that the alleged
mlsdemeanors were committed in The
Bronx. 1t may be necessary for him to
have special hearing in that county,
it was said. The hearing in Manhattan
will be resumed next Wednesday.
In characterizing the men under
charges, Deputy Attorney General
Becker said: $50 bold are the clique
of notaries and commissioners of deeds
engaged in this practice they do not
hesitate to put elaborate signs outside
or their Offices to attract the attention
of registrants to the fact that 'ques-
tionnaires and exemption claims are
skiltully attended to within,' while in
other cases they have not hesitated to
insert advertisements that have ap-
peared broadcast, to the effect that it
is unsafe for registrants to take the
advice of legal advisory boards and
members of the, local boards, but that
they should go to tbc clique Of notaries
involved in these cases.
False Affidavits Charged
"Ofences vary, from coaching reg
lstrants in the making Of false answe RS
to knowingly having a registrant sign
the name of his parents. and then pro-
ceed to take oaths as if the parents had
themselves signed the affidavits."
In the case of Aaron J. Jafe. Mr..
Becker asserted that in Local Board 81
there appear thirty three affidavits pur-
porting to have been signed by him.
Harry Succalow. the other notary to
receive summons, was accused Of
charging a registrant So instead of IL
cents, and of attesting to the genuine
ness Of two signatures of persons who
later swore that they could not write.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Garfield Will Not
Fix Oil Prices Now
Plans to Bend Efforts to
Increase Production of
Crude Article
IStQf CoYreanondencel

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Government
control of oil production and distri-
button will be confined for the present
to general study of the petroleum
situation, with view to stimulating
maximum production of crude oil, ac-
cording to statement made bv Fuel
Administrator Garfield too day.
The Fuel Administration has no pres
ent intention Of fixing oil prices, it
was stated. The Garfield statement
was issued following a conference be-
tween the Petroleum War Service Com
mite of the industry, NJ L. Requa. the
newly appointed head of the OF! divi
sion Of the Fuel Administration. and
DR.. Garfield. 1t reads in part as fol-
lows:
Both Dr.. Garfield and Mr.. Rcoua
stated at the conference to-day that it
was the desire of the Fuel Administra-
tlon that the men representing the
petroleum industry should give the
Fuel Administration the benefit Of their
knowledge. to the end that whatever
control is to be exercised shall be onlv
after full knowledge Of all phases of
the problem and of an ;ntelli1ent and
constructive character.
1T was further stated that the an
pointment of Mr.. Requa at this tine
was net because Of any new conditions.
out that fuel oil having been included
among the duties assigned to Dr.. Gar
held by the President, the subject had
been reached in the natural course of
events and that departmental head in
the person of Mr.. Requa had been an
pointed. ''r
'lt was indicated that it was not the
intention of the Fuel Administration
70 take up at present the question of
price flxlng, but that general survey
OF the whole industry would be made
IN cooperation with the various branch
es thereof, with q view to determining
what action the government might take
to assist in supplying more effectively
the necessary fuel for war purposes
and to provide and to arrange for the
supplies of fuel oil necessary to the
various industries at home.
1T is also the intention of the adj
minist1ation to study the situation
with a view to co6rdnating bv volun.
tary agreement the manufacture ''a, and
distribution Of petroleum products and
to stimulate the production of crude
oil, so that all needs shall be fully met
at fair and just prices
"Mr. Requa stated that it was his
desire that the petroleum war service
committee should for the present con-
tinue its activities without change. -
the end that there should not be anv
interruption in the continuous flow OF
petroleum products to the Allies or for
our domestic uses"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
News in Brief

brigader General w. W. Atterbury, direc-
tor general of transportation of the Ameri-
can eNpeditionary forces in France has sent
y letter OF congratulation to the employees of
inc pennsylvania Railroad upon the lberality
with which they have contributed to the
fund Tor supplying tobacco to their former
comrades who are now III the service abroad
PEEKSKlLL. N. Y.--Women will cast
their first votes IN New York State at the
regular village election to be held here on
March .. Village trustees u treasurer as.
SCISSORS and water commissioners are to he
elected.
Professor Herbert Raymond Moody. of the
department of chemistry at the College nj
the City of New York. has resigned from his
post to join the Committee on National 10,
fence at Washington He will be connected
with the chemical department OF the com
mittac.
An appeal for funds to establish home
for elderly women has been sent out by Mrs
NJ. l.. Cummings and Mrs. +. v. Johnston
from the headquarters of the fund they arc
ruising at the Arbuckle Building 367 Fulton
Street Brooklyn.
Joseph Treanor. of 5oi West Thirty eighth
street. who had been held by the police
pending the investigation into the causes
leading up to the death of n woman identified
Annette Blair with no home, whose body
found in the basement of his house. was
discharged from custody by Magistrate Cor
rigan in Jefferson Market court.
The United States Public Reserve of the
Department of Labor. with Offices at 40S
West Thirteenth Street. has sent 'cht a hurry
cali for 200 cooks. They are wanted for ser
vice with aviation motor nschAnica-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
No Special Preferential
Movements Until Conges-
ton Ends, Is Decision
Tariff Methods
Changed
Long and Short Haul Provi-
sions of Commerce Board
Are Abolished

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Thc rail-
roads policy Of eliminating priority
orders was reafiirmcd to-day when Of
ficials refused the request of steel and
oil interests for special preferential
movements. Until the congestion is
cleared no shipments may have clear
priority right, officials explained.
Complaints Of West Virginia coal
operators that they were receiving in
sufficient cars were referred to Assist
ant Director Smith, together with re-
ports from Interstate Commerce Com
mission inspectors that hundreds Of
empty coal cars were held up in freight
congestion near Philadelphia and at
other Eastern points.
Assurance that all railroad employees
would be considered in any future re-
adjustment of wages was given to-day
by railroad officials to F. Finnison, vice
president Of the Union Of Maintenance
of Way Employees. He presented no
wage demands.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to-day cleared the way for rail-
roads to haul freight over the shortest
routes and establish new receiving or
delivery points by reducing from
thirty days to one day the period of
notice to be given before changing
tariffs. Roads also were authorized to
haul freight over new routes at rates
for which shipments were accepted
without observing the usual long and
short haul provisions Of the interstate
! commerce act. The commission re-
served the right, however. to order re-
n O}oc of
Additional tahularfons of railroad
earnings in November, made to- day by
the commission. based on returns from
lo3 roads, showed net revenue from
railway operations was $S7,057 .OO0 as
compared with $l04,897 900 in Novem,
ber 1916. Reports are expected from
thirty-two additional roads.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
No Drunkenness in u. S.
Army Abroad, Says Professor

BALTIMORE, Jan. LII am conf
dent that there IS not the slightest
foundation for the reports that drunk
enness is common among the American
soldiers in France" said Professor R..
W, Wood, of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, who returned from France
about three weeks ago.
Il spent two and half months in
France, and, while l did not make any
extended tour of the American camps, I
did see a great many American SOL
diers did not see one drunken man
or anything to indicate that there was
any truth in the reports Of excessive
drinking by them"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
German, TlDice Interned,
Arrested for Sedition

William Muller, twenty eight years
old, German. who. has been interned
on Ellis Island twice since the war be-
gan, as an alien enemy. and each time
released on parole, was arrested last
night, on d charge of sedition while
filling out his questionnaire at the Of
fees of Local Exemption Board No. .,
Hobokcn.
Muller threw his questonnairc to the
floor, declaring there was no need of
his hothcring with it. anyway, as the
Germans were going to win the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Wisconsin Weekly Barred

WAUSAU, Wis, Jan. l2-Thc Wau-
sau "Wochenblatt," a German weekly,
to-day was denied admission to the
mails for failure to comply with the
act requiring newspapers printed in
foreign languages to file with the po.t-
master or government agents a trans-
erent countries.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Otto G.. Heinze's Home Sold

The former residence of Otto c.
Heinze. at IA East Seventy second
Street. has been sold 1t is five story
American basement structure. just west
Of Madison Avenue. The house was
sold in foreclosure last December
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

The Ice in the bride path has been re-
moved so that Riding has been resumed.
People are now Riding in tho Park
from
Durland's Riding Academy,
Wss4 ssth Strsst
New-York tribune., 1918-01-13
Fire Record

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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
The AnCiet Wall of China

A chemist who examined the bricks and
mortar of the great wall which the Chinese
built in ancient times to head off unwel-
come visitations from their war-like, bar
barrie neighbors has reported that the bricks
which are of a grayish color and suggestive
of pumice in their structure are quite soft
and can be broken easily with the fingers.
Laboratory tests proved that it is true, a
tradition relates, that the bricks were mere
ly baked in the sun and not subjected to the
intenser heat of kiln. Had they been
burned in kiln as modern bricks are the
wall which is weak and crumbling would
certainly be strong to this day and would
doubtless last for many more centuries.
The mortar which was made of lime with
out the admixture of any sand was found
pure white under the weathered surface and
it was great deal stronger than the bricks.
-Selected.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
Science Notes

Coke, automatically fed under the boil
er, is used for fuel in new English steam
driven road tractor of great power.
An automobile headlight has been in
vented that has three gas burners so placed
as to utilize the entire surface of the reflector.
The body of what is believed to be the
largest automobile yet built. moving van,
is "a feet long, feet wide and 8 feet high.
AS a substitute for clay pigeons, a
Frenchman has invented propeller to be
shot through the air swiftly from an instru-
ment held in the hands.
"A combined post card and letter sheet
is a Michigan inventors idea, the latter
folding against the former and being sealed
with gummed flap.
For literally shooting trees to death a
pistol has been invented by an Englishman
that fires steel bolts into their limbs to tear
out the living cores.
"A kitchen spoon has been patented that
has perforated bowl terminating in three
narrow fork tines and has more than Is
uses, its inventor claims.
Scotch experimenters have succeeded in
making newsprint paper with about IS per
cent of sawdust and 80 per cent of waste
paper as ingredients.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
By The Office Owl

Some people are too independent to
take hint.
Even a truthful man can pose as a
successful bait digger.
When baker makes his morning
rounds the roll call is in order.
Poverty develops either a woman
worst traits or her best ones.
The universal idea of level headed
man is one who agrees with you.
AT the age of Thirty woman regrets
that her past didn't begin year later.
-Uuless man has good backing he is
seldom able to put on bold front.
If a man doesn't know when he is we'll
off some of his fool friends will tell him.
The older man gets the less time he
has to learn the things he thought he knew
when he was boy.
Keeping up appearances is always worth
while.
"A mail carrier soon learns to humor
the varying dispositions of great many
dogs.
-"There is nothing new under the sun, /"
but if the people are, it amounts to the
same thing.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
ORIGIN of The Wooden Indian

Perhaps the most effective figure in keep
ing up the mental association of the red
man and the soothing weed, tobacco, is the
familiar figure of brave Indian that has
adorned the exterior of nearly every retail
cigar store throughout the land. Where or
when the wooden Indian became the SYM
boil of the tobacco dealer has not been def
nitely determined. But the death of Pierre
G. Gaspari. of Baltimore, years ago, dis
closed the fact that he was the man who, in
this country at least, practically created the
warrior of wood.
Gaspari, who was Frenchman, arrived
in Baltimore at an early age. A few years
later found him as tobacco merchant.
His was the first establishment of the kind
in the city, and he was the pioneer tobacco
dealer of Baltimore. Doubtless he, too,
saw the significance of the Red Man, for
before he had been in business very long a
wooden Indian, resplendent in war paint and
varnish, proffered bundle of carved cigars
to all who passed Gaspari's place of bust
ness Boston Traueler.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
Don't Be a Drifter

Don't be drifter Breast the stream
And struggle for worthy dream.
Be one of those with standards high
Who dare to do and dare to try.
Too many merely drift along,
Helpless when dangers wind grows strong
Tossed by the currents here and there,
Held in the eddies of despair;
Bruised by the rocks they might evade.
Were they not all too lightly swayed.
Don't be a drifter Shape plan
And have some purpose as man.
Be not content, as many are,
To 60 without guiding star,
Swayed by the faithless whims of chance,
Fate's puppets, at her nod to dance,
But in the distance set your goal
And fight for it with all your soul.
Keep some objective worth your while
Though fortune frown on you or smile.
Don't be drifter Join the few
Who seek life's real tasks to do.
Strike out where deeper water flows.
And breast the stream with manly blows.
The shadows and the coves beware,
Too many barques are broken there.
The rocks and tangled branches lie
To catch the driftwood floating by,
but he who fights against the stream
Shall some day reach his port of Dream.
Edgar Guest.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21
The Story of Italy
[Continued from page one.]


maintained there until the Franco-P russian
War of 1870. France was then compelled
to withdraw them to defend herself. On
September 20 of that year the Sandman
troops approached Rome and, after Skin
mishing, Victor Emanuel was master of all
Italy. The temporal power of the Pope
was at an end. The capitol of the kingdom
was removed to Rome. There still remain
ed what is called Itali Irridente, or Unre-
deemed Italy, which lies in the Alps and
around the Adriatic Sea. These are terri
tories which, though inhabited very largely
by Italians, were never regaiued from Aus
tria. 1t is this Unredeemed Italy that
caused Italy to enter the great war. Every
effort has been made for century to wean
the inhabitants of these provinces from their
Italian connections, but all in vain. They
are just as much Italian today as is Venice.
The recent unconditional surrender of
the Austrians to the Italian army may be
but forerunner to the return of these lost
provinces and the righting of past wrongs.