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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-14
PILES! PILES! PILES!

WILLIAMS Pile OINTMENT.
For Blind, bleeding and Itchlns
Piles For sale by all druggists
mail 50c and z190 WILLIAMS
MFG. CO, Props Cleveland Ohio.
For sale by Central Drug 60.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

1.-The District Exemption Board!has
taken stand on farm help exemptions
that will greatly hell onr farmers and
enable them to accomplish much ssin
crop growing" says the Dover Index.
Every young man who is really en-
gagged in farming on a farm of such
size and productiveness as makes it
important in crop growing and is
needed there, is to be exempted. So
is any young man who gets a position
on farm where he is needed and
works and does his best to help. In
other words, real farm help is to be
left on the farms if such help is neces-
sary, Industrious and effective. How
ever, farming is not to be made a
mere excuse to escape military ser
vice. Simply residing on a farm will
not exempt. Young men will be left
at home on farms if they put in their
time in real farm work where their
labors will increase the real needed
crops, like wheat, corn, tomatoes and
other things necessary to feed the
army. A little trucking, a few days
work each week, and otEer half-farm-
ing will not do. Kent county farmers
need the work of every young man in
the county, every day in the week and
at least ten hours Of every day, ana
they will then be short of help. The
young man who will not really work
should be made to take the place in
the army of one who will. "
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
UNLUCKIEST CITY OF WORLD
5agdad, Where British Are Now Firm
ly Established, Has Been Drenched
in Blood of Citizens.

Bagdad, where the British are now
firmly established, has we'll earned its
reputation of the worlds unluCkieSt
city, according to writer in Pear
sons. Not a square inch Of the soil
on which it stands but has been soaked
with the blood of its citizens.
When the MongOls, under their ter
rible Chief Hulaga, took the city In
1858, 100000 Of its inhabitants were
put to death. Worse still, Hulaga
ruined the whole system Of irrigation
canals which made MesOpOtamia per-
haps the richest country in the world,
thereby destroying the work of 300
generations in as many hours"
In 1893 Timur the Tartar sacked the
city. He killed ali it's inhabitants,
''save only the holy men," and 10000
skulls were piled up in pyramids be-
fore the walls.
The Persians, under Shan Abbas,
captured Bagdad in 1923, after a des-
perate resistance. and in revenge he
ordered 500 of the principal citizens
to be tortured to death in public, the
executions lasting over an entire week
Three hundred others were executed
by hanging them head downward IN
the city's 300 wells, thereby poisoning
the water supply.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

If the new Town Council does moth
ing else for the present on Commerce
street, they can improve conditions
materially by filling in the holes and
low places with stone and a binder
and scrape the dirt off the street.
Some even advance the opinion that it
would not be bad to sprinkle oil on
the street. 1t will lay the dust and
make conditions more sanitary. 1t
will be sometime before the sprinkler
will be put on and treatment of this
kind will no doubt have a good effect.
Surely a street so much used as Com.
merce street ought to have some at.
tention and that at an early date.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
BANK EXCHANGE IN ECUADOR
Rate Is Established by President,
Who Alone Is Empowered to
Make Such Ruling.

A recent law promulgated in Ecua
dor attempts to regulate the bank rate
of exchange as regards drafts to and
from foreign countries. 1t provides
for an advisory board to the president,
presided over by the governor of
Guayas and composed Of delegates
from the chambers of commerce of
Guayaquil and Quito, the Agricultural
association, each of the banks of issue,
and the national bank inspector. The
recommendations made by this board,
according to Commerce Reports, may
or may not be acted upon by the pres
ident. who alone is empowered to es-
tablish the legal rate of exchaLge;
and any person selling at a higher
rate is liable to prosecution, with
penalty of ten times the excess
charged.
Export duties, including all sur
charges, may be paid by checks or
sight drafts on foreign markets where
the goods are exported, taking as a
basis the value Of the pound sterling
in the New York market. The drafts
mentioned must be sold by the customs
collectors at the prices paid for them.
The purchase of foreign drafts Is
at present very materially restricted,
owing to the scarcity of funds in other
countries; and it is generally believed
that the present law will increase the
difficulties.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

While it comes hard for the grow
ers to see their dream and prospect of
dollar tomatoes flee to the winds, yet
it is contended there is a reasonable
profit in growing tomatoes at 35c a
basket. At least the Government
thinks so and so be it.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
The SMYRNA TIMES
SMYRNA, DELAWARE

Published Every Wednesday Afternoon, by
ROBERT d. HOFFECKER, Proprietor.
Founded by Robert d. HOffecker, July D 1854
Editor and Proprietor until February 10, 1907
OFFICE;-Next Door to the Fruit Growers
National bank
Telephone. No. 10.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

The people of Smyrna and vicinity
will be doing a patriotic act if they
will look over their old books stored
away in the book case or attic and
make gifts to the "Book Drive" for
our soldiers lover there. " Camp life
with the boys will never drag so long
as their time off duty can be spent in
pleasant and profitable reading. Help
the cause along. Miss Anna Hough,
superintendent of the Smyrna Library,
will be glad to receive any donations
YOU have to make and will see that
they are delivered.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

1t speaks we'll for Smyrna when
there is hardly a dwelling house avail
able for rent. There are two or three
store properties, but good dwellings
are in demand Smyrna is surely a
good place to live and if some capi-
talist would only start a building
boom and put up some desirable houses
"A bungalows, no doubt they toe
B be in demand.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

While driving from Hurlock to
Seaford Saturday morning to catch a
train, Fred Willoughby's limousine
swerved and struck a telephone pole
hurting him and two PHILADELPHIA
friends against cement curbing on the
opposite side of the street. All three
were badly shaken up and suffered
numerous cuts and bruises and the
automobile was wrecked.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
Edison After U-Beats.

Thomas A. Edison, Americas fore
most inventive genius, has settled
down in Washington with the inten-
tiOn of Staying until we get some
thing that will stop the submarine"
writes a Washington correspondent.
He has taken over the old Office Of
the late Admiral George Dewey in
the Navy annex and is engaged in Inn
portant laboratory experiments de-
signed to produce an antidote for the
U-boat. he is In constant conference
with experts Of the navy department.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06

THE SMYRNA TIMES is an Independent paper,
devoted to the welfare of the town it repre-
sents and the State of which it is a part 1t
also gives the items of importance of the East
ern Shore of Maryland.
ADVERTISEMENTS-THE SMYRNA TIMES is the
business medium not only for the town it rep
resents but for the outlying district of which it
is the centre, embracing the towns of Clayton
KentOn, CheSwold, Townsend Leipsic, &c.
A rate of 80 cents an inch for first insertion and
25 cents for each subsequent insertion will be
charged for transient advertising Locals and
Reading Notices, 10 cents per line per issue.
special discount on all semi-annual and
yearly advertisements.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
WANTED.

Man around 30, of good habits, to
represent Us in your locality. Must
devote all your time. Address in own
handwriting for particulars. ].
WATERS RUSSELL REALTY co. .
2 E. Lexington ST., Baltimore, Md.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
Rare Bargains in Farms

$50 Acres, miles from Smyrna. on ga, s.aS
Road. good land and splendid oo!.o'I5siitt 5ssit
acres of wood. Price, l5.OOO' one-u'''
down.
100 Acres, 30 tillable, balance white oah '..n. au'
chestnut timber, miles from SL!I1n NJ -;rs
good house and buildings, S45OoOV' S''
possession March lst
164 Acres, 124 being in high state OF cI,cs Lon.s
tion. one mile from Townsend uFT ,rss. ry
and outbuildings. two tenant uO'''
Price, $1,000. ,.+
As Acres, elegant house and buildinS' Ia6 70 700
of land, close to railroad, S0'ZVO'
peach trees, apple orchard. ,,,ai.
300 Acres in sight of Kenton, g2oIds lawn. 4rrp
ings, good land $4,000, one-hai' wv
balance per cent. a,r
100 Acres, rs tillaOle, close to Golt s,o,,tSni. oti
7room house, good barns ana H!.o ou.7OO "a 700.
ings. This land is not low. fIlce' y ~, ,,c,
8 Acres, new house and buildings. Al -
land $12OO Near town ,oi
rs Acres of the best soil, plenty q, Ui 6sv.
buildings and house, miles lIom .yTsin and
ton. Price, $1,000. This IS a bargain
won't hang long.
Smyrna times., 1918-03-06
Old False Teeth Wanted, Don't
Matter if Broken

pay 50 to $15 per set. Also cash for
old gold, silver and broken jewelry. Send
by parcel post and receive check by return
mail. Will hold goods 10 days for senders
approval of my offer. l.. MAZER, 2OO7 So.
5th St., Pbiada. Pa.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07

nine statements giving information on
the status OF families Of discharged
men, deserters, and alien enemy fami-
lies and explaining relationship of
the Red Cross to other relief societies
and the operation Of the Red Cross
bureaus OF camp service and COM
munication.
Despite the fact that this handbook
has Just been issued. new and puz-
Eling questions are arising with such
rapidity that the bureau of civilian
relief Of the Lake division, is plan
ming an International service to keep
its Home Service workers in $50 chap
ters in step with the fast-moving pro-
cession.
War (regardless OF the Tuscania
calamity and few scattering casual
ties)-war and Red Cross Home Serv-
ice are still in their infancy. but al.
ready some 5000 families of Ohio. In
diana and Kentucky enlisted and Sc
lective service men are under the
care of Red Cross Home Service
workers.
Picture the immensity of the task
when the American offensive" b.
gins.
Red Cross Home Service will be
ready. It Is demOcracy's brotherhood
" action.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
State Officers Have
War Troubles, Too

Columbus, Feb. 25.-It seems that
tAe members Of public utilities com
HAssi0ns and other state officials are
having their troubles, along with the
corporations they are charged with
regulating. War and high prices have
brought with them problems that
weren't really contemplated when
some Of the members of regulatory
boards assumed their then attractive
responsibilities. This is strikiugly set
forth in a statement recently issued
by Charles c. Marshall, member of the
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.
The statement was endorsed prompt.
ly by the other two members of the
body. Mr.. Marshall said:
The public utilities companies are
facing a difficult proposition. In many
cases their rates for service are fixed
for a period of years. and based upon
prices Of labor and materials before
the war. Labor has gone up, and ma.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
LET'S HAVE A SHOWDOWN

Columbus, Feb. 25. - Telephone
traction, light and heat corporations
should turn their cards face up.
They are quasi public institutions
and when they are secretive-as other
kinds of corporations properly may be
they create suspicion in the public
mind, of which demagogues take ad.
vantage to secure local office, and if
elected make good their promises to
reduce service rates, although the peo-
pie want service continuously reliable
rather than cheap.
A rate which was fair when fixed for
a term of years one or five years ago
is ruinous now, for coal, which is the
largest cost item for traction, factory.
power and electric lighting has
doubled in cost, while copper, used for
transmitting power and dialogues has
trebled in cost and the average wage
has increased so per cent.
The American public surely is will.
ing to give any corporation which will
take it into confidence, a rate that will
furnish money enough for expenses,
betterments and interest on capital.
The state provides a public utilities
commission to which confession can
be made.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
DON'T WASTE GAS
MOTHER EARTH QUIT MAKING 1T
MANY YEARS AGO.

Columbus, Feb. 24.-A strange sit.
uation has developed in the natural
gas industry in this state. A situa.
ton that is exceedingly serious.
There are several natural gas com.
panies in Ohio that today can only
furnish 60 per cent of the amount of
gas calculated upon when their fran.
chise was secured. Inasmuch as most
rates under franchise limitations were
fixed on basis of quantity of con.
sumption, it follows that decrease of
40 per cent in the amount of produc-
ton available means a corresponding
cut in calculated profits. Natural gas
at 80 or 40 cents as compared with
artificial gas at $125 gives an idea of
the average difference in the cost of
production. Natural gas is twice as
hot as the artificial kind.
Just what the gas using commUnl-
ties are going To discover as a remedy
for the condition which is now here
and getting worse is a great problem
10 NOT WASTE THE GAS.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07

Sha'Fman Public Utilities Commission
terlals advanced, in some cases more
than hundred per cent. The utility
can not pass the increased cost on to
the customer as can the merchant or
the manufacturer, and many of them
are operating at a loss or reducing
the efficiency of their service. In
cases where the rates are not fixed
they are constantly applying to the
Commission for increases, which, in
most instances, are vigorously resist
ed by the consumers
"Af Of these applications for increas.
es are carefully examined by the Com.
mission and only such advances are
allowed as seem to be imperative
1T is not to the best interest of
either the public or the utility that
rates be fixed which will bankrupt the
company or compel it to furnish a
poor service
I'VE are doing the best we can to
deal with this difficult question in
these troublesome times, and we be-
lieve that if the public knew all the
facts, there would be less criticism
] take it the public wants to be fair;
but do not want to be imposed upon"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
GRANGE MASTER
|NDORSES BONDS
Urges Ohio Farmers to Prepare
for the Next Liberty
Loan Drive
GRANGE SURPLUS ALL INVESTED
Nations Securities Best Investment
on Earth. Farmers Should Prove
Patriotic by Buying.

GAINESVILLE, O.-(Specia1) ,
Taber, master OF the Ohio State
Grange, urges that the coming Lber
ty Loan drive be made the subject OF
special discussion and consideration
in the Washington Lincoln Liberty
meetings now being held in the vari-
Gus sub-granges throughout the state.
Mr.. Taber favors big farmer invest
ment next drive.
"The next Liberty Loan campaign, -
he says, will afford the Grange an ex.
ceptional opportunity to serve patriot,
ically not only our order, but agri-
culture, the country and civilization
at large. The motto Of the state grange
is "A bond in every farm home in Ohio.
The state organization has invested
every penny of its surplus in Liberty
bonds. Sub-granges should follow its
example.
Nor should we stop there. Every
patron and every farmer should be
reached. For there is not a farmer
in Ohio but can afford to buy at least
one Liberty Bond on the very easy
terms offered. Every one should hold
at least one bond. The farmer was
not heavy purchaser in either Of the
earlier drives. There were reasons
justifying this condition then, but there
is no adequate excuse for his failure
to purchase now.
mo class of men have been more
criticized than the farmers, however
unjust this criticism may have been.
They will soon have an opportunity
to refute these charges, and l am con-
1ident they will maintain the tradi-
tions of their patriotic forefathers by
coming nObly to the financial rescue
of their country. There is no better
or safer investment on earth than D
Liberty Bond.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
Coal Operators Appeal.

Pittsburg, Pa.-More than 1,OOC
operators meeting in this city recent
ly, passed the following resolutions:
Whereas, 1t is the sentiment and
conviction of the members of the Ma
tional Coal Association that the sa-
loon is contributing menace to the
efficient production of coal;
snow, therefore, be it resolved,
That we hereby appeal to the Presi-
dent of the United States to declare
all territory within a radius of five
miles of every coal producing mine a
dry zone during the period of the
present war;"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
II You Own Cows

1t will not only be interesting but it
will be profitable for you to read that
little national dairy magazine. Kim
halls Dairy Farmer. 1t is published
semi-monthly at Waterloo. Iowa, the
huh of the great dairy region of the
central west. IL Us ably edited, we'll
printed on good book paper and hand
somely illustrated by aGtua! photo.
graphs taken exclusively for it. Its
purpose is educational and to the man
who would make his COWS yield larger
profits, this little magazine is indis.
Pensable. Regardless of how many
other papers the farmer may take, this
one is worth many times its price to
him. The subscription price is only
5O cents a year, and the paper will
positively be discontinued at expira
tion. Send for sample copy.
Kim balls Dairy Farmer
Waterloo, Iowa.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
BY James L. FIeser,
Director, Civilian Relief, Lake Divt
sion, American Red Cross.

sion, American Red Cross.
Organizing and training 10000
Home Service committeeman to aid
families of enlisted men is the most
stupendous and pretenuous task be-
ing undertaken by the American Red
Cross within our own borders.
This statement is made without
fear of contradiction.
Even were there established social
agencies in every community from
which men have been drawn for active
service, this Red Cross duty would be
hardly less difficult, because with the
war have come new problems which
must be solved, and efficiently too, If
the good name of the Red Cross Is to
be held alofe and the minds of our
fighting folk set at ease about the
welfare of their loved ones back
home"
To school willing Home Service
workers with no previous social train
ing as well as keep professional COM
munity workers abreast with new de-
velopments, the Red Cross war coun-
Gil established in the Lake division
Home Service institutes at Indianapo-
lis, Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleve-
land, each identified with a strong
university and each affiliated with
healthy social agencies.
Thirty-fTe counties were represent
ed by fifty-six students at the first
series Of Institutes, each institute last
ing six weeks. A second series has
just opened. In addition, chapter
courses of information are to be es-
tablished in cities of $4,000 popula-
ton and over.
There is no guess work about Red
Cross Home Service.
Workers are being trained to help cit
liens gain all sorts of information. If a
family has not heard from a son in
the service, if the allotment and al
lowance check is delayed or wrong
in amount, if boy is reported missing,
if any one of hundreds of possibilities
occur, the Home Service worker must |
be alert to his or her responsibilities. !
To show that there are hundreds !
of possibilities" for this service, the |
American Red Cross has prepared |
for its committeeman handbook con-
tanning correct answers to 260 ques-
tions which these committeeman have
already been asked.
Forty-nine answers to questions en- !
army and navy service, running from
the composition of the fighting forces
to explaining what must be done to
assist the family of a man who has
entered the service under an assumed
name, are given in this handbook.
Eghty-six points on the soldiers and
sailors allowance compensation and
war risk insurance are explained. The
latter in itself is so large a task that
a Home Service worker, anticipating
q soft snap" might be driven to
cover if there were no handbook or
Institute course to lessen his perplexi-
ty 1t is down in black and white
how the insurance is written and for
whom, how premiums are paid and
by whom. Six points of information
are provided to cover insurance for
crews of merchant vessels and trans
ports.
American Red Cross Home Service
Tor families of enlisted men fighting
'or our allies causes twenty-nine Ques.
tons to be answered in the hand
book.
All this is supplemented by eighty.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
THE PUFFED AND PURPLED
"PLUTE."

or course there was a time, every
soap box orator told us about it. when
the public utility manager or stock
holder was looked upon as a puffed
and purpled plutocrat He rode in
his limousine and drank his cham.
payne out of quart tankards. He was
all encrusted with diamonds and his
wife was trying to reduce" But,
them was the hallycon days of the
old regyme," as a Cincinnati states
man once remarked
Now, if you see a wan, shrinking.
shivering little man edging along the
dark wall Of the alley and shudder.
ing at each strident sound-that's a
public utility man.
1t isn't exactly fair to advance the
dictum that all haggard, wan, pale.
shrinking, nervous men are of the
public utility brotherhood, but it is a
safe assertion that all and several of
the public utility owners, managers
and high officials are wan and hag.
gard in these days of stress.
Va NOuA 90 III thO50 6OOu OIQ GAYS
1t was perfectly proper proceeding
to cuss the gas man, damn the tele-
phone service and enjoy a paroxysm
of rage when the inter.urban car was
late. No more.
1t really isn't done.
The manufacturer Of pink pills. or
beaded raiment, may complain il he
will, Of the war stringency and its
whitening effect upon his business.
but he can advance the prices of pink
pills and make it harmonize with the
cost of tenderloin steak. Cannot the
gas man advance the price of gas to
keep step with bacon and eggs? Yes.
he cannot.
The prices of public service being
fixed for term of years cannot be
raised to meet the doubled costs Gre
ated by the war.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
Law-Abiding saIoonkeepers.

Columbus, Ohio.-The State De.
partment of Health has had numerous
samples of food stuff sent it for
analysis by persons fearing the work
OF German spies. Little that is wrong
has been found in these samples. A
sample of "Ginger Ale" sold by a
Columbus saloonkeeper to a soldier,
in uniform, however, was found to
contain Is per cent of alcohol. The
saloonkeeper's case will go before the
United States Grand Jury.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
A THRIFT LOAN Is NOT ]
GIFT,

When you buy War Savings
Stamp what you do is to forego
for the present the use OF the
money it costs. That money
comes back to you in five years
with interest at 1 per cent, COM
pounded quarterly. You do not
give your money away; you sim
ply place it at the disposal of
your government in an hour of
need. And, remember, these
stamps when attached to a War
Savings Certificate are precise
ly like the bonds of biggest de-
nominaticn-they are secured by
the whole resources of the Unit
ed States. There is no safer Sc
curity in the world.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-07
OUR CLUBBING LIST.

The following special offers are made
t" both old aud new subscribers to this
paper.
We cannot mail sample copies OF
any paper except the journal. Re-
quests tor samples of Others must he
sent direct to the office OF the paper
wanted, it we cannot supply you in
person at this office.
The figures show the price at which
the publication named and the Jour-
nal will both be sent for one year:
Price of both