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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Enemies Digging
Own Graves
Comment Of Kaiser, Who Says
Germany Cannot Be Sub
dued.

Amsterdam, April 26.--"The peo-
pie who wish to destroy US are Dig
ging their own graves" said Emperor
William, as quoted in an interview
by aKrl Rosner, which the Dusseldorf
Anzeiger publishes.
The emperor, who was commenting
on the large amour subscribed to the
new war loan, said further:
"Our victories in the field and the
victories of the Germans at home
must make those over youned realize
that we cannot be subdued by arms
and economic isolation"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27

tor so far is that the Germans have
gained about 1000 yards on a front
abOlut 1900 yards. The gain is not
large, but involves a very important
grounds and there is no question but
that it is very serious loss.
"There is nothing decisive about
the loss of KENNEL hill and it remains
to be seen whether it will remain in
the enemy's hands.
"0n the south the situation at Viii
rs-Bretonneux is very satisfactory.
We have taken back all we lost and
with the village we have taken many
prisoners and inflicted heavy losses.
Junction Weak Point.
Looking at these two attacks we
see one thing. In each case the en-
emy has tsruck at the junction Of the
French and British armies. AS you
know, that must always be a weak
spot. With the best possible arrange
ments and with the best understand
ing it must always be difficult TO ar
range for immediate support, both by
artillery and reserves, when two diff
ferent commands are involved. These
difficulties, naturally, are increased
when you have two nationalitles and,
although we and the French have
been fighting alongside each other for
three and a half years and have abso-
lutte confidence in each other, yet we
must always expect the Germans to
try and find joint in the harness.
"Thcre is nothing to altar the view
that General Maurice put before you
that is is the German intention to
wear out the British army. .~Fa IA
Expect Bigger Offensive Yet. I
"There is no reason for doubt that
a big offensive ON far greater scale
than ever is still to be expected be-
tween Arras and Amiens with the OBJ
ject Of driving in and separating the
British and French. So far the whole
German success is merely tactical. He
has won ground and take positions
and guns and is hammering the Brit
ish army where ever possible. This
object has been countered by the ac-
ton Of the allied commander-in-chief
in sending French troops to the north
fl t, making it more difficult for the
Germans to continue the game Of
fighting the British alone"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
French Regiment Ordered to Defend to
Death Obeyed Command to the Letter

With the British Army in Flanders April 27-The French
command the letter Entirely surrounded by the Germans
Polus held for than eight hours slaughteng whole
of the enemy they warmed the steep slopes
the face of the French machine gun fire. veritabe food
of grayad troops finally swept the summit oberatng
the defenders ones heel does ants Like the old
guard at Waterloo the French regiment died. 1t did
render.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
British Destroyers
Put to Flight
Austrian Craft


LONDON, April 27.-Two British
destroyers engaged FIVE Austrian
craft Monday night and forced them
to flee for shelter to the Durazz naval
base in Albina, the Admiralty report
ed today. The pursuit later was join
ed by two French and five other Brit
ish destroyers. The following day the
British air forces raided Durazze in
an attempt to destroy the sea plane
base there. The attack is said to have
been apparently successful.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
.errnany's Losses :
Up to This Time
Two Million Men

Amsterdam, April 26.--Gerriany's
Iosse thus far in the war ha4e been
100000 men, according to a state
ment credited by the Trankfurter
Zeitung as having been made by Gen.
Schulze before the main committee
Of the German reichstag.
Sick and wounded men to the NUM-
Der Of 10000 had been able to re-
turn to the fsont, according to Gen.
sehulze, while e29,OO had been dis
charged as unfit for service, including
10000 cripples.
Up to date, the general added, Ger
many had to reckon with about os,-
900 cripples.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Germany Served
No Ultirnaturn

Toxic, April 27.-Japan has de-
cided officially to assist the Allies by
supplying as much as possible their
ship tonnage requirements. Within
six months twenty-three vessels, ag-
gregating on hundred and fifty-one
ethousand, one hundred and sixty
six tons are to be placed at the dis
posal Of the United States.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
HAS USED BUT SMALL
PORTION OF RESERVES
Battle Now Being Waged Test of Endurance Declares General
Delma Radcliffe Important That Every Allied Nation Get
Every Man Ready to Support Battle Front

London, April 26.-The impor-
tance of every entente allied country
engaged in the war to get evry pos
sible man into position to support
the battle front was emphasized by
General Delma Radcliffe, chief direct
or of military operations at the war
office today in his first interview with
newspaper men since he took over the
position formerly held by Major Gen
eral F. B. Maurice.
"The Germans are going on with
this hammering process" he said,
and we have got to make up our
minds that it is not this week or next
week, or next month, that this fight
is coming to a decision. We are CO.
ing to fight the whole summer and in
the end it is a question Of who holds
the last reserves.
Reserves on the west front now
are, | am happy to say, in the hands
of command, namely, in the hands Of
the commander in chief of the allied
armies in France. General Foch, in
whom everybody in both armies has
complete confidence. He has so far
employed only a small portion of his
reserves and that is good augury
for the future r'
Test Of Endurance.
Il want to emphasize the fact that
this is long drawn out test of en-
durance, endurance of nations. That
is why it is so imerative for this coun-
try and all countries who are engag-
ed to get hold of every man they can
possibly get to support the battle
front. What is going to tell in the
end is men,"
In summing up the battle situation,
General Radcliffe said:
"On the monring of April "a the
enemy began a more serious effort
opposite Amiens and yesterday he
started a heavy attack on the KEN
mel front. The enemy had made con
siderable progress. The latest infor-
nation is still Incomplete, but there is
no doubt that the Germans succeed
ed in occupying KENNEL hill, sector
involving both French and British
troops.
Mon KENNEL Serious Loss.
"The net result in the KENNEL sec
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Big Patriotic
Union Meeting

A patriotic Union Meeting win be
held at the court house Sunday night
at 8 o'clock. The Boy Scouts viii be
awarded their medals won in the pre-
vious Liberty Loan campaign by Hon.
Hugh NJ. Ttate, Of Knoxville, who will
also deliver his masterful war address
1t this time.
Music viii be furnished by the local
orchestra.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Liberty Day
SUBSCRIPTIONS

Washington, April 27.-The Off
cial reports of Liberty Day subscrip-
tons show that the great national
canvas for the Third Liberty Loan
had boosted the total sales to two bill
lion, one hundred and thirteen mil
lion. nine hundred and nienty-eight
thousand dollars.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Japan to Supply
Ship Tonnage

Washington, April 27.-Germany
has not served an ultimatum on Hol-
land on the question Of the free
transportation Of supplies through
that country, the Dutch legation Of
icials declared here.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
Holland Yields
To A Part OF
German Demands

LONDON, April 27.-Special dis
patches from Dutch sources declares
that Holland has yielded to one of
Germany's demands-that Of the use
Of the railway across the province Of
Linburg. But It has been stipulated
that it is not to be used for military
traffic.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
To Stop the Germans Is the Most
That Can Possibly Be Expected Now

and it is now certain that there can
be no major Allied counter offensive
for the present. American and for
eign army men here have agreed on
these points following the Teuton's
capture of tactically important Mont
KENNEL.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27

andthree names, including eleven kill
ed in action, forty-seven severely
wounded, thirty-seven slightly
wounded, two missing. Four men
died from accident and two from dis
ease.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The
German drive is severe menace
against the channel and is forcing the
Allies to use great efforts to check
the foe. This menace is SO serious
that to stop the Germans is the most
that can be expected for some time,
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27

White county today vent far tover
the top in It's subscriptions to the lib
erty loan and the store referred to,
the only one declining TO close dur-
ing the afternoon on the strength Of
the Presidents and gogernnor's proc.
Iamations, bad scarcely patron frem
morning Until night
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-04-27
West Front Battle Is Beginning to Take
Heavy Toll Of American Fighting Forces

WASHINGTON, April 27.-The
great west front battle is beginning
t otake heavy toll of American
fighters. In general Pershin's cas-
ualty list today is shown one hundred
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
THE OPEN COLUMN
The HamiItOn-BrOwn Plan.

Editor the Missourian: The en-
plOyes of the Hamilton-BrOwn Shoe
Company viii assign a part of their
regular pay to the purchase of War
Savings Stamps. Each employe will
be allowed to appropriate whatever
he is able to spare to the buying of
these thrift stamps. And when it is
remembered that there are 800 work
men in the factory, the total amount
of stamps sold will. in a few months,
reach a huge figure. This is patriotic
service and is actively assisting the
Government in the prosecution of the
war, and it was with this idea in
mind that the officers of the company
started the movement.
But aside from the patriotism of
the plan, the value to the employees
themselves must be considered, and
in this correction. the value of the
plan itself which is here put into
operation. The investment is one of
the best that can be found from the
point of dividends. Rarely can an
IiNeS SlHlGuI Dt lOulu Which, VIII Idht
such small amounts of money and
pay interest on them all the time.
Then. tcO, the money which is reg
ularly being invested in these stamps
in all probability would have been
spent. A few years from now, this
money saved now, with the interest on
it will be due the investor and will be
to him as money he had found.
In this last lies the value of the
plan to everyone, aside from the per-
formance of a patriotic duty, which
is one Cf the pleasures had from buy
ing the stamps. Small weekly or
monthly investments can be made of
amounts which never are noticed.
But added together for a period of
few years with interest on top of this,
it makes a pile which it is nightly
pleasing to be the owner of.
H. H.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
HOME SERVICE TALKS FOR ALL
TownspeOple as Well as Students May
Attend Red Cross Lecture Series.

Attend Red Cross Lecture Series.
A series Of eight lectures will be
given in the home service course ar
ranged by the American Red Cross in
cooperation with the University of
Missouri extension division. The first
lecture will be given by DR.. George B.
Mangold, director of the School of
Social Economy, at 4:30 o'clock next
Monday afternoon in the Y. NJ. C. A.
Auditorium on Home Service of the
Red Cross
The course is open to the public,
including students and townspeople.
Those who attend all of the lectures
and pass an examination later will
receive a certificate showing that they
have completed the home service
course. Those who receive the GER
tificate must be present and enroll at
the first lecture Monday afternoon.
The second lecture of the series will
be given at o'clock next Monday
night by Doctor Mangold in the Y. NJ.
C. A. Auditorium. This lecture on
"Child Welfare" will be of a general
nature and the public is invited to at
tend. The other lectures and dates
follow:
Feb. II, s p. m, Y. NJ. C. A. Audi
torium, "The Normal Family, Its
Problems and Resources" by Prof. C.
c. Taylor.
Feb. IS, 8 p. m, Y. NJ. c. A. Audi
torium, How Home Service Is Car
ried On" by Prof. C. c. Taylor.
Feb. 25, 8 p. m, Y. NJ. c. A. Audi
torium, Health Problems Home Serv-
ice Families" by DR.. o. F. Bradford.
Mar. 4, p. m, Y. NJ. c. A. Audi
torium, Unstable Families" by Prof.
Charles A Ellwood.
Mar. II, p. m, Y. NJ. c. A. Audi
torium, Community Resources for
Home Service Families by Prof. A.
w. Taylor.
Mar. IS, p. m, Qualification and
Responsibilities of the Home Service
WORKER" by Prof. Carl C. Taylor.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
Daily Food Hint

The planning of meals for a wheat.
less day is a game where it is easy
to get caught off ones guard. One
way is to make wheatless days po-
tato days.
Potato Bread.
IA cups mashed potato (packed
solid)
112 teaspoons salt
Is to Il yeast cake sOftened in 2
tablespoons lukewarm water
PA cups fiour-more or less -four
may be needed
Note: Mashed sweet potato or
cooked cereal or squash may be used
in the same way as the Irish potato
In using any substitute which has a
marked flavor it is better to try the
bread first with less than IL cups
and add more liquid. Squash rolls
are very good.
Long Process.
Cool the mashed potatoes to luke
warm, add the salt and the yeast
softened in the warm water and
about a cup of flour. Mix well,
cover and let rise until very light.
To the well-risen sponge, add the
remaining -four, kneading thoroughly.
The dough should be very stiff, as it
softens considerably in rising. Cover
and let rise until double in bulk.
Shape into a loaf, cover, let rise
again until it has increased 21a times
in bulk, and bake.
Short Process.
Follow the directions as given
above, but add all the flour at once.
The dough in this case is so stiff that
it is difficult to work in all the -four
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
THE NEW BOOKS
The Constitution of Canada.

A new and timely contribution to
| the lists of history and a valuable
study of the government of our neigh
Dor and ally on the north, is "The
Constitution of Canada" by William
Renwick Riddell, Ii. D., Justice of
the Supreme Court of Ontario. This
work makes a close historical study
CT the Canadian constitution, which
is not a constitution as we know it,
but the totality of the principles more
or less vaguely and generally stated
upon which Canadians think the peo-
| pie should be governed, and traces the
government of Canada through all
the different periods, bringing it final
ly down to the formation of the Union
by the British North America Act,
July /, 1867, and the government of
Canada as a Dominion of the Crown.
Canada last year celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of the formation of
this Union.
Aside from the historical survey of
the constitution, a study of the writ
ten constitution as it is found in the
British North America Act, is made.
OF the book the author says:
These lectures are submitted in
the hope that they may tend a little
toward increasing the knowledge of
our system by our friends and neigh
bors to the south, and in the confident
belief, born of many years experience
among both peoples, that anything
that makes the one better known to
the other will necessarily tend to the
increase of the feeling of brotherhood
now happily existing.
"It has been the dream of many
like-minded that the English-speak-
ing people might one day be all as one
in matters of world Importance. 1t
may be that there will never be a
treaty of paper and ink between the
two great English-speaking nations;
nor as / think is it necessary or even
advisable that such should be. But to
my mind it is as certain as the immu-
table laws of morals, as certain as
the track of the planets around the
sun, as the stars in their courses,
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
FUEL CONSERVATION

Everyone is willing to conserve
coal now, to use as little of it as pos
sible and to use wisely this little
Hints on how to conserve fuel are al
ways acceptable, but are especially
timely now with a fuel scarcity
threatening the Nation.
For the range the following advice
should save coal:
Reduce hours of running stove.
Running stove to heat water tank
is not economical. Save the water.
Use fireless cookers.
Keep smoke passages in stove
clean. If scraper is lost, get another.
Break Jumps of coal to egg size.
Dampers are the secret of saving.
When stove must be run hours, a
full fire-box, carefully controlled by
dampers, is more economical.
With big fire, little air is needed
over coal as well as through it. If
soft coal is used, let just enough air
come through to make flames so short
they will not reach the second row
of lids.
Save bits of coal from the ashes
and use when the fire is hot.
When fire is well started close
dampers as much as possible.
To carry fire over night, fill fire.
box, cover tightly with ashes and
close all dampers. To start, open
damper below crate and one in stove
pipe, break up coke in fire-box, rat
tling into ash-pan.
For the furnace these hints are
helpful:
Study directions. If lacking, send
to maker for them.
Keep ashes cleaned out.
Keep full fire-pot, level with bot
tom of firing door, thinner if draft is
poor or coal fine; thinner if weather
is warm, with no ash on CRATES if
cold.
Attend to. furnace as regularly as
you attend meals
Anticipate demand for heat; push
ing is wasteful.
Small charges of coal at more fire.
quent intervals are most economical
But do not shake, slice or poke fire
frequently.
Shaking and cleaning twice day
is enough. Stop shaking when it be-
gins to be bright under the CRATE.
A fresh fire or a large fire requires
air through the door damper.
To check fire, close ash-pit door
and open feheck draft in pipe. Never
check by leaving fire-door open.
Main damper in smoke pipe should
be partly closed if draft is too strong
for control by check draft.
Sift the ashes.
Use. weather strips, double win
dows, pipe covering heating drums
and extra radiators.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
GERMANS NOT NEAR END"
War Tank Demonstration Thinks War
Will Last for Years.

"The Germans are nowhere near
the end of their rope" writes Colonel
w. H. Alden, who recently returned
from the front, to H. F. Major, profess
sor of landscape gardening in the Uni
versity. II tell you they are better
prepared than we suppose. The COM
mon feeling abroad is that the war
has just begun and that it will last for
years."
Colonel Alden, who was formerly
president of the Timkin Axle Com
pany, Detroit, spent the last six
months of 1917 in France demon
strating war tanks, which his COM
pany is constructing for the United
States government He lived in the
trenches on the Ypres battlefield for
more than two weeks. He studied
conditions all along the French front
and this is what he says:
"The country within 400 miles OF
the front shows complete devastation
and plague and starvation in many
places. Conditions are far more seri-
GUS than Americans will ever realize
until they have seen the front" !"
Colonel Alden also states that Amer
ican women have no place in Europe
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
A MAN IN THE MOON

When H. G. Wells wrote his book
called "The First Men in the Moon" he
probably was not thinking particu-
larly of the great war which is rag
ing today. So we may forgive a slight
error in theory, for the fiction which
Mr.. Wells drew about the moon has
a startling counterpart in the great
war. The book tells the story of a
man who, on earth, was a strict ad-
herent to all of the cold-blooded die
tums of science He was a man who
believed that every human activity
could be reduced to a scientific form
ula, and scientific efficiency was the
goal of his idealism.
The novelist then transported his
man of science to the moon. He
found that orb inhabited by a colony
of ant-like beings, but in size as big
as a man, gifted in superhuman meas
ure with all of the machine-like III
telligence of science. These moon be-
ings had the lunar world organized
into one efficient state, organized
with all of the precision of science,
and unbearably soulless. In the
presence of all this super-specialized
and mechanical state the man from
earth feels the tug of humanity which
he left behind, and the result of it
all is he goes insane. Mr.. Wells
makes the point that in combat with
such an organization the struggle of
the human is futile.
The exact counterpart of the lunar
world of efficiency, as pictured by
Mr.. Wells, is seen in Germany. The
German people correspond to the ant
like beings of the moon. But the
comparison can only go this far The
theory of Mr.. Wells that human hero
ism is futile in combating such an
organized state is disproved by the
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
DELAY IN PRESENTING PLAY
Lack of Fuel Prevents Use Of Audi.
tOrium for Production.

The presentation OF ]. NJ. Synge's
THE Playboy of the Western World
by the Dramatic Club OF the Univer-
sity has been delayed on account of
the coal situation in Columbia. The
play is ready to be produced but on
account of the lack Of fuel the Uni
versity Auditorium cannot be used at
night.
The rehearsing has been done in
the Missouri Union and in the Y. NJ.
c. A. Building. On Saturday the play
ers have been able to get the Audi
torium while it was Light in the after
noon. The scenery of the play has
been painted by the Dramatic. Club,
the costumes are beinng made by the
players and the furniture that will be
used on the stage has been made by
the University carpenters and paint
ers.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31

that these people Of kindred origin,
kindred tongue, kindred institutions,
kindred aspirations, must be bound
together by a tie which is infinitely
stronger than a parchment bond, that
they must stand and march and, if
need be, fight side by side for truth
and honor, justice and righteousness
among the nations"
(Yale University Press, 120 College
street, New Haven, Conn.,, or $50
Madison avenue, New York City;
cloth, 40 pages; SLIPS metz
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31

facts of the case. No doubt Mr..
Wells has a new theory for us al
ready. But the army of humanity
fighting the ant-like Germans has al
ready shown that the task can be ac-
complished. We may draw a lesson
from the failure of the man in the
moon-not to let ourselves become
victims of autocracy, nor to lose our
mind if the task becomes too severe.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31

at this time for it is mems work
largely. He expects to return to
France soon. He went to France as
a major, returning to Washington,
d. c., in December to receive the
rank of colonel. Two sons of Colo
mel Alden are at the front.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-01-31
BANKS ASSESSED AT MILLION
Boone County National, Highest Val.
uatiOn Put ut $24S, S,639.59.

The total assessed value of Boone
County banks, real estate deducted, is
$1,254,513.19.
The Boone County National Bank
has the largest valuation in Colum-
bia, being listed at $24S,63959. The
Boone County Trust Company ia
listed at s233,574.O2; the Exchange
National Bank at s154,35S.1S; the
Columbia Savings Bank at s66,O1S.11:
the Central Bank at $40,665.73; and
the ConleyMeyers Bank at $4,000.