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cha mpionship cross-rountry team last fall.
has lust arrived overseas. Tie is with the
engineers.
Gcor0c hiSNsr las his s,rtDn,no squad
pEuciictH0 ctcrD Afternoon. The Wci0htmun
nan tdFh icoS r.ODcdcd mis- ccck.
Lieutenant Fereie Mohr. one of the
best soccer players ever turned out by
Coach Douglas Stewart. is seeing action
in France. He was commissioned at
Fort Niagara.
IictcHuat Larson Robertson 'ciH ieuce
Sunday to tnkc np his duties al Mincoia,
Fla.
Sam Harrell. l"lS baseball manager. has
been called into naval aviation. He has
heen stationed at the tharestown Navy
Yard.
Wdii,r FaricS. ne rraicr poo star. is
sergeant il me Ordnance Department at
Camp HuHccok.
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The Cynical "ROnaance' of Fifty
Year-OId Prince Rupprecht of
Bavaria and the Child Sister of
the Unhappy Grand Duchess
Who Has WithstOOd AU
Attempts to Bully or Trick Her
Into a Marriage Nth a German
Prince---dpd the Threat 1t Holds
AGAINST Her and Her Sisters

mously opposed to annexation to any
stronger neighbor.
Luxembourg is somewhat like Switzer-
land on a smaller scale, a mass Of noun
tains. woods and swift rivers. 1t contains
some OF the most valuable coal mines in
Europe
Being so rough and mountainous, Lux
emburg is a country in which an army
cannot maneuvre. On the other hand, as
a defensive position it is nearly impreg-
nable.
1t lies just off the northeastern corner of
France. North Of it is the fiat country of
Belgium. South of it is the fat plain in
which Sedan is situated, through which
Prussia invaded France in 1870. Hence it
will be seen that control of Luxembourg
gives an enormous advantage to Germany
or France, as the case may be. Since 1870
the Germans have constructed strategic
railroads concentrating in Luxembourg, so
that they could make it point of attack
on France.
Immediately on the outbreak of war they
rushed their troops into Luxembourg. The
Grand Duchess met them in her carriage
in, the middle of the road at the frontier
and forbade them to enter. OF course
they turned her back, ordered her into her
palace and put a German guard over her.
Resistance by Luxembourg was out of the
question, for the little country maintained
an army of only $50 men.
Chancellor Won Bethmann Hollweg admit
ted in the Eeichstag: 1.-THE occupation of
Luxembourg is contrary to the law of ma
tions and the protest of the Grand Ducal
Government is justified. We shall repair
the harm we caused as soon as our mill
tary object is attained"
In spite of this assurance the Germans
took everything they could lay their
hands on in Luxemburg-coal, iron, food,
money, everything worth taking. Hun
.dreds of Luxemburgers were executed for
acts displeasing to the German.
And then the German Government paid
Luxembourg 100000 as compensation.
while the German newspapers Dragged
about their generosity. The property
taken was worth millions!
From the first invasion Of Luxembourg
the personal persecution of the Grand
Duchess began. No Luxemburger was al
lowed to ride in a carriage or auto in his
own country without a permit from the
German authorities. This rule was applied
to the Grand Duchess herself, although
she protested most vigorously to the Kali
ser.
The Kaiser has spent great deal of his
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time in Luxembourg since the outbreak Of
the war. It is convenient to the occupied
region of northern France, and offers q
rather safe and pleasant retreat. It is an
exceedingly picturesque, romantic corner
Of the world, and its capital city, also
called Luxembourg, is one Of its greatest
gems.
The Grand Duchess is a very bright as
well as pretty young girl and has en-
deared herself to the people by her simple,
unaffected manners.
Entertaining stories are told of verbal
encounters between the Grand Duchess
and the Kaiser 1t is related that the "An
Highest" looking out Of the Duchess's pal
ace window, asked:
What is that interesting old building
over there?"
"Ahi" said the Grand Duchess, that is
where Louis XIv's general. the Marquis
de Crequy, dictated peace to the Elector Of
Brandenburg'' 1.-THE Kaiser's ancestor).
The Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide be-
longs to a very remarkable family group.
She is one of six sisters. and has, of course,
no brothers. All the sisters are attractive
The mother was known as one of the most
beautiful princesses of Europe, but her
life was made miserable by the long and
unbroken series of daughters she bore.
Immediately after the Germans had
stolen Luxembourg the Kaiser began his
cruel attempts to force the Grand Duchess
into marriage with a German prince, in
order that he might kept his clutches per-
manently on the little state.
He first suggested that she should mar
ry his young nephew, Prince Waldemar of
Prussia, son of his brother Henry. His
Majesty considered it an honor to permit
her to marry this young princeling. She
thought otherwise.
II will die before / will marry him." an
swered the Grand Duchess.
Other German princes were proposed as
husbands. but with the same result.
The Kaiser, it is reported, then tried to
marry his kinsmen to the next two
princesses, Charlotte and Hilda, but they
answered:
I'VE will die before we will marry them"
They STAYED close to the grand ducal
home and defed their Prosecutors, but the
fourth sister, Antoinette, allowed herself to
be lured into Germany, as we have seen.
with the result that she has Deen affianced
to the elderly Crown Prince of Bavaria.
The remaining sisters, the Processes
Elizabeth and Sophie, are only eight and
six years old respectively.
Our Yankee soldier boys will fight with
even more fury when they know that they
are helping to save the pretty little prin-
cess Of Luxembourg from cruel persecu-
ton.
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perial Government would stop at no crime
at no murder, however abhorrent. The
United States Government has shown by
documentary evidence that the German
Imperial Government planned the assas-
sination of Russian statesmen not suffi-
GENTLY subservient to its policy, even after
it had made peace with Russia. In other
countries it has condoned the torture and
murder of women and children by whole
sale. Therefore there is no reason to be-
lieve that the Kaiser's government would
hesitate at the removal by foul means of
a group of young girls. Princesses of Lux
emburg though they be- who stood in the
path of imperial ambition.
The Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria
is Of course we'll known to the world as the
commander-in-chief of the German armies
facing the British on the Flanders front.
He is considered a successful general as
princes go, although there is no reason for
regarding him as a genius. He has con-
Quoted many terrific offensives against the
British, however and has held his own OBJ
stinately on the defensive. Certainly he has
made no such horrible failures as the
Prussian Crown Prince has done in his at
tacks at Verdun and his recent attempt on
Paris.
As the heir to Bavaria's throne Rupprecht
Is one Of the greatest personages in Ger
many, for Bavaria is the second state in
the empire and Berlin, moreover, is very
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anxious to insure its fidelity, which is not
particularly certain. How strained the re-
lations have been can be guessed from the
fact that Rupprecht's father received
Prussian bullet in the leg while opposing
the advance of the Prussians against Aus
tria in 1866.
Rupprecht, however, has been a consist
ent supporter of Hohenzollern supremacy,
although he also sticks out for a good
share of power for Bavaria 1t would be
clever policy from the German imperialist
point of view to place him in control of
Luxembourg, which dominates the eastern
frontier of France and is the strongest nat
ural fortress in Europe.
Beyond admitting that he is a compe-
tent soldier. there is little that is pleasant
to be said about Crown Prince Rupprecht.
He has spent most of his life with the
army, and his habits are those of the most
overbearing German cavalry officer. His
first wife, who was ten years younger than
himself, died in early middle age. She
had suffered many illnesses, due to his
brutal treatment OF her. At one time she
ran away from him, and European courts
were threatened with another scandal like
that caused by Crown Princess Louise of
Saxony, but before this could happen the
Bavarian Crown Princess was forcibly
brought back to her husband
In addition to illtreating his wife in
various ways, Rupprecht was shameless in
his inndeIity to her. He caroused with
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every siren that caught his fancy as reck-
lessly as any old time pirate spending his
ill-gotten gold in port
Such is the man into whose clutches an
eighteen-year-old slip of girlhood is to be
confided in pursuance of militarist policy.
Luxembourg has been a bone of conten-
ton between stronger countries for years,
and it has not ceased to be so. In area it
is less than thousand square miles. and
It has population of 100000. The people
are very mixed in origin, having French,
Belgian, Dutch and German relationships.
They are, however, like the Swiss, unani-
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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new camp will be the FIRST in which
the plan will be put into execution
on Q large scale.
The work OF construction will be
rushed as much a. possible. As build
ing after building Is completed troops
will come to occupy them. smaller
units ut first. larger ones later. Ar
engagements will be made at first for
the accommodation OF from sixteen
to twenty thousand men, with plans
for engagements to be made from
time to time as more troops are sent.
Ready In Three Months.
It Is estimated that inside of the
next three months the cantonment
will be practically completed.
The troops for the cantonment will
be drawn from6he engineering divis-
ions in other cantonments when the
time for q mobilization there arrives.
Men will be picked from the national
army divisions, and sent to Camp Bel
voir for training as engineers.
The facilities for training at the
new camp will be the best of any
engineering camp in the country. In
addition to having a location that
offers every natural advantage, a
corps OF veteran French and British
officers will act as instructors in
with the most highly train
ed Americans.
Capt. r. z. Carter. the present com
mander of the post will remain in
charge until the work of construction
is farther advanced.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-08
SUFFRAGE LEADERS
MAKE FINAL DRIVE
FOR AMENDMENT

With the hearings before the House
woman suffrage closed, the suffrage
leaders are making a final drive in
behalf of their proposed amendment
Thursday is the date for voting on
the amendment in the House. Mean
time, Congress is being flooded with
kilograms which the suffrage leaders
are promoting in order to sway the
votes OF gentlemen who are still on
the-fence.
Endorsement by Roosevelt.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, among
others, has sent a message to Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president OF the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, strongly endorsing suf-
frage.
\ number OF the governors OF suf-
frage States have done likewise. Gov
ernor Whitman is among them.
Miss Alice Paul. recent hunger
striker. in a statement. declared the
responsibility for the outcome Thurs
day is upon the Democrats and
President Wilson as the leader Of his
party
The hearings closed last evening
with Mrs Gait making the final ar
gument In this, she rebutted some
Of the arguments presented by the
Nuti-suffrsgIsts.
DaIIey's Argument.
Former Senator Joseph W. Bailey.
4 Texas and Washington, in an ar
Tumcnt before the suffrage commit.
tee, cOntended that women are in
capable OF performing the three prin-
cipal duties OF citizenship. Hence. he
argued, they should not be allowed
to help enact laws which they are in
capable of Obeying. He insisted the
suffragfSts constituted a small per-
ccntagc OF the women.
There are too many ignorant Yot-
ers now, and I would not add 10 the
number" he said.
THE gentleman from Texas Is for
ty years behind the times said Mrs
Gait in response.
Mrs. Wadsworth. president OF the
"antis," denounced methods Of the
suffraglsts, especially demonstrations
OF the militants and threatening OPP
posing Legislators with defeat.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-08
GOUG|NG
DAIRYMEN MAY Be
ARRESTED TODAY

NEW YORK, Jan. s.-The arrest OF
seven officers and members of the
Dairymen's League of New York
State is looked for today, following
their Indictment yesterday on charges
of entering into a conspiracy to
raise the price OF milk.
Testimony was given before the
grand jury TO the effect that the
price of milk to distributors was ar
bitrarily fixed by the dairymen's
league, and that penalties were pro-
vided for those who violated the
agreements signed with the league.
other indictments on the same
charge are looked for today.
PITTSBURGH, Jan. S.-Federal
agents will lay before a justice court
here facts they have secured regard
ing alleged violations of the Presi-
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dents proclamation forbidding coal
jobbers and brokers from charging
more than Is cents a ton profit on
coal they handled. John E. Robbins
and Frank il. Stewartson, leading
coal brokers here, who were arrest
ed yesterday, will be arraigned
fee of SI.4O. Frank and John Ku-
BURN, arrested last week. charged
with charging an excess fee. have
been released on bail of $1,000 each
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-08
HALTs DOLLAR DEPRECIATION.

Depreciation OF the American dol
lar on the Argentine market has been
overcome through the negotiations
just concluded by Secretary McAdoo
through the state Department with
the Argentine government. For a
time the situation threatened to be-
come a serious obstacle to trade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-08
PAPER-SOLED SHOES
FOUND In ARMY CAMP

CAMP UPTON, N. Y, Jan. s.-Two
dozen pairs OF army shoes with soles
of paper and glue were found in army
supplies here by quartermasters in
spcCtOTs.
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See What They Say:

at is to be hoped that Congress will supplement-
the good work has done in connection with prohib
ton by promptly passing the resolution for submitting
woman suffrage (News and Observer Raleigh, N Co.
"Why should there be so much soIicitude and alarm
for State rights and State sovereignty provoked by the
threatened passage of the Anthony amendment while
the prohibition amendment viewed either with un-
orapproval? We do not discern the exact diff
ference twixt tweedledee and tweedledum."-
Times, Selma, Aa.l
"Let no man who is opposed to woman suffrage
because of special interests of tradtonbound intel
gence attempt to hide behind any plea of State rights
defense for vote against the submission of
the Federal Amendment. In this day of world war,
it would be puerile for to attempt to defend
opposition to the Federal Amendment by any twad-
die about State rights 1t would be fitting that the
Legislature of Kentucky should be- the first to ratify
the Federal Amendment" Il The Herald, Lexington,
KY
"The extension of suffrage to women throughout
the nation upon equal terms with men---hich nearly
at handwill be the GROWING glory of American po-
ltical achievement since the republic founded---
1.-THE Georgian, Atlanta, Ca
"The Congress of the United States should at the
forthcoming session make provision for submitting to
the States for ratification amendment to the Con-
stitution comforting suffrage upon women The
time is opportune for the submission of the Amend
ment. Tennessean and American, Nashville, Tenn.)
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Headquarters, 1926 Rhode Island Avenue
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All over the South leading newspapers
are calling on Congress to pass the Federal
suffrage amendment as the best expedient
for securing the nationwide suffrage that all
concede is surely coming.
These editorial utterances come from
leading papers in every State in the South.
The Atlanta Constitution has spoken, the
Houston Chronicle, the Richmond, Va, Jour
nal, the Mobile Item, the Macon, Ga, Tele-
graph, the Charleston, S. c., Post and host
of others.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04
BY Il. y. JOHNSON.
President American League.

A man of many parts departed with
the death of John l.. Sullivan. In
his bluff, manly way he had many
fine characteristics speak of him
now as one not in his cups. Drink
was the bane of his life for several
years, but when he quit he returned
to his normal self, to the early days
when | knew him well.
was too young to see him when he
started on his pugilistic career, but /
had occasion to get well acquainted
with him in my capacity as news
paper man from his fight with Jake
kilrain on. / saw him go into his
fight with kilrain in the prime of
manhood, giant of the ring and fit
to fight for a kings ransom.
watched him in his battle at New
Orleans-the finish of his life in the
ring-go to his defeat before young
and agile boxer, whom it would be
hard to believe could have made a
dent on Sullivan's mighty frame when
at his best.
1t was a sad finish to spectacular
career. that fight in New Orleans on
Sept. 7, 1892. 1t only required one
look at his massive frame, VIXEN he
entered the ring, to tell the story Of
dissipation and careless training and
to substantiate the stories that 1 had
previously heard 1t was not the
great John l.. of old He was there
in bulk, but not in stamina, and
always have considered it a crime
| that anyone should have permitted
him to go into the ring at that time.
1t was different at Reichburg There
Sullivan was at his best, even though
the battle could not be considered the
most artistic of the many in which he
had taken part. 1t was, however, the
hardest of his life, considering the
conditions under which the two
| fought. Driven from pillar to post
| the victory of Richburg was finally
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04
DAVENPORT Club
May HAVE M|n0l|
TEAM IN SUMMED
Committee Is Appointed 10 Invests.
Conditions in Other Cltjes
Harboring Mines.

Baseball may be added 20 the NJ,
export Athletic clubs list this com;,.
summer.
The directors held a meeting G.,
urday afternoon and it was decidea !.
appoint a committee to inysst,....
conditions in minor league cities 80
to make a report. After the report i.
turned in the club may take immed,.
ate steps to make plans for the -.
son.
The following Is from the Dayen.
port Democrat:
A move to foster baseball in Dav.
export was started Saturday afternno,
by the directors of the Dayenport An
letic club at meeting of that organ.
ization held in the Office of the nre.i.
dent of the club. II was decided :,
the meeting to appoint committee ~
f1ve to investigate conditions in Other
western minor league cities and n
make a report to the directors OF tba
club not later than Feb. 20
II the report proves favorable Tho
club will at once take steps 10 secure
a berth in the Western league ior
next season and begin at once TO MAXI
plans for the coming baseball season
In the event the committee doe,
not make a favorable report and he.
lieves it will be impossible to mai.
the game go in this city next wear
the club will at once start plans for
the following season. 1919, and TO he.
gin a campaign to bring Davenport
back on the baseball map
The directors stated that the game
would be brought to Davenport merit
season If there was the slightest NOS.
sible chance to do so. However. II
the move falls through for the coming
year they promise a berth for 1919
in a league not lower than Class a .
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04

fact. no man can be said to have
starred for Eureka. Her whole team
played the game and won it unitedly.
Has Old Team.
Eureka's ability is explained by the
fact that she has her entire 1917 team
on deck this year, the same that COM
peted in the finals last year with Au-
gustana. These men for the most part
have been working together for sew
eral years and have developed style
of play that is hard to beat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04
YOU CAN'T WIN OVER
BLACK BOTTLE l.

Until / gave the black bottle its
final wallop in Terre Haute, March 5
1905, it was my most dangerous
enemy" said Sullivan once. 1T was
my boast that nobody could punish ii
more than l could-from the time
was II until l quit l always boosted
that l could drink any man in the
United States under the table-but all
the time it was doing me more harm
than l could do to it,
You can't lick the black bottle by
trying to tire it out Millions of men
have tried those tactics only to be
counted out themselves. The way you
can lick it is to give it knockout
wallop, just as l did in Terre Haute.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-04
BAN JOHNSON, AMERICAN LEAGUE CHIEF,
RECALLS WHEN HE SAW SULLIVAN FIGHT

decided upon as battle grounds.
There, about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing of July S, 1889. the ring was
pitched in the sand
Fight In Tropic Heat.
! can never forget the experiences
at that fight 1t must have been 104
in the shade and the fighters suf-
fered tremendously from the intense
heat, both men being blistered on
their backs. The fight itself was
hardly to be compared with the diff
culties in staging it. We were dodg-
ing everybody. it seemed. and finally
the sheriff caught up with the crowd.
/ don't know what happened, but the
eloquence of Parson Davies appar-
emily swayed the official, as the fight
ers were permitted to go on their way
unmolested. About $500 probably
saw the fight.
Kilrain was whipped early. as a
matter of fact, but the fight being
under the rules of the London prize
| ring, it gave the vanquished certain
advantages in getting his wind when
he seemed to be nearly out. 1t was
bare knuckles in that fight, and big
gloves when Sullivan met Corbett.
The padded gloves helped to give
Corbett the title, but not entirely.
Sullivan was through at that time,
and, as I have said, he never should
have entered the ring.
Died a Real Man.
| Many might find things to criticise
J about Sullivan, and the proneness to
hold him up as an idol might be con-
demned, but the fact remains. that
according to his light, he was a man,
every inch of him. He was never
accused of crookedness, did not hag-
gle over the size of the purse and the
pride of his calling was always up
permost in his mind. He was of that
rough type whose veins course with
red blood, but he was honest and up
right to degree and became a cham
pion of temperance in his later years.