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The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
B. G. Coacf1rnsn
w ties Mother

The following received last night
by Mrs. M. B. Coachman, is the first
letter from B. G. since he was in the
hospital:
May 8, 1918.
Dear Mother:
/ received your letters dated Febru-
airy 18 and Feb. 25, also three post
cards, all at once, so had quite bit
to read. / have written you twice IN
a months time, both letters in Feb
ruary, the last being the 26th, be-
lieve.
| received your little box. The can
dy was sure great. Whenever you
send anything please put some candy
in, for this French stuff isn't as good
as our American candy.
Well, mother, I am in the tank corps
now. Guess that you have heard about
what kind of work we do in this little
sham battle we are having over on
this side of the water. | heard of that
transport going down, with all of
those men on her, but you know some
of them are going to get a watery
grave coming over to France. We were
lucky, think, because when | came
over they did not know of it, for we
never saw any U-boat at all.
How long has DIR. Vinson been in
France? have seen only one man
from home, Pasco Roberts, and now
| am in the tanks and he is in the ar
tillery, which is at the front. was
there for long time once, but when
I got hit was sent to the hospital
and from there I travelled all over
France.
Well, mother, wish that such
thing could happen as that you would
walk in on me some day. / don't guess
| would know you by now, for it has
been two years since / saw you last.
Next time you write give me Louis
Drane's address. I would like to hear
from him. He surely did advance
quickly. It once was that first SER
geant was an old soldier, and Louis
hasn't been in the army over six
months. ! am a corporal now, and
have a good chance to become a ser
geant, that is, If everything keeps on
going as it has been. have been GO
ing to training school to get ready
for my next trip to the front. won't
mind it very much now, for it is not
so cold as it was in December, Janu-
airy, and February. It has not rained
for week now, and the sun has near
ly dried up the ground, but when it
rains the mud is five or six inches
deep, and it isn't very pleasant TO
walk in mud all Gay long.
Well, Mother, I win close for this
time. As ever,
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
Hoover Sends A
Massage To Negroes

Our nation is engaged in a war Tor
its very existence. To win this wal
we must save food, grow great crops
of foodstuffsr and substitute othe
foods for those most easily shipped
70 our associates in this war and our
own soldiers in France, thousands OF
whom are men of your own race. The
Food Administration realizes that the
Negro people Of this nation can be
Of the utmost help in food conserva-
ton and food production. Every Ne
gro man, woman and child can render
o definite service by responding to the
appeal and instructions Of the Food
Administration and its representa-
tives. The Negroes have shown them
selves loyal and responsive in every
national crisis. Their greatest op-
portunity of the present day, to exer-
else this loyalty, is to help save and
grow food. am confident that they
win respond to the suggestions Of the
Food Administration and thus prove
again their patriotism for the win
ming Of this war.
(Signed) HERBERT HOOVER
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28

There are some born abroad who
have come to this land for greater
freedom and broader opportunities and
have sought and received the privi-
legeS of American citizenship who are
swayed by dislike for some ally or by
the sympathies of German kinship and
fail TO see that the time has come for
them to make good the obligations Of
their sworn oaths of naturalization.
This is the oath that the applicant
for citizenship makes:
That he will support the Constitu-
ton of the United States and that he
absolutely and entirely renounces all
allegiance and fidelity to any foreign
prince, pOtentate or sovereignty; that
he will support and defend the Constf-
tuition and laws of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and do
glance TO the same.
"FaIse to Their Oaths."
Ali these naturaliZed citizens who
are taking part in obstruction to our
government in the conduct of the war
are false'to their oaths, are FORGETTING
their rights of citizenship, are repudi-
ating their honorable obligations, are
requiting by evil the good that has
been done them in the generous and
nnstinted hospitality with which the
people of the United States have weE
coined them to the liberty and the OPP
portunities of this free land. We must
believe that in many cases this is done
because of failure to understand what
this war really is.
This is war of defense. 1t is per-
fectly described in the words of the
Constitution which established this ma
ton, "To provide for the common de.
Tense" and "To secure the blessings OF
liberty to ourselves and our posterity.'
The national defense demands not
merely force, but intelligence. 1t re.
Quires foresight, consideration of the
policies and purposes of other nations
understanding of the inevitable OF
probable consequence of the acts OF
other nations, judgment as to the time
when successful defense may be made,
and when it will be too late, and prompt
action before it is too late.
BY entering this war the United
States availed itself of the very last
opportunity to defend itself.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28

coiled and stretched around iron stakes
or crosses about four feet long, and
the whole thing makes waist high
mass sometimes Is or 20 feet wide.
There are really acres Of 1t around
here. and when you think how many
strips Of 1t there are, stretching from
Belgium to Systematically, it's go
Ing to be real problem after the war
TO get 1t all up and out Of the way. /
bet lot Of people walk into it through
the snow this winter.
we came across unexploded shells
now and then and hand grenades of
various shapes and sizes also; but, be-
heve me, we leave them alone. There
are four on the wall In our back yard
and several In a field near BY"
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
How Would You Get Rid
Of Miles of Barbed Wire?
One of the Many Problems the Red Cross
Has to Meet.

have you ever thought what strange
and battling problems must come up tc
the Red Cross workers when they start
out to rebuild French town-just the
problem Of the barbed wire. for in
stance? This letter tells it:
Eve have nearly every day about
half dozen German prisoners work
Ing amongst us, who are escorted In to
work In the morning by poilu and
called for In the evening. They ap-
pear quite harmless, but we have too
many evidences all around us to prove
that their race is quite to the contrary.
@You should see the barbed wire
miles and miles Of it. How any one
could ever get through 1t, let alone un-
der fire, is beyond me. It's usually
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
"PLATTSBURGSD FOR
SCHOOL TEACHERS
To Be Held by National Security
League Throughout Country
During Coming Summer.

Teachers Plattsburgs," at which
100000 public school teachers will be
given practical training in patriotic
education, will be held during the COM
ing summer in practically every state
in the Union by the National Security
League. The scheme of this elaborate
new division of the Leagues Patriot
ism Through Education campaign is
conceived on the same basic idea along
which the League has been working
for some time, concentrating on the
teachers of the youth of the land and
thereby reaching the children through
the teachers and the people through
their children
The objects of the Leagues cam
paign are two-fold-active combating
of German propaganda and awaken
ing a more responsible American citi-
zenship.
At Summer Schools.
The Security League will conduct
these Teachers Plattsburgs" through
the medium of the summer schools for
teachers that are held throughout the
country every year. 1t has not yet
been determined how many centers
will be used. The matter is being
taken up with all of the 700 summer
schools of the country and probably
between so and rs of the training
camps will be established, the schools
selected being chosen after careful in
vestigation as to attendance, breadth
of influence and convenience of loca-
ton.
The training camps will be conduct
ed by leading educators whose cooper
alton will be enlisted by the League
The actual instruction will be under
the direction of DR. Robert NJ NOEL
roy, educational director of the
League, and the members of the Ma
tional Patriotic Education Faculty"
which he has organized The League
already has over 1000 experienced pa
triOtic speakers on its Speakers Blu
reau list. A great many of these men
and women will be detailed to the
Tea hers Plattsburgs" and their
number will be augmented by volun-
teers from the principal colleges and
universities of the country, whose aca-
demic duties have prevented them
from taking active part in the patri-
otto education work outside their i'm
mediate field. but who will be free
! during the summer months.
War Spirit.
The teachers will be given a series
of vital interpretations of the war by
men and women who have given care
full study to the situation. In addition
| to this instilling of the war spirit in
the teachers, the training camps will
| also afford them practical instruction
! in the best methods of imparting to
the youth of the land the, two wal
| principles on which the Security
Leagues Patriotism Through Educa
ton campaign is based-the menace OF
Germany to America, and the neces
sity of individual service on the part
| of every man, woman and child in the
| country in order to prevent defeat.
preliminary letter has been sem
! by Doctor McElroy to the directors OF
| all the summer schools of the country
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28

ference with their
comfort and pros
perity and the de-
mands for Sacri-
fee, which seem to
them unnecessary,
and they fail to see
that the time has
com e W h e n, If
Americans are TO
keep the indepen'i-
ence and liberty
which their fathers
won by suffering
and sacrifice, they
in their turn must
fight again for the
preservation of
that independence
and liberty.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
The Red Cross Answers
By THEODOSIA GARRISON
OF the vigilantes.

Dear God, to leave this |
TO give my service world through
neal the wounds broken
10 lend my hands the MANNED, the blind:
10 give woman back from the
"But will do this for said OF ed
Nay but there little
Now burned bleak
If might bring people % find before
The
If might lift frightened child
"But will do this for great of Red
"YOu heal the may de the blind
You bring comfort to
If within sheltered giv mart
The strength within the
Through from led
fail bui II the Cross of Red
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
CROWN PRINCE AN ARTIST

Amsterdam, May 22.-The Munich
illustrated paper Jugend announces as
a great feature" that it will shortly
publish full-page drawing, done by
the crown prince, representing Ger
man soldier at his post in storming
battalion.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28
TO THOSE WHO
FAIL TO GRASP
WARS MEANING
BY ELIHU ROOT,
Honorary President of the National
Security LEAGUE.

There are doubtless some who do not
understand what this struggle really is.
Some who were born here resent inter-
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28

Bread is the staff Of life. but very
few Americans need stan.
The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-05-28

The following received last night
by Mrs. M B. Coachman, is the first
letter from B. G. since he was in the
hospital:
The sun., 1918-07-01
TO CELEBRATE BAsT1E DAY.
1000 l.. 4. Cities VIII Observe
French Holiday.

The national holiday Of France. cele-
brating the fall Of the Bastile July IL
1879, Will be observed In 1000 cities of
the United States and in many COM
munities In appreciation OF the act OF the
French Chamber of Deputies in desig-
mating July 4 as Il day for national OBJ
servation in France. owen johnson, the
novelist. Is the chairman of the Com
mittee on Allied Tribute to France or
Earized for the occasion. William II.
TAFT Elihu Root. Vice President Mar
shall and more than nifty others are
members.
In this city the celebration will take
the form OF great mass meeting in
Madison Square Garden Monday eve
ming. July Is. which will be attended by
representatives OF all allied missions and
embassies. The list of speakers has not
heen announced, on Sunday, July Il,
there will be recognition OF the occa-
sion in the churches.
Mr. Johnson announces that headauar-
ters for the national observation of the
day have been established in sixteen
cities in all parts OF the country, and re-
quests that cities desiring 10 Join In the
celebration write to the committee.
Room 500, 10 West Forty-fourth street.
Two thousand Mayors have been com
municated with. At Princeton Univer-
sity and at Pennsylvania State College
there Will be special exercises. News
paper accounts of the celebrations, edi-
torials and similar matter will he COM
piled and presented to the French Gov
eminent as a memorial
The sun., 1918-07-01
GERMANY DISOWNS LUTHER.
Minister Says Nation Has been
Building Up Atheism 80 Years,

Germany, said the Rev. Cortlandt
Meyers. ID. n. OF Boston. who spoke
from the pulpit OF the First Baptist
Church yesterday, has thrown to the
four winds the teachings OF Martin
Luther and for nifty years has been
building up n system of atheism and
agnosticism.
The minister said that he had hiSh
authority for the statement that not
more than per cent. of the population
Of Berlin ever entered n church and
that the city had districts containing
10000 persons without single church
The people OF Hamburg. he said, were
even less religious.
All Germany, declared the speaker. is
permeated by n new philosophy OF life
which Is false and hollow and the basis
Of the philosophy Is sfle survival Of the
tlttest. or the doctrine that might makes
right. Dr. Meyers said that the Kaiser
did not use the name OF Christ, and that
while he called his nation Christian his
teaching was practically the same as
that OF Mohammed Germany, he con-
tinued. had been destroying tho Bible
for 100 years.
DR.. Meyers insisted that the armies OF
the Allies were striving to preserve both
civilization and Christianity, as well as
to protect the rights OF humanity.
The sun., 1918-07-01
WHEAT AT $3.50 Ia
HERE IN NEW SCALE
Food Administrations Prices
Based on Increased Rates
for Freight.

Tho Food Administration announced
yesterday new scale OF prices for
wheat. changes having been made neces-
sary by the recently established freigh:
rates. AS nearly as possible the prices
have been worked out to compensate for
the increased railway and waterway
freight rates.
Changed prices on various markets for
grades No. northern spring. No. hard
winter. No / red winter. No. 1 durum
and No. hard white are:
New York. $780,; philadelphia,
s239: Baltimore and Newport News
s2.3sA; Duluth. $2.2212 Minneapolis
s221h Chicago, 81 IS st. Louis. s2ct
Kansas City and Omaha, s2ls. New
Orleans and Galveston. s2.2s, and TIA
coma. Seattle, Portland. Astoria, San
Francisco and Los Angeles. $500.
The basis for No. . wheat Will Re
cents below No. /. and for No, 3 wheat
cents below No. /. Grades below No
5 will he dealt in on sample.
II Is said to be the Intention to fix
minimum price of 81 for No I Whea'
loaded in cars available for shipment
from all points IN the iutermounta;r
territory. prices for classes Of whea'
other than those listed have been fixed
as follows:
Dark hard winter. " cents above hard
winter: dark northern spring. cents
above northern spring. amber durum. :"
cents above durum: yellow hard winter
. cents under hard wintori red spring. )
cents under northern spring red wallh
I cents under red winter, red durum.
cents under durum; soft white. cents
under hard white. and white club,
cents under hard white
The sun., 1918-07-01
SAILORS SNUBBED:
OFFENDER MOBBED
Restaurant Gunner Chased BY
Angry CroWd.

| Aoniring glances ana smiles OF greet
Ing flowed In the course OF Thomas jean
and Ernest Dupuy, sailors ashore from
a French cruiser. as they strolled UP
Eighth avenue just before s o'clock last
evening. Apparently the Frenchmen
were satisfied with the spirit and neigh
| borliness of Eighth avenue, for they still
were smiling when they turned into the
| restaurant of Maurice Gunsberger at
| 513 and seated themselves unobtrusively
! at a table near the front Of the estab-
lishment.
A few moments later the same salts
| fed Frenchmen were the centre Of at
traction for a crowd of half a hundred
surprised Eighth avenue folk who
stopped In their promenading as the an
cry voices of the sailors rose, sometimes
In French and sometimes in only fairly
| good English. and shattered the usual
Sunday evening calm. They hurried
swiftly from the restaurant, Mr.. Guns
berger behind them.
The crowd swelled to hundreds as the
French sailors accused the restaurant
proprietor of having refused to serve
them because they were Frenchmen and
wore French uniforms A policeman In
terferee at the psychological moment,
however. and readily complied with the
demand OF the sailors that they be taken
obtain Justice for the indignity to which
they asserted Gunsberger had subjected
them
As the cop led his charges away the
crowd had grown to about 500. So
angry were the EXPLANATIONS hurled at
him that Mr.. Gunsberger took the pre-
caution to close the restaurant door
when he withdrew from the sidewalk.
where he had tried vainly to explain
that the only reason the French sailors
had not been served was that the res
taurant was being closed when they
arrived
Suddenly some one In the crowd raised
the cry 'German." and in another mo-
ment the glass in the door of Mr.. Guns
berger's restaurant was shattered. The
plate glass in the windows suffered the
same fate as the crowd piled into the
restaurant. upsetting tables and chairs,
overturnirg cooking utensils and hurting
plates and other dishes to the floor
Gunsberger darted quickly out through
doorway into the hall leading to the
upper fiors of the building. crowd
OF angry men followed. but he was faster
In the ascent and hid himself in a room
which the pursuers could not for the
moment locate. They had Just reached
the door to the frightened restaurant
n"@pe' hiuIhB pidce WHeH anotner po-
liceman put In an appearance and shooed
the wrecking squad out Of the hallway.
Then Gunsberger was hustled into a
taxicab and carried away before the
crowd was able to carry out any OF the
threats that filled the air.
Again to the police Gunsberger offered
his explanation. but the crowd howled
wildly that sign on the restaurant win
dow proclaimed the place was open all
night. Apparently the Lieutenant of the
West Thirtieth street station satisfied
the sailors, for they did not return to
the restaurant. and the other policemen
dispersed the crowd without making ar
rests.
The sun., 1918-07-01
First Train to Leave South
Ferry Station at 2
O'Clock.
TIMES SQUARE TERMINAL
Through Service Not to Be In
augurated Until Late
in Month.
TIMES SQUARE TERMINA

When the next history Of rapid transit
In Greater New York is written, to-day
July 1. 1s1s-will appear as an epoch
making date. 1t will mark the FIRST OPP
GRAFTON by the Interborougn Rapid Tran
sit Company OF the new Seventh avenue
subway between Times Square and the
Battery. and of the spur extending from
West Broadway and Chambers street,
under Park place and Beekman street to
William and Fulton streets and under
meath William street to Wall street.
The new subway lines will DO put in
operation at 2 o'clock this afternoon and
during the rush hours this evening the
marlborough will begin service over the
1921 street connection between the
Ninth avenue elevated line and tho Je-
rome evenue elevated extension of the
new Lexington avenue subway.
Operation OF the new Lexington ave-
nue. subway north Of Forty-second
street. 1t is expected. will begin during
the present month. thus completing the
so-called H" system OF subway trans
portation in Manhattan.
With the Inauguration OF service in
the new Seventh avenue subway patrons
OF the old subway lines may reach the
business districts Of the lower West Side
out crossing under Forty-second street to
the Grand Central Station and thence
south via the Brooklyn Bridge station.
No Through Trains Yet.
For the present through trains will
not be run from the old system through
the Seventh avenue tube. but passengers
Will be required to change at Times
Square, and, II going into the financial
district. may change again at Chambers
street for the following stations on the
spur line: Park place. William and Full
ton and William and Wall. Eventually
the spur line will be continued to Brook
lyn through tunnels now being con-
structed under the East River.
The first train to carry passengers
through the new subway will leave the
Chambers street station at 10 noon to-
day. 1t will carry city officials. officers
and engineers of the marlborough and
The sun., 1918-07-01

tho Public Service Commission and
newspaper men. Tho train will make a
round trip over the new line, after which
the regular passenger service will &c
into effect. Formal celebration of the
completion of the III" system will not
take place until the new Lexington ave-
nue. line is opened.
The new subway opening to-day COM
prises about 1877 track miles and was
constructed at a cost of about 100000
600 1t Is four track system from
Times Square to Chambers street and
two track from Chambers street to the
Battery. For the present six car trains
will be run on a four minute Roadway.
Until the completion of the entire H
system the service will be local.
Hope to Relieve Congestion.
1t Is the opinion of members of the
Public Service Commission that the in
auguration of the new service will re-
lieve congestion in the old subway south
OF Times Square to a considerable de-
gree even without the operation Of the
Lexington avenue line by diverting much
of the traffic to and from the lower West
Side from the old system between South
Ferry and the Grand Central stations.
Thousands Of p>rsons who have to travel
between the lower West Side and WASH
ington Heights and The Bronx will have
direct route via Times Square instead
OF the roundabout way through the pres
ent Fourth avenue subway. 1t liz esti-
mated that even with tho necessary
transfers the running time of trains will
be reduced appreciably.
Next Wednesday at 1901 A. NJ. the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will
begin operation of the Jamaica avenue
elevated line between Greenwood avenue
and the terminus of the new road at
Cliffside avenue. Jamaica. When this
begins the practice OF the B. r. T. of
issuing free transfers to the surface lines
to complete the trip will be discontinued.
The sun., 1918-07-01
SALVATION ARMY UNDER FIRE,
Women Brave Bullets to Aid In
tured Near No Mans Land.

Several American women in the Sal
walton Army have been aiding the
wounded in huts established within r!Ns
fire OF No Mans Land 1t was reported
yesterday in letter received by tire
general war work committee OF the or
ganization here from Col Barker. Re
Gently the roof was blown from the hut
by a high explosive shell, and a canvas
roof has been substituted, The walls
have been riddled with bullets and the
workers have been unde- Sire OF guns
day and night.
Capt. John Marshall and Capt. George
Riley OF the Salvation Army kept their
places in the half demolished hut and
continued their work in the dugouts
with the soldiers.
The letter states that as punisHmcH:
for taking French leave" OF thu
trenches soldiers are detailed to work for
the Salvation Army. Two Harvard s'u'
dents are now carrying water and wood
for the organization in penalty