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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-04-23

Tiff, McDonough, Govier, Touhy
Bowler, Steffen, Lyle i T. ].
Lynch.
z RAMPANT o TRZECIA
POzYCZKE ~WOLNOSCIOWA
Og6lne rezultaty w~y.azuja, re
rozpisanie bondow ~trzeciej pozy-
czki wolnosciowej, ktora dostar-
CA funduszow nd zmiazdzenic
prusactwa, idzie o wiele szyb-
seem tempem, anizeli kampanie O
pierwsze dwie pozyczki / &c osia-
gniecie zakreSlonego celu, t. ]. Ii
zyskania 100000 nabywcow
bondow, jest bardzo prawdopodo
bne. Rozumie sic, re azeby eel
ten osiagnat, kampania ME tylko
re ME moze sfolgowac, ale z tym
samym wzrastajacym rozmachem
musi bye prowadzona.
Okazuje sic, re juz 100000 o.
sob w si6dmym dystrykcie fede-
ralno-rezerwowym zakupi}o bon
dy ma sumo $268, 10000 i z}ozy}o
swa pierwsza wplate w sumie 5
procent wartosci bondow zakupio
nych. Welding tychze oficyalnych
raportow juz blisko dwie trzecic
kwoty minimalnej dystryktu roz-
pisano.
Rad f~ederalny spodziewa sic,
re. kazdy dystrykt rozplsze So
procent ponad swa kwote mini-
malna.
Juz trzecl Stan w dystrykcic
p~rzekroczyi swa kwote minimal
ma. lest to Stan Wisconsin. Po-
przednio kwote te przekroczy}y
Stany Iowa i Michigan. Wiscon-
sin uzyskaf subskrypcyi ma $50,
100000, a kwota minimalna wyno
81 45,OO0,OOO Milwaukee spisa}o
Sic znakomicie. Kwote swa mini
malna, wynoszaca $17,oOO,OOO,
przewyzszy}o o 100000.
Chicago wediug raportow urze-
dowych nalezy do ostatnich. Uzy
ska}o $4,000 subskrypcyi ma pre-
szlo S6O,OOO,O 900, lecz kwota mini
malna wynosi S125,0O0,0OO.
Naiwieksza z wczorajszych
subskrypcyi by}a ma 100000 Cd
firmy Hornblower and Weeks.
w piatek, ktory ma mocy
proklamacyi prezydenta Wlisona
bedzie Dniem Wolnosci, poswie-
como specyalnie pozyczce VOL
n~osciowej, odbedzie sic pod att
spicyami National Security Lea
que" wielkie masowe zgromadze-
ME W pawilonie international
PREY rzezalniach.
- Wczoraj rada miejska przy-
jeia rezolucye, popierajace Dzien
Wolnosci, zwalniajac jednocze-
Snie wszystkich funkcyonaryuszy
miejskich cd obowiazk6w pc po-
ludniu dnia tego, azeby pomocny
mi byli W Rampant.
- J. Ogden Armour, prezes
firmy rzezalnianych Armour and
Co., wydal wczoraj oswiadczenie,
w ktorym wzywa wszystkich
tych, kt6rzy ME So powo}ani do
sluzby %militarnej, a ktorzy oply-
waja w dostatki, azeby hojna re-
ka zakupywali bondy wolnoscio-
we, gdyz jest to obowiazek pa
tryotyczny i jednoczesnie dobry
interes. Bee pieniedzy ME MONA
stworzyc armii i ME MONA dac
iej zapasow i amunicyi. Jesli VOL
ny Ameryka ME wygra, wolnosc,
demokracya i wszystkie pozyczki
przepadiy. Bedzie nam rzadziS
krwiozerczy Prusak. Bedzie NOR
dowal i wszystkich rabowal. Je-
sli Ameryka zwyciezy, wszystko
co jej drogie, bedzie ocalone, a w
dodatku pozyczki, udzielone ma
bondy, beda zwr6cone z prowi-
zya.
- Mary Pickford, najbardziej
popu1arna z aktorek migawko-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-04-23
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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-04-23
Parkow, ogrodow i wybrzezy

Parkow, ogrodow i wybrzezy
kapielowych: - Long, Jackson,
Furman, Govier. Piotrowski, A
damkiewicz, Haderlein, Lyle j
A. O. Anderson.
Obrony domowej - Kostner,
Tiff, cDonough, Govier, Touhy
Bowler, Steffen, Lyle i T. ].
Lynch.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
HOW TO COOPERATE IN
CONSERVING FOOD

REFERRING to the Importance of
conserving food products, and dis
tributing the same during the war
with Germany, The Saturday Evening
Post editorially says:
The food Administrations program
for reducing home use Of the food
stuffs most available for export is
perfectly simple and easy.
Any family, with no hardship, ex-
pense or even inconvenience, can eat
corn, rye or graham bread in place of
white bread at least once a week;
can substitute vegetables, fish and
fowl for beef and pork to the small
extent the administration suggests;
can use somewhat less animal fats
by resorting to vegetable oils.
1t is perfectly easy now, when a
great motive for saving certain food
appeals to every patriotic mind
on ordinary times when no
great object that reused popular en-
thusiasm was at stake, it would have
been impossible; for experience shows
that only by a mighty jolt can people
be shaken out of their customary die
tary habits.
That is why this program promises
to develop a value which will far out
last the war. 1t will amount to a
great, practical, popular education in
the use of food. Hereafter, we bel
lieve, American dietary habits will be
more flexible and we shall nourish
ourselves more economically. If there
is a scant wheat crop and white bread
is dear, this war experience will have
taught us to meet the situation by
shifting to corn and rye. We shall
have learned to use wholesome sub
stitutes for butter and lard when
those articles are scarce. We shall
always be much reader to adjust our
diet to our actual food resources, be-
u war experience will have shown
US how easily it may be done.
Incidentally the whole business of
distributing foodstuffs is getting
surveyed with an earnestness that
promises enduring improvements.
We need now hearty and universal
cooperation all along the line, but
especially in every kitchen. Hereafter
we shall feed ourselves more scienti-
fically, which may easily amount to a
national benefit of i%ncalculable pro-
portions.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
THE WAR IS UP TO YOU

EVERY man, woman and child in
the United States is personally inter-
ested in the success Of the war with
Germany. If you are not doing your
part, you are most certainly a slack
er.
Along this line, the Saturday Even
ing Post p~ertinently says:
The War Department has the names
and addresses Of about ten million men
between twenty-one and thirty-one
years of age. Two or three millions
OF them were called up lsst summer,
examined as to physical condition and
dependents, and either put into train
ing camps or exempted. The Depart
ment is about to question the others
IN order to find out how suitable they
are for military service. When it
gets through, the Government will
nave about a tenth Of the population
sorted and classified; it will know
just about what it can depend upon
from them.
Inc Treasury Department has the
names of about four thousand pluto
t'ots' possessing incomes of one hun
Ored thousand dollars a year and up
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10

TIE dry weather this winter and
the increased motor traffic to Mex
leo each week shows what we may ex-
pcct in the future with good roads.
incidentally it suggests that Mexico
merchants make a CONSTANT adver-
Using campaign to widen their trade
territory. with good roads and the
motor car larger trade territory for a
progressive city such as Mexico is
merely a matter of aggressive BUSH
ness methods by intelligent advcr-
Using.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10

One of the most novel features Of
the School of Aeronautics which the
University of Texas is conducting IS
the training of flying men in trap
shooting. Clay pigeons are used as
targets. A unique part of the trap
equipment is a high tower from which
the targets are thrown, thus giving
the same effect as an airplane flying
in its variable courses. Each student
used a sawed-off pump shotgun in this
target practice. The shells are loaded
with buckshot.
The establishment of the clay bird
traps and the erection of the tower for
the training of students in military
aeronautics here was done under the
direction of Adolph Topperwein and
his wife. Mr.. Topperwein is the great
est living fancy and flying target shot
with rifle, pistol and shotgun in the
world. Mrs. Topperwein holds the
record of all women shooters at the
traps. She broke 1852 out of two
thousand clay birds in successive
shots at Montgomery, Ala. On four
teen occasions Mr.. Topperwein has
broken the worlds record of shooting
flying targets with a rifle.
In discussing the use of the shot
gun in this practice, MI. Topperweln
said:
"Bv adopting the sawed off pump
shotgun for use in aerial warfare 1t
will be possible for the Allies to
quickly put out of business this branch
of the service of the Central powers.
The shotgun will carry with deadli-
ness a distance of seventy-five yards.
The load scatters at that distance
and with proper training it will be
easy to hit the enemy's machine and
its occupants. One round Of discharg-
es from a pump gun loaded with buck
shot would be the equivalent of sew
eral hundred rifle bullets. By proper
training of the aviatorsi in the use Of
the pump gun in shooting at moving
targets they will be able to inflict
terrible destruction upon their enc
mics in the air.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
PROF. HAWTHORNE A FINE
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT

THE Mexico Ledger joins the people
Of Mexico generally in congratulatiag
the Mexico School Board on electing
Prof. Lee Hawthorne, as S%uperinten-
dent of City Schools in place of Prof.
Herbert Pryor, who has moved to Ar
kansas to reside.
Professor Hawthorne was formerly
Superintendent of our schools, and
gave splendid satisfaction; and we
are all glad to see him back in the
harness. The Mexico Schools have
even more than a statewide reputa-
ton as being the very best, and with
the splendid corps of assistants that
Prof Hawthorne has, we feel conf
dent that our schools will not only
be kept up to the present high stand
ard, but will grow better from time to
time. There is no more important po-
sition in any community like Mexico
than the Superintendent of the City
Schools.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
FRANCIS MAY CHANGE HANDS
Chicago & Alton May Take Terminal
in Charge Here

Officials of the Chicago & Alton
railroad and those of the Burlington
were in this city this week and met at
Francis. 1t is understood that the
Alton will take over the Francis ter
minals from the Burlington shortly.
A number of years ago these termin-
ais were in control of the Alton.
There is also a report that all
Kansas City-St. Louis through
freight on the Alton will likely use
the Burlington cutoff, from Francis to
old Monroe and thence to st. Louis in
the future, instead of following the
Alton main line through Illinois. The
cutoff is only used now for passenger
service and would materially shorten
the distance to st. Louis and increase
the efficiency of the Atoms through
freight service,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
MORE WHATLESS DAYS
Further Conservation of Food is Re-
quested to Win the War

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Dec. 81. - Seven
wheatless meals a week and one
wheatless day in addition is to be ask
ed of the people of Missouri and other
states by the United States in a can't
paign which will start January l, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
the Federal Food Administration for
Missouri.
"The wheat situation is a problem
whose solution lies with the people
of this state and of all the other Un-
tied States" the announcement de-
clared. "All of the visible wheat sup
ply of the nation, 100000 bushels,
has been exported and in addition 10,-
000, 1000 bushels more have been given
to our Allies and for the use of our
soldiers now in France. From this
time on all this grain exported must
be furnished by means of conserva-
ton. The total which should be ex-
ported is approximately 70,OO0,O0O
bushels"
To give every person a definite
knowledge of the gravity of the food
situation in Europe and what must be
done in this country, a second "Home
Card" is to be distributed to every
home in Missouri. The card, in add.
ton to giving definite instructions,
will also bear a personal message from
Herbert Hoover, United States Food
Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
WHERE ARE SIX PRISONERS?
Americans in France Fear Comrades
Have Been Murdered

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Jan. 8. What is the fate
of six missing American soldiers of
the twelve taken prisoner by the Ger
mans in their trench raid of November
End?
Thousands of soldiers over the
American zone were left to draw their
own conclusions on whether the boch-
had murdered the helpless captives.
The matter was called to every SOL
dier's attention in an official division
bulletin circulated yesterday. The ar
t:cle sets forth these facts:
In the November raid the boches
took twelve prisoners.
Later, an illustrated German paper
printed photographs of the first
American prisoners, surrounded by a
haunting crowd in Berlin-and the
photograph showed only six prisoners.
The bulletin makes no suggestion
as to the fate of the missing men, but
few officials are hopeful that they
are yet alive.
A certain famous major general,
commenting yesterday On the German
atrocities, declared:
"The German mistreatment of
prisoners is one of the most frightful
chapters of the war. The soldiers
must be warned and must be pre-
pared to sell their lives at the highest
price; to fight to death, even, in the
face of overwhelming NUMBER"
The traditional good humor of the
American soldiers was transformed
into bitter rage when they read bulle-
tins yesterday announcing the German
plan to treat future American prison.
ers as persons of no intelligence"
and to place them under unusual
nardships.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10

ward. Tax laws will pretty effectu-
ally tap their financial ~serviceabilitv
to the nation.
The remaining nine-tenths of the
population remains mostly under the
general heading of inserted and Mis-
cellaneous. But, of course, it is that
nine-tenths which finally must win
the war.
1t ought to be subjected to a ques-
tionnaire similar to that which the
War Department is addressing to men
under the selective draft, but more
comprehensive. That task is too COM
plicated for the Government; but it
should be done voluntarily.
You, as mt of the n~ine-tenths,
should Immediately take up this ex-
aiming and sorting-addressing 10
yourself the following questions:
How much of my ordinary consump-
ton OF wheat, beef, bacon and sugar
can | forge?
How many cigars, ice cream sodas,
neckties, fancy hand bags and theater
tickets am l going to contribute
monthly to the Red Cross?
How much of my income-not by
haphazard and intermittent impulse,
but by a rigid day-to-day systematic
ed economy-can l put into warsaw
ings certificates and Liberty Bonds
during this year?
If Mr.. Hoover and Secretary Nc
Aldo should sit down across the table
from you and ask those questions, you
would search your mind seriously and
pledge yourself to the extent of your
ability. If you had a formal printed
blank, under the seal of the Govern
ment, you would think it over care
fully and put down the tallest answers
your circumstances permitted.
Just imagine those accessories, and
give yourself such answers that
yourself will be proud of you.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
DRY ZONE IN ARMY

REFERRING to the dry zones at the
army camps, Gov. Capper, Of Kansas,
says. "When | was at Camp Funston
General Wood told me that in twenty
five years of experience in the army
he had never seen anything like the
revolution that had been effected in
moral and discipline by establishing
the dry zone. He said-that under or
binary circumstances the guard house
in such a camp as Camp Funston
would have an average population OF
200. Then, turning to the telephone,
he made inquiry as to the number OF
men under arrest, and learned there
was Just one. Just one man in the
guard house, out of $4,000 soldiers,
and his offense was not drunkenness,
not brawling, but a small infraction
of some little rule"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
HOLD TWO AS TRAITORS
Men Arrested at MOberly, Mo-, Charg-
ed With Insults to County

MOBERLY, Mo-, Jan. Z. - Fred
Turner and Phele Conrad, arrested
several days ago by local officers at
the Union Station, were given a hear
ing Saturday afternoon before United
States Commissioner Waller and
bound over to the Federal Grand Ju-
ry. The two men were charged with
making insulting remarks against the
United States. From their state
ments they have been going through
thescountry together since March,
1917. One of them was born in Ger
many and the other shortly after his
parents came to this country. The
men were taken to the county Jail at
Huntsville.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
FACTS ABOUT THE
-

AAlhNIE oAEhNAL S1AhlA AhANA'
THE people of Mexico are all in
tercsted in the campaign for the sale
Of Thrift Stamps and baby bonds in
Audrain County; and the campaign
slogan will be "Stamp out the war
with war saving stamps"
The stamps are baby bonds. There
are two kinds. Thrift and War Saw
ing Stamps.
They are issued in two denomina-
tons, 25c and S..
They bear interest Of A per cent,
compounded quarterly.
Four dollars and IL cents will buy
a stamp with maturity value Of SIS.
They can be redeemed before ma
turity 1929 for the amount paid in
plus interest Of a little less than 3 per
cent.
After January 81, 1918, they will in
crease in cost and value l cent a
month.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10

Ernest Garrett, Jr., SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Garrett, of this city, is
the first Mexico boy to see actual
service on the Western front in France
He is with the 9Th Field Artillery,
Battery D, and writes the following
letter telling all the censor will allow
of his experience there:
Dear Father and Mother:
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Dec.
II, 1917 - Well, I received your letter
dated November 9Th; it found me well
and in good spirits and health, and
also your registered letter. l receiv-
ed the Ledger yesterday and also a
parcel of papers Fred and Julia sent
me. l certainly read and enjoyed
them all through; / wrote you half a
dozen letters last month; l don't see
why you didn't get them, unless mail
boats get sunk by German fish
/ mean, submarines-as all the boys
over here call them. Anyway, don't
get worried about not hearing from
me. / write as often as I get a
chance. You have been too good to
me for me to eve forget you, so please
don't worry.
l am in my room all by myself to-
night; all the rest of the battery have
gone on a hike to another town for a
few days. l was talking to some boys
last week who saw moving pictures
of the 9Th Field Artillery in action.
Did you people see any of them?
l have been to the FRONT already,
but only for a couple of weeks; was
very exciting, for a while, but l lived
over it. l have seen airplanes in bat
tie in the last month. Just think of a
machine way up in the air 7 or s thous-
and feet and big guns bursting shells
all around you.
The French aviators don't seem TO
mind it; they are daring bird-men.
l haven't seen a lump of coal in
France; it's very scarce here-all
slack coal. Well, this is the 10th of
December and l will be looking for
ward to getting packages you and
my friends have sent me-only Is
days until Christmas, and will be more
than glad to get them.
l read a piece in the Ledger about
Americans on front, some write-up
for artillery.
/ bought two Liberty Bonds and
had them made out to you. Oh, yes,
thank Mrs. John Lane for the nice
and most useful bag she sent me;
they come in handy with a soldier out
here.
The sun has only shone once in five
months since I've been in France.
Well, I suppose you won't receive
this until after Xmas. / don't know
what kind of a time l will have, but
will write and let you know later on.
| am sending this letter through base
censor. Write soon and often as l
like to hear from you all. Love to all
and regards to all friends. ERNEST
GARRETT, 9th Field Artillery, Bat
terry D, A. E. F., FRANCE.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
WINE, WOMEN, GASOLINE 49,.
AND CARLESSNESS KILL
1862 IN CHICAGO IN 1917

CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. l. - "Wine,
women, gasoline and carelessness,"
cost the lives of 1862 persons in auto
mobile accidents in Chicago in 1917,
according to the report of Coroner
Hoffman, yesterday.
The figures represent an increase
of 80 per cent over those of 1916.
Homicides totaled 316, a slight de-
crease from the 1916 figures.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
Are Selling Souvenirs

LONDON, Dec. 81. = S%elfridge's,
the large American department store
here, opened a new sort of bargain
counter yesterday. The display was
of collections of canvas, wood and
metal from Zeppelins and German
aeroplanes brought down in England
and sold at sixty cents each, the pro-
ceeds going to charity.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
MOBERLY GETS FACTORY?

According to an item in the St.
Louis Times the Marx-Haas garment
factory will locate in Moberly. This
plant asked Mexico to bid on their fac
tory, but no action was taken here be-
cause the community vas busy raising
money for the enlargement of the
local plant of the International Shoe
Co. A report from Columbia, since
the publication of the above item, is
to the effect that that city is prepar-
ing to bid fer the plant and expects to
offer more for it than Moberly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
THE BRITISH MERCHANT
SHIP LOSSES DURING
WAR 2,75O,OO 0 TONS
SeagOing Vessels of More Than 1900
Tons Aggregated 14,O91,519 on
January /, 1918

NEW YORK, Jan. 5. - The New
York Times prints a London dis
patch which says:
"The following shipping figures
have been obtained from a reliable
source:
Tonnage of British seagoing ships
of more than 1900 tons in August,
1914, 1884, $40.
Gloss by enemy action and other
wise, less new construction, pur-
chases and captures, 2,750,000.
Remaining January /, 1918, H.
O91, 1919"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
Are Saving Leather

LONDON, Dec. 81. : After January
I the British Director of Raw Materi-
ais under an Army Council decree will
nrohibit the manufacture or sale of
women's shoes with uppers of leather
measuring more than seven inches
from the seat of thu heel tc the top,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
FIVE NEGRO SOLDIERS TO DIE

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan. 4. -
Five of the negroes tried by the last
court-martial in connection with the
Houston riots have been sentenced to
be hanged, according to the verdict
of the court announced by Major
General Ruckman.
They are Privates Babe Collier,
Thomas Mcdonald, James Robinson,
Joseph Smith and Albert D. Wright,
all of Company I, Twenty-fourth In
fantry. Execution of the sentences
will be suspended until after the case
is reviewed by President Wilson.
Three of the fifteen tried we're SEN
fenced to ten years at Leavenworth
and seven to seven years each.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
Children Save Food

LONDON, Dec. 81. Children
throughout England have collected
100000 tons of chestnuts for use in
making munitions, and according to a
food department speaker, this has en-
abled the government to release
100000 tons of corn, rice and other
foodstuffs held for munition purposes.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
Tractors Made Good

LONDON, Jan. 8. - The Food Pro.
duction Department of the Board of
Agriculture sent out tractors to aid
in the autumn blowing. These at
first we're received with prejudice by
farmers. After several farmers h@d
lost wagers that they could pillow fas-
ter and cheaper with horses, there has
been a general acceptance of the in
novation.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10

IF the enemy does not want peace,
then we must bring peace to the world
by the battering of our iron fist and
our shining sword.-The Kaiser. 1t
is Just because of that iron fist and
shining sword that there can be no
prussian peace.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
Sunday Movies for Soldiers

LONDON, Dec. q. - Broadstairs,
which recently passed an ordinance
forbidding picture shows on Sunday,
has modified the regulation so hat
the cinema theatres are open for men
in uniform only. There is a new pro-
vision that no theater exhibit a Char
lie Chaplin picture on Sunday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-01-10
GETS EXTENSION OF LEAVE

Merrell Boulware, who has been
home from Camp Funston, i'll, receiv-
ed a 14-day extension of leave Satur-
day. The message arrived while
he was preparing to return to camp,
fearing he was not going to secure
his request. His condition is much
improved.
Sergeant Roy Creasey is home from
Camp Doniphan on a five-days' fur
Tough. He is well and looking splen-
didly.