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The Glenwood post., 1918-06-29
ELECTRIC JUICE
TO Be HIGHER

Electric light rates in Glehwood
Springs are going up, but not before
September, and just how much they
will be increased over the present rates
is a matter that is up to the Colorado
Utilities commission.
The application for the Increase was
filed recently by the Glenwood Light
l. Water company, and the commits.
sion thereupon issued an order suspend
ing the proposed schedules until Sep
tember 25, and directed that an in
vestigation and hearing be held in the
meantime.
That the company would apply for
increases has been accepted as fac:
ever since the Mutual company went
out of business. The Glenwood com-
pany has been engaged, since then, in
making an inventory of its plant,
which will be submitted to the COM
mission in support of the petition.
The commissions calendar is under
stood to be pretty well filled, and
therefore there will probably be some
delay before its experts come on the
ground. When these experts have
checked up the inventory and examine i
the company's records, a public hea-.
ing will be held by the commission
The city council has taken steps to be
represented at this hearing, by instruct,
ing the city attorney to file an appear.
ance on behalf Of the city.
The company is asking for new
method of applying the rates for elec.
trio lighting. Under the old rates,
there was straight charge for all
electricity used through the meter, ant,
If customer wanted to use such
household apparatus as stoves, perco.
lators, vacuum cleaners, etc, the cost
was the same as for lighting service,
unless the customer put in separate
wiring and guaranteed 81 a month for
SPSN'Hi Po"el "eIci. uc NEW rdues,
it is claimed, will do away with this,
and will enable consumers to obtain
power for any purpose, at half the rate
charged for lights.
This is done by charging for small
proportion Of each month 3 meter read
ipgs, at the lighting rate; the proper.
tion being determined by the number
of rooms in the customers house, and
the rate charged for it being called the
primary" rate. Any excess over this
proportion is charged for at what il
called the secondary" rate, and this
secondary rate il half the rate
charged for the "primary."
In it, petition the company fixes the
"primary" rate At Is cents, and the
secondary" st 7M es,ts Per kilo.
watt hour. It Il claimed that, based
on the amount Of service that is being
used on the average in Glsnwood
homes at this time, this rate system
will work out at IN average rate Of
on cents per kilowatt hour. Conse.
quenAly the new rates will bs about
30 per cent lower than the company q
old l2 cent rate.
The Glenwood post., 1918-06-29
Senate Discusses Fall Amend.
ent Making Limit 20
to 40 Years
THOMAS OPPOSES IT

Washington, June 25.-E1tension of
the draft ages above and below the ex-
listing Emits-21 to 81 years-was dis
cussed at length in the senate today.
During the discussion Senator Fail
revised his amendment which changes
the ages to 1S and As, making the
ages 20 to 40 and eliminating a provi-
sion that youths under 81 should not be
called into active military service.
Disposal of the amendment and q
substitute by Senator Hitchcock of Ne.
braska went over until tomorrow, with
sentiment apparently evenly divided.
In the meantime some senators regard
ed it as probable that some expression
might come from the administration in
view of the report that President Will
son opposes any changes for the pres
ent.
The Fall amendment was vigorously
supported by Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon, chairman of the military COM
mittee, and Senators Cummins of. Iowa,
Reed of Missouri, and others. Oppo-
sition was voiced by Senators Thomas
of Colorado, McKellar of Tennessee
and Kirby of Arkansas, all Democratic
members of the military committee,
while several other senators declared
they favored raising the draft age, but
opposed lowering the minimum.
Senator Hitchcock IS substitute amend
ment fixes age limits at 90 and 40 re-
spectively, and provides that citizens
of the allied countries resident in the
United States shall be subject to draft,
and that nationals of neutral countries
who claim exemption shall be disbarred
from American citizenship.
Necessity for an increase of Ameri-
ca g man power was the principal argl-
ment of those favoring the amendment.
Opponents contended there are suffi-
cient men now available and neither
has asked or approved the proposed
extension.
During the debate it was freely pre-
dicted that class one would soon be
exhausted and that unless the age lin
its are raised there will be a disruption
of industry with consequent effect on
the war program.
Extension of the iron ring around
Germany by sending American soldiers
to Russia, Italy, the Balkans and
Egypt, and declaration of war on Bull
garia and Turkey also was urged.
before taking up the Fall amend
ment, the senate adopted numerous
riders recommended by the military
committee, including those for organiaz-
tion of Slavic legion. A provision
for Polish legion was stricken out
upon explanation by Chairman, Hitch
cock of the foreign relations commit
tee, that the French government feared
an American organization might inter-
fere with th~ Polish army now fighting
there.
Another amendment for training Of
foreign units in this country, designed
especially for securing man power from
Latin A merica, also was written into
the bill without discussion.
Senator France of Maryland offered
an amendment providing for compul-
sory training for youths of 10 and 20
years.
The Glenwood post., 1918-06-29
. o o o . o o o o o o @ Z
Sentiment (lJortb (Ubile !:
% Tn Prose and Ver$e - 9
o
THE RED CROSS CALL
BY PROF. w. H. CARRUTH
Leland Stanford Jr. University

IT l could save their lives
The twenty thousand who win die today,
With the same toll the next day and the next,
And every day of this great Year of Doom,
Swept to the void by battle 8 iron broom,
While senates wrangle and captains map their drives,
And in green fields cities far away
We sleep and rise and eat and laugh and play
As if this the sweet earth
In which had birth
l should not be perplext
If it were mine the word to say
To win the lords of earth to lay aside
Diplomacy and precedent and pride
And weigh the awful waste of you and me,
Who pay the debt and slip into the pit
And have profit of the peace to be,
Nor a vision of the hope of it;
If, by my word action, might hope
To stop the world from sliding down the slope
Into the bottomless abyss
That seethes with blood
If by my Yes or No l could accomplish this,
God knows ! would
Yet this much do
l abide the thought of sudden death,
Even of thousands-'tis but loss of breath
And sleep that lasts the whole night through
But that one mortal should lie
Thirsting and throbbing while the hours 60 by,
Each hour century of agony
No help, hand, answer to his plea,
He'll heaping horrors his helpless head
While horrors swarm about Misfortune bed
That this should be increased ten thousandfod,
Day after frightful day, and l withhold,
Through my neglect, the help that might be given,
Should rob my nights of sleepx.na turn me cold
With shameful chill, H~
Even though 1 slept in Heaven; N
1 cannot stop the slaughter, but what can,
To ease the agony of fellowman
And mitigate the misery
Of those who tread the threshng- floor for me,
God knows l will.
The Glenwood post., 1918-06-29
TO CELEBRATE THE FOURTH

Company L Colorado National Guards
has decided to hold . patriotic celebra-
tion at Noname grove ON July I. eBs-
sides considerable military drilling
throughout the day, games win b
played and . basket dinner viii b .
popular feature ON the program. OR
citizens are invited to Join cur nsH
sojer boys and to help them make IL
day . notable one. Don't forget "a
take your lunch basket.
The Glenwood post., 1918-06-29

Mrs. n. J. Psss Of Rifle vill spsaa
the summer visiting at IL Trskss
home in this city and st tie sAssp
camp whore her husband Il feesmaa. 5
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21


man, Douglas county chairman;
second half of the government film.
Following the program will be a
conference of the women workers
who will be instructed for the big
part they are to play in the drive by
Mrs. Frank Judson.
Patriots Prefer Coli.
Friday morning a captain Of one
of the Liberty loan drive teams call
ed Secretary James T. Wacob at the
Federal Reserve bank and stated
that three of his men wished to be
excused from the parade and meet
ing Saturday becadse they wished to
play golf;
Tell those three men that they
are not playing golf on the western
'front.'" said Secretary Wacob in a
stern voice. Then he advised the
captain that if he had any men who
considered it more patriotic to play
golf than to help win the war by do
ing the slight home tasks allotted to
them at home he had better get rid
of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Executive Staff of United
War Work CAMPAIGN Confer

Before the week is over the new
II elected executive staff for the
state United War Work campaign
will be established in Office quarters
Ia the Douglas county court house.
A meeting of the executive COM
uittee was held Thursday after
noon. Judge George F. Corcoran
OF York, Neb., chairman, presided.
Mrs. Charles Offutt was appoint
ed state chairman for wonien's
work. She has been serving as state
chairman for the Y. w. C. A. drive.
The committee will organize a
Joint publicity bureau, in which the
interests of the seven organizations
participating-the Y. NJ. c. A., the
Y. w. c. A., National Catholic War
Council, Jewish Welfare board,
War Camp Community Service,
American Library association, and
the Salvation Army-will be impair
tally exploited. The personnel for
this bureau is yet to be chosen.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Oldest Soldier in Any
Army Lives, on South Side

Otis c. West, brother Of Mrs. F.
A. Agnew of 2201 D street, South
Side, claims to be the oldest soldier
serving in any army. He is almost
20 years old and has been in the
army for about IS years.
Mr.. West is a member of the 10Th
United States regulars, but was de-
tanned at Columbus Barracks, O., as
recruiting officer when the 10Th went
to France year ago. He is eager
to go to France and join his regi-
ment in active service and in a let
ter written to his sister says he is
ready to march to Berlin and hopes
to be allowed to go soon.
His first interest in fighting was
exhibited, it is said, when at the ten
der age of 6 years he fed with his
parents from a village which was
besieged by Indians to Cedar Falls,
Ia. At that time, it is declared, he
attempted to take part in the fight
ing.
At ID years of age he ran away to
join the union forces in the civil
war, but succeeded in drawing forth
a chastisement from his parents for
his patriotic fervor.
Ten years later West studied COM
mercial law at Oberlin university
and went to Des Moines, Ia, wherec
he held political positions for II
years. He was married and reared
family and at the age of 81 years
was allowed to enlist in the United
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Double Page Ad in The Bee
LARGEST Ever Printed Here

Business as usual-only more So,
seems to be the motto of the Bran
deis stores, which, in this issue, of
The Bee establishes new record OF
lAl.A carrying the largest sin
gle display advertisement ever print
ed in an Omaha newspaper.
To give publicity to the store news
Of seasonable bargains, just before
the Ak-Sar-Ben celebration, and to
whet the appetite of prospective
army of prosperous customers.
drawn from all over the kingdom of
alfalfa, corn, hogs and cattle, known
Is Quivera, the firm uses q col
umns Of display space, or 4sz run
ming inches to tell the good news.
One of the features Of the adver-
tisement Is the main section which
consists Of two eight-column pages,
and 4 supplementary advertisement
of five columns. j.
It Is a wonderful exposition of
store enterprise and shows optimis-
tic faith in the ability of Omaha.s
trade territory to absorb the multi
tude of bargains offered.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
High School of Commerce
Breaks Enrolment Record

The High School of Commerce
will begin the winter quarter Mon
day with the largest enrolment in
its history. More than 1000 stu
dents are enrolled, which is about
100 above previous records. The cadet
regiment will have eight companies
divided into two battalions and has
400 boys on the roll. The students
in choosing their courses of study
favored radio work, auto mechanics,
and other technical work brought
into importance by the war.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Fourth District Sends IS
Men to Manhattan School

Z. The following Is national army
men from local exemption board No
4 left Omaha Thursday for train
ing at the Kansas agricultural col
lege at Manhattan:
c. NJ Christensen. John s. Pritchard.
Julius A. Kragh, Theodore Sramek'
George E. ReznicheclFrank r, Lehre
Hugh T. O'Connor. Leonard W. Bender
Albert Reif. Joseph C. Stolinski,
ALVIN Z. Schaefer, Walter Settler,
Leon ~ Hansen. Evar NJ. Gilman.
James ]. Mcdonnell, Edmund ]. Iedvsrs
Ernest H. Moehring Philip A. Roehrie.
William H. Vickery,
Seven negroes from local board
No. 4 have been selected for train
ing at Camp Lewis, American Lake
Wash, and will entrain September
Is:
Archie Smith. Clyde Reed
walter Byers. Fred Bryant
Jesse Daniels. Clarence Gray
Booker T. Woods,
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
fine FURNITURE
and EATS PLEASE
OMAHA SOLDIERS
Cecil Johnston Writes Breezy
Letter From Front, While
His Pal Hunts
Coolies.

Warfare In some sections of the
western front isn't so terribly bad,
after all, according to letter re-
ceived by DR.. and Mrs. John P.
Johnston, 1923 Locust street, from
their son, Cecil O. L. Johnston, who
Is serving in France.
well, here I am, back in the
trenches and pounding a machine;
how's that for modern warfare?" is
the breezy way in which he starts
his optimistic communication, which
was written August 20. Here are
some extracts from the letter:
Using Good Furniture.
I'VE have fresh tomatoes quite
frequently and lots of fresh meat.
It is seldom we have to use corned
beef. I wish I could show you our
happy home. Many of us are max
ing good use Of fine furniture. Deep
upholstered chairs, etc, that many
Americans would be proud to own.
ut is hard to believe that the
boche is next door, except when
whiz-whir-bang! and some land
scape takes flying trip, or when a
machine gun starts to put-put-put,
or bangl goes a grenade. 1t is sur
prising that we don't get hurt, seeing
a. how careless Jerry IL with his
firearms, but with all the explo-
sives this is a pretty safe PROPOSE
ton. One often thinks before getting
here that it is a regular inferno, but
it appeals to me as being much more
scary than dangerous.
Wants Omaha Papers.
Il got q couple of Omaha papers
! couple of days ago and they sure
were interesting. Would like to get
. Sunday Omaha paper every week.
Reading matter is as precious as
gold here now. = :,
"My, this is a pretty country and
must have been quite prosperous
once upon a time. The people sure
make good use of the mountain
streams, but now the factory and
buildings are topsy-turvy, sorry
looking affairs.
II / could only carry and bring
back some OF the souvenirs that are
scattered so freely around, could
start a dime museum.
Zone Of the boys just now report
cd that he picked AZ coolies off him
self this morning" $50.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Men In New Draft May GO
to Officers Training Camp

A telegram to the Chamber OF
Commerce from. Colonel Carter,
Camp Taylor. Louisville, KY, states
that men under the new draft age
limits may now be admitted to that
officers training school and that
eli men except those in class one
and deferred classihcations on in
dustrial grounds, if unsuccessful,
will be permitted to return to civil
life.
Limited service men experienced
In driving automobiles are needed
In the quartermasters corps OF the
army, the Military Training Camps
association announces. Only men
registered under the old draft law
and not fit for full military duty or
men in deferred classihcations will
be accepted. Applicants can get full
information at the Chamber of
Commerce. Woodmen of the World
building.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21

returning to this country January S,
1918, when he retired at Detroit,
Mich. Through another special or
der he was allowed to enlist in the
quartermaster's' corps at Columbus.
Vests grandmother's brother,
Rev. Samuel Smith, who was a Bap-
fist preacher. was the composer of
America" and his ancestors further
back were among the colonists of the
Mayhower.
In all the years West was in army
service he was never sick a minute
and now enjoys the very best of
health.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
1900 TO MARCH
IN loan PARADE
HERE SATURDAY
Program at Brandeis Theater
Will Follow and All Work.
ers Are Asked to Be
Present.

Plans are completed for the big
Liberty loan parade Saturday in
which 1900 workers who will aid
in the big drive will participate.
The workers will meet in the Au-
ditorium at 80 p. m. Saturday and
the parade will form by o. m.
Line of march will be from the au-
ditorium west on Howard street to
Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to
Douglas, east on Douglas to Fiji
tenth, south on Fifteenth to Far
nam, west on Farnam to Seven
teenth, and north on Seventeenth to
the Brandeis theater.
Program at Brandeis.
At the Brandeis theater the fol-
lowing program will be given:
Patriotic songs, half of the gov
ernment film Americas Answer"
an address by Rev. Titus Lowe, in
structions to workers by O. T. East
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Award Contracts for
Remodeling City Jail;
Nav Abandon New Site

City council awarded the follow
ing contracts in connection with re-
modelling and reconstruction of the
police station and Jail at Eleventh
and Dodge streets: Henry Lehman
& Sons, painting, $1,490; Charles
Haas, sheet metal, $285; Omaha
Structural Steel works, steel work,
$3.50! Otis Elevator Co., $685.
Alfred Bloom, mill work, $3.50.
During committee of the whole
meeting on next Monday morning
the commissioners will consider the
larger plan for establishing a mod
ern police station and Jail plant on
the present Central station site and
abandoning the proposition of using
the new site at Fifteenth street and
Capitol avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
Big Seagoing Barges Are
Now Bejnu Made of Concrete

London, Sept. W.-Reinforced
concrete shipyards in the United
Kingdom are making good progress
IN the construction OF ! ,O0O-
ton seagoing barges. The program
now in hand represents some ZOO
600 tons OF shipping and $50, 600, 0Oo
are to be spent on the work. The
design adopted will effect saving
Of 10, 1000 tons OF steel
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
u. S.ShipTo
Production for Year
Nearly Two Million

Washington, Sept. 20.-Ship tom
mage actually'delivered to the Emer-
gency Fleet corporation so far this
year amounts to $4,000 tons, with
1870 900 tons launched and keels
laid for 4,l03,0O0. General Manager
Piez of the feet corporation, giving
these figures to the senate commerce
committee today, said deliveries for
the month of September probably
will reach 100000 tons.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-21
France to Recognize
Independence of SiavS

Paris, Sept, 20-(Havas.) France
will recognize the independence Of
the southern Slavs, accepting a sus.
gestion from Italy to this effect. the
Echo De Paris announces.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-12
The Useful Penny.

Introduction of the penny transfer
in the operation of the Indianapolis
street car system, which caused the
indianapolis Traction and Terminal
company to supply itself with 5000
pennies the first day, brought TO the
mind of j. J. Mahoney, superintendent,
q story of the eighties when Tom
Johnson, afterward mayor of Cleve-
land, was treasurer, and a supply OF
pennies in the hands of the company
helped to stop O run on bank. Mr..
Mahoney has been connected with the
indianapolis street car system for a
long, long time.
In those days passengers dropped
nickel fare in box and sometimes
they put in five pennies. The COM
pany was usually overstocked with
pennies, and had to send them to the
United States mint to get rid of them.
The pennies we're put in bags. 1t hap
pened that the company had lot or
bags full OF pennies when run start
ed on a bank. There was great
fhrong of people at the bank demand
ing and getting back their deposits.
Through an understanding, the bank
and the street car company resorted
TO camouflage. Several street car en-
pIoyees were called in and directed to
carry the bags of pennies into the
bank. 1t was an Impressive sight, as
bag after bag was passed through the
cashiers window, and SIR. Mahoney
says it had the desired effect.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-12

Illustrated in some notes from these
county reporters. One man gives an
average of 15 miles as the longest dis
lance for any considerable number Of
farmers, but explains that the haul Is
to the Cumberland river, which, in his
county, is navigable only five months
of the year; for the other seven
months the haul is 40 miles to rail-
road. In Mathews county, Va, few
trucks are used; but, since the county
is indented by several navigable wa
terways, motor boats and sail boats
are used by the farmers to a consid-
cradle extent. One reporter in west
ern Oregon says that neither roads nor
automobiles are to be found within
20 miles of his home; produce is car
ried on pack mules, over difficult trails,
to a landing on Rogue river. The
heavy hauling in Mecosta county,
Mich, as in some other northern coun-
ties in the United States, is often post
poned until snow comes, when sleds
are used.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-12
SHEEP ON SMALL SCALE PAY
European War Has Developed Very
important Enterprise for the
New England Farmer.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Conditions created by the European
war have made sheep raising on a
small scale a very important enter
prise for the New England farmer,
so situated as to take advantage of
the economic conditions. Prior to the
recent remarkable advance in prices
of wool and mutton, sheep raising In
New England was comparatively I'M
profitable, but now, under certain con-
ditions, a revival Of the industry
seems desirable.
In a study made Of sheep raising
in the New England states by special
lists of the u. S. department of agri-
culture it was found that this indus
try when conducted on a small scale
was more profitable than dairying.
They therefore recommend that sheep
replace the improbable cows and that
the industry be given more attention
in sections unfavOrable for dairying.
Kept in small numbers, sheep do not
replace other kinds of live stock but
are kept in addition to the regular
quota Of other stock on such farms
as have available pasture.
1t was found that regardless Of
whether sheep were kept in conjunc-
ton with dairy or with beef cattle,
farms with sheep have practically the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-12-12

same kinds and numbers of other live
stock as did farms without sheep.
Moreover, farms with the sheep had
an average of 10 more acres of pas
ture than did farms without the sheep,
warranting the conclusion made by the
specialists that sheep in New England
have not been kept to the exclusion
Of other live stock but have been kept
on farms with large pasture areas to
utilize the extra pasture available.
Though sheep raising as now con-
Quoted on the farms studied is profit.
able business at present prices, there
is much room and great need for the
Improvement of the industry, and the
specialists say that the average grower
could, with better care, make the bust
ness a much more profitable one even
under normal conditions and without
the artificial stimulus to prices given
by the war. BY proper care in breed.
ing and feeding, the lambing rate
should be increased one-third and the
wool clip Is per cent, which at present
prices would mean an increase in re-
ceiptS of nearly So per sheep.