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The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

SHALL WE SEE IT
 THROUGH OR QUIT?

Tho Government is finding it nee. essary to call upon us three times within year to provide by subscrip. tions to Liberty Loans, sums of money hitherto considered of fabulous pro portions. These facts should i'm. press upon us as no mere words could do, the intense seriousness, the stern necessities, of the situation.
 Continued acquaintance with the more serious aspects of life is apt to breed indifference, and to distort our mental vision. As the soldier shud. ders with horror at his first sight of carnage, but later becomes hard. ened, so are we apt to become com. placent under conditions which call actually for increasingly strenuous effort.
 The Liberty Loan with Its original accomplishments of novelty and noise appealed to our national love of q new sensation. In the Third Cam. paign much of the novelty will be lacking, but the serious purpose be. hind the campaign will have grown Our money was needed when both he First and Second Liberty Loans were fioated, but 1t will be more than ever needed when the Third Loan B called for. Our army has grown, our national payroll has grown, the needs of our allies have grown. the necessity of forever banishing the un- speakable menace of Prussianism haa grown. No longer can we hope that the entrance of this country into the struggle will induce an early peace More arrogant, more desperate than even the German Government putt forward its impossible claims upon the rights and life of humanity.
 Our Government in It's growing need is calling upon us to give up our luxuries, is conscripting the lives Of our sons, is controlling trade. labor, and prices, with an ever increasing earnestness and firmness of pur. pose.
 The test of our personal strength of character and determination is at hand. Your Government pleads with you very earnestly to preach and practice both before and during the next Liberty Loan Campaign a stead. fastness of purpose, an unselfish pa, triotism. which shall reflect the spirit of a man who having set his hand to the execution of necessary task would rather lose that hand than draw it back This is the spirit of our President, of our allies-it is surely our own.
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der as thing against which ws could not defend ourselves.
 We should have allowed this new horror to become a part of all future wars. and have been responsible for its incorporation into international law
 We should have proved that be- cause the fire which burns up our farms usefulness is beyond the hori- zon. we would submit to the kndling of it.
 We might have accepted the sev- enty cents for wheat and the six cents for cotton, but we could not have done it merely because we were commanded to do it. By so doing we should have accepted degrada- tion. We should have begun, after winning our freedom in our own revolution and establishing a union on the foundation of liberty in the blood and tears of our war betwe cen the states, to knuckle under to autoc- racy! We should have basely yielded up our birthright as Americans.
 Such thought is intolerable. Peace at such a price would not be peace. but only preparation for future revolt against subjugation. Better any sort of war: better war forever, tbat that.
 Whenever the time comes for new sacrifices, let us remember that we fight not for our liberties tomorrow, or next year or twenty years from now, but for our freedom today Not for the right to live in the future, but for the right to make @ living this year.
 German oppression had begun to pinch us before we entered the war. If we had not declared war, but had. accepted the conditions of life ordered for us by the Kaiser, we should today be a poverty-stricken people. Our factories would be shut down, our workmen unemployed, our people starving, our farmers ruined by the poverty of those for whose consump- tion they grow their crops. There Is loss and sacrifice in the war, but there would have been far more of loss and sacrifice in accepting the German terms. We should have lost more in money than we have spent in the war, but we should have lost something far more precious. We should have lost our souls.
  ,e third to be published next week.)
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
HARRY LAUDER'S ADVICE

The famous Scotch
  the r. M C. Lauder Liberty is It the thing It the big thing fight 
 What you the What liberty7
 the United States pulling of the United doing them?
 Right be-BUY LIBERTY BONDS! already But make dollars into silver bullets
  provide whewha can't do what the q baions fighters a mouth fighting calling to help them back here
 s theirs-but liberty holders humanitys bank.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
Woman's s Committee for Twelfth Federal Reserve District to Form an
 Organization
By MRS. A. s. BALDWIN Chairman Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, Twelfth Federal
 Reserve District)

Now that we are actively in the war and our men are in the front line trenches; are being killed: are being gassed; are being maimed for life. 1t would seem that every woman in the land should be in the front ranks of the civilian workers to help the men win the war.
 Each of us has her part to play, however small it may be- and whether it be great or small 1t Is of importance that each shall perform her part to the utmost of her ability.
 Some can buy Liberty Bonds, some can influence others to buy. Perhaps some can only help by conserving the use of food and clothing and by econ. omizing in household expenditures. thus liberating and augmenting the essentials which must be sent lover there" for the use of our army and for the destitute civilian population of our allies.
 In whatever way each woman of this Twelfth Federal Reserve District can help. let her do her utmost that we who are farthest from the front may sustain our part of the struggle. and keep for ourselves and our chil. dren the blessings and privileges we have inherited, and thus make 1t pos. sible to win like blessings for the mil. lions who are now in actual bondage.
 We should not only save to help, but the great lesson to be learned also is to do now without non-essentials and to make sacrifices so that the labor which produces what we consider to be even essentials may be used to produce those things which are actu- ally essential fer the support and safety of those who are carrying the burden of this unprecedented struggle for freedom and democracy.
 The aim of the woman's Liberty Loan Committee Is to form an organi- zation which shall make the woman In every home in the land realise thoss conditions and her respons!- ality, that the message shall not reach her only from one direction, but from many, so that she shall b. brought to a full realization of her responsibility.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
THREE SONS ON.
 THE TUSCANLA
San Francisco Woman Gave Country Three Soldiers--One Lost With Torpedoed
 Transport.
TWO SONS SENT TO
 FRENCH FRONT

Mrs. Louise Moore of 13S First ave nue. San Francisco. knows the mean. ing of war. In the front window of her home a service flag shows three stars. Three of her sons answered the cali to colors.
 And when the Tuscania was torpe- doed, with the loss of more than one hundred American lives, her eldest son, William Moore, made the great sacrifice for his country. On the rocky coast of Ireland he lies buried in the grave which enfolds others of his com. Yades in arms.
 The other two sons of Mrs. Moore, who were also on the Tuscania, are listed among those saved. The joy over their safety has been tempered only by the grief which followed the word of Williams passing.
 T told those boys was sorry that there was ocoasion to go to war;" said Hrs. Moore. smiling through the an- guish that was her portion in the days Allowing the Tuscania disaster But ! told them also," she added with . eriumphAnt smile, that if our country was worth living in and enjoying when things wore going along smoothly, it was certainly worth fighting for when it was in trouble"
 That is the spirit of American motherhood in these days of trial and sacrifice Our country has not asked much of its young people in the way of sacrifice" said Mrs. Moore. "Thinu have been fstriy easy for most of the boys and girls of this generation. Now it is their time to show how they have appreciated all that has been given to them"
 Mrs Moore has two other sons, one of draft age, and the other old enough to enlist but not old enough to be drafted
 Now they're crazy to, go," said the brave little mother whose service flag already has one haloed star.
 Do you know the last thing the three boys did before they left?" she asi.ed with mothsrly pride. They all bought Liberty Bonds, and said they would leave the rest of that work to us. Now we dnow what we can do."
 Private William Moore and his brothers have lea message for the stay at-homes in America to heed. -The rest of you buy Liberty Bonds that oan bs your work"
 Have you planned to buy your next one, now that the Third Liberty Loan is called for,
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
Where the Allied Loans
 Go.

More people than you would believe are under the impression that the money which Uncle Sam is lending to the Allies leaves America for ex. penditure in Europe and other for. eign countries.
 This is a mistaken idea.
 Virtually all of it is expended right here at home for American produced goods, munitions, and food stuffs. Germany on April 6, 1917, Congress has authorized the lending Of ST,000,. 900. 900 to the Allies, to be paid over before July 1, 1918. Up to November 1, the Allies had received advances agyregaxtng sSes1 400, 900. They had expended in America for supplies $2,75S,soo, 900. and had remaining ts their credit in the United Oeatss treasury . balance Of $s32, 2,50o, 900.
 From April to November the Allies had been borrowing from Uncle Sam at the rate of approximately S600, ,00o.- 900 q month.
 And they had been spending t with us almost. as rapidly as they got it!
 So the money which you put into Liberty Bonds in the tive preceding campaigns has bcen trickling back through channels of commerce in an uninterrupted stream. What the AL hes are not spending is being scat. tered by Uncle Sam. who is con- fronted with the task of supplying and caring for developing army Of nearly 2,0o0,0 900 men.
 And so 1t will continue = long e the war lasts. The men afeid must be supplied with munitions, clothing and food. Every line Of American endsavor will profit The larger the bond sales, the greater the growth oS the Allied armies and their require ments; the more tremendous the sx. penditurss.
 Every dollar you put into Liberty Bonds is an added stimulus to Amer. ican industry and American pros- perity.
 Besides making more and more certain the defeat of the Kaiser's ambition te rule the world with his mailed fist.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
EVERYONE MUST HELP.

without the Treasury cnters every mar upon the Nation.
 the Nation; of the country United States dIsre gardna thinking of the determining vndeate the majesty of American America and civilization do the great splendid work which God has called to dc.
 W. a MeADoo,
 Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26


 mated that over 100000 extra acres of potatoes were planted last year. The United States Food Administration is endeavor- ing to push the nations big po- tatO stocks into channels of trade and has placed potatoes on the list of substitutes that may be bought along with wheat flour.
 Potato soup has become a war dish. Here Is recipe that has been tested by United States Food Administration experts. h. gredients needed are three pota- toes, one quart of milk, two slices onion, three tablespoons butter substitute, two table spoons flour, one and one-half tablespoons salt, one-quarter teaspoon celery salt, one-eighth teaspoon pepper, few grains cay enne and one teaspoon chopped parsley.
 Cook potatoes in boiled salted water. When soft run through a strainer. Scala milk with on- ion. remove onion and add milk slowly to potatoes. Melt the fat, add dry ingredients, stir until we'll mixed, then stir into boiling soup. Cook one minute, strain and sprinkle with barley.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
USE MORE POTATOES.

FLIP consume the 1917 record break. ing potato crop.
 Govern m ent ex- perts have esti-
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26
American Women Volunteer to Buy Fixed Amounts of Meat, Bread Flour, Sugar
 and Butter.
PLAN STARTED IN NEW YORK.
Idea Supplements U. s. Food AdminIs- tration's New Home Card Now
 in 100000 ,0oo Homes.

The women of America, who are anxious to do their great part in the winning of the war, are now, as a whole, familiar with the most impor- tant aspects of food conservation. The Home Card, both in its original form and in the revised edition for 1918, which provides for two wheatless days, one meatless day week, in addition to wheatless meal every day, has been placed by the Food Administration aft. CT vigorous campaign in 10,00O,O00 American homes. An intelligent and conscientious observance of the Home Cards requirements is all the Food Administration asks of the housewives of the country.
 The Food Administration has had a great many requests, however, particu- larly from the homes of the well-to-do, that 1t should issue a worked out plan for voluntary system of rationing.
 This desire for a voluntary ration springs from two csuses-first, be- cause 1t is far simpler for the house. wife to save food when she has con- crete working plan by which to pro ceed, and, second, because the loyal women of America desire, unseIfishiy, to put themselves on the same basis as the women of the Allied countries. The ration proposed by the Food Ad- ministration is almost the same as that adopted In England for voluntary observance. All over the United King dom, in hundreds of houses there hangs in the front window card with the stirring pledge, "IN HONOR BOUND WE ADOPT THE NATION AL SCALE OF VOLUNTARY RA- TONS"
 The ration recommended by the Food Administration, and adopted first in New York city, whence the idea has spread through the entire country, Is the following:
 Weekly
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

"ThIs Is a war Of peopIes-the peo- pie behind the fronts."--Major 0rayson N. p. Murphy of the American Red Gross, Jan. 20, 1918. YOU are a part of Demoeracy's RsttaIIons. Buy LIb- orty Bonds.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

Protection the Allies afford us may weaken our sense of duty."--Taft, Feb. 4, 1917. Have you weakened7 D. your dutyI Buy Liberty Bonds.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

"We could not have endured such aqgressions and survived as a self respecting nation of free peopis."- Secretary of the Treasury MeAdoo, at San Francisco, Oct. il, 1917. Ameri- can blood calls to you. Buy Liberty 1onds.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

Every dollar that 10 spent to arm ! soldier or a sailor, to feed or eIothe sne; every dollar that is spent for munitions or cannon, for coal to drive sur warships and transport supplies, must come from the Treasury, and he Treasury has no source from which Q obtain money except the people of he United States.
The Coconino sun., 1918-04-26

Mest--Beef (fresh, salted. tin
 ned and hashedD; mutton,
 lamb and veal (mutton by
 preference) ............... 21s lbs. Butter ..................... la ID. . Cooking Fats (margarine, lard,
 lard substitutes, vegetable
 Olls) k ID. Wheat Flour (for use in cook
 ing gravies. etc, where
 corn starch, cracker dust
 or bread crumbs cannot be
 substituted) ......... h 10. Victory Bread (containiEs at
 least 20 per cent. of sab
 stitute for wheat four) ... 1% lbs. Sugar (including all sugar
 used on the table and in
 cooking and all sweatmeats
 and candies, but not that
 used for canning and pre-
 servlng) ................ % 10.
 The items listed above are the only ones which are definitely limited. In the case of milk and cream, as much may be used as necessary, and chil. dren, of course, must have their full allowance of whole milk. Fish and poultry, any cereal other than wheat, vegetables and fruits and cheese may be used as freely as is desired.
 The above ration is in no wise in- tended to supplant the Home Card, but rather |, to supplement It. It has been published with the idea that 1t will be very real aid to the Ameri- can woman in her splendid effort to carry out the great food conservation program.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-14

Liquor in the Navy was considered by
Mrs mckinney and Mrs. Jeanne Weller
read an article upon Il Am an Ameri-
can"
r. E. Mosher of Smithfield again
headed the list of large producers at
the Skowhegan Jersey Creamery for
the month of February. From the 10
cows and the 4 heifers of his hero
there was a total yield Of 1853 pounds.
Il. d. Salley &, Son of Madison with IA
cows and heifers were a close second
with total of S5l.7 pounds and p. f.
Withee of East Madison had 317.7
! pounds from 8 cows and heifers. The
total amount of butter fat received
was 224194 pounds for the month and
the price paid per pound was IS cents.
Other farmers whose herds produced
$50 pounds or over were: Good Will
Farm. 1877 pounds; Dennis Chase, IT'S
pounds; Geo. n. Weston, ISL; D. NJ.
Towne, Madison, IFS pounds: Albert f.
Hodges, 277 pounds; pr. E. H. Stevens.
234; r. A. futile, 179; Sanford
Witham, 1858; H. p. Clement, 279; w.
E. Marston. zoo; B. f. Baker, East
Madison, 1862; f. Williamson. ZIG
pounds; L. F. Butler, 1865; Eugene Wat
son. Norridgewock, 169; J. Cripps, 1853;
f. S. Ward, Athens. 154: Cecil Keene,
1856; Chas. Beckwith, Cornville. 1853;
Miss Florence Reed, 17S; F. L. & G. L.
Parker, Skowhegan, 215; George E.
Foster, Cornville. 229; A. G. Woodsum,
1872; j. w. Packard & Son, $50: l.. G.
Traitor. 176: II. J.. Watson. Skowhe-
gan, 1863; Chas. Holden, 1876; Clifton
Jewell. 1877; Judge Turner Boswell,
Norridgewock, $50; Ray Moody, 260.
Mrs. Elmer Ramsdell of Harrington
arrived Tuesday night to visit with her
daughter, Miss Grace Ramsdell, a
teacher in the public schools and with
the family of E. E. Hurd on the Lake
wood Road.
With three members Of the faculty alb
sent because of the prevailing illness and
only very small percentage Of pupils at
tending school in the High school build
ing Wednesday morning, it was deemed
advisable to suspend sessions until next
Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-14
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
Features Of the Days Dealings in All
the Ceadinu Stocks

New York, March BIN all essentials
today's stock market repeated its per
functcry performance of the previous Ses-
sion. Dealings again were of slender
proportions and noteworthy price changes
were limited to utilities and the more
speculative issues.
Foreign news was ignored and home adj
vices were without distinct influence.
Traders had the field to themselves and
initiative in that quarter was lacking.
Two of the foremost industrial COM
panies-American Tobacco and American
Sugar-subrlitted their 1917 reports. show
ing substantial gains in general opera
tons over the preceding year. These ex-
hihitS evoked moderate response, Sugar
gaining two points and Tobacco l IA
Steel and iron shares We're steady to
firm most Of the time in consequence of
the increased output announced by the
leading mills, but transactions in stocks
of that division We're desultory at best.
Rails moved within unusually narrow
area even coalers falling into the recent
lethargy, for which delay in the progress
of railway legislation at Washington was
held partly accountable. Among the
weakest utilities were Peoples Gas and
Telephone was again depressed. but made
rapid recovery on denial of adverse re-
ports. General Motors was weakest of
the specalties, reacting four points, and
General Electric, Pressed Steel Car Pull
man and Sears-RoeDuck recorded extreme
losses of Il to four points Sales amount
ed to 5000 shares.
On very light dealings, bonds, including
| Liberty issues, We're irregular Sales. par
value. aggregated $2,700,00O United States
bonds, old issues, were unchanged on call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-14

he should support them and have the
Farm, stock and SO forth, at their death,
both making wills to carry the same
into effect. Leonard Luce died first
and after his death a question arose,
1t appears, about the grandmothers
treatment by Perley Luce and his wife.
Mrs. Luce died, at the home of her
daughter Mrs. L. p. McKenney of New
Portland. She called upon Perley to
pay the expense of his grandmothers
last sickness, and he refused to pay it,
it was claimed. The will of Lois NJ.
Luce was presented for probate and the
contention between the parties was
whether or not Mrs. Mckinney, who
was named in the will as executrix,
should be appointed to that position.
Perley Luce objected on the ground
that presenting bill of her own,
it would be embarrassing to him and
that she had property of her mothers
in her possession sufficient to pay the
bill. At the conclusion of the hearing
both parties agreed that L. L. Walton
Of this town should be appointed ad-
ministrator for the will annexed, and a
written agreement that Judge Small. a
special referee should pass upon the
question between the parties was
signed.
At the examination conducted by the
Somerset Exemption Board on Wednes-
day, Frank w. Knowlton, teacher of
Manual Training in the Skowhegan
Public Schools, was accepted for mill
tary service; others accepted were
Fred III. Mullen, North Arson; Donald
E. Reed, Fairfield; Harry c. Jackson,
North New Portland; Clifton H. Skill
lings, Ripley: Joseph Comoe, Milo; Ell
win c. Kicker. Flagstaff. special ser
vice: Manley Newton, Jackman; James
Kitchen, Madison; Herbert L. Seekins,
st. Adams; Aston Fl. Robinson. Bing-
ham: Charles Q. Nicholson, Fairfield:
Frank l.. Seward, North Arson. special
service; Howard c. Packard, Hartland
Willie Sevegny. Moose River; w. & j.
Ferland Fairfield
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-14

Notices were sent to the following men
to appear before the Somerset Exemp-
ton Board on March 10: Ralph II Null
gan, r. +. ID. and 5; Mahlon Z. Hewett,
Lexington; Ernest NJ Jones, Fairfield
Center; Harold f. Wheeler Hartland
Telesphore Thierault, lockwood; Ernest
E. Pouln, Fairfield; Clifford H. Wilkins,
st. Adams; George w. futile, Skowhe-
gan, r. f. d. /; Carnot E. Tuscan Scion
Edward Tague has been down from the
Cuptuptic numbering regions for a few
days visit with his family. He and his
father, Thomas Tague, have been en-
gagged in extensive numbering operations
this season and have already cut about
u,000 corps with approximately 5000, oOC
about a month longer. Their crew when
working on short stuff cuts about Sc
cords a day.
Although officials reports are still lack
ing, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Perkins who
live between here and Lakewood, receiv-
eG a telephone from the Associated Press
headquarters in Portland that their son,
Harold j. Perkins, had been wounded In
service in France. Young Perkins was
first private lin the sharpshooters SQUAD
ron and has many friends here who are
awaiting further details with some impa-
tience
The report that First Sergeant Howard
Noble OF Co. E had been killed could not
be verified here Wednesday and the ru-
NOR that his sister, Mrs. Lelah Barnes of
Prospect and Parlin streets, had received
word to that effect Tuesday evening was
unfounded. Mrs. Barnes stated to the
Journal reporter Wednesday that through
Boston daily she had been informed
that he was slightly wounded, but other
wise the news was not official. Linnwood
Jewett member of the company now in
france, is reported as being seriously ill.,