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Evening star., 1918-01-13
AMERICAS PART in THE WAR
Progress in Week just Ended Toward
Maxine the World Safe for Democracy

work through strikes. A government
agency for the adjustment of labor dis
putes was set up. to keep peace not only
in the shipyards but in other essential
war industries.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
GERMANS HAVE FOOLED u. S.
AS TO TRUE DYE SITUATION
H. Gardner McKerrow Tells of False I'M
pressions Spread Through Per-
sistent PROPAGANDA

as an absolutely fast dye, fast to all
conditions and tests on all materials
There are dyes fast to washing, but not
to light, and dyes fast to light and not
to washing.
Before the war German dyes were
sold with the legend in tho contafner.
Sold without guarantee American dyes
are as fast, class for class, as German
dyes. for color chemistry Is as exact in
America as in Mitteleuropa.
Used Any Dye Available.
"For approximately two years after
the war began mill men used any dye
they could get. often for purposes for
which the dye was unsuited. That Is
the explanation of such fading as has
troubled purchasers of goods. There
are now plenty of dyes. each for its
own purposes. and all getting cheaper"
Propaganda that is spreading dis
trust Of American dyes is only one Of
many reasons why dye manufacturers
are mobilizing their efforts for United
States trade defense and offense. Their
plan Is to cooperate as a body against
the foreign commercial aggression they
expect with the coming Of peace.
About two hundred leading dyemAkers
in this country and Canada have noti-
fled Mr. Mckerrow they will attend the
New York convention this month.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

Increased needs Of service
caused by the war have
thrown open to women po-
sitions in the Navy Depart
nent as mechanical, marine,
engine and boiler craftsmen.
The quartermaster's depart
ment of the Army is employ
ing women as inspectors of
clothing.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Enter at the Left!
Spring Millinery In Fine Array!

THE time has for mady replace her winter cha
peau with of the poke bonnets or small trimmed
sailors. j.
have especial showing of Ribbon Hats, faced with
straw Cosetting Turban OF and straw
models showing the barrel featured at o9o
to Sl4o5.
These and other models in soft blues, pearl gray and
the prevailing colors.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

gun metal kid; others OF
brown patent kid and the
whole range of gray kid
boots. including the new
fieldmouse shade. as we'll as
boots of ivory or brown kid
or patent leather with ivory
kid tops: in styles with mill
tary or full Louis heels and
welt or turned solcs.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

In medallion and all-over
patterns and in new shades.
The lowest price 9x12 size
rugs you can get-seryice-fo
service.
Evening star., 1918-01-13
SI.25 to S2.35 Hall and
Stair Carbet, CSC Yd.

Remnants of velvet and AK
minister hall or stair carpet
remnants ranging in lengths
from AZ to u yards. Limited
quantity. Come early.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

chevlot, plush, silvertlp
and novelty fabrics; trimmings are of fur,
velvet, plush, kerami. There are belted,
pleated and gathered waist styles in mod
els that are either half or full lined, and
protection against Jack Frost. May we
slip some of the Coats on and show you
how becoming they are-tomorrow?
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
Poultry Yards and Fences.

Breeding stock. and especially grow
ing chickens, should have an abund-
ance of range, while hens kept solely
for the production of eggs may be kept
on small area with good results. In
rural districts the yarding of poultry
is sometimes unnecessary and i'm such
cases colony houses are used to advan-
tage. Under this system it Is easy to
keep the birds healthy and the feed
bill is reduced, as they are able to get
good part of their feed from the
10 hens, are placed from 200 to $50
feet apart and are moved from place
to place as new range is needed.
When poultry fences are needed, as
as the case in keeping poultry in towns
and cities and in some rural sections,
as few fences as possible should be
erected, as they increase the cost of
equipment, labor and maintenance.
When very much land is available the
poultry yard can often be kept in sod.
On good soil this can be done by allow
ing 200 to go square feet of land per
bird CIT to 274 birds to the acre.
while more space is necessary on poor
or light land. A large number of
fowls are usually kept to the acre
where double yards are used and the
land is frequently cultivated.
Plymouth Rocks and the heavy meat
breeds in small yards require fences
five to six feet high, while fence six
To seven feet high is necessary for Leg
horns. The upper two feet of the
fence for the latter may be inclined
inward at an angle of 80 degrees, or a
strand or two of barbed wire may
help keep them confined, while it is
sometimes necessary to clip the wing
feathers of one wing of those birds
which persist in getting out
Posts may be set or driven into the
ground. They should be set eight to
ten feet apart with common poultry
netting, or 16 to 20 feet with woven
wire. Corner posts should be about
eight inches in diameter. and be set
four feet in the ground, while interven-
ing posts may be four or five inches in
diameter and set three feet i'm the
ground. That part of the post which is
set in the ground may be charred or
treated with some wood preservative
to advantage, while corner posts
should be firmly braced or set In ce-
ment.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23

In its issue Oh July 5, 1915, the ltcd
Cross Bulletin. issued at washington
has the following account of the hero
ism of Red Cross nurses under fire
private A. c. Mcleod, the first
American soldier to be wounded In
France, was hurt when the Germans
bombed Red Cross hospital. He owes
his life, he believes, to the Red Cross
nurse who stuck by him in the shat
tered ward, and saw that he had
prompt surgical attention. Two of the
nurses were wounded by the same
bomb that hurt Mr.. Mcleod, but the
rest of the women, it was stated, We're
as cool as the men. Here is his own
story in which it will be noticed the
Red Cross nurse is given the principal
place:
"'Our hospital, a British-American
one in Flanders, was bombed the night
Of September 4, last. / was working in
this hospital, at which / had been as
signed to the transportation section
The patients who could do so went to
the bomb-proof cellar when the air raid
opened, but there We're number of
soldiers so badly wounded that they
could not be moved. A number of
nurses stayed with the soldiers. and
remained to help.
Suddenly, Il bomb made direct hit
and exploded nearby. 1t pretty nearly
cleaned out the hospital. My legs wore
smashed to a pulp and was ravng
with pain. ] won't describe the scene
about me, for that would be too hor-
rible. A nurse stayed by my side. She
stuck To me and saw that | had prompt
attention, and ! probably owe my life
10 the immediate amputation which
was ordered. The bombing of this hos
pital cost one nurse IN eye. and an
other II foot. The rest of the nurses
were AS cool as the men. | can't say
too much for the work of the Ameri-
can Red Cross in France"
Here is something from the Central
Division Bulletin, published AT Chicago.
which needs to be considered just now
Willing Workers Only.
"The growing seriousness of condi-
lions respecting transportation hous-
ing. ct cetera. prompt the suggestion
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23

Little children take to the water
like ducklings and ought to be given
A chance to learn to swim, wherever
their lot may be east. This is an es-
sential part of their education and
might well he part of public school
instruction, as gymnastics are, since
safety and assurance and pleasure in
the water in after life depend upon It.
Some youngsters learn so early that
they hardly remember the time. Boys,
who like to travel I'm gangs, shift for
themselves If there Is any water In
walking distance that will give them
1 chance for water sports, and teach
me another how to swim, often by he
.oic methods. Girls make fine swim
ners. and certainly ought To be given
/ chance TO learn ut the earliest time
possible.
Nearly all the bathing suits for girls
inder fourteen are made like the knit
ed wool suit shown i'm the picture.
The body and the short and narrow but
Elastic skirt are in one piece--the body
ong-waisted. Separate. close-fitting
runks are stitched to the body, lit
lie below the normal waistline, and
he suit buttons on one shoulder with
wo rather large bone buttons. Caps
o be worn in the water are of rubber
10th, and made in light colors and
'anciful ways. They serve TO distin-
yuish their little wearers' heads among
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
Overcoming Objections.

Objection is frequently raised to the
keeping of poultry in towns and cities
because of the odor which may result
and also because of the noise which
Is made by ROSTERS growing, particu-
larly in the early morning. There is
no necessity for the poultry flock to
become nuisance to neighbors.
If the dropping boards are cleaned
daily and the houses and yards are
kept in a reasonably clean condition
there will be no annoying odors. The
soil in the yard should be stirred or
spaded up frequently If not in sod In
order to keep it in the best condition.
This will not only tend Tn keep down
any odors which. might arise, but also
allow the droppings to be absorbed in
to the soil more readily and therefore
keep the yard in better condition for
the hens.
The male bird need not be a nui.
sance. Unless 1t is intended to hatch
chickens from the flock II Is unneces.
sary to keep a male bird. The fact
that there is no male in the flock will
have absolutely no effect on the num-
Der of eggs laid by the hens. The
male bird should be sold or eaten just
as soon as the Matching season is over
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
White Silk Wells.

Pure silk wells in white, rather
coarse mesh. come in large rectangular
shape. 10 be thrown gracefully over the
brim of summer sailors; the mesh,
quite open over The face and hat,
grows finer ut the bottom of the veil,
and sprawling flower design is WOW
en- into this finer mesh. These white
silk wells give Il dressyi effect to the
sport or spmiSpOrt costume, and they
are very graceful. floating about in Il
summer breeze. Best of ALL they may
be washed in soap and water and dried
in ones room overnight. If pinned out
while damp over Il pillow. they require
no ironing.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23

many others when the beaches are
crowded, as well as keep the hair dry.
Many of the suits are blue. with
bands In white and in strong colors.
bright green, banded with white. and
bright orange banded with black are
iavorites this season. With these usu-
any there are rubber caps to match,
made In many ways, so that watching
mothers may easily keep an eye on the
particular head that is her care.
Most youngsters are barefooted un-
less the beach, is rocky, In which case
soft cloth shoes protect them. Some
suits are provided with a knitted sash.
matching Its border in color. and fin
lshed with yarn tassels, but il is mere
~ for ornament and not needed. II Is
n pretty establishment, however. that
gives tone to the plain little suit. as
may be gathered from the picture.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
White Stock Favored.

For. although the colored organdie
colar-and-cufl set prevails. ii is not
the only type of neckwear in vogue
at present. Very different from it,
but equally popular, perhaps is the Sc
This stock is made from heavy mate
rial-usually linen or duck; il is UNI
comfortably high, and is fitted with
two strips at the back which are to
be brought around To the front. lOOped
over once and held in place with a
stick nin or Snnnner
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
Rural Clubs HeIp.

Women's rural clubs have done much
to further the employment of trained
workers for the counties, such as home
demonstration agents, county nurses
and county social service workers.
The state leader of home demonstra-
ton agents in Mississippi has said that
the women's clubs in that state have
been constant and earnest supporters
of county extension work In home
economics. They have given financial
aid, used their influence to secure an
preparations, bought canning club
products and given the work a promi.
nent place on their programs.
Fifty hens in space better adapted
to % will be no economy.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
CHICKENS AT HOME

A yard surrounded by a five
foot fence will, under most con-
ditions, keep chickens at home.
If the hens show a tendency TO
fly over such a fence, the flight
feathers of one wing should be
clipped. A fence made of woven
wire is preferable to a fence
made of board or other material.
A board should not be used at
the top of wire fence, as this
gives the hens visible place to
alight and tends to teach them
to fly over. The larger the yard
which can be provided the more
contented the hens will be. 1t
not only gives them greater OPP
portunity to exercise, but often
makes it possible to maintain Il
sod on the yard, which is advis-
able.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23

pose of eliminating noise, but also to
save the feed that would be eaten by
the male and for the reason that the
eggs produced after the male is dis
posed of will be infertile. Since these
eggs are incapable of chick develop
ment they keep much better than fer
tile eggs, and consequently are superb
or for preserving or for market.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
Why We Honor the Flag.

We honor the flag because Of what
ii stands for. Those who dishonor
our flag dishonor all it stands for. In
days like these, when our nation is at
war, there might be placed under the
dome of the capitol at Washington
great book of thousand pages. On
the first page might be inscribed the
Americans Creed. prOclaiming be-
lief in national honor. national justice
and national honesty and n belief in
free government for this free Ameri-
can people. To Washington then
might be called all the people of the
nation, to sign, one after another,
their names in the great book SO that
all America and all the world might
know how each man and woman and
child stood, until all our millions were
enrolled. There is no need of this.
The Americans Creed is written in
the Stars and Stripes Of our flag. Our
flag stands for all that could be writ
ten i'm the great book at Washington.
1t stands for honor justice, national
honesty and a free government, ana
when the time of stress comes, as ut
present, the flag is at hand, ready to
be raised in twenty million homes,
proclamation of loyalty as valid as a
signed and sealed book. Our flag Is
not gaily colOred decoration to
brighten our towns and villages; 1t is
a creed-an 81 believe"-to tell our
neighbors. our nation, and the whole
world how we stand.
It is remarkable to what an extent
flags. even the simplest, tell the ma
tional stories. CHANGED upon the flag
of the little grand duchy of Luxem-
burg a few days ago for the first time.
I had long beer familiar with the
Luxembourg coat-Of-arms, which is q
standing lion on barred shield, sur
mounted by the ducal corOnet, and /
had imagined the flag of Luxembourg
would be something like that. 1t is
three straight bars. or stripes, of red,
white and blue. These are the colors
of France, but they are arranged on
the flag of Luxembourg as are the red,
white and black of Germany and not
perpendicularly as in the French flag.
The flag tells its own story. The peo-
pie Of Luxembourg speak German:
their sympathies are entirely French.
In something of the same way the
flag of Great Britain tells its story,
with the st. Georges cross Of Eng
land, st. Andrews cross of Scotland
and st. Patrick's cross of Ireland com
bined. The true story Of Prussanism
and it's brutal aggressions Is told by
the German flags. The German en-
pire. so much Boosted, is shown by
its flag to be but footstooi on which
the king of Prussia wipes his feet, for
i'm it's center is the black eagle of
Prussia, crowned, and the black cross
Of Prussia is smeared all over IL. The
German emperor is Prussia and moth
Ing but Prussia-a military autocracy
holding Bavaria. Wurttemburg, Sax
ony and all the other states In pawn,
just as the king-kaiser would like to
hold New York, California and all OF
America, and as he now holds help
less Luxembourg and brave Belgium.
The black In all the German flags is
the black of Prussia, and black Is the
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
Must Be Made Again.


say we are making it, because you
and /, hope, are doing all we can to
help our army and our navy win the
fight against the blOod-reeking autOc-
racy that wishes to unmake half the
flags of the world and put the modern
flag of piracy in their places. For
this is true: Each flag that is real
flag must be made again and again
with the passing years. 1t is true our
flag has been made and perpetrated.
In times of peace it has oeen flag
of peace and truer symbol of peace
than the white flag of submission. 1t
has also been war banner as glOri-
Gus as any that ever floated above the
heads of armed men. Again and again,
when brave men fought for what they
believed to be right and justice, our
flag has been torn by shot and shell
and drenched with blood. 1t has
gone forth ut the head of armies, silk
en- and fringed with gold, to come
back torn and tattered but a more
splendid ensign of liberty than it had
ever been before. 1t has left our ports
floating from proud ships and has
sunk beneath the waves when the bat
tered ships went down and was a
greater flag then than ii had been.
Like the phoenix it has arisen from
every fire of trial in renewed glory.
And on each Flag day, it will float
from the staffs of million American
homes, perhaps from ten million or
twenty million, but its greatest glory
the greatest glory of its 140 years-is
that it will float in the breezes OF
France and Flanders beside the flags
of Belgium, France and Great Britain,
and on the seven seas Of the wosld, in
the worlds greatest combat against au-
tocratic brutality. No longer the flag
of group of colonies, Old Glory has
become the banner of world-power,
the emblem Of the mightiest free peo-
pie that ever existed.
Old. Glory's New Birth.
Never were the stripes Of our flag
brighter or the stars more brilliant on
their field of blue than they are today.
In field, in mine, in factory, in home. in
garden. in camp, on ship, in trench and
in battle line the men and women and
the children of our vast free empire
are united in one great cause, and the
free flag of free people floats over
them, unstained and unspotted.
From generation to generation, since
Old Glory was born. flags have died,
but Olf Glory has had new birth. The
white flag of royal France and the
standard of Napoleon have given way
to the tricolor, but Old Glory still
waves. From generation 20 generation
our flag is born anew, re-created in our
hearts, ever better loved and more sa-
cred in our eyes, because it is the flag
for which our heroes have died and be-
cause it is the symbol of the only gov
eminent that can endure-a govern
ment of the people. by the people and
for the people. II is the flag of no king
or car or emperor, but your nag and
my flag and the flag of the brave boy
who has gone with song on his lips
to die that we may remain free. Earth
has no greater glory today than Old
Glory. For century and half 1t has
ioated above our soil, n sign that we
are free. Today Ii floats on alien
breezes. in foreign lands, not for con-
quest but as an earnest that all ma
tons that desire freedom shall hence
forth be free.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23

mai The war countries 81 Europe ~
no place ut present for persons With
out definite business of actual value 70
war or war relief work
"'rhe war council of the American
Red Cross announces that the hed
Cross commissions abroad do not de-
sire any person to enter into foreign
service except upon the explicit under
standing that they shall be ready at
any and all times Ia undertake any
service and in any place, subject to
the control and direction of the Red
Cross officials under whom they are
serving and that, until further order
by the war council, no person shall De
sent TO service with the lted cross
abroad for the purpose merely oil IN
speeding the work. with the intention
of using the results of such inspection
for lecture ar literary material.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1918-08-23
INJURY Done BY
F0RAC!NC FOWLS
LncaI Laws Determine Question
of Fencing Garden or Con-
filming Chickens
SHOULD GO KAND.!N.H HAND
Agricultural Department Urges the
Practice of the Principle of Co
operation and the Theory of
ive-and-Let-Live.

The redress of the home gardener
against the inroads of the neighbours
chickens will depend on the laws of
the state or ordinances of the town
or city in which the gardener lives.
In some states owners are liable for
damage done by stock running at
large; in other states the person who
wishes to grow crop must fence it
against depreciation. In most of the
Eastern states owners of stock are re-
CURED to keep it under fence.
Response to Queries.
These facts are set forth by the
United States department of agricul-
ture in response to queries by garden
ers who have neighbors raising chick
ems that harvest the products of Liber-
ty gardens before such products are
mature, The department is not pre-
pared to say which type of food-rais-
ing is the more profitable and praise
worthy, but says that both can go
hand-in-hand if there are proper
fences. Whether the poultryman or the
gardener must provide the fence de-
ponds upon local statutes, or ordi-
nances, an6 the rights of the case
would be determined under general
principles of law.
1t is related that Liberty gardener
and Victory poultryman lived side by
side. One morning the poultryman
saw the gardener industriously dig
ging.
"What are you doing?" asked Egg
bert.
'Replanting some early peas" re-
piled Cornelius.
'But that looks like my brown leg
horn lying beside that hole"
''It is" said the gardener; "my first
planting of early peas is inside of
her."
y Not Humorous Subject.
The legal authorities of the depart
ment say that the chicken-and-garden
question, far from being a subject of
humor, is undoubtedly a serious one,
and has probably led TO as much
trouble, dispute and ill-feeling between
neighbors as any other single cause.
The department believes, however,
that in war time there will be more
of a principle Of cooperation, and a
theory of live-and-let-live. With every
one interested in a maximum war
time food production some way can
usually be found out of the difficulties
that may arise through the proximity
of chickens and gardens.