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Evening star., 1918-05-25
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
DEMONSTRATE SUCCESS
BY I. A. FLEMING.

The federal land banks have dem
onstrated the wisdom of their crea-
tion in that they have lent $s1.s65.5sS
to the agricultural communities OF
the nation, and have issued farm loan
bonds to an aggregate Of $S3,75O,000.
In the last four months the ex-
penses of operating and interest
charges have exceeded the earnings
by but 8 per cent, as against per
cent, the excess in the early days of
the operation of the system.
As the volume of business increases
the expense average will be reduced.
and the cost of organization. prelim-
and for all. The expenses also in
clude costs of appraisal and determin-
alton of title on applications for $685.
100000 Of loans that have been ap-
proved but not closed. the expenses
on future business represents about
so per cent of the APPARENT deficit to
date-April 80. 1918.
OF the loans made, $6s,675. 900 were
at per cent and $23,190,025 at 51a
per cent
The excess Of expenses and interest
charges over earnings totaled $411.954.
The capital stock Of the twelve land
banks is $13,594,s95, Of which the gov
ernment furnished $s.s92.130.
Melting the Silver.
So far about 100000 silver dollars
have been melted and the resultant silver
bars shipped to the master of the mint,
Calcutta, India.
1t will be June at the earliest before
the small notes to be issued by the fed
eral reserve banks will take the place of
silver certificates cancelled, on the melt
ing of dollars.
In order to hasten the melting the re-
serve banks are urging all member
banks to send in silver certificates Of
small denominations, as fast as possible.
Evening star., 1918-05-25
Melting the Silver.
Washington Stock Exchange.

SALES.
Nsrrenthaler. 9 at Ill.
After call:
washington Railway and Electric II. $1,000
ut 6sh.
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

able manner. But it has been at the
expense of positions.
The German loses in men have not
been so great as might have been
expected In the fighting north of the
Marine the retreat was skilfully plan
ned and carried out in manner
that Standardization. Machine guns
were substituted for men at almost
every point and the way in which the
German army is built around that
particular bit of ordnance has been
very thoroughly demonstrated.
Every backward step Of the enemy
was guarded by the automatic guns.
Get back the artillery and the bulk
of the infantry was the order repeat
ed in the German army as the French
and Americans prodded them. In al
most every instance the rear guard
action meant the resistance of little
machine gun units and because of the
clever manner in which the nests
were placed they were able to hold
their OVID long enough to enable the
main armies behind them to fall back
They were not always placed in
lines but left here and there just over
the brow of hill or in the deep words
on the ground and on the trees and al
most always skillfully camouflaged.
But always their disposition was
coordinate. In the end it was up to
every machine gun crew to fight its
own way out or to resist TO the last,
until swept away by the allies artil-
lery or over their tanks or infantry.
but they were so placed that until
that time came their fire was so
directed that it swept very effectually
the ADVANCING lines The Germans
lost thousands of their machine guns
by such tactics but they have saved
proportionately in men.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

The Turks are going to quit, too.
The announcement that the Turkish
cabinet has decided to stick by the
central powers isn't straight news.
1t cane from Amsterdam.
Enc ouraging news excites great
black ceadlines in the paperh, and
IL al locks line the end of the war is
near Don't move too fast for our side
in the struggle. We have yet hard
contest ahead.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

been the principal developments OF
the art of war this year, A year ago
an attack was lumbening ponderous
thing, moving along heavily and de-
libertely behind great weight OF
artillery preparation. Today speed IN
the thing. The rate of advance In the
British army has been increased four
fold in the past year.
Behind the screen of swift-moving
tanks, armored moter cars and cavalry,
the assault divisions rush into the
German positions, occupying trench
es, stamping out insulated nests OF
resistance and collecting the masses
of prisoners. The infantry necessar-
| lily move more slowly than the mobile
assault forces, but when one takes in
| to account the width of the usual
thrust operation nowadays and its
depth, the movement is wonderfully
fast, and days operations, if sue
1 cessful, mean the occunation of many
square miles Of territory
AS fast as the lines moves, the en-
gineers are busy extending the light
railways, and as fast as the rails are
laid, they begin to carry their burden
of supplies and ammunition. Many
miles of track can now be laid by3a
single section of engineers in day,
and by the evening after a success
full attack, the late field of battle is
criss-crossed with line after lin of
1 dating and preparing for further
step forward.
! AS speed to attack develops on the
allied side, so the helterskelter
+! character of the German movement
in the opposite direction must in.
crease The effect of a sudden push
back on the German lines in like the
impact of a locomotive on a train of
freight-cars,- shock drives the
farthest freight car farthest back.
The effect of the Allied blow is i'm
mesurably enhanced by the speed with
which it is delivered.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

The gunner it firing at the mine. Sud
denly there comes a spurts of flame
and smoke, downed Immediately by
a huge spout of seething water as
the mine explodes. The destroyer re-
sumes its place at the head of the
the colum.
The airship drifts oack to give the
"AH Clear" at signal from the leader
the convoy resumes full-speed. and
without further incident-the passage
is completed.
AS the first transport steams with
in the breakwater of the French port.
seaplane comes swooping in from
the sea, four red bombs are tucked
side by side under its right-hand
wing, but three of the four are miss
ing from the rack on the other side.
The captain of the troop-ship note
this through his glasses and remarks
upon the fact to the American Colon.
ell standing by his side. They specu-
late for a few minutes as to what use
may have been made of the missing
bombs.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

The Americans bagged 100 enemy
atrlanes in four days, and q bal
looms besides. That's saying something
for our sidue in the air. This is one
of the results of the congressional in
vestigations last winter in all pro
liability.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

We are ahead with ginning to date
two and a quartz million bales over
the same time last year. The apparent
good price must have sent much OF
it to the gins early. There is now no
need OF hurry. There will be better
ul'ice,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

EhOI hGFN"O "
Day after day the steady stream OF
American soldiers pours through Eng
land en- route to France. Never was
the country so busy, never has IT seen
such an amending stream of new
faces. Most of these men, from the
far.off states, have been in England
only a few days at the most They
land in the north, they hurry across
John Bulls little island, and then are
off again. across the silver waters
of the Channel, for their ultimate
destination.
The scene at the docks is a al
ways one of great interest for the
privileged few who are permitted to
witness it. All day long the great
troop-ships are loading and depart
ing. The process is a rapid one, every
thing moves with military precision.
Five minutes before the troop-ship
starts, there is long warning blast
on the siren. Soon the big ship slowly
veers away from the pier and heads
for the open water, its rails lined
with khaki-clad Americans. Outside
another troop-ship is waiting and the
transport falls into line behind its
companion.
Out of the nowhere three British
destroyers suddenly appear and take
up position, one in front and one on
either side of the transports. High
above the horizon CLEANS the silver
body of patrol sirship, which with
the destroyers will accompany the
Americans to their destination. No sub
marine can creep along the sea bot
tom without these aerial observers
detecting its approach, and wire
less call to the eager destroyers will
bring about its destruction or speedy
withdrawal. The Germans have long
since learned the dangers of these
narrow seas, and very seldom do they
venture within them.
The white cliffs of England grow
dim in the distance, and out of the
other horizon looms the shore of
France. The transports steam on.
ward; the escort lazily keeps pace with
them.
A sudden signal from the leading
destroyers causes an instantaneous
change in the whole conoy. The lead
ing destroyer has come to dead
stop right athwart the course of the
troopships. The speed of the trans
ports drops. The word Mine" goes
round from mouth, and everybody on
board rushes to the side to see.
A mine it is sure enough. As the
transports draw near it can be seen
floating scarce a cables length
from the destroyer's quarter Only a
small patch of its rounded bulk shows
above the surface. But the small
pitch is girt with the deadly horns
atouch of which fires the charge OF ex
plosive.
AS the transports move on at
~quarter-speed, one destroyer fingers
behind. 1t moves "a safe distance
+ away from the floating mine. Then
comes the rattle Of fits machinegun.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03
SUFFRAGE WILL COME

SUFFRAGE WILL COME
We do not understand every turn
that has been taken in the United
States senate to secure the defeat of
the woman suffrage amendment. We
do not even understand why the pre-
sident had to go before the senate
and ask for passage of the amend
ment as a war measure He usually
has good reasons for a step. There
may have been a war necessarily for
it,-but that does not show on the
surface so easily.
There is a necessity for woman
suffrage, a universal necessity among
all highly self-governed people. 1t will
come as surely as human progress con
tinues. Wherever it is given, the ne
cessty at once appears, and over and
over again statesmen explain that they
have never understood why women
| have not for ages been permitted the
use of the ballot on an equal footing
with men.
We say all this FUZZY understanding
that there will be both men and wo-
men to read it who laugh at the APP
parent folly of 1t We havg-witl us
people who do not yet understand
that woman suffrage must become a
part of all republican forms of govern
ment. 1t cannot be free government
without it. 1t cannot be self-govern-
ing nation without it. The United
States must admit it.
We must remember that this is a
growing liberty. Many of our states
have adopted it and it begins to
appear now that it has been a mistake
to go to the seat of the federal gov
eminent for the adoption of the stuff
1gc measure for women. In the west
it was not gotten that way. In the
south it will come by local campaign
of education and only that Agi-
tation will bring it.
1t is an measure far easier of adoption
than prohibition and when our poorly
managed woman suffrage campaign
goes back to the states where it be-
longs something will come of it. All the
lngs, smething will cine of it. All the
advancement yet recorded has come
through the state campaigns.
The national effort may have done
good, but it has failed of passage in
the United States senate in spite of
the effort of President Wilson, and
until something is done elsewhere,
there will not likely be an advance in
power for the suffrage measure.
Senator Smith of Georgia voted
against it. Senator Hardwick voted
against it, They may have their own
convictions, but the fact that the pre-
sident asked for it was enough to de-
eide them eternally and for a day.
They may oppose woman suffrage, but
they also oppose Wilson.
Consistent effort in the states will
do far more than has been done in
Washington. England gave her wo-
men the ballot, and you should be ad-
yised that they are using it in these
times America will give it her women
and direct them to use it with in
telligence and power one CT these
days. And they will do it.
When that day comes in Georgia
politics will move in a different at
mosDhere and principle will outshine
demagoguery.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03
GERMANS SAVING MEN

Conservation is the word one hears
Always economical, the Germans are
saving now more than ever before in
manpower Since the day the Ger
mans started backward from the
Marine they have been conserving
their numbers as never before and
they have done it in a most admir-
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

Noyon, an important stragetic point
recently recovered by the allies, is sit
uated some 81 miles northeast of Par
is and is a town of great antiquity.
1t saw the coronation of Pippin the
Short in A. D. 752. and also the eoror
nation of Chaflemagne some years
later. a,lNaM
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

Do all your preparation before hand
and be ready Tuesday to see that
bonds are subscribed from one end
of Crisp to the other. We must come
on over with that quarter million.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

Hurley says he has two two mil
lions tons more shipping on the way
Had to say something big. He was
asking congress for $484,0OO,OO with
which to carry on"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03
Member. Of Associated press.

TIE Associated ! ress Is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or rot otherwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-10-03

Communication on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
MED by full names and address. Not
responsible for views Of contributors.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
SAVING AND SAVING AND LEND
INC

Sir William Goodeof the British
Food Ministry, says that from July,
1917, to April, 1918, the United
States exported to the allies 80,00O,-
Ucc bushes of wheat products. Of
this it is asserted that. 50,OOO,OOO
buhels represented voluntary sacri-
fees by the American people in their
consumption Of wheat.
There is triple economy, triple
aspect to this saving of wheat. It
saved wheat for our army and the
armies of our allies; it saved money
to the American people, and for the
most part this money went for the
purchases Of government war secur.
tiles.
There is another saving still; this
sort Of sacrifice and economy is help
ing win the war-shorten the war
with the resultant saving of sol
diers' lives.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
PURE WHEAT FOR SOLDIERS.

The War Department authorizes
the following:
The American Army in France is
getting good soft bread made from
pure wheat flour. There are several
reasons why it is not advisable to
carry out the wheat saving substitr .
rule in bread making overseas. Fiell
bakers must work swiftly and can
not afford to experiment with new
flour mixtures. Every effort is made
by the Subsistence Division of the
Quartermaster Corps to give these
bakers the best material possible and
to make the baking process simple
and standard.
Mixed Flour for Troops Here.
Our troops in the United States
have been getting the prescribed
amount of substitutes in their bread,
and it has proved satisfactory. Here
bakers are definitely located and can
easily work out mixtures that will
produced good bread. The daily
ration for soldiers Of the American
Expenditionary Forces is 10 ounces
Of wheat flour for soft bread. This
has proved to be more than enough
-
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26

changes at training centers have bevn
decided on as follows by the General
Staff:
Camp Hancock, Ca, is to be ma
chine-gun center and will be enlarged
to accommodates between SIS, 900 and
$4,000 men. The officers training
school, now housed in tents at this
point, will be provided for in bar
racks and quarters similar to those
already erected at other environments.
The improvements for this purpose
will cost about 100000. This figure
does not cover the increased cost for
other construction that will be neces-
sary to care for the increased number
of men to be located at this camp.
Infantry Replacement Camp.
It has been decided to make Camp
Grant an infantry replacement camp
to accommodate between $4,000 and
10000 men. The present capacity of
this camp is about $4,000. The al
terations and additions made neces-
sary by this change will be made
after the division now located there
is removed.
Field Artillery firing centers are
to be located at West Point, KY,
Camp Jackson, S. c., and at Fayette-
vile, N. c. Options on sufficient
land for this purpose have been Sc
cured at all these places. 1t is
planned to locate six brigades at FAY
etteville, six at West Point, and four
at Jackson.
Officers Training Schools.
It has also been decided to erect
permanent buildings for the officers
training schools at present housed in
tents at Camps Lee, Gordon and
Pike. These schools have a capacity
of about 5000 men. The estimated
cost of erecting barracks and quar-
tiers and doing other construction
work at each of these schools is about
100000.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
AMERICAN PRISONERS LET
TIERS DICTATED BY THE GER
MANS

Colonel Churchill, chief of the mil
itary intelligence branch of the Gen.
eral Staff, directs the attention of
American editors to recently publish
ed letters from American prisoners
of war in German camps in which
the prisoners speak of the excellence
Of the food and general treatment of
the prisoners.
An officer of the military intelli
gence branch, who spent two years
of the war in Germany, reports that
there are certain rules laid Down for
all prisoners in letter writing. The
price they pay for the transmission
of their letters is that they must state
that they are well treated, also that
the food is good and that they are
contented. The letters of the pris
oners are carefully censored at the
amp, and any statements made con-
trary to the rule laid down for letter
writing simply means destruction of
the letter.
1t is, therefore, concluded that any
information coming from American
prisoners in Germany is absolutely
unreliable and should not be pub
aished in American newspapers or
magazines as in any way authentic.
1t is urged that all editors give the
above every earnest consideration In
handling prisoners letters that may
reach them in any way whatever.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26

and reduction to 16 ounces per day
is now under consideration.
The army supply of flour at this
time is 10 per cent abundant at every
place along the line, from the mills
to the battle line in France. Every
requirement for flour, both for do
mestic and overseas consumption, is
being met.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26

and has crippled i'm
portant war industries.
In occasional instances
workers h ave been
Drawn from all over the
country, and then be-
cause til e employers
had been premature in
til e ir recruiting, they
had to tell the men
"We may need you next
month"
To do away with this
unnecessary shifting OF
men, the Government
has organized the Z. S.
Employment Service as
a part of the Depart
ment of Labor. 1t has
500 branch Offices and
10000 i. S. Public
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
Officers Training Schools.

If your child is pale and sickly
picks at the nose, starts in the sleep
and grinds the teeth while sleeping,
it s sure sign Of worms. A remedy
for these parasites will be found in
WHITES CREAM vERMIFUGE. It
not only clears out the worms, but it
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
Patriot h d WIf theWu~
Henry Loeb Co. Ltd.

restores health and cheerfulness.
Price 3Oc per bottle. Sold by Der,
LANCER Drug Company.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
Presidents Statement

Industry plays as essential and
. honorable a role in this great struggle
as do our military ornaments. We
all recognize the truth Of this, but
we must also see its necessary i'm
plications - namely, that industry,
doing vital task for the nation,
must receive the support and as
sistaace Of the nation.
Therefore, l solennIy urre all
employers engaged in war work to
refrain after August Ist, 1918, from
recruiting unskilled labor in any
manner except through this central
agency. | urge labor 10 respond is
loyalty as heretofore to any calls
issued BY this agency for voluntary
enlistment in essential industry.
And | ask them both alike to re-
member that no sacrifice viii have
b4ca in vain, If we are able to
prove beyond all question that the
highest and best form OF efficiency
is the SPONTANEOUS cooperation Of a
free people,"
WOODROW WILSON.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
WAR DEPARTMENT PLANS FOR
THE EXPANSION OF CAMPS

The War Department authorizes
the following statement:
Expansions Of camps and other
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
TODAY'S TEMPERATURE
Thermometer reading at $3.50
80 degrees.
80 degrees.

Mrs. A. Rayskamp Of New Orleans
is the guest of Mrs. W. Ditch.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1918-08-26
Don't Go to the Job That isn't There"

TN to-day's eager rush for men there
is tendency on the part of en-
ployers to call for workers before
the jobs are ready. This has resulted
in loss of time and money to workmen,