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WANT NEW ENGLAND OPINION :.
ON PROPOSED LOBSTER BILL

half tho year. It varies at different
coast points, but in most cases begins
in Juno or July and continues to No
vember, December or January.
The fisheries commission has advised
the House committee that Holsters can
be caught in water as deep as $50
fathoms. at least. although most CT the
Holsters caught on the United States
and Canadian coasts como from water
less than 100 fathoms deep.
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MIR. GERRY's VOTE WANTED.
Rhode Island Legislature Requests
Him to Support Woman Suffrage.

Resolutions requesting that Senator
Gerry of Rhode Island vote for woman
suffrage were unanimously adopted by
the legislature of that state yesterday,
according to information received here.
Copies of the resolutions it was stated,
were forwarded to Senator Gerry and
to President Wilson and Vice President
Marshall.
Senator Colt, republican. the other
senator from Rhode Island, has already
been listed as supporter OF the equal
suffrage amendment.
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MINORS FREEDOM
SHOCKS KEAT|NG
Representative Says Boys and
Girls Run Too Loosely
in District. \
SEES AID IN WoMEN's VOTE

Representative Keating, speaking on
American Standards" before members
Of the Consumers League Of the Dis
trict of Columbia at its annual meet
ing at the Y. NJ. c. A. assembly hall
last night, declared that he was
shocked at the manner in which boys
and girls are allowed to run loosely
about Washington"
For the most part he confined his re-
marks to the proposed minimum wage
bill. and it was while talking on this
point that he gave his opinion on the
manner in which the young are allowed
to run the streets and engage in labors.
which, he said, should be left to older
persons.
Keep Standard Up, He Says.
THE American standard the country
wants." he said, 'is one worthy of de-
mocracy. Though the men fighting
overseas are doing so for political
without industrial freedom as we'll l
want to see the boys come back and
fnd the standards no lower than when
they left u.s."
He declared that an awakened public
sentiment is needed to push legislation to
safeguard the women and the children.
Woman suffrage, he asserted, is the rem
edy. Women, in the opinion of the rep
resentative, must appeal for government
legislation for a minimum wage because
they do not organize into labor bodies as
do the men.
Miss Kelley Adds Objection.
Miss Florence Kelley of New York. sec
retary of the National Consumers
League. speaking on 'The Shopping Pub
lie and the Young Wage Earners," op-
posed the employment of young girls as
telegraph messengers and of young
women as elevator, subway and trolley
workers. Referring to young girls being
employed messenger girls. she char
acterized the work as "odious' and de-
moralizing.
I'VE give all the power to the public
service commission. which does not
serve" she said.
members toward doing everything pos
sible against the misuse of young wom-
en- and girls of the country by the pub
lie service commission.
Miss Mary O'Sullivan of the District
repeated her talk on How I Lived on
being gained in the capital Associate
Justice Siddons presided.
At the business meeting the following
officers were elected: President, Mrs.
Laurence Todd; vice presidents, Mrs.
Robert Sold, Mrs. " Everett Macy,
Mrs Walter s. Unord; treasurer, Mrs.
Henry S. Graves; recording secretary.
the executive committee. Miss Edith ].
Goods, Mrs. Newton D. Baker, DR..
Charles P. Neill, A J. McKelway, DR..
Frank OHara, Mrs. Laura c. Williams.
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GETS CROSS OF WAR.
Sidney I. Howell, American, Hon
ored by the French Government.

EAST ORANGE, N. J., April 13.-Sid-
ney I. Howell, a son of William B.
Howell, a United States general ap-
praiser and former assistant secretary Of
the United States Treasury, has been
awarded the cross Of war by France, ac-
Evening star., 1918-04-14
BAND CONCERT.

Concert by the U. s. Soldiers
Home Band at the bandstand to-
morrow afternoon, beginning at
5:45 o'clock, John S. NJ. Zimmer-
mann, director.
my Country. 'Tis Of Thee"
March, THE Indomitable".. Fulton
Overture. King Mydas."
Eilenberg
Suite, "An Episode in Birdland,"
Bendix
(a) THE Magpie and the Par
rot" (b) The Gentle Dove"
(c) "The Merry Lark" (d) The
Broken-hearted Sparrow"
Excerpts from 'Katinka". .Friml
Fox trot. "In Old Brazil. Spencer
Waits suite. Lure Of the Night"
Intermezzo. ION Desert Sands"
Allen
Finale. Gypsy Life" Trinkhaus
'.The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star., 1918-04-14

When consideration of the Overman
bill permitting the President to CO.
ordinate and consolidate the various
government departments and bureaus
comes up for consideration in the
Senate again, probably this week, Sem
ator Hoke Smith of Georgia. will be
one of the most ardent advocates of
amending it so that it will apply only
to the Army and Navy and shipping
board. Discussing the measure he said:
There should be the most complete
cooperation between the President and
Congress. 1t is desirable at all times;
lit is absolutely necessary to fight the
war.
"The President made a great speech
in Baltimore. Nothing Is in sight but
a fight to the finish, and every re-
source of our country must be organ
lied to win the war, and every effort,
every act and every thought should be
to accomplish that result.
Disapproves Civil Changes.
Senator Smith then showed how the
civil establishment had been perfected
by careful legislation during the past
century, and suggested that but few
changes could be made that would i'm
prove strengthen 1t.
This is no time he said, ito tinker
with our civil establishment. This is no
time to subject our civil service estab-
lishment to changes. yet this bill pro-
vtdes for the redistribution of the func-
tions Of the civil establishment, which
reach from the Secretary of State to
fourth-class postmaster. 1 wish all
reference to the civil establishment
might be stricken from the bill. This
branch of our government should not be
placed in suspense. The objection to
this bill is not the power given to the
President in military matters. That
power cannot be made too great. The
objection is its application to all civil
governmental agencies and the condi-
ton of doubt and uncertainty it places
upon them. OF these the two most i'm
portant over which 1t casts doubt are
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Federal Reserve Board
States His Objections.
ITO transfer the duties of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to the di-
rector OF railroads. even though he has
rendered greater service as Secretary
OF the Treasury than any Of his prede-
cessors, would to be subject the indus
tries of the country really to the will.
as to rates and determinations. of the
various local superintendents of rail-
roads scattered from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. from the lakes to the gulf
This would place the stability of
every industry in a condition of doubt.
ional production.
ITO place the duties of the Federal
Reserve Board in the hands of the
comptroller of the currency would
shake our banking system throughout
IDENTIFY rests upon the wisdom Of the
Federal Reserve Board as at present
orGanized.
These two governmental agencies
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FOR LIMITING OVERMAN BILL
TO ARMY, NAVY AND SHIPPING

must be saved from doubt and uncer-
tainty. 1t is essential to the successful
conduct of the war, and by amendments
certainly they should be removed from
the effects Of the bill"
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$50 O,OOO,OOO HOUSING BILL TO
BE FAVORABLY REPORTED
Senate Committee to Submit Tomorrow
Modified Measure, Which Allots $10,000,-
600 to District-Expect Early Action

vides that no contract of more than
$50 900 shall be let except to the low
est responsible bidder.
The bill is made specifically to in
clude navy yards in its provisions, as
well as arsenals and munition and
other war supplies plants.
Provision for Furnishings.
The committee wrote into the bill a
provision that the furnishings in no
private dwelling shall be acquired ex-
cept by contract nor shall any dwelling
college building, museum, library build
ing. or state and municipal building
under provisions of this act, except by
contract, unless necessity therefor shall
be determined by a judge of the cir
cult or district court of the United
States exercising jurisdiction in the
locality" The determination of the
Judge shall be final.
The, committee struck out the provision
which directs the improvement Of the
Maltoy building for living purposes. Other
buildings owned by the government now
unoccupied as dwellings may be fitted up
and used for the purpose of housing the
government employees
In the case of the Maltby building 1t
was estimated it would take about s125.-
600 to fit it up for living purposes, it
having always been used for offices. and
that it could house only about 200 per-
sons when fitted up
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No Further Changes Made.

No Further Changes Made.
No other changes in the measure.
which provides penalties of thirty
for damaging great number of es-
sential war materials, including rail-
roads, bridges, live stock and factories.
were made.
One of the clauses eliminated by the
conferees-an amendment offered by
Representative Cannon of Illinois in
the House-provided for punishment of
those who wilfully "injure, interfere
with or obstruct the United States or
any associate nation in preparing for
conspire to prevent the erection or pro-
duction of such war premises, war ma
terial or war utilities"
The other clauses eliminated
amendment by Representative Lunn OF
New York, and around which the con-
troversy was centered because senators
feared it would authorize more strikes
on war work-provided that nothing
unlawful for employees to agree to-
gether to stop work or not to enter
thereon with the sole and bona fide
purpose of securing better wages or
conditions of employment"
The Senate Friday refused to re-
consider its action in rejecting the con-
ference report on the sabotage bill be-
cause Of the provision which would
legal1Ze strikes In war munitlon plants.
Senator Jones of Washington moved to
recall the papers which had been re-
jected. A point of order by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts against this
motion was overruled by the chair,
Senator Jones of New Mexico presiding.
Senator Gallinger appealed from the
ruling of the chair. and the appeal was
sustained, 35 to 29.
Senator Hollis of New Hampshire
said that Samuel Gompers. president
Of the American Federation of La
Dor, opposed any legislation that
would prevent peaceful strikes, and
was opposed to the passage of the bill
now pending, providing punishment for
Interfering with the manufacture of
war materials, unless a provision was
included exempting labor strikes
Senator Hollis declared President
Gompers had tried patriotically and
earnestly to keep labor at work" dur
ing the war, but said peaceful strikes
were the only weapons labor had to
secure its rights.
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CHAnGESARE MADE.
IN SABOTAGE BILL
Conferees Omit Sections Pc
na|izing Obstruction Of War
Material Manufacture.
LABOR CLAUSE ALSO OUT

Provisions in the sabotage bill. penal
izing acts obstructing production Of
war materials, were eliminated from
the measure yesterday by Senate and
House conferees.
The 'conferees also struck out the
clause permitting labor to strike for
higher wages, which the Senate re-
jected.
In removing these provisions the con-
ferees eliminated all penalties for OBJ
structing the manufacture of war ma
terials, but retained provisions to Pc
nalize damaging supplies.
The agreement was regarded as a
compromise made in expectation that
it would be satisfactory to both fac
tions in Congress and to prevent death
of other important legislation in the
bill by deadlock
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29

my who wages the same war against
women and children as against sol
diers. Aerial raids on towns, which
are counterpart of the pitiless subma-
rine war and the attack against Ameri-
can rights, are. the very explanation Of
the reason why America entered the
war. We are sending our soldiers to
Europe to fight until the world is de-
livered from these horrors"
While no official announcement has
been made, the general impression
/. prevails that new plans of the Ameri-
can war department call for the dis
patch Of American troops to France
much more rapidly than was proposed
in the earlier plans. The indications
are that an effort will be made to
bring the American expeditionary
force up to a strength of approximate
ly 100000 men by the middle of the
summer, instead of 100000 men as
was contemplated by the original plans
of the war department. The dispatch
of many National army units is expect.
ed soon, in accordance with the plan
that has been adopted of forming an
army corps out of two divisions of the
regular army, two divisions of the Ma
tional Guard and two divisions of the
National army. As many units of the
National Guard are already overseas,
with the larger number of regular army
divisions, 1t is expected that the move
ment of several divisions of the Ma
tional army will follow soon.
That the movement of troops will
be more rapid than was at first be
IIeved possible is indicated by the an
nouncement of the war department
that the second draft, which will be
made as soon as needed legislation
can be secured from congress, will call
out approximately 100000 men. Only
the rapid movement of many divisions
now In environments in this country
could make room for this large num-
Der of new draft men. In this connec-
ton 1t is predicted abroad that Cen
eral Pershing's men will be holding
100 miles of front by the closing days
of 1918 longer front than was held
by the British armies two years after
the war began.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29
THIN BoARDER HAS GoOb ONE
Before Reading This, just What Is the
Difference Between an Elephant
and a Microbe2

"Tve got one for you this morning"
said the thin boarder, tucking his pa
per napkin under his chin, as he APP
preached his meatless-wheatless break
fast. whats the difference between
an elephant and microbe?"
"Shoot It'll" said the soldier on fur
Tough.
'.shoot yourself" replied the thin
one.
"A ton and half" suggested the
coal clerk with rose in his button
hole.
won't do" came from the conun-
drum propounder.
zones found in his lair and the
other in the air." ventured the lady
schoolteacher.
"Guess again." was skinny's dare.
zone comes to you when you want
1t, and the other comes to you when
you DON'T" said the bank clerk.
awful y was the emaciated ones
rejoinder.
''Well, dope it out" came from the
tired group.
"One carries a trunk and the other
the grip."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29

Americans at home continue to be
electrified by reports Of the exploits
of Pershings troops in the sectors
which are now held by the Americans.
Successful raids have been made re-
peatedly by the American troops while
the American artillery has won many
duels with the big guns Of the enemy.
One raid on the new United States
front in Lorraine was declared to be
the most successful encounter in which
! American soldiers have engaged dur
| ing the war. In this raid infantry
units penetrated the enemy lines to a
depth OF between 400 and 600 yards at
some points. The raid followed a bonn
| bartlment by American guns which
| lasted four hours and which wrecked
| the enemy's front trenches and barbed
wire entanglements. Three successive
raids at different points on this sector
| all proved highly successful, the Amer
leans capturing a number of prisoners
| and returning TO their own trenches
with small casualties. In a raid on
the Toul sector, the American soldiers
penetrated the German trenches to q
depth of 800 yards. After some hand
to-hand fighting in which number of
the enemy were killed and wounded,
the raiders returned to their lines with
much material and information, al
though they captured no prisoners. 1t
was reported that every American who
left the front line on this raid re
turned.
The American troops in the Toul
sector have been subjected to terrific
artillery fire. the German apparently
having concentrated strong forces OF
artillery on this sector. II was re-
ported that in some places the bonn
bardment reduced the first line
trenches to ruins but the Americans
at those points continued to hold their
positions I'm shell crsters. The Ameri-
can artillery also has been active on
all sectors held by Pershlng's men.
bombarding towns and roads in the
rear of the.Geeman lines.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29


Two traInmen were killed and am
other fatally injured when q Iocomo-
tive exploded on the Fort Worth 4
Denver road near Wichita Falls. Texas,
The heavy freight train ran half q mile
before Il was stopped
a sentence ~ ffteen years IN the
federal peniientlary 81 ATLANTA. was
Imposed on the Rev Elarence II Wal
tlfoH. 4 baptist clergyman 81 Windsor
W. convicted Tuesday night IT dis.
ioyHl nttefanees and opposing the gov
ernment's military service plans,
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes Nea York
Cts Socialist WAS arrested at Spring
neld, Aio, after sbe had defied 20.
lice order ana attempted q hold q
street meeting.
FARMERS seeking 10 have their help
given deferred classification IL the
draft must fie affidayits with local
ffaft boards, thc department II labor
has annenneed Attention WIS called
g the faet tliaf The boards haye no
authority II giye deferred classification
otherwise.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29
FoREloN

the ndiulant general from the war de-
pnrtment directed.
FOREIGN
Germanys hrst attempt 10 outfit a
raider at west coast Mexican port
with which 20 create havoc among Pa
elite coast shipping hus been frus
trntcd. schooner Outiltted by the
Huns having been captured fifteen
miles of Makatlan, Mexico.
The Peruvian senate has approved
the hrst section % the hin which II
has heen debating authorizing the Is
sue Ut gold certificates as currency,
guaranteed by deposits ia banks IN the
Iluited states.
what ii believed 10 be the adver.
tised spring drive o. the Huns has be-
gun, desperate attempt being made
10 pierce the british lines, but 50 far
the Germans have been unsuccessful
Dispatches from The Hague report
that q local news agency says that
Germany considers her relations with
Holland altered by the attitude Of the
Dutch government toward the entente
and the united States and publishes
report TINT the Abandonment hS the
Dutch government Of the remaining re-
strirtlye clauses in its shipping loan
terms would 30 regarded BY Germany
as ceuse for war,
Although battle IS being fought
witch Is likely 10 develop Into the
greatest struggle Of modern history,
ana perhaps settle the result 81 the
war the English people preserve the
same quiet calm they have worn for
The past four years. There are nc
signs Of unusual excitement Or merry.
business "a London no crowds outside
The newspaper offices or elsewhere,
In 4 speech delivered III the British
lh0nse ~ commons on March 20 Sir
| Erie Campbell tIcddes. first lord Of the
admiralty. declared that during the
last quarter Of 1917, the allies we're
averaging within 100000 tons monthly
81 making their losses COED aud were
then replacing 75 per cent Of their lost
tonnage
Renewal of German talk of great
west front offensive this spring Is MS
eribed in uffieial dispatches from
switzerland as due Ia the desire of ths
German general stan 20 confuse the
sllies as 10 Germany's real Intentions
Released German prisoners are co
operating with the Bolsheyiki Ia ST.
IBERIA In the campaign against the
garrss 81 Ceneral SemenoH, leader Of
the .solsheviki faction. Wounded
soldiers ef General Setnenoffs com
rnand say that ia battle on March
theS wete tired upon hy former Ger
, naan prisoners attached To the helsheY
III forces.
the spanish and Swiss ambassadors
, III Berth hare been requested By tbs
, German foreign office a. notify IA,
, American government that German,
win proceed with measures agalns
! | American property IN Germany Ia tn
same proportion that action Is takcl
against Herman property Ia the Unite'
: states. according 20 Reuters Amster
dam correspondent.
E The Ukraine national council has Dc
/ elared martial law In the provinces o
{ PostHvn. Tcherulgoy aud kharkoy, as
!. eoriing 10 Reuter- dispatch from rel
n rograd.
= The admiralty reports the loss b
u mine er submarine 81 seventeen BIRTHS
b merchantmen isst week. or thes
eleven were 1900 tons or over and Il
I. under that tonnage.
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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29

Nat merely has the Dobrudja been TAX
en- from R0umania, but Berlin and Vi
emma, who have expressed themselves
piously as opposed to annexations, are
now Insisting upon rectlhcatlon of
frontier that win give to Austria all
the strategic mountain passes and
dominating heights, including the Iron
Gates Of the Danube, along the west
ern frontier Of Roumania.
This is precisely what Austria did
to Italy when the boundary line was
dellmited by treaty, and the fact that
Austria controlled every vantage point
along the Isonzo and In the Alps when
the war began UNNECESSARILY added to
the difficulties of Cadorna's campaign
Ing.
Berlin Is determining that Roumania
shall be placed In helpless position ut
the feet of Austria, covered by Aus
trlan guns and rendered forever in
capable OF acting otherwise than the
central powers approve.
la
Intense aerial activity on the part
of both the entente allies and the
Teutonic forces has developed. Sixty
German airplanes took part In a raid
on Paris, which resulted in heavy cas-
unlties, final figures showing at least
100 persons to have been killed and
10 wounded. Among the dead was an
American woman, Miss Winga Caro-
lima Martin, who was a Y. M. @. A..
canteen worker. Miss Martin was one
of six persons killed In hospital
which was struck by a bomb. Among
those killed were a large number of
women and children who were crushed
to death Ia panic at the entrance
to a subway station where hundreds
sought refuge from the enemy bombs.
However, while the Huns were boast
ing of this most successful raid, the
airmen of the allies were not idle.
British avlators invaded Germany,
making a daylight raid on Coblentz,
one of the important railroad centers
In western Germany, the seat of big
military barracks and extensive mu-
nitlons works. A ton of high explo-
SANto WIS hIOBltu bll lilt NAAyf othit'h
fires In many sections. This was the
third daylight raid on the enemy coun-
try in period OF four days.
Behind the lines In Flanders and
France the British ayiators are also
maintaining the effective work they
have been doing lately. The territory
from Lille south 70 Cambria has been
sown with bombs, railroad sldlngs and
ammunition dumps in the region of
Maubeuge, Yalenciennes, Douai and
Cambria being attacked.
The enemy is getting nll the worst
of the air fighting, and his apparent
Inability to check the British flyers or
to take the initiative himself in this
important sphere rather discounts his
loud boasts of readiness for great
offensive. II Is to be doubted IL he
can venture any large-scale offensive
! while the overhead fields Of battles are
so thoroughly controlled by his OPP
/ ponents,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-03-29
Tractor VS.. Mule.

Ten mules can haul about two tons
of material and their work is limited
to ten hours, but the tractor hauls %
tons and covers a distance of 20 miles
at the same time.