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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-28

against the County were allowed and
the County Clerk was authorized to
draw warrants for the same.
John Graf, Caring for pauper
Rosa Graf. ----------------- 1000
Nora Silver, widows pension
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-28
Who'd Thought III

Reform is the work OF reason slowly
awakening from the Iethargy Of igno-
rance, gradually acquiring confidence
In her own strength, and ultimately til
umphing over the dominion Of preju-
dice and custom.
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Total - $4,000

Total ---- S1,370.00
Respectfully submitter
Alex Dechant
PA. Sept. 2, 1918.
I will put end walls on metal cul-
verts to the plans and specifications
and furnish all material single cul-
vert $47OO and all Is for $611.O0
and concrete culverts single $500
and all - S122400
Yours, John A. Goetz.
ga $1,000 each culvert, S525.O0
for all Time until the 18th Of April
1919.
John Engel, Antonino, Kansas.
On Kutina Road.
ITO be Continued)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-28

She-aNo, you are too poor. II I
washed dishes for man it might
make him look upon me as a servant
He3"Oh, no; you'd have to break
them TO DO that
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-11-28
EnnIish Wordn on Inereaee.

The English vocabulary has grown
to great size. The number OF words
found In old English literature does
not exceed 10000; recent dictionaries
have listed more than 100000.
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

chartered allied or neutral vessels.
Cargo Carriers Run on Schedule.
The fleet which is now under the
control of the Shipping Board num-
bers 1900 vessels. over them is ex-
ercised an authority absolute as
that which controls the movement
of navy ships. The business of
handling these ships efficiently and
OF having them where they should
be, and at the time when they
should be there, is a big undertake
ing. But It is being successfully ac-
complished and our cargo carriers
now run on a schedule almost as
definite as that of ocean liners be-
fore the war came to interrupt.
Months ago Chairman Hurley saw
the urgent necessity of a body OF
expert sea-strategists to administer
our merchant ships efficiently. The
result of that decision was the crea-
tion, Jointly by the United States
Shipping Board and the Secretary
of War, Of the Shipping Control
Committee. So this Committee
came forthwith into dynamic real
ity, to become at once the biggest
ship operator in the world.
In previous wars military and
naval strategists were thought the
only necessary kinds. But this great
world war has brought forth a new,
distinctive kind of strategy to coll
labOrate with the other two. In
fact, were this modern strategy
lacking, military and naval strategy
would be deprived of one great
backing force Indispensable to vic
tory.
OF war colleges and general STATS
much has been heard. But of Amer
ica's commercial strategists of the
seas little or nothing has been said.
Even If the name under which they
operate-the Shipping Control Com
mittee of the United States Ship
ping Boards mentioned, il has so
technical a sound that IL conveys no
popular meaning of the far-reaching
results they are contributing to the
wars success by their dextrous ham
ding of the huge merchant fleets
under the American flag.
Able Men Direct Ships Movements.
At the head of this committee is
P. A. S. Franklin, President of the
International Mercantile Marine.
Associated with him are two other
experts, II. H. Raymond, president
of the Clyde and Mallory steamship !
lines, and Sir Connap Guthrie. spe-
cial representative Of the British
Ministry of Shipping in the United
States.
This committee has a corps of as
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

ly three times as much as in 1874.
OF the more than six billions dol
lars worth of products exported
from this country last year. S1,3OO,-
0ne 600 were fOdstuffs and food ami
mails. Furthermore. our exports Of
foods 10 Europe are all the greater
because of the saving in cOnsump-
tion of various foods the American
people have been making.
Although our exports may occa.
sionally decline, still on the whole
there is every probability of their
increasing. Not only during the
war but after the war. Large areas
of Europe are depopulated and dew
astated. Much of the rich wheat
growing sections, including almost
all of the winter-wheat producing
areas of Russia, are i'm the Ger
mans possession. Conditions in
Russia are chaotic. The western
European Allies produced in 1917
about 222,000,000 bushels less than
the annual pre-war average. There
was a great drop also in the wheat
production of other European coun-
tries. Argentina, Australia and In
dia are producing good crops. But
there is no shipping to move it
properly. Being thousands of miles
nearer the scene, the United States
Is the one country looked upon for
suceOr.
While the war is on there is a
big enough demand from our Allies
in Europe for material of all kinds.
We have to supply coal, steel, oil,
cotton, lumber, rails, locomotives
and a great quantity Of other prod
ucts. After the war when the job
Of rehabilitating Europe is put
through, the demand upon this
country for raw and manufactured
material of all kinds win be enor-
nous. We shall also have to re-
plenish the depleted herds of Eu-
rope from our own cattle.
So il is clear that besides the mil
lions of tons of shipping urgently
needed for the army and navy, we
shall need a great permanent mer-
chant marine. In 1914 only $780,
100000 of the more than S2,OO0.OOO.-
600 of our exports was carried in
American vessels. Even now a great
part of the cargo and passenger
ships we are using are seized
enemy vessels or requisitioned or
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

| sistants, experts who are familiar
with the ocean trade routes of the
world, and now for the first time in
the history of navigation the whole
of the terraqueOus globe is being
used as a chessboard.
Charts prepared by another inn
portant bureau, that of the Division
of Planning and Statistics, presided
over by Dean f. L. Gay, serve to
guide the Shipping Control Commit
tee in the assignment and direction
of ships in the various trades listed
as essential, and in which the re-
quirements have been definitely
fixed by the War Industries Board.
If the charts show, for example,
that the country is ahead on certain
imports, like sugar or bananas or
cocoa, the Shipping Control Com
mittee can perceive those facts in
few moments and with equal ce-
lerity know how much tonnage it
may take from those trades tenn
pOrarily and put to work bringing
in other essential commodities in
which the movement may be behind
the schedule of requirements. BY
juxtapOsition of r equiremen ents
against deliveries the charts also
show the Shipping Control Commit
tee when any vessels may be spared
from this or that commercial trade
and released TO the army.
There are 2S trade regions on the
Shipping Boards trade map of the
world. a special staff of expert
economists in the Shipping Board
cO-Ordinates with the War Indus
tries and War Trade Boards, the
Department of Commerce, the State
Department and other branches of
the gOvernment-and through them
with foreign governments-in as
certaining and analysing exhaus-
lively the shipping needs, past,
present and prospective, for these
trade regions
So, now it becomes possible to
determine with approximate pre-
cisiOn the future tonnage require
ments, for specific example, of the
South American trade. That rich
continent, all authorities are
agreed, will, after the war, inspire
the greatest Of all commercial COM
petitions among the nations requir-
ing her indispensable raw materials
and her market for their surplus
products. The Shipping Board,
charged with the duty not only of
developing the greatest manufac-
turing industry in the world, but
it's product, is adequately
informed at the present moment
how to estimate the prospective !
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

more than million and half dead
weight tons, of the seagOing type,
which is nearly three times as much
as we had constructed during the
three preceding years. To Illustrate
the progressively increasing speed
Il is shown that, while February's
launchings exceeded January's by
only $1,000 tons, July's exceeded
June's by 34SG22 tons. the July
launchlngs being 631, 1,944 tons.
In July alone we built 445,2if
more tons than were constructed
during the entire year ending I'm
July, 1915. During the first seven
months Of this year we delivered
Sf9,SS6 more tons of shipping than
was built in American shipyards in
the years 1915 and 1916.
Soon to Launch a Ship a Day.
So much for accomplishment and
its augury for rapidly increasing
production as the yards get into
their full stride In one yard alone,
the Hog Island, from which the first
launching was made on August 3,
there will be, when the yard Is run
ming at its full capacity, fifty YES
sells under construction at one time.
with twenty-eight more in process
OF completion alongside its 1900
feet Of QUILTING docks. In a short
time this yard will be launching a
ship every day.
The United States is not only
now building more ships than any
other country i'm the world-for
that matter more than all the other
countries of the world put together
but building them faster than the
most visionary theOrist conceived a
year ago to be possible. The $500
ton collier TuckahOe was complet-
ed in precisely 81 days. In pre-war
days the contract for he construc-
tion of a vessel Of this size would
have specified not less than a year.
The other day the Great Lakes En-
gineering Works at Ecorse, AIicbi-
gan, launched a $500 ton freighter
in only IA working days from date
of keel laying. And out on the Pa
cifc Coast the 1900 ton Invincible
was launched at the Bethlehem
Union plant in only "a working
days after keel laying.
Naturally the first need Of ships
Is to defeat the Kaiser. Looking
beyond that Chairman Hurley SAYS: !
IF 25,000,000 tons Of American
shipping can be kept busy in our
own export and import trade. then
the development of a delivery serv.
Ice for other countries win keen
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4
From Maine to Florida, from !
the Great Lakes TO the Gulf, 4
from California to Washing 4
{ ton, they are sliding down the \
I ways, the vessels Of this great \
+ new merchant marine upon 4
+ whose construction nearly a 4
+ half million shipbuilders are 4
+ toiling, artisans who are not 4
Z only giving their skill, but in 4
Z many plants are devoting 4
+ their unremunerated holidays 4
4 to the task of getting afloat 4
4 the largest number Of ships \
4 In the shortest time. 4
r They know the need OF haste. 4
Z Urged on by Chairman Hur- \
+ ley Of the Shipping Board X
+ and his strong arm, Charles +
+ NJ. Sohwab, Director General 4
+ Of the Emergency Fleet Cor 4
4 poration, they know that 4
Z ships mean fighting power; r
4 they know that the Allies are 4
4 drawing their strength from \
4 the sea, that in the last anaIy- \
4 sis the military problem is a +
4 tonnage problem, that for US 4
4 and our Allies the war now is \
= first, last and all the time a 4
4 question Of ships, and yet 4
= more ships. =
4
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

II was not until we were well. into
the war that we awOke TO the fact
that we could get nowhere without
ships. And it was only a year and
a month ago that the present Ship
ping Board was formed. At that
time there was not a shipyard in
which the newly constituted body
could place an order. Today Chair
man Hurley counts 162 yards with
SOS ways engaged in turning out
'hips for the needs of war, and
With an unusual vision that looks
far into the future he is also maxi
lng provision for the needs of peace
Ehen this war is done.
Fleet Will Win War.
This broad view cOntemplates a
program which will carry all of our
irmies to the battle lines. keen
hem supplied with food and muni-
ions until the war is won, bring
pack our victorious legions and then
AIRY our exports to the markets of
he world and bring in the imports
we need; in a word, this new fleet
we are building will insure the win
ming of the war and will then regain
for us our long lost place upon the
sea.
To show how far we have pro-
gressed from that August Of a year
ago, when save for the vessels thar
we're being built for the navy and
under foreign contract our ship con-
struction was practically at a stand
still, 1t need only be said that since
then we have completed and put
into service 252 ships, sggregating
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BUILDING OF OUR
MERCHANT MARINE
A WONDER tale
america Aroused to the
Fact That the War First,
Last and All the Time,
Is a Question of Ships
and Yet More Ships.
g0W GOING OVERHEARD
AT UNPRECEDENTED RATE

Problem Of Hurley and Sehwab Is
TO Garry Our Armies to the Battle
Lines, Keep Them Supplied With
Food and Munitions, TO Bring
Back Our Victorious Legions Aft
er the War and Then Carry Our
-Sports to the Markets Of the
!orld and Bring in the Imports
Ye Need.
Evening journal., 1918-09-06

3OO00.000 to 3j.000OO0 tons OF
American shipping employed. That
is the tonnage which / estimate will
be needed by the United States aft
er the war"
The surplus output Of the Ameri-
can shipbuilding industry will be
for export, like automobiles, sewing
machines and agricultural imple-
ments and other important manu-
factures.
Use For Ships After War.
A comprehensive study of ocean
commerce and its requirements has
been under way for several months
by the Shipping Board, and already
many plans have been formulated
by Chairman Hurley and his assO-
ciates for placing in post war
trades American made ships where
they may most effectively serve
this country and the rest of the
world. 1t is taken for granted that
no matter how many ships may be
built the transportational facilities
on the seas, like those on land, will
always be taxed to full capacity.
Chairman Hurley's estimates Of
the ship tonnage that will be re-
quired after the war by the foreign
and domestic commerce of the
United States have been calculated
with a thorOughness approximating
the precise computations given to
the ship requirements for the milf
tary line Of supplies 10 France. The
studies undertaken to ascertain the
estimates cover, perhaps for the
first time-certainly for the first
time in American maritime history
in scientific relation TO cargo
space and actual ship performances
the great trades of the world down
to the last detail. The Shipping
Board has set out not only to pro-
vide ships for the war-and after
but to inform itself accurately and
fully about the uses Of and for
them.
The United States is now the
great reservoir from which supplies
must be drawn. The enormous gain
In our exports show how other ma
tions are increasingly looking TO
us TO sustain them. In 1914 we
exported about S2,5O0,OO0,0O0 worth
of products. Last year our exports
amounted to S6,231, 100000 or near
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
KENNEDY-WOOD

A very pretty but quiet wedding
occurred at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. A. Craig on South Grant, Tuesday
morning at $3.50 when Miss Mary
Kennedy became the bride of James
Wood. Rev. Paul M. Gates Of the
Baptist church performed the cere-
mony.
The immediate relatives and Mrs.
j. E. George, Mrs. Jennie Karau and
Miss Ruby Rex were the only guests.
Mrs. Wood is the beautiful and ac-
complished niece of Mrs. P. A. Craig
and Mrs. ]. B. Craig, who for num-
ber of years has made her home with
the Craig families in Liberal, and
graduated from our high school last
spring.
DIR. Wood is the son of C. E. Wood,
and has grown to manhood in Lib
eral and received his education here
and for the past year has been EN-
ployed in the First National Bank
and has proved himself to be young
man of business ability.
Mr.. Wood enlisted in the army last
Saturday and after brief visit in
Wichita Mr.. and Mrs. Wood will go
to Denver where Mr. Wood will re-
ceive final examination. Mrs. Wood
will make Denver her home that she
might be near Mr.. Wood, who will
quite likely be in training at Fort
Logan.
The Democrat joins the many
friends of these popular young peo-
pie in wishing them much happiness.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
The Quarantine Regu-
latiOns to Be Called
Off Then.
PUPILS MUST ALL
BE vACCINATED
County Health Officer Makes This
Requirement Before They
Enter School.

The closing order is to be called
off in time to open school Monday
morning unless further outbreaks of
contagion occur, and this is not
looked for by the County Health Of
ficer and the physicians of the town.
The number of new cases have
abated to the point where the author
tiles deem there is no further dam
ger, and have given permission to
proceed with the schools.
The only stipulation is that pupils
must either be vaccinated or show
proof of successful vaccination with
in the past seven years. There has
been a wholesale vaccination among
the children and there is no kick on
this ruling.
It would seem that all danger is
past and the prompt action of the
health officials in causing the quaran-
tine regulation is perhaps responsible
for stamping out the spread of dis
ease.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
MEADE BOY WOUNDED

The name of Meade boy appears
in the casualty lists sent out by the
government yesterday, that of Lieut..
Bernard F. McMeel, son of B. F. Nc
Meel, clothing merchant of Meade.
Nothing is known besides the notice
which said he was severely wounded.
Nor is his detachment known here.
His sister, Mrs. E. E. Innis Of
Meade, who has been visiting at the
home of J. B. Innis on Sherman
street west, left this morning for her
home, not knowing of the bad news
from the front News.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
Liberal Undertaking
Co. Again Improving,
Still Adding Features to Head
quarters on Lincoln
Avenue

The Liberal Undertaking Company
has had another spell of improving,
and their last effort is visible to the
eye.
They have arranged funeral
chapel, have placed many beautiful
growing plants in it, have hung some
swell curtains, and have neat gold
leaf signs made on the windows.
The new decorations and arrange
ment make a mighty neat place, equal
to those in places much larger than
Liberal. The members Of the firm
are to be commended upon their en-
terprise.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
FEDERAL LAND BANK
APPRAISER is HERE
L. L. Taylor of Dodge City Is Looking
After Business of that
Institution

L. L. Taylor, formerly a Dodge
City real estate man, has been in
this vicinity several days this week
appraising land for the Federal Land
Bank.
If there is man in southwest Kan
sas who should know land values it
is L. L. Taylor. He has been selling
land for many years and you can't
fool him.
The Farmers of Western Kansas
feel that the Bank made good Sc
lection in the person of L. L. Taylor
as they recognize in him a man
thoroughly acquainted withe the land
values in this section.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
NOTICE TO THE PATRONS
OF THE LIBERAL SCHOOLS

Students who have been vaccinated
within the last seven years but who
do not have certificates of vaccina-
ton, may secure them at the City
Building Saturday, April 27.
These certificates will be issued
free of charge.
Any student recently vaccinated
should secure a certificate from the
physician who made the vaccination.
DIR. GEO. S. SMITH,
County Health Officer.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
Woods Is Invited
to McAdoo Meeting
To Be Guest of Wichita Clearing
House Association at
Wichita.

C. E. Woods, of the First National
Bank of Liberal, is in receipt of an
invitation to be guest of the Wichi-
ia Clearing House Association at the
meeting which will be addressed by
Secretary of State McAdoo, April 26.
Mr.. Woods is invited to this i'm
portant meeting as chairman Of the
Seward County Liberty Loan Com
mittee. He is making arrangements
to attend and will carry good re-
port from Seward county.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
ELSIE ANNA ESTER

Elsie Anna Ester, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. D. Ester, northeast of the
city, died April 22nd, at 80 p. M,
at the farm home after an illness of
two weeks, first having the measles
then other complications following.
Elsie was born in Nebraska, De-
cember 10, 1907, being at the time
of her death 10 years, four months,
and IL days old.
Elsie was a great little home body
and was of much help and comfort to
her family who will greatly miss her
presence.
Funeral services were held at the
home yesterday afternoon and burial
was made in the Liberal Cemetery.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
EJNICE M. WILLIS

Eunice M. Willis, wife of John
Willis near Niagara, died at a local
hospital Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Willis was 10 years of age
and her birthplace was in Green coun-
ty, Illinois.
Mrs. Willis underwent an opera
ton several weeks ago and was get
ting along nicely when taken with the
measles which in her weakened con-
dition was more than she could with
stand.
A husband and 6-months-old
baby are left to feel the loss of a
wife and mother.
The remains will be taken to
Carleton, Illinois, tomorrow fer buri-
al.
The Liberal Undertaking Company
had charge of the remains.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
M. E. AUXILIARY MEETING
POSTPONED TO MAY FIRST

On account of the quarantine the
Auxiliary of the M. E. church did
not hold its regular meeting this
week, but will meet with Mrs. E. D.
Cooper, 406 N. Prospect, Wednesday,
May 1st, at 2:3O.
Mrs. John Galloway is leader.
Those on the program are: Mrs. D.
c. Wood, Mrs. McCorkle, Mrs. Lip
prant, Mrs. Wiley.
Members, do not forget your mys-
terry box questions as they are i'm
portant. Bring friend with you.
MRS. WOOD, President
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
Liberal High Won
S. w. Kansas Meet
Carried OFF Highest Honors-Sevep
Individual and One
School Cup. \

Liberal High gave good account Of
herself at the Southwest Kansas
Track and Field meet held at Cimar-
ron last week, Liberal High School
athletes bringing home all the import
ant trophies. The large cup, denot-
ing the winners of the largest number
of points in the meet, is among the
number. Besides this they captured
the relay race cup, one which is al
ways strongly contested. 3
Those winning the individual cups
are as follows: 4
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25

Seward county will receive ser
vice flag in recognition Of having
subscribed the quota of the county in
individual subscriptions.
Seward county has gone over the
top as usual
But
There are slackers here-a number
of them.
They are being looked at by their
friends and neighbors.
They have fallen down on their du-
ty to humanity; to their country and
themselves.
We have all sympathy for the man
or woman who does not buy because
they are really not able, but we have
Fno hesitancy in branding as Stacker
anyone who is able to buy and does
not--and there are some of them in
this town.
The Liberty Loan Committee has
checked over the cards for Liberal
City and Liberal Township, and are
mailing out letters to those who have
not bought bonds, also those who did
not buy as many as they should.
Those who receive letters are expect
ed to come in and buy, while those
who did not take as many as they
should, are expected to subscribe
again.
There is just one way for them to
get right before their friends-step
up and buy bonds. There is time yet.
The committees are not going to
quit now. They want to go over a
little stronger. They want to give
the slackers chance. Don't let the
last time get by.
Don't holler about how patriotic
you re-demonstrate.
Get in the game, even if late and
BUY A BOND.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-04-25
FREDERICK HENRY sTooPs

Frederick Henry Stoops, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Stoops of near
Hugoton, died at local hispital April
21st, at the. age of about 10 years.
He underwent an operation few
weeks ago and was recovering nicely
when he took the measles and was
getting along nicely when he had an
attack of pneumonia which caused
his death Sunday morning.
Funeral services were held at the
country home Monday afternoon and
interment was made in the Hugoton
cemetery.