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Evening star., 1918-06-14
Community Center Postal Stations

: Difficulties in the way of maintain
Ing branch post Office facilities have
been seriously hampering the postal
authorities for some time. Owing to
labor shortage and cost Of service the
1oeal druggists have been discontinue
ing their connections with the post Of
fee, until the accommodations afforded
the public have been reduced material
". As a means of relieving this situa-
tion it is now proposed to establish
. postal stations in the community CEN
ters, beginning at Park View. This
experiment will be observed with in
terest. If the combination Of COM
nunity secretary and branch postmas-
.ter can Be effectively combined these
,eenters may become Of great value,
not merely In the dispatch Of ordinary
postal business, but in the development
lsf the parcel post system, which may
b utilized for the economic distribu.
tisn Of food supplies.
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Italy's Naval Success.

No finer exploit in the entire war
has occurred than that Of Commander
Rizzo of the Italian navy, who, with
Commander Millazo, took two little
torpedo boats through Gordon Of Aus
trian destroyers and attacked two bat
tleships, sinking one and disabling the
other. It was dashing performance,
undertaken in circumstances Of great
risk. The two Italian boats were on
patrol in the Adriatic when the Aus
trians left Pola harbor. At first, think
ing they were being pursued, the Ital-
ians turned for home, but then, realiz.
ing their opportunity, they concluded
to run the risk of an attack, and slip
ping by reason Of their great speed
through the defensive line Of Austrian
destroyers they delivered their blows
and got away virtually unscathed. The
Austrian loss is severe ono, as the
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navy Of Emperor Charles b mot %
large that vessels Of the dreadnaught
class can be spared. However, the Aus
trian navy has done but little in this
war outside Of certain submarine op-
erations, for which it is believed the
Germans have been primarily respon-
siblc. The chief effect Of the exploit
of Commanders Rizzo and Millazo is to
thrill the italian people and encourage
them for the struggle.
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"The American Stage"

Indications appear that the govern
ment at Berlin has quietly passed the
word to the officially controlled press
gradually to prepare the German peo-
pie for news Of the active participa-
ton Of American forces on the west
ern front. Articles are appearing here
and there to this effect. The statement
that there are now 100000 American
soldiers i'll Europe has been printed in
several of the papers. Gen. Won Lie
bert, military critic Of the Tagliche
Rundschau of Berlin, refers to Amer
lea, which "has hitherto only threaten
ed by means Of military Statistics" as
now entering the stage Of actual fight
ing. 1t is interesting to note that he
expresses surprise that nothing has
been heard of tie sinking Of Ameri-
can transports. This came paper
states that the war has entered the
American stage, "the last and greatest
Of ALL" One Of the characteristic as
poets Of this official campaign Of In
formation is that whenever the Ameri-
cans are mentioned it is in terms of
defeat. If all the German official bull
letins about encounters with our forces
were true our Army in France would
by this time be we'll nigh wiped out
Of existence. But something must be
granted the German government in the
way of a margin Of safety. Mean.
while the American troops are writing
their own bulletins.
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Foch Stems the Tide.

-.,Sahents blunted, fianks under gall
ing allied fire, the German drive for
Paris is halted. The crisis is past.
Sharp counter actions of the allied
armies have slowed down the impetus
of the Teutonic dash. Without the
advantage of this impetus the Germans
cannot hope to complete their plans
unless new carefully prepared en-
deavors are initiated.
The allied armies have proved their
metal. They stand today a human
wall against Germanic ambitions. Foch
has demonstrated his wisdom. His
sagacity cannot be questioned. His
courage never was questioned. The
cause Of democracy is safe in his
hands. Though knowing how to attack
when the moment demands, he also
knows how to wait. And it is in cool
headed calculation that he is to sur
mount the barriers which may bar the
Road to eventual victory.
Notwithstanding the almost frantic
endeavors of the German command to
draw the allied armies into battle at
given points where mighty concentra-
tions of Teutonic troops have gained
ground, Foch has chcckmated them. He
only has attacked with sufficient power
to arrest enemy aggression.
-sFoch's position on the western front
to-day is much the same as Wellington's
at Waterloo.
When Hougomont and La Haye
Sainte had been wrested from the Iron
Duke, he but grimly set his face to
the future. When Napoleonic fires
were sweeping his ranks with shot and
shell, he but remarked: "Hard pound
ing, this. But we shall see who can
stand it longer" He was unperturbed
by the course Of momentary events.
He had confidence, courage in the hour
Of greatest trial. And SO Foch. The
Germans may gain here and there, but
Toch is as undisturbed as was We'll
Hngton. He knows that the hour for
general counter offensive movements
such as will be necessary to press the
Teuton from France and Belgium has
not come. America must be the
Blucher of the present campaign. And
America is responding, pressing for
ward with a calculated haste that is
unparalleled in history of warfare.
Just as Biucber saved the day at
Waterloo, so will the power of the
United States save the day in France.
The allies can afford to wait further.
They can afford to give more ground.
Eoch refuses to be led into general
offensive endeavors at moment when
more is to be gained by waiting. Time
Is with him. It works against the Ger
mans. Critics who demand an imme-
date allied drive to counteract Ger
manic gains are to be dixegarded.
, There should be complete trust in the
Wellington Of the day, he who can
sufter temporary reverse and smile
eonfdently-Foch.
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Reports Of Hindenburg's illness may
have been circulated to placate Ger.
mans who began to suspect that the
life Of German general is entirely
one Of ease and comfort.
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If the June commencement essays
are not as brilliant Of thought and ele-
CANT Of diction as usual, no one will
criticise. The boys arc probably in a
hurry to get it of their minds and
start for France.
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Italy has q few territorial scores to
settle with Austria that enable her to
understand Frances feelings about
Alsace-Lorraine.
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHIL.ANDER JOHNSON.
To the Contrary,

To the Contrary.
"Have those submarine demonstra-
tions hurt businessf"
II should say not" replied the land
lord Of the seaside hotel. "People
come piling in from all parts Of the
country hoping for chance to see one
Of the confounded things"
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1t must crafty Theodore Roosevelt
to look the United States Army over
and note how unfounded were any
fears of "mollycoddleism."
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So far as the American Federation
Of Labor is concerned Samuel Gompers
is the most consistent and satisfactory
logical candidate now before the pub
tic.
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Rintelen got into the game too late
to share the "honored guest" perqui-
sites that Bernstorf gathered in SO
literally.
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"Conscientious objector" uses seven
syllables where plain "slacker" would
suffice.
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The allied troops have had occasion
20 observe that the Prussian formality
known as "the goosestep" is dispensed
with in retreat.
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Any members Of the crown princes
army who wanted to say, "Kamerad," !"
got no chance to tell it to the marines.
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After intimating that he would stand
no nonsense, the kaiser suddenly dis
covered that nobody was fooling.
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Possibly the naval demonstration
threatened by Germany was the U-boat
excursion to the Atlantic coast.
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Assixned to the u a. A.

I'D like to be in fighting France"
Said Hezekiah Bings.
It'd Like to get my little chance
To do . lot o things.
I'd like to be in Belgium, where
OF help there's 90 much need.
I'd like to aid the Russian bear
To check the tyrant's greed.
ain Italy I'd like to be
Beside brave men today.
But old Doc Braney says, says he,
You'd just be. in the way.
You got your harrow and your plow,
And don't you dare to quit.
Perhaps well need you, but not now.
Stay home an do your bit.'n
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There are times when an intelligent
distinction must be drawn between free
speech and reckless talk.
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=. Proyerb Proved.

Proverb Proved.
"Do You believe that riches have
wings'r
Eyes. The q. 8. A. is the richest
country on earth, and has engaged a
large portion Of wealth in frst-class
flying equipment"
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Every American dollar misspent OF
wasted is a help to the Hun.
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In the game Of war, as in other
kames, "aces" are bigger than kings or
hueens.
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Austria and Germany know each
other too well to trust each other.
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Great Discoveries.

"There isn't as much wire.puHing as
there used to be"
NO." replied Senator Sorghum.
'tNext to the wireless telegraph I be-
lieve our greatest discovery is wire
less politics"
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Playing the Numbl

Playing tho Numbers.
This telephoning game is great.
It's something like roulette.
You choose a number and you wait
To see what you will get.
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Discreet Opinion.

"of course, you believe in efficiency"
"A great deal depends" replied the
man with long memory, "on whether
It's condition or only theory"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-21
Will you saue it for him !?

Observe two wheatless days each week.
Monday and Wednesday.
Serve only bread and rolls containing
not less than 209o of other cereals than
wheat -four.
See that there is no waste Of bread in
your home. SAGE that slice a day.
Buy only as much bread as you can eat.
and eat all you buy.
We ask that you order your bread regu-
larly "a hours in advance. This enables us
to bake only as much bread as will be sold
and eaten.
Cooperate with your baker
The Bakers Of America are under regulationo Of
the Food Administration. The bread they now
make meets with the Governments regulations
for wheatless days.
In cooperation with the Government to save
wheat, we are making our bread with 2O9o other
cereals than wheat -four. I
IF the activities of the war now demand more
of your time and you buy your bread, then CO.
operate with your baker. We are making bread that
means definite and real saving of wheat. This is
no time to experiment. Experiment means waste.
Women of America, do your part. Whether
you bake or buy, serve no bread that does not
contain at least 300 other cereals than wheat.
More and more of our American boys are
going to the front. Studied application of your
time and effort will mean food, comfort, and
earlier victory for them.
Begin to-day. Give your help where it means
the most-save zvheaf -four.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-21

TNOUGH wheat must be saved in our
twenty million American homes to
insure bread for the millions of fight
ing men at the front.
Already the waste has been stopped in
many homes. But the need is greater than
that. Not only must the waste of flour be
stopped; every American home must use less.
Women of America, will you help save
this flour1
The President of the United States has
asked every household, every individual,
to conserve the food supply and stop
the waste.
Bread is first. The most important food
in our homes, the food our soldiers must
have, is BREAD.
Save flour stop the waste
The use of other cereals with wheat in our
daily bread is patriotic service--a duty. Every
avenue for waste of -four must be stopped.
If you have eliminated waste, then SAGE one
more slice of bread, for in our twenty million
American homes one slice saved each day will
mean daily saving of over million loaves,
enough to feed million soldiers at the front.
Never before have the women of our country
truly and more gravey held in their hands
the power to influence the destinies of our Nation
What every woman can do
Have one no-wheat meal every day
in your home.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-29
interesting Farm Statistics

Much valuable information for
farmers Is being brought to light
through the filing of threshing re-
ports with the Umatilla county
agent, M. S. Shrock, under the
federal requirement for such re-
ports. These cover Investigations
as to loss of wheat owing to poor
work of threshers, as we'll as to
quantity of grain and acreage
threshed. All farmers recognize
the fact that it is impossible to get
a separator that will save all the
grain, but all are keen to make the
highest possible percentage of saw
Ing, says a Pendleton dispatch to
the Oregon Journal.
Of So farmers reporting on the
use of two-men pony combines last
year, 90 announce that they intend
to use them again next year. Elev-
en- will not and three are doubtful.
Twenty-Five owners reported that
the combine wasted grain, seven
that It did not, five that 1t wasted
grain on hills and one that it vast
ed grain on light barley. This GOV.
ers a total of l0,20l acres cut, with
10 farmers reporting heavy grain,
l6 light, two medium and seven
both heavy and light. Those who
consider the combine worked salts
factory number IS; those who do
not, 10. Nine gave qualifying an
swers. Twenty-one men thought it
cleaned the grain we'll; eight did
not, while five considered that it
cleaned the grain fairly well.
The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1918-11-29

Two desk telephones to sell or
trade, Inquire at this othCs,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
BOND SHARKS.

Advice that is timely and good is that which is being put forth to the effect that the holders of Liberty bonds should beware of bond sharks. With the millions of people in this country responding to the nations needs and obtaining government promises to return the principal at 9 stipulated rate of interest, it is to be expected that there will be not few in the country who will endeavor to take advantage of such holders to ga ther in rich prize at the expense Of the unsuspecting.
 Under normal conditions swindlers are constantly at work getting a hand some living off of those who can be made to part with their money under promises Of alluring returns. The re- suit. as has been experienced in count less instances, is that such schemes have robbed the people right and left and now they see a chance to fatten their pocketbooks by taking advan- tage of thousands who have never be- fore been bondholders and do not ap- preciate the necessity of exercising the same degree of care in regard te their bonds and the disposal thereof that they would with their bank books.
 It is well that such people should therefore be warned that they need to zealously guard their holdings. The stories and claims of the bond shark: should he taken with more than . grain of salt until holders can ascertain the actual facts regarding such proposals as are made to then to dispose of their bonds from those whom they know and in whom they have confidence. Those who are en. desvoring to get possession of you bonds should be given a wide bertl unless full value can be assured.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

half a pound of bacon, half pound of lard, half a pound of salt meat, half a pound of harieots. four -hfths of pound of salt sometimes a fifth Of pound of coffee, two -ffths of pound Of biscuit -four, a quarter of pound of sugar, and small quantities oI corn residue Besides there things each person receives once a month a can of condensed milk. In the stores cof
 fee costs about sT pound, sugar nearly s9, chocolate nearly s4. The sale of potatoes is forbidden. 1 Nearly all inc meh work for the
 Germans, who forbid them to leave their houses before seven in the morn ing and they must return by eight in ] the evening.
 At-sDenaiA ,Erenehy- prisoners have l been employed in the destruction of 1 the factories, from which all the Iaa I chinery has been taken and sent to l Germany, while at Saint Quentin all the statues have been taken down and
 specialists front Germany haFa re-
 moved everything of value from the basilica.
 Even children of school age. most
 of whom have not had the opportunity
 to go to school three years. are made
 to work along the roads and in the
 forests.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27

they whipped England? And they whipped her because on this side they fought for freedom. When this ceun- try went through the Civil war didn't brother fight brother and father fight son? And wasn't it freedom and Hh- erty they fought for then? And can't we now see. that their fight was a good fight and that right wan2
 If the freedom which we now enjoy has been bought with the blood ef thousands of liberty loving men and years of strife. are we who come heFe and share it without one cent 0f cost to ,'i Us going to fight against it now that it needs us? If wesde, we are surely traitors and never again can we claim to be honest men and women.
 slackers Should Be Placed Where
 They Regens.
 Mir. Editor. Isn't it a pleasant sen sation to pick up a. daily paper, read the name of your son, brother or sweetheart among the Killed or wounded in France, and as y9u glance l from the Windaw see! 8 subject or Great Britain. Italy or sopne ether of eur allied countries going te work at his job at big Wagsse
 I Major M M. Hart of the Fourth | Canadian Mounted Rifles truly says:
 The situation is much more serious for you, MF. Canadian siaekeF aRa 1 tien is slse getting mere serious each l hour The Americans are a tolerant | people. The Americans are a free and | generous people. but the Canadian
 coWardly dedgsrs should realize that i they have gone about as far as they can, We have been tald hy num- l Der of American emnloyeFs of British
 subjects who are especially fit to
 serve in the American, British and Canadian armies that they have aheut
 decided to discharge them all. l hops
 they do, heeaHse the ceVardly British
 sympathy or mercy in this or ana
 other country whose sons are in thi
 service"
 In some sections of this country ;
 sullen rumble is going on that iH ereases with every report of rkillet and wounded" The American people 'I even to little children, are doing al } in their power ta help win the wal , while in all directions around us ou
 boys who are giving up all freely an , willingly on the altar of freedom hay l .lsft high salaried places behind theI to be filled by foreign slaekers, to l coWdfQly lo .Jpln InFlF avn eQFQES, FD 9 mean to become American citizen e and most assuredly not entitled to a r atom of respect from either man (
 beast.
 '. It is about time that cenneetiel s rallied to the support of it's grand el e governor in everything good and eT = erything he does is. good and pigh r including his desire to see the fereig 1 stacker placed in the ranks where , belongs.
 e c. B. MONTGOMERY. e Onece, Conn, April 25, 1918.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
OUR FOREIGN TRADE.

With increased attention being di- rected to the requirements of the war, the shipping situation and the devot- Ing of every possible means of trans portation to the getting of our sol- iers to Europe, it would not be sur- prising if the foreign trade had suf- fered.
 However, according to the report of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce for March, which has just been issued. the imports and exports show a partial recovery from the de- cline in recent months. Exports for March amounted to. $531,0O0, 900 an in- crease of no less than $11s.oOO.o0O over February. For the nine months end ing with March exports were valued at sl.5s4 900 900, a decrease from $4,- ss7. ,0e9 for the nine months pe- tiod year ago.
 Imports for the month of March
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
THE LANGUAGE INTHE scHooLs

Acting under the law of the state of Connecticut and possessing the au- thority to issue the order which he has, Governor Holcomb in insisting that the teaching of the children in the public and private schools must be carried on in English after the first Of July is supporting the policy of Americanism which is gripping the whole country.
 It is probable that there are sec tions of the country where the in ducted in other than the English lan- guage is far more extensive than it is in this state, but it makes no differ ence how small it may be here in comparison with other states it is time that it was brought to an end.
 In a nation of this character made up or so many who have come here from other countries to secure the benefits 10 be found, it is time. even if we were not at war. that every pos sible effort should be made to see that the children of such people, especial ". and insofar as possible the immi- grants themselves should be in structed in the English language that they may get into closer touch with the constitution, ideals and institu- lions of this country. IL was a mis- take to ever allow any relaxation in this respect. but under existing con- ditions the rigid enforcement of the law Is required for the safety of the state and the nation. The action taken by the governor is only what should be taken throughout the en- tire country, and particularly at this time should enemy alien instructors be barred regardless of the language used in the schools.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-27
SAVING EXPENSE AND WOOD.

While so much attention is being given to the problem Of overcoming waste in many directions, it cannot help being recognized that there is great opportunity to effect a t-emen- dous saving through the salvaging of the packing cases which are used in such great numbers every day.
 It was not so long ago that many of the packing cases were regarded simply as so much uncut kindling wood after being used once. By the truekload they were earted to homes tc be chopped un for fuel regardless of the large expense that is involved in cutting the material and constructing the containers. Under war time con ditions the value of such boxes as well as barrels has taken an appreciabla jump. More thought is given to using them again and again instead of throwing them into the discard.
 Such a saving when practiced by all who receive and used boxes is bound to be large in the course of q year and at the same time means q valuable conservation of the material which goes into their construction For the purpose of carrying the idea Q step further a Massaehusetts cor poratiOn is now endeavoring to get 8 lower rate fer the transportation of metal containers, hoping thereby to carry out the idea of saving and re-us- ing on more extensive basis. This concern\ points out. as an added ar gunent, that millions of dollars in losses are sustained every year be- cause of wooden packing cases being broken into which would be prevented by the use of metal, the additional initial expense of which would thus be quickly made up through the pre- vention of loss and the much greatet service which they would give It is an idea which all those who are con- cerned in the purchase Of wooder cases are bound to follow with inter- est