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New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Exchange Is Scene of Great
Enthusiasm as They
Subscribe
c. E. Mitchell Urges
Members to Invest
He Says 81 Now Is Worth
81 When the Bonds
Mature

The shorts and the longs at the Cot
,oa Exchange called truce yesterday
ssternoon and subscribed $2,5S0,000 to
liberty bonds. The cotton brokers for
cot their professional differences, and
during an enthusiastic rally every one
appeared to be long on patriotism.
Excitement marks the daily routine
at the Cotton Exchange. Quick de-
,;sious and tentative calculations are
made almost every minute of the busi-
ness day. For the sake of the Liberty
Loan the members suppressed their
nersonal interests during the rally yes
rerday and they expressed their rugged
patriotism in their own characteristic
vay. Loan slogans we're chalked hasti-
,v on the blackboards that usually re-
cord point movements of cotton prices.
aBuy Liberty bonds; if necessary
sell YOUR membership to buy Liberty
hoads.- "Invest in Liberty bonds and
make our foe look like the 'undeliv-
erable' grade" Don't be found short
ot Liberty bonds at the day of reckon
ing'-these. were the slogans of spe-
,;alized appeal that reflected the spirit
Of the members.
Entire Quota Filled
But when the time for subscriptions
came seventy-one persons became vocal
and the entire quota Of the exchange
ior the campaign was virtually filled.
Eyery one, from Arthur Lehman, chair
man of the Liberty Loan committee OF
The exchange. who subscribed $500, 900
for Lehman Brothers, his firm, to the
telephone operators and messengers,
participated in the pledging Of Liberty
dollars. As the total mounted the
members cheered loudly and with spir
il. The noise surpassed in volume and
intensity the din that is heard on the
eoor when the price of the staple of
the South leaps skyward to new rec
erds
Charles E. Mitchell. president of the
NATIONAL Nity company, WHO a"aS tne
principal speaker, was largely respon-
sihle for the enthusiasm displayed.
After pointing out that through inf1a-
ton prices are about 100 per cent
above normal Mr.. Mitchell explained
hat when the bonds mature and de-
astion probably has restored more or
less normal conditions the bondholder
will receive money back from the gov
srnment which is worth twice as much
IS it is to-day. On the other hand,
from the social standpoint Mr.. Mitchell
warned that the government would
have to pay back nearly twice as much
buying power as it borrowed.
With an increase of prices of 100
per cent since 1914" Mr.. Mitchell as
serted. "the government to-day is bor-
rowing $4,000, 100000 where normally
$500, ,O0o, 900 would produce the equiv
,ent amount of things. When it pays
its debt it must pay the equivalent of
5000, 900 900 Of things, or, measured
always in. things, it must pay back four
times the amount of debt which it now
would be creating under a normal value
Of things. And mark you, gentlemen,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
IMPORTANT

nirth' Enlargement. Marriage, Death
and In Memoriam Notices may h,
telephoned to The Tribune any tinae
up to midnight for insertion in the
ne3t days paper. Just call
Beekman 5000
ant send the notice a. you wish II In,
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!Ou 20! later The notice will reach over
100000 readers daily,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
IN MEMORIAM

READ-Kilicd in France February 26. in
United States Naval Aviation Service. En-
sign Curtis Seaman Read. son of Caroline
S. and the late william Augustus Read. in
tho ed .rear Of his age Memorial services
will be held Sunday. April 81, at
o'clock. at the Church of the Incarnation.
Madison av and 35th ST.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
CEMETERIES

THE woODT.AWN CEMETERY
:23d ST By Harlem Train and by Tro,lev.
Lots of small size for sAis.
once. 30 East e3d ST.. N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

N. Y. City. .sl1 ,16S050 sa39,474.5 500 So
Per cent Of
Sub d strices. Yesterday Total Quota
No tBurao) .... 81. l62 500 81 500. $50 II
No. = (Rochesterl .... 176 40 J,+72,05O 26
No fsyracuse and
Ttiral .............. l,lnT 200 1868. 200 20
No tBinghamtonI o. 257 400 o.aS3.500 "A
No (Alhanyl ....... | .6}6 $50 l3. 427, 900 IS
No. q Long Island out
side OF \. Y c. ... 67s,,50 3.S53.35o 20
No tNorthcrn \. J.) 3.217 800 80 Sal. $50 as
No 8 (FGirhcd County.
Conn. Westcbester
gnd Rockland 'Coun
ties \. Y)-.-...... $4,000 $50 4c
Total outside ~ Y c. 50. .s2a 500 s7S77ssso "a
Total for district. u. 500 $50 SIS. $50 35
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

100000 additional; S. NJ. We'll & Co.,
$4,000; J. S. Bache e. Co., $225,O0O; A..
Upper g. Co., $4,000; J. S. Bache &
Co., $255,000; jerks. Gwynne & Co.,
100000, and Henry Hentz &; Co., $780,
00O
Individual Subscriptions
The following individual subscrip-
tlons were announced yesterday out
side the Federal Reserve Bank:
American Sugar Refining Company. SIS 600 900
This district $2.500,000 Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

for the ford, but Mr.. Kelly was
standing on a knoll above his house
listening to the roar Of the distant
battle, and, Fastening across to the
road, he intercepted me. I drew my
slouching hat brim down over my
face, but he recognized me and
reached for the bride. AS he did so
l touched Jesse with the spur and
he sprang forward and rushed for
the river. In answer to Mr.. Kelly's
shouts my erstwhile comrades,
joined by two other mounted men,
came dashing after me. In my con-
fusion we missed the ford, but Jesse
swan boldly through the deep waters
to the upper shore. AS he scrambled
up the steep bank volley of scat
tering shots spattered about us.
I turned to the right and, once
past the village, tried to put Jesse
forward at his best gait toward
Washington, but the road was so en-
numbered with vehicles and cavalry
men that I could make but slow
progress. 1t would excite suspicion
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

Of Mosby's troopers. They were ly-
ing about in a dooryard with their
horses feeding outside the fence. AS
| was riding leisurely by they natu-
rally hailed me and, gathering about,
received my good tidings of Lees
victory with great rejoicing. But
as to my going on alone the woods
were full of .skulking "nigger" SOL
diers-stragglers from Ferraro's
division of colored troops, and the
life of a good rebel, like me, would
not be worth "a chaw-er-terbacker.
The sequel was that they furnished
me an escort of two men to protect
me on the way. I was now having
the run of luck" which had been
rather a distinguishing feature of
my career since boyhood. Two men.
mounted and armed, ragged and
dirty enough to be my fit compan-
ions, were to give me respectable
standing with their neighbors and
were to defend me from the ravag-
ing black man.
l supposed that we were on our
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

u HE modern correspondent has had little opportunity
kind personal adventure that tho heart
and begNes has mind from the story
describing The of his achievements
rules made ostensib for his safety probably peace
OF noad OF those avho dess strategy and initiate
IN the CaI War days the correspondent figure
mantle 0orh and urdiness o tyoop or
amped ch the 9ard wo bivouncked ampf
cos lost obscure and dangerous trails he hadhoo
ness and he through
dispatches or has M There censorship of
respondents ord Of honor his chief restriction
broken.
tie might carry uod of victory
ea that cod stimulate the hopes people,
Or again he might the of Lincoln as
happened M THIS maotce of Henry E. Wing
The Tribune IN the doubtful first days of the Wilderness
and gain for his caution and intrepdy ribbon put
but the hiss OF Lincoln his forehead.
Mr. Wing as retired Methodist minister living Cannon
v Ohio He has rudany hoary gentle peace
and has greatest that intangible spiritual decoration the
KISS of Lincoln hich blossonng cour at
Hs report the first days the canapaqn avhen
Grant the avod not turn bnch and
aohach The z 1864 is renrodced heye
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30


If | did not greet everybody who
accosted me and, of course, / had
10 satisfy the scrutiny of the numer-
Gus squads of Confederate patrol
whiie my story was finally accepted
by every one / met, my progress was
constantly interrupted, and some
where behind me were my comrades
or the morning gathering recruits as
they came and bent on my capture.
just then my apparently ever
present good fortune again came to
my aid. A clump of trees with
thick underbrush few yards from
the road offered Shelter for man and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30


way to Fields Ford, but, coming over
the brow of hill, l recognized the
scene before me. We were at
kelly's Ford; and Mr.. Kelly, a one
armed man-at heart bitter seces-
slonlst--had entertained" me for
two days while our troops were in
that neighborhood. He would almost
certainly recognize me in even this
disguise unless / could slip by unob-
served. So dismissed nv kind
companions with many thanks, as I
was now sure of myself, and thew
had been in the saddle all night.
Once rid Of my escort I started
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

IN MAY 4, 1864, great army
Of citizen soldiers, comprising
representatives of hundreds
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Riding Through
The Enemy's 5 Country

AT o'clock, the next morning,
after three hours of sound sleep and
light breakfast, l was in the sad
die. In my saddlebags were the
general reports of march and battle,
to I'LL at least whole page of the
Daily Tribune, and strapped behind
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
"UnCIe Toms Cabin"

Harriet Ward Bcecher Stoves
famous story of slavery before the
Civil War is well represented in the
decentralization of this well known
story Uncle Toms Cabin" and as
produced by Terry's excellent com.
peny. The presentation is an inter
estlng one, and Is given in its en-.
tirety just as depicted by the author
The company that Terry carries this
season is equal to those that are
seen in the larger city theatres, he
having spared no expense to make
the company one of the strongest
entour. The cast is made up of the
very best talent. The scenic and
electrical effects complete. in fact
the show as put on by the Terry
company is spoken of by the press
and public as a splendid presenta-
tion of the national drama.
The musical part of the show
this year is to considered: three
bands and orchestras are carried
that are the talk in every city visit
ed. being composed of a high class
array of solo musicians The show
advertised to give one performance
at Monroe July n.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
Food for Reflection
BY GEO. B. PARSONS

Washington that he does not want
a single one of their votes as they
are not 100 per cent Americans?
Will he 90 to the great many of the
brave boys who are now either in
the trenches or in American camps
and who signed petitions asking
that the United States be kept out
of war, or whose parents signed such
petitions, and say to them that as
they are not 100 per cent Ameri-
cans according TO the Folk.Republic
definition that he does not want a
81 ugle one of their votes? If all
these are less than 100 per cent
Americans, and they are if Whitley
is, til en- Folk would of course scorn
their votes. But in the name of
all his love for office where is he
going to get votes to be elected il
s hould be so fortunate as to nomi
n ated, if he rejects all these votes?
Not from Republican voters who
re 100 per cent Americans, because
the Republicans have a candidate
who is 100 per cent American
every day in the week, is as clean a
man as there is in there in the
State of Missouri, measures up to
t he standard of craftsmanship with
any man in the State, but is not so
silly and so unpatriotic, and so
much of "damphool" as to charge
that every man in Missouri who
as ked the President and Congress
to keep us out of war, if possible
with honor to do so, is not 100 per
cent American, nor does he class
all such below 100 per cent OF
AmetcGn;s.II aEa -scii them he does
not want their votes
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
Taxation of LuYuriHS.

The Secretary of the Treasury
has submitted a long list of lux
uries for taxation to the House
Ways and Means Committee to be
entered in the revenue bill. The
list is said to range from automo-
biles used for pleasure purposes to
jewelry and high priced clothing.
One item in the list was a graduat-
ed tax on servants, according to
their number in the household
which includes chauffres. The
taxes upon most of the articles
named in the list would be collected
on retail sales. The Treasury De-
partment in proposing the radical
method of raising revenue for car
rying on the war, says: The retail
sale tax distinctly labels the taxed
article as a luxury and serves no.
tice that the Governments ban is
honest"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
PIOW In July

Early plowing is necessary to
m axe the best seedbed for wheat,
&C cordiDg to the department of
ia I'm crops of the Missouri College
of Agriculture. For best results
the plowing should be done in July
and certainly not later than the
m iddle Of August. This allows the
soil to crumble and settle before it
is disked and narrowed in final
preparation for seeding. Early
plowing is beneficial in four ways:
Organic matter, as stubble and
weeds, is buried and begins an
e arly deCay. thereby becoming more
b eneficial to the whest crop; the
oil cTumbles and settles. so that by
later discine and narrowing a
m elbow. compact seedbed is assured;
large numbers of the Hessian fly,
t hen in the flaxseed stage, are bur.
led and destroyed; and the burial OF
stubble and weeds teprives the fly
of its food for a considerable period,
and consequently large numbers of
them are starved.
A fine. finn and compact seedbed
is always essential for large yield
of wheat, no matter what other
treatment is given the crop. Three
distinctly good results follow the
thorough preparation of the seedbed:
The young crop is more vigorous
and thrifty in the fall and so is more
resistant to winter killing; the soil
does not heave so badly in spring;
there is a better growth of the crop
in spring, because thorough prepar-
alton of the soil has made the plant
food more available.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
David CranStOn.

David Cranston passed away at
his home in this city essly Friday
nlerning after an illness of nine
teen months.
David Hamilton Cranston was
born in Allephany Co., Pittsbure,
Penn, March %. 1849 and died
July IL. 1918, aged SO years, 8
months and 20 days at the time
of his death.
He came to Missouri with his
parents in the early fall of the year
1861 and has been a resident of
Monroe City for a number of years
Was married to Miss Sophia A.
Foster, October "a, 1878. He is sur
vived by bis wife, three daughters.
Mrs Whit Watson. of Huntington;
Mrs. o. C. Wilson and Mrs. Dudley
Watson, of this city, one SOD. Joe
Cranston, of Kansas City, two sis
tiers, Mrs. Sam Miller, of Paris and
Mrs, Jennie Cowherd, of Perry and
five grand children.
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon at the Methodist
Church at 2::S0 o'clock, conducted
by Rev. H. G. Bolen. Burial in St
Judes cemetery under the rites OF
the l. o. O. F. lodge of which he
was a member.
He was a splendid type of citizen
although he had never prOfessed re-
lieion he lived the principles OF
christianity and was a splendid
good man.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
Newspaper Postage

B ginning July 1, 1918, postal
rates on newspapers were raised in
amounts VARYING from Is per cent
to 200 per cent, according to the
distance carried. These raises apply
only until July 1, 1919. From then
until July /. 1920. the increase will
be from So to 400 per cent. Fol-
the following year the increase will
be from rs to 900 per cent; and on
a nd after July 1, 1921. the increase
over present postage rates will be
| 90 per cent in the first zone, rang
ing to SEQ per cent in the seventh
zone. In other words, newspapers
which are now carried to California
at the cent pound rate will cost
s cents per pound.
Congress has added this burden
to the newspapers, it says, to avoid
a deficit in the Postottlce Depart
ment, And yet Congress continues
to send out, at no expense to the
members, seven tons of printed mat
ter daily. The speeches of the
C congressman. made solely for the
purpose of helping him get reelected,
are printed at the expense of the
government and franked out by the
ton. SO per cent of these speeches
are unread They are thrown into
the waste cans at the postoffice as
soon as received or used to kindle
fires with at the homes as soon as
delivered. If Congress would cut
out this enormous waste, there
would be no need to raise news
paper postage rates.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
Need More Livestock.

That the production of livestock
in the United Stales is not only
necessary but will be profitable for
some time to come, according to E
A. Trowbridge of the University of
Missouri College iof Agriculture, is
evident from information supplied
by the Food Administration.
The Central Powers were much
better prepared for the war than
the Allies by having az per cent
more meat per capita. Also, the
Germans apparently captured much
livestock which made it possible
for them to save that which they
had at home.
Belgium. Serbia. and Rumania
are practically exhausted of live
stock resources. The Allies have
decreased their herds and fiocks
45787,000 head. while the Germans
have reduced theirs about 18,000-
: 900 head-only a little more than
one-third, Neutral nations show a
livestock reduction of nearly 1,500,-
600 head. European loss, therefore
exceeds 65,O0O,0OO without consid-
Grafton of. Austria, Turkey and Rus
sia. The Food Administration esti-
mates the total European decrease
at 1OO.000,000 head.
The total number of sheep. hogs
and cattle in this country is 1877
100000 according to best estimates
When this is compared with de-
pIetion Of 1O0O00,CO0 of Europe's
fiocks and herds it appears that
Europe has already lost more than
half as many meat animals as there
are in the United States today.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19

The balance to the credit of the
road fund IN the state treasury July
1. according to the report of State
Treasurer Middlekamp, was $1,548.'
86S.96, q sum sufficient when dis
tributed to smooth down few, at
least. of the many bumps that in
terfere with real satisfactory travel.
ing over many of the public roads.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19

Mr. Folk does not want a single
voter to support him who is not a
400 per cent Am rican according
to his definition and the definition
of his St. Louis mouth pieces. Well
this lets Champ Clark out from vot
ing for Folk for Champ does not
IN easure up to Folks definition of
100 per cent American. 1t lets Dor
sey Shackleford out for he does not
measure up to the Folk Republic
definition of that term. 1t lets
Decker, of Joplin, out for he does
not begin to measure up to the def
milton. 1t lets Congressman Igoe
out for he not only voted against
war but he voted against the draft.
1t let's an overwhelming majority of
the $4,000 Democrats in the Elev
enth District out because their Con
gresham, lgoe, said in Congress
that his people were not only
against the war but they were over
whelmingly against coDscripting
A mericans to fight in Europe Will
MIR Folk dare go into the Eleventh
District and tell these 25,000 Demo-
Gratis that. as they are not 100 per
cent Americans. he does not want
their votes? Will he 90 into Champ
Clark's district and tell all the
Democrats that sympathized with
Germany and all who opposed the
war and who petitioned the Presi
dent and Congress to keep the coun.
try out of war that he does not
W ant a single one of their votes?
w ill he 60 to sHy of the thousands
and thousands OF Democrats in
Missouri who sent anti-petitions to
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19

The Federal Trade commission
charges that the packers and the
millers have been profiteerine.
Whether the charge is ture or not,
we are unprepsred to say. but there
is one thing certain and that is that
somebody is making big money of
meat and -four and -four substi.
tutes. But it may be that consum-
er is the guilty party.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19
MObiIizing The Nation

The enlarged plans being worked
out by the general staff for sub
mission to Congress, by which the
couDtry's maDpower will be brought
more equitable and in greater vol
ume into the fighting and industrial
armies, furnish gratifying proof that
there is to be no halt in the process
of mobiizine the whole Nation for
the gigantic task before it.
The extension of the draft ages
has become an almost immediate
n necessity to keep the training can.
tonmerts full and troops moving
overseas, but it was also demanded
by justice and economic wisdom
Continual drawing upon a restricted
class centered the war burden in
stead of distributing it and at the
same time failed to produce the
numbers needed. This step, there
fore, was inevitable and is in ac-
cordance with the principle we now
all recognize that democracy
entities as well as obligates every
American to bear share in the
country's job Of necessity the
larger army made possible by this
widening of the draft scope means
a greatly increased number of
o officers, and the new plans call for
continuous officers camps for which
ci villains will be eligible.
AS important in its effect and
even more revolutionary to our
military system is the plan, long
urged by far seeing Americans, by
which youth under draft age will be
given vocational and military train
ing in preparation for the army if
the war is protracted and for more
efficient citizenship if 1t isn't. This
is going the whole way at last TO
the complete characterization of the
national defense. and when in uni
versal operation will make America
the most formidable military power
in the world This will not alone
make soldiers for the line, but
soldiers for the army back of the
line. skilled workers in all the many
crafts that war now demands and
without which no fighting army can
90 into battle.
America is sensing its job. 1t is
a job for the Nation. not for any
lass in it, not merely for the army
viewed as a certain number of men
with guns, but for every American
cd enough and not too old to hit a
lick of some kind. This is the real
ization that is making for such
far reaching plans as the govern
ment is now working on. 1t is a
realization that must come to all
before America is fully armed in its
might and ready to see the job
through.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-07-19

Dressed in overalls and hickory
shirts and wearing broad. brimmed
straw hats. party composed Of
fifteen county officials, business men
and clerks, recently helped whoop
up harvest work in the vicinity OF
Chillicothe. The sheriff accom-.
panied them. possibly for the pur-
pose of keeping them on the job.