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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
McAdoo Restricts
Rail,pay Expansion
to Actual War Need

Washington, March 27.-The
first act of Director General McAdoo
after President Wilson signed the
Railroad bill, which provides
$500, 100000 revolving fund and
prescribes basis of compensation
to the owners during Federal opera
ton, was to issue an order restrict
ing railroads capital expenditures
to extensions and betterments abso-
lutely essential under war condi-
tons. Inasmuch as the government
has undertaken largely the financing
of improvements and purchase Of
new equipment, the order will serve
as a safeguard to the big working
fund.
The signing of the bill opens the
way for the railroad administration
to proceed with necessary extern
sions, with the negotiation of agree
ments on compensation, and with
other forms of financial assistance
to the companies.
One of the first results probably
will be the conclusion of an arrange
ment by which the government will
participate in some degree in the
meeting of SAB, 100000 notes Of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railway, due April Is. An announce
ment on this subject may be made
this week.
Without waiting for the railroad
bill to pass the final stage of the
Presidents approval. Mr.. McAdoo
had created in the railroad admins
tration a division of capital expendi-
ex-director of priorities for the war
industries board. to supervise the
regulation of additions and better
ments.
This division will scan all requests
for the building of new terminals,
extension of lines. purchase of loco
motives, cars and other equipment,
and all other enterprises requiring
expenditure of capital. Engineers of
the Railroad administration will re-
port on the physical necessity of pro-
posed betterments before these are
considered by higher officials. After
being approved by Mr.. Lovett and
the director general, proposals in
volving capital expenditures will go
to the decision of finance and pur-
chases. headed by John Shelton Will
Jams, for execution.
In his order Mr.. McAdoo asked
railroads considering extensions to
be guided by the war time necessity
for conserving capital, labor and
materials, and by the idea that en-
terprises which might be meritorious
from the standpoint of an individual
railway. may not be desirable now
that the railway systems have been
unified under government control,
! new lines or branches and purchases
of LOGON olives or cars should not be
undertaken without his approval.
Extension work begun or contract
| ed for before Jan. /, when the gov
eminent took over control, may be
continued. No work involving a
charge CT more than $4,000 to the
capital account may be started with
out the director enerars approval,
but enterprises requiring less than
that amount do not require specific
approval.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
Pon1p and Pageantry
of Warfare In Days
of Yore Disappears

Washington March 26-The
pomp and pageantry OF war fast are
disappearing.
The days are gone when a thin
red line" advancing with colors fly
ing and bayonets cleaning, present
ed the enemy with easy cannon fod-
der
In the first place, the resplendent
uniform has been discarded by all
belligerents for one of somber, in
conspicuous hue. The reason is OBJ
vious-the human target is delineat-
ed with dangerous distinctness when
bright colors are worn. For almost
the same reason, bayonets are no
longer Furnished A raiding party
lurking in ''no-mans land" can not
afford to have its presence betrayed
by the CLEAN of light from a star
shell on a polished piece of steel
Moreover, the regimental stand
ards usually are left at headquart-
ers. A color-sergeant probably would
ind himself in difficult position if
confronted with the necessity Of
fighting off an enemy and keeping
the flag waving at the same time.
A sad feature Of the present war
is that there will be no youngest
drummer boy" For many years the
proud individual who held this dis
tinction in the civil war has been dy-
ing off by hundreds, so perhaps
many post-bellum controversies have
been averted by eliminating the pic
turesque boyish figure.
The blare of bands usually has
been associated with memorable ad-
vances of troops, but the musicians
now can be convinced very easily
that trench concerts might prove I'M
healthy. There still remains, how
ever, the skirl of the bagpipes.
The general Of the lace-encumber-
ed uniform and flowing hat plumes
has passed out with the horse-hair of
a period, so far as field service is
concerned. In the gloomy corridors
Of the state, war, and navy building
there is on display in glass cases
manikins attired in the uniform
worn by American soldiers at var
ious periods Of the country's his
tory. A continental warrior, clad in
a blue coat with buff facings and
wearing perilously- balanced three
WI hpI th mat ciJPoleS Dut pOClly
in apparent efficiency with the trim
fighting man of today. The garb of
the modern American soldier is de-
veloped along strictly utilitarian
lines. The dull khaki tone blends in
to the landscape at a distance and
the broad-brim campaign hat offers
protection from the sun. The "tin
hat or steel helmet worn in trench
warfare, also has been adopted by
the expeditionary forces.
The civilian, however, still finds
room for mystification in endeavor-
ing to find why the bluejackets still
wear the halo-like hat and broad
bottomed trousers, apparent sur
vivals from the days of the frigates
No narrative of heroic charge in
wars Of hygone days was complete
without a picture of an officer lead
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26

ing his men with sword in hand.
Now, it isn't done. The man with the
sword readily is distinguished by dhe
enemy as an officer-and as such a
desirable target for rifle and ma
chine gun fire.
In civil war days and as recently
as the Spanish war, soldiers and Of
ficers were represented as gather
ing nightly about the campfire. In
history and fiction descriptions are
not lacking of the anxious officers
who studied out plans for the NOR
rows campaign by the Pickering
blazes. Campfires in France, if built
at all, are located deep in dug-out,
as their presence above ground
would serve admirably as a range
finder for the foes artillery.
But the element of individual and
mass gallantry nevertheless still sur
vives-and to a greater extent. AS
long as history lives, men Will re-
member the stand of the French at
Verdun. English tenacity at the
Somme, the wild recklessness of the
Canadians at Vimy Ridge. the sacri-
flee of the Anzacs at Gallipoll, and
the proverbial courage of the Irish,
who, it is said. charged into with
ering fire at Loos kicking foot
ball before them.
The Americans OF the expedition
AIRY forces have had their batism or
fire and have not been found want
ing. Traditions of nation arc theirs
to uphold and to increase.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26

division of the national army at
Camp Funston, Kan, who was
wounded recently by the explosion
of a French trench mortar on the
French battle front, arrived from
France. On the same ship arrived
Mai Gen. J. Franklin Bell, Y. S. A.,
commander of the seventy-fifth divi-
sion, now training for the overseas
service at Camp Upton, n Y. Both
officers will go to Washington i'm
mediately to report the result of
their observation to the War Depart
ment, and also, it is asserted, to go
before medical examining board,
which will report as to their physi-
ca! fitness to exercise battle COM
mand in France.
General Wood appeared in the best
Of health, and said that his physical
condition had never been better. He
has entirely recovered from the
wounds which he received when in
specting the battle front. in which
Col. Charles E. kilbourne. who is
Gen. Woods chief Of staff, nearly
lost his sight. Several French Off
GERS who were with Gen. Wood at
the time were instantly killed. and
Gen. Wood said today that his own
escape was nothing more nor less
than a miracle. The medical treat
ment he received in the French mill
tary hospital to which he was trans
ferred, he said, could not have been
improved upon in any hospital in tn
world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
SeasonabIe Poultry Hints.
y +. f. Richards, President Ameri :
can Poultry Associations

| by l.. r.. JSlClittl Ito!lSiI <AAASAA
can Poultry Association
BY giving his flock little extra care
and attention during the winter
months, every poultry raiser should
get number of eggs during every
month of the year.
Provide suitable quarters for your
birds. The houses must be comfort
able, well ventilated but free from
drafts. Have the roof, back and two
sides air tight, and provide ventila-
ton from the front only. Do not crowd
your birds. Allow at least four square
feet Of floor space for each bird.
After the weather becomes so severe
that the birds can not run out every
day, keep them in their houses. 1t will
only cause them to fret, when they are
shut in one day and allowed to run out
the next, which will retard egg pro-
duction.
Feed green food ii some form. such
as cabbage. beets, mangels. clover
leaves, alfalfa or sprouted oats. Save
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26

now about the splendid spirit OF
your men. The most of us do not
stop to think that the Belgian sol
diers by the fortunes Of war have a
much harder position to endure than
the soldiers of any other army Even
the Americans can go back home,
and even Australians and New
Zealanders can get letters from
home, but a great number of Bel
gian soldiers can neither visit their
homes nor get any information
about their families. In addition
they have to realize all the time
that their wives and children are in
the power of the enemy they are
fighting. Repeatedly on this trip
men spoke to me about this fact as
being one Of their greatest hard
ships. If we stop for a moment. put
ourselves in their places and think
of our own families, we get a slight
idea of one Of the heavy burdens
which they have been bearing.
THE American Red Cross is ar
ranging to put up some double tents
at the front, heat and light them,
put in some games and books and
for the men to have a little recre-
alton center when their hard work
is over. l was surprised to hear the
men singing in the worst camp that
l visited. They were most Of them
men of good families trained in city
conditions. They certainly showed
their blood by singing as they did
the most mental work in the ser
vice of their country.
Il have never understood before
this visit the difficulty of the ground
which you hold. ! have visited some
of your trenches before but l have
never seen before the country where
there are no trenches, only dug-outs
and pill-boxes and shell holes. wish
that everybody could understand
fully what the French did in this
particular sector to which l refer
and what the Belgians are doing ev-
cry day in defending it.
Il have nothing but hearty and
whole-souled respect for your brave
little army"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
rs dodn2ss RoultwLesson1@S3

all the kitchen and table offal-the
vegetable parings, bits Of cabbage
leaves, the celery tops, the crumbs,-etc.,
all make splendid profitable poultry
food. Provide animal food of some
kind, such as beef scraps, fish scraps
or green cut bone.
Provide plenty of exercise. Throw
the grain feed in a dry straw litter at
least six or eight inches deep so that
the birds will have to work for every
kernel they get. Keep before them at
all times hopper with dry mash, also
oyster shell, grit and charcoal, also an
abundance OF clean, fresh water. Ice
water is just as injurious as dirty,
stagnant water.
II any combs or wattles become
nipped by frost. thaw them out at once
by rubbing with a piece of ice or with
snow, and then apply cold cream or
vaseline.
To correct any light case OF bowel
trouble give dose or two of epson
salts dissolved in the drinking water
or a wet mash, about half teaspoon
full per bird
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
DON'T Be BILIOUS,
HEADACHY, SICK
OR CONST|PATED
ENJOY LIFE! LlVEN YOUR LIVER
AND BOWELS TONIGHT AND
FEEL GREAT.
WAKE UP WITH HEAD CLEAR,
STOMACH SWEET, BREATH
RIGHT, COLD GONE.

Take one or two Cascarcts tonight
end enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever experienced.
Wake up feeling grand, your head will
be clear, your tongue clean, breath
sweet, stomach regulated and your
liver and thirty feet of bowels active.
Get a box at any drug store now and
get Strengthened up by morning. Stop
the headache, biuousness, bad colds and
bad days Feel fit and ready for work
or play Cascarets do not grippe sicken
or inconvenience you the next day like
salts, pills or calomel. They're fine.
Mothers should give a whole Cascaret
any time TO cross, sick, bilious or fe-
verish children, because it viii act
thoroughly and can not injure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
To Build 15.OOO.Ton Sims.

Construction of ten ships of 5000
tons each, to be the biggest cargo
carriers in the American merchant
marine, has been recommended by
Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board, and work on the designs was
begun.
Secretary Redfield suggested re-
Gently that the board begin building
larger ships. now that the construc-
ton of smaller ones is under way
satisfactorily. Craft of the new de-
sign probably will be built in some
Of the old yards, which are equipped
for building large vessels for the
navy. They cannot be laid down for
several months.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
SEVENTEEN sEAMEN MISSING,
Admiral Sims Gables Names of Vic
Tins Of Sea Disaster.

TINS OF Sea Disaster.
Washington, March 26-Vice Adj
miral Sims cabled the navy depart
ment last night that in addition to
seventeen dead, seventeen men are
missing from the American destroyer
Marley as a result Of her recent COL
Esion with a British warship and the
consequent explosion of depth bomb
on board.
OF the dead Lieut. Commander
Richard Mccall Elliott. the com.
manding officer, and fourteen en-
two enlisted men have not been
identified. Six men were seriously
injured and sixteen slightly injured.
The following names of the dead,
In addition to those previously re-
ported, we're given in the dispatch:
Richard Burke, chief water tender,
Chelsea, Mass.
Timothy NJ. Corcoran, seaman, Cam
bridge Mass.
Nichols NJ. Droja, machinists mate.
Chicago, Ill.
George c. Hartman, electrician, Co.
lumbus, Neb.
Charles II. Klahre, machinists mate,
Akron o.
William Harrison Miller, boiler
maker, Portsmouth, o.
Eugene ID. Mitchell, fireman, Frank
fort, KY.
Edward Vincent Sullivan, copper
smith, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Claude Mann, boiler, Joliet, ILL.,
Charlie Ward, fireman, Rosedale,
Kan.
The death of Lieutenant Commander
Elliott and four enlisted men previ-
ously had been announced.
The following nineteen names in
clude the seventeen missing and the
two unidentified dead:
Edward Elias Brewer, gunners
mate, Lynchburg, Q.
William w. Edds, fireman, Sherman,
Tex
Allen Fleming, Jr, seaman, Athens.
Ga.
Lester O. Hartman, fireman, Column
bus, Ncb.
Albert Van N. Heraman. coxswair,
New York City.
Edward Clark Ishum. fireman,
| Washington, Ind.
Albert T.. Johnson. enginemar. Wor-
cester, Mass.
julius Robert Jones, fireman,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
steel Price Agreement.

Agreement over steel prices was
reached today by the representatives
Of the trade and the price-fixing COM
mittee Of the war industries board
and the new schedules were submit
ted for the approval Of the president.
Although parties to the agreement
were inclined to reticence until the
president formally announces the
prices, it was learned that the steel
men present generally expressed sat
isfaction, but admitted that the
small manufacturers probably would
protest vigorously.
There was no material modifica
ton in the current prices which were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
LIBERTY BELL TOUR SOUGHT.
Philadelphia Council Authorizes
Trim nv RenueSt OF McAdOO.

Philadelphia Council Authorizes
Trip by Request OF McAdoo.
Philadel phia, March 25.-The
Liberty Bell may make tour of the
country in aid of the third Liberty
Loan campaign, if a resolution in
troduced in Councils yesterday by
William M. Lewis. Common Council
man from the Thirty-second ward. is
adopted. The resolution was fromed
after a conference with William G.
McAdoo, secretary of the treasury
and director general of railroads,
who is said to be much interested in
the plan as means of arousing pa
triotism as we'll as enthusiasm for
the loan.
The resolution was adopted with
out a dissenting vote in Common
Council. III select council it was
questioned by Edward Bucholz, of
the Nineteenth ward. He caused
some laughter when he said:
How about the Colonial Danes?
Will they be satisfied"
Charles Seger, Of the seventh ward
objected to the manner in which the
resolution had been drawn, saying:
lie Dill CoIIlCS III
but surely there would be some ex-
epnse in transporting the bell over
the country. I move that it be re-
ferred to the finance committee"
William E. Finley, from the thir-
ty-ninth ward, said:
st is evidently not the thought of
Mr.. Lewis that the bell is to be TAX
en- outside the jurisdiction of Phila-
delphia county"
A vote was taken and the resolu-
ton was referred to the finance COM
mittee of selert council.
The resolution follows:
Resolved, That the Liberty Bell
be temporarily loaned to the Fed
eral government, under the supervi-
sion of the national and municipal
authorities, to assist in the third
liberty loan campaign in April and
that a committee of ten members OF
councils be appointed to assist in
making the arrangements"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
Catholic Drive Passes $4,000. 900.

New York, March 26-The Cath
Ole war drive on it's fourth day yes
terday sent the Knights of Colum-
bus fund for training camp and bat
tlefront activities we'll over $1,000
900. Cheered by the continued res
ponse of Catholic, Protestant, and
Jew, the leaders Of the movement
were confident the $2,50O,000 goal
would be passed
One incident that helped the squirt
was a cablegram from Secretary of
War Baker, which read:
Magnitude of operations of the
American Expeditionairy Force in
crease constantly the Importance of
it's recreational facilities. More
power to you in your war fund cam
paign in cooperation with Yr NJ. G.
A. and Red Cross"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26

Mrs. Edme Reisinger, daughter OF
the late Adolphus Busch, st. Louis
brewer, was taken into custody at a
hotel in Atlantic City by secret SER
vice men under orders from the de-
partment of justice as a material
witness in the governments prose-
cution of Comte Robert de la Clair
mont, under arrest in New York on
alleged spy charges Mrs. Reisinger
is said to be worth lO,00O,OOO and
is the widow Of Hugo ReisinGer, Of
Berlin.
The governments action against
Mrs. Reisinger is said to be due to
the discovery at her home in New
York OF a group Of pictures in which
she appears with her head resting
upon the shoulder of Comte de Ia
Clairmont. It is said also that gov
eminent agents found in her home
on Fifth avenue high-power wire
less outfit soon after the United
States entered the war.
Mrs Reisingers arrest was ac-
complished without excitement She
arrived here late yesterday after
noon. A government man reached
her hotel an hour later. Mrs, Resin
ger was under surveillance when she
evaded reporters last night and
slipped out Of the hotel for a short
stroll on the Boardwalk.
This morning the secret service
man informed Mrs. Reisinger that
the government desired her presence
ness to go at once. and other depart
ing guests who rode to the station
in the hotel coach were not aware of
the identity OF the richly dressed wo-
man,
Mrs. Edme Reisinger appeared at
the department of justice bureau OF
investigation in New York. She was
asked to tell what, if anything, she
knew regarding the activities OF
Madame Nix, Madame Storch and
two men whom the government has
ordered deported to France as unde-
sirables.
Charles D. DeWoody. head of the
bureau, said Mrs. Reisinger conced-
ed she knew the two women, but that
she asserted she merely met them
socially. Mr.. DeWood added that
Mrs. Reisinger assured him she
would be available at any time he de-
sired to question her further.
Since her friendship for Count de
Clairm0nt became known Mrs. Rel
singer has remained silent, refusing
even TO see any one. Her attorney,
F. McCombs, had this to
say:
Il do not think there is anything
to be said in this matter. for it is
nothing more than an unpleasant in
cident Mrs Reisinger has unfortun-
ately been imposed upon by this
man"
General Wood Home
Major General Leonard Wood L.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
TOO WEAK
TO FIGHT

The Comeback" man was really never
down-and-out His weakened condition because
of pyer'Hork. lack of exercise. improper eating
and living demands stimulation to satisfy the
cry for health-giving appetite and the re-
freshing sleep essential to strength. GOLD
MEDAL Haariern Oil Capsules. the National
Remedy of Holland. will do the work. They
are wonderful. Three of these capsules each
day will put man on his feet before he knows
it, whether his trouble comes from uric acid
poisoning the kidneys gravel or stone in the
bladder. stomach arrangement other all
u,-rts that befaii the over-z-alons American.
Don't 9ait until you are entirely down-and-
out, but lake them today Your druggist will
gladly refund your money II they do not help
you. Accept no substitutes. Look for the
name GOLD MEDAL on every box, three sizes.
They are the pure, original. imported Harlem
OIL Capsules.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26

Humble, Tex.
Martin Charles kurdt, chief ma
chinist's mate. Lindenhurst, n. Y.
Henry Frederick Lobmeyer, ma
Chinist's mate, Hartford, Conn.
John David Lowder, Jr, fireman,
Lisbon, S. c.
Joseph Walter Ma1ewltz, fireman
no address.
Michael Francis MCGOWAN, black
smith, Stanton, Pa.
John Joseph ODonnell seaman
Lowell, Mass.
Albert Andrew Ross, seaman, Ming
ham, Mass.
Martin kozanski, seaman, Toledo, ..
Lamorn Shaw, fireman, BroWnield,
Pa.
Ralph Watson, engineman, New
York City.
William H Wood, gunner's mate,
Santa Cruz, Cal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-26
DISCUSS RECREATION WORK.
Members of War Board Recreation
Commission Confer at Des Moines.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, March 26.--Many OF
Americas most successful managers
and leaders in the way of musical and
theatrical entertainments were in con-
ference Monday at Des Moines az
members of the war board recreation
commission to plan for entertain
ments at the big environments and
army camps thruout the country.
Some seventy five of these canton
ment workers from New York. Wash
ington, Chicago and other points were
in attendance. Athletic trainrs and
edirctors were also present.
Among those attending were the
following: Lee F.. Hammer, commits
sioner Of music, Chicaso; j. E. Ray
croft, athletic training commissioner,
formerly physical director of Prince