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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
A DANGER

In the spring of this year, when
the people of this country became
really awake to the fact that a food
shortage was among the possibilities
of the coming year, the call went
out from official Washington for a
record production of food and feed
crops. The answer to that call was
prompt and decisive. We are inform
ed that the output of the farms and
gardens and orchards was never as
great as this year.
This is gratifying and shows the
readiness with which our people rise
TO an emergency. But there is a dan
ger that may grow out of the situ-
alton that must be guarded against
Production of the food crops is de-
Btructive to soil fertility. Over a
great part of our country our fam
ers, in order to maintain the strength
of their soil, have had to resort to
crop rotation, and that frequently
when they could have realized a
greater immediate profit to have
stuck to certain straight crops. Es-
pecially are the four great staples,
wheat, corn, oats and potatoes, ex-
tremely hard on our soils.
Now the probabilities are that the
price of all these crops will continue
high for some time to come and their
production will be great tempta-
tion to our people. To a reasonable
extent this will be necessary, but II
should not be carried to an extreme.
Soil once depleted is hard to restore
as any experienced farmer can tes-
tify.
AS an evidence of the result of ad-
herring to the staple food crops, we
have but to point to certain sections
of the great grain belt of northern
Illinois and Indiana. Since the ad-
vent of high prices, many farmers Of
this section have virtually surrender
ed their farms to the production of
wheat, corn and oats. The old es-
tablished rotation has been abandon
ed. with the result that the land Is
being depleted at a really alarming
rate.
We must preserve soil fertility. We
must not be guilty of killing the
goose that lays the golden egg.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
C CALIFORNIANS WILL
TRAIN AT o. 4. C.

A group of 247 enlisted men from
California will come to the Oregon
Agricultural college for training in
auto mechanics, carpentry, black
smithing and wireless. They will be
in command Of a military officer and
devote two hours day to military
drill. Their work will be completed
August Is, when a new unit of 500
men will begin like course.
New barracks and mess halls will
have to be erected to care for the ex-
ira men during regular college work,
which will not be affected by the
army training.
Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
STRONG EVIDENCE.
Is the Statement OF This Medford
Woman.
Backache is often kidney ache;

Backache is often kidney ache;
A common warning of serious kid
ney ills.
"a stitch in time save nine
Don't delay-use Doan's Kidney
Pills.
Profit by this nearby residents ex-
perience.
Mrs. j. H. Gustin, 521 s. Grape st.,
Medford, Ore, says: For several
years have been taking Doan's Kid
ney Pills when | have felt the need
of kidney medicine and | have al
ways received the most satisfactory
results. My kidneys seem to be my
weakest spot and every little cold or
strain affects them and my back be-
comes weak and lame. After / have
taken a couple of boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills, my kidneys become nor
NAL and in every way | feel as well
and strong as ever"
Price 60c at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doans Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Gustin had. Foster-Milburn
Co. Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. Y.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
UNITED WE WILL STAND

The fact is becoming every day
more and more apparent that Ger
many is finding a united foe too
strong for all her boasted efficiency.
The allied battle lines are standing
firm, and the Prussian objective of
Paris or the channel ports seems as
far from being attained as at any
time since the German hordes were
turned back at the Marne.
But when Prussian arm fail, Prus-
sian strategy gets on the job. And
Prussian strategy is on the job these
days-as large as life. The object
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10
cars would be reclaimed. also scores

cars would be reclaimed, also scores
of auto thieves apprehended.
Every month thousands of stolen
tires are recovered by the police de-
partments of large cities but are dis
posed Of as so much junk at GUS
todian's sale. If the police were no
tiled of the serial numbers of stolen
tires many of these would be. placed
back into the hands of their owners
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

Strange that ex-Czar Nicholas has
not thought of sharing the lecture
platform with other ex-celebraties.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-06-10

Phone Job orders to the TIdInss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Dr.:kramer Appointed
Sea View Head

Bird S. Coler, Commissioner of the
Department of Public Charities, has
appointed Dr.: Geza Kramer, Of 2a3
West Eighty-third Street. lifelong
member of Tammany Hall and affili-
ated with Jimmy Hagan's club in the
new 7th Assembly District, as medical
superintendent Of Sea View Hospital,
Staten Island. Although DR.. Kramer
has held the office since January, the
announcement was not made until yes
terday by Commissioner Coler.
Superintendent Kramer took the
place of William B. Buck, who was
appointed under the Mitchell admins
tration by Charities Commissioner
Kingsbury, and dismissed by the Hylan
administration on charges which were
declared to have been unwarranted by
the Citizens Union.
The War Department is now negoti-
ating with the city for the taking over
Of Sea View Hospital as base hos
pital. In that case the city patients
and the hospital staff would be trans
ferred to plant to be built at Otis
vile by the government.
Commissioner Coler said yesterday
that there was no politics in DR.. Kra-
mer's appointment. He declared he
had made him temporary appointee
without q civil service examination be-
cause of his unusual fitness for the
position. DR.. Kramer was connected
with the Health Department for twenty.
one years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

riss and Ryan, I wish to thank for the
high type of civic pride that they are
manifesting by giving SO literally of
their time and money to the depart
ment that means SO much, not only
to the city, but the country as we'll.
Praises Police Women
"The police reserves, under Com
missioner Wanamaker, have improved
to such an extent that if it were not
for the uniform one could hardly tell
them apart from the officers and men
of the regular force. Also, l wish to
say that the police women made a
great impression upon me. and l want
to congratulate them and their chief
for the remarkable showing they made.
The four hundred and odd police wom-
en- who were in the parade will have
much to look back to in the future
in connection with this movement, be-
cause to them will go the credit of
being pioneers in this work.
"The Police Department has i'm
proved since Commissioner Enright as
sumed command, and it will continue
to improve, am sure, so long as he re-
mains the head of the department.
"Ghe Police Departments aid in
facilitating the work of the Federal
government has been praised by
United States Attorney General Greg
Dry "a ,..;.s J.. 49,
I know the police are making every eff
fort in their power to keep this city
clean and wholesome and tic place for
decent people to live.
And may | not say at this time to
President Wilson and Governor Whit
man that the police of this city are al
ways at their commando"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Norwegian Liner
Carefully Searched
For Spy Messages
Delayed for Hours While
Rigid Examination
Goes On

AN ATLANTIC PORT, May H.
After rigid examination of every one
Of its 100 passengers and search
of their baggage by "a large squad OF
customs and army and navy intelli-
gence men, Norwegian American
liner left here for Scandinavian port
late to-day.
Every letter and paper on which spy
messages and military information
might be struggled through to Ger
many was confscatcd. Four passen-
gers were taken before a special board
of inquiry, but were finally allowed to
sail when the liner left hours late.
Extraordinary precautions were taken
at the dock to prevent, as far as pos
sible, the enemy traffic which is known
to have been carried on through neu-
trail countries contiguous to the Cen
trail Empires. All approaches to the
vessel were patrolled by The United
States Naval Guard Forty secret SER
vice operatives. of various bureaus, CO.
operated in delving into every piece of
hand baggage and all trunks.
Passports of each passenger had to
carry the wise of the Collector Of the
Port and the French, British and Nor
wegian consuls. An irregularity in
passports resulted in the temporary de-
tention of the four passengers, it was
reported.
The liner carried the greatest num-
Der of passengers that has sailed on a
ship from this port in months. Among
them were P. J. Berg, American Con-
sui General at Stockholm, returning
to his post after three months leave,
and Mrs. Berg; Marion Letcher, Amer
lean Consul General at Christiania;
Mehdi Khan, Persian Minister, and
DR.. Fridtiuf hansen, Royal Norwegian
Commissioner.
DIR. Nansen, the famous explorer, is
returning home on the successful COM
pletion of a mission to reach an agree
ment with the United States for sup
plies Of wheat and other foodstuffs for
Norway. He declared that, before the
agreement was reached, Norway was
on the verge of being forced to accept
food from Germany, and putting her
self under obligations toward Pots
dam. Norwegian sentiment, he said,
would now find no bar toward it's pro-
Ally leanings.
Much intcres, was aroused Ky the
fact that Lieutenant General Vladi-
mir H. Roop and Captain Comlly
Schutt, Russian diplomats under the
regime of the Gar, were sailing for
Petrograd. They have beer in Wash
ington, and are said to be strongly
pro-Ally.
Important papers bearing on the re-
lationship between Denmark ard the
United States were said to be in the
possession of Count Frederick Moltke,
attache of the Danish Legation in
Washington, who is returning to Den
mark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Enright Lauded in Verse at
Dinner of 700 Traffic COPS

More than 700 traffic policemen had
their annual dinner last night at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. If anything
was needed to show what crackerjacks
they are as traffic policemen, the fol
lowing verses, written by one of them
and sung by them all to the tune OF
over there" probably is it:
Richard E.-Richard E.
He is now in the place he should be-
On boat he's jolly. On land--oh, gollyl
He's fair in his authority
On the force Why. of course,
Every man is for him good and strong.
For Dick Enright, he is Gin right"
And it's one sure bet that he'll never be
wrong.
After the dinner Special Deputy Com
missioner John A. Harriss took the men
to special performance at the Winter
Garden.
Members of the motorcycle squads
had their first annual dinner at Rec
tors in the afternoon, with Mayor Hy-
Ian and other officials as guests, but
without any poetry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Gems Missing, Maid Sought
Valuables Disappear When
Negroes "Goes After Whisk-
broom"

Mrs. Sarah Barnett, of 800 West
Ninety ninth Street, is mourning the loss
of jewelry valued at more than $4,000.
The police are looking for negress,
employed by Mrs. Barnett as maid,
whom they suspect of having taken the
valuables.
According to the report made by Mrs.
Barnett to the Fourth Branch Detective
Bureau, the jewelry was taken while
she was in the house. The maid, she
said, ran into her room and said that a
'whiskproom had dropped from a win
dow. She said she was going after it.
When the girl failed to return Mrs.
Barnett's suspicious were aroused and
she went to her jewel case, only to find
several rings and bar pin gone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
What Is Going On To-day

ONE MEAL WHEATLESS
MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS
Address by Or. William Norman Guthrie on 1.-The
Sprtua Ideals ,ha Expressed in Old Glory" St
Addresses By CAPTAIN Edward G whiwell George
mass meeting Of the Girls Patriotic Service
i]sS;a league, Lafayette Theatre. Seventh ave. and
Patriotic memorial meeting of the Sons of Vet
Grams and Womens Auxiliary. Soldiers and Sail
ors Monument. Riverside Drive and Eighty ninth
Address b.; DR.: J. Percival Hugct. on THE Penal
tles OF PatriotisM.' before the Mems Assembly.
ton. D. IN. 11''oeA~
Address by George Creel. chairman Of tho Com
AdS Sn;, Church h rel q the Ascension. 8 p m.
sche and World Anarchy" before the BROOKLYN
Civic Forum. Public School S4 Glenmore and
Stone aves.. Brooklyn. D. m.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Woman Surprises Intruder

young man with a suitcase filled
with silver in each hand emerged
from the apartment of Miss Mary
Henning on the third floor at S32 St.
Nicholas Avenue at o'clock yesterday
afternoon just as Miss Henning ar
rived home.
He leaped back when he saw her,
and lodged behind table. She fol.
lowed him around the table, into the
hail, down the stairs and into the
street. Her screams brought Detective
Duggan, of the 5th Branch, who ar
rested the intruder
The man told the police he was
hugo Gross, twenty years old, a Ia
borer, of Al West Hath Street. He
declared that it was his first burglary,
the police say. Jewelry worth $500
was found in his pockets, they assert.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

hold that honor is more precious
than life and that the browning
mercy.
GAMMA HOWARD SHAW"
The National Association for Moth
nounced tonight that it had set aside
tomorrow as a day of prayer.
"The result DESIRED" said the an
rounccment, ."is to cheer, console and
strengthen the hearts of the mothers
who have sons in the camp or trench
and to secure through mothers letters
to their sons higher spiritual soldier
morale"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Republicans Appeal toWomen

The Republican Executive Commit
tee of Kings County sent 100000 let
ters yesterday to unenrolled women
voters urging them to enroll in the
Republican party on May 25 in order
to qualify to vote in the September
primaries. The Women's Division of
the New York Republican County Com
mittee has started house to house
canvas OF women vters to make per-
sonal appeal for the special enroll
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

II you are looking for q summer home
read the unusual offerings In the REAL
STATE columns Of to-days Sunday
assbuns.--
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12
Nudge Announces Candidacy

PLATTSBuRGH, N. Y, MAY IL
John E. Nudge, Of this city. widely
known in northern New York as a law.
yer, to-day announced himself n can
didate for the Democratic nomination
FOR Attorney General. He is said TO
have the Endorsement Of the labor or
CARNATIONS Of this city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

II you are looking for "a s,r
read the unusual offerings in The p i,'i,is
ESIATE columns OF to-day.s snndav
XxibunA--Advt
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31

paper and pieces Of bedding across their
broken windows TO keep out the dreaded
courant d'air' Now and then there IL n
small group in doorway, recounting ex-
perIcnces.
''The Boche has dropped more than 100
bombs tonight, many OF them OF the boo
pound size The net damage is not very
great. A few houses destroyed, many
windows broken, few victims very few,
but all too many; n few holes blown in
the streets, some trees uprooted in the
parks and some pansy beds oblitcrated.
Il imagine that back in his quarters,
the Bochc cscadrlle kofnmandatur, after
sadly catalog,ing his own wounds,
writing I'D an account of his glorious
nights work for the ediiication of the
reader of the Kolnischezeitung Ills
ductilc pen is rceing off; The earth reeled
and rocked and while rows of buildings
went down like card houses; the light of
-Eftn flames showed panic-stricken crowds
surping through the streets toward the
open country, the railroad depots were
levclled to the ground and many munition
dumps were blown up, and several fires
were seen to break out IN the barracks and
military warehouses.
"The escadrille kommandatur would be
grieved beyond measure could he but walk
Through the streets tonight and inventory
the net results and see the effect produced
on the population lie who is now house
less shrues his shoulders and says C'est
le Guerrc, and once more the peaceful
stars shine down TRANQUILITY on the silent
st rpet9 =
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
HAUGHTON QUITS BRAVES.
Former Harva ard Coach Commissioned
Major in Chemical Service.

Boston, Mass, July 3l.-Pcrcy ID.
Haughton, president of the Boston Braves
National League baseball club, Monday
rendered his resignation from that posi-
tion To the Board Of Directors. Haughton
has been commissioned major in the
National Army
He is already on his way to Washington
TO take up the duties Of his new post. He
left this city Immediately after filing his
resignation early in the day. He will
serve in the National Army's chemical
warfare service.
No statement was forthcoming from
Mr.. Haughton before he left the city.
Whether a new president will be at once
named to fill the vacancy could not bc
learned tonight.
Haughton became president of the
Braves during the winter of l9l5-l6.
II was his first appearance IN professional
baseball He is widely known as llar-
ward star and football coach of exception
al versatility. He is highly skilled in
chemistry. He will enter upon his army
duties Immediately upon his arrival
at Washington. 1t is understood he WAS
urged not to delay Haughton trained
at the Plattsburg camp.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
BOARD OF HEALTH
Arrival Of Additional Garbage Trucks
Reported.

The Board NJ Health met in regular
session Yesterday afternoon, when II was
reported that four new trucks for collect
ing the garbage are in operation and two
more will be ready soon One Of these ls
waiting for the arrival Of minor part
which has been shipped from Detroit
These trucks have capacity Of three and
one-half tons. In spite Of the many diff
cultIes attendant on the collection Of gar
bage. among which is the fact, it Is stated,
that some persons do not keep their gar
bage in a place where the collector can
see it, and the difficulty in getting labor,
the situation is better and it is believed
will shortly be normal
A letter was read from W J. Leonard
of Is Buena Vista street, concerning the
smoke and cinder nuisance caused by the
poverhouse of the Wilmington Co, at
Race and Buena Vista streets. An IN
spection of conditions by one Of the health
officers was ordered.
A letter was read from the Belts Ma
chine Co. complaining Of 4 disagreeabe
smell, which they believed was caused by
the crematory After making an lnyesrI-
CATION Secretary CahIll SAID he found that
the day the odor was worst the crematorv
had not been IN operation. 1t seemed pos
sIble that it was caused by placing bones
IN uncovered vessels, or possibly bv a
faulty sewer An effort will be made to
locate and remedy the trouble
The sanitary conditions Of building
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
FOR THE LAND OF HEALTH.

The country needs trained nurses
almost more than any other thing. The
surgeon-general of the United States
Army has called for 80, 900 trained nurses
by next Christmas time.
In this call hes the opportunity for war
work on the part of the girls OF America.
They can set free the present trained
nurses for this vital need by saying I'M
selhshIy: Go, dear Red Cross nurses, TO
France. We will step into the hospitals
and study so that we may take your
places
Every girl who decides this year TO
become a nurse and begins to take up
work in a hospital, said an old colonel,
who understands well that wars are won
at home as much as on the battlefield, Is
really Red Cross nurse in spirit from
the moment she goes to serve her first
month In the training school.
Gan of the best hospital training schools
require probatlOners TO be over ~ years
of age Those who take up this work must
be strong and robust, for nursing IS not
easy, and only the well and cheerful are
really able TO pilot sick people back to the
Land Of Health
"Then there is another thing for girls
still in school 10 remember, if they are
thinking seriously Of adopting the nurse 3
profession after their graduation. II IS
always an advantage to a student nurse
if she has taken laboratory courses in
school In the training school she is going
TO study chemistry and physiology and
bacteriology If she has had similar studies
before, such knowledge will help her in her
new work Clara ID. Noyes, in August
St Nicholas
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
MRS. {. 6. BUCkNER
STARS At THE TRAPS
Wilmington Woman Doing Some
Remarkable Shooting at At
lantic City Tournament.

Atlantic City, n. j.. July 3l.-Women
starred yesterday in the interstate open
events at the Atlantic City Trapshooting
School on the Milhon-Dolar Pier. Mrs
+. G.. Buckner. of Wilmington, broke a
u and 20 during the morning, and in the
afternoon registered two consecutive Y
breaks out of % chances. Mrs. r. b.
Nixon, of Arkansas, registered a II during
the morning and in the afternoon added
10 to her score.
Mrs George r. Ladd. Jr., Of httsburg,
recovered her form, and missed but two
of her 25 string. Mrs David ]. F1eisher,
of Chelsea, Jerseys representative, re-
turned two los.
With a %, a 20, "a and q in four
consecutive strings, W. l.. Boyd, of Nir-
ginia, registered 50 out of century.
Edward Collins, Atlantic City, broke a
10, two 22's and 81, and Charles Herold,
also of Atlantic City, registered q 3 and
two 20s w r. hickman, of Wilm intton
scored 20 and an Is, 40 total in the,
best out Of 40 and H. A. Gait, Of Akron,
winged % and three ISIS.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-31
DISSENSION IN AMERICAN.
Coriskev and Griffith Against August 20
Closing

Chicago. July 31.-Charles A. Comis-
kew, president of the Chicago Americans,
Yesterday issued a statement opposing
the suggestion OF President Ban johnson,
Of the league. TO close the season about
August 20 and then play the world S
series.
Il think we should continue to play
until September l, the date set by Secre-
tarv Baker~.for the suspension OF base
ball" President Comiskey said: We
are drawing the largest crowds in the East
in several wears, and we should give that
section of the country its share of the
schedule as originally mapped out. "
Clark Griffith, manager and part owner
Of the Washington Club, also Is opposed
to curtaiing the season. while President
Frank Navin, of the Detroit Club, said
YESTERDAY that he was agreeable TO the
pronosal to terminate the championship
season August 20, if other clubs desired
II.