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The Nevada County picayune., 1918-02-14
MANY CHANGES MADE
 BY PRIMARY ACT

the procedure of the conducting primaries by the new law that will govern the next democratic county primary to be held in this county. The primary will be held the last Tuesday in May. The law provides for this date.
 Judges and clerks will be sell ected by the Democratic county central committee in public ses- sion to be held not earlier than a week before the primeny instead of beiug selected by the county election board as heretofore. Members of the county commit tee must have notice of the meet ing in writing 10 days before the session. An alternrte for each judge and clerk also must be named by the committee. In the event that the regular and alter nate officials do not report for duty at their polling place on pri- mary day the voters of the pre- cinct are authorized by law to elect their own officials after waiting until 8:30 o'clock in the morning for the county commit tees selection to report.
 In the event no nomination is made from a Township or ward precinct the county central com mittee is empowered to make nominations for committeeman and county convention delegates.
 Delegates to the county con- ventions must be elected in the primary under the new law. In order to get on the ticket can didate for delegate must file with the secretary of the county cen tral committee his petition sign ed by at least ten qualified elect ors. The petition must be filed with the secretary of the county committee.
 Provision is made for disabled voters to permit one judge to mark his ballot in the presence of another judge. Parties hold ing primaries are compelled to hold county conventions on the first Monday after the primary for the purpose of declaring the result of the election. The coun- ty conventions are empowered to select delegates and alternates to all conventions. .
 Candidates for office. office holders or deputy office holders are barred from membership to the county central committee and as delegate to county or district conventions or as judges or clerks of any primary election.
 County central committee is empowered to designate an addi- tional voting place for every 100 votes in a precinct.
 The law provides for early e ection returns by making it compulsory upon officials to keep counting the ballots until the couat mas | en completed. The central cen nittee must canvass the yet r. a Friday following primary
 Each voter must sign his own ballot under the rev law. The signature of one judge )s also re- quired. Ballot must be safely kept by the county clerk for a period of six months. If no con, test arises by the expiration of that period the ballots must be destroyed in the presence of three persons appointed by the county central committee.
 Any contest must be supported by affidavits of ten reputable cit izens, The circuit judge who is given power ta hear contests over the office of representatives and county or township offices is empowered to adjourn his regu- lar term of court to hear election
The Nevada County picayune., 1918-02-14
FOR SALE

A good fresh Jersey cow, first calf. Sam Gautchie,
 Laneburg, Ark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
9 COUNTRIES ASK
TRADE TREATIES

Nine Latin-American republics are
ready to negotiate after-the-war trade
treaties with the United States. II
was learned here today at headQuar-
tiers of the international high COM
mission.
Negotiations with Uruguay are IN
der way. the treaty having been
signed by Secretary OF State Lansing
and Uruguayan Foreign Minister
Brum and ratified by the United
States Senate. II is announced that
Brazil, Ecuador, Salvador, Nicaragua,
Panama, Peru, the Dominican Repub-
lie, and Haiti have notified the State
Department OF their desire to take
up the agreements.
The treaties with the various re-
publics will be uniform and provide
trade facilities to assist business men
and commercial representatives, oper-
ating in Central and South America
and in the West Indies.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26

The brother killed while fighting the
GERMANS in the air, the sister decorated
for bravery while serving as q nurse
behind the front lines.
This is the dual honor that has come
in cable messages to Franklin Steele, a
retired wealthy resident Of Washington,
concerning his two grandchildren. Lieut.
Edward Ciaypool Gwynne, an American
aviator, and Gywnne's sister. Mrs.
Horace Allen, WeH-known in Washing
ton society.
Mr.. Steele, whose home is at 1875
Eighteenth street northwest. has just
received a cablegram telling briefly the
news that Lieutenant GWynne. former
Washington school boy, was killed in
action on the western front last Satur-
day.
shortly before this cablegram was
received Mr.. Steele received word
that Mrs. Allen had been decorated
by the French government "for de-
'Votion and bravery under fire" while
serving with the American Ambulance
Hospital at Noye. Mrs. Allen at
tended a private school for girls here
while Lieutenant Gwynne was attend
ing the Cathedral School with his
twin brother, Lieut. ErSkine Gwynne,
Of the French artillery. Their mother.
Mrs. E. E. Gwynne, has been living
at Sevres, near Paris, for the past
ten years, but has made frequent
trips to Washington. She recently
turned her home into a hospital for
American wounded.
The twin brothers were born in
Paris, twenty years ago, and were
educated in Washington, England, and
France. Upon the outbreaks of the
war, Mrs. Gwynne and her sons came
20 this city, but soon left for Eng
land. where they worked in the mu-
milton plant at the Uppingham School
In the fall OF 1915. they returned to
Paris. In 1917 young Edward Joined
the American aviation His brother,
Erskine, enlisted in the American
forces, became a sergeant and later
was honorsbly discharged. He later
received q commission in the French
army.
The grandfather, Franklin Steele
has been a resident OF Washington
forty years He is member OF the
Metropolitan Club.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
I. R. CRITICISES
PRESIDENT'SPLEA
By Briggs

OYSTER BAY, n. T.. Oct. 3e.-com-
menting on President Wilson's appeal
to the people to return DemOeratis'
Congress IN the November election,
Col. Theodore Roosevelt said:
The Presidents statement II an
announcement that he Is a partisan
leader first, and President OF all the,
people second. It Is. of course, the
reputation Of one OF his former
statements to the effect that politics.
was adjourned--a statement which, OF,
course. he has already repudiated BIZ
his action. M
II have no further comment Just al
this moment,-but 1 will deal with the
matter in a speech. after l have had
time to read the document. which ali
good Americans will regard AS the
most lamentable appeal to politics
ever made by a President during
great war, which has been heartily
supported by all good citizens with
out regard to party. but which 80 far
as there have been party differences
at all has been more heartily sup
ported by his political opponents than
by his political friends"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
j. S. CIVIL SERVICE
DOOM SEEN IN BILL

The Senate in putting through the
army appropriation bill adopted an
amendment which is looked on In
many quarters as hostile to the civil
service system.
The effect Of 1t is to make perman-
ent the appointment of temporary
employees Of the Naturalization Blu
reau and Service and cover them into
the civil service.
Several Democratic Senators sup
ported the amendment. senator Smoot
opposed il, and said the civil service
law might better be abolished than
to pick out one bureau after another
and shift the employees selected with
out examination into the civil serV-
Ice.
Senator Chamberlain declared IL he
had to depend for clerical assistance
on the clerks certified to him by the
Civil Service Commission he would
resign his seat
Senator Thomas said he feared II
was the beginning of concerted
movement Of clerks and employees who
came hero for the war period to make
their tenure permanent. He said:
Mr.. President, I am not particu-
larry concerned about the Civil Serv-
Ice Commission. I share the view eX-
pressed by the Senator from Oregon,
in that l think in some respects 1t
ought to be abolished: but fear
that this amendment is the beginning
of what 1 am told is a concerted pur-
pose upon the part Of the new en-
ployes of the Government to make
, their tenures here permanent after
the war.
We have here at least 40 per cent
of employees who. / repeat, are not
needed at all. They are supernumer-
aries, even in this time of great ac-
tivity: and II one may judge from the
work which some of them seem to be
doing, I have understated rather than
overstated the percentage. have
been informed from credible sources
that a movement began some time
ago-an organized movement, hav-
ing, OF course, political Iower be-
hind it-by which the employees ev-
erywhere now in Government serv-
ice, and who have been brought in
owing to the exigencies OF the war,
are beginning-they are not only be-
ginning, but they began some time
ago, and they are continuing their
activities for that purpose.
"They are writing letters now"
said Senator Smoot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
PRESIDENTS PLEA
ST|RS REPUBLICANS

The real Congressional campaign
began today with Republicans ev-
erywhere planning "reprisals' on
President Wilson. because OF his APP
peal to the country for a vote OF
confidence-return OF the Democatic
Congress.
FROM the tamest campaign In
years, II became the bltterest over
night. Declaring that President Will
sons appeal has removed all re-
straint from political discussion, Re-
publicans set out to prove their con-
tention that Of the two parties. the
Republican has shown a larger per-
centage of loyalty to the Admins
tration's war program and policies
In q formal statement, sclimaxing
many hours Of bitter comment BY
Republican members OF Congress,
Senators Lodge and Smoot and Con-
gressnen Gillett and Fess. declared
that the Republican percentage Of
Administration support on war
measures was ~ per cent, compared
with 81 per cent on the part of
Democrats.
In this connection, the statement
raped Congressman Dent, Kitchin,
and Clark. 1t declared, the Republic
cans, il victorious, would replace Dent
on the Military Committee with Kahn,
ito whom the Administration was
Obliged to turn for assistance" in the
first draft bill with Dent opposed: II
attacked Kitchin for his vote against
the war. and Clark for his remarks
on CONSUMPTION.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
MEN IN SERVICE TO
GET COMMISSIONS

The War Department plans to
select, as far as possible, the com
missioned personnel OF the army from
the men in the service. according to
q ruling made public.
All men in the service qualified for
general military service who aspire
to commissions will be given an OPP
portunity to prove their worth in the
officers training schools. Men quail
ned for special work in the stan
corps, but not physically 1T for duty
in the field. may be commissioned II
the chiefs Of the sections waive the
physicaI disabilities OF the candidate.
This ruling will permit the trans
fer to feld service Of many men now
engaged in special work in the army
bureaus in Washington. 1t Is hoped
that by the first OF the year all o.
ficers physically Mt for service
abroad can be relieved from what
have become known as swivel chair
or ahoms guard" positions.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26

zenship Of the country demands its
rightful share
'If the Republican party q entrusted
with power In either or both houses
they viii do everything possible to drive
forward the war and hasten the day Of
victory. The President speaks OF the
necessity OF telling the plain truth That
the Republican party In control OF Con-
gress would do. for they have no friends
to shield. And they will do more They
will give all the money to the last dol
lar necessary to sustain our armies and
our fleets. but they will check the waste
now going on OF the money given by
the most generous people on the face Of
the earth.
'-The President speaks Of tbs eject Of
the election abroad He says thai there
they understand the meaning OF cleo
tons They do, and they viii know that
II the Republicans have a majority in
Congress the war viii be pressed with
greater vigor than ever before. They
are quite aware that the power Of the
Senate Is equal to that OF the President
in the contamination Of peace by treaty.
Stands for Victorious Peace.
''They will know that the Repub-
lican party stands for a victorious
militarism. That knowledge will not
depress the spirit of our allies or
encourage the government Of Ger
many.
The Republican party believes
that the question OF surrender should
be left to Marshal Foch, to the gen
erals and to the armies in the field.
When they report that Germany has
laid down her arms the United States
and the allies should then impose
their terms. VIII that knowledge
cause detection to those who are
hghting with US? All the world knows
that the Republican. party Is opposed
to negotiations and discussions car
ried on an diplomatic notes addressed
to the German government The Re
publican party stands for uncondi-
tional surrender. There Is no Re-
publican creed SO short that there Is
not room in IL for those two words.
'HENRY CABOT LODGE.
REED SiOOT. Chairman.
Republican Senatorial
Committee.
FREDERICK II. GILLETT,
SIMEON d. TESS, Chairman.
Republican Congressional
Committee.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
CRACK FOE ARMEN
NOW OPPOSE YANKS

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
NORTHWEST OF vERDUN, Oct 20
The crack German flying circus
which was formerly commanded by
Lieutenant RIchthofen, the boche star
ace, but now commanded by Lieuten-
ant Udt, has been rushed to this front
by the enemy in an effort to re-estab-
fish supremacy of the air here.
The "circus" was first recognized
when mine enemy :; planes twith ia
miIiars bright bellies Of Riehthofen's
outfit crossed the American lines near
Grand Pre-. An American aviator, on
patrol duty. drove in close to the
"circus" to complete the Identification
and then dashed home" with the
news.
Thus far there have been no engage
mnets between the crack enemy out
fit and American aviators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
An Appeal From
the Red Cross

have-have you? What? Why.
responded to the QUESTIONABLE OF
the Red Cross. The Surgeon
General OF the army has asked
that the Red Cross make a sur
vey OF all the nurses in the
country, every nurse. graduate,
undergraduate. nurse-in-training.
practical nurse, midwife. trained
attendant, and every woman who
has taken a course with the Red
Cross.
The need for nurses is an i'm
perative one: the demand must
be met II the United States Is
going to carry this war to a vic
torious conclusion.
Have you an automobile? II
you are not a nurse, have you
wondered chow you could be of
service at this time to the Gov
eminent? Count up the nurses
whom you know or have heard OF.
make a list, go out in your auto
mobile armed with a supply OF
questionnaires, which you can OBJ
tain from the local chapter OF the
Red Cross. and get every one Of
these nurses to sign.
Remember-every nurse OF
every kind; every Red Cross stu
dent everywhere.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
BATH is WORTH S16,5OO

NEW YORK. Oct 6.-Frances Mel
SON is just 1868 better OF because
OF a Turkish bath. The film actress
remembered to weigh in" after the
bath and was able to prove that she
had not broken a theatrical contract.
She sued the Super Pictures Dis
tributing Corporation for Diminishing
her. The company in their allega-
lions claimed that she had broken
her contract not to weigh more than
no pounds. She proved that she
weighed 40 pounds at the Turkish
bath. clothes and all, after her bath.
A Supreme Court jury awarded her
the full amount
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
SWISS SEND ENVOY
FOR TRADE TREATY

Swiss Minister Sulzer will return to
the United States within a week, It was
learned here today. He will begin ne
gotiations with the War Trade Board
at once regarding n commercial treaty
by which the allies will supply needed
fOodstufLs and certain materials TO
Switzerland.
Switzerland is now getting these
necessaries under the provisions OF an
agreement which expired September 90.
but the allied governments have per-
mittcd arrangements TO continue pend
Ing completion Of the new treaty.
Allied representatives sit with War
Trade Board representatives in the de-
Iiberntions.
Germany has always exerted strong
pressure on Switzerland TO get badly
needed war materials and the chief con
Germ Of the allies has been to safeguard
their commercial agreements so that no
allied exports to Switzerland could be
used to release other supplies for Ger
many.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
GW.U. HOUSES CADETS

George Washington University has ar
RANGED for the temporary housing Of
so members Of its Students Army
Training Corps unit in the War Camp
Community Services club house for
EIrI war workers, located at Seven
tenth and H streets northwest The
,,tudent soldiers already have entered
their quarters
About a month ago the university
took over the Maury Apartment House,
Nineteenth and streets northwest but
the temporary conversion OF this new
building into an influenza hospital has
delayed occupation
The remaining 400 members OF the
unit will be housed in a building IN
Pennsylvanis avenue northwest, b.
e tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth
streets, recently acquired by the uni
VerEity: and II necessary, in the Ma.
tional College Of Pharmacy building,
% I street northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
WAGE ANDPENSIO
BILLS FACE TIE-UP

Government clerks and employees
who are anxious for the passage Of
the Mcclellan pension and retire.
ment bill and the Nolan minimum
wage bill are becoming alarmed over
the parliamentary situation in Con-
gress, especially in the Senate.
They fear that the opposition grad
ually is getting the parliamentary
situation so shaped that it will be
possible to prevent passage by the
Senate OF both these measures, not
only in the present session but in
the short session to follow.
The latest development is that the
revenue bill will not even be report
ed by the finance committee until
after election. This means that
when the Senate reconvenes. follow
ing election. all the rest OF Novem-
Der will be taken up with the reve-
nue. bill. It may not even pass the
Senate until It is time for the short
session to begin
During the short session also there
will be a tremendous rush Of ap-
preparation bills and war measures.
It is obvious that the Mcclellan bill
cannot be passed before the election
recess, which is scheduled to begin
October 20. But just as soon as that
Is over and before taking up the
revenue bill an effort will be made
once more to have the Mcclellan bill
voted upon.
As for the Nolan bill, the first
requisite is to get It referred in the
Committee on Education and Labor
to a favorable subcommittee. This is
the program on which its advocates
are working.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
EXPLORER FINDS
NEW INDIAN TRIBE

Discovery OF a new tribe o: Indians
and three series Of waterfalls in the
uncharted silvas OF southwestern
Venezuela by Theodor de BODY, the
explorer, has been announced here.
The discoveries were made in the
Sierra de Perija regions, near the
Brazilian and Colombian frontiers.
Several American explorers are
planning extensive trips into the
brazilian and Colombian wilds and
the unpenetrated Andean regions Of
south America after the war.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
NENHALIANDRNE
/ MAY END AUSTRIA

II the new Italian offensive devel-
ops into a victorious major opera
tion. military men here say 1t should
just about put the finishing touches"
on Austria.
The offensive is in the nature Of
~claw' movement against Austria
enc talon Is the armies lighting
against Bulgaria, the other is the
Italian offensive. That this offensive
had not been developed sooner has
occasioned some surprise among au-
tborities here.
General Scriven, War Department
observer in Italy and the Balkans
is understood to have favored de-
velopment Of this offensive, and he
has had a following among other Of
ficers. Some. however, always have
been skeptical about the Italian sioua-
ton in view of the nature or the
terrain and the extreme difhculn'
involved in any major operation.
The present operation appears to
have been staged under abominable
weather conditions. However, the
first reports show that the Italian,
French and British troops made
progress, and took a fair haul of
prisoners
As viewed here, the operation must
be fought by Austrians alone, for
Germany Is in no position to with
draw reserves from the west front
And Austrian morale at the present
time Is at its lowest ebb. Hence, II
this operation develops into a real
serious reverse for Austria, it should
prove to be the last straw for the
lettering dual monarchy. military
men say.
The operation has not yet devel-
oped sufficiently far. however. to
make predictions as to its outcome
safe.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
URCEGO.P. VICTORY

WILMINGTON. Del. Oct. 26-Ad-
dressing 800 prominent Republicans
at luncheon given in his honor ~
the du Pont Hotel. VIII H. Hayes,
Republican chairman. said:
Let nothing remain undone which
can honestly be performed to make
Republican success certain. The
country's war load is great; let rs
hitch up both great political horses
to pull it, and let US bring to the
great problems of reconstruction the
brain and heart OF the Republican
party"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
WOMEN NOT ADMITTED.

The question Of including one or
more women in the membership OF
the War Labor Board has been re-
ferred to the National Industrial Con-
ference Board and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, which nominated its
original members, it is announced.
The board took the position that II
vas a representative body without
power to enlarge the membership.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
STAR TO VISIT TRENCHES

NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Mary Pick
ford announced today that she is go
ing to act in only one moro picture
and then go to France.
She says she feels she can be OF
more service to her country by cheer
ing UP the boys in the trenches than
by acting for the folks at home.
She wore a gauze mask to keep away
the influenza and spoke to her in
reviewers through a half-opened
door.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
ss RUSS HOSTAGES SLAIN.

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 26.-From the
time that Moses Uritzky, commissioner
for elections to the constituent assem-
bly, of Russia, was assassinated last
August up to October /, sixty-eight
hostages. including five priests. were
shot by the Bolsheviki, according to
Petrograd dispatches.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
FIT. MORGAN TRAINING CAMP.

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 26.-Fort Nor
gan, made famous during the civil wal
in the battle. OF Mobile Bay. is now
O national army training camp. Two
hundred Alabama selectmen have ar
rived at the fort Other contingents
will follow, it il stated.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-26
U. S. TAKES MACHINE PLANT.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Oct 26-An-
nouncement has been made here that
the plant of the Cape Fear Machine
Company, located near the two Gov
eminent shipyards, has been taken
over by the Liberty Shipbuilding Com
pany and its entire output of castings
will be used in construction OF the
concrete tanks that are being built at
the yards.