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other persons in respect of reyistras.'e
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claimed, regardless Of rhether or aa,.
ca notice Or QaestiaHnaire il aet,.n
ceired by the rcyistrant or otbe,
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duty prescribed by the Sclecti,e i
LAW or by these Rules and Rerula,ss.' "
or within the time required. is misa.s
or punishable by imprisonment Of ~
and may result in loss of valnahla !.
and immediate induction of such rav, Y
into military service.
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person concerned to claim and eyerrs
right or privilege on the day or WITH
time authorized by these rules and l,
tions shall be considered a waiver ~
right or privilege, and shall foreelos,
person from thereafter claiming tha
subject only to the privilege grant
these rules and regulations to nnnlr I
extension of time.
All registrants and other persons /,
quired and strictly enjoincd to e,s
| from time to time said notice Form i,
so posted by the Local Board, and ina
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| dates are to b. entered. in order to /
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any duty or the exercise of any rbl
| privilege and it is the duty Of ever,
istrant concerning whom any notice i
| ed. but who for some reason has i,
| ceived the QUESTIONABLE or notice A
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for copy thereof. Failure to reeeiv
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| J. +. EDWARDS
Member of Local Boz
Benton. La. Jan. ;, 1918.
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From Jim ShackelfOrd.


Dear Editor:: As this is Sunday. and
it is raining. I have nothing else to do.
so will write you Il few lines and would
lie pleased to see the same in print.
Well. we are still in old Charlotte
and don't know how long we will be
here. Not long. though, ! hope. But
we are doubtless as well off here as we
would he anywhere else.
1t is so muddy in camp that we can
hardly get back into our tents when
we step out.
We are getting a lot Of drafted men
in the regiment now. Rockies" as
we call them. | heard one say that he
didn't like it, hut think lie will have
to like it before he gets out.
l submit few verses that have
clipped and would like for you to re-
publish. They read:
ONLY \ VOLUNTEER
why didn't | wait to be drafted
And be led to the train by band.
And put in IL claim for excmption?-
Oh. why did hold up my hand?
Why didn't wait to be chcered!
For the drafted men get the credit.
While merely Volunteered.
And nobody gave me IL banquet.
And nobody said kind word
The grind of the wheels of the engine
Was all the goodbye that l heard.
Then off to the camp was hustled.
To be trained for the next half Il year.
And then in the shuttle forgotten
| was only a Volunteer.
".And maybe some day in the future.
When my little boy sits on my knee,
And asks what | did in the conflict.
And his little eyes look up to me.
| will have to look back. as | am bllshing
To the eyes that so trustingly peer,
And tell him | missed being drafted
And was only Il Volunteer.
That little piece goes together pretty
Well. don't it: Maybe it will set some
Of the boys to thinking.
Was surprised to learn that Mr.
Ivey is in France so soon. | hope him
and all the other boys good luck. 1t
won't surprise me if l am with them
lefOre another month. do hope
will get to come home before | 20 over
But | am not free like l used to be-
can't get up and 90 whenever l feel
like it-and, believe me. it don't suit
some of the boys. Yet it has to suit
them.
All the boys in the tent are lying OH
their hunks asleep. Whenever it gets
quiet it makes me lonesome. for | an
used to Noise. They are all the time
quarreling and fussing, and sometimes
fighting.
Well. as | have written all there il
to write l will close for this time. send
ing my best regards to everybody.
Sergt: ] AMEs G. SHACKELFoRD.
: e5y NJ &. Company. 5Sth Inft.
Charlotte. y. G., Jan. q, 1918.
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Income Tax Information.

In i communication received by the
Banner. Collector of Internal Revenue
J. Y. Fauntleroy. whose office is in the
I. :. Customhouse New Orleans an
nOunceS that Federal income tax
officer will he sent into ROssier Parish.
to be stationed ut the Court House, i'll
this place. from February 18th to 10th.
inclusive
The income tax officer will lie on
duty during the entire day. ready and
willing to help persons subject to the
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High School Entertainment

We have been asked to make mention
of Il Beta Phi Gamma Lee and Jack
son Program to he given by pupils of
Benton High School ut the school build
ing Friday afternoon of next week. he
ginning at 30 o'clock. and which will
he as follows:
Response to. Roll Call. Il fact about Lee or
Jackson.
Song. "DiXie'-Societies.
Life Sketch of I.cc-caro Gayle.
Recitation. Lees Farewell Address
Clarissc Pcddy.
Reading, Traveller as Described by Ills
Master"-Clarisse Gayle.
Hills Tribute to Lcc''-Mary Sue Logan
Song. "Mass;l's in the Cold, Cold Ground
Societies.
life of Jackson Eva Hoffpauir
Incidents portraying Jacksen's Career
Louis .Abncy.
Soldiers of ro-day''--Dorothy Simmons.
Recitation. '''rhc Brigade Must Not Know.
Sir"-Ruth Smith.
Story of Jackson's Valley Campaiyn-Eu-
gene Wyche.
Song. '.renting on the Old Camp Ground
Society.
Beta Phi Journal-Caro Gayle
Critics Report-taro Gayle.
Get the Banner free one year by Sc
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Notice to School Children.

ton. w. c. Hughes. of Hughes Spur.
mas offered three prizes. of $40. 81 and
$2.:O. respectively. to the three pupils
i'll the parish scoring the highest sales
of Thrift Stamps and War Savings
Stamps during the month of January.
All reports from pupils entering the
contest must be in my Office by the ey-
ening of February LIST, showing that
their work closed on the preceding day.
We hope that every pupil in the par
ish will compete for one of these prizes.
Very respectfully.
w. a. FoRTsON.
Parish Superintendent of Schools.
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Cotton Quotations.

Yesterdays Shreveport cotton quota
lions We're as follows:
Ordinary. o1N cents.
Good ordinary, 2S;A cents.
Low niddling. 29H cents.
Middling. 3O:I cents.
Good middling. BIS cents.
Receipts for the day. 1868 bales.
Receipts to date. 166.1>6 bales.
Shipments to date. 122,O95 bales.
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Notice, Colored Teachers.

\ special examination for colored
teachers will he held in Benton. ut the
Court House. on the 18th. 18th and
10th OF this month. All teachers not
holding valid certificates will please
come forward and take this examina-
ton. w. 4. FORTsON.
Parish Superintendent of Schools.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE TO RECISTRANTs

Parish Exemption Ord
Bet,reen Nos 1851 end 1862,
QUESTIONABLE which are rer
within
constitutes misdemeanor. punishable
failure also
ana
cOurt-nmrtial
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LLOYD BATTERY COMPAN,
2ts Crockett Street. SHREVEPORT
Old phone, 3ii
For Rent

- acres. rent free for one year:
3D acres. rent free for three
years; 100 acres at s. per acre,
one to five years.
All good river land. with plenty of
good ceiled cabjus, with brick
clinneys and gOed cisterns.
WILL MERCER, Shreveport.
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DR.. A. Nj, EICHELBERGER
Graduate Veterinarian
Shreveport, La.

Ocfde and Hospital Spring and Milan Streets
Telephones: Once, 1853; residence, 1889
Evening star., 1918-02-02
PROSPECT OF AGREEMENT
ON RAILROAD BILL BETTER
Senate Committee Confers With
President-Propose Limiting
of Government Control.

Prospects of an early agreement in
bill have frightened since members of
the Senate interstate commerce COM
mittee returned from a White House
conference yesterday afternoon with
word that the President did not desire
to have the Interstate Commerce
Commission deprived of IT'S rate-mak-
ing powers under government opera
tion of the carriers.
Soon after the conference the COM
limiting government control of rail-
roads to eighteen months after the war
and authorizing the President to mi
tiate rates subject to appeal to the In
terstate Commerce Commission. This
proposal. which was adopted by a vote
of II to =. was a compromise OF the
committees differences and eliminates
the most serious obstacle to prompt en-
actment of the measure.
The agreement was prepared by a
subcommittee consisting of Senator's
Robinson and Townsend appointed to
iron out the difficulties over the fixing
of a period for government operation
and opposition to giving the President
power to fix rates. Those voting in IA
vor Of the compromise We're Senators
Smith. chairman. of South Carolina !;
Pomerene. Meyers, Robinson, Sauls-
democrats, and Townsend. Watson and
Kellog, republicans Those opposed
were Senators Gore, democrat. and
Cummins. Poindexter and La Toilette,
republicans.
Before the agreement was submitted
to the committee, 1t. was taken to the
White House by Chairman Smith and
Senator Underwood.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Anna Case Recital,

The song recital of Anna Case, at the
National Theater yesterday afternoon,
with Charles Gilbert Spross, the cele-
brated composer and acoompanist at
the piano, was one of the foremost mu-
sical treats of the present season. Lack
ing in heavy dramatic selections, the
program nevertheless was thoroughly
conditions, the songs, for the most
part. were of serious nature, some
sacred. Nor was the patriotic spirit
missing, for both the Battle Hymn of
the Republic" and the Star Spangled
Banner" were used. the audience join
ing in each. A beautiful high by Miss
Case at the close of the star Spangled
Banner added touch of the dramatic
This artists beautiful soprano voice
is augmented by pleasing manner and
facial expression that almost inter-
prets the words of her song when sung
in an unknown tongue. A long range
is another Of her gifts. She covered
with ease two octaves, from middle e
to high c.
To do entire justice. each number
should be mentioned. The greatest ap-
peal, however was probably in Weber's
'Cavatina.' from Der Freischutz," "
Curran. In these, and. in fact, in many
others, Anna Case made use of de-
! lightful legato and displayed wonder
| full breath control summertime" by
w ara Q-St6pneNS, was tne closing num-
ber In spite of the beauty of the song
and the splendid rendition, the spirit
! of the poem came in for a share of the
honors, for it expressed the desire of
many already weary of the long frigid
| season.
| Her other numbers were: Noel"
/ Augusta Holmes; Il Feel Thy Breath
Blow Round Me-" Rubinstefn; An
geIus," Nine Ohrstrom- Renard: "Sere-
| made Franchise" Leoncavallo; "Orpheus
/ With His Lutte" Charles F. Manney;
! lie Papillon." Felix Fourdrain; .'Sepa- :
razione." G. Sgambati: "Eclogue," Del
| ibes: "Skogen Sover.' Hugo Alven;
/, "Killebukken." Haldan Kjerulf; Dams
Ropte Felen," August Soderman; Re
membrance," Macfarlane. and Hindu
Slumber Song" Harriet Ware.
| Miss Case was recalled many times
and responded with a number of Mr.
Spross' compositions.
| Mr. Spross was excellent as an accom- :
panist and his compositions, as render.
ed by Anna Case, were delightful.
Evening star., 1918-02-02

triotic service, and in doing that has
secured the cooperation of prominent
bankers acting in an advisory capacity.
The work which the board has taken
on this line should be regarded as pre-
liminary to and laying the basis and
furnishing in no small part the Or
ganization for the work which the cor
poration will have to do.
1T is believed that the proposed Ii
cense. system is wise and fair, since
the voluntary system now set in motion
will tend to restrict the activities of
those patriotic people who have the
public interest most at heart and to
discriminate against them in favor of
those unpatriotic people who ignore the
war necessities by refusing to CO.
operate. The proposed license system
is in line with the act which established
the selective draft in lieu of a volun-
tary system of creating an Army to win
The war. The sacrifices which must be
made if the war is to be won should be
made by all alike, and not merely by
those whose patriotism impels them to
volunteer and who would have to carry
the entire burden unless the slackers
are compelled to do their part
Evening star., 1918-02-02
BOATS STILL TIED UP.
Norfolk Steamers Unable to Get
Through Ice Floes.

1t has now been five' days since the
Norfolk line steamers have been able
to make a. trip and from present condi-
tions on the river and bay it will prob
ably be several days before an effort
is made to send a boat through. Yes
terday afternoon it was stated at the
office of the Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Company. at the foot OF 7th
street southwest. that no information
could be given as to when boat would
be sent out. :
Reports received from the lower river
and bay state that, ice conditions are
now worse than any time this winter
Great foes of ice fill water that is open
and navigation is impossible with any
degree of certainty. The river presents
an aspect of unbroken snow-covered ice
that looks as RI it will require weeks OF
warm weather to carry 1t away.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
CAMOUFLAGED TOWN TO FOOL {
KAISER, MRS. ~NEEDT1AM SAYS,

Many a girls last chemise and petit
coat went to hang UP at tho windows
to simulate curtains For It had to be
well staged, that scene.
In the main street in Bleranoourt
there was a meat market which be-
longed to Frenchman named Henri
LaRusse. The enemy had not been in
the village many hours before his store
was broken into. his meat confiscAted
and he was driven out
"On the day the kaiser arrived the
store was freshly painted, decorated.
the name of the owner frightened over
the door and the shop well supplied
with meat"
Mrs. Needham declared that on the
morning of the day the kaiser visited
'Blerancourt the inhabitants were driven
from their beds at 3 o'clock and forced
to clean the streets. Then they were
locked up. the speaker said.
What was even more significant, Mrs.
Needham observed. the German private
soldiers were locked up as the kaiser
approached the town.
The kaiser was pleased with the
appearance of the village as he was es-
eorted through its streets by officers
that he became indignant at reports
that his troops imposed hardships on
civilians whose homes they raided, ac.
cording to the speaker.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
EMMA GOLDMAN AND
BERKMAN LOSE LIBERTY
Latter Declares Bolsheviki Will De-
mand Release Of Both From
Jail and Return to Russia, /

NEW YORK. February Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman, anar-
chists, today lost the. liberty they have
had under bonds while the United
States Supreme Court was CONSIDERING
their appeal from conviction for con.
spfracy to interfere with the operation
or the selective draft law. The mandate
OF the highest court affirming the con-
vlction was filed in federal court here
yesterday, and Judge Mayer signed the
order directing them to surrender to
Carthy today.
Berkman, before giving himself I'D to
the United States marshal TODAY. said
that he had obtained iniormation thar
the bolsheviki in Russia would demand OF
the United States government that hA
and Miss Goldman not be forced to serve
their prison terms. but returned to Russia
InlS representation would be made.
Berkman said, on the ground that tn-
asmuch as they were to be deported in
any event at the expiration of their prison
terms. this indicated the United States
as Russian citizens, and being Russian
citizens they were entitled to be deported
at once and without serving the prison
sentences =
Berkman will be taken to the federal
pen1tentiary at Atlanta, Ga, and Miss
Goldman will be returned to the state
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo. Both
were sentenced to two years imprison-
ment and pay fines Of $4,000 each, and
were serving their terms when they were
released under bail bonds of $25,000
each pending the Supreme Courts de-.
cision on their appeals. l
Miss Goldman and Berkman made inn.
passioned speeches before the delegates
of the bolshevik-controlled Russian CO.
lonial congress here last night, and were
wildly applauded for several minutez.
Both made dramatic appeals to the dele
gates to carry through in America the
spirit of the Russian revolution. Jails
had no fears for them. they declared :
The, convention had a stormy session.
the radicals and conservatives clashiuG
frequently.
The principal controversy centered ON
a proposed resolution protesting against
the unjust verdict in the cases of Alex
ander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Becker
and Kramer" After a heated debate the
| resolution, modified to read decisions
! of the eo6re' instead OF unjust ver.
diets" was passed. ---s.f.
Evening star., 1918-02-02

How the Germans camoufaged the
town of Blerancourt, France. to make
it appear to the kaiser that Hun troops
had preserved 1t from destruction. was
one Of the many interesting incidents
OF the war described last night by Mrs.
Henry Beach Needham before the men,
bers of the National Press Club.
The kaiser was to visit Blerancourt
on an appointed day, and the officers
of the German forces which occupied
the town saw to 1t that the streets were
scrubbed. houses set in order. broken
furniture repaired, and. in short, every
thing camoufaged SO the czar of all
Germany would think his troops had
spared the French with the greatest
consideration when they stormed the
town.
ut was well planned. this triumphant
march of the kaiser through his con-
quered territory" said Mrs. Needham.
For days before the Germans worked
to repair the damage that had been
done-or, rather, they stood over the
French civilians and made them mend
roofs, patch houses and repair the re-
mains of furniture which the soldiers
smashed to relieve the monotony.
1t was the preceptor who said to us:
Evening star., 1918-02-02
HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take Olive
Tablets.

If your skin is yeIlow-complexion.
paIIid-tongue coated-appetife poor
You have bad taste in your mouth
"a lazy, no-good feeling-you should
take Olive Tablets.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets SUBJ
stitute for calomel-were prepared
by DIR. Edwards after II years of study
with his patients.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are 4
purely vegetable compound, mixed
with olive OIL You will know them.
by their olive color. -
To have a clear, pink skin, bright
eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoy.
ancy like childhood days you must
get at the cause.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets act ON
the liver and bowels like caIomel-
yet have no dangerous after effects. !,
They start the bile and overcome
constipation. That's why millions of
boxes are sold annually at >.
10c and 25c per box.
All Druggists. :
Take one or two nightly and nota
the pleasing results. =
Evening star., 1918-02-02
PAINTINGS On EXHIBITION.
Ossip Perelma, Russian Artist, to
DispIay Works at Clnb.

An exhibition of portraits of well
known people by Ossip Perelma. the
Russian painter. opened to the public
at the Arts Club today. and will remain
open until February 16. Among the
portraits will be those of Boris Bakh-
metef, the Russian ambassador; Secre-
tary Walcott of the Smithsonian In
stitution. Theodore w. Noyes and
others
A collection of paintings representing
LANDSCAPES and still life, the work Of
J. Morgan. will be placed on exhibition
at the Arts Club from February % to
March 5.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
To Be Warmer Next Week,

Weather predictions for the week be-
ginning TOMORROW. issued by the
weather bureau today. for the middle
Atlantic states. which include the Dis
trict. Of Columbia, are:. Unsettled first
part Of week, snow or rain Wednesday
the whole. week of higher tempera-
ture than has prevailed In the past.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Pershing Has Best Hospitals
American Army Provided With the Most
Complete Medical Equipment Ever Known.
PART ONE.
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON,
Copyright. 1918. All rights reserved)

Copyright 1913 All rights raervd)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE January g.
half clad in dark blue
slippers little wood the aisle of
long, either side of the aisle
beds where lay other reading smoking few talk
ing and many asleep
OF the and grouped together
They evidently
their raised and gestures showed that
Evening star., 1918-02-02
U-Boat Has Achieved
Results. Say Germans

AMSTERDAM. February 2.-The semi
officiaI Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
and other Berlin newspapers publish
articles on the anniversary of unrestricted
submarine warfare. They glorify the
strategic and moral results. particularly
against Great Britain in it's world posi-
Evening star., 1918-02-02
U-Boat Eaiciency Declines.

"The German sailors lose moral faith
under the acid test of this oft-repeated
experience of suspense. Once or twice
this failing in morale has come to the
surface in strikes or mutinies. but more
often it is only evidenced by certain
reluctance and timorousness and gen.
orally lowered efficiency.
Even commanders of U-boats are not
what they used to be. There still are
brave and capable men among them, as
there still are keen and daring crews,
but they are the exception. The aver
age submarine is in no way equal in
effciency to the U-boat of a year ago."
Evening star., 1918-02-02
LESS KAISER.

,.Tith meatless. wheatless. eatless
days.
No coal indicating heatless days,
The melancholy days have come,
Yet taxes make US nliserless.
An avalanche OF less-less days,
Successless days and n1essless days
Just make us fight with all our
might
That GERMANY be KAISERLESS.
MAMIE 3. HILLIARD.
2023 Vermont avenue northwest.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Food Great Need of Allies.

In these circumstances America finds
her problem and her opportunity. Food
at, the moment stands absolutely first
among the requirements of the allies
Britain is not only feeding herself. but
is sending, as Premier Lloyd George ha 8
said, hundreds Of thousands Of tons of
food to France and Italy. Not a few
British consumers are hard put to it to
get food. They are asking, With our
food supplies SO reduced why must we
feed other peoples?"
What the government replies. of
course. is: Our exports of food to
France and Italy are for the French
and Italian armies. which are fighting
our battles precisely as are our own
armies"
One of the best judges of popuIar
psychology in Britain said to me TO-DAY.
Our industrial unrest is serious, but
it portends nothing sensational Food
at the moment is our supreme need
Only starvation could eliminate orr
armies and nation from this war for
liberty, and we feel quite certain that
America will not let US starve."
Evening star., 1918-02-02

Grip Fellows the Snow,
LAXATIVE BROMO sQUININE Tablets takeu
IN time will prevent Grip. 3. ". GROVES
signaturs on box. 80c.--Advertisemenf,.
Evening star., 1918-02-02
Asked for Submission.

'"The Secretary of the Treasury has
already asked for the voluntary sub
mission to the federal reserve, hoard Of
any projected capital issue and has
asked the federal reserve board to pass
upon such issues. The federal reserve
board is already performins this pa