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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-27

A lazy liver leads to chronic dys-
pepsia and constipa tion--weakens the
whole system. Doan's Regulets t30c
Per box) act mildly on the liver and
bowels. At all drug stores-~Ady.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
CONTRIBUTE TO WAR
William and Mary College Is Largely
Represented In Nations
Service,

WiLLIAMSEUHG. VA. March 90
Lieutenant John Newport Greene. of
stanton Va. who is the first Ameri-
can 10 b. recommended for the Distin-
Euishcd Service Cross. was a S;ui"u.
a, William and Mary from 1905 10
1910.
The alumni OF this institution arc
responding readily 10 the call to SER
vice in the cause OF democracy The
records OF the registrars Office show
that pa alumni who have been i'm at
tendance since 1906 are already in
service. No effort has been made as
yet e list the alumni previous 20 1906
and The lis: since that date is not com
plet".
The college also has TWO members OF
its faculty in war work Professor r.
j. OSicsby. Of the department OF math-
enat!cs. has recently been mad. i.St
Lieutenant in coast artillery and as
signed 10 service IN tie reserve officers
training school. Professor II. L. Ben
nett. of the department OF education, is
in Y. VI. {. ~ work in France
Daily drills and 4 uniformed student
body give the campus a military air
and mpresses one with the fac. that
William and, Mary Is. as she has ever
been In the past. ready to answer the
call to service and 10 give battle for
the rights of America.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
MORE POLICEMEN RESIGN
Ia he Held tn FIJI Many
Vacancies on Wcdnc~-
DIV.

Unrest in the Police Department. at
.ibutablc partly To the wage OF $50
,,r day which officers receive, Is
ius!ng many designations. Officers ii,
Good. and r. ". Martin. OF the Sec
nd precinct, have given notice that
lcy Will leave the force. the former
IN April 10. the latter on April ]. ~
|. Rousseau. who was lately trans
,rrcd from the motorcycle squad to
'aiiic duty. has placed his resignation
!, the hands Of Chief Sowell. Patrol
IAN T.. J.. Griffin. OF the Second Pre-
net has also resigned. officer Il. t..
larriner last week discontinued his
|uties The post OF clerk in the office
|t Captain George l.. Pollock is also
acant, no one being available as a
|cnographer AT the wages OF Il patrol
an Policemen complain that they
|,nnot live on the wages which are
aid in view OF deduction, which are
ade for insurance. and with the high
|ost Of living. An examination to fiji
he many vacancies which now exist
i'll likely be held Wednesday.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
LORD BRYCE APPEALS
TO LATIN AMERICANS
Former Ambassador to United States
ana Northcliffc Point Out Inter-
est OF South America in War.
is BATTLE FOR LIBERTY
German Victory Would Mean End OF
fepublicanism In World-E.ncmy
Already Casts COvctous Glunccs
on Young Republics.

ii'S assoc. tea IrcSF.
LONDON, March 30.--l.atin- Amer
ica's vital interest in Gcrmany's plan.
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and attempt 20
crush all world dcmocracies is pointed
out III the messages addressed to tn.
people Of South American republics by
N!scount bryce. former ambassador l.
the United states and Viscount North
[cline
This war" says Lord Bryce 10
rnlikc amy other the world has seen.
not only in the vastncss OF its scale.
but in the tremendous issues involved.
i, ~ war Of principle: war wagcd
Tor liberty against military tyranny.
war 10 save mankind from being
ena!aved BY one ambitious and aggrcs-
slve power. whose military chiefs have
proclaimed that they mean TO dominate
Europe first and then the Western
Ili"mlsoh"re. That is what brought
the United States TO fight beside the
| Allies in Europe.
Her war aims are ours--to v!ndi-
ate the public right which Germany
outraged whom she invaded belgium;
10 re-establish the faith OF treaties,
which Germany has shown she VIII
violate whenever her advantage re-
:ombatan,s. whom the German gov
eminent has massacred by thousands
On sea and land. and 20 deliver free
ION :rom the greatest peril that eve"
as threatened it.
~ German victory would Danish re
oubltcanism from tho world. for the
ier;nan government rules ~ force.
ear and cruelty.
The men OF South America. wncrc
freedom took a ncw birth i century
tCo. fellow -ccuntryrncu or san Mar
IN. Bolivar. p'liiggins and OF man"
mother Argentine. Chilean and C:u
;uayau patriot whose memory IS
IGNORED to-day. will surely give their
3sympa,hy TO those Hho Ia Europe ar.
igh,ing the battles ot democracy ana
humanity"
Lord Sor;nc!.ne. in his message.
aid:
Latin America is as vital'y in,c'
strd a. North America ia GegnanE's
tempt TO cnslavc the world. Latin
America seems out OF tho danger zon.
o-day but tho defeat OF France and
he British empire would be followed
IS an attack upon South America as
ureN az night follows day.
The German monster already has
asst greedy eyes upon your 'air EoHnt
epublics OF the south. The nonst""
las his agents already among YOU
prepared FOR action. II success should
,tend his efforts 20 crusA Europe ana
ne East The old 'yr@"ales which
' ou;h Ar.a,lc:. .hrew OF we're as moth
nr to those ,h4t are Icing ;nIpos"l
ipon belgium. serbia. poland. KoG-
luu!a and Russia.
Il have no Year that prussi. va
uccced IN It's attempt /" dominate
he world. but each and every one OF
mus, Ne watchiul and make prepn-
alton. which costs SO little. while war
os;s 50 much. We Europeans are
ouched and era,iilcd hy the syinpn,",
nat We receive from the free nations
t South Amcr!ca. and we know that
need should arise we shall see your
ons standing IN the trenches beside
ur children and those OF the great
epublic OF the United states"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
VOTE ON STATES PROPOSAL
OF Valley Turnpike de-
IicVcd to Favor Transfer to
Commemorative.

WINCHESTER. VA. March 3o.-The
ockholders OF the Valley Turnpike
ompany arc 10 hold a meeting in the
ear future for the purpose of voting
|, the question Of turning the famous
ghway between Winchester and
taunton over TO the State. a bill
|-ovidng for the transfer, passed by
he Legislature, has been signed by
ne Governor. The supervisors of Au-
isla County, however. have adopted
solutions opposing the transfer. but
is thought n majority OF the stock
Dlders will favor the plan. If it goes
rough, the road will be maintained
|, Federal and state funds and all
llages abolished. Under the State
ghway system five important trunk
,ads are 10 converge at Winchester,
he of the most important being that
be constructed from Washington.
rough Fairfax. Loudoun and Clarke
|,unties. and connecting here with the
|lenandoah Valley Pike.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
SPREAD CHOLERA GERM
IN EARLY DAYS OF WAR


IN EARLY DAYS or WAX
The bacillus idea has Throughout.
been tho great idea OF the German mind.
In The very early stages of the war
the Hun spread the cholera germs
among tho Russians and for "a while
h produced a mild epidemic in Gaiicia.
Poisoned sweets were dropped recently
in France. and have been dropped
galore in eastern villages.
Now comes II savage Han 10 ask. why
wage a second world War? Why not
make peac". ana then proceed slowly
ana deliberately |" poison your
enemies until noj one Of them be LIFT
The good man evidently thinks ii could
he done. lie; tho German resume inter
course Nith nations that hav" beaten
hIn. ami tEcn let him plant his bacilll
everywhere.
New and horrible diseases even can
be invented: meningitis made a pas
time. cholera mild recreation. am
ietanuE thing of Joy. We shoulG
never Suspsct tho fat and homcly bag
man vino tries TO sell us Il paper
collar OF devic. TO put the bacillus
Of hydrophobia int" our blood or 10
plant an epidemic Of typhus in q tea
cup. Yet such may be his foul pur-
poscs even while n. shakes our hand
an! n"trioi!caily cries: Rule Bird
t-nia.
i'cath In the air; death upon the
SEA me instruction o: our a:InOSp uerc
,hr burning .: our lilies; the poison
ing OF our water supplies: the BLASTING;
OF every great memorial ~ art they
oan lay hands upon: The laying low O.
brussels Brug"s. Client. ard the In
comparable Cathedral OF Antwerp; the
nIottiHE CUT OF every great hi.hroad IN
B"l&iGn-th" pillage OF even The Jew
ms machine in the cottaee-the carry
ing away Of pictures, books and the
common. 50 necessities Of ;hc meanest
homes. all thcs" ar. in til" Gcrnla e
plan. She Will feed herself from Rus
S!a, but Flanders and Eastern France
snail! not he fed at all.
AS A LAST RESORT
WILL BUTCHER PRISONERS
As last resort. she will deliberately
starvc the people in her keeping. She
VIII butcher thu prisoners. kin every
horse in the land. leave nothing of barn
nor bErc standing. Her airmen Viii
be sacrificed by the thousand to wipe
out our civilization: her ships sill be
sunk by the hundred TO do our navy .
mischief. And in every enemy town
where Germans still congreeate they
Will arise and run amuck like Malay
with knife in his hand. Blood and
death and black murder; foam at the
mouth. and eyes which are red Such
Is their own picture of th:- amiable
race.
We can look back upon i, withou,
feat. The Hun has done these things
While he believed himself TO be VIC
torious: but ! feel that he Will think
twice about doing them when he is
beaten. He has ever been a boaster,
4 giant roaring from bloody cavern.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
BY MAX PIsNII,EIlTON.
international News BureauI

international News Bureau
People are continually wondering
what flesh atrocities Germany will
achieve when she finally finds that her
game is played out. and that SHE must
surrender TO the inevitable. For two
years now there have been ominous
whispers in belgium OF dreadful things
which .nay come to be. Some of them
are probably pure phantasns; but they
have been very readily believed b.
people under the heel OF the prussian
jackboot.
This we cannot wonder at when
remember the kaiscr's published plan
for the destruction Of Paris in the early
days OF the war. Few will have for
gotten that. There was the sudden
rush through belgium. the frantic
march across FLANDERS and the north
ern plains. the quest of the heights.
wherefrom the victorious uhlans looked
down upon the spires of the French
capital The Kaiser himself martia!ly
clad in shining armor. stood upon
hilltop and shouted out his terms TO
the world
Thousands of millions OF indemnity
were TO be paid. German goods were
70 be dumped into all the conquered
countries free of charge Ships were
10 be handed over. ports and territories
seized: and If the French did not con-
zen; 10 this abject peace dictated from
their own Elysee in Paris. what then?
Quarter by quarter the city must be
burned down. Meihodica!!y' torch and
frc-can IN hand the Germans would
initiate the Petroieurs of the year 1871.
They would sprinkle the houses, not in
IN IL he 81
famed. street by street the Kaiser
would have asked triumphan;ly. rs
this enough
PARIS SHOULD LIE IN
ASHES II FRENCH REFUSED
Paris. he said. should lie in ashes II
The French refused h!rr. Their GAL
Ian,ry and that o! our own splendid
fellows alone saved IL, We know
And il Il the knowledge Of these things
which has made Brussels nervous. Here
IL = people living in utter subsection.
There IS great silence in the city.
and people go furt!vely as though
afraid ot The shadows. Every cafe
harbors its spies. You cannot 81; AZ
dinner Kiln ;hc sure knowledge tina;
the man who waits upon you is not
q German agent. Al! strangers who
cone 10 your house are justly suspected.
The fello" who cleans your windows
viii listen TO your conversation. and
report 1t TO the military police. The
man uoyt you in the omnibus VII! read
the latter which YOU ar" foolish enough
10 be reading yourself. ana possibly get
YOU sho; because of It. SHALL We won
der that TINS City spccu!atcs upon wha:
would hefall II III The Germans were
o,.,.ii.a -. or, i,,,,; $50 ,,,c
49, Observation-Disclosures .,r - ,hiy borae
,,,
49,.
,r-..,.r.a do IL, parts" >youla ,b.v
=,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
Addition 70 MILITARY ,.,

STANTON. VA, March 50 The
stanton Military Academy proposes
TO erect here Il fourStory building that
is expected 10 cost something more than
$4,000 The ground foor is to have
club and recreation rooms. auditorium
and classrooms on the second floor, dor
n.itorics on the third and fourth floors.
while the basement viii be for a gym
p3sium
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
But. the idcas show tho drItt OF tho

But the ideas show tho drift OF tho
German mind. and madmcn are always
dangerous. However. we shall have
him on tho run yet: and being on tho
run. hc Will think first OF his own
skin. Indeed. when writing Of him.
recall the latcS; story OF the nigg"r In
America who was asked 10 enlist in
the cavalry. and replied: NO. boss. no:
when that retreat Is sounded don,
want 10 be hampcrcd by no horse" /,
VIII be the same with the Hun. No
horse for him. thank you,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
CAME HOME FOR CURE
,rty-twO Veterans OF tho Rainbow
Division Pass Through
DunvIlic.

Especial 10 The Times Dispatchl
|DANVILLE, VA. March 30.---FurIy
10 soldiers. invaded home from
.ance after eight months service,
ssed through Danville to-day on the
,y from the coast TO Fort Bayard.
,Xas.
The men We're identified with the
linbow Division. and were among the
st TO get over there.
La majority OF the mon were suffer
Is from contracted maIadies. but Il
|w had been wounded by German but
It's and shell fragments.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
NEVER SUCH TRAPS AS
ARR: SET For INSUSPECTING

These are notorious things. We may
ask what further could the Germans
have done. and IL is difficult to say.
There were never such BOBBY traps as
they have set for the unsuspecting. y
helmet thrown on the road became 4
bombshel when you touched it. y
pencilcasc upon the chmneypiece blew
off the fingers of the man who tried to
write with it. You turned the fingers
of a clock and were hurled into space.
\ piano blew up when you touched the
keys. The nail upon which you went
to hang your hat in the ruined cot
tage fired a mine at any contact. and
half street was shattered. Even
the pictures upon the walls were traps.
and the soap with which you washed
burned with vitriol the fingers of the
man who would be clean.
Upon greater scale. we had mines
at every cross road. in every thicket,
beneath every relic Of house which
remained: not mines. be it observed that
necessarily exploded within a few days
OF the invaders retreat. but cunning
contrivances which would explode a
week, a fortnight even n month
after the victorious troops had taken
possession OF the shelter. So clever,
indeed. is all this that infantry must 20
with booby-trap expert to lead them
Not thing must be touched. not n yard
of the ground uneXpiored. for the i'm
print Of the Hun is everywhere. and
his writing upon the wall spells death
Never, was so dcsolate land seen as
that which has been made OF Northern
France and Flanders. Upon the Somme
and before Messines the Germans
turned a peaceful. smiling country into
a wilderness which defcs all dcscrip-
ton. Here are villages which are not
even the shells Of houses 4 blur OF
powdered brick dust upon the black
horizon alone marks their scene. Once
they were the ornaments OF France
red-roofed, with their old Gothic
churches. lying amid n network of
white roads. which poplars or acacias.
or even apple trees, bcrdered. Now you
shall see no roads save those which our
engineers have made. Every tree that
could bear fruit, every trunk that could
bar the way to cannon or to soldiers.
has been ruthlessly cut down. The
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31
SALOONS TO CLOSE
Dnricycorn Virtually TcrmIDntcs Legal
lied Activities In Los
Angeles, Cal.
fBy Associated Press !

Thy Associated Press
l.nS ANGELES. CAL. March 3d.
John Barlcycorn virtually terminated
his lcgalizcd activities in this city At
Il O'Clock Tonight. when i25 saloons
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-31

that we are sure that the Hun arGOsy
would perish in the depths OF the North
Sea. and the whole cndcpvor end In Il
dcbacle without precedent.
II this be SO. am afraid that
greater consideration must be given TO
the last great battle OF the air, and
that for our victory there We must
rely upon Lord lothermerc and the
splendid work that undoubtedly h. Will
do at the air board. Certainly tn" Ger
mans will not surrender until they have
mad. an attack from the air. which IL
in Keeping with tho inincnsitics Of the
world war. Some people seem to think
that they may send airplancs here in Il
very large number. while the new year
Is Still young. but when peace looms. IL
: is quite probable that every airShip
they possess may be loosed upon our
shores. ana that we shall see fight
upon Il scale which tn. ,uaddcSt
ronanc"r hardly has conceived pos
sihlc. For this shall he prepa rcd.
and should it come. | doubt not that
Our armcn will once again attain that
uastcry which they have lost but for
the Dri"fest periods latterly.
II. that hope wc shall face IL calm.v.
as. indeed ". face with cuuaniinity
the threats Of the German professors.
one Of the latter. a gentleman who Is,
evidently not wcil acquainted with
ships. makes tho suggestion that all
the German mines should be cut loose
~ u idSl resort ana sent aHftlt III the
North Sea. II. seems 10 forget Herr
Balm and all the Tcutonic mercantile
marine. which Is waiting to capture the
worlds trade directly the JOY bells ring
out. These ships might fall foul OF
the mines in qucstion--juSt as German
baSincn. ready to do business lit BruS-
sells. might be seriously Handicapped
il the cities of Belgium were all burned
10 the ground. it's water SUPPLY de:
Stroy"l. and its money carried away TO
Germany. let this is one OF the phan
toms OF "frightiOlncSs." one hour at
ter the last German soldier has quilted
Brussels, tho last OF its houses Will be
ai!ame. There Will be no fire engines.
for the Huns viii have destroyed thcm.
There VIII he no food. for he Will
havc carried il away. There viii be no
corn grown. for the ground will have
been 50 doctorcd by chemicals that any
wheat taken thcrcfrom by the peasants
will be poison TO those who cat II.
And thus shall kuitur b. justified ana
The world taught it's lesson.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-16
COLLEGE ENGINEER
 SLAIN BY ASSISTANT
20 Year old Murderer ConfCsscs to Stabbing of Father of Mrs.
 \. Q. Meyers.

Mrs. Albert Q. Meyers or No. $40 Stanley street was called to her homo at Niagara Falls.. N. Y, today by a telegram stating that her father Conrad A. Preuster, had been injured Word has sinco been received that MT. Preuste died of stab wounds in tlicted by Howard Adams. n 20 year old youth, whose home address is In Cleveland, O.
 MT. Preuster died of stab wounds in DeVeaux college at Niagara Falls and, until week ago. Adams was en- ployed thero as his assistant. Ac- cording to information now at hand, Adams lay ill wait for Preuster Thursday and stabbed him to death. Adams has confessed. Mr. Preuster was 57 years old.
 The Meyers family came hero about a year ago. MT Meyers is em- ployed at Landers, F'rary & Clark S.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-16
PROBE HUN WOOL PLOT
passajc Manufacturer Suspected of Being Implicated in Scheme to Corner Supply in This Country.

New York. March 16.--The inves- tigation of the states attorney general whether an alleged German plot exists in the country to control the wool market was continued, with Julius l'orstmann, a wool manufacturer, of paSSAic. N. J., again on the stand to- uay. A letter was introduced, and Forstmann acknowledged it as one he had written to Hugo Schmidt, agent for the Deutsche bank in New York, and now interned as an enemy alien. The letter, dated May 23, 1916, re- uueStCd Schmidt to purchase for the writer various German securities, say ing there would be paid into his ac~ count in the Deutschc bank in Berlin, $50, GOO marks.
 'I pray you particularly to handle things in such a way and in such q form that If letter is intercepted one cannot read in it that 1 am the party concerned, ForStmann wrote.
 Tn" letter to Schmidt was admitted aS evidence in contrast to FOrstmann s statement yesterday that after the sinking of the Lusitania, May {, 1915, Ee had had "a change of heart in his regard for Germany. and had taken every step to sever his relations With Germany and German interests.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-16
DECLARE EXTRA DIVIDEND.
Stockholders of Paper Box Co. Re-
 ceive Spring Gift.

The New Britain Paper Box Co.,, one of the youngest manufacturing companies in the city has decided to declare an extra per cent dividend which will be paid today. At q meet ing of the directors which was held .pnuary 1, 1t was voted to give an s per cent dividend, with an extra ? per cent to be paid on April 1. At q recent meeting, however, it was de cided that the business done by the company would warrant tho giving of this dividend earlier, and accordingly, he action was taken by giving it to- day.
 This company, since it's orguniza- ;'on has been steadily growing, and has declared several substantial diVi- dends. The officers of the company are: President, J. M. Curtin; vice president, Lincoln Odenkirchen; treas urcr. '. r. Curtin.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-16
LAMODEC SEEKS FREEDOM.
Court Hears Arguments in Case of
 Mont Blanc Captain.

Halifax, N. S., March 16.--Supreme court Justice Russell today heard arguments on a petition for the re- lease from custody of Captain Lamo- dec of the French munition steamer Mont Blanc, who is awaiting trial next week on charge of manslnughter, because of an explosion aboard the vessel in the harbor here on Decen- Der 6, which resulted in the loss of upwards of 1 800 lives
 A court of inquiry recently di- rected that LamOdec and Francis MackaY, the government pilot. be held for manslaughter The charge against Mackay was dismissed by Jus tice Russell yesterday.
 In reviewing the evidence in the case of the pilot Justice Russell said the testimony indicated the Nor wegian steamer Imo was on the wrong side of the channel. The captain and pilot of the Imo were killed by the expIOSiOn,