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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
When Germany Tells the Truth
Peace Terms Given Her Own People Vastly Different From Those Of
the Rest of the World

When Germany is talking for publlcatlon-through the kaiser O ms
hand-picked Characteristic speaks a great desire for a liberal peace.
CONQUEST and tribute are the farhest things from her mind, she says
When Germany is talking to her own people she tells the truth ABOUT
the sort Of peace she wants. Her real terms of peace-the terms the kaiser
and his chancellor promise the soldiers they are going to get when they
win the war-were found in a trench taken by the allies the other day,
and they are quite different from the terms advertised.
They we're all written out plain and emphatic, and among other
things they proclaim that Belgium must remain under German military,
economic and political domination. OF course that isn't conquest. :.
Courland, Lthuania, Iivonia and Esthon1a are to be "colonlzed
by Germany. Neither is that conquest.
Liberty of the seas is to be established, a made in Germany" liberty
by which the limit of the worlds shipping is tt be established, giving Ger
many and her frends-Ausuia, Turkey and Bulgaria, 17,o0OOoO tons,
and all the rest of the world-Amerca, Great Britain, France, Italy,
Japan and ala total of ~1O,9oo.OOO tons. Nothing like world domina-
ton in that; just "hberahty"
Roumania must "place at the disposal of Germany 100000 tons OF
petroleum" Certainly that isn't tribute; just friendhness.
And for America and the other allies this: "Those nations which
attacked peaceful Germany must pay all war charges in raw materials,
ships. ready money and territorial concessions, leaving Germany with only
five billions national debt" Tribute? Certainly not. Just a testimonial
of appreciation of Germanys greatness and goodness forty or fifty
billion dollar testimonial
And there are still people in this country who pretend to believe
Germany wishes to make peace on "liberal' terms.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
CHEAPER POULTRY
RATIONS

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of ~Agriculture)
The demand for wheat for human
consumption necessitates that 1t be
used as economically and sparingly
as possible for feeding animals and
chickens. Some 'just as good" ra-
lions which contain no wheat have
been tried out in egg laying tests by
the United States department OF ag-
riculture, and excellent results have
been secured. Thirty laying hens, to
which wheatless rations were fed,
produced in the two years e
by the test on al average OF 1918
eggs for the pullet year, and 2 eggs
during the second year. This COM
pares favorably with egg yields Sc
cured on other rations containing
wheat, and therefore more expensive.
The wheatless ration is also being
tried on a pen of Buff Orpington pull
let's and during the past ten months
they have laid on an average OF lll.3
eggs, a very good yield for this pc
Rod.
The wheatless ration used was as
follows:
Scratch mixture -Tw pounds of
cracked corn, one pound of oats.
Dry Mash-Three pounds of corn
meal, one pound of beef scrap.
The scratch mixture was fed spar
ingly, the hens being permitted to eat
- -,aL of ~ &c Of tho dry
mash. During the two-year test the
hens were provided with free range
where they could pick a variety of
green feed. Leghorn pullets were
used and it was found that it took
40 pounds of feed to produce a dozen
g Fifty-two pounds of grain was
consumed by each pullet annually,
and Of this amount twenty-six pounds
was from the scratch mixture. When
wheat is omitted from the ration 1t is
advisable to feed more beef scrap.
Laying hens should have a good sup
ply of protein, and the additional beef
scrap supplies this essential in n OF
the cheapest forms.
Cotton seed meal used to replace
half the beef scrap in the mash has
given good results on the government
poultry farm and has had no bad eff
feet on the quality Of the eggs. Where
cotton seed meal replaced all the beef
scrap the results were unsatisfactory
both in number and quality of eggs.
Mussel meal has not proven as good
q substitute for beef scrap as fish
meal, which, to the amount of 20 per
cent of the mash, has affected the
flavor or the taste Of the eggs.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
What "Maru' Means.

The word "Maru,' attached to the
name of every Japanese merchant ship
and commonly accepted as meaning
ship" has no especial meaning, ac-
cording to Captain Takeshima Of the
japanese steamship Hudson Maru, re-
Gently captured and released by a Ger
man raider in the South Atlantic, Cap
tain Takeshima said that the word is
the survival of a japanese custom
centuries old. He explained the or
igin as follows: '"There are two Opin-
ions as to how the custom originated.
One of the stories is that in ancient
times the Japanese attached 'maru'
to the name af anything highly priced.
It was first applied to a ships name
about 1000 years ago, when the EN-
press lingo sent an expedition to
Korea. She added the word to the
name Of the ship that transported the
troops to Korea. Ever since then
Maru' has been part of the name OF
every steamship or sailing vessel. 1t
Is never used with the name Of a war
ship."-Fishing Gazette.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Use More Hominy
Several Kinds Of This Real
American Food

Americans Have we forgotten some
Of the best foods we once knew! Are
you using hominy? Why not follow
the example of our forefathers and use
much of this good corn product? The
first settlers of America learned from
the Indians how to prepare the indian
corn for use. They removed h hulls
from the dry grain by pounding it in
q mortar with a pestle. The cracked
corn they called by the Indian name
''hominy.", Hominy became n OF
their staple foods without which they
would often have gone hungry. They
cooked it in huge iron kettles hung
over the blazing logs in the open fire.
place.
They also learned to remove the
germ and hull from the corn by boiling
the grain with I've and then washing
thoroughly. They sometimes called
this product "hulled corn" but it is now
more often called ''lye hominy."
There are several kinds of hominy
on the market. If you do not know
how good they are, try them and find
out, advises the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
The coarse hominy, Samp, or pearl
hominy.-This is much like the hominy
the pioneers used. The grain is split
to remove the germ, hulled and pol
ished by machinery. 1t is much used,
particularly in the central and eastern
states. 1t is worth using everywhere.
The fine hominy or hominy grits.-
This is made by grinding the coarse
hominy. Grits are excellent served as
a vegetable much as rice is used. Grits
are also used in many parts of the
country as a breakfast food.
Lye hominy.-Lye hominy is made
at home by many and also made COM
mercially by boiling the grain in I've or
potash until the germ will come out
and then washing out the I've. In
many places it may be bought in bulk,
and is also sold canned. 1t may be
dried for future. use or canned at
home.
All varieties of hominy are good
nourishing food. Like wheat, rice, and
other cereals they give both body fuel
and bodybuilding material at a COM
paratively low price. Let them have
a larger place in your diet.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
FRENCH SOON BECOME
REAL BASEBALL FANS
As Enthusiastic Over Hit for
Three Bases as for Boot.
Have Not Learned That Most Danger
GUS Place to Stand and Watch Is
Behind Bat-Big Entertain
ment for the StrolIers.

Are the French people baseball fans?
90 la la anyone who was out on the
Bots de Boulogne on a recent Sunday
and saw the thousands of excited Pari-
SLAMS crowding around the two base
ball diamonds would answer that ques-
ton with an emphatic "Oui."
The games were staged between the
Medical Department Repair Shop No.
i and the Searchlight Division on n
diamond and the Red Cross drivers and
Y. M. G. A. nine on another. But the
fans didn't know who was playing
nor did they care, says Stars and
Stripes. Whenever someone cracked
out a binger for three bags, a chorus
of whatever is French for "Atta boy J"
rose from the crowd. And whenever
the shortstop made q boot and let the
ball get through to beft field, the fans
liked it just as well as If he'd made
the assist.
And the Paris games are the first
in history where the umpire has a
chance with the bleachers. The rea-
son is that they don't know what or
why or wherefore is the umpire. And
the umpires, to date, aren't giving in
terviews to the Paris dailies explain
Ing the duties of their positions.
But these new friends of u ma
tional game must learn that the worst
place to stand while watching a game
is behind the catcher. In the recent
games they were crowded within two
feet of the plate and it was impossi-
BILE to keep them back. "C'est danger
euxi" an American would yell at them.
"Ah, oui," they agreed and moved back
all of two inches.
Those games ran for only five in
nings, and within that time there were
several casualties. When a foul came
screaming over their heads, they laugh
ed; when the catcher let a bad n
pass and it tapped a fan on the head,
everybody came back for mOre There
are bound to be some serious. injur-
les when the league opens if provisions
are not made to keep the enthusiasts
from acting as backstOps.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
To North Pole by Airplane
Will Be Possibility Socn,
Declares Arctic Explorer

A round-trip passage from Cape Co
lumbia to the North Pole in nine hours
will be possible DOR by airplane, ac-
eording to Donald Macmillan, Arctic
explorer and scientist. He says he
has formulated a complete plan for
aerial voyages, after consultation with
aviation experts, and the airplane is
the only sensible means of transporta-
ton to the pole.
'To get TO the north pole by air.
plane" Mr.. Macmillan explained, "the
proper plan would be to establish a
base at Etah, in northern Greenland.
TO which point a good stanch ship can
go any summer from Boston or any
other port.
with Etah as headquarters a pro-
vision and oil station could easily be
advanced to Cape Columbia, the most
northern point of Grant Land. From
this point to the saorth pole the dis
lance is Alb miles, which would make
a round trip of 826 miles.
".airplanes today CAP make sus-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
CATCHER FOR BILL DONOVAN
J. Howard Berry's Father Was Member
Of Many CIubs-Was Discoverer
of Buck Herzog.

J. Howard Berry was a name known
in baseball circles before the now IA
nous all-round athlete of Penn become
a headliner on account of his wonder
full versatility and skill in sport.
J.. Howard Berry, Sr, was a profess
SIGNAL ball player who was a member
Of more clubs than usually Is the ex-
p~erience of even the most migratory
ball players.
He was a playmate in his youth of
Jesse Burkett. He played for Rock
ford, ILL.,, under Hugh Nicol, with the
Athletics of Philadelphia, with Tom
Burns Of Hartford, with Waterbury
as catcher for Wild Bill Donovan, with
Philadelphia Nationals, and other min
or league and semi~professional teams.
1t was Berry, ST., who recommended
Buck Herzog for his first professional
engagement with the York York club
Of the Tri-State league.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

ment in which women are engaged
the proper length of the work day. In
making the order, the commission
finds that the employment of women
as conductors, motormen or flagmen
by street car lines, at night work or
during rush periods, is prejudicial to
the life. health, safety and welfare of
such m 1t supports this finding
with a detailed memorandum setting
forth the reasons 1t cites the fact
that this employment requires more
standing than sitting, and that con-
ductors must frequently get out to
flag cars over railroad crossings.
At the public hearing upon the
matter, held last winter, it was de-
veloped that at Kenosha the women
conductors on some of the runs must
get out no less than 108 times during
a period of six hours work.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Wisconsin Women May Work
on Street Car Lines, but
Only Eight Hours a Day


The Wisconsin industrial commits
sion recently mailed out copies Of the
order adopted relating to the hours
Of labor of women employees on street
car lines.
The order provides that in Milwau-
kee women may be employed as on
d~uctors,~ motormen or fiagmen by
street car lines only at day work, and
between the hours of 8 a. M. and 5
o. %. In all other cities and in towns
and villages, women may be employed
on street car lines between the hours
Of 6 a. m. and 5 p. M, but their hours
Of work must not exceed eight per
day.
The commission is charged by law
with determining for each employ
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Jerusalem Blooming Again
Like a Rose, Says Writer
In Letter to London Times

The Rose of Jericho, writes a Jeru-
salem correspondent to the London
Times, when one buys it in he shops,
Is a queer little withered ball of shriv-
eled fibers, which the inexperienced
think fit only for the rubbish heap.
But put it in water and the thing re-
wives, turns freshly green, and begins
to sprout anew with life hat has been
always dormant but never dead. This
strange plant is symbolical of Jerusa-
lem. The more rapid recovery from
conditions of misery was delayed by
the maneuvers of certain spectators
whose object was to hinder the British
advance into Palestine, bringing with
it a vivifying tide of honest Egyptian
notes and silver.
Seeming profit, rascally spectators
went about among the more ignorant,
%cunningly representing Egyptian notes
to be only worth in gold the value OF
discredited Turkish paper, and they
thus succeeded in buying up a guam
tity at the average price of 3s. cd.
Such chicanery caused great distress
to the mass of the people and consid-
cradle inconvenience to the military
administration by shaking public con-
fidence in the Egyptian bank notes.
But the good James of Britain n
of Egypt are helping things to right
themselves, and trade is now being
lone in goods coming from Egypt
daily. Jerusalem had become like the
Rose of Jericho, which had withered
and was seemingly dead. To us is it
given to watch the Holy City revive
and renew her youth.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Tons of Free Seed Sent by
Government the Past Spring.

To comparatively few of us has it
ver occurred that the United States
government is n of the worlds larg-
est buyers of garden and flower seed.
The few ounces of seed carried to us
by the postman give no impression of
the acres upon acres OF land devoted to
their propagation, or the care taken in
determining their fitness for planting.
But these small envelopes represent
tens of thousands of pounds of the best
seed procurable,
1t is Illuminating to know that the
aggregate weight of the free seed cir
culated from Washington this spring
amounted to 1906 tons, or, for the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Containers May Take
Place Of the Tin Fruit Cans.

The annual report of the department
of commerce sets forth the dire need of
tin ans and the efforts the government
is making to conserve them. During
the early days Of last summers cam
paign for the preservation Of perish
able fruits and vegetables, government
experts tested the possibility Of utiliz-
ing once used tin cans, but investiga-
ton proved the ACCESSIBILITY of aban-
doning this plan in favor of "detinning''
process, whereby most of the steel and
tin is recovered for further use in man
ufacture. The government Is now per-
suading factory owners to substitute
paper or fiber containers for all non-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
BASEBALL PLAYER is LOYAL
Carson Biubee Didn't Engage in Ship
building to Escape Drafts
Eager to Join.

Carson Bigbee of the Pirates, when
he quit his shipbuilding job to report
for baseball, automatically was ad-
vanced to draft classification. He was
originally in class 1 A, but as a ship
builder wentSinto class 2 B. Bigbee
says he did not go into such work last
winter to escape the draft, as is
charged against some ball players, but
simply for the money that was in 1T
as a winter proposition. He expects
an early call to service and is rather
keen to go
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
FIND JOE coBB's REAL NAME
Joseph Stanley SerafTn, ST. Paul
Catcher, Is Good American and
Ready to Do His Bit.

When Joe Cobb, catcher for the st.
Paul Saints, was called to army serv-
ice the fans learned that he had been
masquerading under a famous baseball
name without real right to 1t. "Cobb's"
real name. 1t develops, Is Joseph STAN
lev Serafn. Anyway, he's a good
American and is ready to do his bit.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

sake of juggling figures, 15,969,92O
ounces. OF this amount 1t IS also in
teresting to know, corn seed predomt-
mated, 100000 pounds of it being mailed
to various sections of the country. Ma
chimes are used which automatically
proportion the seed by weight, fill the.
individual packages and seal them
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

vath, some walloper when he gets hold
of the ball, crashed the sphere to right
center on this particular day and the
ball was headed straight for a big
sign. As is well known. the reward
for rapping this board is $50. No one
in the park thought Kauff had a chance
to intercept the speeding sphere, but
that is just what Benny did. He got
under it, braced himself against the
sign and stretched both arms far above
his head. He caught the pellet an
inch from the fence.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Cravath's Grudge Justified
Benny Kauff Pulled Down
His Long Fifty Dollar Fly

-Gavvy Cravath holds a well-defined
grudge against Benny Kauff of the New
York Giants. When a fellow virtually
reaches right in a ball players pocket
and extracts so simOleons therefrom,
he's no friend of said ball player.
Benny Kauff didn't do that exactly,
but he might just as well have done it.
The alleged misrepresentation happen
ed in Philadelphia, the other day. Cra-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

NOTES

" q
Baldermo Acosta is back with the
Atlanta Crackers.
Bert Gallia is acclaimed as the best
hurler On the Browns staff.
Charley Risberg keeps right on play
ing brilliant ball at third base.
Hub Perdue's batting record Of OLA
should elect him to Crowder's idler
class.
Utility Man Chuck Workman is find-
ing it difficult to break into the Cub
lineup.
Fred Toney is proving a great help
to the Reds. He is virtually a life-sav-
er for them.
Roger Bresnahan's team certainly
needs bolstering. His pitching staff Isl
all shot to bits.
Earle Neale of the Reds plays closer
to the fence than any other left fielder
in the National league.
J.. Weldon Wyckoff, pitcher last
year for the Boston Americans, has
been signed by Minneapolis.
O'Farrell, a colt, is catching regu-
larly for the Cubs, who will lose Kill
lefer, DAILY and Elliott in the draft.
Buffalo continues to make changes.
Among recent acquisitions are Tom
McCabe and Marty Murphy, outfield-
ers.
In "Swede" Risberg the White Sox
have as clever a utility infielder as
is to be found in major league com
pany.
President Hampstead Of the New
York Giants has the major league
baseball scores cabled to France every
evening.
So far Jack Hendricks, the Car
dinals' new boss, has found the pilot
ing Of a big league team a tough
proposition.
1t is estimated that the increased
railroad rates will mean an additional
expense of $1,000 a year for each ma.
jor league club.
The Joplin management, in an at
tempt to catch the fans, has decided
to try the experiment of starting it's
games at 4 o'clock.
The Giants are as unpopular as ever
in Cincinnati and verbal clashes be-
tween the fans and the New York
players followed every game.
Walter Pipp of the New York Yam
KEGS is the latest diamond performer
to talk of taking a shipyard job to
get deferred draft classification.
Chef Thomas should strengthen the
Indians, for when Steven O'Neill is
absent only a rookie is left to catch.
Since Rollie Zeider was made the
Cubs regular second baseman he has
batted at a .240 clip, and seemingly
is improving all the time in his bat
ting.
Bill Phelon, the Cincinnati scribe.
remarks that as a pitcher Joe Wood,
now with Cleveland, was never much
of a hitter. Wrong, Bill-Wood al
ways could hit.
Dummy Taylor, one time Giant
pitcher and n of the most pic
turesque characters the game ever
produced, is now engaged as an ath-
letic instructor for the deaf mute en-
ployes Of a large rubber company in
Akron, Ohio.
Baseball does not appear to be suf-
fering much as a rival Of the war.
Large crowds are turning out every
where as If glad of the chance to for
get the war for a few hours. When
a team is playing good ball 1t is maxi
ing no complaints of the crowd.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Arruckp Hannah Works Hard.

.Truck" Hannah, the catcher Sc
cured by the Yankees from the Salt
Lake club, has been doing the bulk
Of the work behind the bat for
Miller Higgins. Hannah Is a big
fellow with a good arm. He hits the
ball hard and his faculty of keeping the
pitchers steady has appealed to Hug"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Eat Enough; Nc More.

The sane standard, Eat enough
food. and no more" rigidly followed,
would reduce greatly food bills in
many homes and, at the same time,
tend to improve the physical condition
of all members of the household, adj
vises the United States department Of
agriculture. ll
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

tanned flights of nearly 1000 miles at
a speed of 100 miles an hour. AS the
journey from Cape Columbia to the
pole and back could easily be accom-
plished in between eight and nine
hours. ar oil station could be safely
established 200 miles from land; 1t
could be intrusted to the drift ice for
at least one day."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Much in Little.

The Presbyterian Board Of
Foreign Missions has 1853 mis-
sionaries on its rolls.
Since the discovery of tin In
Alaska In 1902 nearly 1000 tons
of the metal have been pro-
duced.
The Methodist church In ia
pan has gained about IL per
cent in membership during the
last year.
An East Concord On. H. far
mer has been offered $28 a
bushel for his Golden Bantam
seed corn.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
UNAssIsTED DOUBLE PLAY.

Douglas Baird, Card third
sacker. made a put-out at first
the other day, and incidentally
an unassisted double play. The
Cards were playing the Reds,
and with Neale on first. Wingo
raped a hot liner straight at
Baird. Neale was away with
the crack of the bat, Is the hit
looked safe, but the third base
man speared it and then raced
across the diamond to first, beat
ing Neale and taking the put-out
himself.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
M.IseI Is All RIoht.

Fritz Maisel Of the st. Louis Browns
has been suffering with an attack of
stomach trouble that compelled treat
ment from a physician, but he seems
to be all right again.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18

lie Verne Chappell, known In base
ball as Larry" has Joined the nav
Chappell had a brief spectacular ca
reer in baseball. While with the Mil
waukee club in the American associa-
ton he was a star and his work was
so brilliant that Owner Comiskey OF
the White Sox purchased him at what
was then almost a record price.
Sickness. accidents and other mis-
fortunes combined against Larry and
he was never able to duplicate his
minor league record in the majors. He
left the White Sox and this season was
in the Pacific Coast league.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1918-07-18
Discreet.

She-That dealer is a fraud. He
said the parrot knew a lot of words.
He-Maybe they are words he
doesn't like to say in the presence OF
a lady.-Boston Evening Transcript