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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
Fight OR WORK,
CROWDER'S Order
Ball Players, Bartenders, Golfers,
Clerks, Gamblers, Must Find
Useful Employment.
ACTORS ON EXEMPTED LIST
Sweeping Edict, Effective July I, to
Make Nation Efficient in War,
Takes Registrars Out of the
Deferred Glass.
Bulletin.

Washington, May %. - General
PROVIDERS new work or-fight" regula-
tions may require professional base
ball players either to engage in some
useful occupation or to join the army.
Baseball players, as well as jockeys,
professional golfers and other profess
sional sportsmen, General Crowder
said today, will be affected by the reg
ulations If strictly enforced. General
Crowder said he did not desire to make
specific rulings at this time and would
make rulings only when cases came to
him from local boards after July l.
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Grain. Provisions. Fac.

FLOUR-The United States administra-
ton -four standards are as follows Per
Dbl In jute 90 10 sack basis. barley -four.
$40 2O corn flour sll20; white rye, tu.0;
dark rye. Sll0O. spring wheat. slO.6cGl0.0:
special brands. Hll4; hard winter. SlOeo9
10 80. soft winter. $40 60al0s0.
HAY-Choice timothy, $23.00a24oO. No. 1
timothy, $50 OOd22 %, standard sl9 OcdDO0j
No. timothy and clover mixed, H7oog
10 90. No. 3 $l3 O0al6oo, clover, S9.OOql2.oo:
thrashed timothy. S.Ng90o.
BI'TTER-Creamery, extra. ~ score.
4lc. frsts. 81 score. 4Oc; S0d9O score. $50
SgI6c; seconds S4dS7 score, S4u36l9c. stand
ards nQNAc, ladies'. S2hG32lac; reno
waited 86c, packing stock, Sg3lc.
EGGS-Frosh frsts, southern and south
western 3Od3lc; northern. 31a316c; new
cases. northern. 9lAq32c; ordinary hrsts.
26i5Q 2Sc miscellaneous lots, cases includ-
cd 2qd3lc cases returned, 2SN3Oc; extras,
s3d34c: checks 26021c. dlrties. 21d2sc;
storage packed. extras. AAg3il9c; hrsts,
33Ad3ic.
LIVE POULTRY 22c fowls.
25l5c; ROSTERS. 2Oi7c; broilers lN42 ID.
average. 4Sq5Oc; 1+gih 10. 42q45c, ducks.
2llf25c, geese, l3c.
ICE POULTRY Turkeys, CSC; fowls.
96a27c. roosters. 20t3Q21l4c. ducks. 2tQ26c;
geese 13di5c.
POTATOES-Wi Wisconsin and Minnesota,
white. lc5dl.2o per 100 lbs
TTLE-Choice TO fancy steers. Sl6.75R
II 70: good 70 choice steers SIS 5oGpl675;
main TO good steers, 81 .5oal5.5O; yearlings
good to choice Sll.0CQ1L25 stockers and
feeders. S90nl3.75. good to choice COWS.
80 5GlIl30O; good to choice heifers $1,000
| "a OO. fair to good cows. s. 50a95o: can
ners s. OOd7 Is, cutters S,70aS35, bologna
! bulls 81 75Ql050; butcher bulls $1,000
"A N. heavy calves, 81 004ll00. veal calves
II OOdtt50 SOL
UOGs-Prme light butchers. ST. ao9l74O:
fair to. good light si7oO@l7 IS. medium
weight butchers 2259 go lbs. l7OQi7O
heavy weight butchers. 25GG4o0 lbs. Sl6 20
rI7 70. choice heavy packing sl6 25a16so:
rough heavy packing. SIS 50al625 pigs.
fair TO good, $l5,50gl7oo; stays Sl5cc9
l6 90.
SHEEP Shorn yearlings, sl0Gl5 N:
western lambs. good to choice, tlsO0dl9 rs;
Colorado lambs, $50 0cQ2i.Oo native lambs,
good to choice, sls00ae0co. shorn lambs.
SIS O0Qi75G: ahorn wetheB. l3Oattr5;
shorn ewes. sii0Gi+75.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30

Washington, May 23.-Provost Mar
shall General Crowder today amour
ced that every man of draft age must
work or fight after July l. The order
is under a drastic amendment to the
selective service regulations. All
what are held to be nonuseful occupa-
tons, will be given an opportunity be-
fore local boards to choose a new job
or Join the army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulation also In
clude walters and bartenders, theater
ushers and attendants, passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, etc, domestics
and clerks In stores.
Deferred classification granted on &C.
count OF dependents will be disregard
ed entirely in applying the rule. A
man may be at the bottom of class l.
or even in class 4, but II he fails with
In the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment he will be given a
new number in class l that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use dis
erection only where they find that en-
forced change of employment would
result in disproportionate hardship up
on his dependents.
May Solve the Labor Problem.
The statement of the provost mar
shall generals office Is as follows:
provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selective service regulations which
deals with the great question of com
pelling men not engaged in a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves to some form Of labor, contrib
uting to the general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confronted with
the alternative of finding suitable EN-
ployment or entering the army.
This regulation provides that after
July l, any registrant who is found by
a local board to be q habitual idler or
shall be summoned before the board,
given chance to explain and, In the
absence of satisfactory explanation,
to be indicted into the military service
of the United States.
ANY local board viii be authorized
to take action, whether 1t has an orig
inal jurisdiction of the registrant or
not; in other words, any man loafing
around poolrOom in Chicago may be
held to answer to a Chicago board even
though ha may have registered in
New York and lived there most of his
life
"The regulations which apply to idle
registrants will be deemed to apply
also to gamblers of all description and
employees and attendants of bucket
shops and race tracks, fortune tellers
clairvoyants, palmists and the like
who for the purpose of the regulations
shall be considered as idlers.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
WATCHING Every Point

Are you economizing Mt your
houseT
"Yes. Father requires everybody to
learn new story each day and tell IL
Mt the table 50 that there VIII be rsore
talking and less eating"
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Bulletin.

Washington, May 23.-Theatrical
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the d.
rection of Secretary Baker, who is said
TO feel that the people cannot do with
out all amusement in war time and
that other amusements could be dis
pensed with more readily.
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Sometimes Convenient.

"A man In your position should avoid
bad company"
"As rule" replied Senator Sorg-
hum. But there are tin when It is
just as we'll TO have lew bad boys
around to be blamed In case anything
goes wrong
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
TALKING Politics,

81 don't hear you talking politics
very much"
mo" replied Senator Sorghum.
Talking politics Is all right In time of
peace. But I'm willing to fight for the
future privilege of talking my politics
strictly In my native tongue"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
Cruel.

Miss Oldun-One thing worries me
and that is the wedding trip. 1t Will
be horrld to have people know.
Her Dear Frlend-Oh. don't worry
Get him to call you ina" when you're
travelling and they'll think you are
bis mother
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
Universal, Acquaintance

II know just about everybody In this
town." remarked the prominent citizen.
Lucky mani" replied Miss Cayenne.
NO matter what wrong number the
telephone operator gives you, you can
always find some one to talk to-"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
A Suggestion.

The Woman believe I'VE danced
with you before, haven't /?
The Victim-I dunno; If you have
why don't you do 1t Chaparral /.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
He'd Been peenjpo

Mabel-Im 50 happy since I'm en-
gagged to Tom. The world seems differ.
ent. don't seem to be In dull old Slab
town. but
Brother-Lanland.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
Plenty of Them

IBID your cousin get any damages
in that assault cnsew
Odd HEP" Well, you wouldn't ask
that If you could have seen his face"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-05-30
THESE ARE HIT BY ORDER TO .
FIGHT OR WORK. .

Idlers.
Gamblers.
Bucket shop employees.
Race track attendants.
Clairvoyants and the like.
Professional golfers.
Professional baseball players
(probably).
Elevator operators at clubs and
stores.
Club and hotel doormen.
Walters in hotels and clubs.
Ushers in theaters.
Attendants at sports.
Persons in domestic service.
Clerks in stores.
Specially Exempt.
Actors.
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Minneapolis. May 20, 1914

Corn No. 3 yellow, 14501.55.
Oats-No. 3 white, 72Q75c.
Rye-192d1.94
Flax-3.S36SS5.
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were twelve from Wisconsin. Their
names follow Joseph +. Callan, Mil
waukee; John kobus South Milwau-
kee; Conrad Excl West Allis; Edwin
l.. Clausing. Grafton William Craft,
Port Washington; Edward l.. Gerl,
ManitOwoc; Redwald Gutenberg,
Pidgeon Falls Rudolph Mike, De
Pere; Frank Roux. Rice Lake; Lewis
Spies, Nelson Willow Trap, Arbor
Vitae; George N. Buchanan. Marinette.
The sacrament Of confirmation was
administered to thirty inmates of the
Wisconsin state reformatory, Green
Pay, by Bishop Paul =. Rhode Sunday
which the Catholic bishop oficiated In
the state institution.
The annual encampment of the Wis
consin g. A r. will be held at Ash.
land June II, IS and 10. II will also
be the annual meeting of five other
societies, the W. r. G.. the Ladies'
Circle of the G.. A, r., the Daughters
of the G. A. r., the Sons of Veterans
and the Auxiliary OF the Sons OF Vet
Grams.
The greatest gathering of Elks in
the history of the state Is expected al
Fond du Lac on June 13'to Is for the
annual patriotic rally and convention
OF the Wisconsin Association of Elks
Al least 1900 from twentyseven out
OF the thirty-three lodges in the state
will come. 1t IL believed.
What is believed to be the highest
price ever paid for Guernsey cattle In
Wisconsin, went to Chicago men from
Frank d. Stout. millionaire lumber
man, to improve the herd at the Stout
farm near Brentwood. Mr.. Stout gave
mp $4,000 in real money for three
COWS
Evening journal., 1918-05-20
EDsr cent Of sDs dollar yeesUed for the Red Cross War

rha American Red cslsa Is the largest and most
seieat 6rganiEato for tic relief Of suffering that the
Wegd has neeu-
u is made up aiuost entirely OF volunteer workers.
the higher executives beinB without exception
ouat0ned 20 large efaiFs who IN almost all
giViaS their geFvtces without pay
J; Is supported entirely ~ its membership fees ard
b. voluntary contributions,
II u today bringing relief 60 suffering humAnlty
octA military and civil 10 every War allied country
y plans tomorrow ~ AeiD IN the woFtt OF
tLaa thFouKhout thA void
Evening journal., 1918-05-20
The Greatest Mother in the World

STRETCHING forth her hands to all in need; to
- Jew or Gentle, black or white; knowing no
faVorite. yet faxormg all.
Ready and eager to comfort at time when
comfort is most needed. Helping the little home
that's crushed beneath an iron hand, by showing
mercy in healthy, human way; rebuilding it, in
fact, with stone stone; replenishfng empty bins
and empty cupboards; bringing warmth to hearts
and hearths too long neglected.
Seeing all things with a mothers seventh sense
that's blind to jealousy and meanness; seeing men
in their true light as naughty children -snatchng,
biting, bitter-but with hidden side that's quickest
touched by mercy.
Reaching out her hands across the sea to
No Mans Land to cheer with warmer comforts
thousands who must stand and wait in stenched and
crawling holes and watersoaked entertainments
where cold and wet bite deeper, so they write, than
Boche@steelorslead.
She's warming thousands, feeding thousands,
healing thousands from her SIRE; the Greatest
Mother insthe World-the Red Cross
Your help is needed-give till the heart says
..
Evening journal., 1918-05-20

It feeds and clothes entire populations In times q
great calamity,
need.
Wi.a Ns thousands OF worIsors 4ta tremendous
stores and Bmooth running transportation facilities
4 "a serving az Americas advance guard-and thu
helping To WIN The
Congress- authorizes it
President Wilson heads a.
Tho War Department audits its accounts
Your Army. your Navy and your Allies enthusi.
a5ticaiiy endorse A..
TSSHty-two million Americans hAvs Joined t.
Evening journal., 1918-05-20

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New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
The Days Developments

Two points Of vital Importance stand
out in yesterdays sheaf of official news
from the battlefront The first is that If
the Germans continue to hold Bapaume
and the heights to the west and south of
the town they have solidifed victory
that was previously in more or less of a
fluid state. The second is that they have
established themselves across the Somme,
though the British are making heroic
efforts to throw them back, and Haig
must continue to retire if he is 20 save
the organization of his line.
Where that retirement will end is hard
to say. 1t may stop at Albert and the line
which the British held when the Somme
campaign opened. 1t may extend as far
as Amiens, into which the rail and road
lines lead down from Bapaume. This
would be close to a serious disaster. But
it must keep up until the forces opposing
each other are eoualized. Already there
are signs that the Germans are having
difficulty with their transport. In places
they are advancing without the necessary
artillery support, but the sacrifice in
volved is prohiJitive. except for few
eXultant moments The British, though
their line is stretching, are drawing
back upon their reserves Of guns and
men. The Germans. travelling at an i'm
possible speed, are drawing away from
theirs
Clearly, however, if Hindenburg is
allowed to bring his great weight of ar
tllery up while his storming forces re-
main in any sort Of order he may re-
peat his present success by the sheer
power of explosives. Thus, the entrance
southern leg of what is rapidly becoming
a German salient develops significance
Their men and batteries on the heights
south of the Disc will be fresh while
Hindenburg's legions, unless the Aus
trians Nave been able TO fabricate ersot:
soldiers as we'll as 75-mle guns in the
Skoda works. will be nearing the point
of exhaustion. Let his assure ourselves
that Petain will strike coolv, swiftly and
in time.
engaged the Germans lunge at the
French in Champagne? The answer is
that the Allied armies of reserve are not
yet engaged, and the rest is mere guess
work. No doubt the Supreme War Council
will meet problems Of the future, with
the same quick calculation with which
they are meeting this one
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
a Patriotic Work

The League Of Foreign Born Citizens
is trying to raise S25. 900 for use in eX-
panding its pro-American activities. It's
chief aim is the Americanizing Of the
immigrant, not so much through outside
pressure as through a sympathetic pres
entation by means which do not antag-
onize his racial instincts. of what Amer
ica means to him and will mean to his
children.
Many immigrants who seek economic
opportunity here do not readily visualize
America as a home They remain cut
off by language and alien ties They are
tempted to flock by themselves, each in
his own group, and to accentuatc their
isolation. The League of Foreign Born
Citizens is attempting TO combat these
reactionary tendencies from within the
alien circle itself. 1t deserves every en-
couragement. The sort of work it is d.
ing is constructivc-and was never
needed in America more than it is now
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Prices Of Cotton and Wheat

Some Of our good friends in the cotton
trade write to us to complain that our
comments upon the prevailing price of
given by Dr.. Bradford Knapp, of the
Department Of Agriculture, are cited.
SO far as the price of cotton is con-
ccrned, the facts are these: Spot cotton
sold in New York in 1914 as low as ~
cents. The average price for the wear
was a little under l / cents.
The average price in Chicago for
wheat in 1914 was $105. Wheat at
1920, therefore, shows little over 100
per cent increase, while cotton at :he
prevailing price of last week, 80 cents,
showed nearly 200 per cent increase.
1t is retorted, however, that the price
of cotton upon the outbreak of the war
was abnormally depressed on account
of decreased exports. AS a matter of
fact, however. the exports of cotton since
August last are far below those of the
corresponding period of 1914-'l5. And
the total exports for the twelve months
ended in August fell from over 100000
bales in 1914 to under 5000, 900 bales up
to last year.
In other words, with one-third smaller
sales abroad the price goes up 200 per
cent. Where would the price be if for
eign purchases were normal?
Moreover, the average price of cotton
tor the four years preceding the out
break Of the war was only ] cent higher
than in l9l4-that is, under II cents
while the average for wheat for these
four years was $1.05. With cotton at
80 cents, then, the relative price for
wheat would be SO.
There IS a great outcry that the price
should be increased to $3.50.
Year in and year out the value of the
two crops, wheat and cotton, runs about
the same. At the prevailing prices the
effect of pricc-fixing is to give the cotton
planter upward Of half billion dollars
more for his cotton than the whcat
grower gets for his wheat.
The average value Of the whole cotton
crop before the outbreak Of the war y,s
not much over half a billion dollars Ts if
any wonder that the wheat grower com
plains! Moreover, cotton, far more than
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
Converting Our Bolshevilki
nrronl yAc Mil,eonk.oc sennnon


But no sooner is Russia Rolskevikism
threatened than all the Scott hearings.
Morris llillQuits, Crystal Eastmans and
Emma Goldman Bcrkmans propose to 90
and defend it by force.
They would not join the United States
against Germany But they are willing to
join the Russian Revolution, instead and
Kill Germans in that cause. They talk of
H. New York Tribune
That's it exactly There we get their
measure.
They have been denouncing as n crime
the American declaration Of war arains,
Germany.
They have abused the government Of tbc
United States they have agitated arans,
enlstments and tried to stir up riot against
conscripton.
They have posed as the last word in
paclsm But the moment their spiritual
congencrs in Russia are being bullicd and
hanged by the German government thew
rant for war.
A precious lot of "Americans". If thew
arc in love with Russia Bolshevism de-
portation to the land where it is in flower
IS the logical treatment for them
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
In the War at Last

Those of us who have doubted whether
we and our country were really in the
war have faced strange proof in these
last tense days. We go back to the days
Of Verdun for the parallel-thc parallel
with difference. Our hopes were deeply
engaged then The nation nearest to our
hearts, beyond our own, was in a struggle
for life or death. Our spirits rose and
fell with the news from that heroic line
beyond the Mouse.
Yet whether we would or no our hearts
and minds have been stirred in a new
and tragic manner by the headlines of
the last few days Ones own country is
ones own. And, slowly and belatedly as
our America enters the war her gage Of
battle lies now in the arena our flesh and
blood stand somewhere upon the shifting
line; our honor our faith, our future
hang upon tae great combat in France.
Occasional hysteria has shown itself in
these hours of doubt. Yet we think
America, the nation, has stood splendidly
by her resolve. Would that we could say
stood by her guns' But we enter the
war years too late to count largely in
military sense in these desperate fields by
the Somme and Oise Helplessness, a
realization of how niggardly can be our
assistance to our allies in this hour of
trial. is one of the prime depressants
which we have to face We have not only
to face it. but, facing it, to find new inspi-
ration from it and resolve that hence
forward old blunders shall not be re-
peated, self-deceptions and evasions of
earlier years shall be relentlessy dis
closed and a fresh will to win be born
from all this turmoil of black days
It is no hour for either despair or over
confidence. The demand is for clear
vision, courage, steadfast fath-and a
fresh dedication in the name of all our
allied dead, of all our hopes and deeds
to that cause of civilization for which
the assembled forces Of Righteousness
fight the modern Huns upon the fields Of
Picardy
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26

not mnlstratve at all. 1t is the power
and duty of being that general eye
Mr.. Baruch is commissioned by the Pres
ident to Participate the prospective needs
of the several supply departments of the
government" and "if necessary" to labor
at the "creaton Of new facilities and d.
the "disclosing" and at the Opening up OF
"new sources of supply For instance, 4
there should turn out to be a shortage of
chrome-ore for the ordinary non-war uses,
and if there should turn out to be any
new sources of chrome-ore in the United
States, Mr.. Baruch must try to "open
them up
But Mr.. Baruch cannot subsidize a
chrome-ore mine, nor can he give a con-
tract for chrome-ore to any prospective
developer of a chrome ore mine He must
assemble the people who have the mine and
the people who can finance the mine, and
the people who can use the ore, and the
governmental people who can give technl-
cal assistance, and the governmental peo
pie who can give financial assistance, if
any. and he must urge, induce, cajole. dra-
goon and hypnotic them into getting to-
gether to promote the chrome-orc industry
Mr.. Baruch will be delighted 1t is like
asking Dickcns's Fat Boy to help save his
country by going to sleep. Mr.. Paruch
Will sell the chrome-ore idea to ANYBODY
not utterly Indifferent to adventure, ro-
nance, personal patriotism, personal honest
proflts the vision of a United States trans
formed into a complete self-contained eco
nomlc unit. the vision of Germany hurled
from the pinnacle of world power into the
abyss of helplessness by the blossoming of
the chrome business on American soil,
and the vision of individual service 20
woodrow Wilson the Man, all portrayed in
New-York tribune., 1918-03-26
The Long-Range Gun Mystery

Since the war began there has been
no such mystery as that which developed
with the announcement that shells were
falling upon Paris from a distance of
seventy miles. There are engineers and
experts who are still unable to credit
the reports
Since the war began three years and
eight months ago, it is very remarkable
fact that no great invention nor any
astonishing improvement in any kind of
weapon, method or plan of attack has
been made. The submarines that are
built now are larger, faster and OF much
greater range than before the war, but
their essential features and powers have
IN no wise changed.
There is no authentic record Of any
aeroplane having flown faster than the
record made a year before the war, and
to date there is no authentic record Of
any gun having fired a greater distance
than was attained before the war.
Before the war, on the Krupp proving
grounds, guns were fired with a range
of around twenty-three or twenty four
miles. That was the distance achieved
in the bombardment of Dunkirk.
Suddenly, out of the clear sky, comes
the news that this range. slowly devcl
oped through several centuries of war
fare with cannon, has been suddenly not
merely doubled but triplcd.
1T is unbelievable. Yet the report def
nltely states that on Sunday and yestcr-
day nearly fifty shells were fired and
we have the official German announce
ment: "The fortress of Paris was fired
on by long-range guns" If Germany has
really achieved this feat she has per
formed something like a mechanical
miracle.