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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

lenge some neighboring society to I
contest ending June 18th to sex
which society. can get the largest
number of new members, to see
which can secure pledges for the
largest amount of. stamps, or to see
which can sell the greatest number
OF stamps.
Don't wait for somebody to call on
you and tell you what to do. Look
around and decide what you are best
qualified to do in this great thrift
campaign and then get busy. Report
to the person in charge of the work
in your territory and tell him what
you expect to accomplish. Then
make good your promise.
Whenever you pledge another per-
son to systematic saving you are
backing up the boys lover there"
you are helping to build ships, you
are assisting that person along the
road to personal financial prosperity,
and are Fastening the day when right,
and justice shall triumph. Don't be
with doing your bit"-do
more!
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Merwiz, TEENS.

Il The weather is hot and dry an,
1torn. and pastures need rain badly
II The farmers daily work Is haulin,
aiwater for the stock.
+ John Fussey has his wheat al eli
''tand in the shock. hi
1 Eta Longacre and daughter .
Amsterdam came up Sunday for !:
visit at the ]. L. Hayes home.
1 The ice house on the Corbin ranch
caught fire Thursday and burned
| down.
Eva Harris was down from Drexel
Sunday visiting friends.
John Anderson came down, from
Kansas City Saturday for visit with
his sister. Mrs. H. D. Ritchey.
Jerry Stitt made business trip to
Foster Friday.
Miss Mildred Pepper of Kansas
City is visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. Lottie Evans.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Young came in
Monday from Pittsburg, Kansas, to
visit relatives.
Ossie Sells, John Anderson, Esther
Ritchey and Stanley Mills attended
church at Ossawatomie Sunday
night.
Frank Witter is down from Kansas
City visiting his brother F. E. Wit
ter.
Mrs. P. K. Foster left Saturday for
Olathe, Kansas, for a visit with rela-
tives.
Ernest Ordell returned to hia home
in Tracyton, Wash, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Yingst of Drexel
visit parents here Sunday.
Faye Belcher and wife came down
from Kansas City Sunday.
Anna Hicks visited friends in
Drexel Saturday and Sunday.
w. l. Lewis and family spent Sum-
day at New Lancaster visiting
friends.
Rush and family of LaCygne, Kan
sas, visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P, w. Jones, Sunday.
J. w. Alder and family went to
Kansas City Sunday.
D. D. Ferguson made business
rip to Butler Monday.
J. T. Elliott and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ytell went to Drexel Sunday
While canning fruit one day last
week Mrs. VIM. Tucker had an arm
severely cut by a broken jar. 1t is
lot doing so very we'll.
!, Mr.. and Mrs. Jno. Jackson, of Edg-
.rton. came in Sunday to attend the
Marsh funeral.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
Pleasant Gap.

! We certainly have been having
some sultry weather this last week.
Miss Edna Hancock spent last
week with her aunt, Mrs. Walt Nafus,
who is on the sick list.
Will Brown has been shocking
wheat for Bert Harkrader this week.
Mrs. John Woodfin spent Wednes-
day at the Pete Tharp home.
Several attended the ice cream sup.
per at Double Branches Friday night.
Men are getting awfully rushed
with their work this year, as we saw
several binders running Sunday.
There was Red Cross meeting at
Orchard Grove school house Wednes-
day evening.
A protracted meeting will begin at
the Apostolic church the first of
July.
Mrs. Bud Nafus was on the sick list
Sunday.
Harvest hands are awful scarce in
this part of the country.
Alex Moore made trip to Kansas
City the last of the week to get re-
pairs for his threshing machine.
Violet Brown spent the last of the
week with her grandparents.
Misses Bertha Padgett and Mary
Scheilz were Butler visitors Satur-
day.
There is to be Sunday School
Convention and basket dinner at the
Pleasant Gap Baptist church Sunday,
June 23rd. Everyone invited.
A number of the boys and girls
gathered at the home of Mrs. Chris
Fox and surprised her with supper
evening, it being her birth
day. The afternoon was spent in
playing outdoor games and taking
pictures. While later in the evening
they were entertained with music. on
the graphaphone by Sylvester Gull
yer and on the organ by Misses
Grace Fennewald, Beulah Brown and
Sylvia Walker. All left at an early
hour wishing Mrs. Fox many more.
happy birthdays. Everyone stated an
good time. Those pres
mt were; Misses Lucy and Katie
Diehl, Grace Fennewald, Sylvia and
Soldie Walker, Ethel and Emma
Nix, Beulah Brown, Ethel Culver,
Mary Mckinley and Rosa Brown:
Messers. Henry, Walter and Charley
0iehl, Willie Fennewald, Melvin
Maker, John Conner, Emmett Ford.
10 Wilson, Harley and Buford
Brown and Sylvester Culver.
BLUE BELLE.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The United States army program
contemplates 100000 men under
arms by August 1, General Crowder
provost marshal general, told the
senate military affairs committee
Saturday afteroon.s OF this number
approximately 2,ooo, 900 men would be
draft troops, while the remaining mil
lion would be volunteers. General
Crowder also informed the committee
that class of the draft will be ex-
hausted next year and that it would
be necessary to take men from class
unless the draft age limit was ex-
tended.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Steers hit the highest level in the
history of the Chicago yards Thurs
day, when two loads averaging 1,427
pounds per steer, sold for $I8 per
hundred. Two days ago, the high
figure of last September of $17.o5 was
reached. The record breaking ship
nfent was from w. A.; Bend of Paw
paw, ILL.,, who purchased the steers as
feeders last December, then weighing
$50 to LOO pounds.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Jeremiah A. O'Leary, fugitive
from justice since the eve of the date
set for his trial on a charge of vio-
lating the Espionage Act by publ
cation of seditious matter in the anti
British periodical Bull and later in
dicted for conspiracy to commit trea-
son, was arrested at Sara, Wash, and
is on his way back to New York in
the custody of federal agents.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
THE WAR SAVER.

June 18th has been designated a.
National War Savings Day. The
Secretary of the Treasury has ISSUED
ringing statement calling on the
people of the Nation to pledge them.
selves to save on that day, and the
National War Savings Committee
and the State and local committees
all over the Nation are planning to
enlist a great National Thrift Army
with every. nember pledged on or be-
fore June 20.
Every member and officer of a
War Savings Society should be a re.
cruiting officer for the National
Thrift Army. Report to your local
committee for instructions.
In every community pledges for
systematic saving will be taken.
Pledge cards will be distributed by
the local committees and every men,
Der Of War Savings Society should
10 pledge at least 10 other persons to
systematic saving.
Get pledge cards from your local
committee and see that every person
Ia your household is pledged to save
and buy War Savings Stamps; then
get every person who lives on your
right to,pledge himself to save and
buy War Savings Stamps systematic
ally.
At the office, store, factory, or
school, see that your neighbors, both
IN vnaar riaht and left are r,1edred ~
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

General Knoerzen in telegram to
General Eichhorn, the German COM
mander in the Ukraine, reports, ac-
cording to a message from Kiev, that
forces of about ten thousand Bolshe-
visit Red Guards, commanded by
Czech officers, have been almost
wiped out by German troops to the
west of Taganrog, a Russian port on
the north shore of the Sea of Azov.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Two hundred local industrial plants
have been forced to close because
steel is withheld by the government
from factories not engaged in war
work, announces the Illinois Manu-
facturers' association. Most of the
concerns affected are small factories,
the first to feel the determination of
the government to divert steel to
war winning industries.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The estate of the late Henry Mill
err, valued at $4o,ooo,o 900 and consist.
ing mostly of lands and cattle in Cal
ifornia, Washington, Oregon and, Ne
vada, will De seized by the govern
ment for non-payment of federal in
come taxes amounting to $4,000, 900,
it was stated by Justus S. Wardell,
collector of internal revenue at San
Francisco.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

An example of alleged wartime
profiteering in Washington has been
brought to the attention of the House
through report Of real estate deal
in which buildings leased by the Gov
eminent to a market company were
subleased to an amusement company
at $4,000 year and again subleased
to the Government for $4,000 a year.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Mayor A. J. Fousek, of Great Falls,
Mont, has announced that horse
meat will be sold at the city market.
All receipts above actual expenses
will be given to the Red Cross. The
meat will sell at from 7 to IL cents
a pound.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

General Pershing adopted two o.
the sixty-eight French war orphans
adopted by American soldiers this
week, it was announced Thursday. A
single Ohio regiment adopted fifty
four
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

In her forthcoming statement oil
war aims, Germany does not intend
to make any fresh peace offer, &C.
cording to Berlin newspapers, says
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Lieut. Edith Smith, Uncle Sans
first woman lieutenant, reported for
duty Thursday to Colonel Bratton, OF
general hospital No. E, Fort McPher-
son. Lieutenant Smith is a gradu-
ate of Ohio university of medicine
and studied three years abroad.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The commander of the U-15I, one
of the German submarines which
have been operating off the American
Atlantic coast, has been identified as
Capt. Neustidt, and he served five
years as gunner's mate in the Unit
ed States Navy, according to affi-
davits of officers and sailors on the
schooners Hattie B. Dunn, Edna, and
Hauppauge, victims of the submarine.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

President Wilson again has thrown
the weight of his influence into the
balance for the federal woman suf-
frage amendment. He expressed
hope Thursday that the senate would
act favorably at this session on the
submission to the states of the
amendment passed by the house last
January, after he had given his in
dorsement.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Kansas eating houses were asked
by Walter P. lines, state food ad-
ministrator, Thursday to help elimi-
nate loss of sugar in ice tea by serv-
ing sugar in envelopes instead OF al
lowing customers to help themselves.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

The Mayor and City Council Of
Berlin, Ia, have decided to notify the
postal authorities in Washington that
the citizens have changed the name
of that town to Lincoln.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

lamation. The defendants are: Mrs.
James Hoist, Mrs, Henry LippQld,
Mrs. Herman Lippold and Mrs: WMl-
lam Matzen. They were ordered TO
pay fines ranging from $50 to- BOO
into the treasury of the Red Cross n
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

British casualties reported for the
week ending Friday totaled 34,17I Of
ficers and men of this number 4,447
being killed. The casualties were d.
vided as follows: Officers killed or
died of wounds, 23I; men, 4,zI6. Of
ficers wounded or missing, 800; men,
28,82s.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Orders against the induction into
military. service of draft eligibles for
duty with staff bureaus have been is
sued by the War Department. The
order excerpts only men who are
technically qualified for such duty,
physically disqualified for general
military service and physically quail
flied for special and limited military
service"
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Elton Mitchell, a negro farm hand,
was lynched by mob at Earle, Ark,
Friday night. Mitchell earlier in the
day shot and wounded Mrs. w. M.
Langston, wife of "a prominent Earle
planter.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

An explosion in the Skoda Gun
Works near Pilsen on May IS killed
more than 800 persons and injured
700, according to information re-
ceived by the Paris Journal. The ex-
plosion was heard $50 miles.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Admitting that he impersonated a
United States army officer, William
J. Won Struckrad, who claims to be a
son of a German General, and a rel
alive of Admiral Won Tirpitz, was
sent to Jail at Cincinnati last week in
default of $4,000 bail.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

That the former Gar and the
Kaiser formed a verbal alliance
against Great Britain and France dur
ing a conference at Potsdam will be
charged in the forthcoming trial OF
the former. The Gar also is said to
have promised the Kaiser free hand
in Turkey.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Germany's own military experts
are only now beginning to admit that
Germany's casualties since the war
began exceed 100000 men.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

One of the enterprises which will
be taken up and carried to compile
ton after the war will be a tunnel
under the English Channel.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

Demand for the dismissal of eight
members of the faculty of the Uni
versity Of Nebraska, charged by the
State Council of Defense with lack
ing aggressive Americanism was
made by Attorney William Gurley Of
Omaha At the hearing by the univer-
sity's board of Regents.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

While Major General Cocktails
head of the quartermaster corps, il
iriQuiring into the future status Of
Private Nelson Morris Of the nation
q army. that young man is quietly
peeiing potatoes and preparing other
food for the nex1s of the soldiers
ttationsd a Camp Neiea which Is
within the District Of colnmbiA S
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20
GENERAL NOTES.

A Kansas court has issued an in
junction restraining a man from put
ting flowers on his wife's grave.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-06-20

For Representative:
HERMAN 0. MAXEY
A. c. ROSTER
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

zling uniforms and marching in solid
masses to the sound of Prussian brass.
This time the automats arc
disguised as revolutionaries, and the
music is conducted by bandmaster
who strangely resembles Hindenburg.'
"The New York Herald declared:
"Ihc German revolution is TOO good.
The pickelhaubc sticks out
through the Phrygian cap. We shall
believe in the revolution in the land
of the junkcrs the day when the Kaiser
will make up his mind to play the
role Of Louis XVI. But he must play
it to the end
In 'La Victoirc" Gustavc Hervc en-
titled his article: WE GET YOU
And Clcmenccau launched a para
graph which began like this:
The crowned Hun. for the pur-
pose of world dominion. Yields to
all kinds of hypocritica| and treacf-
crous strategies in which organized
corporalism and the revolution are
blended in the rhyme of Prussian
discipline, etc, etc"
No, the Allies were not deceived.
The Kaiser was out of all patience.
"lIavo bills distributed" ordered the
kaiscr.
From the trenches came forth bills
edited by the General staff:
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

the past. Scorning ideas and ideals it
addressc itself TO the old fashioned
Germans, who think that the Prussian
State does all things we'll, without their
concerning themselves with the matter.
The writer quotes here the characteri-
cation of such Germans which was made
recently by Prince Max of Baden in
the upper Chamber Of that state, when
he said that 1.-THE majority of Germans
lndolently accepted the authorities
without any desire on their part to
share in responsibility for the Welfare
of the l'atherland"; that, ne added. was
the cause tor the unfrcedom of the
Germans
The writer concludes by making AN
interesting forecast of the future and
the problems of the German people. He
is open minded enough to admit that the
war experiences of many of the Ger
man soldiers, and especially the newly
created officers, has been mot exactly
an educator in true humanity" After
the war the German people will be
confronted with a crisis which will re
suit in a complete reconstruction of
parties, probably their consolidation
INTO much larger groups. "The- senti
ments OF the outside world" he con
tlnues, will not be favorable to the
old system. The Russian revolution. a
world-historicsl event of the utmos st
Importance. will exert its full effect
upon the minds OF men only after the
war And who would prophesy what
"lll happen in France, in Italy and
elsewhere when, after the war the
great liquidation begins? The first dc,
mand upon farsighted statesmansh ship is
ASIDE from ali other considerations. to
open safety valves in good time
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03
Qrom the 'Frankfurter Zeiung Of January /, l98)
NIrunsLated aud condensed By ViNiam c. Drcherl

into a state Of the people. In the
frightful chaos Of this world catastro-
pho called the War there was among
US q struggle for carihcation. Renec-
tion upon our position resumed its
function. Wishes and realities wcrc
compared. We asked ourselves what
we were aiming at and why, and out
of the cNaltation Of sentiment our po-
litical will took shape. Thereupon Il
dividing line became apparent. On the
one side were drawn together those
who wanted to cooperate in creating d
new Germany by laying hands upon the
internal structure Of the statc-thc
Germany of liberty and justice, the
state of all Germans, which should Of
fer a free path for all efficient men.
Az the same time they strovc for q
peace by understanding and concilia-
ton, because, while resolved to exert
all our powers for the defence Of the
Fatllerland. they saw in this defence
the most important war aim on our
side; because they were not willing, III
pursuit OF fantastic plans Of conquest,
to prolong the war indefinitely, and be-
cause III the peace conditions they
did not want to SOW the germs of new
wars of revenge.
ION the other Side Of that line re-
lHdlueu all lnOSc whose ola lucai OF tnc
state had not yet been corrected by tho
war-thc lordshlp state, with them
selves as lords, lordship state which
asserts itself, outwardly aud inyardy,
only by force, through the oppression
Of the masses at home and the con
quest and subjection Of foreign pco-
Piles. Chauvinists, anncXstionists, re-
dictionaries in the one camp, and in the
other all those who believe also in the
power Of ideas. in the idea Of law and
justice in the internal life of peoples.
as well as in the life of the nations
among themselves.
1.-TWO great camps, with irreconcil-
able views Of life and the world. In all
bclligcrent countries such camps have
been called into existence by the war
because everywhere the war raises the
same questions, and it demands of
every individual a clear. resoIutc, un-
eQuivocal answer TO them. Two great
camps, which arc now fighting with
each other everywhere for the mastery.
They cannot come TO terms on Il shabby
compromise. They might preserve a
remnant of the party truce by conduct
ing their tight i'll an objective, chival-
rous manner; but our Pan Germans, in
their wild dcmagogism, were not ma
turc enough for that. Nevertheless
this struggle was decided, if not ended
earlier i'll Germany than in the Occ-
dental states. Our Pan Germans arc a
New-York tribune., 1918-02-03

created. not only in tho empire, but
also in Prussia. 49,. We need
identical conditions for creating ma
Jorities in the empire and in Prussia,
for from the moment when fixed ma
Jorlties can be formed it would be an
lntolerable state of things that diverse
majorities should exist in the Reichs-
tag. and the Prussian Chamber, one
pulling in one direction and the other
in another. We shall have equal suf-
frage in Prussia in spite Of
all Conservative opposition.
"rhcn our Homecoming veterans.
who will in future form the great mass
of our voters, will find the state in
such shape as they arc entitled to de-
mand; IL such shape, namely, that
they can direct its course in accord
ancc with their political decisions.
What Is now being done and all
the dcep-reaching transformations
that have occurred during the past
three and onc-half years arc onlv pre-
pairing the ground for what is still to
come, namely, that the German state
shalI be, after the war, the state of all
ucfmans; that all classes Of the peo-
pic can participate in it upon the basis
or equal rights; that the homccomcrs
after the war shall not find the state
IN inc hands OF narrow caste Of war
prohtecrs, who dominate it,"
The writer proceeds to say that there
arc work and dangers ahead before the
ground already won can be securely
held; the parties constituting the ma
lorlty Will have to practise sclf-control,
dlsclpllno must be cultivated and fresh
powers OF resistance will have to be
overcome. We have learned through
e&perlence,' he continues, "that every
innovation lntcnsities opposition The
transformation of the Social Dcmoc.
racy, whereby it became willing to CO.
operate In constructive work in tho
state resulted in the independents snlit.
tlng on from the party. The trans sfor.
. nation or the popular majority into q
democracy caused the great landowners
and the industrial magnates (Schwer.
ilndustrlc) to weld together still moro
llrmly the alliance against democracy
ana for anneAations which they hac
formed at an earlier date. And the
more clearly the pam German chauyin.
ISIS were exposed as minority all the
wllder grew their agitation
Inc fatherland party, in which the re-.
actloharles arc building up a pi.
gantlc organization for the comine
elections. is showing up ALREADY what
we nave to expect"
me writer admits that this agitation
carried on with passionate appeals tc
sentiment and big expenditure oil
ringing phrases. and we'll supplied viii
money, Is meeting with some success.
among people without pride of citizen.
s1p anu st!!! III the leading strings o1