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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
CANADA STRONGLY
C0NSERvES SUGAR
STORIES OF UNRESTRICTED USE
BRANDED AS FALSE BY
HEBBERD.

Reports that the Canadian govern
ment is placing no restrictions on the
use of sugar and that citizens of this
country, merely Dy crossing the bor-
der. may purchase in large amounts,
are emphatically denied by the
United States food administration.
The Canada food board recently is
sued a statement calling for a reduc-
ton of Canadian sugar consumption
to one and one-half pounds per per-
son per month-half a pound below
the honor ration requested in this
country by the United States food ad-
ministration.
All regulations governing the use
or holding of sugar will be rigidly
enforced. the Canada food board has
declared. 1t is taking strict measures
to prevent boarding, in most cases
imposing a jail sentence as well as
heavy fine. Manufacturers are strict
ly curtailed in their use of sugar and
are prohibited from pur-
chasing quantities which would war
rant consumption of more than the
required allowance.
Citizens of this country would be
running a serious risk II they at
tempted to purchase sugar in Canada
State Food Administrator Charles
Hebberd says. Although restrictions
there are placed upon the purchaser
rather than upon the retail dealer.
severe penalties are provided for at
tempted expectation to the United
States without an individual export
license from the Canadian war trade
board. which would grant export H.
cense only in cases which meet with
the approval OF this government. Sup
Elementary action along this line has
been taken by the United States war
trade board which has prohibited i'm
portation without an individual i'm
port license.
Persons attempting to bring sugar
from Canada to this country would be
faced with the possibility of heavy
fines and Jail sentences should they
be apprehended by the customs au-
thorities of either country, Hebberd
says.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
COMPANY
TO BUILD HOUSES
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VOTES
TO ORGANIZE $2O, 900 CON.
Germ HERE.

recommendation that a house
building company, capitalized at $780,
900, be organized by Olympians to
erect houses to relieve the present
serious shortage of accommodations
we're made by a special committee
and unanimously adopted at the reg
ular weekly luncheon Of the Chamber
OF Commerce Wednesday noon.
The committee in a lengthy report
proposed in addition to this specific
recommendation, campaign to stim-
ulate the building of Substantial and
modest homes; that owners of va
cant property "be urged and assisted
to build homes. and that a perma-
nent committee be appointed "to
work out plan of financial arrange
ment to aid in this project"
In it's recommendation regarding
the house-building company, the
committee proposed that of the cap
ital of $4,000 one-fourth be paid in
cash, and one-fourth each month for
three months, an dthat the fund be
used as a revolving fund and ap--
piled:
"First-Where the owner of un-
improved property is the prospective
builder, either for home or sale pur-
poses.
"Second-Where the home-seeker
owns no property. but is able to pur-
chase.
'Third-Where the company as
sumes the entire responsibility of ar
rangement and construction"
The company, the committee pro-
posed, should furnish plans and spe-
cificatiOns free or at q minimum Of
cost; arrange first mortgage loan
Of 50 per cent Of the total valuation
when completed; ana that the difter-
ence between the loan and total cost
be carried by the company until the
completion and sale Of the house,
when a 20 per cent cash payment 10
to be made.
The committee recommended the
construction Of attractive modern
homes of from four to six rooms. The
members of the committee were J. O.
Marts, J. L. Peters. J. H. Wohleb, g.
H. Springer, Walter Mcdowell, Henry
Mallory, C. A. Rose and Allen White.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30

That the German government spent
between $15,O0O,OOO and 100000, 900
on plots and intrigues in this country
in the years 1915 and 1915 through a
single channel, the Office of Doctor
Heinrich F. Albert, the cimmercial
attache of the Geran embassy, is re-
vealed for the first time in the latest
publication of the committee on pub
lie information.
The title of the pamphlet is Ger
man Plot and Intrigues in the United
States During the Period of Our Neu-
trality.", It's authors are Professors
f. E. Sperry OF the University of Syr-
acuse, and Professor Willis NJ West
of the University of Minnesota. The
sources from which their information
is drawn are the official files Of the
deartment of justice and the records
of the trials conducted by the depart
ment agents, particularly in New
York, Chicago, Detroit and San Fran
cisco.
The story told by these official rec
ords as they are painstakingly ex-
planned and interpreted is an amaz-
ing one 1t dots the 'i's" and crosses
the IT'S" to all our conceptions of
official German unscrupulousness, ef-
frontery and lying.
1t deals with labor leaders corrupt
ed, and strikes caused in munitions
plants by German influence: with the
German financing of the movement
for an embargo on munitions ship
ments: with the destruction of inno-
cent merchant vessels by bombs
planted in their cargoes by German
agents in American harbors; with
plots for the promotion of sabotage
in the United States and in Canada,
including the blowing up of the We'll
land canal and the Canadian Pacific
railway; with the corruption of Amer
ican opinion through the agency of
German paid professors, newspapers,
and lecturers; with the forging of
passports to send German reservists
abroad with the supply from Ameri-
can ports of German raiders at sea
with German plots organized here in
order to cause revolt in India and in
Ireland: with the procuration of per-
jury and the shameless lying of the
German government.
Perhaps history contains no in
stance Of effrontery greater than the
issuance of the American press, In De-
cember. 1915, Of the following official
lie:
"The German government has nat
urally never knowingly accepted the
support of any person. group or per-
sons, society or organization seeking
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
S20,000,000 SPENT FOR GERMAN
PLOTS IN THE UNITED STATES
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF GERMAN TRIGUEs DURING THE PERIOD
UNITED STAT rs
"a Review Prepared by Information

to promote the cause of Germany in
the United States by illegal acts, by
counsel of violence, by constravention
of law, or by any means whatever
that could offend the American peo-
pie in the pride of their own author
ity."
Every line of the pamphlet proves
the falsity of this official German
statement.
Among the Germans actively con-
nected with plots and intrigues in
this country while enjoying it's hos
pitality were Ambassadors Bernstein
and Dumba;; attaches Pepen, Boy-Ed
and Albert; Franz Bopp, German
counsel at San Francisco, and Kurt
Won Reiswitz, consel at Chicago. DR..
Bruenz and Paul Koenig of the Ham
burg steamship line: and
such minor conspirators as Rintelen,
Fay, Gorst. Scheele, Kleist, and a
dozen others.
The numerous American tools in
clude ex-Congressman Frank Buchan-
an, who was active in the movement
for strikes and the munitions embar-
go; Lamar, the "Wolf of Wall
Street.; DR.. William Bayard Hale, to
whom Count Bernstein referred as one
who could "give information" con-
corning the embargo movement: Max
Breitung of Chicago and Albert Kolt-
schmidt of Detroit, who were con-
nected with attempts to promote ex-
plosions the notorious jeremiah
O'Leary, Irish agitator and editor Of
a seditious publication called "Buil";
George Sylvester Viereck, whose pa
per, the "Fatherland." was financed
by the German embassy, and host of
others.
OF the bomb industry, with it's 800
to 400 bombs manufactured. and fires
in 33 ships sailing from New York,
we get this glimpse in the testimony
of a witness in the case against Cap
tain Won Kleist, in the New York
courts:
Eve sat down and we spoke for
about three hours. | asked
him the different things that he did.
and said if he wanted an interview
with Mr.. Won lgel my boss, he would
have to tell everything. So he told
me Won Papen gave DR.. Scheele. the
partner of Won Kleist in this factory.
check for 10000 to start bomb
factory.
"He told me that he. Mr.. Won
Kleist. and DR.. Scheele, and man by
the name of Becker on the Friedrich
der Crosse. were making the bombs,
Bode and Captain Steinberg had
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
County w. G. T. U. Meets.

"Difficulties of the Enforcement Of
the Prohibition Law" were discussed
by Prosecuting Attorney Thos. L.
O'Leary at the county convention of
the w. c. T. U. at the Methodist
church Friday afternoon. Morris
Curry made talk on Patriotic
Work of the w. c. r. U. Women" and
Mrs. J. s. Mckee. chairman Of the
woman's division Of the State Council
OF Defense. discussed Women In the
War"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
Reduce Substitute Ratio.

Wheat bread of all the allied ma
tions fighting Germany will contain
20 per cent of substitutes. according
to Herbert Hoover. national food ad-
ministrator in a statement outlining
the new wheat conservation program
for 1918-19. This program. which
is effective September 1. supersedes
the $3.50 rule.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
ESTABLISHED NOV. II, 1860.
Rural Carrier Examination.

The United States civil service COM
mission has announced an examina-
ton to be held at Centralia and Olym-
pia, September 28. to fill the position
OF rural carrier at Rochester. Wom-
en- are admitted to examination on
the same conditions as men. Appli-
cation blanks may be obtained from
the ost offices mentioned above.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
schools Open Next Tuesday.

All Of the schools of the county.
cept that in the East Union district,
will begin the years work next Tues
day, superintendent o. c. Goss an
nounces. The East Union school will
start the following week, Septem-
ber 3.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
Federal Labor Bureau Speaker.

Hugh Reid of the federal depa IT.
ment OF labor will address local busi-
ness men at the regular Chamber OF
Commerce luncheon at Meath's next
week, which IS to be held Tuesday
noon in order TO accomodate him. He
will talk on War Labor Policies"
and the Chamber wants everybody in
Olympia to hear him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30
Quite a large delegation Of Olym.

plans went over to the Southwest
Washington Fair at Centralia-Che-
halls Thursday Olympia Day. It was
also Governors Day, and Governor
Lister and the states executive in his
address made a strong appeal for
greater efforts In war activities.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-08-30

The orchestra from the 1l6th Depot
Brigade. Camp Lewis gave an ex-
ceptionally good concert at the United
Churches Wednesday evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10

ally sees to it that each soldiers bunk,
his clothing, his teeth and his whole
person are clean
Slurring American Women.
What right, then, has any citizen
to cast slurs on the army man and
imply that he is not a fit associate for
decent women? Every time you make
a remark Of that kind just remember
you are insulting the loved son of
some mother who probably is one Of
the purest and best women in Iowa
Information received from the war
department states that the Eighty
eighth division stands highest in re-
gard to being free from social dis
eases.
Here is a letter which came all
unsolicited to the commanding officer
of this division from Des Moines
lady who had asked for u soldiers to
entertain in her home:
"Dear Sir: We wish to thank you
for the discretion you showed in Sc
lecting the IL young men for our
Christmas party. They were all per-
feet gentlemen and we have an excep-
tionally good opinion of our Camp
Dodge boys from the manliness these
boys showed us during the entire ev-
ening frolics. We hope they all had
a good time, as we certainly enjoyed
their company
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10
DANCES CLEANAT
CANTONMENTEOR
DRAFT army MEN
Camp Dodge Military Authorities Re-
sent Indictment and Call
For the Facts.
TO PROBE WORDS OF ISLANDER
Espionage Department Hereafter VIII
Run Down StatementSDerog. !.
atory to Place. =
Especial to The Argus. }

Camp Dodge, Iowa, jan 10-Camp
Dodge authorities are thoroughly
aroused over the implied slurs on the
soldiers through the criticism of the
soldier dances being held in which
the young women of the city, under
proper chaperonage, are meeting and
dancing with the soldiers.
Captain John H. Quigley, head of
the counter espionage department,
whose duty it is to run down rumors
detrimental to the army men, says
nothing could be done which would
please the Germans more than to
make such slurs and criticisms.
He declares the talk against the
soldiers as being unfit companions for
the girls of Des Moines verges dam
gerously close on pro-German propo-
ganda
From now on all rumors, published
or otherwise, detrimental to the army
those starting false rumors will be
brought before the federal grand jury
for violating the espionage act.
Eve want facts" says Captain Quig-
ley, not hearsay. / shall be only too
glad to run down, reports of miscon-
duct on the part Of our soldiers If Des
Moines people will give me specific
, facts to work on, but l am tired of
this I heard and I was told by GER
tain party
IF man has an ounce of courage,
why doesn't he come direct to me with
these discrediting stories, instead of
causing doubt and worry at the home
firesides, where everything concern
ing our soldiers which appears in the
papers is eagerly read? By his gar
rulous tongue, the man who criticises
the soldier is playing directly into the
hands of the Germans.
so far as the corruption of the po-
lice department is concerned, the po-
lice have rendered assistance to us in
every possible way. No serious crimes
have been committed in spite of the
fact that there has been such large
body Of men here for the past four
months. Great credit is due the mem
bers Of the Des Moines police depart
ment for the way they have handled
things. Also the department of JUS
tice, the United States marshals Of
fee and the sheriff of Polk county
have always been willing to cooperate
with US in every way"
Fighting for Women.
The American soldiers motto has
always been to protect the weak and
women and children first If the SOL
diers of the Eighty-eighth division
are not fit for the good women of Dcs
Moines to associate with, they are not
fit to go across to France as represen-
tatives of the good old u s. A. and lay
down their lives, if necessary, that
mothers, wives and sweDthearts may
live in peace! Why should the SOL
dier be held responsible for the moral
conditions Of a community? A uni
form does not change a mans morals
If 1t does, it changes them for the
better.
Every soldier permitted to go to
!hese dances is rigidly inspected in a
way never dreamed of in private
home. where the sons are without
question turned out to meet and
ningle with the finest young girls of
he city.
THE company commander person.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10

Van Meter. it is said, left III.
try on tramp steamer and r1IS2s7 a
sea for number Of years, lstsr ~
to Porto Rico. where he ala r..
body was brought back and hrss. N
Moline.
Before leaving the city. Van ~.
married the daughter Of rrs;s.:s y!
Hass and the couple resides q
home where the old s. r. Kenvss..Is
residence now stands.
The murder trial here cre.1..
great interest in this locality ~
are very few of the inhabitants No.
that remember the details Of m n ~
dent, but at that time it was taItss y i.
for miles around.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10
FORMER HEAD OF
LOCAL REGIMENT
OUT OF SERVICE
General ID. Jack Foster Retires From
Command OF Sixty-Sixth Brig
AIDE at Camp Logan.
FAILS TO PASS PHYSICAL TEST
Advanced Age Of Erstwhile CHIEF Of
Old Sixth Results in Younger
: Man Taking Place.

General D. Jack Foster, who was
commander of the Sixth regiment ILL
nois National Guard, in which Rock
Island had company during the
Spanish-American war, has been hon
orally discharged as commander of
the Sixty-sixth brigade, at Camp Lo-
gan. Houston, Texas.
General Foster was a colonel at the
time he commanded the local regi-
hent in 1898.
Colonel Joseph B. Sanborn of the
One HUNDRED and Thirty-first infantry
is acting commander of the SiXty-sixth
brigade, following the discharge of
General Foster, formerly commander
of the Sixth. According to the belief
of officers of the division, he is slated
for the post permanently.
Colonel Sanborn is known to have
twice refused a promotion, remain
ing in preference with his regiment.
Most of his officers, who have been
with the DANDY First" for years,
have >been promoted and transferred
to other organizations.
| Major Abel Davis, commander of
his First battalion, has been given
charge Of the provisional regiment and
will soon be promoted; Major John V.
Clinnin is in charge of the division
trains, replacing Colonel Daniel No
Rarity, and will also, it is said, in the
near future bf wearing the silver
| eagle of a colonel on his shoulder
straps, while Colonel Sanborn's chief
aid. Lieutenant Colonel James M. Ed
| DIV. has been sent to San Antonio, I'M
, dergoing SPECIAL training.
1t is hardly anticipated that Colo
mel Joe" will refuse the honor when
| it is offered this time.
| The discharge of General Foster was
not unexpected. Though apparently
vigorous and healthy, the veteran COM
mander's age was held against him.
He is IS years. old
Fails in Test.
| 1t was not without regret that Ma
jor General George Bell, Jr., informed
him Of the order sent from Washing
! ton that he had failed to pass the rigid
physical test conducted there several
weeks ago. The division commander
! thanked General Foster for the long
and excellent service in the army and
for the present fine condition of, his
! brigade.
| There are several other important
I changes in command due in the Thir-
| ty-third division soon, but these will
not be made public until approved by
WASHINGTON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10

Dir. C. o. Bernhard in going through
some of the keepsakes left to him by
the late DIR. G. c. Carter, xecently
came across piece of the skull Of
John Stauback, who was stabbed April
Z, 1876, by David J. Van Meter, an
Argus reporter.
The portionleft only measures about
one inch and in it is the original knife
with which the stabbing was done.
Stauback and Van Meter were in the
saloon owned by Frederick Applequist
on Market square and were badly in
toxicatsd. A quarrel followed some
trifiing matter and Van Meter drew
his knife. AS Stauback made lunge
at him he struck and the knife en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10
Especial to The August

Camp Dodge, Ia, Jan I0-"Over
there" shells are bursting; poison gas
is rising in great clouds, and sheets
of liquid fire are seeking out the al
lied soldiers.
Over here" there is no sound of
battle. The peaceful Iowa landscape
blots out memories of those sLelltorn
battlefelds..
And to Sergeant Major R. J. Mizen
ROYAL Marine Light infantry. British
army, who is at Camp Dodge, there
has come a great peace. For this man
has been close to the valley of the
shadow; he has been on the brink OF
horrible death; he has seen his COM
!, rades fall. manned and mutilated. And
he's come through it all unscathed.
There has been no service in a quieN
sector for this man. From the begin
ming Of the war his outfit has been
hurried from one post to another, al
ways in the thick of the fight.
We hear of veterans of the Somme
battle, the battle of Arras, the evacua-
ton of the Dardanelles every day
We know Of men, perhaps who went
3
rians. Sergeant Major Mizen saw ser
vice in all OF those engagements. And
now he's here. assisting in the instruc
! ton of American soldiers in methods
Of modern trench warfare.
| Two weeks before the outbreak O.
the war. the sergeant was in Ger
many. His outfit was on an inspec
ton tour, and Germany was one Of thu
countries visited. When war was de
clared. his company of the Royal Ma
: rines boarded H. NJ. S. King Georg'
I the Fifth. and was ordered to The
North sea. there to play watch dog fo1
Brittania. Then came a call for vol
unteers for land service, and Sergean
| Major MiZen volunteered with tht
/ Royal Naval division.
| OFF for Dardanelles.
Johnny Turk began cuttin' up il
the Dardanelles. and over We went,
he says. And Johnny Turk" was pre-
pared and waiting when this lot 0
| Englishmen arrived. The sergean
never will forget that dreadful time
when hundreds of thousands of hi
comrades were moved down by thu
enemy.
1T was little hell" he says
/ There was no water to drink. w
often drank from stagnant little pools
where the horses had trod. There wa
| little food. We ate anything we coult
lay our hands on; sometimes we coult
shoot down a few birds; crows, vul
/ lures. ANYTHING. And often our pre-,
would fall over on Johnny Turk S
| lines. Then we would go hungry
When the weather was good We didn'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10
FINDS SKULL BONE WITH DAGGER IN TT
OF MAN MURDERED IN ROCK ISLAND az
YEARS AGO BY FORMER REPORTER

tered the left temple, sinking ito a
depth of four inches. Van Meter made
his getaway, but was later caught.
Stauback left the saloon and crawled
down the alley in the rear of the sa-
loon, entering a barn. The next morn
ing he was found on a pile of straw.
dead. The knife handle had been
broken off and the blade was In the
skull.
A trial was held, but the Jury re-
turned verdict of not guilty. claim
ing that Van Meter acted in self de-
Tense. The remains of Stauback were
buried and how the piece Of skull came
into DR.. Carriers possession is not
| known.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10

barracks. It's about dear old
'blighty," the soldiers slang name for
England, and it goes like this:
Take me back to dear old blighty.
Put me on a train for London town !;
Take me over there,
Drop me anywhere:
Birmingham. Leeds or Manchester
Well, don't care.
l want to see my best girl.
Guiding up We soon shall be.
o-tee-iddle-y-i-tee,
Take me over to blighty;
Blighty is the place for me-"
He's thinking of that grave-eyed
little woman, and the little "Whizz-
bang"
They're over in "blighty."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-10

COLDS CAUSE HEADACHE ~
GRIPPE.
LAXATIVE BRoMo QUINNE ~,
lets remove the cause. Them !. ~
one Bromo Quinine." "A
GROVES signature is on boz -.