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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-16
Ihe Insufticiency of Eama

Robert Louis Stevenson was mi tb, only celebrity who has found f,m, rather than unsubstantial acbieyempn, "1 would agree" he wrote, "tbat G,,5 stone was the author of my works fo, a good ten-ton schooner and tho ooin, to keep it Oil. l know a little ahm fame now; it's no good compared to, yacht"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-16
Wilson Expresses Sympathy.

Washington, Feb. 15.--President Wilson was informed of the death yes- terday of the former British ambas- sador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, ill tel egram from the Duke of Devonshire, governor general of Canada. He sent this reply:
 His Grace, the Duke of Devonshire, Ottawa, Canada:
 May I not thank you earnestly for the courtesy of your message inform ing me of the death of Sir Cecil Spring Rice and beg that yor will con- vey to Lady Spring.Rice for Mrs. Will son and myself cur profoundest sym pathy for the death of her husband whom we had come to esteem as a friend and admire as a man, and for whose loss we personally grieve.
 "WoodrOw Wilson,"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-16

When the bowels become irregular you are uncomfortable and the long CT this condition exists the worse you feel. You can get rid of this misery quickly by using EIERBlNE. Take a dose on going to bed and see. how fine .ou feel next day. Price soc, Sold by w. l.. Dewoody & Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-16

Mems $25 suits, SLABS. Mems $o0 suits. at $12.9S.
 Mems $15 suits. at $9.9S.
 Mems $12.50 suits. at $7.9S.
 All the latest styles and fabrics. At Leavitt's Cut Price stores great cleanup sale.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-16

Ladies heavy shoes, regular s Quality, now $1.9S at Leayitts C1t Price stores great cleanup sale.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
DEL-MAR-NI4 EDITORS.
Press Association Will Meet at Delaware
College Next Saturday.

The Del-Aiar-Nia Press Association
viii hold its April meeting # Delaware
College, Newark, next Saturday
Luncheon VIII be served at L. SO q clock
and addresses VIII follow. Or Mitchell
and Professor Svpherci Of the college fac
uiiy. John + KAne of the Mar1 land
Press Association and Everett { John
son OF the Del-Nar-Eia Press Associa-
ion speaking on behalf Of the respective
institutions At O'Clock the visitors
VIII inspect the new buildings and tho
experiment farm and later viii attend
i college baseball game
Out -of-toWn members may come 20
Wilmington and 60 thence ID Newark
bv automobile, which viii be arranged
for or may go directly 10 Newark and
meet at Old College Building n u o clock
Those obliged 10 return home the same
afternoon viii be sent to Wilmington
by automobile in time 70 make nece>-
sary tram connection Members Who
may desire to stay in Wilmington that
evening will be extended the courtesic~
Of The Playhouse by Manager tlle-
man 10 see The Boomerang
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
KENT COURTS HELD
IN STATE HOUSE
Alterations Under Way at Court
House Prevented Use Of
That Building.
special Correspondents Of Every Evening

special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Dover. April -kent county courts.
Aprii term met III Representative Hall ii
tie state House YESTERDAY. the change
being duc Ia the renodciIng Of the Kent
county Court Hous, II vs. recalled hN
many Older residents that wears ago the
court were heid regularly IN the old state
House, the >tate and county jointly own
inc tho building The last session Of tie
Court of General Sessions and Superior
Courts held IN the State House was IN
1873
Practically all of yesterday was taken
Ip ii hearing tlree divorce cases. arrlng-
ING the civil uiai lis and preparing worA
FOR the grand jury, the latter completing
IS work for the day and term late las
evening. after returning following bills
Lewis \ Pleas4nton. wife bcatl-4u. L,4.
stevens, assault with intent - commit
murder; ArlIe Thomas. immoral conduct
Adam Winters forgery; Clifford Holden.
two cases larceny. John II Ballv. EN-
bezzeInent, David Rash Jr nom
support; Richard L. Bostic. desertlon and
uon-support, Edwin Jackson. having in
possession more than one quart Of LIQUOR
Herman Bratcher, W1fe beating; Joseph
Loper, larceny
In diSch4rging the grand jury last night
Judge Boyce thanked the members for
expcditing the business Of the court and
for finishing the work in one day, therebe
saving the taxpayers Of the county aome
expense
In the divorce case of Ann G. Tr1itt v
George D. Trutt Of Milford, n addition
TO a decree nisi, Truitt was ordered to pay
MS wife 500 per month and the son $50
per month
The State House proved 20 be well
fitted for court purposes The grand jury
used the Senate chamber; the attorney
general, the private Office of the Speaker
Of the House. the witnesses and specta-
tors, the lobby Of the House, and the petit
jurors, when out on = case. either the
Senate chamber or upstairs rooms
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
Rosebud Social.

The next meeting of the Rosebud Social
viii be held tomorrow evening at the
home of Walter Meggins0n, at New
Castle. Members are TO take the or $40
car at Fourth and Market street. The
members who were present ut the last
meeting were as follows: Misses Bertha
Poteet, Margaret Emmons, Misses Warner,
Margaret Hayes, Lillian Taylor, Eliza
beth Seutter. Mildred Harvest, Miss
Mcfarland, Miss Robinson, Miss Kern
cher, Miss BTalncr, Helen Hlrst, Margaret
flrem, Miss Devlne, Miss Marion Devine,
Helen Crather. Cecil Denny, Miss Boyle.
Louis f. Weldin, g. Dorset. H Cushion,
W. Crathcr, II Ryder, " Gallergher,
r. Burris, " Megginson, If. Warner, {.
Crather, r. Hamilton, T. Goodman. II.
Morgan, L. Weatherby and Ii. Wilhelm,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
Deaconess NewboId Lectures Tonight.

\ meeting open 10 the public VIII be
held in the New Century Club tins even
my 81 ) clock when Deaconcss New
bold Of Japan, a missionary home on
leave Of absence. will address the gather
ing Miss Newbold Is niece OF DR.
and Mrs j Paul Lukens The meeting
VIII be under the auspices Of the club
committee Of education
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16

the old savage way. "Gets-lt" n the
modern, paInless simple way. Lean
over and put two drops Of "'Gets-lt" on
the corn, put your stocking and shoe
right on again, and forget the corn Pain
IS eased
''Gets-lt" has rcvolutionized the treat
ment Of corns 1t never rritates the true
flesh You'll stop lnnping on the side
Of your shoe. and do away with greasy
saives, bundling bandagcs, thick plusters
and painful methods Use "Gets-lt;"
ITS common sense
"Gets-It" the guaranteed. money-back
corn remover, the only sure way, costs
but trhe al any drug stoore. Manu-
factured by + Lawrence n Co, Chicago,
ILL.,
Sold III Wilmington and recommended
rs the world best corn remedy by Erd-
man Hoffman The Miller Drug Store,
Harmonson Drug Co
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-16
This Corn Will
Peel Right Off!
"Gets-It' Makes COrns Come on the
Banana-PeeI" Way

Why nave 10 flop on the floor squeeze
yourself up like the letter n and with
bulgng eyes dra" your face up into a
wrlnklv knot while YOU gouge and pull at
The quick Of tender corn That
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-29

train consisting of three fiat cars and
a tourist sleeper. The flat cars are
10 De loaded with German guns and
soldiers In Europe. Each train will
make four towns day Liberty loan
speakers and statesmen will travel in
the the tourist sleeper at the end Of the
srain and subscriptions Will be taken
During the third liberty drives one
such train sold S2,OOOOOO worth of
bonds in the Atlanta district alone.
The four-minute speakers who ara
to address the audiences at theaters
and other places throughout the coun4
tions are being taken in many in.
stances. During the last loan $i,OO0,t
900 worth OF bonds were bought al
keith's Vaudeville Theater in Washs
ington. and it was there that Presto
dent Wilson, who had already SUBJ
scribed $4,000 to the third liberty
loan, agreed to take one more $50
bond on the installment plan. IL
100000 other loan subscribers would
match him. This took the theatey by
storm. The Presidents challenge was
. then telegraphed to 10000 speakers
and the proposition was put before
10000 audiences during the last three
nights of the drive. 1t was also teleI
graphed to all liberty loan commit.
tees, who put 1t UP in the clubs. hos
teiS' IestduFants ana IN every place
where men gathered. 1t cost more
than $4,000 to send the kilograms, but
the result was that 100000 Ameri-
cans matched the President and the
amount of the loan was increased
thereby to the amount of 500, 900, 900,
The whole of this came from men who
had already subscribed to the loan. In
some places the Watchers were known
by special name. In Chicago they
were the presidential Class" and in
New England the Wilson Loyal LIE.
gion." In many places a badge, con.
sisting of knot of red, white and
blue ribbon tied around match, was
used.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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was advised later. was public speak
ing. 1 figured the worst, but think
ing the course might help me in my
intensive weather strip salesman
ship, which I pursued on Saturdays
and out of class hours, took flyer
at it. My record in that class was
"H-minua" the letter "a being
passing. The best did was to learn
a part of one of Henry Grady's adj
dresses in which he said, picture If
you can" I don't know now what it
was Grady wanted pictured, but If the
class ever got that picture, it made 1T
itself. Certainly never got it out
of my mouth.
BY the time I was graduated fpom
college I was fairly well convinced
that speaking was not my forte. Sew
eral professors conceded In this view,
and as they were estimable gentle
men who never lost their voices eX-
cept in the presence Of the college
board. I took their word for 1T and
vowed I never, never would try to
make a speech as long as lived.
Then the war came on and with 1T
came liberty bonds and war savings
stamps and great need for public
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Boefke was finally brought down
by a British observation plane which
he had attacked. He fell inside the
German lines. Some German officer
must have piously rescued his plumed
knight insignia. One fuselage side Of
1t was found by a poilu in a French
advance, neatly folded, on the closet
shelf of q Cayna.
Tho poilu took it as n souvenir,
whence 1T passed to the present
writer. i still have it. 1t is Of three
thicknesses carefully machine-sewed
together with a kind of isnglass like
IDENTIFY made to stand all kinds Of
weather, and the red-and- black de.
signs and silver background are still
bright, although the thing is shot
up and battered with bits of charred
edge, as from burning.
The silver BACKGROUND Is of alumi-
mum paint. Beneath the signature are
forty-hve ''notches' to mark his
claimed victims. One might think
that he had gotten M this insignia
Immediately after claiming his twen-
ty-seVenth exploit: because the first
twenty-seven crosses are dark black
and regular, probably done at leisure,
simultaneously with the insignia.
while the remaining crosses. In three
lines on the right hand extremity. are
irregular. pale and washed out by
weather, as IL done hastily with a less
waterproof kind Of paint. You can
imagine him Keeping" his "notches,'
one by ono. on landing.
The survivors of Boelke's squadron
have red noses.
Th5 plumed knight IL no longer Ger
man. STERLING HELLO.
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hedy." game back . voice. 4 hns0
some OF the greatest spsaking sues
ceases In the world who have heeomA
teS c.nhGs :pe. not Keen 1saF 1a
counsel and you may be q knockout"
1t 10 futile to talk to such an n.
corriEibie person, az that. 90 I DE-:
termined to die like a man. quit
that 7 was going to make speech.
and decided to throw myself on the
mercy Of the court
Then came the time for tho speech
facing the electric chair ever felt a.
badly shaken as did. I perspired and
l froze; l Kicked and l played, and
sometimes I fear ! cussed. But there
was nothing to do but make the speech.
1t was little movie house out in the
Mount Pleasant neighborhood In which
I made my appearance. l remember
that because cogitated as I sat wait.
ing to take my turn that I would have
the advantage Of a downhill run In any
direction when the crowd took after me.
When walked out on the stage 1 was
ready to pass away.
Then suddenly my nerve came back to
me. For, looking down In front, I saw
a boy who is back from abroad, where
ne has done heroic service. On that
bloody western front he left an arm.
and from that same front he carried
back several bullets in his body. And
when l came out, though I know from
jhe time that he has been back from
abroad that he was suffering untold
physical torment, he looked up at me
ana smiled. And with his good right
hand ne applauded my appearance. That
is, he slapped his knee
Tell me. folks, il you can, who could
not have made speech under those
circumstances. Who could not have
teathered into Bloody Bill the Berlin
butcher and his six safe sons. Who
could not have told the audience that
our boys We're giving all over there and
that any man or woman who did not
puy AT least one bond--if he or she could
ailord WAS Stacker and a poor
citizen and that he or she should be-
driven far away from the protecting
folds OF the Stars and Stripes.
don't know who could not have mazda
such q speech then. Certainly not me.
FRANKLY, feathered into the crowd, and
when finished it applauded. I was.
tired, but l was happy
So would you have been happy II YOU
could have seen that wounded soldle1
appiauding on his knee.
THE OBSERVER
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in the farm papers of more than
100000, and was then printed in
number of 100000 throughout the
rural mail boxes of every part of the
Union.
The story of enlisting the farmers is
not confined to the newspapers. An
enormous work has been done by the
public speakers, who have given their
nightly addresses in every country
the Treasury sent out a letter to more
than 100000 rural school directors
asking them to call liberty loan rail-
lies in the schoOlhouses The replies
speakers were provided. More than
100000 such rallies will be held dur
ing the present drive. and the work
will probably be stimulated by special
Secretary McAdoo. The influence of
such efforts is beyond computation.
During the last loan single message
of the Secretary of the Treasury was
read to 100000 different audiences on
the same night. 1t was telegraphed to
the liberty loan executive committees
and relayed by them.
The illustrators of the United States
are doing their bit. They are supply
ing sketches for the posters and car
toons, which are being sent out by
the millions. During the last loan
100000 copies made and shipped to
all of the states. In addition more
than 5000 twenty four sheet posters
of billboard size were distributed to
tho poster advertising men. This was
done free of charge. and without any
expense to the government except
printing the posters. Ten million
posters will be used during the pres
ent drive: In every city special liberty
loan billboards are being placed OH
public grounds and boards of orna-
mental design are being erected by
the local advertising interests with
out charge.
Five million copies of the Cartoon
Book were distributed broadcast last
spring. Proofs were furnished to the
newspapers, and tho cartoons were
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sent out also In matrices and boiler
plate.
Another big money getter which re-
lates to the individual rather than the
city is the liberty loan button. Many
OF the button factories are busy making
buttons for the present drive, and tens
OF millions will be required before it is
liberty loan was 100000. but shortly
after the campaign began this had to be
increased to 24,OO0.0O0, and the num-
Der needed is now so great that the
cost is an important item. That of the
buttons used during the first and Sec
ond loans was about one-half cent each.
Those buttons consisted of a metal base
with a celluloid cover on which was
Autographed the design. In this loan
the celluioid has been omitted, both on
account Of expense and from the fact
that it is needed for the making Of ex-
plosives: The result is that the design
is now autographed on the metal itself
and the buttons cost only about half as
much. More than 3O,0OO,OOO buttons
have already been ordered, and the saw
ing thereon is $4,000.
For the next three weeks it will be
impossible for any one to get out of sight
OF the liberty loan emblem, or out Of
hearing the appeals for subscriptions.
II one goes to the theater, the moving
picture show Or any other assembly Ne
Will be sure to hear a speech of four
minutes or more on his duty to sub
scribe to the loan. If he goes to any
one Of 100000 churches he may hear a
liberty loan sermon made at the special
request of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. and on the Sunday following the
publicat ton of this letter 1925, 900 min
listers have been asked to devote their
addresses to this subject alone. Secre-
tary McAdoo has issued for their bene-
tit a little pamphlet telling them how to
conduct liberty loan services and get
the maximum results
Another thing that will stimulate
subscriptions is the special train car
rying American trophies captured on
the French battlefields from city to
city and town to town. There will
be twenty-four of these trains, two
in each federal reserve district, each
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Copyright, 1918, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
T UNCLE SAM has pressed the
button, and the countless ac-
Invites of his publicity
agents are again drawing
forth the dollars by the hundreds of mil
lions day. The money subscribed to
the first three loans was more than So
600, 900, 600. The present drive will add
Sc, 600, 900, 900 more and the total will be
SIG, 900, 600, 900; sum greater than the
government revenues of all the coun-
tries of all the world the year the
kaiser started out to conquer the
universe, and more than one-fourth
the amount those countries owed Il
year later.
Sixteen billion dollars. 1t repre-
sents more gold than can be dug
from the earth at the present rate of
production within the next genera :
ton. 1t represents so much that II IT
We're melted to bullion and loaded, at
fifty tons to the car, the train re-
CURED to haul it would be almost
half mile long. 1t represents so
many dollar bills that if the bank
a notes We're pasted together, end to
end, they would make green ribbon
100000 miles long. l have measured
one of these bills. 1t is scant seven
and one-half inches long, and a
rather full three inches wide. With
these figures you can easily calculate
the length and width of the road
round the world it would carpet.
Roughly speaking, the road would be
twenty feet wide, or wide enough
for three of the biggest touring cars
to travel abreast upon it, and every
inch of the way would be on dollar
bills.
The Treasury Department is not
permitted to pay for newspaper adrer-
Using. but the federal reserve COM
mittees of each district have persuad-
ed the local business men of each city
to pay for space in the papers, putting
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speakers. They We're hard to get, l
was assured, and, after listening to
some Of the earlier speakers, l felt
there must be truth in what was said
about the scarcity. 1t seemed that
the speakers had no terminal ia
cilities.
I was glad that I was not known as
a good speaker. I wanted to help in
every way l could to encourage the
sale of stamps and bonds and, feel
ing as L did, / felt that with the
slightest announcement l would take
the platform. Somehow. though, it
appeared that word had gotten out
that l was the worst speaker in the
world and was not solicited to raise
my voice and arms in behalf of the
cause.
Just when was feeling happy over
my escape I was trapped. One night
/ dropped around to the liberty loan
headquarters and told John Poole that
1 certainly would like to do something
to help the cause, and he slapped my
name down as seeker. / tried to
crawl out, but he laughed and struck
me on the back and said ] would do
all right, Then / did not dare try to
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their cards only on the bottom of the
advertisements. During the past
loans, this has been done to such an
extent that almost every one of the
has been reached, and that from the
country weekly and small boiler-plate
daily up to the metropolitan journal.
with it's circulation of hundreds of
The copy foe-such advertisements is
furnished by the liberty loan public
ity bureau, and it has been written by
the ablest men of the country.
Among the special writers who were
called upon for the first three loans
were William Dean Howells, Booth
Harrington, Irwin S. Cobb, George
AIDE and many others, and their work
was circulated by the tens of mill
lions. To provide such copy for the
present loan, President Wilson was
asked to write an advertisement. and
this will be the first published during
the campaign. He wrote it with pen
and ink, and his writing has been so
reproduced that it occupies practi-
ray page v e Ssnrst copy Siey mas sA neen
Baker and Daniels, and by Cen
pershing, Charles NJ. Schwab, Samuel
Gompers. Henry Cabot Lodge, Rud-
yard Kipling and others of interna-
tional reputation. All of these men
have given their best brains to the
work, and the result is some of the
most convincing copy ever furnished
the newspapers.
Much of the loan literature goes out
in the form of special articles for in
dividual papers and magazines. Dur
ing the third loan one weekly having
circulation of more than 100000
published an interview with Secre-
tary McAdoo, and many of the maya
zines printed articles written with
out charge by our ablest writer's and
furnished by the publicity bureau.
Syndicate articles were published
simultaneously all over the country,
directed to certain classes of the peo-
pie One was written by Herbert
Quick entitled "The War, the Farm
and the. Farmer" 1t had a circulation
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seen daily by the enemy's own eyes,
excepting only this, that new young
suuadrGns arrive, and 1T will be job
for the enemy's service to keep tab on
them.
The first two blazons Of the first
two squadrons to possess them are
already we'll known: miniature
American flag, for distinguished and
arduouS services in Mexico; an Amer
lean Indian head, for distinguished
and arduous services with the French
armies In France.
This latter is. of course reorEanized.
the illustrious Lafayette Squadrilla Of
our boys, organized by DR.. Edmund
eros, Mr.. Vanderbilt and William
Thaw before America entered the war.
1t has recently been released in Paris
that four of its veterans, now with
twenty other Americans" joined up
to. British royal air forces somewhere
in France, had, at a given moment a
collective score of fifteen enemy
planes brought down, while only four
of their own had failed to return.
Immediately the boys began their
hcraldry. Afternoons they consulted;
evenings they disputed.
1t is the - squadron, I think,
which adopted the blazing church. n
is impossible to give more than Il
cannot vouch for the final accuracy of
each and every one of them. Recon-
siderations and changes go on con i
tnually. but here are the first six In
sigma designed by the boys them
selves: Eagle. plumed knight, bron-
cho buster, kicking mule, buffalo and
the big stick"