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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-07-06
STATE OFFICIALS

VI
Governor,
FRANK o. LoWDEN.
Lieutenant overnor,
JOHN G. oGLEsBV.
Attorney General,
EDWARD J. BRUNDAGE.
Secretary Of state,
LOUIS L. EMMERSoN.
State Treasurer,
LEN SMALL.
Auditor,
ANDREW RUSSELL.
Superintendent Of Public instruction,
FRANCIS @. BLAIR.
CLERK Of Supreme Court,
CHARLES w. VAIL.
CITY OFFICIALS
WILLIAM HALE THOMPSON.
Treasurer,
CLAYTON r. SMITH,
City Clerk,
JAMES T. iGoE.
Comptroller,
EUGENE r. PIKE.
Cooperation Counsel,
SAMUEL A. ETTEtsoN.
Commissioner Of Public Works,
FRANK I. BENNETT.
Commissioner Of Health,
JOHN DILL ROBERTSON, N. o.
Genera, superintendent OF Police,
HERMAN r. sChUeTTlER.
Fire Marshal,
THOMAS O'CONNOR.
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Death Knell of Slapstick Humor

quincy DreW, In Film Fun.
We can't escape the fact that we're all
human, and 1t is the humanity of us
rather than the monkey shines that
makes the most lasting appeal The
best humor, like the best art in all 9th er
forms, gives the keenest pleasure. Film
hnmor means life in its quainter aspects
translated in terms of the screen. HUI
NOR, we are told, is distinguished from
wit by greater sympathy geniality and
pleasantly. Therefore, we must laugh
together. not at each other, to obtain
the humor that is a balm to the heart
and not hurt
Not only is film humor more than MAX
ing faces; from my point of view 1t does
not consist at all in holding the mirror
up to nature, the only difference being
that we do not always allow nature to
dress for dinner; we sometimes catch her
with kimono on and hair in curl papers,
when she expects to see no one more
important than the iceman On the
other hand. some people are just as
funny in evening clothes AZ others are
before breakfast. The principal thing,
after all, about film humor is to recog-
nize it when you see 1t. You must have
sense Of humor before you can have
sense of film humor. The producer
must recognize a humorous idea in a
humorous manuscript or in real life.
must know how to develop it after hav-
ing seen it. and must be capable of reg
iste-ng that humor on the screen. And
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PORTO RICAN CHILDREN

Children in the Porto Rican public
schools are giving a practical demonstra-
ton of their patriotism They are not
only making Red Cross pajamas for hos
pital use, but in their cooking classes
they are learning how to substitute gon-
dulas, frijoles and garbanos for meat;
cocoanut and cacao for fats, and pla-
tanos, batatos and amarillos for wheat
bread
To All Chapters in the Gulf Division:
An order has been issued by the aIJu-
tant genera, of the United States army to
an commanding generals. national guard.
national army, and regular rmy divi-
sions. to all the department commanders,
to have an inventory taken at once IN
each organization Of all the knitted ar
ticles furnished by the Red Cross. or
other charitable societies, and require
the supply offices to take uo on their re-
turns and account for these articles rhe
same as though they were government
property supplied by the quartermaster.
Future donations OF this character
must be distributed to the division quar-
termaster. who will obtain from our di-
vision director of the Red Cross or his
authorized agent, a list of articles for
distribution, the supply officer to receipt
for the articles thus received and issue
them in the same manner as government
property is issued.
At the end of the season the quarter
master is required to see that they are
protected fl ON moths and damage dur
ing the summer months and he is to take
care-of them and reissue them In the fall
when needed.
This action on the part OF the war de-
partment viii assure the thousands Of
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100000 FOR ARMENIANs

The war council has appropriated the
sum of 100000 as contribution to the
American committee for Armenian and
Syrian relief, to cover the months OF
February and March, 1915, with the ex-
pectation that $200, 900 a month for the
following four months Will also be APP
propriated but making no commitment
to that effect
The war council had already given 81
500, 900 to this committee in the form OF a
contribution of 100000 a month for the
last six months of 1917 The restitution
among the Armenians, Syrians, Greeks
and other suffering races in the Russian
Caucasus, Persia, Asia Minor, Mesopo-
tamia and Syria is on the increase and
those peoples are more than ever depen-
dent on American charity as administered
in large part by the commissioners and
agents of the committee for Armenian
and Syrian relief.
A recent conference on conditions in
western Asia was attended by 70 per-
SONS, including Ambassador Elkus and
various American consuls, as well as by
many missionaries and teachers from
western Asia. A telegram from the
American minister at Tchcran spoke of
famine conditions in Persia and stated
that practical expression OF american
good will toward Persia would be partic-
uiittiv peHeIicidi Ut INC preseHt tuItc,
especially IL this expression took such
form as would tend to alleviate these
conditions in Persia.
Several of the base hospitals have pic
ture shows daily. The picture machine
operator at one OF these hospitals is
musician and he has added an orchestra,
recruited from staff and patients, as a
further attraction. Wsth the music the
cinema has proved twice as attractive
as without it.
When convoy of repatries arrived at
Tulle (Correze) recently, French soldiers
locked up their German prisoners and
turned in to aid the Red Cross delegates
and the local authorities in distributing
hot soup, bread, cheese, cold meat, cor-
fee. wine and milk to the canvoy in the
trains.
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may be notified concerning home serv-
ice and asked to leave with the home
service worker any family problems
which she may help work out. For in
stance, of the 5000 men all over the
country who were called out on March
70, 1884 went from Alabama. S5I5 from
Louisiana and 2220 are from Mississippi,
Eight thousand, four hundred and TWEEN
ty-nine families in the gulf division are
directly affected by the war. II places
an enormous responsibility which 1T is
our privilege to bear. You and ! VINO
stay at home have assured for us every
thing we possess. because these men are
fighting to keep it safe for us. When
any man goes from our town he must
go with the definite assurance that the
Red Cross backs him up in good VIII
and service, that while he is away his
family is to look on the home service
people as their friends and advisors, and
that Just as he is undertaking for us an
enormous piece of work overseas on the
battle field, so we at home will under
take for hun an equally important piece
of work for his family.
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u1NInR RED CROSS

On Saturday, March 20, there took place
a most beautiful little play, originated
and fully carried out by four little girls.
Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth May, Dorothy
Harllee and Mary Tyler, three or Whom
are from the seminary and one from ire
Barker school. and their assistant.
The admission price was cents and
the enthusiastic crowd of small girls and
boys who enjoyed the play Melted the
children Sc. which was donated to the
Junior Red Cross The spirit of the
children in aiding and working for the
Red Cross in every way is beautiful a Id
much appreciated by the local officers.
The programme as planned and given IVY
these little girls Is as follows
Piano. Elizabeth May.
Reading, Elizabeth Taylor
Piano, Mary Tyler.
Reading Mary Tyler
Piano, Dorothy Harl]ee.
THE Fairies Lesson.
Fairy Queen-lIlzabeth May.
Mother-DorothyH arllcc.
Jack-Elizabeth Taylor.
Fairies.
Puck-Margaret Holmes
Trixy-Margaret Kidd.
Sprite--Lucy Hamden.
Rosamond Harllee, Margaret Porter.
Jean McCauley, Kathleen Saunders, Mary
Winston Wofford.
Report Of chairman Of woman's work
for week ending March 80:
Number OF boxes shipped 10: surgical
dressing C boxes), 304. hospital garments
Is boxes), 1898; knitted articles for sol
diers e boxes. 2O2. Total. 1904.
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By DOLLY nALRYMPLE


N OMEHOw, as the springtime APP
~ proaches and 1 think of all the
- beautiful things in this beau
tiful world in the most beau
tieul way, Helen Smith Woodruff
comes to my mind, gentle, insistent,
appealing.
1 always somehow think of her as
1 saw her last spring when L was IN
New York, especially at the Authors
league banquet at Delmonico's, so
much prettier, so much more popular,
and so much more charming than any
body else among all those world famed
celebrities-so dainty and tiny, IKE
doll in a teacup she were'-and II
was then that / heard the first little
reports about her new novel, the I'M
prisoned Freeman"
OF course, the plot, the type, the
whole affair. was in an embryonic
state at that time-a year ago-but
l kept thinking of the story and not
so very many moons ago when /
heard that the story was nearing
definite end and knowing how inter-
ested everybody down in Alabama is
in our own dear Hefen's" literary af-
fairs | wrote to the clever little au-
thor of mfr. Doctor Man" 1.-THE Lady
of the Lighthouse" and so many other
delightful books, and asked her to tell
me about how and why she had chosen
prison life as the back ground for her
new novel and-well. all about it.
Like the perfect peach of girl"
she is Helen Woodruff Immediately
MADE reply to my inquiry and I'm go
inc 70 AZ fo
few of the interesting things she has
to say.
Yes Dolly, dear. she writes. i've
finished The Imprisoned Freeman ana
it's coming out, but it has taken me
so long to write 1t this time that I
feared my dear Birmingham had for
gotten all about me. It's an awfully
long affair. this new novel, but |
nave never written anything the writ
ing of which interested me SO much.
Did you ever so through a prison ?
Did you ever talk TO the poor men
there2 Many of them are shut away
for life from the birds and flowers
anc out of doors Can you picture 10
yourself never being allowed a free
thought or actiono Never having con-
verse with your fellows? Never sec
Ing the sky except through degrading
black bars which scar your soul and
sight with shame?
Last year | met and talked to a
man who has been thus robbed by the
state of all possible happiness since
he was boy of 1S. At that age he
was arrested for crime he did not
commit and sentenced to two years
Imprisonment. When this happened lie
was splendid, virile, high-minded
lad filled with youths idealistic
dreams of future greatness. He want
ed. and inteINed, to make his life
count for helpfulness toward Others
but suddenly he was shut away in G
loathsome cell, deprived of everything
OF humanizing Influence The occa-
sional men he saw and surreptitiousiy
talked to were men coarsened and
made brutal and profane by long years
of dissipation, disease and crime. In
that prison he lost his virility for
beatings and abuse, coupled with
bread and water diet and an under
ground cell are not very conducive to
health. He lost also his dreams OF
greatness in his determination to get
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much meat

seek RELIEF lwu " tnree tinies curing
the night.
Either consult a good, reliable ply
stefan at once or get from your phar-
macist about four ounces of Jad
Salts; take about a tablespoonful in
glass or water before breakfast
for few days and your kidneys will
then act fine This famous salts is
made from the acid OF grapes and
lemon juice. combined with lithia.
and has been used for generations to
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys.
also to neutralize acids In the urine
so it no longer irritates. thus ending
bladder weakness
meat eaters. 1t Is inexpensive, can
not injure. and makes q delightful.
effervescent lithia water drInk.-Adv.
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TODARKEN
GRAY HAIR
"A Cincinnati Barber Tells How
to Make q Remedy for
Gray Hair

Mr.. Frank Harbaugh Of Cincinnati.
O.. who has been a barber for more
than 40 years, recently made the fol-
lowing statement:
Anyone can prepare simple mix
ture at home, at very little cost. that
will darken gray hair. and make it
soft and glossy. To a half pint OF
water add one ounce bay rum. small
box of Barbo Compound and one
fourth ounce glycerine. These ingred-
tents can be bought at any drug store
at very little cost. Apply to the hair
twice a week until the desired shade
is obtained. This will make a gray
haired person look 20 years younger.
1t does not color the scplp. is not
sticky or greasy and does not rub Off"
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HOME SERVICE INSTITUTE

Birmingham, Ala, April Is. to May 49,
The second draft of selected men means
thousands of soldiers families in the gulf
division in need of the kindly and IN
telligent service that home service can
give them.
A thorough knowledge of Red Cross
methods is ESSENTIAL ii the best service
Is to be realized.
The course will be given under the
leapership of an expert social WORKER
thoroughly familiar with home service
work.
1t Will add greatly to the efficiency
of your Lnapter work to have trained
worker, and it will mean much to your
community in general.
Every chapter needs an institute grad
uatc.
There is a registration fec of S. Board
and lodging will cost about Sc to IS per
week.
1t is a proper chapter expense to pay
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NNnen YOU Nane up vain pacNacnc
and duh misery in the kidney region
1t generally means you have been
eating too much meat, says we'll
known authority. Meat forms uric
acid which overworks the kidneys IN
their effort to filter it from the blood
and they become sort of paralyzed
and loggy When your kidneys get
sluggish and clog you must relieve
them, like you relieve your bowels;
removing all the body's urinous waste
else you have backache. sick head
ache, dizzy spells; your stomach
sours. tongue Is coated, and when the
twinges The urine Is cloudy. full OF
sediment, channels often get sore,
water scaldS and you are obliged to
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quality of paper and size of type have
all to be carefully thought out and
decided upon, and then those long,
CHASTITY galley proof sheets begin TIC
arrive, along with a telephone mes
sage generally just when one is TAX
ing a snooze that six statesmen arc
being kept from going on the ROAD
until your book is ready and SO
Please correct all typographical errors
and make desired changes in the text
as speedily as possible OF course, the
author knows perfectly well that those
statesmen are probably going to be
cooling their heels in New York city
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HOME SERVICES SECTIONS

1t is necessary that home service Sec
ton in the gulf division make definite
with the men who go out from their
communities in the second draft. The
men who left on March 20 are, for the
most part, men who were included in the
first draft, but were not called; prob
ably in April a still larger body will be
called and home service sections must
begin now to plan for their departure.
The names of the men who are to be
sent can be secured from the draft
boards; this may mean that the home
service worker may have to persuade the
draft board that it is necessary for her
to have the list, but. it can and must
be obtained in order that all the men
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for the next several weeks; but to save
ones creative imagination it is impos-
sible to hurry. Personally, such mes
sage affects me exactly like the
knowledge that a taxicab is waiting at
MY door. ticking it's 10-cents-a-seeond
heart out. and l begin to work as
ira ntically as the mother of an unat-
tractive daughter works at a summer
resort. Soon those galleys are as per
feet in English construction and pune
tuation as | think | can make them
and look just about as neat az .he
streets of New York where they are
digging for the subway. But every
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acters under certain conditions will
do. CHATS the very keenest pleasure
of fiction writing. for the author can
command heroes and heroines at viii;
make and lose great fortunes and kill
anybody she pleases without fear of
interruption or detectionD This. OF
course. necesstates retyping, but the
joy of the conqueror after killing off
villain or two makes this a trifllng
trouble. especially if you treat your
typst like the proverbial George and
make him do it
When the book is accepted by a
publisher, the cover design, the Jacket,
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The Eclipse Order

From the 2ttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
On the evening before solar eclipse
the colonel of German regiment OF In
fantry sent for all the sergeants ana
said 10 them
There will! be an eclipse of the sun to-
morrow. The regiment will meet on the
parade ground in undress. | viii come
and explain the eclipse before drill. II
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the sky is cloudy the men will meet N
the drill shed, as usual"
Whereupon the ranking sergeant ureW
up the following order of the day:
Tomorrow morning, by order OF the
colonel, there will be an eclipse OF tile
sun The regiment viii assemble on the
parade ground, where the colonel will
come and superintend the eclipse in per-
SON If .he sky is cloudy the eclipse will
take place in the drill she'd
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PORTO RICAN CHILDREN

MIS-. e. e. Chapin7s home Is used Tor
the summer on Thursdays from 10 to 5.
-Four machines have been loaned and use
of two volunteered for the entire sum
mer. Thirty-two shirts turned in to date
and the chairman urges every one inter
ested 20 Join.
MRS. AGNES A. CHAPLIN, Capt.
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Tests made by the bureau of stand
ards in Washington prove that seams
sewn with the double lock stitch are,
stronger than those sewn with the
shuttle stitch, and are less weakened
by breaks of the thread.
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MRS. AGNES A. CHAPLIN, Capt

The Birmingham chapter has gone over
the top again with her amount collected
OF reguee clothing. Mrs. NJ. ]. Gregg
and her splendid committee wish to ex-
tend their thanks for the hearty response
and the cooperation of every eontr;ou-
tor
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sometimes he also needs sense of hui
NOR when he watches his finished prod
uet on the screen There are many HUI
morous angles to film humor, and no one
needs sense of liumor to appreciate all
these angles more than the film humorist
T. al
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The Red Cross Bulletin is published IN
this paper once weekly Sunday and
deals with the doings of Red Cross work
ers. The chairman of the publicity con-
mittee win welcome contributions to this
column from workers throughout the dis
trict. If you have suggestions to make
they will be welcomed.
Mail contributions to tho chairman
or assistant chairman, address Red Cross
Headquarters, care Loveman, Joseph d
Loeb.
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American women who have knitted these
articles for the soldiers that the articles
(which they have made are TO receive the
same careful attention as clothing issrcd
by the United states government.
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all or part Of the expenses of a student
taking the training at the institute.
For further particulars apply to Emmett
w. White, Director Bureau of Civilian
Relief, Gulf Division, American Red
cross Postoffice Bldg, New Orleans, La
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Stamp duties on the letters patent
creating Sir John French viscount
amounted to $1,000.
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RED CROSS BULLETIN

,ity, Mnin 1867; Miss Jean Adler. Assoc
n, Main 5937
doing. Make them feel that the Red
Cross is definitely back of them and
their families. We can't have half way
measures in war time; half-hearted men
can't win the war. You home service
people get on your job
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GET ON YOUR JOB

You say you are here to back up the
fighting forces, to help win the war;
then get organized. Let the men in my
.amp and all others know what you are
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m OMEHOW, as the springtime ap-
~ proaches and 1 think of all the
NJ beautiful things in this beau
hna
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-18
STATE MAY FAIL IN LOAN
Tagging in Missouri Is Attributed to
influenza.

Only one state chairman out of the
seven in the Eighth Federal Reserve
District expresses doubt over his
states ability to make the quota in
the Fourth Liberty Loan. This state
is Missouri. Chairman Hughes says
that the result is in doubt but he is
still hopeful. This condition is large
ly attributed TO the influenza cpl
demic. In one county one out of ev-
cry seven persons has been down with
influenza
Missouri, however, is still plugging
hard and may finish a victor. The
states quota subscribed now is 80 per
cent with twenty-five counties over
the top. Cape Girardeau which had
a quota of $l.O55.O 900 and Montgomery
County with a quota of S557 900 have
reached the goal. Shannon. Wayne,
and Stone counties also have joined
the honor column.
The kaiser is falling back to Sedan
but will not be given time to sit
down." has become Missouri's slogan.
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ASHLAND SOLDIER WOUNDED
Was Member of Machine Gun Com
pany, No. $50.

Private Lewis NJ Maupin, son of
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Maupin of Ashland
was wounded seriously in France Sep
TENDER %.
The last letter received from Lewis
was dated September 5. says the Ash
land Bugle. At this time he was well.
A letter dated August % said he was
o X and mentioned other boys from
this town and vicinity being the same
Il see them most every day" he said
in the letter 81 haven't been in the
army four months yet" he writes.
and l have been in the front lire
trenches. so that is doing pretty good.
| am still feeling good. If | can al
ways feel like this, think | will get
by all o X Haven't been on sick re-
port yet and hope / never will. The
place we are now sure is a dandy.
wouldn't care if | could stay here till
the end of the war"
Lewis, who signed the letter to his
parents Your soldier boy" is in
Machine Gun Company, No. $50 III
fantry, American E. F.
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CASUALTY LIST

The casualty list today contains a
total of 351 names divided as fol-
lows: Killed in action, So; missing
in action, "a; wounded severely, 100;
died from wounds, II; died from dis
ease, Is; wounded, degree undeter-
mined, los; died from accident and
other cause, 2.
The following Missourians are on
the list:
Killed in Action.
PRIVATE JESSE AUGUST MOON
TER, Perryville Edward Moori II. next
of kin.
Died of Disease.
PRIVATE CHARLES NJ. EATON
Benton. Mathew Eaton, next of KIN
Wounded Severely.
CORPORAL JOHN -. VAN HOJ-
TAN, Parnen. Mrs. Della Van HOu-
tan, next of kin.
Missing In Action.
PRIVATE CHARLES WILLIAM
BURLESON. Bolivar VIM ]. BurIe-
son, next of kin.
Wounded, Degree Undetermined.
CORPORAL IVAN F. NEWBERRY,
St. Louis. Mrs. Bernadine G. New
berry. next of kin.
PRIVATE CLYDE H. BRUMBACk
Cape Girardeau Thomas j. Brumback
next of kim
PRIVATE FRANK TROKEY, St
Louis. George Damn, next of kin.