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The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10
RURAL SCHOOLS CLOSE EARLY
Pupils In Southwest Released for
Farm Work.

BY Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, April 10.-Hun-
dreds of thousands of boys and girls
in rural schools of the Southwest have
been released from their school duties
that they may go back to the farm and
help win the war for America and her
Allies. Many schools have closed
earlier than usual that the pupils
might help with spring farm work.
In many cities and towns of the
Southwest and in almost every rural
community, the schools are 100 per
cent Red Cross, which means that
every pupil is an active member of
the Junior Red Cross. This activity
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10

tion of Quebec and Montreal, which
show slight decrease, the consumption
of fish shows an increase of at least
II per cent, and in Ottawa of 11S per
cent, with an average increase, for the
places reporting, of 20 per cent.
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10
POULTRY ASSOCIATION GROWS
Organization Started Here Farmers
Week Now Has 1S4 Members.


The new poultry association which
was organized during Farmers Week
at Columbia in January has 1S4 men,
bers. H. L. Kempster of Columbia,
secretary1treasurer of the new
organization, considers this a re-
markable growth for an organization
of this kind Many local associations
are affiliating with the new state as
sociation.
DIR. c. w. West of New Cambria re-
Gently sent in eight members, and re-
ports that a membership of forty
will soon be reached there. Louisiana,
Sedalia, Lincoln and few other towns
have provided members. St. Louis
now has more than twenty members.
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10
Ledbetter I'm San Francisco

Frank Ledbetter, who recently left
the School of journalism to enlist in
the Navy, is at the U. S. Naval Train
ing Station at San Francisco His ad-
dress is Company d, Barracks D-S
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10

will increase with the close of schools
in cities and towns late in May and
the first part of June
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10
Large Numbers Of Austrians Desert.
pv

Large Numbers of Austrians Desert.
By Associated Press
ROME, April 10.-Large numbers of
Austrian deserters have taken refuge
in the great marshes east of the
Livenza. They live on fish and such
food as they are able to steal from
the Italian peasantry. The Austrian
army has not sufficient military police
to stop the frequent desertions, and
men taken from the ranks to act as
policemen often desert themselves.
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10

Dancing lessons. Call 62O OF S04.
P-176
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10

WANTED AT ONCE-A furnished house
till September /. Not over eight rooms.
Write full particulars to SO Walnut st.
B-145tf
The Evening Missourian., 1918-04-10

War conditions cause many good POSI-
tions to be open. We must prepare to fill
them. Write today for our blank and
booklet. Central Educational Bureau. W.
]. Hawkins, Mgr. Metropolitan Bldg, st.
Louis, Mo. list
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
TRAIN In IRELAND
Belief That Irish-Americans Would
Have Good Effect on Natives.

Dublin, July 4.-If Irish-Am orleans
in the United States are brought to
Ireland for further training before
they are taken to France, it is believed
their presence would have good eff
feet upon the recruiting ,roblem. 1t
is pointed out that the presence of
Irish-Americans, thousands of miles
from home and imbued with a fer
vent ambition to crush the Hun, GER
tainly could have no other effect than
to make the thousands of stalwart
young Irishmen here join up. The ma
tive Irish lads, no doubt, would feel
ashamed not to be in uniform, when
their kinsmen from across the sea
have shown their spirit so patrioti-
cally.
Viscount French and Chief Secre-
tary Short, it is understood, are quite
in earnest in their proposal for Irish
Americans to train in Erin. Without
the support of the Nationa1ists. the
voluntary enlistment plan designed to
enroll $4,000 men by fall will be seri-
ously handicapped. Likewise, if the
Catholic church continues adamant,
further difficulties will confront any
enlistment schemes. But in any event,
Viscount French is determined to go
ahead, cooperating with the promi-
nent Irishmen not too closely identi-
fed with either of the opposing ele-
mentS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

spicuous part in the local celebration
in which the French civilians join.
Field Clerks Get Holi; y.
All field clerks at headquarters en-
loved a holiday, but the staff officers
are at the desks as usual, since war
waits on no holidays. Probably the
most ambitioLs program in eastern
France is that at Nancy. The whole
city is draped in flags. This afternoon
a Franco-American concert was given
in the beautiful Hotel de Vile, under
the patronage of the project of the
department Meurthe and NJ jelle
and the mayor of Nancy Several
opera stars and professors from the
!ancy conservatory of. music took
pa. in the concert. which was opened
with the Star Spangled Banner and
inclu ed a number of popular Ameri-
can and French airs and closed with
the Marseillaise.
All schools in the department of
Meurthe and Moselle are closed, the
pupils having been invited to partici-
pate in the celebration. One Alsatian
Village which was freed from the Ger
mans early in the war, gave unique
program for a concert with Alsatian
dances by Alsatian i -aidens decked in
red, white and blue
Even right down at the front there
are some festivities that will let the
Germans know We are celebrating our
national day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
German Reserves Dwindling.
CHANCE FOR YOUTHS
Boys of College Training Needed for
Army Officer Material.

Lawrence, July A representative
of the war departments war service
exchange has been appointed at the
University of Kansas in the person of
DR.. F. B. Dams of the chemistry de-
partment of the university, who IS
examining lid selecting university
men for particular fields of govern
ment war work. A number of Kansas
boys have been put into technical
work for the government thru this
service. Six of that number have
been trained in the university as gun
testers
young men not subject to draft
should continue work in higher
schools" said Doctor Dams, because
of a shortage of youths of sufficient
training to make into officers and into
technical experts for the army and
navy. There is big demand for boys
of university and college training for
artillery officers and for other impor:
tant work of the government The
colleges and universities must supply
this demand and the youth of the
country must not neglect broader
training now. They will be needed
in the reconstruction period following
the war as badly as they are needed
now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
"HE is SOME MAN"
Lieutenant LulI of Topeka Writes of
Seeing General Pershing.

A letter from DIR. Claude C. Lull,
who is now in France as a first lieu
tenant in the medical corps of the
thirty-fifth division, has been received
by H. E. Rigby. lilo w. Fourteenth
street. While not permitted to reveal
where he is stationed, DIR. Lull says he
is with several Topeka men, all of
whom are in fine shape and getting
plenty to eat. They can go in bathing
at the seashore any time they like, he
says.
Here I am" reads the letter.
where the Hun aircraft flies around
day and night, and drops you a few
lines of bombs; where everyone you
may talk tor try to talk to la
Francois-may be a spy; and among
British, French, Italian, Belgian and
Canadian troops, waiting for the order
to go ahead. We are anxious to do
| this and if we could only get started
would no doubt have Kaiser Bits
imuStache before autumn. This is a
wonderful country. Girls are not as
pretty as in the United States but &C
tons are much, you know. / saw
General Pershing yesterday, and be-
lHeve me, he is some man."
| DIR. Lull enlisted in the medical
corps of the national guard at the
time of the Mexican trouble and
served on the border. He is vel
known in Topeka, having practiced
medicine here for many years and
served two terms as county physician
| He was at Camp Doniphan with the
IThirty-fifth division prior to sailing
some months ago and attained the
frank of first lieutenant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
DIRECTORS TO WORK
Will Serve on Farms Under Strict
Military Discipline.

Camp Custer, Mich, July "A
happy solution has been reached con-
corning conscientious DIRECTORS, in
sofar as Ca1np Custer is concerned.
Instead of being sent to serve prison
terms at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. they
will become military farmers" for
the wars duration.
Forty-four DIRECTORS have agreed to
the new pro~ram which provides that
tkey shall Re equipped with khaki
uniforms, provided with private SOL
dier's pay and be subject to the orders
of the military for war service in any
part to which they are ordered. When
working for farmers they will be al
lowed extra pay for board and keep
and they will be subject to regular
military punishment in case of deser-
ton. The plan was worked out by a
mixed board of the military and civil
authorities here. Thu forty-four who
have agreed to the program&represent
membership in the Mennonites Israel
ties, of House of David, disciples
of Russell's Bible association and a
number of other lesser religious or
CARNATIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
UNTO THE LAST
Wireless Operator Gave His Life by
Sticking at Post

London, July 4.-One of the many
examples of heroism displayed by
wireless operators was related at a
meeting of the Marconi Wireless COM
pany by Godfrey Isaacs, managing d.
rector. A vessel was attacked with
shell fire by a U-boat 140 miles from
land. The wireless operator, nick
named Sparks" promised to secure
the aid OF a British destroyer. The
captain told him to seek shelter, but
the operator preferred to locate the
nearest warship.
Later, when the ships officers went
into the wireless room they found a
headless body erect in the chair. Be
fore him lay, completed, a reply from
an American cruiser. The timely ar
rival of the American warship saved
the vessel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
FRENCH REJOICE
Hold Many Celebrations in
Honor of America.
AlSatian Girls Dance in Red,
White and Blue.

With he American Army in France.
July 4.-American flags are flying In
French villages along the front from
Verdun TO the Swiss border today. in
the first general observance of In
dependence day in Lorraine and
Alsace since the United States entered
the war.
In the towns and villages close be-
hind the front in which American
units are quartered. the celebration is
more demonstrative. but the municipal
authorities far behind tie battle front
are conducting appropriate cere-
monies.
General Pershing with his staff is
spending the day quietly al field head
5 and is playing an incon-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
WILL SAVE YANKS
No American Offensive Will Be
Made This Year.
Should Have 100000 Before
Big Drive Starts.
BY ]. W. T. MASON.

BY J. w. 7. MASON.
New York. July 4.-The arrival of
Americas first million troops in
France does not mean the time has
come when AL ~rica's major offensive
should begin.
1t is highly improbable that General
Foch will use the Americans in an ex-
tended offensive this summer. A sud
den emergency may arise. making
such a course imperative. but under
normal conditions, another million
Americans ought to b, in France be-
fore the supreme effort is made TO in
flict military defeat on tho Hohen-
zollerns-
VIII Make No False Start.
General Foch has demonstrated this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
YIELDS ON beer
Administration To Curtail
Breweries' Supply of Coal.
so Per Cent Reduction in Fuel
for Liquor and Near Beer.

Washington. July 4.TBrewing of
beer and the manufacture of near
beer will be curtailed SO per cent
thru fuel restrictions in the year be-
ginning July l, according to q Joint
announcement by Fuel Administrator
Garfield and Chairman Baruch of the
war industries beard. after the weekly
meeting of the presidents war ca binet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
SURE WE'LL SHAKE
British Paper Runs Verse on the Yanl
Baseball Game Today.

London, July 4.-Under the caption
"Shakel" the Daily Sketch prints the
following lines today, abiding to the
British celebration of the Fourth of
July:
King George the Third with cannon balls
Did try our brothers to dispatch
King George the Fifth the country calls
To watch with him their baseball match.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
Food For Fans
BY GEORGE E. PHAIR.
tCopyrighted.D
ToILED IN YOUTH,

FOlLED IN YOUTH,
(OR)
There Wasn't Any Great Lakes Station
remember, l remember,
The town where l was born
often watched the lumber boats
Come blowing in It morn.
often watched the lumber boats,
With square and .gly Irow,
And wished l were 4 sailor then
/ wish the same thing row.
The lumber schooners walIowcG in
And flopped about the bay,
And yet 1t seemed as if they came
From Shanghai or Cathay
They caused a lot of wIstful dreams
Beneath my youthful brow.
/ wished l were n sailor then
] wish the same thing now.
And when see q. sailor lad,
The glamor of the sea,
The ancient tales of tropic gales
the magic gis Of the OCEAN &c ane' brings
Back youthful dreams somehow.
wished were a sailor then
l wish the same thing now.
Germans Want Only 45 Billion Indemni-
ty. Bill Hohenzollern always was mod
est sort Of guy.
Bill Hohenzollern reeled back to his
corner at the close of the fifth round. II
am willing to call 1t a draw" he said, IF
get 100 per cent of the gate receipts and
the moving picture rights"
Babe Ruth swung his trusty bat the
other afternoon and hit the longest home
run ever made on these grounds, thereby
hit the longest home run ever made on
these grounds. There should be a club
of ball players who have hit the longest
home run ever made on these grounds.
1t. would be composed of every ball player
who ever hit home run.
War.
In Spring the White Sox looked as If they
had the pennant won;
The race to them was nothing but a
frolic.
But war has interfered with them and put
them on the run,
And some are gassed and some have
painters collie.
The acoustics of the boxing arena at
Camp Grant have been tested and found
to be perfect. This is well. No open air
, arena should be without perfect acoustics
An open air arena is much like a moving
picture palace. Without proper acoustics
you can't hear what is on the screen.
The acoustics story sounds as If it came
from Spearman Lewis, COMMUNICATIVE chief
of the Camp Grant press agent battalion.
that the athletic carnival for the Overseas
Fund on the Fourth of July is a grand and
noble institution and that every man, wo.
man or child who misses it is missing halt
of his. her or its life, and all that, but why
| spring the acoustics stuff?
Happy Felsch. who has deserted the
White Sox, looked over his batting aver
age and then took slant at the work or
fight order and decided he wasn't work
ing.
Joining a Gas League is a new stunt for
Ha she the woTd
| gated by the big league.
Courage.
There in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Detroit Cat Chicago. .............-.5 - >
CHicdSo L
Bailey, Dauss and Stanage; Shellenbach.
Benz, Danforth and Schalk.
St. Louis lat Cleveland) .......6 10
SiSNeidHu -. ...Z L
Sothoron and Nunamaker; Morton, Bag
by and Thomas
New York lat Washington ........3 % .
washington - ~
Brennan, Shaw and Picinich
Boston lat Philadelphia) ........0 4
Philadelphia .............6 o
Bader, Molyneux and Agnew, Mayer;
Gregg and Perkins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

year that he Las the supreme quality
of patience, Tho he well knows that
the allies must apply the offensive
weapon to wiz the war. But, there
will be no false start so long as Gem
eraI Foch can carry out his own plans,
nor will an effort be made to break
the German war machine with an in
adequate supply of men.
About 65O,OOO Fighters.
OF the million American troops in
France, approximately $4,000 are
actual fighters. Of these active COM
batants, more than 100000 have
reached France since the beginning of
Won Hindenburg's offensive on March
81. That means the British and
French casualties in the spring offe l.
sive have much more than been mads
good.
Not Enough Men Yet.
General Foch, therefore, in all prob
ability has superiority in man-power
over Hindenburg. The superiority,
however, is not yet sufficient to in
sure that quality of supreme pressure
which the allies must be prepared to
maintain, once the American often
sive starts.
German Reserves Dwindling.
General Foch is developing his ma
jor strategy with profound skill. This
summer it is for Hindenburg to at
tempt to win If he can, and thereby
deplete the German reserves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
WESTERN LEAGUE.

II. d b.
Joplin lat Hutchinson) 9 2
Hutchinson Observation-Disclosures 7 6
Caporal and Collins; Sparks and Manion.
Omaha lat st. Joseph. .............0 z B
St Joseph ...................5 3
Carson and McMenemy; MCLAUGHLIN and
Bachant.
Oklahoma City Eat Wichita). .......3 10 2
Hewitt, Tabor and O'Connor; Galley and
Laryan.
Des Moines lat Sioux City,. ........7 II 1
Sioux City Observation-Disclosures. 2
Corey Delburn and Kerwin; Reeb, Hink-
ley and Rohrer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
WEDNESDAY GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

brooklyn lat New York; ........4 /
NFW 1OIk - .
Robertson and Miller; Demaree and Nc
arty.
Second game
Brooklyn NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2 1
1
Cheney and NJ. Wheat. Perritt and Rari-
den-
Philadelphia Cat Boston, .5 /
Hogg and Burns; Rudolph and Wilson.
Cincinnati Cat Pittsburgh. ...5 10 l
Pittsburgh observation-disclosures II 1
Schneider and Wingo; Mayer, Comstock,
Cooper and Schmidt.
Chicago lat st. Louis) .............1 2
St. Louis ...................2 8 o
Douglas and killifer Packard, Ames and
Gonzales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

There was a man in our town
2 And he was wondrous bold,
He asked the janitor for heat
One night when 1t was cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04
War.

In Spring the White Sox looked as If they
had the pennant won;
The race to them was nothing but a
frolic.
But war has interfered with them and put
them on the run,
And some are gassed and some have
painters collie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

Germans Want Only 40 Billion Indemni
ty. Bill Hohenzollern always was a mod
est sort of guy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-04

The acoustics of the boxing arena al
Camp Grant have been tested and found
to be perfect. This is we'll. No open all
arena should be without perfect acoustics
An open air arena is much like a moving
picture palace. Without proper acoustic,
you can't hear what is on the screen.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-02
DARE GERMANY TO
SHOOT PRISONERS

Washington.-The American Gov
eminent, i'll reply to Germany's threat
to execute American prisoners of war
found in possession of shotguns, to-
day gave notice that if Germany car
ries out any such threat suitable re-
prisals will be taken
Secretary Lansing's reply made
public today, declares that the use of
shotguns is sanctioned by The Hague
conventions, and that in comparison
with other weapons now used in mod
ern warfare the shotguns used by the
American troops cannot be the SUBJ
ject of legitimate or reasonable pro-
test.
eff the German Government should
carry out its threat in single in
stance" says Secretary Lansing's
reply, "it will be the right and duty
of the United States to make such
reprisals as will best protect the
American forces, and notice is here
by given of the intention of the gov
eminent of the United States to
make such reprisals."
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-02
WAR AIMS is TOPIC
FOR ATLANTA MEETING

Observation-Disclosures and laymen
from all parts of the South will be in
Atlanta next Friday to attend the
three-day conference on America S
war aims to be codnucted under the
auspices of the National Committee
on Churches and Moral War Aims.
Two Of the principal figures at the
conference will be Bishop Gore, the
Bishop of Oxford, England, and Rev.
Arthur T. Cutlery, a prominent min
lister of the Primitive Methodist
Church Of England, who are now in
America.
Formation of a league of nations
after the war for the purpose of en-
forcing peace and putting down any
malefactor or would be-malefactor
among the nations is one of the prin-
cipal proposals being advocated by
the National Committee.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-02
Won HERTLING AND
HINTZE OUT OF JOB

Amsterdam, Sept 30.-Chancellor
Won Hertling and Foreign Secretary
Won Hintze have rendered their resig-
nations to the Emperor, the Vossi-
sche, of Berlin, says it understands.
Emperor William has accepted the
designations of Count Won Hertling
and Admiral Won Hintze, according
to the Zeitung Am Mittag, of Ber-
lin No official announcement on the
subject has been received here.
Emperor William has addressed
the following to Count Won Hertling:
Your excellency has reported to
me that you no longer find yourself
in a position to remain at the head
of the government. will not hide
from myself your reasons and must
with heavy heart deny myself your
! further cooperation"
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-02
CANNOT SELL MORE SUGAR
TILL WE ENTER BERLIN

Atlanta.-That Charles Dosenberg,
an Atlanta retail grocer, shall sell no
more sugar until General Pershing
has marched into Berlin is the unique
sentence passed upon the hapless de-
PENDANT by Major Devereaux F. Nc
Clatchey, executive secretary to DR..
Andrew M. Soule, federal food admins
istrator for Georgia, and approved by
the same.
When the Atlanta grocery mer-
chants were required to turn in to
the Fulton county food administrator
the pledge cards or certificates which
they had taken from customers pur-
chasing sugar, and when an audit of
these certificates showed that Dosen-
berg had received 5000 pounds of SUI
gar but could only show certificates
for the distribution of $500 pounds,
then Dosenberg was ararigned before
the Food Administration and required
to show cause why his license should
not be revoked.
He succeeded in showing why his
license should not be revoked but did
not succeed in showing cause why he
should not be allowed to handle any
more sugar.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-02
STUDENTS ARMY CORPS
MUSTERED IN SERVICE

Atlanta, Ga.-Two thousand boys
in the Students Army Training Corps
of FIVE Atlanta colleges were formal
ly mustered into the service at II
o'clock this morning with impressive
ceremonies at which the flags were
raised, general orders of the day were
read, and patriotic addresses were
delivered by army officers and college
professors.
At the Georgia Tech there are l.
900 students in the S. A. T. O., at
Emory University there are $50, at
Oglethorpe University there are ESQ.,
and local dental college has a den
tai corps of about 200, while an At
lanta college for negro youths has a
unit of ESQ boys who will be trained
in special lines of work connected
with negro regiments.
The installation of the S. A. T. O.
units at colleges throughout the
country took place at the same hour
with Approximately 10000 young
men enrolled