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Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
AGE 21

SSUMlNG FOR continental United States population of A 11OOO0OOO age 2l will produce some fighting men, but G: ;oaEy ongh 10 bridge the gap between five millions and the number in arms.
 The population somewhat more than half female The males numbered less than 55OOOOOO
 These were distributed between ages year years and over Those year the numerous class The size Of the group dmnshes in each year, until those and less than 1000
 In 1910 the males aged 20 to 2 the five year period were 45SOOOO of which 1i30OO0 aliens boys of 2 na tive born and available for conscrptOn would be fifth of 35OOO or about 63OO0 Increasing the figures cent to allow during eight years would be boys of 21 years available for selection.
 At 21 years 1o2OOO boys than 16 per married The registration everywhere depleted boys from ages 6 to 2 have volunteered in large numbers This is the when makes its maximum appeal to manhood Many boy IS at the front who remembered that he two or three years earlier than the event.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
FAITH IN AMERICA

LOID GEORGE says that he pins his faith to America A There is other way. England and France Belgium and Serbia have themselves to the utmost It is Amer ca alone which by the numbers and intelligence of her population by the vasness and 1iriity of her industry store the balance of the world.
 America has sufficient for making the fight all that be made America knows full well 1t IS better to
 fight than to permit go to draw, for latter every democracy must armed to the teeth generation and perhaps for hundreds of years The task is vast but necessary.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
S40O,OOO BLAZE IN
 CITY OF CARIBOU

Caribou, Me, June 10 - Damage caused by fire which destroyed ten business buildings and two resi- dences here early Monday was esti- mated by insurance agents at $400,- 900, after a survey of the ruins. The fire started in the kitchen of a res taurant, spread rapidly and was be- yond control before help arrived from nearby towns.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14

 ferring to the Elise district) were writes. When I was there I was living in town so close to the lines that six inch shells came in an us. A number of shrapnel broke right over my house, breaking off the brick like shingles.
 "A Carnegoe bowler (steeI helmet) was my best friend. There is noth- ing quite so upsetting as to be writ inga piece for the papers and hear that whistle of shell coming your way, hear it break almost over head and then hear the whistle that shrap- nel makes as it shoots downward. The incessant racket kept up day and night.
 Nights it was worse; absolutely preventing sleep. There were the rumble and roar of French and Ger man guns nearer the line, the crash of French heavy about block away. the whistle of shell going out and coming in, and the c-rr-rr-ump of Boche H. B. shells exploding. When wou finally drop off to sleep about in the morning the racket is not so great, but you never know whether you will wake up in the bed where you went to sleep, a hospital bed or whether the next thing you hear will be the voice of St. Peter telling you to wipe the mud off your boots before entering.
 Added to other troubles probably have a small quantity of gas in me. I got a whiff about three weeks or so ago. It wasn't enough to do any harm aside of making me vomit once and making my eyes and throat smart
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
ICE PLAYS HAVOC
 WITH STEAMERS

Washington, June 1.-The first merchant feet this year from Seattle to the salmon industroes on Bristol bay got stuck in late ice in Behring sea and one steamer, the Tacoma, has been sunk, according to word received today by the department of com merce.
 The ice steamer Roosevelt of the bureau of fisheries has located the crew and passengers of the Tacoma and has gone to their assistance. Four other ships were todey to safety.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14


 The throat is still a little sore. I did not get enough, luckily, to make me go to hospital or even see doc tor. But I am glad I only had one small whiff instead of a couple of big ones
 But the whole business <is fun to the brim with excitement bred by un-' eefSss..ryi, afl7 quit. tsse Izso+& .ater- esting thing in the world. would not have missed single one of the experiences I have had for a million dollars. Any front, I think, is prob ably the most cheerful place on earth, although nobody would ever think so. The further you get away from the lines the more gloom there is. But where shells fly and life is worth about a nickel nothing matters to anybody. A laugh and a smile is the thing. I suppose this is because the average American soldier goes in to battle or into the front firmly con- vinced that he'll only get a wound if the luck is right, and at the same time determined to forget all about it and enjoy life. I have heard more funny stories and more laughter among our men in the line in one night than I have heard in all the rest of the time Sthat I have been in Europe. .
 And they are great crowd, these fighters of ours; whether they do their fighting on the ground or in the air. They are game to the core. cheerful, happy and have one thought only. That is: Kill Germans And they never overlook a chance. You can't beat an army that sails into an enemy with a grin on it's face and a l chuckle in it's heart.''
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
Record Price Paid
 For HOlstein Calf

Milwaukee, June S.---Champion Sy- lia Johanna, a six months old Hold stein bull calf, sold for $1O6000 at the state faor park here yesterday. The previous record price was $53, 900, paid for the calf's mother, May Echo Syl- via, year ago. The mother holds the worlds record with 4101 pounds of butter and 1,0O5.S pounds of milk for a seven day period. E. A. Stew art of Ocenomowoc, Wis, was the buyer of the calf.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
AMERICAN FIGHTERS

rT HE AMERICAN BOYS in France giving good ac-
 count of themselves Their attack the Marne, the best of the To penetrate the German lines miles half six mile front is not discreditabe
 nowng has not yet begun to fight Presently the boys will be there by the millions with aer6pane and the of than Europe dreamed of things will begin break and the decayng thrones of Turkey Germany and Austria will fall apart
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
BOMB INTENDED FOR SUBMARINE CHASERS
 AT THE NAVAL BASE
OF FUSE BY EXPERT SHOWS IT WAS INTENDED FOR UNDER WATER USE
 GOVERNMENT EXPERTS HERE

It learned today that the attempted destruction of the naval base at Black Rock by dynamite in the early Wednesday morning aimed not much the barracks which many housed the submarine chasers which moored at the docks and the ammunition magazines near the water front
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
MISS MARCH WEDS
 MAJOR J. M. SWING

Washington, June S-The marriage of Miss Josephine March, daughter of Gen. Peyton c. March, acting chief of staff of the United States army, to Major Joseph M. Swing of Newark, N. J., field artillery, U. s. A, took place in St. Margaret's church here today. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. Herbert Scott. Owing to the recent death of the brides brother and because of the war conditions, the wedding company was confined to the members of the two families.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
A. P. CORRESPONDENT
 DESCRIBES THE LIFE AS
 IT IS IN BATTLE ZONE
CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH QUITE EXCITING, HE SAYS LIVED IN TOWN so CLOSE TO
 LINES THAT SHELLS GREETED HIM.

New York; June 7Experiences under fire and difficulties faced by in the battle in France told letter just received by the Associated Press from of it's correspondents with the American expedonary forces He also tells of the fine morale of the American troops
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14

The Boston mail aeroplane made is first trip from New York.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14

British estimated German air losses in three weeks at 336.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14

Postmaster William F. Murray of Boston, says he will ride in the first air mail machine from Boston to New York.
Republican farmer., 1918-06-14

Bridgepors proportion of the boys aged 2i is sas factory. considering all the facts.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Czecho-SLouaks Seize
Bolsheuik Stronghold ;
Red Troops Isolated
Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)

Especial Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Chita. the
Bolshevik stronghold in Eastern ST.
beria, and Karimsadat have been capt
ured by the Czecho-S -Slovak troops, and
a telegraphic line opened between
lrkutsk and Peklng via Penza. accord
ing to cable advices from the American
Legation at Peking to the State De
partment to-day.
Another official report day stated
that contact between the CZecho- Slo-
vaks in Western Siberia and the AL
lied military forces in Eastern Siberia
had also been established in the Chita-
Nerbneoudinsk line, although the de-
tachments holding the line are as yet
small.
The territory in Siberia remaining
IN the hands Of the Bolsheviki and
their German and Austrian allies, COM
posed of former enemy prisoners of
war, is almost entirely restricted to q
stretch along the Amur branch of the
Siberian Railroad, and the capture of
the important base at Chita isolates
the Bolshevik troops, which either
must surrender or be annihilated, as
they are now between two bodies OF
hostile troops, the Czecho-Slovaks tc
the west and the Japanese America ar
and other Allied forces operating from
NladiyOStOE
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Sen. Sherman Calls
Federal Trad e
BoardU.S.Discredit

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-The Fed
eral Trade Commission was both sharp
ly assailed and vigorously defended
in the Senate today for its recent re-
port to President Wilson. recommend
ing that the government take over con-
troll of the packing industry so as to
break up what it termed monopoly
of the meat business in this and other
countries, and to prevent alleged prof
iteering.
The debate, in which Senators Sher-
man, of Illinois, and Smoot, of Utah,
led the attack on the commission, was
precipitated by the introduction by Sen
ator Gore, of Oklahoma, of an amend
ment to the emergency agricultural
appropriation bill carrying out, in the
main. the commissions recommcnda-
tions. The amendment later was with
drawn, when it was apparent that con-
sideration of it would further delay
passage of the bill.
Senator Sherman declared the com
mission to be a constituted "prose
cutting agency made up of business
failures while Senator Smoot, of Utah
charged that the commission, from the
beginning, has been a political organ
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Trenton Teacher Is
Defended by Friends
Witnesses Say Wetzel Has
Been Loyal to America
Since War Began

TRENTON, N. j., Sept. 5.-A score
or more of witnesses, including some
of the most prominent men of the CITY.
testified tonight on behalf of Dr..
William A. Wetzel, principal of the
high school, who is being tried by the
Trenton School Board on charges of
pro- -Germanism and ineficiency pre-
ferred by Mayor Frederick w. Don
nelly.
These witnesses, called by the de-
fence, declared that there was no taint
of disloyalty in Wetzel's actions or ut
terances and that he had done much to
aid the war activities being conducted
here and that he was an efficient and
reliable school official. 1t was init
mated by some of the witnesses that
the charges were the outgrowth of
spite on the part of disgruntled school
subordinates and their friends.
Assistant United States Attorney Jo-
scph L. Bodine, a member of the school
board, declared that the charges as
far as the testimony had gone were
abs olately without foundation. The
trial will he concluded tomorrow after
noon.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Eastern Ship Plants
Show a Speeding Up

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-The fail
ure of Eastern shipyards to equal the
record breaking production Of the Pa
citic Coast is due to the fact that
new plants in the East are barely
through the period of construction and
organization, and that several of the
older yards, not devoted exclusively to
naval construction, are still loaded up
with requisitioncd tonnage represent
ing many different types of vessels.
This statement was made to-day by
Charles Piez. vice president of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Pointing out that many of the old
established yards are working only on
naval craft. Mr.. Piez emphasized that
eastern plants have shown grad
ual improvement and that fabricating
yards have moved from ninth to
seventh place in the last month. their
output having increased fully 60 per
cent over that of June.
"The July standing of the districts on
the basis of percentage of assigned
task accomplished shows the Great
Lakes district leading by 25 per cent
with the California district and the
Northwest district next in line" Mr.
PieZ said
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Bolsheviki Denounced
By Interparty League
Benson, Stokes and Walling
Address Meeting at Car
negie Hall

Bolshevism, particularly as it has
recently been manifested in Russia
was denounced at meeting held at
Carnegie Hall last night, under the
auspices of the Interparty League
The speakers addressed the meeting in
English, Russian and Yiddish.
At the same time that the Bolshe-
wiki were being scored for the present
terrorism existing in Russia, assur-
ances were given by each speaker that
the Allies have the interests of that
country at heart and will. in the end,
prove its salvation. Among those who
spoke were Allan Benson. former Pres
dential candidate on the Socialist
ticket; Frank Bohn, J. G. Phelps
Stokes and William English Walling
Others who spoke, either in Russian
or Yiddish, were A. A. Boubikotf, COM
missionaire of the Duma; General X.
NJ Oberrucheff, formerly of the Rus
sian army: A. j. Sack, director of the
Russian Information Bureau in the
United States; A. F.. Staal, former
president Of the Russian Peasants
Union, and Dr.. A. Sirkin.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Allied Troops Score More
Successes in Siberia
(Bu The Associoted Pressl

VDJ I TIE (iSSOCtUteu TeSSJ
TOXIC, Thursday, Aug. 29.-Report-
ing the military operations of the En-
tente Allied forces in, Siberia, an official
statement issued o1day by the Japan
csc War Office, say:
"The right column of our troops, pur-
suing the enemy beyond the Uyeraya
River, halted on August 26 at Medou-
jiya, ten miles east of Simakoff. Our
left column occupied the eminence
north of Simakoff. Our centre, reach
ing Simakoff, stopped there.
"Our troops were nearly in the same
formation on August 27. On that day
they were engaged in reconnaissance,
repairing the bridge and making other
preparations.
"Our cavalry and detachment of
General Kalminoff's forces are advanc-
ing north through the Ussuri River
valley"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Bedford Warns of
Petroleum Famine
If Tax Bill Passes
Chairman of War Service
Committee Says Levy
Is Out of Reason

A practically complete paralysis of
petroleum production in this country
II the levy on that industry proposed
in the new sS,2OO,O0o 900 tax bill actu-
ally goes into erect is the prospect
held out by special tax investigation
committee appointed by A. C.. Bedford.
head OF the National Petroleum War
Service Committee, to collate figures
and statistics bearing on this subject.
The report Of this committee, which,
under the Craftsmanship of Henry L.
Doherty, has been conferring with
leading oil men throughout the coun-
try since June ~, was made public
yesterday. In it the point was empha-
sized that oil men had borne without
protest the tax imposed upon them by
the original revenue bill as a matter
OF patriotic duty and because, realiz-
ing the tremendous pressure under
which this act had to be rushed into
being, they had confidently expected
recognition of the special conditions
snd difficulties obtaining in their busi-
ness when the present measure came
to be considered.
No suc4 consideration, however, has
been made, Mr.. Doherty says. Instead
restrictions have been made more
astlc. Meanwhile, despite all efforts
toward stimulation, petroleum produc-
ton, under the provisions of the old
revenue act, is said to have fallen off
alarmlngly. Great inroads have. as a
result, had to be made on the reserve
stock IN storage, and in as far as this
STOCK is lever equivalent to much more
than six months national supply. Mr.
Doherty declares that already the stu
alton is acutely desperate.
I'm the so-called wildcat exploration
upon which ultima tely the petroleum
industry depends" Mr.. Doherty ex-
planned, "only about one we'll out of
every hundred really pans out Under
the old conditions, the wildcat oil
rrospector, of course, had to bear a
100 per cent loss on his failures. But
at least he made 100 per cent profit
when he did land. Now the govern
ment proposes to take upward of sc
per cent even of these profits. The
resultant handicap is obviously enough
to discourage all fresh initiative. and
since oil wells are continually running
out and new ones have to be opened
up, fresh initiative is indispensable te
continued production"
The committee also points out tha
while practically all the accessorie:
which the producer must use in turning
out oil have advanced radically il
price since the outbreak of the war, the
price of crude oil itself has been Sc
managed as to suffer comparatively lit
tie advance.
In the face of the present need Mr.
Doherty said yesterday that it is prob
able that the National Petroleum Wa,
Service Committee will formally pro
test to Congress against the proposed
rate of taxation on petroleum. Excep
tion is also to be taken to the classi
flcation of this commodity, especial,
at the present time. as a luxury"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Anne Morgan Cited
For Work Under Fire
Mentioned With Mrs. Anne
Murray Dixie in Orders by
General Degoutte
(By The Associated Press

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMf IN
FRANCE, Sept. 5.-Mrs. Anne Murray
Dixie, pres id.r ~ and Miss Anne Nor
gan, vice resident OF the American
committee for relief in the devastated
regions of France, have been cited
in orders of the day by General De-
goutte, commanding the Sixth French
army. The citation says that Mrs.
Dixie and Miss Morgan "for more than
year have consecrated themselves
with intelligent activity and admirable
devotion to restoring French tiresides
devastated by the enemy.
The citation adds that the women,
Obliged by reason of the battles, at
the end of March and the end of Nay
to leave villages the enemy was again
to destroy, retired only at the last
moment and always under the fire of
the enemy"
The citation also pays tribute to the
aid given by Mrs. Dixie and Miss Nor
gan to the military authorities and
in aiding inhabitants to return to lib
Grated regions
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Clearing of Coney's
Beach Begun by City

Armed with pickaxes, saws and
hammers, and cheered on by an ad-
miringly approving throng, a squad
of twelve men under Public Works
Commissioner Joseph Guider appeared
before the bathing pavilion of Barney
Silver, at the foot of West Twenty
third Street, Goney Island, shortly
after o'clock Yesterday afternoon and
began systematically hacking away the
underpinnings of Barney's front porch.
Barney loudly protested, but the
chips only flew the faster Such was
the order, the men explained of
Brooklyn's Borough resident, Edward
Riegelmann, issued in response to the
decision handed down a little over a
month ago by Supreme Court Justice
Benedict, wherein it was declared that
the beaches belong to the public and
that all private property between high
and low water marks must be eliml-
mated.
Barney Silver contends that his bath
ing pavilion porch does not come within
these boundaries. But the wrecking
settled long ago, and went on with its
task of demolition until 6 o'clock.
They announced that to-day they
would return twenty-five strong, and
all owners of bungalows, bathhouses
ice cream booths and other impedi-
menta of New York's playground be-
tween West Seventeenth and West
Thirty second Streets are warned to
take notice
An even larger gallery is expected
to cheer them on their way to-day, fol
their entry marks triumphant eli
max, for the Coney Islanders, of &
fight that has been waging for the last
five years to clear the beach of its
numerous distractions
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06

ization and has been used as "step-
ping stone" to campaign for Office.
Senators Gore and Kenyon defended
the report. declaring it largely justified,
the latter saying it received the in
dorsement of thousands Of persons
"who have been robbed by the packers
all these years"
Senator Sherman declared if the
members of the commission desired to
know what the people thought Of them
they had only to try for office and they
would be beaten by vote OF to /.
He referred to members of the COM
mission as "self appointed business
men who have done nothing in their
lives but criticse men who are doing
things" and said Chairman Colver was
the "most vociferous and blatant one
in the lot"
"There isn't one" Senator Sherman
continued, "who isn't a radical, a Boil
shevist, an economic firebrand They're
younger brothers of the /. w. VS.
all of them. They're poor excuses for
public officers. They're disgrace to
the Administration. They're menace
to business. They're a dscredit to the
country"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
The Smith & Wesson Co.
"Voluntarilv" Raises Wages

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 5.-The
Smith e. Wessor Company. which re-
Gently declined to accept the findings
of the National War Labor Board in
the firms controversy with its en-
ployes, to-day posted notice announc-
ing the adoption of the basic eight
hour day and time and one half pay
for all overtime for day workers, ef-
fective September l. Piece workers also
will receive time and one half for
overtime on basis of average hourly
earnings.
The company states that this action
vas taken at this time and voluntarily
and not ain consequence Of any out
side influence"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
Kaiser Says Present
Battle Is Decisive

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 5. - Emperor
William has telegraphed to the munici-
pality of Munich a message in which
he alludes to the fighting now in
progress as the present decisive bat
Ties" and declares the German people
will unitedly stand with all their
strength in defence of the Fatherland
The Emperor's message read
"The German people understand
the difficulty of the present decisive
battles against an enemy filled with
hatred, jealousy and the will to de-
struction, but has unanimously de-
cided to devote all its strength to
defend against its enemies assaults
its sacred soil and its Kultur which
it had won in peaceful work"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-06
To Bar Allied War News
Huns Oppose Publication o1
Enemy Communicates

WASHINGTON, Sept 5-The Ger
man government, according to a report
through diplomatic channels to-day, is
contemplating the prohibition of the
publication of enemy military COM
muniques in Germany and confning
the nations source Of information con-
cerning developments at the front to
the Wolff Agency's reports.
The German people, it says, have not
forgotten the interviews given by Hin
denburg and Ludendorff on March Is
one promising advantageous annexa-
tions, the other guaranteeing a decisive
victory, and both antagonistic to the
Reichstag for having dared to consider
a peace without anneXations and in.
IDENTITIES.