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The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
DIGS HOLES AND SETS
FENCE POSTS MONDAY

Melvin Smith, residing on the
Smith farm just east of the city
performed the rather unique work
of digging holes and setting fence
posts on the farm on Monday, Feb
ruary 2. Mr.. Smith was engaged in
this work all day long and says that
he found but a thin crust of the
earth frozen, but that the digging
was just as easy as It could be at any
other time of the year. 1t is not
very often that one can work the
ground so easily in the month of
February when the earth is supposed
to be frozen its hardest.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

Smyrna Cleaners Attention.
The Olympia order of Cleaners will
meet with Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Tower
on Thursday, Feb. Is. Picnic dinner
and let Us have good attendance.
Bessie Reeves, Lecturer.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
Special Services.

Meetings every night at the church
on East Center street. Miss LeBarr
in charge this week. Rev. Myron
Deoist, EVANGELIST in east Michigan
conference, will be present Feb. o
and will preach at, both, morning and
evening services. He is scheduled
to remain throughout the revival SER
les. You are welcome.
j. Fred Iulg, Pastor.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05

February IL will be the last day for
the payment Of taxes ct the PpGf
cent rate. Yay your tAxD' 6DNA did
avoid the additional pstcehteS6c go
VIM. ~. El1h6f.
~ City Trentltttr.
The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1919-02-05
LOCAL RED CROSS
OFFICIALS MAKE
A GOOD REPORT
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF LO-
CAL CHAPTER EXCELLENT
MUCH GOOD WORK DONE.


To Say" column last week A Reader
thought that the officials Of the local
Red Cross should make report of
the condition of the affairs of the <
local chapter. Miss Florence Wash
burn and Henry j. Leonard, chairmen
of the local chapter took up the mat
ter with Treasurer Whitney and the
latter very easily-prepared ccm-
plete and comprehensive report from
the statistics which were kept as a
matter of record by him as the BUSH
ness of the local organization was be-
ing transacted.
1t is the opinion of Miss Washburn
that the money still remaining in the
treasury be used for some other
worthy purpose, now that the work
of the Red Cross is coming to an end
and this matter will undoubtedly be
decided in the near future by the peo-
pie.
The reports of Miss Washburn, Mr..
Leonard and Treasurer Whitney, are
as follows:
Report of the membership drives
and war fund of Bedding branch,
American Red Cross, June /, 1917
to June 80, 1918:
Annual members $1404, or to
Beldlng .................. $702.00
Magazine members, So each,
$24.00, or. to Bedding 600
Hustling members, $1,000, or.
to Bedding .............. 500
BeIding '......,.....r..... sf.es
Fund, $1,000, or to
Belding .................. 1000
s757.ss
Amt. received by chapter for
memberships ....:. :. $4,000
Amt. paid chapter for supplies
from membership fund -. 1879
Total receips of war fund
Rs ddive contrhnt;on r. t ;SSa'Ozo'oo
county fund for national
fund .................. $4,000
Supplies purchased through the
county chapter from war
fund .................. 204.24
Balance on hand, war bund .$2,684.34
December drive for memberships.
Annual memberships .....-... 1905
Magazines ........ ,. ...s..
900
Or. to Branch S454 so
Receipts and disbursements for the
special local fund of the Bedding
branch of the Ionia county Red Cross
from August 20, 1917 to Feb. 1, 1919,
w. c. Whitney, treasurer:
Receipts:
Personal donations other than
pledge cards ......$ 1887
M. NJ. Bedding ........ 250.00
Rose Mcconnell, treas. y. of r. 500
Ashfield Boarding house -. $500
Proceeds of the Rice lectures,
NJ E. church .......... 79.4O
Congregational Sunday school 9.52
Equitable Fraternal Union 22.00
Empress theater benefit -. 65.30
Ladies' Thimble club ..... 400
Belding Banner-News, special
Mrs. F. R. Gambler (ccilec-
)tions) ................ $500
North Side Ladies' Aid 80. 30.35
Mrs. Iva Mumby F. p. A. !. 5000
Mrs. Nason's S. S. class 49,. 100
Labor day collection by Red
Cross ladies ....... 1925
Junior Red Cross .... $685.
Class 1918 B. H. S. ....... 211.28
Soldiers Relief (returned) Pip
Pledge cards ......... 3,267.0S
Total ..A..............s4,4s6.46
Disbursements:
Postage, printing stationery,
Supplies, purchased in Bedding 15i.17
Supplies purchased through
county chapter ..... 222719
Civilian relief, soldiers fam =
lies $780,. ......... lOS ~
Christmas baskets ...... 1885
Balance on band in bank .1,757.74
Iotai f..'..s..... 1856
Arizona republican., 1919-02-15
WASH TAFFETAS
HABUTAI SILKS
BARONETTE SATINS

One of the richest and hands fabrics, very stylish and DO inches wide, special per yard.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
Kameneff Gets Credit.

''The ascension Of the extremists
was marked by the capture Of Odes-
sa and the repulse Of the forces
threatening Petrograd and the ad-
vent Of soviet Hungary. The success
against Kolchak has been largely due
to the generalship of Kameneff, who
was q colonel in the days Of czarisn.
his policy having prevailed over the
defensive soviet policy and proved
successful All military power has
passed into his hands"
Evening star., 1919-08-25
RED CROSS EXPLAINS
MERCHANDISE SALES
Issues Statement Because Of In.
accurate Reports" Regarding
the Materials Disposed Of.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Saturday. August 23.-In q
statement which it said is issued be-
cause of many inaccurate reports con-
cerning large sales Of Red Cross mer-
ehandise, the American Red Cross ex-
plains that the only materials which
have been sold are certain perishab bic
stuffs. secondhand equipment sur
plus stocks and articles which are no
longer of any use in direct relief
work in either France or eastern Eu-
rope.
The total sales Of such materials in
Europe, the statement says, aggregat-
ed 100000 francs. while the value
of the relief materials distributed in
Europe during the months of July
and August amounted to more than
100, 100000 francs.
The American Red Cross. the state
ment sets forth, now is conducting
operations in seventeen European
countries. The relief materials dis.
tributed in France, mainly given out
in the devastated regions since the
armistfce, were valued at more thar
125. 100000 francs. while other Euro.
received more than 200, 1000, 900 francs
worth of similar supplies, not only
medical and surgical goods, but cloth.
ing, food and temporary housing.
Sales of surplus materials, the state.
ment adds, were authorized in Francs
and have been conducted through the
American Red Cross liquidation board
Evening star., 1919-08-25
|TREASURY'S CASH STATUS
"VERY SATISFACTORY"
Assistant Secretary Lefingwell's
Report Indicates Firm Support
by Financial Institutions.

Firm support of the government by
the financial institutions is indicated
in an announcement by Assistant Sec
retary Leffingwell of the Treasury
Department today. which says the
United States Treasury is in "a very
satisfactory cash position as a re-
suit of the response to the semi
monthly offerings OF certificates of
Indebtedness. the first two issues of
which brought S1,065, ,953.500.
There will be no fixed minimum for
the next issue of semi monthly GER
tificates. dated September ? and ma
turing February 2, and the issue Will
be closed without notice Federal re-
serve banks will not assign quotas
to the banks in their districts. The
issue of September Is VIII be omitted.
but tax certificates may be substi-
tuted.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
GROUNDS FOR MExIcO'S
OIL LAND LAWS GIVEN
Official Documents Justify Nation
alization 1and Presidents
Petroleum DEGREES.

MEXICO CITY. August "a (by the
Associated Press).-+"The right Of the
constituent legislator is almost un-
limited and cannot be checked when
dealing with the public organization
by rights acquired by private parties.
Examples which have been cited are
sufficient to demonstrate that when
the constituent legislator has con-
sidered it Of general interest to enact
any law Of retroactive effect he has
done SO even il he has passed over
rights acquired in many years. which
have been sanctioned almost as rights
inherent to man. The only funda-
mental question is this: Is the public
laws have been enacted? Evidently.
yes. Then the state has had the right
to enact such laws"
These statements express. briefly
and in part, the legal grounds upon
which the Mexican government bases
of Queretare, which enacted the Mexi-
can constitution of 1917, to place in
that document article 27, nationaliz-
, ing the oil lands. They also provide a
defense for the presidential DEGREES on
petroleum. developing article q,
tSA 4OTSl6n oAi ia tSISSlS diS dI-
tacking as confscatory.
The statements themselves are taken
from official documents given to the
correspondent exclusively by Leon Sa-
linas, subsecretary of commerce and
| industry and at present head of that
department and also chief of the pc
troleum bureau of the department.
They supplement a statement given
to the Associated Press by Senior Sail
mas on August 81 and from the pre-
1iminary drafts Of summary fur
nished the Mexican congress by the
department Of commerce and indus
try for the coming consideration of oil
legislation.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
KOLCHAK SETBACK
PUT ON PREJUDICE
Dane Says Something Must
Be Done to Remove
Peoples Fear.

COPENHAGEN. August 24.-'Unless
and prejudice with which they are now
regarded. even by the bourgeois. there is
little chance for the ultimate success Of
Admiral Kelchak and Gen. Denikine
against the Russian bolshevik.'' said
DR.. Camilo Martiny, who has arrived
here from Russia after four-year
stay there as the head of the Danish
Red Cross. today. ''The bourgeois de-
sire allied intervention. The British
withdrawal from north Russia means
eventually German domination there,
especially since Germany has lost her
overseas colonies. and the only road
left her Is eastward
Says Lenin Sees His Failure.
Commenting on his dealings with
the heads of the soviet government,
DR.. Martiny said:
Recognizing the terrible failure Of
their policy. Nicolai Lenin and his as
sociates decided to abandon their ter
rorist methods and their policy for
immediate socialization, and for the
first month Of this year a moderate
program was carried out. Terror
said. and reorganize the country later
and seek to put communism In force.'
While determined to keep the power
In the hands of the bolshevists the
policy at home was. as far as possible,
to secure the cooperation Of other
Russian parties and cease hostilities
on all fronts on the condition that
their present territory be left them.
while they in turn agreed to cease
agitation in other countries
But the moderates policy failed
to secure the longed-for peace. It
was then that the bolshevists turned
to Peters and Dershinsky (two of the
leading Red commissioners) with
their extreme policy which is to make
no peace until Europe and the world
is bolshevized. A majority of the
seviets Joined this movement. and for
three months they have been the real
government, with only nominal power
remaining in the hands of Lenin and
the other peoples eommissaries.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
YANKS IN PARIS URGED
! TO HELP L|THUAN|ANS
Rosy-Faced Gentleman With Per
suasive 0Eatory Pleads for
Doughboys to Join Legion.
By WILLIAM z. NASH.
y Gable to Fhe Star and Chicago
Daily News, Copyright, 1919.

~ Gable to Fhe Star and Chicago
Daily News, CeDyrfght, 1919.
PARIS. Franee August es.-In q
<Aisd-steFy suite Of 2 typical French
aDeTtnent house In the Rue Jean
GeQjen sits . persuasive rosy-faced
GeAtlemAn. who holds out glittering
heres to American doughboys still
fun sf Aght His proposition turns
ahsut . Lithuanian legion. under the
coptrel Of the Lithuanian govern
mAnt to be recruited among officers
and soldiers Of the American expedi-
tisaary force Here is the speech he
makes to all cemers:
"Iithuani1 10 menaced by foreign
foes. especially bolsheviki and Ger
mans She has no trained soldiers Of
her own and to repulse these enemies,
therefore, she must seek help abroad.
Encourages by the success of the
raise soldiers in America. The plan
has already gone beyond the stage of
mere theory. We have actually en-
listed 5000 soldiers in the United
States and are receiving more appli-
year, the Lithuanian government hav-
ine the option to retain them for
three years. The pay is low. it is true,
Only $l0 per month. but Just think
OF the honuHeS At the end! Each le-
63enAeiFe viii receive $1,000 after
tAFee years Of service and possibly
land grants ~ well.
sAMArican recruits win be led BY
American ofdcers. who will receive
pay equivalent to that Of the rank
fh1y held IN the American Army,
vAteh viii be Just under the one they
held In the Lithuanian legion.
Not only viii these soldiers fight
the bolsAsvtki. but they will also
start the great task Of westernizins
LthuAniA She has need Of American
easrsy and resoursefulness. Every Of
hcsF and soldier will be employed in
ths job best suited to his qualifica-
tioAs. even though this may not be
strictly military in character. If pos
sible ouy battalion will be widened
into Z division. II not. its ranks will
be alied by Lithuanians in Lithuania.
This IL really an opportunity which no
American endowed with a spirit of
adventure can afford to neglect.
Counting the $1,000 bonus his pay
win be better than that in the A E.
F. and will give him = splendid
chance to Sc new parts Of the world.
Finally. who knows whether he will
not grew rich on grants Of land in
"Hov many men have you enlisted
Ia P1riOr ] aAked.
:Aheut lso." he promptly replied.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
HUNS DECLINE TO ASK
|ALLIES TO POLICE SILESlA
Must Await Right Under Treaty,
Which Stipulates Plebiscite
There Is to Be Safeguarded.

PARIS. August 25.-Germany haa
declined to invite allied troops to po-
lice Silesia before they have that
right under the treaty, which stipu-
lates that they are to safeguard the
plebiscite there.
The Silesian situation is unsatisfac-
tory, and the Germans are reported to
be bringing about a recrudescence Of
the recent reign Of terror in that
province.
troops to Silesia came before the su-
preme council Saturday. dispatches
indicating that Germany was being
sounded on her willingness to permit
foreign troops to enter the district
for police purposes before the peace
treaty had been ratified.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
q. 3. VIEW OF TREATY TOPIC


PARIS. August - (Havas)-LA
Idesrte. commenting at length today
oa ~the efforts Of certain elements in
the Uaited States to have the peace
treaty with Germany rejected. says
the work of winding up the peace
conference must be hastened The
Newspaper adds: 1T America is to
withdraw her support from Europe
we do not see the meaning of her in
ordinate intervention in Hungary,
Rumania and elsewhere"
The Temps, in an editorial under
the title The First Break" deals
with the Shantung situation. The ar
ticle declares that there is nothing
to prevent France from concluding
with the United States an arrange
ment such as recently was suggested
before the Senate foreign relations
committee in Washington by Thomas
r. Ntllard adviser to the Chinese gov
afnnasnt. for mutual aid where the
territorial integrity Of China or the
principle Of the open door IL men
aeeA
Evening star., 1919-08-25
PHARMACISTS IN SESSION.
Question of Dispensing Liquor Un'
der Prohibition a Tonic.

NEW YORK, August 25.-The
American Pharmaceutical Association
met here today in it's sixty-seventh
annual convention. The question of
dispensing liquor under prohibition
will make the six-day session one of
the most important ever held by the
organization. Five hundred dele
gates from all parts of the country
are in attendance.
The Remington honor medal, given
annually to the member who makes
the most notable contribution toward
the advancement Of pharmacy in the
United States, will be awarded to-
night to Prof. James 81. Beal, dean
Of the College Of Pharmacy Of IL
linois
Evening star., 1919-08-25
AMERICANS CASE UNDECIDED
Missionary Charged With Having
Sheltered Korean Agitators.

SEOUL Korea. Thursday, August 21
(by the Associated Press>.-The su-
preme court. which heard the appeal
of the Rev. Eli Miller Mowry Of Mans
field, Ohio. a Presbyterian missionary,
from conviction on a charge of hav-
ing sheltered Korean agitators, has
reserved decision.
NJ Osawa, Mr.. Mowry's lawyer, ex-
pressed the opinion that the court will
either acquit Mr.. Mowry or order a
new trial In the court of appeals.
Late in April Of this year the Rev.
MFR. Mowry was found guilty Of shell
tering Korean agitators and was SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment at
hard labor. The decision was appealed
by him to the appeal court, which or
dered Mr.. Mowry to serve four
months penal servitude. but suspend
ed the sentence for two yeArs. Mr..
Mowry at once took an appeal to the
supreme court
Evening star., 1919-08-25

The cane. beet and maple are the
principal sugar producers. but there
are nearly 200 other plants and trees
] which contain sugar in their sap.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
GERMAN GLOOMY
ON MONEY CRISIS
Foreign Credits Only Saliva
ton, in Opinion of Finan-
ciaI Writer.

BERLIN, Saturday. August 23.-The
financial writer on the Lokal Anzeiger
takes a gloomy view of the financial
situation and the decreasing value OF
the mark. He points out that Ger
many has only 1,50o 100000 marks in
gold left in the Reichsbank and Of
this she cannot dispose. while the pa
per money now totaled 10000. .oo0. 900
marks, and more daily is being
printed.
only foreign credits will save
Germany from complete bankruptcy"
says the writer. If Finance Minister
Erzberger is able to induce foreign
credits to Germany then disaster can
be avoided"
American Financier's Threat.
The writer questions the ability of
the finance minister to obtain the
necessary credits. saying the accom-
plishment of this task is well nigh
impossible. He cites an alleged threat
of an American dnancier to remove
the mark quotation from the stock
exchanges of the world, declaring this
would make the mark utterly worth
less.
The dollar has been buying more
marks recently than ever. The quo
tation rose frome about ten marks
per dollar. the rate after the signing
of the armistice. to fourteen and If
teen marks. Here 1t stood for q time,
but recently it swung rapidly upward
and as high as twenty-four marks
were offered in Berlin for American
bills. The correspondent was in
formed at the Dresdner bank that on
an American draft he might surely
count on eighteen marks, and prob
ably more. per dollar.
Erzberger Plan Blamed.
Felix Pinner. the Tageblatt's fnan-
cia1 expert, admits that ErzberRers
plans are partly responsible for the
financial situation, but he calls at
tention to the heavy overlooking of
the foreign markets with German
money. giving, as an instance, Swift
zerland, where he says there are 2,000,-
100000 marks. or as much as Ger
many's paper circulation in peace
times. A similar situation exists in
Scandinavia and Holland. says Primer,
who adds that the entente powers
doubtless have picked up many mil
liens in occupied territory.
''The escape of the mark abroad and
its consequent depreciation" Pinner
declares, came about in two ways:
First. through payment for goods
emugg1ed through occupied territory.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
WOULD AMEND COVENANT.
Equal Rights League Wants Equal
ity for All Negroes.

BOSTON, August 25.-The Nationa I
Equal Rights League. through it's cor
responding secretary William NJ
Trotter Of this city. has sent a tele-
gram to Senator Lodge asking for a
hearing before the Senate foreign re-
lations committee. The league de-
sires to present it's views in support OF
an amendment to- the league of ma
tions covenant guaranteeing full pro-
lection of life and fun equality OF
rights to all negro citizens of the al
lied and associated nations.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
and, second. through Erzberger's
withdrawal ardArn

Plnner estimates that 5000. .000, 600
marks are abroad. He says havoc was
caused the value Of the mark when 1t
was proposed to stamp bills and in
validate those unstamped. The
the United States is the only saliva
tfen, and that unless the people work
and increase production they cannot
expect to induce credit to come to
Germany.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
]|LES|AN REPORTS
LIKE NEWS OF WAR
Correspondent Calls Situa-
ton Serious, eIf-Determi-
nation Being on Trial.
BY MICHAEL FARBMAN.
n Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News, Copyright. 1919.

d
Daily News, Copyright, 1918.
BERLIN. Germany. August 90 (via
Iopenhagen. Denmark, August 23).-
sewspaper reports from upper Silesia
sound like war communiques from the
i,attlefald. 'The conquest of Gief-
ehevald. Roadsin and schoppinitz
-ignihes the complete success of our
roops. Our soldiers fought bravely
spite Of the extraordinary strain.
he insurgents, using mainly ma
-hine gun fire, do not withstand seri-
us attacks. After storming the
Jikich mine the rebels hoisted the
white nag"
These are statements from the re-
;ponsible Berliner Tagebiatt. The
ensational newspapers are using still
more exciting expressions. One of the
'fi1cial war communiques issued most
ecently says, 'The Polish insurrec-
Jon has been suppressed
"No War in Upper silesia."
In spite Of all these warlike signs
II Is safe to say that there is ne war
IN upper Silesia- However, the situa-
tien Is very serious. and for special
-SASoAS oSIudIlOS IfcSc dtlciiN4Oii
throughout the world. for upper
Silesta is the district where the prin-
ciple of self f-determina ton is to find
its widest application The right Of
sslf-determination Is undoubtedly the
greatest and Ioftiest principle enun-
ct4ted in our time, and 1t is of interest
to the democratic world that its trial
in upper SileSia should take place in q
free and unprejudiced atmosphere.
When the peace conference con-
sented to the German demands for
plebiscite in upper Silesia it was cele-
bPated as a great democratic victory.
It also contributed to Germany's sub
mission to the peace treaty. Is now
self-determination in upper Silesia to
be discarded?
Principle Is Important.
Bndeniaey upper Silesia is very
snail and unimportant, but the prin-
ctpls involved is ali important The
world dsmecracies have nc interest
whatever in the social or national
conflicts in upper Silesia, but they
hsve the greatest concern that nobody
should be allowed to embarrass the
people in fresly exercising the right
Of self 1f-determination.
to prevent the free exercise of self
determination, and it is to the inter
eSt Of America above all to ensure
that these evil forces are cornbated
So while IL Is satisfactory to learn
that an entente commission is pro-
ceoding to upper Silesia. it Is disap-
psinting to dnd that America alone of
the big ave Is not represented at the
GNrman-Polish negotiations In Berlin.
Evening star., 1919-08-25
Widow Of Gen. Alger Dies.

DETROIT. Mich. August 25.-Mrs.
Annette Henry Alger, widow Of Gen,
Russell A. Alger. Secretary Of War
during President McKin1ey's admin
istration and former Governor of
Michigan, died at her home here yes
terday. at the age Of seventy-nine.
Evening star., 1919-08-25

Australia, New Zealand and Chill.
begin harvesting their wheat crops
in January.
Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-09-05

and not too much work
to prepare.
Seasoned c a b b a ee
With Meat.-Cut a me-
dium-sized cabbage into
halves and let it stand
an hour in cold water to
remove insects, if any.
Into a saucepan put one