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Soldiers Slack in Discipline and
Show Familiarity Toward
Officers.
OLD ARMY HAS DISAPPEARED
About 10000 Men Commanded by Hin
denburg About All That Remains
Of Great Host-Revoiutlon
Changes German Troops.

Berlin.-Under the new republic the
are no more. In name at least. The
republics name for them is defense.
and they are placed under charge of
Gustav Noske. much trusted by the
government for his prompt action in
emergencies, and much hated by the
Spartncans for his relentless opposi-
tion when disorders break out.
Noske's appointment as head of the
navy, as well as the army. was regard
ed none too seriously, by NOske him
self, nt least. When asked by news
paper man what he expected to do
about the naval affairs of Germany In
the future. Noske laughed and replied:
"Why worry about naval affairs. when
we haven't any navy?"
There are still sailors in big num-
bers in Germany, however, and they
have been a problem. During the revo-
luton the sailors played an important
part, and most of them developed such
u liking to land duty In Berlin and the
other big cities that they have refused
to leave for Kiel or any of the har-
guard regiments all over Germany,
along with soldiers.
Big Army Disappears.
The German army Is In process Of
reorganization. Immediately after the
armistice the army almost disappeared
as an organized unit, and though there
were millions of men in uniform scat
tered all over the land, none was re
sponsibIe to anyone, and officers were
not safe In uniform. In localities the
soldiers Joined Red guard" groups,
and some served and others misused
their privileges. Thus the army as 1t
was known in the old days practically
vanished, except for a few divisions
under Hindenburg, camped behind the
Rhine. and the troops along the Polish
border.
Now the only army of the field that
Germany has is in the east to guard
against the Poles. 1t is commanded
by Hindenburg and is supposed to be
not more than 10000 or 10000 men,
If 1t numbers that many. However,
government troops are scattered over
the country in every big city and in
industrial centers to guard against
disorders The big problem is keep
ing these troops faithful and salts
fled, when Spartacan propaganda and
money is at large. Under Noske and
the minister of war. Colonel Reinhard'
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JPPLY MORE NECTAR
FOR THE HONEY BEES
Sweet Clover Is Recognized as
Valuable Honey Plant.
Every Effort Should Be Made to Slim
uiate Production Of Substitutes
for Sugar - Authorities
Asked to Cooperate.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Let the sweet clover grow this year
in vacant lots along rOadsides and
along railway. .rights-Of-way until after
the blooming season. Thus provide
more nectar for the honey bees and
eventually more substitutes for sugar.
Sweet clover, recognized by beekeep-
ers for many years as valuable honey
plant, has been considered a weed in
many places. City, county, and rail-
way authorities as well as farmers
have cut the plants before the bloom
ing season, thus preventing them from
maturing seed.
II is admitted that sweet clover will
make vigorous growth If unmolested,
many of the plants reaching height
of feet, but 1t is not difficult to
eradicate, and sweet clover recently
has become well known as valuable
forage plant. Thousands of acres in
some sections of the country nre plant
ed annunly to grow forage crops and
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much hope of putting the theory into
effect, for 1t is pointed out that Ger
many will not abolish conscription un-
less the neighboring nations do. Since
the Germans do not expect their neigh
bors to depend on volunteers, plans
are being worked out for new con-
scription army, serving shorter periods
and modelled more after the Swiss
than the old Prussian army. The
militia idea Is popular. but Is consid-
cred idealistic.
The German army of interior de-
fense, which probably numbers around
a hundred thousand men. or possibly
a few thousand more, is an expensive
proposition. Volunteers have to be
paid well to keep them from being
won over by the Spartacans. who offer
more money. Food and equipment Is
good.
The new army has n rather slack
discipline, and none of the old Prus-
sian snap is seen when officers ap-
pear. Familiarity and almost inso-
lence are seen on every hand. The
German trooper has changed lot with
the revolution. and IL appearances are
at all indicative, the government
forces in Germany today are not to
be feared outside Germany.
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TT takes 10 years to build up a
championship ball club.
That's the way Charley Comiskey
figures 1t out, and Comiskey ought
to know. as he has built up several of
them.
1t takes about ten minutes to break
up winning organization, IL the man
who owns it can make deal that
quickly.
william #. Baker pulled the foundn-
ton from under his block house with
the stroke of pen. Baker had
near championship ball club in the
Phillies. n pennant winner in 1915
and n runnerup in 1915 and 1917.
Lost Two Stars.
The chief reason Baker had n pen
nant winner and contender was Gro
yer Cleveland Alexander, the greatest
pitcher in baseball. and Bill Killifer.
one of the greatest catchers. When
he lost them he lost more than Alex
ander's ability to win more than 30
games season and Killifer's ability
to catch more games than any other
receiver in the National league; he
lost the winning confidence of the rest
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BASEBALL
STORIES
Pitchers have two kinds Of control.
Good and government.

Pitchers have two kinds of control.
Good and government.
Earl Smith is catching extremely
well. His throwing to bases has pleas
ed McGraw very much.
The st. Louis Cardinals have releas-
ed Pitcher Elmer Knight to Little
Rock of the Southern league.
They never quit. For instance,
there is Josh Devore playing the out
field for the Kansas City Blues.
Billy Meyer, second baseman. last
year with Waco in the Texas league,
has been signed by the Mobile club.
First Baseman Wally Plpp of the
Yankees is said to be about twenty
pounds heavier than he was last year.
Percy Haughton. ex-presldent of the
Boston National league club. has an
nounced his retirement as football
coach.
Pitcher Bill Fincher, formerly Of the
st. Louis Browns and turned over to
Little Rock, is back from overseas as
sergeant. ;
The Washington Americans are try
ing out Shortstop Davis, who was with
the Wichita club of the Western
league before the war.
Lee Fohl is much taken with the
work of Harry Lunte on third base
and says the Indians are safe on that
corner, Gardner or no Gardner.
Frank Delaney, young soldier
catcher signed by Manager Charley
frank of Atlanta, has been traded to
Memphis for Outfielder Pete Allison.
Promoters of the New England
league further advanced their organ
ization by electing John d. Donnelly
of Lowell. president for two-year
term.
The trip of the Cubs to California
this year has been something Of
novelty-not one of the stockholders
went along to tell how a training camp
should be conducted.
Rube Schauer. having become prop
erly repentant and restored to good
standing by the national commission.
has been released by Connie Mack TO
the Minneapolis Millers.
Manager Barrow gives his men NIL
sorts of talks. Many of them are not
exactly along baseball lines, but Billy
Sunday would applaud freely If he
could sit in and listen.
The Baltimore club announces the
sale of First Baseman Pug Griffin to
Memphis of the Southern league. Joe
Slattery held out for more pay ON
Memphis and this Is bis answer.
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of the ball players on his team.
There's a lot Of psychology in base
ball. Imagine. II you will. the conf
dence of n ball club going into the
field with Alexander, in top form. In
the box and Killifer behind the bat.
Figures do not lie and they show
that Alexander wins three games out
of four he pitches. These ball play
ers know that they have only one
chance in four of losing with him
and play up to the confidence that
knowledge breeds.
Took Away Confidence.
So inside from losing "A pitcher who
would add in the neighbOrhood OF 20
victories to the clubs season totals.
Baker took away confidence that
would bring other victories.
This fact is one. of baseball's first
axioms.
In 1914 Connie Mack stripped his
American league champions of half
dozen stars. Since then the Ath-
Ietlcs have finished poor last.
The great Cub machine was
broken into n pltiful selling platter
after winning a pennant.
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prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
This is a "locust year." and the
usual popular fear and misapprehen-
sion attend.
People in that large part of the
United States over which the periodi-
cal cicada will appear are disposed,
as always, to apprehend greater dam
age than will Occur--many times
greater. OF the remainder of the
United States, large sections are under
another Misrepresentation, which Is that
the insect about to appear is the real
locust that sometimes comes In dew
astating hofdes, sweeping across
large sections of country and devour-
ing every green thing. The latter mis-
apprehension is, perhaps, the more
widespread and disquieting, according
to entomplogists of the United States
departmeEy Of agriculture. People who
have had experience with the real To-
Gust and the ruin it works never forget,
and the word locust" even though
II be a misnomer, is likely to be II
signal for dread.
Now, the periodical cicada, com
IlOUlN tulltu ioNuob t'AN
insect that will appear in p states
this spring-is not n locust ut all. 1t
is cicada, member of the family of
cicudi!ae and akin to the dog-day
cicada, harvest fly, or dry-weather fly.
The real locust-the devastating kind
lis grasshopper.
The periodical cicada. miscalled To-
Gust, is strictly an American insect.
The real locust, commonly called grass
hopper, occurs in many parts of the
world and has had its place in history
for thousands of years. There are
many species. The schistocerca pere-
grina is the one that plagued the Egyp-
tians and probably the one on which
John the Baptist fed. The one that
has sometimes ravaged the great plains
and other sections of the United States
ie the melanoplus spretus, a related
Jpecies.
Have Little Uncommon.
The real locust or grasshopper and
the so-called locust or periodical cicada
have very little in communicating,
In fact, except that both occur in large
numbers and both occasionally have
been used as human food, the former
mostly by certain peoples of the near
East and the Inter by the American
Indians.
The real locust is an indiscrimnate
eater, grain fields, corn fields. mead
ows, pastures, weed patches-every-
thing falls before him. The periodical
cicada or so-called locust is dainty al
most beyond belief. 1t was long be-
'lieved that this insect in the adult
stnge took no nourishment at ALL On
rare occasions it had been observed
with its beak apparently thrust into
rwlgs. but it was not until II years
ago, the last previous appearance of
the large brood that comes out this
year, that 1t was definitely determined
that this belief was erroneous. The
'x17-year locust" does eat while In the
Nalt stage, but its diet Is confined 10
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1000 Murdered
by the BOlsheviki

servants of the church, which latter
1t was the announced intention of the
bOlsheviki to exterminate.
The evidence discloses almost un-
thinkable atrocities. A blacksmith. by
economies, had attained shop. He
was required to pay 5000 rubles; be-
cause he could not, he was shot. A
man was shot because he lived In a
brick house. All attorneys and 5urists
were killed, and doctors, whose serv.
ices were not required for the moment.
were disposed of in a similar manner.
A woman whose HUSBAND and two
sons had been seized applied to the
commissar for Information as to their
fate. She was told they had been
taken p Perm. After repeating her
visit several times she was informed
that If she bothered the commlssar
again she would be shot, as they had
been.
The body of woman was eXhumed
and identified in the presence of the
Americans as the wife of n general
through jewels sewed in the lining of
her clothing, of which relatives were
aware. Another woman was compelled
TO fetch lamp and gaze upon her
murdered sons for the amusement of
the slayers.
A wife required to pay 1000 rubles
for the release of her husband bor-
rowed 500 and paid it over; later she
returned with the remainder, and then
was Informed that her husband had
| been shot. There were scores of SINH
lar cases All were killed without any
form of trial.
The soviet called a meeting and pre-
pared lists of those to die. The houses
prescribed were visited by squads. the
doors were smashed In, and the vic
| tins dragged to the edge of the town
| and forced to dig their own graves.
Those who resisted were shot in the
| streets.
A survivor testified that he had seen
men thrown into pit and buried
alive. This testimony has been CON
firmed by bodies exhumed, the clenched
hands of which were clinging to the
mud at the bottom of the pit.
The only spark of humanity discov'
able was that in cOnfiscating the be-
Iongings of the residents. In some In
stances where there was family of
small children, the family was permit
ted to retain one COW out of several.
Occasionally a peasant was allowed 10
keep his worst horse.
The bolshevik attitude toward the
church was uncompromising. Priests
were hunted numerically. The evi-
.ha that m slain
whose only offense was that they
worked as sections or caretakers of
churches.
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association. He was playing great
ball, and several major league teams
were after him.
Weeghmnn set out to get the player
at any price. He finally did secure
him for something like $4,000.
Workman Joined the Cubs late In
the season three years ago. He
fielded well in the fall, but hit little
or nothing. But Weeghman waited
another year before passing judg-
ment.
The next season Workman showed
clearly that he was not of major
league caliber, so the Cubs had to
go out and dig up Charley Hollocher.
Workman WINS carried all last year.
But he figured in few games. Now
he is back in the American assocla-
tion.
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|Germany's New
Army Lacks Snap

the morale and discipline of the gov
ernment troops have improved tremen-
dously until a great part of the for
mer efficiency is restored.
Depends on Peace Terms.
Germany's army is in a transitory
state. What 1t will become depends
upon the peace terms, the Germans
recognize. But there has evidently
been a change In idea In the govern
ment. Early in the revolution Ebert
declared himself against conscripted
army, and Noske and Reinhard were
appointed to organize volunteer forces,
serving for short periods, to defend
the new government. As Il matter of
fact the troops used for interior de-
fense are all volunteers. mostly young
men, serving for three or six months
at good pay.
The policy of the new republic will
be against conscription in theory, de
clares President Ebert, but there is not
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results have justified the rapidly in
creasing acreage.
The United States must not only in
needs, but must ship an increased
quantity to the allies. Every effort
should be made this year to stimulate
production of substitutes for sugar. In
localities where sweet clover Is grow
Ing abundantly, city. county, and rail-
way officials are asked to cooperate
with beekeepers and see that all we'll
known nectar-producing plants. and es-
pecially sweet clover, are not cut until
after the blooming period. This plan
was practiced In at least one locality
last year with gratifying results. and
1t is hoped that all sweet clover grow
Ing within n mile of colonies of bees
will be permitted to stand until after
the blooming period this year.
Sweet clover not only produces an
abundant flow of nectar over a long
period but does not begin to bloom un-
nectar flowing is nearly over. thus
supplying an abundance of nectar
when few nectar-producing plants are
in bloom. Owners of bees are advised
to make every effort to bring the i'm
portance of sweet clover to the atten-
tion of officials In charge of moving
plants In vacant lots; along roadsides,
and along the rights-of-way of rail-
ways. and to endeavor to have the
moving of such places where sweet
clover is growing delayed until the
Towering period is past. BY hearty Co
operation to this end, the department
says the production of honey can be
considerably Increased this year.
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STORY OF CLASSIC BLooMER
shortstop Workman for Whom Chi
eaeo Cubs Paid $4,000 is Back
With American Association.

ShOrtstop Workman has drifted back
to the American association. He will
be with Columbus this year.
Behind this news Is the story Of n
classic bloomer of baseball.
Several years ago. Charley Weegh,
man, who had just broken into the
National league from the Feds by
purchasing the Chicago Cubs, started
to build up his club. Since the pass
ing of Joe Tinker the crying need of
the team has been capable short
stop.
Workman was playing with the
Kansas City club of the American
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the juices of plants. sucked out in very
small quantities and without causing
appreciable injury To plants.
So far as periodicity of outbreaks Is
concerned, the real locust or grass
hopper Is law unto itself. The hordes
may appear any years or not at all.
Tie hordes of the "17-year locust" or
periodical cicada appear with regu-
larity that would almost put to shame
n government clock. In spite of their
extremely slow development under
ground the multiplied millions of In
dividuals reach maturity and emerge
almost Mt the same moment nnd ex-
actly II years from the date of the
previous appearance-that is. II they
are of the 17-year race. There is IL
year race of the periodical cicada. But
it is just as regular, just as exactly on
schedule. as the other one.
Real Locust a Nomad.
The real locust is sort of nomhdic
militant. Its hordes, like those of Atil-
Ia the Hun or of Genghis Khan, sweep
hither and yon, always on the move,
destroying as they go. The so-cailed
| 17-year locust or cicada is home
body. Stevenson's lovable character.
"WiIl o. the Mill" did not stick so
closely to his birthplace as does the
periodical cica6a. Literally, he abides
always under his own vine and fig
tree" The tree from which any In
dividual cicada dropped as newly
Matched larva II years ago is the ex-
act tree under which he will emerge
this spring, up which he will most
likely crawl to cast his pupal skin, and
in which he will meet his mate and
| sing his love song. In which he VIII
pass his days of decrepitude. and from
i which. in few weeks. his dead body
will fall, almost upon the spot where
he-as larva-fell II years before
and burrowed into the ground. Where
the periodical cicada came into exist
ence, there he spends his days and
dies.
Injury by Insects.
| Every crop suffers from the rnvnges
of the real locust. Only trees suffer
at all from the 17-year locust, and
only very young fruit and ornamental
trees are likely to be severely injured.
Methods of preventing or minimizing
| this loss have been worked out ana
published by the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
| The insect itself can accomplish
COMPARATIVELY little damage. but fear
| of the insect may accomplish great
deal. particularly If it is based upon
a confusion of the cicadn-locust with
the grasshopper-locust. Men. believing
that the grasshoppers are to eat up
their crops this spring. might refrain
from planting certain things. 1t is
important. therefore. that the confu-
sion be cleared up, that 1t he definitely
understood ,by everybody that "the II
year locust In 1919" means the periodi-
cal cicada and not hordes of grass
hoppers.
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Milk Can Causes Dean.

Lawton, Okla.-W. S. Mantooth.
twenty-five, a well-known young far
mer near here. was Instantly killed
when IL milk can several boys were
using as boiler exploded. Some
boys were using the milk can as
the boiler of an improvised engine,
and Mr.. Mantooth stopped to warn
them that they had too much steam
up. Just then the boiler let go. The
big can, weighing thirty pounds. nit
him between the eyes.
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Aliens Quit Country

live in his native land in greater ease
than he ever enjoyed before. Since
April 2, when all outgoing passengers
were forced to pay their income taxes
before leaving. more than s6s,00O has
been collected.
Byron II. Newton, collector of the
port, who has been asked by members
of the United States senate and house
immigration committee to reduce the
exodus to statistics, said today more
than 90 per cent of the aliens are
Italians, and that something ought to
be done to check the outflow"
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shown by the fact that more than 6OOO
French women have been wooed and
won by American soldiers within one
year. The majority of the French
girls who have become Americans
through marrying American officers
and men are stenographers, salesgirls,
teachers and sprinkling of peasant
girls and those of the middle class Or
bourgeoisie. The romances are In mos,
cases very similar.
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MAJOR Won KoLNITz QUITS
Former White Sox Infielder Is Through
With Professional Baseball
Goes Into Business.

While the Brooklyn Dodgers were
ashore ,at Charleston recently they
ran into Maj. Won Kolnitz, whose
home is In that southern town. Won
Kolnitz. who leaves the service as a
brevet lieutenant colonel, will not re-
port to the White Sox. lie is through
with professional baseball pnd will go
into business with his father in Eas-
ton, Pa. "von" gave the boys a royal
time In Charleston.
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U. S. Red Cross Agents Tell Of
Reds Atrocities in
Siberia.
Dig OWN PITS; BURIED ALIVE
Murders Were Without Provocation
and the Victims Were Largely OF
Thrifty or Intelligent Glasses
or Servants Of Church.

Omsk.-Indisputable evidence of the
massacre by the bolshevih of more
than 1000 civilians in and near the
town of Osa has been obtained by
Messrs. Simmonds and Emerson and
DIR. Rudolph Teusler of the American
Red Cross, who have just returned
from Perm, Osa and other re-occupied
Russian territory. Approximately 300
persons were killed at Osa and LOU
in the surrounding districts.
Osa, which had population OF lo'-
600, was so denuded of males by the
bolsheviki that General Casagrande,
upon the occupation of the town. was
Obliged to telegraph to Ekaterinburg
for men to administer civic affairs.
Dogs Dig UP Bodies.
In addition to securing verbal and
documentary evidence the American
Red Cross officials witnessed the ex'
huming of scores of victims from
trenches, where they were buried
sometimes several deep in graves re-
vealed by the digging of dogs.
The murders were without proyoca'
ton, and the victims were largely OF
the thrifty and Intelligent classes oil
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Less Than 1000 Yanks
Lost Arms or Legs.

Washington, ID. C.-Nearly A.
900 officers and enlisted men in
the American expeditionary
forces lost arms or Logs In the
war with Germany, according to
statistics furnished by the bu-
renu of war risk insurance,
which Is now interested in bring
Ing about changes in the law fix
ing compensation for MANNED
soldiers. sailors, and marines.
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CUPID BUSY DURING WAR
Six Thousand French Women Were
Wooed and Won by Yanks In
One Year.

Paris, France.-That Cupid was
nearly as busy as Mars with the MEM
bers of the American expeditionary
force and that romance bloomed In
France in spite of wars alarms Is