The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 4

_ THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE (C2 atlas lsat aaa Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. ISSUED EVHRY DAY QWORGE PD. NANN eile i ercks @. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY, Special Foreign Representative. NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Bldg.; CHICAGO, Marquette Bldg.; |, 3 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege Bldg.; MINNHAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. ‘The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news credited to it or not other- wise credited in this paper and algo the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ara algo reserved (MUMBHK AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULA‘ )N. 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It is indisputable that government war finane- ing has practically closed the investment market to other financing and rendered it almost impossible for corporations to obtain money, save at highly excessive rates, the interest rate of Liberty Bonds is not attractive. Moreover, with over $500,000,000 worth of public utility and other corporations indebt- edness maturing this year, the refunding. of such, at high interest rates is very likely to seriously inter- fere with flotation of Liberty Bonds, among the big money men, at least. : But what is the general aspect of this proceeding. Is it not, in short, simply lifting the badly managed, over-capitalized corporations out of the hole they’ve dug for themselves, as -in the instance of the rail- roads? ‘If so, where is the end of it? Where is the limit? Is the ‘money of all of us always to be used to rescue the few of us who have made poor invest- ment in corporations? Government (all of us) takes over the railroad corporations, guarantees dividends, agrees to spend, hundreds of millions in their maintenance and re- habilitation, and the senate has just passed a bill to return them to the corporations in better shape than ever within 18 months after the war. This certainly is not heading toward government ownership but in exactly the opposite direction, and the War Fini Corporation measure is simply extension of this policy to street car lines, lighting and power plants, industrial and rercantile corporations, all privately- owned public-serving concerns upon which the move- ment for public ownership has been directed. Naturally, the high financiers are opposed to the War Finange Corporation measure. If they have a ready market for their loans at 15 per cent, they don’t want to see the government financing corpora- tion beggars at 6 per cent. Naturally, too, if interest rates are high and the demand strong, Liberty Bonds at ; 4 or 5 per cent, are not as attractive as they might otherwise be. ‘We are bound to have faith that the secretary of the treasury is uninfluenced by any consdieration save what he is convinced is for the best interests of the country. But this War Finance Corporation certainly has its dubious as well as good features and unless safeguarded by reliable lock, stock, barrel and load, is as likely to go off at the touch-hole as the muzzle. 3 NOT NOW, NOR NEVER Senator Brown is again to the front with his proposition to tear down the well-won protective leg- islati has been thrown aroun hild labor, wen! cht labor ds essen tial to war work. This proposition may have as many lives as a cat but we purpose to hit it nine times running, if neces- sary. Make no mistake, this infernal thing has backing. There are still profiteers in this country who would put their grandmothers in a yoke to do the plowing, were there percentage of money gain in it, and they are powerfulenough to get and work their own representation in congress. True, it has been found that child labor is an essential in this war, and the children most assuredly are at work. here is hardly a school in all this land whose children are not knitting and raising funds for Red Cross and war stamps. It is solid, substantial and strenuous war work. But it means pleasure, jus- tifiable pride and patriotism to the child. It means a higher citizenship in the future. It is work that uplifts, solely. We are conscripting our men between the ages of 21 and 31 for war work. Before we conscript the children for war work, before we return them to the lash of task-master in field or-factory, we'll conseript and offer upon the altar of sacrifice ali our men be- tween the ages of 21 and 81. Not until all American manhood is represented by a vast heap of sacrificial ashes will we return to robbery of children of child- hood for. private profit, war or otherwise. It is even shameful, a reproach upon our national legislature, that, in this ‘time of critical issue between civiliza- tion and barbarism, there is'any necessity at all to diseuss the matter. _. MORE HIDES; HIGHER SHOES Have you been paying more for shoes? Wi think you have. : ay i Says F. E. White, vice president of Armour & Co,: “‘The price of hides is not responsible for the high price of shoes.” ceording to the big packers and Atto! Fran- eis Heney, who is after them: eigen The quantity of hides stored by the five large ago packers increased 45 per cent since early in Prices increased from 75 to 100 per cent. The AE AER NOT ALTOGETHER CALAMITOUS Lord Rhondda, England’s food controller, says that exaggerated views about the food situation, in his country, increase the public demand for foods that are short. : Very likely, lord, but, while it may be bad for war food conservation, its human nature and other sorts of nature, There’s a heap of No. 1 in humans, “Shortage usually augments the des As a rule, we put the high valuation on things we’ve lost, or cannot get. If everybody could wear a diamond, you’d see some other stone heading the list of desirables in gems. Isn’t it the shortage that makes all things precious? The Englishman, like other humans, is so constituted, psychologically, that the mere idea that he cannot have roast. beef makes him hungry for roast beef, especially. Why does the foolish little fish bite at the angle worm which poorly conceals the deadly hook? Be- eause i’ts the only angle-worm in sight and he’s afraid that some other fellow will get it. We’ve seen him do it with ‘his insides already jammed full of angle-worm. Read roast beef for angle-worm, and | you have one explanation of the human side of it. But, is it a bad thing that we’re continually going after things that are short? Not altogether. We might still be picking nuts from the hazel bushes and acorns from the oak. It will be a quiet, sort of over-done form of civilization, when the folks quit going hard after the things that are hard to get. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has written a magazine saying ministérs should have not only a seminary training, but ‘‘should spend months, years possibly, working with his hands in the fields or the shop,”’ to acquire a practieal knowledge of human | That’s the way young Rockefeller gained all his, isn’t it? —wearing overalls, doing manual labor and getting real dirt on his hands. International Custom Cutters have decided men’s clothes this year will not have belts, pleats, cu big patch pockets or any other unecessary frills. The decision was first made by tailors a year ago, thus accounting for the few frills we see today— wot? A Cleveland bartender who worked 30 years for one man and in that time never took a drink has bought his bo: saloon, say newspapers. Will some 10-year-old boy please point out what information in the foregoing is superfinous? | __ WITH THE EDITORS. | THE NEW WHEAT PRICE SCHEDULE. President Wilson has used the authority vested in him by the food control act to establish a guar- anteed price for the 1918 crop of wheat in the lead- ing markets throughout the country. These prices so closely approximate those for the 1917 crop that, for all purposes, they may be regarded as identical. The president’s announced guarantee is consid- erably below the figures proposed in the bills offered in congress—figures that farmers generally hoped might be adopted—but Mr. Wilson apparently has no fear that his action will not be accepted in patri- otic good part by the wheat producers of the coun- try. He relies with the utmost confidence on ‘‘the spirit of our farmers’ to go ahead and sow spring wheat on a large scale, taking it for granted they will disclose as fine soldierly qualities as the men who are volunteers or conscripts for service under arms. There is every reason to believe his expectations will be fulfilled, that the farmers will give at least tacit approval to the new schedule, and that the pending bills in congress will make no further head- way. It may be said of the president’s action that it will cause a minimum'of damaging disturbance to the marketing of grain, to the flour, bread, profit and wage program and to the immediate business of supplying the nations abroad with food. There should now be a more healthy flow of grain to manu- facturing centers and a prompt-settling of plans by the farmers of the northwest for an extensive 1918 wheat acreage. The president promises the farmers all possible stanee in the planting and garnering of their crops. keep necessary labor on the farms, and if it ean be done without serious interference with military. ac- tivities, the men in camps and cantonments. will be drawn upon for emergency service in the fields, __ Mr? Wilson is not so convincing as he might be in explaining why price-determination has been ap- plied only to wheat among the cereals, but perhaps he has reasons which he did not cite for believing the price problem as related to other grains will yield to solution without further government inter- ference.—Minneapolis Tribune. uss GERMANY’S ‘‘PLACE IN THE SUN.” In the white, unquenchable light that beats upon the bar of human justice the United States and its allies have taken their stand in support of the sim- ple principle that no man or nation has the right to govern another by force, corruption or chicane. They reaffirm the essential equality of all men and deny that any agency ever gave any one man, na- tion, class, caste or creed the right to deprice any peaceful and honest individual of his liberty of ac- tion or the fruits of his toil. _ Standing within this light the democratic allies invite full and pitiless serutiny of their acts and motives. They demand that Germany stand forth also, concealing nothing, masking nothing, of its motives and aims. But whereas the democracies have nothing to fear from the fullest publicity, the greed for power and loot that has enslaved Germany and its allies to a bloodstained oligarchy can never be gratified in the light. They require darkness and evil plotting up to the hour that they are ready to fal] upon their chosen prey with the sword, Prussia’s junkers know that to accept the prin- ciple of the right of self-government would be to free not only the several peoples of the ployglot Aus- trian empire, held in bondage against their wills, but would give freedom to the long deluded German people themselves from the dspotism that has set them apart from the confidence and the sympathies of mankind. _ But here is the light before the bar of human jus- x of cattle killed increased 22 per cent in last year. Embargoes cut off foreign trade and from Argentine inereased the hide supply. United States; nevertheless Swift & Co., sold 20 per cent more hides during 1917 than es a 8 = oe jmany must take : hence: tice. Here is the answer to the junkers’ hypocri- 'tieal whine for ‘‘a place in the sun.’’ If Germany desires a place with the rest of mankind Germany may have it—by abandoning the despotism of mur- der nd. malice that has been its incubus-since me- dieval times, and by renouncing its mad claims to being. ruled by a chosen and superior race. Ger- ha legitimate part in perish in its ca ag cM The new draft regulations are designed to! insane or WAR AND RAIL FINANCE TAKE DAY'S SESSION Congress Slowly Works Toward Solution of Larger War Problems RATE POWER IN DODBT Resolution Leaving Rate Fixing to Commerce Commis- sion Fails Washington, D. €,, Feb. 27.—While the senate was beginning debate to- day on the administration pill to cre- ate a war finance corporation with au- thorized resources of $4,500,000.00, the house continued to make slow pro- gress on the administration measure governing federal control of the rail- roads. Indications tonight were that both bills would be passed ‘Thursday. Alien Slacker Bill Up. The alien slacker bill is a special order in the house tomorrow and as unanimous consent to continue con- sideration of the railroad measure was refused, the latter measure will go over until Thursday. After voting down an amendment ‘to reduce the railroad revolving. fund from » $500,- 000,000 to $200,000,000, the house spent the entire day debating the. section giving the president rate making au- thority. A final vote was postponed until Thursday, when Representative Sweet of Jowa had called for tellers after a rising vote was counted, 90 to 83 against an amendment to leave rate fixing power to interstate com- merce commission., Simmans Champions Measure. In opening debate in the senate on the finance corporation bill, Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, chairman of the finance- committee, said the legislation was neressary because the government must control the money market in order to finance the war. He denied that the measure would cause inflation of currency. ‘With assurances of bi-partisan sup- port, Chairman Simmons, expects the senate to pass the measure probably Thursday, and certainly by the end of the week. Consideration of it in the house is to begin immediately after the railroad bill is passed, the house ways and means committee now being at work on the measure with prospects of an early report, ‘i 4 Wants Uninfluenced Members. Some revision of the measure is ex- pected in both the senate and house. Senator Hale, of Maine, republican, introduced an amendment requiring the corporation to make monthly re- ports to congress and Senator Hollis, of New Hampshire, democrat, declar- ed he would oppose the provision au- thorizing the corporation to issue $4,- 090,000 in bonds and would insist that directors of the organization have no personal connection with any financial institution. In urging the pill’s importance, Sen- | ator Simmons said there is today ab- solutely no market to which industrial corporations can go for capital to pro- vide for enlargements or to take care of maturing obligations. Capital Would Not Object. Senator Kellogg, of Miinesota, repub- lican, said that when the finance com- mitte was considering the measure the only representatives of industry to ap. pear were officials of public utilities corporations. In admitting this, Sena- tor Simmons suggested that from this fact it was to be assumed that there was no objection to the bill in the business and industrial world. Sen- ator Kellogg replied that it was com- monly known that representatives of “broken down public utilities corpora- tions have been hanging around Wash- ington for weeks, asking for govern- ment assistance.” $40,000: PAID: FARMERS NEAR NEW ENGLAND National Union Fire Insurance Co. Pays Disputed Drouth Claims in Hettinger New England, N. D., Feb. 27.—Forty thousand dollars in drafts from the National Union Fire Insurance Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., havebeen deposited with the Security State bank of New England to make good drouth losses in this district. A. settlement was af- fected last week between Attorneys Harvey J. Miller and Charles Simon of New England, representing the farm- ers, and Nathan A. Chage of Minne- apolis, western attorney, for the insur- ance company. The latter had declin- ed to pay losses on risks which it had insured up to $7 the acre on the grounds that these policies were taken out after the crops. insured, had been burned out by hot winds. The settle- ment finally made is liberal enough to satisfy a majority of the farmers, and the money, coming in in a lump at this time, will help materially with the purchase of seed. SAYS POWER OF PRESIDENT FOR WAR IS ALRIGHT ‘ aa Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. | 27. claring there is no cause:fe ‘Stdrm in confering vast: powers upon'President Wilson for war purposes, Senator James E. Watson, republican of In- diana, in an address before the manu- facturer’s association here Tuesday, sald the only. danger would ‘be in fail- ing to lim{t this power to the period of the war. f e “Many are alarmed Jest we drift into autocracy,” said the senator, “but very ‘much depends upon’ the presi- dent’s intentions in asking the power. and the length of time for which it is bestowed: ‘If we confine the term and operation of this authority to the period “of the ‘war, there 27.—De- there gi cause for’ appraben “This bestowal of power upon the president in wartime and for war pur- poses is not dangerous, and much of it ig necessary. But to bestow this uu- thority upon him and expressly, pro- vide that it shall continue long after the war is over, is precisely the same as if he had sought this great author- ity long before the war began.” GLENDIVE IS QUAKE CENTER Earth Tremors- Believed Due. to Breaking Up of Yellow- stone Ice The Northern Pacific. operator at Glendive called up the Bismarck sta- tion Tuesday evening reporting a vio- lent earthquake of three second’s dur- ation, and asking the railway office here to ascertain whether the quake had been recorded at the North Da- kota headquarters of the weather. bu- reau here. \ Weather Observer O. W. Roberts advises that the ‘Bismarck weather bureau boasts no siesmograph, and that the nearest point at which such a quake might be recorded is Denver. Mr. Roberts is inclined to believe the | tremors were caused by the breaking up of huge masses of ice in the Yel- lowstone. The shock, he reports, is frequently of sufficient severity to cause quakes extending over a limited territory. The tremors, Glendive reports, were very noticable and were commented upon by citizens on the streets at the time. The hour was 5 p..m., west- ern time, Large buildings quivered, says the report, and the populace gen- erally sustained a severe fright. MRS. STOKES SAYS“ NEGRO STOLE HER $30,000 JEWELRY Dining Car Waiter Charged With Theft of Fortune in Baubles New York, N. Y., Feb. 27.—Henry ‘ Williams, of Buffalo, a dining car wait- er, was held here today for ‘the grand jury on the charge of having stolen ; $30,000 worth of jewelry from Mrs. W. E, D. Stokes of this city while she was coming by train from Denver. last October, The police allege that Wil- |liams, arrested in Buffalo Saturday, was found to have pawned there for $133 some jewels ‘which were identi- fied by Mrs. Stokes as belonging to her., Williams claimed he purchased them in: Buffalo from another. negro who said they had been smuggled into this country from Canada. ARCHBISHOP OF . PHILA: IS DEAD Philadelphia, Pa. Feb. 27—The most Rev. Edmond Francis Prender- gast, archbishop of Philadelphia, died at the Arch-Episcopal residence here Tuesday of diabetes. He was stricken ‘on December 15 last and had been onfined to his bed virtually ever since. He was in his 75th year. ;ONE CADET DEAD, ANOTHER INJURED IN PLANE CRASH Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 27.—William J. Weissinger, of ‘Bueno Vista, Miss., a cadet, was killed and Wm. C, Storey, of Freeport, N. Y., also a cadet, was probably fatally injured when the air- plane in which they were making flights at ~Park field, near Memphis, collided Tuesday and feJl a. distance of about 1,000 feet. FRENCHMEN BRING SUB CHASER INTO PORT IN’ SAFETY Washington, D. C,, Feb. 27.—Secre- tary Daniels announced the news in this statement: “I was delighted to receive a mes- sage Tuesday telling of the arrival in port of an American built submarine chaser which became separated from her escort in the terrific gale of Janu- ary 15, had’ not beer’ reported since that, time, /and: which we feared: was lost. This was one of the 110 foot boats which we are turning over. to the French government, and was man- ned by & French crew which saved the craft by a remarkable feat of naviga- tion. POLITICAL PRACTICE OF RAILROAD PROBED Feb: 2’ Washington, 7.— Another chapter was added Tuesday to theshis- tory of the interstate commerce com- mission’s investigation into past polit- ical and financial ‘practices of the Louisville & Nashville railway, by the pudlic declaration ‘of Milton H. Smith, president of the road,’that his' com- pany had made a number of expendi- tures for political purposes in south- ern states before 1915. In a deposition made public by the interstate commerce commission Mr. Smith answered categorically nine questions relating to political expen- ditures, to which he had refused re- plies while under examination by Joseph W. Folk, former\chief counsel of the tommission, durigg the public inquiry in ‘May, 1916. ‘Thus he com- plied with the order of the supreme court last Novefnber, holding that the commission had. authority, to inquire into practically all expenditures of a tailway company. CONFEREES APPROVE (CIVIL RIGHTS BILL “1s, Tio’ just for alarm. But if ‘we confer. it} No changes. Jong ‘after’ the war, then 13) tant.7 AMERICANS GET ,the packing industry to be placed at | tion com8piracy,. was started yest. SWEET REVENGE Return Fire. of Hun Foes and Blow Up Large Enemy Dugout With the American Army in France, Feb. 27.—The American artillery Mon- day retaliated against the German ar- tillery which had been shelling them, but which, notwithstanding the inten- sity of the fire, did no damage and wounded only one man. The Americans began by shelling Montsec, where buildings were des- troyed. They also effectively shot up a large working party in a dugout, from which cries for help were heard. The enemy today concentrated his fire on a certain town within the Ameri- can lines. i ‘The weather cleared today and there was much aerial activity. Sev- eral fghts in the air occurred over and behind the American line, and in ad- dition the American anti-aircraft guns were firing all day long. Enemy planes attacked a sausage balloon in which an American captain was acting. as observer. The balloon was hauled down hurriedly without having been damaged. FOOD WORKERS SAID TO BE TOOLS OF BIG PACKING COMPANIES{ Chicago, Fe, 27—With the an- nounced intention of showing that the big Chicago packers had taken steps immediately after the entrance of the United States into the war to place men in the food administration, prior | to its creation, who would not allow a. disadvantage, Francis J. Heney, in charge of the. federal investigation of the packing industries ‘Monday reai voluminous letters seized from files of the packers before United States Commissioner Joseph Davies, Would -Protect Packers’ Charge. Mr. Heney declared later in the day that at least six men who drew sal- ‘aries from the packing companies and their subsidaries were holding import- ant posts in the food administration. These men, he indicated, were placed in the food administration for no oth- er purpose than the head off any, ac- tion which would be detrimental to the packers. ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP SHIPYARDS IS FOILED BY GUARD Employe Picks Up Bomb and Hurls It Out of Danger Just Before Explosion Newburgh, N. Y., ‘Feb. 27.—An at- tempt to blow up. machinery. in the plant of the Newburgh Shipyards Co, hoe here: today was frustrated but only ‘after a guard had picked up a bomb and hurled it out of danger. It ex- ploded and did some damage, but no: enough to delay: work at the plant. TWO BOLSHEVIKI REGIMENTS: ARE TAKEN BY HUNS Berlin, (British Admiralty per Wire- less Press), Feb. 27.—German troops advancing north of. Dorpat yesterday captured two Russian regiments as they were retreating, the German gen- eral staff announced today. After a great many violent duels in the air on the western front on Tues- day, says today’s war office state- ment, the Germans brought down fif- teen entente aeroplanes, and threv captive balloons. NO ONE FOUND ON BOARD RED CROSS WRECK St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 27.—Men from the steamer Terra Nova, who boarded the Red Cross lner Floritzel, afte> word reached shore today that signals had been o»served on the ship rapidly breaking up on the rocks near Cape Race, declared there was no living person aboard. Every part of the ves- sel remaining above. water , was searched and five men and women were recovered. Sunt BIGGEST CROWDS BEST PUBLICITY: SAYS‘DR. MORAN .“T have-attended simialr. war rallies in many of our state capitols, but not one where we have had overflow meet- ings, where the interest has been so intense, nor where the publicity has been handled so well as have the re- ports of our meetings here in. the Tribune,” said Dr. Joseph F, Moran, prior to his departure for Washington this morning. “I feel tnat we owe the Tribune LEAGUE WITH COMMISSION ON GOPHER BANS Nonpartisans Ask Action Against Sheriff Who Prohibited Meetings St. Paul, Minn,, Feb. 27.—Sherifts’ orders prohiditing Nonpartisan leaguc meetings in various counties in Min- nesota, were the subject of a confer- ence behind closed doors at the cap- itol today between league committes- men and members of the Public Safe- ty commission. g The league delegation called on gov- ernor Eurnquist, ostensibly to in- quire when an, announcement would be made as to whether four county of- ficials will be’ suspended on charges of non-feasance and malfeasance mado in complaint filed a week ago and were informed that because of the ili- opinion had been obtainable. INDIAN POET IS: . - IMPLICATED IN GERMAN PLOT Letters and Cablegrams Boized: by British Censors Seem to Show Conspiracy ' San Francisco, Cal.; Feb, 27.—Dafin: ite connection of Sir Babindarth Tur- gore, celebrated Indian poet; and high officials of the German governmeni, charged with an alleged conspiracy to foment revolution against British rule in India, was established ‘today ac- cording to contentions of the prosecu- tion, by ‘introduction into evidence a: th etrial of 31 alleged conspirators of letters and ‘cablegrams. seized by Brit. ish censors. 5 AIRPLANE. MAIL SERVICE TO BE BEGUN APRIL | Machines Will Be Manned by Army Fliers as Part of Train- © ing in Aviation Washington, D. .C., Feb. 27.—Air- Plane mail service between New York and Washington will be in ‘daily oper- ation beginning April''15, the postof- fice department’ ‘announced today. Fight machines will be furnished’ by the war department. at Ey arrangement between Postmas- ter General Burleson and Secretary Baker the gerial service will be con- ducted for one year as a part-of the aviation’ training system of the army. ahe machines will be piloted-by army ers. ‘ COA‘S TARTILLERY Call No. 25 Received at Adjutant » mo @eneral’s, Offies,... 2) White registrants only, for the coast artillery, may be accepted for volun- tary ‘induction by local’ draft boards under. call No. 28, received today at the adjutant general's office. Other cal's now: open are Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5,:7 and 10.5. + Coast, artillerymen inducted under call No. 28 wil be sent to Fort Logan, 010, WARD COUNTY LEADS THRIFT - ’ . STAMP. SALES Pembina Close Second in Amount and Probably First in Per- _ Gapita Holdings: Fargo, N. D, Feb. 21,—George. i. Hollister, state director for the war savings stamp campaign, reports the | sale of stamps to date in various coun- ties as follows: ' Adams, $1355.14; Barnes, $2291.12; Bottineau, $2,050.02; Bowman, $1,859.03; Dunn, $1,153.40: Eddy, $2,433.89; Emmons, $837.51; Foster, $2,049.90; Golden Valley, $1,- 557.21; Griggs, $2,385.80;. Kidder, $1,- 071.39; McIntosh, $1,216.46;. Morton, $2,623.45; Pembina, $4,981.63;. Sheri- dan, $520; Steele, $524.67;. Towner, $1,284.81; Ward $7,750.60. Ward leads the list to date, with Pembina a close second, and, in point population, on a pany it not taking precedence over ard. KINTYRE, his hall so he will be ready to fur- nish a theatre for ‘shows and enter- tainments, * The patriotic program ‘given by our school Feb. 22 was well attended. ee Sandland’s on Sunday. Rev. Skonnard Will hold’ Norwegian services at the G. A. Shelby home next Sunday at 10:30 a,-m. A home talent play entitled “A Loy- al Friend” will be given in Barta’s hall on Friday evening, March 1. This is a comedy-drama in four acts. The very much of the success of this great council,” said Dr. Moran. “The paper. has shown a splendidly patriotic spir- it; it has given ‘up columns to inter- esting reports of the meetings, and it has furnished real -inspiration for all of its’readers.” 2 Mr. Moran was more than enthus- iastic over every aspect of the» con- ference, which he declared by far the most successful he has yet attended. FORMER MAYOR OF GARY IS CLEARED Indianapolis, Ind,, Feb. 27—Formet- Mayor R. O. Johnson of Gary, Ina, and six. other Lake county repubii-|, cans, whose trial in the United district court here on charges of day, ended suddenly today- when alt the:.defendants were orilered cis- charged by the’ court. Wd Lubes + ~ Culfa with elastic edges to make them tight hnve been invented to en- F tomobiliste-to:-work-about: their jwithout soiling their coat:or pnt aoa ee late ,| Mrs. Beal, 1 proceeds will be given t 0 pecan ai 10 the local pale John eal hae returned from leon, where she wi + Napoleon, ‘as visiting rel. A newly born baby of iMr. a1 pe Johnson's was purled ayaa: lay. A baby was born to Mr aan ape Norby on Feb. 25. ee: ese ladies have compl following articles for the Ret’ Gries auxiliary since last reported: Mrs. Frank Simon, 1 pair wristlets; Mrs. Edwardson, 1 sweater; Mrs, Maude Davis, 1 sweater, Leone Sisco, 1 sweater; Mrs. R. P. Sisco, 1 sweat- Mrs. Chas. Wurm, 1 8 ; Elie Holsti, 2 sweaters). Mice ui Aarvig,. 1. sweater; a sweater; Mrs. Lee Sisco,.1- sweater; ir socks; Mr Swenson, 2 pair . k, 1 pair socks; Mrs. Olson, 1 pair socks; Mrs, Carlson, 1 pair socks; Mrs. L, H. . ‘Lee Bisco, Sisco, 3 pairs socks; Mrs, socks; jo ness of Attornéy General Smith uo ~ WANTS WHITE FOLK > Frank Barta is building a stage in The Walter White family visited at er; Miss Reba. Wurm, 1 Sweater; « Mrs. Lane, 1 . tev, buaitovo