The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 4, 1918, Page 4

The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of each week. Editor and Mgr. meOnT. Db. ALLEN, Entered at the Post Office of But- fer, Mo., as second-class mail matter. _ PRICE, $1.00 PER YEAR lowing icements, subject to the Dems ¢ primary of Bates County to be held in August, 1918: For State Senate 16th District: JOHN. BALDWIN For Representative: HERMAN O. MAXEY For Recorder of Deeds: GEO, J. MOORE CHivsy E-PORTUNE For Circuit Clerk: LLOYD GAIN SWA [ome 7 VICTOR WOLF Ce New ‘5 ig For Probate Judge: Hoe Bast PPAR. # ud a For Presiding Judge County Court: R, By CAMPBELL ry i For Judge North District: Jj. M. REEDER ® * = Judge County Court, South District: : WH LOW Disk For THE GERMAN METHOD. What do you think of this descrip- tion of German warfare? “Every lage they have passed, wh has been the victim of what 1 pi ery city sacked on system; its citizens plun- dered, its civil officials terrorized, im- prisoned, outraged killed. The civil populations have been, contrary to the usage of modern warfare, forced to serve the invading i or brutally put to death, redt to wholesale starvation and desolation. Vast tracts of the richest and most : industrious districts of Europe have been deliberately stripped and plunged into famine, solely in) order that the invaders might make war cheaply. Irregular troops, contr to all the practice of war, have been systematically murdered, and civil vations indiscriminately massa- ered, solely to spread terror. A reg- of ingenious terrorism ular system has been directed against civilians, as, horrible as anything in the history of civil or religious wars. Large and populous cities have been, not once, but 20, 39, 40 times, bombarded and burnt, and the women and children in them wantonly slaughtered, with the sole object of inflicting suffering. A‘l this has been done, not in license or ity of scientific soldiers.” These two eloquent paragraphs ap- 4 peared in an article in the Englisn Fortnightly Review February, 1871, shortly before the surrender of Paris, atthe end of the Franco-Prussian war. The man who wrote it is still alive; his name is Frederick Harri- son. , If Mr. Harrison lives on and if the Germans win this war or succeed in making it only a draw, isn’t it as cer- tain as anything could be that at some time in the future he would have oc- casion to dig up hig old clipping and Pe say, “I wrote that in 1871; it was true . again in 1918 and it is true again now id —it will be true again if German mil- _-itarism isn't everlastingly exter- minated.”—Joplin Globe. Most people that can aiford a Ford IF YOU WERE AN AMERICAN. Suppose you were an Amefican, and your country were at_war with a foreign power whose every _ policy throughout nearly four years of con- been characterized by a | passion, but by the calculating feroc- | leaner should continually criticize and hamper the government in the con- duct of the war, and would finally publish as an editorial an appeal for the people of the enemy nation like this: 2 ‘IF YOU WERE A GERMAN Suppose you were a German born and bred. Suppose you had been brought up to feel that your country ssed a superior civilization that “the object of envy and hatred of r neighbors. Suppose it had al- ys been vorne in you that your ma- owed its place in the world to its armies, and that it must extend its | power y armed force or else be over- thrown, Suppose you had been fed with assertions that your ‘country had been attacked by jealous foes and that it was fighting «a successful war against them. | “Do you have any idea that under such circumstances you could be ‘brought by persuasion on the part of your enemies to disown your govern- | ment? . Wouldn't your disposition be to sneer at enemy propaganda and to be- come more set in your ways? Would anything except military defeat make you check up and inquire into the real significance of a world policy that had involved the nation in disaster? Wouldn't you feel that the govern- ment ought to take action and at the very least intern the editor for the duration of the war? That's the way we feel about it. GENERAL NOTES. \ ntmber of German soldiers on British uniforms in order e confusion'in the battle were rrding to the Intrasigeant. had p Field) Marshal Hindenburg and Chancellor Hertling have decided to call up for-military serv the Ger- man criminals of milita ac- cording to advices received Thurs- day. ladame Despina Davidovitch Storeh, the young Turkish who was charged with being the lead- er of a band of German sy in New York enly in her inte custod avo, died Elis Island. ne to submit to an op- would have made him military service, Pittsburg, was Friday from the years’ For ref eration which sically fit for rell, of man, harged ed to three selective dishonor- army ant imprison- service ably senten ment, n official dispatch from France said the chaplain and two al of St. Elizabeth Antwerp have been killed by the ns. They were killed in the dof the barra same time as the , Doctor De Mets. at Gert court become the .food that even Ger- acute has sin Germar man soldiers at the front are now un- | ounces soldiers’ Ten the privations. taken off going e been kly ve a small supply of sugar a dispatch from the Ha While Joe Ridder and wife were home south of C ngham, t Friday night th wert swept into a draw by a he fall ot Heavy winds and rain astated the country around there night, killing stock and wreck last ing buildings. Seven thousand bushels of wheat were ordered seized at Austin, Nev. iast night by H. A, Lemmon, state food administrator, when Patrick Walch. the owner, refused to sell to]; the government for §&. per hun- sight. The state food admini trator said it is the fitst instance of grain hoarding in Nevada. Lieut. Col. W. G. McKendrick of the British army Saturday presented to President Wilson a cane made from the door of the celebrated Cloth Hall of Ypres, Belgium. Similar canes have been given King George of England, King Albert of Belgium, President Poincare of France, Lloyd George, premier of England; General Haig and General Petain. A young man with a unique graft is cotrting: trouble in Northwest Mis- souri. He bought an expensive phon- !ograph and a choice lot of records in Albany, taking the records with him, | The dealer still is waiting for him to phone back for the machine and pay the bill. Then he went to Bethany and selected twenty-six good records which he was permitted to take-home for trial, “so the folks could select the dozen or so they wished to keep.” The folks evidently are having ;a hard time deciding. The dealers have no clew to the young man’s identity. It is said by the German generals that the big gun that has been drop- ping shells into Paris is merely prac- ticing up and getting ready to throw shells into London, which is 125 miles away from the line of battle. The: gun throws a shell 88 inches ‘1 diameter and 20 inches fong. It weighs 200 pounds and carries less than 20 pounds of explosive. The commandant of the Watervliet arse- mal says that the: United States has several 16-inch guns that are capable. if mounted on a different carriage, of throwing one of their immense shells 6o-miles, but in his opinion they would not be effective if used at more than about 20 miles, their range with their present mounts. So far the big German gun has been able to do very little damage. ° { ration, instead of which | and their dead bodies were found | i | i | ' United’ States MISSOURI NOTES. -: One day last week the police of St. Louis arrected 166 motorists for running their cars without their. li- cense numbers properly displayed, ° War is certainly everything that Sherman said that it was. They have plowed up the baseball diamond at Peculiar and planted i in potatoes. A Cedar county farmer one day week brought a 700 poupd hog to Dorado Springs which he sold re- ceiving a check for $97.65, and yet some folks say that it does not pay to raise hogs these days. A young man was arrested last week in Vernon county for failing tu register for the selective draft last June. The Vernon county draft board ordered him sent at once to Camp Funston to enter on his mili- tary duties. The supreme court Friday upheld a -provision of the constitution which provides corporations shall n@t hold real estate not necessary to the con- duct of their business for a period ceeding six years. the court was unanimous. | A temporary injunction, issued more than a year ago by Judge Dyer, forbidding the city of} St. Lonis putting into effect the ne-| gregation ordinance which was | gro |Wayland, Miss Lela .. The opinion ot | Federal }! Patriotic Citizens of McGovern, J. M Boag, Alex Jr... Powell, Edd... Baker, Roy * Miller, W. P. & Family. Home, W."H. var... Powell, W. C Ball, F. Ms... | Powell, Frank ... | Powell, Ray Harbett, M. M. . Golladay, John . Powell, B. P. & wife. Vickers, Geo. Embree, T. D.. Wright, Mrs. R. C. Barnett, Wm. .. Gilbert, Grover . Wright, Joe Seelinger, Herman .. Liberally. Falrnestock, Jake ... Holland, Frank . Werninger, Mr Lawson, John . Howard ,Martin erman Bros, ey, Fide Keeble, R. B. , “ Weaker, (GEOM We cnesn Hermann, Geo, ireh, R. D. Binley adopted at a special election, has been made permanent by Judge Dyer. | The home homas Dumm_ in lefferson City one day last week and the Democrat- Tribune is unkind enough to insinu- s damaged by fire} I's Howard, Blueford er Chas. -. ley, 18t, Gene ate that Dumm, who is a candidate for congress, was practicing one of} his speeches and became so firy that | set the house on fire. { | Lee Shawhan, of Lees Summit, | red before the food adminis itor of Kansas City one ‘day la and said that he owned 2,500; D. t week i he wanted to give it all to the gov-| ernment to.relieye thespresent short- ge of supplies to the allied seme eA Maryville paper is anthority for} the fact that a certain church deacon | of that town never goes to bed with-/| out offering up a prayer for the beys| in the trenches, but that his name has not been found among contributors to the Red Cross fund, nor among, those who bo t Liberty bonds. ‘our horses, large quantities n and feed and quite a lot of ninery was burned at the home of Ge aA. es near Warrensburg one day last w As this is the third barn in that neighborhood to be des- is. troyed by fire recently and all of ned seve horses, it beginning to believed that it the work of an incendiary cor is them is be by the Sedalic John Shull, held unpatriotic Fr police for making jmarks and speaking disrespectfully of the Pettis All attor- him. His the President, is held in Cor jail without. bail. ed to defend hearing was before Judge ity pre H. B. Shain Monday morning. Shull’s father arrived from California, Mo., and abused Sheriff W. W. Bolton when the latter refused to release the prisoner on bail. French aviators have conducted another successful raid against Ger- man munition factories, according to reaching | Washington Flying: as low as 2 meters from the ground they dropped more than three tons of high explosives on one plant, badly wrecking it. During the recent fight- ing the French flyers have driven down and destroyed or captured more than 390 German’ fighting planes. formation riday afternoon. X% small boy near Austin, Coss county, complained that. while he was drinking water from the @stern he swallowed something long and slick: / and an investigation showed in the) cistern hundreds of creatures some-| thing like a cross between a lizard | and-a fish, two inches long, with horns and legs, which when placed on} a table can walk liké four footed ani- | mals. A bottle of them in an’ Archie | drug store convinced the disbelievers. | —St. Joseph Observer. i The other day when several af the; strike agitators were . arrested ini Kansas City it was found that at least two of the most active, a man and a woman, were,Germans who had never taken out any: sort of ‘citizen- ship, papers and: did not belong to the union and cared nothing about it. It would seem that the fhore de- cent of Kansas City union labor peo- ple would take a tumble to them-|" selves after awhile. and stop being used by <the German propogandists. PPR Ss oy Six deputy Unite@ States marshals from the Kansas City office last week went to Dallas county to arrest the judges of the county. court for con- tempt of. the United Sfates court in refusing to levy a tax to pay off some old railroad bonds, a¢ order- ed by Judge VagVal énburg. The marshals \to arrest one of fice in jail or spend shels of wheat in his bins and that | > i Thomas, S. R. “Williams, A. / Allon, John te, David & Wife WOES Ghee once ches nson, C, We} Card, Ih S M Grar Newlon, Oth abo wa ty elites, m, Geo. I iv, NIKE. Tol om k. Hi Moat Car Grover t on, Robert . Gilimmings ee By acess ase LN. Mrs. John j Mr. John Frank BE. Norr Bartlety Haynes, Horn, A Barnett. J es Plunkett, W. H. Green, W. mes Barnet Branno DeWeese, G. G. Walbridge, W Colson, C Af Carroll, M.A. Powell, W. Turpin, C, Venable. J. Lankford, W. Wisner, B. c MONA AU ovens vee s Btaven ioc. «3 Black, S, S. Turpin, John .. Tarpin, Wins cis cece ces Burton, Payton 5 Tharp, W. P. ... Keeble, Jim .... Culbertson, L. C. Jewett, H. G. ... Smith, FE. A. .. Kegerreis, Jannie Hovey. C. R. .. : Feeley, F. B. .......... Monday, J. R. .. Pry, Philip . Jewett Bros. Daniels, C. E. . Morgret, G. W. Butler, M. J. McDaniels, De Craven, Oscar .. Beard, J. A. . Winters, Ed Craven, Bertha . * Total.......:. The. Vniversal Prayer: God save our splendid men God save our men. Make them victorious Faithful, chivatrous, G@gd-‘save our men. ~ 1 ie . : Followers of \Christ ‘ald ‘all who| Celamatory contest held at the High |° love their jd and country—help* to pe eae omg waar hee ee pmeaenae Ant SY Wen lechook at the dictrict. to be Our ministers have been asked to seh e Wargeemns im: the-néar* to us’ patriotic sermons. Summit Unit R. C. (Latics) Bring them safe home again— SUMMIT.GIVES TO RED CROSS ¢ 15.00 ‘the American people and asks that the following rules be put into rl effect at once: .” “.* 10. First: Househofders should not exceed a total of one and one- 1g)90 half pounds a week of wheat products a person. This means not 5.00 8.00 -50 1.00 5.00 2.00 1.00 2.00 2.50 23.00 9,00 20.60 00 5:00 7.00 5.00 1,00 3.70 1,00 1,00 2.00 10.00 2.00 10.00 They’are so deaf to us— _ 5.09 —and this is a military necessity—the people of this country must 25.00 cut down “their use ~eY wheat by one-half, To effect this saving, the on the voluntary’assistance of 50.00 1.00 10.00 4.00 1,00 20,00 breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes or wheat break- 16.00 fast cereals containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour 40.00 to any one guest at any one meal. No wheat products are to be served 200.00 | * unless speciafly ordered. Public eating places are not to buy more | 1,90 ’ NEW WHEAT CONSBRVATION RULES OF-UNITED. ~: STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION. That the:Allies may be supplied with the necessary proportion ~ of wheat to maintain their war bread from now until the next harvest Food Administration is dependent uf more than one and three-fourths pounds of Victory bread containing the required percentage of substitutes, and about one-half pound of cooking flour, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat break- fast cereals all combined. . Second. Public eating: places and clubs should observe two wheatless days a week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition, they should not serve in the aggregate a total of more than six poinds of wheat products a month for each guest, thus con- forming to the limitations required of ‘the household. Third: Retailers shall sell nct more than one-eighth of a barrel of wheat flour to any town consumer at any one time and not more than one-quarter of a barrel to any country consumer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the sale of an equal weight of other cereals. i _ Fourth: Bakers and grocers are asked to reduce the volume of Victory bread sold by delivering the three-quarter pound loaf where the pound loaf was sold before, and corresponding proportion in other weights. Bakers also are asked not to increase the amount of their wheat flour purchases beyond a seventy per. cent of the average monthly amount purchased in the four months prior to March 1. Fifth: Manufacturers using wheat products for non-food pur- poses should cease such use entirely. ES Sixth: There is no limit upon the use of other cereals, flour and meals, corn, barley, buckwheat, potato flour, etc. ‘Many thousand families throughout the land are now using no wheat products what- ever except a very small amount for cooking purposes and are doing so in perfect health and satisfaction. There is no reason why all the American people who are able to cook in their own households cannot subsist perfectly well with the use of less wheat products than one and one-half pounds a week and the well-to-do households in the country are especially asked to follow this additiong] program in order that the necessary marginal supplies for those parts of the community less able to adapt themselves go so large a proportion »of substitutes may be provided i A DRAFT REGISTER JUNE 5 | : - !| ONE AND ONE-HALF POUNDS. | Listing of Men Hereafter Will be on| | That Date Annually. ' Washington, March 29.—American | ts WG ANG Uo HEL st ANT) history probably will record June 3| with te eacraa th Bropomtan of ats Day’—upon which the] WHEBS TORTURED Ear men of this country responded to “inve| breed trom now awnbil the: next call of the selective draft. | pes ia 8 Ves ita The provost marshal general is ‘ Bee i . planning to hold the second draft smOnth ly cone ur p Lon Ae) LAIN | registration—-for men who-have be- | COON e month, ee teat come 21 since last year—June 5, first ! ee congumpLen of abous janniversary of the first registration. | Be ae : puree: Tee As long as the war lasts a_ similar! WOrtH: Ves MBUaL reg lee. olin ner: regigtration will be held on that date. | ste cone ee i u an Cae It is believed 1-2 million Class 1! Eerie margin it use physically fit men will be added to} for speciat atlas Pee \merica’s defense columns annually | PEC Cbeve comteei ar sere by this program. i an Cea ee Congress is expected t# complete'] wheat proaucts ae the necessary legislation for the reg- | person. . istration well before June 5. Our wheat supply is short; our supply of potatoes is abun- dant. Decrease your consump- tion of wheat by increasing your rvice Those Who Have Reached the Age of 21 Must Register. | Washington, March 29-—A_ resolu- | consumption of potatoes. There |tion extending the selective draft to} is no limit on the amount of po- |men reaching the age of 21 years! Laspee that may be used, ule: since June 5, 1917—the first regis- ed ea 1b aebed stouliinit tration gay—was passed tonight by Haines men ON none and one- jthe senate without a record vote after , a eee a hs : a futile attempt had been made to has Haaaraateatte pono gr add to it a provision for training | serving baked potatoes at the youths from 19 to 21 years of age. It is estimated that about 700,000 | men will be added to the registration | this year by the’ resolution, which | is one of the pieces of legislation on which the War department is wait- | ing before announcing complete plans | jfor the next draft. It now goes to} the house for consideration there | with the bill to base draft quotas on} number of registrants in class one| imstead of om population, another of | the administration measures already | tables to guests free, provided no bread is eaten. This substi- tution has proved entirely satis- factory. Do this in your own home, Let the baked potato take the place of bread. The conservation of wheat is “e most important duty of the ~ation*for the next 60 days. Do ‘our share. It is a military necessity. ; passed by the senate. K | ‘ i, a Clocks Moved Up. » ‘Miss Faye F. Skaggs Dead. pe | The clocks of Butter, almost with- Re aime out exception, w move Miss Fayé Skaggs, daughter of the | pour “Sundar: hg. ig cgg Aesceay late F. M: Skaggs, died at a hospital in Chicago Monday morning, és the result of inhaling gas that was in some mysterious manner released in the huilding where she was em- ployed by the. Edison Electric com- pany.' Fourteen occupants. of the ing were killed and many _in- jured, some fatally. So far it has not | morning many business ‘men reported at their places of business an hour {earlier than usual, lookimg rather sleepy and more or less ashamed of themselves, wordering how the new Order of things would work out. But it worked ont all right and they found that by getting home an hour earlier at night gave them plenty of time to _jer, F. M. SI ‘| vices ‘were héld and interment made. been definitely determined just how the gas got,into the buitding. ‘ Miss Skaggé was born in Clinton, Missouri, March 4, .1890,"and lived several years in this city. “Her fath- kaggs, a piano tuner, died a few month$'ago in Nevada. .For a long. time.she has made Her home in Chicago with her aunt, Mrs. G. .W. ‘Newberry. f ° The remains were brought to Mont- rose ‘Wednesday where funeral ser- High School. Declamatéry Co Miss Lethia Baisd and Pail Fran- shan were declared the winners of the te put in that garden that they wanted out could never find time for. Several base’ ball clubs were or; ganized ad@ much surplus energy will be worked off on the ball diamond this summef, The movement -was not observed quite ‘so generally ia the country-as in town, as the farm-~ ers bch they put in a “full day ~ led re tesaing the tock ales k jour wi not add to their work- graph companies new order. Taking it all torcther te poke as though the scheme would be pop- ular as soon as the ‘public becomes accustomed td it.