Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 15, 1917, Page 3

Raising flags ls all right—but raie- ing meney Is better: GET YOUR LIBERTY BOND at THE THAMES NATIONAL BANK —_— INSURANCE Let Us Write Your Automobile Insurance FULL COVERAGE Under One Policy L. LATHROP & SONS 28 Shetucket Street If it wers YOUR HOME—could you feel absolutsly SURE that the INSURANCE QUESTION wouldn’t result i= « controversy? Better see us if you doubts. ISAAC S. JONES insurance and Real Estats Agent Richards’ Building 91 Main St BURGLARY INSURANCE —IN— The Travelers Insurance Co. B. P. LEARNED & CO. Agency Established May, 1845. have any Parade and Band Concert Worcester, Mass., June 14.—A close struggle between Woiester and New Haven ended with the sters a win- ner in the tenth. A three bagger by Helfrich and fly to Shannon by Wilder broke the tie.” It was Murphy day friends of Dan Murphy giving hem a reception. - There was an automobile street parade and band concert. At night Murphy was guest at supper in Hotel Essex and was presented a gold stickpin™ Jack McGrath, the widely Xnown wrestler, who was associgted with Murphy in Norwich, Conn., for many years, arranged the reception. The score: Worcester New Haven b oo Bpo s e Malooertt "¢ 05 0 437000 3031 203220 Comwart 3 1310 co131 Pudgeect 4 2 5 0 §0000 Fewsterss £ 0 0 3 $8000 Gross1s 3 85 32 $1340 3140 $o01210 2041 1010 20 1021 R R] 3108 e s aKeegsn 6 0 0 0 % eas1s 1 Totals 35 53013 1l (x) Ran for Tyler in St (x) Wioning run made with ons out. 00101 08100 Hartford 11, Portland 4. Portland, Maine, June 14—Portland lost to Hartford today, 11 to 4, in a loosely played, free-hitiing game. Low knocked the ball over the center field fence in the first inning, two yung ahead.of him. It was the first bome run of the season on the home Zrounds and the first to be made over sending in ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW center fleld. The score: EDWIN W. HIGGINS CELEE Aisoineyatl =y e o 2t Engluit SRl L Corner Main and Shetucket Streets g e BB i B B Brown & Perkins, Mimep-at-law | xoiovs § 0 9 2 Yo (0010 Over Thames Nat. Bank, Shetucket St. e g At s Entrance stairway near to Thames| T SalE National Bank. Telephone 35-3 GAMLS SCHIDULED TODAY. Natisesl Leages. Intersational Leages. Torto s Newsrk Metireel at Providence. Bumis at Baitimere. Bochester 1 Richmond. Esstern League. Bdgmor: 2t Springteld. New Faven i Worcsster. Hartora 2t Portland. New London at Luwrence. VESTERDAY'S RESULTS. National League. Pittsturen 0. Priadapbis S Eastern League Soricgras Bedsmon, rain Lawmoce 4. New Lomdon 2 Hardord 11 Portiasd 4. Woreester 3, New Haven 1 International Leagus 4% Bochester—Buffalo 0. Rochester 4! Richmora_Baitimore- Richmond. ratn frequently today leaders to specialties and other shares of no definite description. were in diminished volume, and an irregular close. o Was again a factor of paramount im- 1 Lawrence . 4, Planters 2. Lawrence, Mass., June 14.—Lawrence won from New London by a score of 4 to 2 today. The game was a pitch- battle between Williams ers’ i the eighth inning when Crum until With a Gold Stickpin—There Was an Automobile Street in His Honor—Worcester Won the Game in the Tenth Inning. : Crum weakened. The score: Lawrencs New London W hoo s ab hpe s e Posterir 4 111 165 00 Hehmn?d 4 0 0 5 11320 4337 421000 et 3100 ‘o000 Fondd 4 119 0 $1031 Simmons.ct 3 21 0 351" 1 8 Whita3b 3 0 6 1 30000 Guwmo § 231 317 00 Willlamsp 3 0 0 4 30050 Toal 51 97 is 5 21 2 063 01012 De Noville, and Ghicage 5, Braves 3. Chicago, June 14.—Chicago bunched hits off Barnes today and defeated Boston by g score of 5 to 3 in the first game of the series here. Demaree was hit hard and was replaced by Ald- ridge. Smith’s home run hit into the bleachers was a feature. Score: Boston (N) Chicago (N) ab hoo a hoo s e Balleyet 5 3110 e 3:1-3:3.1 Evenib 4 1 1 1 OfWalterrr 3 1100 Wihoitt ¢ 1 3 0 ofDosted> 313 4 0 Mageeit 5110 2 31340 338 1 OWiliamser ¢ 13 01 4214 A 31100 4033 ofwimenc 30300 ‘183 30230 4203 ofbemireey 1001 0 ———— —|Araepr 29 0 41 Totals 31215 — —— ®rwns 130003 0301 28 Two base hits, Mann, Magee. Zelder, Wolter, WHll- Home run. Smith. tas. Dosle. Pirates Shut Out By Giants. Pittsbrgh, June 14—Pijttsburgh had a man on évery base in the fourth in- ning_today, but was unable to score and New York again won, 2 to 0. Good pitching by Perritt_and Jacobs fea- tured the game. New York scored first in the fourth inning when Burns was passed, went to second on a balk and went home on Zimmerman’s single to right Carey lost Herzog's long fly in the sun, making New _ York's second score a home run. Score: New York (N) Pittsburgh (M) ah hoe w e S hpo e a 3 0% 0 Dcanrr "4 274 0 0 §121 ofpiecss 400 41 4130 fSchulierr 50100 4201 ofnWamersb 4 0 2 0 0 4006 ofBrietib & 21 0 0 Robertsonrt 3 1 8 0 0|Hchmanit 3 0 4 0 0 Holke.db. 3 011 0 0/W Wagner.c 3 0 & 0 o fReridenc 3 05 0 ofwaras 5 2140 Perritip 001 Immobsp 3 0 030 S IRRER] Toals 31 5% 9 3 RET Totls 3 6311 “(x) Batted for Jacobs in Oth Score by innings: New York Y0 0010100 02 MARKET CLOSED IRREGULAR. | Liberty Loan Was a Factor of Para- mount Importance. ew York. June 14 —Trading shifted from the recognized Dealings but the trend was mainly upward until the final hour, when liberal selling of the more prominent issues provoked ex- treme reversais of one to three points he liberty loan prices hardening in the in- i Prdee e Prmdess i | portance, = T ). e oe 4 same) | termediate session on favorable advices RT3 from Washington respecting - that Amectcan Assectation, project.” Money ruled at prevailing K e il % 5 rates and a new minimum for rubles e e e T gmme) | was eeemingly igrored e . pee) Raiis, including low-priced shares, A% Kasees Ciy 13, St Paul 7. it Toiedo 1 Inatinepois 2 (13 tnnings) Scathers Assosiation At Afants 5. Chattanoogs 6. (11 inniags) it New Ortesns 2. Momohts 0 At Birmingham 10 Nasheille 1 Mobiie- Litile Bock. raim STANDINGS Natiseal League. were in furiher demand, Union Pacific and Reading featuring the investment s of 1 to 2 1-4 points. vity was manifested &y Pittsburgh and West Virginia common and preferred and Wheeling and Lake Frfes issues at advances of one to two points. Delaware and Hudson made full recovery from its sharp setback of on. the previous session. = Thare was a decided revision in Ed quotazions for motor stocks, General i Motors showing a gross gain of four s < 16 American Leagus 3 points, while Studebaker, Maxwell and Chandler trailed along 'at two-point advances. Improvement in these is- | ses resulted. from short covering. United States Steel once more dis- | tinguished itself by attaining to the new record of 134 5-8, later, however, falling two points and closing at 132 3-4, a net loss of 1 1-8 points. Bethle- hem Steel kept pace with the leader. the new and old shares scoring new maximums at 155 1-2 and 158 518, re- spectively, but yelding in the general decline of the latter part of the ses- sion. Tobaccos and metals were among the other active features, the latter deriving fresh support on the placing of addftional orders for ‘the refined product on a rising scale. Shippings and some of the olls were irregular Bowling. throughout, with International Paper. Norwich Five. Baldwin Locomotive and Continental 9 Can. Total sales amounted to 925,000 g shares. . Caulicins, . 51 Rairoad bonds and some industrials Bruckner a2 were fractionally lower. other issues Bibeault 98 recording no material changes. Total i sales (par value) aggregated $1,740,- T 000. New London LEGAL NOTICE. Alsska Gold .. ... Alaka Juneas Gold Allls Chalmers ctfa United States bonds were unchanged on call. STOCKS. The following 1 3 simmacy of toda's transs “eiiogs on the New York Sinck Sechangs ta 3 P. M+ Low, Close As Chem. Beet Sagar Gan NOTICE TO CREDITORS. AT A COURT OF PROBATE HELD ®: Norwich. within and for the District of Norwich, on the 13th day of June, A D Present—NELSON J. AYLING, *Judge. of John T. Fogarty. late of Bstate Preston, in_said District, deceased. Ordered, That the Administratrix with the will annexed cite _ the creditors of said deceased to bring in_ their claims against sald estate within six months from this date, by posting a notice to that effect. togethi with a copy of this order. on ihe sign- o8t nearsst to the place where said eceased last dwelt, and in the same Town. and by publishing the same once in a mewspaper having a circulation in sald District, and make return to this Court. NBLSON J. AYLING, Judge. The above :nd Toregoing s & trus eopy of record Attest: HBLDN M. DRESCHER, Clerk. XOTICE.—All creditors of sald ceased are hereby notified to present their clalms against said estate to the unde: at Box 90, R. F. D. No. 1. Norwich, Conn.. within the time limited in"the above and foregolng order. ot BRIDGET T. X FOGARTY, mark 36154 ASmx. with the will annexed. ree— Can ot Car & Foundry Tiide & Lesther Hide & Leather bt Toe Secur . ... Ches & Onlo Ch Gt Weatern Ch. ‘Gt West pr cni. M & st P Cn o & St P oot Chicago & Chiie { Cliny_Coper { ol Fuel & Tron Cal & Southem Columbla Gae Con. Bimors. Gon” G XD Contin_Can Cow Prod Ret. Crucstble Steel | guba” Am “su p Cuba Cane Sugar Cuba Came Sugar ot D & Hudmn { Del.. Lackawanna & W Den’ & Rio G bt Disun Seewr ... | Deme Mines |Ere | e 1% 5t Ficher Tody Gaston W & W General Electrie General Motor | General cMiar pt Granby Min Gt No_Oro cits Northern bt o Can'nea Seates Stect cster Com ot Viiarcrter (N3 " pt. Thlinais Central Tosplration Cop {Int’ Ae Corm ot Intemational Paper Kaneas Gty So. anss Clty So of Kennecott Cop - Lackawana Steel Tebign Valler Ugsets & Mvers Mazwell ‘Motor Merchant Marine Merchant Marine o Mexican ePirotoam Miami Copper Midvate Steed Misourl, K & Misour! Philadeiphte’ Co.” R Pita Coal ctts ... Pits Coal &t pf Prosed Stecl Car Pullman . Ry St Spring Bas Con - Beading Reacing 1 pf R Tron &Steel Roval Duteh Pet . St Louls & St ¥ Saxon odMtors Shattuck Ast Sinclalr ol Slocs Sheffield South Pacific So. P R Sugar South Ralway Studebaker Superior Steel Ten Cop w 1 § Texas Co, Texts & Pacific Third Asenue (NT) Tobaceo Tn Paper Board = o o I o ST, Alcohol 5 ibber S Smelting S Steel S Steel r MONEY. New York, June 14. — Call money firm; high 4 1-2; low 4 1-2; ruling rate 4 1-2; last loan 4 1-2; closing bid 4 1-2; offered at 4 3-4. COTTON. New York, June 14.—Cotton futures closed easy.' July 24.68, October 24.44, December 24.47, January 24.80. March 24.78. Spot quiet; middiing 25.2: CHICAGD GRAIN MARKET. i . Boston, J@a 14.—St. Louis shut out Boston, 3 to 0 today. Groom dhx ed_Boston but ‘three hits and only one. man was able to reach second. On the other hand St. Louis hit Leonard' three rune. The first score was made in the second inning on Severeid's single, Marsan's sacrifice and Prait's single. In the sixth Severeid tripled after two were out Johnson was pasged and stole second. Groom's two bagger to center field scor#l Secéreid and Johnson.. Not one of the St. Louis outflelders had a put cut. The score: St Louis (A) Boston (A) ab ho oo e 5 270 0 ofcoperrt 1 es 04 3 (9 35234 s 118 0 i210 00 4000 40800 230 30100 5000 500120 e 30120 305 2 ofcadre 0750 410 5 oftconarap 00 00 = — — — —|Fenockp 0 0 0 0 0 341027 18 oxmuth 1000 afenkeen 1 0 0 0 0 o Totas 30 3110 (x) Batted for Leonard in Sth. G Batted for Barry fn o Score by i st Touts L. - o 0 o3 : 0.0 Triple Steal Helped Win Game. St. Louis, June 14.—A triple steal executed by Miller, Cruise and Long, in the fifth inning today followed by Hornsby’s home run in the seventh en- ableq St. Louis to win from Brooklyn 5 to 4. Olson tied the score for Brooklyn in the seventh with a home run that bounded over the high fence in left field. Hickman hit a home run with Pfeffer on second base in the third. The score: Brookiyn (N) St Louis (N) 3 hoo s e 3 bpo a e 423 2 1jGSmither 4 03 00 41351 ofGonzmleais & 3 8 00 5300 ofiduerss 31450 3120 offforstvas 31330 333 0 ofcrueelf 43200 421 4 oongrr 31200 4100 oftingstonec 4 15 3.0 3101 ofFSmihss 4 00 20 4010 0 ofPickardp 2 1 0 10 100 0 ofseadowsp 1 00 8 0 6001 o e 3 ———— ) Tous UTH Totals 351226 3 1 (x) Batted for Prefter in Sth. Beore by lnnings Brookisn 2 st Louts p Two base hit. Crilse. Home rus. Hickman, Oleon, Three base hit. Hornsby. cinnati Won in the Ninth. Cincinnati, O., June 14—A single by Kopf and a double by Roush scored a run in the ninth inning and enabled Cincinnati to win a see-suw game from Philadelphia here today, 6 to Both Mayer and Toney were hit at op- portune times Philadeiphia_(N) o Paskert.cf MG figan.se Stock i Cravaih 3b Whitted 1t Luderus 16 Niebot.2b Tugns.c Sazerp Totals 33 9x23 ) 6ne gut when Score by innings: ‘Philadeiphia P o1 1110 Cincinnat! 0202001 Two baso hiis. hcan, Neale. Whitted, Three base hits, Paskcrt. Cravath. FURTHER TESTIMONY IN { $900,000 BASEBALL SUIT. Herrmann Says Franchise of Baltimore Ciub Was Not Worth a Dollar. Philadelphia, June 14—Much of to- day’s session of the United States dis- trict court, where the $900,000 anti- trust suit of the Baltimore Federal league club against organized basebeil is Deing tried, was taken up with the hearing_of testimony as to the value of the Baltimore club at the time the Federal league went out of existence. August Herrmann, testifying for the defense as an expert on baseball fran- chise values, declared that “the value of a franchise of a_Baltimore club in the Federal league” at the time the peace agreement was made in Decem- ber, 1915, was not worth a dolar. Asked as to how he reached this con- clusion, Mr. Herrmann said that two of the clubs in the league. Buffalo and Kansas City, had forfefted their fran- chises and that the league in his.cpin- icn had ceased to be a going concerr The witness further testified there was nothing in organized baseball law to prevent new leagues from beinz formed. He added that the Federals had organize da minor league, the Colonial, In New England, and was told by Federal league officia’s they intended ‘to organize others as train- | ing schools for the Federal league on the same plan as minors are operated under the national agreement of or- ganized baseball. MICHIGAN BACK IN CONFERENCE AGAIN. Middle West Colleges Group Together and Will Hereafter Be Known as the Big Ten. The Big Nine is dead Big Ten! After 11 years of absence from the fold, the University of Michigan is again a member of the conference. The Wolverines were extended a welcome by a unanimous vote of the faculty representatives at the regular meeting in a resolution to President Hutchins and the faculty at Ann Arbor to re- sume athietic relations. All_that remains is for Michigan to say “Thank you,” and draw up a schedule, which is something that may not happen econ. The regents of the University of Michigan voted to return to the conference at their last meeting but at the same time called off all athletic schedules. The resolution from Ann Arbor sig- nifying the intention to return to the conference probably will be received in a few days, but the Wolverines may not be seen in competition until the close of the war. Prof. R. W. Algler from Michigan was present at the meeting but would not speak regarding the future of sports at Ann Arbor. Michigan bolted from the conference after the close of the season of 1905 because of the difference of views re- garding rules, mainly in relation to the training table. The Wolverines de- sired to keep their athletes on a special diet, and the other schools, not favor- ing ‘the move, because it was an ex- pensive proposition, passed a rule pro- Thibiting the table.. Michigan withdrew Defore the next football season but for several years maintain athletic rela- tions with Minnesota until the rule was passed by the conference prohibit- ing any member playing a team which had left the Big Nine. This was a direct slap at the Wolverines. The admission of Ohio again raised the number of the conference to nine. and it remained at that number until the return- of Michigan. BOOTS A WINNER. Year Old Gelding Lons live the Macomber’s Six Captured $4,900 Stak With the weather and track condi- tions as though made to order, a great crowd witnessed the 3ist runming. of the historic Suburban handicap at one mile and ‘a quarter over the Belmont Park race course, New York, Saturday. A. K. Macomber's six year old geiding Boots, by Hessian-Little Flower, car. rying 122 pounds and piloted by Jockey Loftus, was the winner, three SERE S offerings at will, getting ten hits for| B 'PRESIDENT'S FLAG DAY ADDRESS AT WASHINGTON MONUMENT Gives America’s Reasons for Sending Flag Across the Se _Washington, June 14. — President Wilsop . warned the American people in a Flag day address on the Wash- ington monument grounds today that Germany has carried into effect tio gréater part of her immediate plan of conquest and now is negotiating a new “intrigue of “peace” designed to end the war while her aggressions are se- cure. All the central empires, the presi- dent declared, have been cemented into one great - autocracy-ridden empire, “throwing a broad belt of German military “power and political control across ‘the very center of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia.” This accomplished, he said, it is ecasy to understand why Germany s fosiering a propaganda for an early peace. ‘Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of.her foreign office for now a vear and more,” said the president, A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been private. hrough all eorts of channels it has parts of a length in front of H. P. Whitney’s aged gelding Barrow, which finished second, half a length ahead of the favorite, The Finn, owned by #. C. Hallenbeck. The race was worth $4,900 to_the winner. Nine horses started, the winner and Ed Crump being coupled as the A. K. Macomber entry, always a strongly supported eecond choice in the wager- ing. Starter Cassidy sent-them all away to a good break and at the first quarter’ pole Airman, Stromboli, Boots, Chicklet and Spur were bunched, oniy heads apart. At the half E4 Crump showed _in front with Stromboli, Boots and The Finn close up. Just as they reached the turn.out of the back stretch Pick- ens let The Finn down and he quickly rushed into the lead. The favorite drew away as.he neared the turn into the home ‘stretch with Boots, Barrow, Stromboli- and Spur racing as named within striking distance. As soon as The Finn was straight- ened out from the run home he began to show the effects of his earlier ef- forts and a quarter of a mile from the finish-he was plainly beaten but strug- gling gamely. At thet stage Loftus let Boots down and gave him only a hand ride to the sixteenth pole, where he geban driving hard in order to stall off tie challenge of Barrow, which was then going at top speed. It was a drive to the wire, but Boots was never afterward in danger, win- | nihg in 05 1 Spur was fourth, Stromboli fifth! Ed Crump sixth, Chicklet seventh and the lightly treighted pair, Daddy's Choice and Alrman. were the tail enders. SPORTING NOTES Yale and Princeton number their fotball plavers but Connie Mack finds it much ‘easier to number the fans. The Cubs, Dhilies and Giants are us close as Harry Lauder and Tom Sharkey: Jimmy Callahan found out that Hans Wagner's shoes only talk one language so Hansy is agaln dancing around Pittsburgh. When Alexander is Alexandering the chief baseline leads from the furthest point from second base to the bench. There will be fewer German steals in Frante when Hank Gowdy gets scross and begins whippinz them down. “Gene” McCann's leftfielder Trout has the old hook slide down to perfec- tion. Mule Watson of the Cardinals is a sreat pitcher—against the. Cincinnati Reds. The record of his first ten games pitched showed: = Won five and lost five; won from Cincinnati five, won_from all other clubs none: lost “to Cincinnati none; lost to all other clubs five. Pat Moran in one sentence is lquoted as saying that he doesn’t want |his players to talk pennant. and in | another #s saying for himself that he is sure his team will come throush. Evidently Pat wants to do all the pennant “talking himself, though he is not ordinarily loquacious. They are all_talking Johnny Raw- liinzs now in Boston. The former Fed leaguer seems to have made good as a substitute at second base and Evers, Massev or Fitzpatrick will have a hard time taking his job aw. from him. Talk about Jack Coombs having it on the Glants — what is the matter with Al Demaree. His recent victory over McGraw’s men as a Cub mark- ed the l4th straight defeal he has handed them since she was traded to the Phillies for Hans Lobert. That is more games' than Lobert has won for McGraw. A St. Louis high school baseball team has a pitcher who seems to be a wonder. In 65 innings against other liigh school teams in St. Louis he did not allow - an earned run. Report has it he will get a tryout with the St. Touis Cardinals if he wants to take up baseball as a profession. His name is Hager. Alexander the Great must be feel- ing very much like his illustrious namesake of Macedenta, only that the latter was never, never knocked out of the box but wept because there were no more teams to conquer. Well. Gus Getz 1s agaln working under the knowing eve of Tom Need- ham of the Newark club, which sold him to the Brooklyns three wears ago. The latter recently turned him over to the Cincinnati Reds. who in turn. sent Rim back to the New. arl Bill McKechnie is getting himself into trim te play third ‘base for the Reds, and that means a shift for Henle Groh to second. When this is accomplished Matty thinks his team is_going to make a better show- ing. Well, here’s hoping. 5 PADDED MITS. Memphis Paul Moore will meet Kid Wolfe at Memphit June 18. Mike Gibbons is golng to_ take on George Chip at Youngstown July 4. Jeft Sniith and Zulu Kid are to mix it ‘up at Baltimore Friday night. Joe Phillips and Mickey Devine will hox for the Rhode Island lightweight championship ‘st -Marleville " Friday night. Joe Welling and Charlies White are matched to. box at Benton Harbor, Mich., Jul7 4. Joe Welling, the licxer, has been matched by his man ager, Jimmy Johnson, to box Charlies ‘White, the " Chicago knockout artist, at eBnton - Harbor. Mich., on July 4. to what chack Chicago come to me and in ail-sorts of guises e military masters under wrom Germany is bleeding see very clearly it fate has brought them. If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages still in' their hands which they have up to this point apparently gained, they will have jus- tifled themseives before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain by it.” The president recited again the German aggressions which drove the United States to war. He declared the purposes for which American soldiers now carry the Stars and Stripes to Europe for the first time in history are not new to American _traditjons be- cause realization of Germany's war aims must eventually mean the undo- ing of the whole world. He spoke in full as follows Flag the Emblem of Our Unity “My Fellow Citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag day because this flag | which we honor and under which we ! serve is the embiem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The cholces nre ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, Whether in peace or in war. And vet, though silent, it speaks to us—speaks to us of the past, of the men and Wwomen who went before us and of the records they wrote upon it. We cele- brate the day of its birth: and from its birth until now it has witnessed a sreat history, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great people. We are about to carry it into battle, to Nift it where it will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions, of our men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the natiom, to %0 forth and die be- HILE THEY LAST $7.80" | STILLIVIAN'S THE HOME OF THE NEW EDISON NORWICH, 324 Main Street WESTERLY neatn it on fields of blood far away— |our enemies. They did not originate [ garia or Tur r for what? For some unaccustomed |or desire this hideous war or wish |states of the e thing? For something for which it |that we should be drawn into it: and [indeed, wa has never sought the fire before?| Ve are vaguely conscious that we are | Central Ge American armies. were never before|fIghting their cause, as they will some | dominated ¢ sent across the eeas. Why are they |day see it, as well as our own. They |fuences that F n sent now? For some new purpose, for | are themselves in the zrip of the same |the German st which this great flag has never been |sinister power: that has now at last|dream had its he carried before, or for ome old. fa- |Stretched its ugly talons out and [have had a he miliar, herolc’ purpose - for which it|drawn blood from us. The whole |refected the has seen men, its own men, die on|World Is at war because the whole |entirely. T every battlefleld upon which Ameri- |Wworld is in the grip of that power |ed no y cans have borne arms since the Revo. |and is trving out the great battle | plated t Tution? which shall determine whether it is |litical to be brouzht under its mastery or |gether or “These are_questions which must b ancwered. We are Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has alwavs used it We are accountable at the bar of his- tory and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve. How We Were Forced Into the War “Tt 1s plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraordina insults and aggressions of the impe- rial German government left us no self-respecting choice But to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free Dpeople and of our honor as a sovereign Zovernment. The military masters of Germany denied ue the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities. with vicjous spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the ion_of our people in their own be- af. When they found that they could not do that. their agents dili- gently spréad sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance—and some of these agents were men connected with the official embassy of the German govern- ment itself here in our own capital. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her—and that, not by indirection, but by diryect suggestion from the foreign office in Rerlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repgated- Iy executed their threat that they would eend to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Burope. And many of our own people were corrupted. Men be- gan to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion and to wonder in their hot resentment and surprise whether there was any community in which hostile intrigue did not lurk. What great nation in- such _circumstances would not have taken up arrés? Much as we had desired peace ,it was de- nied us, and not of our own choice This flag under which we serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. Not Enemies of German People “But that is only part of the story. We know now as clearly as we knew Lefore we were ourseives engaged that we are not the enemlies of the German people and that they are not fling itself free. German Intrigue Caused War by the mili- who_proved “The war was begun tary masters of Germany, to be also_the masters of Austria- Hungary. These men have never re- garded nations as peoples, men, wom- en, and children of iike blood and frame as themselves, for whom gov- crnments existed and in whom £0 ernments had their life. They regarded them merely as service organizations which they could force or intrigue bend or their own purpose. They garded the smaller states, ular, and the peoples who overwhelmed by force, as ural tools and instruments nation. Their purpose has long ivowed. The statesmen of other na- tions, to whom that purpose was in- credible, paid little attention: resard- cd what German professors expound- €d in their classrooms and German writers set forth to the worid as the goal of German policy rather the dream of minds detached from prac tical affairs, as preposterous privat conceptions of German destiny, than s the actual plans of responsibie rul ers: but the rulers of Germany them- selves knew all the while what con crete plans, what well advanced in- trigues lay back of what the profes- sors and the writers were saying, and were glad to o forward unmolested, filling_the thrones of Palkan states with nan princes, putting Germar officers at the service of Turkey to arill her armies and make interest with her government, developing plans of sedition and rebeilion In Indin and Egypt, setting their fires in P The demands made by Austria Servia were a mere single step plan which compassed Europe Asia. from Berlin to hoped those demands Europe, but they meant to press ti whether they did or not. for thought themselves ready for nal issue of arms | tive, but Broad Belt of Military Power e “Their plan was to throw a broad |of th belt of German militiry power and |of it political control across the very cen- |sort fre of Europe and bevond the Mediter. | and ranean into the neart of As and [ with the Austria-Hungary was to be much their tool and pawn as Servia or Bul ples Aesired to tey would y | only the dav ¢ man pnilita oned wi dea) wit in partic- could their nat of domi. Amazing Why Germany “ They peace more | (Continued on BUICK FACTORY has advised all Buick dealers that prices will advance July Ist, in all probability, from 20 to 25 per cent. Immediate delivery can be made on all models at present prices while they last. GCGet Busy! IMPERIAL GARAGE