St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 16, 1918

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Circulation Biggest tee The circulation of the Daily Post-Dispatch in St Lovis compared season by season is greater than ever before in the history of this newspaper. This - {is also true of the Sunday Post-Dispatch. “Cir- culation books open to all.” “First in Everything.” LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service —~ Ona eee he — ee a een eee eee "VOL. 70. NO. 177. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, Pd NIG EDITION HT on — - anand ~. ——— oe ee FEBRUARY 10, 1918—12 PAGES. PRICE} St. Louis and Suburbs, One ———- - oe ee ener amen "| GENERALLY FAIR, HIGHER TEMPERATURES NEXT WEEK wee ee eee SHIPPING BOARD AGREES TO-GRANT INGREASE IN WAGES THE , a ) A. a. High, a. m. ee Official forecast for St. Louis and: Yesterday: (low, 26, at 7 | vicinity: row, colder tonight, with the lowest temperature about 14. W AS HING- TOM, Fep. 1¢ (By A. P.).— Weather predic- tions for the week beginning Sunday, issued by the Weather Bureau today in- clude: Upper Decision Affecting 60 Per Cent of Atlantic Coast Ship ~ Werkers Does Not Include Strikers, but Is Expected to Affect Walkout. | AS50SO LOAF 1S BETTER THAN NONE. Executive Is Giving the Sit- uation His Personal Atten- tion and Is Preparing to Take Some Action. Missouri Vaileys -—Weather moderate Mor- day and Tuesday with local snows in* north and rains in south or Wednesday. Decided temper- ature changes not indicated and 'the week asa whole will be one of generally fair weather and higher temperatures. Men Employed by Private Concerns Demand Wage Scale Similar to One Now in Force on Pacific Coast. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. (By .. MICTORY PASTRY FOR CAFES P.)—The shipping board’s wage ad-' justment board today agreed on an Pies and Cakes. increase in wages, definite working | WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 conditions and overtime pay for all, :):~A!! hotels, restaurants, ; | cars, steamships, shipyard workers in the so-called | and other public Delaware yards, comprising about) 60 per cent of ship workers on the Atlantic coast. It does not include the striking carpenters, but is ex- pected to affect their strike. Many of the striking. carpenters, however, despite the advice of their union officials, have signified their intention of accepting the award. The strikers in the New York dis- trict have not done so but it is hoped they will. The new wage scale is not so high as the Pacific coast rate nor so high as the New York strikers demand, but it will be the model for settle- ments in other districts on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The Board's decision was per- fected after conferences today be- tween acting Secretary Roosevelt of the navy, Chairman Hurley of the shipping. board; General Manager Piez of the Emergency Fleet Cor- | poration and Chairman Macy of the Adjustment Board. Carpenters Not Included. It doés not take in the striking earpenters at New York, it was said because they have insisted on being dealt with as a special class, which the shipping board has been unwill- ing to do. The strikers, however, are free to avail themselves of the | increases and improved conditions which the adjustment board pro- poses. President Wilson its preparing to take some action to end the strikes in Atlantic Coast ship yards which threaten to tie up a large-part of the khip building industry of the East. The President has giver the situation his personal attention since yester-| day. A direct appeal to the President to intervene was made today by officers | 4 Shortage of corn, the Senate Agri- of the Brotherhood of Carpenters! culture Committee was told today and Joiners, approximately 50 per| by John A. Simpson of Weatherford, cent of whose members im the New| Ok., who said that wheat at $3 a York districts are out today, de- bushel should be provided to give the ‘manding immediate assurances of! OKlahoma farmer full protection. higher wages and closed shop con-| The corn crop in most sections of ditions. Oklahoma was a failure, he said. The Shipping Board last night made a second apepa! to the men to return to work pending adjustment of the trouble by the Wage Adjust- ment Board. The board's renewed request was Flour Substitutes Must Be Used in (By A. dining eating places, in- flour a month, must hereafter serve victory pies, pastry, cookies, grid- dle cakes, waffles, etc., as well as victory bread, under a ruling an- nounced by the food administration. to become effective at once. All pies, pastry, cakes, ete., served by such places must contain a third of wheat substitutes. 1 “The new regulation,” said a food | ' administration announcement, ‘‘has been put into operation for the pro- tection of those public eating places that desired to co-operate to the fullest extent with the food admin- istration in wheat saving but. were subject to unfair competition on the | part of some of their competitors.” SAYS PENNY DEFLECTED BULLET Aiton Soldier Overseas Sends tered Coin to Friend. Theodore Gravely of Alton, is with the American France, has sent to an Alton friend a battered penny which he says saved his life. He writes that he was in the front trenches and was carrying the coin in the pocket of his topcoat when a bullet struck sit and was deflected by it. He was wounded but not serious- ly. He writes that the bullet would have pierced his heart if it had not been for the benny, WHEAT BEING FED TO HOGS Oklahoman Testifies This Is Due to Searcity of Corn. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (By JA. P.).—Stock raisers in Oklahoma are Bat- who ers, he said. The reason given by farmers for feeding wheat to hogs was that they could not haul a load of wheat to the market and for the money obtained for it bring back a made by Chairman Hurley last night! !0ad of corn. in a telegram to William L. Hutch- |. eson, president of the United Broth- | | } erhood of Carpenters and Joiners, | Virtually demanding that he send the | striking shipbuilders back to their | jobs. WHarlier in the day Hutcheson | had answered a previous appeal with | a cOmmunication declaring it would | be impossible to act until he had | some definite proposition from the. Bhipping Board as to working condi- tions. | Rivalry between Hutcheson and heads of the American Federation of . Labor, some officials today charged, is at the bottom of much of the trouble. Hutcheson, it is declared, declined to enter the agreement call- ing for settlement of differences by the Adjustment Board, despite the fact that he was urged to do so by | Federation chiefs. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch “What I Saw on the Western Front,’’ by a Major-General in the National Army—A highly interesting and informa- tive article on conditions there as observed by a military man of high rank with extraordi- nary opportunities to see things. Why the American Army Has Been Placed on aé_ “Sector Known as “The Gateway to France’'—An article by Frank H. Simonds that should be read by every Amcrican, Hiow Hard Can Germany Strike ?—Hilaire Belloc, one of England’s best-known writers, analvzes the strength of the Kaiser's armies on the Western Front and discusses their driv- ing power against the Allied Lines, Old and New Celis at Mis- souri’s Penitentiary — Strik- ing photograph in the Rotogra- vure Section, showing how the State is progressing in its treatment of its convicts. A Help-Yourself Grocery—A St. Louis suburban experiment that enables custamers to save 15 per eent on their purchases. St. Louisan Tella How He Saw : Pr + of 100,000 Destroyed Karthquake—A = graphic rE wees of the recent great scismic upheaval! in Guatemala. Order Your 2 hd Today Appeal. Madc pea Prépident to Inter- | vene in Ship Strike. | NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (By A. P.). —An appeal direct to President Wil- | @on to intervene in the strike of _ shipyard workers engaged on Gov- | @rnment contracts will be made to- day by the United Brotherhood of | ters and Joiners, it was an- mounced by officials of the organ- | ization here this morning. | ; ioecea weeetod 560 per cent of the | in the New York | | gaia, ‘unless wage 1 Sepa ‘The num- a ae te TEMPERATURES. | Missis- | sippi ana Lower) will | portions Tuesday | boarding houses | cluding clubs, using three barrels of | forces in'! feeding wheat to hogs on account of. Price fixing has discouraged farm- | | formed the police. | between Christen, ' that Christen hearing and it was necessary for the | Greenburg, | Wagon, ‘/ mon law bond. rearrested. ARSON JURY FAIL TO REACH VERDICT “AND IS DISCHARGED One Man Who Favored Acquit- | tal Refused to Take Part in Deliberations. Fair tonight and tomgr-. EXPLAINS HIS STAND Plant Was Not to Be Burned, He Holds. | After standing 11 to 1 for convic- ‘tion throughout all but the first five minutes of six hours’ deliberation, a jury in Judge Miuiller’s court today was discharged at noon after failing against Max Greenburg, Edward charged with being ‘‘torches’”’ attempt to burn the Christen Bel- lows Co. Louis Cadieux of 3401 Eads ave- nue, foreman of the jury, in presence of 10 other jurors, made it known that the one juror who held out for acquittal was Harvey Fox of 2435 South Second street, worker. He said Fox voted for ac- quittal on the first ballot. Finding that the other jurors were all the three men were guilty, the testimony, and the for the defense, had convinced him between the police and the Christen ‘company and that it was never in- ‘tended that the plant should be burned. Therefore, he held, ‘could have been no real attempt at arson. Jury Went Home for Night. | The case went to the jury at 5 p. i'm. yesterday. When no agreement ‘had been reached at 9 p. m., the jurors were permitted to go home. They returned at 10 a. m. today and resumed their deliberations. The defense introduced no mony. In his argument Simon 5S. Bass, attorney for the defendants, contended that the precautions taken by the police and officials of the company made it impossible to start a fire at the plant and that there- fore no attempt at arson could be charged. Special Prosecutor Harvey argued that the finding of gasoline and ex- plosives in the possession of the three defendants when they went to the factory showed that they intend- ed to burn the plant. Arrested at Plant. The arrest of Greenburg, Milner and Connors was made in the ship- ping yard of the Christen plant on | the afternoon of Sept. 11, 1915, after they had driven there in containing explosives, several barrels of gasoline and a roll of fuse. Joseph C. Christen, president of the company, had seemingly acqui- esced in a plot to increase the surance on the plant and then have it burned ta obtain the insurance ‘money. At the trial he testified that he made this arrangement with Ju- lius R. Bersch, an insurance agent whose trial on an attempted arson ' charge is still pending, and with |'Herbert O. Baker, an insurance ad- juster, who has appeared as a wit- ness for the State in other arson ' trials. Christen, on the witness stand, ‘increase the insurance by $35,000 and / permit them to burn the plant, it be- ing understood that $5000 should go.) j to the ‘‘torches” who were to do the actual work of destruction and the ‘remaining $30,000 was to be divided | | between them and the two insurance | the knowledge of | in- | A detective and a | Without and Baker, men. | Bersch Christen | stenographer, hidden in a wardrobe 'in his office, overheard conversations | Bersch and Baker. | the fact | of | ‘This was made easier by is somewhat hard ‘insurance men to talk unusually | loud. _ <At the trial of the alleged “torch- | 'es’’ Christen testified that he admit- | ted them to the factory yard when) | they arrived there on the appointed | | Saturday aftemoon and that, ' viously arranged, 'word “Bersch”’ known to him. as pre- they used the pass- Chief Allender and detectives were in hiding in the yard and arrested the men when they drove in, -W. H. DANFORTH REACHES FRANCE 6S. mm. Louis Man Has Executive Posi- tion With Y. M. C. A. Forces. Mrs. William H. Danforth of 17 | Kingsbury place. received a cable- /gram today from her husband, an- ' nouncing his safe arrival m France. /where he went to take = executive | | position with the Y. M. C. A. organ- _ ization. Danforth, who is president of the Ralston Purina Co., managed the successful Missouri campatgen for Y. M. C. A. funds. Fraace on Feb 2. Arson Not Contemplated as| to agree in the attempted arson case Milner and Michael (Split) Connors, | in an | the | a wood- | for | conviction, Fox then refused to take | any further part in the deliberations. | In explanation of his vote Fox told | ithe other jurors that before hearing | i the evidence he was inclined to think | but that) arguments , that the arrest was a result of a plot | there | testi- | ‘DEA TH | SEN TENCE OF ORA LEWIS IS AFFIRMED State Supreme Court Sets April 5 as Date for Execution—Life Term for Roy Upheld. The Missouri ‘day affirmed the death sentence of | Ora Lewis, slayer of Motor Cycle 'Policeman John McKenna, April 7, 1916, and set April 5 @}xt as the date | | for his execution. It also affirmed the life sentence | Lewis, convicted | of his brother, Ray of the same crime and now serving [his time in the Jefferson City Peni- |tentiary. After killing McKenna the |Lewis brothers also murdered Pa- i; trolman William A. Dillon. A law passed at the last session of ‘the Legislature abolished capité ' punishment in Missouri, but the Cir- GERMAN AGENT Supreme Court to-| SENT MAIL UNDER. SWIZERLAND SEAL Messages Relayed to Zurich Through Swiss Representative at Philadelphia. ‘COLOMBIAN' SEAL USED ‘cuit Attorney’s office here took the. view that this law tive and did not apply to the case of Ora Lewis, who was convicted Nov. ’8, 1916, before the law was passed. was not retroac- | | A. |'Only commutation of his sentence by | | said to be an important agent of the Gov. Gardner-can now save him ‘from the death penalty, Attorney holds. Two of the Lewis brothers, ‘and Oscar Lee, fled after the mur- the Circuit | Frank | ders and have never been captured. | Ora Lewis, when told at the city | jail that the death sentence had been | said Mrs. to affirmed, ‘his sister, Kansas City, Stella Landon that he would ask | of | intercede with the | ' Governor to have the sentence com-,. i'muted. He seemed only slightly in- terested in the Supreme Court's deci- | sion. BEAUTY SPECIALIST ARRESTED UPON TWO COMPLAINTS “Mme.” Julia Mays, Charged With Practicing Medicine Without _ Having a License. Two warrants, charging practice of medicine with license, have been against “Madame” . Julia Mays, beauty specialist, of 16 | South Suclid avenue, upon com- i plaints by Mrs. Martha Hitchcock of |'5101 Cates avenue, Rogers of 3936 Delmar boulevard. 'She was released on bond. Mrs. Rogers reported that she paid ($300 in advance March 14 last, for a course of facial treatment. After several months’ treatment, she said, her face was in worse condition than before, and she demanded her money back. The beattty specialist told her, she said, that refunding the money would be an acknowledg- 'ment of incompetency, and that she couldn’t afford to do it. Mrs. Rogers then complained Assistant Health Commissioner Jordan, who says ‘he _ found that “Madame” Mays also had treated Mrs. Hitchcock for catarrh, although she has no license to practice medi- cine. He gave her an opportunity to return the $300 to Mrs. Rogers and $100 which Mrs. Hitchock had paid her, but she refused. Mrs. Rogers also has filed a civil suit for $500 against ‘““Madame’” Mays in Justice court. | issued d a a Wagon | in- | WIFE'S SPIRIT MESSAGES CAUSE HUSBAND NO. 3 TO SUE Retired Farmer Says His Predeces- sors Were Frequently Quoted by Wife to His Discomfort. Krank Rhomberg, a retired far- mer, today sued Elizabeth Rhom- berg for divorce. They were mar- ried Jan. 19, 1917, and separated Feb. 14. 1918. Among other tions Rhomberg charges that wife, who, had already been twice are dead, had visited spiritualists and would come home and inform that she had had spiritualistic munication with her former com- hus- said | he agreed with Bersch and Baker to) shipped to St. |r, -and unfit for human consumption by | . + to announce as a Morris who also was with the: later ‘“‘jumped” his $200 com- | He has never been) He depuried for bands. and would refer to one of these spirits as ‘‘my Charlie.” furthermore, he alleges, his wife 'often had made comparisons un- to | U. S. Opened Fischer’s Letters, | Then Let Them Proceed, but Sent Man on Ship With Them. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 6 (By P,) is the channel | through which Adalbert K. Fischer, German Government in this country, communicated with friends in Ger- many. | Fischer, head of the firm of! Schutts & Koerting Co., valve man- | ufacturers, Philadelphia, now is in- | terned at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., as a | dangerous enemy alien. The firm | has been working on Government | contracts and this week was seized | by the Government. Secret service agents made this known today, when they referred to mail sent by representatives of) i 'addressed to a representative of the and Mrs. Naomi | i ‘agent said, ‘der to learn | sidn.”’ ' cial).—Joseph allega- | his) married and whose former husbands | him | , matter 'svivania has been asked to refrain | to rescind a commission given to the | Fischer abroad. The mail was first | } Swiss Government in Phiiadelphia and later addressed to persons in Zurich under the seal of the Swiss. Government. Gther mail sent from here to Ger- | ' man agents was mailed under the/| seal of the Colombian Government. Teuton propagandists here believed their information was secret, but the United States opened the letters, learned the contents and permitetd them to proceed.on their way. | With the mail, however, and, in! fact, on the same boat, was a Gov- | ernment sé@cret agent. What he learned when the mail was deliv- ered resulted in the arrest in this county of many German spies, whose names have not been published. Thev are now interned. A secret service. operative, who knew Fischer so well that he ate with him—although Fischer did not know he was a United States agent— said today that Germany’s espionage plans were futile, so far as Fischer was concerned. “While Fischer was interned at Gloucester, N. J.,” this Government “his wife was permitted | to see him. He told her some im- | portant things secretly—so he sup- posed. She carried this information ot a man in Philadelphia who transmitted it to Switzerland. We not only knew she was doing this, but we permitted her to do it in or- the course of transmis- JOSEPH PENNELL PUT OUT OF CLUB FOR WAR REMARKS Tirade on British Motives Causes Philadelphians to Ask Daniels to | Discharge Artist. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16 Pennell, the leading black and white sketch artist in America, has resigned from the Art Club here in consequence of trouble over views he expressed about Brit- ish motives in the war. So bitterly did the officers and members of the club feel about the that the University of Penn- (Spe- from giving Pennell a degree, and Secretary Daniels has been requested |artist to make sketches of the navy | | pleasant to him with photographs of | husbands, at the dead guests were her |when home. 100,000 GANS OF CORN Rhomberg Government Inspectors Trying Find 90,000 of Them Said to : Be in Retail Stores. Five thousand cases ' corn, containing 100,000 to have been condemned as impure State Food and Drug Inspector B. Cc. Edmunds. About 10,000 cans have been con- retail grocery stores. Bdmunds says the corn is a men- ace to health. He asked newspapers warning to con- that the cans may tinguished by the labels ‘““Guaran- tee,”” ‘‘Waverly Way,” “Hill City” ! ‘and “Pride of Iowa.” that his office be notified where the | ' brands are offered for sale so that | an of it may be confiscated. summers ee ‘BACON GIFTS TO GOVERNMENT * | ished but will not be open for traffic A. | for about 20 days. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (By particularly | ' House Committee,’ FROM IOWA CONDEMNED | | ago. ' dinner. |where were a score of members 0 of canned | cans, | Louis by an Iowa pack- | excuse. ‘fiscated by Government food inspec- ; ‘tors and they are trying to find the /remaining 90,000 cans, said to be in in making themselves | Eds Communication be dis- | P.).—A movement to induct farmers | ‘to contribute bacon to the Govern- ment if Liberty Bonds are not with- in reach has been started in Mis- souri, according to Speaker Clark. The Speaker recently received a | Shenandoah-Lost Creek branch, are letter from FP. Warden of Mexico, Mo., telling ofthe inauguration of | a nine-hour day and are striking for the plan and upetine the Speaker to advocate it. . a - ma ee me ee - | : in war. “It is true that [I have resigned. |! consider the matter one between myself and the gentlemen of the * is the only com- ment Pennell would make. The incident that brought his res- ignation took place several weeks Several Canadian officers were | club at; the dite | guests of members of the Pennell entered the Canadians. The members say Pennell made a triade on the sub- ject of British motives. The House | Committee asked the artist what ex- | -cuse he could offer for his remarks. and it is said he refused to make anv | He was then asked to give | un his rooms. ST, CHARLES FERRYBOAT RUNNING | cree ennessinatareotnssamoenmnanse ! With St. Louis In- | terrupted for a Week. Communication between St. *Pouis | and St. Charles was resumed today, after having been interrupted a week. The ferryboat John K. Davis ,of the St. Charles Ferry Co. made He requests | \its first trip since the middle of No- ‘vember. The ice bridge, which served for pedestrians and vehicles from Dec. 28 to Feb. 10, went out ‘Thursday. For several days before | had been unsafe. The new highway bridge is fin- Women Section Hands on Strike. POTTSVILLE, Pa., Feb. 16.— | Women section hands employed by ithe Lehigh VaHey Railroad on the on a strike. They receive $1.80 for $2. -They will be organized ” Ay union pemanrr today. Pe oy Fal, ii ee ling, ‘are sued ishrepnel puffs. 'miral Albert Parker Niblack. Com- ‘obtained their marriage license yes- twenty two. _of Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of the ‘Secretary ‘of brother, Ensign Worth Bagley, was ithe first and only American naval | First Officer From St. Louis Wounded on the Western Front Be L ERRNO son Sea ely LIEUT. JOHN T. MAGUIRE. AMERICANS UNDER GAS SHELL ATTACK’ Two-Hour Bombardment nas cessful—German Airmen | Repeatedly Driven Off. | WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Friday, Feb. 15 (By A. P.).—The Germans opposed to the Americans early today made an un- successful bombardment with gas shells. German airplanes in large numbers, which repeatedly tried to cross the American lines, were also criven off by the American machines | and anti-aircraft batteries. Gas shells in considerable number | from the German guns fell within the American sector early in the morn- making necessary the wearing of masks in all parts of the trenches for more than three hours. One American was injured by an explod- ing shell, but so excellent has been the anti-gas training of the men that not a single case of gas poisoning was reported. The duration of the shelling was two hours, but traces of ' the poisonous fumes remained an hour after the bombardment ceased. Visibility was good today in the clear, cold atmosphere and as a re- sult there was much aerial activity on both sides. The American artillerymen rapidly attaining a high degree of effi- ciency, Today they continually fired shells that exploded so close to the enemy airplanes that the aviators were compelled to dodge and duck and scurry back to a safer area, pur- across the sky by a trail of The artillery on both sides resumed activity today. Thé American gun- |} ners shelled the German rear lines and commupications effectively. , COMMANDER BAGLEY TO WED CALIFORMA GIRL TODAY | te RD | rarer. Ceremony Will Be in New York—He | Had Charge of Jacob Jones When Destroycr Was Sunk. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. (Special).—| Commander David Worth Bagley, U. S. N., who had charge of the des- trovyer Jacob Jones when a U- -boat | | sent her to the bottom last December | and was rescued after gallantly stick- , |ing to his ship to the last possible! tember, jmoment, will marry this evening Miss | training under British army officers. | Marie Louise Harrington, daughter of In a letter published exclusively in Mr. and Mrs. Tennant Harrington of | Colusa, Cal., and niece of Rear Ad- mander Bagley and Miss Harrington terday. He is 35 and his bride-to-be+ Commander Bagicy is the brother the Navy. His elder officer killed in the Spanish-Ameri- can war. . Commander Bagley is shortly to take command of a new destroyer. @ that camera for a shoteus renee ek sugh the deer i nent Want Col. : -" = - _ 4 - : eee Se a Pee $F Be Bare aicean REO e Pc AE PRE NE re DA ER Me BE heyy” a3 ¥ age “K ge Sy 5 Spelt Me iS lo 2 i . ble. was one of six new St. -LEUT. JOHNT. MAGUIRE IS SLIGHTLY WOUNDED Former St.Louis University Star Quarterback Received In- jury in Action. Second Lieutenant John guire, former star quarterback of the St. Louis University football team and son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Maguire of 4429 Olive street, was slightly wounded in action in France Feb. 6, according to an announce- ment made by the War Department last night. He is the first St. Louis officer wounded on the Westerr front. f In a previous bulletin sent out by the department it had been made to appear that the wounded officer was Lieut. John J. McGuire of New York City. This is now officially declared to have been «~ mistake. Wrote oi Going to Firing Line. In a letter to his father, written Jan. 1, Lieut. Maguire said in part: “Had a fine talk given us by our new Colonel (who has just arrived). He said the most honorable posfion an American could hold today was that of platoon leader in the first line trenches. His talk was to the voung officers of the regiment, espe- cially. And I tell fou he made our hot blood almost boll. He said we should be the envy of every Ameri- can citizen, from the President down. When you receive this I thimk I shall be—you can guess where.” In another letter, written Jan. 20 and received today, Lieut. Maguire gave an indication that his regiment 'was on the way to the firing line. He wrote: “Letters from now on will be We are away up here some- where and traveling ltght as possi- You must from, row on sur- mise a few things for yourself.” Lieut. Maguire was practicing law iin St. Louis when the United States. entered the war. He was one of the. | first contingent to go to the Officers’ | Training Camp at Fort Riley, and after receiving his commission he Louis officers picked for immediate service § in France. _ Reached Europe in September. After his arrival in Europe, in Sep- he received preliminary the Post-Dispatch last Thursday Ma- 'guire told of this training period and said that at first he was “a little prejudiced” against the British, whose. officers carry silk handker- chiefs tucked in their sleeves, but that after associating with them he had learned to admire them as won- derful fighters and was thankful that he had the advantage of British in- “struction. Since his arrival in France, Lieut. Maguire has been in command of the Second Platoon, A Company, Bigh- teenth United States Infantry. He has written several interesting letters home, some to his parents and some Ca IR lan enemy submarine T. Ma- | "Daiveraite Se at St. rete! LONDON, Feb. 16 (By A. Pye a An enemy submarine “‘Dbombarialee a Dover early this morning, it is offi- cially announced, The submarine — was fired on from the shore and ~ ceased the bonibardment after —s # 30 rounds had been fired. - There © were eight casualties and only slight damage. The official statement reads: “Fire was opened upon Dover by about 12:10 o'clock this morning, the fire come tinuing three or four minutes. The — shore batteries replied and the em- emy ceased fire after Cr about 30 rounds. child: injured, three men, one an and three children. Slight age was caused house property. Cases have not been ; German submarines the British coast and sh points. Yarmouth, for instance, Wi thus bombarded Jan. 14. It is net often, however, that the U-boasts have cared to take chances with such a well-defended town as is Dover, the most important port in ee eastern England, opposite Calais, on the Straits of Dover, across fic between England and France. It was only yesterday that a — powerful squadron of German de- stroyers made a sudden raid in the — Straits of Dover and sank eight pa- — trol vessels. Fda Germans Bomb candi and Some — Civilians Are Killed. ~a PARIS, Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—The | French last night made a successful raid near Vauquois “and repulsed German reconnoitering parties in — Champagne, and in Upper Alsace, — the War Office reports. German aviators again dropped bombs in the ~ vicinity of Nancy. The nate Ubaorae “In Champagne, in the region” of Ville-Sur-Tourbe, and in Upper sace, south of Burnhaupt- Le-Bas, the French repulsed German raid- ing parties. The French carried out an enterprise in the sector of : quois and brought back prisoners: “Enemy aviators Jast nif P dropped several bombs in the : north of Nancy. It is reported Ga | 4 civilians were killed or wounded.” Oo are British Take Prisoncrs in Raid in Ms : Ypres Neighborhood. LONDON, Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—“A successful raid was carried out wa Lancashire troops early last night in the neighborhood of the Ypres- Staden railway,” today’s Office report. “Eleven f were taken by our troops and casualties were slight.” SINKING OF EIGHT BRITISH PATROL ~ CRAFT WASIN DOVER, Feb. 16 (By A. P.}. he Weather was thick and the night was very dark when the German ¢ ers dashed upon British patrol Vem~— sels in the Strait of Dover carly ~ terday merning and sank eight | oe them. The patrol veasels, ra equipped with light armament, f anti-submarine work, did not } = a” bias * a a x «

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O7.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH' SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. I og = «renee ee ee ee ee ee RR Sat a cn I ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH RMANY STILL AT /AR WITH RUSSIA SAYS AUERLM ate «= a. * secretary Asserts Warfare Must »- Be Revived With End of ) the Armistice. EXPLAINS GERMANY’S IDEA. Declares She Seeks to Observe Racial Point of View in Poland and Courland. BERLIN, via London, Feb. 16.— | The commissioners representing the. Central Powers left Petrograd ves- terday and crossed the German lines | offi- | this morning, it is announced ‘Cially. (It recently was announced that | ’ the commission, which had been dis- | Cussing the status of prisoners of war, had been experiencing constant- % increasing difficulties and that the | question had arisen whether it was | Wise to remain in Petrograd. ) ee ee AMSTERDAM, Feb. 16 (By A. P.). That Germany and Austria were etill at war with Russia was the be- Hef expressed by Dr. Richard von, Kyehimann, the German Foreign } ; ; | | -. Russia Throws LONDON, Feb. 16 (By A. P.). USSIA’S withdrawal! from R the war was a real with- drawal, and the throwing away of all agreements with her former allies, said Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, in reporting to the All-Russian Workmen's and Soldiers’ coun- cils on the result of the Brest- Litovsk conference, according to a Russian wireless dispatch re- ceived here. The dispatch says the councils approved Trotzky's policy. The wireless communi- cation says: “M. Trotzky yesterday report- ed to the All-Russian Centra! Executive Committee of the councils the results of the Brest- Litovsk negotiations. All par- ties, including the opposition groups, recognized that the de- cision taken by the commission- ers was the only correct and dig- nified outcome of the newly cre- ated international situation. “The question of the possibil- ity of a German offensive against Russia was discussed. Agreements With Former Allies Away All Nearly all present were of the opinion that it was very improb- able, but uttered warnings against the extreme annexation- ist groups in Germany might force the Government to a new offensive. “All the speakers expressed confidence that the masses of the peoples of Germany and Austria-Hungary would not per- mit new bloodshed on the Rus- sian front for such an offensive would have the character of an open raid for plunder. “M. Trotzky completed his re- port with the statement that Russia was withdrawing from the war, not only in a arance but in reality, was rowing away all agreements with her former allies and, as regards the war in progress, was reserving for herself complete freedom with respect to both sides in her revolutionary policy. “The councils adopted the res- olution and approved the whole policy of the Brest-Litovsk dele- gation.”’ — demobilization of the Russian army. Dr. von Kuehlmann asked Trotzky to state where the frontiers of Rus- ‘sia ran and whether Russia was willmg to resume commercial and | legal relations with the Centsal Pow- ers. Trotzky replied that his dele- gation had exhausted all its powers and considered it necessary to return to Petrograd. Communication, he Secretary, at the concluding session | *dded, might be resumed by wire- oF the recent peace conference at est-Litovek, after Leon Trotzky, ‘less or through the representatives of the Central Powers then in Pet- j ; e Bolshevik Foreign Minister. had | e his final Statement that Rus- was out of the war and _ her rmies would be demobilized, but. t she would desist from signing a. orma!l peace treaty a ‘The acts of war, Dr. von Kuehl- mann said, ended when Russia and | | fhe Teutonic allies signed the armi- | stice, but when the armistice ended the warfare must be revived. He added that because one or two of the | contracting parties had demobilized their armies, this fact would ewise alter tis» situation. Germanay was pictured as a peace loving, non-aggressive nation in the speech of Dr. von Kuehlmann. He sdid the Russians should have no. fear that Germany held any designs. oo Russia. “I meed, only refer M. tHe permanent basis of the German Policy, which, up to Trotzky to'| | indicated, they said, that fewer than the time when. war with Russia was forced on the’ German people, consisted in .he pres- | efvation of good and friendly rela- | ‘tion in charge at New York, said re- | lof I s* tipns toward our eastern neighbors, Ir. von Kuehlmann deciared. “Ger- in no. | rograd. By virtue of the treaty with the 'Ukraine by which the status quo ‘ante of the frontiers between Aus- tria-Hungary and Russia were es-! tablished, Austro-Hungarian troops Wednesday entered Brody and took peaceful possession of the says a dispatch from Vienna. Thus the last big town in East Ga-, licia was returned to Austria-Hun- / gary. town, | jay. tween the Government | shipyard workers. Unless the United States Shipping Board takes definite action immedi- ately on the wage demands, union officials declared foday that the walkout would spread not only over the New York district but all along the Atlantic seaboard. This would involve 15,000 men here, union lead- ers said, and tie up the Government shipping program. The shipyard workers and union officials have sought to make it clear that their controversy is with private concerns and not with the Govern- ment. Labor leaders have expressed a willingness to put 300,000 men at the disposal of the Government to co-operate in preventing a cessation of work on the shinping program. Hutcheson in a statement last night ‘“‘resented the impression” thai the carpenters were not loyal to the administration in the conduct of the war. The carpenters insist that their and the 7000 SHIPYARD WORKERS SAID TO BE OUT IN EAST eee Centinued Frem Page One. erhood leaders, information reaching shippimg board officials here at noon demands have been in the hands of | |the Shipping Board for months, but | ‘have heen set aside repeatedly with- | out action. They assert that they ask | only conditions with a view to an agree- | for an investigation of wage ment similar to that made on the Pacific Coast. Strikers Eject Labor Leader RKe- 1100 shipyard workers were on strike in the New York district. as ts Wilkie, assistant district ah ficer of the emergency fleet corpora- | ports showed only five yards engaged | many'’s policy will always ccntinue—. as soon as the war has reached a sat- isfactory conclusion—to strive for the friendliest relations with newly or- ganized Russia by avoiding all inter- ference in its internal affairs."’ Explains Drawing of Lines. Dr. von Kuehlmann said the Ger- man idea in drawing the frontier ‘ lines for Poland, Courtland and Lith- uania was “‘to observe the racial point of view as suggested by the Russian delegations, and we have done this im accordance with historical demar- cation and ethnographical position.” ;“As regards the future lot of these | peoples,” Dr. tfnued, “‘although we believe wishes already have been expressed | in accordance with the principle of! - gpelf-determination, we are ready, by @ systematic extension of existing representative bodies, to provide for the possibility of a further expression of the national will on the proadest ‘possible basis. The determination of the time and form of this expression of popular will must be decided by existing representative bodies in those territories.” ; As to a separate peace with Uk- raine, Dr. von Kuehlmann said, the Central Powers must reserve the right to be their own judges as to what states they should recognize. They had recognized the Ukraine, he added,.and there was no use dis- qussing that question further. ; Count Czernin, Austro-Hungarian oreign Minister, expressed surprise at Trotzkyv had introduced the sub- Ject of the Ukraine at the peace con- rence. Relations With Ukraine. . “The relations between the Uk- raine and the Petrograd Govern- ment,” said Count Czernin, “do not Goncern the Central Powers. and é6ur conclusion of a peace with the Wkraine cannot be regarded as an Unfriendly act toward the Petrograd overnment. We signed no treaty of liance with the Ukraine against the Petrograd Government, but only a reaty of peace which makes the raine, so far as the Central Pow- rs are concerned, merely a neutra) gate.” ; Replying to Trotzky’s inquiry re- Eitovak the frontier south of Brest- witovek, Dr. von Kuehlimann said: “In drawing these frontiers we at- mpted merely to find a middle. Durse between racial! divisions ana he historical frontier.” - Dr. von Kuehlmann proposed a text for the second article of © peace treaty to the effect that In frontier territories, which not defined should no longer subject to the territorial sover- von Kuehimann con-| their | Guerin said, would suggest a com- ; | structing steel vessels, ty of Russia and that in the fu-| the lot of these territories “thoula decided in agreement resentative peoples accord- to agreement which Germany or ia-Hungary shall make with aoe The point was, Dr. von Kuehimann that evacuation of certain ter- by the Central Powers was ised on condition that the Rus- evacuated Turkish territory neously. A sub-committee failed to reach an agreement a the new frontier proposed by the Powers, another plenary was held Sunday when M. , made his statement regard- din of: see, war ana the | : in Government ship building were | affected and that none of these was tied up. At the plants of the Stand- ard Ship Building Co., Downey Ship. Building Corporation anfi Staten Island Ship Building Co., all con- a total of 440 men had quit, he said, and at those of the Johnson Ship Yards, Inc., and the Foundation Co., buiJding wooden, ships, 625 men. The strikers demand $6.60 a day and extra pay for Sunday and over- time work—wages which, they say, are equivalent to those paid on the Pacific -coast. To Suggest Compromise. The appeal to the President, promise similar to that which was effected last October between the | Government and navy yard carpen- ters who were then threatening to strike. At that time the navy yard work- ers wanted $6.60 a day, similar to the wage which shipyard workers are receiving on the Pacific Coast to- day. Secretary Daniels and Assist- ant Secretary Roosevelt called heads of the carpenters’ union into confer- ence at Washington, Guerin said, and an agreement was reached fixing an eight-hour day, a wage of $4.88, a § per cent bonus under certain con- ditions and two weeks’ vacation and turned From Washington. BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 16 A. F.).—When John H. Ferguson, | (By | ton to confer with Government offi- cials, returned last night and attempt- ed to address a meeting of the strik- lister and forcibly ejected him. That the action of shipworkers was taken because of a demand for a “closed shop” was denied emphatically last night by John Morgan, general organizer of | ters and Joftners of America. “If the Government decides to take over the shipbuilding industry all over the country, the men here express the sentiment and the organ- ization is willing to supply the Gov- ernment with any amount of men. Our entire organizatton of 300,000 What to Do if Your Baby Has Croupy Colds With the hand rub VapoRub freely over the little chest and throat until the difficult breathing is relieved. Then spread on thickly and cover with hot flannels. One application is usual- ly enough. To prevent croup .during the night, apply VapoRub well over throat and chest at bedtime and cover with hot flannels as above. VapoRub all holidays with pay—equivalent in all to $5.90 a day. Such a compromise now.in favor of | ‘the shipyard workers would be ac-| ceptable, Guerin declared. One Settlement Reported. Guerin announced he had received today a telephone message from a shipbuilding corporation at Edge- water, N. J., saying it had settled with ‘its men an a basis of $6.00 a comes in salve form, action, and, ‘to mothers with small children, is ap- plied externally and hence there is no | '‘*dosing.’’ Colds are easiest treated at the beginning and VapoRub makes | the ideal preventive for the entire family. VapoRub Three sizes, 25¢, +1 00.—ADV, 5S0¢ OC: @ar-O- @m-°O au -O- Dancing at The Statler Supper Dances are on again—-with the permission of the Fuel Administration. Come tonight — or any night except Sunday. Whether you bring your theatre party, ‘“‘just drop in” with friends, or make it an occasion for entertaining, you can be sure of a good supper, a pleasant atmosphere and an enjoy- ‘O- am © -p-O - am the Statler OO: @K-O-am-0- amr: 0: ax- 0 ex-O - om - ee@eancce Seeenee pending an understanding be-. ing shipyard workers they refused to} the striking! the United Brotherhood of Carpen- | is quick in its | what is more important | All St. Louis druggists have. and | BOND THINKS HE CAN - QUALIFY FOR JUDGESHI ‘Residence in County Only Tech- | nical, He Says—Asserts ‘‘Small Fry” Lawyers Oppose Him. of 6339 Waterman County, whose Thomas Bond avenue, St. Louis ‘friends and political backers say ‘will be appointed by Gov. Gardner to fill the vacancy to be made March 1 by the resignation of Judge Thom- ‘as C. Hennings of the St. Louis Cir- ‘cuit Court, today said to a Post- | Dispatch reporter that he regarded ‘his residence outside of the city only a “technical objection” which would not be considered by Gov. Gardner. He asserted the opposition to his appointment was being led by “small fry’’ lawyers, some of whom were themselves after the appointment. Bond is a son of Judge Henry W. Bond of the Missouri Supreme Court and a son-in-law of Judge Henry S&S. Priest, general counsel for the United | Railways Co. Until the Frisco rail- ‘road receivership was dissolved in | 1916 he was commercial! counse! for the receivers. Bond said he never had been a candidate before for public office. For that reason the St. Louis Bar Association has not had opportunity to pass upon his qualifications for the bench, as is its custom at elec- tions. The State Constitution specifically says that a Circuit Court Judge must be a resident of the circuit in which he serves. Bond said he had lived in St. Louis all the 36 years of his life, and when he bought his Waterman avenue home. he did not know it was 150 feet beyond the St. Louis city limits. “Tl have made arrangements to take an apartment at the home of my sister, Mrs. William Crowell, at 14 North King’s highway,’ he said. “T know several men who have'| ‘homes in St. Louis County, but maintain their city residence by hav- ing rooms in downtown hotels.” Bond said he did not seek the ap- 'pointment, but that friends had in- terested themselves in his behalf. Gov. Gardner when seen by a Post- | Dispatch reporter, said he had not received Judge Hennings’.- resigna- ‘tion and would not at this time com- aent on it or forecast his action in | filling the vacancy. cetera | PNEUMONIA THREATENS | Take Father John’s Medicine to gain fighting Bey: acta nbn colds. —ADV. ee + a et eng ee. — on — ae es | men is at the disposal of the Gov-{| ernment. We are ready to work for the United States, but not for profit | president of the Baltimere Federation! eering employers because we realize. abor, who had been to Washing-/| that with a great man like President | coughs, colds, bronchitis, because it Wilson at the head of this nation justice will be meted out to the work- | ers. | “Our demands are that the men | now out receive the same working | conditions as those on the Pacific | Coast. | Lager “4 ‘rasgnee,, iB ‘ ye. Bros. wt C0.. re ts gowesiry: a credit. Loftis h st —ADV 52 FRANCE TO TAKE OVER MERCHANT SHIPS MARCH 10 Decree Provides That All Vessels Shall Pass to Control of ‘ Government. | PARIS, Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—A | decree published in the Journal Of- | fictal this morning provides for the entire mer- |chant marine of France on March 19. Government commissioners will | | requisitioning of the _confer with the shfp owners as to the conditions under which the Gov- | @rnment will take over vesseis. NOT TO MOVE TROOPS TO PARADE McAdoo Says Freight Congestion Will Curtail Holiday Movement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—Railway freight congestion on Eastern lines and the necessity of moving the last contingent of the National Army will prevent any ex- tensive movement of soldiers to cities for parades Washington's birth- day, Director-General McAdoo ex- plained today. In a letter to Major-General] John Biddle, acting chief of staff, the Di- rector-General declared it would be impossible to transport the 315th In- fantry and 312th Artillery, Pennsyl- vania National Army troops, from Camp Meade to Philadelphia for a Washington's birthday parade. Niles and Moser Cigar. 6c. Quality maintained makes it popular. —ADV. Plan to Make Texas Dry. AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 16 (By A. P.). —Measures to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquor within 10 miles of any army camp in Texas and making violation of such measures a felony, will be submitted to a special session of the Texas Legislature called to convene Tuesday, Feb. 26. |The Governor’s recommendations if passed by the Legislature would practicaily make Texas a “‘dry”’ State. THEY GAVE HER VINOL FOR BRONCHITIS ‘And it Cured Her—Read baysten Thayer’s Letter | ‘“*J suffered from a severe attack of bronchitis, with a terrible cough, |nO appetite, no energy, no strength jand loss of sleep. 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Churned in pas- teurized cream from the highest-priced materials ob- sweet and delicious until the last bit is used. butterine that particular people demand. your neighborhood has the 2058, 2d and Spruce. stays fresh, It is the don’t know him, phone or write the Blanton Always Sold in This Germ and Dust-Proof Package RONIC CONSTIPAT iS A CRIME AGAINST NATURE never can keep well. If you wake with a bed taste ae pa sede B genet (Bae WILLIAM LANYON I$ KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS BY HIGHWAYMAN | Wealthy Zinc Man and Grain Specn- lator in Hospital From Gas- Pipe Blow. William Lanyon, 55 years old, of 4440 Lindel! boulevard, wealthy pres- ident of the Robert Lanyon Zinc and Lead Co., and a widely known grain speculator on the Merchants’ Ex- change, was knocked unconscious by a highwayman at Newstead avenue and West Pine boulevard at 7 o’clock last. night. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Laidley of 4399 West Pine boulevard witnessed the ‘assault from a window of their home | 'and ran to Lanyon’s assistance. They saw the highwayman escape. Lan- yon was taken to the Barges Hos- pital, where he was found to be suf- fering from a severe gash on the back of the head and possibly an in- jury to the skull. The robber did not! ; PROF, BECKER NOT EXEMPTED No Provision for Deferred Classifica- tion for Teachers, Ruling Says. The District Appeals Board today received a ruling from Lieutenant- Colonel McCord, executive officer of the draft in Missouri, on the case of William C: E. Becker, an instructor of civil engineering at Washington University, who -claimed =. deferred service on the ground that he is needed at the university as a teacher. ‘Selective service regulations make no provision for the exemption or deferment of teachers and profes- sors as such,” McCord's letter says. “The fact that Prof. Becker is es- sential in the work in which he is | now engaged cannot be made a basis of claim for deferred classification.” MONTANA FAVORS DRY NATION HELENA, Mont., Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—The “State House of Repre- get $138 Lanyon had in his pockets. | sentatives adopted yester@ay without A section of iron pipe was used by the robber as a weapon. Albert Stern of 753 Aubert avenue was robbed of a watch and $8.35 by two men at Whittier street, and Westminster place at 11:30 p.m. He tried to take a revolver from one of the robbers, but the latter wrested the weapon from him and hit him on the head with it. Loftis Diamond Rings. ae a a week. Bro —ADYV. s. & Co., 2d fi., 308 N. 6th st. Czechs Fight Austria. PARIS, Feb. 16.—Sixty per cent of the Czechs resident in France enlist- ed in the French army at the out- break of war, and many of them have been decorated with French and Russian orders for bravery. | discussion a committee report in favor of ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment aged in the Senate a similar resolution was adopted by the committee in charge with only one dissenting vote. Montana will be the seventh state to ratify the amendment. El Marea Pedro Cigar, 6c, . Quality and size warrants the price —ADV. Negro Snatches Handbag. Miss Inez R. Hopkins of 5785 Wat- erman avenue, told the police that while she was seated in her auto- mobile in front of 3111 Locust street yesterday afternoon a negro. snatch- ed her handbag containing $1 and a check for $60. , LEADER, REPORTED T shee an Unconfirmed Ramor w WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (By A. P.).—The American Consul at Tiffie today transmitted an unconfirmed report that Gen. Kaledines, the Cos- sack leader in the Ukraine, who re- sisted ‘the ambitions of thé Bolshe- viki, had suddenly dropped out of sight and is now said to be dead. Arely : “Little Mos rd li 1 vi i al ; { at F 4 Ee Hh We $985, chassis only, f. o. b. Detroit. Electric lights. Electric generator. Worm drive. 10- foot loading space. 2400 pounds. More brains than metal _ are used in building this TreWéK Brains are hard to find and come high, but they are the cheapest in the long run. 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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NAN NEGOTIATING WITH MORGANS FO $54,000,000 HEL Phone Operator Posed as Span- ish King’s Agent Seeking War Loan. . Brewer’s Son and Seen eee Edmond | telephone) NEW YORK. Rousselot, a $15-a-week Feb. 16. operator, was indicted here yester-: day by the Federal grand jury on the | complaint of J. I. Morgan & CC®, for | alleged violations of the Who Will Be Married in April espionage | act. There are three counts against | him. Rousselot, it was charged, posed as “his excellency the Marquis Edmond Rousselot di Castillet, con- fidential representative of his majes- tv King Alfonso XIII of Spain” and opened negotiations with the Mor- gans for a loan of $50,000,000 and by promising that Spain would come into the war on the side of the En- tente Allies, brought the American State Department into the, case. Rousselot was pressing his plan for the loan whén chance caused his ar- rest on another charge and toppled his whole scheme. When the subject of the loan was | broached to the bank by Rousseloi, who had been properly introduced by W. E. D. Stokes of New York City, the bank immediately communicated vith Secretary Lansing, who op- posed the loan to the Spanish Gov- ernment through an individual and suggested that it be taken. up| through -the regular Government | channels. Rousselot objected to the) method, explaining that the loan was | to be made personally te King Al- | fonso and it was because of this se-. eret arrangement he could promise) +¢ that Spain was to join the Eintente | A llies. MISS MARIE CHURCH. TGUST A. BUSCH JR. and Miss Marie Church will be married The negotiations were still under. in April. way and Hamilton had the matter| Busch isa son of August A, under consideration when Rousselot, | the brewer. Miss Church is a daugh- about three weeks ago, was arreste.] ter of Mrs. Alonzo Church of Lenox on the charge of falsely representing himself as “Count Rousselot.” a lrench diplomat here on a secret mission, and being unable to obtain | bail was sent to jail. This led to a | Busch, ago she has been a belle in the quiry, and the whole affair was laid before the grand jury. One indictment charges Rous- selot with forging a Government li- rense permitting him to visit all war- | ships, and still another alleges the theft of official note paper of the. | treasury department. Prohibits Persons From Getting Free Treatment Under Assumed Names. Vice President Hall and three oth- er members of the Board of Alder- men yesterday opposed the passage Grip Follows The Snow LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets taken in time will Prevent Grip. E W. GROVE’S signature on box. --ADV. | obtaining free treatment under as- sumed names and from entering ate ° . 3)c. | city institutions under false repre- POSCH PORTRAIT S piace, and since her debut two years | | debut vear. ALDERMEN PASS HOSPITAL BILL. | of a bill prohfbiting persons from | sentations as to their ability to pay ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH’ : SATURDAY EVENING, FEBQBUARY 16, 1918. a Pel gl ep His Fiancee / ' | | Mississippi Line Recommended as ee | AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. | 'ycunger social set. Busch is 19 years old and Miss Church is He is a brother of Adolphus Busch III, Mrs Perey Orthwein and Mrs. Drummond Jones. Miss Church was one of the special maids of honor to the Queen the Veiled Prophet ball in her +> +) ~ me. a‘ r their care. The bill was passed. The bill was fntroduced by Dr. KEdward Richter, Alderman from the Twelfth Ward, who announced that it had been approved by the. St. Louis Medical Society and physicians generaNyv. Vice President Hall said it was framed in the interest of. doc- tors who hoped to prevent loss of 'fees from patients who were treated ‘at private and public hospitals and clinics. fo —_— Niles and Moser Cigar, 6c. | mittee | TOUISAN URGES 231.W. W'SHELD FOR SENATORS TO BACK ADVOCATING ABUT VER BARGE PLAN ——EEO | James E. Smith Appears Before Commerce Committee and Ap- peals for Federal Aid. Resolytion Opposing Industrial Conscription Is Evidence in Preliminary Hearing. Twenty-three members of the lL. W. W. were held for the Federal grand jury yesterday after a preliminary missioner on charges of advocating WOULD COST $13,600,000: sabotage, in violation of the espion- age act. 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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH’ SAT : ‘ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH —_—— a a ee ee ; ma , > 6 “ ’ —y til it leaves for France. } | W. J. Knox, who have charge of the since,” said Lieut. Bane, Practi- | an hour a week for six weeks in the coniinue until it leave a Dy ¥? f S ith Tells How ‘jnstruction here, have as advisors cally all the troops have received! use of the gas masks, after which There masks will be issued both experts m gas defense. Every’ the mask. Special attention is gtven)! presence ; : He Was Trained to Don /man in the division must take the! to training officers and noncommis-: have a sector of trench and a dug-| certain tests showing his knowledge ‘training. from Gen. Wright to the. sioned officers in the details of the) out, at which methods of protection and efficiency in this defense. : ~ newest private. | defense, that they may be capable’ during a gas attack, and procedure “The style of mask we use fs a Gas Mask li Five econ Ss “The course of trainme in gas. of continuing the instruction in their! after an attack can be demon-' protection against all poison Gnases | defense began early in October, and, own organizations. strated. : when promptly and properly adjust- | Sn has been going on continueusly ever| ‘Men are first given a course of “The training of the division will, ed. First Trip to Gas Chamber Made Him Feel He, Was in “Ante-Chamber of Hell’ But | Soon He Felt “As Safe As When at Grand and Olive.” | | | y ie Aa ee i - By CLAIR KENAMORE. be took in even a teaspoonful of air. | | H d qe Sh k Off | ar O ake A Staff Corerspondent of the Post- “Well, we had a lot of that kind! Dispatch. 'of stuff, and they lectured us about) CAMP DONIPHAN, Ok., Feb. 14.) how important it was and al! that, , | —‘‘We stood there in three sides of _ hut I sort of thought it was a gooc | at ac ac e a hollow square, non-coms, men, and | geal of bunk, just anot®*.er thing (hey | an occasional officer, and I had a | had figured out to take up a soldier's | . 4 feeling that I was going to muff it,’ time. but the instructors seemed to | | To get up every morning with a lame back, to suffer said enlisted man “Feet” Smith. lirsist upon it, so we humored them. 3 | all day with sharp, darting pains, dizzy spells, headaches “Peet” and I get along fine. He| ‘hen came that day when I did " . Mar . used to drive a truck down on Third | the trick in five seconds I was telling and annoying kidney irregularities, is a heavy burden “treet by day and dance at Forest | yoy about. When the alarm can:e, | | that keeps you tired out and half-sick It makes you joined the Virst Regiment, or was it | py themselves, and I was all set in | nervous and short of temper. It puts you in danger of the Fifth, and then he gave himself | sve seconds, so I feel pretty good for | gravel, dropsy, heart trouble, hardening of the arteries over unreservedly to the business of | myself. . , oe woeser. | “That was at this school here, and, | and Bright’s disease. Don’t delay helping weak kidneys. Cee eee e a inh, foctatep, | after some more fussing around, we Buy a box of Dean's Kidney Pills today. They are in use patronage my first childish footsteps | 4+. ordered to put on our masks | ies rneicay de b i eee OF GSS Serenas, Ane cater and march to the gas house. That is) .te | © Worid over, an ve ne ped t ousands, “9 “ ning vee et ae, oe ae Ao a quarter of a mile away, and [ want) , veteran, having taken e traini ell vou right now that I don’: | : | ioe eX Weeks, an Rour & week, and the eae an the way from Paris | } hese Are St I ouis Peo le: he has gone through the gas house, to Berlin with a gas mask on. You | : 7 ° 7 ee oe te getibond sai needa good deal of air for marching, | : | | 4 em j , : f - ’ _ ; é : ask don’t give you an, poison gas stronger than the wogst. vexnedag nen need tna oem The | | Edw. J. Turecek, watch- J. H, Smee, retired civil mixture the Germans are able to send | : ; ae | maker and jeweler, 4832 | cagincer, 2312 Park Ave., rules say to move about as Iittle as iia. Aek gaye: —— | possible About rs tain aia - half says: “I suffered intense- oaryt im -& 9 ‘ ° . Pw ee . ‘ a gue ogbeag sh ee ee “Well, we marched over there, nein uae owas héman to Dich ta wet te side. like ‘a and that line sure looked mean. trouble me. ‘There were small of my back and if |! hoy carries his school books in a bag, | Great big google ayo a * See times I couldn't get up if I stooped over I could hard- and the ‘alert’ where you hook it up | Sat SCORE. ee Cee ONL OF ma sat down, and | couldn't ly straighten again. I na your wieaid good and handy | Nonsense Book. Those woods over straighten and would have soon started to improve a Like . Manual of Arms. eee: SFO BOL See. SE winter. | to walk around all bent after I used Doan’s Kidney “We were at the ‘alert’ and were | and that gas mouse never Wows ve over for several days. My Pills.” (Statement given trving for a _ record. I had been | mistaken for a nice, cheery road- kidneys were in bad shape August 4, 1914.) aki : course for five weeks. | house. | and 1 suffered terribly aes rive Sueaten Geacadia inn | “Well, we stopped and took off, from headaches. I had S ic rode gate» mie. ae nae tti the | our masks, and the instructor told read a great deal abdout Smee added: oan's - pe ale gerne ti ttt us how bad the gas was in there. Doan’s Kidney Pills so I -] Bey Pills have done fine pee 08. Dut thee teachers kept Th e breaths of it would kill the ot some at the _ Wolff- work whenever I have eres os aud wertes With we aac hat man alive. ‘If we did not Pb ee Oa thar used them for any signs . rj s, and we had ot retty | 5 : ; avs’ time n f ae : oe ni ety: | get our masks on exacily accordmg,. was being helped. 1 kept | Of Kidney weakness, They —- di ‘tions as was sure to get! on taking them and they are a good kidney medi- “The masks are all just alike, you | t : a a . ioe pee iis soon made me feel like 8 cine and the recommenda- know. just as much as the rifles are | under the e ges, i different person. 1 1@ Hon F eave. them tetas just alike, and the movements of put- long — emerges nc a least. “I go o feeling sort of creepy, trouble left me and I have had no more of it since.’’ holds good, today.” ting them on are just as set and reg- ular as the manual.of arms. You do | end wondered if I had learned all my | this thing with the right hand, and [ lessons sat gy so std cag DOAN’S KIDNEY that with the left hand, and pull this | ‘Well, I've got all the insurance the 60c a Box at All Stores. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Mfg. Chemists re ly from an ache acrose the Pe@eeert et @ | (ae @ en (eer eee ea i er -eseee @ i TEER PRR RE REREERE RRR ES GF ne Pe Teme SEER BC e@tewaaeassavcza: PESTESRRSEFREREPRP RBs eeee si PBseSteegeaus ;emeesemeeeeseaeseaeantlt wi BEBRBReEBRBeBBOBERBER EER BEES that way, and shove that this way, | army will let me carry, anyhow, so and there you are. that sort of steadied me. I felt sort “About the hardest thing for me to| of ashamed of myself, having ad- | learn at first was to hold my breath,| justed the mask in five seconds, fast- ard | guess there were a good many | er than anybody else in my platoon, raore like me, for they commenced | and maybe faster than anybody else giving us breath holding exercises,| in the whole regiment for all I know, You see. when the alarm is given, in| getting nervous that way when we | lined up out there. ’ op ape RET: Se iSRSCRREC Smite aesteawseraataat PES CERES EG RReaseaeaeai PSR i Cweeeaeaese: iBeeaebe eg | , 2 La ae ye ie PS CLD SIE Beem IE PRR, the trenches or anywhere else, you! | . have got to hold your breath till you | Into the Gas House. | | | get vour mask on. You have just | “We could smell the stuff there | (,OT to, for by the time the alarm by the door before we put our masks gets to you, the gas is there, too, and | On. [t did not smell like any par- 7 ene single breath without the mask) ticular thing you can compare it to, may put vou off watch for good. CINHAMOR, apples, vinegar or any- “So they gave us breath-holding | thing like that, but it sort of seemed to take hold, sort of cut in, and then Va & ; ER exercises, and we did a lot of stunis, eo that we got pretty good at it. L-ke} rasp you. v 20) “The order came and we adjusied | AMERI CA S LL® this: We would lay our masks yards away on the ground, and stand in line. Then the instructor wouid give the alarm, and everybody would : | stop breathing right where he was, There was a crazy man in there'| lungs full or empty or half full, and wee a ae ~ cig ein to his mask and put it on before} Nothing off the floor and throwing) ee oman it into the air. He was working | ANY who are ble,and M nervous do not realize that indi- hard at ft, too, all around the room. | [ thought they ought to take these xestion and constipation arethe cause. bugs to the infirmary and tie them | . ° e.8 . Based On up, but pretty soon the instructor. ) | Relievethis condition, starting today, : | by a periodical @ushin Wate O WA masks and marched ‘in, and belteve | me, I felt just like 1 was marching into the ante-room or nell. Cost Per explained to us that the gas was so 7 bI : heavy it es on — oe picid | | tive tract with PL abie ter, and it had to be stirred up anc | ; . 1 shoveled out. He said sometimes | di \\ | the gentle but — saline laxative. It Saves 9 Yc. they had to shovel it out of the’ trenches that way. | | | PLUT ills | “Seventy-five of us there were in | . . that room, and we staved 15 min-/|§ America’s Physic CASCARA > utes. You coyld not recognize your | ¢ Bottled at French Lick Springs, Indiana. QUININE pal, and you did not know what io ns | For sale at your druppist’s, your club, >) “4 . sidle up to for company, and you| | ade * . a ° , at hotels, cafes, and on trains. *om\? was not right sure that you had! | “ ° ” ? * Large bottle, 35c; smaller botfle, 15c. Ro advance in price for this 20-year- fixed every little thing about the' e a tea > ° | | i le Red Devil of health is on every old remedy - 25c for 24 tablets e mask just right, and so the first five $s de Sd bases your protection. ‘es ced ox cco eg minutes were not what I would re- “_ tablet, you save 9:.c when you buy gard as a nice party at all. | a. Col “Then I commenced to think rea-| . dayo—Boney sonably. Here I was in a room full | back if it feils. of living death, the prize preparation | 24 Tablets for 25c. of the Germans, and I had been. At any Drug Store walking around for five minutes just | as safe as if I had been on Grand and Olive. Some guy had figured out a contrivance for me to wear over my. NUXATED IRON face to take the dynamite out of this air, and by the time it had come. ) Yee Cas pmeeeeaseeue through the machine to me, its sting- Tel the} er had been pulled, and I could | Wemen breathe it without harm. A lot of w ith? (instructors had put in a good deal) cf time in the last six weeks trying | fo teach nie how to take care of my- | . es | A Wealth of Special scif, and I was just realizing that I EAGE A FRIGHT jt Because’ | Nadite, nd not tr¥ine AUTOMOBILE ay Liking for the Old Mask. A dv rtist ng FROM PIMPLES “| began to take a liking for that | o:d mask, and pretty soon I really | Scattered All Over One Cake j ’ Kot fond of it. It was standing be- | | : tween me and the meanest trick the. | Next Sunday’s Issue Cuticura Soap and Box Germans had played, it was keeping ' : me safe like a fortification would | FEBRUARY 17th Ointment Heal. keep me safe against rifle fire. it was f th like a barrage between me and | o e frightfulness. | | “Well, when they finally let us out | POST- DISPATCH we marched clear back to the schoo! | without taking off our maSks, I'll bet | ! : ; . |tnat every man in the party felt just | : wild be a remarkably — like I did about it, and L'll bet that | ing issue for St. Louis’ auto when those fellows get to France, mobilists. It will contain all ii will not be any trouble to make}! . = : ‘them keep their masks handy. Ac- 7 that’s satereguang in auto and cording to regulations, you know, you auto actessories news and ad- | wear your mask outside of all your | vertising. - A ca ~ ~ |other equipment. These boys will do | Heal Skin Diseases / it, too, for that old mask is a friend | | Fr | The Auto Show / It is unnecessary for you to suffer jj ‘Feet" further explained to me ringworm,rashes *teps in the advanced course of the | ouihthe eczema, blotches, 1 | and similarskin troubles. A little zemo, |} was defense training, how to talk | with the mask on by removing the | prompt- tmouth piece and being very careful POST-DISPATCH applied will usually give instant relief oniy to exhale air and never inhale + itching torture. It cleanses and until the mouthpiece was replaced, : sbothes the skin and heals quickly and how to test the air for gas, and how are inseparable, for ditegs $e — effecti most skin diseases. ni! masks are sterilized after use, so recngnens ee me One Th ti t re lower : penetrating, that they may not transmit disease. ° » a ree-time rates are lower. Phone . a eo liquid and is soothing The masks being used are for train- : wis gegen ae: eg oncr a tn oe gy ing purposes only, and many men sa of the Annnal J | Cait Double sir, doubt 9 Dlive oF ib = Ss and little. , must use the same . : 0 ' | Central—or ve the 4 a wh » mt ne eave ‘ferther distrees. Division Gas O Lieutenant 3 t ruses. sl ee , @ The E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland, 0. W. M. Bane and Chemist Lievtenant | - rece NN — SR Soa ¥ bee.

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a OFFICIALS VOTE TO RESTORE TITLE. TOURNEY | Proceed of All Meets to Be Given to, Help Sport in Army Camps. "Neues Cue Star Shows Differences in Strokes TREE BROWNS REMAN UNSIGNED. FOR 1918 SEASON Severeid, Magee and Williams Have Not Forwarded Con- tracts to Local Club. Ye UAV hl _ Last Chance. \ Meider Jones is duc o. in St. Louis on Feb. 25, on date the open sctaseon on on Mielder | will close. It will be — fire him after thant time. = Gaitiiti) VLA To: Willie Hoppe. vee seen some billiard players in my time, And some of them were good and | some were not: Jake Schaefer was a pippin in his prime But Hoppe is the dandy of the lot. f his | | ‘There’ gtr a foeman worthy of bh | around the stauiis and cutting out | To cope with Willie none of them | °P*" ontae e 7 Hard luck is camping on Vie aleve trail. No sooner does his broken leg ‘get well than he is sent to Fis Fates. ee Se, LZ, va a P Se aes S. ¥ ae ieee ili Meee. 5 a Me ie sguahs Went: - err Mee ponte nat RT ST, i iba en kes % Wi ok i aed OP 3 sie -3 t higkee + “ \ « ' a i re a) ; st, i + ‘ i 4 r = Phy, A . ws 5 rm eS. i ? hak). i * yy. i aoe). oe i Roots Pye. 3: i ye » r , os he *¢ . watt, a ee i a 4,3 5 = 2 ’ , r om é See Ae as re git ua are ‘ a ER 5 » ie ‘ " ba ” i hi ’ j q +" bh i ead | we ‘ Oe a a ; x "a ; A ee, > aS ce et 4 " ee . , : 30 ‘ : gor we Pp re cay vee 7 Sao s h o>» 2 ui 7 Nydas ee ” seg . . 3 pe ar. é " ‘ TN o> gues Koop i # ¥ aay Tae . A > wh - * a 2 P vy % 4 PN rots ’ oe * : ’ . Ae yt ‘ FR 4 Rp ere yr’. inl rs: ae i oe 24 ar \ . - os. seins es Road net nl . ae rh 8s PRD Ade sh SP MMB Pte ts th Wa ‘ a at ie aa : : ; ey, Pi: - 3 oe,” + | A certain naireiiie believes that ¢ |Pirates drew too many schedule. He believes ih SS SRE AE Bs By Davison O’Baer, PITCHER | Sécretary St. Louis Tennis Associa- | RICKEY GETS on. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—The thirty- seventh annual! meeting of the United | rhen here’s to you, Mr. Hoppe. you ‘re | States Lawn Tennis Association took | a clever little gink; place at the Waldorf-Astoria last! You've met the greatest players and | night. Two hundred and eighty | you've put them on the blink. clubs, almost the entire member-| You flashed upon our vision in your) ship were represented. Reports from Knickerbocker pants o ‘ene some of.the active committees in-| And walloped all your countrymen, | | Rettied | ‘ Ais clude the continuance of the Na- then see em up in France. | a} tional Umpires Association the hold- . ‘ | Pet all your troubles in ae Zz ny Nategetas oP age. vey | @ld kait bes and knit, knit, knit. ing of a national junior tournament A Litan . : be for girls and the futherance of events y Ling ok. | Jack Deanne Rate Se knocked out f for boys. (PERE. was an old fellow named old man Flynn is now in line for @ The Ambulance Committee an-. Whitney. match with Tom Sharkey: _ nounced that over $50,000 had been | Who uttered the following itny: | | sania pack py 1a fore’ mee rem tne. fivveraus Ford back” but was stopped by ra S i yulance sections | Please deliver us, Lord, trouble in the first round, are onw in service. | And every known brand of the Hit. | : Will. am ney.” Jack RSs Sy is cabins toe fight = Help C ~ | lem all, And he docen’t care how The principal business before the | | | old they are. meeting was the plan for restoring | the championships as endorsed by the | A Close Call. Executive Committee. After a very | Johnny Evers came within an lengthy discussion the championships / ,of being a Card. When Cardinals’ President Obtains Fred Walker — Refuses to Discuss Snyder Trade. OTTO REISELT OF PHILADELPH®, When Business Manager Bobby | Quinn of the Browns yesterday se- | cured l’ritz Maisel's signature | to a contract for 1918, he lined up one of the two remaining ‘‘holdouts” | on the squad, as regards the infield, and Maisel could hardly be classed as a holdout, since Quinn heard nothing from his subsequent trade with New York. Lee Magee now the only member of the Browns’ in- ner defense who has not accepted | terms Moreover, practically everyone of. the Brownies has signed his contract for 1918. Kenneth Williams has not been heard from, but no trou- hle ts expected here because he and Ryron Houck were reported dissatis- | ae fied with the terms offered them and He 5 Renee the latter has since signed, leading | ee | The vubenieks ches to pull a is Forecast. For St. Louis—High winds, shoes and skirts’on Olive street followed by admiring glances of BALK LINE GRIP _ were restored by a vote of 157 to 50. rubbernecks. -asked. him if he would sign a | The resolution calling for the pro- | ° jhe said no. If he had said yes * re ceeds of all tournaments to be given; At any rate there are no flat wheels | Would have been a different story | to the War Department’s commission!on the Page avéMtie line. It takes tell. 3 oe (* \ se of training camp activities was unan- | d sudd tops to make flat | imously approved. petertele be sag . P Just able» — Willard ‘had The ticket for officers as presented | ean ane seme, trouble w Jack Mercy oF by the Nominating Committee was | | | Y. M.C. A. to Finance Reds’ Training Trip to Please Soldiers INCINNATI, O., Feb. 16.— The mystery of the Cincin- nati baseball club’s transfer of its spring training camp /from Shreveport to Montgomery, Ala., has just been solved. It has been learned that the journey of the Reds’ to Montgomery and their subsequent sojourn there will not cost Garry Herrmann a nickel. Believing that big league games will be a pleasure to the boys at Camp Sheridan and an equal tonic to keep the soldiers out of mischief, the Y. M. C. A. and the Monegomery Chamber of Commercé have agreed to bear every cent of the expense attached to the training of the major leaguers. It ig the first time the Y. M. C. A. has ever backed a big league ball club and helped to to the belief that Williams will see : ae | light eventually. ee Pi | Jones to Arrive Soon. 2 Ree 5% | There is nothing for Quinn 'to do}; upon his return to St. Lovwis but to) await the arrival of Fielder Jones. | The manager, in a letter to Phil Ball, stated that he intended to leave Port- land for these environs on Feb. 25, just nine days hence. Fielder is ex-. pected to arrive here two days later. | On the other hand, attaches of the! ‘‘ardinals aren't experiencing the | same good fortune in the matter of | ————--—-—~--—— signing players. Practically all the Cardinal regulars have failed to re-| turn their documents, chiefly Rogers Horneby. Jack Smith. Douglas Baird, Frank Snyder and Mike Gonzales. | This is the chief matter confronting | President Branch tickey and his manager, Jack Hendricks. Rickey returned vesterday from New York, where he attended the annual meet, | ing of the National League. The Cardinal] executive had nothing of a startling nature to disclose beyond, the fact that he had obtained Fred | Watker, a pitcher. |} unanimously elected. At the eleventh | What, Again? 'hour backers of the opposition, al-; . | though controlling a Jarge number of| The Fulton-Moran fight postponed votes, decided to withdraw to avoid | | friction. The officers and /are: President, Major York; vice president, New York: secretary, Torrey, Clinton, N. Y.: treasurer, all the time, = Swimmer will Fly. Bart Coffin, one of the best 1 mers on the Pacific Coast has enter ithe aerial service of the U States. That boy will be there li ia uck Fat 6° *e That man Dinger, who won the 2 Interstate Individual Pepe en jn Wing Shot Cup match must be bale reguliar—oh, well, if that’s the” way you reek about at let it go. to Feb. 22 has been postponed to Feb. /25, on which date due announcement | of the next postponement will be | | made. . - e . delegates elected Ade, of New Julian Myrick, | Edwin Fuller | S-CUSHION GRIP Nap Lajoie is looking forward to a/| fairly busy season. Besides playing ~ ' , +; i ‘ sev 1 major league George W. Wightman, Boston; New| first base for severa England Sclewate. Edwin Sheaf, “lubs Nap is slated to manage the In- balance and employs a short bridge. Boston; middle Atlantic delegate, A.| @a@napolis team, ? : 3 Y. Leach Jr., Washington, D. C.; dele- | ” necesstiates a harder stroke, the cue | watee At tute, Paiban Peale ui uiliiniie te enw 0 te tat | bridge lengthened. | burgh; C. Drummond Jones, St. Louis, | wonderful throwers ini either league. We'd like to see the fit a a | and Paul Sheldon, Hartford, Conn. Sapa ge a EO ee Tne M4 he threw when traded te Connie — Sites of Tourneys. Mack. Angle League Develops me Nana campionhin oom fake Annual Star in Reiselt S- CUSHION BRIDGE ..,, Reiselt grips.the cue lightly at the For the three-cushion game, which is gripped closer to the end and the Note that in the batkline stroke, Frank Schuler is fostering scheme for a 20-round bout € | ments were awarded as follows: From Away Back. Frank? wae eB! National Singles Championships—j| Al Bridwell wants Joe Tinker to . — 2 West Side T. C. Forest Hills, L. I., N.| ive him a chamee to come back. At/! Gan you imagine Jess Will Y |3 cents a mile jt would pretty near | tignting 20 rounds with anybody? — Something Rotten Nearer Than Walker is a collegian, but has had much professional ®aseball experi- | ence, having been a member of the New York Giants and later Brooklyn Federal League club. yet, but Rickey anticinated culty on that seore. Silent on Snyder. Rickey had nothing to say on the Pirates involving Frank Snyder. Previous to his departure for New ee York. he also refused to comment on this deal, son to doubt that something is brew- ing between the two clubs. eimply a matter of both sides agree- ing to what they afte willing to give. The Cardinal executive was much pleased with the decision of the Na. ‘tional league that a gag should be inserted in the mouths of those mag- nates who seek publicity through their announced efforts to purchase players from other clubs. Yanks After Cobb? Rumors of a big trade involving the New York Yankees and the Detroit club were prevalent New York Vvesterday subsequent a conference between Col. Jacob Rup- pert of the former and Frank Navin of the latter. clubs. It is believed the Yankees angling for Tyrus Raymond Cobb. king bee of ‘em all. Whether will be @old remains to be seen, but in the light of the Alexander action, almost anything can be ex- pected in the old pastime these days Miller Huggins. manager of Yankees, has openly stated that he is after Clarence Walker, the Brownie. Walker, along with Larry and Herb Pennock, was sent Athletics as —part payment McInnis. Now it has developed Connie Mack has declared the off, because the newcomers refuse to work on his scale of salaries If they’ refuse to accept aries offered them, trade them to other them back to Harry mand substitutes. It in clubs ofr is said club above $2000 this vear. ‘Paes the-Salt, Please. The reported offer of George Stall- | the | the | the public to give up money will be with the aid of a lead pipe and a ‘dark alley. : before his departure for | ings for Urban Shocker of Rrowns. recently obtained from Yankees. must b@taken with a pinch of salt in view of the recent utter- ances of Rob Quinn. business man- ager of the locar club. Quinn said only the day New York, that. no clob in the Amer- tean Teague or National, either, had | a chance’ to tard Shocker. Robby has praised incessantly since he got Miller Huggins. Therefore. it ap- pears cither Bobby has experienced | ® marked change of heart on very short notice, or else George Stall- | ings is peddling bunk. We'd bet on the latter. Quinn doesn't act way without letting somebody know ‘about it. Be Ee TS oe el Marea Pedre Cigar, Gc. ADY. and sine warrants the price. —-. © srepe scant the | He | has not been signed to a contract as. no diffi- | ' can't answer for the results. the | mosphere of some boximg narratives | many rumors concerning a trade with | but there seems small rea- | hiynn It's | | pears the 'of deodorizer. Thursday i tenderly. are | the Cobb | trans- the | former | Giardner to the | for Stuffy | that | dea! the sal-| Connie either will | send | Frazee and de- | Connie | Mack will not pay any player on his the eb RO him from | season. No more changes in the rules that | | ed, but the major leagues again over- looked an opportunity, ed. / present system of official scoring. Denmark. OMPANY, attention! gas masks! Now, then, Bo, lowed orders you read following; if you have not, Adjust if vou have fol- need not fear to we is more miasmic than a veteran lim- berger. finance its training trip. t ‘betes -Yeatman-Soldan The at-| ; | The plot turns on one Jack Demp- | from with Jim fighter “fight’’ heavyweight and his at Fort Sheridan, When Jim exploded management without an adequate supply coast, Light. entirely Press service accounts sent out night rogatory to the contest; but Chicago + * . strains from the in the Chi- Here are a few wail of Sherman Duffy, cago Journal: Did he pushed? °* * * “Boy, page Ali Baba and inquire about the 40 thieves, to see if they were all at home last night? * * * “Anyhow, that grand oid ruin Jim Flynn went down and if some of the debris does not engulf Man- ager Tom Jones and Jack Curley, together with Matchmaker’ Kid Howard, there are mogre gullible boxing promoters than there are wise and intelligent ones. * * * “Flynn stepped out, took a few clouts and Manager Tom Jones threw in the sponge before the bout was two minutes old. * * * “The match was a farce. From its odor it is strongly reminiscent of the’ Gans-McGovern fiasco which stopped “bet in Chica- go. * * ® “Six out of seven fight critics here declare it the worst thing pulled off in the fight line in years.” A few morc fights likf thts, the only way in which borers can get or was he fall, | They Omitted One ‘Good’ Thing. AGNATES are practicaiiy through banqueting for the. or conditions governing the baseball, | game need be expected during the icoming campaign. A number of changes were effect- long neglect- ! This was the failure to alter the, Perhaps one should say the lack jot system. For. as scoring is at pres- ‘nt dofie, there is no systeni, except mentioned little de- | nasium will be the closing encounter between the Yeatman and |newspapers did not treat the go as| It is evident from their de- | scriptions that the state of Denmark ; has no monopoly on rottenness. baseball | 'How One Writer Viewed It. in | Lo | the | Thursday | it ap- | was caught | ‘afternoon Cleveland Plays in Feature Game McKinley Other High School Basket Contest This Afternoon. The feature game to be played this | double- | Bas- in the’ regular header of the Interscholastic ket Ball League at the Francis Gym- i | leader, | and-outer al] season. | Soldan Cleveland and McKin- out present aggregations. ley are scheduled to fight it the opener. Central, the has an open date. While Soldan has proven an in- ing what will happen and its no cer- / tainty that Yeatman will be returned ‘the winner. Lasty Saturday, the North Siders ' ‘regulars | favored ter, as McKinley last week held (a very lost a close game to Cleve- land. in the lineup. Despite the fact that Cleveland is to win over McKinley, they should have a close rub with the lat- the the leading Cleveland aggregation to close score. Os KEEN KUTTERS PLAY EDEN i nary The Keen Kutters and Eden Semi- are scheduled to fight it out this afternoon in the feature game in 'the Saturday division of the Munici- } i Commerce, on grounds No, 2, work ‘owner as high as $1800 a year. St. pal Soccer League on grounds No. 3 at Fairground. In the other contest, the Union Electrics play the Bank of ” to have cost a club In Louis one club pays about $800 is said for the service. and | | ‘knowledge of the game and its rules, | and a nice jndgment in the matter | | ; lof The pay is certainly not exorbitant and the job is really worth more, when the undivided attention of a competent scorer is given to the task. It involves more*®than the mere snap. judgment—it implies a minute of sensing the responsibility for plays | and misplays. It also requires work ; at night, \up the official report te the league. ‘Bias Is Linnpaidabls. B the scorer of today. In the first place, being a local man, not shifting | from city to city, he is unconsciously prejudiced in favor of the home club; being dependent on the local manage- he is again subcon- Having other preparation is ‘ment far his pay, sciously influenced. things on his mind-—the his “starry.” for example—he trying to accomplish two tasks simul- taueouslr. in in | there is no tell- | Both teams will have all their | after the game, in making) UT there are many objections to '' And not alway being the. Young Philadelphian Shooting Great Billiards in Interstate League kak ie ; —Only Player to Win Four Games pome in Tournament Competition. Oe From Pierre Mau- VERY year the Interstate Three-Cushion League produces a new star. Apparently, this circuit has a corner on all the best angle talent in ‘the country with the possible exception of Alfredo de Oro. Just now, Ottto | Reiselt, the young Philadelphian, is proving the sensation of the league and | threatens to dislodge Pierre Maupome from his perch at the top of the field. Since tor the three-cushion billiard title to dollar bill, it seems Otto Reiselt say about ter, although he _ hasn't [filed a challenge against gust Kickhefer. In ‘this respect, Rei- selt is unique for within the last year break a very likely that something may have mat- yet to the as changd hands about as often as you | it has become the fashion ‘against Maupome. | run of 10 in this contest. ' ' Aus | , but | jalmost every player of note~has ex- | ‘pressed a desire to play champion. Then, too. counts his bil- i ; } Reiselt the angle | a ' pocket ‘liards with his right hand, and that’s | | distinctly out of style right now. Ap- | iparentily, southpaws are trying to form a trust, what with Ellis, Kieck- hefer and De Oro in the limelight. ae Has. Maupie’s Number. Reiselt has been gradually hts way to the front Billiard League for years.. 't wasn't until though, when he beat pome two games in one day liard fans really began to things about him. Now, beating Mau- | pome isn’t an easy task; heating him | twice in one day is quite another matter. but beating the Mexican twice in one day on his own table is still | something else again. That's precisely what Reiselt did. As a matter of fact, he has taken the mé@asure of the wily Mexican no less than four times this season. And there isn’ a man in the billiard game |'today who can say he has beaten | Pierre Maupome four times in tourna- ment competition. Unfortunately, it can't be said that Reiselt is a former champion of this cr that, becausé he isn’t. He's merely |one of a countless number of three- cushion players who has spent years lof study in an effort to get some- ‘where in one of the greatest of in- ' door sports. He was born forging the past two very recently, Pierre Mau- tet etl att ta, ita say nice | ' in Philadelphia, Nov. | 8, 1890, which fact, of course, permits ithe statement that he will be 28 'years of age on his next birthday. | Reiselt admits he always had a “hankering” for a billiard cue. At the age of & he was tip-toeing his Way around a table, shooting pocket billiards. Began Billiards at 12. Four. years later this game became too tame for him and he broke into billiards, The natural progression in is just a little peculiar in isn't predicting’ he will be some day. He does boast, however, that he gained all the knowledge he possesses of the angle He never Reiselt that he champion gh sheer work. had the benefit of expert tutelage, simply stuck to his guns and by dint of constant practice became pro- ficient. He calls Bob Cannefax an ideal cue- ist, because he says Cannefax is adept either balkline, three-cushions or billiards. This he considers remarkable because stroke each game necessi- Pame throu somewhat change of tates. It's probably worth while to re- mark that five of the three-cushion champions who have appeared within the past two years were brought out in the Interstate League, viz.: Charles McCourt, Charles Ellis, Hugh Heal, Bob Canncfax and August Kieckhefer. in the Interstate | | crown Reiselt is conceded a good his contemporaries, it seems the old nicely on most any Asa result, chance among mainly becatuse will fit | man’s head these days. that bil- | | Star for | —_ | - WEBSTER QUINTET WINS of the Philadelphia Cricket National Doubles Championships— Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, Mass. | National Clay Court Championship | '—-Western Association, Chicago, Ill. National Women‘s Championships— | phia, Pa. | | lard. National Junior Girls Pa. : National Junior and Bovs Cham- pionships—Weést Side T. C., Hills, Long Island. adelphia, Before adjournment thé Association | to the con- | | stitution, allowing ex-presidents to be. elected lie also had a high | adopted an amendment to the Executive Committee. Plans for the furtherance game of tennis in the army and navy training camps will be prepared and executed by the 1918 Executive Com- mittee.” There are only about a total! of 185.courts in the camps and many more will be erected during the com- ing months. Of the total amount of tennis equip- ment received by Dr. Raycroft from different the St. Louis furnished nearly — ee © FULTON NOT CONCERNED OVER WILLARD CONTEST, Tennis Association one half. Club, Philadel- Champion- | , ship—Philadelphia Cricket Club, Phil- Forest of the | | Charles take the national treasury. to bring Al back: If Al can come back we wouldn't be surprised to see Willie Keeler bob \up in the offing any old day. you can your imagination belongs in the class generally known as ree or vivid. Anyway, why Renet Jess a diverce not looking fer Hoppe and ‘Pete’ Remain Here to Play on Monday The itinerary of Willie Hoppe and C: Peterson has been | changed to permit the duo to accept ithe proffer of an engagement at the | Missouri Athletic 'to an parts of the United States | , ceeds of which will be donated to the | eC ‘program for the remainder of — the: Association Mon- afternvuon and night, according announcement from R, B. Banjamin, manager of | Hoppe. Hoppeand Peterson also will | give a special exhibition at Peter- son's parlors tonight, day ‘billiard players’ ambulance fund. Originally, Hoppe and Peterson | were booked for only two days’ play, MIKE COLLINS ASSERTS ' through respect for Petérson and his the Minnesota Masto- his manager, Fred Fulton, don, conyoyed by Louis for a en route to has a little graced St. hours yesterday, Orleans, where he ference of opinion to thrsh out with Frank Moran, who has retained his blonde hair despite Pittsburg. Fulton has ceased to take two things seriously, according to Mike Collins. One of them is Jack Demp- sey and the other a bout with Wil- Collins says big Jess Collins, evidence a desire to get together with , at | TENTH STRAIGHT CONTEST | Webster High School scored tenth consecutive basketball victory by beating Kirkwood High, 64 to 15, ‘last night in the Clayton High School 'gynasium. Lincoln, as usual, was the the winner, getting kets for a total of 28 points. Keck, for the losers, did its | | ewer, | Collins. 14 bas- j the best | ‘work, getting all of the points scored | Clayton | High, ‘BENNY McNEIL IS WINNER | Feb. 16.—| ‘cision at _jast night over Johnny Creely his team. In the opening game, High won from 1S. by 18 to meetin HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Benny McNeil, of England, won a de- the end of ten rounds here of Cin- the aggressor infighting had much the better of Creely. Except for the third and ~the last rounds, when Creely made his best effort, the bout was all in McNeil's favor. The men are featherweights. McNeil the cinnati. and in was eee a ee + Ae eee ne LAST NIGHT’S FIGHTS Boston—F red Dyer, Australian welterweight, was giver a deci- sion ever Terry. Broeks, 12 rounds. Des Moines, 10.—-Tougtey ulton and while the latter is ready all times, the bowt has ceased to cause him worry. Moreover, Fulton Dempsey is entitled to a bout with him on his recent showing. How- he stands ready, *according to to give all comers a chance and may arrange a bout with Demp- sey later. doesn't believe Mike | few | New | dif- | this having been concluded with the exhibition last night. However, Benjamin has permitted play for the ambulance fund here. the first time the cham- pion has given his services gratis. Peterson's many friends at the M home city, Hoppe ‘o |A. A. also requested a chance to see | him 'pilliard player of all the greatest time. in action against | } a i eR et naan mente 1494 entries, A. B. C; Toone .Opens Tonight in Cincinnati Hall] CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 16.—8 oratory and music the eighteenth a nual tournament. of the Bowling Congress will be esl the Hamilton County Armory and for a period of more than this morning | weeks, bowlers from ail parts of he United States and some from Car |ing world. the entire pro- | On the first night 16 teams, cor posed of local bowlers, will roll, tournament calls for five-men to be bowled every night, Sundays and the two-men events 4 individual performances daily ings and afternoons. Six hundred and fifty-two ¢ will contest, and, incidentally, try break the official tournament ree of 3061 fer that event. For the two-men team there j the high-score | iment record being 134@ pina. There- | fore, Benjamin extended the stay here | until Monday, thus accepting the | engagement. On the two days’ play, Hoppe compa doesn't | to a normal aver- The maintained close age, excepting in three¢-cushions. of 900 points at balkline in 2! nings, an average of 42.9. At three- | cushions, he has clicked off 150 points in 173 innings, an average of 37, good enough to return him the winner in most championship matches. Yesterday afternoon, Hoppe won the .balkline contest, 200 to 65, run- ning out in three innings. He also | meeting, The singles has 3033 entries, the o! ficial record score being Til p# During the olosing days — the Woman's | Bowling Association will hold ’ ' ; | | second annval tournament. 'two woman bowling teams of lea are entered for competi champion haa made a grand total here | pe tion in- | . well as a large number woman teams and about 156 bh al entrants. beat Peterson, at th -ush ‘to 42. in 61 innings In the Hoppe required 8 innings te run 209 balkline and 67 innings ‘ points of three-cushions. © —.| Ferguson |. > * 9 9, pla VO"E “oThe ttmost in Cigarettes” Plain End or Con lip People of culture and. refinement invariably PREFERW Deities * ’ 3 \ Siaiey? die, | | will compete for honors in the bows: i Ramecr coneeded defeat at the hands of Johnny Neye after 10 rounds, Het Springs. Ark.—Benans Me- Nell shaded Johnny Crecicy in 10 fast reunds. Greenville, 5. C.—Frask Weras kmecked oat Sergt. Jones. an amateur soldicr-bexer, in second round. Same person, there is no guarantee | that the interpretation of rules will | be uniform. the cue world is that from pocket billiards into three-cushion caroms, The leagues long ago should hare and this ig precisely the path that ‘put their scoring system on the same Reiselt followed. He's been at the basis as the umpiring. angle business ever since. A league oataff, shifting from This is his third vear of compctitive place te place, paid a fixed salary Dbilliards and his second in the Inter- fer doteg nothing cleo, te needed state League. His best high run tn to treure acevrate, unbiased scor- the Interstate League was one of 15, ime. And the leagee, tedt- ‘which he made on October 10, 191%. viduni clubs, sheuld the The best came he has established freight. thus far is 59 points in Gr innings CANNEFAX BEATS MAUPOME that the job is turned over to men ’ CHICAGO b. 16.--RB connected with newspapers, who are of Bt. "ying — from pe eet paid by their respective local clubs in pome of ; h cote we ao / the cities where they reside. In most Fond : ion Be TE ERS AMUEIERGD | - instances the scorership is held by ment paieedig. 60. » Sy ge gi mas scribes, who take turns at are challengers of Augig Kfeokhefer |) the job, not all ef them srg equa!l- for the title John Moore of Chicago | A nagging — most of them at defented Ray Palmer of Detroit, 60 re their interpretations of hs the pay for this oe ; to any Other cigarette. Twenty Five Cents. a ot in Create aoe" “00999Q0008 Bree — y wan , credit. 308 her oft nom r bald his own until Moore Seerigen edgy run.of 12 A w In one ny atcn tou Brea. Co.,

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| Fred Fulton Says Jack Dempsey Newest Cue Star Shows Differences in Strokes TREE BROWNIES REMAIN UNSIGNED FOR 1918 SEASON Severeid, Magee .and Williams Have Not Forwarded Con- tracts to Local Club. RICKEY GETS PITCHER Cardina!s’ President Obtains Fred Walker — Refuses to Discuss Snyder Trade. When Business Manager Quinn of the Browns vesterday cured fritz Maisel’s to a contract for 1918, he lined up one of the two remaining “holdouts” on the squad, as regards the infield, and Maisel could hardly be classed as a holdout, since Quinn heard nothing from his subsequent trade with New York. Lee Magee now the only member of the Browns’ in- mer defense who has not terms. Moreover, practically is Bobby | Se- | signature i i i accepted | everyone of) the Brownies has signed his contract | for 1918. Kenneth Williams has not been heard from, but no trou- ble ts expected here because he and Byron Houck were reported dissatis-_ fied with the terms offered them and the latter has since signed, to the belief that Williams will light eventually. Jones to Arrive Soon. There is nothing for Quinn upon his return to St. await the arrival of Fielder The manager, in a letter to Phil Ball, stated that he intended to leave Port- land for these environs on Feb. 25, just nine days hence pected to leading | see | ‘to do} Louis but to! Jones. | Fielder is ex-. arrive here two days later. | On the other hand, attaches of the’! aren't experiencing the same good fortune in the signing players. Practically Cardina! regulars have failed turn their documents, chiefly Horneby. Jack Smith, Douglas Baird, Frank Snyder and Mike Gonzales. ‘‘ardinals all the to re- matter of | Rogers This is the chief matter confronting | and his Rickey York, President Branch Rickey manager, Jack Hendricks. returned vesterday from New where he attended the annual ing of the . National League. The Cardinal executive had nothing of a startling nature to disclose beyond the fact that he had obtained Fred Walker, a pitcher. Walker is a coliegian, but much professional *aseball ence, having been a member of the New York Giants and later Brooklyn Federal League club. has not been signed to a contract as yet, but Rickey anticivated culty on that seore Silent on Snyder. | Rickey had nothing to says has had on the many rumors concerning a trade with | berger. the Pirates involving Frank Snyder. Previous to his departure for meet- ; experi- | the | He | no diffi- | | can't answer for the results. New | York. he also refused to comment on | this deal, son to doubt that something is brew- ing between the two clubs. eimply a gmiatter of both sides agree- ing to what they afte willing to give. but there seems small rea- | | flynn It's | The Cardinal executive was much | pleased with the decision of the Na. | ‘tional League that a gag inserted in the mouths of those mag- nates who seek publicity through their announced efforts to purchase players from other clubs. Yanks After Cobb? Rumors of a big trade in baseball! should be | | Thursday 'rogatory to the contest; | i tenderly. ST LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ' SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. “ OR Ne 4. OF OE Ae Me oe. S-CUSHION GRIP LOOKING THEM OVER WITH aut Mm Bs ARE LJieid FAS ™ a> Ww we VUPE Something Rotten Nearer Than Denmark. C OMPANY. attention! gas masks! Now, then, Bo, if you have fol- lowed orders you need not fear to read following; if vou have not; Adjust BALK LINE Y.-M. C: A.-to Finance Reds’ Training Trip to Please Soldiers INCINNATI, O., Feb. 16.— The mystery of the Cincin- nati bas@ball club’s transfer of its spring training camp /from Shreveport to Montgomery, Ala., has just been solved. It has been learned that the journey of the Reds’ to Montgomery and their subsequent sojourn there will not cost Garry Herrmann a nickel. Believing that ‘big league games will be a pleasure to the boys at Camp Sheridan and an equal tonic to keep the soldiers out of mischief, the Y. M. C. A. and the Monegomery Chamber of Commercé have agreed to bear every cent of the expense attached to the training of the major leaguers. It ig the first time the Y. C. A. has ever backed a big league ball club and helped to finance its training trip. M. é em Yeatman-Soldan we | The at- | mosphere of some boximg narratives | is more miasmic than a veteran lim- Cleveland Plays The plot turns on one Jack Demp- | from with Jim Thursday it ap- heavyweight fighter and his ‘“fight’’ at Fort Sheridan, When Jim exploded pears the management was entirely without an adequate supply of deodorizer. nx Press service accounts sent out night mentioned little de- Bey, coast, Light. newspapers did not treat the go as It is evident from their de- scriptions that the state of Denmark | involving the New York Yankees and | the Detroit club were prevalent in New York Wwesterday subsequent a conference between Col. Jacob Rup- pert of the former and Frank Navin of the latter clubs. It is believed the Yankees angling for Tyrus Raymond Cobb, king bee. of ‘em all. Whether Cobb will be @old remains to be seen. but in the light of the Alexander action, almost anything can be ex- pected in the old pastime these days Miller Huggins, manager of Yankees, has openly stated that he is after Clarence Walker, the Brownie. Walker, along with Larry Gardner and Herb Pennock, was sent to the Athletics as part payment for *Stuffv MeInnis. Now it has developed that Connie Mack has deciared the deal to | | wail of Sherman Duffy, has no monopoly on rottenness, + How One Writer Viewed It. a few strains from the in the Chi- Here are 'cago Journal: are | the | trans- | the | former | off, because the newcomers refuse to| work on his scale of salaries If they refuse to accept aries offered them, trade them to other them back to Harry Frazee and de- mand substitutes. It is said Mack will not pay any player on his club above $2000 this vear. The reported offer of George Stall- ings for trban Shocker of Browns, recentliyobtained from the _ Yankees. must be“taken with a pinch of salt in view of the récent utter- ances of Rob Quinn, business man- ager of the locaP club. Quinn said clubs or only the day before his departure for | “ e e M no clob in the Amer- either, had New York, that jean league or: National, a chance’ to land Shocker. Robby incessantly Miller Huggins. Since he got. him from Therefore. it ap- pears cither Bobby has experienced A marked change of heart on very short notice, or else George Stall- Inge ts peddling bunk. We'd bet on the latter. Quinn doesn't act way without letting somebody know about it. a El Maren Pedre Cigar, 4c. Quality and sine warrants the price. ~—ADY, a “eee the | | the only way in which borers can get has praised the youngster | the sal- | Connie either will | send | Connie | ; } | ' fall, was he “Did or pushed ” * “Boy, page Ali Baba and inquire about the 40 thieves, to see if they were all at home last night? * * * “Anyhow, that grand oid ruin Jim Flynn went down and if some of the debris does not engulf Man- ager Tom Jones and Jack Curley, together with Matchmaker’ kid Howard, there are mgre gullible boxing promoters than there are wise and intelligent ones. * * * “Flynn stepped out, took a few clouts and Manager Tom Jones threw in the sponge before the bout was two minutes old. * * * “The match was a farce. From its odor it is strongly reminiscent of the’ Gans-McGovern fiasco which stopped boxing in Chica- go. * * * “Six out of seven fight critics here declare it the worst thing pulled off in the fight line in years.” A few more fights lik? this. he * 7+ the public to give up money til be with the aid of a lead pipe and a) ‘dark aliey. . AGNATES through are banqueting for the. ‘season. No more changes in the rules, or conditions governing the baseball that | / i ; coming campaign. A number of changes were effect- ed, but the major leagues again over- | looked an opportunity, long neglect- | ed. This was the failure to alter the _present system of official scoring. Perhaps one should say ths ;of system. For. as scoring is at pres- ent dofie, there is no systeni, except CANNEFAX BEATS MAUPOME that the job is turned over to men CHICAGO, Feb. 16.--Bob Cannefax | of Bt. Louis won from Pierre Mau- pome of Cleveland in the Ambulance | ingtances the scorership is held by | severa! Fend Threée-Cushion Billiard tourna- mons . 8 to 49. Both men are challengers of Augiqg K¥eckhefer | for the title John boars of Chicago Ray Palmer of Detroit, 60 to i fas melver bala aS until] Moore | connected with newspapers, who are | paid by their respective loca! Clubs in | the cities where they reside. In most scribes, who take turns at ‘the job, not all ef them being equal- ly proficent and most of them at variance in their interpretations of the rulea. In one the pay ® the | caught | 'afternoon | in Feature Game McKinley Other High School Basket Contest This Afternoon. The feature game to be plaved this in the’ regular header of the Interscholastic Bas- ket Ball League at the Francis Gym- |nasium will be the closing encounter but Chicago | | aggregations. begween the Yeatman and _ Soldan are scheduled to fight it out in Central, the present ley the opener. ‘leader, has an open date. | and-outer al] season, there is an in- no tell- no cer- While Soldan has proven ing what will happen and its | tainty that Yeatman will be returned ' favored ter, as McKinlev last week held |a very the winner, LastgSaturday, the North | Siders ' land. ' regulars lost a close game to Cleve- Both teams will have all their in the lineup. Despite the fact that Cleveland is to win over McKinley, they should have a close rub with the lat- the | the leading Cleveland aggregation to | close score. Oe ‘KEEN KUTTERS PLAY EDEN | nary Semi- it out The Keen Kutters and Eden are scheduled to fight . this afternoon in the feature game in 'the Saturday division of the Munici- | pal 'at Fairground. _ work ‘owner as high as $1800 a year. ‘St. League on grounds No. 3 In the other contest, the Union Electrics play the Bank of Commerce, on grounds No. 2 Soccer is said to have cost a club In Louis one club pays about $800 for the service. and | sincnsdl ;competent scorer is given to the task. | judgment—it knowledge of the game and its rules, | | being dependent on the local manage- | | game need be expected during iB place, being a local man, not shifting | ‘sciously The pay is certainly not exorbitant and the job is really worth more, when the undivided attention of a It involves more*than the mere snap implies a minute and a nice judgment in the matter | of sensing the responsibility for plays | and misplays. It also requires work | at night, after the game, in making practically | Up the official report to the league. Bias Is Unavoidable. UT there are many the scorer of today. In the first from city to city, he is unconsciously prejudiced in favor of the home club; he is again subcon- Having ‘ment for his pay, influenced. ‘things on his mind—the preparation lack | ‘trying to accomplish two tasks simul- taneous!lr. for this of his “st for example—he is And not alway being the there is no guarantee fame person, that the interpretation of rules will | be uniform. The leagues long ago should hare ‘put their scoring system on the same basis as the umpiring. A league ataff, shifting from place te place, paid a fixed salary fer doteg nothing clee, te needed to t{aeure aceurate, unbiased scer- ima. And the league, pet indi- vidual clabs, shenld ay the freight. BRIDGE... in double- | Cleveland and McKin- Note that in the batkline stroke, balance and employs a short bridge. | necessitates a harder stroke, the cue | bridge lengthened. ee ge een — a te a ae OTTO REISELT OF PHILADELPHA®, S-CUSHION BRIDGE ..,, Reiselt grips.the cue. lightly at the For the three-cushion game, which is gripped closer to the end and the Angle League Develops Annual Star in Reiselt : ene ae Young Philade Iphian, Shooting Great Billiards in Interstate League | —Only Player to Win Four Games in Tournament Competition. pome | ; Since changd hands about as often as you | dollar bill, it seems Otto Reiselt about break a likely that something ter, although he _ hasn't filed challenge against gust Kickhefer. In ‘this respect, Rei- may have the as mat- yet Au- to say a | hts way to the front in the Interstate | Billiard selt is unique for within the last year pressed a desire le : | champion. | Then, too. Reiselt counts his bil- very ; ioe € it has become the fashion | tor the three-cushion billiard title to | run of 10 in this contest. | | almost every player of note~has ex- | f to play the angle! , | a ' pocket somewhat |liards with his right hand, and that’s | | distinctly out of style right now. Ap- | |parently, southpaws are trying to 'form a trust, what with Ellis. Kieck- hnefer and De Oro in the limelight. | Has Maupie’s Number. Reiselt has been gradually forging the past two very recently, Pierre Mau- League for *t wasn't until when he beat years. though, began to nice Now, beating Mau- heating him liard fans really say things about him. pome isn’t an easy task; twice in one day is quite matter, but beating the Mexican twice in one, day on his own table something else again. That's precisely what Reiselt did. As a matter of fact, he hag taken the mé@asure of the wily Mexican no less than four times this season. there isn’ a man in the billiard game | today objections to! other | who can say he has | Pierre Maupome four times in tourna- ment competition. | Unfortunately, it can't be said that | Reiselt is a former champion of this 'cr that, hecausé he isn't. one of a countless number of three- cushion players who has spent years of study in an effort to get some- where in one of the greatest of in- door sports. - He was born in Philadelphia, Nov ' 8, 1890, which fact, of course, permits the statement that he will be 28 Years of age on his next birthday. Reiseit admits he always had a “hankering” for a. billiard cue. At the awe of & he was tip-toeing his Way around a table, shooting pocket billiards. Began Billiards at 12. Four years later this game became too tame for him and he broke into billiards. The natural progression in the cue world is that from pocket billiards into three-cushion caroms, and this ig precisely the path that | Reiselt followed. He's angle business ever since. This is his third vear of competitive billiards and his second in the Inter- | etate League. His best high run tn the Interstate League was one of 15, ‘which he made on October 16. The best game he has cstablished thus far is 59 points in innings of Fee ee crown pome two games in one day that bil- | From Pierre Mau- VERY year the Interstate Three-Cushion League produces a new star. Apparently, this circuit has a corner on all the best angle talent in| ‘the country with the possible exception of Alfredo de Oro. | Reiselt, the young Philadelphian, is proving the sensation of the league and | threatens to dislodge Pierre Maupome from his perch at the top of the field. } izainst Maupome. He also had a high is just a little peculiar in predicting he will be day. He does boast, gained all Reiselt that he champion however, isn't some that he } i ! ; | received |' unanimously elected. 'hour backers of the | though controlling a Jarge number of | | votes, | friction. / are: York: | burgh; | and Paul Sheldon, Hartford, ' ments were awarded as follows: | | Philadelphia Cricket | phia, Pa | ship—Philadelphia Cricket “lub, Phil- Just now, Ottto. _adopted an amendment the | knowledge he possesses of the angle | game through sheer work. He never had the benefit of expert tutelage. but simply stuck to his guns and by dint of constant practice became pro- ficient. He calls Bob Cannefax an ideal cue- ist, because he says Cannefax is adept either balkline, three-cushions or billiards. This he remarkable because stroke each of the change of lates, It's probablv worth while to re- mark that five of the three-cushion champions who have appeared within the past two vears were brought out in the Interstate League, viz.: Charles McCourt, Charles Ellis, Hugh Heal, Bob Cannefax and August Kieckhefer. As aresult, Reiselt is conceded a good chance among his contémporaries. mainly becatse it seems the old will fit nicely on most any man's head these days. ?> siiies WEBSTER QUINTET WINS another | is still | ‘last night Webster High School scored tenth consecutive basketball victory by beating Kirkwood High, 64 to 15, in the Clayton High School Lincoln, as usual, was the winner, getting 14 bas- gyVnasium. star for the ikets for a total of 28 points. And |} Keck, for the losers, did the FULTON NOT CONCERNED considers | game necessi- | don, | Fulton and while the latter is ready | ewer, best | work, getting all of the points scored | beaten | Clayton He's merely | ' cision at been at the 191%. : * In the opening game, Ferguson | his team. High won from 18 to 13. by High, - BENNY McNEIL IS WINNER | HOT SPRINGS, Feb.. 16.— ' Benny McNeil, ARK., Jast night over Johnny Creely of Cin- cinnati. McNeil was the aggressor and in the infighting had much the better of Creely. Except for the third and ~the last rounds, when Creely made his best effort, the bout was all in McNelil's favor. The men are featherweights. en aes» * en ee LAST NIGHT’S FIGHTS Beston—F red Dyer. Avestralian welterweight, was giver a deci- sion over Terry RBroeks, 12 Yrounds. Des Moines, lo.—Toughey Ramacr coneeded defeat at the hands of Johnny Neoye after 106 rounds, | Hot Springs. Ark.—Benns We- Neil shaded Johnny Crecicy in 10 fast reunds. Greenville, 5S. C.—Fransk Weres kmecked oat Sergt. Jenes, an amatear soldicr-boxer, tn second round. Distinnninenn Any Watch You wan on ead fl. 308 | N un cape Bros. & o., * ~ bs + Sat aR aoa a yg Bs si Ti oF aga De TT ee, ee ee 2 les, ERATE GR, ER Se | Place at / night. | for boys. | elected TENTH STRAIGHT CONTEST | ‘to. Feb. 22 has been postponed to Feb. (25, on which date due announcement | of the next postponement will | made. decided to withdraw to avoid delegates elected Ade, of New} Julian Myrick, Edwin Fuller | Clinton, N. Y.; treasurer, Wightman, Boston; New delegate, Edwin Sheaf, middie Atlantic delegate, A. Y. Leach Jr., Washington, D. C.; dele-| mates at large—C. L. Childs, Pitts- Cc. Drummond Jones, St. Louis, | Conn. officers and President, Major vice president, York; secretary, The o . . Nap Lajoie is looking forward to a fairly busy season. Besides playing first base for several major league ‘clubs Nap is slated to manage the In- dianapolis team, - ‘Tillie Walker is one of the most wonderful throwers in either league. We'd like to see the fit ° he threw when traded te Connie Sites of Tourneys. | Mack \ The National championship tourna: | é From Away Back. Singles Championships—j| Al Bridwell wants Joe Tinker to L.N give him a chance to come back. At ' “13 cents a mile jt would pretty near take the national treasury. to bring Al back: New Torrey, George W. england Boston; National West Side T. C., Forest Bills, L. National Doubles Championships— Longwood Cricket Club, Boston, Mass. National Clay Court Championship -—-Western Association, Chicago, IH. National Women‘s Championships— Club, Philadel- + « o If Al can come back we wouldn't be surprised to see Willie Keeler bob up in the offing any old day. 'VE seen some billiard players ss Or any bloomin’ game upon the table. | Then here's to you, Mr. Hoppe, you re! | Jack Sucsuaaie ‘haeieel knocked out : be | “her : T ae ie PN : A ee oie PS mt ie ad MRRP Taal : ; » ae *, F -_- fo Last Chance. Melder Jones is dad Ge do exten: in St, Louis on Feb. 25, on which date the open scason on n Welder will close. It will be atest 2 fire him after that time. A certain natn ve thavias that t ‘Pirates drew too many plums in th ‘schedule. He believes mm ‘around the plutis and cutting out ¢ he (open dates. .; ; | i ae et | “ Ph. o “abit “eB spnayios es Gan you imagine Jesé ar fighting 20 rounds with anyouaer If} you can your imagination belongs in the class generally known as — or vivid. Anyway, why Reno? Jesus re not looking for a diveree from his championship. National Junior Girls Champion- Hoppe and ‘Pete’ Remain Here to Play on Monday adelphia, Pa National Junior and ae pionships—Weést Side T. C., Hills, Long Island. Before adjournment thé Association to the con- | stitution, allowing ex-presidents to be | to the Executive Committee. Plans for the furtherance of the | The itinerary of Willie Hoppe and game of tennis in the army and navy | training camps will be prepared ana | Charles C. Peterson has been executed by the 1918 Executive Com-) changed to permit the duo to accept tnitteg There ave Oily about = total | the proffer of an engagement at the more will be erected during the com-| Missouri Athletic Association Mon- | ing months. iday afternvon and night, according | this morning | Of the total amount of tennis equip-| to an announcement from Ry B. Banjamin, manager of ment received by Dr. Raycroft from | different parts of the United States) Hoppe. Hoppe end Peterson also will the St. Louis Tennis Association} give a special exhibition at Peter- | furnished nearly one half. 'son’s parlors tonight, the entire pro- ae ee ceeds of which will be donated to the | ‘billiard players’ ambulance fund. Originally, Hoppe and Peterson 'were booked for only two days’ play, OVER WILLARD CONTEST, | were boo . "Dia MIKE COLLINS ASSERTS) exiipition last. night. However, Fred Fulton. the Minnesota Masto- | through respect for Petérson and his : e city, Mike | ; Hoppe ‘oa gzracec few i fund here, hours yesterday. New | pion has given Orleans, where he dif- | ference of opinion to thrsh out with Frank Moran, who has retained his | blonde hair despite Pittsburg Fulton has ceased to take two things seriously, according to Mike | Collins. One of them is Jack Demp- sev and the other a bout with Wil- lard. Collins says big Jess doesn't evidence a desire to get together with Cham- Forest CE ee tran el ett tenet ent ta r his anager 7. eee, play for the ambulance the first time the cham- his services gratis. Louis for a en route to has a little Collins, St. him in action apaitnst pilliard player of all time. | fore, Benjamin extended the stay here until Monday, thus accepting engagement. | On the two daye’ play, | maintained close to a normal age, excepting in three-cushions. avyer- all times, the bowt has ceased to cause him worry. Moreover, Fulton Dempsey is entitled to a bout with him on his recent showing. How - he stands ready,*according to Collins. to give all comers a chance and may arrange a bout with Demp- sey later. of 900 points at balkline in 21 in- nings, an average of 42.9. At three- cushions, he has clicked off 150 points in 1723 innings, am average of 37, good enough to return him the winner in most championship matches, Yesterday afternoon, Hoppe won the balkline contest, 200 to 65, run- ning out in three innings. He also doesn't believe Benjamin has permitted | Peterson's many friends at the M. | A. A. also requested a chance to s€e | the greatest | There- | the | Hioppe has | The champion bas made a grand total here | A.B.C. Tourney { Y) Opens Tonight in | Cincinnati Hall) CINCINNATI, O.. Feb. 16.—< ' oratory and music the eighteenth al nual tournament. of the Ar ' | Bowling Congress will be opened a the Hamilton County Arfory tonig and for a period of more than ti weeks, bowlers from ail parts of ti ‘United States and some from © / | will compete for honors in the — | |ing world. | On the first night 16 teama, posed of local bowlers, will roll, Ti ‘program for the remainder yee tournament calls for five-men . 'to be bowled every night, | Sundays and the two-men ovenst s | individual performances daily 'ings and afternoons. Fo: Six hundred and fifty-twe tea) _will contest, and, incidentally, try ¢ break the official tournament | of 3061 fer that event. : For the two-men team there 4 1494 entries, the high-score ment record being 134 pins. The singles has 3033 entries, che-@ ficial record score being Til # : During the closing days of él meeting, the Woman's WNatienn | Bowling Association will hold thete second annual tournament. irty.~ two woman bowling teams of ica are entered for competition well as a large number — woman teams and about 160 f |al entrants. — oe Te ¢ * ” Atom 5 —s ae NPN os Hes itaioe 0 Cte anll LL + lets yl EE LE NRE ne Rtg | beat Peterson, at -ushi te 42 in 61 innings. In the | Hoppe required 8 tnnings te - 209 balkline and 67 innings fi points of three-cushions. = ; i of England, won a de-. the end of ten rounds here Ea IE YO a7 yee VO" “athe Utmost in Ci garettes" Plain End or Conk lip People of culture and, refinement invariably PREFERW Deities to any other cigarette Twenty Five Cents. aaa ot iin Creel "COG AOIQQG0™* eh eons —— aac 7 ” oy “ey ee : ee ay _—— ee ” peneenemeematod

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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SATURDAY EVENIN G, FEBRUARY 16, 1918. longs.”’ that, “in him is the noblest and of American citizenship,” pressed more than the fervor for it is a national feeling. In the soldiers of Camp Gordon, the ex dent said: “You have my deep 4 the sympathy of a man who feels ih can understand you 3 little from that I have a son of my own who listed man in France.” When ‘ Bae ye RR eR. . . 4, +A See pees - | ia adequate possibilities which lacks craft of the proper type, or one of promising capacity and equipment which for some reason or other has fallen into comparative disuse, they will be ex- pected to submit recommendations appropriate to the particular case. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which runs from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, and whose pos- sibilities are under the eye of Congress, will be Perhaps today you “remember the Maine” cause on Feb. 15, just 20 years ago, your daughter, who is now married, was born on that day; or perhaps the date is indellibly written upon your memory because it was a son, or because it was a grandson. It’s hardly fair to go beyond the sec- ond generation in the landmarks of memory, so let two decades be the limit. And about the future—what will the child of today reckon from? Take the child of Belgium - ba * Fg . * es “ ote Spe a a ~ pees’ ‘ : Reg se Bhs oe ° - - ; - errr - a - ’ 7 “ - 7 —. e - ~ s led” ~ " a 9 a Ae & vr od ~ 4 i > =n ee A - wt o ¥ : y _ oe y stopped them, saying, “I claim for that. I am merely one of more.” That was as characteristic was fine. . é - Decrease in Drinking. WILLIAM S&S. McNUTT in Collier's Weekly. Ha set Bree artes: Ligaen . li war we are attaining temperance. From the time war was declared, the ar- rests for drunkenness in the city of New York steadily decreased until in Y our effort in the prosecution of this + they reached the unprecedentedly low fig- ' a ure of 969 for the entire month. The \ psychopathic ward of Bellevue has had | who was mutilated by the invading Germans; the Se Le EP pe Soe ees: | 9 ye pee ee child of Flanders whose mother died defending ee CE — CPN ctrl ieee mr tall ey pee ees eC or =: o> A ge ‘en Gigs We: 0? 2 ban ow Su Se ~~ - é eae her honor and whose father and grandfather met “. — | OPO EE eco a like fate in defense of the honor of that treaty— #-« See: ees aa fae + vt first considered by the committee. This is a type of the old shallow canal on which loads are moved by mule power. 51.LOUIS POST-OISPATCH OUR 56 CANALS AND 102 RIVERS. et ren veep ge ond undoubtedly the| : The MIR RO R an Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER Th ‘ ample portions served a e better of res- : Dec. 12, 1878. . request of the National Council of Defense| nts have involved a waste which it will be- | SAR aeons Aaa me seem ROM pa hot | ?P UBLIC OPI NIONG re Published by the Pulitzer Publishing Co, or the co-ordination and greater use of the coun-|-ome the patriotic duty of the diner to elimi-| [RRier en-au ar euae op tpersig = Nore A Doyen aac | : = Twelfth and Olive Streets try’s waterways received prompt attention from | nate. ES SIR eG 4 Rey, without bias the Pit see gaevien ss ment by t POST-DISPATCH CIRCULATION (Director McAdoo. Certainly the equanimity shown by restaurant 24 : ig? leuding publicists, newspapers Average for entire year, 1917: ‘ne Major-General Black of the army engineering and hotel keepers in accepting the meatless and “on cale on the questions of the dey. Sunday, 361,263 corps; Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City, identi- whagiiegs yepintion: bas been. wholly oduiira’. Dailv and Sund 194.593 : y it They have cheerfully co-operated with the Gov- The Hammer of Right. y naay, ’ fied with river navigation, and G. Ash Tomlin-| ernment in food conservation, and if they’ have From the d Republican. Sm POST-DISPATCH call 9 X-PRESIDENT TAFT is meeting ae. oe ff t. Louis fee gy He be a Magy papers son of Duluth, large owner and operator of lake/lost nothing by the procens, why complain warmest kind of welesuse' ae euueene nen seg Mmm cB on ae a. ba Bs ea vesscls, have been appointed a sort of ways and ihe" neys about the country, not, as the At- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. |Means committee on water transport. REMEMBER THE KAISER. lanta C6nstitution puts it, “finding fault, The Associated Press is exciusively entitled to When newspapers recall an incident that picking flaws and pointing to mistakes, the use for republication of all news dispatches It is no academic or general phase of the prob- | ‘ but dealing sledge-hammer blows in sup- credited to it or not otherwise credited in this shocked the whole world on a certain day ten or behalf th hole Paper, and also the local news published herein. lem which these men are to study. Committees , k port and on of the Whole qounwy) All rights of republication of special dispatches twenty years before, everyone’s mind goes bac and the administration—biows which herein are also reserved. enough have dealt with such phases. Conclusions| with vivig recollections of the particular day. _jall the more effective by reason of the De end, ee vase (are to be reached on very practical and specific! The average man recalls his conversation with that the administration is that of a. ate a ee questions—the improvement, unification and in-| his neighbor, remembers subsequent and previous Remit either by postal order, express money tensive use of waterways preparatory to co-ordi- events concerning his neighbor, the old hat his aapumeames haces ithe natiiead Cactitttes | ti neighbor wore or the odd one that he wore him- \ ain oF pe 9 gg, frome ge At Sreaee, see a haben —— es in Meeting emer- | self—or perhaps that it was on that day that he Entered at postoffice, St. Louis, Mo., as second- —e F had borrowed or lent $10. : aad matter. If the committeemen find a waterway whose! .And so, we presume, it was on Feb. 15 of this pant cco ie ta ~|value could be greatly increased by repairs or|year—the twentieth anniversary of the blowing i harbor. betterments of moderate cost, or one with fairly |¥P of the Maine in Havana : THE POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM : . “Remember the Maine” was the battle cry then. I know that my retirement will make no difference in its cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress and reform, never tol- erate injustice or corruption, al- ways fight demagogues of all par- ties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public wel- fare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drasti- cally independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by pred- atory plutocracy or predatory pov- erty JOSEPH PULITZER. April 10, 1907. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Proposed Game Extermination. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, As State Game Warden I feel that I should at this time sound a note of warn- ing regarding the matter of the protec- tion and preservation of the game and fish of this State. In this time of war, when every one is trying so hard to con- serve and doing it in the right spirit and the true spirit of Americanism, some of the enemies of our fish and game see the ; Opportunity to strike their blow “in the flark.’’ They are trying to create a sen- timent over the State that, if they suc- ceed, would practically exterminate all the game and fish that we have and which we have tried so hard in the past to pro- tect and keep. j Under the cloak of food conservation they are asking that the laws be lifted and an open period during the war be de- clared that other meats may be conserved. Now this is in my opinion sheer foolish- ness. One meatless day in this State would conserve more meat for our sol- diers and allies than the absolute exter- mination’ of every bit of game we have. Back of all this cry is the sentiment of the pot hunter, the game hog and the man who wants to sell this game on the open market. These people are not moved by a principle of loyalty, but a principle of self-gain. They seek to carry out the same old plan that they have tried from every other angle conceivable in the past. Don’t be deceived by them. Extermina- tion of one of the greatest resources the State has cannot be justified upon any score. By such an act we would, in a short period of six or eight months, wipe from this State the results of our labor for years. I warn you to be on the alert. It is the hand of Esau, but the voice of Ja- cob. We are not ready at this time to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage. TIM BIRMINGHAM. Jefferson City, Mo. Dogs in Crowded Districts. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch, Referring to the enclosed clipping. Why not weigh the suffering and anguish eaused by the dog, against Vest’s eulogy, Byron's poetry “Old Dog Tray,” etc., all of whom have been a long time dead, and since whose time conditions have greatly changed. The records of our City Health Depart- Trent will show that about 1200 people, "mostly children, are bitten during a year, an average of 100 per month. It is need- legs to say, that many cases are never re- ported. In the writer's opinion 95 per cent of the dogs within the city limits are Truigances, due chiefly to the manner in which they are kept, or rather not kept. Many an otherwise pleasant residence sec- tion is made almost unbearable to some, by the animal that barks at every passer- by, at all hours of the day and night, damages your garden and flower beds, and to whose owner it seemingly never occurs that these things may be annoy- ing his neighbors. Why not advocate a good, stiff war tax on dogs? Why not advocate contributing the money spent on pet dogs to an orphan asylum ? E. H. Navy Needs Field Glaases. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. According to a four-minute talk last night at the Orpheum Theater, the Gov- ernment is in need of field glasses, being unable to buy a sufficient quantity for use in sighting submarines, and asked the audience to.send what they had in this line to Mr. Roosevelt, Washington, D. C. Will you kindly inform us if opera glasses will do, and also give us the proper ad- dress of Mr. Roosevelt, who haa to do with this part of the business. Surely the peo- ple will respond with all the glasses they have if necessary to help the boys in the navy. BERT CHILDS, 1461 Hamilton avenue. (The “Mr. Roosevelt” referred to is Frankl D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. He will inform you as to the strength of glasses needed for the service.—Ed. P.-D.) Packing House Profits. “Be the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. Armour & Co. are claiming the reason the present cost of beef is not higher is be- cause of bi-prdducts being utilized to an advantage to stave off high prices. As a matter of fact one of Armour's competi- tora in St. Louis killed a number of cattle the past year and saerificed the bi-product of same for killing cost and ended up with a handsome profit. What must be Ar- It was built two gener- ations ago and for a long time was practically abandoned. Undoubtedly with better terminal facilities and energetic planning it could be made to serve excellent purposes in this time of need. But this is only one of 56 canals in the coun- try. Their @epth varies from four feet in the case of the Black River Canal to 36 feet in the case of the Dake Washington and Puget Sound Canal. The depth of a large mileage is six and seven feet. The Erie is the longest, 387 miles, but one of the very shortest, that at Sault Ste. Marie, about a mile long, has the largest business. The total canal mileage is 3060. The traffic on the greater part of this mileage is almost negli- gible and can be greatly enlarged by effective measures. But in the artificial waterways only the preface to the subject is found. The total length of the 102 principal rivers and their important tributa- ries is 48,780 miles. Total length of course does not mean navigable length, but commerce can be floated 6n a huge fraction of the 48,780 miles. Only power craft and cargo craft in sufficient number and proper patterns are required to en- able hundreds of thousands of tons of freight to be moved over thousands of miles to the relief of railroad facilities. A HEROIC MATOME FAVORITE. Fate could not deny Capt. Vernon Castle a hero’s death, even if she did save him in thrill- ing battles high over the German lines to send him to destruction from a height of only 45 feet at a Texas training camp. Rather than imperil the life of a cadet, when a collision between air- Planes seemed to be inevitable, he attempted an impossible feat and was killed. Thousands of Americans remember Capt. Castle as a matinee idol in the days when the dancing craze was sweeping the country. It is an absurd prejudice, of course, but somehow one scarcely looks for the noblest of manly qualities in men who make a profession of their physical pulchri- tude and grace. There were not wanting those who cried ‘Press agent!”’ when tliey heard that this dancer had given up his lucrative business to enlist in the British aviation corps. But he was grimly in earnest and he won his spurs fairly in open contest. In spirit the whole country stands reverently at his tomb and unites in saying, “This was a man!” — 0-0-4 ARMY CHAPLAINS. Gen. Pershing’s request for more chaplains for our soldiers abroad is one that ought to be heeded. Regardless of what individual opinions may be on the subject of religion, no thinking man can doubt the importance of the right kind of spiritual leadership for men who are called upon to endure what our boys must endure. As long ago as Plato’s time the threefold na- known and understood. Neglected development of any of them means a lopsided man, and lop- sided men do not win great wars. No man can achieve real greatness without an abiding faith men when they most need assistance. But it is not men to preach fanaticism that Pershing wants. He is seeking men who by pre- cept as well as by example can preach clean, manly living to clean, manly men. He is seeking them because, like a wise commander, he under- stands the moral requirements of his followers. = * i ie MEAT RATIONS. The proposed downward regulation of restau- rant meat portions, if adopted, will apparently not be accompanied by a corresponding revision of prices. In the words of one restaurant pro- prietor, “it will cost just as much to serve a six- ounce portion of steak or five ounces of roast beef as to serve twice that amount,” as at present; and besides, “everything is more expensive— table linen, silverware, china and waiters.” If there is any reduction in prices it will be ‘‘slight.’ The meat itself will cost less, but that is a de- tail. So the prospect for the patron is about the game as it has been in all cases of restaurant food regulation. He will consume less at the old price, and while the saving will benefit his health it will ture of every man-——physical, mental, moral—was further tasks in a difficult country and take on in something, and for most men that something do as helpful a work among the Swiss as among is a belief in a beneficent Creatgr, ready to assist. ‘demobilization of the Swiss final ‘the mere scrap of paper?” To their memories the milestones of recollec- tions will have no shadow of the Maine as a part of world’s history. No! Theirs will be the same as that of all the civilized world—20 years hence —REMEMBER THE KAISER! = = * _ i. i a RUSSIAN ARMISTICE ENDED. The report earlier in the week that Trotzky and Lenine were strengthening the Red Guard and would improve any further respite from fighting to reorganize the Russian defense was of German origin. Its manufacture to provide excuse for some aggression, if such should seem expedient, was too manifest for disguise. And with only this flimsy preparation reports of a German war council to plan a new drive from the Riga line east followed quickly. As incom- patible with the Federal authority at Petrograd, Ukraine’s right to make a separate peace is de- nied by the Bolsheviki, who threaten to use force against the Ukranian Rada. Therefore, German army units will assist the Ukranians in resisting S ~.. Se ~@ re eee Ag a “DOWN IN "FRONT! . the Bolsheviki, another more or less plausible ex- cuse for hostile movements being afforded. The Trotzky attitude of passive resistance was | one of historical interest. The Russians he rep- | represented flatly declined to fight further. But the only terms of peace offered by Prussianism contravened the very principles on which the re- fusal to carry further the war was based. With Bolshevikism become the negation of war to ad- vance imperialistic aims, how could it give af- firmation to a peace in which imperialistic aims scored the most signal triumph since Napoleonic | days? The old non possumus resort in which | Trotzky took refuge is one of the most effective of expedients under some circumstances. But against such an enemy as Prussianism it seemed hardly to have done more than to preserve Bol- sheviki consistency. Time may add to the difficulty of dealing with such an attitude. It may have Prussianism guess- ing, even yet. Before a march on Petrograd has gone very far, Austria, almost to the parting. of | the ways already, might duplicate the Trotzky reply, might cease fighting through sheer inabil- ity to fight Only the stimulus of some extraordinary situa- | tion could rouse Russia itself from the apathy | of exhaustion. But the jeopardy of a new inva- | sion after all the sacrifices for peace might sup- | | ply the stimulus that would perform that very miracle. | - -———-@> & REPTILE PIAOTS IN SWITZERLAND. Alarm over a German attack through Switzer- | land is again revived. The new report comes. under conditions making it of special concern | in the United States. The American forces now | in the trenches would be taken on the flank and in the rear, if the attack should be made and should prove successful. Whether the report is plausible or not de- pends, of oourse, entirely on the question. of military expediency. If Prussianism, by adding a new Belgium to its record, would only set itself | a new and powerful enemy, Prussianism would continue as in the past to observe its “tradi- tional’ friendship for the Swiss people. But supposing that German propaganda could Supposing that the militia could be forced by agitators and that co-operation on the part of avowed sympathizers with Prussianism | among Switzerland’s large German-speaking pop- | ulation was aided by a weakened national morale | and a painstakingly cultivated hostility to the. entente. Assuming under these circumstances | that an invaded Switzerland could bé of more | value to Berlin than a neutral Switzerland and | assuming that a surprise attack could be made. at small cost against Swiss forces ill supplied with munitions and big guns, Berlin would not hesitate a moment when a favorable time came. | Unfortunately for Prussianism, its reptile. propaganda did not have time to corrupt and mis- | lead the Belgian people prior to Liege. In the summing up an _ outraged Switzerland’ would be as heavy a liability as an outraged Bel- | the Russians and Italians. .|gium, but with careful preparation it might pos-| sibly be made at no prohibitive immediate costs. | si we a | Give Jeasic a Chance. From the Chicago Post. It wouldn’t be such a bad idea if they eiana' induce Migs Jess Longhead of Belleville, Wis, to} JUST A MINUTE MARIE CORELLI AND THE FOOD LAWS. E are indebted to the London Times for de- » tails of the tilt between Marie Corelli and the British Food Ministry, some rumbles of which reached this country last month It seems that Marie, ashamed as a literary contemporary, has an estate, Mason Croft, at Stratford-on-Avon. Her household consists of seven persons, Government count; Marine makes it nine. At any rate, in a period within which her household was entitled to 32 pounds of sugar, our heroine laid in 183 pounds. This was exclusive, says the Times, of preserving sugar, to which, it says, she was undoubtedly entitled. The Food Ministry alleged that she bought sugar simultaneously at Stratford and London, by which obvious ruse she thought to put one over on the Government. We quote from The Times: Evidence was given of. purchase from Lip- tons and also locally, and a police-constable said he visited Miss Corelli’s house in No- vember, having ascertained that there had been large deliveries of tea and sugar by the railway company. Miss Corelli, addressing the witness said, ‘‘I r you have been accus- ing me of hoarding. It has come to a fine thing if women cannot live in their homes without being interfered with by the police.’’ The witness replied that during the month 83 pounds of sugar and 43 pounds of tea had been signed for by the butler. Miss Corelli exclaimed, ‘‘It’s a lie. The tea has not been delivered here. I should have no use for that quantity. Besides, I am a patriot, and would not think of hoarding. I think you police are overstepping your duty in visiting my house. You are upsetting the country altogether with your food orders and what not. Lloyd George will be resigning tomorrow, and there will be a revolution in England in less than a week.’’ The defendant said there were nine persons in the house, not seven. Miss Bertha Vyver said she managed the household affairs at Mason Croft. They had made a large quantity of jam, and the extra sugar was used for that purpose. Mr. Joy, for the defense, said that 475 pounds of jam had been made. He submitted that the Food Order did not apply to sugar used for home-made productions, such as jam and marmalade. There had been no secrecy in this case; everything had been done open- ly. There had been no attempt at conceal- ment. He submitted that the Order had no application. The Chairman of the Magistrates said that the Bench had given very careful considera- tion to the case, and a majority wera in fav- or of conviction. The defendant would be fined £50, the two other summonses being dismissed, and a sum of 20 guineas wor!4 be allowed for costs. On the application of Mr. Joy the Bench consented to state a case. Marie's notion of what would happen as a result of official prying around her home is interesting. Could the vote of confidence in Lloyd George by the House of Commons during this week have been an echo of that intrusion? If so, Marie’s door stands open and the constable is in the sugar barrel. Lae baa] wa Mr. Perkins is now organizing the country for of whom Just a Minute is heartily. Written for the POST-DISPATOH by Clark McAdams OUR BRIDGE OF SHIPS. E’LL build a bridge of shtpse te France, Ww. To span the Sea of Sighs; Whose water in white wave-capse glance, And mirror murdered eyes. And may the blood of innocents, And mothers’ anguighed hearts, Aid all our soldiers’ good intents, And strengthen all their arts. We'll build a bridge of ships to France, O’er bones of martyred men; And may an endless file advance To Europe’s slaughter pen. And may they safely cross the span, Base overtures to spurn, Till Earth and Sea are safe again— Then may they all return. MAY MARCY BOWMAN. = 4 = A << in Festus, Mo.: eee ee ee This store will be acuppyed by J. B. Landau, Feb. 29th "Phe sign peinter was apparentiy cccupied for some time spelling occupied. Probably some of those was had not the fore- sight to join with us in our fight to save the apostrophe will understand what it was about when they learn that all fine distinctions in punctuation are rapidly going by the board. For instance, ob- serve what 12 o’clock, noon, formerly without deci- mals or anything to confuse it with something else, becomes in the advertising of a downtown cafe: eer ®eaeeesee The harder one tries to say what one means, more difficult it becomes. That is why no can be sure what the law is. A local florist the other day to advertise Valentine specials. Not each, literally—but yeu try to say it. Case of an apostrophe probably displaced by the big wind—Bighth street: WAR VERSION. Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie. He stuck in his thumb And pulled out a plam— And was arrested. hs] ™ = Why not be quite frank with ourselves and admit that we were mistaken about Austria? Austria looked to us like a political crazy-quilt that would go to picces the first time the fortunes of war set in against her. What has actually happened? Why, bless you, Austria has held together through it all; and she is in a fair way to emerge from the war a bigger country than she went in. The new Ukrainian republic is virtually Austria's. She exer- cises a protectorate over it. It will be her’s the first time Ukrainia starts anything. We hope to lick the Austrians—but we will be fair. have surprised fewer patients in the last six months than during any similar period in its history. — In November, 1917, the Kings County Hos- , pital was sheltering less than half its ac-j;_ customed quota of alcoholic patients. I could go on ad lib. with corroborative ~~ ures that are before me. The steward of one of the big New York clubs said to disgustedly: ‘‘There’s practically fo ing any more at all, not what you'd call drinkin’. It’s all happened since got into the war. I don’t know what's matter with the boys. They don’t seem to have, an’ the place is that sober an” quiet after midnight you'd think the club was nothin’ but a library where no talkin’ and mental alertness that this war de- mands, we are by our conduct converting — of sobriety that will do its part in estab- lishing us as a great people. ‘ A Conservation Measure. From the Boston Transcript. HE migratory bird treaty between § England, Canada and the United? States, long ago drawn up in form sat- isfactory to all three countries, signed, sealed and delivered in the midst of war alarms, still waits one legislative proced- ure to reach complete enforcement. That is the passage by the Congress of the — United States of the enabling act. This act will provide funds and legal machin- | the agreement. ada and England have already done this, © and the United States alone has lagged. | ‘The migratory bird treaty is one of the |most important conservation measures ‘ hich has come before the. country, hrough it all migratory game and in- ' 'sectivorous birds will receive adequate ‘protection throughout the year and ‘throughout their lines of flight from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. The . : enabling act as at present drawn places | ithe control of these measures so far as | this country is concerned in the hands — j of the United States Department of Agri- 7) ture, the Biological Survey being the ef- ficient medium through which the reg- ulations will be promulgated and en- | forced. From the Chicago Tribune, ; ESIDENT WILSON ts putting elessiend diplomacy in its grave. In place of the keen fencing of chancelleries he gives ; the world a public debate between pearntn representatives of the contestants with Ge” “opinion of mankind” as judge or jury. 1% is an imaginative and masterful devices, ex- | fi pressive of that further democratization of | a the world which is to:be perhaps the ehief } result of the war. Mr. Wilson oo 2 be shut up in the closet of os diplomacy. He intends to do his talking @ in public so that every one may re what the war is about and what peace i“ A be got for. Lenine and Trotzky were . more embarrassing in method and, as i | seems to be turning out, they were not as — | ruthless in determination. It is not they ~~ but the bourgeois Wilson who is e 4 an end of “secret diplomacy.” It ig indeeg@ — | one of the ironies of history that even as 7) radical Russia with its mouth full of the — e‘separate peace with militarist the “bourgeois” President of “ America is pledging it to a war te the: for a “new international order” ‘upon “essential peace” in the adjectmant, of claims and upon the “self ; eel of peoples. | Letting Wilson Run It. From the New York Commercial. re UR best chance to win this war lies & letting President Wilson act . part of Commander in Chief of the f interference: As Senator have the heart for drinkin’ that they path .. | the spirit of temperance into a tradition / — Te EY OE A Re vee ery for the enforcement of our share of } | In spite of the war, Can- 7] assertions of internationalism is making — ur’s profit? Someone is not telling the | i: ee tatteny his pocketbook. Anyhow, six ounces accept a vernment job. Col. Roosevelt in 1920. {Don't laugh. ta, PAR LOT R a , ee Paine ate, ee See ED: Soe ae Steep: RE 5 Se Steer Ne ema Bis ea RIOR nS NE BREN se Ra thai tin age , % ROSY ES Be gee ate. ee iy a Naess a Seas a Siam,

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. _ “Fd rather not put it just that’ oo Wey.” | ‘WOMEN’S PAGE POST-DISPATCH Daily Magazine SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1978. - —— THE SANDMAN STORY FOR TONIGHT BY MRs, F. A. WALKER. QUEEN NETTA—Part Il. LL this time Manuel was looking | with impatient eyes down the road for a sign of Morton, for Queen Netta was fast dying from grief. Manuel old had not asked the witch what shape Morton had taken | F : | | / on when she changed him into an- | other form, so, when he saw a man coming with a leopard by his side, | it was such a curious sight he went | to meet them. Oliver knocked and knocked at) the gate, but Manuel had told servants that a wild animal was out- side and not to open the gate, or they would be killed. When night came Oliver slept on the ground, but the leopard, know- ing he was near the one he had loved when he was in his own form, sat looking at the wall and dreaming of the days when he was happy. Suddenly the thought came to him that now he was a leopard he might be able to leap over the wall and perhaps catch a glimpse of his lost Queen. This he did and carefully he crept through the trees and shrubs until he was close to the palace wall. As he crept along he came to a grating and looked through it into the very dungeon. There he saw the witch girl asleep on the floor. The leopard knew her, and with’ his paw he scratched the grating until she awoke. “Oh! Help me escape from here,” she cried when she saw the leopard, the | Eyes Only for Those That Dare “and I will save you from the spell my mother threw over you.” The leopard went to the gate and | lifted the bar that locked it; then! he went to Oliver and awoke him and trotted back to the gate. Oliver no sooner saw the open gate than he sprang up and followed the leopard into the garden, and he was about to knock at the door when the leopard rubbed against him and ran into the bushes. Oliver followed and was soon at the window of the dungeon, where the witch girl was waiting. “Help me to escape,” said the girl, | “and I will restore this poor leopard | to his own shape and help you to) punish your wicked brother who | tried to kill you and made ‘me a | prisoner in this dreadfu] place.” close beside them, ad © ace said a terrible voice. 6 and, | turning, Oliver beheld the| old witch herself. “TI will undo the wrong I have done myself,” she said as she struck the leopard with her crooked stick three times, and, to the surprise of Oliver, there stood Morton. ) With another three strikes on the bars through which the witch-girl ne the old witch broke them ana ver and Mor 3 oo irepioeny ton helped the girl to “Now to the palace to find brother who imprisoned my rep ter,” said the old witch. The frightened servant who opened the door gave a cry of alarm that awakened all the household and brought them into the hall where the old witch, her dau r and Morton stood. jae ioss asad When Manuel saw them he tried to! escape, but the witch raised her cane porte could not move. “You did not keep your part the bargain,” he told the iad teem | You ‘promised that Morton should . return the next day, so you could not expect me to keep my promise.”’ “IT will tell you. all,” said the witch turning to Morton, “and then my daughter and | will go back to our | ho — for well I know that mortals | er,’’ When the witch finished s ea | Oliver said, “IT am ashamed epee ry for all I have done and if you will | forgive me, Morton, I will ZO away | and leave you and my sister to rule | and never bother you again,.”’ | Morton told him that all he want- | ed was to be taken to Queen Netta. | | ee eee nothing for the crown or When the Queen beheld her | | whom she thought dead she tehetig covered and after many hours they) again remembered the brothers but. nowhere could they be found. : | Whether they went away with the old witch and her daughter or to seek their fortunes in a strange land | no one ever knew, for they ads again seen. ong years of happin i Morton for all he cant adeiee ao | @ain his Queen and they lived in peace through all the lowed. » years that fol- Cepyright. 1918. o Syndicate” the McC re ee were | : lure New New y ork City, spaper — Princess of Monaco. 4E only American woman - 7 Yaga the distinction and Sethe: the disillusionment of being the wife of a sovereign was Alice Heine, who was born in New Orleans 60 years ago. Her father was Michael] Heine a Jewish banker, who made a for- tune in New Orleans and settled in Paris after the Franco-Prussian | War. His daughter. Alice, became the bride of the Duc de Richelieu. | scion of an ancient French line, and. enormously fat. She bore him a | won and daughter, after which he. died. Alice Heine, Duchess of Riche- | lieu, remained a widow many years | before she was wooed and won by | the Prince of Monaco. e! sovereign Prince of the tiny country | of Monaco—noted principally for its great gambling resort, Monte Carlo. ~“Was not a bed of roses, and she goon tired of it. | END me $10 until I see you | do you mean?” ; “T lend you $10 until | circumstan witch girls cannot live togeth-| Life with the! #0 you again. In the ces iy vision is apt to be much keener cement at aL CT LLL LLL LIL LLL LIE Can the Shell-Scarred Battlefields Be Cultivated? Tanks Might Do the Work HERE is a widespread be- lief that the areas over which the great battles of the trench-and-artillery warfare of the present struggle have been fought, are so completely torn up by shell fire that they cannot be brought under cultivation for many decades, and, possibly, never. Therefore, it is encouraging to learn from an American farmer who writes in a recent issue of Land and Water, after a careful study, on the ground, of the bat- tlefields themselves, that not only can these lands be recovered, but there are sound reasons to believe that they will be very fruitful, says Scientific American. The belief that the agricultural lands that have been devastated by shell fire will never again wit- ness the toi] and fruitdge of seed- time and harvest is based upon three propositions, each of which this agricultural expert believes to be not well founded—and his belief, it should be remembered, is based upon careful exploration of four of the regions most bit- terly fought over on the western front: Flanders, the Somme, the Champagne and Verdun. The theory of the permanent ruination of the soil has been based upon three assumptions: first, that it is so thoroughly poi- soned”’ by the fumes of asphyx- jlating gases and high explosives as to render it unable to support any kind of plant life; second, that the deep plowing up by exploding shells has obliterated the fruitful surface soil; and thirdly, that the ground is so completely pitted by deep shell holes as to render the use of ordinary farm instruments ~—re zonian army: 66 UT if the women rose, B might not aie terrible vengeance be taken upon them later?” I suggested. “Or story ' } | TANDING on the shore and 7 looking out over the ex- The Golden Age of Woman By HELEN ROWLAND. . HERE have all of the “Old Maids” gone?” Where are those withered, useless, patheti, pining-creafures in rusty black and ringlets, Whose blighted lives were spent in: making themselves andéevery body else miserable? Where are the “gossiping gramnies,” the foolishe“clinging’vines”"— and ALL of the world’s “superfluous women. I’ll tell you! ">99 They have all gone into farce commedy—or oblivion‘ Nobody even believes in them any more, except the comic artists. Nobody can even remember having seen one-outside of the “funny papers.” They are as much of a MYTH today As Santa Claus, curl-papers,.real buckwheaticakes, “divine right,” witchcraft and broken hearts! Indeed, What IS an “Old Maid,” anyhow? She is a bit of driftwood on the tide of life whothas lost her looks, her illusions and her usefulness. She is a woman who has shut the door of Life on herself andj teft Hope behind! She is an unmarried woman with more wrinkles than dollars and more gray hairs than ability, accomplishments or optimism! But WHERE will you find a woman like that today? The age of Opportunity, business chances, new’ professions, New Thought and wrinkle eradicators. And there is no woman living who cannot keep the ratio-of wrinkles | -: is the Golden Age of Woman! to dollars. As one to one hundred! There is no woman living who cannot find a vital imterest in life— Who is not NEEDED, Who cannot be an “entity,” an “individuality,” on her:own account. And As long as a woman has a vivid interest in life, As long as she is accomplishing things, As long as she has the energy to marcel her hair, wear smart clothes and a straight-front corset, And go cheerfully out to WORK every morning— As long as she keeps her hopes, her grit, her ambitions and her il- lusions, As longas she finds the game of life so MUCH worth the candle That she would hate to die, She may be a “maid’—but she is NOT “old”—and she is not “su- perfluous!” Oh, yes, of course! No normal woman will deny that there is nothing quite so desir- able as a happy marriage— And the RIGHT husband! every day. B husbands of any kind—right or wrong—are becoming scarcer And soon the world is going to be just a little bit fuller of spinsters than it ever has been before. But, when this mighty war is ended, there will be no ‘old maids” left! For while a Good Husband may be the most desirable thing in all j creation, He is no longer “ALL CREATION”—for any woman. And any woman who is a “creator,” Whether she is a mother, a poet, a gardener, an architect, a painter, a milliner or just a little munitions worker, Is one with the Divine Spirit—the spirit of Eternal Youth! Out of the black shadows of war it has risen in sudden radiance— The Dawn of the Golden Age of Woman! Aren’t you glad you're living in it? The Age of the Ocean panse of water, the ocean seems a fixed and eternal fact, but the seas had a beginning and will have an end. When this time comes the last drop of water will have been absorbed into the earth’s crust, its surface will be a desert and all life will become ex- tinct. ™ The age of the oceans has been estimated by a leading authority, Prof. Frank Clarke of the United States Geologi¢al Survey, at about 90,000,000 years. This, of course, is only an approximation, but is based on carefully studied scien- tific data. All the water was once contained in the vapor that sur- rounded the glowing, slowly cool- ing mass which is now the earth. After the bases combined to form water, the process of making the ocean salt began. This was the work of the rivers. Mineral salts were extracted from the rocks over which they flow and deposit- ed in the sea! Each year the action of the streams makes the ocean slightly more salty and this is the basis on which its age is calculated. The amount of salt carried by the riv- ers of the world is computed by the scientists and compared with the total quantity in the ocean. After evaporation and the velocity of currents have been considered, it is possible to calculate how long it has taken to make sea water as salt as it is today. About 3% per cent of mineral salts and 96% per cent fresh wa- ter make up the oceans. Three- fourths of the solid matter is com- mon table salt, chloride of sodium, other ingredients being chloride, sulphate and bromide of magne- sium; sulphate and carbonate of lime and sulphate of potash, be- sides traces of various other min- erals and metals, including gold and silver. Sea water is not yet a “saturated solution,’ that is, econ- taining all the salt it will hold in suspension, but when that point is reached the salt will drop to the bottom. The amount is enormous enough, Prof. Clarke estimates, to cover the whole United States a mile and a half deep. The planet Saturn presents the spectacle of a world being rade ready to sustain life. All water is still in the form of intensely heat- ed vapor, but as the ages pass it will condense and form oceans and rivers. Long after the earth has become dead and barren a new world, a hundred times greater in bulk, will support plant and ani- mal life, perhaps startlingly dif- ferent from those we know. Long Words — s have been originated marck which contaiss 71 ters? that the Flemings of 41 letters to in i z ; ig i : ' i | eg motor-car. If this be you give me the word? a Greek word of 176 letters, if so, what is it?” And this is what the lexicograp found: The word most frequently cited : i 4 ace” acti aes yr > etn . © r pw ree! ter, a “C+ Pi oy hl: Ds i De ae » i gi ih aes ey he? bel ade Pe cp be oe ; , ; oh eee, Af ane. oe! By. tale See eid : : P+ ae es . ee - Po AM 2 i; detache whiten ee eC es et eee 4 - . j ¥ : : " er - — ar ~ ee peer . . Beep Seis ve Rh ama Ur set +3 he = i i - = ' from English literature as the tong- word is HONORIFICABILITU- — DINITY, which is to be found in ~ Shakespeare's “Love's Labor Lest,” act V, scene 1, line 44, but we ewe — to the Puritan divine Byfield INCIR- — CUMSCRIPTIBLENESS. Dr. Ben- est son is credited with the use of AN- TIDISESTABLISHMENTAR IAN S&S, but it is not found recorded in Mur- Fi ray’s “New English Dictionary,” and William E. Gladstone with DISES- ; TABLISHMENTARIANISM, defined — by the Standard Dictionary, but not — ‘recorded in Dr. Murray‘s great werk. — An examination of any treatise on — chemistry look through it for long words. names of chemical compounds ere sometimes startling in their length. — Examples of these are PARAOXY- METAMETHOXYALLYLBENZENE and TETRAHYDROPARAMETHY~ — }-OXT QUINOLINE, ' ' | ' | | ' | ; / ; doll’s hair, Santa Claus beards and | other hirsute adornments, says Popu- | weal Although the principal use of the | Among modern German words of cumbersome formetion is SCHUT- — ZENGRABENVERNICHUAN G AU- — TOMOBILE, which contains 35 lIet- will provide a pleasant pastime for any one who cares to — The . : ) f ¢ a ‘ ie : - =) is ¢ . a - ss ; . a r z

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