The Statesman (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 2, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918.
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or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the 0cal
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are also reserved. __,___________
Mrs. Gertrude Cornwell, wife of M.
C. c’ornwell, who was a resident of this
ity until recently, died very suddenly
this morning nt San Antonio, where
they removed a few weeks ago. The
body will be sent to Austin this after-
noon and interment will take place
here sometime tomorrow from the res-
idence of F. R. Cornwell. Definite fu-
nra arrangements have not yet been
made.
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The Hun will be whipped, if not this spring, then}quence Germany would have trouble
the next, or the next, and as long as the war lasts, the ] Withtcdhstatsto palyethte"san." 1
people will give to speed the good fight. J Th© spenker then repeated a con-
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By Associated Press
AMSTERDAM, March 2 The decis-
ion of the Austro-Hungarian govern-
ment to send troops into the Ukraine
was explained yesterday in the upper
house of the Austrian parliament by
Premier von Seydler as having been
in response to an urgent request for
assistance from the Ukrainian govern-
ment.
The request was made, he said, in
consequence of events in the Ukraine
which threatened to interfere with the
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necessity has arisen for participation
by the monarchy in an action which
has not the least connection with any
act of war and which possesses no no-
litica, character whatever- it rather
constitutes solely an act of legal ad-
ministrative assistance rendered at the
reqnest of another state in the inter-
est f the state-"’
so written as not to reveal where It took place. Nor
is there, we believe, any reason tor entombing the
justly earned glory of an American officer Ly alluding
to him as "a West Point graduate of the class of 1*17."
Moreover, as has been pointed out so many weary times,
such an announcement brings sorrow to the home of
every man who might be described in this vague and
uusatisfactory manner.
With our men actively engaged in battle with the
enemy, the censorship may properly be lifted in such
a degree as to give credit for glorious achievement
where credit is due. Surely the Germans who grappled
hand-to-hand with our boys know exactly where the
Americans were encountered.
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THE THIRD LIBENTY IOAN.
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the Austin Street Railway Company announced that
It would put on one-man cars the people of Austin
were ready to accept the innovation as a sign of prog-
ress. The people accepted with a sense of duty, the
new cars which, It was announced, would be up to
date, equipped with air brakes, and with all the neces-
sary appurtenances to modern street railway locomo-
tion. There was some regret expressed for the men
who would e thrown out of work, when it was said
that the schedules would be so arranged as to give
every man a chance to earn a week’s pay, the people
minimized the men’s grievances In the hope for bet-
ter service.
The new cars came and were put on the outside
lines. Then the street railway company took some of
the ramshackle old cars which should have been thrown
in the discard a long time since, and by the placing
of a "pay as you enter" box at the front end of the
cars, produced a one-man car, which saved consider-
able money, but which has since ruffled the feelings
of those who use the service.
It would seem that plans for more efficient service
could be worked out at the executive offices of the
company without subjecting the people to a service
which arouses their temper, and makes street car travel
an annoyance.
There is much that can be said for the street car
company. At one or two of the meetings of the City
Council the plans was broached to raise the fare from
5 to 6 cents. This plan was quickly sidetracked when
opposition came from the body of the people. The
1 present way of saving money is not scientific, and
eventually may result in losses to the company Itself
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WASHINGTON. March'2 The In-
terstate Cotmerce Commission today
approved inereases averaging 5 per
cent in all water closs and commodity
rates of the Ocean Steamship Com-
pany, from Boston, Providence and
New York to Augusta. Ga.: Beaufort
and Port Hoyal, S. C, and other South
Atlant! ports.
The opening date of the Third Liberty Loan cam-
paign— April 6—will mark the first anniversary of
America’s entrance into the war. Secretary McAdoo
could not have chosen a more propitious time for send-
ing the boys over the top to victory with the aid of
the money, materials, work, and love of the American
people.
The third campaign for the golden dollars which
will aid in victory will be marked by a spontaneous
outburst of giving, far to supersede even that of the
other two loans. For America is in the war solid, with
hands, and heart’s and all that we have over on the
Lorraine front fighting back the Hun—back to Berlin.
The four-minute men and other enthusiasts who will
give their time to the raising of the amount of money
to be set y Secretary McAdoo will have but to call
the attention, and refresh the memories of the Ameri-
can people to the defalcation of Russia, started by the
cupidity of the Huns at Brest Litovsk. For every
dollar’s worth of grain raised in Ukrainia to supply the
Teuton armies, a double supply of dollars with which
to purchase materials will be forthcoming on this side
of the water for the American soldiers on the firing
line.
Secretary McAdoo has stated that it will require
fifteen billion dollars to fully equip the army of the
United States during the coming year. He will get
whatever amount of money he needs. ;
Nor will the American people forget the sinking of
the Tuscania, and the loss of the 173 brave Americans,
who gave their lives for the freedom of th world.
The Liberty loan will cover the necessary expenditures
of those who gladly will go over to France to take the
places of these boys.
The people of the United States will not forget the
men on the firing line, some of whom will return no
more to this country. The third Liberty loan will be
a memorial to their struggle.
The Pathfinder Club met Thursday
afternoon in the museum room of the
Capitol and devoted their time to the
making of surgical dressings. It bring
election time, no regular program was
given. The following officers were
elected:
Mrs. J. W. Lowber, president; Mrs.
U V. Stockard, vice president; Mrs.
Nann, recording secretary: Mrs. Jess
Maxwell, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
R. T. Badger, treasurer; Miss Graves,
parliamentarian; Mrs. Chester Thrash-
er, reporter.
A lecture on Christkm Science will
be delivered at the Majestic Theater
Sunday afternoon at 3:30, by John W.
Dooriy, U. S. B , member of the Board
of lectureship of The Mother Church,
rhe First Church of Christ, Seientist,
in Bcsston, Mass- The lecture is free
kirst Church of Christ, Scientist, of
Austin, and the Christian Seienc So-
ciety of Austin cordially invite the
pubiie-
i transportation of foodstuffs.
(a4g TK GAayc "(n the circumstances,” he continued.
VIvLS •--13 "‘we could not refuse our help. "T‛he
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The height of apprehension:
‛Frad last night that wo were
going to have to get this
sheet out with a corkscrew this
morning.
One every day —J. R. B-
1 the irresistible force and the immovable body. The
i real significance of the latest attack upon the Ameri-
can lines, however, is not in the victory of the Ameri-
) cans. We at home have never doubted that our sol-
■ dlers would quickly master modern combat tactics and
carrije fight to the enemy. Training and experience!
are wonderful things, but there is no asset more valu-
able to the soldier than a “fighting heart.” The ag-
gressive. fearless spirit of the Americans, combined
with his physical strength and mental alertness was
certain to count heavily in this struggle.
But It is significant that the enemy has recently at-
tempted repeatedly to inflict damage upon the Ameri
can lines, even in the formerly “quiet” sector of the
Lorraine front. The German commanders have evi-
dently thought to hearten their own soldiers and dis-
courage the new enemy by organizing attacks on the
I Americans as rapidly as these could be located. They
have met, however, an eagerness at least to their own.
I Whatever the plans of their commanders have been,
■ the Americans have shown an inclination to meet
“Fritz” rather more than half way and have taken
part enthusiastically in raids upon the enemy trenches.
■ The result is quite likely to be an ebbing of Teutonic
steal tor encounters with the “Yankees,” but also It
may be expected that there will to a succession of
such incidents as that reported last night, with result-
ant losses on both sides.
Our men are fairly into the fray and while the “big
push”—by either side—may be some time in coming.
A there will be battles—trench battles—from day to day.
The “American front” is an actuality and the war re-
; ports will have a new and personal interest for the
M • people of this country.
In this situation It is to be hoped that our censor-
ship methods will be revolutionized. It Is not nt all
leasing to the average reader to be compelled to look
I to Berlin tor exact information of the locality of battles
in which American troops participate. If the Germans
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LONDON, March *.—German forces
are moving on the town of Hologie, on
the Moscow-Petrograd Railroad, which
place is the chief freight center for
the feeding of Petrograd, says a dis-
patch from Petrograd under date of
Friday. received by the Exchange Tele-
graph Company. The Germans proba-
bly intern), the message adds, thus io
cut off supplies from Petrograd and
to compel the capital to capitulate by
famine. Large columns of German
troops, the correspondent says, are
marching toward Novosokoliniki. En-
emy forces have occupied the station
of Kliastitza in their movement in the
direction of Petrograd,
When fifty University sophomores
were lined up against fifty freshmen
in the third quarter of the pushball
contest on Clark Field this morning,
the sophomores pushed the big sphere
over the lino for one score and won
the game, 1 to 0.
It was a miserable day for the E‛me,
but only like the Texas Independence
Days of the past several years. The
cold drizzling rain chilled the players
to the bone. The field was •impossi-
ble” for any sort of footing. But the
players and the spectators were game
it wasn’t long before tne stands Were
filled with girls, junior and senior
boys.
The freshmen, with cheeks painted
black, were lined up at the eastern
side of the field- in the first encoun
ter the field was turned into a veri-
table quagmire by the grinding of the
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By Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 2. That a
lare band of Chicago safeblowers is
operating in Kansas City was l ho
conclusion reached by the police today,
when with thirty-one suspects in cus-
tody another safe was wrecked early
today. During the last six weceks
more than twenty safe robberies have
been reported. Some of them netted
the robbers from $200 to $500.
BE a SBRV
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Editor Austin Statesman:
I am a purt of the rapidly growing
number of perscns who are beginning
to become long sutfering as a result of
street car regulations in Austin- I
have felt, and watched for thg- past
few weeks that the service on the cars
was becoming more and more lax, not
because the employes were not attend-
ing to their business but because of
the one-man rule. The one-man car is
a nuisance hoth to the employes and
the public-
1 have noticed that a number of peo-
ple have already complained in your
paper about the cars I am glad of
this fact. I only want to cull atten-
tion to the fact that the boxes, newly
fitted up, used as depositories for the
nickles, are placed so inconveniently
on the front of the cars, that I have,
more than once, received an uncom-
fortable jar when the car was started
by the man of all work in charge of
the public service utility.
On the trip downtown on the Main
line this morning, I noticed that the
car had a seating capacity of thirty-
six persons, and the register showed
sixty-six persons had paid their fare.
We were jammed in the car in an
uncomortable manner, and although
I know that a little discomfort is ex-
acted from the public in bad weather,
I felt that this was a little too much.
I noticed, too, that the conductor-:
this was a two-man car—was stationed
at the front end, protecting his box
like a watchdog of the treasury.
If I had an automobile, I am sure
I would use it as the sole means of
locomotion. But since I have no auto-
mobile I must kick at the service,
and I trust that you will help in get-
ting conditions remedied. B I. U.
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“In New York,” returned the general.
"Now, doesn’t that presuppose that
you must come over to get it? Don’t
you know that by the time you reached
there the Americans would have spent
all of it in preventing you getting it?”
The officer admitted the answer was
rather brusk, sid the speaker.
Describes Hun Cruelty*
Professor Hall then dramatically
2 imitated a man leaving the trenches
after a gas attack- The weakened
voice of a man whose lungs were de-
cayed by the chlorine gas beyond re-
covery. he Imitated He said the pa-
tients in the hospitals begged the phy-
sicians to put an end to their lives,
which eventually came.
"They can't get well—never,” he said.
“Any chemist in the United States
knows that the Germans had a vast
surplus of chlorine gas before the war
Now the Germans are dumping It upon
the world in this way. And the worst
of It is that they have forced us to
fight that way. They've made me hate
them- God, i want to kill them?” he
shouted
There wasn’t a. dry eye in the hall
as he uttered these words with all the
vindictiveness he was able to sum-
mon at his command. He reported he
had repeatedly seen General Ruckman
in an effort to get in somewhere, but
the general had told him his gruy hair
and his age kept him out.
Women wept as the speaker repeat-
and more skill, sending man after man
“over the top” into the groaning ranks
of the freshmen. The sophs crawled
over the heads of their own men am!
from the top of the pushball jumped
headlong and feet foremost on the
tops of the heads of the freshmen on
the outskirts of the squirming, shov-
ing body of students were individual
eneounter, in a few minutes all were
begrimed with mud-
The sophs shoved the freshmen con-
siderabls in the first quarier in the
second quarter, with 100 on a side, the
freshmen still held their ground. But
in the thire quarter, with fifty on a
side, the sophs monaged to win the
contest- The last quarter saw the men
shoving the ball about considerably
without effect.
With the exception of a freshman.
Roc!, who sprained his knee, no in-
juries or fatalities resulted from the
contest.
would be the richest and most power-
ifu} nation on earth and as a conse-
rd the last farewell he gave his son,
who is mr aviator gomg to France:
"My boy, when you are flying around
and find a herd of those (lends, drop
u bemo light in their inidst and say
'There's one for dad.’ ” A burst of
applause followed this statemeat.
The speaker then told the gills to
save their money and the money of
thelr boy friende for the soldiers He
showed the dire need of the s9ldiers
and the civilians, p rticulariy in regard
to sugar.
He particularly stressed the value
of letters to boys in the trenches. The
men coming in from their vigil stgger
along the roads back to their billets
expecting to find letters from their
(loved oncs- L.otters, he aid, were
probably more appreciated than any-
thing else the civilians here could
send
Large Flag Is Presented.
The University students, after only
three drills, conducted themselves like
soldiers. They gathered in the driz-
zling cold rain at the northwest cor-
ner of the campus- With the band
letding they filed around the front
of the main building down the main
driveway to Twenty-first Street,
thence east, thence north on Speed-
way to the mens gym. General Hare,
commandant, reviewed them on the
Speedway.
In the rain, which was now falling
steadily, they stood still at the en-
trance of the gym a few moments
while the band 1mished playing and
then they were dismissed to enter the
building.
After “The Stars and Stripes For-
ever” was played by F. I* Reed's Uni-
versity orchestra. V. P Iee, president
of the Students' Association, an-
nounced the speakers. Miss Charlotte
Spence made the speech of presenta-
tion of the service flag containing 1837
stars, which hung before the audience-
En») Corenbleth, in well chosen
words, made the speech of acceptance.
Speaking on "Texas independence, ’
John C’ofer recalled the Tex Is spirit
which led the studnet body to arise
and sing ‘The Eyes of Texas Are Upon
You,” after the Baylor football defeat
of a year ago, and which led the team
to victory over A. - nd M . 21 to 7, a
few week later He referred to the
Texas spirit evinced by the engineers
in their football battle against the
crack 'backfield of the laws several
years ago when the score stood 0 to u
at the end. The s ine spirit was shown
in a letter to him from a friend, an
aviator, who wrote, ‘Mood-bye. I'll
see you again, I hope, when the war
is over." The spenker referred to the
declaration of independence by Texas,
eighty-two yers ago. al Washington,
on the Brazos, as the first outcrop-
pings of the Texas spirit, which soon
became inculcated in «all Texans.
Another number on the program was
the singing of "The Star-Spangled
Banner,” "America” and “To Texas”
by the audience. The song "To Texas,"
composed by Lieut. Lynn W. Landrum
and F- J> Reed, was sung for the first
time, but unfamiliarity with the words
and music mide the rendition rather
weak.
By Associated Press.
VoLOGDA. Russia. March I The
interior of Russia, following the ex-
emple of Moscow, declares strongly
rgainst a separate peace with Ger-
many- Workmen's and Soldiers’ coun-
cils in many provincial centers are is-
suing mobilization orders proelaiminR
a fight to the finish n behalf of the
revolution.
see a person, that arouses your sus-
picion report the facts to the secret
service of the United States. You will
be doing a patriotic service thereby.
"I would like to picture to you what
this war is It‛s no ordinary war. it
is hell But the old general's idea did
not fit this kind of a wur. Never be-
fore was systematic treachery, decep-
tion, butchery and atrocity reduced to
such an exact science. The cases of
brutality are not due to a few officers
getting on a spree, or a few soldiers
getting beyond the control of their
officers, they are all parts of a plan.
•'rhe steam roller out there has no
brutality in it- it is not cruel because
it wants to hurt you. It hurts you
because you get in the way- A Ger-
man ambassador told me, with croco-
dile tears flowing from his eyce, that
the poor Belgians out not have gotten
in the way of the German steam roller.
•The poor fools, they won't get out of
the way." he said.
"The Germans wanted us in the war
for several reasons. I will tell you
what several officers and men of af-
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By Assoc’ated Press.
NEW YORK, March 2. -Antonio
Puglisi, notorious "black hand" leader
and head of the band of counterfeiters
which planned io print and cireulate
milions of dollars of spurious (10 Fed-
eral Reserve Bank notes, was sentenend
to fifteen years' imprisonment in the
penitentiary at 'Atlanta. Ga. Five
other members of the gang were given
lighter sentences.
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