The Dublin Progress and Telephone (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 30Th Year, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1918 Page: 3 of 8
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Not on What You
But on What You Save
DEPENDS TOUR FINANCIAL
INDEPENDENCY
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in such a manner as will tend to bring you to financial inrtei snd-
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J. H. LATHAM, President
NEXT WEEK
TitOOPS ARE BEING SENT TO
FRANCE FAST AS POSSIBLE
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America is now sending troops to
France to the full capacity of every
transport Ship at her disposal.
This was learned Officially from
army and navy sources who added
ihat it is up to the shipbuilding cor-
poration to turn out more craft if
the urgent allied appeals for farther
speeding American troops is now to
be mfet.
Practically all of the economies in
space possible have been accomplish-
ed. The "turn around" has been
been speeded; dockage facilities in
France have been increased, every cub-' and before going
inch of ship space
CALIFORNIA WOMAN KILLED
SBELL ON FRENCH FRONT
ic inch of ship apace is utilized and
wasteful use of tonnage has been cur-
tailed.
The transport fleet is being aug-
mented by the conversion of a few
—a very few cargo ships into troop
vessels, while the^ Dutch ships will
provide another very small number
of extra troop transports.
The army and navy men said, how-
ever, that it is now virtually impossi-
ble to convert further cargo carriers
into troops ships, and that evidently
the maximum space economies have
been accomplished.
The conversion of a few cargo ves-
sels Into transports was undertaken
before Lloyd George’s recent appeal
for more Americans and the Dutch
shipping will relieve virtually only
the merchant marine situation. Food
shipments, it was stated, can not be
further curtailed with safety, al-
though perhaps some additional cut in
meat could be made.
The United Press informants, men
who know the troop transport ques-
tion thoroughly, declared that the
question as a whole gets back to the
American-Bhltish shipping outpot and
that neither of these is now satisfac-
tory.
The shipping board announced that,
thirty-seven vessels had been launch-
ed In March, with a total deadweight
tonnage of 240,000.’ This was twelve
more launchings than in February,
but It was pointed (Ait a launching
does not mean the vessel is ready for
service . ,
Deliveries were eighteen ships of
162.000, against sixteen the previous
month of a 123,000 deadweight ton-
nage .
This does not begin to keep up
with the German submarine sinkings.
In other words, the fundamental
of the whole problem before America
now is one of getting more ships, ac-
cording to the experts, and that was
what Lloyd George was appealing for,
when he asked for more American
troops.
It is poihted out that too little is
being done to encourage and stimu-
late ship workers to the vital nature
of their task, and to keep labor sat-
isfied. Labor unrest, the experts
say, must: be wiped ou,t and labor
must be ,urged to forget Its strife,
while at the same time more force-
ful administrative work with less red
tape Is regarded as necessary here.
Considering the resources availa-
ble, the United States is sending
across a sizeable supply of men now.
Figures cannot be printed under the
censorship. National army men will
soon be in France' to aid in protec-
tion of the “frontier of fiWedom,” and
the next few months will see the na-
tion rather well stripped of forces
rounded up In national army and na-
tional guard camps last fall.
The army can feed as many men
as there are ships to carry them and
itlll have a surplus of men.
,President Wilson is apparently urg-
ing upon Chairman Hurley of the
[shipping board, the necessity of hur-
rying up the ship yard output, while
[army and navy chiefs are seeking to
jflnd any new way to economize on
[space. Thus stood the shipping and
troops problem as the big battle raged
[on the west line.
Miss Mariqn G. Crandell of Alame-
da, Calif., has been killed by the ex-
plosion of "a shell in the "French
Soldiers' Fireside'' at the French
front, wrhere she was engaged as a
canteen worker for the Young Men's
Christian Association. Miss Crandell
was 46 years old. She arrived in
Frapcp Feb. 15.
Miss Crandell is a sister of George
P. Crandell of Alameda, Calif., secre-
tary of the San Joaquin Sugar Com-
pany of San Francisco. Miss Crandell
was a native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
to Calilornia last
summer to visit her brother she
taught at St. Catherine’s school at
Davenport, Iowa.
GERMAN AT FORT ARTHUR
ASKED TO RESIGN OFFICE
Anti-German feeling which express-
ed itself last week at Port Arthur in
the tarring and feathering of Steven
p. Zagn, an alleged German sympa-
thizer and the closing of the Germa-
nia club had another outbreak Monday
when a committee of twenty-five Citi-
zens headed by J: B. Peek, former
county commissioner, appeared before
the city commission and requested the
resignation of .C. W. Rode, commis-
sioner of finance and records. The
request was based on the fact, Mr.
Peek said, that Rode was German
born. Rode came to the United States
a small bo^ and settled in Wisconsin,
where he participated in politics. He
informed the committee that he would
resign if the people urged him to.
PLANS SUBMITTED FOR
GUN TO SHOOT 10,'. MILES
Plans for a super-cannan, a great
gun of long range, possibly similar
to the one with which the Germans
have been bombarding Paris, have
been submitted to Secretary fianiels
by naval ordnance experts after
months of experiment. It Is under-
stood, however, that the report in-
cludes a statement that the ordnance
officers do not believe the military
value of such a weapon would com-
pensate for the time and money which
must j^e spent in perfecting and de-
veloping it.
American ordnance .officers have,
been interested in the possibilities of
long-range guns for the last ten years.
The belief "that the game was not
worth the candle,” as one officer ex-
pressed it. prevented rapid progress,
but experiments were not dropped,
and since the entrance of the United
States into the war added interest
has been evidenced in the navy depart-
ment program.
Reports were heard in some quar-
ters that a range of 10r. miles was
expected of the gun now under consid-
eration.
Fort Worth, April 3.—With four-
teen bands playing, flags waving and
thousands cheering them, the Texas
and Oklahoma national guardsmen of
the United States army In the 36th
division/ 27,000 strong, will march
in reviewJn Fort Worth on Thursday,
April 11. It will be the greatest sin-
gle military display ever seen in Tex-
as; never before within the state has
such a large body of troops been re-
viewed or under such conditions, for:
Within a very short time (exactly
how long known only/to the war de-
partment) these troops will be on
their way to France, on the wav to
Join the comrades who already have [
WILSON'S PEACE ATTITUDE
REMAINS UNCHANGED
( President Wilson has not changed
his attitude concerning a negotiated
peace with the central powers, as ex-
pressed In his flag-day address, his
reply to Pope Benedict and his mes-
sage to congress on the declaration of
war with Austria, according to a let-
ter he has written to Bishop Theodore
S. Henderson if the .Methodist Episco-
pal chursh.
Bishop Henderson wrote to the pres-
ident in behalf of 20,000,000 American
Methodists asking in particular wheth-
er his present unwavering purpose
was expressed in the following words
from his message:
The German power, a thing with-
attacked the enemy, and with them ou* conscience, honor of capacity for
the victorious banner of liberty into covenented peace, must be crushed.
Berlin to mark the end of mllltariiCi
in this world.
Many of the fathers and mothers
of the boys in the 36th division have
not seen them in camp; quite a num-
ber have not seen them at all since
their sons left thi.r homes last sum-
mer to enter Uncle Sam’s training
quarters and become seasoned veto. -
ans even before entering upon the fo~-
eign campaign. This will lie the
greatest opportunity in their live3 to
be with their boys again for a little
while before they depart on the er-
rsnd for which they enlisted and <o
see them under circumstances that
will never fade from memory.
Brigadier General E. St. John Grc-
ble will conduct the review. By his
side will be Governor Hobby of Texas
and Governor Williams of Oklahoma
and'members of their staffs, and pos-
sibly also the governors of Louisiana.
Kansas, Arkansas and New Mexico,
who have been invited to come.
Every unit in the division wilt be
represented in the parade, each with
•full equipment. The artillery, caval-
ry, infantry, engineers, signal and
hospital corps and other branches of
the army will be in line. A large
representation of aviators from Camp
Taliaferro will attend.
Fort Worth expects thousands of
visitors on Thursday. April 11, and it
is probable many of them will remain
over Sunday. The Fort Worth cham-
ber of commerce has arranged through
its visitors’ bureau for every person
to be taken care of during their stay-
in the city. Lists of hotels, boarding
houses and rooming houses have been
prepared and everything arranged to
add to the comfort and pleasure of
everyone visiting Fort Worth upon
this occasion.
LOS ANGELES SALOONS
CLOSED SATURDAY NIGHT
Los Angeles saloons closed their
doors Saturday night with little osten-
tation save for the usual effort of
"the boys" to see that none of the
saloon men or wholesalers had any
“dead" stock on hand.
An eleventh hour attempt to gain
an injunction prohibiting the ordiance
going into effect failed when the
court ruled there were no invalidat-
ing technicalities in the election or
the ordinance.
Los Angeles by its steps becomes
the largest saloonless city in the
United States.
WHITE STAR LINER CELTIC
TORPEDOED BY SUBMARINE
GERMAN COIN BEING
USED IN MISSISSIPPI
Of Russia’s 180,000,000 people about
|500 have formally agreed to accept the
“erman terms.
Evidence indicating that German
money is being used In Mississippi to
encourage negroes to evade the selec-
tive draft law is contained in a re-
port filed by F. K. Etheridge, state
inspector of local exemption hoards,
'and made public by the state adjutant
general’s office.
Mr. Etheridge's reports deals large-
ly with conditions in, Holmes county,
where difficulty was exeperienccd in
getting negro registrants to report.
Charges are made that at one negro
church, known as the "Church of
God in Christ.” pro-German sermons
were preached; that the sect, the
headquarters of which are said to be
in I»s Angeles, several months ago
erected a $10,000 church in (he town
of Lexington, and that the pastor,
hitherto an obscure negro preacher,
recently built a $25,000 residence in
Memphis.
The report also tells of a meeting
held in tLis church by a foreigner
who, during his stay in Lexington,
received a code message which has
not been deciphered.___
The steamship Celtic, one of the
big White Star liners, was attacked
and torpedoed by a German submar-
ine, according to reliable information
received in marine circles during a
voyage from England to America.
Efforts are being made to save the
vessel, which, it is believed, carried
no passengers.
The Celtic has a gross tonnage of
26,904 and has for many years been
one of the largest steamships in trans-
Atlantic service. She was built at
Belfast in 1901 and flies the British
flag.
ff there weye any American sailors
on board the Celtic, they were very
few in number and carried as "cas-
uals'' returning home. It was stated
that there were no sick nr wounded
on board.
HASKELL FARMERS UNION ASKS
PRO-GERMANS TO VACATE
Our present and immediate task is
to win the war, and nothing shall
turn us aside until it is accom-
pished.”
The president's letter dated March
25, follows:
"In reply to your letter of March
j!l, may I not say that you are per-
fectly safe in using the words which
you quote from my message as ex
pressing my unaltered thought and
unbroken purpose. It is always our
duty to find out what the expression
of a desire for peace from our op-
ponents really means, but unless it
means a complete and convincing
program for justice upon which a last-
ing peace can really rest (and we
have as yet no evidence that it means
anything of that kind), it means
nothing
The president's letter will be read
from all Methodists pulpits in the
country on April 7. and the national
war council announces Giat all Meth-
odist ministers have been urged to
use it as “a basis of a new and hearty
backing of the president in the war
for the choking out of all pacifists.”
IMPORTANT WAR LEGISLATION
IS PASSED IIY THE SENATE
Important war legislation was pass-
ed -Monday *by the penate, including
various amendments to the national
defense act and separate bills author-
izing the condemnation or lease of
land needed for war purposes and
empowering the president to comman-
deer and operate street and inter-
urban railroads to- shipyards engag-
ed on government work.
The defense act amendments au-
thorizes the secretary of war to pre-
scribe zones in navigable water ^en-
dangered by artillery practice, trans-
portation of explosives or other war
activities; empower the president to
call for war department clerical duty
men of draft age physically unfit for
military service, and provides for the
enlistment of men ouside of the draft
ages for civil duty. One ^provision
specifically continues the extra pay
allowance of 50 per cent for army
aviators, which the war department
proposed to abolish. ,
Another bill proposed authorizes a
service medal and ribbon for all reg-
ular army and national guard men
and officers who have done duty on
the Mexican border.
PROPOSE ADDITIONAL
REFORMATION ABOUT ( AMPS
President Wilson has set aside
$250,000 from his $100,000,000 war
emergency funds for the use of the
commission on training camp activ-
ities in establishing additional refor-
matory facilities and houses of de-
tention for delinquent girls and wom-
en found near military camps. The
money will be spent in the South,
where a majority of the camps are lo-
cated, and it is planned to aid sev-
eral existing state reformatories by
building new cottages which will ac-
commodate thirty to sixty occupants
Each state wjll be required to share
the expense of construction by appro-
priating a sum equal to its allotment
and agree to complete the reforma-
tory within one year.
A special committee to disburse the
fund, now being organized by Chair-
man Fosdick of the commission, in-
cludes among its members Mrs. New-
ton I). Baker, wife of the secretary
of war.
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RELIGIOUS SECTS ARE
TEACHING DISLOYALTY
Disloyalty fostered by certain reli-
gious sects has been growing in the
United States within recent months,
according to department of Justice
officials who. have charge of enforc-
ing the espionage act. Many preach-
ers and religious teachers in public
speech and printed pamphlets, offi-
cials assert, are urging the doctrine
that war against Germany constitutes
murder pf fellow-Chrlstians and the
great human folly described in the
Book of Revelations.
The department of justice regards
the preaching of opposition to the aims
of the war as seditious nature, and
has acted accordingly Several Ger-
man and Austrian preachers and Sun-
day school teachers have been intern-
ed for disloyal utterances and many
others, particularly in extreme north-
western states, have been warned to
desist from criticising y.ie United
States' motives in the war. Several
publications have been suppressed and
others are being investigated.
The department is also preparing to
fight a recrudescence of pacific agi-
tation by so-called “intellectual”
classes. Heretofore this tendency has
been combated largely by ignoring ut-
terances in opposition to war in gen-
eral and letting public opinion exer-
cise its corrective influence. For sev-
eral months the pacifist movement
has been inactive, but officials say
that recently several organizations of
university men have been formed to
spread the doctrine of opposition to
all war.
MEATLESS DAYS SUSPENDED
FOR PERIOD OF ONE MONTH
BUMPS PREVAILING DISEASE
AT TEXAS MILITARY LAMPS
The sanitary report for February,
issued by the state health depart-
ment, shows that there were reported
from tiie military camps In Rexar, Mc-
"Lennan and Tarrant counties 3,190
cases of mumps, of which 3,020 were
from Bexar county. Pneumonia cases
to the number of 195 were reported,
105 in Bexar county and ninety in Mc-
Lennan county; scarlet fever, fifty-
eight cases, of which thirty-eight were
in Bexar and thirty in Melamnan;
diptheria, six cases, five in Mclennan
and one in Bexar; measles, 384 cases,
of which 275 were in Bexar, 107 in
.McLennan and two in Tarrant.
Reports were received from over
tiie state, exclusive of military camps,
of 869 cases of smallpox, ninety-eight
cases of scarlet fever, ninety-four
cases' of diptheria, forty-five cases of
typhoid fever. 148 cases of tubercu-
losis. 338 cases of measles. 157 cases
of mumps, I3n cases of pneumonia,
ninety-one cases of trachoma, seventy-
two chicken pox, forty-four meningi-
tis, two malaria and one case of lep-
rosy.
Suspension of the meatless day reg-
ulations for thirty days, was ordered
by the food administration in instruc-
tions telegraphed to all state food
administrators.
Temporary relaxation of the re-
strictions was decided upon because
thousands of hogs flow coming into
the market has increased the meat
supply beyond the country's shipping
and storage capacity. In a statement
announcing the order, Food Adminis-
trator Hoover expressed confidence
that the producers would not take ad-
vantage of the “holiday” to ask more
than fair prices and that the “packers
and retailers will have sense enough
to realize that, this is not to he a holi-
day of high prices."
"The very much overnormal run to
markets of hogs due tq supplies dam-
med back during the winter months
car shortage still continues,” Mr.
Hoover said, “and seems likely to go
on for another thirty days. After this
period the seasonal shortage in mar-
keting will set in.
"It is a matter of regret that the
extent of our domestic storage capac-
ity. the limited overseas and inland
transportation and port facilities do
not .permit of saving and moving the
whole of this temporary and abnor-
mal surplus to the allies for use when
this heavy killing season has passed.
On the other hand, the larger and
cheaper supplies of milk, together
with these further relaxed restrictions
on meat so that some portion is avail-
able each day, should facilitate the
enlarged saving of breadstuffs. of
which we are so much deficient in
alied needs.
The consumer should not take this
announcement as in any way a depar-
ture from the general principles of
conservation of all foods which the
food administration preaches. The
need of food on the other side is great-
er than ever—the need of economy in
America is greater than ever.’’
MILO MAIZE
AS A
FLOUR SUBSTITUTE
BORDER GUARDS ARE
INSTRUCTED
TO KILL
TRUCKING
V
AND HEAVY HAULING
IK city and to Comanche, Hamilton. DeLeon, Stephen-
ftlle, Hied, Tolar, Bluff Dale anti all intermediate terri-
tory.
Moving of Household Goods a Specialty
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All persons in the United States in
sympathy with the German kaiser are
invited to leave the country iu a
resolution adopted by Haskell lodge
No. 741, Farmers’ Union of Texas.
The resolution pledges the loyalty of
the members of the union and assures
full and hearty support for the pres-
ident in all his war measures. Op-
position is expressed to militarism
in alP its forms as practiced by the
kaiser and Ids colleagues.
The resolution in part says:
“We believe that all men who are
living under the flag and protection
of the United States government and
who are in sympathy with the kaiser
should leave the United States and
take up their abode In some land
that the kaiser now controls and to
look to him for protection, relinquish-
ing their rights and room In this na-
tion to those who believe In world-
wide democracy.
“That all members of Haskell local
No. 741 of the Farmers’ Union of
Texas be asked to sign these resolu-
tions and that all members of Haskell
local No. 741 of the Farmers' Union
of Texas refusing to sign these reso-
lutions shfll he immediately expelled
from the Farmers’ Union and their
names published throughout the Jur-j,
lsdlctlon of the Farmers’ Union of
Texas.” J
FARMERS’ UNION PROTESTS
AGAINST DRAFTING FARMERS
Afghanistan Is the “key to lndla’0
and the Russians have thrown the
Galling attention to the fact that
young men engaged in agricultural
pursuits are being drafted into the
army despite the shortage of farm
labor and in apparent conflict with
the desire of the president that such
men should not be drafted where
such action results in the curtailment
of food production, the executive com-
mittec of the Texas State Farmers'
Union has adopted a resolution pro-
testing against this policy. Copies of
the resolution have been sent to Pres-
ident Wilson, Provost Marshal Gen-
eral Crowder, Governor Hobby and
Stale Food Administrator Ueden
I't is pointed out in the resolution
that, contrary to the prevalent idea,
women, Children and loafers who have
had no exeperionee in farm work can
not replace the skilled farmers, and
without a knowledge of farm work
and agricultural machinery such sub-
stitute laborers make very inefficient
workers.
The executive committee provided
that all members of the union in the
military or naval service of the coun-
try should be exempt from the pay-
ment of all fees and dues to the or-
ganization during their terms of ser-
vtee.
The United States consular service
Saturday night issued the following
waring: •
“American soldiers guarding the
frontier of the 1-aredo military dis-
trict have received orders to fire upon
all persons attempting to enter the
United States by means of fording the
Rio Grande.
''in the past American sentries have
fired over the heads of such infrac-
tors of the law. hut such firing being
ignored, it becomes necessary for the
American authorities to take more
drastic measures. American sentries
have received orders to open fire on
all persons endeavoring to enter the
United States by fording the Rio
Grande.
“We wrish to impress upon the Mex-
ican people that the United States is
at war; Ihat this is a war measure,
and that infractions henceforth will
be dealt with in a summary measure.’
This rule is expected to apply espec-
ially lo alien enemies and smugglers
who enter the country at night in a
clandestine manner
"Plant milo (maize. Plant every
surplus foot of tillable land in milo
maize. Plant milo maize, raise milo
maize—and eat milo maize. The prob-
lem is solved—eat milo maize. Milo
maize will grow anywhere and almost
anyhow, and with as little moisture
as any cereal, milo maize is-what old
timers call a sure crop, just in the
same class as cotton—grows like a
weed. So let every true Texan ap-
point himself and herself a committee
to urge the planting to the limit, of
milo maize. .Milo maize flour can
take the place of wheat flour in every
thing. Feterita is just the same as
milo maize, and in some respects bet-
ter So what i have said in regard
milo maize applies to feterita. If
helping save wheat will help win the
war. to use no wheat whatever, will
end the war the sooner. There is now
being shipped from a mill at New
Braunfels, flour made from milo maize
that seems ^perfect in every respect.
and just as nutritious as any other
cereal, and this is being placed on the
local market and finding ready sales.
You can plant feterita and milo maize
and like erops any time from now un-
til along in .tune, and make at least
one crop The best wav to conserve
the wheat crop for the boys at the
front, is to prepare to not use it at
home."
LONG CONTRACTS WITH
TEACHERS HELD LEGAL
Nine hundred trained soldiers from
Camp Travis. Texas, arrived at Camp
Gordon. Georgia. Monday. The men
linin' from all parts of Texas. This
was the first, contingent of 3,700
trained men from other national army
Camp Gordon for the purpose of fill-
camps that are to be transferred to
ing tiie division to full war strength.
It was not indicated when the remain-
ing 2.800 would arrive.
key away.
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. Former permler of France, Calllaux,
also en tag led In the meshes of the
Count Luxburg net. Who’ll be the
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An opinion of much importance to
the public schools of the state was
rendered by the attorney general in ;v
letter to the state superintendent of
Public instruction wherein it was
held Giat the hoard of trustees of an
independent school district, may le-
gally enter into contracts with teach-
ers for a longer period titan one year.
Where the hoard of trustees of a
eitv or town or independent school
district lias elected a superintendent,
it may also select a principal of the
high school. The principal of the
high school is merely a teacher, and
therefore a contract with such prin-
cipal need noi be limited to one year.
This gives school boards the light
to make contracts to keep desirable
teachers and principals for several
years.
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It Is reasonable logic that the business man that buys for cash and
sells for cash, and does his own work, Can sell for less.
Since opening a new grocery at my old stand a few doors east of
the postoffice business has been most satisfactory. I carry a nice
stock of fresh groceries, leed, etc. Bring me your butter, eggs and
other produce and I will buy from you whether you buy of me or
not. Want to see you anyhow-
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