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THE EVANSVILLE PRESS, EDITORIAL PAGE. Danny Comes to the Rescue THE EVANSVILLE AIMS OF GERMANY TOLD BY GERMANS Compiled By SAMUEL B. HARDING Professor of History, Indiana University. For The U. S.

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Mail (ions payable strictly in advance. Entered at Evansville, (Ind.) Pootofflea 2nd-clas matter. Published daily by Evansville Prej 212-214 Vina "Freedom, For AH, Forever!" OitVJA, I WANT rverMBoOV IM BPD LIST EH I VMUAT I0 SOO I ft IWVS To GET UP AMD ALL U6UT.S OUT BY WHB OCLOCK mT SuptoS ls THE AND WALK THE FlOC sl -pawn? 7fwkjwM ij Oij' I ABOUT" TBfi vWf MECHANICS ARE US. RUSH NEED "Aeroplane service is foremost in the assistance we can give in this war," ls the information being Issued at Washington in the call being made now for volunteers for the mechanics' regiment. The recruits are being sent direct to army recruiting stations and then to Ft Hancock, Augusta, for training.

"We await in complete unity, calm determination, and confidence in God the hour that will render possible peace negotiations whereby the military, economic, financial, and political interests of the German Empire in all its extent, including the extension of territory which is necessary for all thi. are secure forever." Dr. Spahn. former leader of the Centre Party, In the Reichstag-. December 8 or 9, 1915.

(London Times, Dec. 11, 1915.) The Centre (the Clericals) is the largest party In the Reichstag-. Under the leadership of Erzberger it very recently (July, 1917) declared against the policy of annexation, tho not unanimously. A Trained Citizen Soldiery One of he most vexatious problems confronting fathers and hers of healthy sons is the BOY PROBLEM. That problem begins when the boy is big enough to move around.

with other boys and pick up information. But when the boy. is on the threshold of manhood, the problem becomes serious and of-i alarming. The father is generally too busy making the family living to give boy the companionship he needs. And at that age of boyhood there 3 little a mother can do.

With obligatory universal military service a big democratic army vhich is a great national college as well the government can step in and help solve this problem. "It is on the soil of Europe which has been fertilized by blood that there is growing up for us a German crop, and we shall still the tears of those who have given their dear ones if we can say to them: 'Thy son, thy husband has fallen for this greater and stronger Germany bloody sacrifices have been offered, and more will fall; they must prov ide the foundation for a territorial expansion of our country, for boundaries in the East and West which will secure us peace for a The Deutsche Kurier of Aug. 4, 1915 (G. pp. 76-77.) Most boys choose their careers by chance.

Their entire future is V-f 11 NhX il, III. II "We know it; the German eagle will victoriously unfold his pinions and ascend to a prouder height than ever. And we shall also know how to keep a firm hold for all time to come on the countries which are fertilized with German blood. Our ardent love for our German Fatherland makes us strong to makthe greatest sacrifices. But let us there- i fore also keep a firm hold on what we have won, and acquire in addition what we need.

Beyond bloody war iB splendid victory let that be the watchword of this great time." i Deputy Baasermann at a farewell gathering of the National Liberal Party, of the Central Committee of which he was president, quoted in Vorwarts, December 6, 1914. DO NOT DENY YOURSELF NEEDLESSLY, ADVISES U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION often determined by the first job they get. Not many can go to college. Too many have to grab the first available job, when they leave the ward school, to help the family make both ends meet.

If the army were made a great national college, where boys could bo prepared for a trade, a profession or a business career while getting military training, most parents would be anxious for their boys to get a chance at that training. They would know the best scientific knowledge would be applied to the physical health of their boys, and that the government was paying for an education parents couldn't afford. They would know their boys would be subject to a wholesome discipline few parents are capable of directing or enforcing. They would know the physical, mental and moral health of their boys was receiving careful expert attention. And if these pupil soldiers were paid by the government three dollars a day parents would know the boys were sure of a fair start when their service ended.

And the government could well afford this, it would know that universal training means this country will always be prepared for any national emergency prepared witfi a trained citizen soldiery fit to defend our country from any danger. The government would know our military strength would be as great as our economic strength, and that we could enjoy peace because we would be so strong and so well prepared that no other nation or combination of nations would dare attack us. Our great and powerful navy, backed up by a national democratic army always fit to fight, would be good insurance against war. And that is insurance those who would have to do the paying could well afford to pay for. This nation cannot escape the responsibility that goes with its vast resources and wealth.

It can prepare to meet the dangers that will always threaten. It must be a strong military nation. But we must be strong in a democratic American strength. Make military service universal and obligatory. Make the army a great national college.

Pav pupil soldiers three dollars a dav during Their term of service. KEEP AMERICA SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY. 5 "ATT AC L'M sugar and when his customers declined to purchase the "combination," wrote for further advice. Mistakes hardly less flagrant than this are being made constantly by supposedly intelligent and well informed people desiring to do through conservation. "No one in my house gts more than one egg for breakfast," boasted one housewife.

"We are saving food for the soldiers and the hungry people acros sthe sea." EAT EGGS, VEGETABLES Neither soldiers nor starving Belgians were benefited by this economy. It was unnecessary sacrifice, as people are urged to eat eggs and send less perishable foods abroad. "We are saving food," said another, "we have potatoes and only one other vegetable for dinner these days." Why not have plenty of vegetables and fewer of the things less needed for export? "How can I have a meatless day when my family, every one of them are made ill by eating fish?" a3ked a would-be patriot. "They simply must have either meat or poultry." POULTRY, SOT MEAT Poultry is not "meat" as far as food conservation goes and the BY-BALKE FIOFITEEIS 5 "ANY" HOOVER ON Food Administrator In Interview With Press Correspondent Replies What French Women Pay for War Women in war work! In America the phrase conjures up pleasant pictures of cheerful, white uniformed women rolling endless miles of surgical dressings at Red Cross headquarters, of millions of women, young and old, knitting, knitting on warm garments for the men in trench and camp, knitting beside the open fires of homes, in the intervals of concerts, between the acts of plays, knitting always and everywhere, the sombre yarn drawn from silken bags of every hue and lovely richness; of other women training for serious nursing or vague of millions of comfortable women "doing war work" by giving an afternoon a week to Red Cross activities and religiously observing wheatless and meatless days. Wcmen in war-work! Women of France do their war-work, like the men of France, with blood and tears, casting their souls and bodies into the fight to save their country.

One munitions factory in France, says a writer in Everyweek, turns out the enormous amount of 1000 tons of ammunition every day. Six thousand women are employed in this plant. Among these women 30 tabids are born each month and ca -ed for in the hospital and nursery attached to the factory. Only the fewest days necessary, and the new mothers leave their babies and go back to their shell-making, to handling the white hot metal and the high explosives ten hours each day! The babies never leave the nursery. Last July there were 210 there.

For the youngest the mothers are allowed a ten-minute nursing period every three hours and the tiny victims of war-times drink in deadly fatigue, fear, despondency and fearful nerve-tension with their mothers' milk. These women war-workers wear no uniform. They are clad in the ragged black of mourning for their men who have already imped- V. 1 1 rtf V.rt 1 1 11 11 1 I i 1 "i 1 1. -o 1 i .1 i 1 i I.

I THIS SAMMY GETS LOTS OF LIESURE The first stage of army life is an easy one for Leo J. Hoefling Camp Meigs, Washington. He is relieved from duty at 4: SO p. ra till 7 a. m.

every day. In a letter on his arrival at th camp Hoefllng stated that th dining car of the train in whict he went from Evansville to the camp left the track. LESS ILLNESS AT HATTIESBURG CAMP The following official health reports have been made of Camp Shelby and Camp Taylor. Camp Shelby: number sick 627, pneumonia 7, measles 8, other 111-j ness 585; sick rate per 1000, 2L3. Camp Taylor: number sick pneumonia 21, measles 63, meningitis 2, other illness 534; sick rat3 per 1000, 31.8.

PRISONERS GET DOPE" FRO GOUGH REMED Sheriff Finds Brag- Victims Novel Source of Supply-Many so-called "cough cures" cf- fered to the public are heavily i loaded with chloroform, opium, i morphine, codeine and other nar- cotic drugs to such an extent that several prisoners of the Suffolk-co Jail at Boston got the drugs their i appetite craved by pretending to the sheriff that they had severe coughs, according to an article published not long ago in the Bos ton Post. There is great danger in using "cough cures" loaded with dope. These dangerous habit-forming drugs do have a temporary effect on the cough, but they do not have a lasting effect and soon the cough comes back worse than ever. Doctors sound a warning against these preparations. The safe, sane treatment for a cough or cold is Father John's Medicine because it iS guaranteed free from any of these dangerous drugs or alcohol an(i has a record of more than CO years' success as a family medicine in thousands of homes.

Because of its wholesome purity it is safe for all the family. It soothes the throat and breathing passages, relieves the cough by getting at the cause, drives out the impurities by means of gentle laxative effect ar.d builds iid renewed strength be- cause 0f its wholesome food ele- ments. Infants' Black, White, Pink and Blue Hose, IQc a Par. '-n JOHN G. 1U03 West COAL COMPANY V.

C. MURPSY, Mgr. BBS STOMACH, Evansville, Ind. i fcl 1 For CoaS clad in coarse unbleached cotton dresses, and their faces are tired ind haggard. The experts among them work eight hours without pause for food or rest.

Mothers in war-work! Win the war quickly that they may go back io their cottaees! Editorial Talent, Made in Germany Blessed the lot of the German editor! The Berlin government tells him what not to print, which, we believe, lifts a great load. Then it tells him what to print, where the emphasis, the nice little head-letters, commas, semi-colons and such are to be put in, and when to be conciliatory, or a dianified critic, or just natural liar. Then, if after all this instruction, the editor makes a slip, government simply goes out on the street and suppresses his circulation no hunting the editor with i hickory club, no libel suits, no sanctum troubles whatever. A reliable office boy and a conscientious government censor: does the German editor care about heaven and the hereafter? meatless day may be poultry or game for each meal without break- ing the rule for intelligent sav- ing. Let those who want to save food wisely so that some end is served, read the teachings of the Home card of the United States Food Administration and avoid useless self denial.

Ment, including beef, pork in all forms, and mutton; wheat, sugar, and fats are the foods of concen- trated nutritive value needed, to send across the sea. Save those and eat the rest BELL ORGAN HONORS EVANSVILLE MEN Two Evansville boys, formerly with the local Southern Telephone have their pictures in the January issue of the Southern Telephone News, the official organ of the company. Walter E. Keeney is one of a arroun of seven bovs in uniform. All the men are members of the signal corps company at the headquarters at Camp Jackson, S.

C. M. F. Orth, the other local boy, has his photograph among those who entered the reserve signal corps of the army. THE SONS OF DANIEL BOONE CLUB did not hold its weekly meeting Thursday on account of the snow.

The club will meet as usual next week at the East Side Carnegie library. LIVES 200 YEARS! For more than 200 years, Haarlem Oil, the famous national remedy of Holland, has been recognized as an infallible relief from all forms of Kl i rl i i-iir rli i' Tie very is proof that it must have unusuai mt-nu aches in the back, feel tired in the morning-, readache, indigestion, insomnia, painful or too frequent passage of urine, irritation or stone in the bladder, you will almost certainly find quick relief in GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. This is the g-bod old remedy that has, stood the test for hundreds of years, prepared in the proper quantity and convenient form to take. It is Imported direct from Holland laboratories, and you can gret it at any drug- store. Your money promptly refunded if it 'does not relieve you.

be sure to get the genuine GOLD MEDAL brand. In boxes, three sizes. I (By the U. S. Food Administration) During the first days of the sugar scarcity, grocers ia many places refused to sell it unless other groceries were purchased at the same time order went out from the United States Food Administration forbidding such a demand, unless cornmeal with the sugar made the "combination as it was termed.

A foreign grocer in one of the large cities under his own interpretation of the order, mixed the two pounds of cornmeal with one of to Criticism "If we do not cut down our wheat consumption during the next six months we will have failed the allies and our own cause in one of the most critical periods of the whole war. We must save 100,000,000 bushels of wheat. GETS MATCH POTATOES "We have a bumper crop of corn in this country over three billion bushels. That is 30 bushels per capita, and ordinarily we do not consume one bushel per capita. Americans are used to cornmeal products.

IF THEY WILL SUBSTITUTE CORN-BREAD FOR WHEAT BREAD, THEY WILL WIN THIS GREAT FOOD BATTLE WE ARE WAGING WITH GERMANY. Europe has not the mechanical equipment to prepare corn and corn bread. "In addition, I would like to see the people eat more potatoes. Americans should remember that so far potatoes have enabled Germany to withstand a world in arms. We can pit American potatoes against German potatoes.

To the many who have written ask ing what they can do to help win the war, I can give no urgent message than this: more "Save wheat, meat, fat and sugar for the allies for the next six months. They are threaten ed on the western' front by tne troops the waiser is able to with draw from tne Russian sectors. They should also not be threatened with a dearth of food. It is our job to see that they are not so threatened." CHALLENGE TO E. H.

S. FROM PRINCETON Princeton high school has challenged the local school for two bas ketball games. Coach Shafer says i he will accept, altho he will not card any contests definitely until the weather situation is improved. Princeton wants to play the five in their own gym on Feb. 5, and play here on Feb 20.

snaier prooaoiy win accept luese dates. Practice is being held regularly this week for the Owensboro game next Saturday. Weber and Sworm-stedt held down the forward positions Wednesday evening. Williams was at center, and Raymond and Smith at guards. Hobson has left the squad.

He will leave with his family Saturday for tkeir new home at Richmond, Va. Plans for the organization of in-terclass basketball teams are un- der discussion at high schooL MORE GIRLS' GAMES Three more rounds of games remain in the girls' Sunday school league. The season will close Jan. 31. The regular games will be played Thursday night at the A.

The schedule: I First Christian vs. First-av; I Bethany vs. Olivet; Walnut vs. St. John's Simpson vs.

GracA; Cen- tral" vs. Trinity. RECORDS SAFE Few records are expected to be broken in the annual A in- meet, to be held In tbe gym at m. Thursday. Most of the old athletes are in the army or The majority of entrants in year's meet are younger boys, who have been springing into prominence in the classes during the past season.

Eugene Stocks and Bill Haering are the veterans entered. SCHEDULES TUESDAY By Tfce fiilied Ire. CHICAUCV Jan. 17 Wartime schedules or the majof leagues for the 191Sseason will be drafted next Tuesday at a nveeting of the schedule eerajaitte Presi- ABOUT THE IMMEDIATE AND SERIOUS FUTURE. Great Britain, France and Italy, which are holding the line while we make ready, need our food.

On December 1 we had exported to them every ounce of wheat and flour we could spare, based upon our normal consumption. "If we don't save for them they will not have sufficient bread for July when the 1918 harvest supply comes in. "In France they have cut the ration of bread down to seven ounces a day. That means five thin slices of war bread. "So, every time an American dispenses with eating wheat bread or cake, that much is made available by some French soldier holding a trench in zero weather, or for some brave French woman workinsr in a factory.

It is just as direct an action as if an American onwn were literally io hand a pi ice of bread to a French citizen. EVERETT TRUE army for the 20th engineers. This tl Observations The people who don't like the other "less" days will be the first to welcome orkless Monday." There's nothing1 like versatility. ETansville firemen are helping' to keep the fires burning today instead of putting them out. Frozen Ohio looks like a desert.

And since that Tote at Frankfort the other day, the other side seems no oasis. URT buying the Cuban sugar, we assured a steady price thru the year. ACTION BOOSTED SUPPLY "What we did had NOTHING TO DO WITH A SUGAR SHORTAGE. On the contrary, by means of an embargo upon shipments to neutrals and by requisition, we ACTUALLY INCREASED THE SUPPLY FOR AMERICA. The shortage in the eastern cities was caused by the allies drawing sug ar from Culfa and the United States in stead of Germany as be fore the war.

"The story of wheat and flour is now an old one. Congress fixed the price of 1918 wheat at $2 per bushel as against an average of 8 7 cents for the five years preceding the war, and that when we took hold flour was selling at $17.10 per barrel and going up. By "licensing the millers and fixing their profit and carrying this principle along in dealing with the wholesaler, we have cut flour down to $10 a barrel at the mill door and reduced the price of bread. "But now J. would rather talk OUTBURSTS OF MEN OVER 40 GET INT0ARMY There is no branch of the U.

S. service that a man over 40 years may enter, according to Lieut. Wessel of the local army recruiting station. But special' consideration will be given to those men over that age who have. seen previous service.

Otherwise the recruiters are taking only men outside of the draft ages up to 40 years. Lumbermen" are -wanted by the lt1 C-Mttfte tfi4e ttnA Grin LA.XATIVX3 P. TIC1 QI-JMNK Tab-' lets re'ove tb e. There is only I--eU "WHAT Fuel administrators have no regrard at all for the fellows who stop ia a saloon to "warm up." COOK I BY MILTOX BROXXER WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.

"We have endeavored to build up in this country a basis of confidence and understanding between the food administration and millions of consumers and producers. I do not think that attacks made by that minority of profiteers, who have been balked in their petty schemes to sky-rocket prices, will hurt us any." The speaker was Herbert C. Hoover, United States food administrator, who has been the object of an "investigation" by a committee headed by Senator Jim Reed. Reed is the man who nauseated the country last summer by his repeated and venomous attacks upon the man who for three years fed 10.000,000 starving Belgian and French people ground under the heel of the brutal German satraps. Hoover now has a far harder job that of trying to save enough to feed Great Britain, France and Italy.

PEOPLE WAXT TO HELP "There is one thing that distinguishes the American people," Hoover said to me. "It is their positive desire to make some sac- rifice for their country. That is why they have helped us so willingly to save meat, wheat, fat and sugar, and have come up smil'ng serenely asking what more they can do. That is why so many of the trades have voluntarily reduced price and profits. "When we took hold we had one bie object in mind WE HAD TO SECURR FAIR PRICFS TO THE AMERICAN PRODUCERS AND THE AMERICAN CONSUMER WITH THE MINIMUM LOSS TO THE PRODUCER AND THE CONSUMER THRU THE HANDLING OF FOODSTUFFS We had some power granted us by the food administration bill." "But not anything like as much as Lord Rhondda has in Eng land?" I asked.

Hoover's serious face broke into a smile. "The Enelish food controller can do anything he wishes by a mere stroke of the pen," he replied. "We have power thru our ability to license many of the wholesale dealers and manufacturers of food. Further than that we cannot go." "In other words, most of the teeth were extracted from the American foot. law?" I asked.

"Not necessarily; food law must be developed as necessity arises," Hoover replied. "Nevertheless, thanks to the patriotism and the cooperation of most of our American business men, we have been able to do a good deal. "Of course, our outstanding pieces of work have been the stabilizing of the prices of sugar and breadstuffs and pork. In the case of sugar, what was done was achieved thru voluntary agreement. "With all the world outside of the central powers grabbing for Cuban sugar, we had formed an international committee representing the buying needs of America, France, England and Italy, which arranged for the purchase of all the Cuban sugar crop.

"This was to be financed by all the refiners in this country in common, and they were to get raw sugar in proportion to their refining capacity. The allied sugar was financed by their gov-ernment. We had to persuade our refiners to do the work done by governments abroad. "Also by voluntary' agreement it was arranged their profit for refining the sugar should be $1.30 per hundred pounds -instead of S1.S7 they had enjoyed before. This item saves about a year.

"We, ii'--, thru onr power to United te I ltU fcU Ijitf fcl at 9 1-2 to 19 ce German censor forfeade German papers to print advertisements offering dog flesh for sale. save dogs? No! To keep folks from learning that Germans have got to wher. dog tasted good. We're waiting to see what the miners convention will have to say about the supreme court's enjoining them from organizing in West Virginia. rhat WHAT READERS SAY WOULD COXSERTE SMOKE Sir: Much is being said in these trying times about fuel conservation.

Save coal, save coal. That's the cryeverywhere. It may be of interest to your readers to know that fully 50 per cent of all coal used is practically wasted because of the smoke which escapes unburned. Smoke is merely gas and when gas is burned it produces heat. When I see smoke rolling out of factory chimneys, as well as the chimneys of business buildings and homes, I view it as so much money floating to nowhere.

It would be well for business men to look into the matter of securing a good smoke consumer for their furnaces not only from a financial standpoint but a patriotic one. Housewives should understand thoroly the regulating of stove drafts for when this is learned they will find it necessary to fill the firebox of their stove or range only half full to get the maximum amount of heat. This is my idea of more heat and real conservation of fuel. X. SCHREIXER.

Citv. KINKLE MADE U. S. LEATHER INSPECTOR Arthur KinEle. 423 Brav-av.

has been appointed assistant inspector It: Ler eqiipivicnt cf dc-r-irtnert a Hilary fit J. W. Roper D. G. Maude G.

Roper D. G. CHIROPRACTORS Spine and Nerve Specialists 401-2-19-20-21 Citizens Bank Bldg. Successfully Remove the Cause of LIVER, KIDIVEY, BOWEL, SPINE and NERVE TROUBLE. Phone 4354 WALKS ON RIVER; GETS CHILLY BATH Theodore Sowders, Main-st liquor dealer, Thursday warned persons who passed his place on the way to the not to attempt crossing on the ice.

He said the ice broke while Ed Scott, Lincoln-av, a laborer, was crossing the river about 50 feet fro mthe bank Tuesday evening. Scott sank to his chin before his companion rescued him. He was taken to Sowders' place and revived. MAYOR MAY MISS STATE PARTY MEET The Democratic state committee, of which Mayor Bosse, as first district chairman, is a member, will meet at Indianapolis next Monday, according to latest arrangements. The meeting was set for last Tuesday, but had to be postponed on account of the snow.

Evansville People Should Eat Pie Daily Pie is wholesome, combining both fruit and Those who have trouble digesting pie should take ONE SPOONFUL, simple buckthorn jSyccrine, as mixed in This flushes the EN-TIIiE bowel tract, removes foul which poisoned your sioin- p.r relieves ANY o'T stouiach, gas cr enssti-j StC C'li 13 CC 11 CHANGE IN TRAIN SERVICE France. Even stenographers ex- perienced in office work of a lum-j ber company are wanted. Anoth-'star er branch of men soon to be sent to France are 3,000 road builders door p. I navy. this Effective Sunday Jan.

13th L. N. Train 91 and 90 Between EVANSVILLE AND GUTHRIE. I Will Not Be Operated On Sunday NO. 91 LEAVES 6:05 A.

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and bridge workers. As soon as the number are raised they will be sent to France. AT "ATLANTIC PORT" Chester Goad, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.

Goad, 522 Green River-rd, has notified his parents he is in New York and expects soon to go to France. He enlisted as a clerk in the aviation spction last Ane-iist. Eircs tfera ho tas'beea at Baa An-1 K. nil" J.3c..