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s2asrwsr J3ijf wy M5smJgr fssr I WV sSfe fSirr wwsMiSfavs liJtw lTSir IJ 7rf ifc fstip rfjs VS I3 1 5 tasipngfrm l00t TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Delivered by Carrier in Washington and Alexandria Dally Sunday included one month JO 70 Dally Sunday excepted one month Daily Sunday included one week 20 10 60 Daily Sunday excepted one week 15 0 75 2 5a By Mail Postage Prepaid Dally Sunday excepted one year 6 50 Daily Sunday included one month Dailv Hunrinv fnrlnrtAri tia var 9 00 Sunday one year Daily Sunday excepted one month 55 Sunday six months 125 AH Subscriptions by Mail Payable in Advance Remittances bhould be made by drafts checks postoffice orders registered letters or express orders payable to THE WASHINGTON POST CO Washington EDWARD McLEAN Editor President Entered at the postoffice at Washington as second class mail matter Foreign Advertising Representatives PAUL BLOCK 250 Fifth Avenue New York Mailers Building Chicago 201 Devonshire Street Boston 1311 Kresge Building Detroit Saturday November 17 1917 I Why the Allies Will Cooperate declining appointment as a member of the British cabinet Lord Northcliff wrote to Premier Lloyd George as follows Frnm rnuntlpKs conversations with leading Americans I know that unless there is swift improvement in our methods here the United States will rightly take into its own hands the entire management of a great part of the war It will not sacrifice its blood and treasure to incompetent handling of affairs in Europe The frankness and truth of this warning come with special timeliness on the eve of the conference that is to endeavor to harmonize and consolidate the operations and plans of the allied nations From questions propounded by Mr Asquith and others in the house of commons it appears that opposition has been aroused in England against a supreme war council because of the fear that Field Marshal Haig might be overruled or that England might be called upon to modify her plans to suit the plans of the combined allies Mr Lloyd George actually escaped a crisis by reassuring parliament that the council already created does not possess any powers It is evident that the creation of a supreme war council with adequate powers will be extremely difficult But there is one difficulty that is still greater and that is the defeat of Germany without united action Are the allies ready to sacrifice everything order to win Then they will create a council Are they afraid to create a council Then they must postpone hope of victory The United States is not on record as demanding the creation of a supreme war council but presumably it is ready to participate in creating one Nothing has been published to indicate that America is preparing to take into its own hands the entire management of a great part of the war It is not presuming that the allies are refusing to cooperate to the fullest extent Nothing is more certain however than the independent action of the United States if unfortunately the allies should fail to get together The people of the United States will be intensely practical in their war making They will insist upon greater efficiency than is displayed by the enemy Incompetency in this government will not be tolerated when the Americans and Germans are actually at grips Moreover as Lord North cliffe puts it the United States will not sacrifice its blood and treasure to incompetent handling of affairs in Europe In other words neither in their own government nor in cooperation with the allies will the American people be satisfied with incompetency Fortunately there is no reason to presume that either the allies or the United States government will be incompetent On the contrary the experience of this war teaches that great efficiency will be attained Cabinet after cabinet has been toppled over in every European government whenever the people reached the conclusion that efficiency was impaired or success unnecessarily deferred Nothing is acceptable but success This is equivalent to saying that each nation is determined to survive even if it must kill its neighbor With this spirit animating each people it is evident that their public servants cabinet and field must make good or be set aside The same process will operate in the United States Public servants will remain in office or in command only so long as they make good Incompetents will drop out and promising material will be put forward on probation That was the process that brought Grant and Lee forward in the civil war It is the process that has brought Hmdenburg and Haig and Petain to the front in this struggle Necessity demands of the great allies that they shall cooperate They cannot avoid cooperation to some extent They can avoid complete cooperation only at the risk of annihilation Since every blow they strike is evidence of their instinctive obedience to the first law of nature it is reasonable to presume that they will insure their self preservation by concentrating their efforts it is possible to turn out 20000 if enough men are put in training There is no question that there will be machines for 20000 pilots by next spring or summer Capt Richthofen attempts to reassure his mind further on this matter by saying that at least 25 per cent of the machines will be damaged in transport to Europe But all damages can be readily enough repaired and thousands of machines are being built in Prance Are candidates being trained in sufficient numbers9 On that question depends the strength of the American air fleet on the western front for the operations of next spring and summer Training the Fliers Germanj leading aviator Capt Baron von Richthofen has expressed his unconcern oer the preparations in this coun try to place 20 000 aviators with sufficient machines on the western front Presumably he means to convey his belief that only a small proportion of these can be placed there by net spring or summer He points out that the task of training these 20000 pilots will be an enormous one involving heavy casualties and that any appreciable reinforcement of the entente air forces by America must be a long way off That the task is a great one is of course recognized and numerous casualties are expected Moreover only a comparatively small percentage of those trained on the aviation fields will qualify to pilot machines over European battlefields The successful aviator is not an average individual The essential qualification is not only intelligence but an acute sensitiveness to the conditions of flying that requires a high order of nerves The prerequisite of Intelligence is recognized by the government and candidates for aviation are not accepted unless they can demonstrate that qualification to the satisfaction of the authorities Whether a man has the sensitiveness and nerves requisite for a successful flier cannot be demonstrated until he has actually attempted the control of a machine in the air A great majority will fail in that qualification but a certain percentage which it should be possible to fix quite definitely will not fail Therefore the solution is to tram sufficient men that the percentage of those who are successful will be large enough to disappoint these German prognostications of long delay in the American reinforcement of entente air forces There are undoubtedly several hundred thousand men in this country who would make successful avi man mind cannot picture any more ruth ators The problem reduces itself to the less acts than she already has committed task of putting sufficient men through training If one successful aviator can be turned out in this country in six months Ruthless Air War Signor Caproni the aeroplane inventor is quoted in the cable dispatches as predicting that next year Germany will resort to air war on the same ruthless plane as the war she has conducted with her submarines It is difficult to imagine how Germany can reach a greater degree of ruthlessness in her aeronautic attacks than she has practiced though she may be able to multiply the attacks Germany has violated every rule of civilized warfare including the bombardment of unfortified cities and towns and the willful slaughter of helpless women and children and other peaceful noncombatants Her air raids have wrecked hospitals and killed patients have demolished schoolhouses and transformed homes into shambles Out of the sky at night Germany has dropped death dealing bombs with no possible object in view other than to strike terror to the hearts of noncombatants There could be no military advantage in these attacks there could be Ho excuse for them except the satisfaction of a demoniacal malice In the face of what Germany has done how can there be any additional terror in the threat of a ruthless air war The hu 4 bg 5 Civilization will bring Germany to book and will not wait for further evidence of savagery Reliable information is at hand thats cret agents of Austria Hungary are at work in this country obstructing the organization of the American army By so doing they haye brought themselves within the provisions of the espionage act which imposes a maximum penalty of 10000 fine and twenty years Imprisonment for any one who shall iwillfully obstruct the recruiting enlistment service of the United States Thus the work of the Department of Justice is laid out for it These Austrian spies have obstructed enlistment by making threats to Roumanians Lithuanians Slavs Croats and other representatives of the numerous subdivisions of the Austro Hungarian empire residing in the United States These Americanized foreigners have been told that if they enlist in any army upon the side of the allies the Austrian government will retaliate by confiscating the property of their relatives in the fatherland and by shooting the soldiers themselves if they are captured Thus these people the great mass of them loyal to the land of their adoption are confronted by the knowledge that if they enter the war on the side of the allies their aged parents or their brothers and sisters at home will have to pay the penalty That the plot is an organized one sanctioned by the Austrian government is proved by the fact that the spies have a complete list of the men of these races who live in the United States and are In possession of accurate knowledge of the property owned by their relatives in Austria This information could not be obtained except through government channels Not only are the aliens warned against military service but they are told how to avoid it Instructions are given them to plead when they go before the exemption boards that they are subjects of an ally of an enemy of the United States and under the provisions of the selective draft law they are not compelled to serve It is estimated that through the activities of these Austrian plotters thousands of men have been deterred from joining the army who otherwise would have taken their places in the ranks Five thousand of them mostly Roumanians have volunteered for service in the foreign legion of France but many have been held back by this dastardly threat against their relatives in Austria The extent of the influence of the threats can only be imagined but it is known to be widespread Here is a case for the practical application of the espionage act Government agents can render no better service to the country than to seek out and punish the plotters By doing this it will have a deterrent effect upon the spies engaged in other machinations in the interest of the central powers Attacks Upon Government A soap box orator in New York during a tirade against the liberty loan said The government will not be able to pay the interest let alone the principal on the money it borrows At this point a crowd of angry citizens threatened to lynch him and he was saved from violence by being arrested When haled before the magistrate the orator apparently did not realize the seriousness of the offense with which he was charged and said that as it was a yery simple matter he did not care to engage a lawver But the magistrate assured him it was not as simple a matter as he assumed and added that if convicted he might be sentenced to the workhouse for six months This incident indicates that many of these loud mouthed agitators do not in reality appreciate the seriousness of making attacks upon the government in time of war and that a few object lessons are needed to emphasize the necessity for being guarded in their statements Evidently they mistake free speech for license to make wild assertions that are injurious to the national interests The most practical way to cure this evil is to enforce the law rigidly After a few disloyalists have served workhouse sentences they will have a more intelligent conception of their duty to the country Strikes ma come and btrikes may go but the lailroads must go on forever Some of the slacking coal miners seem to have interpreted Herb Hoovers full loaf idea their own way The fact tnat there are 137 distinct languages in Russia wouldn be so bad if they didn all talk at once We look almost any day for the issue of a superoptimistic bulletin that will make up the deficiency in the coal output Perhaps the girlies insist on knitting sweaters instead of socks because they know the bovs will never get cold feet British forces on the battlefields of Da id and Goliath may get some new pointers on the effectiveness of hand grenade methods One trouble about those rousing pacifist meetings is that force of circumstances requires the chairman to second his own motion Although the French claim credit for the introduction of camouflage Wilhelm began the game when he disguised himself as a normal human being One hundred million patriotic Americans stand ready to assure Secretary McAdoo that two good bonds deserve another whenever he says the word Every time Tom Edison comes along with a new suggestion one is freshly impressed with the thought that genius Is nothing but transcendent common sense Germany Is said to approve most highly of the bolsheviki prograift the junker element especially being delighted with the scheme for dividing up other peoples lands A good man to go tiger hunting with is the comment of the London Morning Post on President Wilson Observations of this character are calculated to make Mayor 1 elect Hylan glad Its all over Americans have more than a mere artistic Interest in the preservation ot CVentce from the barbarous destruction which the Germans have wreakediduring the past three years upon so many Belgian French Russian and Roumanian cities land towns for to the monastic buildings attached to the Church of the Friar are preserved the well nigh priceless documentary records of Venice which are assuredly too voluminous to have admitted of their removal to Home These archives contain data of the most wonderful value concerning the earliest explorations of the American coasts of the early settlements on the shores of New England which Venetian agents in the various western seaports of continental Europe and of England obtained from navigators The republio of Venice seems to have maintained envoys and agents in all foreign capitals and seaports and these were evidently instructed to report to their government everything of interest especially everything connected with maritime and geographical explorations since in olden times Venice prided herself on being the mistress of the seas Archives Are Voluminous The records of western explorations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are very voluminous so much so that their examination is very far from being completed Unless these archives are destroyed by the Germans there is no knowing what they may yet reveal of the past They extend down to the end of the eighteenth century and among them has been found a letter signed by Benjamin Franklin Adams and Jefferson which In 1785 was addressed to the Venetian Ambassadors at Paris with a view to the recognition of the United States by the republic of Venice There are unfortunately no registers of the contents of the archives to help in the search nor anything in the nature of an index Indeed the only assistance which the student finds in his researches is that the documents are for the most part chronologically arranged in large bundles through which he has to wade Capt Fergus Graham to Wed Capt Fergus Graham of the Irish Guards whose impending marriage to Mary the only child of Maj Gen Raymond Reade has just been announced is the eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Graham of Netherby In Cumberland and of Lady Cynthia Graham who was one of the beautiful daughters of the first Lord Feversham the others being Lady dAbernon better known by her former name of Lady Helen Vincent Lady Ulrica Baring who enjoys the distinction of having jilted a prelate namely the bishop of London and the late Duchess of Leinster the most lovely of them all mother of the present Duke of Leinster Capt Fergus Graham that is to say the bridegroom elect is great grandson of Sir James Graham the statesman who served several terms as first lord of the admiralty and as secretary of state for the home department while Sir Richard mother was Lady Jane St Maur eldest daughter of the twelfth and Sheridan Duke of Somerset and lives in the social history of England as the queen of beauty of the famous Eglmgton tournament Hereditary Stewards of Abbej Sir John Horner whose ancestral home Mells Park in Somersetshire has just been destroyed by fire spent some time in Washington in his younger days as an attache of the Alabama claims commission and took such a liking for America that he has frequently returned here since He owes his title to his services in connection with the management of the vast crown property which King George like Edward VII Queen Victoria and William IV surrendered on his accession to the throne to the government in return for a civil list But the Horner family is a very old one Prior to the Reformation the Homers were a sort of hereditarj stewards of the estates of the great Abbev of Glastonbury The men of the family have alwajs borne the name of John and it was owing to the knowledge which the John Horner of the reign of Henry VIII had obtained of the possessions of Glastonbury Abbey as its steward that he was on the dissolution of the monasteries able to secure the grant of the old manor of Alells with its large pa and valuable lands for the nominal price of 10 000 from the Bluebeard monarch The heads of the three other Somersetshire families namely the Windhams the Pophams and the Thynnes followed his example in purchasing for a nominal price estates that had belonged to the Abbey of Glastonbury a fact which is commemorated in the following old time couplet Windham Horner Popham and Thynne When the abbot went out they came in Hero of Nursery Rhyme The Horner family furnished the hero of the popular nursery rhyme beginning Little Jack Horner sat in the corner and when Sir John daughter married the Hon George Lambton younger brother of Lord Durham and of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Mux a few years ago she was described as Little Jack Homers daughter Sir John is one of the closest friends and cronies both of Lord Rosebery and of Lord Landsdowne their intimacy dating from their Eton days while they were afterward together at Balliol Oxford then under the mastership of Dr Scott famous the world over as one of the compilers of Liddell 5L Scotts Greek Lexicon Sir Alexander Napier of Napier who has been so dangerously wounded at the front in France where he has been serving as a captain of the Grenadier Guards is the head of the junior branch of that great Scotch house of Napier which has for its chief Lord Napier of Ettrick He is married to Joan only daughter of the late Edward A Morris and granddaughter of the late Sir Richard Puleston who was so well known in this country He has a Canadian stepmother for his father the late Sir Archibald Napier after divorcing his first wife daughter of Sir Thomas Falrbalrn married Charlotte only daughter of Henry William Austin of Montreal chief justice of the Bahamas The patronymic of the Napiers is said to be derived from an expression of King David II of Scotland who at the close of a battle in complimenting the Lennox men led by Donald second son of the Earl of Lennox declared that they had all done valiantly but that there was one of them namely their chief who had nae pier no neerju MaBQUISE DB FONTENOr Fortmaafe jBy Podnc6f War1 Tells National WarGoimnlttecsX The national war savings committee or which Frank A Vanderlip is chairman and the Federal and State director who will be in charge of the war savings campaign were received yesterday by President OTil son I suppose not many fortunate by prod ucts can come out of a war said the President but if this country can learn eome thlng about saving out otihe wa It will ba worth the cost of the war I mean the literal cost of It in money and resources I suppose we have several times over wasted more than we are now about to epend We have not known that there was any limit to our resources we are now finding out that there may be if we are not careful One of the most interesting things to me about the recent loans that have been floated is the extraordinarily large number of persons who have invested The number of investors In securities before these loans were made was comparatively small remarkably small considering our population and its wealth and now it has swelled to the millions to almost one tenth I believe of the population of the country That is an extraordinary circumstance and It may have some very fortunate results But the thing that you are undertaking is more intensive and in a sense more important still It is the matter of small savings the detailed thought of the matter of preventing waste and managing some kind of accumulation from day to day that will fall to you and I want to say that I for one warmly appreciate the number of volunteers of capacity and experience who are coming to our assistance at this time doing things as interesting and Important as this At the close of the conference of State directors last night it was announced that each director would call a State convention within a week to organize for the campaign which is to open December 3 sgi4sel Jr 1jl ossa s5Er5 sejswt ifc i 7v tU3X3 rst srrvzsgr fllTAoxitSCtzJCQTwm andjCapts XXi SouselkndltlZ Xramexvirni jproceeV to scr i if The followIngofacerscwiHproceed as fol lpwstsCapfc IGardner Portland Oregt Capfc EE TfewbolaV Ban Diego Second Efeut Green Garden City MaJvVH Smith Fort Sam Houston Maj A Wen Ige Camp Sherman Second Lieut A Lake Garden City Captf Lv Cochrun Camp Sherman Capt Perry Ridge land Capt Wilcox Bradley CaL Maj Richards Capts I Sneer and Bird and First Lieuts Dickens McLean Weber March and Second Lieuts Knepper Messinger Myers Van Dorp and Wiseman Camp Travis Maj A Cornell San Francisco First Lieuts Tyier Tatman McKlnney A Skinner and Craig Springfield Armory The following officers will report as indicated Capt Phipps Cornell University First Lieut Sherry chief signal officer Maj A Dapray Catholic University Washington Leave of absence for one month on account of sickness is granted Lieut Col Macdonald Second Lieut Champ is discharged from the service of the United States The following transfers at the request of the officers concerned are ordered Second Lieut Blue Third field artillery and Second Lieut Ross Twelfth field artillery WILSON GREETS KING ALBERT Birthday Message Renews War Pledge and Sympathy for Belgium Renewed expressions of sympathy for Belgiums sufferings and assurances of the determination of the United States to prosecute the war against Its oppressor to a successful conclusion were sent to King Albert yesterday by President Wilson in a cablegram congratulating the king upon his birthday The message follows I take pleasure in extending to your majesty greetings of friendship and good will on this your fete day For the people of the United States I take this occasion renew expressions of deep sympathy for sufferings which Belgium has endured under the willful cruel and barbaric force of a disappointed Prussian autocracy The people of the United States were never more in earnest than In tneir determination to prosecute to a successful conclusion this war against that power and to secure for the future obedience to the laws of nations and respect for the rights of humanity MORE ENEMY ALIEN RESTRICTIONS May Be Required to Register Barred Zones to Be Extended Plans for further guarding the countrys war activities against enemy aliens were approved at esterday cabinet meeting and President Wilson will issue a proclamation embodying regulations furmulated by the Department of Justice Enemy aliens may be required to register and the barred zone will be much extended Plans for tightening restrictions on enemy aliens have been under consideration for some time and final consideration has been hastened by frequent fires and explosions which have occurred recently along the water fronts in New York and other Atlantic coast cities Department of Justice officials framed the registration system so that the whereabouts of citizens of enemy countries or allies of enemies may been known and supervision over them more closely maintained WILL INVESTIGATE PRICE ADVANCES Bureau Hears of Unjustified Increases Attributed to War Taxes War taxes have been made the excuse by manj retailers for price advances far in excess of the taxes and in many cases for making additional charge for articles not subject to tax according to reports from many localities reaching the Internal revenue bureau The legal division yesterday was asked to Investigate and determine whether the practice can be stopped by legal means Hurrej supervisor of business cooperation in the bureau announced he would welcome reports of similar overcharges Talking machine cigarette and confectionery dealers and moving picture houses were reported especially as having raised prices unduly and attributing the increases to war taxes STOPS COAL PRICE REVISIONS Garfield Issues Order Prohibiting Operations From Jobber to Retailer Coal dealers from the operator to the retailer are prohibited from selling coal at prices subject to revision by an order issued yesterday by Fuel Administrator Garfield Heretofore producers have been permitted to sell their coal at prices fixed by the government with a stipulation that the price might be revised if the government fixed prices were changed Under this arrangement prices were made subject to revision from the operator to the jobber and from the jobber to the retailer The retailer however usually found it difficult to collect any difference from the consumer after the coal had been sold Tester daj order is designed to eliminate this and other difficulties which the plan entailed It becomes effective immediately ENORMOUS EXPORTS OF BEEF Almost 6500000000 pounds of meats and meat products were exported from the United States in the first three years of the war Department of Commerce statistics show that almost 2000000000 pounds were exported during the fiscal year of 1917 The exact three year total was 5447 429046 pounds Other foodstuffs exported during the three years were Wheat including flour 779160700 bushels corn including meal 157318425 bushels oats including oatmeal 294678643 bushels barley 70608759 bushels and potatoes 96 42235 bushels UNITED STATES TREASURY Transactions and financial condition Novem ber 15 1917 Revenue receipts this day Ordinary disbursements this day Revenue receipts this month Revenue receipts corresponding month last year Revenue receipts this fiscal year to date Revenue receipts last fiscal year to date Ordinary disbursements this month Ordinary disbursements corresponding month last year Ordinary disbursements this fiscal year to date Ordinary disbursements last fiscal year to date General fund assets and Treasury Available gold Available silver dollars United States notes Federal reserve notes Certified checks on banks National bank notes Subsidiary silver coin Minor coin Silver bullion Unclassified In Federal reserve banks Irt national banks In treasury Philippines 6395931 57 25859060 82 61987241 21 28086948 97 385296950 98 272728468 24 247954177 39 4712170140 1544749 874 36 367805245 50 liabilities in 29442874 71 13914154 00 5 320293 00 79390 00 2384102 13540630 38 2073212 04 414 336 64 7232379 01 I 648026 23 43886033 37 4642845111 5382701 96 Total assets in general fund 929 532 247 39 Subtract liabilities 127548462 06 Net balalce in general fund 801983785 33 Total cash assets in general fund 929532247 39 Gold coin in Treasury 675 85930119 Gold bullion in Treasury 1680379958 15 Total 2356239259 34 Silver dollars in Treasury 491772561 00 Bank notes received for redemption this month 12 459212 00 APPEALS FOR SAILORS Liady Jellicoe Asks Aid for British and Foreign Sailors Fund Editor of The Washington Post At the invitation of the directors of the British and Foreign Sailors Society I have undertaken to issue a special appeal in behalf of the great national work carried on by the society for our sailors and for those who are dear to them Her majesty Queen Alexandra has graciously expressed her approval of the appeal and her earnest hope that it will recede the generous support of the British people The British and Foreign Sailors Society is about to complete its hundredth year of service and a sum of not less thanf 250 000 will be needed to insure the continuance of its beneficent agencies The success with which this work has been carried on before and during the war has won the confidence and appreciation of the authorities generally and of the seamen themselves On the definite request of the admiralty authorities the society is about to erect additional naval rests at various naval bases for the welfare and comfort of sailors when on shore The society has also been urged to extend similar provision for merchant seamen in many ports I have seen evidence of the splendid relief work of this society in providing clothes and food for sailors interned in Germany dispensing fmmediate practical assistance to disabled sailors and dependents of seamen who have fallen in war service in providing an education for sailors orphans and especially in feeding sheltering clothing and forwarding to their various homes many thousands of merchant seamen whose vessels have been sunk by enemy action Surely there is no one who would willingly turn a deaf ear to the claims of these brave men and women to whom the whole nation owes so profound a debt of gratitude For their sake I sincerely hope that I may rely on the cooperation of your readers in a really generous response to the centenary appeal of the British and Foreign Sailors Society Letters can be addressed to me at the Mall House Admiralty London marked Centenary GWENDOLINE JELLICOE The Mall House Admiralty London England Sept 29 1917 firVrV IJtXU 1 TL I Jiv gretescordTalltylnthemiard Jobby yesterday WMBrigGenTilUazaPr Itich ardson of AlaskafamTh single stars on each shouTdenfof ColT Dicl as he hasl been affectionately tennedDynumeroua residents tof Washington gratified more Tersons perhaps than were they to appear on any other armjr officer CoL Dick was made a brigadier general a short time a ago and yesterday was his first appear ance in Washington since his promotion He was recalled from Alaska where he has been the pioneer in the building of roads and is waiting assignment There isnt much to say about Alaska exceptthat the people of th Territory axe contributing their share to th war in pa triotlsm men and materials said Qrjn Richardson Twenty six of the finest young men I have seen went from Alaska to the San Francisco training camp Most of them were college men who had gone to Alaska as engineers or prospectors Everybody in Alaska is with the government at this time There are no slackers up there and no disloyal citizens There is a scarcity of labor In the Territory as there is everywhere else This years greatest production will be in the fisheries although the copper and gold mines have yielded their average The salmon pack this year will not be so great perhaps as in some other years but the prices are high as with all other food products Suggests JLowden for Presidency If a war governor Ib to be the next President of the United States the solicitous ones need not look any farther than the State of Illinois in the opinion of A Spivey of East St Louis president of tH Illinois Republican Editorial Association who is at the Raleigh The Blinols publisher denied he was in Washington for the purpose of sponsoring a presidential boom his visit here being purely personal Gov Lowndes he said Is more concerned atthis time In rendering patrlotio service to his country and being governor of Illinois than matters pertaining to his future political career He is one of the greatest governors in the country and ha accomplished wonders in inaugurating a business system of State government In Illinois discarding the antiquated methods for a modern efficient and economical system that is proving to be a great success His name is being frequently mentioned in connection with the Presidency in 1920 but the governor is devoting all of his time to his official duties and is rendering great service in promoting the nations success in the world war RECORD MEAT ANIMAL PRICES Increase of 62 Per Cent Over jLast Year Federal Statistics Show Prices of meat animals hogs cattle sheep and chickens were 62 2 per cent higher on October 15 than a year ago 87 3 per cent higher than two years ago and 88 1 per cent higher than the average of the last seven years on that date the Department of Agri cultureyesterday announced Prices increased 19 per cent from September 15 to October 15 compared with an increase of 14 per cent in the same period in the last eeven years Texas Germans All Loyal The people of Texas believe In the Presi dent their faith in him makes them abso lutely confident of the future and they can be relied upon to respond with promptitude and cheerfulness to every call the government may make upon Its citizenship Such is the opinion of Senter an attorney and former State senator from the Dallas district who has taken an active part in the politics of the Lone Star State It will not fare well he said with am man who espouses the cause of the pan GermanGerman bolshevikl in our State A large proportion of the citizenship of German descent heartily approve the Presidents criticisms of the German government Most of the German pioneers of South Texas were refugees from Prussian tyranny and were exiled as a result of the German revolution of the forties Their children and grandchildren can never forget why they came to America There are many Bohemians in the State and they are probably more bitter against the German autocracy than any other clas They and their ancestors have felt the iron heel of its oppression and know what It means An evidence of the wholehearted support which Texas is giving to the administration is furnished by the subscription made by the leading agricultural paper of the Southwest for liberty bonds Its capital stock Is 50000 and it took 50000 of the bonds The farmers of Texas are a reading and thinking people and they are striving with all their might to do their part infolding up the hands of our government In its fight to make and keep the world a place fit to live In Comradeship in Pershings Forces The American soldiers in France would be terribly lonesome if it were not for the companionship that is one of the most marked features of the expeditionary force observed A Holmes a newspaper writer formerly of Washington who has just returned from France at the Willard I had the privilege of visiting some of the boys In their training camps and I found the most remarkable comradeship among them that have ever observed The boys have their little coteries of friends that chum together and talk of mutual friends back home There is a small army of field clerks who In like manner meet on every possible occasion Many of the young men who were secretaries to members of Congress a among the clerks at headquarters some of them with commissions as first lieutenants i iouna one group of boyji there were seyen of them who had been close friends here in Washington and they were closer at the battle front than they ever were In the Capital The Americans have been shown every courtesy and consideration by the French soldiers They have been given the best In the way of food and drinks that France can afford At one place in the heart of the Champagne district the boys had learned something about how the French drink wine and they were able to purchase the best quality of champagne for one third the price that was charged for the wine in this country before the war In other words a bottle of the finest champagne could be bought for not more than 150 The opportunity to buy the wine at so low a figure however hasr not corrupted the Americans for if evy there was discipline in an army it is carried out among the American soldiers Gen Pershing has made a big hit with the officers of all the armies ef the allies DRAFT AGE LIMITS TO STAND War Department Is Satisfied With Con ditfons NowJExIstlng 5 Propaganda in favor of changing draft age limits has not changed the opinion of the War Department that the ages 21 to 31 years should stand for the present at least Secretary Baker has made Jt clear that thef ATmrtmnt hn nn tntantlnn ii 3 UA noting jon ST gress to make a change this winter It was said yesterday thatalLthejnen needed pow could bewtfrfa nf dndftTiTiflta jaiion1 5Sg2gligSij2.