t t I I I ( I I I t I I I r > l t , 1 I LIFT OFF CORNS! i ( 1 ■ ■ M I , Drop Freezone on a touchy corn, then lift that corn off with fingers Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then you lift it right out. Yes, magic! No humbug! A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a Stew cents at any drug store, but is suf ficient to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or irritation. Freezone is the sensational discov ery of a Cincinnati genius. It is won* derf til.—Adv. LITTLE MAIDEN HAD IT RIGHT Probably Best Definition of “Wife," But One Will Wonder How She Got to Know It. 'The pretty schoolteacher had asked 1ier class for tlie best original definition ■of “wife," and the boy in the corner promptlyTesponded. “A rib!” She looked at him reproachfully and nodded to the hoy with dreamy eyes, who seemed anxious to say something. “Man’s guiding star and guardian angel!” he said, in response to the nod. “A helpmeet!” put in a little tlaxen 'haired girl. “One who soothes man in adversity,” suggested a demure little girl. “And spends his money when he’s flush.” added tlie incorrigible boy in Ihe corner. There was a lull, and the pretty, •dark-haired girl said slowly, “A wife Is the envy of spinsters.” “One who makes a man hustle," was the next suggestion. “And keeps hint from making a fool •of himself," put in another girl. “Some one for a man to find fault •with when tiling* go wrong,” said a •sorrowful lit lie maiden. “Stop there." said tlie schoolteacher; •“that’s t lie best definition."—Pittsburgh •Chronicle Telegraph. Policeman's Happy Lot. A little Indianapolis miss whose -mother is dead lives with her little brothers and sisters at the home of iter grandmother. Her father, who is a physician, has his office and home in another part of the city. Surrounded by everything that brings ’ happiness to 1 lie heart of a child, the little girl's thoughts often wandered to poor daddy, who was nil alone. One day she surprised Iter grand mother with the startling remark: “tirandma, I wish daddy was a police man.” “A policeman, dear! Why? Daddy is a physician, and that is a very good profession, you know.” “Yes. grandma," persisted tlie child, •■“but if daddy was n policeman he wouldn’t be so londsome.” When you see a man trying to hold •tip a lamppost It shows that he sympa thizes with anything that Is tight. A scholar lias no ennui. as between POSTUM and other table beverages is in favor of the Wholesome, Healthful drink. P05TUM is all this and more. It’s most delicious. Besides there's no waste, and these are days when one should Save. Try INSTANT POSTUM I PAN GERMANS HAVE COUNTRY IN GRASP Annexationist Press Openly De lighted Over Ouster of Von Kuehlmann. I.ondon, July 11.—The fall of Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann is regarded in Germany as the introduction of an open Pan-German regime under the control of the military leaders, special dispatches from Holland say. The Pan-German newspapers do not hide their delight. Reports of the appointment of Ad miral von Hintze as foreign secretary are accepted as final by the Pan-Ger man papers, which contend this in volves no change of policy. In the Reichstag Tuesday the social ists informed the president they were not prepared to vote the war credit until they knew what foreign policy Von Hintze was going to pursue. It was agreed as a way out of a threat ening situation that the House would go into committee for a confidential discussion. The result was that the semiofficial announcement of Von Hintze’s ap pointment' took a tentative from say ing merely that he had bepn "named" as Von Kuelilmann's successor. QUENTIN ROOSEVELT DOWNS FIRST ENEMY Son of Ex-President Scores Victory In Fight With Three Hun Planes. With the American forces on the Marne, July 10.—Lieut. Quentin Roose velt, the youngest son of ex-President Roosevelt, brought down his first Ger man airplane thii afternoon in a fight north of Chauteau-Thlerry. Lieutenant Roosevelt, with three other pilots, was flying at a height of 5.000 yards eight miles inside of the German lines when the machines be came separated. Soon after Roose velt saw three planes which he thought were his companions and started to join them. He was closely approach ing the machines from the rear when he saw his mistake, for the planes were German. Roosevelt immediately' op ened fire and after 50 shots tracers penetrated the fusilage of the nearest German machine and it went into a spinning nose divdf falling through the clouds 2,000 yards below. The lieutenant is certain the ma chine was crushed, for no pilot volun tarily goes into a 2,000 yard spinning nose dive. The two remaining Ger man airplanes attacked Roosevelt, but he managed to make good his escape and returned to the field, himself and his mechanic unscratched. NEWTURKISHSULTAN MAY PROVE PRO-ALLY Personal Acquaintance of the Young Ruler Says He Is German Hater. New York. July 11.—The oninion that (lie new sultan of Turkey, Mohammed VI, is pro-ally in sympathy and dis ' posed to an understanding with repre sentatives of tlie allies, was expressed here today by Salih Bey Bourdji, for mer president of the Ottoman Tele graphic agency, now a voluntary exile from Turkey'. lie said that in 1914 he kenw the present sultan personally, when lie was Prince Vahid Eddhine, brother of the dead ruler. “i cannot be sure that his ideas have not changed since 1914,” said Mr. Gourdji, "but I am sure he will not follow blindly the orders of the com mittee of union and progress as his predecessor did. He is not a figure head. I am also convinced that he is today the most anti-German Turk in the Turkish empire."_ WILL ADVANCE FUNDS TO CANNING_FACTORIES Washington, D. C., July 11.—Efforts are being made through the federal re serve system to Increase credits avail able to the canning industry, according to a bulletin issued today by the reserve board. Governor Harding has sug gested that the cooperation of large banking institutions be ordered to furnish capital for the establishments located in centers where local banks cannot advance the funds. Food Ad ministrator Hoover has estimated that $50,000,000 In excess of their usual capital requirements would be needed by canners during the season. The Increased cost lie reported, was due to higher charges for labor and materials, ELKS PUT BAN ON USE OF ALIEN LANGUAGES Atlantic City, N. J., July 11.—Enemy alien languages are barred from use in the clubhouses of the Elks in a resolu tion unanimously adopted by the grand lodge in annual session here. The convention listened to a patri otic speech by Samuel Gompers and renewed its pledge to stand behind the government In its war alms and to lend every aid possible In the recon struction period. The big brother movement will -be amplified throughout the nation by a systematic campaign. A junior police system will be used to find homes and employment for wayward boys. YOUNG EDISON ENLISTS IN U. S. TANK DIVISION Morristown, N. J., July 11.—William I,. Edison, son of Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, enlisted today In a tank division of the United States army. —-►-o— TROTSKY IN FAVOR OF RAISING GREAT ARMY Paris, Julv 11.—Speaking at the opening today of the general congress of Russian soviets Leon Trotzky, bol shevist minister of war, according to a dispatch received here from Basel this morning, said: ‘‘Russia is on the eve of a general military service eons-ription." Trotzky also emphasized the ne cessity of Russia having a powerful army. GREATEST DANGER FROM GERMANY NOT FOUND ON BATTLE FIEIJS. With American Army In Europe In 1919 As Large As That of the French Has Ever Been, and Bigger Than the British at Its Strongest, Teutons Cannot Hope to Win By Arms—Prob ably Will Launch Another Peace Offensive, In Expectation of Realizing Their Desires Through Negotiations Around the Green Table. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. (Copyright, 1918, Now York Tribune.) Certain phrases of the recent speech of the German foreign secretary, Kuehl nann, have been widely accepted as the first hint of a coming German peace offensive, always to be foreseen If Germany did not gain a decisive vic tory In the military campaign of the present year. To be sure, the words of the German minister were not them selves very explicit; they contained nothing more than the suggestion that however complete a military triumph were won by invincible German arms, the war is so vast and spread over so enormous an expanse that "military alone cannot lead to victory"—there will have to be negotiations around a green tablo after the fighting has ended. Thereupon there burst forth from the Junker and Pan-German elements the same clamor that followed the tempo rary assertion by the reichstag last year of the Russian doctrine of "peace without indemnities and without an nexations.” Looking backward a year, the similarity between the two Inci dents at the least arouses suspicion. Looking to the future, it is not difficult to see that in certain contingencies it may be valuable to Kuehlmann to be able to point to junker rage when he seeks to impress the enemy world with his moderation—or, if he goes, the rec ord may be useful to his successor. Must Win Now. In any event there are certain facts as unmistakable as anything can be. If Germany does not win the decision she seeks in the campaign of 1918 she can not win the war and she cannot longer believe that victory is possible. The best she can hope for is to keep a por tion of her conquests, and she can only hope to do this if she gets peace before American troops begin their share in the campaign of 1919, when we shall have an army in France numerically as strong in first line units as the French army has ever been and stronger than tlie British army in France has ever been. Germany began the present cam paign not only witli great advantages, but with advantages which were un suspected by her foes. She brought from Russia more troops than all but a few of the military men had suspected, and, in addition, she brought generals and methods which, applied to western warfare, produced something approxi mating a revolution In our ideas and something uncomfortably close to a disaster of the first magnitude to her enemies' armies. But if Germany could surprise us all by her numbers t nd methods in the opening of the present campaign she could not disguise from us or from her own subjects the conditions of the last great gamble. One of her big enemies had collapsed; In place of millions of Russian troops there were in March only prospective millions and scant thousands of Americans. Germany could expect to come on to the decisive field bringing superior man and gun power, she might hope to increase the not overwhelming advantage of num bers by exploiting the advantages of position and capitalizing the mistakes of her foes and the miscalculations of her opponents. But she could not do more than this. Such differences in immediate re sources as there were between Ger many fully mobilized, with her troops drawn from Russia in line, and the ! armies of her western opponents were certain to disappear once America be gan in earnest to send her troops over. Even before that time Britain could do much by repairing her own blunders. Napoleon in the Waterloo campaign might hope to defeat the British and Prussians before the Russians and Austrians could get armies to western Europe, but if he failed to dispose of two enemies before two more arrived he was done. As it was. of course, the first two sufficed to dispose of him. A Bad Guest. The Germans underestimated our ability to send men and therefore over estimated the period of time in which they would be decisively superior in numbers. This was like their mistake in the Marne campaign in 1914. They also overestimated the immediate suc cess they could win by their first blow. What has happened in the way of sending Americans to Kurope has sur prised our enemy even more than our allies, we may be sure of that. But the German saw at all times that if we meant business he would have to ac complish what ho had to accomplish tn 1918 on the battlefield, or thereafter, and in a smaller measure, around the green tjible. His military leaders declared that they could take Paris and crush the British army In the campaigning season of 1918. They also told him that even if they were unable to do either of these things they coftd win sufficient successes to enable German diplomats in tbe peace negotiations which would come at the end of the fighting season to save for the kaiser a substantial portion of his conquests. Now, the first part of tlV contract is obviously getting beyond German resources to perform. The chances of a decisive victory in the field are dally lessening; the nejt smash must bring victory, or at the least open the road to it, or the game is up, so far as Paris or the channel is concerned. On the other hand, the next time the German attacks ho will probably make considerable gains, he may win Impres sive local successes. He may even gain ground in two or three attacks, always recognizing that it ts utterly improb able that the ground won will get him to Calais or to Paris, But. if the cam paign ends without an allied counter offensive, which Is likely, and with the German army still patiently holding considerable areas of France won In the fifth campaign of the war, then the army can rest in Its trenches for the winter season and let German diplo macy have Its chance. Past experience indicates pretty clearly the direction which German diplomacy will take. Its double pur pose will be to divide the allies, by of fering one of the nations united with us against the Hun substantial profits, say Alsacc-I.orratne to France, and at the same time seeking to capitalize the war weariness of the French people, the agony due to the new wounds and the new devastation. Austria may again be deputized to carry the mes sage. Playing to Gallery. Or there may he a convenient fight between the "moderates” of Germany, like that of last summer, which served to distract and disrupt allied prepara tions and allied opinion, while German agents were al work In Russia pre paring the way for the great collapse which had its fruition at Brest-Lltovsk. We shall certainly have an irresistible push of "liberalism” in Germany just as soon as the ruling elements deeide to let it loose again. Ir. the last analysis, however. Ger man diplomacy Is bound to seek to achieve a German peace by transform ling any negotiation into a bargain counter and making sacrifices, and conceivably real sacrifices, in the west to Insure the preservation of what has been conquered in the east. There is nothing novel about this scheme. Every one has seen from the beginning that at the precise moment when Germany saw she could not crush the western nations she would strive to buy them off by such con cessions, in the way of restoring to them their own, as would leave her still supreme on the road from Berlin to Constantinople and beyond, and also in the disintegrating Russian empire. If Germany can preserve her cor ridor from the Baltic to the Bosphorus she may hope, ultimately, to resume the advance upon Cairo and upon In dia. If she can hold the Black sea and the Transcaucasian provinces she has still another and more secure route to the Indian frontier. If she can pre serve the chaos in Russia, the Jumble of disorganized and disjointed states Bhe has created from the Arctic to the Plnsk marshes, she can look forward to Immediate economic supremacy in what was once the Russian empire and an enduring insurance against a re union of the fragments of that empire into a state which can bar her road to the Pacific. What Germany has to fear is that her enemies will continue the war until they are victorious in the field and can, in their turn, erect, not ehadow states, but real states out of the subject and suppressed nationalities along her own boundaries or within Austrian and Bal kan limits. A real Poland, with 26,000, 000 people, with a gateway upon the Baltic at Danzig, with German Poles united to Austrian and Russian, would close the way to Russia, would be a sentinel on Germany’s eustern marches like that which Europe again and again erected in the Low countries against Prance in other centuries. Block the Paths, A restored Poland, a unified Ru mania, a southern Slav state on the Danube, an international control of Constantinople and the straits—these things would mean the end of nil of Germany’s ambitions and the destruc tion of all her hopes. If, in addition, Austria could be reaolved into its com ponent parts, or transformed into a real federation of states based upon race, the work would be complete, but this last is perhaps beyond the power of the most victorious alliance Europe has ever seen. What is possible Is to bar the sev eral roads of the Germans into lands inhabited by the weak and the defense less, whether the anarchic Russians or the hapless Turks, by the creation of states which have all the necessary elements out of which to construct or reconstruct national life. And it is this order of constructive statesmanship on the part of her enemies which Germany will seek to block at all hazards. She cannot escape it if she loses the war on the battle field, and she is determined not to make Napoleon’s mistake and hold on too long. She remembers the chances he had to save the Rhine fron tier in 1814, and she will not, like Na pOleon, rely too long on arms alone. Yet it must be transparent to every thoughtful man that the real issues to be settled are not those issues which, because of their western character, are most familiar to the allied publics. Cer tainly Belgium must be liberated and restored, France must have Alsace Lorraine and Italy her Irredenta, but Germany could pay all these prices out of her collected resources and still win the war. She might resign to Britain the title to all her own lost colonies, from Samoa to Togoland, and not feel the cost, if she were permitted to hold on in the Baltic provinces, In Poland, in the Ukraine, in the Crimea and in Asiatic Turkey. The real danger to the world lies in that opportunity which Germany may win in this war to organize the mil lions of Slavonic and Latin peoples along her frontiers and along Austrian frontiers. The best hope of permanent defeat of German purposes to rule the world, to restore the domination of the Russian empire, must be found in the creation along the pathways of German expansion of strong states capable of developing into still stronger states and effectively barring the road for ever. Such states are Poland. Rumania and Serbia; while it is exactly as im portant that German rule should be abolished at Constantinople and the Osmanli empire resolved into its na tural elements. The greatest danger for the future does not lie in the German threat to Paris or Calais; we may lose both and win the war, and it is hardly conceiv able that we shall lose either. The greatest danger does not, in my judgment, lie on the military side, grave as are the dangers ahead and heavy as German military blows are bound to be between now and the fourth anniversary of the battle of the Marne, which should see the climax of the present campaign. What we have to fear most now is that German military power, without winning the war outright, will make sufficient prog gress on the map to persuade a war weary world to make peace, ignorant ly or because of approximate exhaus tion disregarding the greater issues which were in all minds at the out set of the struggle and continue to hypnotize most observers. Crushed Army Necessary. We shall have no permament peace with Germany until the German array is beaten In the field. It can hardly be decisively beaten lh:n year, and ll wilt be the business of German diplo macy. once the campaign is over, to remove all chance of such defeat by negotiating a profitable peace, a peace which shall leave Germany the ‘‘.I imp ing off” places for n-'xt time. Just us the Napoleonic legend was Invincible until Napoleon had fought SVaterloo, so the legend of the German army's Invin cibility will survive anything but a defeat which cannot be explained away. And while the German army maintains its supremacy of the. German empire it will continue to plan new at tacks upou the world. The Europe which existed before August. 1914, has been swept away; Russia is in an upheaval which no man can measure, but there Is a Poland to be made with almost as great ease as Italy was made in the last century. Po land is the natural Slav sentinel along the Vistula and for long centuries sho maintained that role heroically and successfully. Serbia is the natural sen tinel of the Balkans agaifist invasion coming out of Europe from the north or out of Asia from the south. Ru mania and Serbia together can hold the Danube barrier if only the Ru manian and Serbian races are united within their own natural and racial frontiers. It seems to me that the great dan ger will come when the campaign of 1918 is over and German diplomacy undertakes to avoid the threat which our own enormous army, for It will be enormous by the campaign of 1919, will have for the German army. And Ger many's diplomacy will seek to turn to account the war weariness of the whole world, It will beyond all else drive at French weariness and turn to Instant account any new outburst of senti mental and purblind British pacifism. But beyond all else Germany will seek to capitalize American Ignorance of what have become the real issues of the war, by seeking to make conces sions In questions once vital, still im portant, but no longer of first import ance. And I believe It will in a consider able measure depend upon America's attitude whether the German peace of fensive falls, as the defeat of the Ger man war offensive depended in some part on the speed with which we got our new armies to France. We must expect and reckon with the war weari ness of the masses of our allies; we must be on our guard against weakness that comes from wounds suffered- in brave resistance and in resistance maintained almost beyond human en durance. Our leadership, not perhaps in ideas, but certainly In spirit, may be the decisive factor In repulsing the German peace offensive, and the Ger man peace offensive must be repulsed It the war is to end in making the world safe for democracy or secure against the German thing, however one may characterize it. If only the American public could be brought to see the questions of Poland and Serbia, of Rumania and of the Bosporus as clearly as they see the questions of Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine and the Italian Irredenta, the failure of the German peace offensive would be assured. If only the fact could be made clear that Germany and Austria could afford to evacuate Brussels and Trieste, Strassburg and Metz; if they could hold Belgrade and Constantino ple. Warsaw and Riga; that Germany could well afford to lower her flag for ever In South and Central Africa If she coukl hold open the roads to Asia, north and south—then the voice of American public opinion would warn American diplomacy against German endeavors. No man understands the Russian problem, and there is a manifest readi ness on the part of the European na tions which have suffered most by rea son of Russia’s desertion to abandon the Russians to German fate with little sympathy. The temptation is natural, but the costs of such a course would be enormous. On the other hand, no man can suggest a way In which to Insure Russian regeneration, no matter what help be furnished. By contrast the reconstitution of Poland is not only possible, but carries with it the hope that behind the Polish barrier Russia may regain her natioi.i,' health with out fear of German domination. As it stands 76,000,000 Germans and 10,000,000 Magyars dominate popula tions of other races as numerous or even more numerous, and unless those races are now freed the slavery may be perpetual, and out of these enslaved races Germany will construct new armies, and in duo course of time make new attacks upon Europe. This is the story of Prussia, this is the history of the Ilohenzollerns; and as long as the way Is open and the human material is at hand the Germans are bound to keep on in their determination to re store the Roman world under Germun control. We are winning the war on the bat tlefield. Despite the dangers In the Immediate future, there Is clear water not too far ahead, so far as the military problems are concerned. But we are just entering the danger zone, so far as the peace offensive Is concerned. The German Is preparing his new line of attack and his new methods of com bat. We shall have every artifice in his whole Btock employed for the pre cise purpose of blinding us to the real Issues at stake and keeping open the roads to new expansions and the hopes of new conquests. If we permit our eyes'to be blinded, our wounds to weary us, our mistaken" conceptions of Ger mans or of German ideas to deceive us, we shall have it all to do over again and the German will win the war. It is the duty of the United States to fight until Belgium is freed and France and Italy regain their lost and rightful citizens and frontiers. But this is not a measure of our duty. Coming latest into the war and having suffered least. It Is our duty to see most clearly and keep most constantly In mind what the larger Issues are. Germany has dyna mited the Russian edifice, but it would be fatal to leave her In possession of the ruins. Permanent Austro-German control In Serb lands would mean that the peace that follows this strugglo would be a truce, a breathing spell only. I There has been a good deal of non- | sense talked first Riid last about free ing enslaved peoples. They should be free; we ought to do all that we can to aid In liberating them, but we ought to recognize that in freeing them we are n6t engaged upon a quixotic mission, but In erecting barriers against our common enemy. For 300 years and more the Serbs fought the Turk along the Danube and broke the weight of his thrust and thus contributed greatly to the salvation of Europe. Poland like wise saved Europe against Turk and Teuton. Both races have a new mis sion in I lie new order that is to come. but It is essential that ttie American people should understand that the mis sion is one of vital importance to them, that it is a necessary part of the in surance we are going to take out against a repetition of the great tragedy of the world war. Not Talking Time. We have got a new German offensive to meet and break nnd it is idle to talk about peace terms and peace negotia tions while the German is less than 50 miles from Paris and gathering his legions for a new thrust toward the Seine or the channel. We are not out of the area of military dangers yet, and to discuss peace terms is to fall into a German Iran, as we have fallen before. But It is ;;e'ting close to the time when the German will have to win his military decision or go hack to Ills second line, and his second line is di plomacy. And we have got to be ready for him there, for wo can lose the war there Just as easily as on the battle field, and it will be harder to win back, once we have lost it in this fashon. In the German mind a peace cam paign Is a war measure, and as his fighting chances diminish lie turns more and more eagerly to the second arm. When wo talk about peace, we allies, it is witli the thought of ending the conflict, but with the German it is merely the effort to use a desire for peace among his enemies as a means ! of winning something lie has not won 1 by tiie sword or perceives he cannot | hold by the sword if the battle goes to Its logical conclusion. Unless all signs fall, the German Is getting ready for a new peace offen sive. It will be tho most dangerous of all. because with everything at stake he will make it so. If It fails, like his present military offensive, then he will lose the war. if it succeeds he will win I the war. even If he never gets anomer mile nearer to Paris and ultimately surrenders Meta and Strassburg. No German peace proposal will be d real peace proposal, a proffer oNpeaos on reasonable or possible terms, while the German army Is unconquered, be cause all peace proposals will be con trolled by those who control the Gey man army. Therefore all proposals must bs met as attacks by the enemJV not as anything else. The way to peace remains through military victory, and before we can hope for victory we must repulse first the German military at tack, which la now going forward, and next the German peace offensive, which is preparing. The German military offensive must be beaten in the west. Ludendorff has temporarily made "westerners’’ of us all, but the peace offensive will be Itt the east, and when it opens there wet too, must become "easterners," for the decision of the war will be based on permanent subjugation or complete liberation of eastern lands and races from the German yoke. Victory on the Marne, the Seine and the Somme must be turned to account on the Vistula, the Danube and the Golden Horn. These are the Issues of the war. the tests of real victory or of actual failure on our part and on the part of our al lies. CHINESE REFUGEES WORK FOR THE ALLIES San Antonio, Tex.—Natives of China, refugees from Mexico and interned prisoners of the United States, 45# Chinese at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Travis are doing their part to help the allies of their country win tho war. When General Pershing abandoned hla pursuit of Francisco Villa In tho mountains and deserts of western Chi huahua. Mexico, and started back to the border, the Chinese colony In that section packed their belongings onto wagons, carts and burros and trailed out behind the American expeditionary force. They feared Villa and his ban dits would carry out their threat* to kill all Chinese In Mexico and General Pershing gave them permission to pro ceed to the border with hla column. Arriving at Columbus, N. M„ tho Chinese were placed In an internment camp until arrangements were mado between representatives of the United States Immigration department, tho Chinese government and the tongs to which the Chinese belong for their transfer to San Antonio. Here they were allotted to the army camps and posts where they do all classes of work for the army and do It well. Many of these Chinese are wealthy, having owned stores and ranches In Mexico. They have endowed a bed in the American hospital at Neullly. France, gave what was characterized as the largest chop suey party ever held In Texas as a. Red Croes benefit, subscribed to Red Cross funds, and manv have bought Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps. Many of the Chinese have applied for permission to enlist In the United States army. RUSH PRODUCTION OF BOATS TO CONTINUE Detroit, Mich.—The rate of produc tion of Ford Eagle boats, or submarln* •'killers,” will not be decreased now that the first boats have taken the water, according to a statement by Henry Ford, the manufacturer. "Do you think you can produce the boats as rapidly after the first onele launched?” Mr. Ford was asked before the completed craft was placed in th« water. “I don't think so; I know so,” was the reply. Supeculation as to the rate of pro duction after the first launching, which had been set for July 1. varied greatly and Mr. Ford, with his statement, put an end to gossip that there might be a slackening. The same efficiency plan employed In the big automobile plant to produce cars with a minimum of lost motion Is to be followed in the Eagle ship building plant. Raw material Is en tered at one end of the big plant and the finished product takes the water at the other end. Training of thous ands of workmen, each for certain duties in building the Eagles, has kept pace with the task of constructing the production plant. MEXICAN GIRLS ARE 6000 house SERVANTS El Paso, Tex.—Mexican girls hav® solved the servant problem for house wives in American border cities such as El Paso. Mexican servants are both plentiful and reasonable In their charges. For $3 per week a good nurse maid may b® secured from the Mexican quarter here. Four dollars provides a maid of all work, while 35 and f6 are the rates charged by the Mexicans for cooking, laundry work and living on the prem ises. The wage scale Is not the prob lem with this class of household serv ants and the Mexican Is practically the only available servant on the bor der, the negroes and Chinese being few and always retained in the same homes from year to year. The Mexican servant girl, within her limitations, is a hard working, faithful and fairly efficient worker. Even tha poorest peon girls who know nothing of gas stoves, running water or elec tric appliances develop into satisfac tory servants if patience and perserver ance Is shown. They work hard, rarely complain and accept their place in the home without protest. They are es pecially desirable nurse maids. They like children, having had experienc® with children In their own families and are gentle with little ones. BUT LITTLE GRAIN FOR GERMANS IN UKRAINE Vologda, April, (by mail).—Informa tion has reached the American embuasy here that the peasants In the Ukrain® district, whence Germany expected to obtain the largest part of her new grain supply, are sowing only enough grain for their own needs. Fearing that their land will be con fiscated or divided or their grain taken away from them, they are putting in very little seed. In faot, in many cases the seed itself has been confiscated, either by Germans, various factionary armies or roving bands of soldiers. In some of the villages which the Germans occupied, they selz«-