Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1917)
LAW WONT HINDER GATHERING CROPS MEN FOR MEW ARMY TO BE CALLED THIS FALL. LABOR SUPPLY UNAFFECTED Plana Completed for Taking Care of Fir** Contingent.—U. S. War Ve* Kh tn European Water*; Con dition* m Ruit.a Improved. U astun^'iiu.— lu to a *U£ S-'h"ii from Senator Jnur« of Wu»h uitft-Hi that iIh- new uriertlvr ilrtift -rinj help harvest erops. SeiTetury Maker d»s« loscd that it is mu ex|ierted to call «*ut the first 3ta».«*m men be fore September 1. beeattse uf "the dt-picied state of our supplies,” anil that there win therefore lie Uu "up prv-iat.lc Iiiti-rfereuee with the labor ►apt**.' «f the country until Ihat date." “"Irii tle-sc tueti are railed they will bate to l«* odil tnuously trained with the colors until they are M-ut ■Irnad." tbe secretary said. "As the Jerii*! of training Mun* they are Sent abroad Will be at lust alt too sb et in justice to the uo-n. il must be intensive and continuous." f isipirtc plans for holism;: *J.imi tuea at each of twelve divisional rau tmuti.l «ani|*s in whirl] the war army Is to l«e trained. have lieen worked ***** bjr War department offlrials and construction work will tie undertaken a* soon as commanders of the mili tary ib-jmrtuo-nt- have desi dilated the MM. Twelve of the camp* will go to the new southeastern department, coiu maioicj by Major tleneml Lrnnnnl H .sal. making y'd.mi troop* assign.-d to that defiartnietit. i-hiii|« will be establish.-.) in the central depnrt Went, sis in the southern, three In the w.-:crn. four In the .-astern and one in the northeastern department. in effect tile project is to huild thirty-t»o loans eoiupl.-te with all ne.-.—ary equipment ami facilities. It will require HUit.tW feet of lumber, which was adopted Ih-cjus- the price «•/ canvas was so high and the supply so short If tents were use! it would require two complete sets a year to keep the men under cover. There *111 Is- “tain buildings in each encampment. These will include quaCers f.«r oth- cr- and tIU-n. stables. Ui.-h.-ns in. .» hn'ls tiath lions.— and st.«rr»*«o!is in addiitoo to numerous uiamin-s f.*r 'i*s-tni purposes. Th< aaajorit >d th«- hnmn-ks will he long, low <«s -uc affairs. Ku* h t« w n w ill .su er a little more than a square mile of ground not in Ctndi%g the tog mm* of l.-md n.s-.-s sary for dr iitug and military tqiem tka* daring training. The qimnen..aster's department has laid plans f..r it,.- erection of central gi-ui) • «.f warehouse* an.) storage building*. which will be situatet) n»n leniently a« to tratiuportation lines and will Is- the supply de|s.ts for the ratu|a* Registration day. June for ser\ice uteier the new draft will Is- made oc casion f..r |«itri..ti>- demonstrations all *»i«-r the country. Thor. will Is* celebrations in honor or the taew who r.-gist.-r, with talks hr goiernors. mayors, prt-sidents of rtu.iut.-r* *.f cummerre an.l others, all sounding tile note of patriotism. The pine— of honor in local jiura will ts- given to young men of reg1s*iatlon age. *’ untulftees of men and women will he at every registration Isadla to pin an emblem oti ej.eh man who regls •«i«. Tlds may Is- a red. white and b'n. ribbon drawn through the nu» tonhole or jsissihly a button hearing i>!.- word “I am registered—are you?" U S. Fleet in War Zone. Washington S*s-ret»ri of the Navy I*atile!» issued the following state ment in reference t«. rc|»>rts from lsutidon that American w: • ships are cn-uperaling with navies of the allied power* in the war gone: ‘Tidied Stales naval vessels hill.’ Is-.-!, oiscaling with the allied tiavt.l font— in Kurnfwwn wafers sin.,- J|a. 4. A tntml>cr of destroyers sailed ft tun American |*.rt* In llie latlet l*r»l of April, and all arrived at then dost I tint ton without arrldent or delay of any kind. They were ready for operations when they arrived and went into service immediately. “Tlie t'nited Slates \e—els are tin -*er c.iiin.i:nd of [ti-in Admiral Sin. who went to Kngland and Frnn~ set trtil w.-ek* ago to arrange fir active rosqs-rati.ui l*etwis-n >he tuv-:! forces of the United States and those of the other nations at war with Ger many. Plans formulated after reports i from Iiear Admiral Sims, made u*i a result of his conferences with the Itrltish and French admiralties, are now being effectuated. "It has IK‘en the purpose of the | United State* navy to give the largest measure of assistance to the other conntries at war with Germany that is consistent with the full and com plete protection of our own coast ar.d tiiritorhtl water*." The ilis|M»sltion of the destroyers --•‘lit to European water? has been left entirely to Admiral Sims, who j was selected for the task because of his wide general experience in the ; navy and also because of particular training in destroyer operations. I test rovers have proved the most efficient foe of submarines. Their value has tu-en so great that all pns sible effect lias been concentrated by the navy department upon adding to the American flotillas in the short est time. More than fifty new boats, swifter, more powerful anti sea worthy and more heavily armed than any now in service are being built with all possible haste. Several will he tNitmnissioned early in the sum mer. Others will'he ready a few n.oaths later anil still others tit in tervals of it few months thereafter. i __ Crisis in Russia Averted. Petmgrad.—As a result of a meet in# in Petrograd of the commandcrs tn-ehief from all fronts, except the Caucasus, Generals Rrussiloff and Gurko have withdrawn their resigna tions and reports of further resigna tions are refuted by the definite an nouncement that all the commanders have decided to remain at their posts. Thus the crisis in the army, which formed an alarming accompaniment to tlie political crisis, has been averted. IUscusslng with the temporary government tiie various conditions of affairs at the front the commanders declared that tiie unfortunate phrase, "peace without annexation.” had found Its way to tiie army and was there translated into an argument against offensive wnrfnre. This and other harmful doctrines pervading tin- army, and tiie inability of tiie officers satisfactorily to ex plain them, had ruined discipline and destroyed tiie authority and prestige of tiie officers. Tiie discord at Petrograd had natu rally found an echo everywhere at the front, but tin* spirit of the sol diers was slowly recovering and tiie power of tin* Russian army was by no means lost. Tiie cabinet crisis has been settled. A declaration of the government's policy has been accepted by the rep resentatives of the Pounc'd of Work men's • and Soldiers' delegates, with merely slight alterations and has been signed by them. It was decided to take into the cabinet five representatives of differ ent socialist groups, which, with A. !•'. Kerensky, who assumes the war portfolio, will make n total of six of these groups sharing in the govern ment. Bonds Selling Too Slow. Washington. — Representatives of the federal reserve hanks and treas ury officials in direct charge of the task of floating the liberty loan vir tually are unanimous in tiie opinion that a great campaign must he suc cessfully carried on within the next twenty-seven days if the liberty loan is to meet with the over subscription the officials hope for. Predictions that the big issue would lie over subscribed several hundred per rent have not materialized thus far. There is crying need, in tiie opinion of offi cials for the small Investor in great numbers to make felt bis power. Reject Home Rule Proposal. London. John Redmond, leader of the Irish nationalist party, in a letter to Premier I.Ioyd George, accepts on behalf of the Irish party tiie proposal for “assembling a convention of Irish men of all parties for the purpose of producing a scheme of Irish self-gov - eroun tit" on condition that the "basis on which the convention is to lie call ed is such as to ensure that it is fully and fairly representative of Irishmen j of all creeds, interests and parties, and. secondly, that the convention he summoned without delay.” Mr. Red mond “aiti Premier Lloyd George's proposal for an Irish government * i would, in the opinion of the members of the Irish party, find no support in Iceland. They therefore were irre concilably opjiosed to it and any meas 1 are based on that proposal woftld meet with their vigorous opposition. City Buys Liberty Bonds. Hoboken. X. J.— Liberty loan iwitids to tin amount of $100 000 will be bought here by the city of Hoboken, the first tntttiieipuliiy. as far -ts is known, to take such a step. British Warship Sunk. VWino A liritish rruiiur was sun dttrini: an ineiitrtlirnt with Knjrltsli Kn-wii and Italian vt*ss<*|s aft<*r an Austrian naval ddsitamt had mat I* a «n,vs-s-f til raid In tin* Strait «»! (Witranto. mi liar st.inhnm i-iaist nf Italy. •nlinp I® an tiftihul mi m>uinfti»«*nt math* hv tin* admiralty. Italian dustrt*y«*r*. thrvi* muriiiaiitmnn ami twenty a runs! ettanl v*»ss«-ls. tin* siat«*tiM'1»< adds. •ia*»*alin* victims" of th<* Austrian raid. A Ovt-tnnn sttln maritn* r<Hi|irnitMl with tin* Austrian form _ More Power For President. ' Washington. I». A provision ntM>n-(>rtng the president to use the iiou s anned forces to prevent any emiction "of the orderly conduct ■r t.ovetuent of interstate or foreign •otnmerce" during the war was writ ten into the administration's preferen tial shipment hill at a conference last Wislncsday tifternoon between I'resi hnt Wilson and Chairman Newlands and Chairman Adamson of the con gressional Interstate commerce com missions. Bulgar* Tired of War. C«|*-nbufen <V'“ ~ ,tui' —rUn socialist- who P«s*.-i through Caprnhairon ,m their wav to .ho Stockholm reference described the Hemand for pc<-e in BuHmrin as uni versal Haifa nan- arc weary of , ho .l*o*. *-ontini»<*o« war since l»l Or Sakandf -|«*ke*nian. said Bul garian* were fnlriy draff-l into the 1 Berta's debt. he said, had In . ... n.ii.r-iria - casual Expert Aviator Ordered to Omaha. Washington—Major Frank P. Lahtn of the army flying corps, now at the aviation school, Snn Diego, Cal., has been ordered to Fort Omaha, Neb., to command the new ha:!oon school. Wants Norse to Respect Germans. Co|K-nhagen.—George Bernard! in his weekly article in the Vossische Zeltung laments the lack of energy of the German minister in Christiania In enforcing resnect for Germnnv unit WILSON ORDERS ARMIJO FRANCE GENERAL PERSHING TO COM MAND OVERSEAS EXPEDITION ROOSEVELT PLAN REJECTED i Permission Denied Ex-President to Raise Division—President Fixes June 5 as Registration Day Under Draft Law. Washington.—President Wilson has ordered that a division of regular troops, commanded by Major General John J. Pershing, he sent to France at the earliest practicable date. This is the answer of America to France’s plea that the Stars and Stripes be carried to the fighting front without delay to hearten the soldiers barring there with concrete evidence that a powerful ally lias come to their support against German aggression Announcement of the order follow ed signing of the selective draft war army bill by the president, and the issuing of a statement that under ad vice of military experts on both sides of the water, the president could not permit Colonel Roosevelt to raise liis volunteer expedition to carry the American flag against tlie Germans in France. in his explanation of his reason for not availing himself of the so-called Roosevelt amendment to the army bill. Mr. Wilson has brought out sharply tlie points made against that amendment by army officers, regard less of their personal political lean ings or their regard for Mr. Roose velt himself. Many officers have unhesitatingly condemned his proposal to raise a volunteer army corps or division on the ground that it would drain the regular service of men vitally needed to train tin1 millions that must he quickly whipped into fighting trim. The army law provided for an ulti mate force of approximately 2. 0(10.000 men to hack up the first troops to go to the front. When the hill had been signed, the president af fixed his name to a proclamation calling upon all men in the country between the ages of 21 and 30, in clusive. to register themselves for military service on June 5. next. The proclamation sets in motion imme diately machinery that will enroll and sift 10.000.000 men and pave the way for the selection of the first 500,000 young, efficient soldiers with out crippling the industries or com merce of the nation or bringing hard ship on those at home. Regulars Leaving Border. Regular army regiments already are in motion northward from the border, perparatory to the expansion of the tegular service to full war strength. Of the 1S3.S9S men necessary to bring the regulars up to the 293.000 mark. 74.tt.33 already have been recruited and the remainder are expected to come in before June 15. The national guardsmen will be drafted into the federal service in three increments on July 15. July 25 and August 5. As a general order is issued by the president drafting spe cific regiments, the force will cease to he militia and become part of the ar mies of the I'nlted States. State authorities were authorized to fill present regiments or other units up to full war strength, making a force of approximately 329.954 men and 9.847 officers. The result will be virtually to triple the present strength of the guard, but reports to the department show heavy recruiting in all states. It is from these forces that the first armies to join General Pershing at the front will he drawn to he follow ed within a few months by recurring waves from the selective draft armies, the first 500.000 of whom will he mobilized September 1. Many Go Down With Ship. London.—It Is officially announced that flte transport Oameronin has lieen sunk. One hundred and forty men on hoard are missing. The ud inirnlty statements follows: “The British transport Oameronin. with troops, wtts torpedoed by an enemy submarine in the eastern Medi terranean on April 15. One hundred and forty men now are missing and are presumed to have l>een drowned." Vote Against Budgets. Amsterdam.—The Reichstag lias ad journed until July 5. Tiic social demo erntis deputies voted against 1 lie* inili j tary and other budgets, both factions j of the party uniting in opposition. i Roads Asked to Readjust Service. Washington. —All railroads have been called upon by the war hoard of j the American railway association to readjust their service immediately so ns to make available the maximum transportation energy for moving fuel,, food, material and troops. Rockefeller Buys Liberty Bonds. New York.—John T>. Rockefeller, nil magnate, hits subscribed for 000.000 of the government liberty loan bonds, it was announced here several days ago. Paper Shortage Growing in Germany. Copenhagen.—The Berlin newspa per publishers have informed the gov ernment that they are in pressing danger of being forced to suspend publication owing to paper shortage. Coal Shortage at Hamburg. Copenhagen.—Owing to the short age 'of coal Hamburg is now without gas. except n limited supply for a few indispensable institutions. Most of the reslaurants and cafes are closed in the evening or are lighted by the aid FOR IRE m IN NEWS EPITOME THAT CAN 800N BE COMPASSED. MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED Home and Foreign Intelligence Con densed Into Two and Four Line Paragraphs, * U. S.-Teutonic War News. The government has made its first loan to Russia. $100,000,000, bringing the amount thus far advanced to the allies up to $625,000,IKK). * * * The American steampship Hilonian has been torpedoed and sunk off Genoa, Italy, with a loss of four members of the crew, according to reports. * * * The Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota apd Kansas national guard, with the guard of other states, will form part of the first expedition to Europe, it is generally understood. • * • The American government has is sued a warning to keepers of light houses along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to watch out for submarine mines and to report immediately. • • * The full quota of 40.000 men which the war department requested for the officers’ training camps throughout the country was recruited within twenty days after the issuance of the call. • • • The use of the British Enfield rifle in the new American war army has been decided on by the government to Insure a sufficient supply of guns for the great force to be raised for ser vice abroad. • * • President Wilson is making an ef fort to have congress speed up war legislation. At a White house con ference with members of senate and house agriculture committees he em phasized the imperative necessity for prompt action upon the food control legislation. • * • Secretary I.ansing made a state ment denying the published reports that the United States has an agree ment with the entente allies not to make a separate peace with Ger many by saying: “There Is no agree ment. written or unwritten relative to peace.” • * * Announcement has been made that n flotilla of American destroyers, manned by picked crews, have carried the Stars and Stripes into the war zones of Europe and are operating against German submarines with Brit ish and French war vessels. * * * Traveling men or others who can not be at home to register for the army conscription on the day to be set by President Wilson's proclama tion must apply to the county clerk, or city clerk, in municipalities of more than 30.000 on the sixth day af ter the proclamation is issued. General News. Six men were killed and several others seriously injured in an explo sion at the- end of tiie Fort Brady pier at Sault Ste Marie. Mich. It is believed dynamite stored under the dock exploded. Joseph H. Choate, one of America’s foremost citizens anil former ambas sador to Great Britain, died at his home in New York City. He hud en tertained Alfred J. Balfour when the English notable was in New York a few days ago. v • • • Soup was $1.50 a plate and coffee was $:t a cup in hotels during the civil war. according to statistics compiled by the New York Hotel Review. In hotels during the great war, turkey was AS.50 a portion : beefsteak, $3.50 a plate, and potatoes, 51 it service. * * * | With the election of Hr. .T. Wilbur , Chapman of Jamaica. N. J., as mod erator. the 129th general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the I'nit ed States of America held at Dallas, Texas, took a long step, it is believed. ; toward a free union of the two I branches of the church—the North and South. * * • Harry K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, will be removed from a Philu 1 dolphin hospital, where he has been j recuperating from self-inflicted razor j wounds, to the Pennsylvania hospital | for the insane. * * * The Rev. I.ynn George J. Kelly, 35. an itinerant minister of Sutton. Neb.. was arrested at Red Oak. Ia.. accused of the murder of eight persons in VII Iisen, la., in 1012. He was indicted some time ago by the grand jury for the crime and submitted to arrest without resistance. Kelly says he is innocent. • • • Tin* highest price ever paid for wooled lambs, was recorded when C. R. Lamm of Gering. Neb., shipped a ! load to South Omaha that sold for 520 per cwt. • • • Mine. Sehnmann-Helnk. the operatic contralto, has filed suit for 595,00(1 against the United Railways of St. Louis, Mo., for injuries sustained when a taxicab in which she was rid ing was struck by a street car Feb tuary 23. • • • Two months of campaigning for a million gardens in the United States are estimated to have turned the at tention of more than 30,000.000 people to «be task «f of producing food. It is Billy Sunday’s “Hot Cakes" ser mon, delivered in New York on May 10 won 2,522 converts. He preached to 30,000 persons in two meetings. * • • Burlington railroad employes to the number of 8.000 have been notified by President Hale Holden that their wages will be raised 10 per cent be ginning May 16 last. • * * An open safety lamp caused the ex plosion in the Hastings mine of the Victor-American Fuel company near Trinidad, Colo., April 27, in which 120 men lost their lives, according to the verdict of a coroner’s jury. •> • » • The Rev. L. G. Kelly, the itinerant minister under indictment charged with the Villisea ax murders in 1912, is in jail at Logan. Iowa, where he will remain until his trial, the date of which has not yet been fixed. * * * The inter-league baseball series of forty-eight games between clubs of the American association and inter national league, scheduled to start in August, has been called off owing to unsettled conditions caused by the war. • * • Action, which it is said, will re move the element of speculation from the grain market and which it is be lieved will forestall any action by the federal government was taken at a meeting of representatives of grain exchanges of the country at Chicago. Washington Notes. President Wilson has written Chair man Pou of the house committee on committees urging appointment of a special committee on woman suffrage. Woman suffrage workers have fought for years for appointment of such a body. • • • Representative Gardner of Massa chusetts has resigned from congress to enter the army. He lias been one of the most active figures in the move ment for military preparedness and was a member of the ways and means i committee. * * * Voting in committee of the whole : the house raised by one-fourtli all in come taxes on incomes between $40, 000 and $1,000,000. If the action of the house prevails the government ' will take 45 per cent of every income of $1,000,000 and over. * * * All appropriation records of con gress were broken when the senate | appropriations committee reported the war, army and navy deficiency bill, carrying a total of $3,390,946,000. in cluding $400,000,000 for construction ! and purchase of an American iner chant marine. • • • The first legislative steps toward the conservation of the nation’s food j resources and a long advance toward I an absolutely dry United States were taken by the senate in approving. 3S to "2. an amendment to the adminis tration espionage hill forbidding dur ing tlie war the use of cereals or grain in the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. * * • The senate passed the administra tion espionage bill. The newspaper censorship clause, the restrictions upon the manufacture of grain into intoxicating liquor and the provision to curb speculation in food products were stricken from the measure. The house had already passed a similar hill. European War News. It is reported that ninety lives were lost on April 24. in the torpedoing of the British liner Abosso about thirty miles south of Fnstnet. • * * The British war office announces that the voluntary recruiting age soon will be extended to men up to 50 years of age. both single and married. * * • Nineteen French merchantmen were sunk by German submarines during February, March and April, a .'cord ing to an official statement. » * * The Italian steamer Favour, carry ing 500 reservists, iias been torpedoed by a submarine. The loss of life is unknown. The Favour sailed from Buenos Aires on April 23. • * • The food situation in Germany ap pears to he growing steadily worse - and alarm is expressed in various quarters that the available supply will not suffice to feed the nation un til the next harvest. » • • Authoritative figures now available show French and British armies be tween April 0 and May 12 captured j 40.570 Germans including 076 officers, 444 heavy and field cannon. 036 ma chine guns and 380 trench cannon. • * • German submarines sank less than half as much tonnage during the week ending May 12 ns the previous one. Twenty-six vessels were sub marined or mined. Of these eighteen were more than 1.600 tons and five under that tonnage. Sixty-two ves sels were destroyed the previous week. • • • French military men estimate (hat Germany has lost 200.000 men in ! killed, wounded and captured from ! April 16 to May 1 nn the western : front. • * * British naval forces destroyed Zep pelin 1.-22 in the North sea, according to an official statement. The destruc tion of the 1.-22 marks the fourth at tempt at Zeppelin raids within the last year which has ended in disaster. The crew perished. • • * The British naval attack on the German submarine base at Zeebrugge. on the Belgian const, resulted In the destruction of two submarine sheds, the death of sixty-three persons and • _ 1 ..nirnrHa 1 HD rithoTC TO BE ORGANIZED IN ALL NE BRASKA COMMUNITIES. LATE NEWSJROM CAPITOL Items of General Interest Gathered from Reliable Sources Around ths State-House Western Newspaper Union -tews Service. Because labor is likely to he the limiting factor in increased production ihis year, plans for a state-wide labor bureau system to bring farmers and unemployed together have been mapped out by the extension service of the Nebraska college of agricul ture This program, which has been nation-wide in scope, provides for the organization of labor bureaus in all Nebraska communities. These bureaus will list labor available and calls for labor, bring idle men in touch with farmers, and report excess or defi ciency of labor to a county labor bureau which will be directed by the county agricultural agent or by some other county organization. The county bureau, in turn, will canvass its labor situation, equalize its labor, and re port to the state labor bureau at Lin coln. By arrangement with the gov ernor and the state department of labor, all labor bureau work of the state will be correlated and the state labor bureau will office at the state house. E. L, Rhoades will be dele gated by the U. S. department of agriculture and the college of agri culture to co-operate with Labor Com missioner Norman. Plans for Semi-Centennial The past week was one of great activity for the executive committee af the semi-centennial celebration. Under the auspices of the American Automobile association, automobile races will be held on the first day at '.he State Fair grounds and many of America’s most prominent drivers have been secured. A contract has been let for the most elaborate scheme of decoration that the city of Lincoln has ever un dertaken. A new lighting scheme of red, white and blue lights for the principal streets of the city is to be inaugurated by the city commission. It is estimated that 50,000 flags will be used in the decoration of private homes, business buildings and streets. A contract has also been let for a display of fireworks for each evening of the celebration. Though the gov ernment may deem it inadvisable to manufacture fireworks in the future because of the much needed materials for munitions, the fireworks already manufactured cannot be used.for war purposes and consequently there is nothing unpatriotic in carrying out this important feature. Special invitations have been sent out to prominent Nebraskans through out the United States and to each governor throughout the union. A spe cial committee will shortly visit the governors of the bordering states and present to them a persona! invitation to be present. Will Make a Test Case. In order to determine whether or not any of the various substitutes for beer, sold under various names, can be legally made and sold in Nebraska, Governor Neville, acting in conjunc tion with Attorney General Reed, will institute a test case in Douglas county. It will involve the question of whether mock beer that several Omaha breweries are making and sell ing come under the definition of the prohibited liquids of the law. Leonard A. Flansburg, one of the authors of the prohibitory law. has been retained to assist the attorney general in the matter. No compensation has been fixed in advance for his services. Government to Aid Nebraska Farmers. A special agent for the United States government, representing the department of agriculture, will here after be stationed permanently in Lin coln to assist the farmers of Nebraska in securing labor needed for planting, cultivating and harvesting crops. This line of work is being undertaken in all the agricultural states as part of the national campaign for maximum food production. Mr. Williams, the government's rep resentative, will have his headquarters at the office of State Labor Commis sioner Norman in the capitol. He will visit different sections of the state and help to organize farm com munities to make intelligent use of labor as it may be supplied. The office force in Land Commis sioner Beckman's department are pre paring an index to the sale contracts for state school lands, wliieh will show at any time the amount yet due on any partic ’ir tract. Balances due draw 5 per cent interest. Loyalty of foreign-born citizents of Nebraska of German descent to their adopted land is being shown in the voluntary service, without pay, for registration under the conscription law. Thayer county, which has an ex ceptionally large number of German citizens, is the first county to send in its completed list of volunteers for registration duty under the draft law. Its complete ii3t has been received by Governor Neville. Among those who have volunteered their services are a large number of well known German residents. The new index to sale contracts for school lands of the state, being pre pared now In the office of the land commissioner, will show the balance due on such contracts in a concrete form so that the state may know at any time the amount received for the lands and the amounts paid thereon. The sale contracts now existing show there is due the state $2,650,744 38. The total amount of these sale con tracts was $3,227,718.57, there being paid $576,944.20. The balance due the state draws 5 per cent, or $132,538.72 annually, payable in advance. ANSWERS MANY QUESTIONS Attorney General Reed Discusses Workings of Prohibitory Law. Attorney General Willis E. Reed has given out a written opinion for the benefit of Nebraska druggists who submitted a list of questions to him for information relative to the work ing of the prohibition law and the steps necessary for druggists to ob serve all provisions of the act. Mr. Reed holds, in the first place, that no registered pharmacist or cor poration nor any member of a cor poration can legally purchase or obtain alcohol for manufacturing pur poses without first securing a permit from the governor. Several sections of the prohibitory law are quoted for the information of the druggists. Relative to the handling of bitters under proprietory names it is his opinion that anything which the fed eral law allows to be sold without a government liquor permit and the payment of internal revenue tax may be handled without violating the state law. As to whether particular brands conform to the federal requirement-, he does not attempt to decide. "Is there any possible way for a doctor to procure pure alcohol on a prescription, or otherwise, for per sonal use?” is another question "which was put up to the attorney general. He answers by saying that if the doctor desires it as a beverage the purchase would be unlawful, but if used for medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes, it would not vio late the statute. Attorney General Reed refuses t$> advise the druggists on how denatur ized alcohol should be labelled, that being a legal question but merely calling for the exercise of good judg ment and the avoidance of misrepre sentation. In regard to the selling of essfnce of Jamaica ginger, he says that tha same rule should govern as in the case of "bitters.” As to whether or not a druggist should take out a government permit for handling alcohol, Mr. Reed says that it is not for him to determine. He suggests that Internal Revenue Collector Loomis of Fremont is the proper man to answer this query. Other questions , is answered by Mr. Reed are: There is nothing in the state law to prevent a druggist from taking out a federal permit. Possession of a receipt for internal revenue tax paid the United States is prima facie evidence of unlawful sale or furnishing of liquor in any prose cution that might be brought but would not be conclusive evidence. Malt extract, being a heavy beer preparation prescribed by Bomeplivsi cians as a tonic, comes under the same classification aa “bitters” and Jamaica ginger. New Law Regarding Auto Plates Secretary of State Pool has written all county treasurers, calling their at tention to the new law that provides a special type of number plate for automobile manufacturers and dealers The law permits a manufacturer or dealer to use duplicates of this num ber on machines which are employed for demonstration purposes in making sales. He must secure his duplicates, however, from the secretary of state, and must pay the county treasurer 35 cents extra for each one. The county treasurer will remit the money to the secretary of state in payment, is he docs for ordinary automobile licenses. Any firm or person dealing in auto mobiles at more than one city or town must obtain a separate and distinct certificate of registration, and a dif ferent number, for each place of busi ness. As the new laws goes*into effect in July, and as it will take four to six weeks to have the duplicates manu factured, Secretary Pool is asking county treasurers to see that dealers in each county are properly notified so that they will file their applications in plenty of time. The penalty for violation of the act is a fine not exceeding $50. Legislators Tender Resignation. Henry C. Richmond of Omaha, a member of the Douglas county delega tion in the last legislature, has ten dered Governor Neville his resignation to accept the appointment of secre tary of the state council for defense. Mr. Richmond is the second leg sla tor to resign. W. C. Dorsey, who was recently appointed district judge, hav ing given up his seat some time ago SEEDS TESTED FREE Samples May Be Submitted to the State Food Commissioner It is doubtful whether there has ever been a time when it was of greater importance that every person sowing seeds of any kind should know the quality of the seed used, says a bul letin issued by the Nebraska state board of agriculture. All kinds of seeds are high in price and it is very desirable that every one produce The new seed law-, passed by the 1917 legislature, is already in force. In general it is not very different from the old law-. One of the important changes is that the seed testing is now to be done without charge. Sec I tion 4 says, "Any resident of the state may submit fair samples of seeds to the state food, drug, dairy and oil commissioner, who shall, v.-ithout charge cause an analysis of the same to be made.” Samples should be taken so as to be representative of the lot of seeds from which they are drawn and mailed with the name and address of the sender to the state food. drug, dairy.and oil commissioner, Lincoln Neb. A half cup is sufficient Three Hundred Candidates for Degrees Candidates for degrees from the University of Nebraska this spring number more than 300, according to the list of names made public by uni versity authorities. The largest number are candidates for bachelor of arts. 173. Srixty-two have asked for degrees from the college of agriculture. Oth ers are: Bachelor of laws, 29; bache lor of fine arts, 1; bachelor of science, 20; bachelor of engineering, 32; col lege of pharmacy, 16.