Ij iliuMMMfMuillutlMlmlii.y .i, ii mif . . iw, M in.l.iHiaHMaiaamf Mmwuwr-WMWimjemill! HJIM u u.m lufmiHTWrmTTHITimrrjuu. RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA,' CHIEF iU ,S .8 rS S ia? ijM i-'j '( in 'to 4 i It RAISING FUNDS FOR THE WAR EFFECTS OF BILL WILL BE FAR REACHING. SUGGESTS WORLD-WIDE MEMORIAL DAY Fort Snelling Able to Accommodate Only the Eligible Applicants Has More Men Than Needed. Western New simper Union News .Service. Washington. Tho war tax bill, ex tending Its excises to tlio fabric of every American home, lias been form ally reported to tho house by tho ways Mind means committee with plaiiH for quick paHHngo. Ah a forecast of what may coino later, it proposes special taxcH to ralHO $1,800,000,000, In addi tion to tho present normal annual rev enue of $1,500,000,000. When its terms arcoffcilvo tho American peoplo will bo paying direct taxes of $33 per 'capita. Tho peoplo of tho Hrltlsh IbIcs half as many now pay per capita taxes of $G0. While tho prin cipal features of tho now war Jovi an) tho increases In lncomo and profit taxes, Increases In internal revenue rates and Increases of customs dutlos many provisions reach tho Innermost structure of every hom'e and mako up a list of taxes, probably tho most for midablo over faced by tho American people. Tho household light, heat and tele phono bills, admission tickets to umuscmentB, flro and ltfo Insurance, railway tickets, automobllos, automo bile tires nnd tubes, soft drinks, post age ratcB, golf club and baseball bats, club dues and n host of other every day necessities or luxuries come un der tho taxation. COAL SHORTAGE IN GERMANY Munitions Factories Given First Claim and Industries of Peace Must Suffer London. Tho Times' Amsterdam correspondent saya that Dr. Von Both-raann-Hollewck, tho German Imperial chancellor, replying to tho appeal of newspaper publishers that steps bo taken to incrcaso tho supply of paper to provent tholr being forced to sus pend publication, announced that tho deficiency In the supply was due to tho difficulties of securing coal distrib ution. Ho said tho munition Industries had the first claim to the war, to which tho newspapers and tho papor mills belonged. Ho encouraged the bopo that coal would bo forthcoming, but urged restriction in tho uso of pa per to tho utmost limits. Germany's fuel difficulties did not end with tho lato unusually sovoro win ter. On the contrary, Germans are ovon now being warned that during tho rest of tho war nnd In tho period Immediately following it will ho im possible to supply tho Individual con sumer with all thu coal ho desires. It will bo necessary for him to put up with some discomfort, ho Is told, nltho, as tho Lokal Anzclgcr comments, "with tho coming of winter wo shall nt least not froezo." A government coal commission lma boon established to apportion tho coal mined with re gard to tho urgency of various needs. Similar local commissions have been named for towns of moro than 10,000 Inhabitants. Chicago. Employes of tho six great railroad systems entering this city aro applying In hundreds for enlist ment In tho Third regiment, United States engineers to bo formed for im mediate service on tho railroads of Franco. No Favoritism In Enrolling Washington. To dispose of any fear that county nnd city registration boards will exorclso favoritism In en rolling soldiors under the selectivo draft net. Provost Marshal General Crowdcr has Issued a statement de claring such practices would bo vir tually impossible because of tho ex plicit terms under which tho net is drawn. Ho wnrncd registration of ficials that favoritism easily could bo dctoctcd and would bo punished with uoavy penalties. Chinese Cabinet Urges War. Poking, China. Premier Tuan Chi Jul and tho entire cablnot addressed n secret session of tho parliament and urged tho adoption of a resolution de claring war against Germany. Tho resolution was referred to thu stand ing committee for consideration. In tho senate tho resolution enmo up Informally and caused a stormy session. Tho opposition takes tho ground that It does not want war until tho cabinet is reorganized and (strengthened Lincoln, Nob. Up to tho present It m conservatively estimated that BOO University students havo Joined tho colors, -J00 of whom plan to tako work in tho reservo ofllcors' training enmp. School authorities estimate that 700 others havo left tho univer sity to work on farms. Malo studont enrollment haB been depleted by 1,200 or moro, in Undo Sam's military and food conservation program. This Js nearly one-half of tho men in tho university. In ho rosorvo offlcers' department Sunday, 3C7 men had been. examined and accented MORE "A" MEN THAN NEEDED Camp Snelling Hardly Able to Accom m odate Eligible Applicants Minneapolis, Minn. With the Hut oJ applicants accepted for the ofMcers' training camp at Fort Snelling prac tically complete , Col. W. II. Sago, in charge of airangtments, mild there would be an cxcchb of msn graded "A." Capt. W. II. Mason, camp ad jutant, announced the list of "A" grade men ns published stands, with the exception of those who will be dropped out by rigid physical examl nation, as tho successful applicants to report at the camp. Tho camp organizers nt Plattsburg, N Y have telegraphed Fort Snell ing offering to turn over "A" men, In (Heating an excess of the same grade there, but none could be accommodat ed here, it was announced. TRAINING CAMPS DOWN SOUTH Nebraska Guardsmen Among Those Who will go There San Antonio, Tex. Under orders re eelved her army hoard have been named In the southern department today to select camp sites for six divisions of troops to bo trnlned In this department under tho conscrip tion hill. Each division will have a war strength of 2G.000 men. maklnc an army or 1RC.000 to be trained In camps in Texas, Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico. The troops will con sist in part of national guardsmen from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa. Nebraska nnd Dkln. liomn. One board of army ofllcors to select ono site In Oklahoma nnd thrnn In Texas Is headed by Brigadier General unarios u. Morton. Tho other board, headed by Grlgadier General Henry A. Greeno, is to rocommend one site In Arizona, ono in New Mnxl ami nm n Texas. Peace Proposals From Austria London. Tho Amsterdam corro spondent of tho Exchange Telegraph Co. wires that ho has learned from tho best of sources that three promi nent Austrlnn politicians aro nhout to leavo for Switzerland bearing' peace proposals and that they hope to bo given safo conducts to Franco In or der to discuss with tho French cnbi net tho possibility of peaco. 'Washington. Decisive steps for the hygienic nnd mental wolfaro of the nation's soldiers and sailors have been determined upon by tho council of national defense as a Btrlct war measure Tho council, guided by the general medical board, has prepared to striko nt tho presence of insidious diseases nnd at alcoholism In all military commands. London. The wnr ofllco nnnnunees that tho voluntary recruiting agy soon will bo extended to men up to fifty years of age, both single nnd mar rled. The announcement expresses tho hones Mint t!mn v-l,n ,nn .. wnrd will bo ready and willing to servo without delay when called upon. Newburgh. N. v. In the headquar tera In which fJennro Wnaiii.,.. wroto the order disbanding tho con tlnontal army after the war for Amer- ican independence hnd been fought nnd won, General Joffre. mnrshall of France, pnld trlbuto to the first presi dent. Accompanied by tho other mill tary members of the French war com mission, tho man who saved Prance arrived In this city, which was founded by Germans, to be guests of Now York stnto. Governor Whitman nnd virtual iy the entire legislature were hore to welcomo tho party. Tho first coed to leavo the state university to nil the place or a man called by tho war Is W.llma Ittiss. '20 of Aurora. Mo, Miss Hush will go -to Rhroveport. Ala., to tako up tho work In tho Kldd-HiiBs Trunk & Hag com pany, loft by her brother who has enlisted. Wayno. Neb. The stnto normal school has roleaied all men who are In good scholastic standing who deslir either to enlist or to farm. Many of the young men havo availed them selves of tho opportunity. Engineers for Duty In France. Washington. Tho war department hns announced that orders had been sont out for the raising of nlno regl monts of engineers for duty at tho earliest posslblo moment on tho com munlcatlon lines in Franco. Those troops will bo In addition to tho forces contemplated in the adminis tration's army plans. Recruiting points for tho regiments will bo Now York City, St. Louia, Chicago, Boston, Pittsburg, Detroit, Atlanta, San Fran cisc.0 and Philadelphia. ' WORLD-WIDE MEMORIAL DAY Plans Launched In England to Make American Decoration Day an Allies' Institution. London. Definite plans havo been launched to mako American Decora tion day, May 30, a general memorial day thruout allied countries of tho world. Consul Itohcrt I Skinner has al ready forwarded to President Wilson such a proposal together with dcflnito plans for making the Idea u reality. The suggestion first came from Lieu tenant Colonel Hullock, who hopes President Wilson will take the in itiative in formally inviting all tho allied countries to join. Consul Skinner Is enthusiastic in backing up the movement anil if the plan is carried out May 30 will be day of general mourning thruout tho countries fighting for liberty and for democracy. SOLDIER MAKING PREPARATIONS Fort Snelllrg Being Prepared for a Training Camp ( St. Paul, Minn. As the time draws nearer for the cnll to go forth for hun dreds or mei. from over tho middle west to gatner at Fort Snelling to btutly how tnvy ure going to direct tho American forces in defeating Ger many, JLIiiele Sam is making prepara tions to house, feed and otherwiso look after the welfare of those who will try to make themselves worthy to ofllct-r tho forces in the trying months to come. For nhout threu years Fort Snelling has been for the greater part aban doned. Its fine barracks have housed at the most but a hnndful of men slnco the Twenty-eighth regiment went to border duty. Now the build ings upon which fortunes were spent are to come to their own again. ' Tho feeding of the several thou sands who are coming to Fort Snell- ,lng is no small task, but Uncle Sam win uo ready. The housing la to bs well looked nfter. Calls Proposals Trickery Copenhagen. "Any German peace proposals at this time simply indicates tho determination of a tremendously organized and still powerful nntion to gain Its own ends," declared American Minister Francis Egan in n warning to tho people of America voiced thru tho United Press. He appealed to his fellow countrymen not to bo deceived by German peaco duplicity and not to slacken their war preparations ur.dor tho mistaken Impression that the Ger mans nro really ready to quit. No American ofllcial is moro conver sant with German conditions than Minister Egan. A veteran dlplomnt. long and brilliantly serving the United States at Copenhagen, has mado a spe cial study of Germany nnd tho Ger mans no less than tho ramifications of Teutonic chicanery nnd propaganda. Ixmdon. Twenty-four British mor :hnnt vessels of moro thnn 1.C00 tons each were sunk during tho last week, It wns announced officially. Twenty two vessels of less than 1.G00 tons ..nrt sixteen fishing vessels also vrero sunk. A British nilno sweeper was tor pedoed and sunk on Mny 5 with tho Iobb of two ollleers and twenty men, 'ho admiralty announced. In tho preceding week thirty-eight vessels of over 1.C00 tons wero sunk, showing a decrease of fourteen ves icls. London. In volunteering for na tional service In clerical work at the regulation salary or $6.25 a week, Sir James Bell, town clerk of tho city of London, Is leaving for tho time being a post with a salary pf $15,000 i year. . Lincoln. Tho Nebraska Press nsso Matlon, through Its executive commit tee, has not only endorsed Governor Neville's plan for food conservation meotlngs in Omaha May 22-25, but has issued tho following resolution: "Wo urge every nowspaper man In Nebraska to uso ewry effort to mako this meeting successful by responding to Governor Neville's request, nnd as Buro him of our continued efforts and cooperation In any movement which tins for its purposo the conservation nnd development of Nebraska's re-t-ources, Washington. Conferees on tho ho army hill hnve reached an agree ment and the measure will bo roported to the Jwo houses for confirmation as pooji as possible. Tho conferees made tho age limit of those subject to the selective draft 21 to 30 years Inclu sive in place or the 21 to 27 limits In tho senate bill and 21 to 40 In tho house bill. Tho nmohdmenf put .In by tho senate permitting Colonel Roosevelt to ralso four divisions for Jorvlco In France wns eliminated, bf was another authorizing the raising of three volunteer regiments for bor dor patrol duty. Transfer Title to German Ships Washington.- By unanimous vote, tho senate hns passed a rosolutlon pro viding for the transfer to tho Ameri can government of tltlo nnd posses sion of euomy ships In Amorican ports and their use in commerce Tliero nro J nbout 100 German ships in American ports nnd all aro under repair. Ono o tho Gorman ships tho Clara Monnlg la ready for sea and will begin loading a cargo for Italy at once. TAKE LIBERTY LOAN PLAN8 TO PUT A WAR BOND IN EVERY HOME. BOARD OF TRADE SHUT DOWN High Price of Wheat Puta Buying at an End Many Protests Presented on New War Levy,. tVcstfiti Xrwppappi Union Snp Service. St. Louis. Plans to subscribe for $80,000,000 of the liberty loan have been Inaugurated at a meeting of ten ot the presidents of the eighteen clearing houses In federal teserve dis trict No. 8 (St. Louis) here. The slo gan to be used In subscription work will bo "a war bond In every home." The eight clearing houses not repre sented In the conference telegraphed that they would cooperate in any plans made for the Bale or the war bonds. Chicago. Morris & Co. have au thorized the purchase or $750,000 in liberty bonds and announced a plan whereunder its 25,000 employes may purchaso bonds on easy payments. Protests on New War Levy Washington. While the house de bated the $1,800,000,000 war tax bill tho senate finance committee heard violent protests from Interests on which tho new war levies would fall Manufacturers who would have to pay the Increased excess profit tax, dls tlllprs, brewers, sodu fountain inter ests and tobacco companies nil told the senato committee that they faced ruin if the hill want thru as presented in the house. Nenrly every witness declared his particular business seemed to bo the target for an ex orbitant tax. In the house, too, many portions of the bill were under fire, but democratic ami republican lead ers In charge replied that the money must be raised and only high taxes could provide it. BOARD OF TRADE SHUTS DOWN The High Price of Wheat Puts Buy ing at an End Chicago. Trading in May wheat wns ordered discontinued at a meet ing or tho board or directors of the Chicago board of trade Friday. The directors also decided that existing contracts should be adjudicated either by delivery ot the property or at a sell ing price to be fixed by a committee appointed for tho purpose. It was rumored that action by tho federal authorities in the last few; days had hastened the action of tho board of directors. None of those at tho meeting would confirm or deny that It had been intimated to board officials that some action to curb tho soaring prices of wheat should bo taken or government officials would close the board. It was admitted that a number of board of trado members had been summoned to the ofllco of tho federal district attorney, but it was said no threats had been mado or Intimated. To Aid French Orphans. Lincoln. Ono thousand persons at tended a mass meeting nt St. Paul rhurch Sunday afternoon, tendered as a trlbuto to Franco and to General Joffro. Pledges equal to $1,000 wero mado for tho support of tho French war orphans. Twenty-four orphans are Insured support for the next year. Mayor J. E. Miller, who presided, ojiened tho program by a short intro ductlon to the subject. To Cut Down Bread Consumption London. King George haB signed a proclamation exhorting the people to lessen tho consumption of wheat nnd to practlco tho greatest economy and frugality in the uso of all other kinds of grain. The proclamation particul arly urges the population to reduce tho consumption of bread by nt least one-fourth of the quantity consumed in normal times. i Havana. It Is .ascertained that in th attempt to nssasslnnte President Menocal Ijy meaiiB of a bomb explo sion, tho conspirators had in contem plation the death or William Gonzales, tho United Stntes minister to Cuba, who waB In tho palace with tho presi dent at the time. Lincoln. Tho national convention ir tho Sons or tho American Revolu tion which was to have boon hold at Memphis, May 21 and 22, has been Indefinitely postponed, accord ing to word received by members I or the order. The action was taken ' becauso of war conditions. Amsterdam. Grave rioting has oc curred In Mainz, Germany, according to roporta received here by the Tele graaL Sixteen hundred peoplo took part In a demonstration because or tho scarcity or ro'od, ' Restricting War Gossip Washington. Secretary Lansing has followed up tho state department or der which forblihi nny other official thoro to glvo information to tho pub lic, with n stntemont that any other ofllcial who gavo out information con voying a criticism of tho department's policies, would bo dismissed. Mr. Lansing reitoratod that giving of in formation to tho public through tho nowspapers would horeattor bo re stricted to himsolf and tho newly treated bureau of foroign Intelligence. CdUNCIL OF 'DEFENSE State Organizes to Co-Operate With the Government Tho state council of defense was organized nt a mooting at the office of Governor Novlllo by electing of ficers nnd selecting Representative Henry Richmond, a member ot the' legislature, to serv6 as secretary at a sulary or $2,000 a year. Tho council established departments in conformity with the wishes of I he national coun cil, each member being given a depart ment to supervlbo. It also arranged to havo county councils of defense organized. The ofllcers elected by tho state council aro: Robert M. Joyce of Lin coln, chairman; Georgo Coupland of Elgin, , vice chairman; C'A, McCloud of York, treasurer; Henry Richmond of Ontohn, secretary. Tho work ol organization Is to be further pushed at a meeting to bo held nt Lincoln on tho ovenlng of May 15. Tho following departmontB were es tablished: Publicity Chairman, Robert Joyce. Finance Chairman, C. A. McCloud, Robert Joyce, Georgo Coupland. Stnto Defense and Security Gcner al P. L. Hall. Food Production, Conservation ami Distribution Georgo Coupland. Co-operating Agencies Miss Ger trude Keating. Hygiene. Medicine and Sanitation Dr. E. O. Weber. Labor T. P. Reynolds. Industrial Survey and Topography George E. Johnson. Secret Service Richard L. Mctcnlte. Volunteer Recruiting and Selectivo Dratt General George H. Harries. Organization of County Derenso Councils Robert Joyce, George Coup land. It was agreed to organize county defense councils In each county of tho stnte. This council is to bo organized in a mass meeting to bo called by someone designated for that work by the governor. This mass meeting Is to organlzo by the election of a chairman, vico chairman, secretary and treasurer, to all of whom commission will be is sued by the governor. Then there is to bo chosen by either the mass meet ing or the four officers named a pro duct chairman In each voting precinct in tho county. Every ofllcer of the county council, including the precinct chairman, must subscribe to tho cus tomary oath, the same to be filed with the state defense council. County councils are to report to the chairman of the state council. County councils are to havo tho following described committees: Fi nance, publicity, food production, con servation and distribution; co-operating agencies; hygiene, medicine and sanitation; recruiting. Tho governor has sent letters to each county, urging immediate or ganization of those defense councils. Is Well Pleased With Nebraska Washington. Major General A. W. Greeley, a man of long years' serv ice on the frontier, much of it in Ne braska, Is alive and hale and living In this city. Interest In the approach ing semi-centennial celebration in tho Goldenrod stato is no keener any where than In this venorabTO warrior's bosom. As he expressed It whllo standing on the war department steps tho other morning, "I saw that stato fifty years ago, just a short time beforo it entered tho union. I was on duty tliero, and otten thought it would take several hundred years to put it along with the other states in all matters or civilization. "I certainly was wrong. Nebraska has leaped to the rront within my own liretlmo. I'd Hko to see Ne braska now." To Take Half Million of Bonds State Treasurer Georgo Hall has telegraphed United States Trensurer McAdoo that the stato of Nebraska will Invest $500,000 of Its educational trust fund In tho liberty loan bonds. Mr. Hall was authorized to tako Buch action at a meeting of tho board Df educational lands and funds. The temporary school fund of Ne braska will suffer $7,500 a year as a result, representing tho difference in Interest which the liberty loan bonds draw and thoso Investments wnich can bo secured in this slate. Tho hoard thought tho sacrlfico could well ho made, however, and a movement will bo started to havo all Nebraska municipalities subscribe to tho liberty loan. Registration Breaks Record For tho first tlmo In her history tho registration at Nobrnska Uni versity has passod 5,000, "totalling 5,405, May 1, according to figures given out by Miss Florence McGahoy acting registrar. Tho not incrcaso for the past year is 579. Of tho total number or students, 3,141 aro men nnd 2.2C4 are women. Half tho num ber aro in tho freshmen class of tho arts nnd sclenco college, with a total of 2.3S4, 1,227 men and 1,357 women. Two womon aro registered in tho collego of Inw. Wholesale and retail druggists who dcslro to buy and sell alcohol must apply to tho governor for a permit. Twenty days beforo doing so, how ever, they must fllo with tho county judgo notlco of tholr intention to mako such application. If thero la no protest tho county Judgo shall so cortlfy to tho governor, who will grant tho permit. Any person desir ing, however, may fllo a protest and a bearing will bo had beforo tho coun ty Judge'. U ho decides ngainst the applicant tho latter may appeal to the district court, EAT mmi && t u rm nflU I ri"VSJVaBBia aaV HADE FROM THE HIGHEST GRADE DURUM WHEAT COOKS IN 12 MINUTES. COOK BOOK FREE SKIMMER MFG.C0. OMAHA. U.S.A. l&r&ejf Mcx&rowi r&ctoru in America. .. Aftkfcft'& HAIR BALSAM A tolltt preparation of merit npt to eradicate dandruff. ForRatlorins Color and Beaut jr toGrar or Faded Hair. too, and SI 00 at DrnggliU. Even Dirt Is Cheap No Longer. The expression, "dirt cheap," must he discarded. Blame the war. Winni peg, Manitoba, florists have announced nn Increase In the price of eilrth sold for potting plants. A year ago earth sold for GO cents a bushel. Now it ;osts 2." cents u pall. THE 3 D'S IN DODD'S Mr. Robert W. Ferguson, Ilinghnm, Mass,, writes: I suffered from kid ney disorder for yenrs. Had Inccssnnt backache nnd trouble. Nearly died from It at one time while In Vancouver, hut overcame it by n persistent use of s'AiaW uouu b iviiiney rms. !p Flnnlly I wns com pletely cured. I oc casionally use the remedy now in or der to keep the kid neys regulated. I hnve the highest praise for Dodd's. Bo sure to get "DODD'S," the name with the three D's for deranged, disordered, diseased kidneys, Just as Mr. Fergu son did. No similar named article wilt do. Adv. NO PLACE TO HANG PICTURE Child Could Not Carry Out Teacher's Instructions Because His Home Had No Walls. A young teacher of this city, home from kindergarten work In a Inrge enstern city, told this story, which she vouches for. Tho tencher was anxious to Improve the homo life of the little foreigners she tntight, so she bought some Inexpensive pictures nnd gave one to each child, asking that the pic ture be hung on the wall of the home. One little foreigner took the picture with evident reluctance, nnd the next dny brought It back nnd handed It to the teacher. "Why didn't you hang it on tho wall Hko the others did, instead of bringing it bnek?" teacher asked. In the cxpln nntlon that followed It developed thnt the youngster lived In a lnrge loft room, with four other families besides Its own. Kncli of the other families had a wall, while the kindergartener's fnmlly lived in the middle of the room, hence had no place tu hnng pictures, Indlnnnpolls News. Needed Practice. The tiny son of an acquaintance of mine recently talked Incessuntly to a man delivering conl who talked In n broken language. "Seems to me," .said the man, "thnt you talk a good denl for a little fel low." "Well," said the llttlo fellow, who had had hard work to understand the mnn, "if you talked moro you could talk plainer." Caught. "Last night I looked through tho key hole Into tho pnrlor whero sister wns with her beau." "Whnt did you find out?" "The gns." WHAT! NO SLEEP LAST NIGHT? If coffee was the cause change to POSTUM and sleep! "There's a Reason" i i JMJJm V B . 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