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VOLUME XXXVI
GALVESTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1916.—TWENTY PAGES
NO. 282.
DESTRUCTION
HE DEFENDS
SOUTHWEST
SERBIANS ON
IS TERRIBLE
BANKING ACT
GETS COLD
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AGGRESSIVE
Unusual Weather Condi-
v
tions Prevail.
4
LOCAL FORECAST
SAYS CONDITIONS
MUCH IMPROVED
CALLS FOR FROST
J
GENERAL REVENUE
EXCEEDS LAST YEAR
WILSON AND
GERMANS NOW
BRYAN MEET
AGGRESSORS
PRESIDENT TAKES
MAKE CAPTURES ON
AUTOMOBILE RIDE
EASTERN WAR FRONT
Powers’ Troops.
reservists there are said t
have ta-
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BISHOPS PLEAD FOR
CHURCH’S INTEREST
MINISTER TO RESIGN.
SOCIALIST CANDIDATE.
I
important po-
REACHES NEW YORK.
the heights with adjoining
sanguinarily repulsed
CHANGE ALLEGIANCE.
LAND COMMISSIONER
ATHENS IS SCENE
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MAKES HIS REPORT
OF MUCH DISORDER
MANY BAKERS FAIL,
t
ARGUMENTS HEARD.
COLD IN CHICAGO.
THE WEATHER
BACK TO WORK.
KILL CATS AND DOGS.
A
ALL NOW RECAPTURED.
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Berlin Says Serbian Forward
Movement Halted by Central
Social Service Work Present-
ed Protestant Episcopal Con-
vention at Today’s Session.
tacks
ground.
suggestion
they were
which the
competition ' and the
has been made that
the medium through
disease was spread.
I
t
Retake Trenches Cap-
tured by British.
Communique Describes
French Battlefield.
Ex-secretary Greets Pres-
ident With Smile.
Broken Through Bulgarian
Second Line.
The foregoing, although bringing the
news of development in Athens only
up to Wednesday night, is the latest
report to be received on the situation
there.
at-
lost
Comptroller of Currency
Talks to Farmers.
GREEK CONDITIONS
BADLY CONFUSED
Declares New Law Enables
Farmer to Borrow on Basis
of Business Man.
Reservists Take Law Into Own
Hands and They Are Not
Dispersed.
King Constantine Refers Brit*
ish Minister to Provisional
Government.
SERVANTS ARE
GIVEN REWARDS
BY EMPLOYERS
Temperature Drops 34 De-
grees in Few Hours—Frost
in North Texas.
Tells of Activities of His De-
partment Covering Past
Two Years.
Both Men Travel on the Same
Train Out of Pitts-
burgh.
Have Upper Hand With the Ar-
tillery and in Work of
the Flying Corps.
CRUDE OIL IS
BACK TO ITS
RECORD PRICE
SUBMARINE
WARFARE IS
DENOUNCED
State Comptroller Issues Re-
port Covering Fiscal Year
Ending Aug. 31.
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ALLIES SUPERIOR,
IS DECLARATION
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battalions stormed an
ken the law into their own hands, de-
spite the presence of strong contingents
of entente marines, with the Greek au-
thorities doing virtually nothing ‘ to
control them.
King Constantine is reported to have
told the British minister at Athens
that the allies, having deprived him
of all power and recognized the pro-
visional government of Saloniki, had
better address future proposals regard-
ing the course of Greece to the Veni-
zelos revolutionary government.
The enemy left 14 officers
By Associated Press.
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 20.—Cur-
tailment, of profits because of
the increase in the cost of wheat
and flour was instrumental in
causing 185 bakers of the United
States to fail in business during
June, July and August, accord-
ing to figures compiled by the
National Association of Master
Bakers through trade channels
and made public here today.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 20.— The following of-
ficial account of operations on the
French front was given out here to-
day:
“Last evening Stuff and Schwaben
redoubts were heavily shelled by the
enemy.
“During the night two small raids
were carried . out against the enemy’s
trenches in the neighborhood of Loos.
Form of Bill of Lading Is Under Dis-
cussion.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 20.—The interstate
commerce commission heard oral ar-
.guments by shippers and railroad rep-
resentatives today on the subject of
form of bills of lading for freight ship-
ments. ‘
A great bulk of briefs is on'file and
hearings have been had by the com-
mission to ascertain the views of the
railroads and shippers generally. The
commission purposes to eliminate ' un-
necessary provisions in lading bills and
ultimately expects to have one general
standard applicable to the whole coun-
try.
sition on
lines and
New Orleans, Oct. 20.—A fall of 18
degrees in 12 hours sent the tempera-
ture here to 51 .above at 7 o’clock to-
day. Low temperatures were reported
by the weather bureau over Missis-
sippi, Louisiana and northern Alabama,
with light frost in northern Louisiana.
made to reconquer the
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
1865— OF GALVESTON—1916
Chief among the advantages of trans-
acting your financial affairs with
this institution—the oldest National
Bank in Texas—is the assurance of
the highest degree of safety by rea-
son off its large capital, surplus and
stockholders’ liability, and the close
inspection and supervision of its
affairs by the United States gov-
ernment. New accounts invited.
By Associated Press.
Bayonne, N. J., Oct. 20.— The
Standard Oil and other Indus-
trial plants affected by the strike
which was attended by rioting
and the loss . of three lives, re-
sumed their accustomed activity
today when all except a few of
the 12,000 men, who were idle, re-
turned to their places.
Better working conditions are
promised, and their demand for
increase wages will be granted in
part, it was indicated by the fed- •
eral conciliators who came here .
from Washington to volunteer
their services.
Bulletin: Paris, Oct. 20.—Noon.—The
war office announced today that the
Serbians have recaptured the plateau
and village of Velyeselo, on the west-
ern end of the Macedonian front, put-
ting the Bulgarians to rout.
Galveston got the first real cold of
the winter last night when the ther-
mometer dropped from 80 to 46 de-
grees, a drop of34 degrees. Overcoats
were hastily taken from the closets
and trunks by Galvestonians, and the
stoves which they/had intended putting
up the first of the month were erected
right pronto in order to combat the
weather man.
And this is not all. The forecast for
.Galveston and vicinity for tonight pre-
dicts frosts, but follows this up with
a prediction of warmer weather to-
morrow with light winds. The ther-
mometer will "probably drop to around
35 degrees tonight.
Name of Penland of Yoakum on Ballot
for Railroad Commissioner.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Oct. 20.—The Socialist party
of Texas today certified to the secre-
tary of state the name of F. J. Penland
of Yoakum to be placed on the official
ballot for the position of railroad com-
missioner to succeed the late Judge W.
D. Williams. The prohibition party has
already certified the name of a candi-
date for this office but thus far the
Republican party has not certified the
name of a condidate for railroad com-
missioner to fill the place made va-
cant by the death of Judge Williams.
Snow Probable This Afternoon or To-
night—Thermometer Going Down.
By Associated Press.
Chicago, Oct. 20.—The edge of the
cold wave which developed in the
West reached here shortly before noon
today. The thermometer dropped from
53 degrees to 36 degrees and is still
falling, said the weather forecasts.
Snow this afternoon or tonight was
declared to be a probability.
De Belisario Porras Is Minister From
Panama.
By Associated Press.
New York, Oct. 20.—De Belisario
Porras, former president of Panama
and recently appointed as minister to
the United States, arrived here today
on his way to Washington.
By Associated Press.
Austin, Oct. 20.—Statistics compiled
in the comptroller’s department for the
annual report of the comptroller for
the fiscal year ending August 31, 1916,
discloses that the total receipts’ and
transfers to the credit of general
revenue reached $17,978,089, which is
$5,089,194 in excess of receipts for the
previous year. During this same period
the disbursements for the support of
the state government aggregated $15,-
020,201, as against $14,055,401 for the
previous year. Tax collections for this
fiscal year amounted to $15,593,126. At
the beginning of the fiscal year of 1916,
there was on hand in the state treas-
ury to the credit of general revenue
$555,103, while at the beginning of the
1917 fiscal year, starting September 1,
1916, there was‘$3,512,991 to the credit
of this fund.
HUTCHINGS, SEALY & GO.
Hatmhuzhed BARKERS Mstoblished
(Umimeorporate@»
For
Banks, Individuals, Corporations
American Bankers (Associat on Tzev-
olers‛ Cheques for Sale*
Sofia, Oct. 19.-—Via London, Oct. 20.—
Heavy fighting in the Cerna bend is
reported in an official statement is-
sued by the war office today.
By Associated Press.
Montreal, Oct. 20.—Acting on
the theory that infantile paraly-
sis was spread by dogs shown
in an exhibition three weeks
ago, the authorities of West-
mount have issued orders, that
every cat or dog belonging to a
family that has had the disease
shall be destroyed at once. New
York dogs were exhibited in the
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 20.—There was a
drop of 15 degrees in the temperature
here today, the thermometer register-
ing 53 iat 7 o’clock.
By Associated Press.
Bucharest, Oct. 20.—Via London.-
The Rumanians have taken the offen-
sive in the Oituz valley, where the
Austro-Hungarians invaded Rumania,
the war office announced today. They
have driven back the invaders to the
frontier. The repulse of attacks on
other parts of the front also is re-
ported.
and 2,050 men and 11 machine guns
in our hands.
“In the southern part of the Car-
pathian forest, which is covered with
snow, the enemy was thrown from
the summit of Mount Rusului.”
London, Oct. 20.—1 p. m.—A dispatch
from Berne, Switzerland, to the Wire-
less Press says:
“Germany’s Polish legion has col-
lapsed. After long efforts and coercive
pressure Germany and Austria-Hun-
gary succeeded in enrolling 18,000
Poles. They were divided into six
brigades.
“Four brigades mutined at the be-
ginning of October and they were dis-
armed and . imprisoned in the Brest-
Litovsk barracks. The remnants of
the legion were sent to the interior
of Austria, the troops being considered
unreliable.”
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 20.—Extremely turbu-
lent conditions in Athens Wednesday
night are reported in a dispatch from
Reuter’s correspondent at the Greek
capital sent that evening. Greek re-
servists have taken the law into their
own hands despite the presence of
strong entente detachments of marines
who are being given virtually no as-
sistance by the Greek authorities in
maintaining order, the dispatch de-
clares.
“Tonight,’’ the message reads, “it is
evident that the reservists are out of
hand, for, despite1 the fact that strong
cavalry forces are escorting tne
French and Greek marines and soldiers
spread about everywhere, the reserv-
ists, assembled in groups, have taken
the law into their own hands and the
Greek forces for the maintenance of
order do not disperse them.
“The chief of the French police has
informed the editors of the anti-Veni-
zelos press that beginning tomorrow
the French will exercise a newspaper
censorship and that newspapers print-
ing antientente articles run the risk of
suspension.”
By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 20.—President
Wilson and William J. Bryan, former
secretary of state, met here today for
the first time in months. The presi-
dent stopped at Pittsburgh for' an
hour and a half on the way from Chi-
cago to Long Branch, N. J., and Mr.
Bryan came here on the way to speak
in the district of Representative W. W.
Bailey, of Johnstown, Pa.
As soon as the president arrived at
the station the former secretary of
state entered Mr. Wilson’s private car
and the two shook hands. A large
crowd outside witnessed the greeting.
The men spoke together only a mo-
ment or two, then left the car.
The appearance of Mr. Bryan caused
a five-minutes’ delay in an automo-
bile tour of Pittsburgh arranged for
the president. Automobiles for the
president’s party were waiting outside
the station, and President and Mrs.
Wilson immediately entered one of
them. Mr. Bryan had been held back
by the crowd. Other members of the
president’s party got into the second
and third automobiles.
Seeing that Mr. Bryan had not been
By Associated Press,
Berlin, Oct. 20.—By wireless to Say-
ville.—The greater part of the trenches
on the road between Eaucourt l‛Ab-
baye qand Le Barque, which were cap-
tured by the ’British on Oct. 18, were
retaken yesterday by German troops
in an attack, according to the official
statement issued today at the German
army headquarters.
Attempts made by British detach-
ments to advance last1 night north of
Courcelette and east of Le Sars, the
statement adds, failed.
In the last great attack against the
German positions in the Somme re-
gion the British used several tanks
and three of them were destroyed by
the German artillery fire, the state-
ment declares.
German troops yesterday stormed im-
portant Russian positions with adjoin-
ing lines on the west bank of the
River Narayuvka, in Galicia, and re-
pulsed sanguinary counterattacks, says
the German official statement issued
today. The Germans captured 14 offi-
cers and 2,050 men and took 11 ma-
chine guns.
The statement reporting operations
in Russia and Galicia, says:
“Several Russian counterattacks
broke down with heavy losses in front
of the positions which we had gained
north of Sviniusky on the Stokhod
river.
“Southwest of Svistelniki, on the
west bank of Narayuvka the .German
FORECAST
For Galves-
ton and vicin-
ity: Tonight
fair, frost; Sat-
urday fair, not
so cold; light
northerly winds
becoming vari-
able.
For East
Texas: Tonight
fair, frost to
coast except in
lower Rio
Dallas, Tex., Oct. 20.—The mercury
here dropped to 34.3 during last night,
according to the weather bureau’s re-
port. There was considerable frost.
The sky cleared' during the night and
a bright sun this morning, with an
absence of the cold wind of yesterday,
made it pleasant.
The weather bureau reported the fol-
lowing temperatures last night from
various parts of the state: Abilene,
32; Amarillo, 28; Fort Worth, 34; Tay-
lor, 38; Houston, 40; Galveston, 46;
Corpus Christi, 50; San Antonio, 42, and
Hillsboro, 32.
By Associated Press.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 20.—The entire
southwest was in the grip of last
night’s storm wave, temperatures al-
most everywhere throughout Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
northern Texas setting new records
for this early in October, according to
the weather bureau reports here. The
thermometer fell in Kansas to below
20 degrees, in Missouri to 24, in Okla-
homa to 28 at Oklahoma, City, in north-
ern Texas to freezing, and in northern
Louisiana to 36 degrees.
Snow flurries, according to the re-
ports, swept over Kansas, Missouri
and northwestern Oklahoma. Although
the district everywhere is clear except
eastern Missouri, temperatures gen-
erally are not expected to get much
higher than 36 or 38 today.
Waco, Tex., Oct; 20.—A downward
slide of 22 degrees in the temperature
was had here this morning, the mer-
cury being 38, as compared with 60 at
7 a. m. yesterday. Heavy frost here
today.
By Associated Press.
St. Louis, Oct. 20.—Three bishops
addressing a joint session of the two
houses of the Protestant Episcopal
general convention today urged that
the church take an interest in social
service work.
Bishop Edward Lines, of Newark, N.
J., said it was a great mistake to bind
the. fortunes of the church with the
privileged classes and that a clergy-
man of the Church of England had
told him that mistake explained the
weakness of the Church of England to-
day.
Bishop Lines urged that the church
take an interest in prison reform,
child labor, temperance, the limitation
of the hours of labor, especially for
women.
Bishop Brewster, of Conecticut, said
that “the increasing interest in social
service is indicated by the pressure
of the finger of God on human life.
Shame on us if we fail to bear wit-
ness against social wrong!”
Bishop Guerry, of South Carolina,
said the church had a definite com-
mission to work in the interest of so-
cial reform.
All the speakers urged that the
church, in its social service work
should avoid political alliances.
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By Associated Press.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 20.—Crude
oil went back to its record price
here today when the principal pur-
chasing agencies, at the opening
of the market, announced an ad-
vance of ten cents a barrel on all
grades, but Ragland, which was ad-
vanced five cents. The new prices
are: Pennsylvania crude, $2.60; Ca-
bell, $2.12; Mercer Black, Corning
and Newcastle, $2.10; Somerest, $1,-
95; Ragland, 90 cents.
Refiners said it was impossible
to get the required quantity of
these grades of crude and the price
had again been raised in the hope
of increasing the supply. Pro-
ducers were openly talking $3 for
Pennsylvania crude when they
heard of the new quotations, and
others connected with the oil in-
dustry said they were' inclined to
agree with them.
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Last of Convicts Escaping From Sing
Sing Back in Cells.
Ossining, N. Y., Oct. 20.—The’ six
Sing Sing convicts who succeeded in
escaping from the prison yesterday
with the aid of an automobile truck,
were all returned to their cells today.
The last two to be captured, William
Anson and Alfred Steinhauer, were
found near Elmsford.
Officers and Men Go Over to National
Movement.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 20.—Twenty-five of-
ficers and six hundred men of the Ath-
ens garrison have gone over to thel
national movement and left for Salon-
iki. according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Atheis.
Newspapers announce, the message
adds, that Janina, in Greek Epirus,
also has gone over to the revolution-
ists. but official confirmation of this is
lacking.
Fe-"CE Grande valley;
*‛ Saturday fair,
not so cold.
For West Texas: Tonight fair, not
so-cold in Panhandle, frost; Satur-
day fair, rising temperature.
For Oklahoma: Tonight fair, not
so cold in northwest portion, freez-
ing; Saturday fair, rising tempera-
ture.
Winds on Texas Coast: Light
northerly becoming variable.
taken care of, Secretary Tumulty
stopped the short automobile parade*
just as it was getting under way. He
ran forward and talked briefly with
the president, then ran back and talked
with Mr. Bryan. The former secretary
of state, who left the president’s cabi—
‘net because of difficulties over for-
eign policies, said he preferred not to
disarrange the plans, and he and Sec-
retary Tumulty got in another auto-
mobile together. The president and
the other members of the party, in-
cluding Mr. Bryan, then left on an
hour-and-a-half ride through the parks
and the downtown section of Pitts-
burgh.
When the president and Mr. Bryan met,
each smiled as they shook hands. Mr.
Bryan said that he would ride on the
president’s train for a short distance,
in order to get into Mr. Bailey’s con-
gressional district .
Several brief stops between here and
Harrisburg were on the president’s
schedule today.
During the automobile ride in this
city the president was greeted at sev-
eral places by school children waving
American flags.
Mr. Bryan returned to the president’s
train a few minutes before the presi-
dent arrived.
“Where is Mr. Bryan?” asked the
president when he arrived.
The two sat and talked in the presi-
dent’s private car. On the ride the
president lost his hat and the automo-
bile was stopped while a secret service
man recovered it. A man, apparently
a workman with a bag of tools, jumped
on the running board of the automo-
bile, but was knocked off by a secret
service man. The man chased the pres-
ident’s conveyance for a block before
he was arrested by local detectives.
The prisoner gave the name of Rich-
ard Collon, aged 22, a machinist of
this city. On his-way to the police sta-
tion he told the police that he was
not at all satisfied with President Wil-
son’s conduct in the European war. In
the bag he carried a knife with a
blade five inches long and a bottle of
liquid the police are endeavoring to
analyze. Also in the bag were several
wood chisels.
The prisoner is held by the police for
observation.
Mr. Bryan, who has been making
speeches in support of President Wil-
son's re-election, said that he was gain-
ing strength constantly. Mr. Bryan
stated that his speeches for the pres-
ident had been very well received.
By Associated Press.
Serbian troops on. the western end
of the Macedonian front are reported
successfully continuing their vigorous
campaign for Monastir.
Through Paris today comes official
announcement of the capture of the
village of Velyeselo, within the bend
of the Cerna river southeast of Monas-
tir. The Bulgarians are said to have
suffered heavy losses, including 109
taken prisoners and three cannon and
to have been put to rout.
The Serbians pushed two miles north-
ward to Velyeselo after taking Brod,
capture of which was reported yester-
day, forcing their way over the heights
between two places. They are now
facing the third and final line of Bul-
garian defenses in this sector, accord-
ing to unofficial reports, having pierced
the second line in taking Brod and the
Vlyeselo positions.
The situation in Greece remains ex-
tremely confused. News dispatches
from Athens, long delayed in trans-
mission and "recording the develop-
ment of the situation there, only up
to Wednesday night, report turbulent
conditions in the Greek capital. Greek
TON TRIBUNE
By Associated Press.
Austin, Oct. 20.—The annual report of
State Land Commissioner Robinson
shows that during two years covered
by the report, 524 applications were
filed to prospect for oil, gas and other
minerals, and royalty on oil produc-
tion has amounted to $4,944.10 and from
surface use to $7,513.71. He states that
the law with reference to oil and gas
from the mineral statute is meeting all
requirements, but that the statute re-
lating to the metallic minerals and
other nonmetallic minerals is unsatis-
factory.
Patents issued to lands belonging to
the various funds numbered a total of
650,671 acres. Patent fees totalled $10,-
896. There are at this time about 61,626
open accounts of unpaid obligations on
various school and asylum funds. These
represent a total of 29,703,207 acres for
$47,976,761.
In the nonsettlement counties, 280,-
529 acres were sold for $440,843.03.
There now remains unsold in the non-
settlement counties, 923,992 acres which
have been advertised and offered to
the public upon terms already an-
nounced.
By Associated Press.
Amsterdam, Oct. 20.—Via London.
-—A demand for the stoppage of
submarine warfare coupled with
an appeal to the United States to
take the initiative towards that
end is voiced by the Telegraaf.
This paper says:
“Ten days have elapsed since
the submarine; war was carried to
the door of the American republic
and nothing has been done. Are
we to understand that our ships are
allowed to be torpedoed right on
the American coast? We say in
all frankness to America that
submarine war must be stopped and
Germany must be told that mis-
takes, which all the world knows
are not mistakes, will no longer
be tolerated. Let America speak
the redeeming word lest she rue
deeply in the future having neg-
lected a task plainly to/be expected,
from - the mightiest neutral.”
German Newspapers Comment on Pros-
pective Change.
By Associated Press.
London, Oct. 20.—German newspa-
pers say the visit of Baron Burian von
Rajecz, Austro-Hungarian foreign
minister, to the German army head-
quarters may be his last as foreign
minister, according to a dispatch from
Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph
company. The baron’s resignation is
impending, it is said, and his probable
successor will be Baron von Macchio,
Austro-Hungarian delegate at the
second Hague peace conference, or
Count Szecsen, who was the ambassa-
dor of Austria-Hungary to France at
the outbreak of the war.
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By Associated Press.
Ottawa, Oct. 20.—The terrific de-
struction wrought on the battlefields of
France is described in an official com-
munique from the Canadian war rec-
ords office, which has been made pub-
lic by Lieutenant General Sir Sam
Hughes, minister of militia. Inci-
dentally the commique reiterates the
claims of the British leaders in re-
gard to the superiority of the allies in
the air and in artillery, in the latter
respect, the Canadian officer says, the
allies firing five shells to the Germans’
one.
Describing the desolation caused by
the tremendous struggle, the com-
munique says:
“Never has human agency controlled
such enegies of destruction, nor has
war ever so profoundly impressed it-
self upon the face of nature. No plague
could be more ruthless, no blight more
blighting.”
After describing the peaceful scenes
in the rear of the battle line, the per-
fectly tilled fields, the farms cultivated
to the last inch of their available space,
and after paying a tribute to the
“brave, silent industry of the women,
the old men and the children of
France,” the communique continues:
“The transition from this scene of
beauty, peace and ancient prosperity
is infinitely distressing. Fields are
given over to the trampling rows of
tethered horses and are disfigured by
a, variety of encampments, from or-
dered white tents to huts of rusted
biscuit tins and low, discolored shacks
of nondescript material. This area of
active occupation gradually thins and
abuts a region of more sinister appear-
ance. Here trees have broken, bodies
and the houses seem in pain for their
roofs are rent, their windows gone,
their walls scarred and pierced. But
the full view of the land of war is
reached with the crossing of the bleak,
greasy slopes east of Albert, with their
chalks scars cut by the long lines of
trenches.
BEFORE LA BOISELLE.
“The view suddenly sweeps into the
valley, before La Boisselle. There were
the original German and British lines
on July 1. This was the outer wall,
the stoutly resisting shell of the de-
fense through which the indomitable
English had fought their way and so
permitted those who followed, other
English, Australians, South Africans
and Canadians, to come and deal their
blows. ।
“Of La Boisselle, there is more upon
the map than on the ground. A few
shattered trunks here and there, a
splintered beam, perhaps a cornerstone
or two. some cellars roofed with wreck-
age. Otherwise, only the upheaval of
tortured earth, mine craters, heaps of
rotting white sandbags, half choked
trenches and a dreary litter of old wire,
cans and human rubbish remain.”
In regard to the situation in the air,
the communique says:
“In this respect the British and
French domination is almost absolute.
Here, all day long, we watch our planes
circling above our heads. Closely 'they
come and go with the speed and alert-
ness of birds; far off they seem to hang-
suspended in the sky. Occasionally a
flight of five oi' more planes,'intent ■
upon some special mission,' go over
high up and disappear into the distant :
mist. So rarely do the German ma-
chines appear that some men who have '
been here daily for a month have not :
seen a single one.”
By Associated Press.
Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 20.—John
Skelton Williams, comptroller of the
currency, speaking here today before
the Farmers’ National congress, de-
scribed the relation of the federal re-
serve law to the farmer and closed
with a personal statement brought out
by President Wilson’s recent allusion
to attacks on the comptroller of the
currency.
“I see that our president, in an ad-
dress at Shadow Lawn,” said the comp-
troller, "tells the country that the
bankers, or certain bankers, or some
special interests, are after my official
scalp because I, as the comptroller of
the currency, have enforced the law.
This is no surprise to me.
“I know that I have been held up
as a kind of ogre, a raw head and
bloody bones, a terror to the banking
and financial interests of the country.
Maybe the best answer to that may be
found in the records of indisputable
facts, that the national banks of the
country today are stronger and in bet •
ter condition than ever before; that
they are more numerous than when I
became comptroller; are more prosper-
ous and show a smaller proportion of
(failures and ■ tosses than was ever
known in their history; and my office
is receiving a steady stream of appli-
cations for charters for new national
banks and for permission to increase
the capital of the existing banks.
“My official scalp, is not especially
dear to me. My business is to admin-
ister th® law and the law is justice put
into words.”
Mr. Williams said the new federal re-
serve law “will forbid the grasping
from using for their own advantage
the necessities of their neighbors,” and
that it puts the farmer on the same
plane as the business man.
CAN BORROW PROPERLY.
“The farmer,” he said, “is enabled to
borrow according to his industry and
commercial standing because his banks
know how and where to get the mon-
ey. It will not be possible to have
the money supply locked in the great
centers for speculation or gambling-
purposes, while the real produucers
and legitimate productive commerce
are pinched or denied, perhaps just at
the time of their most important need.”
Cries of back to the farm, he said,
were futile without promise of com-
fort and happiness and prospect.
“Put money or opportunity to earn
it.” he .said, “on the farms, and the
people will go to them fast enough
and stay with them. This is precisely
what the federal reserve system is do-
ing in a large measure, and we hope
the rural credits system will do it in
even larger measure.”
He told of the decentralization of
huge accumulations of money from the
few great centers and its transfer to
the federal reserve banks.
“God Almighty alone,” he said,
“knows how many strong men have
had strength, hope and power sapped
by unfair interest rates, how many
promising boys and girls deprived of
opportunity and driven to worthless-
ness and crime by the same direful, in- ,
exorable power. •
“This is the first time since the be- ■
ginning of the national banking system
half a century ago that the farmer has .
been able to borrow on the security of
his farm from any national bank.” ,
Interest rates had been lowered in
n any sections, the. comptroller said. (
By Associated Press,
New York, Oct. 20.—Gold pins
made in the form of bees, emblemat-
ic of industry, have been adopted
by the German Housewives society
here as awards to faithful do-
mestic servants and twenty-four
, young women are today the proud
possessors of them. The pins were
awarded to all woman Servants em-
ployed by members of the society
for two years. Eighteen others
employed for longer terms re-
ceived gold rings, umbrellas or
gold coins. The distribution was
made yesterday when the society
gave a kaffe klatch in honor of
their faithful service.
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