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Show History of Past Week The News Happenings of Seven Days Paragraphed INTERMOUNTAIN Portland's supply of wool yarn for soldiers sweaters will be exhausted by Jlay 1 unless society girls quit using the yarn to knit golf sox, lied Cross officials have announced. President I). D. McKay of the Utah state farm bureau has inaugurated a movement that has for Its object the solution of the farm labor problem. It Is expected that a labor conference for the various farm bureaus will be held In Salt Lake about conference time to discuss the matter. When potatoes are cheap plant potatoes, is advice now being given to the farmers of Utah by Mark H. Greene of the Utah Agricultural college, field agent in marketing. And because this spring is witnessing a slump in the price of potatoes, now is the time to prepare for a big acreage of potatoes. A jury in the district court at Denver found Frank II. Mulligan, a former city detective, guilty of robbing Mrs. Irene Nolan, Denver society woman, of jewelry valued at $3400 in a holdup at the Model roadhouse. Aaron Hansen of Honeyville, Utah, was electrocuted Friday near hisliome. Mr. Hansen was engaged in cutting down trees near the line furnishing light and power for Honeyville and near-btowns when a tree fell on the wires, one of the wires striking Hansen. Descendants to the number of 119 assembled at the Marriott meeting house at Marriott, Utah, to observe the ong hundred and first birthday of John Marriott. Mrs. Leola Jeffers was held to answer to the Utah authorities by Justice Hinshaw at Los Angeles on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of Ruth McGrath, 1.4 years old, by inducing her on February 8 to leave Utah and pome to Los Angeles, DOMESTIC New Jerseys experiment of ridding the human hive of its drones, was inaugurated Saturday by Governor Edge when he issued a proclamation calling upon the police power of the state to enforce the provisions of the recent act. The Michigan war preparedness board has closed a contract with Henry Ford for 1000 farm tractors, to be delivered May 1. The tractors will be resold to Michigan farmers without profit. Reports received by Brig. Gen. Chauncey B. Baker, head of the war departments motor transport division, show that ninety factories are working to capacity on the standardized parts for the Liberty truck and that the entire program will have been completed before August 1. Two more persons are expected to die as the result of the collapse of a moving picture house at Winchester, Ky. The total loss of lives thus far is placed at eleven. Eight hundred women in dance halls at Omaha signed a pledge to give up dancing one night a week and devote that time to Red Cross work. For one little pig, which he picked up on the roadside while riding in an automobile, George Lynn of Chicago will pay dearly. He was found guilty of theft by a jury and faces sentence of from two to fourteen years in prison. The kaiser has no more chance of winning the war than a celluloid cat has of catching an asbestos rat in hell, said Senator Kenyon of Iowa in an address at Baltimore before members of the Maryland League for National Defense. An average reduction of 30 cents a ton in the retail price of all anthracite coal sold for domestic use between next April 1 and September 1 was announced March 8 by the fuel adminI y Victor Berger, former congressman, and four other of the countrys lending Socialists, have been indicted, being accused of conspiring to violate the espionage act, in circulating attacks on the war wilfully to cause lnsubfirdlna-tiodisloyalty and refusal of duty In the milltnry and naval forces and obstruct recruiting and enlistment. Dr. James M. Munyon of Philadelphia, noted patent medicine manufacturer, who posted There is hope" on the billboards from coast to coast, died at Palm Beach, Fla., March 10, of heart failure. Two boys were killed and six others injured, two probably fatally, when' they were caught under a lulling wall as fire swept a warehouse at Philadelphia. WASHINGTON President Wilson and his advisers, according to apparently authentic reports at 'the capitol, are beginning to consider new revenue legislation for presentation to congress. Income tax regulations for farmers, Issued by Internal Revenue Commissioner D. C. Roper, provide that all gains, profits or Income received in 1917 from sale or exchange of farm products, whether raised on the farm or purchased and must be included In the return. of the During the first war ending March 6, the department of labor has handled 807 industrial controversies affecting directly 1,200,000 workers, the department announced on March 8. Of these 539 were adjusted by the department alone, while 109 were settled by state and local boards of mediation with the assistance of the department. Designating May 7 as an international memorial day for those losing their lives in the war, against Prussian autocracy was proposed in a resolution introduced by Senator Poindexter of Washington. Partial centralization of the purchasing, of between $1,000,000,000 and worth of railroad supplies and equipment this year under government supervision, ''is involved in a plan for organizing the railroad administrations division of finance and purchases announced by Director General n, 6ooks-An- d Ai Getting Theme re-sol- d, eleven-month- s Mc-Ado- o. FOREIGN The Grand Duke Michael, brother of the former czar, was arrested at Petro-gra- d after the discovery of a German plot to restore the monarchy and place" him on the throne. A number of Russian officers and Georgian cavaliers were also arrested. Germany is deliberately seeking to provoke hostility with Scandinavia, it is asserted. Her ultimate object is the control of the Scandinavian peninsula and the establishment of a naval base in one of the magnificent deepwater, harbors of the Nornaturally defended ' coast. wegian The past fortnights fighting by the American troops in France in the different sectors of the west front shows conclusively the importance of the United States army in the world war and proves that it will be a powerful factor on the front from the very start. Government troops have suffered a severe reverse through the capture of Chengtu, capital of the province of by forces from Yunnan and Kweichow, provinces bordering on the south of Newton D. Baker, the American secretary of war, with a staff of seven persons, arrived at a French port on Sunday on an American armorqd cruiser. The party was met at the pier by a French general, representing the French army. Secretary Baker will make a tour of the American front. Germany is massing troops, accumulating large quantities of material and making other extensive preparations opposite the American sector at Toul, with the view apparently to undertake extensive operations at these points. , Ten thousand cane field laborers in the eastern end of the island of Porto Rico are on strike, causing the closing down of three sugar centrals. The men declare they are tired of waiting for action by the labor officials. The seriousness of the cost of living problem in Germany is shown in figures announced by the department of labor, which states that 52.14 per cent of the average German familys expenditures is paid for foods. istration. Augusto Leguia, former president of Five of thirty Mexican bandits who Peru, has been named as candidate for raided the Tom East ranch, south of the presidency by Juan Oyarzabal in Hebronville, Texas, have been killed by the chamber of deputies. President Prados term of office expires in posses headed by Texas rangers. Property in the United States owned August of next year. The Chilean government has not yet by the kaiser himself, former Chanthe determined what disposition shall be cellor von Bethmann-HollweGerman junkers generally and the made of the German sailors German government itself will be the who have been brought into a Chilean first to go under the hammer under port by the schooner Faloon. These the plans of A. Mitchell Palmer, alien men are part of the crew of the Gerproperty custodian, to sell German-owne- d man auxiliary cruiser Seadler, which property to the highest bidder. after a lengthy career as raider, went A bomb, which made much noise and aground on one of the Southern Pacific smoke, but caused little damage, was islands. Leon Trotzky, in an address at a set off at the side entrance of the uncompleted A1 H. Woods theatre and meeting of the Maximalist party on office building at Chicago while the March 8, announced that he had redowntown streets were crowded. signed as minister for foreign affairs. v anti-loafin- Soldiers Wanf g Sze-Chue- n, ; Sze-Chue- . g, fifty-eig- ht TYWCAJL JL&RARY BILDWG CAT?3 7 Ax AT BRIGHTEN the dull hours of American soldiers and sailors, whether they be at training camps, on warcraft, on transports or back of the trenches in France, the American Library Association War Service has turned loose a stream of books which is destined to become one of the most powerful factors in winning the fight for liberty. Already the efforts of the association have been crowned by signal success and this, in spite of the fact that as late as the end of last summer it had nothing but a concrete plan and a determination to put that Idea into operation. Since the association set for itself the task of putting into the hands of the soldiers and sailors the books it felt they needed and would appreciate it has, by an intensive campaign carried on last autumn, raised a million and a half dollars; has procured, through donation and by purchase, more than hal a million books which it has assorriqd and sent out ; with the $320,000 donated by the Carnegie corporation for the purpose, has erected camp library buildings in 34 camps and has others in the course of construction; has opened a dispatch station at one of the points of embarkation from which books are being shipped to France and has got together a force of trained workers to carry out its plans on a gigantic scale. The headquarters of the American Library Association War Service are at the library of congress. Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian of congress, is the director. Assistants to the director are Carl H. Milan, librarian of the public library of Birmingham, Ala., and Joseph L. Wheeler, librarian of the public library of Youngstown, O. George B. Utley of Chicago, secretary of the American Library association, is executive secretary of the war service. William A. Slade, head of the periodical division of the library of congress, and P. L. Windsor, director of the library school of the University of Illinois, are also on the headquarters staff. Keep Down Expense. It has been the determination of Doctor Putnam and his associates in the war work to keep overhead expenses down to a minimum. Much of the most important work of the service is being done by volunteers and experts drawn from libraries all over the country who are working only for the salaries they receive from their regular occupations. The standard salary of the camp librarians is $100 a month, and by obtaining board at the Y. M. C. A. or at the camp mess the cost of subsistence is held to a low figure. To the war service the most gratifying result of its work so far is the tremendous demand for books, a demand so great and so wide in Its range as to prove conclusively to the association that it has a definite field of endeavor and one which Is bringing untold happiness to thousands of men. At all the camp libraries a system of book requests has been Installed and It is giving accurate Information on what the men want to read. To the great surprise of the older army officers the draft men are calling continuously for serious books. Fiction naturally leads, but not by so wide a margin as one who gave but casual thought to the matter might surmise. For example, a day's record at the camp library at Camp Meade, Md., the following subjects were represented : French history, mechanics and strategy In war, vehicles, hand grenades, field entrenchments, bridges, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology, hydraulics, electricity, medieval history, calculus, civil engineering, geography, American history, survey-ng- , materials of construction, general ory, masonry, concrete. O . self-propell- AT GAAZPAZhVS Burton E. Stevenson, the author, who is camp librarian at Camp Sherman, O., says that the first three requests that came to him were, first, for a book on the valuation of public utilities; second, for a book on conservation of national resources, and, third, for a Roumanian dictionary. He supplied the first two and later furnished the Roumanian dictionary. t A young soldier walked into Mr. Stevensons office and asked for a book on motors. Mr. Stevenson found one which looked highly technical. The young soldiers turned over the leaves and handed It back. "Shucks, he said, I drew the pictures for this book. I ant something more advanced. Mr. Stevenson promptly sent for a more advanced book. Public Libraries Help. A system of borrowing books from public libraries all over the country has proven a great aid to the camp librarians and they have been making the most of this privilege. All the libraries are doing their bit toward making the leisure hourp of the soldiers happy by lending the camps what they need. The camp librarians have found out that an extremely high percentage of the soldiers want to study. Most of them are ambitious to rise and are taking advantage of the opportunities offered them by the American Library association to read serious books. Because of the demand for serious literature the association has determined to speDd most of the money It has for serious books and to look to the public to donate fiction and light literature. In the near future it will launch an in-tensive campaign for gift books. Judging from' the freedom with which the public has given books so far the association has no misgivings as to the outcome of its campaign. The reason the campaign has not been made before is that the association wanted to perfect its organization and arrange for the prompt handling of the great flood of books it is expecting. So far the standard of books donated lias been high. Few persons have shown an inclination to rid their library shelves of useless volumes at the expense of the soldiers and sailors. On the contrary, the best books have been .given. Occasionally undesirable books are sent it, but they are promptly thrown away by the librarian. In fact, those who might be inclined to send such books may as well save the energy it would take to dispatch them. They will never reach the soldiers. Before its camp library buildings were completed the association distributed its books through the chaplains of the Y. M. G. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Red Cross and other organizations, which gladly volunteered to handle them. These organizations are still assisting in camp distribution by receiving books at their stations. The A. L. A. has established its own automobile delivery system at all the camps where its libraries have been completed, and daily deliveries are made to all of these branches" ' r and stations. The men are allowed to take books out of the library and keep them from a week to two weeks. There' is no penalty attached to overtime retention of a boob. In fact, penalties are not necessary, for the men appreciate the books so thoroughly that they are assisting the camp librarians in every possible manner. Sending Books to France. With its system of camp librarians well organized, the American Library Association War Service is gradually ' developing its overseas service. By establishing a dispatch station it has begun a systematic distribution of books to soldiers and sailors on overseas duty. From the dispatch office books are being sent to naval vessels of all classes and are being placed aboard army transports for the soldiers back of the trenches. The Y. M. C. A. has arranged to put on transports book cases holding about 125 volumes each. Books foi; these cases are being supplied by the A. L. A. which later will supply the cases also. These collections will be used as circulating libraries on the voyage and will be emptied at the port of debarkation in France, returning to America to be refilled. The work of distributing the books in France will bedone by the chaplains, the Y. M. C. A the Knights of Columbus, the Red Cross and the Y. W. C. A., The A. L. A. will not attempt to set up libraries in France. Dr. M. L. Raney, librarian of Johns Hopkins university, has gone to France as representative of the A. L. A. His main responsibility will be to make certain that the books arriving in France get into the hands of the men. The A. L. A. War Service wishes also to arrange with the war department to add to the flow of books to France by having every soldier that goes across carry a book with him, a book that he and his companions will read on the way over and then hand to the Y. M. 0. A. representatives upon his arrival, to be sent to other soldiers. - Cheap Liquid Sugar The sugar shortage has encouraged Louisiana planters to broaden the use of pure cane sirup, which Is made from cane Juice, without taking out any of its sugar. This Juice is boiled to a point Just below that required to crys talize It into sugar, and can be used not only for griddle cakes and candy making, but it is recommended by the and planters as a sweetening for coffee tea. It Is practically sugar in a liquid a form, and on a basis of eight cents will for sugar retail granulated pound 50 per cent, yield economies of 40 to flva at a price of four and cents a pound for sirup. one-ha- lf |