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Show 4T If You Bought a Diamond SECRETARY DANIELS DISCLOSES SECOND THREE YEAR PROGRAM OF SHIP CONSTRUCTION Would Build Ten Additional Six Battle Cruiser and 140 Smaller Vessels at Cast ef MAKERS OF JE WELRY we mv nam $vj use cjtt Super-Dreadnought-s, -- $600,000,000. IN USED w4 M m amlac e0Aitlo-a- $. CufuiMt rwm ar nti VH,UaciDei. RasdaB-DodWrit Ami um U hi AtuiiM ka Washington. Congress has been asked by the navy department to authorize g second three-yea- r .naval building program tb provide ten add! Uonal six battle cruisers and 140 smaller vessel at a cost of $300,000,0(10. This was disclosed Tuesday by Sece retary Daniels after hi before the House naval committee to explain the appropriation. This authorization is asked for the next fiscal year and Is In addition to the 150 naval vessels comprising the Ms c)m Of 4 ' Ada Co. W Uki Chv d FIRST - CARS OUmoMs USE OF super-dreadnaught- s, GAS IN WAR apjs-aranc- In Crude Form That Weapon Wat Employed Centurlea Before the Coming f QhrjsL . The earliest use of deleterious' gases In ales warfare la recorded In the history of the relopopnefilan wars, from 31 404 B. C. During .this straggle between the Athenians end Spartans and their respective allies' the titles of relates and Dollura were besieged,' Wood saturated with ' pitch and sulphur was set on fire and burned under the walls of these titles In order taj generate choking and polkmoua fumes, which would stupefy the defenders and make the task of attacking forces less difficult Anothef form of tb game method of attack about this date was to fill a caldron with moltetj pitch, mlphur and burning charcoal, and to blow the fumes with the sid of a primitive form of beTlows and air. blast over the defenders' lines. first ud Creek-fire- , 1 about which much wa$ heard In the warn of the middle ages, was a liquid, the composition of which Is now unknown, that was spurted through the air, chiefly In sea fights, la order to set firs to the ships of the enemy, and It was used by the Byzsn-tin- e Creeks at the aleges of Constantinople la the years 1261 and 1412. INSECT POWDER GROWN HERE Americans Lest No Time in Developing Industry Once the Secret Wee Discovered. , . Ia ear grandfathers day the so called rerelnn Insect powder (commonly sold nowadays under the name of pyrethrum") cost $18 a pound, rretty dear for a bug-kille- r. The stuff wna a mystery. Beyond the fact that it was of 1 Vegetable nature, nobody knew what It was. matter of fact,, )t came from As Transcaucasia, where its production was a very Important industry. For centuries It had been widely used In Asiatic countries, and the source of the material was a secret carefully kept t Eventually the secret was revealed three-yea- r building program au- thorized In 1018 and the great number of new destroyers and other special tyjK-- s contracted for since the United States entered the war. Work on the first three-yea- r program was delayed by the war, but Congress has required. thst s start must he made on all the vessels before next July I. Including the $800, (XK), 000 for the three-yea- r program Secretary Daniels said the total estimates of the department for ship construction, including armor and armament, amount this year to $072,000,000, Only $200,000,000 of the $000,000,000 will he made available next year for construction work on the three-yea- r program. In addition to $372,0; KJ.OoO, asked for completing vessels already authorized. HUNS BOMB U. S. HOSPITAL Cowardly Germans Vent Spit Upon Wounded Back of Lines j Paris. News has been received from the American army northwest of Verdun that in retaliation for the destruction wrought by American bombing plane. within the enemy's lines recently, Herman aviators Monday night raided the American front and back sreas In the largest force since the American offensive began on the Meuse and In the Argonne.- - In addition to attacking the Infantry, the Germans bombed the region around Cleraout, Montfaucon and Itareccmrt, Four bombs were drop) ted near the American hospital In the. neighborhood of 11a recourt, one of the bomba tearing down an outbuilding. The glass ends of four former French barracks, now used by the Americans as hospital wards were shattered. A Bed Cross nurse, Margery Sawyer of Buffalo, N. Y was blown from her bed, but was not Injured. AH the patients were taken to dugouts, none of them being Injured. floWer-head-a of a ply the ground-uplant nearly related to our own field daisy. 1 Later on, attempts were made to the plant In the United States, but the seeds refused to sprout This (as finally ascertained) was duo to the circumstance that the persons from whom they were bought had baked p them. At the present time we grow all out own Insect powder in California, Onion Taken Off Pedestal. medical suAnother Tb been has exploded. perstition odorous onion can never again be Clash of Authority Seriously Menaces Bolshevik Rule. Stockholm, The clash Of authorltj between ,tbe commissions of Russia and the control and local soviet organizations has become so serious as to show that H Is the predominant menace to the dictatorship of the proletariat, according to Information brought . here by travel-era- . -- counter-revolutionar- y Peters, head of the commission to has besuppress come more powerfut than the national counter-revolution- s, councils of commissaries.' Even Nik-ta- l Lenlne, the Bolshevik premier, was nimble to save men he did not wish executed by the Peters commission. The Red Terror spread from Moscow bus become a monster which Lenlne and' other milder members of the central government cannot control g . Briey-Longw- y - fields. Flower Friends. Flowers cost so little and they mean no nsuch. W e need not go to Me florists for our messengers. fash One lose bought from a tray on the street, may mean more than the hand- somest design on Fifth avenue. It Is tifcse little things,' these beautiful personal expressions, that make our flow- while- JBjt they must have jncsageJor they! can rfe t cl VT f re t IC" ers worth that New Ybrk Telegram. Destructive Grasshopper. Nowendoe, N. S..W., Is periodically plngued with grasshoppers, and dnr-i- : the local hen eggs cang their eaten. Yolk and white are not Mood-rod- , a result of the fowls swal' lowing the Insects. vi.-dt-s 1 1 - -- one-fourt- A THE DECT MEDICINE FOE COUGHS AND COLDS t I Ever Kiss Jrjr Gray, rairriew, Kentucky, writes: Saw and "I ha vs takenIt Rerun a, fesst U th that saf colds and I tnsdtcia for Would i coughs I a that tt alwars lsttar hrsathstf a teU ta a afcart whlla. It hopMissto Gray's th ailing. Zt Is an Inalso streafthsas and builds up ta ejrs tsm." spiration to th sick and la firm. ever saw. ,m , Liaid of Tablet fold Everywhero One Dose of the Guaranteed Blackleg Vaccine' TO PROTECT A CALF FOR Lira MJ br Dr. O. M. FrrcikSn. th erleSator. is GUARANTEED fosr yssrs ea vnr anuiBoa cahwi yj ear lor AGAINST BLACKLEG, tt has stood tbs knsevsrreaafidsaosls tt. IV E BACK THAT CONFIDENCE with a WRITTEN Guarantee ros flftresnupsvdosa. Or will snd roa th SAME VACCINE tab ! ONE QUALITY OP VACC1N1 tortfcsatipar do wttba th GuirmUs. W auk ONLY Ejrrtae for kjeettne. 2.50. Writ s about ti. tt ser jE THE KANSAS BLACKLEG SERUM CO. lie Stock Eukai Bids. DENVER, mi Lock Lovelier Than Lily. Probably Didn't one good thing la "There not are usually regarded Adam." Vegetables a subject for eloquence. - But Sr What la thatr Charles Wakefield certainly attained never wore his trousers turned "He some fine flights recently on tbe preOb" . . and of fruit sentation of a basket Lonof lord to the mayor vegetables MCoId In the H6uT N don. The master of the Gardeners an Is of Nasal Catarrh. Per. aeuts company first declared that the pos- sons who arstuck to frequent colds subject almost an was session of aa allotment In th head will find that the na of CATARRH MEDICINE will certain test of good citizenship, and, HALLS build no th System, deans th Blood growing alliterative In his enthusiasm, and render them less tlabl to rolda said be saw more beauty In the potato Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh mar to Chronic Catarrh. than In a Tansy, more loveliness In a lead HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE la tak. leek than in a lily, more honor, in cul- en Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the Sywtera. tivating the humble cabbage thaa in Drurrlat 75c. Testimonials free. 1106.00 for any case of catarrh that causing the cultured carnation to furHALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will not ther displays of pride. It Is to be cure. F. I. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. noted, however, that the delegation to which Sir Charles acted as spokesman Why Visitor Left Hurriedly.1 presented the lady mayoress with a Willie (to talkative cailcr bunch of orchids and not o $ leeks such Well, as Sir Charles statements might have now that' jouve come, I sappnse I shall have to go for a doctor. led the lady Jo expect Talkative Caller Why, Willie? Willie Father says you always Discouraged Frenchmen. A Frenchman complained that he make him 11L 800 11 bad difficulty in learning English. He Life is a great map, and most of ns said that after he had learned to pronounce typhoid fever" k doctor pro- are vainly trying to figure out the scale of mjlea. nounced It fataL . h . M. used as a therapeutic sgbnt la tuberculosis. Old timers who have sworn by the virtues of this product have humbugged themselves, for the onion has beet GERMAN HOSTAGE CITIES. classified, analyzed Investigated, eol everything else has been done Foch Will Demand Three to It that the learned men. of sci- ExpectedCities in Case of Armistice. Key ence could think of, and in the end 'London. If an armistice shall come It was found to be only an onion out of the peace parleys, It is expected of- some, pleasing to the palates Gerhowever displeasing .to the noses of Marshal Foch will demand three man cities Metz, Strnssburg and their friends, hut absolutely and Coblenz the key to Gerstrategic unqualifiedly without any medicinal allied be troops as by many occupied make qualities or proprieties that It an aid In the treatment of tuber- guarantees. Possession of these key The white plague victims points would give the allies two great culosis. over the Rhine and they may rs wrell use boiled potato peel- bridgeheads have would also pen roads onto the or beet tops' for aS the good ings German Besides, plains. they would It will do them. Iron and coal control the Remember s, P-EHUM- -- RED TERROR IN RUSSIA. by an Armenian merchant who, traveling through Transcaucasia, discovered that the Insect powder was sim- tear-producin- m il BOYD PARK nn-Bsir- tn, This outpouring ef generosity In material things has been accompanied by IVIIAT s spontaneity In the giving, by an end a devotion in the doing, are greater and bigger after'aQ, which, than could be anything measured In terms of time or dollar It has been because of this spirit which bss pervaded all American Red in this war tlmt,the ago Report cf War CouncH Surelf Cross effort. governor of one of the stricken and Will Thrill the Hearts of battered provinces of France stated long since thst. though France had pot Al) Americans. long known of Americas greatness, strength and enterprise, it remained for the American Red Cross In this war WOMEN --GIVEN HIGH TRIBUTE to reveal Americas heart In this country, at this moment the workers of the Red Cross, through Its Contributions of Materials and Tim chapters, are helping to add to the Been Have comfort and' health of the millions of Practically Unending our soldiers In 102 camps and canton-'incut7 Done Work Figures ell as welt as of those traveling on Various fcy the Chapters. railroad trains or embarking on ships October 23 the 3,854 chapters of the for duty overseas. The home service of the Red Cross, Red Cross held their annual meetings to elect officers and make report. To with Its now more than 40,000 workers. Is extending Its ministrations of symbe read at ail these meetings through out the United States, the Red Cross pathy and counsel each month to upWar Council sent the following an wards of 100,000 families left behind number aual messagf covering the work of by soldiers at the front ever growing with the increase of our the Bed Cross for the past year: To the Chapters of the American Red men under arms. Cross : But, of course, the heart of the Red The War Council sends greetings to Cross and Its money and attention althe chapters of the American Red ways move toward and focus themCross oo the occasion of their annual selves in Europe where the American Red Cross, as truly the greatest mothmeetings for 1018. With these greetings go congratulaer la the world," Is seeking to draw a tions on the great work of the chapters vast net of mercy through ta ocean of during the past year and, above all unspeakable pain." Red Cross Worth Recognized. things, on the wonderful spirit of sacrifice and patriotism which haa perNothing Is withheld that' can be vaded that work. given over there to supplement the The strength of the Red Cross rests efforts of our army and navy la caring upon It chapters. They are Us bone for our own boys. The Red Cross does and sinew. They supply Its funds, not pretend to do the work of the they supply its men aud women, they medical corps of the army or the navy ; supply its enthusiasm. Let us, then, its purpose is to help and to supplereview together the Red Cross storv ment of the past year. Nor does the Red Cross seek to Some Idea of the size to which your glorify what it does or those who do Red Cross family has grown may be It; our satisfaction Is in the result, which, we are assured by Secretary gathered from the following facts: On May I, 1917, Just before the. ap- Baker, General Pershing, General Irepointment of the War Council, the land and all our leaders. Is of inesAmerican Red Cross had 488,194 memtimable value and of indispensable Imbers working through 5G2 chapters. portance. . On July 31, 1918, the organization .By the. first of January your Red numtered 20,048.103 annual members, Cross will have working in France upbesides 8,000,000 members of the wards of 5,000 Americans s vivid Junior Red Cross a total enrollment contrast to the little group of eighteen of over the population of men and women which, as the first Red Cross commission to France, sailed the United States, Since the beginning of the war you about Jjiw 1, 1917, to initiate our efof the chapters have with forts in Europe. Under your commission to France the War Council in conducting two war fund drives and one membership drive. the woik has been carefully organized, In addition to the campaign on behalf facilities have been provided, and effective efforts made to so of the Junior Red Cross. The total actual collections to date with the army as to carry out the determination of th American people, from the first war fund have amounted to more than $115,000,000. The sub- and especially of the members of the scriptions to the second war fund Red Cross, that our boys "over there" amounted to upwards of $176,000,000. shaH lack for nothing which may add From meraiterchlp dues the collec- to their safety, comfort and happiness. Your Red Cross now has active, options have amounted to approximately $24,500,000, erating commissions la France, in England, la Italy, la Belgium, In SwitzerSplendid Work Don by Wome.Y la Palestine and in Greece. You To the foreglng must be added that land, tiave sent a ahlplond of relief supplies very large contribution of materials and a of devoted workers to and time given by the millions of wom- northerngroup you have dispatched Russia; en throughout the country in surgical a commission to work behind our armdressings. In knitted articles, in hos- ies in eastern Siberia; you have sent pital and refugee garments. In canteen to Denmark, to special representatives work, and the other activities the chap- Serbia and to the Island ef Madeira. ters have been called upon to perform. Carries Message ef Hope. It is estimated that approximately Y our RC2 4oss is thus extending re8,000,000 women are engaged In canteen work and the production of relief lief to the armies and navies of our allies ; and you are carrying a practical supplies through the chapters. For the period up to July L 191 S, message of hope and relief to the American Red Cross chapters, through friendly peoples of afflicted Europe and Asia. their workrooms, had produced : Indeed, we are told by those best In490,120 refugee garments. formed In the countries of our allies 7,123,821 hospital supplies. that the efforts of your Red Cross to 10,788,489 hospital garments. aid the soldiers and to sustain the 10,134,501 knitted articles. morale of the civilian populations left 192,748,107 surgical dressings. A total of 221,282,838 articles of an at home, esjteclally in France and estimated aggregate value of at least Italy, Live constituted a very real.fac-to- r In winning the war. $44,000,000. The veil has already begun tc lift were These articles largely the The defection of Bulgaria, which by women's of the hands, and, by product same token. Infinitely more precious tbe time this message can be read may than could have been the output of have been followed by events still more factories or machines. These articles portentous, may point the way to yet Red Cross opportunity and obgoing to the operating room of the hos- greater The cry from Macedonia" to ligation. pitals, to homeless or needy refugees, come and will probably prove one help and carrying comfort te our own boys In the field, convey a message of love of the most appealing messages to which tbe world has ever listened. from the women of this country entireWhat the Red Cross may be called ly distinct from the great money value to do in the further course of the upon attaching to their handiwork. or with the coming of victory, war, Money Spent In Work. peace and reconstruction, it would be By the terms under which theflrst ldleto attempt to prophesy, Red Cross war fund was raised, the But your great organization, ta very chapters were entitled to retain 25 per truth tbe mobilized heart and spirit cent of the amount collected. In order of the whole American people," has defray local expenses, to carry on their shown Itself equal to any call, ready to home sendee work, to purchase ma- respond to any emergency. terials to be utilized In chapter'produe of All Best and Highest. Spirit tion and otherwise to meet the numerThe American Red Cross has become ous calls made upon them. The chap- not so much an organization as a great ters were thus entitled to retain nearly movement, to embody in organseeking $29, (MX), 000. As a matter of fact, their ized the spirit of service, the actual retentions amounted to only spirit of sacrlllov In short, all that is about $22,000,000. best and highest in the ideals and aspiration ef our country: bershlps, the chapters have retained Indeed we cannot but belief that about $11,000,000, this wonderful spirit which service In From this total sum. the refora, of and for the Red Cross has e?oked ia retal ned by: The chapters they Ibis war. is destined to become la our have met all the oftentimes very heavy national life an element of permanent local demands upon them, and in addivalue. tion have provided for use by national At Christmas time we shall ask the - RED GROSS 6evcraJ years ago, it U now worth much more than you paid for It. If you da not own one, you should con. aider the purchase of one at once. They are advancing in fcrlce ail the time. We are showing exceptional values, and our guarantees protect you. BARGAINS r Regard -- Him Note as Crafty. Paris. The German reply to President Wilson note Is considered on every side as denoting that a spirit of depression and demoralization pervades Germany. Concerning the reference to the conditions f evacuation and armistice, the note is regarded to oulv, wToT., cHifu-- - Slacker Convicted. Los Angeles, Cal. Roln-r- t recently arrested In Venezuela, as a suspected draft evader was declared guilty of wilful desertion and ordered turned over to the military authorities hy a local draft tard. titon. , Accused t. W. W. Dies. Origin cf "Lawyer Sacramento. Edward Burns, one of The word lawyer is said by authorities to be a modification of the old eighty alleged Industrial Workers of law- "law-weliterally jjjj. World, awaiting trial here Noem-he- r English 12 on a charge of conspiring 1o r n, the second portion of the word t: obstruct the war activities of the gov- j r: erumeiit is dead from Influenza. r, -- - If anyone thinks there is no competition amongst the big packers he ought to go through a day's $33,-000.0- heaTjquarterspmtrrts- rntTredTay The chapters havv In effect retorned to the War Council, not aione the retained opt of the war fund membershio dues but. In value- - of actual product, an additional contribution of at least $H,0oO.0oo. Tt will thus bceu seen that during the eighteen months which have elapsed since the United Slates entered the war, the Americun people will have el t?ier mid in or pledged t the American Red Cross fur Its vrk of relief throughout the world, in money or in imperial values, a net tot! cf at least $525.1 MM $33.-000.0- work With Swift & Company. Let him begin at the pens when the live stock comes in; let him try to buy a nice bunch of fat steers quietly and at his own price without somebodys bidding against him. Let him realize the scrupulous care &t the plant that not one thing is lost or wasted in order that costs may be held to a minimnm, Let him go up into the' office where market reports are coming in, and reports of what other concerns are doing. Let him watch the director of the Swift Refrig-- , erator fleet, maneuvering it over the face of the country like a fleet of battleships at sea. Lgt him take a trip with a Swift & Company salesman and try to sell a few orders of meat Let him stay at a branch bouse for an hour or two and see the retail meat dealers drive their bargains to the last penny as they shop around among die packers branch houses, the wholesale dealers, and the local packing plants. And then, when the day is over, let him have halfan hour in the accounting department, where hecaa-'See' himself , business Is' done. (Less thaa 4 cents on each dollar of sales.) If he stm thinks there b no competition In the haeat business it win be because he wants to think so. , f-- 000. IJvlng- - No Competition? , stated a love,at upwards of senre. Do You Think There is -- en'WhaL-emaILprefifivthe Red Cross Christmas roll calL It will constitute a unique appeal to- - every man, woman and child in this great land of ours to become enrolled in our army of mercy. It ts the hope of the War Council that this Christmas, membership roll call shall constitute a reconseeration of the a hole American people, su inspiring reassertion to mankind that in this hour of world tragedy, t u eon quer but to serve is .America's suprein aim. r.,-- Tin: war cocnciloftAi: ICAS RED CROSS. , u- - Iit-nr- I tv am hr. Chairman: 1 Swift & Company, U. S. ' A |