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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Treasury Issues $800,000,000 Long Term Bonds cause of Big Deficit Teague Retires From Federal Farm Board. Be- By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1 "TMlOUGH the United States la popularly sup posed to be the richest nation on earth- - the sovernmeut Is "up against ! flirt 'if' inonn. ng a billion dollar with the deficit, prospect of anoth- - 3 " 'V" Lm i . ? ' during the next vear. The treas- Andrew Ury, therefore, Is Mellon about to Issue long term bonds for $S00,0O0,O0O, bearing 3! per cent Interest. This Is in lieu of an Increase In taxes, which probably will not be asked until after next year's Presidential election If at all. The reason for this course Is obvious. It Is expected that there will be further bond issues, as well as borrowings on short time certificates of Indebtedness. The public debt, which had been steadily reduced since 1923, now begins to climb up- In other respects the outlook Is not bad. "Farm crops," says the report, "are recovering from the effects of the continued cool weather. Winter wheat prospects have been Improved. Fruit prospects ore generally reported fair to good. Live stock growers appear to be keeping up herds and flocks despite somewhat adverse conditions In feed prospects In several sections." VIRGIN . fls-c- ward again. This bond Issue announced by Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon Is the largest peace time offering of long term government ob- IS- - lands now have w j, only one governor, and that Is Dr. Paul Pearson ; for Herbert U. Brown, chief of the federal bureau of efficiency, has had a spat with doctor and retired from the which he has exer- cised for nearly two yeari,. in iyx H. D. Brown congressional committees asked Mr, Brown to Investigate the Islands with a view to reducing administration costs. He made three long visits there and his recommendations were displeasing to Capt Waldo Evans, then naval governor. Also, he obtained $141,000 to be expended under his sole direction. Last winter he recommended transfer of the Islands to the Interior department and when this was done he returned to help the new governor, ft GERMANY'S huge flying boat. after long delays nnd various accidents, finally crossed the Atlantic ocean successfully. It made the flight from Cape Verde Islands to Fernando Noronba off the const of Brazil In 12 hours and 15 minutes. Defying superstition, 13 persons were aboard the DO-X- . It was announced by the State department In Washington that Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh will start before long on a pleasure tour of the Orient in their Lockheed plane, flying to Japan and China via the North Pacific and Russia. They probably will follow the route taken by the army flyers In 1924, going to Siberia by way of the Aleutian islands. DO-X- , r C. TEAGUE. one of the original members of the federal farm board and its vice chairman, has resigned, served having more one I V 4 he at year In first Intended. his letter to President Hoover tendering his resignation Mr. Teague declared the board C. C, Teaguo had fully Justified Itself and its cost to the taxpayers. He said that without its advice and revolving fund many farmers' would have gone under; and he warmly defended the emergency operations of the board In stabilizing wheat nnd cotton. "There are two distinct methods of stabilizing markets," he pointed out. "Probably the one that has than been emphasized most In publicity has been the stabilization operations on wheat and cotton, which were entirely emergency operations undertaken to meet emergency conditions and which 1 believe are entirely Justified nnd which will have resulted in benefits to agriculture and business generally far any cost to the treasury. "However, In my Judgment the greatest benefit will come through another type of stabilization of markets which will come through the long time project of developing control of a system of agricultural products, which will effect a better control of production and a better control of distribution and thus have an Important Influence In the stabilization of markets." the general REPORTING Hie bureau of agricultural economics of the Department of Agriculture shows that American farmers are selling their produce at less than prewar prices, but are paying about more than before the war for the things they buy. The bureau est! males that fanners now receive 8'' per cent of prewar prices and pn' 130 per cent for goods bought. on one-thir- ion's conversion loan of $250,000, been subscribed up to $039- He emphasized that during his regime no fewer than 75 Amer ican manufacturers had established plants In ('una da and made it clear he was sticking close to his "Canada First" attitude. His con clusion brought a great ovation from his followers. OX1 had 61 0,500. J HP ESN ESSEE'S p- poiiticai-nnan-ci- troubles were approaching a climax during the week with the state legislature preparing to vote on the question of the Impeaching a 3k A governor, Henry The II. Horton. situation In Nash was tense. ville Gov- Horton Though the foes of the executive were apparently In the majority, Horton seemed undaunted. Most of the eight articles of Impeachment" reported to the legislature by a committee relate to a mniu charge of conspiracy, alleging plots between the governor and Col. Luke Lea and Rogers Caldwell, two bankers who are now under Indictment as a result of the bank failures of last November. Congressman Ed Crump, the Memphis political boss, was conducting the fight against the governor, though he kept himself In the background. The resignation of Senator Scott Fitzhugh, one of the Crump faction, from the speakership, and the election of Senator A. B. Broadhent of Chirksvllle to fill his place took much of the thunder away from the defense, for Senator Broadhent is an indeman, and pendent, an he will be the next governor If Mr. Horton Is forced out anti-Crum- p FOUR eastern and western air whose planes fly about hove annually, consolidated their management, operation, traffic and sales nnd now become divisions of the United Air Lines, with general ofllces In Chicago. The lines involved In this big merger are: The Notional Air Transport, operating from New York to Chicago and Chicago to Dallas; the Boeing Air Transport, operating from Chicago to San Francisco; the Pacific Air Transport, operating from Seattle to San Diego, nnd the Varney Air Lines, operating from Salt Lake City to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. P. G. Jonnson. president of the Boeing companies, who was recently made president of the National Air Transport and the Varney Air Lines, is to be president of the new company. 12,000,000 miles CANADIAN tax payers are hard first budget pre- to parliament by Premier Bennett, lie announced a deficit of SSO.000.000 and said new sented R. B. taxes would be required to meet ho proposed imIt. Consequently ports as follows: Increase In the sides tax from 1 per cent to 4 per cent; relntroductlou of 3 cent pos Inge; increase of the Income tax on corporations nnd stock com panics from 8 to 10 per cent and i new special excess tax of 1 pel nt on all Imports. ERMANY Is I f Wrk'& K"". I "V (ii the ligations In the country's history with the exception of the 0 bond issue of 1924. which was put out to refinance World war indebtedness. The Interest rate of per cent on this issue U the 3i lowest of any long term governDoctor Pearson, whom he had sement financing since 191617. lected for the job. I5y Thursday night the new bond It is said In Washington Issue hud been oversubscribed that having nearly eight times, and Secretary Brown, quarreled with Mellon was able to report to the Pearson, has urged the removal of President that the plan of handling the later, but that It is unlikely the the deficit by adding to the na- President will take any such actional debt instead of Increasing tion. The exact cause of the frictaxes was successful. tion between the two men is not The bonds will be dated and will publicly known. bear interest from June 15, 19:51, OVERNORS of about half the and wlil mature on June 15, 191!), states took part In the annual being redeemable at the option of the treasury on and after June 15, conferences at French Lick, Ind., 194G. They will be issued In both and several of them disrupted the bearer and registered form In de- program of harmless topics by in nominations of $50, $100, $500, $1,. jecting their own vigorous opinions 000, $5,(KX). $10,000 mid $100,000, into their addresses. Pinchot of In addition there will be registered Pennsylvania, for instance. Insisted bonds in the $50,000 denomination. on making a hot attack on the pub The federal reserve banks will be lic utility corporations Instead of the otllcinl agencies for the dotation talking ubout timber; and In the of the Issue, but all bunks will re- closing session Ritchie of Maryland, ceive subscriptions from investors. criticising the conference for try The bonds will be exempt from ing to avoid controversial subjects, federal, state, and local taxes, ex- urged the return of liquor control cept inheritance taxes and sur- to the states as a solution of taxataxes. tion problems. $1,000,-000,00- Manufacturers of the United States came off more easily tha had been expected. Only about 2X Items In the tariff agaiDst them were altered by the premier. Cus toms duties were raised on anthra cite coal, furniture, oranges an the higher priced automobiles There was bad news, however, for Americans who have Investments In Canadian companies, for Mr. Bennett ordained that beginning next July an income tax of 2 per cent must be paid by ail foreign Investors receiving dividends from Canadian concerns. The only bright spot In Canada's financial picture, Mr. Bennett stated, was the fact that the domin - - - r, ex- - e- - benefits to result from the remark able meeting at Cheouers. England, of Chancellor n .,,! c,,.. elgn Minister Juli us Curtius with Prime Minister MacDon- Ramsay ald and Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson. The Bruening German statesmen went there Thurs day on Invitation from the English men, nnd the four men discussed thoroughly the bearing of repara tions on the world economic crisis. It was the hope of the Germans that this conference would find a way out of the present financial wilderness. The Chequers meeting aroused the French and led them to reaffirm their contention that German reparations and the Allied debts to America were inseparably connected by the Young plan. As It Is put by A. L. Jeune in Le Midi of Paris "On the battlefield of international debts, where we held the front line so long until the Young plan brought us back to the reserve trenches, it would be a great im prudence to give them up." Chancellor IN A decision that seems to give assurance that the press of America is and shall continue to be free, the Supreme court of the United States held unconstitutional the Minnesota statute authorizing the suppression of newspapers and other periodicals publishing matter which the authorities deem to be defamatory of public officials or other persons or institutions. In the opinion of five members of the court Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justices Holmes, Brnn- deis, Stone and Roberts the Min nesota law. In so far as it author izes such suppression, is "an In fringement of the liberty of the press guaranteed by the Fourteenth amendment." The majority of the court took the position that the freedom of the press to criticize public officials is one of the bulwarks of our Institutions, that for any abuse of this freedom there is the remedy of punishment under libel and other laws, and that the suppression of periodicals because of the character of the matter published would amount to the setting up of a censorship of the press. Associate Justice Pierce Butler, himself a Minnesotan, read a dissenting opinion concurred in by McRey-noldJustices Van Devanter, and Sutherland asserting that the majority opinion gives to freedom of the press a broader Interpretation than any that had ever s, before been recognized. '"PlIE general assembly of the Presbyterian church, in session nt Pittsburgh, rebuked the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America for report of its committee approving of birth control, and adopted a motion instructing the council to "hold Its peace on nil questions relating to morality nnd delicacy" until they have been discussed with its constituents. D ELATK be- - tween Premier Mussolini and the Vatican were strained almost to the breaking point and outwardly It there appeared could be no peace ful settlement of the quarrel. But w A efforts at conciliawere being tion carried on quietly Dino Grandi by Foreign Minis ter Dino Grandi on the one hand and Cardinal Caspar-r-l on the other. The trouble centers in the Catholic Action clubs. Mussolini decreed the disbanding of all youth organizations connected with Calhollc Action because of alleged political propaganda and closed the clubs nnd playgrounds. The pope protested against this, both as head of the Vatican City and as head of the church. He made effective his disapproval by withdrawing his personal representative from the Padua celebrations, canceling the diocesan eucharnstic In Rome, prohibiting congress church processions anil placing the Catholic Action societies under charge of the bishops. Mussolini gave out a statement saying there was nothing temporary about his acts and that the clubs were permanently closed. Wednesday the directory of the Fascist party ordered the lenders of all groups to be ready to defend Fust-Isagainst lis foes "under whatever banner," and charged that siiiie sections of the Catholic ction society hail been "openly ;U:d surreptitiously" hostile to Fascism. (' 1331. Western Newspaper I'nloa.) Machines That Are i Almost Human and By E. C. TAYLOR The Adding Machine TULIA.U SEWARD BUR T ROUGHS got tired of keeping So he studied mechanics, books. took a bench In a machine shop and inveuted one of the most fa miliar robots, the adding machine. This robot doesn't resemble a hu man being in any way, but It per- forms mathematical computations more rapidly and far more accu rately than the human brain. It cannot think for Itself, but It has the power of obeying Instructions nnd if the instructions are correct ly given, its answer Is inevitably correct This machine cannot make a mistake. Its human master can and frequently does. The chance of error In giving the adding machine Its instructions. however, is much less than the chance of error by human beings to whom the task of making the com putations might be intrusted. All business now relies on these robots for adding, subtracting, multiplication, division and tabulation. They confine their operations to simple arithmetic. Some print the totals on paper and another type shows the totals on dials. Sets of wheels are shifted as keys are punched on the keyboard of the machine. These keys are numbered from 1 to 9, with a tenth key for zero. The machine takes care of the numerical order of tha numbers. For Instance, If the num ber 23 enters Into the computation. the 2 key is first depressed, then the 3 key and the mechanism takes care of their order to make them read 23. Some models can add two or more columns at the same time, also add the totals for all the columns together. When asked to subtract, some of these robots use complementary numbers on their keyboards; that is. the key number 9 also will have a number 1 on it, and the proc ess of addition Is reversed. The robot multiplies by consecutive addition. It divides by subtracting the divisor from the number to be divided as many times as the divisor Is contained In that number. The operation Is automatically reg istered on the counting wheels as the quotient. The calculating machine, similar to the adding machine hut consid erably more complicated, is generand ally usedjor multiplication vision, because It perfotms these computations more quickly than does the adding machine. The cal culating machine most widely used does not keep a printed record of its computations. It Indicates the result on dials. One type of the calculating robot causes the Items in the computation to appear Immediately on dinls when the keys are depressed, the operation of a crank clearing the figures off the dial faces when the computation Is completed. AU four arithmetical operations are performed on this rormt as variations of simple arithmetic. Bur the counting wheels are so ar ranged that they take short cuts over the simpler adding machine. On another type of the calculat ing robot the amounts to be computed are first set up on the key board and the operation of the machine either by hand or electric motor effects the calculation. Some of these machines show the figures to be computed on dinls be fore the computation Is made, to guard against human error In submitting the problem to the robot Totaling dials" show the total In addition, the product In multiplies tion, the minuend or remainder In subtraction and the quotient in di vision. A calculating robot that prints a complete record of all Its computations has recently been Invented. It prints the factors, figures out and prints the answer and arm mulates the total of all the answers with a single operating stroke. Separate dials on Its face show the multiplier in multiplication and the divisor In division as a cheek against error. This machine is ca pable of twenty multiplications a minute. This latest calculating robot Is used extensively In business. It keeps books, makes out bills, credits partial payments and keeps an accurate record of balances, doing the work of a corps of bookkeepers, and making no mistakes of Its own. ( l3L di- Western Newspaper Union.) WORLD WAR 'JMli TARNS by Lieut. Frank Double Service "It Is the mission of the newspa per to mold public opinion," gays writer. Also to keep public opln-from becoming moldy Boston Transcript. Reminiscent of Sir Boyle Doctor Poling mui have an Irish train in him. "Let me say again. f I have not said it before." he ins a reply to one of his rorre Boston Transcript. sponilents. Recipe for Canned Spinach Our experience with calmed pitiach as a delicacy is that If left in the run It makes a tine doorstop. Detroit News. E. Hagart Not A. W. O. L., but A. W. L. 7 llnsikh-- ,- A "Bath House" John Cummlngs was a newspaper man In Scranton, Pa., before the war. In 1918, "the Bath" was a lieutenant of Infantry with the Third division of Marne and Meuse fame. He was wounded " ) S3 , In October, 191& His outfit was la Germany when he recovered but hospital orders carried him to the central records office at Bourges where the service papers of the A. E. F. were kept. "The Bath" stuck It out until a himself major who considered vastly important was placed In charge of the camp. For some minor offense, this man conceived an excessive distaste for and two others. The major arose at all hours of the night to Inspect the guard and check against the activities of and the other two officers. He haunted parade grounds at retreat seeking mistakes In the handling of the troops. Cummings and bis two companions wrote direct to Chaumont and received travel orders to rejoin their regiments. "Not a word about this," urged "the Bath," gloating over his orders. "Let'B do this right" He hired a cab, and the afternoon they were to leave halted It near the parade ground. The three were Inside. r guard mount First call Minutes passed. The calls were sounded on schedule. But no officer of the day appeared. The fussy major grew panicky. One of the men In the cab turned to "Bath House." "I happen to be the old officer of the day," he said. "I believe the major Is looking for me." "Yes," replied "Bath House" happily as he signaled his driver to move into action. "And happen to be the new officer of the day. I know the major Is looking for Cum-ualn- Scene in the Port of Hamburg. (Prepared by the National Geoffraphlc Society, Washington. D. C.) of the prosperous MEMORIES Ilanseatic league are stirred by the proposal that has recently been made for e Hanseatic citjoining the ies of Hamburg and Luebeck. The cities, which were both leaders in the old league, lie only about 40 miles apart in northeastern Germany, one on the Elbe river near Its mouth into the North sea, and the other on the River Trave, only ten miles from the Baltic sea. The object of the association of the two ports would be to eliminate competition and to overcome the effects of the depression that both have felt Hamburg Is both a free port and a free city ; and he who sees Hamburg quickly learns that both appellations have practical conseThe visitor starts forth, quences. wisely enough, to see Hamburg's best advertised spectacle, its harbor. He finds it has not been overrated. It Is one of the most amazing industrial spectacles in the world; that vast sweep of cluttered water, pierced by hundreds of land fingers separating the rectangular water sheets which are basins, skylined by monster skeletons of mighty ships In the building. For six miles along the broad from the Elbe, 75 miles sea, extend the massive docks. The hippodrome landing stages, the Intricate Jumble of cranes, derricks, and elevators. The landing stages are necessary, because Hamburg lias nn "open harbor," accessible to the tide, in contrast to the of much of and the port of London. A ferry is the proper sight-se- e Ing vehicle. For the port Is a with area, strewn every type of modern vessel, from huge ocean liners down through lazy barges, alert yachts, energetic motorboats, chugging tugs, and busy one-tim- up-riv- dock-basin- s flood-gate- s ferries. wood, most delicately carved and beautifully decorated. Closer examination shows some to be felt, pressed to the hardness of wood, with the intricate patterns Imposed by a matrix. And after a banquet hall that conjures up memories of the belted burgesses, the staunch merchants and the gentlemen adventurers of medieval times, you come upon the senate chamber, ne feature strikes a home note In the American bosom. This senate, too, has secret sessions. But when it does, It retires from the chamber with the visitors gallery and the press gallery into a smaller chamber that has just one entrance. That entrance is guarded by two massive doors of incredible thickness. And before each of the double doors it posts a guard. No a even through eavesdropping, madouble barrier of inches-thichogany 1 Hamburg once withstood the attacks of Danish kings. It kept aloof from the Thirty Years' war which cut down the prowess of so many Baltic cities. Away back in the times of Maxlmillian I It entered the German confederation as a free city, on a parity with other German states. Only yesterday In its history, in 1923, it experienced a Communist uprising that left a that Hamburg deep impression citizens remember, and bullet holes which the city's buildings attest Dating back to Charlemagne, Hamburg is Germany's most modern Almost modernistic. The city. fire of 1842 left few traces or its medieval architecture. Some of its newer office buildings have spiraled sides, In Northern search for sunlight ; others have contours that make them loom up In Hamburg vistas like a giant Europa entering a narrow harbor. Busy but Beautiful. y Industrial to Its finger tips, so, Hamburg is a beautiful city. It leaves a confused impression of Minneapolis and Venice. For the Alster river, en route to the Elbe, splays wide in the midst of Hamburg's busiest quarter, giving it the unique spectacle of great office buildings, line hotels, fashionable shops, all along the lake front Clerks in the great, gray stone buildings which is the office of the Hamburg-Americaline, glancing up from their ledgers, can look out over a glistening sheet of wated, flecked with tiny yachts, motor boats, scurrying ferries, racing shells, biiu canoes; with swans and sea gulls hovering about. By night the hotel visitor can view from his window the moonlit waters, rimmed by thousands of electric bulbs, and see tiny firefly points of light bobbing all over At one corner are the surface. huddled hundreds of canoes, their occupants reclining on cushions, listening to the concert of the Alster pavilion. This sprightly cafe, or coffee house along the lake front, gathers Its daytime patronage from the great department stores of the opposite side of the mill-tantl- "You have your pass, of course," Inquires the master of the "circular ferry" "circular" applying to the trip, not the craft. "A pass, what for?" "A part of this harbor Is a free port, sir," patiently explains the boatman. "And you wish to come back." What the Free Port Means.' You get your pass, your boatman threads his way for miles nnd miles through a floating traflic Jam, but an orderly one that makes crossing Fifth avenue seem child's play to the landlubber mind. You visit the free port, then your ferry heads back toward your embarkation On the way you pull up at place. what seems to be a customs house, displaying a sign which marks the free port limits. You show your pass; the boat is searched. You understand the need for the pass, and you realize, too, that you have just seen one key to the prosperity of the foremost conti nental port. The huge free port, with Its mammoth warehouses, cluttered with silks from China, beef from Argentine, coffee from street Brazil, harvesters from tlie United Luebeck's Commerce and. Romance. States, all bearing addresses for Luebeck, companion port of the transshipment to strange-namenorth, became, during the World a to of none cent Baltic ports, pay war, the foremost port of the German empire In foreign, water-bornduty Into Germany's treasury. of Hamburg's harbor. trade. It Is the smallest of the you later learn, is given over to free cities of Germany, but richer emzone are this free port; In Its in reminiscences of former greatployed some 20.000 or the city's ness than either of the other two. 110,000 Industrial workers. Bremen and Luebeck Hamburg, Hamburg entered the German Joined the modern German empire customs union in 1SS8, thus en- as free and Independent Ilanseatic abling It to sell Its own goods to cities. Hamburg and Bremen have tariff free, hut Its developed Into great Germany, canny senate maintained Its free hives of present-dabusiness; arrangement have multiplied their wealth at a port privileges, whichtrans-oceade tremendous rate; and hnve, more makes it the great partment store of the Baltic. and more, grown to the InternaA senate In a city? les, a sen tional type of purely business citIts to stiff which ate clings Span ies. Luebeck, on the other hand, ish dress as loyally as it guards while It has maintained nn Importhe ancient rights anil privileges of tance as a busy place of commerce. the free city the "Free and Han- - Is medieval, romantic, a breath sentic City of Hamburg." from the past. There are only three German sur Lying ten miles from th Baltic vlvors of that mighty Ilanseatic sea, on the River Trave. the chanmerchandising chain of the Middle nel of which has been so Improved nges Bremen, Luebeck and Ham- that boats of 10 foot draft are able burg. Of these three the mightiest to tie up at the city's docks, LueIs Hamburg. beck has been a nerve center of Once the senators of Hamburg North German trade with Denwere elected for life. Their rule mark, the Scandinavian lands, and of Hamburg was as autocratic, to with Russia. The city has been our modern way of thinking, as made Into an Island by Its hnrhnr that of the doges of Venice. That Improvements, the Trave flowing has changed now. There Is a house around Its western border and a of burgesses, giving a legislative wide channel around It on the east. balance much like that under the This city enjoys a location ns faUnited States Capitol dome. vorable as that of Bremen or HamWhere Hamburg's Senate Sits. burg for the distribution of lis The senate sits in the town hall. wares over Germany. It Is reached of heard fa have (tie by rail In two and Perhaps you hours tuous Itatsweinkeller, beneath the from Bremen, and Is nbout ns conits enlral building, with Jolly stone veniently near to Berlin. The port Bacchus frankly enthroned nt the Is connected with Copenhagen, to a vestibule adorned Stockholm and Danzig by regular entrance wilh stained glass window portrait steamer services. lis chief' artures of the John Paul Jnneso" icles of Commerce nre wines, espeof maratlme Hamburg. You climb cially claret, limber, tar, and northaloft. The peculiar walls catch ern consignments of German man-your eye. Ihey seem to he of solid fact ui e. n d e One-thir- d stone-and-mor-t- Franklin' Tolerance An Interestina letter from Frank. Iln to his sister, Jane Macom, is In the possession of a Pnlladelphla firm. "Upon the whole." Franklin wrote In part, "1 nm much disposed to like the world as I find It. nnd to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it. I see so murh Wisdom In what I understand nf Its Creation and Government, that 1 suspect equal Wisdom mav be In what I do not understand. And thence have perhaps as much Trust in io( as the most pious Christian." Y y one-hal- f I 1 Cum-mln- ' i S7T 1 me!" When a French rattler pulled out of Bourges for Paris ten minutes later the three looeys were riding snugly aboard Correspondents to the Front When the First division of the to go into the front lines, there were a half dozen or so war correspondents who expected to go with It This was In a French sector, and the French corps commander soon let It be known that they were expecting too much. They were to stay right there and he would see to it that a report on the work of the Americans would be sent back to them. So the correspondents Robert Small, Lincoln Eyre, Ray Carroll, Edwin Janes, Floyd Gibbons, Cal. C. Lyon, Heywood Broun and George Pattulo appealed to General Pershing. "The accredited correspondents have a right to be with a division when It goes in." said the American commander In chief. The French corps commander sputtered. Such a thing wasn't done In France. Journalists didn't belong at The French liaison officer at Clauniont also sputtered. "When the First division goes In, the American correspondents, will accompany It." said General PerAnd the way his jaw set shing. meant that he meant that the American correspondents would acFolcompany the First division. lowed much telephoning. French general headquarters was amazed at such a suggestion. American headquarters wasn't. It was firm. Well, perhaps Marshal Foch would have to be consulted. Marshal Foch had better be consulted pretty quick. It was almost time for the First division to move- rorwara, out there would be until this Issue was settled.f Less than half an hour before the time set for the move, Marshal' Foch was talking on the telephoneto ueneral t'ershlng. "Of course, mon general, vous avez ralson." So the correspondents went to th A. E. F. was ready v- -. 1 t i the-fron- - iI.f f front Pershing's Message The honor of receiving the first official message of sympathy from John J. Pershing, commander l chief of the American forces In the World war, went to the surviving relatives of Sergt. Theodore Peterson In the medical corps, A. E. F. Sergeant Peterson was mortally wounded March 5, 1918, while serving with a regiment of field artil- lery which had gone Into action. to direct the care of " wounded, despite his own hopeless condition, nnd died the same night. The sergeant's brave conduct won him the posthumous award of a Service cross. In addition. General Pershing dispatched this cable, the first of lis kind, to Washington ; "Request you express my personal sympathy to nearest of Sergeant Peterson. After being mortally wounded. Sergeant Peterson gave detailed instructions to the wounded, and gave first gas test. In order to save the lives of the men nbout him. He was a gallant soldier, and I huve living-relative- awarded (& 11131. him a D. S. O." Weetern Newspaper Union. One s 1 Ue for Glycerin the chameleon of Glycerin, chemicals, has Innumerable uses, one of the oddest being to discover the presence of tuberculosis germs through Its saturation of a potato In which the suspected bacilli have been Implanted. Weekly. Old Heidelberg The University of lleldeiber was Minded by the elector, Rupert I, the bull of foundation being Is- sued by Pope VI in 13S5. ' ' |