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Show i eh m mi my LIES German Agent Is Using His Whispering Propaganda. PROOF IS NEVER SUBMITTED Center! Efforts on Religious, Racist, Agricultural, CommerlaI and Such Topic as Are Likely to I Cause Friction. disloyalty. Discourage nnrh preju, dice wherever you find II. Mr. Cltlxen. It Is being promoted by the kalaerlte. Th Truth About Prlco Fixing. It la not true Hint tlu re Ims las-t- i an ntlempt In regulate the prices of farm prodmls," Thera Ims been no attempt to regulate the price of any farm product but wheat. The allied governments In Europe Imd set up single agencies to buy food supplies In America, Their purchases of A uteri can wheat were sufficient to control Hie prli e. Tiny could drain America of Ita wheat utnl leave our poorer clusxes to smrv . In order flint rich and sor might bo treated alike, it was iieeess'iry to itfuMIh govern went control of price nml distribution. And the price of $2.20 a bushel for No, 1 northern wheat bused on Chicago was agreed upon by an Independent cotntiilsilon, appointed by I 'resident Wilson, tijion wlilch cottiinlsdou the farming conitiiiinlfy was represented by six member out of eleven. In some Instance Hie food administration 1ms Intervened, lit tho re quest of Hie producers, to obtain a settlement In n local dispute about Ho. price of milk. In Hie case of pork product the food administration, recommendation of Hie producers, undertook to use the purchases of the allied governments for Hie purpose of maintaining a minimum price for live hogs In Chicago. Ileyond this Invited assistance In the case of milk and pork, nnd the regulation of the price of wheat, the final administration Ims not Interfered with the price of farm products, except In an fur as Hie control of sugar prlco has affected the (From tli Committee on IuMl Information, Wn.liintfion. D. C ) By HARVEY 0HIGGIN3. (Tide le the of ilirra erik-lehr Hr. O'lilKittiie ilinlliKf with the of (he rtiutnr In our country ) In a previous urt !! we Imve noted how tin German agent Irt tlilis conn-Irj- r are ulntf Ihi-l- r IiliwrJit!t propu-pandto art tin sgnlnst th Front'll, (tin British nnd llio Japanese bjr olr diluting among tie nil aorta of slnndcn anti III rotnirta ngiiiht these nllle. In Ilia campaign to promote tlttmoailc (lla rumor-monge- r unity tint has been even hualor. lie la working here exactly aa ho wnrkot In Italy. tiMin religious prejudice. Ho Ima apron;! the roport that the Mnaimlc onlora Imve protocol! to the govern-mer- it against the Knight of Coluiiiltti holng ponnlttoil lo build roorontloit of sugar beets. hnta In the on in ft. No auoli protest price The Truth About Profiteering. wna ever made. He Ima circulated Those measures of fond control have atorloa Hint Uuthollc otina wore refuted hoon directed more against Hie middleun-Ir- a do to Itod work Cross permission man Hinn the producer. While fixing thtjr wore Red Croaa unlforma, and that Cnlhollo soldiers and Jewlah for the farmer an arbitrated price for Ills wheat, they have established a roldh-were holng iJlMerlnilimtod of licensing, by which millers, system agnlnat hy Bed Croaa official. All grocer nnd wholesale and rehnkir, auoli atorloa are outright Invention. tail dealers have been prevented from At the antne lime he around profiteering on Hie farmer's dollar. every kind of rurnor of Catholic The fuel administration has fixed the such na the fnmotta one thnt price of coal, because tho miner would iTetthlont WINona aoorolnry, a Cuth-ollnot work for reasonable wages as long Imd hoon executed for trenon. ns the mine owner was making an unHe Ima filled the mnlla with printed reasonable gain. Profiteering In army coplea of on alleged bloody outh of nnd navy contracts and In shipbuildthe Ivnlght. of Columbus," giving It Ims been stopped by the power obing on the pretended authority of the Con tained from congress to fix the prlco It was printed In at cost greKKlotml Iteeord. plus a reasonable profit; and the Korord became It was rend Into a Hie Increase In cost Ims gone to the detmte before Hip house of repre workman, not to Ids employer. All on aenlnflvea on election protect. In profiteering 1ms not yet been ended. order thnt It might he donnunecd na a The way to end it 1ms not been found r.ml lihel Catholic a forgery niton a In any country. Ilut the tax on exA candidate. agent hna cess profit ami on swollen Incomes heen caught distributing copies of thla confiscates the Illicit harvest and pours "lilomly oath" in New Jersey and aunt It Into the country's war chest. The to prison for It grievances that remain are not clnss How the Kaiser Poses. grievances. They are chiefly the InIn Rpaln nml the Cutholle countries evitable common hardships due to a of Rout h America the knlscr poxes us war tlmt has drawn millions of pro"the ehnniplon of Catholic Bavaria nnd ductive workers Into the world's Catholic Austria against Protestant armies and Increased the cost of the England, Infidel Frunee. ami social- necessaries of life by decreasing the istic Il:.1y, the enemy of the Vatican." avnllablo supply. In tlmt hardship He does not preserve that pose In the fanners share, as we at! share. Catholic Belgium or Catholic Poland. Kalscrite on Both Sides. And In America the knlserlte uses Along with this campaign to set tho thla very claim of the kaiser to arouse farmer against the governments war enmity ncnlnsf tt.e Catholics, Just as measures there has been proceeding a In Italy the Ceramn agent used It In twin campaign arouse to feeling an unsuccessful attempt to seduce the him by accusing his western Italian Cuthollcs, anti now In Amer- against leagues of "disloyalty. Tlmt ica arcuses the Italian Catholics of farmers Is equally a work aid of the enemy. having aticcumht'tl lo the seduction. The western farmers have contributed Aa a matter of fact, the Catholic chaptliclr quotas to enlistment and to the lains In the Ilnllnn army were among drafts as loyally as any citizens. this Ihe first to discover propaganda They have subscribed to tho Liberty among the soldiers, reported It to the loans and contr'buted to rewar the it officers, and combated diligently. lief werk with unfailing patriotism. Various persons nnd publications have had their quarrels with tho thnt made a living out of sectarian They mm whom they of exploitanimosities before the wnr are unconing them, Just as labor hns had its work the of the sciously doing enemy quarrels with Us employers. Hut It Is by assisting the spread of nntl-Oat- h an economic quarrel, and ns long as ollc and slanders. It Is conducted without enn They only he stopped hy an appeal with the nutiou's wnr work Interfering the charge to public mprobntlon. They are repof disloyalty it Itself traitorous. In In Ireland as nil these resenting the trouble disputes It Is certain that pnrely a hllglous troolle, and the enemy agents will he found on both to In opposition Quebec aides. They at once conscription preach violence aa the anme sort of thing. Even Rri among the I. W. W.s, nnd lead mobs yard Kipling recently fell Into to attack Workmen accused of being rap and denounced the pope nnd the I. W. W.s. They piny tlu same game kaiser and the neutrals In one In every quarrel with which they can hrenth. Such denunelntlona overlook to divide the country. Hewn re, the fact thnt Cardinal Mereler, the hope Mr. Citizen, of any attempt to make Cutholle prelate of Belgium, 1ms been believe tlmt any class of Amerithe most effective popuiar opponent of you can citizen, ns a class, are disloyal. the kaiser that Europe Ima produced. It Is a German lie. Thla la a war of natlona, not of creeds. Prussia Is aa Protestant n nation ns Th Parson. Knglnnd Is, and rdglum and Poland At an Ashland avenue home they a Catholic aa Austria. Anyone who raises the religious question In Amer- have the fashion of giving names to ica today la acting as a German chickens nnd other creatures about the agent, whether lie knows It or not, as place. .Some days ago the mother truly as If he were blowing up muni- bought a flue bluck rooster In market. said tion plants. All loyal citizens should "We'll name him tho Iurson, tho mother, discourage him. A few days later the new preacher , Aggravating Our Race Problems. Among the negroes the German prop- and his wife were invited to dinner. agandist first began work lit the South They were in the parlor awaiting the and fulled. lie has been more suc- event. Margaret, ago six, came hur-- 1 cessful In the middle West, where the rledly Into the next room. There the presence of a Inrge loyal German popu- mother admonished her to be on her lation gives him better cover. He Is good behavior, "for today," said mothpromising the negroes tlmt the kaiser er, we have the parson for dinner." "No, no, mamma. said Mnrgnret. will give them social equality with the whites. An agent, recenlly captured In "Don't you know we killed nnd ato the New York, was offering the negroes Iurson three days ago. This cannibalistic statement, overa Black republic under German protection, nnd he was denounced to heard In tho parlor, created some disthe authorities hy the negroes them-selve- quiet until mamma mudo an explanatAnother was spreading reports ion.- Indianapolis News. of discriminations ngnlnst negro soldiers In the camps, reporting that the Knights of Health. negroes were being trained ns shock Throughout Hie United States half troops" to he sacrificed In the front a million children are at present entines, nnd even circulating a story that rolled In an enterprise which bids fair the German military authorities had to achieve 'ecldcdly Important ends. ordered all negro prisoners killed. It Is a crusade against dirt nnd disThus far this sort of German effort to ease. Half a million children between aggravate u race problem Ims been an the ages of five nnd sixteen are enabsurd failure. Its only danger Is that rolled under a hnnner bearing a CruIt may lead to charges of disloyalty sader's cross, nnd have pledged themagainst our colored citizens and a sus- selves to undertake A round of hypicion of them which is not justified. gienic duties for one yenr nnd to do To allow the Germnn Intrigue to what they can to Improve the health arouse a prejudice ngnlnst the negro conditions of their homes and comwould aid the enemy ns much as If he munities. There Is health nnd mental snocx-vlota organizing the negro la discipline tn regular duties of this sort. la iri-Kjni- a" WOULD UNITE GAMES HAUGHTOM COBB, MATHEWSON, RICKEY AND INTO SINGLE SPORT PLACES WILL NOT ENJOY SOFT BOMBPROOF Idea cf Englishman Merging Baseball and Cricket. Conceives Contlnu to Offer end Bewail Fact That Foul le Not Allowed to Figure In Run Getting. on-ih- r pac dls-lojul- e, n That Ty Cobh, Christy Maihewsmi, Branch Itlckey, Percy Haughlon ond other men prominent In the sMirtlng world have not been handed soft bombproof Jobs In their opjMdntmrnt ns officers la the chemical department of Hie war was made known by MnJ. Gen. William L. Ribcrt, director of the United Htute chemical service, In unswer to u pointed question regarding the du'les of such officers. "Our troops, that Is the gas troops, are not chemists, nor are the officers that go with those divisions," said the general. "Those officer teach the men how to use the gns masks and stay with them through the engagements. "It was for work of this kind that those nu n wdre taken. They were not taken because they are baseball players; we simply wanted to get men strong, robust fellows that have good average common sense, nnd wanted to come In, and we took them. They will go over In the gas troops tlu-s- e as gns officers." In the offensive end of the gns service the gas troops carry out cloud attacks, operating the projectors or light mortars thnt throw shells filled with gns. So it balks as If the famous baseball men will be right at the front, administering gns to the enemy. LAVAN NAMED NEW MANAGER Former Washington Player Appointed as Leader of Great Lake Baseball Outfit Alslant John Lavan, Surgeon known in major league baseball parlance os "Johnny" Lavan of the Wash- - sie-pect- s. Bug-gcitle- nt Cngllih Critic v ; --V.-pY L: i yV i jii o' J ;T tVU NfJvi fru. Johnny Lavan. Ington Nationals, has been appointed manager of the Great Lnkes baseball team. Retiring In favor of Doctor Lnvan Is Phil ciiuuinnrd who hns had charge of the club during the current season. The change was made because of Lnvans rank nnd greater baseball experience. The new manager has been one of the greatest shortstops of the game for the past four years playing both in Rt. Louis nnd in Vnhington. TO TRAIN SOLDIER ATHLETES IS SPORT DEAD? NO! It was announced officially thnt the attendance at the New York police athletic games at Sheepxhead Kay was 110,000. and that $20,000 was taken In at the gate. This Is the largest crowd that ever attended a sporting event In Amorim. Despite the fact thnt this country Is in the thickest of over there," athletics things still are popular as attested by this remarkable outpouring. Again we ask, ,1s sport dead? The answer Is No." There I now some talk In England, where baseball 1 Invading the npoit doiiiuiu, of u sort of compromise game which should embody some feature of cricket uud has hall. Nothing will probably ever come of any attempt radically to change the baseball game, ns It has been evolved, any more than would any endeavor to adopt some The baseball features Into cricket two pastime would mix ubout as well ns oil nnd water. Hut English critic of bnschall continue to offer suggestions, and one of them In a recent issue of an English periodical bewails the fact thnt the baseball "foul" Is not allowed to figure In Hie run getting. He think It should Ik as Importuut a factor In the American game as thfe "snick" In cricket, to which It correspond. Here Is how he put It: "The snick or corner stroke Is undoubtedly tbe most spectacular lilt In lmsclmll; Indeed, It Is practically tho only sH'clnculur stroke, except the hit out of the ground, whUli occur once In a blue moon. "It seems u very great pity that this corner stroke' Is merely thrown away In baseball. In making the stroke tin batsman hits ns usual with a horizontal hat, ond getting Just under Hie bull semi It nt a very great pace to a tremendous height behind Mm, and sometimes to a considerable distance." If the baseball foul were to be treated the same as a fair fly or grounder, the grand stand would Imve to be moved about as fur hack of the home plate as deep center Add Is In front of It nnd a "Imek field" that would literally he a back field would have to be provided two players nt least, which would bring the batsmen up to Hie cricket number of eleven. All the grand stand funs would have to have spyglasses, and the bleachers never would know which way the game was going, forward or bnck. Tho catcher would also have to have eyes In the hack of his head If there were men on bases, and the batsmen should knock n nice grounder or lofty "snick" about ir0 or 200 feet hack of the home It Is to snicker. No, let both j plate. I these fine games go along together but separately, as It were. MILLER HUGGINS SETS MARK Enter Washington Serie With Smallest Squad on Record Twelve Player In Outfit It Is doubtful If any major league club during the pnst twenty years entered a series either at home or on J ' the road with such a limited number of players as Miller Ilugglns did when the Yankees played their lost set of games at Washington. lie hnd no extra catcher, nor had he an extra fielder or outfielder. Besides this, there was no such thing ns a pinch hitter on the team. Twelve players made up the entire outfit, the three extra men having heen NOT DISTUR3ED BY SHELLS pitchers. One of these was Sanders, who did not pitch one complete Motortruck Driver Continue Baseball major league game during the past Game While German Keep Up season. Tho Yankees sot a record for losTerrific Fire. ing players, as 17 of the original 21 "You don't hoar so much about these left without a release being handed-e- d motor transport drivers, said the capout, nnd another one who started tain. "hut dont forget they are part the season, llunk Robinson, also quit. of the big Job, nml a big part. And dont forget they have dangerous work TRYING TO GET IN SERVICE to do. "The supplies have got to go forBill Byron Is After Place In ward, whatever the condition!, and I Umpire Aviation Corps Age Keeps Him have never had a man yet show any on Outside. Inclination to shirk or dodge or complain when he had to go under heavy While many of the noted baseball fire ond deliver his supplies. atars are trying their hardest to stay "I'll give you on example of their out of the service, Umpire BUI Byron, a After recent hard push we spirit. n years old, Is trying had un afternoon off, so the men ar- who Is forty-sevea ball ranged game Just back of the front with a rival outfit. They had played ubout two Innings when this kid here (pointing to a young driver standing hy) came up to bat. Then the fun started. Two big German shells lit In the outfield. The rival pitcher turned around to see whut the trouble was. Another shell fell just hack of second base. Once more the pitcher halfway turned, when the kid nt bat called out : 'Aw, what the come on nnd stick It over. The pitcher stuck one over and the kid cracked out a double to right." Stars and Stripes. Edwin N. Holmes to Have Charge In PRAISES GREAT LAKES FIELD Vicinity of Austin Dennis Scan-Io- n at St. Paul. I Manager Clarence Rowland Loud In Dr. Joseph E. Ilalcroft, head of the Complimenting Naval Station Athletic Grounds. athletic division of the war department commission on training activities, announces the following appointments: One of the warmest compliments Edwin N. Holmes of Austin, Tet., ns paid the new athletic field In Camp athletic director for camps In the vicin- Paul Jones at Great Lnkes comes ity of Austin. Mr. llolmcs is a gradu- from Clarence II. Rowland, manager ate of the Rprlngfleld Y. M. C. A. col- of the White Sox. . he "I never dreamed of finding such a lege. After the matriculation, Berved ns athletic coach nt Sioux Falls magnificent diamond nnd field at any Hdlege, S. D., and William Jewell col- militury training camp, said Rowland. The diamond Is going to hnve It on lege, Liberty, Mo. Dounls R. Scanlon of St. Paul, Minn., ns athletic director anything In the big tent after Charley nt the Signal Corps Aviation Mechan- Kuhn hns worked with It awhile. ics Training school nt St. Paul, Minn. It Is ns fine a new diamond as enn Mr. Scanlon lias for some months past be found In either major league, while Seen volunteering his services at the the football field, track, etc., tops any"wining camp. thing I have ever found anywhere." Arthur Mor Momi, Rail Lai. U,,a Helena, Mold., f,m h Work oil the Mate ru ft,,,, bridge dam to th Imumbirv iJ ' Millard ami Juab 1U M. Immediately, More Urn ii 2t have handed n.cmw.h(. local orgai.Umb.il f Broil.erh.MMl ,,f Halt Labe, !'. A.W. iippoiimti meat rtlMtrlet a J3SEJ "f Hall IsikH. lw hy tbe ugrleuliurui .. ,,.lir agricultural bord. win. rUlt Lukt tu mw., he., , J. II. Matthew m, iliiirged wbh violation Of tin seleeih,. hl,rv,. b, tklM 1.11, ' ,M (w try ; tM Hi ti '' ' jsjijsI yirfU XZS? 1 One thousand, one hundred mol run. of RpaaUl, 1, were reported to ,.e city lM,ard health nt Halt Luke between OtinU-1- 0 am! October is. Four nous of Mr. M. M Cut ten i,f Iayuon are nerving In the Aiurrln., army. Mr. 1mteii came m ctuh ,ni a handcart company nml wu mutl. Hie first to reach Halt Luke valley. E. T. 1iilfreyiimn, one f mm, prominent hus'i.cM men nml MUiciat,,1 In Uluh county, died nt 1.1 imif (, Kprlngvllle from Influenza, with wtilu, e had suffered for only (he day. Thomas Kearns former UultM State sennlor from Utah, pbtnrer. mining and railroad magnate, died Salt Lake, October IS, after an lllt.o. of one week from a stroke of nHiphi) While playing with mime owder taken from rifle cartridges, Ulu.t,! Gillespie, aged 11, of Suit lj.ke, w. burned shout Hie fuce and brad ami narrowly escaped losing Ids f)elg.t "Uncle Billy" Wilson, builder of Hermitage ho'el In Ogdn, canyon and one of the most wblel known men In Hie west, died at Og den, October 21, of Influenza pneu timtila. Tlmt Hie epidemic of Spanish Influ enzu hns readied It npex la I't.ih withe opinion expressed Saturday b.. health authorities after a careful check hud lieen made of the report for th. past week. An official announcement front th, hoard of education to the effect thu' salaries of teacher will be paid a u util, despite their Inability to perform their work during the epidemic, prob ably will he nmde during the week. Official recognition that Utah withe first state to complete tbe work In connection with the classification an,i of regl the physical examination t rants of Heptember, l'.ilS, between the ages of 19 and 90 Inclusive, wus re ceived lust week. Local draft hnnrds of Utah are In structed, in orders sent out from state headquarters Saturday to transm! questionnaires to such registrants i have heen Inducted Into tbe student army training corps and have not yet (Hied out these documents. The Industrial commission of Utah last week found that Oonstando Ola que, whose spine wus dislocated In two pluces In a mine accident at tbe Utah Metals ft Tunnel property, August 28. 1917, hns heen entitled to $12 a week compensation since ten days after that euiy-i.li.- e J r j CS.' Utah lands Included In the proposed Colorado river drainage basin project totaling 010,000 seres may he benefited by the hill, before tbe United States senate appropriating $1,000,000 for surveys of farms for returned somune ldiers and employes of Wai It a chapt fiins f rah tie oath the gsf ..eand M that Ittre d 111 ,4 J itoew 4 nppl -- XHU t'fi wrf tie part kli turn .(Crux .Vrrd fi mlliij jiineot jrftcan I tnrkli a July Jvrrd ,Vt 8, i u Dot leer on Tatted tin k chiq kt'ar On J drives -- : tddlllnD IrJuiri tota a the fli ift tli tioos sated an ;wa a have jin,ooo. Splendid 'the ft large dhaegi iroogln niapS Hiad r "t and t 7 b 'have ext i'J00 w 1 1 vork i :gies thi the dmo I workt 490 TJ23 10.78C date. 10,134, 192,748, total ol sated i DO, 000. Yne 'iwtnf war-tim- works. Ogden city and Weber county went over the top with a big whoop. The district exceeded Its quota with a big margin. The total subscriptions October 19 brought the big figures up to $2,219, 3.T0, coming from more than subscribers. The quota for tbe district was $2,178,300. Sentence has been suspended by Juvenile Judge Joshua Homer nt Ogden. In the case of a girl, 12 years of age. who was charged with the theft of re$100 from a neighbors house. The money, turn of all but $2.50 of the which hnd been used In buying le cream soda, resulted In the securing of leniency for the girl. When tbe canning factories of the state completed their run on tomato the Saturday night It was estimated total pack was approximate cases, 'ns against a million case was the early estimate. The additional Is sal . quarter of a million cases, ItexeeUen were obtained through the weather conditions. r W. II. 1yott, a Salt Lake chiro? practor, who Is accused of havinglora sorted an advertisement In the ttK newspapers of September 29 declaring vW' thut by Inoculation for the desInfluenza the army surgeons bad numa of large troyed the constitutions ber of young men and rendered then unfit for the duties of life, 'face a charge of violating tbe espionage the As a labor conservation measure at company Western Union Telegraph a plun effect into Lake has Salt put by which overnight accumulation "night letters" will be delivered leetny y do, each morning by the postoffice Ynoriwrifiiatfttgf Instead of by messengers. carriers Bill Umpire Bron. To meet the needs of enlisted men spe his best to get In. Byron has made the University of Utah, taking the many applications to get Into the dal course In training for military se ground service of the aviation corps as vice as well as those at Fort )oU,J.,'g a mechanic, but has always been a movement Is under way by turned down because of his age. He' Knights of Columbus to establish a nui going to keep on trying, though, and similar to those In use at other trn expect to be successful before long. lug camps throughout the country. X th Ch Ii ition 0 taker a could 'Yea oi Ho tilt toh farrytr k Hold 5 the w, ttlact ' ti Mo lthe ti Tnwa ri w, tfthe tyloca iml i tob ttndot tn fcretl 0,000, ret 12,01 11 of Co tl 111,0 'thls '0 req Mul 'Mini love p toorte iboi ehup War 'D ret) ni Prod F frit - Mila, lf the tt Iq ttr doing min |