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Show s. GERMAII PLOT TO ward Qrrtnao propaganda, following tha state departments announcement. This ought to end fprever," he said, any and every doubt In the mind of any- American as to the Justice of and necessity for this war. Tf proveMbat the German government was seeking all along to split us Into factions, by corrupt means of t MOTHERS HEARTS ARE HEAVY AS "THEIR BOYS LEAVE FOR CAMP neces-Jiarypnssib- ly fcy Secretary of State Lansing Bring Storm 'tfBenanciationr - Ambassador' Request for $50,000 Re-That Money " Had Been Used Before for Same Purpose. a rd d a - 6 7 ri 3Tc a ting Washington. Member of congress, and member of government o the diplomatic corps have not yet re covered from their amazement at the astounding revelations made by Sec ' retary of State Lansing of the pinna tf Count von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, to expend $50,000 In an effort to influence congress and prevent this country from going to vvnr with Oermnny. The revcdntlon of this plot, following the disclosure of other cases of German duplicity In Its diplomatic relations wltj the United States and other countries, had the effect of sweeping away such antiwar propaganda as may atlll have been alive In the national capital and giving more convincing evidence of the hostile acts which forced the United States Into the war. How Plot Was Revealed. Here Is the statement of Secretary fib-lul- u Lansing: "The secretary' of state Issues the following statement from Ambassador, Bernstorff to the Berlin foreign office, dated January 22, 1917: I request authority to pay out up to $50,000 fifty thousand dollars), In order, as on former occasions," to' Infill-end congress through the organization you know, of which can perhaps prevent war, mtl am beginning In the meantime to act accordingly. In the above circumstances, a public official German declaration In favor of Ireland Is highly desirable In order to gain the support of Irish Influence here. Capital Stunned by Revelations. The publication of this letter apparently revealing the fact that Born-storhnd previously influenced congress through the organization you know of," actually stunned the capital. On the floor of the house, congressmen were denounced ha suspicious, It was openly stated by soma that they believed their colleagues had received German money. According" to Representative Tom Heflin, Alabama, he believes he could name 13" or 14 men In the two houses of congress who have acted suspiciously. Fess of Ohio and Ilownrd of Georgia both declared the German propaganda worked directly, with money changing hands and reaching government officials. , Additional startling revelations of the free use of money by the German government to sustain the Ger TnaiT propaganda In the United States will follow Lansings expose. These revolutions. It was Indicated, will corroboratethe Indictment of the German embassy as the disbursCertain ing bureau for propaganda. ff Irtah-- A uorlcn.ugUutwsln--tlie--eHm-- i Gennnn-Aftnrlcon- s ment's attack. i Convicts Count Bernatorff. The shower of Indictments of Gerr man clandestine activities In this country Is relied upon by the state department to set at rest all doubt remaining In any quarters that the German government officially through Count von lternstorff .conspired flagrantly, as asserted In President Wilsons war proclamation, to divide the American people on the of the war. Ir is believed by the state 'department that public opinion, after digesting the contents of the series of exposes, may Ins. depended upon to deal effectively with those who became the cuts paws of the Ger' man embassy. The message was decoded by Scotland Yards experts after vain attempts by Americans. Expulsion might have been Yon Berastorffs fate as remotely as 1915 If the state department had then known as much about the Secrets of the German code as It knows today. Other Shot to Fpllow, One by one the exhibits In the evidence in the case. It was said at the state department, will tie gtveu to the c. .public. That Americans In Jdgh public positions lent themselves "to the Herman embassy plan to spilt congress on the question of wffr, further- - decoded messages la the possession of the government are expected to demonstrate conclusively. More than one of these persons has been under public ' suspicion, but proof of their complicity with the German government has not come forth. It Is known that evidence of the mot damaging and convincing character has finally been obtain, d by the agents" of the govetu-wen- t pre-wa- J x. lee dear-cu- t f PARK BOYD PARK i$tn pound MAKERS OF JEWELRY Ift MADS mm SALT LA CITT ,) IS&SPR SO leni!d lioatte-tl- S wl OlOmobU,. nra-Bui- n. to MOO. GotraurttS firu claw t nmnlai enadmon a7 term. It Kill Mrtlet. Write lor detailed list dewrie. Car rtoo. Used Dep- tRauMUll-Dod- d Auto Co Salt Lake City n uvai4 WHEN FATHER TELLS A JOKE addi-tionn- Mother See Nothing Funny in It" and , Daughter's Glance Is Expressive of Her Pity. deep ami ho poignant flint it cannot be concealed I depicted in this mothers fnce as slie watches her to war, The heart of his sister also is heavy as she watches her brother go by in the ranks of his march away boy regiment as it starts to the camp where It will la trained for service in France. The mothers of the country are sad, hut they ore lien ring Up bravely and holding In their emotion as best they can so that their sons who are going to fight for their country will not see their sorrow. Morrow so When a man hears a joke which h! primitive sense of humor classifies a the funniest thing he had ever heard he hurrie home to bear the glad titling to hi wife. Father produces his great discovery, but mothers countenance remains untroubled by so much as a smile, observes the New York Evening Sun. Nine wives out of ten will gaze blankly into that interesting emptiness to which woman's eyes are continually traveling over her husband's shoulder. The tenth and crudest creature will wither her spouse with a penetrating stare which register: "I sew nothing absolutely nothing funny in that Disgusted, and baffled, the husband tells the same Joke to his daughter. Her only indication of amusement is a pitying uplift of the eyebrows and a subsequent absorption In her -- - ITALIANS BRIDGE OVER THE ISONZO BUILT BY THE g , -- knitting. With his finger on the last unbroken string of hope father approaches his nearest masculine relative. 'At last success is his, for his son nr his or his uncle roars, applauds and slaps him on the back. Father bows to ini- aginary audiences and compliments hm fellow man on his perspicacity and hie fortunate possession of a sense of humor. He pities those women those son-in-la- w poor defective women. THAT y f f .'WMiMix'wiinHMwH Ah Anti-Wa- i II fV-- i 1-1.- : . . t $ s- J v f I'Vx 9 ini'n nun iiamaaw4ft0 MINUTES Good Business to Be Willing to Give a Little Tima Over and Above Hours Paid For. She had been promoted three times within the year, and when I asked her what her secret was she laughed and laid: . - L. TEN EXTRA it It Oh, I guess Its Just that extra ten minutes. t I laughed, too, for I knew what she meant. It was her mothers favorite bit of preachment Sell your time for all you can get for It my dear. Bat never hesitate to give an extra ten minutes. It Is good business to sell your means your brains and your work for all yon can get for them. But it is also good business to be willing to give ten minntes over and zbove the hours yon are paid for, when your work requires A few minntes overtime will often clear up your desk, leaving no odds It will and ends for next morning. make a success of a job that would only just scrape through if you quit - - K' time-whic- - '' r J .J Bridge hastily constructed over the Isonzo by Itullan engineers. The Italians at the beginning of their drive erected 14 similar structures furthering the advantages gained by their first great victories. spend holidays in work ippERS FROM HOME REACH BOYS IN FRANCE h it on the dot prove both to yourself and to your employer that you care for your work; that youd rather do It well. That yon prefer to sacrifice a tittle for the sate of eicellenee.- The successful employer is usually the discriminating employer. Your extra ten minuted may prove to be your best investment Exchange. It will -- How . t Diamond s Cuts Glass. It has been ascertained by a series of experiments that a diamond does not cut glass States. file-fashi- on but forces the particles apart, so that a continuous crack is formed along the line of the intended cut. The crack once be- Propaganda Still Live. Senator Hunting wsps one of 'the first to make a declaration after the state department had made Us spectacular disclosure. AUhpugh Bernstorff Is gone, he said, "the spirit of Bernstorff still lives, and I trust the department of justice and the secret service will go to tin: bottom of this thing and that the organization w .filch has been built up in Ibis coUUtry through the effort of the Gentian government will be rooted out and utterly eliminated. This is highly Interesting information, but I am not surprised. I myself have nn tinier for $5,000 to bo Raid' to a certain publication signed by gun, very small force Is necessary to carry It through the glass, and thus the piece la easily broken off. The superficial crack or cut need mot he deep ; a depth, according to fine measpart of urements, of a one Inch Is quite sufficient to accomplish the purpose, so that the application of much force in using the diamond only wears out the gem Without doing the work any better. Numer-Ttones, such quart and other minwhen erals, ground into proper form, will cut glass like a diamond, hut they are not so valuable for that lacking the requisite hardnesa and soon losing the sharp edge necessary to .make the operation a success. 1 9 two-hundred-th pur-los- iWru-storf- f, The thing that Impresses me, however, Is that Bernstorff has been gone for mouths and yet the propaganda goes on. Now It was apparent long before we entered the wur that ail of 1 College guls. "iront all partslhi pern fron. and Cheshire volunteered to "0t upend their holiday this year nnm r.r In r American Shropshire. They sleep troop preparing forhi-i- term In the trenches forth h gntherlug JhiRrwih4dva,noLctpius hs nt m?r was was it that clear It chance. by art inspired by some astute,' imWerTuf girls of the ramp dressed In their outSOME POSTSCRIPTS' There dre ten joints In a New was source the clever source, and that York door attire, which Includes smocks, inventors table which German government. be Jfolded nnd breeches. A SwisiOmlTmml "has Installed elec ost Qch de. "Bernstorff uus not the only me- tnmees locomotives powerful enough to trie dium through which money was paid haul 349-totrains up steep grades. out. for Matches Scarce in England. " An Illinois inventors combination shL w,?h hmJrU pnuI I have no doubt" that millions" of turned at the A grave allegation of profiteering la coat and vest has the ,'nffs usual fronts for them to be pulled on dollars have been expended here to matches the expense of the public, those garments but at, only one back. Influence American public opinion. to tiu? lombm Clmmlele, . A Mnssrn kma-Tr- s woman is" the "patFoldth; vestibules for This organization must be de- according was made against whole-alorul re- entee of nn easily handled mosquito doors have been invented automobile stroyed, We must take it out by the tailer by an official of a match fac- net and to protect support to be placed over persons entenng or roots. It must not be allowed to live He explained that the beds. e leaving tory recently. thep from here after the war. Otherwise we chief causes of the present shortage dentists Inris have found that soqr The Dominican Republic shall have In our mid-- propaganda were the stoppage of the h hnrvest- iaijairtetion milk cures some diseases of (he n outh which will influence elections and from of and the n quire-mesupplies foreign ;mn?lue and crop that is" gums heretofore diffic itt to President Marshall made a which poUtielaus wit) ruu this way expected to exctsd 2S.T59 npo ts of the army. statement of his views to am! that." pmuds. well-know- le y i try who have allied themselves with hostile may expect to be the next object of the govern- any purse. The mark a guarantee. Imping In time to wh grave risk of being suspected of getting a part of the fifty thousand dollars. Tills Is an. honest congress, and nil Us members will resent this Insult rn Its Intelligence and honor. Whether the state department Is In of other evidence indicating the nmbassudorW activities has hot Ik en revealed, but the extraordinary dlseioure already made have fixed the belief tlult agent of the United 'States' pivernmeiir ha VC T'otlecteii and compiled the entire story of German l duplicity and Intrigue fcfld that chuptera will he added. Knew Plan of RuthlMne. The reference to averting war Is taken as an Indlratlon that Ambassador Bernslorff had prior knowledge of Ids governments Intention to proclaim a merciless widespread submarine warfare and that he was equally confident that the United States government could not he easily placated by mere promises. The German announcement of Its Intention to expand lps submarine activities was not made public until January 81, when the world was startled not only by the determination to remove all restrictions, but by the statement that it would become effective on the following day. Three days later the United States government hnd expressed Its disapproval by sever-Inrelations with Oermnny. That the German ambassador knew of Ids government's intention was assumed by some officials, although at the same time he denied prior knowledge and those In close touch with the embassy were given to understand that he did not approve the course and worked to obtain modification. Small Amount for Bribe. It bus not been assumed that the ambassador actually attempted to bribe or personally Influence any member of congress, and doubt that such was his purpose Is supported to some extent by the comparatively small amount of money he asked. Fifty thousand dollars, It was pointed out, would go hut a short way toward buying the tnlluence of any congressman. Judiciously expended. however, It might do much In Coiuimnsatlng paid agents, such as are how known to have belonged to the elaborate machine lternstorff had so carefully built up for the production of propaganda and for purposes of espionage. r List. Search Aa aoon as new of the lternstorff message reached the rapltol member began a hasty search of the file to flud the names of the men who voted against war. While there- was no assertion from anyone that anyone of these members was Influenced by German propaganda or money, yet It was pointed out that If such influence was exerted, and If It had any effect, the names Of those affected would he shown In the lists of those who opposed the war resolution. I was foreed to the conclusion some time ago, Representative Heflin said, in discussing the revelations, that Germany thought we were a cowardly people and afraid to fight, but 1 did not know 4hat we were a --corrupt people and would betray our country for German gold. The telegram sent by Count von Bernstorff Is an admission of the fact that Germuny had a corruption fund In the United States for the purpose of currying on German propaganda. ifnwTi brrs hn ve:urtert In suspi cious fashion by the introduction of resolutions or hills or by speeches In congress or out of congress, that lends to the conviction that they are not loyal to this government at tills time, they ought to be Investigated, and, if found guilty, they ought to be expelled from tire floor of this house and from the floor of the senate of the United posM-sMo- BERNSTORFF WAS PAYMASTER 0f war In Kumpejmd then humiliate 'rid'suhjugafe us. He who Is not for the war runs a l he whole-heartedl- Revelations, Our diamond rings win the heart the lad lee, and art prized abev other thing. W have diamond, amatl er large, fo suit any taste or i - IlfiTIOII Diamond Rings MM j-u- morr-compac- tir -- u Tin n , -- rs -- 11 t, I e, She Had Experience. 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