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AMERICANS ARE THOROUGHLY IN
WAR SAYS. A SCOTTISH DIVINE.
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NEW YORK. Aug., 30— After traveling more than
20.000 miles and delivering one hundred and nineteen ad
dresses in every part of the United States, Sir George
Adam Smith, the Scottish clergyman who has been mak :
mg a speaking tour of the country under the auspicices ot
the National Committe on the Churches and the Moral
Aims of the War, reported to the Bureau of Information
of tiie British War Mission today that American people
everywhere are fully aroused and heart and soul in the
-war.
“From a very wide experience in all parts ol the coun
try and among all classes, says Sir George, "I am sure that
the conscience, the heart, the will and all the boundless en
ergies of the United States are thoroughly and intelligent
iv enlisted in the war. This is as true of the more German
centers as of the rest of the country. I had nowhere a more
cordial reception for my message than in St. Louis, Cinei
nati and Milwaukee and among men with German names.
My chairmen and other speakei-s were frequently men of
German descent.’’ Sir George came to America last March.
“The mission with which I was charged,” says Sir Geo
rge, “was twofold: to enforce the moral aims common to
the Allies and to tell the part which Great Britain has tak
en in the war.
“I found everywhere an enthusiastic response to these
sentiments and arguments. I know that the American peo
pie are convinced of the justice of our common cause and
resolute to cany it through on these moral issues which
Germany has forced on the world
“I found a good deal of ignorance of the scale on
which Great Britain had been fighting and supporting
the war and naturally of the details of our warfare. Most
Americans had failed to value the many fronts— on three
Continents— on which our armies have been engaged; the
vast numbers of our armies which were raised before con
scription was established; or the extent of our sacrifices.
1 supplied them with concise information on each of these
subjects. Many audiences were amazed at the facts I gave
them; and it would have been well worth coming to Am
-erica for this purpose alone.”
LAJOIE IS OUT OF THE GAME.
CLE\ ELAND, Ohio., Aug., 30— Napoleon Lajoie,
one of the greatest players the game has ever known and
acknowledged king of second basemen, may never play
professional baseball after this season.
LaJoie was thrown out of a job when the American
Association suspended its season. He plans to engage in a
useful occupation. The veteran star was manager of the
Indianapolis club until the association suspended as a re
sult of Secretary Baker’s work or fight order.
“It was work or fight” Larry said, “and Iguess I’m
too old to fight. Perhaps I was getting too old to play base
ball, although there are a few pitchers who still think to
the contrary.
Asked if he would play in the proposed semi-pro lea
gue to be organized next year, Larry said:
“I think when a man gets to be as old as I am I needs
more practice and warming up than he would get by pay
ing only on Saturdays and Sundays. It begins to look as ii
1 had played my last game of professional baseball unless
the war ends next year. If it goes on indefinitely, the lay
off will not do me any good and 1 will be through when the
old game is resumed.”
FINALLY GETS QUESTIONNAIRE.
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug., 30— Local Draft Board No
1, has just received the questionnair of Jesse Delos Jowkes
it having been on the way for four months. Jowkes, a mis-;
sionary for the Church of Jesus Christ ol Latter day,
Saints, (“Mormon”) is in Ximberiy, South Africa and did
not learn that he must register until September, 1917. He
registered with the American consul at Capetown. His
questionnaair was mailed April G, this year. He has been 1
placed in Class 5 during the time he is engaged in mission-;
ary work.
RACE TO FURNISH NURSES.
SALT IAKE CITY, Aug. 30— Colleges sororities at
the University of Utah, here, and at the Utah Agricultur
al College, at Logan, have laid aside the usual gayeties for
war work. Two sororities are racing to see which can j
furnish the most nurse recruits. Gamma Phi, now has a
two to one lead over Chi Omega and indications are that
more Greek letter girls soon will join the contest.
At the agricultural college two members ot the Sor
osis sorority have registered for Red Cross nurse work,
and when the fall term opens it is expected there will be a
number of absentees, who have taken up the work.
WOMEN IS A POLICE JUDGE.
BOULDER, Colo., Aug., 30— Boulder has a women
police Judge, the first of her kind to sit on the police ma
gistrates' bench in Boulder.
She is Mrs. Linda Lee. She was appointed to the office
by Mayor Moys after her husband, Judge W.S. Lee, had
been incapacitated to discharge the duties ol the office on
account of paralysus. The council approved the appoint
ment. Under the appointment Mrs. Lee will complete the
unexpired part of her husband’s term.
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PITCHER MAY GO TO WAR.
GREAT LAKES, ILL. Aug., 30— Jacob May, St. Louis
Nationals pitcher, is considering enlisting at the Great
Lakes Naval training station. May registered on June 5.
becoming twentyone recently, and has not received his
classification, but naval recruiting officers advised hitp to
get his release from his draft board.
EL PASO DOGS FOR LIBERTY.
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EL PASO, TEX., Aug., 30— El Paso clogs are for lib
erty and they show it by wearing liberty bells. Without
chese bells they will forego their liberty for a temporary
stay in the dog pound ending with a quick trip to the can
ine elysian fields. The dog license tags are shaped like a
liberty bell and dogs not wearing this liberty tag are
lassoed by small Mexican boys and taken to pound. Many
poor Mexican families have paid licenses for as many as
five dogs at the city tax collector’s office.
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GERMANS ARE AWAKENING TO
THE FACT THAT THEY ARE WRONG.,
NEW YORK, Aug., 30— Realization that the sympa
thy of the people of Alsace and Lorraine are with France
apparently has penentrated to the minds of some of the
members of the German Reichstag for according to the
Cologne Gazette, Deputy Waldstein gave notice in the
Reichstag in June that “many wrongs must be righted,”
in those provinces. Feeling of the people of Alsace and Lo
rraine is no longer so friendly toward Germany as before
the war, he declared.
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BAVARIANS COMPELLED TO WORK.
AMSETRDAM, Aug., 30— The Bavarian Minister of
War has issued an order in all towns and villages of Ba
varia, directing that “every person capable of work, irre
spective of rank, age or sex, shall be compelled to aid in
the harvest on the order of the local authorities.”
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WOMEN OPERATING STREET CARS.
VANCOUVER, WASH. Aug. 30— Clad n Khaki
bloomers a middy blouse and regulation motorman’s cap,
Vancouver’s first woman operator has taken up duties
with the street railway. Seven more women are to be put
on cal's. All with the pay given their male predecessors.
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