Piqua Daily Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1917, Piqua, Ohio VILLAGERS TAKE October 17. Mexican bandits early morning attacked the village of six southeast of Armed citizens drove them There no known WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION AND SPECIAL WIRE point to rain Accidents Will to the Equipment of The Our Were Very indent ST. al warrant was here for the A. H. of IDA M. TARBELL EDUCATES ON PUBLIC'S RESPONSE TO WAR NEEDS The prompt and cheerful response which the public in general makes to every reasonable plan of justment for war needs is one of the most heartening exhibits in a tening Show men and en what is necessary and they spring to it. You must convince them it is healthy when they see it is right they do and do it Here is the matter of reforming our elaborate and wasteful delivery A few weeks ago the Com- Economy Board laid the facts before the We were ing voluntary co-operation In ing war needs that the country is givin employing in sending home our about and as many and The the the general and department stores had great This army was not all em- not do for Fully fifty per cent f it was busy doing things which a little forethought and a little would have A half dozen deliveries a day were made to probably a million holds where one or two at the out- It is only a few weeks since the possibility of freeing men and ment through a reform of deliveries was laid before the merchants and their Today the Com- Economy Board has definite information that in the following cities the deliveries have been re- to or in some cases one: East St. 111.; Smith R. N. San 0.; New St. and Out in New Mexico there is a town where a former er has built up a system according to the route of the wagons or trucks being those of the former mail This service is done side would have been possible if the Lf housewife had not been encouraged cent to by the merchant to think that A service which oftener he tn tftp seventeen wagons now performed by three cars and oftener he came to the house the ter he liked it. Extravagant service was one of his chief competitive Probably fifty million little packages went daily this has some wise reflections Xt X 1_____ 1 1 which might have been carried b the and this when we are livery service in these United States counting every gallon of It cost of The average cost of deliveries to the cers of this country has been about three per cent of their net they added this to the price of goods and the woman who orders once a day pays for those who order a half dozen is possible we should have gone on heedless unthinking of all this waste of motion and material if the war not thrust its imperative demand for young men upon War thrives when men are If war calls they must how are we going to re- lease them without stopping the chinery which supplies our daily There is only one scientific way and that is the one taken by the Commercial Economy Board in the reform of the delivery of It the study of each business v tice as an engineer would study a machine finding the lort the i bad preventable It means cutting every prodigality banding time and motions as ly as money and It was such a study of the delivery system that led the Government to recommend a fixed number of eries a at regular to ask as a patriotic to carry their small and to give up their freakish habits of ing for special deliveries and goods on The quick understanding with which the merchants of the country met the request to their to give up their ae competitive weapon that so many had come to think is one oft the proofs of the WHAT THE STATE WAR BOARD SAYS apple harvest bids fair this 3'ear to be a bumper must supply none must bo Dry those which are fairly large and To save the smaller remove bad cut into small pieces and cook to a pulp in sufficient to prevent Press through a colander to remove skins and Then cook down into a adding cider and spices for Or the pulp may be canned in the usual way and used later for pies and the We won't if we The gentleman who has worked on the waste in de- is simply he the merchants are to A few people want the service and the chants give it to them and of course make them pay for it. Whereas if the truth were known I venture the statement that seventy-five per cent of the people the country over would much have less vice and reduced prices on All intelligent merchants know their delivery expense is but what can they other fellow does and they must The fact that a great majority of the people are forced to carry their expensive systems by merchants catering to the whims of u well-to-do Here is the kernel of the A few demand elaborate and fore expensive waiting The merchant thinks his only chance to get their trade is by humoring their irregular telling them they can have anything at any hour and so again and again he sends home an article on which there is a two cent at a cost of six The needs of war have opened up the unsoundness of this particular business practice as they will many Common sense as well as loyalty demand that it be corrected and at The call is these lines reach the press the first contingent of our National Army will be on its way to camp men for the firing But to keep that many men on the firing But to keep that many men on the firing line means certainly a possibly a million and a behind the supplying and keeping up and military doing the and one things that must be done for those at the It will be some It will require but what a little sacrifice for so great a It is a little sacrifice which in the Oct. 17__Ohio's means freeing tens of thousands of men for our Surely in the 17; 1917. It Is Reported German Chancellor great and terrible demand that is making upon those of us ot US Wartime demands all fruit must who in SQ small be to be used in place of should have stuffs which can be sent to a universal voluntary There should camps abroad and at and to bo no town in the WC should to say Wo tried to put our deliveries on a There will be many of the war ed Though not They refused so good as the more desirable refused refused to give up their their goods on to think to carry their little It should be done and done for now is the The men are being called by the hundreds of We believe in their We have accepted the awful The very least we can do is cheerfully to accept the ment A by those who are making a careful and scientific study of our commercial in Paris today there arc only three de- liveries a Shall we insist on a half dozen a It is up to the woman to IN BELGIUM Oct. in their recent attacks on the Belgian town of caused the destruction of an arsenal in which was quartered a man This information was contained in a dispatch from Amsterdam to the entral News Agency and was ed by a correspondent on the Dutch One of the first incendiary bombs dropped struck the which Immediately burst into The confusion was added to by airmen descending to a low used their machine guns the which the correspondent said was Raids over Belgium were ued In patrol ters two German machines were driven The following cial statement was made public considerable number of raids tvere carried out yesterday by naval in which several enemy airplane formations were ed. Two enemy machines were Iriven One of our machines the last 24 hours ing raids were carried out on the following The Bruges and Large ties of explosives were dropped with pod all our machines re- turning THESE YOUNGSTERS SHOULD GO TO WAR NEW October teen pils of Public School 107 were arrested Tuesday afternoon as the result of a strike against the Gary The school occupies the square bounded by Fifth and Madison at One Hundred Third and One Hundred and Fourth During the noon pupils gathered near the school and were addressed by several men and one Albert of the Home Defense urged the pils to return to their classroom some gathered missiles and smashed school Pupils of School 10S and of School 72 joined withstanding the fact they made no complaint regarding their own To License Oct. 17. Mysterious explosions in munition plants are to be brought to an A system oi of explosives that will track of every stick of dynamite aud every grain of gunpowder in the United States from the time it ihe hands of the manufacturers until it is has been announced Certificates 1 Oct. latest offer of certificates oi at 4 pei has been heavily UNITED STATES AS A WAR LOAN The following the bulletin of the Financial shows what a wonderful market fn for the Liberty Here the estimated national the present national debt and the percentage which the debt bears to the wealth of each of the allied Tie Great Britain France Russia Italy Germany United States Estimated National Wealth Present Per Cent 22 5 19.5 2's.- in 23 7 3 2 f Same the following a won of area and population of those na ions for and nS democracy and of the countries still the percentage fn each case indicating the relationship in each area and For Against Democracy Total For Democracy Democracy C. Area Sq. 3H. Per C 75 95 15.48 2960033 5 9U94312 isls 100.00 Population n Includes 100.00 Per 80 72 9 33 100.00f MEN IN BANKS VERY Oct. Fourth district Liberty Loan com- has been advised that up to last night subscriptions to the ond Liberty aggregating i 4 00 had been received from men n the thirty odd army From each of these comes the same men in uniform who are of- fering our and giving our money are watching what the folks at home are All camps are reporting additional subscriptions D. Oct. 17__ Now that Uncle Sam has the ypung men of the country in training for military he finds that needs typewriter operators and and both men and for the ments at The Civil Service Commission has notified all of its boards of examiners that hey should put forth their best forts to secure these urgently needed While examinations are now held weekly in 450 the Commission states that arrangements will be made to have an examination held at accessible a WAR EXPENSES Reach Nearly Since First of HALF OF SUM WENTTO ALLIES Nearly Eight Million More Than Receipts for the I Same Period Disbursements foi Army and Navy Over One Nine Times Greater Than Last Oct. expenditure since the beginning of the fiscal July 1, are nearing the The reported the daily treasury wai This more than receipts during this portion of the loan paid since the The greatest single item of expend was advanced the Ordinary including military and naval tures and the cost thus far of the shipbuilding and air craft production A total of had been ex- pended in the retirement of short-time certificates of Receipts fiom ordinary in- tax for the most part just before the end of the fiscal customs receipts and taxes on tobacco and other direct totalled 595. A total of first this small class of applicants can be The entrance salaries range to a motion is reasonably rapid to those whose services No appointments can be made to these or other positions in the al classified civil service unless by the Civil Service Com- mission under the civil service Any information to the contrary is This is a splendid to serve your Full information may be secured from the secretary of the board of civil service examiners at the office in your cal while was re- through the issuance of short time certificates of indebtedness which will have to be retired out 01 second liberty bond Receipts and expenditures for corresponding period last were and or about year's STATES f AGE SUGAR SHORTAGE Food Administration Again peals to the Oct eastern states face a sugar with no prospect of relief before late in No when the new Hawaiian and western beet crops In a ment forecasting the shortage the food administration again appealed to the American people to cut down their consumption of candy and drinks at the same time gave warn ing that retailers already have re- their stocks at prices recently agreed upon and the public should paj during the temporary scare ity in the east than it has been pay ing during the past 30 The shortage is the adminis tration to the failure of the pub outside of a few loyal u reduce and the exports to France in order that tlu French people may have their meager ration of one pound of sugar per per son per TWO NEW NEW who prior to the outbreak of the war was London tive of the Deutsche Bank of and George von also erly connected with a German bank in were into custody last night by the Intelligence reau of the Navy Department and sent to Ellis Island for internment as dangerous enemy Von Seebeck is believed to be the son of General Baron von commander of the German Tenth Army Corps at Both fled from England to escape internment there as enemy aliens and to the United Both wre known by reputation to many bankers and no in obtaining ment with the Trust Com- pany of this Von Seebeck became head of one of divisions in. the More than a year the Guaranty dropped them rolls of. its employees because of their man After that both obtained ment by an imp or house With nces on the water and was there they were taken into to-day by agents the intelligence Considerable was as to their antecedents information was obtainable ing their pro-German Von Seebeck is reputed be Va' member of a family Of man civil rather the and entered service oM Berlin later being aent London branch the While in London he quent visitor the Em- and when war country and Great Britain imminent as other mans of was subjected to the surveillance of British Several Von friends were but he the arriving Yott 22, 191.4.'' liESCH State OH Inspector Is 111. Reported I October Rev. Protestant Episcopal was suspended for two years t Pennsylvania for of i In verdict Board of Court which heard the against the rector of LIBERTY tow i Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan are being received but the tal -is far below the amount that been assigned to this The total announced today is which is an increase of over amount given out The public is asked to give the buying a bond their earnest It is a patriotic duty to purchase a bond and there should be one in every The money is to be used in the conduct of the war and there should be no reason or not possessing Your country needs your dollars and besides you get paid for the use of them at the rate of 4 per cent. Why WHY ARE THEY DOING A complaint has been made by one of our citizens to the effect that he is unable to secure any potatoes at the rate of a He stated that he visited several ers Sunday afternoon and was un- able to secure any potatoes at the above He also states that he asked for 15 and would do his own delivering Another zen says that ho knows a farmer who has 100 bushels which he is holding for the price of per The man who went to the trouble to cultivate a war garden won't be so bad off after what? ment Bishop Alexander now Bishop head of the and Francis A. lawyer and leading as instigators of a moVement frock Mr. He accused them as the aggressors in the affair which Rev. Mr. Richmond's former St. He labeled their actions He ex- Mr. Richmond's diocesan authorities as were there more publicity and said Mr. Bishops would be of a higher type than that revealed in this mony in the Bishop and Bishop Rhinelander He sarcastically referred to the in the and called for tribute of the in its The two ops and Lewis were really on not he my opinion there is guilt in moral and cal criminal but it rests elsewhere than upon Mr. 1 Workman Oct 17. Charles A. 54, was killed in a local tory when an emery burst white he was at A shower of Liberty Loan ature is to be let loose over Piqua by aeroplanes en route to Sidney almost any time Up to date they have not appeared but the com- mandant at Wilbur Wright field has said that they would come and they will unless unforseen circumstances According to government orders no announcement of the date set for their arrival can be made and all we can do is to keep on the lookout for their FRANK HAMBERGER APPENDICITIS Mrs. Frnak who re sides at 1004 Park is in Memorial where she went a serious operation Tuesday for relief from an attack of The operation was ed by Dr. and it is Jed today that the patient is getting along having recovered very I perceptibly from the shock incident the operation the taking of the Mrs. Walter Wheeler of N. arrived in the arid is attending at the bedside of her Miami No. 1441, will hold ti meeting the I. O. O. F. hall day October 19. The young people will provide ment and light body is expected to be there at Come and ahow your loyalty to your
