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THE LECOMPTON SUN RESPOND TO CAPPER'S PLEA CHILDREN CAN AID GOVERNOR NAMES DEFENSE COUNCIL PRESIDENT MAKES PERSONAL APPEAL Motional StiMSrSdOOL proportion of the people of Kurope must rely upon the harvests In America. "Upon the farmers of this country, therefore. In large measure, rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the Nat km not count upon them to omit no atep that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about tho most effectual co-operation in the sale and distribution of their products? The time la short. It Is of the most Imperative importance that everything possible be done and done immediately to make sure of large har vesta.

I call upon young men and old alike and upon able bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty to turn In hosts to the farms and make certain that nn pains and no labor is lacking In this Bteat matter. "I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant abundant foodstuffs as well as cotton. They can show their pa Governor' Office Flooded With Let-ten and Telegram Regarding More Production on Farm. Topeka. Kansas Is making quick response to Governor Capper's appeal for growing more foodstuff.

The goy-ernor is receiving letters, telegrams and telephone call from every section of the state, showing a deep interest In the suggestion and a readiness to help. The governor will appoint a commission to help with the work and a thorough and vigorous campaign will be made at once to cultivate every waste place In the Btate. The governor will take active charge of the work and there will be a county organization in every county of the state, for the work of furnishing seed, men and equipment for the largest cultivated acreage Kansas ever has known. The farm extension department of the state agricultural college and cf the Hays Normal School have been placed under the action of Governor Capper by President Waters and President Lewis, and their departments will be used In the organization. Secretary Hohler has tendered the office of the state board of agriculture to the governor.

Everything will be sidetracked during the next few weeks to the work of putting all Kansas under cultivation this year. Schools, city and rural, will be taken Into the organization and schools and colleges will bo asked to furnish every boy and young man in Iheni who is old enough to work on the farm. The governor Is determined that the rich men of the state, bankets and capitalists shall do their part toward the equipment of the state for the big effort. Tho banker who falls will be known to all tho state for the commission will go into each community to check up what every banker Is doing for this neighborhood. Where the local banks refuse, the commission will take other means to see that the farmers are financed.

The governor will ask the big implement houses to make liberal to farmers for equipment on dele 'red payments. WOMEN ARE READY FOR WAR Many Willing to Go to Front as Sol diers or Truck Drivers Besiege Governor's Office, Topeka. Kansas women want to get Into the war game. They want to shoulder muskets and go in the ranks. They want to drive motor car and trucks.

Tboy want to maka bandages. They want to cook. They want to stay at home and knit and sew. They want to give time, money, service anything and everything which the nation may ask at the bands of patriotic American womanhood. The first real flood of volunteers from Kansas women came to Governor Capper the other day.

During the Mexican trouble the governor was be siegod by men who wanted commls sions. Now the men are ready for service any where, everywhere at anything, any time. Men of prominence in the stale are now ready for places In the ranks. And equally loyal and patriotic are the women. To be sure, the Kansas women Jolt ed all the poetry out of any otherwise successful Republican election last fall when they voted for Wilson "because he kept us out of war." To be sure, the Kansas women shed tears and offered fervent prayers and sent petitions and letters In a frantic ef fort to block a call to arms.

Now that actual war has come the Kansas women have dried their tears, offered another silent prayer and offered tbolr services In whatever manner their country may need. There are olher letters from all so cieties, charilablo organizations, from women who want information -all with a slnglo purpose of aiding th nation in a crisis. Job for Senator Carroll, Governor Capper has appolntoi) Senator Carey Carroll of Alma special Investigator for Hie state insurance department. Ills duties will be to conduct a statewide Investigation of Are Insurance rates ami of the rating bureau at Topeka under tho new luw passed by the recent legislature. All Kana "On the Wire." An order of far reaching Import ance to telephone patrons In Kansa was made by tho public utilities com mission in approving tho sale of the Pittsburg and Parsons Independent Telephone properties to tho LVI1 sys tem.

Tho commission required that tho Hell accept, transmit utid deliver all toll lino messages offered It by any telephone co.npany entering thess towns. As a matter of fact, the order is the beginning of universal service on the tolephono lines In Kansas, as any person using an Indepen dent telephone that Is connected with tbo Parsons and Pittsburg exchange ran talk to any person on any Dull line. Pickle Maker a Bankrupt. Otto Kuehne, a pickle manufacturer of Topeka, was declared a bankrupt In the fedoral court recently. Dank-ruptcy proceedings were instituted against him several weeks ago but lie resisted them.

Elk County File Road Maps. Elk County is tin first In the slain to complete its road system fur the state highway commission under tht new road law. The maps and profiles of all the county muds In that county bare reached the highway commission. Dean Johnson of State Agricul tural College Urges Them to Plant Gardens. WOULD SOLVE F000 PROBLEM Prof.

Johnson Points Out the Economlo aa Well as Monetary Value of the Plan. Lot the army of children between tho age of 10 and 18 years grow garden produce for Immediate use and can the surplus for future consump tion and much will be done toward solving the food problem In this coun try. Under proper direction additional foodstuffs valued at more than could be produced, according to Edward C. Johnson, dean of the division of extension, Kansas State Agricultural College. "Ordinarily children have nothing special to do," said Dean Johnson.

"Even on the farms nre many whose efforts, if well directed, could be made more effective and worth while from an economic standpoint and all this without the Bo-called 'child labor' whore children are employed In heavy work from early morning until lute at night." In the Glenwood community In Leavenworth county, a typical farm community, pointed out Dean Johnson, there Is a canning club which has as one of Its principal objects the grow ing of garden produce and the can ning of tho surplus for homo use dur ing the winter months. This club con sists of thirty mother-daughter teams. During the season of 1916 the club grew In the garden and canned more han 11.000 quarts of garden and or chard products In addition to the products used on the table during tho summer gardening season. This was at the rate of 366 quarts for each team. If only one-half of the 10,755.790 rural families in tho United States would do ns well they would produce and put up for winter use 1,971,561,500 quarts, which If valued at 15 cents per quart a low estlmato would be worth $295,714,225.

Power Plant Destroyed. Recently Fire destroyed tho power plant of the Eloctrlc Light Railway Com pany. The loss Is estimated at $25,000. The power plant will be rebuilt. Seven Enlist at Ranom.

The ef forts of a recruiting officer In ono day at Hansom, netted seven men for the army. Several other youths are plan ning to enlist. Potatoes on K. U. Campus A part of the campus of the University of Kausas may bo planted in potatoes this spring if the plans of Chancellor Frank Strong work out.

Tho probable lack of foodstuffs In the United States this year has caused authorities at the university to back tho move of giving state property to crops this ear. Flying Corps st Iola. The fifth mili tary unit to be offered by Iola to the government In the war with Germany Is In process of organization by D. T. Darber, machinist and student of aviation.

A company of volunteer aviators Is being enlisted. Four Held as Plotters County offi cers late this afternoon arrested four men whom they found under the Santa Fe bridge ovor Elm erf ok east of Iola. Tho men had a quantity of nitroglycerin, caps and fuses In their possession. Buried a Railroad. The Anthony ft Northern lost four miles of track when a high wind drifted throe foot of sand over the rails.

A large forco of men shoveled the snnd away bo-fore the trains could puss. Man Heads W. O. W. The Woodmen of the World of Kansas In session at Pittsburg has re-olocted J.

V. Kaiser of Kansas City, head consul. Boy Killed by Wagon. Keith Gal-pin, 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Forest Galpln of Minneapolis, was run over by a wagon the other day and killed. Held Two Loyalty Parades. Ten thousand school children marched In the loyalty parade at Wichita the other afternoon. At night the citizen paraded thirteen thousand strong. 8cott for Intervention.

The United States should Intervene In Mexico at once, not against, but for the people of that country, formor Congressman C. F. Scott of Iola duclured in a speech at Ottawa. Robs Jewelry Store. While em ploye were going to work, a man threw a stone through the jewelry display window of Ed Vail Cora-puny on a principal street of Wichita, and escaped with $1,000 In watches and rings.

"Frat" Houie Burn. Member of the PI Upsllon Fraternity, returning from their Easter vncatlon tho other day, found their fraternity house In flumes. The building, furniture and personal belongings of the students, valued at Itt.uuu. were destroyed. Lesson (n: lr B.

O. tne Sundi BflJ.KItfl. Actlnir Director of day School Course In the Moody llltila Institute of Chicago.) (Coprrlrht, 1917, Western Newgpaper Union.) LESSON FOR APRIL 22 JESUS ANOINTED AT BETHANY. LESSON TEXT John GOLDEN TEXT She hath done what ha could. Mk.

14:8. This Is a lesson of Jesus In the home. It occurred at the beginning of pusslon week. We have before ns the master the worker, Martha; the worshiper, Muryj the witness, Luzurus; the traitor, Judas, nnd the people without. An unconscious bit of wisdom fell from the lips of that good housewife who exclnlmed, "How much better my neighbors' houses look when I have my windows clean." Too much we are looking through the eyes of selfishness.

Out of this lesson let us learn to look through unselfish eyes. I. Unjust Criticism (vr. 1-0). It Is six days before Jesus' Inst Passover.

The accounts of Matthew and Mark suggest It to have been within two dnys, becnuso they mentioned this feast after telling of the conspiracy of the chief priests nnd elders with Judas, who came to tils determination to sell his Master after the reprimand given him on this occasion. (1) The Value of Good Deeds. Je sus did not forget, In the supremo hour of his life, the friends whom he loved. To bring them some further spiritual gifts, he had come to their home in lietlinny. Doubtless he also had In mind the desire to nourish the faith which had been kindled In the hearts of nil by the resurrection of Luzurus, just as he returned to Cana after having performed his first miracle (John Jesus was Very God of Very God, yet he was very much of a real man; therefore he enjoyed the pleasures of home as much as other men, nnd the Joys of kinship and brotherhood.

(2) The Wealth of Good Deeds. Ont of her love Mary expended $31, probably her whole treasure, In the purchase of this alabaster box, and put it aside to use it upon him at the proper time. We do not think that she stopped to calculate the cost of this ointment. Love never estimates value. Her deed proved a safer guide of conduct than tho calculating prudence of Judns nnd tho other disciples (see Mutt Such deeds are always looked upon with suspicion.

The Isca-riots usually are the leaders in criticizing the actions of others. Envy lay at the bottom of their criticism, but good deeds uro unconscious, for we rcud that "the house was filled with odor." (3) A Standard of Good Deeds (Mark "She did what sho could," and we have also the record of good deeds, a memorial to her (Murk 14 A lurgo number of people who never give of their own to the poor nor to the kingdom of God are willing to criticize others who do give out of the gratitude of their loving hearts. II. Gracious Commendation (w. 7-11).

Jesus praised where his disciples and Judas criticized. The poor they always had with them (Mark This must have been a challenge that evidently they had not attended to the poor ns they should. Jesus also tells them frankly that whutever they do for him they must do speedily. Jesus' judgment upon Judus Is a rebuko of the disciples; his exposure of the sophistry of the critics and of their subtlety Is suggestive. Upon Mury's net ho bestowed the highest possible prulso.

"She hath done whut she could." That Is oil that Is asked of anyone (II Cor. 8 Such commendation as Jesus bestowed upon Mary ho bestowed upon no other, and his wonderful predictions concerning her (Mutt. 0:13) have been literally fulfilled. Jesus' judgment upon Mary Is ulso suggestive. He shielded her, 'let her alone;" lie approved her works as being good, and he Interpreted her Innermost purpose in tho uct which she bad performed.

This outwurd act wus literally tho pouring forth of her heart's adoration and worship. Martha was In part taken up with her household service. Lazarus was la part taken up with his enjoy ment of the presence of Jesus, but Mury was wholly taken up with Jesus himself. Does the record surprise us: "Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this ulso which she hath dono shall be spokon of for a memorial of her?" Judas, under tho Judgment of Jesus, was stung (Mutt. 20:14) and hurries at once to the enemies of Jesus to strike a bargain with them for the be-truyal of his Lord though be did not secure from these enemies the equivalent of whnt he had poured upon him.

Christ will bi no man's debtor. He takes the poor offerings we lay before lilin, and crowns them with the richest reward. Mury's gift of ointment received words of commendation of which she never dreamed, and a reword for beyond her fondest hope, and hns been the fount of countless deeds rich with love. Many people hud gathered, not only for Jesus' suko, But thut they might see Lazarus also. He drew people because of what Jesus bad done for him, yet he drew them to Jesus.

This brodght him also under condemnation, for we must share th bitterness of th foes of Jesus. Urges Unity Among American Citizens to Preserve the Nation's Ideals. SAYS SUPREME CRISIS IS HERE Simplest Part Is Getting Army and Navy Important Work for Farmer of Country. Washington. In a personal appeal adctteHHed to IiIh fellow countrymen President Wilsson calls upon every American citizen man, woman and child to Join together to nmke the nation a unit for the preservation of itB ideals and for the triumph of democracy In the world war, "The Bupreme tent of the nation has come," saya the addre.sa.

"We must all Apeak, act and herve together." Putting the navy on a war footing and raining a great army are the hIiu-Ilcst parts of the great task ahead, the President declares, and lie urge: all the people, with particular empha His on his words to the farmers, to concentrate their energies, practice economy, prove unselfish and demonstrate effectively. "My Follow Countrymen: "Tim wiiiaiue of our liHovid country Into (he Krlm ami torrlhle war for democracy uixl human rights which has Htirtken thu wot hi creates tto many of national life and action which call for limiu'diato consideration ami jiu lenient that I hope you will permit tne to to yni a few word of eatnesl cttunni'1 ami nppeal wttti reanl to them. "Fighting for Future Peace." "Wo ure rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are ahoiit to create and equip a reat army, hut these nru the simplest parts of the Kreat tank to which wo have nildressid ouinelves. Thorn 'a not a single Helilnh element, ho far aii I nti uve, lit the cau.se we are Unlit -ItiK for. We are 11k tiling for what we be-lievo and wlah to ho the rights of mankind and for the future peace and Hocurlty if the world.

"To do this Rieat thtn worthily and flilcct'HHf ully we must devote oainelven to the nervier without reward to profit or rmitei lit! ndvantaxn and with un energy nnd IntolliKonce tlmt will tl.se to th level of the enterprise Itself. We mut realise to the full how ureal the tank Is and how many OilriKH, how many kinds) ami tle-nentn of capacity anil 'service and self-aerltiee It Involves. "Theso then nre the thlnns wo numt do 11 nd do well, heHldea tlKhtin the thlnnn wltliout which mere IlKhtliitf would he rultloHn: "We immt supply abundant food for ournnlvoa and for our armies and our Meamon not only, hut also for a lnro part of the imt Ions with whom we have now made common catine, lit whose support and by whose Hides we hIihII bo IlhttiiK. Some of the Great Tasks. 'Wn nnixt aupply ships by the hun-liodH out uf our Hhlpyard to carry to tho other side of the Hubmarluea or no ftubuiarlncK, what will uvery day be need ed there, and abundant materials out of our lie Id and our mines and our factories with which not only to clotho and oonlj our own forces on land and mob.

hut also clothe and support onr prople f'' whom the gallant fellows under arms can no lonuer work, to help etotho and equip tho armlH with which wo are co-openit- Inn In rope, and to ke'p the lims and inanufactotles there In raw materia Is; Coal to keep the tires Koitm In ships at Men and In the furnaces of humliods of fa torles across the sea; steel out of which to make arms and ammunition boll here and there; rails for worn nut railways Un of the tlKhtintc forces; locomotive nnd rollliiK stock to take the place of those every day kmn; to pieces; mules, homes, cattle for luir nnd military service; everything with which tho people of Knuland and France and Italy and Itusslu have usually supplied them-Helves hut cannot now afford the men, tho materials or the machinery to make. "tt la evident to every thinking man that our Industries, In farms, in shipyard. in the mines. In tho factor ies, uiiin be made mom prollllc antl more enictcnt than ever and that they must bo more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to i ay la that the men and the women who 1evoto their thought nnd their oncruy to these thhiKH will be serving tho country and condui tln tho flht for pea( and freedom Just us truly ami Just as efficiently as the men on the battle Held iq in the trnnchus. Th Great Service Army.

"The Industrial forces of the country, men and women alike, will be a meal nu-tlonul, a eat International service army a notable and honored host eiiUKed In the service of tho Nation and the world, tho efficient friends and saviours of free men everywhere. "Thousands nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to in 111 tary aervlce will of tlwht and of necessity le excused from that service and anslnn-d to the fundamental, sustaining work of the fields, and factories, nnd mines, and they will be as much part of the great fiatrlntln forces of the Nation as the men under (Ire. "I Mite the liberty, therefore, of ad- clresnl'iK this word In the farmers of the country and to alt who work on tho farms: the supreme need of our own Nation and of the nations with which we are cn-vpcratlntr is nn abundance of sup I'lles, ami especially of foodstuffs. The hn of an adequate food aupply, i.ai lully for the present year, la super latlve. Without abundant food, alike for the armies am) the peoples now at war, the whole Kreat enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down nnd fail.

The world food reserves are low. Not only dut in the present emergen tint for none time after peace mIiuU have come both our own people and a la rite One Relief. "What are you reading there?" "My lifo insurance policy, and It give me a frightful headache." "Can't tull what It means, eh?" "No, and my only consolation Is tluit somebody else will have to settle it In the end." One Inference. "Well, I've gotten rid of my muff," raid Husle Marshmullow. Btella Honbon was Interested.

"Do you mean you've canned Ctiolly?" sho inquired All Branches of State's Various Industries Represented on the Board. TO MOBILIZE CROP RESOURCES Body Called to Meet in Topeka at One to Organize and Begin Ita Labora. Topeka. 0 Capper has named the Kansas Council of Defense to mobilize the Btato's agricultural resources. The members of the council are: IJr.

H. J. Waters, president Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan; W. 1. Stubbs, president Kansas State Live Stock Association, Lawrence; M.

M. Aullffe, President Farmers' Union, Salina; H. Needham, grand master Slate Grange, Lane; O. F. Wliitney, secretary Kansas Slate Horticultural Society, Topeka; L.

Wulfe-kuhler, president Kansas Hankers' Association, Leavenworth; Kdwin Taylor, truck gardoner and potato grower, Kdwardsville; I). J. Fair, wheat grower. Sterling; I'rof. F.

W. lllackmar, I'liivcisi of Kan.as, Lawrence; Trof. V. M. Jaidlne, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan; Trot.

Edward Johnson, dean of extension department, Kansas State Agricultural College, Manhattan; Dr. W. A. Lewis, president Hays State Normal School, Hays; Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Dullard, farmer, Tonganoxie; Mrs.

Noble Prentls, Newton; Mrs. May Belleville Hrown, Sallna; Mrs. Theo-doro Saxon, farmer, TopeTia; Henry Lassen, miller, Wichita; Charles F. Scott, Iola; Flank P. MacLennan, editor, Topeka; Emerson Carey, Hutchinson; F.

C. Fox, general manager Santa Fo Hallway, Topeka; Charles S. Gleed, Topeka; A. H. C.ufler, wholesale grocer, Emporia; Robert A.

Gray, coal dealer, Weir City; E. V. Lanyon, zinc mine operator, Pittsburg; O. A. Boyle, commission niorrhant, Wichita; W.

E. Drown, Augusta; J. F. Cochrane, packer, Kansas City; V. A.

White, editor, Emporia. The governor called the council to meet In Topeka at once to organize and launch Its work of seeing that no Idle acres are left tn Kansas this year. "This council Is charged with a responsibility graver than any that ever has faced our people," said the governor. "It is charged with helping to provide tho Blnews of war for our forces and our allies and the sustenance and protection of our people at home." The council Is created upon the urgent recommendation of the Secretary of War, who is also chairman of the Council of National Defense, and upon the further suggestion of a national conference called by the S.n relary of Agriculture and held In St. Louis.

Engineer Corp for K. N. G. An engineering corps for tho Kansas national guard was authorized at the adjutant general's office here re cently. Captain G.

L. McLean of Hutchinson was commissjonod to or ganize tho corps and Hugh Crawford of Lawrence was named as assistant. To Fix Women' Work Hour. Now that tho I'nlted State, supreme court In the Oregon easo has upheld the rights of the state to fix wages of women engaged in indoMri.il pursuits, the Kansas welfare commission is planning to fix the hour and wages of women in Kansas. Drastic steps to relievo the sugar panic wore taken In Topeka when practically all retailors united In refusing to sell to ono customer mora than $1 worth of sugar a day.

Start Kansas Road Plan. The Kansas Highway Commission has been organized and bogan business at once. W. S. Gearhart was named suite, highway engineer and C.

Markham of Daldwln, secretary Tho commission will have offices in the statehouse. Letters of Instruction were ordered sent to all the counties In tho slate asking for accurate Information on what road work was being planned In each county this year The cnglnoer was directed to make up a Kansas road program covering five years. This is proposed to be a series of highways arross the state in both directions, with laterals to be run to them from various Important cen ters. The commission will meet about April lli to ronslder this program. As soon as this program Is completed tho commission will then be ready to be gin business with tho various road pro jects.

"Don't Plow Under Wheat." "If a half stand or even third of a stand of wheat 1 showing it should not bo plowed up," declared H. Painter, agricultural agent of the Santa l'e, In a bulletin recently Demand Capital Pay for War, "Make capital bleed for this war!" Is the domand of three hundred Kansas women. The Native Daughters, an organization of women, at a luncheon In Topeka adopted a resolution demanding the conscription of money well as tuen tor the war. triotism In no better or convincing way than by resisting the Kreat temptation of tho present price of cotton and helping helping upon a great scale, to feed tho Nation and the peoples everywhere who nre Hunting for their liberty and for our own. Tho variety of their crops will be the visible measure of their comprehension of their national duty.

States Ready to Co-operate. "The government of the Tnlled States and tho Kovermnents of the several states stand ready to co-operate. They will do everything possible, to assist farmers In securing an adequate supply of seed, an adequate force of iaboreis when they are most needcl at harvest time, and the means of expediting shipments of fertilizers and farm machinery, ns well as of the crops themselves when harvested. Tho course of trade shall be as unhampered as It Is possible to make It and there shall he no unwarranted rnonopoll-nation of the Nation's food supply by those who handle It on Its wy to the consumer. Thin Is our opportunity to ilminn-stiate the en't'-leiicy of a great deuiocnn-y and we shall not fall short of tt.

"This let me say to the middle men of every sort, whether they are handling our foodstuffs or our raw materials manufacture or the products of our mills and factoi lea: The eyes of tho country will bo especially upon you. This Is your opportunity for signal service, efficient and dtsl uteres tod. The eoiintry experts you. as it exports all others, to forego unusual pi oil to organ l.e and expedite shipments of supplies every kind, but especially of food, with an eye to the sei you are rendering nnd In the spirit of those who enlist the ranks, fr their people, not for themselves. I shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the conlhleme of the people of every sort and station.

"To tho men who run tho railways of tho country, whether they be managers or operative employees, let me say that the railways are the arteries of the Nation's life and that upon them rests tho Immense responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind, no inefficiency or slackened power. To the merchant let me suggest the motto; 'Small prohta and quirk and to the ship builder the thought that the life of the war depends on him. The food and the war supplies must bo carried across the seas no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. Tho places of those that go down must be supplied nnd supplied at once. "To the miner lot me say that ho stands where the farmer does: the work of tho world waits on him.

If he slackens or falls, armies and statesmen are helpless. He also Is enlisted In the great service army. "Tho manufacturer does not need to he told, I hope, that the Nation looks to him to speed and perfect every process; and I want only to remind his employees that tluiir set vice is adequately Indispensable and Is counted on by every man who loves the country and Its liberties. A Time to Stop Waste. "Ist me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps and helps greatly to solvo tho problem of feeding of the nations; aul that every Jiousew Ire who pi art ices strict economy puts herself In the ranks of those who serve tho Nation.

This Is tho time for Aineih a to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness nnd extruvagance. 1-et every man and every woman assume tho dutv of careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate, of patriotism which nn one tan now expect ever to bo excused or forgiven for Ignoring. "In I he hope that this statement the needs of the Nation mid of the world In thin hour of supreme crisis may stimulate- those to whom It comet and remind all who need reminder of the solemn duties of a time such as the world has never pecu before. I beg that all editors anil publishers everywhere will give as prominent publication and as wide circulation as possible to this appeal. I venture to sugaest, also, to all advertising agencies that they would perhaps lender a very substantial and timely service to the country if they would give It wldcHpread repetition.

And hope that clergymen will not think the theme of It an unworthy or Inappropriate uh.lo.-t of comment and homily fiom their pulpits. The supreme test of the Nation has ne. Wo must all speak, art and serve ether! "Wooimnw wilson." FOR A JEWISH RELIEF TAX Levy Will Be Made by State to Raise $10,000,000 for the War Sufferer. Now than two million dollars was pledged by Jews of Nutlon-wld prominence toward the proponed 10 in II I ion dollar fund for tho relief pf Jewish sufferers lit a dinner given here by Jacob II. Schlff In honor of Julius HoKOnwuld of Chicago and Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey.

Julius Kotionwald has pledged him self to give 1 million dollars providing the 10 million dollars is raised. The largest Dingle contribution was that of $100,000 made by Mr. Schlfr. The money was to be applied, he stlpu- lated, to the organization of a hospital unit to be presented to Ihe Russian people by Amerlcun Jew In recognl- tlon of the emancipation of the Jew. Twelve diner pledged themselves to raise a million dollars.

Two of tho Ingredient of Chinese joss sticks are aconite, to protect them from rats and mice, and cam I'lmi', which make them burn steadily. A device that vibrates the rear light on automobilo when the car stops to warn following vehicles Is the Invention of a I'hilad'ilp'iian. Patriotism. If you have only git-up-andgit enough to raise one little radish, raise It and lay It upon' the altar of your country.