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If cross, feverish, constipated,
give “California Syrup
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BILLY SUNDAY TRIES
OLD TIME RELIGION
ON MODERN GOW
Famous Evangelist Offers
Nothing New to New York,
the “Graveyard of Preach
ers'’—Can He Make Good?
BY BEY. CHARLES STELBLE.
NEW YORK. April 11. —Can Billy
I Sunday make good in New York?
His critics have been sating New
York will be his Waterloo, and that
what got across elsewhere would not
go here.
But even Billy himself thought the
same thing a couple of years ago. and
frankly fought shy of an evangelistic
I campaign in the world’s biggest city.
I And yet Sunday has been literally
forced into the fight in New York. He
has been drawn into it in spite of him
self and “Ma.” for “Ma” Sunday feared
this big town as much as Billy did and
she <iid all she could, at one time, to
keep him out of it.
But Billy Sunday is here —his great
revival opened this week—and lir’s go
ing to have the fight of his life—and he
knows it. And New York will also know
it before he gets through.
Billy believes that forces which have
been opposing him in his campaigns 'n
other cities are to make a united attack
upon him here, and that they have
raised a fund of half a million dollars
to discredit him not only with the pub
lic. but with the church people.
I have often heard Sunday use the
picturesque language for which he is
famous, but when, in his first address,
he paid his respects to the crowd that
is after his scalp, for the first time
I since I've heard him. he hesitated be
cause even his choice vocabulary did not
contain words numerous and forceful
, enough to characterize the men he was
* •"trimming.”
Standing on top of his little pulpit he
dared them to come on and do their
| “dirtiest.”
The way Sunday proposes to do this
lis not by preaching a “new gospel.” In
his very first address, delivered to 20,000
< people, he declared:
*T bring you nothing new. I'm an
j old-fashioned preacher of the old-time
' religion. I have no use for the doc
| trine of the universal Fatherhood of
God and the Brotherhood of Man.”
And when ”Rody." Sunday's leader of
the music, sang his first solo, he se
lected one about the “old-fashioned
faith." in which he warned his hearers
to •’flee from the terrors of hell.”
•'This wrold is going to hell so fast
she's breaking the speed limit," said
Sunday.
Here. then, is the keynote of th’s
■ reatest of moe’ern evangelistic cam
paigns in America’s biggest city. It’s
the old-time religion that “was good
enough for mother,” and which its ex
ponents say “is good enough for me.’’.
And the most experienced “observera "
i —theological professors, social workers,
church officials, professors of psychol
ogy—are watching the campaign with
i critical eye. not necessarily opposed to
| it. but intensely interested in learning
j how the message and the method which
> *ot across in other .cities will get across
n what is everywhere admitted to be
the hardest city in America to reach
with any kind of campaign.
Sunday made his first big hit with
the crowd when he said that after his
workers are paid and all legitimate ex
penses are met. every dollar of the “free
will offering” will ko to the work of the
Red Cross society and the army work
ers of the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation.
It will be interesting to watch the out
come of this batle royal during the next
three months. Next to the war. it will
be the biggest feature engaging the at
• tention of the metropolis.
More than this, the Sunday campaign
I will attract the attention of the Chris
| tian forces of the world, because this
is the most highly organized and in some
I respects the most important evangelistic
campaign conducted in the recent his
tory of the church.
Back of the campaign are some of the
most prominent and successful business
men in this country. They are putting
‘ into it all the genius that made their
own enterprises stand out in the cont
: mercial world.
Actively engaged Bs committeemen
and special workers are some of the
best known religious leaders on two
hemispheres.
I saw on the platform at the open
ing meeting men who are famous the
world over. And way back at the rear,
scarcely observed even by those near
him. modestly sat John D. Rockefeller.
Jr., who. with several other men of
great wealth, are members of the com
mittee responsible for the Billy Sunday
campaign
Whatever the genius of experts could
furnish or money could buy. which was
regarded as necessary to make this cam
paign win. has been supplied.
And so New York, which has been
called “The Graveyard of Preachers.”
because almost every minister of promi
nence who came here to “save New
York” has soon been buried out of sight
—New York, which listened for a few
days to Dowie of Zion City, then laughed
and forgot him —New York, which
caused even Moody, the greatest evan
gelist of the last generation, to seem to
have finally lost his grip—New York,
the city to which everybody wants to
go before they go to heaven —New Vork
has Billy Sunday to see if he cannot
"save it from hell."
IHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1917
An Open Letter to YOU
From Woodrow Wilson
WASHINGTON. April 16.—Fresh im
pel us was given to the nation-wide cam
paign for more food crops today by
President Wilson’s plea for unity of ac
tion in furthering America’s success
in the world war.
The president appealed to all the peo
ple to join In making the nation a unit
for the preservation of its ideals and for
the triumphs of democracy, but he laid
emphasis on his words urging the grow
ers to concentrate their energies on the
planting of food so that the United
States might fuirin its task of feeding
the armies and peoples who are fighting
Germany.
To the southern farmer the president
appealed earnestly that the high price of
cotton be forgotten for the time and
that abundant food crops also be
planted.
“The southern farmer can show his
patriotism in no better or more convinc
ing way.” he said, “than bj’ helping,
upon a great scale, to feed the nation
and the peoples everywhere fighting for
their liberities and our own. The va
riety of their crops will be the visible
measure of their comprehension of their
national duty.”
•Without abundant food, alike for
the armies and the peoples at war,”
the president said, “the whole great en
terprise upon which we have embarked
will fail. Upon the farmers of the coun
try. therefore, in large measure rests
the fate of the war and the fate of
the nations.”
THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
The address follows:
”My Fellow Countrymen: The en
trance of our own beloved country into
the grim and terrible war for democra
cy and human rights which has shaken
the world creates so many problems of
national life and action which call for
immediate consideration and settlement
that 1 nope you will permit me to ad
dress to’ you a few words of earnest
counsel and appeal with regard to them.
“We are rapidly putting our navy
upon an effective war footing and are
about to create and equip a great army,
but these are the simplest parts for the
great task to which we have addressed
ourselves. There is not a single selfish
element, so far as I can see, in the
cause we are fighting for. We are
fighting for what we believe and wish to
be the rights of mankind and for the
future peace and security of the world.
To do this great thing worthily and
successfully we must devote ourselves
to the service without regard to profit
or material advantage and with an
energy and intelligence that will rise
to the level of the enterprise itself We
must realize to the full how great the
task is and how many things, how
many kinds and elements of capacity
and service and self-sacrifice It in
volves.
OUR DUTIES.
“These, then, are the things we must
do, and do well, besides fighting—the
things without which mere fighting
would be fruitless:
“We must supply abundant food for
ourselves and for our armies and our
seamen not only, but also for a large
part of the nations with whom we
have now made common cause, in
whose support and by whose side we
shall be fighting.
,r We must supply ships by the hun
dreds out of our shipyards to carry
to the other side of the sea, subma
rines or no submarines, what will every
day be needed there, and abundant ma
terials out of our fields and our mines
to clothe and equl our own forces on
land .and sea, but also to clothe and
and our factories with which not only
support our people for whom the gal
lant fellows under arms can no longer
work, to help clothe and equip the
armies with which we are co-operating
in Europe, and to keep the looms and
manufactories there in raw material:
coal to keep the fires going in ships at
sea and in the furnaces of hundreds of
factories across the sea; steeP out of
which to make arms and ammunition
both here and there: rails for worn-out
railways back of the fighting fronts:
locomotives and rolling stock to take
the place of those every day going to
pieces; mules, horses, cattle, for labor
and for military service; everything with
which the people of England and France
and Italy and Russia have usually sup
plied themselves but cannot now afford
the men, the materials or the machinery
to make.
PROLIFIC INDUSTRIES.
“it is evident to every thinking man
that our industries, on the farms, in
the ship yards, in the mines, in the fac
tories, must be made more prolific and
more efficient than ever and that they
must be more economically managed
and better adapted to the particular
requirements of our task than they
have been; and what I want to say is
that the men and the women who de
vote their thought and their energy to
these things will be serving the coun
try and conducting the fight for peace
and freedom just as truly and just as
effectively as the men on the battle
field or in the trenches. The industrial
forces of the country, men and women
alike, will be a great army—a notable
and honored host engaged In the service
of the nation and the world, the
efficient friends and saviors of free
men everywhere. Thousands, nay, hun
dreds of thousands of men otherwise
liable to military service will of right
and of necessity be excused from that
service and assigned to the fundamental,
sustaining work of the fields and fac
tories and mines, and they will be as
much part of the great patriotic forces
of the nation as the men under fire.
“I take the liberty, therefore, of ad
dressing the word to the farmers of
the country and to all who work on
the farms; The supreme need of our
own nation and of the nations with
which we are-co-operating is an abun
dance of supplies, and especially of
foodstuffs. The importance of an ade
quate food supply, especially for the
present year, is superlative. Without
abundant food, alike for the armies and
the peoples now at war, the whole great
enterprise upon which we have em
barked will break down and fail.
APPEALS TO SOUTH.
“The world's food reserves are low.
Not only during the present emergency,
but for some time after peace shall have
come, both our own people and a large
proportion of the people of Europe must
rely upon the harvests in America. Upon
the farmers of this country, therefore,
in large measure rests the f ate of the
war and the fate of the nat-dns. May
the nation not count upon them to omit
no step that will increase the produc
tion of their land or that will bring
about the most effectual co-operation
In the sale and distribution of their
products? The time is short. It Is of
the most imperative importance that
everything possible be done and done
Immediately to make sure of large har
vests. T call upon young men and old
alike and upon the able-bodied boys of
the land to accept and act upon this
duty—to turn in hosts to the farms and
make certain that no pains and no labor
is lacking in‘this great matter.
“I particularly appeal to the farmers
of the south to plant abundant food
. stuffs as well as cotton. They can
GEORGIA SENATORS
COMMEND WILSON’S
APPEALTO PEOPLE
They Term It “Supreme Test
of Nation" and Urge Farm
ers to Raise Ample Surplus
of Food
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON. April 16. —Senators
Smith and Hardwick issued statements
to the people of Georgia commending
to their attention President Wilson’s
splendid appeal to their patriotism in
“the supreme test of the nation." The
senators are especially anxious that the
farmers of Georgia shall heed the ap
peal of the president and raise a sur
plus of foodstuffs and cattle to the end
that our own people and the people of
ouf allies shall be abundantly supplied
during the war.
Both of the senators point out in their
statements that by diversifying their
crops the fanners of Georgia not only
will render patriotic service to their na
tion, but will make themselves inde
pendent.
The statement of each senator is ad
dressed to the people of Georgia. Sena
tor Smith's follows:
SENATOR SMITH’S STATEMENT.
1 cannot too earnestly express my
admiration of the splendid appeal of
the president to the patriotism and
good sense of our people.
I especially appreciate that part
of his address which is made to the
farming interests and the farmers
of the south.
Over 20,000,000 of met* are under
arms. The threatened shortage of
food supplies is Imminent.
Georgia can raise foodstuffs. This
year they will certainly bring good
prices. It is an opportunity for our
farmers to diversify their crops,
raise hogs and general food supplies.
It is the part of patriotism as well
as wisdom for them to do so.
1 join in the president's appeal
and trust my immediate constitu
ents will heed it.’
Following is Senator Hardwick’s ap
peal :
SENATOR HARDWICK'S STATE
MENT.
To the People of Georgia:
1 desire to invite your earnest at
tention to the address of the presi
dent of the United States published
this morning. President Wilson
states with extraordinary clear
ness and strength the duties, op
portunities and obligations resting
upon our people in the great emer
gency with which the nation is now
confrontted, and 1 commend to your
careful and earnest consideration
his wise advice. It seems to me
that the attention of the farmers
of Georgia ought, above all others,
to be specially directed to the sug
gestions.
Even in the absence of war Geor
gia can never attain the real great
ness and prosperity for which na
ture has so munificently fitted her
until the farmers shall diversify the
crops and raise enough foodstuffs of
all and every description to make the
state self-sustaining. In doing this
the size of her cotton crop will be
necessarily curtailed and its price
thereby increased. The farmer will
also be enabled to sell it when he
pleases and whenever the market
suits him. for since it will be a sur
plus crop he can make it practically
free from debt.
If such is the truth even in times
of peace, how much more important
it is now that the country has em
barked in the world war and food
supplies everywhere are the small
est in many years, for our farmers
to raise enough cattle of all kinds
and to make enough foodstuffs of all
sorts to make our own state self
supporting and self-sustaining and
then have as much surplus as possi
ble for the consumer elsewhere. It
seems tc me that this is their im
perative and pressing duty and that
in the discharge of that duty every
farmer in Georgia should aid. I com
mend. of course, the president’s
word to all classes of our citizens,
but it seems to me that he has
pointed the way that our farmers
should take and that it is a path )
which their own interests and pros
perity. as well as the national se
curity and well being, unite in urg
ing them to take. This year’s crops
are now being planted in Georgia
and the time to follow this advice is
now.
show their patriotism in no better or
more convincing way than by resisting
the great temptation of the present price
of cotton and helping, helping upon a
great scale, to feed the nation and the
peoples everywhere who are fighting for
their liberties and for our own. The
variety of their crops will be the visible
measure of their comprehension of their
national duty.
“The government of the’l'nited States
and the governments 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 laborers
when they are most needed, at harvest
time, and the means of expediting ship
ments of fertilizers and farjn machinery,
as well as of the crops themselves when
harvested. The course of trade shall
be as unhampered as It is possible to
make it, and there shall be no unwar-
A HEALTH TALK
By DR. W. A ANDERSON
Most of the sicknesses that the hu
man body is heir to are caused by eon-,
stipation. Think of the amount of dis- ;
gusting poison ’which is forced back;
through the whole system when thn '
bowels become elugged. Don’t blame.
your headaches to Biliousness, your Ner
vousness to overwork, your Rheuma
tism to uric acid and your Colds and that
tired, languid feeling to a thousand and
one different causes. Blame it on Con
stipation, for this awful malady causes
all of these symptoms and leads to tho
worst diseases known to mankind
Perhaps you feel that you have over
come Constipation by taking physic, but
you have only gone from bad to worse.
How much better it would be if you
would take a treatment which would
completely cure you.
Simply send $l?50 to Dr. W. A. An
derson. 712 Flatiron Bldg.. Atlanta,
Ga.. and receive full treatment by re
turn mail.—(advt.)
ranted manipulation of the nation’s food
supply by those who handle it on its
way to the consumer. This is our op
portunity to demonstrate the efficiency
of a great democracy and we shall not
fall short of it!
MIDDLEMEN ARE WARNED.
"This, let me say to the middlemen of
every sort, whether they are handling
manufacture or our raw materials of
manufacture or the products of our mills
and factories: The eyes of the country
will be especially upon you. This '.s
your opportunity for signal service, ef
ficient and disinterested. The country
you. as it expects all others, to
forego unusual profits, to organize and
expedite shipments of supplies of every
kind, but especially of food, with an
eye to the service you are rendering and
in the spirit of those who enlist in the
ranks, for their people, not for them
selves. 1 shall confidently expect you
to deserve and the confidence of people
of every sort and station.”
“To the men who run railways of the
country, whether they be managers or
operative employes, let me say that
the railways are the arteries of the na
tion's life and that upon them rests the
immense responsibility of seeing that
those arteries suffer no obstruction of
any kind, no inefficiency or slackened
power. To the merchant let me suggeat
the motto: ‘Small Profits and Quick
Service.’ and to the shipbuilder the
thought that the life of the war depends
upon him. The food and the war sup
plies must be carried across the seas,
no matter how many ships are sent to
the bottom. The places of those that
go down must be supplied and supplied
at once. To the miner let me say that
he stands where the farmer does; the
work of the world waits on him. If
he slackens or fails, armies and states
men are helpless. He also is enlisted
in the great service army. The manu
facturer does not need to be told, I
hope, that the nation looks to him to
speed and perfect every process, and I
want only to remind his employes that
their service is absolutely indispensl
ble and is counted on by every man who
loves the country and its liberties.
"Let me suggest, also, that every one
who creates or cultivates a garden helper
and helps greatly, to solve the problem
of the feeding of the nation, and that
every housewife who practices strict
economy puts herself in the ranks of
those who serve the nation. This is
the time for America to correct her un
pardonable fault of wastefulness and
extravagance. Let every man and ev
ery woman assume the duty of careful,
provident use and expenditure as a pub
lic duty, as‘a dictate of patriotism which
no one can expect ever to be excused
or forgiven for ignoring.
"In the hope that this Statement of
the needs of the nation and of the world
in this hour of supreme crisis may
stimulate those to whom it comes and
remind all who need reminder of the
solemn duties of a time such as the
world has never seen before, I beg that
all editors and publishers everywhere
will give as prominent publication and
as wide circulation as possible to this
appeal. I venture to suggest, also, to
all advertising agencies that they would
give it wirespread repetition. And I
hope that clergymen will not think the
theme of it an unworthy or inappro
priate subject of comment and homily
from their pulpits.
“The supreme test of the nation has
come. We must all speak, act and
serve together!
"WOODROW WILSON.”
London Press Praises
Appeal of President
LONDON. April 16.—President Wil
son's appeal to the American peo>ple is
given great prominence in the evening
newspapers which printed the proclama
tion textually.
“It goes straight to the heart of the
great war problem.” says the Westmin
ster Gazette, "and will be read with
great appreciation by the allied nations.
"No message addressed by their gov
ernments to any of the countries at
war.” adds the newspaper, “has better
combined an appeal to the heart with
shrewd, practical counsel and shown a
keener eye to the fundamentals of the
situation.”
Coroner Taylor Dead;
Had Some Funny Ideas
About Souls and Ladies
RICHMOND, Va., April 14.—Dr. Wil
liam H. Taylor, aged eighty-two. former
state chemist, for a generation coroner
of Richmond, died heer this afternoon.
He was celebrated as an amateur astron- .
omer and quaint philosopher. He got
into a sharp controversy a few years
ago by expressing his opinion, in a
medical college class lecture, that the
soul, if there was one, resided in the
brain and possibly died with it.
Coroner Taylor, a bachelor, got into
disfavor also with many persons who
resented his contention that the female
form is a misshapen and weakly con
s.ructed work of nature.
Billy Sunday’s Eulogy
On Death of Friend
NEW YORK. April 14.—“1 hope St. |
Peter gave Diamond Jim the glad hand
when he knocked at the gates of Heaven I
this morning,” was Billy Sunday's com
ment on the death of James Buchanan
Brady. “I knew him. He was a good
scout, but good scouts as well as bad
ones must face the Lord sooner or
later.”
Train is Wrecked by
Villa Followers, Report
JUAREZ, Mexico. April 14. —A north
hound passenger train on the Mexican
Central railroad was wrecked near Sa
tnalayuos, 25 miles south of the border,
late yesterday, according to an unofficial
report received here today. The report
said four passengers were killed and sev
eral injured and that the removal of a
rail by Villa followers caused the wreck.
Girls Are All Stuck Up
Now—With Old Glory
CHICAGO. April 14. —Patriotic maids
have gone "one beter.”
Flag stinkers. pasted on shapely
shoulders, has supplanted "poor butter-
DEKALB COUNTY FARMERS
HEAR FOOD CROP PLANS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DECATUR, Ga., April 14.—Friday
night more than two thousand farmers
in the school houses of ten militia dis
trict of DeKalb county heard business
men of Atlanta and Decatur, and from
the other towns of the county and sev
eral speakers from the colleges and uni
versities of this section explain the food
situation that now exists.
Hooper Alexander, Prof Dender, of
Oglethorpe and about forty other speak
ers went out into the county and preach
ed the patriotism of the farm. The farm
ers were told that the greatest need of
the nation was food supplies for Ameri
ca and America’s allies in Europe.
Reports coining into Decatur board of
trade headquarters Saturday morning
showed that every school house was filled.
In many instances the speakers were
compelled to go out of doors because th"
houses would not hold the crowds of
farmers. Local committees in each sec
tion were organized. These men will
see that every farm is used to its limit.
W. W. Mendenhall said that not a farm
in the northern end of the country would
be allowed to lay idle this year.
Local seed exchanges were formed.
Surplus supplies of one seed will be ex
changed for some other seed that the
farmer is short. Hundreds of bushels of
seed have been located and with the aid
of these local exchanges the farmers will
be able to secure many seeds that can
not now be had on the open market.
The destitute white renter and the ne
gro farmers of the country are receiv
ing the attention of these local commit
tees, and will be provided with seed as
fast as the seed is located.
It is evident that the men of the rural
sections are back of the Chamberlain se
lective conscription bill. They realize
the necessity of keeping their boys on
the farm. The farmer is ready and will
ing to do his duty, wherever it may be.
and they are willing to leave it to the
president in this crisis.
The situation now seems brighter. It
is only a question of financing the desti
tute farmer until the first food crcps
are in.
“In my trips over the county, talking
to farmers from every section, I find a
willingness to all that can be done,"
said Lovelace Eve, secretary, Saturday.
“WeJieed the co-operation of the business
men. There are many farmers facing
want because of the loss by the February
and March freezes. It is a question of
tiding these fellows over until the first
food crops of June are in. Tn some
places I find nothing in the homes and
all the cribs are empty. We need as
sistance and need it now.”
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Operations
The Right Medicine in Many Cases
Does Better than the Surgeon’s
Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound.
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Doctor Said Operation or Death —But Medicine Cured.
■ Des Moines, lowa.—“My husband says I would
have been in my grave today had it not been for
Lydia E. rinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suf
fered from a serious female trouble and the doctors
said I could not live one year without an operation.
My husband objected to the operation and had me
try E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. I
soon commenced to get better and am now well
and able to do my own housework. I can recom
mend Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to
any woman as a wonderful health restorer.” —Mrs.
Blanche Jefferson,7o3 Lyon St., Des Moines,lowa.
Another Operation Avoided.
Richmond, Ind.—“For two years I was so sick and weak from
female troubles that when going up stairs I had to go very slowly
with my hands on the steps, then sit down at the top to rest, ihe
doctor said he thought I should have an operation, and my friends
thought I would not live to move into our new house. My daughter
asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as she had
taken it with good results. I did so, my weakness disappeared, I
gained in strength, moved into our new home, do all kinds of garden
work, and raised hundreds of chickens and ducks. I cannot say
enough in praise of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs.
M. O. Johnston, Route D, Box 190, Richmond, Ind.
Os course there are many serious cases that only a
surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this, but the above letters, and many others like them,
amply prove that many operations are recommended when
medicine in many cases is all that is needed.
If von want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medi
cine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence.
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Bombs Found Beneath
Steps of Statehouse
At Carolina Capitol
COLUMBIA. 8. C.. April 14. —Twenty-
four bombs were discovered under the
steps of the state capitol building here
today by State Electrician T. Q. Boozer.
The explosives were of iron, about the
size of grapefruit and very heavy. They
had copper wires to produce the explo
sion.
State officials were aj first convinced
that a bomb plot had been revealed, but
Mr. Boozer held the view that the mis
siles had been storedin the basement of
the capitol when the building was erect
ed. It was pointed out by others that
at that time bombs were not discharged
by electricity contact.
Enlists for the Free
Eats and the Free
Railroad Journeys
NEW YORK. April 14. —Here's the
banner enlistment “eloper:”
Gordon Ashrpan applied for enlist
ment in the marine corps. When he
went out “for just a few minutes” and
failed to return in hours, inquiry was
made as to his previous record.
It was found he had enlisted eleven
times, gotten numerous free meals and
railroad rides each time and managed
to slip away. He had been enlisted at
Baltimore, San Francisco, Cleveland.
Wilkes Barre and other cities.
Official Notice of
Bolivia’s Break Given
WASHINGTON, April 14— Official
notification that Bolivia had severed
diplomatic relations with Germany
reached the state dejpartment today in
a note from Minister Calderon. The
text of the communication may b«
made public later.
CASTORIA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Alwatys bears
Signature of '
