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America’s Efforts to Win the W
s triorts to Win the War
Take Another Direction When
Clocks Are Moved Up at 2 This
Morning All Over the U. S.l
Saving in Coal Used Previously
to Make Artificial Light Will
Amount to One Million Tons a
Year—Plan Fine for Gardens.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 31.—Effec
tive at 2 o'clock this morning, the one- ‘
hour daylight-saving plan became an- |
othe: phase of America's effort tol
help win the great war.
The hands of the big Government
clock were moved forward one hour,
one hour of daylight wil be gained in|
the morning and the hours of dark-(
ness will be utilized to just that ad-‘
ditional extent for sleeping. {
Senato: Calder, of New York, who
led in the fight for the adoption of
the plan, discussed his pet measure
as follows: |
“The action consumma;es, as far as
the Congress is concerned, legislation
that puts Into effect the daylight
saving plan, which, it is universally
believed, will bring about a consid
.erable contribution toward the win-,
nine of the war and conserve human
energy and a large amount of fuel
consumed in the manufacture of arti
ficial illuminatien.
“It. will also supply an additional
hour for home gardening by the city
and subu.ban dweller, estimated at
one-fifth of our total population, and
it will give to the people one hour
for recreation at that part of the day
when it is most convenient for them
o enjoy it.
Runs Seven Months.
Briefly, as the, bill provides, clocks
were moved forward one hour this
morning and will remain so until the
last Sunday in October. We simply
move the whole day one hour ahead
during the seven months between
these two dates by making use of an
rour of daylight, ordinarily wasted in
the early pa-t of the morning. |
“The change will be universal and
will cause no confusion. Business
will go on just the same, appoint
ments will be kept just the same,
railroads will run on present time ta
bles. |
“England, France, Germany, Aus
tria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy,
Holland and Portugal—lin fact, eve.y
Furopean country of importance
~ save Russia—has adopted this plan
and has found that it works with the
greatest success in the saving of fuel
and in general healthful benefit for
the people. s
Farmers Not Affected.
“1t will not affect our agilicultural
workers since their rising and re
tiring are due almost entirely to sea
sonal conditions. The sun, rather
than the clock, is the farmers' gulde.
“Those who have carefully worked
out the problem insist that it will
' save the United States in the matter
of fuel alone at least one million tons
of coal annually.
“Righty per cent of the people of
the United States, rising in the morn
ing, allow only sufficient time to dress,
ecat breakfast and a:rrive at their
places of employment Jjust at the
stroke of the time to begin their day’s
' work. If their time to start work is
8 o'clock, under the new arrangement
it will stil! be 8 by the clock. Street
rallways, suburban and interurban
transit facilities will be operated upon
the same theory, and there will be no
difficulty at all about the changed
corditions. In fact, after the first day
nf) one will be inconvenienced or con
fused.”
Hun Seeks to Enslave
un .
World, Serbian Says
(By International News Service.)
§T. LOUIS, March 30.—"“The liberty
of mankind is at stake and Germany
s4'ntends to try to enslave every na
* tfon in the world,” declares Dr. H.
Hinkovich, member of the Serbian
\ission to the T'nited States, recently
before the Chamber of Commerce of this
cvlg'i'oday we must have but one
thought; namely, the crushing of Prus
sian mmtulm."' said Dr. Hinkovieh.
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Coquette at 104 Years
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English Woman Does ‘
Not Worry About War
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 30.—Still in
good health, and keen enough for !
a jJoke now and then, is Mrs.
“Granny” Lambert, of Edmonton,
who has just celebrated her one
hundred and fourth birthday.
She has outlived two of her
daughters, who reached the ages
of seventy-four and sixty.
At a party she entertained
four generations of her family,
thus making five generations at
the party. The youngest was
only ten months old, and it is this
little baby who is “Granny’s”
great interest. ';
Mrs. Lambert was born on a |
frgiate, and since she wag fifteen
she has lived at Edmonton. }
A newspaper man who called to
offer birthday congratulations
took a proffered seat some dis
tance from her. This provoked
the old lady, who™ asked him to
come closer, adding:
“You are not married, are you?"”
Being reassured on thig point,
ghe said, “Well, you can come a®
near as you like, and as my hus
band has been dead for nearly
fifty years, you may hold my
hand.”
“Granny” went on to say that
she is not afraid of air raids.
She always went into a corner
and remained there “in perfect
composure,” so her daughter de
clared. The war does not appear
to worry her. She says, how
ever, that she misses her three
glasses of stout, which she has to
forego, owing to its high price,
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Speaker Fails on
Loyalty Test; Barred
GRANT’'S PASS, ORE., ,March 30.—
The Rev. W. A. Baker, who sald he
represented the Industrial Bible Stu
dents’ Association of Brooklyn. N. Y.,
advertised that he would speak here.
Before the hour set for the meeting
the local Council of Defense met and
appointed a committee to propound to
Mr. Baker four questions. They were:
““Are you a member of the Red Cross?
‘“Are you a subscriber to the Liberty
Loan?
‘““Have you purchased thrift or sav
ings certificates?
‘‘Are you wholeheartedly and unre
servedly backing the Government's war
program?’’
“No,” was answered to each question,
whereupon Mr. Baker was told he must
not attempt to speak here. He aban
doned the meeting.
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Says Pershing
Has Aged Years
Si lay |
ince Last May |
(By International News Ssrvice.)
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, March
30.—“Generai Pershing has aged
years since 1 saw him in Wash- E
ington last May and shows iraces
of hard mental strain,” Miss Lou- $
ise Wick, a member of a base
hospital in France, wrote her
mother, Mrs. E. P. Wick, of this
city. Miss Wick saw General
§ Pershing before he went to France
and he was at the hospital where
she is stationed the day she wrote
the letter. She said the general
was at the hospital one day, just
lcng enough to point out faults,
but that the next day found a
vastly superior set of officers on
duty.
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‘Last War' Predicted
Over 102 Years Ago
LONDON, March 30.—“The last great
war has been fought and the nations
may now look forward to uninterrupted
peace.”
This was the hope and belles pro
plaimed from many pulpits in England
102 yvears ago, when Great Britain, by
royal proclamation, celebrated a gen
eral thanksgiving day following the
end of the Napoleonic wars. After 'the‘
smoke of Waterloo rolled back it re
vealed a continent given over to deso
lation.
Although England had suffered less
than the other nations involved in the
long struggle, she had by. no means
escaped unhurt. For twenty years
Great Britain had supplied the finan
cial sinews of war for her allies in ad
ditlon to active participation in bat
tles on land and sea.
Nine Million Dollars’
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Worth of Silk Arrives
(By International News Service.)
SEATTLE, WASH., March 30.—Nine
million dollars’ worth of raw silk and
silk goods received here In four days
is the record of imports of this com
modity from the Far East made re
cently.
The first steamship arriving with a
part of this consignment was the Manila
Maru, of the Osaka Shosen Kalsha
Line, with $5,150,000 worth of silk
aboard. The Suwa Maru arrived with
$4,000,000 worth.
| ABANDON BLAZING MINE.
. LINCOLN, ILL., March3o.—With a fire
‘ragiv:g in the depths of the Linecoln Coal
' Company's mine here for more than nve
mont the owpers have been compellied
to a*fidon it. It has been aea)eg and
re-seas d time and agaln without avail
The fire started last October. The mine
lh one of the largest in Logan County.
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 1918.
Los Angeles Loses
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It 200 Saloons;
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Billy Sunday Aided
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(By International News Service.) J
LOS ANGELES, March 30.— |
Voted out by 20,000 majority at “
last November's election, Los
Angeles’ 200 saloons pass into
history at midnight tonight. ‘
Technically, the saloons are or- ‘
dered closed at midnight tomor
row, but the Sunday closing law
effectually robs John Barleycorn
of the last, day. |
The wet interests prepared to
pull down their signs only after
a struggle in the courts almost
up to the last minute to restrain
the Gandier Anti-Saloon ordi
nance from going Into effect.
Those proprietors of wet empo
riums whose leases expired after
the election lost no time, how- |
ever, In closing out. |
After tonight the thirsty iln “
this city must content themselves |
with beverages which contain not |
more than 14 per cent alcohol. |
Malt and vinous liquors can be
obtained in restaurants and cases
up to 9p. m, but the sale of dis- |
tilled liquor for drinking purposes
i{s prohibited. |
Billy Sunday helped deliver |
the knockout blow to the saloon
here during his evangelistic serv- 4
ices conducted {n this city. An
appeal to patriotism was the new
issue raised in the campaign.
“Put out the saloon for conserva
tion of foodstuffs, manhood and
money” and “Help win the war” |
were phrases that brought the
drys thousands of votes. |
Dr. D. M. Gandier, superintend
ent of the Anti-Saloon League
of California, was {n active
charge cf the campalgn. The
ordinance drawn up by him was
accepted at the polls by a vote of
64,447 to 34,277.
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Youthful Bride Tells
Of New Gretna Green
(By International News Service.)
PITTSBURG, PA., March 30.—Wells
burg, W. Va., is the Gretna Green
where nuptual knots are tied more
easily than anywhere else In America.
A woman taxicab driver meets all
‘trains for the purpose of taking eloping
parties to the marriage license office and
the aitar without a moment’s loss of
time.
. This information was given by Mrs,
:Otto Schenck, aged 16 years, when her
plea for divorce was heard in the di
vorce court here,
He Believes 2,000 Little Offen
sive Machines Could Be Built
in a Day—Says They Would
Save Many Thousands of Men.
Declares More Team Work Is
Necessary — More Machinery
on the Farms Is Needed to
Take the Places of Soldiers.
NEW YORK, March 80.—Henry
Ford has made public a statement In
which he argues that it is not the‘
number of troops on the western front |
that will win the war, but the brain
power that equips them with ma(‘hin-‘
ery to fight in a superior fashion, The
reports of a phenogienal German gun‘
at this time make his judgment ap
pear prophetie.
“To me it seems out of place to send
men with bare bodies and rifles
against trenches of concrete, fortified
with barbed wire,” he said. “A small
tank can be made for attack, carrying
two men and a machine gun with ar
mor protection strong 'enough to re
sist the hail of machine gun bullets
and shrapnel splinters. Such tanks,
if standardized, could be produced at
the rate of 1,000 or 2,000 a day,
“And once production were started
90,000 tanks could be made in three
months. Distributed equally along
the west front, this output would
place one tank every eighteen feet.
In each tank two men, shielded by
armor plate, with a machine gun,
would have the offensive power of
fifty soldiers with rifles. That advan
tage would come from possession of
the better piece of fighting machin
ery.”
Teamwork Nnecessary, ‘
Mr. Ford's statement pleads not
only for more inventiveness in war
methods, but deals with the labor sit
uation at home and the profiteering
problem.
“Many war plants are having labor
troubles because the men know that
the business is built on a speculation
for a quick profit and will be drop
ped,” he said. “Corporate and busi
ness leadership that measures its suc
cess by war profits can not object if
workmen take the same viewpoint.
Profiteering breeds distrust and an
tagonism. Yet today smooth team
work between labor and leadership is
needed for the very life of our na
tion.”
The statement follows, in part: 1
“We Americans can win the war—
but only if we throw the whole weight
of our industries and tool power into
the balance. This war {8 the greatest
engineering feat the world has ever
known. The side that musters the
best machinery will win. We do not
yet realize that our problem centers
in the management of factories and
the fullest use of machinery; nor
have we organized to concentrate
our industrial resources upon essen
tial war work.
“The United States produces half
‘the steel and half the coal of the
world., Converted into machinery of
warfare, this would be decisive on the
west front. 1
Russia Lacked Machines,
~ “Russia, with a man power of 185,-‘
000,000, with almost entirely lacking
it machine power. She mobilized 15,-
000,000 men, but she sent them into
‘battle poorly equipped, armed with
‘obsolete rifles, small-caliber guns, and
in many cases only with clubs. This
poorly equipped and poorly armed
army was pitted against the vastly
superior rifles, machine guns and
large-caliber cannon which were
Hnmml out in vast quantities by great
irm'.ories and a highly organized rail
‘mnd svstem In Germany. Russia lost
5,000,000 men and her power col
‘Hapsefl. ‘
[ “The lesson for us is that not num
bers nor latent rescurces, but better
machinery and better organization are
decisive in warfare,
“A tractor engine will plow, harvest,
| geed, pull binders, make hay, cut en
-15{1;“;43, pump water, churn and do
the ¢chores of the farm. It will mul
'xip:y the power of every farm work
le-r and give him neq joy and pride in
ims work. It will ka:zthe bey on the
Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
War Has Only Started
Unless Censor Veils
Newflorror,SaysHale!
War Correspondent Pictures Battle Scene and
Compares Qualifications of Generals on Whom
Germans Depend to Break British Line.
By WILLIAM BAYARD HALE,
SBometime Chief Editorial Correspondent in Central Europe of the Hearst
Pap ers.
What are these Germans about?
What do they hope for? What
may we reasonably expect?
This is the day and the hour of
the arm-chalr strategist., I can
not pretend to be even that. Only
it happened that I have seen more
of the terrain over which at this
tragic hour the greatest battle of
human history is raging and more
of the chieftains who are direct
ing the glant offensive than has
any other American, True, it was
more than a year ago—before
America entered the conflict. But
the topographical face of the
earth does not change much in a
year, and characters do not
change much.
The German commenders-in
chief in this unprecedented as
sault are three—the Crown Prince
of Bavaria, the German Crown
Prince and General von Gallwitz,
1 have talked with all three;
sat at table with all three; ob
served all three in critical situa
tion, and spent many hours with
the staffs of all three, both in
thelr headquarters and in the
field.
Devastator of Serbla.
The Assoclated Press has dis
covered that the last named
(Gallwitz) has just been trans
ferrod from the eastern to the
western front, He is described as
the devastator of Serbla, and as a
master of offensive operation in
the open, who has been brought
west by Von Hindenburg to lead
the gigantic attack.
As a matter of fact he has been
on the west front for two years.
I had luncheon with him Sep
tember, 1916, in a chateau hidden
under the trees at St. Emelie, 24
kilometers southwest of Cambral,
and 18 kilometers northwest of
Bt. Quentin—practically half way
between the two chief commands
on the German west, Gallwitz
was then directly under the
Crown Prince of Bavaria, Prince
Rupprecht.
I have reason te remember it,
for when, in his solicitude for the
safety of The Amerlcan's corre
spondent, he discovered that the
carcless young man had, after
luncheon, motored to a hill nine
kilometers to the west and found
a beautiful seat in a tall tree
overlooking a . stricken field
stretching 40 miles, and he had
telephoned to that tall tree com
manding an instant return to less
interesting scenery, I was obliged
to appeal to Prince Rupprecht for
a hastily-scrawled pass which let
me the following day Into the
center (really quite safe, though
horribly noisy) of the Somme bat
tlefield.
The three from which Gallwitz
called me down was at Nurlu,
which was in the exact center of
the fighting recently. I shall
never forget what I saw at Nurlu.
They were bringing iln dozens,
scores—i{t got to be hundreds—of
wounded to a barn, or a hencoop,
or whatever it was, underneath
that tree. Two surgeons, stripped
to the walst, were working right
handed and left-handed over
mutilated things that were shoved
in through doors and windows.
Pictures the Difference.
Let no one dream that the
scenes of the returning wounded
portrayed by the gentle ladies
who serve with such devotion 20
or 30 miles back of the firing line
repregent anything corresponding
to the agonies of the butchered
creatures that are dragged,
:creaming and cursing, to the first
surgical station.
I remember that, after I had
helped drag in five or six mutil
ated things created in the image
of God, I went out and vomited
and watched two kittens playing
with each other's talls,
Gallwitz has apparently now
been promoted to a command in
dependent of Prince Rupprecht
and the German Crown Prince in
the sector lying between that of
Cambrai and that of Verdun.
P:rince Rupprecht is a purely
professional soldier instructed In
—indeed, himself a master of—
the art of warfare, as it has been
developed by German strategy.
He is a deeply pious man. I once
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Georgian Campany.)
found him on his knees; it was
a day of departure of many souls
for Peradise, and the news from |
the front trenches was coming
every ten minutes by carrler
pigeon, bearing each a few brief
words scratched (half of the time
they were Indecipherable) by
some poor devil in his hole in the
midst of the hell of the banks of
the Somme.
Open Grourd Strategist.
Gallwitz, 1 imagine, would like
tc direct moving strategy above
ground, and I have reason to
fancy he has made a study of the
great master-directors of moving
armies,
Of the German Crown Prince's
military ablility, it is really diffi
cult to arrive at any judiclous—
eetimate. He has changed very
much during the last three years,
He has taken very ser-iously his
failure to get intn Verdun. He
feels the necessity of making a
military reputation, and s grimly
resolved to do it if possible. I
found him working never less
than a dozen hours a day over
papier-mache models of land
scapß, Innumerable charts of Im
provised rall lines, underground
systems or arsenals and insist
ing on spending one day a week
at the extreme front, where he
was able, at least under the fa
vorable evening light, to: make -
out through strong telescopes tho
towers of the city he had not
been able to conquer.
His staff undoubtedly respect
him highly. He is a charming
host. The present is probably not
his opportunity.
Prince Rupprecht is the chief
figure In the German west. A
man of fifty, and a little move,
who looks as Elihu Root might
look if he weighed twenty pounds
more. A man of few words, ex
tremely sparing of gesture, with
a neck like a pillar of steel, but
with swiftly glancing eyes. A
man who gives orders with his
eyes—and whose orders no mem
ber of his staff waits to have put
into words.
Laughs About Work.
He laughed with me about his
work, which he sald consisted in
operating rallroads, buying meat,
bread and beer; contracting for
stables; digging sewers (the Ber
lin censors struck out the sewers
as unworthy of the attention of a
Bavarian Crown Prince), outfit
ting hospitals and certifying to
the correctness of the results of a
corps of mathematiclans.
Cool, hard-headed, sagaclous, it
was due to the lindefatigable
vigilance of Prince Rupprecht
that General Haig’s brilllant as
sault against Cambral was turned
into an eventual British defeat.
They say Prince Rupprecht is a
strategist. I have no knowledge
of his aggressive military genius,
but it is beyond doubt that his
Bavarian head 18 a long head,
just as it is that the army on the
western front has supreme confl
dence in him.
Von Hindenburg and Von Lu
dendorff were on the west front
(as they are now) one week when
I happened to be there. It was
perfectly clear that they did not
eclipse Prince Rupprecht. Heils In
fact a mighty big part of the
brains of the business on the
west front, ‘
Germans Have Brains.
Which leads me to remark that
we should be fools to forget that
these Germans nave brains., Let
us attribute to them whatever
faults, whatever vices or crimes
we may—but let us not be our
gelves so criminal as to fancy
they are idiots. Such delusion,
such en infatustion, if we be
come lits victims, will be fatal to
us.
And this it 1s that makes the
situation so alarming. We have |
been hearing for three months of |
the gigantic German offensive.
The Germans have advertised
this offensive with all the assi
duity of an American publicity
agent touting for a corset or a
temperance drink. Therefore we
knew that it wasn't coming poss.
It was a bluff—a bluff to h%n
the despairing German e ‘
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Chairman Hurley Reveals Prog
ress United States Has Made
on 8,000,000-Ton Program
in Reply to Sir Eric Geddes,
Vast Projected Output Is Now 28
Per Cent Completed and 640,-
000 Tons Are in Actual Serv
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NEW YORK, March 30.—American
achievements in the ‘“raec with the
submarine” have been frankly set
forth by Edward N. Hurley, chairman
of the United States Shipping Board.
‘He told what has been done and what
‘may be expected to meet the menace
\revealed by Sir Eric Geddes, British
Lord of the Admiralty, in figures
showing that 11,000,000 tons of ships
had been destroyed since the begin
ning of ruthless submarine warfare.
Twenty-eight per cent of the Gov
ernment's 8,000,000-ton steel ship
building program is completed, Chair
man Hurley says. This does not mean
that tuat proportion of these ships is
in the water, but construction as a
whole has progressed to that degree.
Fight per cent of the tonnage has
‘beén put into service,
As for wooden ships, Mr. Hurley
said our old and new yards will have
an annual capacity of about 2,300,000
tors,
Concrete ships, in regard to which
Mr. Hurley expressed hope, will also
have their part in meeting the sub
marine menace.
Mr. Hurley said that the country
soon will ilave 730 steel and wooden
ways turning out ships, and the three
Government fabricating yards near
Philadelphia, when in full operation,
will be able to produce more ships in
a year than all the yards of England,
heretoforc the greatest shipbuilding
country In the world. Mr. Hurley
added:
I “The high point in the curve es
production has been delayed by a
number of causes. Gradually these
are being overcome and before many
months the peak will have beem
reached.
Full Speed Ahead,
““When the high point of the curve
finally has been reached and the
magnitude of America's shipbuilding
\program is realized, it will be a con
tinuous performance of production
)and launch!ng.
| “The handicaps have been many.
:We were not a maritime nation, With
)the exception of a few widely scat
tered yards, merchant marine con
‘struction had almost become a lost
art with us. Then came this sudden
call at a moment when the navy was
undergoing the greatest expansion in
lits history—when most, if not all, of
the established yards were feverishly
engaged In rush construction on
‘dreadnoughts, destroyers, submarines,
fuel ships, tenders and other auxil
iary craft, and when munition makers
were absorbing that part of skilled
labor which had not been called to
Government navy yards or private
shipbullding plants, So it was a case
of not only working from the ground
up, but of first securing the ground
upon which to make a start, some of
it marsh land which had to be filled
in before launching ways could be
lald. Therefore, we who are engaged
in the work appreciate the magnitude
of the task.
All Yards Were Busy.
‘“When we took hold of this job of
shipbuilding we found there was no
shipyard in existence with which we
could place an order. The old yards
were fllled to capacity. We were faced
with the necessity of creating an en
tirely new Industry. We had to
establish the yards first, get the ship
builders to take charge of them, and
train the men to bulld the ships.
“There were 87 shipyards in Amer.
ica at the time of our entrance inte
the war. Wae have located 31 addl
tional steel and wood yards, while 18
others have been expanded. We are
building in the new and expanded
steel yards 235 new steel shipways, or
26 more than at present exist i all*
the shipyards of England. If welhad
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