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■Ghe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 23, 1918 
SAWS AND TOOLS 
You need a Disston Hand-Saw 
A good farmer has to be a good carpenter. A 
good carpenter must have good tools. You need a 
good hand*saw as much as you need a good plow. 
You will make no mistake if you buy a Disston 
hand-saw. It is the choice of more than 75 per 
cent of all carpenters. We have been making 
Disston hand-saws for 78 years, and have guar¬ 
anteed every one of them perfect in material and 
workmanship. 
Unless you are familiar with the smooth-cutting 
action of the well-tempered Disston blade, we 
urge you to go to any progressive hardware 
dealer in your vicinity, and saw through a board 
with a Disston. 
Notice how the Disston saw “hangs.” How per¬ 
fectly its seasoned handle fits your hand. How its 
correctly set and filed teeth cut through the wood. 
Until you have sawed with a Disston hand-saw, 
you will never understand what real satisfaction 
there can be in driving a saw. 
Send for the Free Book “Disston Saws and Tools for the Farm” 
and learn how to select and care for Disston saws and tools. They 
are sold by all progressive hardware, dealers the world over. 
Henry Disston & Sons, Incorporated. Philadelphia, U. S. A, 
Canadian Works: Toronto, Canada 
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DOMESTIC.—March 8th customs of¬ 
ficials in New York arrested Herman 
Hammers, a Dutch steamship agent, for 
smuggling .$40,000 worth of a drug, 
concealed in tiny borings in the walls of 
a wooden trunk. The trunk was passed 
by the customs examiners, but being 
made of unsea.soned wood it warped while 
at a hotel, and disclosed the secret 
hiding-place.s. 
In the same building where Abraham 
Lincoln held his famous^ Civil War 
conference with Henry Ward Beecher 
navy intelligence officers confiscated a 
sending apparatus of a wireless telegraph 
outfit March 7 at the headquarters of 
the International Bible Students Asso¬ 
ciation, 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn. 
This organization is composed of fol¬ 
lowers of the late “Pastor” Russell. 
Another building occupied by other mem¬ 
bers of the organization was recently 
raided by Federal authorities, who have 
also been studjing their activities in 
other States. In Toronto, Canada, March 
8. three members of the International 
Bible Students Association had the choice 
of paying fines of $,100 each or serving 
60-day prison sentences for having in 
their possession and distributing copies 
of a book by Pastor Russell entitled 
“The Finislied Mystery,” which the court 
Held contained matter “derogatory to 
Great Britain and her cause in the pres¬ 
ent war.” Four other members, deemed 
less guilty of wrong intent, were assessed 
fines of $50, in default of which they 
must serve 30 day prison sentences. 
Victor L. Berger, former Reiircseiita- 
tive from Wisconsin: Adolph Gernier, 
national secretary of the Socialist p.arty; 
Irwin St. John Tucker, a Chicago 
Socialist; J. Ixmis Engdahl and 'William 
F. Kruse were indicted by the Federal 
grand jury at Chicago, March 9, charged 
with obstructing recruiting, encouraging 
disloyalty and interfering with the prose¬ 
cution of the war. Tlie indictments, 
returned February 2, but withheld by 
District Attorney Clyne. charge 26 overt 
acts. It is charged tliat those indicted 
conspired to violate the espionage act 
by speeches and articles printed in cep 
tain publications. Mr. Berger, who is 
candidate for nomination for United 
States Senator from Wisconsin on the 
Socialist ticket, in announcing his plat¬ 
form, said if elected he would work for 
the passage of a resolution by Congress 
directing the President to summon the 
warring countries to an immediate armis¬ 
tice and peace conference. His platform 
also calls for withdrawal of American 
troops from Europe to procure absolute 
“security for this country.” The Wis¬ 
consin Senatorial election will be held 
April 2. 
More than $800,000 collected by the 
National German-American Alliance for 
the relief of war sufferers in Germany 
before the United States entered the war 
reached the hands of Dr. Bernhard Dern- 
burg, chief German propagandist in this 
country at the time, according to evi¬ 
dence ^lareh 0 before a Senate com¬ 
mittee holding a hearing on a hill by 
Senator King, of Utah, to revoke the al- 
lance’s charter. J. Tjarks, of Baltimore, 
treasurer of the alliance, told the com¬ 
mittee he turned the money over to 
(’ount von Bernstorff, former German 
Ambassador to the United States, and 
lifoduced cheeks covering a greater por¬ 
tion of the vast fund which had been 
indorsed over to Dr. Deruburg by von 
Bernstorff. 
Five persons were killed, many in¬ 
jured. scores of homes were comidetely 
or iiartly demolished and hundreds of 
barns and outbuildings were razed by a 
tornado Avhich travelled acro.ss north¬ 
western Ohio Marcli 10. Estimates of 
propertv damage range from $1,000,000 
to $5,000,000 or more. No serious 
damage was done in any of the larger 
cities, most of the destruction being re¬ 
ported from country districts. The tor¬ 
nado began in Van Wert county, on the 
Ohio-Indiana State line, and then trav¬ 
elled in a northeasterly^ direction, les¬ 
sening in intensity until it died out cast 
of Tiffin. Towns suffering the most were 
Van Wert. Middlepoint. Convoy. liima, 
Cloverdalo. Cuba. Dupont, D'e.shler, 
Hamler. Continental, Ottawa, Findlay, 
Napoleon, Holgate, Miller City and 
Tiffin. 
C'anada. exoejit for the provinces of 
Quebec aud Ontario, will go dry April 
1. and on December 31 the legal cases in 
Quebec and Ontario will vanish and the 
sale or manufacture of intoxicating 
liciuors will he prohibited throughout the 
Dominion. Under regulations issued 
^larch 11 the manufacture aud sale of 
liquor is iirohibited, but in Quebec beer 
may be manufactured and in Ontario 
whiski’.v and native wines made until the 
end of the present year. The new reg¬ 
ulations, which supiilement provincial 
laws, also prohibit the transport <»f 
liipiors into or their delivery in prohib¬ 
ited areas. 
WASl 11NGT( )N.—New decorations 
and insignia for American soldiers, or¬ 
dered IMarch (5 by the War Department 
in order of their value are a distin¬ 
guished service cross, distinguished ser¬ 
vice medal, war service chevrons and 
wound chevrons. Women are eligible to 
receive both the cross aud the medals. 
The “D. S. C.” of the American Army 
is to be “a bronze cross of appropriate 
design and a ribbon to be worn in lieu 
thereof,” to be awarded by the President 
or by the commander in chief of the 
American Expeditionary Forces for “ex¬ 
traordinary heroism in connection with 
military operations (against an armeil 
enemy of the United States under circum¬ 
stances Avhich do not justify the award of 
the medal of honor.” Awarding of the 
cross is made retroactive to April 6, 
1917, Any soldier who has appropriately 
distinguished himself since that date be¬ 
comes eligible. The distinguished service 
medal, also_ of bronze, will be awarded 
“for exceptionally meritorious seiwice to 
the Government in a duty of great re¬ 
sponsibility in time of war.” AVar ser¬ 
vice chevrons will be given for each six 
months of active service “in the zone of 
the advance in the war.” They are to 
be of gold and will be worn on the lower 
half of the left sleeve of the uniform 
coat. Wound chevrons will be of the 
same pattern and will be worn on the 
lower half of the right sleeve. The lat¬ 
ter will be given to any ofiicer or en¬ 
listed man who, in action with the enemy, 
receives a wound that necessitates the 
attention of a medical officer. “Disable¬ 
ment by gas,” the order says, “will be 
considered a wound.” 
A call for 5,000 nurses between now 
and June 1 for services in military hos¬ 
pitals at home and abroad has been made 
upon the Red Cross by Surgeon-General 
Gorgas, of the army. Nearly 7,000 nurses 
already have been supplied by the Red 
Cross, but the need for more grows im¬ 
perative daily. Of the eighty or ninety 
thousand registered nurses in the United 
States, General Gorgas estimates that 
approximately 30,000 will be needed for 
service in army hospitals during this 
year. 
The United States must build an im¬ 
pregnable military and naval supply base 
in tlie Hawaiian Islands if its power in 
the Pacific is not to he put in jeopardy. 
J. K. Kalonianaole, Territorial Delegate 
from Hawaii, said March 11. in intro¬ 
ducing a resolution requiring the House 
Militar.y Affairs Committee to investi¬ 
gate the situation. The Hawaiian Dele¬ 
gate believes that the present supply 
base on the Island of Oahu is inade¬ 
quately protected, particularly if the Ger¬ 
mans should essay operations through 
Siberia. 
Director-General McAdoo’s plans for 
Government control and operation of the 
express companies have practically been 
completed. The companies to be taken 
over include the Adams. American, Wells 
Fargo, Southern. Great Northern, 
Northern, Canadian and Western. 
FARAf AND GARDEN.—Howard 
Heinz. Federal Food Administrator for 
Pennsylvania, has called attention to a 
recent railroad order from Air. AIcAdoo, 
'coivering the distribution of cars for 
food and feed. He has ruled that sliip- 
jiers of grain products, feed and food 
generally should first apply for cars in 
the usual way through railroad agents. 
In case these cars are not furnished in 
a reasonable time, such shippers should 
then apply to the Zone Representatives 
in Philadeli)hia. They must state the 
number of cars, regard the point for load¬ 
ing. the character of load and where it 
is to go. This applies particularly to 
shippers of potatoes, live stock aud feed, 
who do business in Pennsylvania. 
In favorably reporting, Alarch 8, Rep¬ 
resentative Baer’s hill to jiurchase seeds 
for farmers and mobilize farm labor for 
the 1918 grain crop, the House Agricul¬ 
ture Committee conceded that it was an 
unprecedented proposition to meet un¬ 
precedented eonditions. As amended by 
the committee, the bill carries $10,000j- 
000, of which $7,500,000 is to enable the 
Secretar.v of Agriculture to make ad¬ 
vances ' or loans to farmers in Spring 
wheat areas to purchase wheat, oats and 
barley for seed purposes, or to procure 
seed and sell it to farmers, and ,$2,500,000 
is for voluntary mobilization and distri¬ 
bution of farm labor. 
The Alichigan War Preparedness 
Board, .after a conference at Detroit. 
March 9, with Henry Ford, annonueed 
that Air. Ford has agreed to sell 1,000 
farm tractors to the State to assi.st the 
campaign for greater agricultural pro¬ 
duction this year. The board will sell 
the tractors to farmers. The agreement 
with Ford embraces the purchase of 1,000 
two-hottom plows from the Oliver com¬ 
pany. of South Bend. Tnd. These plows 
will be attached to the tractors. The 
comiilete tractor outfit will he ready for 
delivery to the farmer by April 1. It 
was announced that more than 200 
farmers already have applied for tractors. 
Profiteering in seeds was charged by 
Secretary Houston and Food Adminis¬ 
trator Hoover in a joint statement Alarch 
11. Avhich said that prompt action in such 
cases would he taken whenever specific 
information was submitted. Alauy com¬ 
plaints of abnormally high prices are 
being received. 
The annual meetiug of the Illinois 
State Florists’ Association was held at 
L'rbaua. Alarch 5-6. The following of¬ 
ficers were elected: W. .1. Keimel, Elm- 
iuirst. president; AA'. J. Heimbrecker, 
Springfield, vice-president; .1. F. Am- 
mann, Edwardsville. secretary; F. L. 
Washburn, Bloomington, treasurer. 
Live chicks may be sent by parcel post 
after Alarch 15, provided they are prop¬ 
erly prepared for mailing. In announcing 
this decision Alarch 11 the Post Office 
Department order said chicks could not 
be insured or sent c. o. d., nor carried 
to destination of more than 72 hours’ 
mailing distance. 
