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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—The Delaware House 
of Representatives March 14 adopted a 
joint resolution ratifying the Federal 
prohibition amendment by a vote of 27 
to 6. The measure now goes to the 
Senate for consideration. 
All teachers in public schools must be¬ 
come citizens under the terms of the Amos 
bill reported favorably in the New York 
Assembly March 14. The committee 
amended the bill so as to provide that a 
person now employed as a teacher who 
is not a citizen may continue in such 
employment pi-ovided he or she within 
one year shall make application to be¬ 
come a citizen and within the time there¬ 
after prescribed by law* shall become a 
citizen. 
Believing that at least two big con¬ 
cerns here have participated deliberately 
in a plot to smuggle British wool into 
Germany or to secrete it where Central 
I’owers might h.ave access to it after a de¬ 
claration of jieace. Merton E. Lewis, 
New York State -Ittorney-General, be¬ 
gan an inquiry into the affairs of certain 
local firms March 15. The investigation 
will be far reaching, and is the result of 
discoveries made among the papers of 
Hugo Schmidt, the well known German 
banker, and Eugen Scliwerdt, exporter 
of 79 Wall sti'oot, both of whom were 
leaders in the world-wide German wool 
plot. 
Stanley Tvockavitz and Martin Pu.sh- 
kofki, both of Camden, N. ,T., were held 
%vithout bail at Chester, Pa., March 15, 
for a further Imaring following their ar- 
re.st at the yard of the Sun Ship Build¬ 
ing Comjiany. The men ai'e believed to 
be implicated in the plot to blow up the 
Hog Island .shipyards. It w'as testified 
in^ \Yashington that 245 pounds of dyna¬ 
mite had been found secreted about the 
yards. I.ockavitz formerly worked at the 
Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Hog 
Island yards and was discharged from 
both jilaces because of suspicious actions. 
Ivockavitz, who was born in Prussia, 
claims to be an Ameincan. I’ushkofki is 
a Ru.ssiau. 
Two porson.s were killed and 2R in¬ 
jured, only a few seriously, March 15, 
when a 200-ton; boulder fell into the Eliz¬ 
abethtown cut, about 19 miles cast of 
Harrisburg, Pa., and struck the Cincin¬ 
nati, Indianaiiolis and Chicago express 
on the IVnnsylvania Railroad. 
Fifty hor.ses are dead of poisoning in 
Covington, Ky.. .and many more are ex¬ 
pected to die, out of a. government ship¬ 
ment of 72(5 horsos from Cam)> Grant, 
Rockford, Ill., consigned to Newi)ort 
News, Vu. Dr. L. E. Crisler, veterinary 
surgeon, Covington, iironounced the death 
of the animals to he duo to belladonna and 
croton oil poisoning. The consignment of 
horses reached Covington March 14. Dr. 
Crisler, .said he believed the poison had 
been 7 )laced in water given to the hor.ses 
in Covington. March 17 a crowd esti¬ 
mated at 10,090 ])ersons gathered in Cov¬ 
ington to express their indignation against 
the poisoning, and to protest against Ger¬ 
man propaganda. 
March 18 Federal authorities arrested 
in New Y^ork ,‘i Turkish woman, said to 
be the divorced wife of a French subject, 
\vlio is implicated in German spy activi¬ 
ties, and several othei* persons connected 
with her. All were living luxuriou.sly at 
('xpensive hotels. They also arrested a 
Hindu and an American woman, Agnes 
Smedley, said to be engaged in jilots 
against British rule in India. 
Federal Agent .Tackson hf Topeka, at 
Wichita. Kan., investigating ground glas.s 
in bread, stated March 18 he found five 
instances where such bread had been sold 
and that in each case the bread had come 
from the bakery of a Germ.an who had 
not been naturalized. The Federal agent 
said he did not believe the baker, was re¬ 
sponsible for the glass, as he had had sev¬ 
eral itinerant bakers working for him of 
late who remained hut a few days. The 
crust u.snally shows the glass. The Ger¬ 
man baker is under surveillance. The 
bread has been sent to Kansa.s City foi' 
examination. On the same date similar 
eases of adulterated fof>ds were reported 
in New York. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—At the an¬ 
nual meeting of the American Cheviot 
Sheep Society the following officers were 
elected : John A. Curry, president. Hart- 
wick, N. Y.; IV. B. Kendall, vice-presi¬ 
dent, Bowdoiuham, Me.; Ed. A. Stan¬ 
ford, secretary and treasurer, Coopers- 
town, N. Y. 
The Secretary of Agriculture and the 
Food Administrator have formed an ad¬ 
visory committee of representative ])ro- 
ducers of farm products and live stock. 
The members of the committee have been 
selected with reference not only to the 
larger agricultural interests, but also to 
geographical considerations. The commit¬ 
tee will be called into conference by the 
two departments from time to time to 
discuss national agricultural problems. 
The complete list of the names of the 
members of the committee will he an¬ 
nounced in a few days. The following 
already have accepted: E. S. Brigham, 
St. Albans. Vt.; W. S. Brown, Kingman, 
Kan.; David R. Coker, Hartsville, S. C.; 
R. Dodson, Baton Rouge, La.; Eu¬ 
gene D. Funk, Bloomington, Ill.; F. ,T. 
Hagenbarth, Spencer, Idaho; J. N. Ha¬ 
gan. Deering, N. Dak.; C. W. Hunt, 
Logan, Ta.; W. H. Jeffers, Plainsboro, 
N. .t. : T>. O. Mahoney, Viroqua, "Wis. ; 
Davis r. Massie, Chillieothe, O.; Wm. F. 
Pratt, Batavia, N. Y.; Geo. C. Roediug, 
Fresno, Cal.; Marion Sansom, Fort 
Worth, Tex.; Henry C. Stewart, Elk 
Garden, Va.; C. J. Tyson, Floradale, Pa., 
and Oliver Wilson, Peoria, Ill. 
President "Wilson has authorized Secre¬ 
tary Lane to condiict through the Federal 
Bureau of Education a nation-wide cam¬ 
paign for school-directed home gardening. 
The bureau will urge school boards, su¬ 
perintendents of education and teachers to 
co-operate in the making of the project a 
success. 
Opposition to the proposal to make 
.^2.50 per bushel the government price 
guarantee for 1918 wheat opened March 
19 in the Senate after nearly three days’ 
debate by Senators fi-om Western agi-ic’ul- 
tural States in favor of the increase. 
Senator Pomercne ^ (Ohio), Democrat,’ 
spoke at length against any iucrea.se; de¬ 
claring that the price, ,$2.20, prescribed 
by President Wilson’s recent proclama¬ 
tion was ‘“ample.” He said proposals in 
Congress for increases had caused wheat 
hoarding and suffering by the Allies, and 
that the situation' came mostly fi*om 
States where the last crop was below 
normal. An increase, he added, would 
mean higher bread prices for cousiunCrs 
already suffering from the high cost of 
Imng. Senator Gore (Oklahoma), au¬ 
thor of the proposed amendment, inter- 
rujited to point out that under the Admin¬ 
istration railroad control bill the railroads 
may go into court to have just compen¬ 
sation fixed for their properties taken 
over by the government, and he asked if 
farmers should not have .similar privileges. 
IVheu Senator Poinerene replied that the 
government had commandeered the rail¬ 
roads, Senators Gore and Reed insist- 
ted that by price fixing wheat also virtu¬ 
ally had^ been commandeered. 
Francis J. Heuey. general counsel for 
the Federal Ti'ade Commission in its in¬ 
vestigation of the nation’s packing house 
industry, introduced evidence at the re¬ 
sumption of the hearings in Omaha M'arcli 
19 de.siped to show (1) That the packers 
maintained stock yards in different cities 
in an effort to hold down prices paid pro¬ 
ducers by forcing them to sell wherever 
quotations were the lowest ; (2) that 
there was an agremiieiit in effect among 
the packers prorating the amount of live 
stock any one of them could buy in any 
market; (3) that the infiuence of the 
packers even extended to the bank.s in 
which the cattle producers were forced 
fli-‘’<^oiiiit their notes and obtain loans; 
(4) that millions of dollars wrung from 
shipiiers by unjustifiably large charges 
for yardage and feed were distinbuted 
ainong the packer.s in the form of stock 
dividends, ■which virtually amounted to a 
rebate. 
^TA.SHINGTON.—Secretary Houston 
has asked Congre.ss for $19;730,893 to 
continue and extend during the 1919 fiscal 
.vear the war emergency activities under 
the food production law. Mr. Houston 
j)roi)oses to use $8,000,0(K) foi- the pur¬ 
chase and sale of seed to farmers for cash 
at cost; $1,080,980 for dealing with the 
farm labor problem, and $(5,100,000 for 
the develojnnent of the co-oix'rative agri¬ 
cultural extension work in co-operation 
with State agricultural colleges. 
All coal jobbers, brokers, .selling and 
imi'chasing agents and wholesale dealers 
were ))nt under license March 1(5 by Pres- 
iilciit AVilson on recommendation of Fuel 
.Vdininistrator Garfield, who issued regu¬ 
lations carefully circum.scribing the 
charges to be made for their service. A 
licensee who sells coal or cokC’ without 
I»hysieally handling the fuel shall not ask, 
aecoi-ding to the _ regulations, for more 
tlian the mine jiriee. ]j1us five cents for 
each ton on anthracite coal -svliieh is 
re.scroened at Atlantic or lake ports for 
trans-shipment by water. I’urchasing 
agents for retail dealers or consumers 
who deal in coal without becoming the 
owner of the fuel may charge a commis¬ 
sion not exceeding 15 cents a ton for 
bituminous coal, 5 cents of the delivered 
price of smithing coal, 20 cents a ton for 
anthracite coal for delivery at or east of 
Buffalo, and 30 cents for anthracite coal 
delivered west of Buffalo. ’Phe five cents 
re.scroening charge may be added. 
The daylight saving act was signed 
^larch 19 by President "Wilson. It puts 
all clocks forward an hour at 2 a. m. on 
the last Sunday in March and turns them 
back again the last Sunday in October. 
The King sub-committee of the Senate 
Judiciary Committee listened March 19 
to excuses for the sinking of the Lusi¬ 
tania. admission.s tliat the Germau- 
.\merican Alliance tlirough its high of¬ 
ficials approved the invasion and cou- 
doncrl the atrocities in Belgium and even 
justification of the deportation of the 
Bi'lgians into Germany, The Rev. Dr. S. 
G. von Bosse, president of the German- 
Americau Alliance, a Lutheran clergyman 
in the garb of his profession, astounded 
the committee by his complete adherence 
to the cause of Kaiserism from the out¬ 
break of the war in Europe up to the time 
of America’s entering the Entente Alli¬ 
ance aiid his cold-blooded acceptance of 
the position forced upon him by circum- 
.stances .since that time. Dr. von Bosse 
appeared at the hearings of the King sub¬ 
committee to defend the German-Ainer- 
ican Alliance against the pos.sible re¬ 
scinding of its charter as proposed in 
Senator King’s bill for that object. He 
strove to qualify his stand on such que.s- 
lious as the Lusitania murders and the 
Belgian invasion by .saying that he had 
held the.se views prior to America’s dec¬ 
laration of war on April 6, 1917. 
