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EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.—Scott Nearing, head of 
the self-styled I'eople’s Council of Amer¬ 
ica, was indicted by the Federal Grand 
Jury in New York March 21 on a charge 
of violating the e.spionage law in writing 
a pamphlet. “The Great Madness.” Thi.s, 
in the opinion of the Government, was in¬ 
tended to weaken America in the war. 
The American Socialist Society was in¬ 
dicted with Nearing on a charge of con- 
.spiracy and also separately because it dis¬ 
tributed the pamphlet, which was i)ub- 
lished first in September by the Rand 
School of Social Science, tlie director of 
which if> Alderman Algernon Lee. 
A battalion of Naval Reserves <nnder 
Commander Vf. II. McGrann of the navy 
yard hoarded d.T Dutch inerehantmen in 
the harbor of New York and eontignons 
w.aters March 21. and ])raeticnlly, al¬ 
though not formally, a.ssnined pos.session 
of the fleet. The Nieuw Amsterdam, 
biggest of the IIolland-Araeriean liners on 
this side of the sea, was exempted from 
the .seizure under arrangement with this 
Government before her latest sailing from 
Rotterdam. 
The Rev. Clarence IT. 'VS’‘aldron, i>aoifist 
preacher, who was convicted by the Fed¬ 
eral court at Burlington, Vt.. of disloy.al 
utterances and of attempting -to obstruct 
the operating of the draft, received Mareh 
21 a 1.1-year sentence in the Federal pen¬ 
itentiary at Atlanta. 
The hill to give women tlie right of suf¬ 
frage in Texas primaries and elections 
was pa.ssed by the .Senate Mareh 21. 18 
to 5. It now goes to the House for con¬ 
currence in amendments. 
Two enemy aliens and one naturalized 
American were arrested M.arch 21 at 
l^hiladolphia on the charge of conspiracy 
to defraud the Government by furnishing 
defective gauges for torpedoes used on 
American warships. The men under ar¬ 
rest ai’e Fritz Bieret, assistant to the 
general manager of the T’nited States 
Gauge Company of Sellorsvillo, Pa.; IVil- 
liam Ileindricks, general foreman, and 
Gexirgo Schubert, foreman. The gauges 
are snh.iected to an endurance test for the 
purpose of determining whether they com¬ 
plied with the requirements of the Gov¬ 
ernment contract. These tests consisted 
in submitting the gauges to high pressure 
for a period of approximately six hours. 
It is charged that the accused men in¬ 
stalled secret taps and pumps to the 
gauges, with the result that the ti'st was 
defeated. This was done, according to 
Government agents, at sneli tim<*s when 
Fed('ral inspectors were not watching the 
tests. 
Charles L. Crura, formerly .Tndge of tlie 
Fifteenth .Tndicial District, w.as convicted 
at Helena. Mont., Marcli 22 by the Sen¬ 
ate on all six articles of imiieachment, 
there being a few dissenting votes on only 
one or two minor articl<*s. Crum was 
sentenced to he discinalified from ever 
again holding office of honor, trust or 
profit in Montana. Crum resigned after 
the lower house voted his imi>eachment. 
acting on charges that he was guilty of 
pro-German acts after America entered 
the war. 
Tliat enemy agents are active in the 
Fast and that they are making an efl’ort 
tf) influence organized lalior in all parts 
of tlie country so as to interfere with the 
Government’s war programme was stated 
at St. Louis March 24 in an address by 
James IT. Dalim. former president of 
'rypograiiliical I'nion No. 0 of New York. 
He spoke before the Cent\;al Trades and 
Labor Union of St. Louis as a reprosent- 
ath’e of the Department of lyabor. Mr. 
Dahm declared that he had been offered 
.$;■)(){),000 by iiro-German interests in the 
Fast to render assistance to the cause of 
Germany and di.srnpt the Government 
war work. He refused to name the ]>ar- 
ties Avho offered him the money, but de¬ 
clared that a friend connected with or¬ 
ganization Avork also w.as offered more 
than .$1,000,000 by the same interests to 
damage Government work. The speaker 
said that there are men in Congress who 
had openly worked against tlie interests 
of the United States in the Avar. 
Explosions and fire rivalling the Black 
Tom upheaval in destructiveness and pop¬ 
ular excitement on both sides of the Hud¬ 
son but causing no loss of life devastated 
five aia-es of the Horse.sboe district of 
Jersey (’ity close to the Hoboken line 
March 2(5. The six-story building of the 
Jarvis ^Yarebonsos, Inc., about a quarter 
of a mile from the river, and four smaller 
‘buildings Aybicb were part of the same 
])bint. Avore bloAvn to fragments wldeb 
(lames consumed, all but the bricks. The 
main structure Avas crammed Avith valu¬ 
able morebandisG. including a lot of chem¬ 
icals. much of wbicli was OAvned by or 
consigned to tlic United States Govern¬ 
ment for shipment abroad. It Avas 
wrecki'd by a series of live exiilosions 
Avbicb filled the air above, a considerable 
part of the Avaterfront with flying bricks 
and timbers Avliicb Avore preceded and 
folloAved by fire. Tlie pi-operty loss, in¬ 
cluding railway rolling stock, is put at 
$1,500,000. 
In the oflice of Edward N. Breitnng. 
wealthy German shipping broker of 11 
Pine Street. New York, agents of the De¬ 
partment of .Tnstioe arrested March 2(5 a 
German. Alfred Pick, for alleged com- 
plicit.v in plots to destroy ships by at- 
taebhig bombs to the rudders. Pick is 
said to have beeu a ruomuiute of Max 
April 0. 1918 
Breitnng, cousin of the rich broker, who 
Avas accuscdi Avith the notorious Lieut. 
Robert Fay and other plotters, and who 
is now in the internment camp at Fort 
Oglethorpe. He was also friendly with 
Herbert Kienzle, indicted with Fay and 
also interned. In addition to taking him 
into custody the Federal authorities have 
seized a mass of documents which giA’e 
added weight to the charges of which 
Fay, IVnlter Scholz and Paul Daeche 
haA’e been conA’icted, and greatly streng¬ 
then the GoA’ernment’s case against other 
accused pci-sons not yet placed on trial. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Senate 
March 21 adopted, 40 to 18, an amend¬ 
ment to the Agricultural Appropriation 
bill introduced b.v Senator (lore (Okla¬ 
homa) whereby the price of wheat to the 
farmer was fixed at .$2.50 per bushel. 
Sugared cider is liquor, Avhen sugar is 
added before fermentation, under a de¬ 
cision March 21 by Commissioner of In¬ 
ternal Revenue Roper. Internal RoA-enne 
Collectors have been instructed to stop 
the practice of sugaring cider. This prac¬ 
tice of giving cider a “kick” is becoming 
widespread and offenders are to be rigor¬ 
ously prosecuted. The Internal Revenue 
Bureau will not interfere Avith the manu¬ 
facture or sale of pure apple cider by any 
person or firm AA'bether this cider is fer¬ 
mented or not. provided nothing is added 
to it to increase the alcoholic content. 
Wool pullers and dealers in wool pelts 
have been ordi-red by the AVar Industries 
Board to hold all stocks for the option 
of Government purchase at a maximum 
price of 14 cents a pound. Dealers Avill 
be required to make monthly reports of 
all stocks bought during the preceding 
month. They must hold the stocks for 
•twenty days and if the avooI is not taken 
at the end of that time they may sell in 
the open market. An increased demand 
for sheoiiskin jerkins for the army 
prompted the action of the War Indus¬ 
tries Board. These jerkins, the avooI 
pullers were told, are taking the place of 
sweaters for soldiers at the fighting 
front. No immediate .shortage is in pros¬ 
pect. Avool men said. The price fixed ap- 
plii's to tlie price at which hides are to be 
sold to the tanners. Brices Avhich tan¬ 
ners may charge have been fixed at IG, 
IS and 20 cents. 
lioys and young men between 10 and 
21 years of .age who enroll in the Ncav 
York State Boys’ Working Reserve for 
farm Avork will be releaseil from school 
after Ajiril 1 and receive full .school 
credits if they ha\'e at that date attained 
an average of 7.5 per cent in their 
studies. 
The lower house of South Dakota’.s 
Legislature passed March 22 a bill 
authorizing county councils of defense to 
register and conscript men for labor on 
farms. The measure provides a penalty 
of throe months imprisonment and .$!,()()() 
fine for attemiits at eva.sion. It is jiar- 
ticnlarly aimed at unemployed in cities 
Avho refuse to aeceiit farm AVork. 
Olitions on 1,000 tractors were taken 
Mar<h 25 by the Massachusetts State 
Board of .\gricnltnre as a move toward 
stimulating fmwl production by providing 
machine labor in place of the man labor 
called to the colors. Some of the tractors 
will ho sold at a reduced price, to groups 
of farmers, but most will he rented for 
.$5 an acre. 
An army of 500.000 war emergeney 
faian Avorkers. comprising men Avilling to 
devote two or three days a week or their 
vacations to agidcultural labiu’. Avill be re¬ 
cruited by the TTiited States Employment 
Service. 
AVASHINGTON. 1’resident AATlson in 
an executive ordi'r )nade public March 21 
](reserih(*s rules governing the .service 
Avhiidi conscientiou.s objectors must render 
to the nation in war time. They Avill 
not be assigned duty recjuiring them to 
partieiiiato in the actual fighting, hut will 
he employed in the so-called non-combat¬ 
ant sm'viee. Avliich admit tedly will at 
times expo.se them to the dangers of 
battle. 
Startled at the large percentage of 
“swivid chair” oflieers in the army, Cou- 
gri'ss is prei)aring legislation to force 
most of the coramissiomal officers within 
draft ages now on staff duty to service on 
the fighting lines. The fir.st step was 
taken Marcdi 21 by Senator Thomas (Col¬ 
orado) Avhen he introduced a resolution 
calling on the AVar Department to inform 
the Senate Military Affairs (hnnmittee 
how many non-combatant offieer.s Avithin 
draft ages are in the army. Mr. Thomas’ 
amendment Avas prompted by the reiiort 
that the army has (52,000 staff officers 
and oul.v (5.‘},(K)0 line officers. 
Aftei*'months of experimenting with (500 
German patents for manufacturing dye¬ 
stuffs, the proper combination.s of the itat- 
ents for commercial production of dyes 
has been determined, and the Federal 
I’rade Cominis.siou has issued thirty 
licenses for use of these patents under the 
trading with the enemy act. Twenty-two 
applications of the F. I. du Pont_ de 
Nemoui’s of AYilmington, Del., and eight 
applications of the National Aniline and 
Chemical Company of Buffalo have been 
granted. 
“Well, after all.” remarked the Tom¬ 
my Avho had lost a leg at the Avar, “there’s 
oiie advantage in ’aving a Avooden leg.” 
“AA’'hat’s that?” asked his friend. “You 
can hold up yer bloomin’ sock Avdth a 
tin tacik I” chuckled the hero.— 
hournc Leader, 
