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HEAR CAPTAIN HOBSON On "America and the World War" CAPTAIN RICHARD P. HOBSON Hero of the Spanish-American $ War. fifatAsman. WnrlH Famnnc Orafnr. AmArina's Mm (fiaiiip Wed. Aug. 8 P. ft Get Sedsoa'Tickets Toddy! Dates Aii 26 to 31. Must Keep Record. Retail grocers in the state have been instructed by the Missouri Di vision of the Food Administration to keep a record of all sugar sales to prevent repeaters from buying more than their allowance. Several cases have been report ed the State Food Administration of unpatriotic persons making five and six 2 pound purchases of sugar a day at different grocery stores. In each instance the purchaser has been required to return the ex cess. If such a practice should become general, the rationing plan of tbe Food Administration would be up set, as the state has been allotted a certain amour.t of sugar on the basis of two pounds a person a month. - la order to keep a check on would-be sugar hoarders, the plan has been adopted of requiring all grocers to keep a record of every etgar sale Many grocers are doing this on their own initiative. These records must be accessible to coun ty, food administrators that they may investigate the purchases of anyone suspected of repeating. - Persons found guilty of hoarding Eugar. flour or other food are liable to a fine of not more than $5,000 end imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. The Germans have used five different varieties of poison gas against the allied troops six, if you count propaganda. ' ' f w L wu; Original Advocate of Preparednes, Yesterday it was only the men who went forth to war while the women remained behind' to keep up the home and cultivate the field. Today the women still keep up the home and cultivate the fields, but they also do their part a splendid part in the actual work of carrying on war. Thousands of these women are scattered about the United Kingdom and in France; many of them very close to thec tual battlefront, risking their lives and giving themselves as freely, as unselfishly and , courageously as their men do, to drive from the e artb all fear of the iron heel of Prussianism. They are in tbe base and field hospitals, and canttens, and dressing stations, in the Y. M. C. A. huts everywhere, and are an indispensable factor in carrying on the war. The first American field army, whose organization under command of Gen. Pershing was announced Monday night will operate, it is un derstood, in tbe area north of the Marne, from which the Germans h ave been driven but. The, crea tion of the first army brings a great American force under American c orcmefed, but under the orders of the Generalissimo, Marshal Foch. It is officially estimated that the population of Germany at the end of next year will be 7.000,000 less than it was in 1914, This introduces a grim reason why the war can't last Speaks at A Contrast. The following is the famous let ter written by President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby during the Civil War: "Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War De- partment a statement of the Ad jutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the fi eld of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which 6bould attempt to be- g uile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot re frain from tendering to you the con solation that may be found in the thanks of the the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assauge the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished mem ory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Tbe following is the letter writ ten by the Kaiser to Frau Meter of Oldenberg, a few day s ago: "His Majesty hears that you have bacrificed nine sons in the defense of the Fartherlaud in the present war. His Majesty is immensely gratified in this fact and in recogni tion is. pleased to send you his photograph with frame and auto graph signature" . KiDg George announces that he is not having any new clothes made this summer- This gives us some distinguished company. Ballot For Americans. . The Missouri Council of Defense through its Americanization Com mittee, in launching its program to thoroughly Americanize all groups of Missourians without regard to their racial origin, has set about to make the Missouri ballot for Amer icans alone. The resolutions express the vari ous steps by which it is proposed to give the right of suffrage to for eign born citizens who have com pleted naturalization The resolu tions were adopted unanimously by the Missouri Council of De fense. "Resolved, That this Americani zation Committee, recommend to the Missouri Council of Defense that the Council ask the Missouri Legis lature to submit to the voters a proposal for the Amendment of Section 2, Article 8, of the Constitu tion of Missouri, so as to provide that no person of foreign birth and nationality be permitted to vote un til he becomes a fully naturalized citizen of the United States. "Resolved. That this Americani zation Committee recommend to the Missouri Council of Defense, that tbe Council ask all Election Officials of the State to require a presentation of the first papers of all naturalized aliens who claim the right to register and vote; and to refuse permission to register or vote to all such persons who have de dared their intention of becoming citizens of the United States more than five years before the date of registration or election. "Resolvtd, That this Americani zation Committee recommend to the Missouri Council of Defense that Public Schools Boards in every Public School District and High Schools in the State, be asked to stop the teaching of the German Language during the war. "Resolved, That the Missouri Council of Defense take steps to se cure such legislation as shall pro hibit aliens from voting at any election. If the surgeons amputate the bray of the army mule it may make the animal more efficient in a mill tary sense, but wouldn't it be cruel and and unusual punishment that the constitution condemns to take from a hardworking mule about the only amusement and diversion it has? Senator John D. Tavlor, defeattd for re-nomination in the Sixih dis trict at the August primary, has sued Rev. Ben H. Hill and R. A. P aige of Sullivan county for dam ages in the of $10,000 for slander. He alleges that they charged him with getting drunk aiid playing poker. A German captain naively says: "More United States transports would be sunk by U-boats if the matter were not so hazardous." The cinches are the only chance they take. PROTECT HOME A bank account not only protects your money against theft and loss, but also protects it against temptation to spend. Every man owes himself and his family the protection of a savings account in a good substantial bank like this one. Why not start in a small way and save something every week? CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00 OFFICERS J. S. Scott, President M. B. Proctor, Cashier J. J. Brown, Vice President J. S. Rutledge, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS J. S. Scott, Wm. Buckman, P. W. Huston, R. S.'McClintic, J. Ji. Brown, J. V. Proctor, Leo. Bell, D. R. Davenport, M. B. Proctor. MONROE CITY BANK.- SUMMER EXCURSIONS TO J- vi Colorodo, the Rocky Mountain National Estes Park, Yellow stone National Park Glazier NatM Park and all the other m National Parks and Monuments in the West, Black Hills, Buffalo Bill Country, Big Horn Mountains, North Pacific Coast and California, now on sale. Liberal stop-overs and long limits. S. B. THIEIIOFF, Tkt. Agent. Notice. All men who have bfcome or will become 21 years of afie on or before August 24'.h, 1918. aud were not 21 years of age on June 5th, 1918, must Register on August 24th. 1918. There will only be one place of reg istration and that will ;e at the Local Board room in Paiis' Don't ff.il to register if you have become 21 years of age since June 5th, 1918. Local Boird Monroe County, Mo. American soldiers about to enter the trenches have been ordered by tlitir officers to send their first pris on camp post cards to rtie Ameri can Red Cross in Berne, Switzer land, in the event of capture. By so doing they immediately begin receiving a twenty-pound package of food each week which the Amer ican Red Cross sends prisoners be cause of the scant rations allowed them by. Germany. On receipt of the post card the machinery neces sary to notify relatives of the fate of prisoners is put in operation. It might be a good iden to dis guise the allied hospitals as trenches in order to distract the German fire. indefinitely. .'';V-: ' " . ; i