(By Associated Press!
VITRIMONT, Prance, March 26. —
American sympathy with the civilian
sufferers from the war has been giv
en more concrete expression In this
village than in any other part of the
devastated country immediately be
hind the French fighting lines.
When Mrs. William ('rocker, of Snn
Francisco, chose Vitrimont in which
to carry out her idea of reconstruct
ing with her own means one of the
villages destroyed by the Herman
troops in their first rush into France,
she met with much doubt and suspic
ion. The people of Lorraine are prac
tical and hard-headed, and also ob
ject to partake of anything given in
the form of charity. It was therefore
necessary to make the proposition a
purely businesslike one before laying
it before the villagers.
All the men of fighting age are at
the front with their regiments. One
of the villagers while in the trenches
one day received from his wife a let
ter, giving details of the plan of re
construction. He immediately re
plied: “Don’t waste ink on telling me
fairy tales. You are ready to swal
low any yarn told you. Just make up
your mind, as I have done, that we
have lost everything and don’t dream
that good fairies are going to restore
all to us."
in uiuri ui convince mis man ana
many of his village neighbors serving
in the same corps that somebody was
really taking interest in them and that
they would not merely have to be con
tent with the government indemnity
of sixty per cent of their losses, Miss
Daisy Polk, also a Californian and
now administrator of the plan, gave
printed plans and details of the
scheme to the wives left behind. These
were forwarded at once to the men at
the front, who could be assured only
by documentary evidence of this kind
of the good fortune to be conferred
on them and their dependents.
Miss Polk, who since the beginning
of the war has been occupied in re
lief work of various kinds, was chosen
by Mrs. Crocker to administer her
benevolent scheme. She decided at
once to live among the people so as
to become better acquainted with
them and to learn their needs. Every
house, without exception, had been
either shelled or burnt. She, how
ever, was able to find a one-roomed
cottage which could be repaired, and
here from her single room Miss Polk
directs ail the work. She interviews
there the architect, the builders, the
departmental officials and government
functionaries, and only recently re
ceived Ambassador William G. Sharp,
who had come to lay the cornerstone
of the first new house.
Of the seventy houses composing the
village, thirty-four were shelled and
the remaining thirty-six burned. The
government itself decided to repair
the bombarded houses, which were not
so badly damaged as those which had
been set afire. The reconstruction of
these latter was undertaken by Mrs.
Crocker.
No attempt was made by the auth
ors of the scheme to force American
ideas down the throats of the conser
vative Lorrainers. Very little change
had taken place in the village since
the fifteenth century, and the style
of architecture was very uniform,
usually taking the shape of one or
two story cottages, with grange door
entrances and attached at the back
the granaries and cattle sheds. The
only changes insisted on by the pro
moters of the scheme as well as by the
French government were the introduc
tion of sanitary arrangements which
hitherto had been non-existent, the
provision of ventilation in the rooms
and the separation by an intervening
courtyard of the cattle sheds and the
human habitations.
It was with difficulty that the pea
sants could be induced to accept some
of these changes, but at length reason
prevailed and the plans were finally
drawn up.
The new village is to have wider
streets and the main road through it
is to be planted with trees, while the
town hall and school are now to oc
cupy prominent and spacious positions
in the center of the village instead ol
being hidden as before the war in nar
row lanes without any air space.
TRAINED HIGHWAY OFFICIALS
ARE NEED OF WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, March 27. — HIghwaj
maintenance will not be efficiently or
ganlzed until road officials are ap
pointed, rather than popularly elect
ed, at salaries adequate to insure tlu
employment of trained men with ex
perlence in highway projects. Thh
was the conclusion reached by botl
Dr. L. I. Hewes, district engineer
United States bureau of public roada
and George F. Cotterill, chief engl
neer of the state highway commis
slon, at the opening session of thi
second annual Road Builders’ conven
tion on the State University campus.
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(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK. March 27. — Judging
from the various major and minor
i league baseball schedules made pub
lie to date there is to be little change
in the general playing scheme for the
season of 1917. A majority of the
leagues have selected opening and
closing dates which correspond close
ly to those of the past few years.
The chief changes are to be found
In the schedules of the International
j League and American Association. In
| round figures these two organizations
have cut six weeks off their regular
seasons in order to provide dates for
the inter-league series of forty-eight
games to be played at the close of the
pennant races in tho two associations.
The National and American Leagues
will open on Wednesday. April 11, and
close on Thursday, October 4, which
will permit the intial game of the
world’s series being played on Satur
day, October 6, if eastern and western
teams are competitors, or Monday, Oc
tober 8, in case the series proves to
be an intersectional contest. In other
respects there are few novelties the
Pacific Coast League having the long
est season, while one or more of the
Class D leagues will stage the shortest
pennant races. The list of opening
and closing dates as announced to
date from official or semi-official
sources are as follows:
National League — April 11, Octo
ber 4.
American League — April 11, Octo
ber 4.
International League — April 17,
August 5.
South Atlantic League — April 19,
| August 5.
Western League — April 18, Sep
tember 3.
Southern Association — April 12,
September 15.
Texas League — April 5, Septem
ber 3.
j Pacific Coast League — April 3,
October 28.
American Association — April 11,
August 5.
Blue Ridge League — May 1, Sep
tember 15.
Southern League — April 12.
Eastern League — May 11.
Western Association — April 12,
September 3.
Georgia-Alabama League — May 7,
August 4.
Note—First date denotes open, sec
ond date closing of season.
The action of the German Imperial
Olympic committee in changing its
title to the “German Imperial Commit
tee for Bodily Exercise," has aroused
much speculation among the athletic
authorities throughout the world.
Many close followers of Olympic sport
have expressed the opinion that the
move on the part of the German com
mittee is an Intimation that Germany
will not compete in these internation
al sports after the war. Others hold
that the change of name merely marks
the taking over of other duties and
plans considered more necessary and
pressing at this time in Germany than
consideration of future Olympic
meets.
In this connection it can be said
that the International Olympic com
mittee has not abandoned the idea of
these games and that with the restor
ation of peace in Europe there will
be a determined effort made to hold
an international meet within a year
following the official close of the con
flict. It has been intimated that the
gathering may be more than a series
of athletic competitions; taking the
form of an international celebration
of the restoration of peace, with im
posing ceremonies and pageants tc
which the nations of the world will be
invited to send representative dele
gations.
The sages which will be raced foi
i during the 1917 season in Austria and
■ Hungary will aggregate two million
dollars. The Austrian Jockey Club
Austria’s biggest organization, has of
, fered prizes totaling 3,178,000 kron
i en ($635,000), while the Hungarlar
! Jockey Club, the big Budapest organ!
zation, has put up 2,564,200 kroner
($512,840). Other smaller organlza
tions, of which there are a consider
able number In the dual monarchy,
have guaranteed the four million and
several odd thousand more, necessary
to bring the total up to ten million
kronen.
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(By Viscount Bryce, United Press)
LONDON, March 26. — The slaugh
ter of between seven and eight hun
dred thousand Armenians by the
Turks since ihe beginning of the war
reveals the Armenians quite as much
martyrs to Christianity as any of the
early Christians who died in Nero's
arena.
There are today more than a million
Armenians and Syrians starving to
.death in Asia Minor, Syria, the Rus
sian Caucasus, Persia and Palestine.
The relief work for them in America
is in charge of the American commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian relief in
New York.
In the history of the early Christian
church there are no figures so glori
ous, none which have continued to be
so much honored by the church all
through its later days as those of the
martyrs, men and women, who from
the time of Nero down to that of Dlo
clestian sealed with their blood the
testimony to their faith withstanding
every lure and every threat in order
to preserve to their faith loyalty to
their Lord and Master ChriBt.
In our own time we have seen this
example of fidelity repeated in the
Turkish empire, and it is strange that
the Christians of Europe and America
should not have been more moved by
the examples of courage and heroic
devotion which the Armenian Chris
tians have given. Of the seven or
eight hundred thousand of Armenians
who have perished in the recent mas
sacres many thousands have died as
martyrs, by which I mean they have
died for their Christian faith when
they could have saved their lives by
renouncing it.
This has perhaps not been realized
even by those who in Europe or Am
erica have read of and been horrified
by the wholesale slaughter and hide
ous cruelties by which half of an an
cient nation has been exterminated.
They can hardly understand how there
should be religious persecution in our
time; so let me try to explain the
facts.
It was not religious fanaticism that
led the present rulers of Turkey to
seek to root out Christianity. So far
from being fanatics most of these men
though nominally Mohammedans have
no religion whatever. Their aim was
political. They wanted to make the
whole Turkish empire Mohammedan
In order to make it uniform with only
one creed and no difference between
one class of subjects and another.
They saw that the Christian part of
the population, suffering under con
stant oppressions and cruelties, con
tinued to turn its eyes westward and
hope for some redress from the Chris
tian nations; so they determined to
eliminate Christianity altogether.
During these recent massacres, |
whenever any Christian would turn
Mohammedan his life was spared. It
was only as a Christian that he was
killed. Many a Christian child was
torn from its parents to be brought
up as a Mussulman. Thousands of
Armenian Christian girls were sold
in the market or distributed among
Turkish officers to be imprisoned for
life in Turkish harems and there
forced into Mohammedanism. But
many more thousands of Armenians,
women as well as men, were offered
their choice between Christ and Mo
hammed, and when they refused Mo
hammed were shot or drowned forth
with. For dayB and days together the
bodies of Christian women who had
thus perished were seen floating
down the Euphrates.
Surely the remains of this suffering
nation could make no stronger appeal
for pity and help to the Christians of
America than they make through these
martyr deaths. Only a remnant is
now left to whom charity can be ex
tended. It is still a sorely afflicted
remnant.
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Notice is hereby given that the reg
istration book for the registering of
voters {or the municipal election to
be held In tie Town Hall. In Cordova,
on Tuesday, April 3, 1917, Is now open
in the office of Charles M. Rosswog,
the registrar, at the I’ostofflce Store,
on Second street, Cordova, und that
said registration book will be closed
on Saturday, March 31, 1917, at 4
o'clock p. m.
CHARLES M. ROSSWOG,
Registrar of Voters,
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Power to Make Treaties Must Rest With
the General Government
By MORGAN J. O'BRIEN. Former Justice New York Supreme Court
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THE constant recurrence of the question whether Japan ia or is not
friendly, as to whether it does or does not contemplate aggressive
action, seems to be largely based upon its contention that we have
not accorded to its citizens the rights extended to other aliens. If there
has been any offense given in this regard it has not been on the part of
the nation at large, but it has had a local origin.
A conflict in such a case between the federal and state governments
ma.v not be easy of solution, but this is certain—that the power must
rest with the general government to make peace treaties. AND NO
STATE SHOULD REFUSE TO BE BOUND BY THEM AND THUS
SUBJECT US ALL TO THE PERIL OF WAR.
We must learn the lesson which this world war teaches. It throws
upon us the duty of preparing to meet any emergency which may
threaten our domestic peace and welfare.
WE HAVE MANY TREATIES OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH
OTHER NATIONS, AND, THOUGH PEACE TREATIES HAVE BEEN BRO
KEN, IT IS MORE THAN URGENT AT PRESENT THAT WE SHOULD
NOT GIVE UP THE MAKING OF THEM.
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write to me at Cordova. ij
GUS OHM.
Cordova Mill &
Lumber Company
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber.
Orders From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
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