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* > -- CRASH OF THE $ f water 'reached to-- their. chests, | MORLO -- MAFITC,.. AAJLDU md.'flsm'th dropped s: Cocoanut Grove and C were drowned. n tolg *¥ where the cinema ce ,--~ Meaawhile the six remaining mienfwont to gather, _ , . \ in the torpedo compartment were| Here are a few 'of Mtstening to Liegtenant Pitch tap ao% saitly, comuniod. [ quagkes with "cg' martly eutua : 2...-': ¥s Mystery -- veils,' which h_'. It was a lingering--Geath for the forty. l S *ep 5 An Ameri¢an flag, the banner they had taken oath to defend, and bt the fate of submarine S--4: t As the ship was rammed to the bottom, water entered the battery yoom slowly. The torpedo room Charleston -- Nevy Yard, . Boston, March 21.--Brave men of the illk starred submarine S--4 died like rats in a trap--some with the membranes of their lungs seared oy-- deadly chlorine gas and others by drown-- teries and generated chlorine gas. A pipe, used for an exhaust when the ship is submerged, collapsed be-- tween the battery room and the con-- trol room where had gathered 34 men. Water began to enter the control the control room tried to stop the valve but an American flzg and the plece of green curtain was pushed by the water from the battery room side of the valve, clogging it and was made to prevent the seepage K wessr from the control room to the engine room. .. igzhs FLAG SPOILED RESCUE tiller room where are kept the sup-- Investigators Gather Details| : yavrNG te of Slow, Lingering Death I R're_nfi The entombed men had dragged raw potatoes, raw onions, and cans of sardines from the-- tiller roem. These they ate to keep alive. A bale of rags, used in cleaning on the steel walls, but these signals 1 VIVCDS. h. 4. has" 'eatipe. "bepes omm s o men, per | against hope that they would be| BRIGHT COLORS . --REIGN nv:.hymmgmemw {, _ Aniiemaegelents for hours covered by rags, with their| rromywood, -- Calif--Thé "fem! mytooduvmmmmm.,.' with ber i and1 -- Finally the water forced them to| frills, soon will be in vogue again their feet. i# Hollywood styles are the fore-- . It was"cold and some of them col--| runners of the spring. fashion. . _ lapsed. They were brought to their mdnuud&-yv_e!hand' feet by their comrades. Time after gracefully f!rlm-.-uttlo long-- time the men fell. Each time they| @r skirts are for the com-- rose to their feet. But finally the|ing season after a peekin at the water reached up to their. chests,| Monto Martre, Rainbow* Alléy and and, weakened, they dropped and| COcoanut Grove and other" places were drowned. A 7'--% €-- vll?tothe m:nem' celebrities are ~ Mearwhile remaining nlien o gather, °. in Nwrnd?:m:m Here are a& few 'of the more im-- listening to Lieutenan g'nm"a;: mm-t'm,hmubu!"filch will mark megssages with 8 wa t O':'tn'::: o Mystery --veils,' iel:heut.pro- Secre of N Curtis D. Wil-- vocative shadow e eyes. hr.'vht:nhsd retnmod.v to Washing.| Hats both made of and trimmed ton today after viewing the wreck,| With cellophane--a' material resem-- indicated while he was here,that the| DHn& islinglass, with a brilliant nmflnomwnh'mlm- 4224 # mission, repairs' being made either| Gold costume jewelry in . three at this vard or the nayy vard at| Yhades--old gold, green gold and the machinery, was --found in the tiller room and was used by the men to cover themselves to keep warm. Fitch and his fiye men in the tor-- in the torpedo compartment were listening to Lieutenant Fitch av out his messages with a wrench. 4 Secretary. of Nary Curtis D. Wil-- bur, who had returned to Washing-- ton today after viewing the wreck, indicated while he was here that the submarine would again go in com mission, repairs® being made either at this yard or the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. H. $ ' Bodies of three of the last eight men staken from. the submersible were enroute home today under na-- val guard. These were Lieutenant Fitch, whose body cwent to Wash-- 'ington, accompanied by his parents and hbis bride, Torpedoman R. A. Crabb, to Riverside, R. L, and Ma chhht'lltg'mhmmy.h Montreal. -- of : the --others were teady tor shipment under mil-- itary excort. % Charlestown Nary Yard, Boston, March 21.--Discovery was made to-- day that the interlocking gear-- on one of the torpedo tubes of the sub-- marine 3--4 had been removed while Lieut. Graham Newell Fitch and his five brave companions were en-- tombed in the submersible on the ocean floor 102 féet below the sur face off Provincetown. Naval examiners, who pointed out that tampering with this safety gear is unpardonable in submarine.--ser-- vice, agcoffed at a --theory of sulcide. 'They G@eclared that undoubtedly the men in the torpedo room took a slowly seep into the room in the forlorn hope that the slowly rising water would keep the pure -- com-- pressed air and oxygen from the tanks from escaping {from the cham-- ber of courage --and death, The missing gear, which does the work on a torpedo tube that a satety--lock does on a rifle, was found on top of the torpedo tube. Briefly, this is the terrible story Bometimes gn idea is so brilliant that it makes :flv'. iple blink and the A child enters your home and for 20 years makes so much noise that you can bardly.stand it Then it departs, leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.-- John Anfrew Hoime=, Suffered by Heroes. Incandescent Ideas The Pasior Says: Augien age: Aule: m FAd for not dim TUCK AND FRILL IN YOGUE AGAIN 1N NEW STVLES white gold. Bright Colors Scarts," square,; triangle, oblong and draped, hmt colors--tiny handkerchiefs, worn oue in pocket and one pinned at the 'back of the neck--full width of 'chiffon for evening--a v:olo series »of scarts decorated with scenes of asmart watering places, --including Catalina--crayola done scarfs which look as though a child had smeared the pleasant pattern with colored pencils. * . W Linen shoes . for ~sports wear, smartly <printed in cretonne--like de-- signs, and gay colored shoes for afternoon featuring . reptile, fire cracker red, green, blue and honey "Off white" evening gowns ,vithl bustle bows in _ contrasting colors: and very Tull skirts, short in front and long in bagk. o Perfectly huge handkerchiefs, in chiffon, trimmed with lace, for eve-- n%.tobovomtubdlnmlml-1 tation pocket or tied on the wrist or thrust through a ring, and in polka dots and more polka dots for sports wear. ~ & & Draped skirts which give the im-- pression of\length although they are actually no longer than those of the winter A ~whole nm of ~ animal pins, out--doing the varieties which Noah brought in <his Ark, will--be worn as dress 'ornaments.: While some are set with brilliants, the mmm;&-fl In . dullt a ' are J sophisticated developments in crystal or metal. iA '~__, GColors For Sports , > Navy blue, hongey beige and rose street or wear, according tothnwmmctn red and clear yellow are popular zorlpom_vm. And printed silks in the India (prints are the int of health. The keynote wmhmm combination of foods. There are many illustrations in human outri-- \tion of people suff --€ ill bealth as a result of dur-- \ing the winter months on a diet of ipoor quality,. Such an experience All this is of that [a 'diet nmb':'- fi':'h'm 8 a1d monotonous in character, is fixety to be unsatisfactory for the (2esold s0 Unt farm" equipment, so Fences and buildings eonfi-ln p-J %"' seasori principally er on re wheat flour bread, molasses, :and fat pork. Those were the times {when everyone feit ill in the spring. People thought their blood became \#hat they ed blood purifiers and 'pther spring medicines. . They took ture may be an excellent diet. st green grass, miik, gh"mfoodmgmnfl- e remtom Tonp aires do.up Foods Must Be Varied will be extremely populat, Author of "The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition" "Food, Nutrition and Health," \«tc., Pczfm mu-.'.'m, 'Sdoxf umsgm of awmp':l Public Mgflé'"'" "'"""'?-l for _ Indge Robert E. Gentzel of Chi eago, Republican candidate for se retary of state, is making a systema-- tie campaign tour that will take him to all sections of downstate Il+ nhnolis in the remaining time before the April 10. primaries. + « Judge --Gentzel is the candidate of the CrowaGailpin--Thompson . forces of Cook County and their state a} Hes. One of the outstanding figures JUDGE GENTZEL HAS BEEN -- LEADER IN CHICAGO, NOW _ . SEEKS A STATE OFFICE 6n the Chicago > Municipal -- court bench, Judge Gentzel was presented . to the Republicars of Illinois by the" Cook country regular G. O.P. or--. ganization as its only bid for a place on the state ticket. 4 In withdrawing his own candida--. ey for secretary of state in favor _ of Judge Gentzel, Hal W. Trovillion, . southern Illinois newspaper publish-- : er and a political power in Egypt.. called attention to the fact that Chi cago never has furnished the Re publican party with a secretary of state. Mr. Trovillion paid high tri-- bute to the Chicago jurist as a man eminently qualified for the office. Of German--Danish ancestry, Judge Gentzel is a native of Chicago. His parents were Anton H. and, Emilie (Nommsen) Gentzel. He was born in 1875 and < is a product of Chica-- go's public schools. ' He later at-- tended Lake Forest University and New York university. .He was ad+ mitted to the practice of Jaw in Long before he. was first elected to the Municipal bench he won a prominent place at the Chicago bar in the gengral practice of law. He was elected to the Municipal court id 1920, and re--elected by a greatly increased plurality in 1926, . another "sure indication that the least a seazon. The important things in many cases self--trimmed. Clus-- ters 'of flat flowers, feathers, pleats, miystery veils, the. seyebrow-- hat which shows only one eyebrow, and the hairline hat, which.is brimless are all featured. N:"jm~g AP wAn hat side scarfs at" the neck, and tur trimmed cuffs, especially in the butter mole, squirrel and ermine are the new notes. * oY of felt or felt and atraw combined, ~~HMostery will follow the trend of frocks and cling to the rose biege and dusty shades of which . sea spray, piping rock, elephant skin and shadow are <popular, <Mosh is the keynote of the mode in hose. 'P.llfl. f " " the sin of lying, of exaggerd-- u;g?'m &oa&q&.u 'he warmed up.> "W that T could tell you the number of times I have means by which 10048 are presel veu mfl.mmm«a should be reduced to a'simple and monotonous diet. (Along list ?uMmmzbmm .gfimmd a w some attractive form, and for an alnolthdcfinm period 3\ necessary, process Aocing."" sevinel kinds af Sin and -uu.an.eu..mdnbutgnt up in this form. No other, serves "so well to conserve the tables as does canning by: modern processes. In the early history of the can-- ploneers needed was a more varied and better food supply during the winter months, Pepsin is a --secretion in the stom-- ach-- of the Wigher animais. -- The pepsin used medicinally is usually obtained from pigs, sheep, or calves, aecording to an answered question processes, Some canners used fully could be packed without : danger of financial loss. --Canned foods. came to be looked upon with suspiction by many. That'dayi.swmt\'flm unohdm with we are familiar which has been more alert in the study of the science underly-- in the study of the science underly-- ummdwifi*fi&' containers, so as i:"g" to the consumer : products highest gane thie stat,fat Caerd as. t .T:Nafionl As-- in research in some of the greatest muuwbohndktheufoobbe- they reach the home.-- During the last twenty close attention hnhumghul&ofichhni .Mm&emdlood& soning, and as a result of studies canned foods have received The Chicago Bar association, no-- Stience Comes to the Reseue A Clean Bill of Health Aid to Digestion " woman is back, Cor at By E. V. McCollum, Ph. D., Se.D.. of tears in <dry foods such as the grains, dried" fruits: and vegctables, or 'in most foods which have been heated to the boiling point of water or even less. -- Even the pastegrization of m'w:h.d:trm e "d-'lh? vitamin. C ~which it :::h-. al-- earlier studies in the vitamin fheld showed clearly that vitamin C, the antiscorbutic principle, is not found hy --Ai en da is <ot s n mcb 9t aiict ns tpones +. Sz e A 'l I '. our--tables excep! of .q.au:flh are tfizt.ouhlr somie very interesting facts %unm-mam 'canned foods, They have shown that there are certain features about [z-unninuc'.m w:;'ch make far vitamin Cthanadhm' ie ie ies mociie io colfadion vitamin C cooking is oxidation. It has been shown that in canning, tg -- .143--145 -- degrees:_ Fahrenheit Cooking of fruits and vegetables, meats, etc., in the ordinary kitchen en oo t ie ToR t S s EK great measure the scurvy--preventing m«fiudthflhodc. The nat-- inference was that canned foods would also be found to have lost this vitamin. Recent researthes by Kohman and Eddy have brought to though the heating is only carried ted for its deliberate, fearless 'and cold--blooded appraisal of all judicial candidates irrespective of party, was generous in its Qrdu of Judge Gentzel's candidacy. | When he was a candidate for re-crction in 1926 after six years on the 'bench, the Chicago Bar association said --.of hiin in its report no candidates: tomary to place the cans filled with fruit and syrup, in an exhaust box, and to gradually warm them to a temperature at which the oxidizing ferments cease to function. As the fruits are warmed, the rate at which the record for having come -- out alive from more "crashes" than any other pilot living. 'His latest ac-- tivity has been that of a parachute jumper for a Swedish firm,. -- . --/ Copenhagen.--A new candidate for. trans--ocean flying honors has: ap-- peared in the person of Lieutensant Clauson--Kaas, who is organizing a national committee for the : collec:. tion of.funds to finance his: {flight across the Atlantic. | Meutenant Clauson--Kaas declares he needs 150,000 crowns to buy the kind <of airplane he needs, a one-- scater Fokker, with which he hopes to make & m{:'t trom* Copenhagen to New York with landings in Ire land and Newfoundland. He prom-- ijses to pay the money back to the donators --after the {flight is succese-- tul, out of the receipts he hopes to accumulate in a lecture tour. Lieutenant cmuoa-xau is noted as perhaps the most reckless pilot in Danish flying circles. : He holds it was shown that aitcr & preiome-- nary treatment of the fruit in which it was immersed in water until after it was immersed in water until aiter ;ng~th oxygen dissolved in the uices, canning could proceed wwith no demonstrable loss 'of vitamin °C. and h tedbh'hith Wfl:g ea as & as is employed in processing canned "JTudge Gentzel has xd- an en-- viable record as Judge the, Muni«-- cipal court for the past six years. His promptness in 'opening court and his faithful attention to his judicial\ duties are commended,. He is exceptionally well qualified Afor the offitce." --, -- --© 8 Danish Aviator I amount of the vitamin. b In commercial cahning it is cus-- In recent years there has been much interest shown in the effect of ie processes of canning on the de-- wuction of the vitamins. The Steel rails on a--n{ and. south track last longer ; those lald east and west. The etigm gen-- erated by the train--friction is undis-- turbed in the former case; in the latter it is resisted. remarkably clean 'bill of health. ish Aviator I ¥8. +5 Seeking Fin&\oe For An' Atlantic Flight ROBERT E. --GENTZEL A hk t vitamin feld xg;,gv ow se . o i s k i a e t L + e ' a 9 Cns k e s o h l a * Ay UA A T 1 esnt t Hane s Sreatly stodiersitds and the f & vauanf:qiea' is quickly used ;r. _It has been demonstrated that 'aiter this point is r?eched t'l:'d"fl; 'm process . can carried ou lvflm further destruction of the :antiscorbutic vitamin C, ® ~ The vitamin C content of com-- mercially canned: fruits and : vege* (tables appears, therefore, to be much greater than that of fresh foods which are cooked in the usual man-- ner, viz, by promptly heating. to What we have. said regarding ordinary cooking of foods probably se ES h fn'l I'II".IVI" yet ug:nmaed which: would abov the extent to which vitamin is destroyed in home canning. The heat is in general probably applied too rapidly to permit of saving the Canned foods have steadily grown ;&mmmmh'pm; h%fldflnmdpru- mdd,tn' the attractiveness : of hmud»n-nnu. In no branch of the food industry.has the been more effectively applied the canning industry. This is the mmm&ufim as any foods we eat, and safer than a number of contmon foods which mzflnndfmhbntmhud}ed in bome in a manner which makes it possible that iliness may arise from eating them when stale. Now comes the: scientific investi-- f who shows us the fallacy of flgm from the analogy with ordinary cooked foods, which or all of their vitamin C, to the conclusion that canned foods, heated even moré thoroughly, have also lost their vitamin C content.. There are principle which ordinary cooking de-- canned foods, it may be said with confdence from data available, that these are not destroyed hunning mu;ppc:::;emt. The hig favor of ca foods :among con-- sumers everywhere is justifed by the _ results of nutritional research. CANNOT DEPEND -- UPON OUR EYES The fellow who thinks he sees everything that goes on experiences a rude shock when a scientist dem-- onstrates that the calm, innocent looking dining room table is really made up of a mass of dancing at-- oms whirling--madly about in orbits like--a galaxy of celestial bodies on a diminutive scale. Likewilse the in-- @ividual who once took pride in the telief that nothing escaped his ears now realites that the air is always charged with inaudible sounds that can be coaxed into understandable Itonu"wtth radio machines.. These discoveries are making many people bumble enough to believe also that germs are abroad in the world re-- gardless of their invisiblessize and that diphtheria, smallpox, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, whooping cough, measles and, the --like are nothing but sign boards tacked up to let the nelghborhood know that these wick-- ed little creatures are active in the vicinity. in § * $ the other too, : ( ' f & So long as the inaudible sound Cut Hours from W&Shday time with waves ate left to themselves they | [ -- * « ::'"'&" please nor offend the -- ent «this labor--saving appliance. Clothes t they can . q: y' become -- a |B -- * 1 source of entertainment or numance |[J MAde snowy white quickly--easily-- when collected from the atr--and re-- | [ s 'produced through, a loud speaker. economically, Disease germs work like that too. [ + Left entirely alone they adjust , 7 themselves so that most :itho uy | i $ C( ing never have occasion to : notice. f A * y from personal experience that they C : erist, but the germs kill: a. lot of ' y people under that plan. : Managed | + through sanitation and vaccination | [ . Phone Li the germs really can be made-- to [ . / leave man alone except under con--!@ IS --A HEALTH -- STVUDY Scientific Research Sho\ There is Much Room to be Mistaken. 'Giving a youngster | toxin--antitor-- in produces the-- same . effect as weuld « series of minute doses of diphtheria germs. (It makes him grow immune to diphtheria, without getting sick. The same is true con-- cerning typhoid fever, scarlet fever @nd other diseases.' Smalipox is ~a little'® different. In that case the. Results of Nutritional Research --Let a boy smoke a big 'black C gar for his first taste of tobaceo and he gets deathly sick. Let him take just a puft at a time and keep in-- creasing the number of pufie from day to day-- and hbhe almost escapes iliness entirely and soon reaches the point where he can smoke half a dozen big cigars a day with com-- plete impunity. ~That explains wac cination against disease.. 5 germs from-- one disease <(cowpox) are used to prevent a more deadly disease, smallpox. The two are so closely -- related ~that immunity against one gives immunity against the other too. $ : at a time is really helpful since it stimulates the body to build up & resistive power, but too many at onte overwhelms the individual and causes -- prostration. ' That observa-- tion is exactly what has led to. the practice of vaccinating against dis-- When a fellow gets down . with diphtheria the trouble is simply an doverdose of germs. Whén typhoid fever overtakes an individual the difficulty is the same. A few germs AND FARS NOW vitamins in We Shows adjust | : 1e livy-- notice With touring season-- just -- ahead thmu'nptgboalototmoum the zgerm Travelers from one town carry bigger loads of. bacteria than those rro%nothcr, and. when they mix 'the germs get all ex.glu!d and start a lot of trouble. _A little extra precaution in the way--of vac»« cination and sanitation ~will. . help to keep the little germs where they VOIV ECY 7 -- The old idea that presidential election years are necessarily pe ricds of business depression has been exploded by research workers who digcovered by an examination of historical records that it isn't £0. The old time fact that summer and autumn constituted . the sickliest season Oof the year has been cast in-- to the discard by research «workers who found out that the trouble was with a lot of wild and lawlese germs and who showed folks how to man-- spe: %6 the : waves. | _ loud speaker is --to the sound wayes.|-- Now summer and autumn are really the most healthful months of the year and will continue so until folks learn to manage the winter and spring germs as well as ~they do the warm weather varieties. Short Skirts Praised _ F or Solving Traffic f ---- Problems In London London.--Short skirts have been responsible for solving the. traffic who for 47 years has been in the service of the London tramways. He has driven 1,184,000 miles, and has carried some 33,840,000 people. -- In olden days, he declared, con-- siderable delay was experienced by women wrestling with their trailing skirts: to gather them up, or trip-- ping over them when boarding &A young men. car, but nowadays, women and girls jJump on the cars with the agility of It is ,however, still prohibited "to talk loudly" and the,. use cf "swear words" is still forbidden. That latter rule is a legacy of the old Elizabethian Charter of the Vint-- ners' Company, one clause ®f which stipulates ~that the lan"ARwrds of houses held under their license must "enforce honesty and seemly con-- versation amongst the frequenters thereof." _ 'London.--The Ship Tavern, in Ar-- tillery Lane, Bishopgate, possessing an old "vintners" license dating back to 1682, is bandoning its old cus-- London's Ship Tavern Relaxes Old Customs; Now Permits Smoking Until recently, the rule of the house was that customers could only have one drink each, and were not allowed to smoke; but these restric-- tions are now hkeing relaxed. 7 JpiTion ai inat time was op-- ?oo_ed to any desecration of a dead known, It is supposed to have orig-- inated with a college professor who secretly conducted investigations in anatomy, and for This purpose kep: a skeleton concealed, since pub-- lie opinion at that time was on-- The préecise origin of the phrase :'lkeletogr in the closet,* is not Traced to Real Skeleton ie w Fetcs '§§ E+ Clothes Washer a% H. L Kenworthy, Phone Libertyville 16. By LAWRENCE SULLIVAN : Washington, March 21.--*"The sit-- nation in Europe is regarded as the gravest in history. It is apprehend-- ed that civilization is threatened by the demoralization which would fol-- low a general conflagration." _ Ambassador Page on July $1--{five days before the British declaration of war on Germany. _ On the same day, a message from In these ringing words did Am-- bassador Herrick, in-- Paris, appeal to President Wilson personally, on July 28, 1914, to stem the mad tide of war then sweeping over Europe from the Balkans. Release Notes to U. S. During War Formations Showing Cause of Trouble. DELAYS -- COST PEACE His message, made public as a part of the American war corres pondence released today by the state department, is characterized in dip-- lomatic circles here as the most prophetic and succinct in the entire feverish exchange of telegrams and cables between the world capitals in the dizzy confusion immediately preceding the outbreak of hostili-- The document makes public for the first time the unabridgedstory of this government's coming aware of the World war situation, and its late and fecble efforts to stem the onrushing tide of chaos and disas-- The hazy grasp of the world sit-- uation displayed by the American state department is regarded by diplomatic observers here as among the: most interesting revelations of the correspondence from the his-- torical viewpoint. William Jennings Bryan, then secretary of state, is shown to havre been vigoronsly pushing Ambassador Gerard, in Berlin, for a German--Am-- erican arbitration treaty as late as July 18, 19114--tive days before the Austrian declaration of war on Ser-- Europe began her mad dance of death on her powder stores on June 28, when the Austriant Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated by Pan--Slay fangtics at Serajevo, Bosnia. Not until 5 .p m. on July 31 did Bryan telegraph the principal American embassies in Europe for daily reports on the developments in the "military, political and finan-- cial situation." clared," was Bryan's response to & cabled plea from the Belgian mem-- bers of the interparliamentary un-- jon, on August $, for vigorous Am-- erican representations in behalt of mentary group grrived after war de-- hours after Germany had declared war on Russia. --He had sought por-- mission to take over the German embassy properties in the countries already in the war. © "It looks as if Europe were in the elutch of blind forces," Sir Edward '"This is t.h.fi third day 1 have ask-- ed an to this question," Ger-- ard cabled preemptorily from Ber-- lin at noon August 2, twenty--four WAS ERROR TN WAR a8 Clothes Ironer eot "where the more powerfy! vessels mre being Concentrated "l a view seimbled" at the WeiHaiWei base, to possible action by Germany." '~On ~July 30, the Americaf Vic« Consul Bundy had telegraphed fror. Kingston, Jamaica: A message from Brand Whitlock, minister to Belgium, advised on Au-- "Jamaics forts manned; rezg ments hurried to Kingston today "I am informed in strictest «0: fidence that king of England in p~ sonal message to king of the Bel? ans, not yet made public, has give formal asurances of support in ev: of German invasion." No attempt was made by the A erican state department to keep t» various diplomatic agents abros informed of developments in cou tries other than their own. Bryan asked Page on July =: three hours .after receiving He-- rick's message to Wilson, If ther« appeared "any likelihood" that Am erican good offices would be accept ed. This suggestion was not for warded to any other country. Pa=~ did not reply until 6 p. m. Augu= 3, Germany in the meantime h1 ing declared war on Russia. "My very definite opinion," h> said, "is that there is not the slight-- est chance of any result if our good offices be offered at any contincs tal capital. This is confirmed by the judgment of the British foreign office. We may have a chance afte~ the war b>s rsached a breathinc spell." . The most damaging imessage t~ the central powers is one from Gerard to Bryan in February, 191. giving the American ambassador: ideas as to why Germany was re-- luctant to enter negotiations for an arbitration treaty. This was month: before the war was dreamed of on this side of the Atlantic. "Find public opinion here agains treaty," Gerard said. "To sign would throw away the advantag Germany has as the resullt of great saecrifices in being European nation readiest for immediate and decia\ .« blow in war." Unperturbed 'by the crashing of the world about his head, Bryan labored on with the working of sign ing his treaties of arbitration and conciliation, and his moment of tri-- umph came on August 14--just 2s the first popples too)! bioom _ in Flanders Fields. "BEighteen treaties ratified yester day," he exclaimed in a cable to Page. "Is Great Britain disposed tn sign treaty cwhen approval of col onles received or does she prefer + walt until --war is over*" Bryan did not drop the propose Germany--American treaty until A: gust 21--when the German armir were more than half way throug Belgium--on "which date he receive the following message from Am»s sador Gerard : > Financial ad in exchanze--"Ouw: bunk exists to help our friends su ceed. You are invited to place yow money with us for safe keeping."-- Boston Transerin' . m most modern young matro in this neighborhood is going ! give her husband wafies for bre-- fast some morning as soon ®*s + can find a good variety of e-- wafies. --Ojhia *~~ JIanr Sorry to report no hope pe1 w.et Tok i¥ No