Promise Made, Thai
Hunger in Holland, Bul’ Necessities
Have Risen 40 Per Cent.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May
18. (Correspondence of The Asso-
ciated Press.)——Popular dissatisfac-
tion with the heavy burden the war
has imposed on neutral Holland is
growing steadily, and finding almost
daily expression, especially among
the workers. ‘ Recently several meet.
ings of working men and women, as
well as the unemployed, have‘ been
held in leading Dutch industrial cen~
ters to protest against the high cost
of living induced by the war.
in The Hague a meeting was held
in the “Concordia," a hall largely de-
voted to socialistic and labor gath-
erings. The hall was crowded. No
police were present, though r. there
were a large number within easy call
in the street outside. The meeting
was preceded by a parade of the un-
employed through thergquietest and
most select residential quarters of
The Hague, singing “The internation-
al,” and distributing handbills calling
upon all Hollanders to stand with the
demonstrators in their fight against
hunger in Holland. A large crowd
gathered before the city hell, but was
dispersed by the police.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of a committee of agitation
against the war consisting of repre-
sentatives of Tire Hague Trade (‘oun.
cil, and allied bodies: the Social Dem-
ocratic Party, the Sar Garment Work
ers’ l'nion. The Hague Branch of the
National Municipal Workers, Thei
Hague Branch of the industrial
Workers of the World and the Gen-
eral Trade Union Council. L tie \‘is-
WWW‘IW
Hollanders Becoming
DiSsaiisfied Over
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War Burdens
There-Would Be No
LONDON, May 18. (Correspond-
ence of The Associated Press.)—-For-
mules for making the finer glasses for
which Great Britain has been depen.
dent on Germany have been evolved
by the glass research committee of
the Institute of Chemistry. Unbreak-
able glass for miners' lamps and
glass capable of standing high de-
grees of beats for test tubes, retorts,
steam gauges and the like had been
entirely imported from Germany. But
analyses of glass of, this kind con-
ducted at King's College, London, by
Prof. Herbert Jackson, T. P. Merton.
and assistants, have at least been
“mil”
The moon tor'tho iotnLaction is
that most of the island of Manunulo,
on which the city is located, is pro-
perty of the Panama Railroad, the gov-
ernment of Panama owning only 100
lots. That part of the city destroyed
contains nearly all or these lots.
A number of plans lready have been
discussed with a view to preventing
the recurrence of disastrous tires.
Co of th‘important things that
One ‘01 the important things that
the committees will undertake to do
will be the widening of certain streets
so as to form 'a tire barter.
Strict building regulations are to
be compiled and adopted by the mun-
icipality. Hitherto there have been no
restrictions whatever except regard-
ing sanitofy requirements. Any type
of wooden house was permitted.
The existence of two concrete build-
ings, the Masonic Temple and another
across the street, is all that save the
large wooden commissary building of
the Panama Canal with its million dol-
lar stock from going up in smoke.
These structures effectually stopped
the flames. it was a concrete church
which kept the flames from reaching
the negro district in the canal town or
Cristobal.
The real estate property loss, ac-
cording to the books of the local fire
insurance company,:is placed at fully
helpful in suggesting synthetic exper-
iments. The work involved a careful
study of the chemistry of silicates,
aluminates, borates and the like in
relation to the manufacture of glass.
As the. result, the research commit
tee reports eleven formulas, which
hare been subjected to rigorous prac
tical tests to pr’ore their suitability.
Among the. mast successful is one for
miners' lamps—a matter of great im-
portance in the coal mining districts.
The formulas irave been put at the
senile of the manufacturers without
charge in order that these special
glasses may soon be produced on a
large industrial scale.
BERLIN,
guidebooks,
whatever nun be sold in a belt 100
kilometers deep (slightly more than
.60 miles) extending clear around the
iempire. Certain other districts are
included in the pr'iohil. tion. Popular
May lS.—~No tourist
prospectuses and mapsr
st, 380 000. The Chinese Merchants
iwho (arried the most important
istocks of all kinds of goods is placed
lat $750, 000 while the stocks of other
merchants will probably bring the to-
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ALTITUDES IN KANSAS.
The highest point in the state of
Kansas thus far determined by the
EUnited States Geological Survey is in
;the Syracuse quadrangle, in T. 25 S.,
1.1? 42 W., in the southwest corner of
isec. 10, 3,522 feet above mean sea
leach/1 still higher point, however,
inoted in this bulletin but established
lb\ the lnited States Coast and Geo-
‘detic Survey is on the Kansas Colo
ratio state litre, north of the railway
track on the right of way, at the in-
tersertion of two lines cut in upper
tsmfare of pedestal to iron monument
marking the diriding litre between
ithe two states. This point, in the
rt‘ hererrne Wells quadrangle, is '1876
feet abore mean sea level. These ele-
t
ser a mum: labor leader, arraigned 100““! regions ”“15 affected include unions are noted in Bulletin 571,- en-
the present
Netherlands in a speech in which'
Minister of Finance Treub came in
for attack. The minister's pledge
made at the outbreak of the. war that
"there shall be no hunger in Holland"
was recalled in connection with the
rise of from 20 per cent. to 40 per
cent. and even more in the price of
the bare necessities of life, within the
last eight months.
The meeting criticized the work of
the National Relief Committee as be-
ing directed to aid the large employ-
ers of labor in the Netherlands to
avoid increasing the wages of their
enrployes. Tire demonstrators al-
leged that while taxes and the cost
of living mounted constantly, wages
remained stationary, and the Relief
Committee was urged to stave off the
logical economic crisis that ordinar-
ily would result from such a condi-
tion, by succortng those families
placed by it in imminent want. The
workers further declared that they
had already ’more than paid their
share of the cost of the mobjiiation
of the Dutch troops, in the increased
prices 'they had been forced to pay
for foodstuffs; and they protested
vigorously against any general tax to
cover military expenditures. They
claimed that the large property own-
ers and employers of labor in Holland
who, they said, have been growing
rich out of the war,,should be forced
to pay the full cost of mobilization
through a special tax on incomes
above a certain figure, and upon
capital.
The demands of The Hague dem-
onstrators were formulated in six
~ items for which the agitation com-
mittee pledged themselves to conduct
a propaganda:
1. Productive work at» normal
' wages and under normal conditions:
or
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2. Full pay for those who have
been mohlized and for the unemploy-
ed. .
3. The national
control of foodstufi‘s.
4. A moratorium (suspension. of
the parment of rent and taxes) pro-
hibiting the dispossession of tenants
by landlords ~
5. Proper care of the sick and the
infirm.
6. Payment of the cost of the
above, as well as of the mobilization,
by a special tax on capital and on
high incomes.
To these, the meeting added a pro
test against the war and against the
mobilization in Holland.
and municipal
There is no doubt that the presence L
of thousands of unemployed Belgian
refugees in the Netherlands hds‘ p'r'o-‘
duced an acute industrial situation.
As many of these are ardent Social-
‘ lets, the situation input-devoid- o't ,
, . possible political aspects in Hollandr
" where the Socialists are not very__
strong.
administration of theta” 1’0“?" Earl and West PMilitia-pitted "Results
Pomerania ,the Rhine, the \Hosgest
lpart of the Black Forest, the Bite],
[the Bmarian Rheinpfalz and the lilo-1
selle region.
The prohibition does not mean that
tourists may visit none of the places
affected. Most of them may be visit-
ed as usual, even including the bath-
lake region of the Mecklenburgs.
ployment for Germans possessing a
knowledge of lr‘rench ntrd English.
who tied to Germany at the outbreak
of the war, the minister of education
has empowered the authorities of
higher schools and colleges to en)-
ploy them as instructors of languages
without many of the usual formali-
ties.
of employment can be taken into the
middle and lower classes of boys'
schools, and may receive permission
to teach privately without the usual
credentials. ‘ Men will be required
only to furnish evidence of suitable
character, not of teaching ability. in
increasing numbers such men are
taking the places of regular teachers
"landsturm." The new rules apply un;
til the end of the..war.
LONDON, May 18,—Russian is the
popular language fad of the hour, and
conversation classes are thriving in
high society as well as among young
men looking for commercial openings
in Russia after the war. The King's
College of the University of London
plans to establish a school of Sla-
vonic languages. to include l’olish,
been n’iade by SetOn Watson. There
are now in King's seventy Russian
students, driven out of the German
and Belgian universities, who are tak-
ing courses mostly in engineering and
medicine.
LONDON, May 18.—-—The ancient
church of St. Olave’s, where Pepys.
the. diarist, is buried, recently had a
narrow escape frorn a fire that de-
stroyed a large cork factory nearby.
Pieces ‘of burning cork rained on the
roof of‘ the church, which dates from
1450, and was one of the few church-
es to escape the 'great tire of Lon-
don. When'flremenreached the roof
the timber covering the water cis-
tern was ablaze, but no further-adam-
_ age was done» The buildings in the.
district are old and congested.
of The Associated Preach—The re-
was destroyed by tire on the rryttn'it'noon~
of April 80th, is occupying the attent
,ing resorts of the Baltic, and the'
seams, May 18.-—To provide em-l
Educated women similarly in need
called to the front as part of the _
‘ Some tliue ago a California repr‘bx
Serbian' and other Balkan tongues has“
CQIAN. May 18 .—(Correspondeuce ’
building of Colon, about half of which
of Spirit Lerellng in
”(ant-ins 18961913, inclusive," recent-
ilr issued by the Geological Survey.
l'l‘he bulletin is to a considerable. ex-
tent a dictionary of altitudes, as it
contains a list of about 600 New ations
[determined by the Geological Survey
in connection with its topographic
iillflpplliiz of the state.
, This new bulletin is-one. of a series
{of similar reports being published by
the Geological Survey and should be
of considerable advantage to survey-
ors and engineers who have occasion
to use benchmark elevations in lay-
ing out railroad or other lines where
accuracy of elevation is necessary.
Tire report is. in fact. a guide to the
bench marks that have been set by
the government‘engineers, for while
the numbers stamped on the bench
marks represent the elevations to the
.nearest foot as determined by the
elevation to thousandths of a foot of
" the point thus marked.
A copy of the report may be obialn<
ed free. on application to the Director
of the Geological Survey, Washington,
D. C. ‘
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DANGEROUS SPORT
sentative was talking at the capitol
about the sport of tuna-fishing off the
Pacific coast. “To get them," he said,
"we go out in a small motorboat and
fish with a long line baited with fly.
ing fish. It is considered poor sport to
catch nothing larger than a 100Ipound
tuna.”
At this point a colored messenger
who had been an interested listener
stepped up and said :g' 'Scuse me, sub,
but did I understand yo' to say dat
yo' went fishln‘ to Two-pound fish in a
small motorboat?"
“Yeas,” the Californian answered.
smilingly, “we go out that way fre-
quently.”
"But", asked the wild- eyed darky,
"ant yo' feared yo’ might keutch
one?"—-.The Pathfinder. ‘
SHE WASN'T SURE.
A famous baseball player has a
Younger sister who is very proud of
him',‘ although she is‘ not very fa‘i‘li'il-
iar‘ with the national game. Having
spoken of him one day to a visitor,
she was asked by the latter what po-
sition her brother played. .
~‘ "Why." she stammered, ”i— i'm not
sure, but I think he’ s a batter."—-'Bos-
ton Ledger.
PENNY WISE.
"content is always a comparative
virtue.” 1'
‘What do you mean?"
" "Bigotry titted up a dbzen :50 tires
(rpm April to October, but he’s- tickl-
patched
lereirnau, the bulletin gives the exact ‘
fitlr t9 cairn minus he made an , 5’
Era-deit- house tint through .. a:
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$2 White Skirts,
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$2.50 Panama Hats,
$3 Ostrich Plumes, ,
$2.50 Real Hair Switches,
$1.50 _ Middy Blouses,
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$3 and $4 Trimmed Hats,
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