P. 0. DEPARTMENT 812500000 AHEAD ————————— Postmaster-General Shows Sur- plus Accumulated. $5,200,000 ADDED THIS YEAR Burleson Recommends That Tele: phone And Telegraph Systems Be Taken Over By Government. Washington. — Postmaster - General Burleson's annual report, just issued declares there was a Postoffice De partment surplus of $5,200,000 during the present year and enumerates as among the year's accomplishments im- provement of the parcel post, exten. sion ou city and rural deliveries and development of the Postal Savings system. A surplus of $12,500,000 is shown, says the report, for three years of the four the administration has been in of- fice, and it calls attention to deficits under previous administrations. The department makes many mendations service. Some of are these: That early action be taken gress declaring a Government oly all utilities for transmission of intelligence as soon as possible the phone and telegraph facllitles of the United States be incorporated into the postal establishment. That $300,000 be approp: now for acquiring telegraph and telephone utilities in Alaska, Porto Rico and Hawaii. That public buildings for postoffice be standardized and that their costs be commensurate with the needs of the That funds be expended in a ber for not of ornamental design, but designed to accommodate the postal se fore more money is spent in towns where 1ildings ar ot n and « ™ ent fi f has grown burdensome iaat ne cia neq recom- of the portant for improvement the most im by Con- monop- public and that over the tel ated erected purposes service num- ies buildings of large cit rvice be- smaller ted eo building poliey to bond Goverr adequa forded Servic That equal fts extens! NEW U-DOAT NOTE MAY BE SENT Washington Stirred By Activ German Submarines. Washington MV mation t recent ore marines a point w designed vy to ges to among the ibilitie f the near future Fr ont W on has given ear attent i of seve recently tarked hunt he iv ys no indie what | sion Stated positively that no been upon, but and a 1 that Government h ful the ca ea yt of as i ation will be It w had this ig Cec course bevond the American 10t in any al tered on ‘the submarine question. officials declined make any comment, ™ in are Arabia ove dad siteratior eeration vd stand way its to forefront of con of the British Marina, both of ron‘ends, were be Heved tn bo the naval service of the Allies. During the dav official information reached the Sipte Department e«tablishineg that Marina, on which six Americans were lost, was in no sence a transport an inquiry was addressed to Britain for information as to the act ual status of the Arabia. TY the sideration steamers which. Cerman: those and transports in the and rest / Ordered To Turn His Back And Fired 3 At Three Times. Point, Texas. Clarence Glass, cashier of the Point National Bank died from wounds received when he was shot down by a robber who took $ oo tae bank, Glass sald the robber, after taking the monev, or dered him to turn his back, and then shot him three times. The mar escaped, NITED STATES Than Population. Further Great Possibilities Held Out By Till able Lands. Washington. Fears that the popula. tion of the United States is growing #0 fast that {t will outstrip the pro- duction of food are set at rest by the annual report of Secretary of Agricul- ture David F. Houston, just made to Congress. The production of foods in chaz HALL, PA. WITH THOSE TOYS WE VE SHOPPING TO DO VET O branches and has increased in others The alarming decline in beef produc lon which set | ed the lowest point in 1913, and since then has increase At the same time there marked increase in the of awine Sheep have declined sl More of these meat animals have been slaugh tered under Government during the fiscal 1916, than e slates. been the ever. Secretary situation gives rea est optimism, it being the United fts own food large outside world The report ment has energetically n some time ago reach materially. has been a production ightly. supervision ended June the year ver before, report The heaviest slaughtering accompanied by number of liv Houston says for ndicated on the States can need proportion of siate the eradication of disea velopment of stock rais the f« i fnaugu R FISH HATCHERIES ies For One In Mary WOULD MAKE WASHINGTON DRY. Senators Sheppard and Kenyon To Champion Measure. Wa bition hington F lead rat Payments Suspended For Several Months Are Resumed. Santo Domingo.--The situation is row quiet in Santo Domingo, in which Ameriean military rule was proclaim ed la<t month Payments by the Gov- ernment, which were for several months ¢ of the re- tention of public funds ean officiale, have been suspended nn account by the Ameri resumed ADVERTISERS FAVOR IT. Association Naticnal Approves In crease In Price Of Newspapers, Boston.-~The Association of Nation al Advertisers at its annual meet n here adopted resolutions approving “reasonable Increases in the selling price of periodicals and newspapers” because of the higher cost of white paper. POTATO EMBARGO OFF. Agricultural Department Expects Canadian Crop To Lower Price. Washington. «The first step of the Department of Agriculture toward a policy expected to reduce prices on food staple was taken when the em. bargo on Canadian potatoes was or dered lifted. Shipments of potatoes, ft was explained, must be cortified be shippers to be as sound as mercially practicable and to contain no more than 10 per cent. of tubers showing traces of disease. [EUTON FORGES Rumania Campaign Notable Achievement. Marks Climax Of a Campaign Which Began August 27—Were Crushed In the German the Nutcracker, Bucharest, capital of Rou has been captured, it was oil ced important rallway junc northwest of Ba Roumanians Avoided Trap. f the Rou ju on eral V hrongt mn from doubt of the ultl loumanian capital Ten ren pre fate relentle PY. of assure of the mies, with their proved broken Dannbe the north artillery, Ferdinand's an front wa 5 A the of a an the line on fhe ckensen's advance Austiro- the mie by further through i umanians ha i cholee but back their and i forced to yield even upon the now have been that, Hold 50.000 Sguare Miles. taking of Bucharest irtualls the conquest by the Teun tonie forces of the southern section of the Roumanis kingdom, territory of more than 50,000 i miles, The berinning of the Teutonic cam paign Roumanian dates back to the Roumanian entrance in‘o the | war on August 27. Perhape taken by | surprize by the speed with which the Roumanians threw their troops across the Transylvania Alps into Hungary capital i The complet i in embracing Muar against | mannstadt and a wide sweep of Hun- | garian territory, the Ausgtro-German ifitary sn'horitier were awake to the opportunities in Dobrudia, on the Rou. | manian southeastern front. Within a {few days the Bulgarians were found {to be winning signal successes along { the Danube, capturing Turtukal on | “eptember 7 and Silistria on the 10th. There remained then the operation of EA ALL AA MOA TORPEDO-PROOF VESSELS, me New Battleships For U. 8, Navy Wil Be Practically invulnerable, Washington. Construction experts {at Washington have just completed ta which they declare demonstrate {that the new battleships will be prac | tically torpodi-proof. These tests have i nown that it will require 10 of the { nrpedoes now In use to destroy one | f the new droadnaughts, whereas the wdinary battleship mays now be de troyed by two well-placed shots. i clearing the remainder of Dobrudj: to the important railway rom the Plack Sea port of Consta into Roumania over bridge at Tchernavoda This Von omething running line interior Mackensen accomp more than a md Russo-Houmanian Ar i nth iat { in A ' defeating the and capturing off Buchare munication the rafilway ye cutting the nding 3 supplies into Crushed As This ace plis} Procoss Roumania In Nutcracker hed of crushing nutcracker Germans Roumaniang the were | frontler on the easily Hungary ped to hold Falkenhayn then accomplished, were appa began throug? hich it the R % #5 i od H looked In enter the Central Power fourth Entente « Apital war, King Albert and the Belgian Gov { ernment forced out of Brussels, and last King Peter of Serbia and King Nicholas of Montenegro were ng ier Of thedr n the were year isuccessively compelled to give up their {capitals to the Teutonic invaders {the process has been repeated in the cage of King Ferdinand of Roumania Bucharest Well Fortified. : Bucharest, before the | relegated old-fashioned fortifications to the scrap heap, was considered ex tremely well defended by its outlying i works, which comprised 18 fortifica- tions of the first ¢lass and many re [doubts and batteries. Aside | Paris, it was accounted probably the Now {capable of 200,000 men, accommodating AUSTRIA ASKED TO EXPLAIN. Penfield Instructed To Ask For Details Of the Chemung Disaster. Washington, — Secretary of State Lansing field In Vienna to “request” the Aus tro-Hungarian Foreign Office for an sxplanation of the sinking by an Aus. trian submarine of the American ‘teamer Chemung off the coast of Spain on November 26. The inquiry, ‘t was said, was preliminary to formal negotiations concerning the vessel and is not in itself final i FLAUNT BANNER IN PRESIDENTS FACE fully Planned Stunt. Goes On With His Speech, While a Page Pulls Down the Of- fensive Banner. Washington Wilson's marked by a in the galleries show of organized in capital—and great demonstration of congratulation to the President upon his re-election, n which joined with President Was suffrage first Woman the coup real a the by tepublicans the De . fad hi greeted his entry to the sident I Was Carefully Staged. fy x * ling of the ba: AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK, Crew Of John Lambert Arrives At New York. York The Lambert, listed in the Maritime Resis. ter as an American vessel, and sunk without warning off the lzle November 22 of the v New gleam in John was shelled by a Ger of Wight fo mem- man on bers rived according Americans, who ar here the Freneh line steam ship Espagne from Bordeaux he John Lamber!i was of the 12 sels which was built on the Great Lakes the Freneh line agreed to purchase. Accordingly to the arrivals the vessel had not yet been turned but was crew on one gen WANTS HIGHER SALARIES, Geodetic Survey. Washington Secretary Redfield presented to Congress a petition from employes of the Coast and Geodetic URGES PAPER EMBARGO. Kansas Congressman Inroduces Meas ure Providing Fines. Washington. —A bill designed. to place a two-year embargo on exporia print paper wae intro duved by Representative Campbell, of committee. Penalties ranging fron fines of $1,000 to $20,000 and imprison ment of not more than ten years would be provided by the measure. MAJORITY SAW FALLACY OF TAR. IFF “ARGUMENTS Republican Workers by False Statements of the Effect of Underwood Law Met Deserved Failure Attempt to Stampede the “mpl of the Republic the tarifY hie att &rs to eflectiy ing. ’ sult nents nae Of wight vhat of ie 3 Wor ariff law during the ten months inmediatels ceding the HEgnin they $4 a the sound judg ment of thinking t thelr dictions of a “devs ported men nn pre- flood” of ime Inunediately stating European goods after the Those Hrs Wer were ahs who read the t 4 ten months Uda. assertion that the Under- farrease” of closed thie in wood law a of n “enormous imported manufactured goods from such ten Yment could ng 1 Moo “a d. 3 MA Misrepresentation Rebuked. ae who expectet]l no flood of im soe that if one of the » foderad visions Hnping.” {lepublican a pitiable i « by gross corded facts h wellin- Cort Same O!d Republican Game. Why are the Republicans ¢rying se loudly for a : For SONOS. © calls sheer hig} First, the ab- ut the newshoy holler :” that never third, the desire the part of the high priests of privilege to re-establish the same old hocus-pocus at the same old stand, and tax the rest of us, at matter whet cost to national prosperity. thre therw of wh thin’ to financial Bourbonism, 114} ine, SY wd, “son learns never forgets: on no Benefit From Federal Reserve Act. Four years age “dollar exchange” was unknown in the foreign market, Today, thanks to the federal reserve act, it threatens to lead pounds, marks and francs in many fields, The Republican party is now faced with the necessity of securing some is- sues and training some candidates for future use, Democratic Opportunity. The Democratic members of the sen ate and house, familiar with the legis Intive situation and led by men skilled and experienced in the work of fa- cilitating the making of laws, cnn with entire dignity, order and decorum fal fill the promises of the Baltimore plat form of 1012 as well as those made at St. Louis this year. It took less than one week to make those promises, What a brilliant record it will be for the Democratic senate and house te give these promises the form of law during tho next three months!
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