10 BARUCH WILL CO-ORDINATE ALL I WAR EFFORTS Purchases by All Departments to Be Dictated by the New Chief Washington, April s.—President dustries board, headed by Bernard M. Baruch, the co-ordination of America's efforts toward winning the ■war. The power conferred upon the hoard, and which of necessity must center largely in the chairman, rep resents the most revolutionary step taken by the government since the United States entered the war. The vast war program cannot be carried out without vitally affecting many of the normal activities of civil life, and consequently Mr. Baruch's board eventually must come to deal! with the every-day affairs of the or dinary citizen, as well as to super vise the expenditure of the vast bil lions of dollars that now make up the American war budget. If price-fixing is to become neces sary the Baruch board will make the scales, and the scheme easily may go even to the extreme of standardizing the quality and cost of such things as wearing apparel and footwear. It is merely a ques tion of the war lasting a year or two longer to bring about the most rad ical changes in the life of a nation the world has ever known, taking Into consideration the standard of American living. Not only will {lie war industries hoard direct all the affairs of America in the purchase of ma terials and the manufacture of sup plies, but Mr. Baruch in his capacity as buying representative of the En tente governments is vested with an influence which will reach around the globe. Already steps have taken to pool the world's supply of certain commodities, and in some in stances one man has been designated to supervise the purchasing of an entire world output. Enforces "I'nity ol' 'Command" In brief, the American govern ment is putting into effect in this country, and in association with the Allies is putting into effect through out that part of the world not con trolled by the Central Powers, a "unity of command" with regard to the means for carrying on the war, which can be compared to the recent appointment of General Foch as di rector of all the Allied and Ameri can military forces on the western front. As indicated in dispatches last night, it long has been apparent here that some step should be taken to balance the wants, the require ments and the plans of the various government departments charged Why Germany Lost In World's Greatest Battle "We are at the decisive moment of the war," declared the Kaisef on' March 21st as he launched his tremendous armies against fifty miles of the Allied front in France in the greatest battle of this or any war; and on the same day he declared that " the prize of victory must not and will not fail us," and announced warningly that this price "was no soft peace but one which corresponds with Ger many's interests." A week later, when the first impetus of the colossal onslaught had made a dent twenty-five miles deep in the bending but unbroken battleline of the Allies, General von Ludendorf, who is said to be the brains of the German General Staff, announced "that victory has been won," and added significantly, "but nobody can see what will result from it." But victory was not won, as the best informed war-writers everywhere remind him. '"So long as the battle ends, as there is every prospect that it. will end, with our armies and those of our Allies intact and in a position as strong as they have ever occupied, Germany will have failed and failed decisively," declares Major General McLachlan, Military Attache to the British Embassy at Wash ington. . I lie leading article in IHL LI rLRARY DIGEST for April 6tli deals with flic terrific engagements that are raging on the Western front in France. It summarizes public opinion from all quarters on tlie results to date and *on the ultimate outcome. Other articles of very great interest arc: What America Has Done In Its First Year in the War The Literary Digest Has Made an Impartial Investigation of What Has Been Accomplished by the Various Depart ments at Washington and the Result Is Presented In a Derailed and Stirring Article In This Week's Issue Is Our Aircraft Program Lagging? Shipyards Gaining on the U-boat All England on Rations Ireland Drifting Into Anarchy German Press Raging at President Wilson How to Plan School, Community and Reclaiming Our Manpower For War Home Gardens HA I • .1 A . r c .I r J (Prepared by the U. S. Food Administration) Making the Autos Pay For the Roads Effect of War on the Next Generation Handling Coal as a Fluid Supplying Candy For the Soldiers Books Wanted "Over There" Schubert and Schumann Saved to Us Pictures of England's War-Work Kaiserizing the Public Schools Russia's New Gods The Million-and-a-Half at the Church Door The Book of Job on the Stage Important News of Finance and Commerce A Full-page Map of Western Front and an Unusually Fine Collection of Illustrations Where to Obtain FACTS to Refute Enemy Propaganda / "How much have we done in the War and how well," the Aircraft Board has done; activities of our coast is answered this week to the satisfaction of every pa- artillery; the gratifying progress of our navy step bv tnotic American in the article describing the activities step; how our sailors are clothed and fed - the extent of of the various departments of the Government. our wireless operations; mobilization of the Marine Corns This exclusive and authoritative survey will thrill and and the Naval Reserve; how the State Department is hearten every reader. The article describes the im- conducting war business; how war expenses are bein~ mense additions that have been made to our army; the met; what is being done by the War Shipping Board bv ceaseless activity in the Ordnance Department in the pro- the Food and Fuel Administration Bureaus etc In fac r duction of munitions of war; how the Quartermaster Corps all the principal departments of the Government have is working out the transportation of men and material; been investigated. This information will effectually how our soldier boys are fed; how supplies are bought and refute enemy propaganda designed to weaken our war by whom ; how the health of our soldiers is guarded; what efforts. April 6th Number on Sale Today—All News-dealers—lo Cents © literary Digest A FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY (Publisher# of the Famous NEW Standard Dictionary), NEW YORK FRIDAY EVENING. with war activities. If they were permitted to run along individual and uncontrolled lines, it easily was a matter of the very near future when the various war boards and departments would have programs 1 of production which in the aggregate would have represented more than the entire country could produce. The war boards were threatening to ! go to an extent that would snuff out the essentials of life to the civilian population—to say nothing of put ting the cost of living entirely out of the reach of nine-tenths of the people. . Out of this impossible situation is to come a co-ordination which will mean that the necessities of the great civilian population will be safeguarded, even to the extent of fixing prices on every commodity that enters into one's daily life, if some voluntary agreement cannot be reached with the-manufacturers who have taken advantage of the war to increase prices far beyond any legiti mate demand of the times. Year's Work Is Reviewed by Missionary Society The Woman's Foreign Missionary 'Society of the Carlisle Presbytery, Mrs. AVilliam Jennings, president, meeting at Paxton Presbyterian [Church, Paxtang, closed its forty llrst annual convention this after noon after one of the most, inter esting sessions in its log history. The day was taken up for the most part with reports from various secre taries, Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker, foreign secretary; Mrs. Gilbert Swope, home secretary; Miss Anna Miller, Christian Endeavor; Miss Winifred Wood, Young People's So ciety. An interesting feature was the address of Miss Lois Fair on a "Year's Work For Missions." This afternoon memorial services were held for Mrs. Herr. A notable part of the program was the talk of the Rev. Dr. W. S. Wandless, missionary to India, who told graphic narratives of his long service in that country as a medical missionary. So great was the de mand for aid that he had as many i as twenty-five operations for eye cataract in one day. The convention attracted more than one hundred edelegates. Man and Woman Arrested For Robbing Jewelry Store John Chappie, who says he lives In Chicago, and Emma Arder were ar-' rested last night for the alleged rob bery of the Caplan jewelry store at £(■6 Mafket street, where $3,000 worth of jewelry Is said to have been stol en. The sale of a valuable brooch in a Steelton barroom for $3 gave de tectives their — first clue to the iden tity of the alleged thieves. Chappie declared lie was used as a "stool," selling the loot for an other man. Tlie woman refused to talk. They will be given hearings to-day. BERLIN STIRRED OVER SCANDAL IN HIGH PLACES Girl Born in Stroudsburg, Pa., Figures in Suit Against Bernstorff By Associated Press Amntcrdnni, April s.—Berlin society is much stirred by a suit for libel against Count .Gunther von Bern storff, son of th(\ former German Am bassador to the United States, by Baron Walter von Radeck, a member of an old Prussian military family, who lived for many 'years in Eng land. Count Gunther's wife, Who was Mrs. Marguerite Vivian Burton Thom ason, of Burlington, N. J., and sev eral others, including the wife of one of the generals commanding an army dn the western front, also are de fendants in. the suit. Baron von Radeck and his wife, according to the Rhenische West lalische Zeitung. were divorced in October, 1917, and subsequently she married Count von Bernstorff. The result was a physical encoun ter .betuVeen the two men, In which von Radeck tore the epaulettes from von Bernstbrlf's uniform. Thereupon von Bernstorff declared that von Ra deck wjs not capable of giving sat isfaction as a gentleman and he charged von Radeck with spying for England. This resulted in von Radeck leav ing the army and von Bernstorff be ing punished by a military court. The Baron now charges that von Bernstorff, with fourteen others, caused his divorce and dismissal form the army by circulating untruthful reports. Count Christian Gunther von Bern storff and Mrs. Thomason were mar ried December 8. He is 2G years old and in 1913 was a clerk in the of fices of Speyer & Company, New York bankers. He entered the German diplomatic service shortly after the outbreak of the war. Countess von Bernstorff is about 30 years old. Her first husband was an American, from whom she was divorced, after which she married Baron von Radeck. She was born in Stroudsburg, Pa., of English parents, and was adopted by E. J. Tliomason, of Burlington, N. J. After her first ir.airiage she met Baron von Radeck in New York and they were married in London in 1911. Two years later she filed suit for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty and the case drag ged on until last October. Four years ago the Countess fell heir to an estate of SIOO,OOO from her foster mother. Baron von Radeck was formerly an attache of the German embassy in London. His father was a general in the German army. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! NINE BILLIONS COSTTOU.S.FOR ONE YEAR OF WAR Allies Received More Than One-Half of the Total Amount Waxlilngton, April s.—Nine billion dollars is the approximate cost to the United States of one year of war. More than one-half has gone in loans to Allies and will be repaid Eventually; over one-third lias been spent for the Army and military es tablishment, one-tenth for the Navy and one-fifteenth for shipbuilding:. Just one-sixth of this big war cost lias been raised by taxation and oth er ordinary sources of revenue, and the balance has come from sale of Liberty Bonds and certificates of in debtedness. Enormous as these war expendi tures may seem to a country whoso Government in peace times cost be tween $700,000,0H0 and $800,000,000, they are less than Great Britain's and are only about two-thirds of es timates made by officials less than a year ago. Slow progress of the shipbuilding program and the retard ing of the outpouring of war sup plies are regarded by officials as the chief reasons why expenses did not equal estimates. Government expenses now are run- ARTFUL DODGER | ; HAS NO CHANCE j Put a few drops on that old I touchy corn then lift it j out without pain Ouch !?!?!! ThiiT'klnd "of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the simple advice of this Cincinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called free zone when applied to a tender, ach ing corn stops soreness at once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts right out without pain. A delightful sur prise awaits all who try this. He says freezone is a sticky sub stance whiclt dries immediately and never inflames or even irritates the surrounding tissues or skin. A quar ter of an ounce of freezone •wjilcli will cost very little at any drug store, is said to be sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one's feet. Millions of Amer ican women will welcome this an nouncement since the inauguration of the high heels. —Adv. ning about a billion dollars a month, with somtewhat less than half going to the Allies, who spent the greater part of their loans for war supplies in this country. Since the declaration of war. 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Ordinary expenditures, under which the Treasury classifies a!! outlays for operation of the governmental ma chinery and war enterprises, since the declaration of war have been ap proximately *5,084,000,000. Actual payments to Allies amounted to about $4,743,000,000. APRIL 5, 1918. Income from internal revenue, most! of which is represented by war taxes, and from customs and miscellaneous sourcos, was run \p to about $1,535,- 000,000 and the two Liberty Loans have brought to the Treasury a lit tle loss than $5,800,000,000. SmaU collections from War Savings and Thrift Stamps in the last four months amount* to $140,000,000. Absolutely Nothing Better than Cuticura for Baby s Tender Skin Soap 25c. Ointmaat 25 and 50c.
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