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THS WILLOW TIMES
KAISER DEFIES THE WOULD IN
CAREER OF FRIGHTFULNESS
151,000,000 FOR WESFEIIN MM LEADS
FORTIFICATIONS *s MT PR0DUCEB g
SERVES NOTICE ON PRESI-
DENT WILSON THAT ALL
SHIPPING IN WAR ZONE
WILL BE SUNK.
U. S. WILL STAND FIRM
ON PREVIOUS DEMANDS
I "From February 1, 1&17, within
N#w Policy, Which Went Into Effect burred tone* around Great Ilrltain.
February First, Believed to be
Desperate Final Effort to Break
Up the Allied Blockade of
German Food Supply
Washington—Germany haa declared
unrestricted submarine warfar
untiea; <! of number of ubm*riaes
which shs cjalnta to pw**u, to dfr <
liver blow* to bring Knglaad to bar ■
knots within slity daya. Une German
official here predicted the war would ,
be over In a month
Coove)ed to the world, aa her an- j
awer to the refuaal of the enients *
alllea to talk peace. Germany a latent 100 Enlisted Men To Be Appointed to
• Annapolis Every Year—Wilson
Again Vetoes Immigration
Literacy Test.
HOUSE PASSES ON ANOTHER
SECTION OF NATIONAL
, DEFENSE PROGRAM
NAVY ASKS FOR $351,172,592
urrs, net more I linn M reiils to ru las
u imiliH of mhi-ni in WiMiTii Canada.
ihni the profit inn he Ul«r«l ninirt|<
litgiy. ll luuel Iw riiiphii l***U lliat I he
which pPMlac** a >■'* •* «*rup rust*
the Ural ihm', probiibly lea* limn
III tlie Culled Wales til** «uinv
tiaea of laud would com! In ittany dla
S ■ INW IM IMIMI W VWIH "*• ••• W9W9W9WJ
342,000.000 Bushels Wheal In "•
1915: In 1916 Many Farm- """" """" M " wou"' "*
era Paid for Their Land
Out of Their Crop.
That Western Canada la Indeed
"Ml«lre a of Wltrll" to the extent lliat
Ita IUI.% rroji exceeded. acre for acre,
the |ir«Nluctlon of uny country on till
considered eiireuiely Ninlafnctory. In
Win tern i'ii nn «ln the lull cluae of ag-
liciiltiirnl limd. cn| nble « f producing
crops that lu si*e compare with uny
country In the world except, perhaps,
some Kuro|n*iin couulrlea. cun be ob-
talncd at, on the Averag*** from fin to
! ll i . r ni rc. with Irrlpii"! lund* -i n,.-
what higher. It In no exaggeration
• ~ ' ' , , • " (int liijjln-r. It la no I'xngKiTiiiiwli
^.tifln. nt I-ii striking fact proved '>' L,,r |u ^ M „U(lllM.r of
France. Italy and In the «-a*tern Med
literrancan all aea traffic forthwith
wilt be oppoaed."
Renewal and Extension of Blockade
It virtually la a renewal and an el-
tenalon of the celebrated blockade of
the flrltixh lalla proclaimed on Feb-
A starvation blockad of Knglund, ruary 4. 1915, and which became ef-
the like of which the world never haa
aeen. wax announced to the world In
fectlve
ihlpi
February 1ft, 191&.
sunk without
Under It
warning
• VM IV ItUlltl in 'r " '«•••• " • *"«••• "WI inns
notes delivered to American Minister 'until Germany abandoned the practice
Gerard in IJerlln and to the *tat«* do- !,"d gave her assurances, in the Sus-
partmcnt here by Count von Herns-: >•<•* ' to abide by International
torff. j law. The Lualtania. Falabu and scores
Thus begins the long feared cam- ! "f other ship* were sunk under the
paign of ruthlessness conceived by ■ dccree.
von Ilindenbtirg. which Is expected to! American citizens and American
take on a magnitude never even con- ship* are warned from entering tha
templnted by von Tlrpltz.
Again the United State* faces sev-
erance of diplomatic relations with
all its eventual possibilities. Presi-
war zones, although certain precau
tionary measures are suggested for dis-
tinguishing American steamers not
carrying contraband according to tha
the follow iiiif figures:
In ll l," the l oiiilulon of Canada pro
iIiicihI 376,0111>.ixk> buahela of wheat,
which represented an average1 yield of
I!0 bushels to the acre. The United
Spates products! 1,01 l,fi i."..<im bushels,
yield of 17 buahda j er acre. The only
aertous competitor* in wheat produc-
tion in South America were Argentine,
with 178,22!,0(i6 bushela, or lea*than
l- buahela per acre, and Chile, with
Waalnghton.—The administration
$HOO.OOO.OOO defense budget began to
take flnal ahape in congresa when the
house paasfMl the fortifications bill
carrying a total of more than fr.l.ooo.-
000 for coast defenses and the house
naval committee completed 1ta 1918
naral appropriation bill with a total
of more than f36I.000.000. | 7 V
Tl„ ..... . . .... ,, IU.000,000 buahela or 1J bliahela per I
The army appropriations bill, the ^ ti
The three Western Ciuuidlnn pnilrle
provinces of Mnnltolm, Saskatchewan
and Alberta produced between them
342,000.01X1 buahela out of the total Cn-
nudian 876,000,000 bushela. It will ^ie I
seen, therefore, that, outalde of the j
United Statea, Western Cunudu pro-
Western Cauudhiu farniera have paid
for their liiud entirely from the pro-
mila of liiat year's crpp. mid thta In-
dudes men who last yen!1 begun for tho
llrat time.—Advertlaement.
No Danger.
Klin—I have a mind of my own.
Stella—Doat worry about anybody
laying claliu to It.
dent Wilson's repeated w arnings of j German list. Theae conditions in al
"a world afire" and Secretary Lan- most the same form were rejected
sings "verge of war' statement arc when proposed by Germany early in
being recalled In the capital with feel- the negotiations over the Lusltania.
inga of apprehension and misgiving, j At that time, Germany proposed to
third elemenf of the program, still la
In the house military committee which
is expected to complete It next week.
Katlmates for the army reach a total
of more than $360,000,000 exclu«lve of
numerous deficiency measures re-
sulting from the border mobilization
and the rising cost of war materials.
Only One Bill Ponding.
The only military legislation pend
ing is the universal service bill be
fore a senate sub-committee which
will conclude its hearing this week.
It is not expected that congress will
duced considerably more than the com- j0 «ir|. hparfarhp «nnr stnrrmrh
blned production of North and South N0 ®'CK neaflaCne, SOUr SlOmacn,
biliousness or constipation
THE SITUATION.
Germany has announced a campaign of unrestricted sea warfare,
in the hope of starving Great Britain, and has warned the United
8tates and other neutrals to keep their ships from restricted zones sur-
rounding England and France. This action is taken in the face of
the declaration of the United States in its note on the sinking of the
Sussex that unless the German government abandons its "submarine
warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the United
States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations alto-
gether." Germany is reported to have prepared for such a step.
The first day of the new regime saw ten small British vessels
sent to the bottom with the loss of eigth lives.
The Spanish government served notice at once that traffic with
the Allies would continue, under convoy of Spanish warships if
necessary. An extraordinary session of the Danish parliament was
called immediately after publication of the note.
America. Canada is of course a new-
settled country, and the fact that the
crop of the United States was practi-
cally three times as much is no dis-
couragement. The United States has
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box now.
Turn the rascals out—the headache.
take any action on the universal train- ^^ement. ine united Mutes nns Turn the rascals out-the headache,
ing bli at tbis session | Present more thun twelve times the , biliousness, indigestion, the sick, sour
The naval bill carries
Immediately upon receipt of <the*j guarantee immunity from attack to
note, the President and Secretary I certain specific passenger ships sail-
Lansing went into a long confeernce
after which a note was written, for
dispatcji to the German government,
its contents were not known to even
the members of the cabinet and the
utmost secrecy prevails. The opinion
of those in a position to judge is that
the probable tenor of the note is that
the carrying out of the proposed pol-
icy of terror will be the signal for
handing his passports of Count von
Bernstorff, the German ambassador
and the recall of the American am
bassador. Mr. Gerard. It will further
more defy interference with Ameri-
can shipping.
United States Faces Super-Crisis
Germany's action is the super-crisis
of all that have stirred the Ameri
can government in two and a half
years of world war.
On almost every side, Germany's
drastic action is interpreted as an
open confession of the effectiveness
of the British food blockade. It is
regarded as a determination to strike
hack In kind.
German officials estimate the food
supply on the British isles will last a
month.
Admittedly the plan Is to carry
starvation to the doors of England,
with swift staggering strokes as a ful-
fillment of Germany's announced de-
termination to use every weapon and
agency at her command to end the
war quickly.
She counts on the operations of an
ing on prescribed courses with agreed
distinguishing marks and carrying no
contraband. President Wilson repect
ed the proposal promptly on the
ground that the United Statos was
contending only for its rights.
Threatened in Note on Suscex.
The new German note brushes aside
all the perplexing collateral issues
which have surrounded the submarine
controversy and brings it back to the
point where it was left at the conclua
ion of the Sussex case.
The new decision is exactly the one
forecast wnen the Sussex negotiations
were closed.
In the note oonveying her pledges
to keep submarine activities within
international law, Germany included
threat of resumption if the United
States did not succeed in lifting BrU
isli restrictlons-on commerce to Ger
many and the European neutrals and
the United States in reply expressly
warned Germany that her pledges
must be absolutely unconditional.
500 Submarines Ready.
From German quarters came the
information that Germany now has
from 300 to 500 submarines ready for
the campaign.
Unrestricted submarine warfare, it
was declared, was determined upon as
soon as the nature of the entente re-
ply to President Wilson's note became
known and before the president's ad-
dress to the senate.
INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS MAY ATTEMPT FLIGHT
The port of New York is now sealed would be taken if any international
at night by order oi Dudley Field Ma situation should arise under which the
lone, collector of the port. Vessels of
every description, including tugboats,
are turned back at quarantine by the
(torpedo Doats stationed there to pro-
tect the neutrality of the United
States.
While there was no apparent basis
crews or agents of the steamers might
desire to destroy their own vessels.
a total of
$351,433,245 as against $313,000,000
last year, and provides for the con
struction of three 42,000-ton battle-
ships at a fotal cost of $28,178,592
each; one battle cruiser at a cost of
$26,694,496; three scout cruisers at
$6,746,145 each; fifteen destroyers at
$1,748,612 each; one desfroyer tender
at $2,808,000; one submarine tender
at $2,199,400, and eighteen 800-ton
type submarines at $1,434,093 each.
The program is that recommended by
the department and represents one-
half of the remaining portion of the
three-year progran\ approved last
year. ^
Large Submarines Needed
The committee departed from the
department's recommendation only in
the type of submarines provided for.
No small coast defense submersibles
are atfthorized, the committee having
decided against the small 400 to 600
ton type of boat, such as those now in
service.
Taking up the program of getting
under construction the four battle
cruisers authorized last year, the com-
mittee raised the limit of cost for the
hull and machinery to $19,000,000
from $16,500,000. Department of-
ficials believe all four vessels can be
placed with private bidders at that fig-
ure. The committee also heeded, how-
ever, Secretary Daniel's recommenda-
tions that navy yards be fitted to build
large numbers of capital ships, author-
izing the expenditure of an additional
$12,000,000 for that purpose, in the
event the department
* —v"v > v j uihvuoiivoo, luui^cnuuii, ruiu
population of Canada in approximately •• stomach and foul gases—turn them
the same area. out to-night and keep them out with
To Illustrate further the greater pro- , Cascarets.
ductiveness of Western Canadian land,
we submit the following figures, show-
ing the 1915 yields per acre in the
three provinces of Western Canada
and In the states which in that year
produced the greatest quantity of
wheat. The figures are taken from the
U. S. department of agriculture's an-
nual report und from the figures of the
Dominion census bureau:
Bushels per
acre 1915
All Canada ....29
Western Canada only 291-5
Province of Manitoba 28 4-5
Province of Saskatchewan 281-2
Prov-ince of Alberta .32 4-5
United States, all ...v.17
Montana .26 1-2
Washington ; 251-5
Wisconsin ... .■ .22 3-4
Ohio 20 2-5
Iowa 194.5
Illinois 19
Pennsylvania 181-2
Nebraska 18 2-5
North Dakota 181-5
Indiana 171-5
South Dakota 171-10
Minnesota 17
Texas 151.2
Virginia 134-5
Kansas 12 1-2
Missouri 12 3-10
OklahdTna 113-5
In 191G the crop was not as heavy,
but the yields in many districts were
very large. So large, indeed, was the
Millions of men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver, clogged bowels or an upset stom-
ach.
Don't put in another dny of distress.
Let Cascarets cleanse your stomach;
| remove the sour fermenting food;
take the excess bile from your liver
and carry out all the constipated
waste matter and poison In the^
bowels. Then you will feel great.
A Cascaret to-night fetr-aightens you
out by morning. They work while
you sleep. A 10-cent box from
any drug store means a clear head,
sweet stomach and clean, healthy liver
and bowel action for months. Chil-
d?en love Cascarets because they
never gripe or sicken. Adv.
And it sometimes comes to pass that
after a inan has made his mark he
acquires a wife who insists on his toe-
ing it.
is unable to
make satisfactory contracts for any I %ery large- ,arSe. indeed, was the
vessel in the present bill or left ov§r I acreage under Ovation in 1915 that
from the preceding measure. This
One Scuttled at Charleston.
Charleston, S. C.,—The German
....... u,... w .Pr..vUl freighter Leibenfels of the Hansa line
for the belief that such drastic action ; slowly sunk in the harbor here, and
resulted irom information that one or marine men believe she had been scut-
more of the great German liners in- tied. This belief seemed to be borne
terned at Hoboken was preparing to out by the fact that the captain de
make a dash for the open sea. yet1 dined the aid of tugs.
such an attempt is considered poasi-; No explanation was given Captain
ble. i Lock wood of the tug Cecelia, when
Twenty-four steamships, some of. the officers told him that bis help
them the largest in the world, owned not wanted.
t>y German interests, are tied up at Five German and Austrian ships
piers on the New Jersey side of the are in the harbor at New Orleans,
Hudson rtrer. while three Austrian watched closely by port officials; a having failed in the boui
Tees*!*' were docked at Brooklyn piers, guard was detailed at Jacksonville J taken bv the senate
All of tbem have been under con-j to watch the interned German ship
stant surveillance of United State* Frieda Leonbardt. two German ves-
agents to prevent any violation of neu-'sels are at Newport News In addition
*—'to the Appam. claimed by both BrU
would make available a total of $18,-
000,000 for equipping navy yards.*
Appointments Increased.
For the three scout, cruisers still
awaiting satisfactory bids, the com-
mittee raised the cosf for hull and ma-
chinery to $6,000,000 from $5,000,000.
Another new provision of the bill
raises the number of appointments an-
nually at Annapolis to be made from
the enlisted personnel of the navy
from 25 to 100. Appointments may be
made whenever vacancies occur.
The new battleships will be the
most powerful war vessels ever built.
They will have a speed of 23 knots an
hour and carry main batteries of
twelve 16-inch guns each instead of
the eight 16-inch guns on the four au-
thorized last year.
Literacy Test Vetoed Again.
President Wilson vetoed the immi-
gration bill, passed i^centlv by con-
gress, on account of its literacy test
provision.
It was the second time that Presi-
dent Wilson had vetoed an immigra-
tion bill because of the literacy test,
and for the same reason simPar meas-
ures were given vetoes by Pi^sidents
Taft and Cleveland. ,
May Override Veto.
When the message was read In the
house It was ordered to lie on the
table and champions of the bill began
laying their plans for an effort to over-
-ride the veto. Two years ago the
house lacked only four votes of the
necessary two-thirds majority to pass
the bill over the Teto. The attempt
having faile4 in the bouse, no action
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF
HAIR STOPS FALUNS
Girls! Try Thisl Makes Hair Thick,
Glossy, Fluffy, Beautiful—No
More Itching Scalp.
trality i„ —
It baa been understood since the be Ub and Germans, and an Austrian >t>
finning of the war tbat prompt acttoa i sal la Interned at Taupa.
When President Taft vetoed a simi-
lar measure because of the literacy
test the senate succeeded in overrld
ing him by more than a two-thirds ma-
jority. but the bouse fell abort about
a dozen votes.
the resulting crop proved too large to
be all threshed the same fall. It over-
loaded railroads, and made marketing
slow. A less amount of fall plowing
was done than would have been done
In a less heavy year, because the aver-
age farmer was too busy with his
threshing. All these conditions neces-
sarily reacted upon the acreage
seeded In the spring of 1916. Add to
this that labor last year, owing to the
great number of Canadians who have
enlisted, was scarce and high-priced,
and one factor in the decreased yield-
smaller acreage under crop was evi-
dent.
Another factor is that this year
Western Canada* has experienced', In
common with the entire North Ameri-
can continent, conditions that have
been less favorable to the production
of big crops. The conditions have re-
sulted in smaller yield per acre and
reduced grade of grain in certain local-
ities.
The average yield of wheat in the
three western provinces Is estimated
by the government at about lfi bushels
per acre, oats 43 bushels, and barley
27 bushels.
The financial value of their crops to
Western Canadian farmers has been
greater this year than ever before. AVOID A DOrTrtR'4 RILL
Owing to the high prices of grain that on the first of the month bv taking
are prevailing, returns have been re- now a bottle of Mansfield Cough Bal-
celved that are extremely profitable. 98,11 that hacking, hollow cough.
With wheat standing at the present i>rlce and "50c.—Ad^
time at over $1.90 per bushel at the
Within ten minutes after an appli*
cation of Danderine you cannot find a
single trace of dandruff or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most will be after a
few weeks' use, when you see new
hair, fine and downy at first—yes—but
really new hair—growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine immediately dou-
bles the beauty of your hair. No dif-
ference how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy, just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is amaz-
ing—your hair will be light, fluffy and
wTavy, and have an appearance of
abundance; an incomparable luster,
softness and luxuriance.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and prove
that your hair Is as pretty and soft
as any—that it has been neglected or
Injured by careless treatment—that's
all—you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots of it If you will just try a lit-
tle Danderine. Adv.
Professional Announcement.
Mrs. Knicker—What is jour trade?
Weary Willie—I'm a diet squad,
mum.—New York Sun.
Gr at Jjtkes. a wheat crop at present
figures would pay the farmer. eTen
supposing he had only the average of
16 bushels per acre, over KklOO per
sere. A large number are receiving
J^00 f**r sere—some hare received
*75.00. and a few even upire than that.
This price of course. Is not all profit;
tt represents the gross return, and the
««st of operation must be deducted.
mU It does not, eves st Us bighsst flg
Doomed.
"I wrote this poem to kill time."
"Well, you may be sure that time
will have revenge and kill the poem."
Dr. Pierre's Favorite Preseriptios makes
Philadelphia cleanup week cost tfcs
taxpayers $12,000 for disposing of t%-
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