Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 24, 1917, Page 3

PRETTY SOFT FOR INTERNED BOCHES Pienty of Food and Comforts in ~ North Carolina Camps. SUBE GERMANY 1S WINNIG Detained Officers and Seamen of Ger- “man “Merchant Ships Often Have Meat Twice a Day—No Alien Has to Work :Unless He. Pleases, and Then He 15 Paid—Find Variety of Ways of "Entertaining Themselves. When night falls on the camps at Hot, Springs, N. G\ mear Asheville, where 517 ofticers and 1,064 seamen of Gel{llnuu merchant ships are detwined hy,flm United States immigrant serv- ice, hooded Incandescents strung ou the: topmost strand of formidable hiifl,ed wire fences -throw their fuo- nels of Jiiglit inside the barvichde, the guerd being stationed in durkened, high perched sentry boxes. Lights sim- ilarly’ spring up.in the rooms of _the four-story hotel, where the captuins, mates and engineers of the big liners aré quartered. No sound comes from thése Teutonic cantonments—tliey give né more sign of life than Belgian vil- lages left in the wake of German armies. . :On the tracks burely outside the bar- Ticade trains begin to pass with silence- sh;’\th*rlug roars, great trains of 60 und %0 cars drawn by giant unioguls with flaming furnace doors—the aristoerats of ‘freights for whom all signal lights show clear ax they speed eustward to the Chesapeake ports with cargoes of grain, horses, lumber and machinery. “Those within the wire know what that rushing castward portends. Sure Germany ls. Winning. But no other mcssug‘e do they be- Teve, or, if they do, they concenl belief, ‘They read American newspapers, but tell the guards Germany is winning the war_and that it will be over in four months. They say the Awericans have never repaired the ship engines their nowlnterned crews disabled because 1t cannot be done in this country. Offi- cers of the great ship Vaterland say she has never left Hoboken docks. Differences between officers and men have sprung up and fears of forcible encounters made it necessury to estab- lish separate camps. The mien when they realized that they were freed from enforced obedience to their ofli- cers began to show increasing evidence of : resentment for past stict discl- pline, The officers were enraged at this Inoculation with American ideas. Some_of their men even showed friend- liness for the Americans! But talk does not lessen the vigi- lance of the fifty-two American guards working in three shifts. “They are Germans,” said a hatchet-faced guard with his hand on his holster. 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And then—" F 3 2 Conceaiments on-Those Cliffs. . “Then what?” he was asked. “Yes,” sald he, “What?” and looked again at the concealnents of the cliffs overlook- | ing the camp. The officers huve the udvantage of " the: men in the matter of quarters though the food is practically the sinmie, - The four-story hotel was leased by the government with its equipment of private baths, steam heat and fine furniture and surroundings of tennis courts, croquet -g®unds and big pool of naturally hot water. The men are housed in eight one-story wooden bar- rucks built for their use, euch: barrack 20 by 163 feet in size, with double- deckeil bunks, dheated by stoves and ,served: by (a detached shower bath house 14 by 50 feet, in the rear of each varrack. { i * German artisars did all the work of constructién, belng paid by the United’ alien there has to work uilless he wishs es, and If he does he is paid. One day’ all of them quit -work because they vesented the publication in a local newspaper that they were slow work- ers and had to be told how to do ev- erything. . | The Germans find a variety of ways of entertaining themselves. Some play tennis, others croquet, some bowl, some go- through a,_ semimilitary drill, and oéuch _camp’ has:its teain for playing what the guards call football. The ball is like a football, but it is not Kicked. It is. batted. with' the hand. For the men, the International Y. M. C. A. has established a clubhonse equipped wiltn tabies, reading matter, cames and a inoving picture outfit. An Amerfcan sceretary is ia charge. \/ork for ldle Hands. The ofticers have nearly completed a miniature German village by the riv- erside. The “houses” are tiny aifairs scarcely large enough to let a couple of their burly builders squeeze in, and much ingenuity and artistic design is shown in their rustic fashioning. Tree limbs, brokKén brick, stones, old carpet, flattened tin cans, all picked up in the hotel grounds, are the material used. The United States furnished nothing. Commodore Ruser, chief of the Vuter- 1and, built one of these tiny houses and is very proud of the little brick stove which heats it. When working ou their houses the officers seem to have shed their officialdom and appear as kindly, simple men. The common sea- men are bullding & similsr village. Whether the Germans are better fed than they should be is a matter of viewpoint. A guest of a fine Lotel would be dissatistied with the food the United States furnishes and expert chefs from the big liners prepare. On the other hand, there are many people who would be pleased to get high qual- ity western meat twice a day, as the Germans frequently do, with an abun- dance of vegetables, coffee, rye bread, butter, tea and stewed fruit. Steak s not unknown, although stews and roasts are more common. Local sentiment is somewhat stirred by the fact that the United. States ofD- States at the rate of $20 a month. No AUOR o APPRECIATION AND THE SEASONS (100 il 03 Ll —uenq o 29480 10 eberbaud 1o > 4 IPORTS UNAFFECTED BY U-BOAT WARFARE Figures for Ten-Month Period Show-0rily Slight P Falling Off. [ How little the submarine warfare has curtailed the exports from London to the United States since America de- clared war on Germany is seen in the official figures of the United States im- ports from the British capital. The figures for ten months ending with Oc- tober show a decrease of only $18,000,- 000, with a total of $115,390.471. Last year the figures for the similar period were $133,740,783. The principal articles imported from London and their value were: Rubber, $31,610,629; preclous stones, $15,609,- 466 ; tin, $8.852.856. The principal articles imported from London for the ten monfhs this year were: Rubbor, $30,770.603: precious ston.s, $15,435,59: in, $9,396,001; ars, $4.464.560 ; hide 034,372 furs, $5,- 434.870; tea, S7T47.058; Indigo $1,197,- 101 ; wool, $929,047. There is a slight imcrease in. the tmports of tin as compared with last year's fizures, a decrense of about $3.600,000 in art imports; the figure for If you were the only person in town that traded with mail order concerns—it would hurt some—but it wouldn’t paralyze the prosperity of the mwmunity. ~The greatest injury would be in the influence your out- of-town-trading-exerted over others. Other people might follow in your foot-steps of foreign' trading and that following would prove detrimental to honze business development and betterment of public welfare. Set a good example, Be a home buyer. Take pride in your community. ' Feel that money spent here at home is playing an important part in building up the town. Know that it buys the goods you want and goes towards some public good. That it helps increase the If w it was, 1 . A e R vt Tawon efficiency of schools—puts down befter street crossings—erects better by approximately $300.000, Indigo also libraries—brightens the town’s lights—makes the parks more attractive—pays shows a decrense amounting to more for better pOllce protectlon, etc. than $1.000.000. Tea shows the most notable falling off, the figures bheing $4,- 436,508 for the 1916 period and $747.-| Instead of fostering the mail order habit—fight it openly. Teach the truth of home trading. Preach home patronage. Show mail 058 for 1917. There was no tea or order buyers the error of their ways—and go out of your way to do it. wool imported from London last month. p__,___— _ Local merchants handle the highest grade merchan- = AT . dise. They carry advertised brands. They sell at a proper price—makes of goods that bear the stamp of honest manufacturers. They deal open-handedly. They don’t cover up questionable quality with private labels. They offer you the latest and most dependable lines—in all lines of merchandise. Their stores are conveniently at hand. You can reach them in a few short seconds—over the phone—or step right into their places of business— give or leave your order—and have the goods delivered straight to your home—all in a few minutes time. _ They willingly accommodate you. They take particular pains to give you just what you want right when you want it. You don’t have to buy in big quantities to save freight or express charges. You can spend less at a time—and save considerable sums in cash, to say nothing of the great saving of time and trouble, Advocate those advantages. Do mail order traders a good turn by turning them away from away-from-home buying —liven up local business, and by so doing speed the town along the road of progress. Spend your money where it will in turn be spent for local improvements instead of sending it away to fatten business and better conditions of other communities. Support the community that supports you. The Calumet Baking Powder Company paid for the preparation of this article. One of our fumous lecturers used to suy some people had three hands, a right hund and a left hand and a little behindhand. The tifth wheel to a cart is frequently mentioned as an example of uselessness, but the third hand i8 worse than useless, it is a serious handicap, observes a writer. All of us peed to keep our right hand busy, and most need to teach the left hand to do its share, but a little behindhand ; should be promptly amputated. clals ‘do not enforce the meatless and wheatless days which Mr.. Hoover urges on Americans. And criticism is directed because all purchases of food and selection of the daily menus are B made by one of the Germans them- selves. People ask what motive a Ger- man would have to conserve food for his country’s enemies. This agent is i D. Peinert, former purchasing agent in New York for the Hamburg-American line. Officials in charge of the camp de- fend Peinert’s selection on the ground that he is highly capable. They say that for months the per capita cost of raw food has been only 45 cents a day, and Insist that the hogs fed 0D |me—-——rrnono o ' SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PIONEER of short rations. They have no orders from Washington to enforce the Hoo- ver regulatioiis, they o<,