The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 29, 1917, Page 6

t : FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS FRECKLES fMfUST HAVE BEEN READING THE FOOD CON- SERVATION ADS. By Blosser SQUIRREL FOOD A DAY DREAM YOUNG FELLERS HAVE. By Ahern CHESTNUT CHARLIE By Blosser GEE! WOULONT wT BE SWELL \F IT SNOWED FOR & MONTH AN’ CovERED UP TW’ HOUSES ’N EVERYTHING | BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE GOOD NORNING, MISSUS., DAVIS ~ D-DOR'T YUH WANT T! FELLA 'T’ FEET DEEP ONLY Tw’ CHIMBLNS OF “Ww HOUSES snickin’ up! WIRE A Weep TH 2 Joee! Weres W’ DARNED OLD SCHOOL SNOWED UNDER UP Gee I'M Gad! WHY, HOW CouLD A LITTLE “BOY. LIKE Nou KEEP TRAMPS WALKIN’ ALL AROUN' “THESE ' SNOW TUNNELS | \ KIN EAT ALL TH DIE SATURDAY, DEC. 29, 1917. uP AND CAKE AN' THINGS 2 JUST LIKE A RABBIT CRAWLING DOWN HOME— GOSH isa circus! x SN Jerome! HURRY UP AND GET THAT WALK CLEANED OFF ‘To THE ———s—— ui © 160T ALITTLE IN THE SHAPE OF TREAT FoR You A BUM - THE AL x To- DAY’ ORGINAL NOT FRY o—— CRACKER! “TWA'S MES NATZA! ITTLE QUESTION E~ © Why ARE FIXED STARS LIKE WICKED OLD MEN? wry aw Mune ie ee = BECAUSE TIWEY SIN-TILL-LATE $5 Gentutate) (2 MEAT MAGNATES DOMINATE TRADE | PEACE PROPOSED’ PROM THE BEEF ON BLOCK 10 THE |BY HUN AND RED: HAIR AND HIDE FIRMLY REFUSED in] weré, making business nearly unbear- ‘| able for the small butcher. ' LAST REMNANT OF Senate Inquiry’ in | Session Boston Uncovers Ironclad Trust Conditions. COMBINE TAKES ALL IN SIGHT Pressure on Small Dealers Make Them Shut Uo Shop Un- less They Give In. Loston, Mass.,° Dec. 29.—Packers squeezing of small dealers out of: Many of the witnesses heard today gave their versions of being driven out of business by what they termed the “trust”, or Of getting into the com- bine in order to live. Two of the wit- nesses enlivened the session by voic- ing their‘ defiance to the packers. John Glennie of North Andover, a man of the rugged type, stated that he had refused an offer of $250,000 for his plant, which, according to his own estimate, was not worth more than $35,000. | Big Offer For Plant. competition by the alleged grasp of! This offer was made, he said, when the big packers upon the meat, ren-; the “trust” tried to put him out of dering, soap and fertilizer industries business. They resorted first to the of the country, was depicted by wit-, usual methods he said, of bidding up nesses Friday before the federal trade | Prices for raw materials, by hiring commission, which has transferred its @W4Y his men and by “leasing” away hearings into the meat industry and its relation to the high cost of living! temporarily to this city. Francis J. Heney, special counsel for the commission, said the packers controlled the rendering business from its collection of butcher waste to the manufacture of valuable by-products. By their methods of gaining control of meat scraps, fat and bones, he add- ed, the commission sought to show that the man who bought a steak.or a roast paid an unnecessarily high price for his dinner. Competition Killed. Witnesses engaged in the render. ing business asserted that the pack- ers stifled competion for the collec: tion of waste products by bidding up prices beyond the reach of the inde- pendent dealers, by resorting to the scheming of giving short weight for refuse, by giving bonuses to retailers, to break contracts with competing rendering firms, by fomenting agita- tions against the erection of new com- Petiting rendering plants and by di- viding territory among themselves by gentlemen’s agreement in which the trade of a man opening a new butcher shop was sold to the highest bidder, transactions in which the butcher had nothing to say. In New England. it Was testified rendering companies which were trust controlled main- tained a fund to pay bonuses for the trade of retailers at points where in- dependent rendering companies -tried. to compete. Corner Stores Held Up. his customers by the bonus system. “Finally,” he said, “a representative of the combine came to me and said that sympathetically he was sorry, but if I persisted in being stubborn it would be necessary to put me out of business, much as the members of the combine hated to do it.” “And you persisted?” Heney. “I went into their own territory after their business,” Glennie replied.) Able to Make Living. “Even at the prices they boosted up, I was able to make a living. I did much of the work myself and knew what my men were doing. I didn’t have the heavy overhead expense of ‘the combine.” “No expensive attorneys -for stance?” smiled Mr. Heney. “Not much,” answered the witness. “But do you mean to say,” inter- posed Commissioner Victor H. Mur: |dock, who presided, “that you refused the difference between $25,000 and $250,000 for the sake of a fight?” “L was out to earn a living,” Glen- ie.said, “and if it is necessary to fight ifor it, I'll fight. I built my business up with my own hands, and I won't have it hought away from me by any such methods as that. What I get, I'll earn and I won't live on easy money.” Glennie said he was willing to fore- | 80 profits during the war, as a method | of “doing his hit.” i asked Mr. in- If your stomach's wrong, have in- digestion, don’t relish food, appetite Not only the rendering business but ' gone, feed heavy, brain dull, bowels éven the corner store trade in meats not regular, liver torpid, kidneys not was sought by the packers, witnesses acting right, can’t sleep well, out of declared. Large markets were estab-'sorts generally—you need Hollister’s British Workingmen Pronounce Strongly for Continuing War for Democracy. BRITISH AND FRENCH FIRM| Lloyd George and French Prime Minister Agree Fully: with President Wilson. London, Dec. 29.—The Austro-Ger- man peace proposals to Russia are only the opening gun-in an elaborate peace campaign by the central pow- ers, is the belief expressed here. It is likely that the next step by Germany, according to well informed London opinion, will be a direct proposal to the allies, either through the Vatican or a neutral power. AMERICAN WAR AIMS. Set Forth by Letter to Pope and Message. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—Amer-. ica’s war aims are regarded by the administration as having been suffic- iently disclosed in President Wilson’s reply to the pope’s last peace propos- al and in his recent message to con- gress. Consequently unless there are further developments in the peace pro- paganda set afoot by the Germans and ‘Austrians through their negotiations with the Russian Bolsheviki, there is, no intention on the part of the Unit- ed States government of attempting to elaborate or expound . the state-, ments of American purpose laid down in those documents. It is fully understood in Washington. that there may be internal reasons in entente countries for making some concessions to certain powerful polit- ical elements which are pressing for another statement of the entente’s war aims. These considerations will be weighed and acted upon in the discretion of the government of those countries. | The decision involved is regarded of great importance because of the posibility that divergent statements might afford the German plotters op- portunity to weaken the ties that bind the allies together. TERMS NOT SUFFICIENT ee ‘ Great Britain and France Act With Great Britain and France, .respec- tively, though the prime minister and lished in strategic positions in various large cities where packers named the price at which meats could be sold at retail, according to testimony. These Prices were said to be below that at which the small retailer could sell. As a result, it was said, the neighbor- hood butchers were closing up their shops in ever-increasing numbers be- cause customers were drawn to the larger stores. Witneses named the Mohican company, which has a chain of stores throughout New England, as a specific instances of this kind. Thus, Mr. Heney pointed out, the packers controlled the entire field of ‘the country’s meat business. At the ‘Washington hearing, it was brought out, he said, that they controlled the stock yards and the extensive termin- al facilities in Chicago. ‘Small Men Crowded Out. Now it was shown, by-products from he continued, committee Friday. The telegram says: that they also controlled the valuable butcher-waste and from Massachusetts cities and town | President Wilson. | Rocky Mountain Tea. That's all. BRESLOW’S. Let.us place you on our regular Sun- day service. Circulation Depart: ment 32 HALIFAX STILL NEEDS MONEY FOR THE RELIEF OF DISASTER VICTIMS BUT HAS CLOTHING AND FOOD IN AMPLE QUANTITY Boston, Mass., Dec. | 29.—Halifax still needs money for relief of the suf- ferers by the explosion, according to a telegram to Governor McCall from the chairman of the Halifax relief | minister of foreign affairs, -have made i known to the world that the terms un- der which the Teutonic allies seek a general peace are not sufficient. And backing their prime minister the stating it is reported Halifax needs further help, financial or otherwise, and asking if this is true. May we presume further on your kindness and ask you to please make it known that while we have sufficient-supplies of materials and food at present our fin- ancial needs are far from met.” “We are receiving inquiries daily Minneapolis, Des. 29.—Major John R. Murlin, head of :the food situation of the surgeon general's office at Washington, speaking at the annual }meeting of the Federation of Americ- hn societies for experimental biology at the University of“Minnesota here today, declared that men in the U. 8S. army camps have gained from 5 to MEN IN ARMY CAMP GAIN FROM FIVE TOTEN POUNDS FROM ATTENTION TO SCIENTIFIC DIETETICS AND RATIONS 10 pounds each since they entered the military service. This condition, ; Major Murlin said, is due to the gov- ernment’s scientific study of diet and rationing. “The gain is a flesh gain and not fat,” he said, “and is due to the United States soldiers receiving the best ra- ance of any army in the world.” British proletariat ‘represented by a national labor conference, has reaf- firmed, with out equivocation, that it is the determination of labor to con- tinue the war in order hereafter to make the world safe for democracy. Fortified by the known attitude of President Wilson as to the require- ments of the United States if the war is to end and a peace concluded, the utterances of Premier Lloyd George and Foreign Minister Pichon and the almost unanimous sentiment of the British workers, seemingly make cer- tain that the Teutonic allied proffer, given in reply to the Russian Bolshe- viki proposals, will go for naught un- less it is materially added to and brought into line with the demands that the United States and the en- tente allies have laid down as the con- crete basis for the discussion of peace. Bolsheviki Still Confident. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviki ele- ment in Russia aparently has not lost heart that something may come from the Czernin proposal, for the Brest- Litovsk peace conference at which it was made has taken a recess until Jan. 4, and meanwhile Trotsky, the Bolsheviki foreign minister, purposes to send a note to the entente allied embassies, in an endeavor to have ‘them participate in further peace par- leys, and also is drafting a note to the peoples of ‘the world. Russia Still Dark. Inside Russia the situation still re- mains obscure, owing to the various reports concerning the movements of the Bolsheviki and counter tionary forces. One of these reports. is to the effect that an armistice be- tween the Kaledines and Bolsheviki troops has been affected at Rostov-on- Don with a central zone between the fighting line. Kaledines and his Coss- acks were among the first of the Rus- sian counter revolutionaries to take up arms ‘against the Bolsheviki. Turks Again Beaten. On the fighting fronts Palestine again has come into a position of first importance owing to the British hav- ing inflicted another severe defeat upon the Turks near Jerusalem. North and northwest of the Holy City Gen- erl Allenby’s forces have made an ad- vance of about 21% miles on a front of nine miles after having repulsed a ; Turkish attack. The Turks suffered heavy casualties. Artillery Duels. Artillery duels are in progress along the entire northern front in the Italian theatre, the infantry of both If you are sick did sot receive —Adjustments Suite 14, Lucas revolu- | R. S. ENGE Graduate, Licensed and Experienced Chiro sides apparently being inactive ex- cept for patrol encounters. Likewise {tioned and most generous food allow- ; ROOSEVELT PLANS 10 VISIT CAPITAL ~ FOR PRIVATBENDS Purely Fatherly Visit at Home of Daughter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. GIVES AID TO THE CHAMBERLAIN BILL on the front in France the artillertes are doing the major part of the fight- ing. The Germans have not offered battle to French of the Verdun sector , north of the Caurieres wood since Wednesday's — sanguinary repulse. | Snow and cold weather prevail over the entire line from Belgium to the Swiss border. . PRICES ON ORES AND PRODUCTS CONTINUED Washington, Dec. 9.—President Wil- son Friday direc’ that maximum prices, previously fixed upot\iron ore, cake, pig iron, steel and steel prod- ucts, be continued in effect until March 31. They were subject to revis- ion on January 1. BABY GIRL HAD BREAKING OUT Red and Inflamed. Irritated Badly. Cuticura Healed. “My baby girl had a breaking out on her face when she was one year old. It appeared in the form of blisters, and gs ‘the skin was very red and inflamed. It itched aad irritated her so \ badly that she was very Hy fretful, and would scratch her face till it was covered with blood. It became so bad I had to keep mittens on her hands all the time, and her face was disfigured. “TI tried medicines without success. Then I procured Cuticura Soap and Oint- ment, and they very soon healed her. Her face is now without scar or blemish.” (Signed) Mrs. D. A. Stanger, Box 244, Blue Mound, Ill., Oct. 8, 1916. It is easier to prevent skin troubles than to heal them. Clear the pores and keep them clear by using Cuticura Soap for every-day toilet purposes and touches of Ointment as needed. For Free Sample Each by Retura Mail address _post-card: Dept. R, Boston.”” Sold everywhere. ' Oyster Bay, N. Y., Dee. 29.—Within the next month or weeks, it be- caine known today, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will go on to Washington for a visit at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. It will be a purely private visit. He will at- tend no public functions and will ‘work for war more efficiént. He also | is desirious of having introduced as a permanent governmental policy some such plan of military training as that Brovided in Senator Chamberlain’s ill. The visit is made in consequence of the request of Senator Smoot and Congressman Madden, who came to Oyster Bay a fortnight or so ago to see Colonel Roosevelt. MARTIN DILLMAN CONVICTED BY JURY FOR MANSLAUGHER Towner, N. D., Dec. 29.—Martin Dillman, charged with the killing of William E. Gaffrey, at the Dillman home in Karlsruhe, June 26 of this i year, was found guilty of manslaugh- | ter in the second degree by a jury in i district court here. The defense was | that the shooting was accidental, and ; that Dillnian had shot only to scare ' Gaffrey. Testimony showed ,that all make no speeches 01 # ‘concerned had been celebrating the ind. 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