The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 1, 1918, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT BISMARCK MORNING TRIBUNE DIVIDED BY FLOODS FROM CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD Milwaukee and N. P. Bridges Over the Yakima River are Washed Out. TRANSPORTATION IS OPERATED BY RIVER Seattle, Wash., Deo. $1—As the re- sult. of floods throughout western ‘Washington, Seattle tonight, had no railroad connection with the outside World except by way of Portland. Eastern mail was from 24 to 48 hours late and ‘there had been no mail from Vancouver, B. C., and points north of ‘Bellingham since last Friday. ‘With more warm winds and heavy rains forecasted for the Seattle dis- trict, the worst of the flood is yet to come, ‘according to George S. °Salis- bury, section director of the United States weather bureau. “Railroad. service to the north and east was paralyzed and reports of dam aged roadbeds reported from many points. Little progress can be made with repair work until the weather moderates and the floods subside. Tt was predicted that the storm fore- cast for tomorrow would make the flood situation the worst in the his- tory of this district. Because of the loss of the Milwau- kee'and Northern Pacitic bridges over the Yakima river, there probably will be no transcontinental service direct from Seattle for at least a week. In the meantime, all this traffic must go Py: by way of the Columbia river, Can- adian Pacific service was being main- tained by boats between here and Vancouver, B. C. GIRLS RISK LIVES ON FRENCH FRONT | Ambulance Drivers Work Close to Firing Lines. WINNING LAURELS FOR SEX ' Show Unfailing Courage In Time of Danger and Display Splendid Ability Drivers. .and . Mechanicians— | Atherican Society Girls Doing Great Service in Gathering Up Wounded on the Battle Front. ' “Gis the shell-scarred ground of Flanders, and in practically every dan: ger zone on the war map of Europe, women ambulance. drivers are today winning laurels for the sex because of their unfailing courage in time of dan- ger and for their splendid ability as Grivers and mechanicians. In the ante-bellum days of 1914 breaking the speed limit in a car strip ped‘to its'best racing trim was one of the chief outdoor sports of many of. the rich young women in America and on the continent, but the soldierly clad, patriotic girls who are doing their bit at the front today are getting more thrills to the minute than any speed enthusiast who has paid thousands of dollars in fines for the privilege. Collecting. the wounded is not the simple thing of running over to the; station to meet the trains and trans porting the wounded to the nearby; hospitals. Indeed, not. The women drivers of the ambulances go right up to the clearing station within reach of the big guns. Show Their Nerve. They think nothing of getting a bit of shell through the bonnets of their cars and it has yet to be reported that ce Driver, o have vor branch of d any Lydia ce of an emer fish Women’s Way, was plan- Out, entirely | League of American Penwomen in VIRGINIA fas i) mystery play, “Thou Shalt Not marck theater tonight. pIREEGTION VIL LtAM FOR VIRGINIA PEARSON, the beautiful star who plays in the big PEARSON Steal,” presented at the Bis- As the wounded are taken bach from the line a picture is taken and developed as the car runs back to the hospital. In this way the women sur- geons realize the most critical cases and they are rushed straight to the operating table. The picture of the wounded being ready for the operating | surgeon, she knows exactly what she has to deal with. Many of the boys owe their lives to these X-ray ambu- lances and the plucky girls who are driving them. Women of wealth all over the world have found they could serve their country best by using their knowledge of how to drive and care for a car Hundreds of them have volunteered. Society Girls in Service. Miss Maria Laurence-Wetherill, a New York society girl, has been driv- Ing an ambulance on the French front. She is accounted one of the most skill- ful operators in the motor service. Miss Hilda S. Ambier of Bridge- port, Conn., has joined the Volunteer Ambulance division. She is also an expert driver and mechanic. Miss Am- bier has adopted the uniform worn by the British Royal Flying corps. Mrs. Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff 41s another well-known New York wom- an who {s quickly helping in ‘the res- cue work of the wounded boys on the allied fronts. She heads a number of women drivers from the National League for Woman's Service who left early last month for France and who are stationed somewhere along the lines, doing their share in the work of rushing the wounded to the hospitals and also in permitting other men to rush to the colors who would be obliged to drive the ambulances had snot women proved such splendid sub- atitutes. ae SAYS WAR MARRIAGES __ SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED Dr. Clara MacNaughton Says Married Men Fight Better Be- cause Stake Is Bigger. ~ “I my opinion and in that of all the French with whom I have associ- ated during my three years’ work in Paris, the Americans are doing wrong in their tacit discouragement of war marriages,” said Dr. Clara MacNaugh- ton, in an address to the National Washington. “The experience of the French. is that the ‘war bride’ is an immense fac- tor in the determination of the peo- ple and their confidence of ultimate victory. The married man fights bet- ter because his stake in the struggle is greater. He is more hopeful, and when depressed, more quickly gets back to normal. The constant thought of one who lives in the hope of his homecoming helps him to ignore hard- ships.: “French surgeons have been quick to recognize that the married man has an added stimulus to get well. If hope- lessly crippled he is sure of devotion, and has not, like the bachelor soldier, the feeling that his future must be deyold of companionship. “For the woman the ‘war marriage’ is equally an incentive—not only to do her ‘bit’ but her ‘all.’ She enters more fully into the war work, and the fact that her affections are so greatly en- gaged causes her to minimize the hard- ships which weigh so heavily upon the unmarried. “While ill-considered and hasty war Marriages are not to be defended on any ground, the marriage of those ing and whose affections are firmly fixed, should not, in my judgment, be postponed. That we have so general- ly urged their postponement is a part automobile, h has saved a of the American idea that women should be shielded as far as possible from the buffets of life. The French whose acquaintance is of long stand: |" fre tung te View tuat the woman has as much right to risk her all for her country as the man-soldier has. “If we are to have a long war, such marriages will mean an increase in population of which we will stanc greatly in need.” is CURES SHATTERED NERVES Electric Current Restores Soldiers tc Normal Condition. German newspapers. announce that the army physicians have. discovered a successful method of curing the nervous affliction so frequent among disabled soldiers, which causes a con- stant trembling of the whole or part of the body. Dr. Ernst Bayer, head of the nerve hospital at Roderbirken, has outlined # method of electrical treatment which. it is claimed, often effects a complete cure In a few days, and is almost in- variably effective within a period of three weeks. The newspapers describe his method as follows: “By the application of a gentle elec: tric current which causes no pain what: ever, good results have been obtained in a few minutes or at the longest twe and a half hours. A. course of treat: ment Is required after this, which does not last more than two or three weeks. and in light cases is finished in a few days. New attacks may occur due tc excitement or nerve strain, but are easily cured.” AN OLD CLAIM PAID. Heirs Get Money From the Govern: ment After 57 Years. Mrs. Z. M. Morton, John Hicks, Ger- trude and Annie Simpson, heirs of Thomas I. Hicks, all of Mountain Home, Ark., received a treasury war- rant not long ago for $361.58 for money due Mr. Hicks at the beginning of the Civil war. He had the mail contract between Middleburg and Bolivar, Tenn. Imme- diately after the war Hicks joined the Home Guards at Middleburg. After the war he came to the Arkansas Ozarks. For years after the war he endeavored to collect the amount due him from the government, but died be- fore it was paid. ? Mrs. Z. M. Horton, one of his chil- dren, remembered the account, and a few years ago the documents were turned over to Congressman J. N. Till- man of that district, who got a special! bill through congress which made the | ailowance. In the same bill were; claims of a similar nature amounting | to $210,000. SPIES IN NATIONAL ARMY, | Men Suspected of Disloyalty Said to! NO PEACE DEVICE LEFT UNTRIED BY GERMANS (Continued From Page One.) trying to get that nation to influence her late allies. Rumors that have existed for the past fortnight to the effect that an- other peace proopsal was about to be launched by the contra bowers either through the vatican of some neutral state, are believed to have their foun- dation in the adroit attempt of the German negotiators to use the Rus- sian delegates for that purpose. Declaration of Powers. But in either case, if there is to be another peace proposal through those channels or if the Russian negotia- tions are to be made the vehicle to carry forward the German designs, it is believed in some quarters here that the time is ripe now for a strong and well considered declaration by the en- tente powers and America that will ef- fectually anticipate and counter this attack. It, has been pointed out that Presi- dent Wilson already “has twice an- nounced America’s war aims in’ un- equivocal terms. Therefore it is as- sumed that if Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau, after consulting the spokesmen of the other allies, de- cide that a reply shall be made to the German proposals, that’ reply must take some other form than an ad- dress by the American chief executive. BISMARCK , MUST LOOK WITH PRIDE (Continued From: Page One.) are merely held in abeyance, and may blossom with the new year. . The Lahr Motor Sales Co. declined to be daunted by conditions, and its of the home of S. D. Cook, in the Riv- erview, cost the city one of its finest residences, Aside from these two con- | | flagrations, the city’s losses from fire have been light. Few Afflictions. There have been no serious epl- demics. ‘The Easter morning tragedy which cost the lives of four of the Capital City’s best known traveling salesmen will be remembered as the one greatest sorrow which the year brought to Bismarck. The year has taken its toll of prom- inent men and women; it has brought to everyone in Bismarck its shades of light and of darkness, but in, looking back over it, we will recall it chiefly for its achievements, and will remem- ber it as “the year in which Bismarck found itself.” ‘ McADOO DECRESS WILL TREAT MEN WITH EQUITY (Continued From Page One.) ‘sist an operation problems; Edward Chambers, traffic director of the food administration, who will have general charge of traffic, and Walker D. Hines, assistant to the director gen- eral. . f Other railroad heads who made up the war board, Fairfax Harrison of the Southern, who was chairman; Rea, of the Pennsylvania; Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific, and Elliott, of the New Haven will return to the active supervision of their roads. \ Increased Pay. The question of increased pay for railroad workers will be taken up by Mr. McAdoo. The heads of the four brotherhoods will confer with him Thursday. Many advisors of the di- handsome new home at: the corner of ready for occupancy early in the new year. Contracts have already been let for Bismarck’s new. $25,000 public library, which was completed during the year, and now stands ready for its dedication, one of the most attractive and best equipped city libraries in North Dakota. A number of citizens evidenced, their faith in Bismarck’s future by building splendid homes, and during the year there has never been such a thing as a vacant dwell- ing. tinued steadily to increase. No Failure. It is a notable fact that this year Fourth:and Thayer streets will be! rector-general advocate increasing wages, particularly for many unor- ganized classes. The federal board of mediation and conciliation will continue to pass on wage disputes now pending, it wds an-| nounced, after a conference of the | ‘board with Mr. McAdoo, but event- ually the director probably will handle wage questions directly. The govern- ment’s attitude toward wage changes will not be determined for several The city’s population has con- never paused for this disaster, and has | weesk at least, or until the pressing not lost a week’s business through problems of speeding up transporta- the calamity. The recent destruction tion are threshed out. of stress has not been marked in Bis-) marck by a single business failure. | Rather, new and substantial business! houses have been attracted to the city. Two new banks—the Capital Security and the First Guaranty & De- | posit—have been added to Bismarck’s high-class financial institutions. The: Tatley block was completed and its) six handsome store-rooms immediate-! ly occupied without leaving a vacancy! anywhere in the business district. | ‘Bank deposits, particularly savings, ! have shown a steady and. consistent ! increase. Postoffice receipts for the’ last quarter were the largest in the history of the city and an increase of: business of 100 per cent is, shown over ° five years ago. { The city during the year was visit-' ed by only one disastrous fire in the! business section, that which destroyed ' the’ plant of the Dakota Motor Co., with a heavy loss, but. the company OF FOR NEW YEARS FRESH BUTTERMILK Made out of Sweet Cream — —at our— Dairy Station, Haggard Block. OPEN UNTIL NCON [No DELIVERIES | | ON NEW YEARS | BISMARCK DAIRY COMPANY “Number Several Thousand. Major General McCain, adjutant gen- eral of the United States army, is said to have the names of between 1,600 and 3,200 men in the National army 3uspected of being German spies or dis- | loyal Americans. The lists, with a re- | port on each man, were compiled by commanders of companies, heads of batteries and members of the intelll- zence bureau. Many of the suspects, | it is understood, are of German birth. {Internment for some is said to have been recommended by thelr command- ing officers. In the Eastern cantonments, it is sald, was found the largest number 0%; suspects. Some camps have sent in as many as 200 names. The search for spies has not been confined to the Na- tional army, but has been equally as thorough in training camps for officers end others. | Strict Regulation. Freeman was visiting at his grand pa’s home, and us he was a mischiev- ous little chap, was constantly being told, “Don’t do this,” and “Don’t do that.” Finally, with a look of disgust | ‘on his face, he climbed up into a chair, and asked, seriously, “What can a fella do in this house, anyway?” Tribune want ads bring results. CIAL USERS OF COAL Extends the Season’s Heartiest Greetings to You and Yours. | _ Lahr Motor Sales Company — SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1918, on the labor situation to saying that) he would “treat the men with justice and equity”, and would give “a just\ and square hearing” to the brother-) hood heads. \ Justice and Equity. Mr. McAdoo limited his comments Announcement | am opaning up my modern Electric Shoe Repair Shop | ‘fj at 109 Third Street, Bismarck, N. D. Those having work done in previous years know my standards: $1.00 worth of repairing for $1.00. This Is the Age : | | of Conservation ee Can you afford to throw away that pair of shoes and buy a w new pair at the prices today, when you can get them repaired fel at a very small sum? LE. Larson’s Shoe Shop 109 THIRD ST. ist BISMARGK, N. D. Se asi ; “a at on r ; Viay y Nae Ma and All Our Friends We Extend Our Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year Finch Lumber (o, esata nee