The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1918, Page 8

Sistine PAGE EIGHT BISMARCK EVENING TRIBUNE ENTENTE ALLIES ABOUT TO ENTER DARKEST PERIOD French Commissioner Believes, However, War Will End In- side of Six Months. AMERICA’S PART IS SUPPLIES Possibility of Strong German At- tack on Western Front This Winter. An Atlantic Port, Jan. 2—The en- tente allies are entering the hardest Reriod of the war, put a peiod which will prove richest in decisive results if we know how to play a good game, and its issue will be decided in the next six months,” according to Cap- tain Andre Tardieu, French high com- missioned to the United States, who has returned to this country and will arrive in Washington today. The commissioner first arrived in this country last May. He returned to France in November and his gov- ernment decided to continue his offic- jal title for a period of six months. While Captain Tardieu pointed to the possibility of a strong German at tack on the western front during this winter, he is “absolutely confident that it will be another Verdun,” he de- clared in a statement. The urgency of an enormous econ- omic effort was emphasized by Cap- tain Tardieu as follows: “The battle is not only on the bat- tlefield. I have told to the French, with complete frankness, what Amer- ica expects from them in the way of restrictions and new sacrifices. I am coming back to explain here the nec- essary sacrifices that France and her allies are expecting from America for victory.” Men, wheat, oil, ships and locomo- tives are the things most needed and which America is able to give, Captain Tardieu said. By way of tribute to Col. KE. M. House, who headed the American mis- sion to the inter allied conference in Paris, Captain Tardieu said: “Thanks to the presence of Col. House and his associates the inter- allied conference has done excellent work. It was necessary that the gov- ernment of the United States should assert its will and its capacity to take, in Europe, the part which belongs to ‘America in the direction of the war. TINKHAM BACK. Man Who Fired First Gun Returns) from the Italian Front. . An Atlantic Port, Jan. 2—Represen- tative George. Holden Tinkham, of Massachusetts, who is credited with firing the first shot sent against Aus- tria-by an American on December 11, while on a visit to the Italian front, arrived here today on a French steam- ship. Mr. Tinkham said he fired the shot at the invitation of a colonel commanding a battery engaged in stemming the advance of the Teutonic forces'on the lower Piave. He add- ed that while he did not know the re- sults of the shots he was convinced the shell, which was from a 149 mill- imeter gun, struck “in a place where it would do the most good.” =°Mf. Tinkham did not come out un- scathed froin his visit to Italy. He returns with one arm in a sling and a/ broken finger and his head in band-| ages for contusions received when an| automobile in which he was riding at night along a shell torn road skidded and -plunged over a thirty foot en- bankment. Mr. Tinkham, who also visited the French firing line, said that the sit uation is critical, and the successful outcome of the war depends upon American effort. He said that he visited the Americ: an troops in France and founl that their enthusiasm and eagerness to be at the enemy was wonderful. Their equipment, he added, ‘is not what it should be.” He will prepare a report. on his observations to present to the authorities at Washington. HOME GUARD T0 HAVE IMPORTANT SESSION FRIDAY Officers Will Be Elected and Big Businss Matter Taken Up “Watch your Home guardsmen, Step.” The most important meeting of this organization held since its inception is announced by Capt. BE. G. Wanne- for Friday evening, when business which will have a vital and lasting ‘bearing on the future of the capital city of North Dakota is to be taken up. Capt. Wanner urges that every home guardsman attend. The meet- ing is called for 7 sharp. All neces- + gary business can be disposed of by ‘o'clock, in plenty of time to permit those who: desire to attend the big show at the Auditorium. ‘Officers will be elected Friday eve- ing, which in itself is of importance, and something much bigger and more - vital is scheduled for attention. Cap- » tain Wanner feels tat this is an oc- casion upon whtich none but the best Of excuses can be accepted for fail- ure to attend, and he insists that ev- . to turn out. eee At Sunday School. ~ “Give an account of Balaam,” said the teacher. “Balanm was a prophet who lived a long way off,” replied the student. “After a while he went out “fot & ride on his donkey, and he got -yery angry with the donkey and hit “him, and a voice from heaven said, > ‘You imust not ‘hit the donkey; it is ery. guardsman make a special effort NEW COAL GAS FUEL FOR MOTOR CARS This motor omnibus isn’t going to fly away, though it looks that way. The bag covering it contains coal gas, is replacing gasoline needed for wan purposes. the new motor fuel of England, which BY KENNETH W. PAYNE. Daily Tribune Staff Reporter Who Has Just Returned from England. “Save gasoline! It is the life blood} of the war. The great motor trans- port system at the front depends on gasoline. The vast aerial invasion of Germany planned for next year will be impossible without copious sup- plies of gasoline!” This warning has been heard and answered in ingland. A substitute for gasoline has been found for driving motor c: This s coal gas which we have been us for years to light our home cows our meals. Motor trucks and limousines alik have lately been a common sight in London running about the streets un- der a huge, ungainly gas bh: i balloon fastened to the roof of the car. People laughed at these gawky apparitions, at firs But now people there recognize that they mark 4 startling a revolution in transpo is and tion as did “the first clumsy autono- | “DRIVEN BY COAL GAS! line tanks that motor ¢ titute is just the ordinary | at any Dbiles themselves. The scheme is hard- ly'more than a few months old, yet it has already passed out of the awk- ward age. Cars are now beginning to put in an appearance carrying the gas stored under pressure in neat steel tanks. A limousine thus equipped looks as well with gas as with gaso- established built ’ propulsion by gasoline, will run. just as well on coal gas and at a cost less than gas- oline was ever sold for in England even in peace time. The city of Manchester already has 0) private cars being run by Taxis will probably soon take same system. s, the use of which is en- ather than restricted, may pleasure car, the use of prohibited during the war to line, back to its own. It will te solve the problem of the propulsion of motor trucks for com- mercial purposes. To one of England's leading auto- mobile periodicals, the Commercial Motor, Lelongs the credit for this new departure in ‘transportation. Only a Already it has been SAVE & PUT YOUR BETS ON THE “NATIONAL GUARD” SOLDIERS IN FRANCE, IS LYON'S ADVICE: THEY'RE AMAZING ARMY OFFICERS | BY C. C. LYON. Daily Tribune’s Special Reporter with the American Army in France. With the American Army in France, Jan. 2.—The old-time regular army man used to sneer that he’d ‘rather be a private in the regulars than a gen- eral in the National Guard.” Poking fun at the state militias was one form of amusement for the regu- lars. And more often than not the guardsmen took the jests and quips without serious protest, probably ad- mitting inwardly that maybe, after all, he was a mutt at the war game. But there’s no sneering at ‘the Na- tional Guard troops in France these | days. A very high general in the regular army not long ago was reviewing a militia regiment from a middle wes- tern state. The troops came down the pike be- hind a crackerjack band, every head up, uniforms clean and spruce, guns and side arms glistening—a body of fine, upstanding, stalwart, intelligent American manhood. In step, countenance and carriage they looked like liberty lads. When the review was ended the general turned and with an exclam- ation that showed intense satisfaction, said to those near him: “By Jove, those are fine looking boys! Mark my word, they'll produce a lot of efficient officers if this war lasts very long.” Th alled he so: “state militiaman” over here is putting into his word a degree of intelligence, pep and will- ingness that simply amazes some of the regular army officers who have high command over them. In a good many cases these officers have had to revise completely their preconceived notions about such troops. It’s a foregone conclusion that the National Guard units are going to, make good in France because a big majority of the boys have brains and they'll know how to use them in the pinches. One regiment boasts more than 700 college men out of a total member. ship of about 3700 and some 1300 of the boys in the outfit have had one year or more in high school. In a football game the other day between two militia outfits, 15 of the 22 players were former college play- ers and only two of the 15 were of- iicers. The particular star of the con- test made the all-American team a few years back. He's a sergeant now. There’s no such thing over here as a company or regiment composed en- irely of old time regulars. The quick expansion of the Amer- ican army from 100,000 to 2,000,000 busted the old army to smithereens and every regular:man who showed eceencyecteca rte FIRST VOTE IN CANADIAN FLECTION cA A wounded Canadian soldier in a hospital behind the lines in France is shown here taking the oath before casting the first votein the Can-. employed to sell papers. \ For any The soldiers voted early in December because of the time adian election. necessary in getting the ballots back to Canada. The ballots were collectea in a mail sack. a tae ‘ribune. little while ago this periodical sug- gested the idea, encouraged experi- ments, gave wide publicity to each; success, and finally found that its campaign had swept the whole coun- try. George F. Sharp, editor of Commer cial Motor, an automobile expert of wide experience, speaking of the new development said: “To begin with, there is the great economy of using coal gas in lieu of petrol. Under present conditions in England, cents’ worth of gas will) run a car as far as 93 cents’ worth of petrol! Motor car engines construct- ed for the use of petrol will run on| gas practically without modification. “Coal gas consi of hydrogen and} methane, the latter being the main ientists tell me that it be commercially possible D may soon for the methane, extracted from coal gas, to he compressed towa liquid. Then we will have two fuels for motor- ing, petrol as a first class fuel, and; this new product as a second grade’ but highly useful fuel, performing the vast majority of the work in carry-j ing on the nation’s motor transporta- tion.” | aptitude and a clean moral record was | put to instructing the new recruits. Hundreds of them won commissions. The National Guard regiments, in| a lnc of instances, contain men who ‘have heen drilling much longer than meu in the so-called regulars. “How will the National Guard take war discipline? Most ,of the offi- and men came from the same and have been in the habit of to cel jown: is a comment often heard. Put this situation prevails only in} a limited degree now. The doubling and trebling of the size of militia reg-| imen's has made it necessary to go, outside for new officers. While most! of the militia units still have their “rome” colonels, majors and captains, ' hundreds of lieutenants from the of- ficers. training schools’ have been as-! signed tc them. One battalion with whien | am well ecquainted has eight such new officers and they hail from six different states. | “As far as my fellow officers from home go,” said one National Guard col-nel, “I can’t see any harm in my continuing my former civilian famil- iarities with them. We all come from the same neck of the woods back home, have been in the guard togeth- er fur years and years and I believe they’re quicker to co-operate with me and carry out my orders if I continue ‘ta treat them as members of the fam- ily and call them Dick and Bob and Harry What I’m after is results and if}l can get them without having a ramrod up my back, so much the bet- ter.” “There's a certain “home” spirit in the National Guard regiments that makes for cheerfulness, good behavior and cleanliness. : A militia captain, on inspecting some billets one day, came upon & particularly dirty corner. He called the culprits on the carpet. “Jf I hadn't lived in the same town with you boys all your. lives and nown ; your families I'd say you'd never had | any bringing up,” he said. “Ted, your the bed with muddy shoes. on, did | she? Sure, she didn’t. And look here, Bill, you wasn’t in the habit of spitting all over the siiting room floor at home, were you? I'll bet your par- ents would be mighty ashamed of you fellows if they could see this muss around your bunks here.” “I've never had to speak of cleanli- ness in billets again,” he told me. It speaks volumes for the stuff that is in the militiamen to say that hun- dreds of them are putting in their spare time preparing for examina- | tions to enter army schools that will graduate enlisted men into officers. Put your bets on that type of en- {listed man. He'll delived the goods i when the call comes. People easily constipated dread win- ter—no fruits, no vegetables to help the stomach. Your best relief, your | greatest friend, is Hollister’s, Rocky Mountain Tea, guaranteed to positive- ly relieve constipation of your money back. i ; BRESLOW’S. BOYS WANTE Not going to school -or-otherwise mother never allowed you to lie an]. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2, 1918 “GERMANS MUC INTERESTED IN TRADE AFFAIRS Delegation at Petrograd are Mak'ng Themselves Thor- oughly at Home. ‘N THEATERS AND CAFES Nothing Too Good in City for Ku!- tured Appetites of Visitors. Petrograd, (Monday, Jan 1.-—The German political delegates who are visiting Petrograd, headed by Count Von Mirbach, are devoting much of their time to preliminary discussions of the. question of trade relations. Baron Admiral Keyserlink declared today that no time was more suitable than the present for making peace, as he considered it probably would be difficult to reach terms with the con- stitutent assembly. The Germans and also the Austrians who are in. Petrograd are making themselves thoroughly at home, vis- iting theatres, among them the French theatre, and also the cafes and tak- ing possession of the reading and lounge rooms in two adjoining hotels in which some entente allied officers are quartered. The delegates expect to return to Brest-Litovsk within two weeks. Bulgarian and Turkish delegates are due to arrive here today. SITTINGS IN rRUGRESS. Delegates of Central Allied and Rus- sians Dise Terms. London, Jan, 1.—According to Pet- rograd dispatches joint sittings of the Austro-German delegations with the Russian representatives started Mon- day, the members of the Brest-Litovsk delegations participating. The dis- cussion resting upon the fate of pris- oners and trade relations. The movement of the delegates from the central powers from hotel to hotel in search of better rations has creat ed amusement among the Russian newspapers, which say the Germans love luxury. Consuls of the neutral powers have held a ¢ ultation in Petrograd con- cerning security of bank deposits’ be- longing to. their nationals. According to an evening newspaper the Russian delegates who have: re- turned! from Brest-Litovsk »say that the Germans expressed a readiness to evacuate white Russia, but declin- ed to withdraw their troops from such bases as Riga and Libau, except in the event of a general peace. A sailor named Kremyeff has been appointed temporary commander in chief of the Petrograd district. It has been decided to hold a ple- biscite in ‘Odessa to determine wheth- er that city, the most important sea- port of southern. Russia and fourth city of the empire in population, shall WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF BAR ON? a8 ‘ed by Maximalists between the sta- BAROM VON KUEHLMANN Has he a mole on his chin or what? Every picture you see of German For- eign ter von Kuehlman is one of these “Thinker” poses. Kuehlman has been designated by the kaiser to talk peace wit the Bolsheviki. This Kuehlman seems hard to figure out. He’s a bosom friend of old Wilhelm and yet every once in a while he breaks out in a most democratic sort of interview. Meby it’s all in the game—an out-and-out kaiser man who talks enough the other way to be vseful in dickerine with persons who have anti-kaiser ideas, eh what? helong to the Ukraine or White Rus- sla. A Ukrainian Uhlan regiment which was proceeding to Kiev was surround- tions of Gjatsk and Smolensk. The Uhlans refused to surrender and the Maximalists opened fire upon them wit ha machine gun. Two of the Uh- lan officers and seve.vl dozen ot the men were killed. Mercurius. In the mythulogy of ancient pagan Rome Mercurius, or Mercury, to give the English form of the Latin name, was the divinity of commerce and gain, and was identified by the Romans with the Greek Hermes, A temple was built to Mercurius as early as B.C. 495, near the Circus Maximus, and an altar of the god existed near the Porta Capena by the side of a well. lis fes- tival was celebrated on May ‘25, and chiefly by merchants who visited the well. near the Ponta Capena to which magic powers were ascribed. Velvet-Making. Velvet was developed and originated from fur in China, Thenee velvet: making was introduced tnto Tndla, and In the fourteenth century into Italy. where ‘that sort of -fabric especially appealed, and where the art of velvet- making reached its height. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. London, Jan. 1.—Queen Mary sent a telegram from Sandringham today to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the wom- an suffrage leader of New York, says the official press bureau, reading as follows: “I received with much satisfaction and pleasure the friendly message to me from the women’s committee of the council of nation defense of Amer- ica. QUEEN OF ENGLAND ADDRESSES WOMEN OF AMERICA THROUGH A 3 NOTE 10 ANNA HOWARD SHAW “Please convey to the sisterhood of|and soldiers, I pray for God’s richest R” your great country the warm thanks; blessing on our efforts. of the women of the British empire (Signed) for their inspiring words of encour-! agement and assurance, The horrors | of war have taught us to know one another better and they have strength- | ened the ties of kinship and mutual sympathy by uniting the women of the English speaking races heart and soul in the struggle for liberty and civilization. “Confident of the valuable help we women can give our gallant sailors | “MARY, , Two signs hang in the show win- dow of Herman Dworkis’ wholesale grocery in New York. One says: U.S. Food Administration.” - ambitious. boy t's is an excellent Apply, Circulation Dept graph of the recent. campaign with o picture of Socialist candidates. These signs tell the story that al- GROCERY WITH SOCIALIST IS CLOSED FOR OVERCHARGING is held a federal li le- “Closed by Order of the! eae a ral license as a whole: The other is a Socialist Party litho- | POSTER though Dworkis aided. can:lidates op- posed to the war, he was not averse to making a little war profit. _Dwork- One witness swore thai Dworkis charged him $14 or 100 lbs of sugar. The purchase, the witness said, was billed at the regular price |and he had to pay the balance to the wholesaler in cash. CAMPS GROW OVER NIGHT IN FRANCE Californian Describes American Military Base in Making. MEN WORKING AGAINST TIME Job Contains Quintessence of Haste, Methodical, Intense, Intelligent, Ef- ficlent—Troops Are Coming, Sup plies are Coming and Provisions for . Their Housing Must Be Made In Time to Receive Them. A Californian with the United States troops writes from YSomewhere in France:” Dear : It is two weeks since I wrote you. I have been delaying the last few days, expecting to hear from you by the “next mail.” The bulk of the “next mail” arrived two or three days ago, but dribleta have been coming through daily since. There's another due tonight and— here’s hoping. All told I've sent you five letters since arriving here—don’t know how many arrived. Also I have been rather busy of late, I have been assisting in the pro- motion of an epochal event—the first ° American boxing tournament held in France, It took place Saturday night in a strange little theater ‘on a crooked rue in a nearby city before an audl- ence of 500 Americans—soldiers, satl- ors, marines and civilian employees of the A. E, F.—and 200 French, mostly women, The feminine sex are great fight fans over here. All the American sports have been tried out over here already. Baseball created interest, but football was @ sénsation. It was while I was on a ticket-sell- ing tour for the fights that I got my greatest insight into what is going on over here. Base In the Making, T have seen a New York skyscrapetl climb toward the infinite, a story & day; I saw square rods of concrett poured into forms that molded a dam which Impounded a lake and reclaim ed the fifth of a state; I have sees new railroads fell their way acrost deserts and mountains and rivers. ! saw the Panama Canal “before they turned thé water In the cut.” More spectacular these, possibly, but ne more impressive than an “Americar military base” in the making. And cer tainly no busier. On a certain day a few—a very feu —months ago an American general stood on a certain spot and, shifting ¢ pointing finger, said: “There will be railroad yards, and there docks, and there a rest camy and that building over there will be & base hospital.” And from that certain spot today one looks and sees what very soct will be yards and docks and camp! and a hospital. In one direction a string of low wooden buildings stretch as far at vision. They are ten abreast. Fon Hundred ‘and forty of these buildings eich capable of housing sixty men ‘Twenty-six thousand troops they wil accommodate. And within an. hour's march are five other such camps. A highway parallels the waterfron' and it was on this that the Americar general stood the day he swept his finger in the circle and conceived the improvements that are becoming real itles so ran'dly, A town was withir the sweep of his arm. It 1s being re moved. Houses a century old are he | ing razed. The space is needed foi trackage. On the other side of the road thr docks are geing in. Dikes are being built a quarter of a mile from short and dredges and hydraulle pumps aré banking silt behind them. Work Against Time. The work must be done by a stated date. It is labor against time. Troops are coming. Material is coming. Am munition is coming. And this must br ready for them. The job contains tht quintessence of haste—methodical, in tense, intelligent, efficient. Here are working thousands — Americans French and white-clad German pris Oners, unsmiling, slothful, stolid, eact gang with its: pollu guard, invariably small in comparison both to hit charges and the long rifle he carries supermounted with its 24-inch bayo net, A construction locomotive passet with a trainload of rails. Americar steel! The engineer is in khaki an¢ he wenrs the red and white hatban¢ of the engineers, Further along is a big, four-story stone building that was a schoolhoust when Washington was inaugurated. I! stands with all the dignity of its are in twenty acres of groomed forest and lawn. But now ft radiates wooden ex: tensions, extending incongruously be neath the limbs of the chestnuts. Open spaces hold barracks. A famous cha: teau on an adjoining estate is being fitted as officers’ quarters. This is a base hospital—one of ‘many. Its ca- pacity will be nearly four thousand wounded and sick—three regiments. Thirty-Three Millions In Motor Fees, A special congressional committee has announced that, according to esti- mate, motorists will pay $83,095,000 in tad license fees during the year Son Born to Veteran 86 Years Uld. A son was born ‘recently to Capt. and Mrs. Milton, Garrigus of: Kokomo, Ind. The father is eighty-six years ‘ald, and a veteran of the Civil war. + On Good Authority. “Daughter, do you think that young fellow is the man for you?” “Oh; 'I know it, papa.” “How do! you know it?” “He told me so himself.” Tribune Waar Bus orig results. I i