The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1918, Page 6

- pileat. WEDNESDAY, FEB sae? ; 90, 1918. RED SOX LEADER ONE OF THE REAL FIGHTING MEN OF GAME; SHOULD BE Ed Barrow, baseball's fighting man, has the job of putting the fight into the Bosten Red Sox. It’s a fighting man’s jod and with a dominant scrapper of the Barrow type why the Red Sox should fall from the position of importance they have held in the league for six years. A weak man would make a failure at Boston this year, for the Red Sox of 1918 will not be the Red Sox of 1917. New conditions will prevail, a new club mustbe built around an old nuc- leus. ‘Since 1912 the Red Sox have been at or near the top of the American League. There have been a few changes from year to year, the clud has been strengthened as the older men dropped out, but there was no radical change until this winter and there would have been none then had not the war torn into the very vitals of the club, making the building of a new organization imperative Magnate Harry Frazee engineered some trades which procured men, but PENNANT WINNER: making these men fit into their posi- tions under changed conditions will be Barow’s job. Barrow’s experiences as a minor | league leader have been particularly fortunate. On several occasions he has taken seemingly hopeless clubs jand built them into winners. The | most notable example was at Montreal a few years ago where the club leap- ed from the second division into first | place in a season. Barrow has a strong team at Bos- ton. A veteran pitching staff, includ- ing Babe Ruth, Dutch Leonard, Carl Mays and probably Foster as the first- string staff, and with Pennock and Bader in reserve, will give any club in the league trouble, The catching will be shared by Sam Agnew, Wally Schang and Forres. Cady. Hobby and McInnis will be at first, Scott at short, and Gardiner at | third. Barrows may have a little trouble filling his outfield and second sack, but if Frazee can trade as suc- cessfully this spring as he did during | the winter these difficulties should be taken care of. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT WOULD HAVE WESTERN N STRONG ON SMALL GRAIN CROPS with a disk and spike toothed har | Washington, D. C., Feb. 19.—Spring wheat, oats, barley ,and flax are the est small grain crops to grow in western North Dakota and South Da- kota, and eastern Montana, accord- ing to results of nine or ten years of experimentation in that region by in- vestigators of the United States de- partment of agriculture. Winter wheat, however, generally yields bet- ter than spring wheat in the vicinity of the Ellack Hills, according to a re- port of the work recently pudlished as Farniers’ Bulletin 878, “Grains for Western North Dakota and South Da- kota and, Eastern Montana,” The production of small grains in this region is most profitable, the spe- cialists declare, when combined with livestock farming and the growing of cultivated crops. Wheat and flax may be grown as cash crops for mar- ket, while oats and barley may be marketed for feed to live stock. Win- ter rye, spring cmmer, and millet al- so can be grown successfully. The bulletin mentioned discusses the Dest varieties of the various grain crops recommended, and gives directions, with modifications for differences in soil and climate, for their culture. The best time to break the native sod is in April, May, or June, because the soil usually is moist at that time. Old land should be plowed in ‘the fall and left rough over the winter to catch and store the rains. Fall plow- ing is preferable to spring plowing, as it permits earlier seeding in the spring. Land on which a cultivated crop is grown the previous year need not be plowed before preprcation of the seed bed is begun. xcellent seed bed can be made in the spring on fall plowing or on spring plowing > ORTH DAKOTA GO rows, Spring wheat and oats should be sowed as early as the land can be put in good condition. Barley may be seeded after wheat and oat planting is tinished, and flax should be planted about May 1. Winter wheat and win- ter rye may be sowed on corn stub- ble or summer fallowed land in late August or early September in North Dakota, and in September or early Octoder in South Dakota. These varieties of small grains are recommended for western North Da- kota and northeastern (Montana: Spring wheat: Kubanka durum, Marquis, Power Fife. Oats: Abundaiice, Early Mountain, Lincoln. Barley: Hannchen, Svanhals, Man churia. orth Dakota No, 9. North Bakota No. 155, North Dakota Resistant No. 52, Select Rus sian. , For western South Dakota and southeastern Montana the following varieties are recommended: Winter wheat (in the vicinity of the Bleek Hills): Kharkof, Turkey. Spring wheat: Kubanka durum, Marquis. Oats: Kherson, Sixty-day. Barley: White Smyrna, Hannchen, Odessa. Rye: ish. Flax: North Dakota ‘No. 155, Select Russian, North Dakota Resistant No. 12. The best rates of seeding are as follows: Spring wheat, 4 pecks to the sere; winter wheat, 3 to 4 pecks to the acre; oats and barley, 5 to 6 pecks to the acre; and flax, 20 to 80 pounds ‘o ithe acre. North Dakota No, 959, Swed- NORWAY ANXIOUS TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT WITH AMERICA ON FOOD Christiania, Norway, Feb. 19.—(Cor- respondence of the Associated Press). —How to come to an agreement with America for the 42sumption of the im Port of supplies is the main topic for discussion by the Norwegian press and people. In the beginning the gov- ernment did not seem to take the American question seriously. But af- ter the failure of the commission in Washington to obtain export licenses, the cabinet members realized the gra- vity of the situation. One by one the members of the Norwegian delegation to Washington returned until only Dr. Nansen remained, The newspapers, except the official cabinet organ, are becoming impa- tient. They ask why Denmark has obtained export licenses for differ- ent food stuffs, and say Sweden has had greater success than ‘Norway. So far Germany has had great advant- ages from the trade agreements with Norway. By the agreement with Great BErit- ain of August, 1916, Norway could send fifteen per cent of her fish to Germany. But beside this Germany bought enormous quantities of canned fish, so that, it is said, the total amounted to more than thirty per- cent. It was asserted at a session of the Storthing that the total export of fish to Germany from August, 1914, to August 1917, was 150,000 tons. Be- fore the war the average export to Germany was 78,000 tons, or about 22 per cent of the whole export of fish from the country. On the other hand the Germans have not been able to keep their contract to furnish fishing tackle and motor oil as compensation for the fish. One leading paper asks how long Norway is to continue supplying fa- yors to Germany while the Germans | sink Norwegian ships and kill ‘Norwe- gian sailors. And, it inquired, what does Norway get in return for the ma- terial for manufacturing guns, projec- tiles and ammunition which she is! supplying to Germany. The Shipping Gazevte said editorial: | ly recently that the Norwegian for-| @ign minister is’ exerting himself to increase the export of raw materials for manufacturing munitions, and cit-| ed that as the reason why the United States did not send a Christmas ship to ‘Norway, as to Denmark. Other papers, notably the Social Democraten chalenged the foreign minister to @eny the statement, but he remained Before the war Germany. furnished Norway with considerable grain and flour but, although the fish export is more than doubled, Norway does not get any flour from Germany. The United States has been the chief pro- vider since the beginning of the war. Before the war, Norway obtained 197,000 tons of grain and flour from Germany and 51,000 from the United States, In 1915, she imported 382,000 tons from the United States and 87 tons from Germany, and after that year none from Germany, And Ger- many has also stopped the exporta- tion to Norway of other very import- ant commodities. WILD WEST SHOW ALL DAY THROUGH San Antonio, Tex., Feb.. 19—The army remount station at Camp Travis near here, is a many-ringed wild west show that runs ten hours a day, every day in the week and would put to shame the best of the professional ex. hibitions of horseback riding that tour the country. The work of pre. paring horses and mules for the army has been going on for months and al- though it is among the best system atized of any of the war preparations. little had been said of it. Major Mig dalski in charge of the camp is a firm many Sammies were s Tuseania, recently se GOT THE Special Dispatch. Cleveland, Legion now has a piano. The Ger- mans contributed it, but not willingly. How the Americans got the piano to their camp was told today for the first time by the man who helped get it, Captain Frank H. Burr of the 38th Canadian battalion. “It was nearly a year ago that we went over the top at Vilmy Ri ”. Captain Burr explained “We over in such a hurry that the Germans didn’t have time to do much damage to their dugouts; just sccoted leaving their nicely furan! ments for us. too! That dugout where the piano was the most thing in its line 1 ever mans worksd months on it. wonderful They had during the war. ‘But we fooled them there. “This dugout was 40 feet ‘below surface, done in concrete and_ iron. There were 15 rooms, electric lighted, telephone in every room, and the furniture, stolen from French homes, was the best. Each room was nicely paneled, and the large room, where the German officers probably loafed and enjoyed themselves had among other things this piano. Our boys but the whistling of shells for a long time. So we decided to take the) piano back of the lines. “That was a job alright. Forty of us tried to hoist that piano up, but the stairway was Germans had put it down there befcre | v. The Ger- | the idea they were fixing it up to stay | SAMMIES REA O., Feb. 18—The “Lost | “And they were some apartments, ! we found | wanted music. They hadn't had any | jeft his home in Columbus, O., several too narow. The; ward was divided up into three Cana- they placed the concrete cover on the| Pat’s, and the Royal Canadian, thus dugout. Finally one of us figured that could get the blooming thing up. We | flying over our heads we carted thej piano back, and now the boys band. A little music makes it lonesome over there.” | ee believer in the incompatibility of pub- licity and progress in military pro- ficiency, sections of the country are arriving each week, animals passing into the charge of the trainers, most of them Lanky Texans from the cattle country, who have enlisted in the branch of the army service for which their years Camp Dodge, Ia. Feb. 19.—Target practice’ is under full sway on the Camp ‘Dodge rifle range, and its a great place to visit, save for the fact that visitors are not wanted. Several hundred men are learning daily what an Enfield rifle is good for. Officers are plugging away with the regulation Colt automatics at the pis- tol range. A long line of machine guns is being used by officers to fa- miliarize themselves with the mow- ing down of men. Enough ammunition is fired daily in good weather at Camp Dodge to stage a goodly infantry battle. It’s a wel- come change from routine for the men, and even when a green shot gets ‘the end of his chin skinned: off when an Enfield “kicks,” no “grous- ing” is heard. i France has its desolated woods and forests, and battle scarred slopes, but 80 has the Des Moines river valley. You have-read of trees being sev- ye Will Buy your used~ Instr ements for cash. Send description. Check i A fs Init: Ler ereeiy | Hoe ¥ ne you see the cot- Dm and” lows topple every few minutes on the Camp Dodge rifle 'fange, riddled by bullets which have sed through the targets. Over. a ee other side of. the ‘river SAMMIES SHOOTING AWAY LOTS OF GOOD AMMUNITION AT CAMP DODGE There’s a grim earnestness about ‘those national army men taking {heir first shots with a iflitary rifle. They love their “bulls,” the conventional term for @ bullseye. A bad miss is & near tragedy, and.a jammed gun at rapid fire is a calamity, Rapid fire is the fun, The targets pop into view and the riflemen has one minute to. shoot his string. He is supposed to get in ten shots. Some men fire fifteen, and a few twenty. At the 169-yard range the men lay prone, rifie resting on a sandbag. The longer range shooting is done from benches, substantially built, and sim ilar in all respects ‘to those to be used later’in France. The machine gun range is a differ- ent proposition. The range is not 19? yards, 200 yards, or upwards, as in rifle practice, but with fifteen “bulls” each, a black patch about an inch wide and two inches long. ‘With this target and this range ex- actly thé same adjustments of fhe sights. can ‘be used as would ‘be the case if the range were up to 1,000 yards,and without long waits to ex- a ta Win che tr oxtas by taking out every fourth stair ,we | ion.” did. At night with but a few shells | turned to this country. are; men who composed the original “Lost pounding those old keys to beat the} Legion” have been wounded or killed, less; They fought at Somme, Vimy Ridge, Trains of horses and mules from all | teen cavalry rogiments caused renew- This photograph, taken on the deck of an American trans port in the submarine infested war zone, shows the Sammies outfitted with life belts. They don’t appear to be worricd. ‘Hew ved by such lifebelts on the transport nt down near the Irish coast, cannot he estimated. — But in practically every sinking a share of the sur- AMERICANS “OVER THERE” PIANO BACK OF THE LINES, ALL RIGHT. Captain Burr, a former student at the Ohio State university, and who years ago to try his fortune up in Canada, helped organize the American legion which went “over there” under the Canadian flag. ®This legion after- 38th, dian regiments, the Princess becoming known as the “Lost Leg- Captain Burr was wounded and re- He says that 75 per cent of the Lens and in Flanders. of life on. the plains have best fitted them. The recent decision to organize fif- ed activity at the-camp and horses are being, broken with speed and reg- larity. At the remount‘station, three separ- ate training schools also are maintain- ed: in which the men are taught army. nacking, horse shoeing and teaming. The horge shoers, ‘class lasts four months, the packers and teamsters two and the graduates air;their pro- ficiencies with a pride.that rivals the airs of the cadets at Camp Kelly, the aviation training camp nearby. Army officers exercise great care in thetr choice of animals and only the best horses and mules are purchased, the government paying top prices for them. © ~~ Oklahoma Indians _ : Are Doing Their Bit m Big Scrap Muskogee, @kia., Feb. 19.—Under the direction ‘of &.:B,. Parker, superin- tendent of the Muskogee Indian agen- cy, which conducts the affairs of the “five civilized tribes,” Oklahoma In- dians are taking all active part in the “win the war” campaign. The start these so-called “restrict- ed” Indians have made toward buy- ing $1,000,000 worth of war. savings stamps this year is only one of the many. war ‘actiyities in which they have made a record. Following are some of the things the Indians have done: Three thousand “restricted” Indians are {n, military’or naval service. ‘The five tribes subscribed $1,790,300 to the first Liberty’ Loan and $2,540,- 550 t6 the second’ Liberty Loan. A ne “HANDCUFF KING” OFFERS TO. . TEACH SAMMIES HOW TO . ESCAPE FROM SINKING SHIP TORPEDO — LET vivors 0 afloat until help arrives. keep them upright as they being tested by the government. boat capacity of a vi ship available. have previously been uscless. BY FREDERICK M. KERBY. i Special Staff Dispatch. | New York, Feb. 18.—To teach the i men in the army, navy and merchant marine service how to escape on a torpedoed vessel from jammed cabin doors or hatches and entangling ropes and wreckage, Harry Houdini, the, “handcuff king,” is today offering his services free to the government. In a letter to Secretary of War Baker, the man who has _ mystified the world by his remarkable escapes from prison cells, handcuffs and straight jackets, who has been nailed in boxes, lashed, tied, bound and has always escaped, offers to teach his art to the army and navy men who are to cross theocean to fight in France, “In three lesons I can teach any man of normal intelligence how to es- cape from below the decks of a tor- pedoed ship,” said Houdini. “I think every soldier and bluejack- et in the service ought to have as part of his training a short course in meth- ods of extrication,” Houdini said. “The reason people drown on, @ sinking vessel is because they lose all sense of direction; cannot locate a door, hatchway, ladder, or companion- way. A contributing cause, of course, is the fact that nobody has deen taught the trick of remaining under water for an extended period. The ung capacity is underestimated. “The first thing toteach is ability to stay under water, to use the eyes und- Cross, $2,250 to the Army-Y. M. C, A. $219.80 to war relief work and other. miscellaneous movements, making a total of $14,132 for this class of dona- tions. i Thearea comprising the lands of the five civilized tribes amounted origin- ally to about 19,000,000 acreas in east- ern Oklahoma. Allotments were giv- en from this average to 101,000 mem- bers of the tribes. Formerly all these allotments were under the supervis- ion of the Indian agency here but from time to time restrictions have been removed by law and at this time only 25,000 are “restricted” Indians. About 10,000: members of the civiliz- ed tribes are within draft age and of these 2.509 are “restricted,” according to estimates made at the agency. It is estimated that at least 3,009 Indians from these tribes are at present in service in one branch or another. CAMOUFLAGING MADE FORBES A | , DIZZY SCRAPPER Chicago, Feb. 19.—Camouflaging dis- tress and then stretching his bewild- ered opponent on the canvass-with a | knockout. punch, was a favorite trick of Clarence Forbes, a brother of Har- ry, former bantamweight champion, and who recently died in the state hospital at Elgin, Ill. He was thirty- seven years old. Forbes was regarded as one of the triékiest and hardest punching boxers ever developed in Chicago. He began his career as a bantam and_ later fought as a featherweight. He:once fought for a bantam weight champ- jonship. It was a favorite trick of his to take a punch on the back of the head and then wabble around the ring as if distressed. Tricked into believing another punch would finish him, Forbes’ op- ponents would come tearing in only to receive a clip on the chin. His record is dotted-with knockouts thu: scored. : Oldtimers say Forbes put over one HER secretes their lives to the belts which enable them to keep Lifchoats fitted with ‘‘skids’”’- which licle down the side of the ship are now sel by making the boats on both sides of the Those on the ‘high’? side of the tipping vessel ES I TS These ‘skids’? double the life- er water, and to think quickly and not succumb to panic. “The, secondt step is to teach the novice when suddenly submerged to allow the body to rise until the hands come in contact with deck side of floor. “The third step is to show the pupil how to force a door, porthole, hatch or lock. Then I would teach them the principles of extrication from entangle ments of all kinds—ropes, broken pipes, beams or wreckage.” returned to their corners to await the bell. When the contest started, Forbes rushed to the center of the ring and yelled. “Hey, take that chair out of that guy’s corner.” The “unknown” tricked into believ- ing his seconds hadn’t removed his chair, turned his head, toward his rife right hinddr to the clin, Knock- ing his foe completely out. ° The incident was so amusing that Forbes laughed himself. His- oppon- ant never khew what hoppened. 3T. PAUL FIGHT + ROMO1ERS LOOK | OR A. sie PURSE St. Paul, Min, Feb. 19.—Promoters of the ten round pattie between Harry Greb, thé Pittsburgh middleweight, and Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, claim- ant of the championship, to be detid- ed here Feb. 25, expect the gontest will draw close to $15,000, The match willl be staged at night. It probably will be the Iast big match for the boxers as they are slat- éd' to jo the army in the next call. Although O'Dowd has reccived no of- ficial word, members of the draft board have assured him that he will be amoug those who are ordered to Camp Dodge between Feb, 23 and 28. Greb Will return to, Pittsburgh. after the contest to await the decisipn of the draft, board. vat TWELVE STATES FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS PLAN New York, N. Y., Feb. 20.—Twelve states have declared by legislative ac- tion that they’favor the formation of a league of nutions after the war ac- cording’ to announcement by the League to Inforce Peace. The first was South Carolina, and it was follow- ed by Oklalioma, Delaware, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Maryland, Louis- jana, Texas, Massachusetts, Mississip- pt and Kentucky. In tw@ others, New Jersey and Rhode Island, similar mea- sures are pending. “It ought to be defermined before the war, comes to an end what our pol- icy will be after the war is over” de- clared Wm, H. Taft, president of the league, in a communication. “You cannot, immediately after war arouse the people into a declaration of principles. They have to be advis- ed, and they have to consider and dis- cuss, and now is the time to make up: our minds what we are fighting for. “One object that we have in this war, or one way of stating it, is whip- ping Germany, hitting her on the head so hard that it will produce a psycho- logical change in the minds.of her peo- ple and bring about a normal view. so that they may be convinced that the policy they have adopted and fol- lowed under Kaiser Wilhelm is wrong, “When they do that they will be knocked into a psychological trans- formation that will make them amen- able to decency and humanity2) and make them regard*the obligations of treaties.” ——_—_—_ | OPEN FORUM | SORE EIS Se 2 HOW TO PRONOUNCE IT. Bismarck, N. D,, Feb. 20, 1918. To the Editor of The Tribune, Dear Sir:—Having been asked the pronounciation and meaning of the word “bolshevik” so frequently heard these days, I thought that others of your readers would also be interested to have the same information. We sometimes see the word “maximalist” used in the same sense as the word bolshevil. They are, in deed, equival- ent in meaning. The adjective maxi- mal is derived from the Latin sub- stahtive maximum, while the adjec- tive bolshivik is derived from a pure Russian root and is the superlative degree of comparison, signifying the largest part or fraction of a represent- ative body. The word 1s accented on the first syllable’ and is syllabled thus: “bol-shev-ik.” The antonym of ‘bolshevik is men eshevik. The adjec- tive of Latin derivation corresponding to the Russian ‘meneshevik is min- imal. I obtained my information on these words by inquiring of the professor of Slavic lahguages and literature at the University of Nebraska. Yours truly, - MBLVIN -K, GILMORE. Mrs. Kate Hall says: “I have kept house 15 years, am the mother of four children, and I would not keep house without Hollister’s _ocky Mountain Tea.” Wise ‘Woman, why? Drives away sickness, brings health and han- niness to the whole family. BRES- corner. Forbes snapped over & ter- LOWS. iv ST WOMAN AFTER THE HER OLD PLACE IN WAR WILL OCCUPY HOME, SAYS MARIE London, Feb. 19.—Correspondence | of the Associated Press: Now that the women of England virtually are assured of the vote, a discussion has arisen as to what they will'do with it after the war. ; Approval by Parliament of the new Franchise Bill, which before the war undoubtedly would have been the sig- nal for a great feminine demonstra- tion, elicited far less excitemenet than the average street queue which forms now-a-days in front of a corner groc- ery shop. While the mere mention of the in- troduction of such a measure formerly wduld have been flashed across the front pages of all the great Englisk newspapers, its enactment into law now commands only passing notice, and its relative importance to the! other news of the day is so slight that the average reader might easily over- look it altogether. Y _ “What does it all mean?” the hard- headed, once uncompromising En- glishman is asking. “Tt means,” says Miss Marie Corel- li, the novelist, “that woman’s work after the war will be very much on the ‘straight lines‘and simple of nature— love, sweetness, ahd home! ‘That's all woman’s work, which she is just now compelled to negiect—but only to cling to it more when the madness of the nations is past!” Americans who, pefore -the war, were wont to seek out the placés of of the quickest and. most amusing knockouts on record. He was, box ah ‘tinknown” in Michigan. town seV- eral ‘years. 80)" | ifter- receiving They have donated $8,000 to the’Red the usual instruction trom the referee, ‘boxing | town, never failed to pausé wien they Miss Corelli declares she has no fear for her sex. “The wheel goes around always, yon know, and in time stops at the same old place,” asserts the novelist with’ emphatic ‘assurance. ‘Grace, coquetry, pretty apparel, and all the dainty ‘sweet things of womanliness will comeback again—again another Dante will muse on another Beatrice, another Petrarch on another Laura! Again reverence for women and chiv- alry will adorn the strength of man- Eood—and slang and roughness be things of the past. I love my sex, and would have them all ‘creatures of beauty and’ joys forever!” “But what of the vote?” “T-have seen a. great deal of wom- en’s work’in this war,” says Miss Cor- elli, “ and I.am sure their metier is affection, devotion, tenderness, and that they hardly need the polling booth to assert their claim to consid- eration. But.the vote. will give them a rightly. won ‘position in. the affairs of the nation. Good and brave men will alwaye pay them honor;,they can do without the admixture of politics in their lives, still they. may as well have it. : “I, hope and believe the place wom- an will occupy. after.the war.will be the old sweet place of nature intended her for—in the home nest, with love to ‘guard’ and sanctify: her existence. ‘She will soon: be tired: of prancing aroutid in: trousers and’working on the land. Women are privileged to change thefr minds, and: about a year ago I historic “interest in SHakespédre's, came upon tHe, beautiful vine-co house which Miss Socal Eau Sotupiod for some years.: 0. Ee) clianged’mine from:atrong anti-sut- tional: matters, ‘women’s “ votes- and a mfldeinee ara :tmperatively neces- eS Te ah ate a