The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1918, Page 8

GOPHER CARS “BARN BIG SUM FOR HIGHWAYS More Than Million Dollars Al- ready Received from Reg- istration Fees St. Paul, Minn., July 19.—The mil- lion dollar mark in receipts of the Minnesota Motor Vehicle Department ; from January ist last, was reached! on the night of July 9th, when Sec-| retary of State Schmahl, announced | thatthe total receipts of the depart-! ment from the first day of the year up to that time, was one million, one hundred nineteen dollars and ‘fitity | cents ($1,000,119.50.) | Mr. Schmahl estimated at the com-/ Mencement of the year, that the re-} ceipts for the department under the! new registration law, would reach | $1,100,000.00, but owing to war condi- tions, which has prevented dealers from securing automobiles to meet the demand, his estimates will not} quite have been reached. Mr. mahl is still of the opinion, that b e the, triennial period closed on Dee 1920, Minnesota will have 250,000 m chines registered within its border. | At the close of business on July 9thy last, there were 190,800 machines registered. The registration fe each, was $5 making a total of 000.. There were only 4,328 motot cycles registered, the fee being the| » same and the receipts being $21,640. In view of the fact, that there were; over 11,000 of thees motor cycles reg- istered during the period closing De- cember 31, 1917, Mr. Schmahl is strongly of the opinion that there are a large number of motor cycle owners who are operating mptor yeles in this state without having ‘secured their 1918 license, and he suggests to police officers, that they at once take ac- tion to enforce the law. e There were 716 licensed dealers in the state on the night of July 9th. The fee for licensing dealers( is $20, and the receipts from that source were $14,320, exclusive of extra tags. The remanider of the money re- ceived to make up the total came from the issuance of chauffeur’s li- censes, renewal of chauffeur’s licenses, dealers’ tags, lost tags, and transfers. The expense of operating ‘the Motor Vehicle department for the year in- cluding the purchase of 210,000 sets ot tags for automobiles, all motor! cycle tags, all dealers’ tags, and all chauffeur's bagdes, was only $60,000, and Mr. Schmah] closes the books for the year with a balance to the credit of the Motor Vehicle department of about $25,000. This means that $1,000,000 will be turned into the funds of the state high- way. commission, from the Motor Ve- hicle source alone, for the improve- ment of roads in this state. The Motor Vehicle licensing branch is now located in a separate depart- ment in the basement of the new cap- itol, and with its numerical order of applications, its -card index system, and its manner of mailing, is regard- ed by Mr. Schmahi, as ‘one of the finest, if not. the finest, system that exists in the United States. Mr. Schmahl believes that if the next leg- islature will provide fo rthe cross in- dex system of factory numbers for each machine and the same uniform system is provided by the other states of the-union, that the solution of the prevention of automobile thefts will By C. C. LYON (N. E. A. Staff Correspondent At- tached to Gen. Pershing’s Army, Who is Now in This Country on a Furlough.) When the: present. big German of- fensive on the western front falls flat, like the four that have preceded tt other big offensive, hut of an entirely different kind. ‘Everything indicates that a PEACE GFFENSIVE is NEXT on Germany's program for ending the war. Four times now, within the last three months, Germany has failed in her ,efforts to put over a knockout punch on the allies. She started her fifth drive at a time when our side is stronger in men, munitions, money, boats, airplanes and fighting spiric than it was on March 21. We're in better shape in every way to halt and flatten out this latest offensive than any of the preceding ones. But the German military party will be the very last crowd in that coun- ‘try to see the handwriting on the wall. Four ineffective offensives haven't been enougu to pound into their thick heads the fact that the tide of battle long ago turned in favor of he allies, and that Germany is only dashing herself to pieces'on rocks so long as she keeps up successive of- fensive. f They still cling to ‘the slender hope that something may happen that will let them; $pt into Paris; and they are childish enough to figure that the war would be over and a peace signed on German terms, if once Paris were in German hands. It is my sanest judgment that even Paris, with its untold riches an@ art treasures,-could be taken by Germany, yet the war would stili go on. Paris isn’t all of France. In fact, there would still be more than three. fourths of France left in allied hands, and T feel I know French sentinrent well enough to say that the French na- tion will NEVER quit so long as there is at least chance to defeat the HUN hordes who have already done so much damage to their country. Now, German statesmen are show- have been reached. ing themselves keener observers gof ican representative of Handley-Page, Ltd., of England. N: are standing around its wheels. GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE : TO FOLLOW THE BIG DRIV. BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE AIR DREADNAUGHT THAT WILL FLY A front view of the giant super-biplane, the Handley-Page, which: will fly across the Atlantic when the allies get ready to send a fleet of planes to bombard Berlin. Ten thousand duplicates of this air monster, built_in the United States, could cross the ocean in 60 days, bombard dozens of German cities and end the war, says W. H. Workman, Amer- ote the size of. the plane in comparison with the 14 men who +e the present trend of military events than German generals. |. These statesmen evidently haven’: {much hope of Germany getting. very far with this fifth offensive. They see in-it only another effort of the military to make good on extravagant promises made to the German nation. The ground wark has already been laid for'a PEACE OFFENSIVE and I since March 21, then look out for an-j joo; for these peace offers {o be) second or third rate power. | ;made very soon after the” present of- fensive is stopped. Here's one straw, out of many, which shows which way the wing is blowing. The German chancellor announces that Germany never hil any serious intention of holding Belgium perman- ently, but holds it now as a pawn to be used for trading purposes arounc the peace table! Since when has the world under- stood that Germany didn’t propose: to hold Belgium permanently? ‘Every act and move that Germany has made in Eelgium indicated tha: the HUNS proposed to make it a pare of the German empire. , Germany would excavate Belgium today if. by so doing, she could save herself from that awful beating tho allies are about to give her. Don't be surprised if German states- men next come forward with liberal offers in regard to Alsace-Lorraine. 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