The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 27, 1918, Page 6

SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918. Eiger STEEL PRODUCTION NOW HINGES < Lo eteee BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE YANKS CELEBRATE MOTHERS’ DAY IN FRANCE LARGELY ON THE MAN POWER a huge lessening of the amount of steel required of production was sub- stantially unchanged. Again, railroad cars were ordered made of a composite substance instead of all steel. s freight cars with sides of wood- ceable and , weeccccccce ccc cee woe coe coe on eceee. H BY GEORGE B. NEWLAND. (N. E. A. Staff Corresnandent.) Washington. D. C., July —Steel » for commercial use is scarce and . going to be scarcer, as the stupendous War program develops. And there wili be no real prospect of a change until the man-and muscle problem is|permitting of rapid construction, The worked out. saving here is at least 200,000 tons of steel. To what extent the human element situation is manufacturers figures in the serious The refrigerator made clear by the war industries|were required to standardize, with a board, whose’ energies are bent to-/net saving of 30 per cent in steel. ward keeping up with the ever-grow-| Hereafter, for the period of the war, | ing demands of the military budget, /and standard buckets will be manu. f at,the same time saving the ordinary |factured. A 25 per cent saving of consumers of steel from a sacrifice|steel is thus made possible. Automo- that would approach hardship. bile manufacturers, recently before the war industries officials, were told that they could be sure of only 25 per cent of their normal requirements in the manufacture of passenger cars. Stove factories supply an f{llumin- ating example of economy in raw ma- terial by standardization. From about 200 styles of stoves, a reduction to less than a dozen was agreed upon. All these steps are vastly import-|- ant, but they will not of themselves solve the steel scarcity. It gets right back to manpower. uutput in tin plate mills is expected to show a falling off during the next two or three months on account of hot weather. The war industries board can not prevent that’ “The men who are helping win the war by keeping industry going at a war gait must be made to realize their importance to the nation,” says Pur nell. 3 “The situation is being studied with ‘On every side is evidence of gen- uine and helpful co-operation. Steel manufacturers are speeding up pro- duction, and the varied industries, whose use of steel is in peacetul times enormous, are submitting to sharp re- ductions in their requirements with understanding. But there must be a prompt stimula- tion in the man-power. “It goes right back to the personal equation,” says Frank Purnell, assist- ant to Steel Chief Replogle of the war , industries organization. “The manu- faceure of steel requires pig iron, and that means coke, and to get coke we must have miners. “Steel mills can work harder than they are now, but they must have the raw material. Empty cars are waiting to be loaded at the mines. RAILWAY FACILITIES ARE WAY AHEAD OF MINE PRODUCTION.” jew The requirements of the govern- ment cannot be definitely stated. One|the idea of maintaining maximum Fi (ih estimate, which is probably as correct production. The recent reclassifica- x ? ¢ = a7 n " ~ - ; r TT was celebrated: with‘much enthusiasm at the front. Not being at home where they could show their affection for their own Mothers’ Day omy mothers, our boys did everything possible.to make things pleasant for the mothers of France. The photograph shows an American field .artillery band assisting in the ceremonies at a French: cemetery on Mothers’ Day. : tion of war workers helped measur- ably. Gut the military needs of the country are great. There must be fur- ther means taken to assure adequate manpower in industrial activities.” a sany other, is that between now and the end of the year, the government will take 17,000,000 tons of steel. If anything like that is true, then the supply left for commercial users will be small indeed. Hl ‘Manufacturers of “essentials,” which while not strictly for war purposes contribute vitally to the maintenance of the national activities, are not suffering; nor will there be any crip- pling reductions. Standardization. Standardization is meeting the prob- lem of both the “essentiol” and the more important “ono-essential” urers. For instance, by standardizing the OLSNESS ASKS new cap It all enters into the steel program. along with the volumé of manfacture. Steel mills, utilizing in many cases a y for work are operating to about 85 per cent of capacity which is regarded as favorable. The opinion prevails in some welt informed quarters that, although 85, per cent of steel-making iron and 65 per cent of foundry iron is being used for war work, government demands can be met and still leave a fair ton- parts used in agricultural implements, nage of iron for commercial users. RRR RRR ene the compensation allowed by law. A big loss in coal tonnage will be PLANE MAKER CS mee FROM “SOMEWHERE” |__IN. FRANCE) %, FROM BILL > MURNANE. On Active Service with the Amert- can Expeditionary Force, June 16, 1918. Dear: Folks: This is Sunday and the first chance I have had for two weeks to write. Have been on the move nearly the ‘| although, like payday. you never can tell. Saw a few of the Bismarck fellows or rather’ the North Dakota »oys on the road down_here. Talked with (Major Wright of Jamestown and he told me where’ they are but its so far from here that I’m afraid that I may not run onto them for a long time, The general oninion among the troops here is that it will all be over and we'll be home for Christmas. Believe me, I sincerely hope so as I am quite sure that I'll be fed up witn this army life and grub before that and will be mighty glad to be able to hike merrily up to 621 6th street and put away a Presume the boys are home’ by this time and are glad to have some of mother's good cooking again. | The French people in this town are the ‘best we have yet struck and we have. lots of fun trying to talk to them. Haven't learned to talk French. words and with ‘the aid of my French book. can: ge along all right. Went to church this‘ morning in a quaint old church and managed to stay awake all the time except during the sermon. You would pe surprised to see how many U. S. troops were in that church, . There are quite a number of Catholics ‘right in this com- | Life here is not all trenches and mud and altho these are lots of things which aren't just what they could be, don’t get the idea that I’m-in-contia- ual danger or suffering. I'm safe enough at the present and ‘there’s no need of your worrying - about meat all. Anyway, if it should be my-lot to die, what better way could a man ask for than to die fighting for the safety and honor of. his. own country and people. I have. lived and am liv- ing a. fairly good: and ‘clean lite’ and am not afraid to die. Pi Am: hoping everyday to-hear from you and will before lung, I think. With-love to all, Iam prevented by the “war funeral” pact. RUY W, 8, 5. GERMANY IS Your Loving son and brother, . BILL. ABOUT EFFECT OF TAX RULES whole time and not able to get any paper or envelopes. ‘ Have ‘seen a lot of France and‘ at present.we are bil- leted in a pleasant little town. pany. 2 Thought for a while that I would try and get a transfer to the Norton good meal whenever I feel so inclined. T am feeling fine and despite the fact that I am working hard every Pvt. Wm. M. Murnane, yet but am picking up quite alot | Co. H. 139th ‘Inf. State Insurance Commissioner Ols: a day am gaining weight all the time} Dakota outfit but-as they are in an ness is engaged in an endeavor to ABANDONING ‘Have had no maii -yet and am|and will soon be able to hold my own | entirely different division its practical- A. EF. mighty anxious: to know how you all] with’ a Hun or so when I get ‘to a ly impossible so Wwill:have to ne satis- BUY W. 5,8. straighten out mutual hail, cyclone; and fire insurance companies, par- ticularly, and mutual telephone, cream- -ery and elevator companies incident- ally, on the workings of the federal ineme tax law as regards such cor- porations. Mr. Olsness has had con- siderable correspondence with B. C. Keith, deputy interna] revenue com- missioner, and with Commissioner Daniel Roper relative to the question. Paragraph 10 of Sec. 11 of the income tax law woulde seem to exempt com-|discarded Christianity. panies of this kind which are main-; Of course, the world has known tained purely for mutual benefit. In-|that she discarded its practice in 1914, ternal Revenue Collector Coffee has|but now she has thrown off all pre- held otherwise, and he has levied/tense at being a Christian nation and against mutual companies whose treas-/has adopted all sorts of substitute uries showed a balance at the close of | religions. the year. Probably fifty percent of} The tribulations of the fourth year the. companies have paid this tax,/of the war have produced an extraor- while the remainder have awaited a dinary crop of strange cults in Hun- definite decision from the insurance land, in which the most decadent \ department. In no case has the tax|forms of immorality have been fan- assessed been greater than $50, and in tastically garbed in the abandoned many instancés it has been as low aS! shreds of genuine faiths. fifty cents. The balance assessed has Morality Abolished. been that, usually accumulated by mu-| Morality, truth and honor are abol- tyal companies which charge a small ished and all those restraints which premium fee at the beginning of the bind normal communities together are year. This fee usually is not large dispensed with. enough to cover any heavy losses, and} The most popular of the new “er- an assessment is made on the mem-|satz” religions of Germany is that bers in the event of such losses. created by Ludwig Reuner, a Leipzig .Commissioner Roper has advised In-| pan-German, who has set forth the } surance Commissioner Olsness that} tenets of his-“faith” in a book which | campanies of this type do not lose!has already, passed through two edi- their exemption if they receive mere-| tions, It is entitled, “German Nature ly, an incidental income, but he states} Worship; A Religion Based on Scien- that any mutual fire insurance com-|tific Grounds.” panies which issue policies for a stip- No Use For Prayer. ulated cash premium is not exempt} In its preface the pan-German au-|a reward for their war services has | under the income law. By “incident-|thor declares: been introduced in the’French ¢ham: |, al income” the commissioner refers to] “A really German religion cannot | ber. i interest on depesits, etc. emanate from the international ‘Chris- (‘Commissioner Olsness, still unsatis-|tendom that is foreign to our future. | fied with the stitus of the question, } has finally asked the department at | Washington: “Will the mere fact that a partial premium is collected at the time of the application, which is of- ten inadequate so that. in case of heavier losses an assessment must bé made anyway, be the decisive fac- tor to determine the question of lia- bility for thi stax or the reverse?” ‘Mr. Olsness has to date received no reply to this question. Farmers’ mutual insurance compan- ies, creameries, telephone companies, elevators and like organizations con- ducted purely for the purpose of meet- ing losses and expenses of their mem- bers are excluded from this tax, ap- parently, in Par. 10 of Sec. 11\ of the act, said Mr. Olsness in discussing are. Mail should start ‘coming sdon| place where I may meet one or two. | fied where I am. Tribune Wani-Adé Bring Results. ITS RELIGION Immoral Cults Replace Chris- tianity; Truth and Honor Ab- ; woe B. sent from New “Faiths” HANDLEY PAGE « Handley Page, designer and manu- facturer of the famous Handley Page aerial bombing dreadnaught, may, some'day-be given credit: by histor: ians for winning the war, for the man who builds the airplane.that drops the most bombs on Berlin and gets away will probably earn that title. RRR RRR eee The modernized German religion, for. example, has no use for prayer as it is generally conceived. “This will be replaced by certain physical’ and spiritual movements of various descriptions, such as system- atic morning exercises, -ablutions and baths, deep breathing and holding of breath, singing, dancing, the reading of beautiful poems and the contempla- tion of distinguished works of are, exercise in will control, mutual auto- ===! | Mail Subscribers devotees and so forth.” . BUY W. 5S. FRENCH WOMEN MAY OBTAIN SUFFRAGE (By, Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.) Amsterdam, July 27—Germany has —. By News Enterprise Ass'n, i i ‘ i (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Owing to shortage of Print Paper, the. government : ‘ ue HL 2 grant votes to the French women as insists that all mail subscriptions: not paid in advance i 7 4 be cut off the list. % ge BUY W.S. 8.——— Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. Examine the yellow label on your paper. If you:are “not paid up in advance, kindly mail remittance*so that you will not miss a copy. ouch ; i ae On August first the Circulation Department will re- , “ vise its mailing lists and all ‘subscribers to Daily and sere <= ‘ Weekly Tribune in arrears will be dropped from the list. Look at your label today. \ S x been in use for over ‘thirty years, has borne the: signature of ‘The Kind You Have Always Bought, and. which has tie ‘matter. at ant now endeavoring d ISCO" v] ance company 1s ‘subject th tneome te CAME. end Pa Ladi ae et pie Per- * 7 * ie | aauer he or whether Gone Altai perme apap Marois Je Gay. In face.of the high cost.of production, The Tribune | r Roper would include all such 7 +4 oF a All Counterfeits, Imitations and “‘ Just-as-good ? i i i | Parein geet aye each bedyander Experiments that trifle with and eaiectet ins edie management has retained its’ old-rate by’ mail of $4 a | BUY W. 8, 6——— Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. : ; 3 p> MINERS ADOPT What:is CASTORIA bags 2 : | WAR FUNERAL” Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, x This rate can only be maintained by enforcing’ the ‘paid in advance regulation which the United States ‘postal authorities insist upon. Send Your Remittance | Drops and Sodthing Syrups. It is pleasant. ‘It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more. than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Coristipation, Flatulency, ‘Wind Colic ‘and Diarrhoea; allaying Féverishness arising brat ana Sy roulitiag the stoner and Bowels, aids . imilation o: $ giving healthy and natural sleep. The ChHtdren’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA Atways | Bears the Signature of ' Agree to Stay at Work When Comrades Die ‘ (By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n.) Washington, July 27.—The “war fu- , Neral” will hereafter be observed in the/anthracite regions. It is a patri- otic agreement’ between the operat- ors and men’s representatives, on one side, and the United States Fuel Ad- ministration, on the other. Its ob- ject is to speed up the prodiction of coal. (As far back as memory goes, it has been the miners’ custom to quit work one day to attend the funeral of a worker killed in the performance of his job. The. “layoff” would affect aii entire colliery. Under the new agreement, a committee of six will at- tend the funeral while the rest of the mourmers keep on working. _ fhe .company. employing the men Hected will pay the. day’s' wages of the six committeemen and, in addi- tion, |will pay: the nearest heirs of the ‘deceased’-$150. over and sbove In Use For Over 30 Yea The Kin