The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 13, 1918, Page 8

, King of Serbia born . FIGURES PROVE WAR WILL END DURING YEAR Mathematical Sharps at Great Lakes Dope Out Prophesy MARINES WILL BE THERE Great Lakes, IIL, Aug. 13.—The great question as to when the war will-end has at last been solved, t) an unknown “seer” who letter to Assistant P% Doyle of the ¢ S ing station enclosing a table of fig ures, based on the date of birth, first year of leadership, present ge, and length of office of eight leaders of the principal allies. The informant is positive the war will end this year. He points out that} the total for each leader is. 3836 which, divided by two, give 1918. Here are the uncanny , figures as bublished by the Great Lakes Bul- President Wilson born ., 2 Was elected . Years ruling \. Years old .,.. President of France born Was elected .. Years ruling . Years old .... ba TOUR i 5.0'ce:starstatane ec eieteie t 3836 King of Italy » 1867 Starter to rule . Years ruling . Years old ... Started to rule ... Years ruling . Years old King of England born .. Started to rule ... Years ruling: . Y King of Belgium born Years ruling ..... ‘18 eYars ruling . y Years old Czar .of Russia born. . Started ta rile Years ruling” Years old .. Emperor of ‘Japan born Started to rule . Yeats ruling .. Age Divide 3886 by ? and the 1918, when the war will end. “Remarkable. as the, figures may seem,” adds the Bulletin, “any earn- est student of the Bluejacket’s Man- ual, who is preparing for his wérk in selding the ‘treat-em-rough’ boys over there with the cold steel argument can tell you who the winner will be, and perhaps that is the most import- ant part after all.” 4 “Which suggests the saying: “Figures don’t lie—but liars will fig- ure, and, judging by the number of times Von Hindenburg has figured on reaching Paris, he is some figurer.” BUY W. 8,5. —— Tribune Want Ads Bring Results. ‘CHRISTENED Fresige it and Mrs, Woodrow Wil- son al launchints of the first ship fabricatedat-the-Hog Island, Phila- | age garden there is actually more j art of food evaporation has largely | housewife, owing to the. cheapness of delphia, shipyards.“ Mrs.’ Wilson christened the ship ‘“Quistonck.” i : IF YOU CANNOT GET COAL, BURN WATER | fi Are you worrying about coal) ‘shortage, Mr. Manufacturer? Does ithe qutlook spell “shutting down” | for you? Do not he discouraged. A} remedy is at hand; a remedy tried. land proved by ‘many manufacturers. ! Use water power. j Where is this water power, do you; ask? Good sites in the United! States have been pre-empted pretty | York, Ontario’s to New York and! cost in proportion to the increase, in Granted, then ' Minnesota, and British Columbia’s! demand and .use, makes. it. ‘clear- generally, you say. lwhy not cross the border irto, ‘Canada and use some of that | teen million horse-power water \power going to waste over there?) and Quebec, the source of two-thirds | world’s markets will také advantage Why do the Canadians not use it,! of the available current, may be sur-/ of this fact by locating in Canada you ask. They do use some, but not ‘all, Canada has an available water ipower of ‘almost nineteen million jorse-power of which she uses about 10%. This. small percentage sup- lies, with a few exceptions, all the rincipal Canadian cities and a great majority of its towns and villages, ; plants with a demand of abot as|It has lands suited to. diversified jand not a few farms, with hydro: | lelectric energy., Further, this 10% |! jelds a considerable surplus which | “ exported. New Brunswick's sur- | abeke Falls near Fort William Oxbario to Washington. | The bearing which this exporta-/ tion of power has upon the imports| of coal into the provinces of Ontario/ mised. Since the war resulted in a/ scarcity of vessels for transporting coal up the St. Lawrence for the in-! dustries of Montreal, there have been converted to the use of ‘electrical energy in that vicinity, no less than| one hundred and fifty private steam | many thousand horse-power. Others | are considering a like transforma- tion. J : 2 Hydro power being the one neces- | ‘slus goes to Maine, Quebec’s te New! sary commodity which decreases inj travel to far distant markets, RRR RRR AUTOMATIC ARMY MAY. WIN WAR! IERS ARE U STEEL SOOLD a En A i a (National Crop Improvement Service.] 6c 5S we see it, our patriotic duty is to utilize our crops to the if every ounce of available food possible. “It 18 avery simple matter to dry ruits, berries and vegetables. We are best advantage after having |2°¥ advocating that after these vege- grown them,” says Mr. Frank Baackeg, | who has organized the Agricultural i Commission of the American Steel and ; ables are dried that they be ground n-a hand-mill and put. away in meal’ form in ordinary coffee or baking- Wire Company, “t6 form local units to | POWder tins, to be used throughout supplement the advice given by the |! Government in Bulletin 984, on drying | of fruits and vegetables. “Everybody knows that in the aver- produce wasted than utilized. This is due to the fact that the old-fashioned been discontinued, and the modern sugar in the past decade, has confined | her efforts in food conservation to | preserves, jams and jellies. he winter und spring for soups, ome-, lets, casserole dishes, lamb stews, and {as flavoring for an infinite number of savory dishes. mental department, making meals of parsley, turnips, cabbages, onions, car- rots, peas, soy beans, parsnips, toma- toes and kohirabi with ,entire success. We are, in our experi- “Potato flour is one of the most“use- | ful of all the common desiccated vege- | | tables. It should be made im large | quantities by utilizing the small pota- oes. Containing as it does, all of the food elements in this valuable tuber, “When I was'a boy every farmer | 25 to 30 per cent of it may be included had strings of pumpkin, squash, dried | with wheat flour, making a white. apples, peaches, sweet corn, and many | wholesome bread which has flavor and other fruits and vegetables which were | keeping qualities second to none. laid away for future use and served when fresh yegetables were not to be | table meal are many. ad. Modern transportation brings\us | home-made drier any lot of vegetables.| when \No.. 4 pulled out'this morning. “The advantages of making, vege- On a small smatoes, lettuce, radishes, onions, etc., | may be quickly dried and conveniently. ‘ery month of the year from the| ground so that the work connected ‘uth, and city people have formed the | with the operation is very light. Lit- bit of eating fresh vegetables in'and | erally tons of vegetables can be con- it of season. But, in this war, lack | served in meal form. We are very { cars and the necessity of consery-| glad to supplement the work of the ag-our grains for~ shipping -to@ked. ‘Rood Administration .in-pushing- this Allies make it imperative that we save | very important campaign.” BISMARCK DAILY TRIB! ly the manufacturing force of the future; and us coal is: not at all likely to revert. to. pre-war prices, many industriés supplying | the where raw materials are plentiful. The vanguard is already there and reaping benefits. + Canada ‘is: blessed: with almost every form of the basic elements ‘of manufacture and the natural powers by which these may be developed. agriculture sufficient to sustain a greatly increased industrial popula- tion. Canada is crossed by great trade rcutes over which Canadian products NA NDEFEATABLE (By Newspaper Enterprige Ass'n) ‘London! Aug. 13.—A Danish engi- neer has taken ‘out. ‘patent’ for an apparatus he has constructed which he calls “The Automatic Soldier.” | It consists of a steel cylinder with- lin a larger cylinder, the whole being | sunk vertically into the ground. By means of a simple mechanism set in | motion by wireless telegraphy, the } inner |cylinder. rises 18 inches above | the ground, my At’the same*time an automatic rifle mounted on the inner ‘cylinder fires 400 shots in “any direction desired. | These “automatic soldiers” can be | controlled from a. posjtion:tomr or five | miles behihd the line of defense. They can be seen by the enemy only when they rise from the.ground ,and their installation is a .simple,.operation. Trials already made:have proved that a few hundreds of these: mechan- ical soldiers can easily defenda posi- tion against all infantry attacks, how- ever numerous the opposing force may be. Panic or disorder affect them not, and they blaze away without | flinching. Aoi ey ‘To overcome them they must be de- stroyed one by one. which” ¢aii"be ac- complished only by a direct hit from a shell, and as they are’controled by | wireless there is no means, of demo- bilizing them. Bi Pete Danish military experts who have examined the invention. declare it | would ‘be feasible to line up the auto- matic soldiers in the sectors most ex- posed to attack, human’ soldiers de- ing held in reserve.in fhe,more.easily defended positions. .An army oper- ated on these. lines, they.say, could win all the battles it fought. BUY W. S. 8. \BAND TURNS:OUT IN: FAREWELL.TO BROOKS HOSKINS | Brooks Hoskins, one -of the mokt | popular of local boys drafted into ser- vice, ‘was: given a rousing farewell Within the .draft age, he elected to join the engineers corps and left to- day for Washington Barracks, Wash- ington, D. C., where he goes into train- ing for overseas*service. ° Mr...Hoskins, is.‘a-graduate mining ‘his friends were at the train this The jand wirs. R. D. Hoskins. morning, to wish«him success. Fiks’ band was at the station and |doing (Brooks Hogkins is the son of Mr. eral's department His father ts | ly in keeping the his bit for Uncle Sam by’serv-| the operation of and has aided great-@ local machinery for the draft running Blayed several selections. ing efficiently with the gdjutant: gen- | smoothly. engineer und followed his ‘profession for~three- years before -entering-the} firm‘ of Hoskins.A large ‘humber’ of} ’ To Publishers of Daily aid Sunday Newspapers: ie The Priorities Board of the War Industries Board has‘ listed Paper Mills as an: essential industry, and has rated them in Fourth Class for priority for coal, on the distinct understanding that the greatest possible econ- ‘omy in the use of paper be exercised, and that the re- duction in the use of paper by the newspapers shall be fifteen per cent on weekly editions and twenty percent on-Sunday editions. |, 4 Each paper will be put upon the priority list for coal, conditional upon their. signing a pledge, that they will furnish no paper to any consumer who will not also sign a pledge in duplicate that he will exercise the greatest possible economy in theuse of paper, and will observe all rules and regulations of the Conservation Division and of the Pulp and Paper Section of the War Industries Board. » These pledges are now being prepared and will be furnished shortly. One copy will be left on file with the mill and thé other will be sent to this office. The War Committee of Newspaper Publishers be- lieve that this curtailment should be accomplished by the elimination of all wasteful practices and by the reduc- tion of size of all'newspapers, and to this end have made the following recorhmendations to the Pulp and Paper” Section of the War Industries Board. If by October Ist, 1918, the above reductions are not accomplised, addition- al curtailment will bé put into effect at that time. . These recommendations have been accepted by the Pulp and Paper Section of the War Industries Board as controlling the weekly and Sunday newspapers. \ s . : Wasteful Practices of Circulation. (Effective immediately) , 1. Discontinue the acceptance of the return of unsold copies. Exceptions: ‘Employees of newspapers who are employed directly at the home “office by a newspaper, as wholesale distributors to newsboys, newsagents, and newsstands, may return unsold copies, provided such un- sold copies have not been in the possession of retail dealers, newsstands or newsboys. Such employees cannot take back, under any consideration, papers which already have been distributed for sale. 2.. Discontinue sending “papers after date of expiration of subscrip- tion unless subscription is. renewed arid paid for. (This ruling to be ef- fective October 1 1918.) ; 3., Discontinue ‘the use of all samples or free promotion copies. 4... Discontinue giving copies to anybody except for office-working ‘copies or where required by statute law in the case of official advertising. Exceptions: . Vie Copies may be,given free to employees. of newspapers if such is the present- practice of the office. Copies may-be given free to former employees who, are in the war service, and copies may be sent free to camp libraries of institutions recog- nized. by the Government, such as Y. M. C. A., K. of C., ete: Copies should not be sent to individual soldiers unless formerly employed by the news-: paper. ; 3 Copies may be sent to the Library of. Congress and to State and other public libraries which will agree to bind or otherwise permanently pre- serve the files of the paper; also to Government. Departmental libraries. Copies may be given free in return for actual services rendered. - Copies may.be sent to clipping bureaus which render an equivalent service to the newspapers. , , Copies for service purposes only may be sent free to newspapers’ cor- respondents and press bureaus. . 5. Discontinue giving free copies to advertisers, except not-more than one copy each for checking purposes. Exceptions: 4 Any advertiser who customafily places advertisements with the news- paper in at’least four issues each week and advertising agencies from whom the publisher receives advertising regularly may be put on the reg- ular mailing list to facilitate handling in the maillng room. Seta Copies must riot be sent as a means of advertising the newspaper jt- self to advertising agencies from whom the publisher does not regularly receive business. ‘ i : 6. Discontiue selling advertising with a guarantee of circulation re- quiring a rebate if circulation falls below.guaranteed amount. . %, Discontinue the arbitrary forcing of copies on newsdealers (i. e. compelling them to buy more copies than they can legitimately sell in order to hold certain 'territory). j : i 8. Discontinue the buying baek of papers at either wholesale or re- tail selling price from dealers or agents, in order to secure preferential representation. . 9. Discontinue the payment of salaries or commissions to agents, dealers, or newsboys for the purpose of securing the equivalent of return privileges: “ 10. . Discontinue all cash discounts or bonuses to wholesalers or. re- tailers. edie 11. Discontiue all free exchanges: Curtailment of Reading Matter - Reading matter consists of all matter printed, except paid advertise- ments, and the following schedules are based upon a standard column of 300 agate lines. The following curtailments are based on the average amount of reading matter published during the six months period January Ast to June 30th, 1918. \ Weekday Editions. Effective August 12, 1918. Reduce reading matter up to 50 columns five (5) per cent. | Reduce on additional space over 50 columns and not over 70 columns fifteen (15) per cent. Reduce on additional space over 70 and not over 90 columns thirty (30) _per,cent. i ; Reduce on all additional space over 90 columns fifty (50 per cent.- Sunday Edition. Effective September 1, 1918. Reduce reading matter up to 150 columns ten (10). per cent. Reduce on‘additional space over 150 columns and up to 200 columns twenty (20) per cent. Reduce on additional space over 200 golurnns and up to 250 columns thirty (30) per cent. Reduce on additional space over 250 columns and up to 300 columns forty (40) per cent. -. Reduce on additional space over 300 columns and up to 350 columns fifty (50) per cent. 5 Reduce on all additional space over 350 columns sixty (60) per cent. Because of the absolute necessity of curtailing the use of paper, the Pulp and Paper Section of the War Industries Board has’ruled that during the war no new newspaper shall be established. ; ~ . Yours very truly,’ < ‘THOS. E. DONNELLEY, Chief, Pulp and Paper Section. s August 5, 1918.