The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 27, 1918, Page 4

FOUR® BISMARCK DAILY. TRIBUNE TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918.' THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Eittered at tho Postoffice, Bismarck, N. DB, ‘as Second = >. Editor OMPANY, ‘s Class Matter GEORGE D. MANN - —- % LoGaN inn’ Ra tative ec 1a ‘oreign epresen i NEW YORK, Fifth Ave. Blig.; CHICAGO, Bldg.; BOSTON, 3 Winter St.; DETRO Bldg. MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber- Exchange. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use ication of all news credited to it or not other- for repute algo the local news pub- wise coed in this paper and All rights of publication of special dispatches herein or glee reserved: publication of special dispatches herein se EE AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVAN Dail: carrier per year. -$6.00 Dally ty aah per yer ae i mail per year (jn state). + Daily by mail Titside of North Dako! . 6.00 a. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) One year by mail........ + $4.00 Six months by mai i ac Three mail + A eis Voutside of North Dakota) $5.00 a s One year .. Bix ponths “THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1878) ee JOLTING DAN CUPID. Now, what do you think of this? Here’s Mayor Heidenreich of Hazelton, Pa., with an ultimatum that those young persons who have a penchant for moonlight strolls, park benches and shady nooks, shall do their courting in the family parlor here- after. Watch for the exodus of Hazeltonian lads and a sadness on the moon’s face as he beams dowh upon this “spoonless” town! The mayor may mean well, but he doesn’t know human nature. He has forgotten the days—and moonlit evenings—of his youth. From the time “whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary” there have been kings, governors, mayors and parents trying to curb Dan Cupid with rules and reulations. They failed to clip his wings or blunt his arrows. It cannot be done, Mister Mayor. You had bet- ter stick to your office and ’tend to your official knitting. The family parlor is no place to hold hands and exchange those heart-confiding glances —not as long as her pa insists upon talking about the war and her ma wants to* gossip about the weather, and both hang around until a fellow has just enough time to race for the last street car. You connot BUY Thrift Stamps or Liberty Bonds; you INVEST in them. TO A SOLDIER’S HEART Once upor a time a successful but cynical housekeeper informed her marriageable daughters —“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach !” And ever since that day eligible young men have been plied with fudge, invited to dinners, ‘I cooked all by myself,” treated to home made pies and cake, and generally attacked in the seat of digestion—confounded by tradition with the seat of ‘action! Therefore, when all the eligible young men marched away to be soldiers they were pursued to camp and ship by the feminine obsession that the only true expression of devotion was to “feed the brute” and were regularly bombarded with choco- lates, cookies, cake, and other culinary blandish- ments. To the food was added votive offerings of cigarets, guaranteed to inspire gratitude and smoke dreams of the fair donor! Then the ungrateful creatures rose up and ex- ploded the theory of countless ages! They drove the recipe back to its lair. They reduced the most accomplished cooks to hopeless tears. They did all this by writing under the little red triangle the refutation of the charge of utter materialism. Food was NOT the main object of their affections! The girls back home were coldly informed: , “The fudge you sent was delicious, BUT—” and “I liked those cookies fine, BUT”’—and “Don’t bother to send eats, we have plenty here, BUT—” The burthern of that red triangle mail is—“Any gifts in the way of candy and cigarets will be most humbly and thankfuly received, you may be sure, BUT firstly, and foremostly—WRITE TO ME!” There! We knew it! The pen is mightier than the cookbook!. The way to a man’s hearts is not through the stomach—it is through .the post- office! : ‘ “Gott is mit us all right,” explained a German prisoner, “but the Yanks are against us.” Yes, and we'll back the Yanks against the HUN “gott” any day in the week. A CUT IN TIME Cancer is of greater frequency at ages over 40 than tuberculosis, penumonia, typhoid fever or digestive diseases. At ages over 40 one person in 11 dies of cancer. Yet cancer is not a hopeless, incurable dis- ease. If taken at the beginning, the majority of cases of cancer are curable. Practically all cases will end in death if left alone. Cancer is at first a local disease. It is easily cured if promptly recognized and at once re- moved by competent treatment. It is practically always incurable in its later stages. Records of the best hospitals prove that the chances of cure are very high with early operation Marquette IT, Kresege mo mero 33 8 ann os delay. portant. {> DEPARTED GLORIES. . ‘ “For Sale: riage. Would make good trailer.” ads. Want ad columns, like ‘the English ‘Agony’ told. real, hand-buffed leather. the box in front. the first brief bar or two of the tune; and going. to be converted into a trailer. snorting flivver. To be twisted, and yanked at most unseemly speed over thruts and humps and wayside stones. To carry fertilzer, and bawling calves, and swine, and chickens, in the bull bloom of the au- tumnal moult. To sway and weave and bounce at the urge of this oil-breathing, gas-inhaling, dust-kicking devil ahead; and that’s the fate of all this upholstered and carved and polished grandeur. Tough luck, old carriage, tough luck; better to have gone with the ancient team of bays to the bone yard and be ground to dust to enrich the mellow earth, than to return to the highways where once you lorded it, and to return as a mere incidental appendage, yanked and shunted and whipped about by a greasy tin can with a bang inside. J é A War Savings Stamp will knock a HUN off. his feet now and put a pair of shoes on yours five years hence. Invest. \ ' _ YES, WHY NOT? A radical New York person is hot under the col- lar about men wearing collars under:which to get hot. He claims that, in dog days, only dogs should wear them. : He says that a hundred years from now, our neck linen wil be looked back upon with derision, the way today we view as ridiculous the ruffled ruchings wore -by those silk-stockinged, knee- trousered passers-for-men of Queen Elizabeth’s time. Comfort is the shibboleth this reformer shouts. “Defy the conventions!” is his ‘battlecry. Why should a man grope beneath his bureau and Early diagnosis is therefore all im- One finely upholstered family. car- We caught this in a recent reading of the want briefs, provide much raw material for the humor- its and philosopher, for here the wants and don’t | \ wants of a city are tersely, coldly and shamelessly. One family carriage, probably upholstered in With piona polished, hard-wood body, steel springs, gracefully curving shafts, leather top, a bit of brass here and of nickel there; a work of art, for the town bank- er’s wife to flaunt herself in, behind the big bays, with Pompey, the ante-bellum coachman, up on| All this vehicular glory for a song; aye for To have its high proudness hitched behind a SLEEPLESS WIGUTS ON 7! {LETTERS FROM | “SOMEWHERE” | IN FRANCE o FROM NEIL REID. , A. E. F., France, June 22. Dear Russel: , I wonder how you are at home. I will only have time to write.a. short letter. Iam back to the Co. ‘again and I am feeling .fine...Saw Bobby Work: he had a letter -from, Stewart yesterday and‘ he and Austin are feel- to see them. ces Well, Russel, I got a surprise when I got back to the Go. .I-had. been ad- vanced to corporal while I-was in the hospital. Of course, it means some responsibility, bu: am going to try and take care of Twill do my best to hold it down. .. How. is Sterling? I suppose you are both: working. . With4love, ! NEIL. . —»- swear beneath his breath, why choke himself pur- ple to be polite? Witness:woman’s low-cut cre- ations. / Woman’s beauty is man’s unsightliness. Say you so? Doesn’t that corded throat and kuotted chest symbolize the protecting strength o’er which the romantic fair sex dreams and sighs? Then hide not broad bronze or marble bosom} ‘neath haberdasher’s camouflage. Rip the top buttons from your shirt—if the laundry hasn’t already dont it—and bare-chested, expose the gyrations of your Adam’s apple to the elements and society’s storm of wrath! ‘ | WITH THE EDITORS VON BOEHN, MASTER RETREATIST. The German armies are preparing to step back- ward again, but even better news than that, the German MIND is in retreat. The All-highest has shifted his tactics. In place of’ Hindenburg and Ludendorff he has placed Von Boehn at the head of the German armies on the Somme front. Hindenburg and Ludendorff were “go-ahead” generals. Their successor is a specialist in re- treating. 2 : It should hearten the souls of the-world to see that the Kaiser is beginning to recognize the in- evitable, that he is preparing to march toward Berlin instead of Paris. \ \ No man prepares for what he does not expect. The beating back of the German forces since the first day at Chateau-Thierry ‘has changed the mental attitude of the whole German people. It is no longer inspired by hope of ultimate victory. Its dream of conquest is changing into a night-mare of its own downfall. Back of the lines across the Rhine, uncertainty and fear are breaking the morale. Anxious eyes watch the skies for the bombing squadrons of the allied airmen. Dynamite is hard to dodge. Out of the storehouses of Russia the promised food has failed to come. 5 You may convince a man’s mind but you cannot argue with his stomach. Promises may feed his intellect but they fail to sustain his body. y ¥ Foch, like the lightning of the Heavens, threat- ens, but no one knows where. The certainty and cocksureness of 1914 has dis- appeared. Germany is no longer uber alles. Hope is going into an eclipse. Y The choice of a general whose greatest accom- plishment is retreating is good news in itself. It and that these chances decrease with every day of! is better news in all that it indicates, Washing- ton Times, ; < jwith: them, but I am stationed back “)Byng 0” the Tanks” last year. 3 June 25, 1918. Dear, Dad: Se Bade Only’ a note this time, to. let. you know I, am feeling ‘fine.and back to the Co: again, and) it seems good to be doing something again. 1 missed my mail. I guessstle Co. clerk sent it back to the postoffide: “I ‘expect to hear ‘from Austin... 4 ‘ “ With" Tove * NEIL, June 28,: 1918. Dear Mamma: é I have gotten somé mail at’last. 1 was sure glad to get, it. Some of it was not very old, about a’ month. Our, Co is still at the front.‘ I am a way from the front line. Am work- ing very hard. right now. and,in no great danger, so don’t worry. about me. Things look like a speedy finish in the war. The Germans are beaten now, but they don’t like to admit. it. Am going ‘to try and’ find Austin soon. Dear Mother: With love to you all.”” NEIL. I am wondering what kind of a 4th of July you had; + we surely had an exciting time here. I-guess the Ger- mans thought so; they did not think much:of our 4th of*July celebration, but they had nothing to say about it. We sure gave them a hot old time. They who were left of them won't forget it for awhile. We are relieved from the front again and it’ seems good to lie around in a clean, quiet place and rest with your steel helmet and gas mask off. -Bobby Work got safe through it, too,'and is driving a truck just now. We are ‘still trying to see Stewart and: Austin, They: are giving ‘usgdod. things to eat. You ought to see..the T-bone steak I-had for dinner. ‘What’are the crops like in North Dakota, .There are some great fields here, but some of them are ruined, with.shells and mus- tard gas. I had a letter from ex-Gov. L. B. Hanna dnd was surprised to know he was over here and awfully glad he is. He said he would: try to do ‘everything for the North Dakota boys over here, and you bet we are all glad\he is here. He said he had BYNG- He's the man who. is’ Jeading the British troops in,their new offensive ing fine. We are trying to get a pass! WILATLM STRASSE] cA a letter from you and papa in June, and said you were so anxious about me, but I know you have word long {before this. With love, , NEIL. July 25, 1918. Dear Mamma: F | It is. some time since I wrote last, but I have been too busy. I would not have been able to mail it if I had written. Bob Work had a letter from Stewart yesterday, saying Austin was on 8-day pass and said he was trying to find me. The letter was dated July 12, so he will have gone back |to the Co. by this time. I know’he could not get to where I was then, anyway. I believe I know just where Austin and Stewart are now. I think we will be granted passes’ for a few days. As soon as ‘I see him I will cable you, so you have probably got- ten the cable before this letter reaches you, 3 FA We had a really exciting, time’ at the front this time. Germans whether the American boys could fight or not. We sure gave them the surprise of their lives. j We are now located in a fine town and I had some snaps taken. I hope I get some mail soon. How is. Rus~ sell and Sterling and Papa. Tell Sterling I have seen many young Ger- man boys in the army who don’t look any older than he does. Give my re- gards to Dr. Gilmore. Tell Papa I have seen a regiment of Kilties and they are sure a fine looking bunch of soldiers. \ I picked this card up in a German dugout, shortly after it had been va- cated by them. Get someone to trans- late the German for you. With love, / NEIL REID. Corporal Neil Reid, Co. C, 2nd Battalion, Signal Corps, A. EF. FROM AUSTIN REID. . A. EF, July 5, 1938. Dear Mamma: i I wonder how everyone is at home. I have had no mail for a‘long. time. Something wrong with the, mail. We pulled: off a big shoot this after- noon, everything went off fine—not’a hitch in the whole works. _There was nothing left of the field when we got cers out to see it. Col. Fraine was there. I was talking to him about the guns. Also saw,Col. Grafton. I saw a soldier here on the 4th who belong- ed to our battery in the U.S. He just lately saw Neil and said he was_look- fing good and was fat. I saw Sergt.] Stuck, from K: C., just before he left for the front. Murray Dickson is still here. With love, AUSTIN. ‘ July 9, 1918. Dear Mamma: I am having the time of my life. We have an eight days’ leave and are at Aix les Bains, in part of the Alps. We left the fort last night. Took the train from there, but they were different We are staying at a grand place. It was a summer resort. It is given over to the soldiers now. They gave us a fine five-course dinner today and we drove around the town. It sure was a beautiful sight to see mountains on| both sides of the city. We drove down to a big lake; 14 mile from here-and had a good plunge. I tell you it felt good. The Y. M. C. A. here is an old French club house. It is a wonderful building. We are to have a show here tonight. é Everywhere are American soldiers. The French people here speak good English. I have met some of the Co. A boys—Art and Jim Brown and Bill Posner. I had a letter from Neil. He wants me to come and see him.* I put in for a pass, but I am doubtful if I get it. I saw a sergeant from Neil’s Co. He was going back there today, and he said he would look Neil up and ‘tell him where I was. \ 3 July 17, 1918. Dear Mamma: We are going back to the fort to- night, but’ I cannot say which- way we will go. Judging from what we hear is going on at the front, there We showed. the |. through. There were a group of offi-|_ cars from those we came in to France. |* to Mont Reward and got a better view of- Mt. Blanc. It was a great sight. We saw what is’ called the Harnibal Pass, where Hannibal passed through the Alps with his elephants to capture the city of Rome. July 27, 1918. Dear Mamma: Got back to the fort and got two letters from you and two from Neil. He has been advanced to corporal. |I think that is pretty good. Isheard ;Herman Brocopp and Norman Flow |were coming up here to officers’ tschool, but F have not seen them yet. iI saw Skinner last Saturday and he said he did not think they were com- ing. Most of our. battery is up town, doing police duty again. By what we sae in the papers, the Americans are giving the Germans a surprise. About the time we get into battle Germany will be wanting peace. ‘ Write soon and send me some Trib- unes. With love, AUSTIN. Austin Reid, 116th French Mortar Battery, A. ELF. FROM HARRY DENZIE, Dear Father: Just a few lines to let you know ; that I am getting along fine, amd hope you are the same. Tell Mrs. Nickelby that I will answer her letter in a few days. ‘ | Say, Dad, the next time you write send me some Auto Strop razor blades in your letter; as many as’ you can put in, about three or four at a time, as they are hard to get; so by putting them in your letter you can send them just a few at a time. I have only three left, so hurry them up. There is one more thing I want you to do, that is this, as you know, I have a $1500. insurance certificate made out to you, so in case anything happens to me over here, and you re- ceive the full) amount, I want you to take half of the amount of the insur. ance and send it to sister Bertha; so be sure and do that. , Well, will close for this time, hop- ing you will do this for me. Give my regards to everyone. { From your son, HARRY. Harry H. Denzie, < AGlst Ambulance Co.. 116th SanitaryTran., A. E. F. FROM LIEUT. FERRIS CORDNER. » A.E.F,, July 20, 1918. Dear Mother: Just got back from leave Tuesday, and found one letter from you waiting me. I don’t know whether I: should tell you or not as to where I was, so won't take any chances, but spent a few days at one of France's famous summer re- sorts. Will say that I had a chance to see Paris. You would be surprised at the num- ber of French of the better class that can speak English, and they are all | [deconmenren For BRAVERY 1H ACTION FRIEND HUSBAND Wito NEVER FORGETS To, ver help the Americans. aE 1 just want to take one more trip and then I'll have seen all of France 1. care to. The band is here now and it sure seems good to hear some real music. They give two concerts every day, besides playing for a short while. ‘There are a great many old ruins and beautiful places in France that I have read about but never expected to see, that I saw on this trip. Saw one old walled city that is Supposed to be the oldest in France. The old dun- geons and moats and drawbridges are still intact. Traveled about one-half day through snow-capped mountains, which were very beautiful for dress parade. 4 ‘The Americans and French are mak- ing a drive now and all the people are tickled to death, They think the war will end very soon. Heard Bismarck was to have a big time the Fourth. How did it turn out? With love, FERRIS. Ferris Cordner. Lieut. 164th Inf. A. Eo F. ———_BUY W, §. §.——— TANK UNIT NOW READY, — “Treat "Em Rough” Finish Traine ing in England, 4 First American Battalion Is Taught by Veterans of British Tank Service, ’ é With the American Army fn Enge land.—Another consignment of Amerf- ean man power, that might be labeled “Made in England,” is ready for ship- ment to the western front. It ts the personnel of the first American tank battalion. i Trained by veterans of the British tank service and equipped ‘with the most modern of the land war ships, the new force will give an excellent account of Itself. The British coaches their approval of the manner in which their pupils have adapted themselves’ to the operation of the machines and, unless they are mistaken, the men whose training in England ts just be- ing completed will be given enviable roles. Their machines have the hest points of ‘both the British and French tanks and the training of the men has been in the light of experience already gained by the fighters of France and England. To every man in the American outfit there have been imparted the stories of mistakes made in the early history of tank warfare. Enlisted men and of- ficers have been told what to do and what not to do; all thelr ndmonitions have been based not on theory but.on actual experiences, gained in the fac@d of German fire, loosed always upon the slightest intimation that the tanks are lumbering to the front. It is expected that because of. the excellence. of the weapon with which it will fight and the training It has undergone the American contingent will prove itself exceptionally eiticient, Further cause for believing. the American Tank Corps will live up to the estimate of the British instructors is the character of its personnel, both Teen and officers, They are carefully selected men, picked from the thous sands who volunteered when the call for tank men was made. Two base requisites were insisted upon: First, every man must be physically ft. and, second, temperamentally adaptable, The training every man has recetved has meant either that he is delivered to the commanders at the front as wonderfully efficient unit or is mercl+ lecsly thrown out of. the’ service. Hit {3 1urned over to the fizhting force as fu expert mechanic, a man drilled !n the operation of both machine gun¢ and heavier ordnance, a tactician and steniegist, ond, finally, as a man with no evidence of “nerves,” FUN IN POOLROOM ROUND-UP Patrolman Assisting in Raid Unable te Produce Registration Card ‘When Demanded. | Knoxville, Tenn.—Amusing inet. dents occurred here during the “round: up” of more than 300 youths in twelve Poolrooms, A deputy sheriff asked one of the patrolmen, who is in the dratt age and who was assisting in the “round-up,” to produce his final. card, After making a few feeble excuses the Patrolman had to admit that he did not have his final card with him. The situation was relieved, however, when the patrolman applied at his local board and secured a card, In another instance a young meq told the officers that he wanted ta Join the navy. He was taken to the office of the naval recruiting station, His legs began to do the Hula Hula and with his teeth chattering an ac companiment he moaned: “Boss, 1 specs I'd rather not jine the navy, somethin’ might happen to the boat T’se’on.” WOMAN REGAINS HER SPEECH Excitement of Seeing Son Leave fot Arnty Results In Recovery of Voice, t Northampton, Mass—“Oh, James,” exclaimed Mrs. Martin §, Hardman as She bade her son good-by at the sta: tlon when he went to join the draft army at Camp Devens. It was the first time she had spoken in a year and @ half, the excitement of seeing her son leave resulting In the recovery of her voice. Physicians who had been un: able to explain her loss of voice had Predicted that she might be able ta Tegain it in some emotional crisis, Y'KNOW = LICKIN THRIET STAMPS, HELPS GIVE TH’ HUNS A LICKIN’! in Picardy. He became famous as yey} Will be no more passes, We were up MAIL +#I1S WIFE'S LETTERS @ ar ~- glad to do anything Yhey can to. of the American crews have expressed .