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i NEW YO - THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Class Matter GEORGE D WANN. - = = Eeitor ¢. 7 Special Foreign Re} tative Fifth Ave Bldg, CHICAGO, Marquette Blig.; BOSTON, 8 Winter St.; DETROIT, Kresege 7 MINNEAPOLIS, 810 Lumber Exchange. EMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS ter ‘The nusociated Pres is exclosivel entived to the Ares repul n all news c: it or not of perce ew ga ae edal ee bes the local news pub- herein. ‘All rights ‘of publication of special dispatches herein = a? rete f publication of special dispatches herein © also reserved. ere ‘ MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE gan 3338 Daily by mail Sutslde of North utside of No: iar ‘SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In North Dakota) S3 BSS 858 33 ros aa oo THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) fa ad IF YOU WOULD SEE: Don’t subject the eyes to prolonged reading or close application against a bright light. The con- tinued strain weakens the eyes. Don’t try to read in a dim light; it results in fatigue and latter irritability. Don’t try to rest yourself by reading when you are tired. Your eyes are just as tired as you are. Don’t rely entirely on moral persuasion to cor- rect a child’s tendency to rub his nose against the book he is reading; first find out why he does it. Don’t subject the eyes to contact with dust. Dust carries germs. Don’t try to remove foreign substances from the: eye with unwashed fingers. ‘ Don’t rub eyelids with the hands because the former happen to smart. Don’t wash your face in water just used by someone else. “HUNS Reel”—and it’s a real reel, too. Well regulated furnaces help win the war. ‘Wy ’ ‘Wilson whistles, we’re told; but not to keep up his courage. : Congress finds less lobbying opposition in taxing coffee than excess profits. : Only that “food will win the war” which you don’t waste. It must be that the Germans are trying to beat the allies to Berlin. It is your patriotic duty to conserve the doctor supply by keeping well. Slowly, steadily, surely, Americans, French and British travel eastward. Old Hindenburg may be laying out his line Unter den Linden in another year. Cae. Christmas gift to the Yanks—renew your Red Cross membership in December drive. German face winter with less fuel, less food and less hope than since they started the war. A well-regulated furnace lessens the strain on railroads, coal mines and the owner’s pocketbook. Between defeats and retreats the HUNS are spending their time cooking up some more “peace” dope. Look up the family tree of every war rumor coming your way, and if you spot a HUN bury it deep. Uncle Sam may direct the country’s coal pro- duction. Such a move may be termed ideal COAL- ition. Faces of the allied soldiers indicate that the tide of battle has changed. So do the backs of German heads! Med That is a delightful habit the British and French have of pocketing the HUNS and then cleaning out the pocket. : American Bar Association convention ignores woman suffrage question, which is much like an ostrich would handle the problem. Congress, just having gotten over one month’s vacation, is planning to take off another month. Soldiers and workers keep on their jobs. The fixtures of the Consumers’ United Stores ‘company at Minot, which was closed by the cred- itors some time ago, have been sold to the Small- wood Sanitary Grocery company. ’ Poilus, ELECTRIFIED by victory, do “the im- possible” in feats of valor... In one instance, they made a SHORT CIRCUIT, and SHOCKED Fritz with a LIVE WIRE surprise attack, though great- | WITH ‘iE “EDITORS | “NOT WISE AND PROPER” State Committeeman Frazier of Divide county wanted the “Nonparty” resolution committee to frame a section which would pledge President Wilson the support of the convention in his war program. But there was nothing doing. Mr. Frazier was informed upon two different occosions that the ““Nonparty” committee did not deem this a wise and proper act.—Dickinson Press. ATTENTION OF MR. LANGER. The Wisconsin Loyalty Legion has adopted a resolution declaring that school children should be taught only the English language until they leave the eighth grade. That should be the irreducible minimum, in Wisconsin and in every state. Pupils below the high school do not require foreign lan- guages. The principal European tongues—Span- ish, French, Italian or even German—should be elective courses in high schools, but that is enough. Where foreign languages are taugh to children in the grade. schools, the only purpose is to promote alien propaganada; and that Amer- ica will not submit to any longer. And where the education of Amerian children is conducted entirely or even partly in a foreign language, whether it is in a public or a private school, it is an outrageous abuse of American hospitality that ought to be tolerated nowhere for a moment. Yet at last accounts it was still going on in several siates, including Minnesota!—Duluth Herald. THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND, MR. LANGER. Attorney General Langer and the North Dakota Council of Defense provided Langer is speaking | for the Defense body, and he would seem to in- dicate that he is, are taking a very peculiar view in the matter of teaching in the German language within the state of North Dakota. Langer apparently considers it alright to bar the teaching in the German language in the pub- lie schools but holds the view that the defense body cannot interfere in the teaching of pupils in the German language in schools operated by religious organizations for the reason that it would violate the rights of these organizations in the guarantee to them of religious liberty. To our mind, at this time, either the restriction applied to both the public and religious school is right or it is wrong. There is no middle groun the German language in either the public or the religious schools during the tender years of youth should be stopped. The harm that could’ come from the one will naturally follow under the other. We must teach young America to think in the American language for only in that way can we train up men and women who will be thor- oughly American. We cannot see where a restriction placed upon and the. wayes,did roll. I never fined ther: We hold firmly to the belief that the teaching in [in the wor} so~l hi ever want { ter. THE Somewhere in England, Aug. 1, ’18. Mr. and Mrs, J. F. Christen,” Taylor, No. Dak. . My Dear Folks: Just a few lines to let you know that I am still in the best of health and feeling just like a canary. Our voyage was one of the best. We had everything- in our favor, there- who were seasick. I didn’t get sea- sick and J, thought ‘sure ‘I*would. How: ever, the weather was just great. We had a couple of days of wind and rain But water! vas that much y think’ I ‘will cross t Pacific is a much larger body of wa- Is Gussie still, working at Beach? And it so, how is he getting along? I I hope that he is«for I sure would like to see him keep working at that trade. | ‘ I never received any letters from you at Hempstead but I suppose they will be forwarded to.me aver, here. Did you receive Beulah’s message? the religious school can be construed as any viola- tion of the religious liberty guaranteed under the constitution. We are very much afraid that Langer has either got his wires crossed again, or that he is merely —Mandan Pioneer. SOME TOWNLEYIZED REPUBLICANS. There is some quite interesting reading in the document isued by the wolves in sheep’s clothing in North Dakota, the Townley political machine which has garbed itself in the dress of the Re- publican state committee and grandiloquently “represents the principles of Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.” It would require some stretch of imagination and straining of credulity to picture Lincoln and Jefferson indorsing the closely Germanized theories of state socialism which feature and conflict in the radical and amusing platform of which the Townley combin- ation delivered itself. It is a matter of no surprise, however, that the state committee balked at that feature of the socialistic propaganda which was prominent in the first draft of the program—state ownership of farms and farm lands. Even the wildest-eyed of the disciples of the German idea of close state monopoly realized the antagonism- such a prop- osition would stir up and this paragraph was blue penciled. The platform wheels to the right- about and proposes to exempt farm improvements from taxation—fruits of industry in other di- rections may be taxed and go hang—and to favor the 8-hour day in every line of activity except in agricultural pursuits; one hand out to the urban industrialist with an 8-hour provision, the other out of the farmer who wants to work himself and his labor as many hours as the occasion and his, fancy may dictate. Another spectacular feature of this Townley production is the freedom with which it excludes patriotism and war support. It is vociferously and tumultuously in‘favor of every war measure and would go to all lengths in the battle for dem- ocracy and therefore—mark the therefore !—in- dorses the re-election of the three North Dakota congressmen. It avoids and evades records in Congress in support of the war, but it indorses Baer, for instance, because it wants the war bur- den loaded most heavily where the war has ben- playing some more of his usual sort of politics.(geparture:t and look like toys. cars are divided into compartments accommodating eight persons. i She wrote me stating, she sent you one that same day. - Have you. been out ‘to Werner late- ly or talked to Howard? I sure hope everything is getting along alright. The Red Cross is gure all that peo- ple tell you-it is and is just a little more. We found that out since oyr Scott Field and wink ever people give to the Red Cross given to the best organization in the world for it sure is entitled to all the credit we can give it. “ One of the most peculiar sights over here is the railways, its trains are sure some different from out own. The box cars are just about 20 feet long The passenger We paraded in one of the large ci- ties and sure received a royal wel- come. Heard an address by the high man of the city and after.that was served with some refreshments, (lem- onade, cold coffee, bread and butter efited. This does not mean the farmer, with wheat guaranteed for another crop at $2.20, for the plat- form specifically protegts “singling out wheat” and wants price regulation carried to “foodstuffs and such other commodities as the farmer would need in the production of farm products.”—St. Paul Dispatch. LS fore we didn’t have only a few hoys| Pacific as the | I also.saw a large whale and! flying fish but nothing else can live in that water. GREAT AMERICAN tand some mighty swell cake), after that we were taken to view the dif- jferent pieces of art in a museum. It sure was great. Then received cigar- ettes and candy. After all that we jentrained for the rest camp. Believe sleep, too. write will close with lots of love to you all. Say, you can write Mabel and John as I will write them a little later. You received my card saying | had arrived safely, did you not? They will not permit us to cablegram as yet. Love to all. Your loving son, HARRY. | Address: Cpl. Harry Christen, 262nd Aero Squadron, AE. F. P. S.—Write me lots of letters as it sure will be a long time between. let- ters, also the papers. We can now put down the name of the nation. You can. put down the‘ad- dréss I have on the envelope. .‘Weé.are. in’England. Lots of love.” . ‘} HARRY. BUY Wok Bam t f WAR SUMMARY ———_—_————__——-—- —_ Accelerating the flight. of the retreat- ing Germans, the British, French and American armies. gained ‘important new ground last night and today along the entire line, On the northern; past of the front the British have pushed forward on a front of more than ‘15 miles. They have driven in hard along the Canal du Nord, occupy the greater proportion of « Havrincourt wood. South of the Somme the French are reported to have effected a gain of an average of two miles on a 40- mile front. They took the important town of Turgnoir, only 2 1-2 miles from the Hindenburg line at LeFere and:swept over several towns to the northward. It was along the Oise, however. that Gen. Petain’s forces made their most important gains. Gen. Mangin’s army has a difficult task be- fore it here, where the Germans are By Conde XL HOPS SOMES TIME To Go INTO A LUNCH ROOM AND NOT HAVE THE PoRTeR FUSS AROUND MY FEET WITH A DIRTY MOP WHILE Pesre? ME AGAIN WHILE 1 Gay oe waee !! Rep tor! MY BROTHER. WHAT WAS DRAFY-TeoD WAS BEEN ACCEPT ~TeD !! me, I sure did put,in some night's? As this is all that you can possibly |. AAR AAA AA RR eee” entrenched in the forest of St. Go- jbain. The French have already push- ed through the outlying forest of Coucy. At points along this front the! French apparently have reached | ground beyond the former German de- tensive line. They are on the upper part of the forest of Gobain; and they are unofficially reported to have push- ed into a big stretch of entirely new cround in this territory. Terrific Resistance. The Germans are resisting terrific- ally here. On the ‘Aisne the French have taken the Conde wood, whence their move- ment threatens the Germans who are still clinging to ‘the river, on the east along the front held by the Ameri- cans. Thus it seems there can hardly be more than a momentary halt by the enemy here. The allied Jines already are moving ahead, particularly to the | east of Rheims. In Flanders the uritish have gained further ground, driving in further toward the Mess- ines ridge, in the vicinity of. the town of Messines, and edging eqstward fur- ther south toward laBische. ‘On the whole, as a result of the pro- gress of the campaign jnaugurated by Marshal Foch July 8 and in partiou- lar_.throveh. the Franco-British drive fof August, the German gaing of July have been ‘cancelled. -The* Germans have been pushed from all the ground they conquered by their great offens- ive except in the: vicinity of Cambrai * Along. the old line,- the: enemy now faces an allied’ force that is under uni- fied command, and which instead of somewhat anxiously awaiting a Ger- man stroke, is on the aggressive, and powerfully: reinforced by a great mass of: American reserve forces who have been transported to France since POPE fe aovw. wad VALUABLE FIND IN ALASKA University of Pennsylvania Museum Enriched by Collection of Eth- nological Specimens, The University of Pennsylvania mu- seum has received and placed on ex- bibition a remarkably fine collection of ethnological specimens secured by Louls Shortridge, a‘ full-blooded In- dian, ‘who for three years has been exploring in unknown southern Alaska for the museum at the cost of John Wanamaker. He has sent many col- lections, but the last is the finest group of the whole. : OPTIMIST IS A “BERLOQUE” * . 7, 1918. PARIS IS ‘SIREN’ . © Gloomy. Ones Are.Named for the Unwelcome Air Raid ~ Signal. People ‘Have Joyous Time While Walt- Ing in Subway. Stations—Crap Game Holds Interest of the Crowd. Parls.—Two more words have been uv added to that ‘very growing dictionary . of war words. ‘In Paris these two words ‘haye achieved a new signifi- cance. PeSsimists are now known as “sirens” and optimists are “berloques.” The significance is self-explanatory to those ‘who have experienced an air raid in Paris, Many drend'the screech- ing, weird, Dansheelike wail of the ¥ alarm giving siren more than the act- ual danger from the raiders, while the t “berloque,” that lively little bugle call telling that all danger is past and that one may rest safely in one’s bed, is indeed a friend welcome as any opumist. A Paris bookkeeper who suddenly { left the city when the raids over the m capital became too frequent and went bi to Nantes has been sued by his em- ployer for $60 damage for leaving with- out: notice..:'The-case, not the only one of its kind in the French courts today, is attracting attention. The bookkeeper's explanation was that his nerves were upset by the , bombs and shells and that he thought Y himself justified in.getting out of dan- ger. The court held that'a bombard- ment by airplanes and: long-range guns could not be considered a suffi- clent reason for the breach of con- tract and, gave judgment for the amount named. i The darkened streets of Paris have caused many persons to roam around town after returning from the theater or a visit because of the difficulty in finding the streets and house numbers, ‘ An attempt to improve this condition is H to be made soon ‘by placing luminous numbers traced in little buttonlike mir- { ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ rors which reflect and magnify the smallest glimmer cf light on the houses of the city. One would think upon descending to one. of. the large and centrally located underground railway stations ‘which are used as shelters that a soiree was in progress instead of an air raid. This is what the correspondent saw ae one evening during a raid when he was obliged to seek cover in one of the i subway: stations: In one corner a violin, accompanied by two guitars, wgs doling out a tune to which a “squadron” of youthful avi- ators were waltzing around, their part- ners being a group of pretty danseuses who had hurriedly left a neighboring theater wearing their costumes, make- up and all. ss In another corner ‘a group of Poilus, loaded down with their trench equip- ment, having been caught in the under- ground while on their way to the rail- road depot and to the front, were sing- ing “Madelon,” their “Tipperary,” in rather ‘discérdant tones. But it was singing just the same. v) Crap. Game Holds Crowd. An unusual feature of this particu- ‘ lar “soiree” was.a genuine all-Amert- cah crap game—not for keeps. It would ic hardly be an exaggeration to say that half of the, crowd in the station had edged around the half dozen spare American doughboys—three of whom were gentlemen of color—to witness this contest in bone throwing. The colored gentlemen handled their dice with a deftness that was. delight- fully ‘reminiscent of “somewhere in Harlem,” to say nothing of their pro- ficlency in the vocabulary of the game, which Parisians have since learned is a very essential adjunct to any skill at it. ; ay His latest trip was up into the moun- tains, where he secured a vast amount of ceremonial material which was for the most part made a‘ century or two ago. It is patted with now only be- cause the Indians have become well- nigh extinct. and those younger mem- bers of the tribes who remain have lit- fle interest in ancient ways because they are taking on civilization. There is & collection of poles or sa- cred standards used in ceremonial dances, handsomely carved and deco- rated with the totem of the bearer. There are some amazingly lurid masks, which were used in the dances, and some costumes which are richly deco- rated. Some are made of buckskin, but others are of Hudson’s bay trader’s cloth elaborately embroidered. Alto- gether Mr. Shortridge has sent about 1,000 specimens and these are often VILLA’S STEPSON JOINS UNITED STATES CAVALRY. Manchester, N. H.—William Ceraco, aged nineteen, who says he is a stepson of Villa, the no- torious Mexican bandit, has en- listed in the United States cav- alry here. ‘ Ceraco says that three years age, during the border uprising, 9 Villa shot his father and mar- ried his mother. Ceraco came north. with the New Hampshire troops when they returned from duty on the border. He says that he likes the ‘United States so well that he has decided it is worth fighting for anywhere and was very anx- fous to know when he could get “over there.” Investigation of casualties following an alr raid over the capital have proved to the authorities that the greatest number. of casualties are not the result- of injuries received from the bombs of the raiders, but of care- lessness' on the part of the victims, Parisians have become too accustom- e yi ed to air raids, They stay out of doors : to see the bursting of the shells from the antiaircraft guns and others leave their shelters and go home before the ignal. ' As a result‘recently 23 persons were injured, some because they did not keep under..cover long enough, and others because they stood at their win- dows’ watching the bursting shells. as i if it were an exhibition of fireworks. : i ‘The police have again/warned the pop- ulation. “The better protection of the city,” says an order, “is no reason | unique and as a whole are unequaled. | ror neglecting the precautions dictated 3 -|by common sense.” _ Boy, Page Mr. Burbank. Atlanta, Ga.—A cornstalk in the war garden of M. J. Yarbrough has ' just produced five ears of corn and a head of wheat growing out of one of the: corn eers. Both corn and wheat kernels are fully developed. The “samples” were sent to Herbert Hoo- ver, with pertinent comment. Nerve Tonic: Was Corn Cure. St. Louis, ‘Mo.—Mistaking a bottle of “corn ¢ure” for a nerve rem Miss Olga’ Pitt, nineteen, took rare dose, She was soon hurried to the City hospital in a serious condition,