The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, September 21, 1918, Page 3

= Ree ay 8 % . The. entertainers quickly become ya ". evel AS hookilg agency, able’ to Dr. John Watson, Bishop Lyther B. imbued wiih the fecling that it is potas, He (Old tO ten ee prevail against any fortress, and it} a garri )0 soldiers. 4 German hve surged about the city, un- . A route over itS chain of thea- W ilson, S.S. McClure; Job, Hedges, a privilege:;to minister to the boards through education overcame! fighting men and small arms ¢ he| Metz: changed hands many | til it-has: become the most important tres such “aéts” as Miss Mar- Rev: Charles A. Katon, Jac&Rose, amusement df the boys wea , | the proneness upon the part of selects | Dest. military reliance. Byt Before | times, yf’ man: but never| key in the barrier between Latin or ites E, M. Beck and many others! Wucle Sam's uniforms.’ The to yield to temptation, and how-the the American fighting men‘can make | been carried 1 Even in 1870,] Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic civiliza- ‘ tions. Rockefeller, Jr., William H. Taft, departments of the country, are mey tn camp are consulted, Every olen as Mme. Louise Homer and others on booking attractions for the camps month tho chinp Secretary fills cu! Boece eee ah before the ee eae about Metz is of high the entertainment and educational in their districts, but the Eastern oh a requisition blank such talext i sur we 8. strategic importance, and -has been rosters of the Eastern Department Department, Leing the centre of as his camp needs for that mont forbidden ground to tourists in Ger-| a | 2 of the National War Work Council things theatrical as well as the seat If tho boys have liked a sis FARMERS. CAN many for years. The city lies in a Children Cry for Fletcher’ : j of the Y. M. C. A, would procialm cf embarkation points, books by far or a lecture ‘especially ands sant BUY SUBSTITUTES | ‘crtite vatey which widens out in the ry tor Fletcher's. i hills to the north and ‘ x ow ~ -friefly to the work of the organization \Supplies Free Entertainment for Soldiers in Training i Throughout: the Country — Jugglers ‘and Former Presidents, Bishops and Clog Danccrs, Grand Opera Stars and Blackface Comedians Are Ali Jumbled Tagether on Programs. Baret Wilson, daughterof the Presi- dent of the United*S8tates;+John D. all over the world that it was the biggest booking agency on earth and handled tke greatest “talent” obtainable. Yet the Red Triangle has gone quietly ahead and in the space of half a year has built up an organization that sends 1,200 “acts” a month to the training cantps, aviation fields, forts, navy yards, battleships, etc., to entertain and instruct cur soldiers, sailors’ and marines. In. that time the office ‘personnel to handle the bookings has increased from two to fifteen, three of whom gre volunteers. ATTRACTIONS ARE VARIED In the Y. M. C. booking of: fice’s roster of attractions appear such other names as Charles S. Whitman, governor of ‘New York, the French military band recently sent here by the French: govern- ment, Augustus Thomas, dean of American dramatists; Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Co- lumbia; John G.~Hibben, president of Princeton; Miss Maude Powell, famous American violinist; Coyn- tess. Turcznowicz, the National Quartette, the Orpheus Four, John Masefield, Major Boehme, Bishop Theodore S, Henderson, Rabbi Ste- phen S: Wise, Dr. G.~N. Slattery, LEADERS. PLAN | ‘CAMPAIGN FOR | MERGER FUNDS (Continued From Page One.) hurses or canteen workers or in oth~ er lines. i E. W. McConoughy, who has been| in Y. M. C. A. work at thé Great Lakes Training station and who has come to Fargo as student secretary} of the Student Army's Trainin, corps, told of\ the work tat organ- ization is doing with ‘the army be- ginning with the departure of the drafted men on the train and contin‘ uing to the battlefield. George McKenna, of Napoleon, D., represented the Knights of umbus for the x! col” state and referred | in its. war time activities and dwelt with great-enthusiasm upon the eager- ness and willingness of his organiza- tion to enter into the campaign and do its full share of the werk exerting every effort to eliminate ail friction that the boys across the.sea may be} helped. The Jewish Welfare association was) presented’ by Ben Lesk; attorney of Minot; the War Camp community! sefvice by George E. Wallace of Bismarck, the American Library asso- ciation by. Mrs. M. C. Budleng of Bis- marck, who told of the werk carried oh by their respective associations. The Salvation Army was represent: ed by Col. Steven aMrshall, ~* Minne- apolis, who was: heard with much in- terest and who told of the place that the Salvation army had made for it- self, its presence in war work nbt be-| —i}-Bocomes Biggest Vaudeville’ Booking Agency in the World : Sen \ Tea WEONESUAY. Al y NIGHT x Fs c; u a All departments of the Y. M. C. A. corresponding to the miitary the greater number of attractions. ‘he camps here also ve as “dog towns” on whigh the “Y” can try out the “acts” that volunteer to go to France. A vaudeville “turn” must first make good in that de- partment before being sent abroad. MUST AMUSE SOLDIERS Fiean, high class entertainment as recently come to be regarded 1 necessity for the man with the colors. It keeps him amused and entertaived in that dangerous period between the hour of five in the afternoon and “taps’—and away from associa- L 6 his morals or his physicai strength. high pitch and in this belief the kx government has turned over to the b Red Triangle the task of ingruct- entertainers are e they can do to please iheir hearers ing and entertaining the man in untform as well as ministering to his spiritual needs when he makes request for it. - ., ‘The monthly “turn-over” of this booking office is 800 motion pic- tures, 200 religious speakers, 125 entertainers and _seventyfive lec- turers, Richard H; Edwards, Sec- fretary for Activities and Walter M. b o one respect, and in another sense they have just begun. He can, with the story he has to tell, inspire others to | fight, and his cgntridution to the cause | Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and Fred- | will be hundreds of men and tents of | erick the Great, and the kaiser’s asser- thousands of dollars won by his tale of | Hunnish warfare. O'Connor has with|ambition for world conquest, he, the him the trusty bayonet with which he disposed of 72 of the enemy before he was placed hors de comoat. On addition to Mr. O’Connor there axe with the train Julian Bryan of the French ambuplance corps; William Ryder of the ninth district federal re- serve bank at Minneapolis; Wesley J. Morrish ‘of Fargo, secretary of the North Dakota Liverty loan committec. and Frank H...Nutter ef the Twin City offices of the district’ Liberty loan committee, who is in charge of the train. Many Hear Speakers. Probably 10,000 people were includ- ed in the changing personne! of an au- dienct.-which listened to the Liberty Loan speakers in the Northern Pacific station park on Main stréet during the morning. H. 'P. Goddard, chairman of the Burleigh county Liberty Loan com. mittee, presided, opening the “mee ing” with one of his characteristic smash-bang talks which brought the crowd up standing. He was followed by C. L. Young, Bismarck Four Mii ute Man, who added some sledge- hammé¢r blows to those which had al- ready been delivered. “If we lay down now, if we stop sub- scribing to these bonds. we are simply saying to the kaiser: ‘Here, we have two million men over there m France, take them and butcher them, and when you aré through with them, come over here an take us and our wives and children and do with them as you did with the Belgians,” said Chairman responsible for the building up 6 ‘All of the talent volunteer th pay all of their expenses,.others but their railway. fare. Triangle, however, pays tho living expenses of mast of them. histrionically some act which the: can do later to entertain their fcl- low soldiers when the professional acto> can’t reach them. tainers are encou the boys in the camps, become s: most in the way of entertainment. spirit of s to hear it the request aud the booking office does its best to comply 1 to’ reject any act b camp. every act hooked. ret or sermon and whether tho boys S leisure hours— w. “talent” also reports on the camp, the service being dene there and { ’ on the audiences which hear their tions that might tend to undermine p * S$ iviiies then picks out of the re- It also keeps his morale up to 2 ports what the other porson should from the camp secretaries. etc., for the warships that arrive in port. from the Navy Department the date on which a warship will arrive and often before it anchors, entertain- Berry, his Associate Secretary, are\ers are reddy to board the vessel. he booking ‘office and its succecs. ervices and receive no pay. Max: ‘The. Red GET LOCAL ATMOSPHERE amps who are gifted musically ci The ent rated with camp lccal] atmosphere nd learn just what the boys like t rvice grips them. The wishes and tastes. of- the in, the secretary notes with the right. ked for his he camp Secretary h RESULTS CHECKED UP The office keeps a, record of The camp Sec- ry reports back to Mr. Richar: the quality of each act, lectura ere satisfied with it or not, The. re ms. The Secretary cf A now and*sends it to him, It has een ascertained that lecturers and ger to learn what etter and welcome suggestions An especially interesting feature f the work is booking entertainers, The Fleet Secretary gets quoting the immortal declaration of j independence. |. He repeater the kaiser’s eulogy of {tion that while they failed in their alul-highest, with the power of his ; mailed fist, would succeed. “We've got 1,500,000 men over there in ¥rance; our Allies have ten millions | mor and if necessary we'll pile-an- sother ten million men on top of that to"prove to the kaiser that he’s a daypned liar,’ said Ryder, . Trooper O’Connor. | Trooper O'Connor, who, though an American, won his spurs ‘with Great ! Britain’s first hundred thousand, long {before America awoke, was the stellar jattraction «{ the morning. His deliv- ery is quick and nervous, his manner more British than American. He shows the effect of his terrible ex- perience on the French front, and he jexhibits an intens and bitter hatred jfor the Hun. His talk was not of the Snday school order. It was that of a {fighting man exohting fighting men, and that his-audience was composed of people of stern calibre was indicated by the frequency and fervor of the applause which he elicited.” Trooper A. H.fl O’Connor gave a ra- pid fire talk on warfare-with the bay- onet. Many shuddered as he describ- ed ho wthe Germans fat ones and little fellows were ripped or struck with a payonet. If a shudder passed through the crowd, O’connor asked them how they felt- when thinking of ' patriotic address, and {and he was -nioney, ing through ‘the latter part of the Battle of the Marne, was in all the principal battles up to the great of- fensive on the Somme, where after twenty-nine days of continuous fight- ing he was terribly wounded and left for dead on the battlefield. He was picked up and lay unconscious for] many ‘weeks, And spent seven months in the hospital, many months dumb, He was decorated by the King of Eng- land for -persdhal bravery and receiv- ed: also: the, ceftf{ieate of merit. William'Ryder, ‘of the federal. re-; serve ‘bank. of. Minneapolis, gave a stirred his hear- ers, to epthudigsm. ~The ‘ninth dis-/ trict had responded: nobly. in the past ssured that the Fourth vogld make the. top. “The boys:arevover there now fight- ing for you’ and°me. Are you worth dying for? heagked ‘pointedly. | “Phink of it?'All we»are agked to dois to buy-bonde, to not: give our but to make an investment. We fail in our duty?” BUN. 8. 8, DRAFT BOARDS _ "MEET EXPERT John W. Perkins Tells How. Con- | tingents Were Handled in Cleveland Liberty Logi: shall A good representation of the dratt boards of the Slope assembled in the Gommercial club. rooms Saturday af- successfulexperience in his home city, commented tipon the ‘mportance ‘of senging the boys away with their heads up, their back-bones stiffened, and their morale hitting, on all cyl-! inders. The Cleveland man told of expert- ences in eastern dyaft centers, where the saloon and its wide-open doors} complicated matters for some of the training camps in time learned to rec- ognize Cleveland_eontingents by their IN SMALL LOTS) Fargo, Sept. 21.—Food adrhinistra-| tors of the four states of North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Mon: tana, held in Fargo today, approyed the plan of the U. S. food administra: | tion’to allow farmers to obtain a year’s allowance of flour without tak- ing the substitutes at the time the for is delivered. {he farmers must, however, sign a pledge in which they agree to use the required amount of substitutes. Corn flour and corn meal do not keep well in warm weather and to compel the purchase of 20 pounds of these sub- stitutes with each 100 pounds of wheat flour might add serious. lass to food- stuffs. BUY. & S ' Fighting Doors. All the doors should) swing high enough from the floors to clear any rugs pliced near them. And_ th should be placed so that they will not fam against one another, I know of two doors in a house that persist in locking just as two angry bulls fock horns in mortil combat—or is it deer that do this? And when these doors are in that position, you can't get out but. have to back out, go around another way, and separate them, We don't intend having any / doors like that in this house—Harry L. Shumway, in the House Beautiful. BUY W. 8. 8. ‘Human Bie.in Still Mystery. ce hopes that in time it may discover the method whereby the bil- lions of braén cells operate in making us the thinkirg creatures we are. would know why the large mind is not our ever) ie diver- stied y owe act, plot. | scheme; why, as has been asserted, | the brain can stand the strain of per- sistent work bettcr than the muscles of the body. BUY Wea Uncle’ Eben, “A man betrays hi 'f by braggin’ said Uncle Eben. “When Ih man tellin’ ’bout how easy he kin drive a mule, I knows right off he ain't no regilar mule driver.” > BUY W. 8. $——— ST. PAUL LIVESTOCK. Hogs, receipts 1,470; steady; range bulk $19.50 to 19 ; killers. steady, steers $6.25 to 17.75; cows and heifers $7.00 to 11; veal calves steady. Sheep receipts 4,750; steady; lambs $10.00 to 15. CHICAGO LIVESTOCK. Hogs, reseipts 6.000; 10¢ to 15c low- the poor Belgians whose women and chilren were ‘bayoneted. by the huns. Trooper OConnor comes from Brook- lyn, iN. Y., and of him the Brooklyn Eagle states: er; butchers ,19.85 to 20.40; light $20 to 20.40; packing “$18.90 to 19.65; rough $18.00 to 18. pigs good,and choice $18.00 to 19.00. Cattle 4,000; cows and heifers most- ly,25 to 40c lower. It. y ave reach |, Map of the city of Metz and BY A. E. CELUHOF. (War Editor of the Newspaper Enter- prise Association.) The fortified city of Metz must now be regarded as the objective of the American and allied armier, whether the drive to capture it takes place this fall or in the spring. Therefore it is days of the Roman empire, and has always been considered one of the strongest in Europe. , Probably Paris is the only city in Europe which more strongly fortified. In these days of longrange guns of great caliber, there is no such-thing as an impreg- nable fortres ‘Liege, Antwerp. Przemysl Lemberg demonstrated that-modern cannon will any appreciable advance toward the Rhine, AMERICAN GUNS MUST RE- DUCE THE FORTRESS OF METZ. the French frontier. tached forts which g1 placed upon the heights, the fo METZ FORTRESS CAN BE REDUCED ‘i its protecting fortifications ~.. Eloy, Kameke, rich aKrl and French held M nnstein. which before the present war had been demolished. as usele: Y The forts, however, are only a skel- eton of the defenses of Metz. The new \ An entertainer booked on’ the {@rnoon to hear John W. Perkins tell | 1? Fi i ; : camp circuit is expected. to do more how Cleveland ‘handled the despateh-| time to examine the military obstacle | circle of works includes numerous bat- + than just giye his “act.” ‘The “Y" ing of selective serttce men. Mr. it represents in the path of the march] teries of heavy artillery placed be- KNOWLES , expects him’ to teach men in ihe D ° ha to Berlin. \ tween and in front ofthe forts, mak- PRGY Perkins, who ‘has had an unusually!" 7c 'has been’a fortress since the|ing an uninterrupted circle of de- Jeweler and’ Optician fenses around the city. The forts and most of the advanced positions are connected by a belt line railroad run- ning to the magazines in Metz. The city itself lies at the confluence of the Eeille and Moselle rivers, about miles east of the French border, and contains many ancient and pictur- esque buildings. In peace times it had a civilian population of 75,009 and ‘broken, fir-covered, razorback hills running between France and Germany. They surround the city at a distance of about six miles from its outs Main Forts Modern. The main forts have all been built since 1899. Eefore that the fortifica- tions consisted chiefly of the rebuilt French works which had defended the city in 1870 and a few new forts, but before 1899 it had been realized that they were too close to the city to pro- tect it from the new iong-range artil- lery « Beginning Yn 1899 the eGrmans Duilt a new chain of forts at an average distance of 9.060 yards from the border of Metz. The advantages of the ground made it nec ry to locate some of the forts at a greater distance from the city and others at a le but the diameter of the fortross circ is’ approximately 18 miles. This di ance was needed so that the c' {could not be bombarded until one or more of its forts had been demolished. The chief of. the new outer chain of permanent forts, bepinning with the right bank of the Maselle, are Forts Haeseler, Sommy, Wagner, Arny Sorbey, Mont, Landremont, St. Barbe. Argency, Lothringen, Montigny, Kais- erin, and Kronprin; = Outer Defenses Strong. The forts of an earlier day in the inner line are from one to three miles from the city. They are, beginning again with the right bank of the Mo- selle, Forts Prince August. von Wart- TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR SALE—Household furniture. Call at 52 Thayer. Phone 241L. 9.21 5t FORK RENT--Six room modern house, large grounds. Convenient location. G.J. Keenen, Bismarck N. D, Phone 282L. WANTED—A good fresh cow at once. Phone or write James Fogerty 743R 9 21 2t FURNISHED pleasant room. Quiet location, all modern convenie! . Call 608 2nd street or Phone 510R. . 9 21 3t WE WANT a good salesman or sales- lady to sell a new line of Holiday Greetings. They are different from nything else on the market. Liber- al commission. A good sideline. Write for descriptions and samples. Hahn and Harmon Co., 410 5th Ave. South, Minneapolis, Minn. WANTED — E clerk wants position with reliable firm can give Al references, Cla 4A in draft. Write 627, Tribune. 9 21 6t ic FOUND—Masonic watch fob. 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It is a duty. we owe the boys. | When we have met that duty a personal remem- brance for you boy may be in. order. - May. we place our ex-. perience at your service in selecting it? 3 s Military writs watches our specialty. {| Established 1907 Bismarck ——————————— the French, it was not directly attack- ed, but was given up as the. result of: battles in its immediate vicinity. Cen- turies of contest between Latin and ty ue ~ A ars, has borne the signature of has been made under his pere Just-as-good” are but It contain’ Its more than thirty years it has. It is pleasant. 3 allaying Feverishness arising ving healthy and natural sleep. Signature of ‘e PANY. NEw YORK CITY, ing most cordially received at first. “They -told us there was no place for us inside the cantonment,” said Col. Marshall, ‘so we found a place for our- selves‘outside, delegated to the amuse- “When the huns overran Belgium in August, 1914, the blood of a Brooklyn youth boiled over with indignation. In that respect he was like many another American. Under the whip of his Goddard. 2 “We've got to give until’it, hurts,” said C. L. Young. -“We can’t talk of sacrifices yet, because we here at home have made none. It has cost Tribune. ‘ 9 211 wk; RT; F | Steep receipts 9,000. For Up-to-Date ' ment fields and then we discovered that we had found the biggest place of | ‘ BUY W. 3. & TROPHY TRAIN INSPECTED BY : GREAT CROWDS (Continued From Page One.) - opportunity to play. slow music for the kaiser. ‘Trooper O’Connor. % Trooper H. ‘A. O’Connor, one of) Great Britain's “First 100,000,” is prob-| ably the most interesting man in the. party. Trooper O'Connor has a usé-/ less arm as the result of the jab of a Hun bayonet, and while he was ly’ ing on the battlefield, all but dead us little, so far, to back up the boys over there. This is no time for whin- ers, but it isa crisis in which everv- {one must do his full share, freély, and ‘omplaint.” Bonds or Bondage. It is with us in America simply a question of bonds or bondage. Uncle Sam is asking us to loan our money to the best, borkeWer on earth who will pay interest and refund the full prin- ciple. If wedo not loan to Uncle Sam, we will; have an opportunity later to DONATF. a hundred Dillion or so to Kaiser Wilhelm, for the privilege of being numbered among his serfs. said William Ryder of the Ninth District federal reserve. bank. He strikingly compared the ideals for which we are fighting the liberties which we are enjoying, with the ideals without, c from this wou! the Huns, with cus-; tomary frightful toes. and the tenets of Prusisanism: He words out of his own mouth, while the 0% 7 o int , 'S are over in “ v4 01 eS ‘Serena do * a speaker expressed America’s ideals by service for nearly” two. years, ¢ feelings he went to London at his own expense, and enlisted in the First Life Guards. ‘Not content with that he al- so performed excellent service as an adjunct to the British recruiting serv- ice, one result of which was the enlist- ment of his father and five brothers in various brahches of the English service. “It was’ one of the ironies of his fate that O'Connor was destined to fight for a country other than his own. When President. Wilson proclaimed the draft army, he registered and as luck would have it his number was the fourth drawn in his district. It was one of the ‘keenest. disappoint- } ments of his life that his injuries. caus. ed his rejection. from the citizen army.” S ‘O'Connor Guards and was later sent to the wést- ss hacked off all his! convicted Kaiser Wilhelm with the/ern front with «the original 100,000] stones, gravel, which England first sent out. He saw IT’S NOT YOUR HEA | | Kidney , disease, is no«respecter of persons. It atta@ks all classes, -re- gardless of age. sex of conditions. A majority of the ills afflicting people today. can be traced back to the kid- ney trouble. The kidneys are the most important organs of the body. They are the fil- terers, the purifiers o,f your blood. 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