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PAGE? BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE with the parcels. Then do your mailing. Write,| THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE "** i arces. Then do your mating. Write eMered at the Postel, Binsare®, ND, as Seal} <1. postal station. GEORGE D. MANN --- ~~~ Editor) Then on Christmas eve you won’t have such a) G. LOGEN PAYNE COMPANY, |big load in your sleigh, and you can make faster Special F Representative | Bldg; CHICAGO, Marquette time getting round to those you overlooked in MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS | And, dear Santa, please put first on your list, The Asociated Press is exclusively entitled to the us# for and make sure that ther—-NOT A ONE! are for-! repoblication of all news credited to it or pos orbcrets | hose boys of ours who have gone over-| credited in this paper and also the local news publt hed | gotten—tl se 1 2 1 gone nerelt ts of publication of special dispatches herein are seas to win'No Man’s Land from the Huns. also reserved. And, then, be sure to write down the name of: MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF ore ATION fe every boy who left his home for duty in training. ae eee ger en And, then, put down the names of all of the! Daily by mafl per year (In kiddies in all the world—and don’t forget the Bel- Dally by mal Dee ise of 600! gian babies and the French babies! THE STAT And then, if there still are gifts left, and you stil] have time without clogging up our war ma- chinery, please remember each of us grownups. But whatever you do ,do it now. Do it as quickly as you can. We don’t want to miss this’ Christmas, and that will be the fate of millions of "us if you delay in shopping and mailing. Speed up, Santa! NEW YORK, Fifth Av VITEDQTATES U neonditional urrender MAIL BY AIRPLANE. ; In a spirit of prophecy, we venture an sasserHio: Aerial mail will entirely supercede train service U.S. A. Today. between all large cities ere a decade slips into the any is logical, practical and possible within five years. When the world’s energies are turned from the prosecution of war to the pursuits of peace, | tremendous impetus will be given this epochal in-! novation. It is swift and the commercial sphere. sion and perfection of this ; r to create a competitive situation with the ers of day letters by wire. Thousands of contingencies that now must be met by recourse to Morse via dot and dash; hun- did it dreds of sales complications, sage Looe But, unless Mr. Langer is making the laws to and personal provlens hares eat ‘a nic suit himself, it is not clear on what authority he, z today will as advantageousts Ss ay |“permits” liquor to be imported into the state for ~~~ mail dispatch tomorrow. aoete intro-| thE treatment of influenza and refuses like per-: System, science, ee ae me compare | Mission in other diseases for which a physician duced to cut postage ta A ce “'may prescribe these stimulants. The law seems with our present regular figures. . ,|to say nothing about influenza. It prescribes con- Where words need not be aaigiae fo restr ditions under which liquor may or may not be im-; traffic sf a vie of me eae ap | ported into the state. Just how or why Mr. Langer with telegraphed day message, 1° 15 Ine ee ies this to influenza and not.to some other dis- preciated that the language latitude a letter allows — java pivetery: i plus the economy of postal rates will favor the air ‘There is still some curiosity as to why the 80-j1; died from aeroplane service. Sale ersten cialist press refrains from mentioning the opinion: “124 0! disease, 10; wounded Its effect on the telegraph organiza pt me | of Justice Robinson—elected by their own votes— 22; wounded slightly, 23 ever will not aloo wen ree I ae ers to the effect that this law is unconstitutional.— *C"°™ ae fs 2B in Beton speed wire service to its utmost ; a matter i ¥| Grand Forks Herald. Privates! Sas igen: instances heretofore given dilatory attention. The; : ! “Cant 0. Minnick, ‘Lamberton, Minn. rivalry will likewise insure wire charges at their) KULTUR TO CULTURE. a R. WOLCOTT, schafer, N. lowest, commensurate of course with existing gen-| “There has been much speculation regarding the. privsteDED FROM »OUNDS, eral conditions and the expedited service, oat proximity of a day when war will be impossible. | fvstes ee Bey ea, In. view of the extraordinary advances peat Already science has a collection of weird con- WOUNDED SEVERELY. i i i i any direc-! triy thi sa ner ; . | Privates: ye tive genius has of late permitted in many oc" trivances for which their inventors claim any. | Clarence Hosénéon®’ Fertile, Minn. tions, it is not unlikely that trains of planes will|thing up to a complete annihilation of entire George E. Dougherty, Seymour, Ia. g i i =| ; | Frederick H, Eve, Lesueur, Minn. populate the air while we stroke beards and rem. armies. ; : : | WECUROROEIOEEELE Unantorntnea: inigcently call to mind not only this infant stage! Many believe that instruments will be conceived ; Privates: Gale : Me revolutionary project but the day we hesi-/ which, if used, might blight humankind from the "0 4 Manson, Liteutield, Sinn. tated to take our first spin in a benzine buggy. | earth. ’ fi EVERY AMERICAN. MODERATE MR. LANGER. The socialist press bureau declares that Attor- ney General Langer has not set aside the bone dry law or any of its provisions, and Mr. Langer him- self declares that he has merely held “that whis-; key and brandy may be considered medicines, ahd can be brought into the state for their treatment | (of influenza, etc.) in the manner prescribed by: law, during the period of the epidemic only.” The self-restraint of Mr. Langer in refraining ‘from cancelling this law and making another at his pleasure is remarkable. One wonders how he direct, of inestimable value to The development, expan- postal branch promi, exploit- BEAT IT Bn SECTION NO. 1. The following are report- ed by the comm: American Expeditiona: , ed in action, 26; ‘died from acciden' dt lorces her causes, | Sergeant: ! Interest of this nature has grown rife during| eum H. Wilcomb, Laurin, Mont. AN OPEN LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS. | the present strife. Some of the chimerical schemes! “ Emil Bladine, Minneapolis, Minn. DEAR SANTA CLAUS: |and death-making machines have been fancifully | Privates: Wo GRRESON This is to let you know that our Christmas hour | portrayed in more or less technical periodicals. ind. : ver has struck, Earlier this year than ever betores) In this country, deliverance from war’s horror | ene ti Ae eee but this is an extraordinary year, one the like of |is most widely anticipated as an outcome of prog- Minn. which has never come before, and may never | regs in the electrical field. | pawiliam Denver: Brown, Lacreek,'S. return. It is a year of war, Santa Claus, and it is! Imaginative intellects have already dreamed of | a most important year. It is a year in which we hurling thunderbolts, substituting ingenious| have put aside many, things we had considered | things of cogs and wire for the sinews of Thor’s| necessary to our happiness and comfort. It is @ mighty arm. | year in which we lay the foundation for the great-! In Germany, the idea seems to have been to! Theron M. Martin, Harlem, Mont. est victory we have achieved, winning the world’s | make Mars powerless in behalf of any nation other | Piece ee Hie freedom from the foe of liberty. _than Hunland. George A. Osdaugh, Tipton, Ia. We have given ourselves over to fighting this! Science there chooses for its weapon deadly war. Beside it all things are incidental. Even so/germs. Their arsenals are laboratories, their, EVERETT TRUE we are now regarding your avocation, that of mak- thunderbolts cultures of coccus, microbes and! Yes, THs 18 --4 ing the world merry. It is more needful that the | bacilli. everett TRUS world be made free, and that liberty be assured | They find fiendish pleasure in the possession of SPEAKING, all humanity, than that each of us give and receive power to loose a plague upon the world if it be! Christmas cheer. But we do not ban Christmas ' their wish. | gifts. We do not bar Christmas cheer. We do} Fortunately there is the menace of the boomer-| _ not ask you to discontinue your highly pleasing ang to limit the possibilities of such develistiness. ' Bowman, Dak. William C. Avery, Sioux City, Ia. David H. Freid, Sioux City, Ia. Daniel Henning, Northville, S. D. Fred Kendrick, Great Falls, Mont. Olaf Moxness, Bristol, S. D. Monty Loosemore, Candy Minn. { | aKe To .) es: Kill-{ d of wounds, 10; | ~. MISTER. TRUE, THIS (& MISTER Boses. =| TALK WITH YoU. WANT TO TRUST THE MATTER ROBERT R. KLISKA, Shields, N. D. | James E. Reid, Aberdeen, S. D. SECTION NO. 2. The following casualties are report- ed by the commanding general of the t ‘ican Expeditionary forces: Kill” jed in action, 8; died of wounds, 6 ; Wounded severel: ree undetermined, t KILLED IN ACTION. . Privates: Otto M. Johnson, Milan, Minn. ~ DIED ROM ACCIDENT. Privates: ORRIN LEE, Winsop, N. D. George J- Stahl, Wykoff. Minn. , WOUNDED SEVERELY... Corporfals: | Joseph C. Burnham, Dooley, Mont. Privates: James E. Ford, Preston, Minn. ; John R. Ogburn, Monroe, fowa. Carl W. Snyder. Melette, S. D- Norris Briggs, Des Moines, .Ia. Dowd W. Brown, Centerville, Jowa. John A. Carlson, Akron, Iowa, CHARLES W. WILLIAMS, Arvilla, N. Dak. ‘WOUNDED, Degree Undetermined. - Lieutenant: Lisle Daniel Tucker, Si. Paul, Minn. | Privates: Minn. Christian Farni, Nevada, Ia. Sever Johnson, St. Paul, Minn. John O'Brien, Degref, Minn. CARL F. BRUNING, Freda, N. D. William L. Johnson, Bettendorf, Ia. Thomas R, Redican, St Paul, Minn. John W. Schleisman, Lidderdale, Ia. Ralph H. Weisgerber, St. Peter, MARINE CORPS. Missing in Action: Private Fred P. Nord, Rothsay, | Minn. Bv Conde tL WOULD TO HAVE A CONFIDENTIAL L.DON'T WRITING OR THS TELEPHONE. habit of visiting us on Christmas eve. We want ‘Once the germs are liberated there is no means} you to come. whereby their toll can be confined to certain peo-| But we want you to come early! 'ples and places. That’s the point we wish to make in this letter,, In some cases, perhaps, the perpetrators have! dear Santa Cluas. Come, but come early. It mayjalso the only sure antidote for the disease they | have been permissible in other years for you to spread. But it is likely that in most instances, loaf all year in your North Pole home (or wherever |zeal will out-distance caution. Man has ever it is that you live) and hitch up your reindeers | found it easier to destroy than to create, or offset about supper time on Christmas eve for a hurry-|his work of destruction. up trip to chimney tops round ’bout here, but not | To end war, to terminate the slaughter of bat- this Christmas! : |tlefields, there is a means more effective, more} It might, once, have been all right for you and certain, more practical than either of the above. good old Mrs. Santa Claus to postpone your Christ- | Education! Universal enlightenment! The pass- mas shopping until the snow flies, and do yourjing of the brute in humankind, a step toward Christmas mailing in mid-December, and complete | Utopia and the Brotherhood of Man, Nations and| your Christmasing the last minute. | Races. But not this Christmas, dear Santa! | It means a purging of the beast passions, dé- Bo ces, WELG,- TM WILLING To TALK WITH You, MisTeR BUT WE WILL HAVE TO neert IN Some FISH MARKET OR Some GLUE SPASTORY. BECAUSE I CAN'T STAND ALHAT, CHROMIC FOUL BREATH OF oues is This is going to be a different Christmas. |velopment of the finer qualities; subservience of We are fighting a war, the biggest war of alljthe physical to the mental; broadening of indiv- time, and we must not allow your dilatory ways to| idual outlook upon life’s problems; léss selfishness, interfere. You must adopt our wartime program: greater consideration for others‘as we journey Speed! Full Steam Ahead! Keep Going! life’s way together. Idealistic? “Maybe so, but You haven’t a minute to lose, dear Santa, if you Ideals beckon onward and we must move ahead. want to keep pace with us this year. If you want|Why not away from Kultur toward Culture? to make our Christmas merry, you must get busy ‘ { ; The “revelations” of that Hearst reporter who HIS MASTER’S VOICE 2 f ® a sarreate> - : viL.@ i ‘REGISTRATION WORK MUST NOT STOP FOR FLU, (Continued From Page One} ‘only be kept up if the individual boards carry on. “It is not needed that any or every | board call in great numbers of men at eee Women all over the world realize more | and more that their work ut home will help { the men at the Fropt. It involves great } sacrifices, hard work ard unusual physical strength. Women at home should study [Berek for war and for the home. A good | way to learn is to ask your druggist for a | copy or send 50c to publishers of the ““Med- lieal Adviser,” 663 Main St., Buffalo, IN. ¥., and get a copy of their 1,000 page ‘hook bourid in cloth, with chapters on tFirst Aid, Taking Care of _the Sick or ' Wounded, Physiology, Hygiene, Anato- imy, Sex Problems, Mother and Babe. 'Nobody,.man or woman, can do good {work when health is impaired. If a {woman is nervous or has dizzy spells, {suffers from aviul pains at regular or | irregular intervals she should turn toa tonic ‘made up of herbs, and without aleohol, j which makes weak women strong and sick | somen well. It is Dr. Pierce's Favorite i Prescription. Now sold by pharmacists in iliquid or tablets. Send 10 cents to Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., trial package of the tablets. | Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is a | rue friend to women in times of trial {and at times of pain when the organs are | got performing their functions. ~ For head- \sehe, backache, hot fizshes, catarrhal con- ‘dition, mental depression, dizziness, faint- Jing spells, lassitude or exhaustion, women 1 never fail’ to -take this tried and { ‘rue woman’s medicine. ————— tthe same time. However, there must be a reasonable number examined |daily! It is only fair to the men to 'know their future obligations; it is i but fair to the boys on the front line. | There’need be’ no: crowding or great | discomferts in this examination. The | physician can give simple directions. and there need be no spread of the i contagion in this examination.” * ace Ww, S, $.————— i Recognized the Symptoms. ; Little May had been sick and had {| ber temperature taken with the ther- | mometer several times. Shortly after, when out walking with her mother, she ; Saw a man testing his tires with a little i pressure gauge. ‘Turning to her moth- | er, she exclaimed: “Oh, look, mother; | that poor tire must be sick, because the man's taking its temperature.” OF EUROPEAN WAR POSTERS SHOW THE PULSE CO-BELLIGERENTS Dr. M. R. Gilmore, arator of the Merth Takota. state . kistoricaY museum, whose collecticn of -war plete in America, if not for the world, has made for Posters ‘is probably cue most com- \ the Tribune | translations of some of the characteristic posters which are now oa | display in the reading room-of the museum. ‘Nothing more ulearly, reveals the pulse of America’s European co-belligerents, and Th2 Trib- une will present in this column one of these translations each dad until the entire number has been given its readers. VOILA LES AMERICAINS! This is the title of a zoster which is ; ¥ery commonly displayed everywhere lin France. It shows the German crown prince with a crowbar in his hands, with which he ig trying to break through a wall labeled “Front Occidental” (Western Front). He turns his head for a moment from his task, and his face betrays great anx- iety as he sees a gigantic shadow looming before him upon the wall. In pose and outline the shadow unmis- takably represents a n American sol- dier in field equipment. The Adam’s- ing laugh, and the general air of as- surance of the American soldier are plainly in evidence, even In this shaw- ow figure. The crown prince exclaims in the words of the title of the poster, “There are the Americans!” Below the picture the 'texa follows: “Germany would have liked to break through the western front and-impose upon the Allies conditions of peace as ignominious: as those imposed upon Russia. It is too late! The Ameri- can effort. exceeded all her expecta- tions.” Then follows a line in large red letters: “This is wat America brings to us.” Below this heading are diagrams and drawings presenting these facts and figures: é Military Effort— c By successive recruitments, with ap- this territory, left carried on under Geo. Brock. eee ARE ENED: ; Proval of Congress. Président Wtlson was able to bring the American’ army from 200,000 imen, effective at the declaration of war, :a 2,000,000 men. Military Expenditures ’ The military expenditures of the United States represent ten times the total expenditures of the government in time of peacé. The financial effort for the army has therefore passed in six months from 1 to 30. Edward A. Anderson, Minneapolis,! apple, the determined chin, the rollick- | Factories and Mines— In the United States there are 27,000 mines and factories working for the war. j ‘ . rinancial Aid to France— In six months the financial aid of the United States to Franee has been douvle the appropriations for thirty preweus»months-of the war. Con- gress» has° appropriated 110 billion francs in six months, that is to say, a little less than France has expended in three and a half years. i Disposable Tonnage— At the declaration of the war 1,800,- 1000 tons; At the end! of 1918, six millions of ‘tons; de As the aim of the program: 11 mil- lions of tons. Announcement My. M. B. Gilman, manager of the company bearing his name and which distributes the Dodge Brothers Car in today to enter an ‘officers training camp at Louisville. During his absence the M. B. Gilman Company will be located with the Cor- win Motor Company, and the business its former name through the management of \Mr. S. W. Corwin. Dodge parts. ‘will .be stocked as usual, and shop service will continue under the supe sion of Mr. \ t M. B.GILMAN~ CO. W. S. Corwin, Manager (is 2 to dow pom « “fy * av Ray i at