Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 24, 1918, Page 2

The Casper. Daily Tribune, Issued every evering except Sunday at Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming. Publication Offices: Oil Exchange | Building. | Business Telephone _- 15} Editorial Office ___ -_918 Subscription—By Carrier 50c month; by mail, $3 for 6 months, $6 for year. | Entered at Casper (Wyo.) Postoffice as second-class matter, Nov. 22, 1916. | pi AR al Associated Presn Service. | United Press Service. J. E. HANWAY, President & Editor. EARL E. HANWAY, Business Mgr. Associate Editors: R, E, Evans Margaret V. C. Douds Member of the Associated Presx. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republicatiqn of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. | | 55 “i — > - This paper has enlis' prith the governmént in the cause of erica for the period of the war------ PREYING ON SOLDIERS’ PAR- ENTS the affairs of soldiers dying in the service. In many cases, parents have| no sooner learned of theizy son’s death than they receive a notice from ome lawyer in Washington, inform- ng them that they. will need. legal selp in collecting the son’s back pay, along with Liberty Bond rebates and} other claims on the government. The} er agrees to look after this bus- on a fee basis of 20 or 25 per cent, and asks the parents to give him power of attorney. Such service is absolutely unneces- sary, and no member of the legal profession except a shyster or a har- py would so misrepresent the situa- tion and attempt to prey in this man- ner upon the bereaved parents. It has been explained over and over again, in official statements and in newspaper comment, that the govern- ment itself will attend to all the nec- essary details without charge. In most cities, moreover, there are capable and reputable lawyers, repre-} senting their bar associations, who will gladly give free advice on such matters. In case of doubt or, delay, they should be consulted. Or if the establihed machinery does not seem to be working properly, the local tongressman can be appealed to. For all ordinary cases the words of Representative Quinn of Missouri apply literally and fully: .“q¥oylaw-| yer should bé allowed to get one cent of the soldier’s back pay or govern: ment insuran¢e as a fee for collect- ing it. No soldier, nor the parents of a soldier or sailor, needs the aid of a lawyer to get his money. The war risk bureau will pay every dime due the beneficiary under the policy. Al-| sol, if necessary, every congressman will aid his constituents in collecting the money.” 0: A FAVORED ALIEN PRESS The people of Ohio are interested just now in a particular bit of pro, Germanism that they never happened to think about before. It is one item in the great campaign for the ex- tension of German kultur in America which went\on unchecked and unre- garded for so many years. It amounts to a public subsidy for German lan- guage newspapers. There are state laws making it ob- ligatory that all legal notices shall be published in German papers. German is the only alien language so favored. Something like $100,000 a year of state funds is said to be spent an- nually for that purpose. It may be assumed that a much larger amount is spent similarly in county and mu- nicipal advertising in communities} where there are German papers. The situation is similar is many perhaps} most, of our states. It does look curious, in the light of our present attitude toward Ger- man language and kultur, and es- pecially toward the German newspa- pers in this country. Until very re- cently those papers have been one of the most, patent and harmful) forces we had -to contend with in our everlasting task of maintaining American ideals and Americanizing our immigrant ;population. They are still capable of harm; and they are are still supported, in large part, by| public funds. | The situation, needless to say, should be changed as promptly as pos- | sible. If erman language papers} are alloweé to exist, they should be! tolerated only on the same basis as | other branches of our alien press, in- | stead of being especially favored. FLANNERY AND FEE-EEAVE FO | 5 ja standstill another offensive should _ A shameful practice has come to|be put under way as quickly ak possi- light with regard to the settlement of| ble somewhere else. |French attacked THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE |which and more, of course, the in- telligence section of the British army |had found out the same'as I. This is |not swank on my part. I simply state these facts to prove that Sir Douglas | Haig knew when, where and how Hin- denburg was coming. BRITISH EXTEND LINES Not very long before the offensive gan-an unfortunate thing occurred. The fortunes of war necessitated the taking over of more line by the Brit- ish. Formerly the British line ended near St: Quentin. Now it was extend- ed as far as’ La Fere, and before the troops got fairly into their new sec- tor, Hindenburg’s blow fell. * feist ee Tong, ae oes line, ¢ 3 reaching from the River Scarpe to ioe Vite s eee place in the| the Oise, at La Fere, was hurled the ‘Altho: ait-4ERe Ate tied Swan no| Mightiest, force ever seen in battle. such thing as a generalissimo on the| ©1one this G-mile front three army western front, there was something: , Mi approaching unity of command, and ae Serer ie see igs fihese backs it has been agreed between British| (Ata 'ts he the alc f Deiat and French, that certain general pol-| °*! Hig des x le av lees re oe es icies should be followed in the Allied | °TS Be gas eine meleccond ary: offensive of 1917. Without going|Of von der Marwitz and the 18th into details, the tactics of the Franco- bork, oa el user; tometier nue British commanders were almost pre-| Oct more Aver visions, of cisely those of Hindenburg and Lu-| ich 41 divisions were used in the dendorff this year. That is, an of. | first day’s attack. Opposing the once fensive was to be turned loose in a|™Y, Were, am ag i Ae particular place, and if this came to|U"der Sir Julian Byng, of Cambrai fame, and the smaller fifth army, j under Gen. Gough, worn down in the campaigns mentioned and very thin- ARRAS FIGHT STARTS {ly eprends out. So, on April 9, 1917, the battle of Arras began. A few days later the between Soissons} and Rheims. The storming of Mes- sines Ridge came next and after this was the push in Flanders and the drive against Cambrai. The Flanders offensive was aimed against the high ground east and northeast of Ypres, against Passchen- daele, Roulers and the U-boat bases on the Belgian coast. Had these been taken Germany’s position in Belgium would have been precarious and her whole northern flank menaced. But Haig played in usual British luck: The weather was abominable. Flanders became a quagmire. There were days when*some of the finest fighting men who ever pushed a bay- onet failed to reach their objectives only because it was!a ‘physical im- possibility to cross the bog. Of course progress was hopelessly retarded, losses were heavy and the! campaign season ended with the cap. ture of Passchendaele. The , Ger- mans were not seriously incommod- ed. On the other hand, British troops, who had to fight rain and mud quite Hard Knocks Prepare British for Effective Work During the Coming Year By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS (United Press Staff Correspondent.) (Copyright, 1918, by United Press.) | WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN} THE FIELD, July 24.—On this front three big things loom up out of the} year which began the middle of last? summer and ended the middle of this: Haig’s offensive in Flanders and} at Cambr: | The decision to brigade Americans with the British. | The German offensive. such an ordeal as did the British during the seven days following the start of that offensive. On March 23 the enemy crossed the Tortille and for a moment it seemed that t hey might succeed in separating the French and British armies, which joined up just south of this point, but the gaps were closed and the fifth army went on retiring, with the, third army falling back in order to keep in touch.» To the south the French Gen. Fayolle, with superb skill, kept the gaps closed around Ham, NesJe, Chauny, Roye and Noy- ons. On the Somme came another crit- icl moment: Here again, had the Germans been so clever as they like to believe themselves, they might have broken thru; but again the gap was closed. On the 25th the enemy took Mazitinpuich and Courcelette, and Albert was entered on the fol-~ in charge of all operations on thé western front, the French had moved northwestward as far as Moreuil on the Avre permitting Haig to thicken as much as the other enemy were|his line, and the offensive was’ brot| very tired. *\to a standstill. In all, 48 divisions Still, after a pause, the Cambrai had been used by the Germans, out surprise was sprung on the Germans. | of a ‘total of some 200 divisions Andithis was a surprise, the Germans then-identitiedsin the west themselves notwithstanding. Person-| The drive in Flanders came a few ally, I believe the war might: have! days later, on April 9. “It*startéd in ended there and then had the Allies}a small way, against the Portugese not been dog tired at the end ofa! just south of Armentieres, and two long, hard campaign, instead of be-| British divisions on their falnks. By |their unexpectedly rapid advance in No soldiers on earth ever wént thru} lowing day, but by this time General} Foch had been made generalissimg, HOPE 1S HIGH AS FIFTH YEAR OF GREAT BATTLE: DAWNS ON THEWESTERNEFRONT, DECLARES SIMMS jadvancing” against the British first jzmy (and the French, who had come \Up), towards Hazebrouck, which soon jbecame theiriobjective, forced a re- |tirement of the army to the north, ithe second which had won Passchen- daele. From the Ypres salient, now a@ dangerous pocket, the British fell back with practically no losses, to Ypres. itself... This was heart-break- ing for the men who had won the ground in 1947, but the war had now become.a struggle, not for towns and villages, but ‘to outmanoeuvre and annihiliate armies. On may 27 began the drive for Paris just as everybody who had | eyes to see had expected, a continua- |tion of Hindenburg’s fundamental | |plan to crush the Allied armies and| |force a German peace on the world. | But the great decision to brigade |Americans with the British and | French already had becpme effective. We first knew of it, in confidence, jas far back as January. Now it was a |reality. The result is, or ought to be, that the Allies may fall back here and cede ground there but slow- \ly and surely Hindenburg’s armies, must dwindle, while the Allied forces |grow. Fighting men from the U. S. | A. are pouring in. And‘despite the | worst which yet may happen, to quote |a square-jawed American I have just been talking to, “nothing in God’s | world can'save the Boches from a hid- ing that will last them the rest of time!”’ | The British thave taken some hard knocks during the past year and have |gone up against ‘some bitter disap-| | pointments, but there is not one who| | does not get mad asa wet hen if any- body suggests the Allies are losing | the war. Just as during those terrible days of the retreat from Mons, if you start’ the cry: ‘Are we downheart- ed?” the British will shout back in deafening chorus: | “N-0-0-0-0-0-0 |” L. A. J, Philippot and W. O. Wil-| son went to Denver last night to/ spend a few days, there attending to) oil and lega] business. omo - Miss. Thora Jessen returned yes- terday to her home in Dickenson, N. D., after. spending a month in Casper visiting her uncle, Valdemir Jessen, president of the Natrona ‘Lumber company. O mm O | Miss Lucile Hart of Sheridan is a| visitor in Casper and will spend a few days here on jiness. m=O Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ferguson left 4 Pa ago, the price of labor, ink, | \ sfor any number of months up to one TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1918 | Notice to Subscribers | NOTICE On and after September ist, the price of The Daily Tribune, delivered | by carrier, will be 15c per week, or; | 65c per month. This increase of fraction of a cent a day is made nec-' essary on account of the enormous \increase in the price of newsprint,| and freight rates. Since The Daily) ibune was established, nearly two} oil, machinery, and everything els in connection with the production of a daily newspaper has advunced in) price from 25 to 100 per cent. We have deferred action in this matter until it has become an abso- Jute necessity, and we hope, that our! subscribers will appreciate the fact) that we are not trying to make money on our subscriptions, but that! we are trying to break even. | We are now publishing a newspaper that the people of Casper have just! cause to feel proud of: We are do-) nating hundreds of columns of space; to the Government for publicity pur- poses, to assist in winning the war; and in order to keep the public well informed on the situation on the) battle front, as well as in this coun-) try, The Tribune.is now carrying the| reports of the two greatest press! associations in existence,-who main-| tain correspondents and messengers | all along the battle front and in the! trenches, in’ order to serve the read-| ers of The Tribune with reliable in- | formation as to what our Allies, and| especially what our own boys, are) doing to capture the Beast of Berlin. | The new rate will not be effective | until the first of September, and sub-} scribers who wish to avail themselves | of the present rate, may do so by| paying their subscription in advance TI ISI IS LE EES year. — ' | CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE. | LIBERTY GARAGE LARGE, NEW AND MODERN SPECIAL STORAGE RATES For the Season Auto and Radiator Work 180 SOUTH ELM ST.’ GEOLOGICAL WORK Maps and Blue Prints, Surveying, Wyoming Map and Blue Print Co., P. O. Box 325 Phone 849 111 Narth Wolcott Street last night for Denver to spend some time on business’aind pleasure. | » Wyo. fc “BEST: L OF 15c AT THE CHI Back of Grand Central Bar. N N CHILPIN TOWN LI KING LUNCH All kinds of Sandwiches at Lhd TS 20S 09S 9S 2S SUPERIOR CLEANERS Located with STAHL, THE TAILOR EXPERT FRENCH DRY CLEANING 123 East Second St. Phone 431 NN A Bona Fide Paying Business Proposi- tion in Casper, Wyoming Have five year lease on building, and rents more than pay the entire rent of build- ing. For full particulars address Box 222, care Tiibune Office. MP LL Ss Always Equipped to do your Electrical Construction Wiring and Repairing Armature Winding A complete stock. of Electrical Supplies on‘ hand ST. LI AISALALLL LA OL hk hk Lu ing at the start and fresh. For the |the center, crossing the River Lys tanks, hundreds of ‘them, broke com- pletely thru before the panic stricken| at BacSt. Maur and pushing on to- wards Bailleul, a dangerous situation ¥ OL hd Cd MIM DM AAC enemy realized what was going on. In front of the British infantry lay|was created for the British and the| Cambrai and the wide-open country.| Germans knew it. So they quickly} |flung in mote troops to enlarge the| All that was needed was a strong fresh army to exploit the breach. The’ breach and, the following day, struck | at Messines, north of Armentieres. | whole German front might have been} | This city was deluged with gas and| DUTTON STALEY & CO. Oil investments, Stocks and Leases Casper Supply Co. | but rolled up. But ** *** and that’s the whole | “inched out.” story ***** the men were tired) As on the Somme, the Germans and their ranks thin and, not being! under von Armin and von Quast, by strong enough to push on, had, ten| = —— — days later, to withdraw out of a dan- gerous salient. RUMORS OF OFFENSIVE ¢ About this time rumors of a great German offensive against the west front began to take form. The Rus-| sian collapse had become practically! complete and a front which had re- quired 76° German divisions to™hold down, disappeared. Even at the time of. the Cambrai German divisions were arriving from Russia and from that moment on the kaiser’s armies in the west grew bigger and bigger. A little over a year ago there were 128 German divisions on the western battlefield. By February of this year these had grown to 181. Only 55 divisions were left in Rus- sia, two others being in the Balkans and three in Italy, a total of 241. The German offensive which be. gan March 21 was not a surprise in any way whatsoever. While ip Swit- zerland during the latter part of Jan- uary I learned that the offensive would commence shortly after March 1, (depending upon weather and oth- er conditions for the exact date) that it would come in the country southward of Arras, that the Ger. mans would depend largely upon gas; that this gas was not new as the Raw-head-and-bloodyzbonés scar e- mongers and German propagandists insisted, but had been used both at Cambrai and in Italy; that a very short artillery preparation would be made; something of the approximate number of troops available; that a big! effort would be made at first against he British and then against the| ench in a drive toward Paris, which city German military leaders insist- ed must be taken; and a lot of other Electric JOIN FIGHTERS| P. J. Flannery, with the 32nd IIl-| inois infantry during the Spanish-! 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