The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 19, 1919, Page 10

BALKED BY POLITICIANS, IS LUDENDORFF’S — WAIL; LAMENTS LACK OF BISMARCKIAN TYPE Ludendorff has ¢ ds the Dos only had he not been to the urgency of the army's needs;home, to have it ralsed—and th often-made charge that he was balked by the chancellor and | or in getting rid of the til effects of | wi f workmen should have be the dictator of Germany in the er civil) authorities, His | this classification. An order of the | kept down to a sonable level final period of the war, His ntation so often expressed, | minister of war ued in the| This would have, of course, in-| whole effort in this book, which that there was not a chancellor | autumn of 1918, was too late to do! volved considerable redueti in is his defense to the German peo: of the Bismarck type to help him | any good. jwar profits, for wages and profits | ple, is to show that he was ale | in his efforts to make of Ger In the meantime the standard of | necessarily stand in close inter-rela Ways merely trying to organize any the m fitness for general service had been| tion, Such a rae would have the nation for efficiency and that | of militarism the world has ever | again revived, and below the class) saved consider ma, thue easing he was constantly balked by the | rey t of garrison duty in the field or at|our budget an erving our cap Politicians in Berlin | ition he makes of his p hom ere was created another | ital In this and succeeding chap view, labor duty | I was not aware of the difficulties ters, however, he reve the | © excuses some of his harsh The ayatem of re-examination and|of the problem, having regard to the manner in which he undertook | asures on the ground that he ntrol generally at home seemed to| universal rise in prices due to the > i to exploit the German people and found credible shirking” ling to be defective lchastake 06 tad cntétictn, bak f " “a how thoroly be would have among the workers and men Complaints of the most incredible | hoped that it would be solved and 4 rifled them for military pur. | eligible for fighting shirking were always being made. I|that the way to a sound position urged the war ministry to act ener-| would be discovered, A law estab getically, while thee. “MY THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS” By Gen. Eric Von Ludendorff 2 Fe ektel IN by Harper und Drothera. “All rights reserved, | morale in the fleld and at home. ae: rl ed n Gree Fritain by Hutchinson @ and the I ion Times = Avstratio A « reserved f France, Belgium, Motland, Russia and the SHAL SERVE Seandinayian the unsparing Ro achieve ultimate victory hor a war has but an insufficient and par- Up to this time the army in the produced force. Divis Russia, in particular, Wery strong new formations. field had received adequate ret . ion meant a Rery. This reorgantaati France on Rumanian thought, and larly on the Rumanian army, | was only to be expected that the necessary, however, not merely was only bare jus | lishing 1 never, however, was able to | feet that in this respect things were | solution asx they should be for the sake of uxiliary service) law left un-| pulsory application obligation to serv The introduction of compulsion for | It was one of the most crying in- send into the army all the men then | justices of the war-—and must have of service the way to the n© general duty would have shown KGED CHANCELLOR TO ACT The scription, introduction of general con coupled with that of com civillan service, was not of touched labor that should have been |itself sufficient. It was essential Notwithstanding the successful) tries of all thelr manpower that was gocoted to the # ¢ duty of | too, to secure that the labor thus ob. close of the year 1916, the outlook in any way available. was only men be | tained was profitably used and that for the coming year was exceeding! war called on us to gather nd 46 rded this |the state did not lose the benefit rave. It was certain that in 1917) together and throw into the scale | imitation as 4 inappropriate in me the entente would again mak | the last ounce of our strength, either | view of the tron necessities of the} It was clear to me that measures . not only to make go0d| in the fighting line or behind the wa, eh’ thks oust woud iateten taemesis their losses they were ¢ lines, in munitions work or other) 0) oo. September, 1916, the |ing interference with administration RAinly in a position to do, but to add| work at home or in government serv-| oN Oy eae eiewt demanda| with trade and with private life. It Eepeetr strength everywhere and/ice Each citizen could only v* | of the supreme army command for|was also not to be forgotten that @well their superiority in numbers. | his country in one post, but in some the | too many restrictions tend to atullfy mo eCOV . iY oul’ to} " . Though they had not cas are way ge ere sh rot gs Toa aged to | rorcea We insisted emphatically on|individual effort. Opposition was ur worn out troops would . se ew ond sade olay . ™*) the point of view that in war the|bound to rise, even when the de and ona a “ n . \ the state, and that accordingly every nd with the iron necessity of the autumn of 1916, if they were a oon Ee p29 gh Nyon tout | German from 15 to 60 should be un Self.seeking and profit-hunting and home services was carried ov an obli- lready firmly rooted. consisted now Cooperatio viele eee ig | Hons, lay on women too ple the way to victor to mak 1 | supervise the whole matter in detail he duty couk ulfitied by | Crary M eneeeeneee her etesiee < for even the Pruas minister of | service at the front or by work, in|their own destiny. The reichstag, ry resources in manpower, the widest sense, at home, and was;and with it the whole people, had to Jee which she drew In ever-increasing | Nir Ny of the forces at the enemy's | in no sense limited to workmen in share the responsibility. On October measure. disposal and of the needs of the situ| the ordinary meaning of the word, | 30, 1916, the chanceilor waa expe England brought her army up to| © spe altho it, of course, fell mainly on/ctally urged to secure this end. 1 Mtrength and set about Increasing it them, hoped that the government would be prepared to adopt the great principle + | of Universal service and to bring the e o turned wounded (of| war services was of the great ced to 12 battalions, | ments from re’ eople to connide: r thei BEE patieries to nix guns and new | Whom, thanks to our admirable med: | moral importance, placing an it did | Pep! Pia ny ee a bs gg tod ns were formed out of the sur. | !cal service, a very high proportion | every German at the service of the —— h nang could yet devote y. r 0 line), from the) state in th anxious times, in ac petr countr attalions and the sev-|came back to the 5 pte seh os a ber guns of each bat-| Yearly classes as they were called | cordance with the oldest principles It required an unselfish under | hag up, and from reexaminations and) of German law, It should also have | Standing on the part of the people to shake themselves free from the self cr th. | comb-outs. had the great practical advantage of . 3 eenana rong wok to be re| We were forced to send men of 19 giving the government the control seeking domestic politics, to devo 4 and trained by French of-}to the front; younger men could not over rates of wages. | themesives whelly to the war and to . | aftin. be sent. The medical standards were P 5 translate into action the proposa : ene. Se: te securel oe 7 POINTS OUT of the supreme army command 3 ‘of the two races and the influence reduced and the vast majority of the | “CRYT INJUSTICES” | 4 available men called up, It was still b IWANTED TO DRILL THE PEOPLE The government did not take these h officer soon would become | 8vailable, but also to find some new | heen #0 felt by the troope—that they | wen I had still at that time un © with the paychology of the | Source of supply beyond these; In) who were risking their lives dally |jimited confidence in the German mian army and accomplish a| particular it was vital to reduce the| were much worse off than any of! peonie and the German working Breat deal | numbers of jemptions. the workmen who lived in safety class. The war was life and death . We had to reckon with new forma HAD TO BUILD While the soldier was fighting for | for ys all; this should be made clear “thons of Austro-Hungarian prisoners: DEFENSES himeelf, his wife and children. he / ty the workers, and then, as I be ‘Of war and Venizelist Greeks. | | could only think with anxtety of his At the same time, we had to find the labor needed for the ‘work be | f¥ hind the Mnes, where the construc. | ‘mily tion of positions was of simply incal culable importance, and to keep up the war industries at home. Against this Germany and her al had nothing to throw into the . The increase in the artillery general headquarters had in and the creation of 13 new ons which was under considera were not a real addition to our th, as they weakened the ex ng formations. We could only n the infantry battalions by draw- The everything was at stake, why should | tion. not the garrison duty man;*who wae) ®man at home a. ing on current reserves and reducing 44 much as the “general service” | punishment | battation strengths. man? The men, however, looked on | satisfactory position NY DRAINED their garrison duty classification as| The pay of ; oF MANPOWER |a sort of passport to safety | There was nothing for it but to! supreme army command never suc “@rain Germany and ture and the maintenance of his ‘The separation allowances were in no way sufficient. | longing to get which could be sufficiently explained even more than they had already “Fit for garrison duty only” was | by the desire for personal safety, had | given always a thorn in ty side, When | iso a higher motive tn family affec | Every Child Should EAT PLENTY OF BREAD Dr. Robert Hutchinson says “Bread must be regarded as one of the most nu- tritious of all ordinary foods,” and Dr. Harvey Wiley says “there is more energy in a pound of bread than a pound of meat.” U. S. Wheat Director Barnes urges every one to eat more bread. IT_IS YOUR BEST FOOD! Bread contributes to brightness of mind and sturdiness of body. It is perfectly natural for the children to want plenty of it. Give them all they want. Eat more bread yourself. It can be served in many delicious ways. This advertisement is one of a series pub- lished by the EATTLE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAKI INDUSTRY 1141 Henry Bidg., Seattle, Meved, they would be certain, in their knowledge of the great danger threatening them and their country to range themaclves behind the sw back home,|preme army command and to give discipline, so in a long war the peo- the fighting men ple are held together and kept on The should have been raised—and I at- their feet by firm leadership and a tempted, without any real success clear conception of the danger (hreat- the allied coun-| ceeded in adjusting this conception in the face of official opposition at ening their country. The enthusiasm of the moment passes, that is inevi- table; and It must be replaced by dis ‘pline and understanding. That his could be achieved I had no loubt. Even without any new legislation the government could help us. The laws dealing with a state of siege and with war services gave the necessary powers to obtain the labor required, but the government lacked the neceanary determination to apply them properly. The administration of these laws however, would amount to a mere application of force, from which, on reflection, I saw little hope of real nucees I thought that it would be |better to have a law supported by the approval of the whole people, one | for the general good in the hour | free workmen, that is to say, as the In the next installment Luden- which would make plain to the whole |of peril. The government, the auxiliary workers. This was wholly || Gorff tells of how the “Hinden. world our determination to hold out.| reichstag, and a great part of the! unjust and un burg plan” of controlling industry This, too, I explained to the chan-| population had never yet under On the lines of communication || finally forced on Germany, cellor. nod the character of modern war- there till greater contrasts, | 9Mly to be called a failure by LAW NOT | fare, which lays claim on all T withdrawn from the heavy | Yathous critics, He admits it had SWEEPING ENOUGH | resources; nor had th ever re fighting at the front saw auxiliary || le be revised because it was found pA ctcigsacags EER | the importance to ultimate workers and women workers work-|| lt could not control the people as r much unedifying pressure |Y!ctory of their full co-operation in /ing in peace and safety for wa he had planned from the supreme army command, | ‘he fight far higher than their own pay |the government made up its mind, in November, to introduce into the reichstag the auxiliary service bill, which was passed on December 2. It was neither fish nor fowl, and very different from what we had desired. principle of universal liability to ser vice, which we laid down in Septem ber, and gave no securi that the labor strength obtained would be so employed as to produce the maxi mum results. In practice the law largely owing to the manner in which it was administered, was but a shadow of the reality we desired a reality which would have devoted the whole strength of the nation to the nation’s service, and so supplied jreinforcements for the army and la bor for the army and for home in dustries. The provisions did not even cover women, altho there were many avail able to replace men at their work and release them for the army In spite of everything, I gave the law at first a warm welcome. Friend jand foe alike attributed it, as a |sign of determination, a far | higher value than it really ponsessed jIn ¢ tion with our successes in it was bound to have con to our BY AG TALK I followed the course of the dis: cussions in the reichstag with un. mixed regr This was the first portunity, and also, jas quartermaster ¢ 1, the duty, |to do so. The supreme army com |mand obtained by this means an in. |sight into the spirit of the population that was of decisiv for the issue of the war. my importance was in a very delicate position dealing .with the difficult labor q) |tions, It should have followed a |xtrong war policy, instead of a weak |and submissive domestic policy, Why | did it not boldly and clear ake | the whole people share the responsi- bility for the result of the war? The German workman had already | The same feeling kept many | done wonders, but he could still do id gave te service{ more. Just as troops, in the hour employed at the front, carry a rifle in the face of the enemy an alr of of peril, are enabled to do their ut- vis was a thoroly UN most thru patriotism inculeated by | ‘The bill departed too far from the | ly time in the war that I had the op-| rheumatism in Most people do not realize the} If such conditions are permitted to| of war material, the supreme arson alarming Increase and remarkable |continue, serious results are sure tol command had to draw: heacie oy prevalency of kidney disease, While | follow; Kidney Trouble in its very|the resources of the army in mam kidney disorders are among the most | worst form may steal upon yous power, weakening the fighting| common diseases that prevail, they! 1¢ you feet that your kidneys are |forces correspondingly. In the win | jare almost the last recognized bY/ the cause of your sickness or run|ter of 1916-17 alone, 125,000 men| | patients, who sally content them: | own condition, begin taking Dr,|Were sent back home, to be returned }selves with doctoring the effects, | iiimer's Swamp-Root, the famous|to the army so soon as they could | while the original disease constantly | jianey, ver and bladder medicine, | again be spared / | undermines the system because as soon as your kidneys are| I pressed persistently for arrange: | Weak kidneys may cause lumbago, | ell. they will help the other organs | ments to be made as rapidly as pos: | atarrh of the bladder, |*? health sible between the military and the! position | pain or dull ache in the back, Joints! 1¢ you are already convinced that | {2Ustal world for the formation | times feel as though It was certain that the government | but no strength, get weak and lose in | flesh Again and again to emphasize that|men who had to risk their lves|in part it was being wasted. the war meant life or death to by day and to endure the} Too many men who should have Gonnay «reatest hardships, and of necessity) gone to the army were left at It soon became clear that the | !nereased their dissatisfaction with|home, The efforts of the supreme sistant wervion taw wab not mere [CT Day The employment of | a command had foth r+ Aad it positively harm. Mighty paid auxiliaries on the [ues | vietion was forced upon us that | ie operation, {twas partion./f communications was thus althe German people was no longer , iettatinata the treeps to two-edged rword, There was some | so at heart. wat Mid agye nat Dh ca it ; th fundamental! mnsound I”) ANOTHER CROSS |work and in the same positions, | ch conditions HE VALUED being far better paid than the men| ‘Tio measures introt need in § increase the esteem in which who had been called up for service | torwer with 4 view to laigin work and auxiliary service under the previous legislation and|a!l possible man power had th held, I proposed the institu were now under military command. | had Lur a very scanty result. The|tion of the auxiliary service cross. | There grievances were increased! latent strengti rmong the peopie| rater on, I was one of the first to by the circumstance that exempted had not been properly brought out |Teceive it, and, having regard to the hs |tremendous importance I attributed | |to the carrying out of the word de-/ manded by the supreme army com-| mand, wore it as proudly my @ (other decorations, even if with a cer ro eae oar or edhe scree us At 19, 1919. $1,500,000 7% Cumulative Preferred Stock CAPITALIZATION Authorized | Preferred Stock, 7% Common Stock cumulative Began operating in 1911 dollars. f all kinds. fourteen million Established year ending 1910 July Manufacturers of flour and feeds 1919, between thirteen and PLANTS arbor Island 31, were The Company owns property on the southwest corner of F | A Short History of the Fi | stockholders of the company 000 of this increased capital the requirements of the business voted to increase the capita’ s being offered for male at at this time warrant present, the truste selling. Dividends on Common Stock No dividends w be in quick aaw Indebtedness There is no bonded or mortgage indebtedne not * property (except purchase money mortgages on property hereafter acquired), wit thirds of the preferred stock outstan Earnings $1,600,000 of the quick am We gladly Company your subscription may be filed through our brokers, 8, National Bank Bidg., Portland, or upon direct application to preferred stock, equals $226 per share, Seattle, Washington PRICE: $100 and accrued dividends per share Subject to prior sale All legal ma in Hastings & Stedman, us for subscription blanks. Attorneys, of Seattle, Washington. Write or phone FISHER FLOURING MILLS COMPANY Par value of shares, $100; dividends payable quarterly on the first day of January, April, Jv of each year; nonasnessable; preferred both as to assets and dividends; retirable upon sixty day tion of the Company at $107 and accrued dividends; exempt from present normal income tax $1,500,000 to be outstanding. $1,200,000 outstanding. and sales for the on which are situated flour mills hav: @ dally acity of approxima 6,000 barr and a feed mill plant having a daily capacity mately 600 tons, In connection with re concrete elevators having @ capacity of approximately bushels, and ks and warehouses with ity of approximately 15,000 tons The plant t* pronounced by milling experts America’s Finest Flouring Mills.” It is idea!) deep water for export t has all four transcontinental railro erving direct to the mill user franchise that will rvice by any other railroad that may hereafter reach Seattle In addition to the plant uttle, the Company owns and operates a cereal mill at Mount Vernon, Wash ington, operates @ small flouring mill at Bellingham, Washington, and twenty-five distributing branches ington, Oregon and ( ornia It also owns @ line of twenty-eight elevators tn Montana, which are leased to and operated by the Valley Milling Company, The White-Dulany Company owns and operates a large line of elevators and ware- houses and has buying agencies in Washington, Idaho and Oregon, through which it buys wheat used Fisher Flouring Mills Company from those states. Both the Gallatin Valley Milling Company and The White- Dulany Company are owned by the same stockholders that own the Fisher Flouring Millis Company. her Flouring Mills Company ced in operation its original flour- of approximately During the year 1911 the Fisher Flouring Mills Company completed and pl ing mill plant on Marbor Island, Seatt) w hington, said plant having a 4 capacity barrels of wheat flour. Its products met with the approval of the public to such an extent that this plant has been kept in practically conti us operation from the day it started to this date. Since 1917 the plant c han been approximately 6,000 barrels dally The Company has extensive business throughout the Pacific Coast states and Alaska, and a very large export business, having sold its products in many of the European countries, the Orient and South and Central America Owing to the demands of the rapidly growing business, at a special meettag held on October 8, 1919, the to the extent of $3,000,000 of preferred stock; $1,500, feeling that this is as much as be paid on common stock unless after paying such dividends the net quick assets are equal to at least 100% of the outstanding preferred stock and the total net assets are equal to at least 150% of } the outstanding preferred stock. The corporation must at all times maintain against each outstanding share | of the now authorized preferred stock net assets of at least $150 per share, of which at least $100 per share shall * on the properties of the corporation, and the corperation shall while any of this preferred stock ts outstanding, create any bonded or mortgage indebtedness upon any of : out the consent of two- ‘The earnings of the Company for the past three years, before deducting income and excess profits taxes and making due allowance for interest (much of the interest would hereafter be saved by an issue of preferred stock) have been between four and five times the amount of the dividends on the preferred stock to be issued at thin time Total net aneets of the Company, per ita financial statement of July 31, 1919, after showing effect of sale of exclusive of the value of good will and trade names, and ts equal $164 per share for the entire amount of $1,500,000 of preferred stock now to be issued. refer you to your local banker for detailed information regarding the financial standing of our and if you wish him to do #0, we are sure he will be pleased to forward your subscription to us. Or Bond & Goodwin, 405 Hoge Building, Seattle, and 125 U. Fisher Flouring Mills Company, West Waterway, Harbor Island, _- THE HOME OE FISHER’S BLEND FLOUR connection with the issuance of this stock are under the @upervision of Phone Main 4430 ond notice October at op of approx! 1,000,000 eituated over common on n Wash Gallatin by the 2,000 pacity aity of postponing party interests|men were paid the same wages as! ‘The supreme army command had| This was bound to embitter the|in part it had escaped control, and tain melancholy, I was thinking the working of the auxiliary service | law, which disappointed me more nd more heavily as time went on. | To obtain the necessary skilled | workers for the tncreased production Thousands of Men and Women Have Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect It. jof a body of substitute skilled labor, | and for the employment of disabled men and women in such work, It is true that a great deal was done, or muscles, at times have headache or indigestion, as time passes you Swamp-Root is what you need, you }can purchase the regular medium may have a sallow complexion, puffy |and large size bottles at all drug or dark circles under the eyes, some- | stores, Don't make any mistake but | put nowhere was the en j ergy used you had heart/remember the name, Dr. Kilmer's | plenty of ambition | Swamp-Root, and the address, Bing. |"&t UF Position demanded. trouble, may hay ‘ It came in the end to th hamton, N. 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