The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1919, Page 15

FRIDAY, Nov EMBER 21, 1919, SR eras epee erase rep aPaRemeeeePNeTear ree SECOND SECTION ages firat person who succeeded In bring: of tron ore from Sweden, and even|our aircraft, this was done solely on, ing every step necessary for the pro wae —_-— ing order into the coal question, or,|/the ores at Pot! in Transcaucasia} aecount of the shortage of |auotign of sabelitete materials, but! at any rate, in overcoming the great-|were of vital importance to uns,/and in the face of the certainty that} many inevitable natural difficulties Germany suffered extremely ext causes of friction, and achieving | Serap, too, was needed for steel pro-| we were thereby reducing the fight | stood in the way in 1917 as part payment for \ fair compromise between the de | duction, We removed it from the|ing eapacity of our airmen and in The raw rials for trench war her designs to dominate the ; mands oy coal for domestic fuel, for | occupied districts In large quantities. |ereasing the dangers to which they | fore, timber o sbble, were drawn world and for the inflictions light and power, for agriculture and| Many a factory building had to be| were exposed. Jin increasing vit aeons she had put on other peoples, industry, for the railways and the | sacrificed to our war industry, under| Both stocks and consumption re-|occupied territ Sut Ganmane Lud men to ; | navy, of the Wlockade and the | quired constant supervision, The} too, had to send large quantities | : Ludendo: y | DARED NO of the war, In order to| employment of automobiles had to b In questions of raw toaterial, 1| | the sewrgias aa a aoe | pr songs of the Junkers. Bel- fratiwaymen and material tn corre | WEAKEN ‘a nish old iron for the steel of our| limited more than ever, and i feouih-eate ben ath pe oa Ph ds from home that nation and the n sian workmen would not aid in |aponding soale | Weapons and ammunition, that of motor lorries in quiet periods, | eral undert problema, But ev do something to meet the Quered people under rigid mill | ating their home” land by The supreme army command, thru] I found it very difficult tn May U-BOAT MATERIAL Jin order to be able to make full use| these der unded « thoro pre y privations of the pr le tary rule in 1917, bumped hard nga game sg fee the Gor | the directors of railways, made a ner: | and June, 1917, when still muttering | Parga cRIAL Jof them at eritical tim I could|1 had to keep myself constantly au|| deals with these troubles in Tiisth thd Vilna of whith he | Gentes cnatter bow barely /is the minister for | from the great impression made upon | HACKING not claim any better supplies for the| courant of the matter, in order to|| tomorrow's Installment, lee oo Maite—the human eauc | Bs ‘ moderation in the |e by the great entente offensive in| Besides coal, and steel, the | army properly deal with isolated questions ag 2 a oro wane et Ludendorff put the screws of matertal at home, as, eg. by | the west and the extraordinary loanen ines, lorries and Ud sikal Geibaelnny Gibb aan ug Bons Bie é ‘ iv ind beled votes of AK poo | on as hard as he could, and Ger- | the limitation of traffi Similar | Which this caused us, to weaken the nis created some | wif EVENINGS decision ayes aaa meheute, hex ones aoe iy wae nit emed recess +4 mans aud captives alike were | tops were taken in the occupied dis |tmy further by releasing fifty thou-| of our gravest problems THE DARK Aji ote Son peouliarty difficult to sraep owl y RR oF et [+ forced uber the’ industrial drill | tricts. ‘The limitations, which were |*and workmen at his sat, ‘Thia| For lubricants we had to rely on| ‘The shortage of off at home wan) ets G OCCUPIED the changing needs of the war fie vb or ; ary | master and made to serve the ne | (inpracticable ,and,Jndeod, imposslble | Should be remembered while reading | Austriattungary and Rumania, As|serious, The country dintricts aid | » In #pite of all our needs, we acted jures, to sacrificed for the cossities of the military machine. full realidation under the then| the history of that pertod. | the former country could not supply |not obtain sufficient for the winter.| In such war It was inevitable! with the leniency that was carried cmniiatinates Jconditions, had ultimately to b I must vanize once more the| enough olf, and every effort for suf-|‘The peasants had to pass the long that the occupied territories would, almost too far, when compared with ‘ J to effect under the opp fact that such a weakening of the | ficient increases in ber output failed,| winter evenings in the dark, which | have to supply raw materials, Firm the extreme ste taken at home. bag | ne AND ACTIONS” Scat © ponsttions ae an rece Jarmy laid on the supreme army com: | the Rumanian oll was of ¢ seletva im-| was very bad for thelr spirits. It le | ness gradually achieved a great deal Germany had to surrender her I tton, mand a greater duty than ever to the | portanc Hut even when we had/ characteristic of Germany that Uttle In this direction. The suprem church bells, but, on a suggestion i Me, of snag Eric Von Ludendorff | Bb may be reallecd how strained oe in the fighting line, to continue | this source the question of rolting | war ever sald about this great incon: |command asked the provi made by Chancellor von Hertling to : 7 . ree ngoment with the MeClure N wapaver transport situation was at this time esmantly pressing for the increase | #tock remained very serious, and im-| venien: Yor a time some Of our | ernments in Pa and Belgium to | bis majesty, Belgium was allowed to t by Hutchinson & Company and the penton times, |When I state that powder and explo. | of Ist output, and the bette m-| peded both the carrying on of the| tra rt diff ‘es were due to the | aasint In this direction, In all essen ain hers. (it was the protest § Nariel; im Itely by Fratelli! ‘Preves: in Canada and |sive factories, on which everything | Ployment of man-power In Germany, | war and life at home, In 1918 the) bad lubricants on is the same principles were fol-|t b at saved the Belg § Beandins ston Fewerved for France, Melgium, Molland, Russia and the were at a standstill for |The army never recovered the men | stocks in the Caucasus promised bet: | tives, which froze very lowed in all the territories. It ix chureh bells) é Saaticy tons " i ond was coal te be nd labor output even|ter times. In our then economic | vate automobiles were practically not| obvious that this involved hardship| ‘The occupied territories were of & © ad wil ge ogee "Soon Cea: Glothing | and | jad, but the railways could m wane rably, That was, of| condition, our home production of| used at all in Germany, ‘The whole|for the local populations, but equal-| great help to us, both at the front ¥ Rinave the honor and credit of that.| ruled terrint han”, o Prices |it to them, Things became so bad | Course, a heavy blow to ux | benzol could not be substantially in: | re stock situation was one of |ly obvious that these steps had to be|and at home. The getting of mater- t SWhew it was once informed what! ing the cost of livia a ae that I had to have dally reports on| Iron wan not so plentiful as coal. | creased. Resides, benzo! was not sult eatent anx and called for | taken, jals from these districts employed j Shs ere to be mato on. Mt. it | festne A cgay all the dit the supplies to the powder factories |1t was difficult to turn out sufficient | able for xubmarines And alrcraft, | Incoasant watehing Every intelligent person will admit | large bodies of men, just as War y Went to work of its own accord to . “4 l owrry APIS EN juANtition of #teel, expecially of hard| When, towards the end of the war,' The supreme army command con-|that in many cases we mi work at home did, but we had to ¢aused me anxiety, The supreme) UNITY LACKING tool, We obtained large quantities we did decide to supply benzol for stantly urged the importance of tak- acted in r practical fast The make this sacrifice to live. fulfitt its task and gave ever better |army command. the interests 7 and better results. That it insured |the efficient conduct of _ t0 Htxelt a correspondingly good re could not tolerate it, and made many Ward from the government was only | jAppeals on the point to the govern FeAsonable, in view of the great risk | ment, unfortpnately without AMA the large capital outlay involved! Our dependence on foreign ling our demands; just a8 rea-|tries had grave effe and . im fact, as the workers’ de |tached great importance to the pro. } sire for geod wages |duction of substitute textile fibers in ot . sa aie siti! T apposed, if only in _ soldiere’|/1 instructed Lieutenant Colonel Anterests, al! oxtravagan® and self | Schmidt-Reder to investigate the It was the duty of the/matter, He put himself in touch Es to insure by all neces: with the various government offices BAFY measures that our economic po-|and with the textile Industty, and he Eales was not made any worse by |is mainly responsible for such uc demands of the Hin-| cess as was achieved. (Paper cloth denburs program. is euntion could |ing was’ one of the results of this only partial remedy mautes) ue ochlary ts eratiente te an I hope that his industry will bring benefit to his country. It may be B matter of the greatest regret to an incalculable blessing for the Ger }from the point of view of morale | man people, if it learns how to grow ne BOT iyo Prog d iteelf the products hitherto im. orted oad Of It. The war profiteer is| "Tren ens phenomenon, and he and rials a large number of semlofficial coh aoe of his influence have | companies were established a, Peak tae + om’ tne} 2% 1% ® position to judge whe St attics tor obtaining ail the avail | ne ' what extent they were p MAN-power were not fulfilled. Tee aa eee eestoate segs By ° ney we oductive of in Biven this office seemed to look at all | ratte friction. ” Buch questions from the point of of domestic politics, Instead of | RAILWAYS BADLY before everything the needs | STRAINED the war. I had also hoped that) The question of transport lay at Would succeed in bringing em-|the root of all questions of keeping |p the fight at home. This question, ws and workmen nearer to: , for the desire for rapproche- | in its turn, depended on locomotives, was present in many quarters. | railway cars, and staff, and was GIANS KEFUSE boeesga bound up with the coal sup MAKE ARMS ply. Minister von Breitenbach sacri Efforts were also made in the 00 | flced & great deal in every direction territories and tn Poland and | for the needs of the army. jum to stimulate war work. This} Both personnel and material were only possible to a limited extent, | strained to the utmost, and the loco to the fluctuations in the war| motives in particular were {Il-used. with which we had to reckon In the first place, matters were im the shortage of labor. | proved somewhat by returning fac ‘There were also at times other dif-| tories to the work of locomotive and For example, the Belgian wagon construction. The supreme in the huge small arms ries of the Liege district were | ready to work if they received assurance that the weapons they gufactured would not be used by n troops on the western front assurance could not be given. We were thus compelled to re ‘ ister of public works tn other ways, releasing men to such an extent as }to weaken the army. This waa, how- ever, unavoidable. In many respects we had prepared for a short war, and in this and other from many places the machin-|™atters had to reshape ourselves to which was suitable for war pur-|™¢et @ long one. Military demands and transport it to Germany, | °™ the railways at home still re it could be put to useful ends. |™alned very high. We had seized The obtaining and distribution of |the whole of the Belgian locomotives, materials in Germany was en-| 2nd also certain engines and wagons to the safe hands of Colonel Im North France, but these were not | ih, who in his department worked |nearty enough. The material taken the genius proper to the great |in Russia could not be used, owing , He achieved great things in|to the difference of gauge. direction of getting materials out | RUMANIA GOT the occupied ou aga The sup HIS CARS 1 tral and TEE of materiale from, neutral +74 ur allen also taid great burdens Tp apecial department of the Prussian |" our stock of engines and wagons eewtry of war, with which Colonel ‘Koeth worked in close liaison. THE PEOPLE | ED Colonel Koeth gave the army all that {t urgently needed, and in the then position, having regard to our dgnce on foreign countries, nothing more could be done. The r of raw material was insured ler ahead. The people, however, suf- | Daniels Does a | there were many hundred German locomotives and some ten thousand German wagons. Bulgaria and Tur key, too, received both men and ma terial from us. We had just recent the enemy had, taken severn) thousand German wagons to Moldavia and kept them there. The occupied districts ther lines, required an army of long NEVER BEEN KNOWN TO LOSE HIS TEMPER. 1S AN ARDENT PROHIBITIONIST ALWAYS WEARS A PHUS DANIELS STRING BOW TIE ! oon iS TH NEWSPAPER GAME . Si ellie eer He MIS ME EAN | THE HUMAN EQUATION FOOLED LUDENDORFF the war,| various raw mate-| army command also helped the min-/ even, altho with great reluctance, by | On the Austro-Hungarian railways | {ty captured material in Rumania, but} on the other hand, | with | IN GERMANY The existence of man railway administrations made the problem ntially more diffi cult. We suffered for not having} achieved greater unity prior to the! war, and for not having insisted on all the states keeping the various Ger BACK OF EVERY OVERCOAT standards. Bavar! for example, had considerably fewer heavy iecomo-| —Stands Our Guarantee tives per kilometre than “Prussia,| . ° ° the spare parts required by the Not a hazy understanding, but a concrete Largest Clothiers m ee ehh eat aes of guarantee of the Suit or Overcoat you select. Sa athe ee | It’s just this same honest, straightforward the Northwest tion of th nerial constituth | policy that has made our business so colossal Transport difficulties were j @ success, creased t fact that there was no | Portland Store ty ot ntrol or r Anagement of And furt Keune ore, our Upstairs policy is a , joanel-and fiver navi ation. Up to mighty big economic factor for you. ° -e ° ho Si a Raleigh Building E ars had nband A special jepartment Fall SUITS and | my request the ad us by recruiting the necessary men. ransport conditions, which had been very bad In the winter of 1916 } 27, ved later. They were se tmprc verely strained tr 18, but not #0 t The minister of made every effort to | Was necessary to meet t pevageenqltte Arcade Building, Second Ave. SHOW POWER (Over The Rhodes Co.) Coal and tron are the basts of all war tndustry. We were able to im prove our position considerably, even in our dealings with the neutrals, by means of the Longewy and Briey ba sin @elzed from France at the be ginning of the wart, the Relgtan coal fields, and parts of the coal areas of Northern France and of Poland, which latter we managed jointly with Austria Hungary. We began to de | velop in northeast Serbia and attempted to stimulate Turkey to | make a better use of her deposits. | We gave our allies and celved in return nothing but lignite } from Austria-Hungary for Saxony land Bavaria. In return for coal and the winter of 1917 $20 to $45 Fit Guaranteed as in the aprt for his Alterations Free coal coal re |iron neutral countries gave us,| jamong other things, foodstuffs and money to Improve our exchange, be ides horses. Thus did coal and Laid | show their power The shortage of coal at home ve | jeame considerably more acute im the | winter of 1916-17; it had a serious effect on morale and called for strong measures. The coal eupply in jermany was not properly controlled | and output had fallen I the February the a ing SIXSTATESTO | VOTE SUFFRAGE ‘Legislatures Convened by, to Chancellor in} appointment of joner, Min Stutz the proposed 1917 coal commi special | | Governors for This Month in in and special sessions West! | | Harvest are on in the nouncements owing hard upon Idaho, Ge similar an " | from talifornia J 25 as Colorado, ernor Lynn | | Nevada. November | Frazier has just 9 date | session to ratif: the for North Dakota's special the federal suffrage | | amendment | ‘This makes the sixth state to set a | November date for its special session 1 insures that there will be more atifications in November than in any other one month, except June nce the senate passed the amend ment. In June nine states ratified, | four in July, one in August, three in September. The six states scheduled for ratt fication in November are the five! Western states, North Dakota, Idaho, | California, Colorado evada, and one New England Maine. Of the national's plea & special session ata for in November, five are republican and one is democrat. The six vember ratifications will bring | total number of ratified s AUTO GETS BLAME FOR RURAL BADNESS CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—-At a@ session of the National Country Life associa tion, Warren H. Wilson of New York, | chairman of the committee reli: | gion and morals, reported that phy-| sical and moral dama was being | on wrought in rural districts by inva-| sions of joy riders. Vicious elements, driven from cities, find their wa into the country by motor and con. taminate farm and Mr. Wilson stated. “DOC” COOK FINDS OIL FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 21 Dr. Fred Cook, of North Pole near fame, struck oll in the new Bonza field northwest of Burkbur nett. The flow is sald to be from 1,400 to 2,000 barrels. Dr. Cook is wearing an olly smile since the good Juck event. village dwellers,