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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

Mrs. Lucy, Williams of the town
of Northern returned yesterday from
Virginia, MIMI; where she visited
her son, Dale, for" a month.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

Ever Rongstady y GeorGe gBruuB nSe-
vert axnd Hje1mdE Meiahd1rl1ava ire
turnsd sito sPinewoodeefromsdC ansda,
where theys nhavehnspentfc several
motJthEG
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

lMr. and Mrs. M. IL: =Fu1ier ant
fatmlly Of PleasAnt, Valley have gom.
I'd BellcobGts sNa D., whtre they vii
pass the winter, and where Mr.. Full
Ter will be employed. N1'
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

Attorney John L. Brown has re-
turned 'front.' Cr6okstbh3 where he has
closed up some business preparatory
to leaving YBeinidji for the'west.i He
went to Park Rapids today on bust
ness:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

70, $4,000 TO lean on 1erns.- Dean
T,annA.-Co.kt- 49,. i:-~1' d71tf
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

y Mrs. George Rowe and four chill
dren were in Bemidji yesterday en-
routestb theitshonss IT. !, Cohistoek, IN.
ID, from Staples, where they passed
two weeks with relatives.T,<
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

Mrs. Patterson, who has been the
auestsot Mrs. JenniesNa aArHn4hs thas
returned to her home in Chicago.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

ThetaRosby rCosoperative 7Creamery
assoc4at fdnn'wih tshfps another carr
load of livestock to st. Paul 6 this
weei:~n
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-12-05

Get a 1918 desk calendar pad now
at- the Pioneer offfce:-~. 1861
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
German Rations
Becoming Slim
Weekly Allowance Is Not
Enough to Maintain
Bodily Vigor

WASHINGTON. oct. IS Recently
obtained figures on the German week
10 food ration were made public by
the food administration to-day with
the observation that it is far oeio"
tho amount required to MAINTAIN poo
nv health and vigor, and is likely to
bsve serious and permanent results
computed in terms Of American
the weekly ration
amounts approximately to four ana
half mounds Of bread, half peck OF
,o,otoes. A cupful Of beans. peas OF
oatmeal, half a pound Of meat tweiVe
cnhes Of sugar. six individual patues
Of butter and an equal amount o.
other fats.
The caloric value of these FOODS III
.ho ocoregate is less than half the
e,,ourt estimated by the food admin
istration as sufficient for a. person ID
n sedentary occupation.
Reports TO the State Department
indicate that the German harvests TINS
wear have not relieved tho food situa-
tom 10 any apprcciable extent 1t rs
known that there is great scarcity
Of fats and animal food in general and
that the supplies received from ku-
mania and neighboring neutrals are
not making up Tor the lack Of proteins.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

driven in given period. A typical
instance of the increasing efficiency OF
the American shipbuilding industry
under war pressure is afforded by the
Fore River plant. In May this yard
was driving 10000 rivets week. Now
il ia driving 200. 900 a week, which Is
equivalent to saying that IN hve
months IL has increased its output by
900 per cent.
To give an idea Of what this means,
il may be said that 3,0OO-ton ship re-
ouircs go. 900 rivets, an s,OOO-ton snip
100000 and IO,OOO-ton oil tanker
800. 900. "To-days rivct is to-mor-
rows safety" is one Of the shipyard
slogans of the war.
side by side with the direct work oil
procuring and training men Tor the
building Of the new national merchant
navy there is going on under the au-
snices Of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States a great propa-
qanda 20 arouse interest and public CO.
operation. This is being carried on
through war shipping committed OF
which Edward A. Fllene IS chairman
II has already organized twenty-five
local bodies in various parts OF the
country to mobilize popular interest
and good will in the "sh'ps OF free
don,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Emperor Comments on
Painleve's Policy Toward
Lost Provinces
Urges Food Economy
German Monarch Is Inter-
viewed on Train to the
Balkans

LONDON, Oct. 1S.-The correspond
cnt Of the Berlin "Lokal-Anzeiger'
who was permitted to travel on inc
train which took Emperor William 70
the Balkans and TO lunch in the res
tourant car with the Emperor. says
dispatch to "The Daily Chronicle from
Amsterdam. sends the following to ms
newspaper: 49,.
His majesty sat down TO the taDle
with the observation that he had Jus'
road Professor Palnleve's nrst speech
a, French Premier.
$50 NJ. Painleye wants Aisace- LOT
rhine does he? exclaimed the hmPeici'
Good. but he must come and take IT.
The Emperor then treated the COM
ranv To culogy OF the late Ming OsIi
and Queen Elizabeth OF Rufnan'a
whose good work. he said, mas peen
"ndone in a few months by the hunger
for gold and power OF certain ny
AZ the end Of the luncheon. when
.orsisted Of meat and fish courses anu
bread and cheese, about the same n
might be served in a middle e'"S'
household. the Kaiser said:
at is unworthy for any. German 70
live well when even the best peopIe
ca without things. What we nave %
foodstuGs il common property, whlcn
nv lust division is sufficient to keep
us alive for an unlimited time aho
which permits us to await hnal victory
with calm. Who takes more man ms
share sins against those who serve inc
I,.ALnrInnl -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Shipbuilders Work
Like Soldiers in Field

IL is said that IN no other industry
do the men work with more enthusiasm
and spirit. They have really come 10
feel that they are true soldiers of
democracy. The armies Of France and
Britain do not take more satisfaction
in each trench that they wrest from
the Germans than do the men Of the
shipyards as snip is launched.
Already $4,000 men IN this industry
wear the war shipbuildng service
medal presented by the Chamber Of
Commerce Of the United States as
proudly as the soldiers wear the
symbols Of their particular arm Of the
military service. The Shipping Board
undoubtedly did fail 10 measure up
to the situation in not preventing, or
in quickly composing, the labor
troubles that have already occurred,
but it is felt tina, there will be no
further serious difficulties of that
nature.
IN the midst Of ;he mountainous task
Of contracting for the building of the
ships, which has sometimes required
Chairman Hurley and Admirals Caps
and Bowlcs 20 work at high pressure
.or as much as eighteen hours day. il
has becH impossible TO devote time and
attention to some Of the great and I'M
portant matters that pressed for at
tentiou.
The shortage OF shipyard labor
skilled and unskilled, has not. con-
trary 20 the general impression, as
yet retarded steel snip construction in
process, though it has held back work
IN the wood shipyards Progress has
been maintained by the most extra
ordinary Individual efforts by the
plants involved 20 assemble an i'm
meuse number Of killed and unskilled
men. But the bulk Of me ships con-
tractcd for by the Shipping Board :
being built by new companies or by
extensions Of existing plants, and as
yet they have not even begun to APP
proXimate their approaching require
ments for men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Wilson'S Reply to Pope
Not Vised by Allies,
Lord Robert Cecil Says

LONDON. Oct. Replying to
question in the House OF Commons to-
day. Lord Robert Cecil, Minister OF
Blockade, denied that negotiations ior
terms of peace had taken place WIN
the Vatican or any Of its agents or
with any other religious organization.
Just previous to this Lord Robert
had been asked whether the British
government intended 20 send any re-
ply 10 Pope Bcnedict's peace note. HIS
response was a request that notice be
given Of the question.
Il had not been officially announced,
he added, that Great Britain had
adopted "a its own reply the reply
sent by the United States.
THE clear and powerful reply OF
President Wilson," explained Lord
Robert, was not The result of any
consultation of the Allies, and do
not propose to comment on II in reply
20 the question"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Lloyd George Expects
Revolution In Germany
Bv Arthur s. Draper

piled, chat Lloyd George is war-at-
any-price man, that 10 not oil his pol
icy. Really he holds the sword IN one
hand and the olive branch in the other.
He is not n hator OF Germany. Once,
while was discussing the German OBJ
session Of force with the Premier, he
remarked: There IL no Csc haggling
with an earthquake
However, whenever Germany shows
a willingness 10 bow 10 reason the
Premier is willing TO meet her on rea-
sonable terms. You know IN his Glas-
gov speech he made 10 clear that Brit
ain could treat differently with Ger
man democracy than with an autocr'cy.
He was especially Interested IN the ef-
feet that speech made on the German
people know he has always been
believer in the idea that revolution
is coming in Germany.
Lloyd George himself - revolution
airy. There have been plenty or signs
recently that the yeast IS working ne
Premier has been at pains to show that
the Allies must tie the Kaiser up tight
or than they would democracy.
THE Premier has never joined the
body Of optimists who osse-: that we
have won the war. He says: NO, we
must keep on. What is needed from
America. in addition 20 men and money
ia brains. We want ideas. Pernapo
America will supply the answer.
The conversation turning on tne
present war government Of Britain Mr..
Spender said: Lloyd George did not
want to be Premier lie was practical
IL forced m. He took his political rate
in his hands. If he had not been nat
ural war leader he would have gone
under. Lloyd George has been able to
stand the shocks OF war better than
Asquth. "hcn he took hold the BRIT
ish constitution was not functloning.,
the Cabinet was too cumbrous. 1t met
once or twice a week
THE Dardanelles report gave PROOF
of this. II showed that the govern
ment was not quick enough, that 1t
was broken down. that there was no
definite centre, that there were too
many authorities. To-day, the direct
ing power is the War Cabinet, which
meets at least daily. II secs not only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

the ministers, but the generals and
admirals. Il is small and compact, but
elastic. II is doubtful whether il
would succeed in peace times. but war
authority must be centralized
Old Standards Discarded
"There always will bs ragged edges
when constructing a war machine. but
the really big problem now IS 70 make
the proper changes and Adjustments.
Our war experience has laugh, US TO
make any change, scrap anything, II II
is necessary. All the old constitu-
tional maxims, impedImsnts Of war,
have gone.
Lloyd George he succeeded because
he has the revol tionary spirit in him.
So far is it from being true that the
Tories have engulfed him that he has
really drawn the Tories along the
lines OF progress. He has converted
Carson and Curzon 70 Home Rule;
there has been an astonishing change
in Lord Miner.
zone cannot class Lloyd George.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Brilliant Achievement.
BY the New Shipyards

There has been much retardation Of
the programme from The shortage Of
labor required to prepare the large
number Of new yards that have been
called into existence by the emergency
Yet some of the new yards already
have brilliant achievements TO their
credit The going plants had all their
ways filled before the Shipping Board
began is building programme, and
they all made progress beyond ex-
pectations and worthy of the American
reputation for energetic action.
Shipbulding progress is measured
by the comparative number Of rivets
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
"Shipbuilders' Plattsburg"
For Workers, New U.S.. Plan

sary preliminary the service depart
mcnt is making detailed survey OF
the requirements OF every steel ship
yard in America in every class Of
skilled workmen utilized in shipbuild-
ing. such ms riveters, shiphtters, angle
smiths, clippers and caulkers, mould
loftsmen. etc.
When this survey is completed it will
be known just how many men must be
trained for each class Of work and just
what sort Of instruction it will be nee
essary 10 give men skilled in other
trades 70 master the one to which IT is
intended TO apply them. Care will be
taken 20 train enough men, but not too
many. so that there will not be danger
Of creating condition Of unemploy-
ment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Labor and Employers
Give Plan Approval

organized labor has been consulted
in the shaping and working out OF the
plan and has given It's enthusiastic
approval. President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation Of Labor
has the utmost confidence in Mr.
Bloomfield. and is supporting him in
every possible way.
On the other hand. the employers Of
the shipbuilding industry have equal
confidence in Mr.. Bloomfield There
will be no friction. therefore. in apply
ing this unique and gigantic scheme
for swelling the number Of trained
workers. II will not only supply skilled
men for the large number of new ship
yards that are starting or getting ready
to start, but will relieve the pressure
on the skilled'men now al work.
Owing TO the expansion Of the ship
building business and the Stealing
Of skilled men from the established
yards by the new yards. the skilled
men have been compelled to do the
work Of two or three men. and there
has been no adequate source Of supply
Of new men. This automatic diution,
necessary and inevitable as it was, has
gone too far.
Individual recruiting for the ship
yards has now about broken down.
Further uncoordinated individual effort
would mean chaos. Viewing the ship
building equipment Of the nation as a
unit. the Shipping Board now purposes
TO deal with the problem Of supplying
the men as a governmental task o.
nationwide scope.
Shipbuilding is just now an attrac
tive and inspiring industry, and the
men engaged in it have greater sense
Of rendering an essential national ser
vice than in almost any other industry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

LONDON Oct. fs.-Harold Spcnder'
author OF many books. the rest known
% which ia life OF General Botha.
will publish shortly life or Lioy i
George. OF whom he 10 an intimate
friend and associate Of many years
Ills story will throw new light on one
Of the most critical stages OF the war
and explain in detail the bitter strug
gle- between Ascuith and Lloyd George
a year ago. which resulted IN victory
TOR the latter.
Because Of his familiarity with
Lloyd Georges views on al subjects;
asked Mr.. Spender 70 discuss the
Frontiers war policy.
The author declared first that Lloyd
George believes the war cannot be
ended without a military decision. He
is not a hater of Germany, but he
feels that as the Germans consider
force the dominant factor in the set
Element Of difficulties, then they must
be matched by force.
In the second place. the Premier be-
lievos that revolution IL coming IN
Germany. He thinks the constant at
tacks on the Kaiser are liable TO result
N making him martyr In the eyes
Of the people. He believes the Ger
man people must reconstruct their gov
eminent in their own way, without any
outside dctaton
Thirdly, Lloyd George does not con-
sldcr that Germany can be beaten
through hunger. lie agrees with For
mer Ambassador Gerard that there il
more danger of England suffering from
famine than Germany, but he is con-
WINGED Il is impossible to starve a
nation.
Fourth, Lloyd George docs not pin
ms faith on war OF attrition. He
thinks decision cannot be reached
merely through killing men, through
the superiority Of numbers. Superior
mIIltary brains are needed, he believes.
Firth. the Premier's views on the
question Of war aims are practically
tho same as those of President Wilson.
asked Mr.. Spender whether Lloyd
George, surrounded as he is by Tories,
Laborites and Liberals, held the views
OF a bitter ender" or Of a moderate
while some say" the author re
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

That poster voices the new note that
is now coming into all the war IN
dustries. IL is not case OF applying
for a icb. but of Offering service OF
volunteering for patriotic duty, OF Civ
ing up the job that is not necessary to
Tho war and Offering for the one that
&c The hour has struck, the war is
now herein America. Not every man
may 90 TO the front, but every man
Who stavs at home may serve o. well
as earn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Mexicans Fire on u. S. Patrol

MARIA, Tex. oct. 18.-Armed Next
cans fired upon an American army pa
troll at San Jose. sixty miles south Of
here on the Rio Grande, yesterday, &C
cording 20 report to-day. The fire
was returned. but no one was known
10 have bcen hit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
OFF YOU CAN USE TOOLS YOU
ARE WANTED

Your country needs ships, and
men TO build them. Arms, mum
tjons and supplies are useless III
tbis war without ships TO transport
them. Go to the nearest shlpyard
and offer your services. You can thus
helm TO win the war and make the
world safe for democracy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Simon Seibert

BUFFALO. oct. ls.-Simon Seibert,
prominent for many years as local
Republican leader. died here to-day.
lie served two terms in the Assembly
and three years as state Senator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Service Department Headed
By Expert From Boston

The Shipping Board. called upon 10
provide men as we'll as money for ship
building. has established an Industrial
Service Department under the direction
Of Never Bloomfield, Of Boston. for
merly director of the Boston Vocation
Bureau and premier industrial voca-
ton service specialist Of the country,
who has had much experience in pre-
cisely the kind of work he now takes
I'D while with the Fore River Shipbuild-
ing Company and other shipDuilding
plants. The industrial training section
Of this department is in charge Of E..
Z. McNary. who has for sixteen years
been in the Industrial training field
and has made many important indus
trial surveys in American cities.
With the cooperation of this depart
ment. working in conjunction with the
American Federation of Labor, the
Federal and state employment bureaus,
the Young Mems Christian Association
and other competent agencies, it is con
fdently hoped that the great army Of
workmen required for carrying out a
shipbuilding programme for 1918 that
ID. twelve 10 fifteen times as large as
the greatest in the history Of the coun-
frv hitherto will be on hard as fast as
IT'S services are neeoed. As neces-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Recruiting Poster Used
Bv Chamber Of Commerce

In its work of helping to recruit the
ranks of the builders Of the ships the
Chamber Of Commerce has just put OUT
y striking recruiting poster. with TINS
lecend:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

He is a man OF vision and great e,ur.
age. He Is big and strong enough 70
change his mind, and II peace can b
m sde he 10 most likely 10 make it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Selected Men To Be Trained
as Militant Industry
Officers
VIII Teach Others
in 100 Shipyards
100000 Needed to Speed
Work on Merchant
Fleet
BY Theodore Nj. Knappen

WASHINGTON. Oct. IS Faced by
the battling problem Of finding and
training 100000 men for the shipbuild-
ing industry Of the country, now
s.raining every nerve TO build the ships
required by the unprecedented pro
gramme Of the Shipping Board, the
Emergency Fleet Corporation has de
cidcd TO call to the colors OF militant
industry a "Shipbuilders' plattsburg" y
An urgent request went out from the
newly constituted Industrial Service
Department to-day TO all the shipyards
Of America 20 send 10 a central indus
trial training camp delegations Of
selected workers TO receive six weeks
instruction as officers of the five army
corps Of workers that the Shipping
Board is planning 10 use in its great
drive for the transport mastery Of the
seas.
Within two weeks several hundred
men. representing the flower Of the
>hIAc4 NoIhtfH o. inc NtEV4NN04S ~
vivcd and amazingly expanding Ameri-
can shipbuildnc industry will be as
,embled at one OF the great Atlantic
coast shipyards TO learn how to teach
others their knowledge and skin and
20 familarize themselves with the In
dustrial Services plan and practice Of
selecting and adapting green or partly
trained men TO the work that awaits
them in hundred yards.
Just as the qualified men Of the
army officers training camps 20 forth
10 lead the new National Army Of the
rife and bsyonet. so the graduates Of
this school will 20 back 10 the yards
20 train the National Service Army
that wars against autocracy IN the
Changing shipyards of the nation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Questions and More Questio

Who wrote a letter to Goslin, the
swindler, which the police found
when they raided his Office, reading:
Enclosed find note. Kindly thank
ing you for your interest in my be-
half Signed John F. Hylan"?
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-05-18
CHAPTER VII.
The Hotel Splendid.

n FIR JOSEPH ALMER, proprietor
IV Of the Hotel ~Splendide, on
Gibraltar's waterproof street,
- was alone in his office, busy
over his books. The day was Aug. 3.
The night before the cable had flashed
word to General Sir George Crandall,
governor general of the Rock, that Eng
land had hurled herself into the great
war. But that was no concern Of Mr..
Joseph Almer except as it affected the
hotel business. Admittedly 1t did bring
complications there.
A sleek, well fed Swiss he was, one
whose neutrality was publicly as i'm
pervious as the rocky barriers of his
home land. A bland eye and a
professional smile were the ever pres
ent advertisements Of urbanity on Jo-
seph Almer's chubby c~ountenance. He
spoke with IN accent that might have
got him into trouble with the English
masters Of the Rock had they not
known that certain cantons In SwftZer-
land are very close to the frontier of
Germany, and Almer therefore was
hardly to be blamed for an accident
of birth.
It was 4 in the afternoon. The street
outside steamed with heat, and the
odors that make Gibraltar a lasting
memory were at their prime of distil-
lation. The proprietor Of the Splen-
dide was nodding over his books. A
light football on the boards beyond the
desk reused him. A girl with two CT
gar boxes under her arm slipped, like
a shadow, up to the desk. She was
dressed in the bright colors of Spain,
claret cOlored skirt under a broad
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-05-18

Romany sash, and with thin white
waist, open at rounded throat. A cheap
tortoise shell comb held her coils of
chestnut hair high on her head-Louisa
Of the Wilhelmstrasse, but not the
same Louisa, the sophisticated Louisa
of the Cafe Richie and the Winter Gar
den. A timid little cigarmaker she
was here in Gibraltar.
"Louisa!" Almer's head bobbed up
on a suddenly stiffened neck as he
whispered her anne She set her
boxes of cigars on the desk, opened
them, and as she made gestures to
point the w~orthiness of her wares she
spoke swiftly and In a half whisper.
"An is as we hoped, Almer. He
on the Princess Maya cable
gram from Koch just got through to-
day. 1 wanted
"You mean Almer thrust his head
forward in his e~agerness, and his eyes
were bright beads.
Captain Woodhouse-our Captain
Woodhouse!' The girls voice trem-
bled in ex~ultation. "And his number
his Wilhelmstrasse number-is-listen
carefully-1932."
Nineteen thirty-two," Almer repeat
ed under his breath; then aloud, "On
the Princess Mary, you sayT