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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
YOUR HUSBAND--YOUR COUNTRY
If You Had to Choose, Which Would 1t Be?
Young American Bride Of German
Spy Finds Herself Confronted
BY Heart Dilemma
Especial to The Times. J

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 24.-Conjugal love
against love of flag and country!
Fealty to husband to homeland?
Faced by this tragic dilemma, Mrs. Marie Schnei-
der, an American girl and bride of Lieutenant Erwin
F. Schneider alleged German spy recently taken into
custody here on presidential warrant, mhesitatingy
elected the latter.
eff he is proved spy, she declared shortly after
his arrest here, 81 shall leave him and remain true to
my country, America. / love my native land too
much to be involved in anything that savors of dis
loyalty
Schneider charged a after his attempt
8
Mcdowell, officials
a lieutenant decor
the 1914.
He kept its from his wife, formerly
Barrie Helm of oakland, Cal.
bride believed she had married humble American
cifc offices here at the time.
Schneider of
and ega subject an an
of the but
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24

At BATTLE
Of VERDUN
BY HENRY WOOD

| III HtNhb Noop
Omitted Press staff dent. }
WITH THE FRENCH
ARMIES IN THE FIELD,
Aug. 24.--Dead Mans hill
was aptly named.
Gen. Pershing, Americas
commander, can testify to
that today after being an
eyewitness OF the fighting
that resulted i'm its capture
by the French.
From where the former French
line. was; that is, half way down
its slopes, ahead to the summit
every inch of the ground today Is
soaked with blood of German de-
tenders.
The place is a shambles.
Not blade of grass or vestige
of vegetation marks the awful
scene.
Bits of human flesh have been
ground into the very soil itself.
1t is as some gigantic CONFUSION
had ground the earth together
leaving a smear of reddish dust.
Artillery Deadly.
A few hundred yards down, be-
hind the former French lines, wild
flowers bloom profusely. Their
colorful blooms bring out even
more horribly the track of death
above.
The French victory at Dead
Mans hill is a monument to the
devilishly destructive and accurate
new French artillery.
To render Dead Mans hill i'm
pregnable," the Germans had con-
structed three tunnels.
One, named the Grown Prince, "
traversed the hill; another, named
Bismarck" connected the two
SUBMITS, and third, "Corbeaux, F."
ran under Goose hill.
French 400 millimeter shells
pierced each tunnel. In the
Crown Prince tunnel alone were
found today the bodies of more
than 100 dead Germans, the VIC
Tins of this single shell. When
the French first swarmed over
they took 700 German prisoners
fro m the same gallery.
Pershings Sees Attack.
In Corbeaux tunnel the French
took an entire German regimental
staff, with its maps, papers and
material.
One thing Gen. Pershing, who
witnessed this particular assault,
particularly emphasized was the
work of the new French guns. He
spoke about them to Gen. Corvi-
sart, whose troops made the as.
sault later.
Pershing and Corvisart are old
friends. They were together in
Manchuria. -
The same. new. tactics by which
the French artillery, as in the case
of Dead Mans, hill, are able to
take the most difficult positions
with insignificant losses are now
being taught the American army.
(The 4OO-milIimeter ar
tillery that Wood reports the
French now to. be using at
Verdun Is a new field piece.
Its shell would be. of 1870
inches diameter. A few days
ago Wood. reported that the
Germans i'm this same battle
are hurting 38f-millimeter
shrapnel shells, another am
munition innovation.--Edit-
orr
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
Before Cabinet

WARRINGTON. ID. c., Aug. "a.
Pope Benedict's amplification
of his peace appeal will be read
at meeting of President Wilson
and his cabinet this afternoon.
Copies of the new vatican state
ment, furnished both the presi-
dent and Secretary Lansing by
the United Press, Immediately re-
vived peace discussion here.
The Holy Sees remark that
Belgium must be excepted in his
original advocacy of mutual con-
donation of damages by the war
caused new interest in the pope's
proposals.
The original form of reference
to Belgium in the original mes
sage was sharply criticised in gov
eminent and allied diplomatic
circles.
The vatican's comment on
world democracy aroused consid-
erale speculation. Some regarded
1t distinctly a message to the al
lies to abandon intentions to fight
until abdication of the kaiser is
forced. II squares, however,
with recent comment by Foreign
Minister Balfour of England, who
said characterization of Germany
must come from within.
The pope's warning against
democracy's impetus reaching
stage of anarchism is believed to
have been uttered particularly for
the benefit of Russia.
The presidents friends, how
ever, declare he does not believe
the time ripe for peace.
This statement, coupled with
the governments decision yester-
day to increase its aid for Rus
sia's defense against Germany,
was held to be plain proof that
the United States had just begun
to fight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
GOOD SHOWS FOR SOLDIERS
AT CAMP FOR Is CENTS!

Soldiers at the American lake
cantonment are to have the latest
offerings of the theatrical world,
and to have them at cost of %
cents a seat.
Marc Klaw has been appointed
on the war departments commits
sion on training camp activities,
to organize stock companies,
vaudeville troupes, etc, in regular
circuits, giving shows at the can
comments in modern theaters with
full scenic equipment and at the
camps in platform theaters.
The price for the most elaborate
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
Laundry
UniOnFOrnned

Men and women laundrywork-
ers were 95 per cent organized In
Tacoma Friday following an over
flow meeting in the Labor Temple
Thursday night, when the organi-
zation of the union was completed
by Sec. Joe Lyons of the Central
Labor Council.
More than $50 iaundryworkers
have joined the union
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24

attractions, 1t is said, will be
rtwo-bits.
Alexander Pantages, local thea
ter magnate, called on Major
Stone Thursday with reference to
arrangements for giving shows at
the cantonment.
Maj. Stone referred him to MAJ.
Gen. Greene, who will arrive Sat
urday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
SHIP BOARD WILL
SPEND 2 BILLIONS

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. "a.
two billion dollars for
1,272 ships aggregating 7.963.- -
600 tons, is the U. s. Shipping
boards program to beat the sub
1t was officially an
bounced today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
ALASKA LINE
TO BE DONE
LATE in 1918
Omitted Press Leased wirc.)

SEATTLE, Aug. 24.-The gov
eminent railroad in Alaska will be
completed and in regular opera
ton from Seward to the Matanus-
Ia coal field by fall, 1918, accord
ing to Herbert A. Myers, assistant
secretary of the interior, who ar
rived last night after an inspec-
zion of the road.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24

right of universal suffrage, may
choose whatever form of govern
ment they please.
For the rest the democracy
will receive such an impulse from
the war that wisdom must prevent
1t deteriorating into any excessive
forms, such as anarchlsm."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
HOGS GOING DOWN.

unuea tress Le"sed Wtre.f
CHICAGO, Aug. 24.--The hog
market today was s1.15 lower
than yesterdays high, and 81 low
er than the high mark of $40,
established few days ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
"Not Inspired"
BY JOHN II. HEARLEY
United Press Staff Correspondent
Copyright, 1917, by the L. p.


Copyright, 1917, by the U. p.
ROME, Aug. 24.-The United
Press was authorized today by the
papal secretary of state to make
the following statement:
"The first two points in the
pontificial appeal for peace treat
ing respectively of disarmament
and freedom of the seas, were sug-
gested by President Wilson's well
known message to the senate.
Consequently we are inclined
to believe that they will now find,
on the part of the American peo-
pie, the same reception that they
enjoyed when President Wilson
proclaimed them at the capitol.
Cannot Refutc Them.
THE third and fourth points,
wherein mutual conformation Of
war expresses and damages as we'll
as mutual restitution of occupied
territories, was proposed, were
formulated from public speeches
recently delivered by statesmen OF
the different belligerent nations
and from resolutions passed by
their respective parliaments.
Therefore the same statesmen
cannot refute them now without
contradicting themselves.
Moreover, il is necessary to re-
mark as to conformation of dam
ages caused by the war, that there
is an exception applying particu-
larly to Belgium.
Strictly Neutral.
THE fifth and sixth points
concern special territorial quas-
tons, about which the Holy Faith
er does not, and could not, pro-
pose any definite and concrete So
luton.
Consequently he confines him.
self to expressing the wish that
said questions shall be examined
in conciliatory spirit, taking into
consideration, as far as possible,
any just ASPIRATIONS of the people.
The Holy See wishes to en-
phasize the fact that the appeal
was not suggested by any of the
belligerent powers and was not in
spired for the particular advant-
age of any warning nation.
History's Lesson.
Finally, the Holy Father said
nothing about democracy and the
characterization of any existing
government, because history
teaches US that a form of govern
ment imposed by arms does not
and cannot live and also out of re-
spect for the free will of the peo-
pie themselves, who, having tn
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24

Sometimes a Russian quietly and
gently mentions this fact to an En-
glishman or an American that is lee
turing him about Russia's duty in
the present emergency, and then the
Englishman or the American finds it
hard to carry on the conversation.
In spite of her terrific losses Russia will go
and fight, but she wants to fight for some
thing worth while and not because somebody
tells her to fight, and not for the things nations
usually fight for.
For instance, Russia doesn't give a boot
about Constantinople and warm water
port.
| have tried hard to make some of my
friends understand this but have never had any
doesn't take hold 1t slides off their minds like
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
Come take trip in our ferry boat.
Step lively ladies and gentlemen, before it is too
late before she rots on our hands at the dock or
needs another coat of paint
needs another coat of paint.

Anywhere" is the sign. Step il,
Seeing as how you'll have to chip in your share of
the $4,000 she has already cost, you might just as
well make some use of her.
Why is county ferry? Ask the county commits
sioners. They ought to know. All that fiddng and
fussing for months end and free rides around the
country in search of double-ender must have been
for something.
Once upon a time in the dim ages back thew spoke
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
BY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL

Copyright 1917 by the Newspaper Enterprise Assocaton)
The Russian casualties in this so far are
more than 100000 = killed, wounded and pris-
Oners.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24
TODAY,s CLEARINGs

Clearings .........$ 421,930.70
Balances ......... 4S.014.29
Transactions 49,. 1,2S5,741.S5
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-24

English speaking friends understand this but have
luck Somehow, it doesn't take hold slides off thei
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

ether and carry German power from Suez
to Tangier, from Cairo TO Cape Town.
If Germany, the Pan-Germans, nourished
a dream of a restoration of the old Ger
man empire in Europe, of Mitteleuropa
which should stretch from the Channel 70
the eastern limits of Courland and Poland
end from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf
and Suez, the German Colonial Party had
a vision of African achievement only less
splendid, and there were not few who
dreamed that the two conceptions might be
fused when German armies, with Turk
ish aid, entered Cairo, and other German
forces, armies created out of the boundless
human reservoirs OF Central Africa, should
liberate the South African republics, re-
store the Beers to the Teutonic world and
extinguish British power at the Cape.
Such was the vision, but in July, 1Sl4,
the fact was still far different. In an Afri-
can empire five times the area Of the Fs-
therland the Germans had established less
than twenty-five thousand white settlers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07
shaded areas show German colonies.

mans showing a German colony extending
from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, IN
Guiding Belgian Congo and possessions be
tween Stanley Falls and Lake Tchad.
Portuguese colonies on the east and west
coasts were also marked with German col
crs. Here, in the great basin OF the Congo
including the head waters of the Nile, eI-
tending from the Orange River to the
shores Of the Sahara on the west coast
and from the Zambesi to the frontiers OF
Uganda OF the east, the German had traced
cut a tentative place in the sun of Africa
From Cape Town to Egypt
Nor did the dream end with this huge
proposal. In addition not few German
patriots. never reconciled TO British con-
Quest of the Transvaal and Orange Free
State and firmly convinced that both states
would welcome the chance to throw of
British rule and exchange the yoke of King
George for the sovereignty of the Kaiser
boldly colored Africa with the German
shade from the Cape of Good Hope to the
borders of Egypt and spoke confidently OF
the time when this vast empire would be
Joined to a Mitteeuropa dominated by
Germany by way of the Bosporus and
Suez. and Cecil Rhodes's dream have a
German realization.
Meantime, Germany had already taken
the first step toward the achievement OF
this colossal project. In 1911, when the
Aeadir crisis had broken, Germany had,
after vain efforts to claim share of the
Shereefian Empire, found her compensa-
ton in the Congo and thrust forward two
long tentacles across French territory,
bringing German garrisons TO the west
hank of the Congo River at the moment
when a German railroad was approaching
the eastern frontiers of the Belgian colony
at Lake Tanganyika~ While Britain was
intent upon realizing her Cape-to-Cairo
project, Germany was preparing for the
trans-African railroad which, unlike the
long contemplated French trans-Saharan,
condemned to desert regions, should tap
some of the most fertile regions on the
planet
Behind all this lay the prospective hosts
that Germany could enlist among the ma
tives of the African empire, under German
officers. submitted to German training,
equipped with all the resources of Krupp.
Already envious of the progress made by
France in training Arab, Kabyle and negro
troops. whose fighting qualities had been
revealed in Europe in 1870. Germany con-
templated organizing black armies which
should sweep Africa from one end 10 the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

All the sea gates to these colonies were
either held or watched by British posses
sions. Walsh Bay, the one good harbor
of German Southwest, was British. From
Zanzibar the British dominated the coast
of German East, while the French in their
Congo, the British in Nigeria, held the
harbors of the west coast of Africa, from
which railroads would eventually lead in
land to the Congo basin.
In North Africa more than a million
Europeans were settled under the French
flag, and cities like Algiers, Oran, Tunis,
calling places of German ships, contrssted
unpleasantly for German pride with the
little stations of German Africa. Even
Dakar, on the West Coast, the coaling STA
ton for the South American trade, was
French, while at Cssablanca a new harbor
and new French base were rising At the
ether end of Africa another million of
whites, British subjects, were opening a
new empire, which was moving northward
toward the Congo valley with swift leaps
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

Turning now to Africa, the situation is
his: German Southwest Africa was con-
,uored by troops belonging TO the Union
Of South Africa and led by the Prime
Minister of South Africa in person, Cen
cral Louis Botha. Prior to the invasion
Of German Southwest Africa it had
served as the basis of an invasion of
the Union Of South Africa and from
1T had been fomented the De Wet rebel
lion, which was a German effort to arouse
the Beers against the British and thus
take South Africa out of the British
Empire as prelude to its entrance
into a German South Africa contem-
plated as far back as the days when
the Emperor sent his historic dispatch to
Kruger That South Africa would con-
sent 10 the retrocession of German South
west Africa and the-Eeturn of German in
iuence to the South African frontier, the
return Of German soldiers to the borders
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03
HOW Different SHIPS SINK
Nearly Every Glass or Design of YES
sci Has Particular Way of
Going Down.

Nearly every class or design of YES
sci sinks in a particular way, For in
stance, the old type of single-bottom
steamers, with few or no bulkheads-
that is, in the modern sense of the
term-almost invariably founders on
more or less of an even keel, which
means that they sink level and not
with their bow or stern up in the air,
London Tit-Bits says.
This is accounted for by the fact
that at whatever point the water may
enter, it practically finds it own level,
as there are no subdivisions to OBJ
struct it.
Now, in the case of modern YES
sci, which is built with numerous sub
divisions, 1t invariably happens that
out of the water; or else she sinks
with a heavy list, or cant. to one side
or the other. The reason for this is
that the bulkheads prevent the water
which enters the vessel from finding
its level; consequently, when one par
ticular portion Of the ship is full of
water while the remainder is prac-
tically watertight, that part which is
water laden sinks first. owing to it's
greater weight.
1t is for this reason that such terri
BILE loss of life frequently occurs in
modern shipwrecks. Owing to the un-
even sinking, it is often found impos-
sible to lower the majority of the life
boats, as they. would fail to reach the
wafer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03
PLAN POTATO DRYING PLANT
Announcement Made That Rhineland-
er Is to Get Experimental Fac
tory-Backed by Government.

Rhinelander = Rhinelander is to be
the home of new industry, an inno-
walton not only in Wisconsin but in
the country, according to an announce
ment by the advancement association
here. A potato drying factory, the
product of which is potato flakes, is
the new institution which is expected
to bring considerably increased indus
trial activity to this city.
According to the announcement the
government is back of this project,
and plant now in operation in Airing
ton, Va, which was erected for expe-
rimental purposes by the government,
is to be moved here, The new process
of treating potatoes is said to be in
line with recent efforts toward food
economy, and it is pointed out that
the small tubers and culls which here
tofore have been practically a total
waste, can be utilized in the potato
drying plant and turned into a market
able food product.
Oneida county's prominence as
potato producing community is said
to be the reason for locating the new
plant here. The factory will be the
first of its kind in the United States,
it is understood, but the process has
been developed extensively in Ger
many.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03
MANY GIVEN EMPLOYMENT
Four Offices in State Refer 6, 1903 Per-
sons to Positions - A New
Record Is Established.

Madison-The month of May was a
banner month for the free employ
ment Office of the state. During May
the four free employment offices con-
Quoted by the industrial commission
in Milwaukee, Superior, Oshkosh and
La Crosse, referred more men to posi-
tons than during any previous month
since they were organized. The num-
Der Of men referred to positions dur
ing the month was 6,108, as against
1880 in April, and $3.50 in May of last
year. Orders were received from en-
ployers for 6,702 workmen and 5,945
applications for work were made.
The largest number of men placed
were general laborers, but there were
also many skilled mechanics. Among
the latter we're considerable number
of carpenters, machinists and boiler
makers, who went to government navy
yards and srsenals or to private ship
building plants. The number of farm
hands placed was 233.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03
WHERE PICNIC is A PASSION
In Australia People Obtain Maximum
of Recreation Without Country
Clubs or Amusement Parks.

AS in the United States, the ':mo-
vieS" often constitute the chief indoor
amusement, but the universal recrea-
ton in Australia is the picnic which
reaches a high development Men.
women and children, families, clubs,
churches, lodges and miscellaneous
groups are out on picnics afternoons,
Sundays and holidays. ~
Two picnics week are not unusual !;
young lady of my acquaintance had
five to her credit. The picnickers walk.
ride horses, take wagons, or go by mo-
tor, street car, train or boat. They go
TO the shore, to the woods, to rivers,
TO picturesque hillsides, or to the ZOO
logical and botanical gardens, which in
Australian cities are used, not guarded
by keep off the grass" signs The
time is occupied by gossiping, reading
sewing. writing letters, playing simple
games, eating lunch or supper, fishing
swimming, studying flowers or insects.
or plain resting"
America has much to learn from the
southern continent of the use of parks
and the attainment of recreation with
out the expense of country clubs and
Coney islands.-National Geographic
Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-07-03
Irish EnqIish.


Many persons seem to see. or to
hear, rather, something to be amused
at in the soft Irish brogue AS mat
ter OF fact, Most Of the words of the
Irish dialect" are not Irish at all. but
the purest of English-English a trif1e
Anticipated. it is true. but nevertheless
the real thing. The ears of Miltony
Dryden, Spencer and Chaucer would
not have been surprised to hear an
Irishman speak OF "a rough say" or "a
clane shirt" At the court of good
Queen Bess the cultured Englishman
carefully garnished his conversation
with ''goolde" rings and brave
'.swoordes" and bored mis- friends with
accounts of the smart sayings of the
"childre" at "hobm." This was the
English originally imported into Ire
land by the cultured Irish, and the
Irish have found it good enough to pre-
Tribune.