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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-22

Paris, France, July 27, 1917.
Dear Mother:-
Time has flown since I left the
home of good eats, for it is nearly a
month since l left the U. S. A., and
began lodging submarines, and I am
still loafing. / don't mind the loaf
ing, because I needed it, but it is
very expensive and eats into
skinny bank roll something scan
dalous. You can imagine my joy on
hearing that we leave for school
Tuesday. Passed the French exam
easily, there being nothing to it, the
only difference l notice was in my
weight. 1t is something like sixteen
stones instead of $50 pounds, fur
thermore 1t is said if one begins to
take on weight at the school the
food supply is cut down. From cur
rent rumors l have little fear of be-
ing put on diet. In fact, I have not
overeaten since | landed in this war;
stricken country. Not that 1t mat
ters, of course, because I think it
did me good as l get enough by
busting rules of table etiquette, such
as taking two chops at one helping,
that is when we have meat, which
doesn't happen every day, as there
are two days when meat Is not al
lowed to be eaten or sold. Then we
get eggs, and these frogeaters sure
can cook eggs. l wish you could take
a few lessons from these chefs. I'm
derstand, 1 am not knocking your
cooking, for piece of your bread
right now would be a Godsend, but
1t sure would surprise you to see the
different way they dress up eggs.
Every time l see one it's dressed in
more becoming way.
Haven't learned to eat pigsfeet as
yet, but probably will before the war
is over. White bread is unheard of
in this country, black war bread be-
ing all one can get and very seldom
butter with that. Some of the bunch
were wondering whether this bread
was not made of wood pulp and
chemicals, but we have q chemist
among us and he assured us that IL
was probably made of barley and
rye.
Last Monday being a meatless day
we received fish and peaches. Yes,
that's all, and what's more, the fish
were neither scaled nor cleaned and
even had the heads on. However we
were too hungry to mind, but we
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-22

nations of the first $40 called will
end tomorrow afternoon.
Gets Rid of Dependant
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
Montana Couples Trade Mates, and are Happy
NFV WIVES FIR nj It's Marriage Onelet
BY Z. c. RODGERS.

Havre, Mont, July 2S.-iUsually
when man falls in love with another
mans wife there's shooting ARRAY.
And again, when woman gets to
liking another woman's husband bet
ter than her own there's the deuce to
pay. = ,& r. g.. q. ..--
But not so here! r.. ~
When Mrs. r. w. Turcotte, wife Of
a prominent Havre lawyer, felt she
loved the husband Of Mrs Henry Jor-
dan better than her own mate she
didn't hide the matter. ~.
Nor did Mrs. Henry Jordan when
she fell in love with Mr. Turcotte.
Nor did Mr.. Turcotte when he took
a liking to Mrs. Jordan. y
I'd Nor did Mr.. Jordan when he became
fonder of Mrs. Turcotte than OF his
own wife.
Their way out of an unusual
love tangIe was to trade wives
and husbands. Mrs. Jordan agreed
to swap her husband to Mrs. Tur-
cote in exchange for Mr.. Tur-
cote. -..'
ne lHuSDdnOS "CiC Wiling
enough to be traded. In fact they
were we'll along on plan to trade
wives with each other. ,...'
So, instead of any killings and I'm
written law defenses, or suits for
alienation of affection, there evolved
two unique matrimonial trades.
The Jordans and Turcottes agreed
to get divorces.
Divorce DEGREES were granted them
at Boulder Hot Springs, June 20.
Then the former Mrs. Jordan be-
came the new Mrs. Turcotte, aud the
former Mrs. Turcotte became the new
Mrs Jordan.
The two couples stood up together
at the ceremony and the friendllest
relations exist bteween them, Now
they are living again as neighbors in
all good fellowship.
Before the divorces the Jordans and
Turcottes were next door neighbors.
1t was then that the husbands and
their wives concluded they were
wrongly mated and decided to back
out of their matrimonial alliances and
start anew.
Both couples had children, each a
boy and girl.
After the matrimonial swap one
couple took the two boys, and the
other took the two girls. This
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
Four-Ninute Man Tells
Orpheum Audience Why
America Is in the War

One of the best and most stirring
patriotic addresses heard in Bismarck
in many years was delivered to an
Orpheum xtheater audience last eve
ming by G. l.. Young, one of Bis
marck's "Four-Minute Men,
In part, Mr.. Young said:
ut has been common to ask what
the world war is all about, An early
statement of it's purposes would have
been difficult, but combatant peoples
have come to realize it's meaning, and
have grown into consciousness OF
it's great purposes: At the outset, we,
as a people, did not see in it any
aim which could justify our participa-
ton. Yet, by reason of our CONNER
cial relations it touched us on every
side Though our land is a melting
pot of the nations, our traditions and
ideals are essentially Anglo1Saxon,
and we have interpreted events in the
light of such traditions and ideals. We
early felt the outrages and thrusts OF
autocracy upon our commerce. 1t
smote and raped helpless nations;
struck at the shipping of neutrals;
wantonly took the lives of non-conl-
batants; engaged in practices Of ruth
lessness, which have been discounten-
anced by civilized nations FOR 800
years; needed no promises, treaties or
laws, refused to define it's purposes,
and protested no morality except
might. Though our leaders used their
utmost endeavors to avert our en-
trance, these conditions and practices
made plain that the war, though start
ed as a clash of the powers in the
Balkans, had become a mighty conflict
between two ideals, and that to retain
our self-respect and our title, as a
Christian nation and the first of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
LEAGUE CARRIES
WAR into CAMP
OF JERRY BACON
Organizes 100000 Publishing
Company to Compete With
- Grand Forks Herald e..
NONPARTISAN LEADERS -
.- / SERVING AS OFFICERS

Direct competition in its own field
for the Grand Forks Herald is pres
aged by the incorporation by the Non
partisan league today of the Grand
Forks American" capitalized for $780,
600, and Differed by such league war
horses as John A. Hagen of Deerins,
who is president of the publishing
company; A. G. Sorlie of Grand Forks,
ecretary-treasurer; Assistant Attor-
ney General Harry A. Bronson, Grand
Forks; o. H. Olson, New Rockford,
and ,Nels Grovan,, Park River.
The capital is to consist Of 500
shares Of common at 81 and $50
shares Of preferred stock at 800.
The articles of incorporation naive
ly recite that "To guard against liti-
cation by entrenched wealth, the d.
rectors may buy the preferred stock
of any stakeholder by rendering him
par value, cumulative dividends, to-
gether with a 10 per cent premium,
and such stakeholder shall cease to
have any further interest in the cor
poration.' ...
It is also noted that three directors
who may be appointed by the board OF
five above named shall constitute an
executive committee with full powers
to act in all things for the company
TO the articles are set the hand and
seal of William Lemke of Fargo, F.
B. Wood Of Deering and l.. l.. Griffith
of Minot.
The form of organization is similar
to that adopted in dozen Farmers
Press" companies organized by the
league in various counties for the pub
fishing of country weeklies.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

great democracies, we could no longer
withhold our aid.
~ Not for Hatred.
~ "Then why are we fighting? Not
because we hate our enemies, for we
bear them no hatred; not for con-
quest, nor for glory; but by tradition
and in principle we are a democracy.
We believe in the integrity Of the in
diyidual and in his rights and sover-
eighty. For thousand years the An
glo7Saxon has fought against tyranny.
Out of travail we have established the
principle that governments derive
their just powers from the consent OF
the governed You and | take pride
in our right of suffrage. We have
voice in making law, defining policy
and governing ourselves. The aut thor
ity of our administrators is what we
make it, not what they will. We are
vouchsafed liberty to do as we wish
so long as we do not infringe upon
the rights, liberties and privileges of
our fellows. The checks and restraints
which save us from license are self
imposed and make what we call the
law of the land. This is the essence
of democracy. What we enjoy our
selves we would secure for all pep
pies. We believe the day of vassa1-
age should pass. That the Imperial
list, the dictator, is an outlaw and a
menace to civilization, and that no
man may rightfully impose his will
upon another.
To Develop Ideals.
"By the same token each nation
should be secure in its sovereignty
and it's right to develop according to
it's own ideals. Vassal nations are no
more justified than vassal men. A
dictator state is as much an outlaw
as a dictator individual. Ravishing
nation is crime in kind with raw
fishing a human being World peace
cannot be secure until an internation-
al unity or dominion of all nations is
established through the consent and
by the voice of the individual nations
comprising it in which the integrity OF
each is guaranteed by all.
"Why, then, do we hight? To de-
fend Our ideals and national exist
ence and to maintain our national self
respect. We fight because of outraged
Belgium; Impoverished, dsease-cursed
Serbia; heroic, bloodbought France;
England, the cradle of our institutions
and Russia, newborn, free, delhocra-
tic Russia.
Integrity Of the Individual.
1--WE are fighting because we believe
in the integrity Of the individual and
of nations; in the freedom of the
seas; in the sacredness of human life
and human effort. We are fighting be-
cause imperialism and autocracy
threaten our civilization; because
might heeds no law and is Unsuitable;
because despotism is an ogre in our
modern world; because militarism is
the ghost of reaction and barbarism;
because we want an enduring peace
founded on ideals of morality and
freedom; in short, because we want
to make the world safe for democ-
racy."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
CAMP A|CN FOR
FUNDS HAVE HAD
THEIR EFFECT
Small Decrease in Cash Items in
North Dakota Banks Show
in Statement
LOANS AND DISCOUNTS
SHOW MATERIAL CALM

The effect of the many mOney-rais-
ing campaigns through which North
Dakota has passed since the begin.
ming of the war is seen in slight
falling off in the total resources OF
COL state banks and four trust COM
panies, which reported to tho state
examiner June 20 an aggregate OF
$107,031 ,353.37, as compared with
$107, O61 ,941.61 reported by 6S7 state
banks and four trust companies May
The principal decreased is in cash
items, which fell from $55O,935.5S to
$525, 144O3, and in cash ON hand,
which slumpcd from $2,S16,090a9 to
$2,46S, 4S426. There is a substantial
gain in loans and discounts, aggregat-
ing $S1,S36,671. so June 20, as compar.
ed with $7S,35l ,60O.S3, May |.
Paid in capital stock increased from
$1O,555,0O0 to $10,745,000; deposits
subject to check dropped from $685..
1885 to $3O,92S,6SO; time certiti-
Gates of deposit increased from $751;
275,663 to $52,613,97S, and bills pay
able from $1,2O6,l7O to $1,SGS,409.
Five Years Gain
Looking backward it is interesting
to note that since June IA, 1912, the
resources of all state banks have in
creased $55,066,190; loans and dis
counts have increased $44,593,91
time deposits, $32,3SO,O97; savings de-
posts, $1.524,3O7, and deposits sub
ject to check, $l4,4l9,720.
The condition of state banks gen"
orally is gratifying net increase of
$16,095,937 being shown over June 80,
1916. In the year there has been a
gain of more than $l6,O00,00O in loans
and discounts, while time deposits
have gained $l0,734, 49,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

qivcs each father and mother one
own child and step-child.
"a Vernon TurcOtte and Woodrow JOr-
dan now live with Turcotte and his
wife, who was Mrs. Jordan. Amelia
Jordan and Irene Turcottc now are
sisters in the new Jordan family.
Both families are well to do. Tur-
cote is a widely known attorney, ana
Jordan is prosperous merchant.
The children seem satisfied with
the new arrangement.
I'm pleased" says the new Mrs.
Jordan.
$50 am l." asserts the new Mrs.
TurcOtte.
1--WE, too,", chorus the traded hus-
bands.
May they live happily ever after
ward" almost anyone will hope
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
Merely a Symptom.

A prominent academician Of New
York defines culture as that breadth
Of view where our knowledge and in
forests extend beyond our own parti-
cular vocations and which enables US
TO meet with intelligent and sympa-
thetis interest people of widely diver
gent activitieS and attachments, but
out here in this garden spot OF the
world we suppose most of us will con-
tinue to regard it as not using a tooth
pick in public.-Ohio State Journal.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

In the west, while there is no cor
responding Allied advance, there Is at
least an aspect of German progress
. The Crown Prince is the agrees
sive foe at present. but his sacrificing
of troops is not gaining any ground.
Last night he met with a complete
check in the renewal on the Aisne
front,
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
But He Isn't Always.

When the young son is spoken OF
by the relatives as a chip of the Old
block it is natural TO assume that his
father, being the head of the family,
must necessarily be an old blockhead
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

concerted by the magnitude of the
task before them.
The march to eastern Galicia and
toward the Bukowina border is going
on unchecked. APPARENTLY the Teuton-
ic purpose is to give the retreating
forces no pause until Austrian terri
tory has been completely cleared of
them if the achievement is possible
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28

These two children were born Tur-
CotteAlrene and Vernon.
The former Mrs. Iurcotte, now Mrs.
Jordan by virtue Of her divorce and
her marriage to tn" husband of her
close friend, keeps Irene.
Turcotte, with the new Mrs. Tur-
cote, formerly Mrs Jordan, keeps the
boy, Vernon.
In the unscramblng of this matri-
monial Omelet, affecting four adults
and four children each parent keeps
one natural child and gains in ex-
change for the other a step-child'
Each child keeps one natural parent
and exchanges the other for a foster
parent.
Which parent got the better Of the
choice between little Vernon and
Irene?
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-07-28
GERMAN VICTORY
OVER RUSSIA
Continued from page One)

the war Another plea Is the soldiers
real enemy is behind him.
Positions Thrown Away
Thus far the retreats do not show
any signs of stopping on the line. The
splendid position of General Brush
lofts line north and west of Tarnopol
have been thrown away. It can be
hardly called a German victory since
it is not the result Of German pres
sure If the Germans had been in
great force, the retreat of the south
ern army would have been cut off
long ago, but it is probable the Ger
mans thmselves were somewhat dis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-13
M. J. O'Brien Says Law
yerS Must Aid in Remak-
ing the World
HUGHES TO SUCCEED
HIM AS BAR HEAD
Chicago Judge Urges Eff
cheney in Justice at
State Association

Many Of the leading lawyers of the
state assembled yesterday-in the build
ing of the Long Island Historical So
ciety, in Brooklyn, for the opening SEES
sions of the fortieth annual meeting Of
the State Bar Association.
Morgan J. o'Brien. president Of the
organization; Harry Olson, chief Judge
Of the Chicago Municipal Court, and
Samuel Rosenbaum, Of Philadelphia,
and Lindley NJ. Garrison were the
speakers. Charles Il. Hughes was nom.
mated, without opposition. to succeed
Mr.. O'Brien. His election will take
place this afternoon. The lawyers were
urged by the retiring president to live
and work, imbued by an unseliish and
patriotic spirit.
"The lawyer Of the past whom we re-
card as great. the lawyers Of the pres
ent who alone are entitled TO be thus
designated, are not to be found among
those who merely sought for wealth or
Mace" Mr.. O'Brien said, "but consisted
then as they do now of those who have
consecrated a part Of their lives at
least unselhshly, disinterestedly and
patriotically to service Of their country
and humanity.
World To Be Remade
"Those who have observed the rapid
growth of the modern city cannot but
feel that il breeds socialism and mate
rislsm, thus making IL menace to It.
self. In this field, under new and I'M
tried conditions, must be settled the
pressing problems that affect the race,
Al. mil
defeat or the realization of the aspira-
tions and hopes of democracy.
eve are a profigate nation because
we are spendthrifts. not only of our
national resources. but our physical
and mental energies as well. We are
money-reckless, work-reckless, ambi-
tion-reckless. play-reckless, society
reckless. according 10 our spheres and
our cailings.
eve lawyers must reform our pro-
fession and procedure; we must remove
delays and technicalties and expense
in litigation; we must drive out of the
profession unworthy men; we must
hold aloft high ethical standards and
live imbued with the new spirit OF the
times"
Courts Need Strengthening
efficiency in the Administration Of
Criminal Justice was the subject OF
the paper read by Judge Olson. The
time had come for strengthening the
courts, he said. and there was urgent
need for specialist judges working in
court of inclusive jurisdiction.
"The prosecuting attorney and his as
sistants should hold Office as career.
When the prosecutor changes every
four years and a new corps OF young
assistants is installed with each
change, inexperience is often substi-
tuted for experience. The criminal
lawyers who defend do not change.
They prey upon each new stan OF
prosecutors until they have learned TO
be efficient"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-13
TAXI CHAUFFEURS
STICK TO STRIKE
FOR FIXED WAGES
Drivers Veto Suggestion That
They Accept Commission
on Fares

The striking chauffeurs Of the Town,
Black and White and Club taXicab COM
panies voted last night TO stand by
their demands. The vote was taken
sfter an employees committee had con
fcrred with W. Bundy Cole, president
of the Town Taxi Company and d.
rector in the other concerns; Arthur
Mason Jones, president Of the
Town Taxi Company. and John Hertz,
who, besides being interested In the
New York companies. is president of
tho Shaw Livery Company, of Chicago.
Bernard Tunney, chairman of the
strikers meeting, which was held in
National Hall, S16 East Sixty-third
Street, told the chauffeurs that Hertz
had suggested a commission on fares
as method of compensation. The
strikers vetoed that suggestion at once,
saving that it might work in Chicago,
but conditions we're different IN New
York. -,
The strikers declared that fixed
wage was the best system. Their tips
averaged from 81 TO $3.50 day, they
said. and with the ten-hour day and the
80 cents an hour that they were hght-
ing for they could manage to get
along.
Harry Block. representing the Mason
& Seaman chauffeurs. assured the
strikers that they would stand by them
in whatever decision they reached. and
would insist on the same conditions
from any other company that succeed
ed 10 the business.
Sixty-fve Of the best cabs which
Mason & Seaman offered for sale, say
ing that they could not continue IN
business and grant the strikers de-
mands. were bought yesterday by Otto
T. Barnard. president OF the New York
Trl,sf Comnanv.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-13

leading gathering places in the Middle
West. having among it's mary member
Charles W. Fairbanks. Henry Lane VIII
son, former United States Ambassador
to Mexico. and Albert j. Beverage.
Up in the dining room several mem
bers had ordered luncheon and drinks
had been served. When told the club
was being rsided some were seen to
gulp down their drinks, but others were
apparently fearful they might be VIC
lsting the state liquor laws By drink
ing while a raid was in progress.
The raid is the direct result Of
statement made last night By Harry
Yockey, PROSECUTOR, in police court 70
the effect that there was no use IN
bringing liquor cases into court, a.
he could not obtain convictions. and
that he could not get any one TO
swear to sffidavits.'
The Columbia Club and other prom
inent clubs have been fighting the
Shank boom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-13
MRS. BENJAMIN THAW
LENDS MUSEUM EXHIBIT
Egyptian Antiquities. Paintings, Sculpt-
ures and Furniture Included

A collection Of twenty-nine objects,
recently lent by Mrs. Benjamin Thaw.
was placed on exhibition yesterday in
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. The
collection includes Egyptian antiquities.
ceramics, paintings, sculpture, textiles
and furniture.
The paintings, six in number, comprise
remarkable Madonna" by Cosimo
Roseli. a portrait by Florence de Lo-
renzo. "St. John" by Simone Martini,
n Madonna and Child" by Fra Angel-'
co, a Madonna, Child and Angels by
Florentine master Of the fifteenth
century and 8 portrait by Murillo.
An Egyptian woman's head, modelled
in white limestone, almost as soft as
plaster, in the style of the thrtieth
dynasty 1913 TO 242 b. c. is an ex-
ample that is among the most valued of
the Thaw loan. There are also some
important Italian sculptures Of the
Renaissance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-13
RATE PACT Barred
BY FREIGHT MAN
Three Roads Parties to
"Gentlemen'S Agree
ment," Pauley Says

y,,rh. rates and zones as at present
....atpted are the result of a gen
,,-,r's agreement Albert c. Psuley
.,,,-,,s Yesterday at the hearing held
,.,ms Wilbur la Roe, special examiner
- me Interstate Commerce Commits
Il, 70 consider the free lghterage
...s,ion at the request Of Northern
y.r Jersey business men. Mr.. Pauley,
:, EXPERT on railroad rates, was for
-spy years in the service Of the Ches-
,r,ske & Ohio Railroad.
The Baltimore & Ohio, the Pennsyl-
y,-a and the New York Central were
,,r.ss to the agreement, he said. Al
=, the railroad rate war the roads
70. together i'm 1876, ne explained, and
-g.i on IS cents as the rate to be
,.ugsd on each 100 pounds of freight
u,vsen Chicago and New York, the
distance being accepted as go miles.
s. cents was deducted for terminal
s.srgss at each end. and the remaining
2 cents was divided by 92O, which
ars 100000 for 100 pounds for each
-e as he freight rate.
Nr. Psuley's Characterization Of
-,sn,lenen's agreement" brought g..
stuart Patterson, counsel for tho Penn
sylyanis. 70 his feet with a volley Of
Questions, but tho witness stuck TO his
colors.
Freight zones and switching facilities
cane in for criticism from other Wit
resses. T. Z. Ebert, Of the TreNler
Lumber Company, Of Harrison, y. j..
said that harrison was in the Phila
celphia zo7e ior lumber shipments
rom New England, and in the New
YORK zone for shipments from the
West IN each instance, he pointed
tu', the zone system worked TO the
disadvantage Of Harrison and to the
idysntage Of New York.
Isaac Kemp, Of the Joseph Dixon
trucible Company told about a car
Of graphite which the Pennsylvania
lad run into the Green Street yards, i'm
Jersey City q considerable distance
rom the plant while the Henderson
e.fcet yards were within two blocks
t H.. To get the car into the Hender-
On Street yards aid Mr.. Kemp, it
would have TO travel over the Lehigh
alley tracks, which meant taking it
'sniy-fye miles 90 Metuchen and then
'.'A again TO jersey CITY, al a cost
q about S66.
AZ Warren Street. Jersey City, he
aid, the tracks Of the two railroads
zee only ten feet apart, but there
ere no switches from one line to the
. IA The herring will be continued