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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
OPPORTUNITIES
IN NAVY NOW
ARE BEST EVER | y |:
Secretary Daniels Tells Sail.
ors They Have Every
Chance to Advance.

Great Lakes, ILL.,, Oct. 22.-Never in
it's history has the navy presented to
the enlisted personnel such remark
able opportunities for promotion,
Secretary Daniels declared today in
an address to $4,000 sailors at the
Great Lakes training station.
!. .From- 1909 to 1912 only three
were appointed to commissioned
rank" said the secretary.
"Since the war began sos warrant
officers have been commissioned as
ensigns. and 1878 enlisted men have
been made warrant officers. I believe
these officers who have been pro-
noted from the ranks will prove their
competence and worth and I expect
that when the war is over those who
have made good can be continued
in the rank which they have attained
and be in line for steady promotion"
Secretary Daniels commended the
officers Of the station for the system
they have evolved for fitting men for
active duty afloat at a station a thou
sand miles from tidewater.
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Drifting Mine Fields
Along Norwegian Coast,
Listerland Eastward

Christiania, Oct. 22.-Drifting mine
fields are reported along the whole
Norwegian coast from Listerland east
ward OF Halo twenty mines were
seen drifting north to Christiania
Fiord, and from Halvo many explo-
sions have been heard.
The drifting mine1elds Ire sur
rounded by a mass of drifting wreck
age. Norwegian motor-boats have
saved many casks Of wine, margarine
and Whale-oil. Other boats report en-
countering great masses Of glass balls
rolled up in steel wire and rope work,
which seemed to be a type Of U-boat
net"
The ownership Of the drifting mine
fields is a matter of doubt in the minds
Of some. Certainly nobody is anxious
to claim them, for they do not con-
form to the rules of the Hague con-
vention, which prescribes that mines
shall be SO constructed that they be-
come harmless when adrift,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
GREEK DREAM
TO RULE ASIA
MINOR TOLD
How Hellenic Country Fail
ed to Become Great En-
pire Described.

Athens, Oct. 22.-(Correspondence
Of the Associated Press).-A dream
of empire which would have made
Greece a ruling power in Asia Minor
along the route to the Orient came
very near being realized at the open
just been brought out with official ex-
actness in the, mass of diplomatic doc
uments laid before parliament, and
in statements by Premier Venizelos
and minister Of foreign affairs, M. Po-
litis. Referring to the territorial con-
cessions which Greece could have
acquired at that time, M. Venizelos
said:
Rights Recognized.
II had succeeded in obtaining the
recognition of the rights Of Hellen-
I, can say without exaggeration that
the day I received the communica-
ton of Sir Edward Grey speaking
of very important territorial conces-
sions on the coast Of Asia Minor, was
a day of rejoicing BIS keen as that
when the treaty of Bucharest was
signed, giving us Saloniki, Macedonia
and lev Greece.
II who had known how small and
feeble Greece was only three or four
years ago, saw the supplying bound
she was about to make. This little
Greece had now succeeded in occupy
ing q place equal to that Of the great
powers in the settlement of the fate
Of Turkey which had been the apple
Of discord between the European
powers"
But as Asia Minor was a field Of
German ambition and hope. M. Veni-
zelos said he found himself opposed
not only by the then King Constan-
tine, but also by the army general
staff, which, he declared, Served a
policy purely Germanic." And with
this opposition, backed by the king,
the opportunity held out to Greece to
become a great power in Asia was fin
ally lost.
Concessions Nearly Realized.
M. Politis, the minister Of foreign
affairs, gave some Of the details Of
these concessions, and told how near
they came to being realized in two
formal treaties.
"Such was the desire Of the western
powers he said, "to have Greece
adopt a policy mutually advantageous
to them and to Greece, that they de-
clared to the Hellenic government
that they were ready to assure to
Greece, in return for it's cooperation
in the war against Turkey, Smyrna
and an important part of the hinter-
land"
After lengthy discussion, M. Politis
said, a double convention was con-
Guided. But at this point the army
staff interviewed and succeeded in de-
feating the plan. ~
While these large territorial plans
came to nothing, yet their definiteness
indicates they may again be heard
from when the final adjustment Of the
war takes place. for Greece is not un-
likely to have the same aspirations to-
ward entering Asia. Minor. and the
western powers the same Willingness
they have already shown to give
Greece a foothold on this route to the
H~4A0t ~ - ...E
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
hl]CHAEIIS
T Il j S
WAR IS GODS
War is Punishment by God
For Our Sins, Chancel-
lor Asserts.

Amsterdam. Netherlands, Oct. o.
An assertion by DR.. Georg Michaelis,
the German Imperial Chancellor, that
God has sent this fearful war as a
Judgment for our SINS" Is n Of his
former u~tterances that have been
widely cited in Germany and the
Netherlands since DR.. Michaelis was
appointed to his present high posi-
ton.
The declaration was made by Dr..
Michaelis as president Of the German
Christian Students Union and was
published last year in Die Furche, the
organ OF that union. 1t reads:
people who can fully comprehend
the economic problems Of reputation
ment, co%nfiscation Inc distribution
are easily counted: the number Of
critics is legion. He who judges
specifically and openly criticises,
without an earnest desire to get right
to the root Of the matter. who says
the serious work of the government,
is acting unscrupulously from a pa
triotic point of view.
I'm the realm Of foreign policy
there are q multitude of know-alls.
In so far as they undermine conf
dence. in the government. they are sin
ming against the .fatherland. Every
one knows from his own experience
that success depends OF confidence.
Everyone may ponder Owe the fate
of his people, but to do this in public
without an understanding of things is
criminal.
Those who earnestly desire to be
Christians must ee$here the warning
finger: of. God. They know that God
has sent this fearful a as a judg-
ment for our sins. He who only looks
for the sins in others cuts himself of
from Gods blessed purpose with u
nation. When you yourselves have
become free and happy people. releas-
ed from all attachments. from the
domination Of material things, false
rank and class prejudices, free from
sel1shness and false ambition, and
help the German nation to the glort-
GUS rebirth, then God can also give
us peace" ~
''If," runs another article. I'VE look
out upon our modern State and ma
tional life, we cannot say, II w are
sincere. that the people Of God and
the men of God have a decisive inf1u-
ence in our state life. I will give you
a practical illustration of this ques-
ton. Since the death Of Pastor
Bodelschwingh there is no-one in U
parliament, in the Reichstag or Land
dag who dares defend any bill or pro-
posal, in simple and child-like fash
ion. with the words, L demand this
ecaUse it is Gods will.'n
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22

"A contemporary objects to Red
Cross nurses smoking. We don't
know any who do, but all self-respect-
ing nurses should eschew tobacco and
garlic.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22

towards war relief funds, they we're
again profoundly surprised.
"Carefullystt was explained that the
money: was not for the conduct Of the
war, that money for this purpose wae
raised. where necessary, by demand
and not by voluntary effort, but that
many men had to die. and that wom-
en- and children must continue 70 live
not wholly u . burden or the en-
pire. Once realized the reply wa
spontaneous. The natives Of Ocean
island asked leave to give all their
phosphate royalty to patriotic funds,
and wore With dimculty persuaded to
limit their gift to 1000 pounds by the
waTntng Of possible future drouths."
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
Lack OF FOOD
IN BELGIUM
NOW SERIOUS
Physician Who Escaped tells
of Suffering Caused by
Germans.

Havre, Oct. ga physician of
Brussels who has succeeded in escap-
Ing from Belgium, in telling of the
sufferings in the Belgian capital re-
sulting from the German occupation,
said the Germans had systematically
taken all sugar and fat and the only
food containing albumen provided
was a ration Of less than two pounds
Of bacon monthly. Pork and beef,
where obtainable, cost 60 to ~ cents
a pound.
Food Adulterated.
There was also great 'adulteration
Of what food was to be obtained and
this was seriously affecting the public
health. It was quite a common thing
he said, for individuals to lose within
a few months rs to .35, pounds lin
weight. In the city Of Brussels the
birth rate. formerly two per day, had
dropped to two in ten days, while
there were 16 deaths daily.
The effects upon children were par
ticularly serious, for, in spite of char
liable efforts in providing extra meals
for them and sending some to Hol-
land to recuperate, ricketts, and tuber-
culosis were prevalent. These two
diseases alone showed an increase of
more than 40 per cent in the past
two years. OF 800 children examined
by the physician this year.. half were
suffering from tubercular glands, and,
owing to the lowered vitality, cpl
denies Of measles, -whooping-cough
and scarlet fever were more numerous
and deadly than ever.
Refugees Maltreated.
The physician states that while
working at the st. Jean hospital, the
largest in Brussels, he treated hun
dreds of deportees who had been sent
back from Germany. Most Of them
came from Alost, Termonde. Client.
and the neighborhood. The limbs Of
many yer badly bruised while 9TH
ers had crushed hands and feet, the
result Of the work they had been
forced to do. Most Of those who
came in during the winter suffered
from severe frostbites necessitating
in some cases amputation. About
thirty of these had died from exhaus-
ton. Several patients admitted
in a state of coma caused by starva-
ton and half of those treated in the
dispensary were ~tuberculous.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
GERMAN REFUGEES
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF
CHINESE GOOD Will,

Kulipg. China, oct. a3.-Foreisn
residents Of this mountaih@resort ~
indignant over the action OF the. Chm
ese government whichshasl converted
thesTesort int = refuge for Germans
andsNAustrians. The government u
suedsa m, order permittinkx Germans
and Anstrians to. enter hSress but for-
expanSes low and any cottaEcs
snre available. Germans have rented
sthe.e ana aro converting them into
winter homes.
yconsequence Kuling viii be
strtft1Xfl GerMan.colony & the con-
cllaongofsthe hummer tourists,sea-
son. 5ssI thu ias
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
STIRRED UP
BY CONCESSION TO
ITALIAN MINISTER

Picking, Oct. 22.-Baron Aliotti, the
italian minister. made only a verbal
request for the Tien-tsin concession.
But it was sufficient to stir up a temp
est in China, which has good reason
to fear foreign aggression.
The Italian minister's request was
not supported by the other entente
ministers. But it is difficult to make
China believe so. Secret agreements
have wrought so much havoc in the
republic that all Chinese are suspici-
Gus.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22

for domestic workers. typists, and
automobile drivers. One o. the re-
cruttng posters says:
strong. and reliable. 1t must not Be
supposed that their life IL all hard
work. They swim. they have games
and musical evening and dances, to
which each woman can invite n SOL
der friend. They play a. hard. rs
they work. and they live a wholesome
life.
The women are under :. military
discipline, but they do not march to
work nor do they salute their officers
or officers Of the male army"
The recruits will be sent to France
as fast q they Z enrolled.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22

Thinking that It would interfere
with trade, the landlord thought out
q mean Of transferring the obliga-
ton to a rival house.
Thanks" said the landlord. but,
by the by. who IL It to be held on ?'
Nobody, a. I know Of now, but Il
would have been me II I hadn't got
those drinks. Good night"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
ISLANDERS
PUZZLED e BY
WORLD WAR
Engiand's Subjects in Pacific
Can't Understand Great
Struggle.

London, Oct. 22.-The white mans
big war" has completely mystined the
natives Of England's Pacific islands,
who for a generation have heard war
denounced as . SIN by their white pro
tectors. Moreover the fact that a
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-22
Ten Thousand English
Women A Month Need
OF Army Auxiliary

London, Oct. 22.-Ten thousand
women recruits a month for use In
tho Army Auxiliary Service are being
appealed for here. The chief need is
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1917-12-01

or tribe of people and scatter them
like theJews have beenEseateered,
=and=they will soon be mixed-with
the people around them and@their
identity forever lost. But not so
with~the Jews,
They don't mix worth a GENT.
No matter where you put them
nor how you treat them they are
still Jews, and.there must be some
reason for it. Let's see if we can
find the reason. 49, : Il u =
The Jews as a people, through
all theirAlong ages of wandering
in other lands, have always kept
their eyes on Palestine-their Pro-
missed Land-and1 expected some
time to be gathered back there
and re-established as g. nation.
And they have always believed
that when they get back home
their Messiah will come. Andnow
we see the. way actually opening
for their age~long hopes to be
realized. AS I write this the
British armies are right now at
the gates Of Jerusalem, and the
next news that comes / expect to
hear that the Holy City is taken.
(Since writing the above the news
has come. The Holy City is de-
livered! This is the greatest
event since the war started Nov
just watch:)
The Allied governments are
friendly to the Jews and have
already promised them the Holy
Land as soon as the Turks are
driven out. So they have just
the same as got it now. It is a
plain fulfllment of Gods oft-re-
peated promise to these people,
and there is no possible chance for
it to fail.
They are gathering back in un-
belief. They still reject Jesus,
and they still look for their Mes
siah. They are not looking for a
spirit, but for a real person. Now
Jesus Christ is going to come in
exactly the way and manner that
the Jews are looking for, and they
will accept him this time. And
they will learn to their great sur
prise that he is the same one that
they previously rejected.
The idea I get is that the Lost
Tribes Of Israelwill also be gather
ed back and reunited with the
Jews, and they will all be to-
gether when the Messiah comes,
[ will not take up space here to
tell who I think the Lost Tribes
are, but that will be treated in
future articles. What I am try:
ing to do now is to show you that
in order to fulfill the expectations
of the House of Israel and thereby
make it possible for them to &C.
fcept him, the coming Of the Mes.
siah must be literal and personal.
You see If the war would enc
pretty. soon, and universal peace
could be established, and all The
affairs Of the world began tt
shape themselves in accordance
with the spirit of. righteousness
THAT would be mighty nice, o.
course; but still it wouldn't b.
anything that the re-gatheret
House Of Israel could look to will
a great national hope. The pro
mise to Israel is that. she shall
take her place as the leading IA
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IF that don't refer to the
present situation, | want some---

present situation, | want sone7T /,
one to tell me why OF course It
don't mention the Germans by
name. It calls. them chaldeans~
But it COULDN1 'T refer to the
ancient Chaldean nation, because
it plainly says these things shall
be at the END, and we know that
the Chaldeans lived away back
near the BEGINNING. Evidently
the word Chaldeans is used to re-
fer to some other nation of peo-
pie in. the last days. Some writ
ers claim that. there is a good
deal Of evidence In history that
most of the tribes @thataAformed
the sGednian Empire originally
came out Of the old Chaldean. ma.
ton. Hence it is not at all I'M
reasonable that the Bible writer
might have used. the name Chal-
deans in writing about the Ger
mans. .,-rf i * f.. g{-lss
The description fits the Ger
mans, for they are "a bitter and:
hasty nation; and they have
marched through the breadth OF
the land to possess the dwelling.
places that are not theirs. They
are also terrible and dreadful
just as the prophecy says. And
that expression, "They shall fly as
the eagle" is. a clincher, and
proves that it. couldn't be talking
about the old-time Chaldeans nor
any other people Or age earlier
than the present. 1t says in plain
words, They shall FLY as the
eagle" and we know that this is.
the first war in which men could,
fly at all. There can't possibly
be any doubt about that being a
prophecy Of the fyingmachine Of
today. OF course the people Of
past generations couldn't under
stand what that meant, but now
we know it means Just what it
says, for men actually are flying"
like eagles in this war. +
There is also a clear prophecy
of the submarine in the verses
quoted above. Go back and read
where it says. OF the Kaiser that
he "makest men as the fishes. Of
the sea-" That never was fulfill
ed until this war, and now it is.
being fulfilled every day. The
whole seas are full Of men going
about under the water just like
the fishes Of the. sea. ed. e
And it goes ON to give us some.
assurance Of how it will end. The
prophet addresses his remark.
right straight to this terrible ma
tion (Which must evidently be
Germany, and he says: Because
thou hast spoiled many nations,
all the remnant of the people shall
spoil thee" That, is good news
for the Allies, and I am just as.
certain it will, come true as fit
had already ehappened.G ~
And after it has come true
lIwhat next9, Go back and read the
last sentence Of what I have quot
ed above: scFor the earth shall
be filed with the knowledge Of
| the glory Of the Lord as the.
waters cover the sea-" Hab. 2:14..
las soon as Germany is thorough
ly subdued and this war settled,
lthen these glorious and happy
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THE KINGDOM.
Even among those who believe

in the s soo = con M ll!!ser
Kingdom, there is great diverg-
ence Qfsopiinilon as,to what manner
of kingdom it will be-. Will it be
literal or spiritualY It is a hard
question, and it may be that we
cannoG positively know the an
gwer yet. But after weighing
all the evidence I can find am
bound to believe it will be, a literal
and visible earthly Kingdom, with
Jesus Christ as the literal and Wis
ble earthly King. He may not
be visible to the world at large.
but only to the righteous. L be-
Geve the time that he remained
ON earth after his Resurrection
was intended as a type OR illustra'
ton Of how it -would be at his Sec
ond Advent. He was present on
the earth forty days before he
went away. Doubtless that mum.
Der, forty, means something if we
knew what it was But during
that forty days he was never seer
by anybody except his followers
and friends, and. even they got
onlylittle glimpses Of him. The
manner Of his different appear:
ances to his friends during that
period proves that he didn't have
the same kind Of a body that he
had before his death and ressur:
rection. He was able to- make il
appear or disappear at will. And
yet when they DID See him, he
was literal flesh and bones, be.
cause he says so himself.
Behold my hands and my feet
that it Is / myself: handle me, ant
see; for a spirit hath not flesh ant
bones as ye see me have."-Luk
"a :39. 1888 =
And then to still further con
vince them that he was real, h
asked them for something to eat
They gave him something and h
ate il, in their presence. And 81
it seems to me that his ressurrect
ed body must have a great deal O
lteralness about it. =
And so that same body that h
allowed his disciples to see ane
feel of is the identical same bod,
that will come back to- earth ant
rule as a literal earthly king owe
the re-established House of Israel
Now get this idea: The Jew
were all In a great state of expect
ancy looking for their MESSIAH
at the very time that Jesus wa
born. But he came in such al
humble way that they entirel.
overlooked him. And when b
grew up and began his ministr,
in the world, he was still not fin
and grand enough to suit them. S.
they just rejected him as an i'm
poster and killed him, and kept o,
looking for their Messiah. The.
are looking yet. During the tw
thousand years that have inter
vened they have been scattere
over the world with no natio
that they could call their owl
and they have met with man
trials and tribulations: Blu
through it all they have maintai1
ed their identity as a peopl'
=. Wherever you find him through
out the world, a Jew is still a jew
That in itself is a miracle, and
one of. the strongest proofs ths
there is some Divine Plan workin
= ---l -
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1917-04-25
JAPANESE ELECTION OF GREAT
IMPORTANCE.

Toxic, April 2O-(By Union Asso-
ciated Press)-Elections for the new
House of Representatives are taking
place today, and they will be the most
important in the history Of Japan for
the essence of the constitutional gov
eminent is involved. Field Marshal
Count Terauchi, the Prime Minister,
and his chief Lieutenant, Baron Shin
pei Goto, Japan's energetic Home Min
lister, have made clear their concep-
ton of the issue. 1t is their determi-
nation not to bow to the will of a
~"tyrannical majority" in the House
of Representatives. Count Terauchi
dissolved the House in January, when
the majority constitutional party back
ed a resolution of want of confidence
in the ministry. The groups hostile
to Terauchi accuse him of violating
the spirit of the constitution, promul-
gated by the late Emperor Mutchito.
They insist that the political parties
shall have some voice in the affairs of
the empire and that Terauchi's nom
party cabinet represents unacceptable
retrogression.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1917-04-25
BANKERS AND FOOD PROBLEM.

New York, April 2O-(By Union
Associated Press)-Wall street is de-
voting much attention to the food
problem. At the outset of the Europ-
can war the great Powers directed lit
tie attention to this question, feeling
confident that they were we'll protect
ed, but forgetting to calculat the prob
able effect on the harvests of the
steady Withdrawals from the ranks
of the toilers of the soil. They did
not realize its Importance until the
shortage of food became a serious
matter. 1t is now admitted that the
food problem will grow more serious
ly as the European countries increase
their purchases here and men are TAX
ing from the farms and put in naval
and military service. For this rea-
son a movement has been started to
impress through local campaigns all
over the country the necessity of
planting every acre Of ground.