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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
MISSION ARRIVES

Former Premier Viviani and His Asso-
ciates Reach Washington After Be-
Ing Warmly Greeted at Points Along
the Route.
Washington, April 26.-Arthur James
Balfour, British foreign secretary.
stated that the allied governments,
completely convinced Of Americas
whole hearted conservation toward
the common end of destroying Prus-
sian militarism, would not think OF
asking this country to depart from its
traditional policies or enter into any
formal alliance which might prove en-.
barrassing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
Labor Men Entertain Cabinet.

Washington. April 26. - Oficials Of
the American Federation of Labor,
meeting here to assist the govern.
ment solve labor problems. entertain
Cd members of President Wilson's
cabinet at luncheon. I toast {, the
PRECEDENT WAS drunk.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
BREAD RATION IS LIKELY

rood Controller IN England u ConsId.
erins Question.
London, April rs. - England will
shortly be placed on bread rations. 1t
10 understood.
II is generally conceded that the
bread problem is the crux Of the
whole food situation. for 1t is upon
bread that the working classes de-
pend.
Baron Davenport, the food control.
Ter, has selected Empire day, May "a.
~ the time for q nationwide renewal
Of the appeal to the people against
w~astefulness In the use Of food.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
THIRD DAY OF
GREAT BATTLE
Desperate Struggle Along
British Front.
SPAIN LEANS TO ENTENTE
Takes Long Step Forward Of Path
Leading to Entrance Into Universal
Conflaeration-Signs of Discomfort
Apparent In Sweden.

Apparent In Sweden.
London, April 26.-One of the great.
est and most bitterly contested battles
Of the war has entered its third day on
the British front In France, with the
issue still in doubt. Massed German
reserves are being hurled forward in
bloody counter attacks in n supreme
effort to check the forward surge OF
General Haig's troops. Some minor
positions, trench lines and rubbish
heaps dignifed by the names of vii
lagos have been seized by the British,
but the Wotan line, their main objec.
tive, still Is intact.
While the mighty struggle in
France RACES inconclusively develop,
ments In other fields Of the worlds
upheaval are occurring with sensa.
tional rapidity. Spain has taken a
long step forward on the path along
which she is apparently being push.
Cd, slowly but surely, into the uni
versal confiagration.
The Madrid government has adj
dressed a note to Germany which,
on its face, must result In an aban-
donment by Berlin of its uncompro-
missing attitude on ruthless subma
rine warfare or its acceptance Of (;
new and important foe. The situa
ton is somewhat modified by the fact
that Count Romanones. who, as pre-
mier, dispatched the note, has since
resigned. The growing tide Of anti.
Germanism in South America ap-
pears, however, to be having its eff
feet In Spain, but a rigid censorship
leaves affairs in the %peninsular king
dom obscure.
Petrograd Siege Seen.
Next in Importance are the grow
ing rumors of a great German at
tempt to be made against Petrograd.
The reports are taken seriously
enough In the Russian capital to in
duce many hundreds of citizens to
flee to the interior. According to ru.
NOR the German plan Is a combined
assault by sea and land. Transports,
escored by a powerful German fleet,
are said to have already sailed from
Libau. The political situation In Rus.
STA remains confused, but there are
uncomfortable reports of the activi-
ties of the radical Socialists and of
renewed outbreaks of agrerian trou.
bles, some of a counter revolutionary
character.
The unrest In Germany is having a
new manifestation In the outbreak
against Chancellor Won Bethmann.
Hollweg by the Conservatives and Ma.
tional Liberals. The chancellor Is be-
ing violently attacked for his alleged
s~ubservience to Socialist influences
expec.ed to bring these attacks to a
focus.
In the meantime there are indica-
lions that the tremendous currents of
discomfort which are running through
Europe are growing in strength. The
visit of the king Of Denmark Ito
Stockholm is regarded as Of particu-
lar significance in view Of the recent
demonstration OF the Swedish work
ers against the government.
May day is expected to bring mat.
tiers to a climax in Sweden. Hjalmar
Branting, the Swedish Socialist lead
or, has warned the government against
undue interference with the great la.
Dor demonstration planned for that
dav
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
KAISER THANKS GENERALS
Declares British Attacks Have Been
Broken.

Amsterdam. April ga Berlin Of.
hcial statement says the German en-
peror has sent the following message
10 Grown Prince Rupprecht Of Bava-
ria. commanding the Artois army
group:
The fresh English storm on the
battlefield Of Arras has been broken
BY our troops. To the heroes Of Ar.
~ and their trustworthy leader
oshd my thanks and those OF the
Fathsrjand. God win help further"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
FIRST LOAN TO ENTENTE
Is MADE.

Washington, April 26.--Sec-
rotary McAdoo handed the
British ambassador a treasury
warrant for 5000, 000, 900, the
first loan made to any entente
government by the United
States under the $1,000, 600, 900
war finance measure.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
NOT YET ALIVE TO 1T

In a certain New York hotel, which
one would not have to go very far
from Central Park to find, the mana
ger has been experimenting for a
fortnight in food conservation. That
is. he has been testing out his guests
in the matter of food conservation.
He tried them first on the question of
saving butter. A portion of bread
and butter sells for ten cents at the
hotel. On the menu cards he had
printed in large type the announce
ment that peanut butter with bread
could be obtained for five cents. Re-
turns from the auditing department
of the hotel restaurant disclose the
interesting fact that in three days but
one order for peanut butter was
given. That order, as it happened,
was from the manager himself
On Tuesdays "meatless day. was
established at the hotel. This did not
mean that people could not get meat
if they ordered it, but the chef pre-
pared an elaborate meatless menu.
On the first "meatless" Tuesday more
meat was ordered than on the Tues
day preceding.
All of which facts are worthy Mr..
Hoover's consideration. They show
pretty conclusively that people who
patronize certain restaurants are not
as yet disposed to think of anything
but their own gastronomic tastes
and abilities-provided they have
money in pocket, or required basis of
credit. The tendency is not limited
TO any one New York restaurant-or
10 any one city, for that matter.
When suggestion fails, other meth
DDS, if the ends are. essential, have TO
be employed. Some people have to
be made live to some things The
New York hotel managaer could not
yield to entire encouragement. Tho
food administration may discover
way W lSlHlOICe MS NSiA-ueduL ell
forts. In the mean time, the house
wives throughout the country who are
acting on the Hoover advice, and so
helping to win the war, are also help
ing to create a body of sentiment
which will put the foolishly extrav-
agant and wasteful in just the place
in public esteem where they belong.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
SHERIFF'S SALE

By virtue of writ of fieri facias,
to me directed, issued out of the Cum
berland Common Pleas Court, dated
July 20, 1917, will expose to sale at
public vendue on
Friday, September Z, 1917,
at o'clock in the afternoon of said
day at the
COURT HOUSE BUILDING
in the City of Bridgeton,' County Of
Cumberland and State of New Jersey,
all that certain lot of marsh lying on
Newport Greek in Statnem's Neck in
the Township of Greenwich, County
of Cumberland, New Jersey, bounded
and described as follows:
Beginning at stake in the mouth
of an old ditch by the edge of New
port Greek and runs thence due South
five perches and three-quarters to a
stake for corner; thence by the edge
of an island of upland due West eight
perches; thence South thirteen de-
grees and forty-five minutes West six
and a half percnes; thence South
eighty-six degrees West forty-one
perches to a stake for a corner;
themes N. fourteen degrees West thir-
teen perches to the aforesaid New
port Creek; thence up the same and
bounding thereon the several courses
thereof to the beginning corner.
Containing six acres more or less.
Situate in Stoe Greek Township.
Beginning at stone corner Of
Henry Briant's land in the line Of
William G. Reeves land; and runs
thence by said Reeves land North six
ty-f1ve and three-quarters degrees
East fifty-five rods and four links to
stone corner Of land of heirs Of
George Citizens deceased; thence
thereby South one-half degrees East
thirty-six rods and twenty-five links
to stone a corner of Charles Win
rows land; thence thereby South six
ty-nine degrees and twenty-five min
utes West thirty-eight rods and twen-
ty links to corner in line of Hen
ry Briant's land; thence bounding,
thereon North twenty-six degrees
thirty-five minutes West thirty-one
rods and nine links to the place Of
beginning.
Containing nine acres and 95 square
rods.
Seized as the property of E. Man
uel Pierce and Henry Winrow, defend
ants, taken in execution at the suit
of Charles F. Clark, plaintiff, and to
be sold by
CHARLES v. MARSHALL,
Sheriff.
T. G. Hilliard,
Atty.
Dated Aug. IA, 1917.
Prs fees $2O.O6 s-14, 81. %; 81
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
THE GERMAN CUL-DE-SAC

By an interesting coincidence, the
same day that brings Mr.. Lloyd
Georges speech ce, Idring it to be
proved that The L-boat campaign
cannot starua EnglaL@ brings a Ger
man confession to the same purport.
1t is not a statesman but a military
critic who makes It. He is General
Won Ardenne, the military critic of
the Berlin ''Tageblatt", who says that
there is no hope of bringing the war
"to an honorable end for Germany"
unless England, "thc soul of the hos
tile coalition, is defeated on land. He
is Ecpeful that this will be done, but
his hope rests only on the fact that
German leadership has always hith-
erto found way to direct the cam
paign into new courses when stag
nation Is threatened. He offers as
a possible suggestion that the French
army might be attacked and over
wnelmed before the American army
arrives, which would leave the Brit
ish army isolated.
This is based on the assumption
tnat the French are weak and dis
oouraged, which is a belief that has
been industriously inculcated not on
ly in Germany but in all the countries
where the German propaganda is Wig
orous, conspicuous among which is
the United States. Here, however, we
have antidotes for poison, We can get
the truth sooner or later, and we now
know that France has more men un-
der arms than ever before, while the
news from the Flanders front shows
what sort of men they are and what
their spirit it. In Germany such an
tidotes are contraband, and General
Won Ardenne undoubtedly still be-
lieves what he and other Germans
have been told on that subject. He
also believes, doubtless, that the ar
rival of the American army will be
perhaps still believes that no Ameri-
can soldiers have landed at all except
doctors and nurses, as the Berlin
press confidently alleges.
The point of interest, however, is
that a German soldier of rank and a
military critic sees that England must
be defeated decisively; that she can
not be defeated by the submarines;
that some way must be found to de-
freat her on land, and to do it before
America gets there. AS Americans
do not believe for a moment that tnis
can be done, his confession is equiv
alent in American eyes to evidence
that England cannot be defeated at
all, and that Germany cannot win.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
A POUND OF FLOUR

Food Administrator Hoover asks
everybody to save each week one
pound of -four in every five. The
economy is made necessary by the
wheat deficit in the United States and
Canada of 40O,0O0,00O bushels in the
amount required for the Allied ma
tions and neutrals of Europe.
There is an indicated surplus of
corn of 47O,O0O,O00 bushels and of
oats of 3O4,0OO,OOO bushels in this
country. What is asked of the con-
sumer is not to reduce his allow
ance of cereals but to save wheat by
substituting 20 per. cent. of other
grains.
To do this ought not to involve
much self-denial. Not to do it may
mean distress or starvation for our
allies. This and similar official re-
concentrations of food economy
should be taken seriously and applied
at home, not passed on for somebody
else to do. Fighting may be done by
proxy. Other persons may be relied
on to buy Liberty bonds and make
Red Cross supplies. But food conser-
vation must be personal and all must
cooperate. 1t will not do to make
light of serious conditions and to be-
little precautions for nusbanding the
Nations food supply which must be
observed If we are to win the war.
KNOWN AS THE DAILY ROUND
You work to get food to eat. Then
you eat to get strength to work to
get food to eat.
You sleep to get hest to get strength
to work to get good to eat to gel
Strength to work until you sleep agar
to get more rest. .e
No odds how you go about it-yo,
eat, sleep and work. Then you work
sleep and eat.
And the funniest part about It. oh
serves the Richmond Times-Dispatch
is the more you sleep and eat, tn,
more able you are to work until 70,
get tired and have to sleep to get resr
to work to get food to eat to give 20,
strength to work to get food.
So, after all, the more one think
it over, the more one feels that tn
simple life is best.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
THE WHISKY FACTORIES

The price of corn went up lately,
in spite of official reports promis ng
the biggest crop in history. 1t is ex-
planned that the rise was due to a
sudden, temporary scarcity caused by
distillers buying up all the available
supply.
Most of the distilleries, it appears,
have been running day and night for
weeks, in frenzied effort to produce
the utmost possible quantity of whis-
ky before the new food law deprives
them Of the grain supply.
The distillers expect to have free
rein for another month. Then, it is
announced, when they are no longer
allowed to use grain for making al
coholic beverages, most of them will
shut down.
They might easily divert their
plants to other purposes, particular
ly the distillation of commercial al
cohol for fuel or ammunition, or the
manufacture of Temperance" drinks.
But they do not want to do that, they
say. They are figuring that the ban
on whisky is only a passing whim.
Soon, they think, the public will miss
the old whisky revenues and repent
it's remuneration of them. Moreover,
when the present supply of whisky is
used up, they believe the people will
want more. The supply will only last
a year or two, even if it isn't COM
Wandered for war purposes. Then
the distillers expect to open up
again as usual. ~
Maybe they're right-but probably
not. Having once become used to us
ing our grain for food instead of al
coholic drink, it isn't likely, that we'll
return to. the old wasteful system
The distillers had better figure or
some other line of business.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
A SQUARE DEAL FOR OUR
= FIGHTING MEN '',

| The Administration Soldiers Insur-
ance Bill was drawn up by Judge JUL
ian Mack of Chicago and has been de-
| scribed as model of clear, concise
! and detailed provision Tor all contin-
| gencies growing out OF service in the
war. 1t is all of that, as will appear
from reading of Judge Mack's ex-
position in The Sunday World
First to be cleared up is the matter
of life insurance for the soldier.
What the peace-time hazards of life
are is known. They make the cost
of insurance at the average soldiers
age So year per $1,000. and it is the
plan of this bill to make the soldier
bear that cost from his monthly pay.
and he can carry as little as $1,000 G
as much as $4,000 of insurance at
tnis rate. If the soldier survives the
war he can convert this term insur
ance into a level-premium policy and
still have the risk carried by the Gov
ernment without those excessive
charges for high Office salaries and
agency expenses which are more or
less the inevitable inf1iction of pri
vate life insurance.
Just what will be the extra war
time hazards to the soldiers life can
not be known in advance. But they
are nigh enough to put insurance with
private companies beyond his reach,
and these costs will be borne by the
public Treasury.
This is most important part of
what Judge Mack calls the plan ito
give square deal to our fighting
men," But beyond all this are most
liberal proyis 'ons for casualty COM
pensation to the soldier and his de-
pendents and for the industrial re-
educational and rehabilitation of the
wounded-all at the expense of the
public save only the enforced regular
allotments from the soldiers pay,
which also are added to by the Gov
ernment In case of dependents.
1t is rightly called square DEAF.
In generosity and squareness it is be-
yond all precedent for any Govern
ment. 1t is a pension plan systema-
tized and known of in advance and
Independent of the fayors and ca
prices of politics. There should be
no question of it's adoption.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
VACANT ARMORIES

With the taking over OF the Nation
al Guard as Federal force, tne state
finds on its hands a number of Ar
mories in which a lot of capital is
invested and for which there will be
little use even with the creation of
the new State Militia. The total num-
ber of men in this new erganizat on
throughout the State will be $500 and
these will be distributed among the
counties in proportion to their popu-
lation. The State now has five reg
mental armories, six battery troops,
and battalion armories, and six COM
pany armories, which have cost it
probably several millions of dollars
and which will accommodate five
times as many men as will compose
the new organization.
Last year the Legislature for main
tanning, heating and lighting these ar
mories appropriated $4,000. 1t also
appropriated $125,00O for new armor-
les which certainly will not be need
ed under the new djspensation. Pos
sibly at the close of the war some ar
rangement may be made with the
Federal government to take over
some of the present armories for the
use of the Federalized National Guard,
Or If universe military service Shall
be adopted. for the training of young
men liable to duty. Until that is
done, however, the State military
authorities will have to devise some
plan by which these valuable prop
critics can be kept up and made OF
some practical use to the public.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
FEDERAL CONTROL OF COAL
TRADE

Solely through their own fault the
coal-operators and coal-dealers have
brought about situation which re-
quires that the Federal Government
shall assert it's powers. For the last
year conditions nave steadily been
growing worse.
By systematized profiteering the
coal interests have created a state of
feeling that leaves them friendless.
The campaign of extortion begun
many months ago has reached a point
where it cannot be longer endured.
Public resentment is so strong that
any steps that will help to avert a
coal panic and protect consumers will
be approved.
A few years ago the prospect of the
Federal Governments taking over the
coal supply of the country, with tae
purpose of fixing prices and regulat-
Ing distribution, would have been de-
~~SNASSu as 1dAh OONidllSIu. lOudY IL
Is accepted as a measure forced by
the rapacity OF the producers.
In Washington, it is evident, action
cannot be long delayed. The Federal
Trade Commission recommends that
the Government take possession of
the output of the mines and provide
for its marketing. The Railroad War
Board and the War Industries Board
realize that the Government must
direct shipments. These measures
could have been voluntarily adopted
by the coal interests if they had hon
estly sought to cooperate with the
Government in the emergency. But
their one desire has been to fill their
own pockets. regardless of every 9th.
er consideration.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23
SHERIFF'S SALE

By virtue of decree to me direct
ed, made by the Court of Chancery of
New Jersey, in cause wherein Har-
riet d. Mengel, is complainant, and
Boyd L. Riley, ct. ais, are defend
ants, bearing date Oath day of July,
1917, wherein it is adjudged that the
lands and premises hereinafter men
toned be sold at public vendue to
the highest bidder, in the presence of
the Undersigned, Sheriff of Cumber-
land County, l will expose to sale at
public vendue, to the highest bidder,
on
Friday, August "a, 1917,
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said
day at
THE COURT HOUSE BUILDING
in the City of Bridgeton, County of
Cumberland and State of New Jersey,
all the south half of thai double
dwelling house and lot of land stu
ate in the Fourth Ward of the City of
Bridgaton, County of Cumberland and
State of New Jersey, and is bounded
as follows: BEGINNING at a corner
in the East line of East Avenue di-
rectly opposite the middle partition
wall of the said double dwelling
house; and running thence through
the middle of said partition wall and
bounding on land of G.. Howard Lam
ing north eighty-four degrees and
thirty-ive minutes East, one hundred
and two feet to corner in the line
of said G. Howard Laning's land;
thence bounding thereon South FIVE
degrees and twenty-five minutes East,
twenty-three feet to a corner in the
line of William D. G. Richards land;
thence bounding thereon South eighty
four degrees and thirty-five minutes
West, one hundred and two feet to
corner in the east line of said East
Avenue; and corner of said William
D. G. Richards land; thence along
the east line of said East Avenue
North five degrees and twenty-five
minutes West, twenty-three feet to
the place of beginning
CONTAINING twenty three hundred
and forty-six square feet of land be
the same more or less. Together with
all and singular the rights, privileges,
hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in any wise
appertaining.
CHARLES v. MARSHALL,
Roscoe c. Ward, Sheriff
Solicitor.
Dated July q. 1917.
Prs fees 1870 7-27; S-3, 10, II
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-08-23

In a very good editorial entitled
"Wives and The War, the Jersey
Journal says: >
+ "We have got to make sacrifices, all
of us, heroic sacrifices, in order that
the war may be won and the world
may be made safe for democracy, but
the latest pronouncement made by
Provost Marshal-General Crowder
cannot be accepted too literally. Gen
eral Crowder decides that wives who
worked in offices and factories before
marriage should seek employment in
industry again in order that their
husbands may be released for army
service.
The exemption boards will need to
use great care in passing upon cases
of tnis kind. Women who formerly
worked in offices or factories but who
have been married for, say, five or
ten years cannot in all instances find
employment that will yield sufficient
revenue to support them, even though
they may have no children to care
for.
We are only in the beginning of
TIE war and there is yet no necessity
for draft which will leave thou
sands or hundreds of thousands of
| wives to the mercy of chance to earn
living while their husbands are in
the trenches. No husband of a de-
pendent wife VINO is not assured of a
decent livelihood during the period
of the war should De drafted now
When conditions become desperate, il
they should become desperate, we csn
make other arrangements.s