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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-03
HAIC STRIKES SOUTH
OF LENS AND TAKES
IMPORTANT SALlENTS
Heavy German Reserves,
Which Fought Stubbornly,
Now Fall Before Drive.
English Have Made New
Thrust in Oppy Line-Ad-
vance on Arras-Carnbrai.
By Associated Press.) }

10y xAV0OV10ISO 1xV90sJ
New breeches In the already
badly battered German line on
the Arras battlefield are being
made by the British in heavy
assault launched on a 1S-mile
front today
Striking south Of Lens, on the
Acheville-Vimy road, General
HatRs troops drove at the Ger
mans all. along the line as far
south as Croiselles, on the Sensee
river, eight and one-half miles
southeast of Arras. Virtually the
whole front of the attack at the
beginning Of the Arras battle on
Apr1 8 was thus under assault by
the British infantry,
Deadlock Broken.
The attack came at a moment
when it seemed as if a deadlock
had been established, for time
1t least, because of the heavy re-
serves wt1ieh had been brought
up by tho Germans and the strong
resisting powers they were dis
playing. OF the initial success
81 the renewed offensive, the Of
fetal British report speaks posi-
lively, recording the capture Of
4 number of strong enemy posi-
lions.
Unofficial accounts of the fight
ing specify British progress at
several points. From Arleux,
captured last week in the big
drive north Of the Scarpe, which
broke into the Oppy line, progress
has been made towards Fresnoy,
making . still deeper thrust into
the Oppy positions.
This attack seems likely to
force the speedy evacuation by
the Germans of the town of Oppy,
10 which they have been desper-
aAdy clinging. The British had
.iready advanced south of it when
ti,ey captured Gavrelle, and now
ne pressing In to the north. at
,Fresnoy.
Germans Driven Back.
South of the Arras-Cambrai
road, the Germans have been
driven back from the region of
Heninel south OF Guemappe, in
the direction Of Cherisy. Occu-
patton Of Cherisy by the British
would mark an advance of con-
siderably more than a mile. Cor
respondents also mention British
progress in the Bullecourt region,
which Is south of the Sensee,
slightly beyond the field of attack
mentioned in the official state.
ment.
French Very Busy.
While not pressing ahead on
any wide front, the French along
the Aisne sector and the Cham.
pagne are giving the Germans nc
rest, employing their artillery
vigorously and picking out a sec.
ton of the enemy line here and
there. Last night, on the hills
east of Mont Haut, where strong
German positions were recently
taken, an isolated position was re.
duced and it's garrison Of more
than 300 men captured. German
counter attacks in this region
were repulsed.
Artillery in. Verdun Sector.
There may be significance ir
the reports Of activity which are
coming from the Verdun sector
and the lines to the southeast o1
it. There has been considerable
patrol fighting in these region.
and especially active artillery
work is in progress in the sector
of St. Mihiel, where the German:
have successfully maintained :
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
MUSKRATS ARE FOUND EDIBLE
Little Animals Sold and Eaten In
Many Cities az MARSH Rabblts,"
According to Correspondents.

Newspaper correspondents advise
Us, says the Peoria Journal, that last
Z III ther appeared in the Washington.
4ew York and Boston markets many
arrels Of plump. little animals, all
dressed and skinned, which were sold
. marsh rabbits"
It appears that for several weeks
the good people bought these animals,
booked them according to the special
directions and served them at family
end party dinners as 'rabbits"-not
kealizing that this food was really
Something vastly different from that
of the ordinary rabbit.
Then came the announcement that
the marsh rabbit" was nothing less
than the muskrat.
Ali of which goes to show that even
now the American people are not
aSerse to being fooled. In fact, they
hike II. Barnum's statement holds true
Is 1t did when he displayed a sand
Stpered elephant as "the only sacred
6hite elephant in captivity"
We sometimes think that this Ia
eeeoming marsh rabbit age."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
Set His Standard Hioh,

One big trouble in this world is that
we do not set our standards high
enough. We content ourselves with
little performances, and do not pick
our critic with care. We suit our
selves.
All this cannot be said about a cer-
tain little boy in this town, who got
big blackboard and plenty of crayon
for Christmas. Whatever the ability
of that embryo artist may be, certain.
ly his ambition is boundless.
He went to Sunday school, and
while there was much impressed, as
usual, with the pictures Of Biblical
characters shown him.
That afternoon he stood before his
new blackboard and meditated deep
and long.
Then he turned to his mother and
said:
"rm going to draw picture that
will surprise God."-Washing Star
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
Liberty Bail Bonds.

Thousands of banners and posters.
nd nobody knows how many circular
Oetters and newspaper advertisements,
bevr Sied with one another In bringing
20 public attention the excellent rea-
sons why everybody should own Liber-
ty bonds. Here is reason which has
not been mentioned by any of the BAN
pers, posters, or advertisements, OBJ
serves q New York exchange.
"Have you bought your Liberty
bondf" asked McCole's friend as the
two came through the tube on crowd
ed subway train.
McCole replied proudly that he had
done so-with the bit of money he had
been able to scrape together.
"You see," he added, II figured they
was good things to have. FIR instance.
IL you got arrested and needed bail you
could use them and not lose the inter-
est"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
THE PUFFED AND PURPLED
"PLUTE."

or course there was a time, every
soap box orator told us about it, when
the public utility manager or stock
holder was looked upon as a puffed
and purpled plutocrat. He rode in
his limousine and drank his cham
payne out Of quart tankards. He was
all encrusted with diamonds and his
wife was trying to reduce" But,
them was the hallycon days of the
old regyme." as a Cincinnati states
man once remarked.
Now, II you see a wan, shrinking.
shivering little man edging along the
dark wall Of the alley and shudder-
ing at each strident sound-that's q
public utility man.
It isn't exactly fair to advance the
dictum- that all haggard. wan, pale.
public utility brotherhood, but it is a
safe assertion that all and several of
the public utility owners. managers
and high officials are wan and hag.
gard In these days of stress.
OF course. In those good old days
1t was perfectly proper proceeding
to cuss the gas man, damn the tele-
phone service and enjoy paroxysm
of rage when the inter-urban car was
late. No more.
It really isn't done.
The manufacturer of pink pills. or
beaded raiment, may complain IL he
will, of the war stringency and its
whitening effect upon his business.
but he can advance the prices Of pink
pills and make 1t harmonize with the
cost of tenderloin steak. Cannot the
gas man advance the price of gas to
keep step with bacon and eggs? Yes
he cannot.
The prices of public service being
hxed for term Of years cannot be
raised to meet the doubled costs Gre
atsS ~ ths war,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
TRAINING REGULAR ARMY.

We read much these days Of the
doings of National Guardsmen and
National army conscrlpts in their can
tonments, but nothing ever appears
about the training of the regular army,
which Is now no small affair. On April
/ 1t contained 10000 officers and men.
Now they number nearly 100000.
Where are they all2 The natural pre-
sumption is that most Of them are in
France, where they are being prepared
for trench work, says Milwaukee Wis
consin. Recent events have also
brought out the fact that n number of
National Guardsmen, possibly two di-
visions, have crossed the ocean. More
may be expected to follow soon. Wash
ington refuses to let 1t be known how
many soldiers Uncle Sam has in
France, but 1t Is fair guess that the
number is much larger than Is general
ly supposed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
SAY GooDBY TO DoUGHNUTI
SoaEs Up Fat Which Can Be Put 20
Better Use, Is Judgment
Of Hoover.

The doughnut Is doomed, says the
indianapolis News. Recent intima-
tions of disapproval by the food ad-
mlnistratlon of this matutinal confec1
tlon might have been regarded as a.
spur to conservation and threat that
would not be carried out unless as a
last resort. Bakers are prohibited in
making bread or rolls from adding
sugar or fats to the dough during the
baking or afterward. Some difference
of opinion as to what are rolls has
given the doughnut respite, but 1t Is
to be shortlived, according to the state
food administrator, who brings this
significant news from Washington:
This ruling gives sweet dough goods
temporary lease of life only. Mr..
Hoover has a special grudge against
doughnuts. They soak up fat which
we do not need and our allies are suf-
fering for. So doughnuts and frying
pan foods will shortly be taboo and
we must not eat or make them until
the war Is over.
Thus is the fate of the doughnut
termined man who cannot be moved
from course which he thinks will
serve the interests Of his country. The
statement, however, that the food ad-
ministrator has grudge against the
doughnut will pain many who have
peculiarly strong fondness for 1t as an
accompaniment of the morning meal,
though Mr.. Hoover's animus may
arise from motives Of patriotism, not
prejudice.
If the government says the dough.
nut must go out of our lives, then &c
1t must. But there will be some natu.
raj regret at parting with an old and
fried friend The doughnut, like pie
has become part of our common life
Many will find breakfast without sink
ers an incomplete and unsatisfying re.
past, But perhaps the abstinence will
bring better digestion and more equa
BILE tempers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
URGED ONWARD TO SUCCESS
According to Writer of Note, Individual
Winner Is Not Always Entitled
to All Credit.

Mary Roberts Rinehart, writing for
the American Magazine, says:
"Back of every success there is
some one person, or group Of persons,
unheralded and unsung, to whom
much of the credit is due. My husband
has stood squarely behind me, always.
His belief in me, his steadiness and
his sanity and his humor have kept me
going, when, as has happened now and
then-my little world of letters has
shaken under my feet.
81 sometimes think, If I We're advis-
ing young woman as to career, that
I should say: First pick your hus-
band
at is impossible to try to tell how !
have attempted to reconcile my pri-
vate life with my public work without
mentioning my husband. Because, aft
er ALL it requires two people, a man
and woman, to organize home, and
those two people must be in accord
1t has been a sort of family creed of
ours that we do things together. We
have tried, because of the varied out.
side interests that pull hard, to keep
the family life even more intact than
the average. Differing widely as theS
do, my husbands profession and my
career, we have been compelled to
work apart. But we have relaxed
rested and played together.
"And this rule holds good for the
family, although I am afraid our play
time is over for a while. Not alto
gether. will not let myself believe
that"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

It's not so much preachment that
we need as wholesome example. Man
kind Is looking for the fellows who
get Joy out of life, not the fellows that
take 1t out. 1t longs for real happi-
ness that won't need to apologize for
bubbling over when there Is something
to laugh at. 1t Graves the man of
strength and culture that can enter
into the frolics of childhood and show
by enjoyment that he was not just
playing part. 1t longs for the touch
Of honest sympathy that comforts
without plying. Such characters
change life's perspective and get young
people to see that there is joy in life
without going to the devil to get It..
And If there is anyone who should be
happy it is he who has lived well.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
Want No Vermln.

, No man Is allowed to enter Germany
from Russia without being thoroughly
dfsinfected and purified. 1t is not dis
ease that the Germans are guarding
against, but something that to them Is
more terrorzing than disease-vermin.
Therefore, friend or foe, nobleman or
peasant, nobody, is allowed to cross
the threshold of Germany without q
visit 10 one of the disinfecting stations
along the eastern frontier. Even one
of the emperor's sons had to submit
TO the disinfecting process and re-
ceived, along with such of the Russian
Cossacks who rherited 1t. certificate
stating that "His Royal Higness Prince
Adelbert is, for the time being. free
from lice."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
NO PLACE ON THE FENCE
Hero In Ohio For the Straddler on
the Liquor Question.
(Xenia Republican.)

(Aenla hepuDllcaH.J
Heretofore it has been possible in
large number Of the legislative dis
tricts where candidates were afraid
to express their views on the liquor
question to avoid doing so.
Now every candidate in every dis
trict will be forced to state where he
stands, because that will become the
vital issue.
Candidates for state offices, be-
cause of their supposed influence in
legislative matters, will likewise be
forced out into the open on this ques-
ton.
In the last state campaign, al
though the liquor question was on the
ballot in two forms, candidates, In
cluding those for governor, were care
full to avoid the issue.
The fence will not longer be good
roosting place. Every candidate for
public office will be compelled to
climb down on ono side or the other,
painful Is the process may h%
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

BARCELONA AN. ACTIVE CITY
Most Progressive Of All Spanish Mu-
inequalities and Center Of the Rev
olutlonary Movement.

The revolutionary movement In
Spain centers in the city Of Barcelona.
The goal of the revolutionists is re-
public, and republics stand for prog
ress. OF all Spanish cities Barcelona
Is the most progressive, writes Nikshn.
For ten years the conservatives have
been looking askance at this great
modern shipping and manufacturing
center, so different from their sleepy
inland strongholds, and from the peas
ant villages of the quiet hills, with po-
litical ideas of the last century.
Barcelona is great world city. It
Is outdlstancing Marseilles as the
Commercial queen Of the Mediterra-
mean. The Spaniard has often been
charged with lack Of business and
enterprise. Barcelona Is his answer.
Here his factories rival those Of Lam
cashire, his shipping that of Liverpool.
The great industrial suburbs, each a
city in itself, are reminiscent Of the
outlying cities that cluster about
Manchester In the Industrial north Of
England.
Yet Barcelona remains characteris-
tically Spanish. The city has taken
the ugliness, the bitter competitive
spirit of modern industry, and, more
nearly than any other industrial CEN
ter, has blended them with beauty and
Latin courtesy and good nature. Bar
celona is Spain awakened, but not
Spain transformed.
1t Is sunny town, with clear,
bracing air and blue sky that the
smoke of thousand chlmneys never
hides. 1t has plenty Of parks and
tree shaded boulevards; even Its poor
er quarters lack the sordidness Of
the Anglo-Saxon slum. The flower
markets, the promenades. the cafes,
are thronged with loungers. not Of the
leisure classes, but workmen In their
leisure time. The Spaniard has
learned to work without forgetting
how to idle. And withal, the crowds
are keen and wideawake, nightly in
terested In public affairs, and discuss
Ing politics with the heat that Is q
birthright in the Latin races. BARGE
Iona promises to remain at the fore
front of progressive Spain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
Here Comes the eoshawk.

A warning to sportsmen and others
that a dangerous migration is in prog.
ress from the arctic regions has been
issued by the Iowa fish and game com.
missioners.
The present invasion is said to be
the most serious since that of eleven
years ago, when the birds driven south
ward by a scarcity of hare and ptarmi-
gan, came to this state and devoured
grouse by the wholesale.
The gOshawk, which, unlike other
hawks, flies straightaway, instead of
in circles, is somewhat larger than a
pigeon.-Exchange.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The shortage of cents Is attributed
to the advance in the prices of cigars
and cigarettes. 1t Is declared that the
humble change maker has not been so
scarce at any previous time during the
past twenty years. Many people are
paying greater attention to the cop
per than they did when 1t had more
purchasing value than 1t possesses
now. Human beings are so inconsist-
entl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Already soldiers and sailors have
applied for insurance policies aggre-
eating S1s000,000 under the new war
insurance system. AS the benefits Of
the governments plan come to be full
ly understood, the men In the national
service will not need to be persuaded
to take advantage Of it. They owe
It to themselves and their families to
provide for the future with the gov
ernment's assistance.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
A Spacious Plea.

waiter, had fully determined to
give you fifty-cent tip when l came
In here"
"Thank you, sir"
"But on second thought, perhaps
/ had better donate II to war fund"
"l've been drafted, sir. I'm due to
leave next week, and Pm sure your
conscience won't hurt you for giving
that much to poor devil who will
soon be In the trenches"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
Founding Of Moscow.

1t was on the site of the Kremlln
now the center of the city, that Mos.
COW was founded by Yuri DolgOruki
Prince of Kiev, in 1147, although his
torians believe n village existed on the
heights above the River Moskov even
before the advent of DOlgOruki. With
In century the new village entered
into the turmoil Of Slavic wara ther
raging,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The intimation is becoming stronger
that the German people are more and
more disposed to mind their own busi-
ness, which a mixture Of junkerism
and militarism has been hitherto kind
ly minding for them. The war is prov
Ing In more ways than one the biggest
boomerang of modern times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

If you want to find out the difference
between q highbrow and bonehead,
ask the highbrow. He knows. Inc
bonehead doesn't. The bonehead
knows enough to be unhappy, which is
quite some consolation, we claim.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The government forecast Of a %
per cent increase in this years crop
of early potatoes will produce feeling
of cheerfulness among people who have
not cut those costly vegetables off their
list.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

A desire on the part of soldiers
wives to follow their husbands to
France represents admirable senti-
ment. But under the circumstances
they will be expected to stay at home
and attend to their knitting.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The man who declares that to worry
is as sinful as to drink never had q
house to keep on high food prices. a
valuable chauffeur commandeered by
the draft or a growing child to bring
up, or he would know that 1t can't be
helped.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The Boston schoolteacher who was
amazed to discover that her pupils
couldn't put the words to America" on
paper correctly, would be shocked to
learn that probably not one college
graduate in hundred could do 1t
either.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Even though the ban continue on
German dyestuffs, we look for an am
pie supply of highly-colored American
yarns from the front.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The war has caused the college pro-
fessors to enter practical fields. Many
are serving the government. Some
are connected with great corporations.
A railroad has made one Of them d.
rector. The time may come when q
professor will be known by the Jingle
of ten-dollar gold pieces In his pocket.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

The British peers are attacking the
practice of buying and selling titles.
They ought to adopt the simple prac-
tice in this country, where any man
who wants title can assume one to
his liking without paying a cent to
obliglng friends for calling him by it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

All the world is wondering why
Japan does not take more active
part in the war. And Japan allows
all the world to keep on wondering.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

A Wisconsin artillery sergeant was
presented with $1,000 swagger stick
on his birthday. Isn't 1t queer what
ridiculous things committee can buy
with other peoples money!
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Yellow root, 1t seems, has also gone
I'D in price, due to war conditions, but
all hope need not be abandoned until
a report is received on next springs
sassafras crop.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Moderate your eating to the point
where your mouth will water when you
even think of hatful oe corped beer
and cabbage.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

A shortage in attendance of the up
per classes of colleges this wear does
not indicate retrogression.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

We can think of but one argument
In favor of Scent postage. Discourage
inent of poets.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Il is said that the men Ia the
trenches need new uniforms every
nqnth,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04
PROMISES warm
OHIO CAMP AICN
Wet and Dry Issue VIII
Dominate.
CONTENDING FORCES LINING UP

LIQUOR Interests Of State Under
Heavy Handicap "a. Their Forces
Are Not Harmonious and War Con,
ditions Are Adding to the Popular
ity Of Prohibition-Drys NOW Busy
Reorganizins County Federations.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

Amendment as Submitted by Com
gress Provides For Concurrent
Power of States and Federal Gov.
ernment In enforcement Of Pro.
hibition-State and National Au.
thorities to Join Hands In Promot-
ing the Public Welfare and In Safe.
guarding Public Morals.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-10-04

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