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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
CHANGES OPINION OF
Marine AS FIGHTER
Captured German Officers Diary
Reveals Sudden Amendment
in Valuation.

Secretary Daniels authorizes the fol-
lowing:
How the contemptuous opinion OF
the Germans for the fighting ability Of
American troops may be changed lit
orally overnight is shown in an ex-
tract from the diary of a German OFF,
Ger who was captured and taken into
the American lines by the marines.
A translation of the diary has just
been received ut marine corps head
quarters.
Reserve Lieutenant Tillmanns, the
writer of the diary, belonged to the
Second battalion of the Fortieth regi-
ment baden Guards, Twenty-eighth
division. This was the fourth division
which the marines had against them In
the fighting around Chateau-Thierry.
The other three were so badly cut up
orders to attack.
The extract from Lieutenant TILL
mann's diary follows:
"June 9th: Departure from Rocourt
8 p. m. to Bruyeres further back
Coincy. We had to move out of Ro-
court because it did not belong to our
sector. Rear is crammed full of troops.
Billets, therefore, very scarce.
June It'll: At the front. American
troops have made counter-attacks. We
have to move to the front again. Route
of march over Rocourt Epaux. We are
lying in the woods to the right of
Etrepilly for the present, In position.
In the night of Sth and 9th we will re-
lieve the front line. 1t must be a sad
outfit which allows itself to be thrown
out by the Americans.
"June 9Th and 9th: Moved forward
at night and relieved the Four Hun
bred and Sixty-frst regiment at four
in the morning in the Bots de Belleau.
Incomprehensibly wide sector. Where
there were three companies, we have
only one.
"June 9th and 10th The worst night
of my life. l am lying In the thick
woods on an open height in little holes
behind rocks, for this is heavy artil-
lery fire, until six o'clock In the morn
ing. 1t is a wonder that the fellows
were all at their posts when the Amer
leans attacked. The attack, thank
God, was repulsed. God has again
mercifully preserved me-"
The diary ends abruptly, as the next
day the writer was a prisoner in the
hands of the Americans.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
WANTS, FOR SALE, ETC.

WANTS. FOR SALE, ETC.
FOUND-Keys on ring and string.
Owner can obtain same by calling
at this office and paying for this al.
FOR RENT-The Hill house on Baud
street; partly furnished. Inquire OF
Mrs. W. e. Lemley at residence. tia
FOR SALE-0ne block of 1000 shares
of Buckskin National mining stock
BELL property. Amy reasonable
offer will be considered. Apply at
this office. Aft.
FOR RENT-Twe furnished house
keeping suites with baths, corner of
Sixth and Akin streets. Inquire of
Miss Minnie Bradshaw.
FOR SALE-New house. 3 completely
furnished rooms and bath; screen
porch, removable sashed-in win
dows, built-in kitchen; 6 acres land.
250-foot frontage on Z. Second
oLACCIg GAbg WdbCA anu A1EAbot
chicken house, well. gas engine,
tools, chicken wire, fence posts,
sheds, etc. Would make an ideal
chicken ranch. Price, $500; terms,
one-half cash, balance 3 years at 8
per cent. For further particulars.
apply Silver State office.
FOR IMMEDIATE SALE-160 acres
US. patented land, at a bargain.
fenced with four-strand wire fence,
lower strand rabbit proof; new
four-room house, barn, sheds and
well with good flow of water, gaso-
line engine and pump; good part of
land under cultivation; one bumper
crop potatoes raised; about one and
one-half miles from city limits. For
terms and information, apply Silver
State Office 112-6t
FOR SALErA four-room. modern
house. closets. pantry. bookcase and
built-in cupboard; electric lights,
water and phone; two lots, 100x125;
price $500; terms $500 cash. mort
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10

A novel idea has been hit upon
for making dresses for homeless Bel
gian babies out of old silk hose.
Two stockings are sewed together
and folded in such a manner that
they make a comfortable dress for
the little tots. Geraldine Farrar is
getting the American women to aid
her in the noble work OF making
dresses for the thousands Of unfOr-
tunate Belgian infants. Miss Farrar
asks women to donate old stockings,
regardless of whether they are silk,
isle or cotton. Contributions are
pouring in daily from all parts of
the country. Geraldine Farrar is
shown holding a baby whom she Is
about to clothe in one of these
dresses.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
MAKE KNITTING RECORD
FIremen Finish 200 Pairs Of Socks on
Three Machines In Three Days

Fremen Of engine company No. ]
and truck company No. 2, who occupy
the fire station at Sixth avenue south
and Third street, Minneapolis. believe
they have established a new record for
knitting In the fire department. From
Saturday morning to Tuesday noon.
more than 200 pairs of socks were
knitted at the station on three ma
chimes.
Fremen on both night and day
shifts worked continuously except
when sleeping or at fires, or respond
Ing to IRE alarms. The socks were
turned over 10 the Red OrpsG
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10

Fearing that the German hordes
would come within range Of their vii
lage on the western front the inhabi-
tants gathered what belongings they
could and, escorted by British mill
tary police, evacuated their homes and
were taken to places Of safety.
The women and the little children
were the last ones to leave the village.
The picture shows a child wearing
the steel helmet of the military police
man who is assisting In their escape.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
Heavy Demand for Rubber.

The world discarded $4,000 tons of
automobile tires during 1915. Adding
to this the large number OF bicycle
tires thrown away every year by their
owners. 1t appears that the world
spends every year at least 100000
600 for pneumatic tires alone. Nearly
100000 automobiles are now In use
In the United States. To supply these
with tires nearly 5000 tons of India
rubber are needed every year. and the
American automobile owners pay every
year as much as $780, 900, 900 for tires.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10

FOR SALE-A four-room. modern
house. closets. pantry. bookcase and
built-in cupboard; electric lights.
water and phone; two lots. 100x125;
price $500; terms $500 cash. mort
gage 3 years at 6 per cen interest
on balance of $1100; located in
Haviland q Hoskins addition; in
spection invited. Address A. C.
Bulls. Box 523. Winnemucca. 112
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
HIGHEST PRICES FOR HIDES
AND FURS

We will pay the highest prices for
hides, furs and pelts. NEVADA HIDE
q JUNK CO.. Winnemucca Nev.-GAd-
verttssmaat te1
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-09-10
Mining Stocks

Quotations. street, exchanges and
elsewhere, of properties of merit
This part of Nevada-Winnemucca-
will bear fruit. mining for various
minerals. For further information
of additional listing. apply to F. c
Robins & Co.
WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT
Bid Asked
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
THE FISH CONTROVERSY

Officials of the State of Florida are be-
ing subjected to severe criticism because of
what is termed failure to cooperate with
the Federal Food Administration. Fault
is found because Florida is unwilling to
wholly set aside its laws for the protection
of fish in Florida waters. For this, the
state authorities are to be commended not
censured
To increase the available food supply,
the food administration advocates meas
ures which would threaten extinction of
the fish of our interior waters
eat not the seed corn is an axiom the
wisdom of which is beyond question. The
same principle applies to our fish supply.
That we may not suffer shortage in future
years, it is necessary that certain protective
restrictions be observed now.
The only difference that now exists be-
tween the federal and state authorities is
on the question of the use of haul seines
and purse seines in our interior waters. The
state officials believe that to grant the re
quest of the food commission is to destroy
several species of fish, including the mullet.
It is quite possible that in the earnest en-
deavor to improve the food situation the
food administration has failed to consider
peculiar local conditions and restrictions
essential to the protection of fish in certain
waters. If this is so the state authorities
would be most disloyal should they accept
the recommendations without calling at
tention to their shortcomings.
If, however, the federal authorities can
show that the recommendations which
they suggest will not prove disastrous to
our future fish supply it is certain that the
state will grant the requests with the same
willingness that Florida has met every
other requirement of the war.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
TO INTENSITY TROUBLE

The sure way to intensity the shipyard
trouble flfty-fold was discovered by Stat
en- Island draft board within twenty-four
hours-to call up strikers of draft age and
throw them into Class c, declares The Ma
ton. The immediate result was the threat
OF a strike by all of the fifteen thousand or
twenty thousand carpenters in the harbor
Had such action been persisted in other
branches of labor would have been angered,
and all the Governments relations with it
compromised. Such an irresponsible move
invited and received prompt rebuke Mr.
Bloomfield, head of the industrial service
section of the Shipping Board, has de-
manded of the draft boards that they cali
no shipworkers for service, whether at
work or striking
1t would seem incredible that the folly
of using compulsory service to bludgeon
disconnected labor back to its tasks could
be attempted in free country, did we not
know that it was attempted, in one form
or another, in Great Britain
The results in England are a standing
warning. Mr. Gompers, who is modera-
ton and loyalty itself spoke in his state
ment of certain employers" who are
'grasping after their vanishing autocracy'
and seeking TO destroy labor by placing
Upon it the responsibility for any failure in
the war programme" Sporadic use of the
draft law to punish strikers would breed in
all labor the conviction that the war had
seated more firmly than ever this recently
vanishing 'autocracy."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
Men Welcome
Mothers Friend
ADutv that Every Man Owes TO Those
who Perpetuate the Race.

It is just important that men should
know of proper methods in advance Of
motherhood. Suffering, pain and distress
incident to childbirth can be avoided by
having at hand a bottle of the time
honored preparation, Mothers Friend.
This is penetrating external applfca-
tion that relieves the Insion upon the
muscles and enables them to expand
without painful strain upon the ngaments
and nerves.
Thousands of women for over half a
century who have used sfother's Friend
tell how they entirely avoided nervous
spells and nausea and preserved a bright,
happy disposition that reflects wonder
fully upon the character and disposition
of the little one soon to open its eyes in
bewilderment at the joy of his arrival.
BY regular use of Mothers Friend dur
ing the period the muscles are made and
kept pliable and elastic. They expand
easier when baby arrives, and pain and
danger at the crisis is naturally less
You can obtain Mothers Friend at any
drug store 1t is for external use only. is
absolutely safe and wonderfully effective.
Write to the Rradf1e1d Regulator Co.
E-2T5 Lamar Bldg. Atlanta. Ga. for
their valuable and instructive Mother
hood Book of guidance for expectant
mothers, and remember to get bottle
of Mothers Friend at the druggists to-
day. It is the greatest kind of help TO
nature in the glorious work to be per-
fornled.-ady.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
COLLEGES.

During the Teachers Institute in
Pensacola last week DR.. Harry Clark
is quoted as saying as a college pro-
lessor, that sixty per cent of what
we have in the colleges is flub-dub.
Of course much of the truth of the
statement depends on the definition
of flub-dub. 1t is obviously capable
of widely varient constructions What
one college man disliked and thinks
superfluous may have been the guild
ing star of another.
Where so many individuals are
grouped together in one institution
TO attain a single end, which depends
to great degree on the personality
of each, that institution must recess
sarily be elastic, and capable of en-
bracing all, without injuring any
one.
This does not entail lax discipline,
though it is proverbial that the least
governed people are the best gov
eTned. 1t does mean largely a policy
Of self-determination in individual
students, an elective system, which,
with the exception of few funda-
mentals, permits the exercise of in
dividual tastes. This course is adj
but DR.. Clark was speaking of col
enough to go to college, he ought to
be cd enough to determine what
course to take in life, and to have ar
rived at some plan of existence and
cndeavor, which win influence his
selection of studies.
Colleges are largely what students
and professors make them. They
are bound by tradition only insofar
as these composing them want them
to be. This love of tradition is some
times mental slavery, but generally
it is merely a picturesque back
ground of culture and achievement.
In the Atlantic for January DIR.
Alexander Mieklejohn, president of
Amherst makes this significant
statement: "The education of a boy
consists in coming into active con-
tact with group of minds which
have command of human thinking.
He learns by feeling how to think
and Initiating them.
1t is impossible to foretell or pre-
arrange the mental attitude of a
student If he is forced to do I'M
congenial work we will be commit
ting a crime which DR.. Clark in his
next breath protested against, put
ing a square peg in round hole.
1t is not denied that there is room
for Improvement in our colleges, in
our while educational system, and it
is encouraging to know that DR..
Clark, and other professors. those on
the inside, realize the need. But 1t
would seem that Improvement lies in
greater freedom and further develop
ment of the elective system, which
has proved so successful wherein 1T
has been tried.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
GERMAN PROTEST

The Germans have been exercising great
pressure on the Geneva Red Cross to put
out protest against the use of poison gas.
The allies are ready at any time to give up
the use of poison gas, according to mem
bers of the British war office, but they re-
callfthe circumstances under which poison
was introduced into warfare.
It~was in April, 1915, that the Germans
n1ade'a surprise attack on the Franco-Brit-
ish at Xpres with gas, which hitherto was
prohibited as weapon of war. The French
had to retire and Canadian division only
i, saved Ypres by desperately costly fighting.
Afterward the Germans repeated their gas
attacks at various times, but defensive
measures were rapidly developed and these
attacks were less effective
Meanwhile the British chfmists attained
superiority over the Germans both in dead
illness of gas and effectualness in offensive.
Not until the allies had won this superior
ity did the Germans start the propaganda
for the discontinuance of gas.
Should the allies agree to abstain from
the use of gas, what guarantee would they
have upon which the commanders could re-
ly, that the Germans would not revive gas
on their own account, forgetting their
agreement, with that readiness with which
they forget all obligations which they do
not choose to consider binding.
Doubtless the day will come when Ger
many will be forced to regard the word she
gives, but so far her word is no better than
her bond.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26

candidate that no one would ever
know it and that the patent medicine
mans features, inscribed with the
name of a baldheaded candidate. The
wait now is bad enough, but when
you were required to wait until prob
ably two dozen faces went to the
curtain, it was not calculated to make
a good impression. That method of
advertising never did a man any
good, which leads to an incident in
the advertising line 1 now recall. One
of the old-time newspapers, I think it
was the old Pensacolian, was printed
In the second story Of building on
the site now occupied by the Fisher
building. The opposition was across
the street, and the opposition was
bitter. One early morning the office
in the Fisher building was menaced
by fire, and even the printers had
to get out of the office by sliding
down posts. Under, or on the ground
floor, there was a meat market, and
for the display of goods, to advertise
them, he said, were great hooks.
Quarters of beeves, dressed turkeys
or chicken, ETC., were displayed on
said hooks but, when Bill Bauer, q
printer, started to wriggle over the
gallery and SIlde TO Sa1ety uoWn O
pole, his trousers caught And held
him in midair. Struggle as he might,
he could not get loose, and it was
not until fireman secured ladder
and went to him with a pair OF
shears that Bauer was enabled 70
land on the street, and did not stand
on the order of his landing, either.
The fire was extinguished, however,
after it had Quilted the butcher shop,
but for long weeks afterward, when
a man wanted to display effectively
TO the trade anything he wanted to
be seen quickly, he would hang it on
Bauer's hook, and it would bring q
sale. In fact that hook attracted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
rheumatism Pangs Multiply
With Winters lev Blasts

cure can only be had by remov-
ing the condition that causes the
pain.
the condition that causes the pain.
Investigate the record Of S. 8. s.
the great blood remedy, that has
done SO much for those afflicted with
Rheumatism. This remedy thorough
ly cleanses the blood of every trace
of impurity, and in this way removes
the cause Of Rheumatism. Get bot4
tie of S. S. s. today at any drug
store, and start on the road to real
and genuine relief. Then If you want
any information regarding your case.
write all your symptoms to our chief
medical adviser, who will give them
careful study, and advise special di-
rections, without cost. Address Swift
Specific Company, B-44. Swift Lab.
oratory, Atlanta, Ga.-adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
THE CURE

The sensational news which has come
forward from Russia has tended IN imam
cial circles to retard the Improvement so
noticeable at the close of last week, accord
ing to financial reports. Ever since the
Bolsheviki gained control of the immediate
situation developments of this same gen
era1 character have been SO dramatic and
such violations of sound Judgment and
practice that the capitulation OF the lead
ers to the German military machine may
with propriety be considered but one more
of these spectacular and irresponsible hap
penings.
The Bolsheviki government is not Rus
sia: it cannot itself control with any de-
gree of permanence the huge eXpanse OF
territory nor the many millions OF souls.
Sooner or later, order will develop out OF
the current chaos Men will be found with
sufficient moral and intellectual force to
direct the destinies of the unfortunate
country on lines dictated by modern civil
ization.
Even drunk as they are with their sue
cess in overthrowing former autocratlc
conditions, no considerable part OF the Rus-
sian people is willing to jump from the Try
inc pan into the fire; when time tor sober
thought comes, they will be far from con-
tent with a mere change from Car to
Kaiser.
What in their hearts they are striving for
is the freedom of thought and action which
can come only from democracy. Any at
tempt of Germany or any other country
to run counter to this inherent trend can
but end disastrously.
To this extent, any agreement to con-
clude peace based upon $40,OOOOOOOOO
indemnity and the cession of such large
amount of valuable territory as now de-
manded by Berlin does not possess the i'm
Dortance as a market influence that super
ficially one might feel impelled to attach
to it.
It exposes the falsity of the s1esious
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26

German talk of desire for a "just peace
without indemnity and without annexa-
ton" and leaves no other course for our
government and our associates in the war
than to pursue the war aims that have been
so frankly set forth by our own president,
by David Lloyd George, the British Pre-
mier, and the French Foreign minister, M.
Clemenceau. Namely, the safeguarding of
democracy by removing the German mill
tary menace. Here we have the cure for
the real disease; the Bolsheviki develop
ments are merely disagreeable symptoms.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
The -
Retired Politician
MOra1iZeS -.

whenever the advertisements
start between pictures at the show"
said the Retired Politician, at puts
me in mind of the days when the
city campaigns were launched. and
when about everybody and his dog
became candidates When a dozen
or perhaps two dozen offices were
filled by election, and when from
three to eight candidates were per-
suaded to run, for some of them,
there was an array. / really believe
ed, just to have the privilege of see
ing th<ir countenances projected 10
the screen. | remember when there
were eight candidates for city mar
shall one time, and when three mem
bers of the force at the time stood
for election. They all had to put
their pictures on the screen, and |
tell you, it was gallery of curiosi-
ties. One candidate, so the story
goes, was bald-headed and very
homely-looking in the bargain. They
tell that he compared his photograph
with that of DR.. Copeland, patent
medicine man, and the result was
that audiences through that cam
paign looked on the picture of the
patent medicine man. 1t is claimed
through the shrewdness of Bill Ray,
who will be remembered as a detect
i've in the city at the time, Bill one
day comparing pictures of the cam
didate who. however, was not sup
ported by Bill. and the patent med
icine man. The pictures of the lat
ter were then being displayed ex-
tensivnlv. And that calls to mind
that Bill was a UNIQUE character.
Along about election time you would
see him 'steamboating' around. as
he called it. to place the name of his
candidates lust as effectively as pos
sible, and Bill was rather shrewd in
this work. He worked with Fred
Schad a long time, and if Schad had
not have resigned, Bill would have
served out the term. He was man
not afraid of anything that walked,
crawled or fled as he was wont to
put it. and with SO revolver could
hit a dime at twenty PAGES. As /
stated Just now, he was not afraid
of anything, and his speciality was
/ standing guard at a door when raids
were pulled off. He had things his
way so far as local violators of the
| law were concerned, but one dav Bill
| did not show up for work, and Schad
! told everybody Bill was not well,
which was true, so lar as IL Went
There was a negro minstrel show in
town about this time, and Bill un-
| dertook to guard rear door of a
| West Hill joint while Schad. Fonde-
| billa and several others went to the
front and sides. The strange min
| strel men had no thought of getting
hurt when they started for the back
door, and began piling out despite
Bill Rays orders to halt. They had
been so used to hating when he
called that Bill was caught unpre-
pared for this rain of black human
ity. and It is said that twenty three
ne asoes jumped through the window
either on or over Bill before they
could be stopped. There were forty
one of the gang and eighteen were
arrested. Despite Bills bravery. his
death was caused by half an apple
which he ate and brought on indiges-
| ton, causing his death. ] can never
forget old Bill. and when the pictures
of the advertisements are thrown or
4 the screen in that way. I recall how
Bill Ray persuzz an opposIrlor