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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
M'ADOO TO END
/. ALL Competition
First Order of Director General to
Wipe Out Competitive Con-
ditions on Railroads.
ALL SYSTEMS POOLED
Recruiting Of Traffic Over shortes,
Lines Expeeted'to Effect Maximum
Efficiency In Quick Movement
Of Freight.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The first
order issued by Director General
McAdoo after American railroads 20
under government control will wipe
out competitive conditions and pro.
vide for complete pooling of traffic,
equipment, terminals and trackage
facilities and for the retention of
present officers and employees.
The immediate result will be re.
routing of traffic over shortest lines,
regardless Of the company with which
shipments originate, and the common
use of terminals to effect maximum eff.
fciency. Without anticipating won.
ders under the new plan, officials look
forward to material Improvement in
the traffic congestion within a few
weeks.
Speedy Movement Of Freight.
Speedy movement of freight will be
the first aim of the director general.
But problems whose solution must
press close on the heels of actual
transportation question are the equit-
able reimbursements of. roads for the
use of their property OH the basis of
pre-war earnings, increased wages for
railroad employees, financing of neces.
sary improvements. building of addi.
tional lines or facilities and the tan
gled priority situation.
Before most of these questions can
be settled special legislation will be
necessary and to insure this President
Wilson is preparing message to be
Delivered to Congress soon after it
convenes after the holiday recess.
Legislation Already Drafted.
The legislation has been drafted.
However, the legislation and prob
lens depending on it can await the
action of Congress, while Mr.. McAdoo
must begin today with the powers
conferred on him with President viii.
son. First, he will confer with the
Railroad War Board, composed of
railroad presidents, whose services
and advice he said yesterday would
be retained under the new administra-
ton. Then he will organize a corps of
assistants and advisers, largely of ex.
perts of the Interstate Commerce com.
mission, in whose building he will
maintain headquarters for railroad su.
pervfsion.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03

Washington.-The president mas
taken over the railroads. Secretary OF
the Treasury McAdoo is named direc-
tor general of railroads, which JOB ne
will hold In connection with his pres
ent office.
That financial justice will be done
to the roads and their stockholders
is the pledge of the president. He Will
urge congress to pass legislation guar
anteeing:
"That the railway properties shall
he maintained during the period of fed
eral control in as good repair and as
complete equipment as when taken
over by the government, and
'That the roads shall receive a net
operating income equal in each case
to the average net income Of the three
years preceding June 30. 1917.
AS the three years from which the
guarantees to investors are to be cal
culated were years of excellent rail-
road earnings, this will relieve a whole
lot of anxiety.
Cost to BE Heavy.
This official backing is going to cost
money, one estimate being in the
neighborhood Of $1O0,OO0OOO, which
will come either from increased rates
or directly from the government.
An increase in freight rates Is con-
fidently expected. Also it is believed
there will be slight tilt in wages.
Railroads will be permitted, when
necessary, to issue new securities, and
as these will have the governments %
H." they should be of value In
strengthening the security market.
The present officials of all roads
will keep their Jobs under the direction
of the railroad war board, with Nc.
Adoo exercising general supervision.
Actually the greatest railroad pool
in the history of the government will
be in operation under Uncle Sans
direction. The government will do, as
a war measure, what the attorney gen.
eral has forbidden individuals to do.
Facilities Taken Over b. U. 8.
Under the presidents proclamation
the following are taken under United
States control:
All railroads, comprising 100000
miles of lines, valued at $4,000 OO.'
600.
All coastwise, lake and river steam.
ship lines.
All terminals, terminal companies
and terminal associations.
The Pullman company's sleeping
cars and parlOr cars.
The packers and other concerns
private car lines.
All railroad elevators and ware
houses.
All railroads telegraph and telephone
lines.
The president also will ask legisla'
ton enabling him to solve the labor
problem Of the roads.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
j. S. TAKES CONTROL OF RAILROADS
WITH hkAD00 AS DIRECTOR GENERAL
President Wilson Takes Action Under His War Powers Military
hecessity-Government will Guarantee Earnings
Steamship Lines Also Affected. 1
THE PRESIDENTS Statement
BY WOODROW WILSON.


which
come impeaively
the
authority mpfed method which
proved possible under management control
government in this ampotan utmost that
possible for them ability;
occasion and at points earnings and the commit
sandadu Of earning
Several which willingly with admirable public spirit
In
its
addition financial
Of the railways must be
Of
borrowings themselves DO conducted at
by the they could be
definite
will maintained during the
complete as when
e
80 1917
which the must now use under
that all the being TAX
the best be oansd under the exc
@ ep heS Win %SoHed an Which meh
drected,su ner very enanglemena
the only great
American institutions to attempt to do everything
accomplished ability
ali that demonstrated and without
auth
necessity he hereo not ut
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Burning Money In Mexico.

Washington, Dec. 29.-They have
money to burn in Mexico and they
are burning it, according to the Mex
lean. news bureau here. Just ts rap
idly as the government can get its
hands on the paper money issued in
times Of financial stress it is retiring
and incfnerating 1t. The money Ia
The same as that which sold on the
Hreet corners last summer at 800
birth for nickel.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Russ.BocHE PEACE scoRNEo
New Terms Not to be Considered,
British Papers Agree.

London, Dec. 29.-Germany's peace
terms cannot be considered by Great
Britain If almost unanimous edt-
torial opinion of London newspapers
Is any standard of judgment.
Every newspaper Joined in EN-.
phatic dismissal of such terms a.
announced by Court Czernin. Nearly
every newspaper agreed that the Offer
was not even worth attempting to FOL
low up.
Germany offers sham restoration
declared the Mail. 1.-THE British EN-.
pire will be blown skyhigh before
giving up the German colonies. We
will not weaken our demand for repa.
ration until we are forced to. We
will not place our diplomacy in the
hands of the Bolsheviki"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03

The application for wage increase
averaging 40 per cent is now pending.
The men have refused to accept COM
pulsory arbitration while the, roads.
were under private control.
This wage question, one of the most
serious problems that confronts the
government in operation of the roads.
must be settled by Mr.. McAdoo.
The presidents proclamation states
he will take possession of the rail-
ways through Newton D. Baker, Sec
rotary of war. This emphasizes his de-
termination to run the roads strictly
as a part Of the military system.
War Department Can Handle Draft.
The fact that the railways are un-
der the war department will simplify
the matter Of drafting men for work,
In case an extreme step should be.
come necessary.
The presidents advisers do not be-
lieve such measures will be needed.
The brotherhoods have demonstrated
their loyalty and are depended upon
to adopt action now that will guar
antee enthusiastic continued operation
Of the roads.
In selecting Mr.. McAdoo for the
most powerful place in the admins
tration. the president Is known to have
been Influenced by the fact that Mr..
McAdoo has thorough grasp not only
OF railway and government finance, but:
also Of the worlds financial situation.
Furthermore, one of the presidents ad-.
visers stated, he is man who does:
things. He can cut through red tape.
These two considerations pointed to-
the secretary of the treasury as the.
one to unite the transportation knot.
Power 10 Great.
The power placed in his hands IL.
greater than any ever before given a.
single American other than a presi-.
dent.
He will take possession of every
railroad and every system of transpor--
tation located wholly or in part within.
United States boundaries. Street rail-
ways alone are excepted. All steam.
ship companies owned or controlled by
railroads, will come under his control
and operation.
The present officers Of the roads:
will remain in their places, but can.
be removed, or changed. at any time.
by order Of the director general Of
railroads. His authority is paramount.
even to that Of the Interstate commerce
commission, which hitherto has fixed
rates and governed the traffic of the.
lines.
The plan now put into effect has,
been worked out by. the president
through period Of Several months.
Almost Immediately after the United,
states entered the war it became evil.
dent the railroads, under private con-.
troll, would not be able to stand tho.
strain.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
VALUE OF SENSE OF SMELL
Nose I. Quick to Detect the Mlnutest
odorous Partieles-Four Tastes
Of Importance.

Since 1t IL more important to be
warned of danger than guided to de-
lights our senses are made more sen.
sitive to pain than pleasure. We can
detect by the smell one two-millionth
Of, milligram Of oil Of roses or
musk, but we can detect one two-bil-
Iionth Of = milligram e1 mercaptsn,
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03

which is the vilest smelling compound,
that man has so far. invented. II Won
do not know hoy much q millirram
Is. consider drSp picked up by the
point OF a needle and imagine that
divided into two billion parts, Edwin.
y. Slosson writes in the New York
Independent. Also try to estimate the.
weight Of the odorous particles.
What we call favor or sayor "a a
Joint effect Of taste and odor in which
the latter predominates. There IRE.
only four tastes of Importance. Acid
alkoline, bitter aud sweet
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
steamers Pr.,ept Problem.

Washington, Dec. 29.-The dispo.
btion Of. railroad-owned steamboat
Ines which the Interstate Commerce
commission ordered divorced from
he railroads under the Panama canal
Dct was one of the many legal prob.
Ions looming from government rail.
way control. The separation Of the
Lehigh Valley from its Great Lakes
boat lines ordered by the commits.
sion. but not yet put into effect, and
The case Of the New Haven and the
Southern Pacific systems will come
np for considksAan1 n this 1onnection.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
BOMBS KILL TWO AMERICANS
Germans Fly Low And Drop Deadly
Missiles Accurately,

With the American Army in
France, Dec. 29.-During a recent
moonlight night German aviators
dropped bombs near a certain town
md two American privates who wers
n camp in q wood, were killed. The
German airmen flew low and dropped
their bombs accurately.
A corporal of American engineers
was killed and one private was
wounded Christmas eve, when Ger
man shell dropped near party of
American engineers working in
trenches on a section of the French
front. The engineers for several
weeks had been working along the
front with veteran French engineers
Tor purposes of instruction.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
European Wa. News

IF the enemy does not want peace.
then we must bring peace to the world
by the battering of our iron fist and
our shining sword" Kaiser Wilhelm de-
clared in a speech to the army in
France.
In desperate battle which lasted
all day, the Italians fought their way
back to the positions from which they
were forced the previous day on the
Asiago plateau under Austro- German
attack, according to the Rome war
Office statement.
The city Of Mannheim, in Germany,
on the Rhine, was bombarded by a
British air squadron, says an official
statement issued Mt London. A ton of
bombs were dropped and several fires
were started. All but one of the Brit
ish machines returned.
Peace negotiations between the Teu-
tonic allies and the Russians have be-
gun Mt Brest- LitOvsk. says n dispatch
to Amsterdam. DIR. Won Kuehlman,
the German foreign secretary, has
been chosen unanimously as official
chairman.
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch to
London from Petrograd says the Ger.
mans have rejected the peace terms
proposed by the Russians. and that the
bolsheviki delegates have been recalled
to Petrograd.
Complete restoration of the terri
tories taken by the enemy, together
with compensation, was demanded by
Premier Lloyd George In explaining
the war aims Of the government in the
house of commons in London.
One hundred and one lives were lost
when the British armed steamship
Stephen Furness was sunk by Ger
man submarine in the Irish channel,
according to official announcement
made ut London. Six officials and 95
men were drowned.
British casualties reported to Lon
don in the week ending December Is
totaled 1875 officers and men as fol-
lows: Officers killed or died Of
wounds, 8S1; men, 3.181: officers
wounded or missing. 1893; men, 10.
4o1.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Domestic

A feud breaking out ut Breeder, w.
Va. between the Marcum and Dinges
families, resulted in the death of four
men and the serious injury of one
woman.
Fred Green. one of the best known
engineers Of the Northwest, and Miss
Jessie Wharton, were killed when their
automobile was struck by train on
the outskirts Of Butte, Mont.
Evidence has been uncovered by
government agents Indicating that
American Industrial Workers of the
World, Russian bOlsheviki, Irish agita-
tors and revolutionists in various coun-
tries Mt war with Germany may be
seeking to lay the foundation of an
elaborate worldwide plan to over
throw existing social orders. This was
admitted by Washington officials in
connection with news of the discovery
of rifles and ammunition in the Rus
sian freighter Shilka, which arrived at
q Pacific port.
Sixteen persons were killed and 90
injured when Knoxville car crowded
with shoppers ran wild through the
South Hills tunnel at Pittsburgh, Pa,
Jumped switch and overturned.
Berne NJ. Mead, cashier of the State
Trust and Savings bank of Peoria. Ill.,.
was shot and killed by Edward A.
Strause. president of the bank. in a
revolver duel In the bank building.
Business jealousy over the honor of
being named president of the bank IL
believed to have been at the bottom Of
the killing.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Personal

Senator Francis Griffith Newlands
of Nevada died of heart failure at
Washington after an illness of few
hours. Senator Newlands was an au-
thority in congress on railroad and VIII
terway legislation. He was born near
Natclez, Miss, on August %, 1913. He
became citizen Of Nevada in 1888,
and was elected to the Fifty-third,
Fifty fourth, Fifty fifth, Fifty-sixth and
Fifty-seventh congresses.
Representative f. II. Bathrick of the
Fourteenth Ohio district, died at his
home in Akron, O.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Foreign

The latest estimate Of dead in the
Halifax disaster December 6 is placed
at 1900.
Importation of Intoxicating liquors
into Canada after Monday next is
prohibited and their manufacture will
be prohibited after date to be de-
termined later, Premier Borden off,
cially announced Mt Ottawa, Ont.
AS the result Of the publication in
Buenos Aires of the kilograms sent by
Count Won Luxburg, the former Ger
man minister, to the Berlin foreign Of
flee, 1t again has been necessary to call
out mounted patrols to dispense
crowds of people who demanded rup-
ture of relations with Germany.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03

Alphonse st. Pierre. twenty i've
years old, was shot and killed when at
tempting to escape from Fort Wayne
mt Detroit, Mich. st. Pierre was taken
into custody on n charge Of deserving
from a New Jersey engineer regiment.
Federal officials announced Mt San
Francisco the arrest on a presidential
warrant Of Franz Schulenberg. alleged
to be one Of the cleverest and most
dangerous German spies operating on
the Pacific coast.
A verdict Of guilty of assault with
intent to murder was returned by the
Jury in municipal court ut Milwaukee
against IL Italians arrested following
the Bay View riots September 8. One
Italian was killed by city detective.
who later was killed in a bomb ex.
plosion in the police station.
Marking the actual beginning Of pro.
duction of standardized 5,OOO-ton
steel cargo ships for the United States
government, Charles r. Page of the
United States shipping board drove
the first rivet in the first Of these ves-
sells ut large shipyard ut an Atlantic
port
Three British aviators, in training
Mt Fort Worth, Tex. were killed when
two airplanes crashed in midair. The
dead are: Arthur E. Webster, King
ston; Lieut.. Russell Jenner. Kings
Vile. Ontario. and Cyril A. Baker,
Kent. England.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
Washington

W &SSsSSsS60
Food Administrator Hoovcr's state
ment on the sugar situation was made
public by the White House at Wash
ington. 1t attributes the shortage
here to the heavy movement OF sugar
from the western hemisphere to Eu-
rope and asserts that without the fix
ing of prices by agreement sugar
would be selling for % or 30 cents a
pound.
Francis J. Heney. special trust in
vestigator for the federal trade COM
mission, stated mt Washington that the
packing interests are in reality mann
moth food trust which has the entire
country in its grasp.
Col. Isnac Lewis, inventor OF the
machine gun which bears his name, In
testimony before the senate military
affairs committee at Washington,
blames General Crozier for the fail
ure to supply guns to the American
forces now in France.
Without waiting for congressional
appropriation, the war department Mt
Washington authorized orders to sup
ply 100000 troops before the United
States went to war, 1t was brought
out in the testimony of General Sharpe.
qunrtcrmaster general. before the SEN
ate military committee.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03


the American army in France received
promotions for their Christmas pres
rnts. Included in the lucky list were
TWO engineering officers whose cool
ness ut Cambria helped the British
check the Boches' cOunter-nttack.
German atrocities against American
soldiers are officially reported In dis
patches from France. An American
sentry has been found with his throat
cut. and, it is officially declared, "he
must have been SO killed after cap
turc."
Two commissioned officers and two
sergenntS We're seriously injured near
field headquarters of the American
army i'm France, when an automobile
belonging to the aviation section
plunged IL feet down an embankment
and overturned.
Direct assurances of the confidence
OF both British and French command
ers in General Prrshing's ability and
their satisfaction with the breadth
and soundneSs of his preparations to
make American arms effective on the
western front have reached Washing
ton with the return from Europe Of
Maj. Gen. Hugh l.. Scott.
The kaiSer's Christmas peace pro-
posals are out. They reached this
country through neutral" diplomat
ic channel. In brief they offer re-
turn to near prewar boundaries, ex-
cept in the case of Russia, which Is to
pay the bill. Belgium, northern
France, Serbia and Roumania are to
he rehabiltnted with money that
Great Britain is to pay Germany for
her lost African colonies. The govern
ment mt Washington received the I'M
vouched-for offer with the govern
mental equivalent of Il yawn.
Evidence of German plot to align
the nations of South America against
the United States is revealed In tele-
grams sent to Berlin by the notorious
Count Won Luxburg. former German
charge in Argentina, made public by
the state department Mt Washington.
General pershing cnbled the war de-
partment Mt Washington that Lieut..
Samuel Miller of the medical officers
reserve corps had been slightly wound
ed. Lieutenant Miller has been at
tnched to the British forces. His
mother lives mt Iakeville, Pa.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-01-03
WORLDS EVENTS
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U.S.-Teut0,,ic War News

One hundred American soldiers with
the American army in France received
promotions for their Christmas pres
cnts. Included in the lucky list were
TWO engineering officers whose cool
ness ut Cambria helped the British
check the Boches' counter attack.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

mother was first-class layer and then TO
keep on with the same idea In the devel-
opment of the flock. The exceptional egg
laying quality never stays in the female
line. It persistently crosses back into the
male line. through which It is perpetuated.
The same rule applies to human beauty.
n persistently crosses back to the male
line and Is not transmitted directly from
mother to daughter. but there are complica-
tIons in this transmission, some OF when
will be explained later.
Tho heredty experts say 1t is surprising
how few beautiful women have equally
heautiful daughters Of the same general
tyne. Think Of all the cases in point that
would be going too far to say that q
mother never bequeaths her good looks to
her daughter, but such cases are very e1-
centional. 1t Is the same as with the hens.
The exceptionally good egg-layer's daugh-
for does not fail to lay eggs, but she does
not rise above the average.
Further, the heredity experts say that in
most of those exceptional cases where q
beautiful mother has beautiful daughters
n will be found that the latter inherited
their beauty from their father and that
thew are OF a different physical type from
the mother.
The heredity experts speak Of certain
nersons as carriers" Thy inheritance) OF
specifc traits or characteristics Thus. in
Of beauty from generation to generation.
Bit they transmit it through their sons.
Take the case Of woman who has in
herited beauty from her father. If she
marries homely man, her daughters will
not be good looking. But the daughters
of her sons WILL in all likelihood, be pretty.
tnheriting their looks from her-the grand
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-16

ltside an inn to see Elizabeth get into
her coach in the morning. She became
Duchess OF Hamilton. and afterwards
Duchess OF Argyll Maria married the Earl
OF Coventry. Both were portionless and
SO devoid OF education as to be actually
ignorant but the good looks Inherited from
their father enabled them to make great
matches.
Take the case Of the most famous beauty
in history-which rank is additionally ac-
corded to Cleopatra. There were a good
many Cleopatras; this name being a COM
mon one in the Ptolemy family, the men,
bers OF which customarily intermarried
among themselves. But, Of course. 1t is the
last one Of the dynasty. the Serpent of the
Nile, that Is here spoken of.
Where did she get her looksff
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