davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-09
WILL INVESTIGATE
ITALIAN DEFEAT
Committee, Named by italian Cabinet,
Will Seek Reason for Reverse
on the Isonzo.
on the Isonzo.

Rome, Feb. 9-The Italian defeat of
last October on the Isonzo front is TO
be investigated by a committee named
by the cabinet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-09
'W FOR A BAD TINE
FOR A FEW MONTHS"
But by Late Summer the Submarine
Menace Will Be Killed, Says
Jellieoe.

LondoA, Feb. 0.-Admiral Sir John II.
Jcllieoe, former chief of staff, yesterday
said he was afraid eve are in for bad
time for a few months, but by late sum
mer, about August, believe we will be
able TO say that the submarine menace is
killed
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-09
WEBSTERvILLE.

Public dance in gymnasium hall, Gran
iteville. Saturday evening. Feb. .. Three
piece orchestra. Admission, gents 75c,
ladies free.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-09
GRANITEvILLE.

Public dance IN gymnasium hall, Gran
iteville. Saturday evening. Feb. . Three
piece orchestra. Admission, gents 75c.
ladies free.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

they get the economic processes going;
neither can they pay their indemnites.
II IN two or three months our troops
occupy Germany, as seems to me nee
essary, Germany will most certainly
need 10000 bales of cotton before the
next croI..
Germany and her former allies are
now totally without cotton. wool, jute
and the other textile materials, which
they need as much as food. Germany
has spinning wheels able to use $780,
900 bales Of cotton year and Austria
100000. All but 100000 bales of Ger
many's capacity consumption Of cot
ton are needed for home use, and that,
of course is the maximum she should
get, for whole at least. Next to Eng
land, Germany was the best cotton Gus
toner of the United States. Shipment
of the indicated amount of cotton to
Germany with the next few months
would tend to steady the price, which
otherwise might be expected to de-
cline
A prominent banker with intimate
knowledge of German affairs expressed
the view that the fall of Kaiserism,
and even the establishment of Social
ist republic in Germany, would not
mean a triumph OF Bolshevism. He con-
siders the German people too practical
and thrifty to plunge into such a chaos
as yawns before them in Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

benefit the many. There was no more
STRIKING difference than this existing
between Germany and this country
when the war broke out.
Nov, the German people know full
we'll what these benefits were to her
and what the handicaps were to US. and
they can be depended upon to remem-
Der that part of the past. 1t behooves
US to learn and profit by what Germany
was doing, industrially speaking, when
this war broke out. for if we go back
to our old competitive and cutthroat
methods, and she goes back to her old
cooperative methods, it will be but a
short time until we will be worsted by
her in the trade of the world"
In analyzing the effect of the present
Socialist leadership in Germany on her
place in the market for raw material,
Arthur Richmond Marsh, editor of
"The Economic World" and member
of the New York Cotton Exchange
said:
1--WE cannot have Germany delivered
over to the Bolsheviki. The cleanup
process in the crumbling empire may
very likely mean the occupation-not
for oppression, but in friendly way
of Germany by Entente and Ameri-
can troops for number of years. The
ordered democracies of the world must
police the broken down autocracies un-
til the ordered democratic elements can
get hold of things.
''If the self-directing democracies,
the United States, France, Great Brit
ain and Italy, see their duty, they will
police the nations In ferment and will
forthwith provide them with he raw
materials they need for their own use.
They never can become ordered until
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
By Carl Snyder

The sensational collapse of Ger
many brings more portentous
problem at the wars end than al
most anyone had imagined. 1t is
not merely the rout of imperial and
dynastic and militaristic Germany.
1t seems, at the moment, likewise
the downfall Of that powerful finan-
cial and industrial regime which
made Germany, up to the beginning
Of the war, the foremost industrial
and commercial nation of Europe; !;
which raised it's output Of iron and
steel and copper manufacturers, its
output Of sugar and fertilizers and
chemicals far above that of Great
Britain or France, and second only
tc that of the United States.
Under this same regime Ger
many's shipping and her export
trade became the strongest rival of
England in the world, and in the
last year before the war the totals
Of that foreign trade slightly over
topped that of "the mistress of the
seas" With the aids of subsidies
and bonuses, the powerful backing
of the government, the syndication
of trade into large units, this
regime made Of Germany the most
feared competitor in the worlds
markets. And a part Of this regime,
almost the very centre Of it, was
the Kaiser and his chief friends.
To-day the government is handed
over to the Socialists, and a Social
list Premier is in office. Revolution
stalks the length Of the empire and
seems to portend the disruption of
the empire itself. Rival govern
nients are being set up, mushroom
republics created. The whole has a
threatening and sinister likeness to
the march Of the revolution in
Russia.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Wars End Leaves
All Europe Short
Of Raw Materials
u. S. Should Extend Finan-
cial Aid to Germany,
Some Bankers Believe

Representative bankers and indus
trial leaders are confident that unprec-
edented prosperity can be attained in
the coming years, but warn that the
are fraught with grave pitfalls and
dangers. Their attitude on the eco
nomic aspects of the new world situa-
ton created by the signing of the
armistce and the political debacle in
Germany was reflected yesterday in
statements to The Tribune.
Farreaching changes in interna-
tional relations were fore shadowed.
In certain influential banking quarters
the view was expressed that eventually
the United States will be called upon
to extend credit to the nations that
made up the disintegrated alliance of
what was the Central Powers. George
E. Roberts, assistant to the president
of the National City Bank, crystal
peace settlement should be just one
and should provide FOR complete rep
aration. But after that think the war
in all it's phases should end. The
German people must have chance
and hope for development and pros
perity in the future. Unless we help
them with raw materials and credit
facilities they will be unable to pay
the required indemnity TO France and
Belgium"
Bankers who hold this view empha-
sized the repugnancc that would be
felt in extending a helping hand to
our former enemies, but pointed out
that it would be unwise and inhuman
to build wall around Germany and
starve her people by withholding food
and raw materials.
1t was stressed that many prelim-
mary assurances of good faith must be
given before American aid can be given
In touching on this point, William A
Simonson, an executive manger of the
National City Bank, said: "Credit will
in time have to be extended to Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

many. Just how do not yet know"
The head Of anoSher large financial
institution developed this same tangent
Of reasoning and argued that American
bankers and investors and not the gov
ernment should be charged with the OBJ
legation of financing the European ma
tions in their purchases here. Others
who favored giving credit to a demo-
cratic Germany would not authorize the
use of their names.
Charles II. Sabin, president OF the
Guaranty Trust Company, said "The
signing of al armistice, which protects
the world from further military ag-
erosion by German autocracy, opens up
a big vista for the expansion of Amer
lean foreign trade. After having won
our victory on the battleields of France
and Flanders, we can approach the fut-
urc with confidence in our ability to
win in the more peaceful fields of trade
and business.
the National Bank of Commerce, said:
ave are now face to face with recon-
ruction, q period that will be fraught
with just as many financial dangers as
the war. But, when that time is over,
being creditor nation, we should ex-
perience the greatest prosperity we
have ever had"
Help for World
Frank A. Vander1ip, president of the
National City Bank, said: ave are now
confronted with even more serious
problems than We faced in the war.
America will take the same altrustic
and essential part in reconstructing q
wrecked world that she took in the
war. Germany should rejoice as much
as the rest Of the world because she
now has sounder future than she
could have had based on miltarism."
George W. Perkins, director of the
international Harvester Company, the
United States Steel Corporation and
other ! arge industrial institutions,
said:
~ thing we Americans will make a
great mistake if we look upon the
breakdown in Germany's military af-
fairs as likely to affect the high in
telligence of her business men and her
industrial workers generally in the
matter of modern equipment for carry
ing on the industrial work of not only
Germany, but the world. When this
war broke out, there WAS as much diff
ference between Cermany's industrial
methods and ours as there is between
day and night. She was a quarter of a
century ahead of US in her inteli-
gence and broad comprehension Of
modern needs in business. She had
equipped herself magnifcently with
great cooperative industrial units. In
place of passing Sherman laws and re-
strictive legislation as to the size Of
business units, she let them grow as
large as they would in their inter
state and international magnitude. but
saw to it that they we're administered
SO as not to benefit the few, but so as to
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Germany's Collapse Opens
Russia for American Traders
Teuton Revolution and Socialist Ascendancy End Kaiser
Dream of Dominating Dsraught Slavic Country and
Foreshadow Fall of the Bolshevik

threat. IF that craft and guile, which
we have come to associate with
dynastic Germany stood behind this
sensational act, it may have much
meaning for the future. Driven back
to the last ditch, it might we'll have
been Machiavellian move of the old
regime to plunge Germany into dis
order and chaos, disrupt the govern
ment, surrender power to the revo-
lutionists, with the sure faith that
in their hatred Of capitalism these
would rub the slate clean of the
thirty billions or more Of the wars
burdens under which Germany was
staggering. Nor could a PROSTATE
Germany, split up into small states
and warning republics, be an easy
levy for the reparation which the
Allies will demand. Great craft and
guile may still be behind the abdica-
tion.
Meanwhile, for the United States,
the present situation presents an
opportunity of almost unrivalled
magnitude. The collapse of the Ger
man regime means, with the dark
famine that now seems to impend
in Russia, almost certainly the end
of the Bolshevik rule of that stricken
land. The withdrawal Of the sup
port of the German armies and of
German gold ought to make way for
the reestablishment of sane and
stable government and the reorgan-
ization of the nations industrial and
commercial life.
The vista opened is tremendous.
Here is population of 15O,O00,OO0,
extending over half Of Europe,
that is more like a remnant of the
medieval world lingering on into
this modern day. In the last
quarter of century Russia has
seen the beginnings of a great de-
velopment. This was completely
arrested and then shattered by the
war. There is almost everything to
rebuild and reorganize. Russia
needs 100000 miles of new railways,
with modern granaries and ware
bouses and docks and equipment to
match. 1t is almost completely
lacking in improved country roads.
The use of the automobile is only at
, the beginning. It can use easily,
it has great need for, 100000,
100000 motor cars and motor
trucks, to say nothing Of tractors
! and ploughs and tllrashing ma
chimes and harvesters and all of
modern farm equipment.
All that Russia needs is capital,
business energy and constructive
and organizing talent. All Of these
it was Germany's ambitious dream
to supply. That was to be her great
reward from this war. This was
her prize. Now, almost at the mo-
ment when this dream seemed on
the point of materializing, the op-
portunity appears destined to be
struck from it's grasp.
This is Americas wonderful
chance. We have everything that
Russia needs. We can make and
ship and build in Russia this 100000
miles of railway. We can build her
good roads. We can supply 1,O00,-
900, 100000 motor cars and motor
trucks. We can fabricate all the
tractors and farm machinery which
she can use. We shall soon have the
ships and we have the men to take
all this produce there and to put
it into motion. All that is needed
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
DIVIDEND NOTICES
War Risk Rates
Fall as Fighting Ends

War risk Insurance, which one year
ago was quoted as high as 80 q
hundred. could be had in the open
market mere yesterday for so cents
This charge, it was explained by under
writer's, is to cover the possibly o.
loss by floating mines, hazard whith
still exists in the war zone area aolS
the coast of France and England
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Cooperation to
Prevent Depression

Russia needs several billions for
her rehabilitation. No other nation
than the United States is now in a
position to supply this. England
will have enough to do with the re-
organization and reestablishment Of
her own trade. France will be fully
occupied with the reconstruction of
her own devasted territory and the
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

repatriation of her industries. The
United States now is the richest
nation on the globe. Before
it is the opportunity to use its vast
wealth, it's organizing genius, its
great factories for the reorganiza-
tion and modernizing of the greatest
empire in Europe. There can be
no business depression or after-war
stagnation in this country if our
manufacturers, bankers and bus
mess men, cooperating with the gov
ernment, combine to undertake this
great enterprise.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
The Revolution and
Germany's Trade Position


Even before the war the Socialists
had become the strongest single
party in the Reichstag and in Ger
many. In many respects it did not
represent so much an assertion Of
socialistic principles as a protest
against the autocratic and imperial
regime, and against the whole in
dustrial and commercial drift Of
modern Germany. With that re-
gime overthrown, as it seems at this
writing, completely cast down, and
a socialistic and anti-plutocratic
party in power, what will be the
effect upon Germany's trade and
likewise upon Germany's industries?
For there Is another side to Ger
many's industrial aggression. 1t
had likewise become the greatest
buyer in Europe. 1t was the larg-
est customer Of England, Of France
and of Russia. 1t was the second
largest consuming country in cotton.
1t was the second largest buyer Of
copper. 1t was large purchaser
of food. 1t was the second nation
in shipping in the world. If the
revolution should follow the course
of the revolution in Russia and end
with the complete prostration of
German industry, such as has been
in Russia, then many Of the expecta-
tions which had been built upon the
successful closing Of the war, must
be radically changed.
The repercussion of this will be
felt strongly even in the United
States. Even if the revolution
should mean no more than the dis
ruption Of the German Empire, the
complete overthrow of the old sys-
tenn Of aggression, the end of the
strenuous support of strongly
centralized and vigorous govern.
ment, it will still be Of farreachine
Importance. 1t would be a miracle
of intelligence if socialistic gov.
eminent could join hands with the
great banks, the great syndicates
the great shipping companies, the
steel magnates, to reestablish 8
strong and pushing Germany in the
worlds markets.
There are many reasons for be
lieving that the thing is impossible
First of all, there are tie vast wa,
debts. Secondly, the question o.
heavy indemnities. Third, the mon
Strous output of paper money
Fourth, the depreciation of German
exchange in consequence of this de
Ereciation of the currency.
The Spectre Of
Debt Reputation
Largest Of all looms the spectr
Of repudiation. It is true that Ger
many's war loans have been widel,
taken by all classes of people. The,
have been popular loans exactly lik
those Of the other warning countries
But Germany has lived so far i,
the dream Of huge indemnities I,
come to her that her war taxatio,
has been slight. Taxes to meet onl,
the interest on these war loans vii
be for Germany Of unexample,
severity. If now to these are adde,
large indemnities, which she mus
pay, there seems little doubt tina
there will be a strongly backe,
movement to repudiate all war obi
cations, even at the cost of tn
breakup Of the empire. Indeed. tn
very handing over of the govern
ment by the Kaiser to Il Socialis
Chancellor had in it some of hi
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
London Money Firm

LONDON, Nov. 11.-Money was
firm at 3ls per cent. Discount rates
were: Short and three month bills,
8 1882 per cent Gold premiums at
Lisbon we're at 100.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
MARINE
NATIONAL BANK
BUFFALO, N. T.
and Ftyfourth Statement Condensed November s 1918

RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts. $27 ,052,711.16
u. S. Bonds ds...... 1s,O47,1O9.O0
Bonds and Securities. 17,554, ,O41 .O1
Real Estate .... l,5OO,OO1. 90
Customers Liability
Account Of Ac-
ceptance. ....... 1,4oo, 900. 90
Cash and with Banks
(net) ...... 7,eo5,s73.3 81
$73,459,735.49
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

GEORGE F. RAND, Chairman Of the Board
JOHN l.. CLAWSON, Vice-President
ANSON c. GOODYEAR, Vice-Pres.
EMIL DlFFINE, Vice-Pres.
PERCY w. DARBY, Asst. Cashier
GEORGE E. BECKER, Asst. Cashier
EDWIN J. VOLTZ, Asst. Cashier
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Plan and Act for the
Victories of Peace

MYTH the end of military struggle accomplished
w TACT struggle looms before the Nation
TO the problem of economic and commercial
ton the business of America address
with the and vgor which they gave
program
The thoroughness and promptness with which apply
ourselves foreign trade problems will, in great
determine business future Foreign coun-
tries have failed to lay their plans CONNER
cial competition which inevitably follow the
ton Of hoilies
This Company has already published, in
pamphlets the results OF comprehensive o the
andar made bv
other countries These papers have nowb collected
into booklet of pages which will be available
ew We shal beqlad
and place file OF a
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York through its
Foreign Department and Foreign Trade Bureau is pre-
pared to render comprehensive to manufacturers
and merchants the handling extension of their
international trade, and assisting cntering the
foreign field
Your inquiries how YOU will be
welcomed.
Guaranty Trust Company of New York
40 Broadway
Ave
Capital and Surplus $500O0Ooo Resources over $6o0ooo0oo
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

is the will, the determination-and
the needful credit.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
RESOURCES

Loans and Discounts. s.
Customers Liability Under
Acceptances ..........
u. S. Bonds to Secure Circu-
lation ..................
u. S. Bonds and Certificates
of Indebtedness .........
Bonds, Securities, etc. -.
Banking House and Real Es-
tate
Cash and Due From Banks.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

LIABILITIES
Capital $4,000, 100000
Surplus and Profits. 4,693,22s.70
Reserve for Depre-
ciation ...... l45,ooo.oo
Reserve for Taxes. l35,0OO.O0
Circulation ...... 1927, $4,000
Acceptances Executed
for Customers -. i, 400, 100000
Deposits (net) ... 5S,159,266.79
$73,45e,735.49
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
@ FIG E r S

, E K S
JOHN H. LASCELLES, President
WALTER P. COOKE, VicePresident
HENRY J. AUER, Vice-President
MERLE H, DENISON, Cashier
EUGENE. l.. REED, Asst. Cashier
ABBOTT H. SEELY, Asst. Cashier
HENRY J. BEITZ, Asst. Cashier
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

S73,459,735.49
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-15

National Chamber Of Commerce to
represent the employers. The service
is to have full charge of recruiting
labor for supplying the war ndus-
tries. To distribute the quota OF l.
$50 now assigned to South Dakota.
An advisory board will be created
which will work through community
boards. 1t was decided to organize
these boards in Rapid City, Mitchell,
Huron, Pierre; WATERFOWL, Mobridge,
Yankton, Brookings, Madison, Red
field, Chamberlain, Canton ard Belle
Fourche in addition to those in Sioux
Falls, Aberdeen and Lead, previously
organized by the state director, and
in other places as the need develops.
These community boards are to con-
sist of three members, one represent
ing the employers, one the laborers,
and a chairman who will represent the
service.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-15

Ring ng's circus was in Watertown
yesterday and a number of our local
people attended, reporting on their re-
turn that it was just as good, or bet
ter. han ever.
J. L. Jarvis has been laid up for
some little time by blood poisoning,
o~ccasioned by a rusty nail injecting
the hand. He is improving a little
now and has been at the store a lit
tie this week.
Frank Andrews of DeSmet, was in
the city yesterday. He was adjusting
hail losses in the county and was ac-
companied by Mrs. Andrews and their
daughter, Vary, who visited the ]. F..
Erwin family while Mr.. Andrews was
in the country.
Mrs. Rebecca Shea left Tuesday
evening for Portland, Oregon, to at
tend the National Convention of the
w. r. G. Of which she is the national
chaplain. Mrs. Shea has enjoyed the
highest honorS OF the w. r. c.. in
South Dakota, and Is in line for high
er honors in the national organization.
A deserved recognition that her many
friends throughout the state hope will
be conferred upon her.
At a recent meeting of the regents
of education Prof. B. A. Dunbar was
head Of the department of
chemistry and appointed station chem
list for the experiment station. Being
the associate of the late J. II. Sheu-
ard, he was the logical as well as
qualified successor to these I'M
p~ortant positions. The professor is
to be congratulated on this recogni-
ton Of his service to the institution.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-15

fast, cigars were passed around, and
until noon the time was spent in visit
ing and becoming acquainted, many
of the families made arrangements
with the young men to entertain them
the next few Sundays during their
stay in Brookings. The student sol
diers greatly appreciated the event as
was evident from their words of praise
be held in the future. The Knights
of Columbus of the parish betrayed
the expenses.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-15
LOCAL LABOR A

The labor question as it will be
handled all through the United States
has been systematized. Brookings is
selected as one of the community cen.
ters, Of which there are sixteen al
ready chosen. The local board will
be composed of a member of the state
labor service as chairman, Carl o.
Quail, Of the Columbia Clothing Co.,
will represent the employers and 10,
seph L. Bairey has been selected to
represent the employees.
The state board has been organized
with the state director of employment
as chairman, j. M. Wood, of Aberdeen,
as the labor representative and H. J.
Kelly of Sioux Falls, named by the