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Evening star., 1918-01-07
ADJUSTMENTS
Fighting Through HE'LL"

Because thousands Of dollars have
been expended to put him on his feet
again after an encounter with q Cor
man hand grenade that put him out OF
business. closing . long and honorable
military career. Capt David Tallon. who
lectured at the National Theater last
night Is now doing his bit" to rein-
burse tho naval Red Cross. for which
his lectures are given.
Fighting Through He'll" is the title
OF his vivid lecture, which deals less
with oratorical effort than with facts
and incidents covering his experiences
in the Gallipoli campaign and later in
the trenches on the western front OF
Belgium. Punctuated occasionally with
amusing stories to tighten the tension
OF the thrilling Incidents connected
with the landing and fighting Of the
Australian and New Zealand forces at
Gallipoi and of their subsequent with
drawal.
Nothing. he said, which he told in his
lecture Is hearsay, but everything came
under his own personal observation,
from the beheading Of the gallant An
zacs at Gallipoli and the hosting of the
CORY heads upon bayonets to the cruci-
fxion on the door of a convent OF q
Belgian mother superior and the das-
tardly havoc wrought among her sister
hoou- IheSe were only few of the
many atrocities of the German SOL
diers that came under his own notice.
but they served to hold a large audience
In awed attention.
His description Of the encounter in
the German trench that resulted in the
shattering of his own right arm and OF
his grueling experiences in a shell hole
for three days. horribly wounded. until
he finally made his way back to his
own lines. was especially narrowing
4 have been told by skeptical peo-
ple," he said, how hard 1t is to be-
lieve the German soldiers would do the
things charged against them, because
OF their peaceful lives preceding the
war. but 1t isn't hard to understand
when you know that the units OF the
horrible military machine with which
the Hun 10 running riot have surren-
dered minds. hearts and bodies to the
kaiser absolutely, believing that God
is with them and that what they do
as one Of them actually told me. IL for
the good Of the people they murder and
outrage. 1t is incomprehensible to
some. perhaps. but not to those whose
eyes have seen the villainous things
they have DONE"
Capt Fallon's description Of his feel
ings whom he was told that he was no
longer At for the fighting lines, was
unusually pathetic. He carries as the
result Of his two years and three
months service. not only his shattered
arm, but shrapnel-scarred face and
numerous other marks of battles des-
perately fought.
Evening star., 1918-01-07
British Soldiers Now Hate.

That spirit, believe. has completely
passed away on tho British side, be-
cause the British soldier has finally
como to a realization Of the true ma
ture of his antagonist Officers have
told me that they tried to pump up
hate" in their men without success.
The men listened to them quite re-
!spectfully, but they were not moved.
They fought most excellently. but they
lacked a personal venom in their
thrusts. They killed as a matter of
patriotic duty. It took almost four
years. packed with testimony, before
the somewhat slow-moving British
mind brought in q verdict. The SOL
diers were not stirred by the speech
of the prosecuting attorney. They ex-
amined the evidence.
Few of them, / think. believed the
stories Of atrocities at tho outset of
the war. That sort of thing is foreign
to the Anglo-Saxon mind. and there
fore quito naturally to be disbelieyed.
Conviction began to come when the
Germans developed their pleasant habit
of surrendering in bodies and then
picking up their arms and firing upon
their captors when they could do SO
with safety. The practice has recoiled
upon its inventors. The use Of gases
was forgiven by the soldiers as being
merely a particularly unpleasant fea-
ture of a particularly unpleasant war,
but the abuse OF British prisoners has
never been forgiven.
More recently the tricks to which
the Germans are resorting is harden
ing this growing hatred. It is not
because the tricks are murderous-or
at least 1t is in this way that I read
the soldier reasoning-but because they
are essentially contemplate. The cat
trick at Bapaume is one Of this sort.
From the German point of view the
cat trick was highly successful be-
cause it killed several British soldiers.
A judicially minded onlooker would
hold the cat trick one OF the most
thorough failures Of the Germans, be-
cause in the long run the score is
heavily against them. and it is not
through mounting.
Evening star., 1918-01-07

Young Mother Hubbard" SATURDAY.
Mary Anderson. in The framing
Omen; also comedy.
HoME-Today. Jane Cowl. in The
spreading Dawn; also thirteenth chap
ter lost Express" Tomorrow. Mar
guerite Clark. in "Bab's Diary; also also
Hsars.,Paae It MIss nsws g. edns:aag 3 A also Fox
comedy. Thursday. Nine. Petrova. In
'.More Truth Than Poetry: also Drew
comedy. Friday. Carlyle Blackwell.
Madge Evans and Evelyn ureeiy. IN
Saturday. Sessue Hayakawa. In '1iasni.
mura Togo; also comedy.
LYR1c-roday. Dustin Farnum. in
.The Spy" Tomorrow. William 8. Hart.
in ."The Aryan": also Mutt and Jen.
wednesday. Gladys Brockweli: IN Tns
branded souI"; also comedy. .1,u. Thgrsdsy: d,.:
Pathe % news. Friday. Douglas Fair
banks, in ''The Good Bad Man: also Mutt
and JEFF. Saturday. Ethel Clayton, in
Easy Money; also comedy.
CIRCLE-Today. Alice Brady. in The
cnmedy. Tomorrow, wallace Reid and
Myrtle stedman. in The World Apart:
also Drew comedy. Wednesday. Mon
tagu Love and Dorothy Kelly. In The
Cara Kimbail Young. in 'Magda": also
Hearst-Pathe news. Friday. William Q.
Hart, in "Ths Narrow Trail; also
George Ovey comedy. Saturday, Fannie
ward, in "on the Lever: also Hearst
Pathe news.
PENN GARDENs-roday. Marjorie
Rambeau, In MARY Morslandy; also
comedy. Tomorrow, Dorothy Phillirs, In
sfsondsge": also comedy. wednesday.
Juiiette Day, in 'aThe Rainbow Gtrlss
siso weekly. Thursday, Olive ThomnA
d sTndiscreet Cornis"; also comedy.
Friday. Douglas Fairbauks, In "Doub1o
Trouble.; also comedy. saturday, Juno
.Unknown 17l-; aass se0s1D i
Evening star., 1918-01-07
NO CHANGE IN THE RULES.
Trading Conditions in Corn for Flu
ture Delivery Continued.

CHICAGO. January Board OF trade
directors have decided to mako no
change in trading conditions in corn for
future delivery. This action was taken.
It was intimated. at the suggestion OF
the national food administration. e.
The present legal maximum price OF
corn for future delivery Is $1.zs. al
though cash sales touched $l.s0 TO-DAY:
Farmers are said to have protested thaS
them in favor of consumers and ev"
porters.
Evening star., 1918-01-07
No Longer Dangerous.

Things Of that sort are anticipated
now, so that they have lost their dan
ger. When the British take a new town
they see to 1T that the hidden mines are
harmless. But the German tricks are
every day adding to the detestation in
which the German people is held by the
British soldier. He refuses to accept
the dictum that he is not fighting the
German nation. It has taken him some
time to work 1t out. but process of
ing the nation which gives birth to such
soldiers. For the time. at least, he hates
with a whole-hearted and very sturdy
hatred.
There are those who say that the
Briton will not hate when the war is
over. I take leave to disbelieve that
1t seems to me that just as the ability
to hate was a plant of very slow
growth, rooted in a very reluctant con-
viction. 1t will be equally hard to
extirpate when peace comes again.
cannot believe that the soldiers I know
will forget this over night. They are
very free to give credit to the German
as a frst-class fighting man, but they
add a condemnatory clause.
"'E won't do. 'E's dirty. e don't tight
Clean"
That. plus tho knowledge all hold Of
the treatment of prisoners by tho Ger
mans. explains why the Germans take
SO few British prisoners nowadays. The
Briton usually fights to the last in
fierce determination to take as many
mans. on the other hand. good fighting
men as they are, surrender complacent-
ly when they are nipped. They are
sure of fair treatment as prisoners. So
government has been forced to organ
ize propaganda at homo. in which
the statements made in letters by Ger
man prisoners are denied.
Evening star., 1918-01-07
When the Cat Exploded.

Bapaume was thoroughly destroyed
by the Germans before they left it.
House after house on street after street
was mined or fired. Here and there half
destroyed houses were left standing,
and it was from one Of these houses
that tho first British soldiers to enter
heard the mewing OF a cat in pain. They
entered the house to find a cat tightly
wired to a plank. Its steel bonds cut
into its flesh, SO that its wailing was
unbearable. OF course, they hurried to
release the cat. In SO doing they set
off q concealed mine.
There were other tricks at Bapaume.
A helmet was picked up and that dis
charged mine. An overcoat hanging
on q wall and a crucifix on a dresser
and a broken machine gun were all
wired to mines, so that when they were
moved the mines detonated. The fine
old church had been bombed by tho de-
parting Germans, and on one of the
blank walls that was left standing were
written these words:
with the enemy'S love-"
Evening star., 1918-01-07

TRUxToN--Thursd Ivan Noxukin
and Tanya Fetners In The Painted
Evening star., 1918-01-07

PI.AZA-Today and tomorrow, VIII
liam S. Hart, in The Primal Lure"
wednesday and Thursday, William Rus
sell, in New York Luck" Friday and
Saturday. Earl Williams, In I'm the Bal
ance..
Evening star., 1918-01-07
MUSICAL INSTRUCTION.
WALTER T. HOLT

Establiahed 1884: Phone Franklin AIS
STUDIO, 1919 CONN. AVE.
Hawaiisn Steal Guitar flay1ag end xhs Ukulsls.
Weekly nractce with the Nordica Club
Evening star., 1918-01-07

Goodrich, in .Her Second Husband
"wednesday to Friday. Florence La
Badie and II. q. Herbert. in The Man
without q Country" Saturday, Ruth
CIifford, in THE Savage"
Evening star., 1918-01-07
Frank c. Steward, Pres.
Stewards Business College
18th and F NV.
Phone M. 867l.

The Government will pay you a
salary while you do your bit.
Typists, stenographers. clerks and accountants
are In urgent demand for Government Service.
Immediate appointment is practically assured 70
those who qualify to do the work.
It is your duty to be prepared-ours to train
you to work efficiently.
Let's get together talk the matter oyss,
Evening star., 1918-01-07
Success Shorthand

Students are hereby notified that the Success
Shorthand School has been associated with the
Stewards Business College. beginning January
Z. 1918. Success Shorthand classes will begin at
Stewards Business College, 18th and + SITS. NV,
under the personal directions Of Messrs. Mills
paugh and Victory, the owners Of the Success
Shorthand School. All Success students will have
the privilege of Joining any Of the Steward .
classes, such as Spanish, Bookkeeping, Civil
Service, ETC., without extra charge.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
Cato's Follow-up System
By HERBERT KAUFMAN
Author Of ''D0 Something! Be .Somethf10!''

Author Of 'Do Somethine Sonnehhhng!'
a MAN ambased the and walked away
week before he repeated the performance wouldn't hurt
you badly Between attacks would opportunity
to recover from the effect of the first blow
But if he smashed aud kept mauing impact of his fist
would hnd less able stand the hammerng
jacs would probably knock you down.
Now advertising is after ALL Of hitting eye the
tiors of the effect first will have worn
away by the time hit again You your scattered
talks stretch Of years will benefit
appearing print every day able get the the
created piece copy makes
its the result publicity mind is
preston.
Persistence the foundation of advertising Regularity
OF insertion clever prasng The
hangs on the who Cato the Elder
every merchant who the and should be nsa
daily in the Roman and cried destruction of
carthage In the beginning found his conferee very unrespo-
siVe But he kept month after
year. sinking the minds Of all DESTROYING
carthage, until he all the thinking upon subject and
IN the end Rome the Mediterranean
the reign of the Hannas and 1amilcar
persistent utterances OF single did it,
The history of every mercantile parallel The adver
se who does let slip by without having say
to be heard and have influence felt of copy
brings stronger has the benefit of been
said before until pubc attention eve that has
been repeatedly the suggestion
like blow.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
TOMORROW, Be
ARb0R DAY event

Bismarck, N. D., April 11-Gover-
nor Lynn j. Frazier impresses upon
the people OF this state the impor-
tance of planting trees as means of
conservation in the proclamation pro-
claiming Friday. April 12, Arbor and
Bird day. His proclamation follows:
zone of the great and highly i'm
portant lessons the American people
are learning from the war is that of
conservation. Our resources from the
most humble and insignificant to the
most highly priced and desirable are
coming into their own, and are ap-
preciated in the ratio of their value
to mankind.
Trees and birds are surely worthy
of fair share OF our consideration.
Forests Destroyed
1--WE have been prone to stand
complacently by while fires and mill
ing interests have destroyed vast Sec
tions Of our national forests. and
calmly noted the consequent disap-
pearance of wild bird and animal
life. Is it because these wonderful
resources have cost US nothing that
We value them so lightly? Preven-
tive measures have been wholly in
adequate, and there has not been
sufficient, concerted action to replace
these losses. On our own North Da-
kota prairies there is everywhere evil
dence of the efforts of man to satisfy
his natural longing for the compan-
ionship and sheltering protection Of
trees, and wherever trees have been
planted and grown up about farm
stead there Is an atmosphere Of COM
fort and quietude alike attractive to
the weary individual and merry pic
ntckers seeking pleasure and recrea-
Ffton. Let 0s sD3ant more trees and
have more groves and more birds.
Certain Day Set Aside
1T has long been the custom thru
out the entire country to set aside a
day of which to plant trees, and more
recently there has been combined
with this the observance of Bird Day
for study and instruction in the ways
and habits of birds. The second
Friday in April is the day most COM
monty observed, and this year by
reason of favorable climatic condi-
tions generally it is practicable for
North Dakota to assist in making the
observance of this date nationwide.
1t it therefore hereby proclaimed that
Friday, April 18TH be observed as
Arbor and Bird Day, and l wish to
impress upon all tine Importance of
planting trees and studying birds.
seeking to teach everywhere the ne
cessity OF conserving and propagat-
ing these truly great heritages of
mankind.
Done at the Capitol at Bismarck,
under my hand and the Grea Seal of
the State of North Dakota, this 9Th
day of April. 1918.
Lynn ]. Frazier,
Governor.
BY the Governor,
Thomas Hall. Secretary of State.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
LOCAL news NOTES OF
THE week TERSELY TOLD
Rooms for rent over Times office.

Rooms for rent over Times office
soil
For all kinds of draying see C.. A.
Kohlhoff Phone 303W. 12 End
Street south. 5Ot1
Mrs. Holmes of Moorhead, Minn..
is visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Thompson this week.
Attention is called to the several
new advs. on the Abercrombe page
in this issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanton of Chippewa
Falls. Wis. are visiting their cousin,
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Christianson.
Woman wants position as house
keeper on the farm or in some town.
Inquire at Times office 5Ot1
For Sale Very Cheap.-My prop
erty on First Street if sold by June.
Mrs. Hartwell. soft
Mrs. Wesley Oliver left Monday
for Sisseton. S. D., for an extended
visit with her mother.
James w. Frutchey last week
closed deal for the purchase of the
SW u of 16-133-49. The considera-
ton was $1,000.
R. NJ. Lunday left Friday for
Towner, this state. to look after
farming interest and the seeding OF
his crops. He will return the latter
part of April.
The ladies missionary society of the
Methodist church met at the home
of Mrs. c. A. Kohlhoff on 2nd street
Tuesday afternoon.
John L. Slatery. nephew of Hon.
w. E. Purcell of this city, has been
made member of the executive COM
mittee of the Third Liberty Loan
Drive at Glasgow. Valley County,
Montana.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
Palestine, January 90.

Palestine, January 90.
Dear Friend Hurry:
l have some time at hand TODAY.
so thought | would write you this
little surprise note to let you know
now your 'ScOttie" friend is faring
through these times of strife.
lett the old country September
~ 1918. and have not had a fur
:HH: nome since. was three
months on Gallipoli, up until the
evacuation. and have served the rest
OF these % long weary months i'm
Egypt and Palestine. You will nm
doubtedly read of our big advance.
crowned with the capture of Jerusa-
lem. have been through the whole
snow, and as has been luck. have not
mad a scratch. Yes, we had a most
envlous experience during these two
months of "strafing" toward the
Holy City. That joyous shout that
morning We came in sight of Jeru-
salem. But I am sorry to say it was
the last cheer for many of our Door
comrades. but I can safely say their
deaths were duly avenged. it was
at this point that could ever call
hghting sport. 1t was like a game
OF hounds and hare. / am a machine
gunner so can tell you we had some
sport. 1t seemed quite good fun at
the time, but after the din of the
battle had quieted and one looked
back at what he had come through,
! 1t seemed too uncivilized.
! have seen some wondrous sights
in this country, but I would not give
up my own native valley for any of
! them.
q, Christmas. 1917, was the most
miserable have ever gone through.
We got orders 10 move on ut Xmas
eve To 49, saSi s6a.ax ntlsitipp.s lor at
tack. We marched over most .miser-
able ground in sheets of rain for
IL hours practically continuous
walking. arriving at our destination
at dawn on Christmas morning.
soaked to the skin. 1t cannot be ex-
pressed in words. how miserable we
felt. We were both hungry and ia
tigued and the prospects of going
out the next day in the hunt for our
Xmas Turk We're before us. We
strafed On all Xmas week and on New
Years day. again in torrents of rain.
we came out of the line victors of an
other fight. We have been in reserve
since and although the weather has
not bean all that is desired we have
had quite decent time.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
WAHPETON SUCCESSFULLY CELE-
DRAFTED LOYALTY DAY APRIL 6
Reserves Gave a Splendid Drilling Fol
lowing the Grand Street Parade
on the Dakota Avenue

The celebration of Loyalty Day
last Saturday and the first annual
entrance of America into the Euro
taken from any standpoint whatso-
ever, and convinced even the most
skeptical of the loyalty and patriot
ism of the good citizens of progress
sive Wahpeton. The street parade
started down Dakota Avenue short
ly after 100 p. m. headed by the
police department, followed by the
Wahpeton City Council, the band, the
Women's Relief Corps, the fast dimin-
ishing G.. A. r. Corps, Miss Carter
representing the Weapon of Liberty,
Home Guards-as fine body of rep
resentative men as there is in the
state, then came the Red Cross
Auxiliary, followed by the Boy
Scouts and Scout Master Rife. Uncle
Sans float. then came the school
children-our future great citizens
and the teachers of our schols. The
line of march was up and down Da-
kota Avenue.
In front of the city opera house
the Home Guards went through their
drill exercises and is certainly is a
we'll trained and fine looking COM
pany. The writer has visited Fargo,
Grand Forks and several other places
the past year and seen the Home
Guards On review. but WahpetOn has
the finest and best trained bunch of
reserves We have yet seen. The pro-
gram at the opera house started a.
$3.50 p. m. or shortly after, with Hon.
w. e. Purcell as chairman of the
ceremonies. The first number on the
program was quartette by eight
girls from the Science School who
were encored for q second number.
Mr.. Purcell then introduced the first
speaker, v. r. Lowell Of Fargo. who
gave very patriotic address on the
issues Of the war and the Third
Liberty Loan drive. He was follow
ed By J. p. Hardy. secretary Of the
Fargo Commercial Club. Mayor
WsSSsS %nss;@a j fes sssf Se ss' oeeu,sse q sss
places on the PATTERN. "A double
quartette Of male voices rendered
music.
les gold medals were presented by
w. e. Purcell, the chairman, to five of
the Boy Scouts for their work in
helping to dispose of the bonds of
the Second Liberty Loan. The Science
School girls gave sketch entitled,
''The Girls Over Here"
The boys who received the gold
medals were: Vernon Forbes, Victor
Parsons, Paul Wig, Donald Farms
worth and Robert Heath.
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11

The Times has been without a
linotype operator for the past three
weeks and only through the kind
generosity of the Globe-Gazette have
We been able to get our news set up
in type. We phoned the secretary of
the union at Fargo the other day
only to be told that ten or twelve
operators are needed there with none
to supply the demand. We got like
reply from Aberdeen. also from Min
neapolis. We are prepared however
to handle all work that comes our
The Wahpeton times., 1918-04-11
HIGH SCHOOL OPEREJ'T.a

What promises to be one of the
prettiest operettas ever given in this
city for some time. is to be presented
thls FRIDAY evening. April 18th. by
about sixty students of the high
school. The Operetta is to be staged
at the opera house and from the ad-
vance sale of tickets IL large crowd
is assured. The performance will
commence at $50
The title OF the operctta is .Prin-
cess Chrysanthemum" and is pre-
sented in three acts The scenes are
laid in Japan which immediately
suggests the daintness of the pro-
ductlon. The plot is that of a love
story and is interspersed with thirty
musical numbers. consisting of solos.
duets and chorus of forty people.
The production has been in the max
ing for sometime and well deserves
ne patronage of the public.
IhlS operetta is to be substituted
this year for the annual senior class
play and consequently will be the last
opportunity for the people of Wah-
peton To witness Il public performance
NY the high school students. Tickets
are on sale by Il large number of stu
dents and can be had for fifty cents.
reservations can be made at Wolfe's
Grocery on Thursday and Friday.
me balcony behind the first row will
be opened for sale on the evening of
the performance at thirty-five cents.
NO war tax is charged on any admis-
sion. See program elsewhere.