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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07
Wool by Wednesday.

Wool has been ordered through
Medford chapter, and, according to
latest advices received, should be
here by Wednesday. In connection
with wool, all knitters should lay to
heart this bit of rhymed advice as to
the best way to use it, contained in
the last bulletin of the A. R. c..
northwestern division:
Sweaters and socks we need.
More than wristlets or caps;
Send them on with all speed.
Sweaters and socks we need"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07
REGISTERED MEN MAY
ENLIST TO FLY

Filters and balloOnists, although
subject to the selective-service law,
may enlist Gs heretofore upon passing
the examination at the nearest ayia-
ton examining board. Notifying Of
ficers under 81 years of age are not
now being accepted, except a limited
number Of graduates Of recognized
engineering colleges or others who
can qualify as expert engineers.
Aerial observers are not now being
accepted
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07

something. even of no practical value,
his mind is at rest and he is enjoying
himself And il has been shown that
it is an easy matter to interest any
hoy in something. and when that has
been accomplished you have the hal
ter on him by which he may be led
into right paths,
1t is only the idle boy who seeks
mischief or who falls for rough-houss
stuff.
This accounts in measure for the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07
FOOD SUPPLY TO BE
INCREASED IN 1913

Hundreds of thousands of acres Of
lands in the United States, hitherto
untitled, may be placed under cultiva-
tlon during 1918.
An inquiry by the Department of
the Interior shows that approximate
ly 100000 acres on various reclama-
tion projects and an area of Indian
lands almost as large are susceptible
of cultivation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07

People of this country spend $45,-
100000 each year for toys. And of
this sum grouchy bachelor says so
per cent goes for drums.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07

Listing war liars in "Ananias
clubs is too easy. Instead why not
enlist patriots in Whole Truth
clubs" and boil the war liars in their
own German stew?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07

Somewhere in France" is better
than the real names of French towns
Its easier to pronounce.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-01-07

Nearly Half Million New Members.
Nearly half a million new mem
bers have been added to the north
western division, A. R. c., which in
cludes Washington, Oregon, Idaho
and Alaska, as a result of the Christ
mas membership drive.
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-01

IN CLUBS OF FIVE OR MORE, FIFTEEN CENTS A YEAR.
The price of single subscriptions to GOOD NEWS is 25 cents a year.
hut If yu will get several OF your friends to g. in With Won am sand IN,
a club Of ave o. mor at one time, o al III eet thu name at Ii cent
. year.
At the very low price We make, 1t Is impossible @ i've nreo,ums m
clubraisers, but thousands of people enjoy getting up clubs to- hi fun Of
It and to help ut a good cause. You will enjoyit toe. and yn ar herenv
invited to become a regular club-raiser. II you an distribute some samples
In sending in clubs. be ue to write each name and address yery
carefully. Remember that a name which looks plain to Ia you own
handwriting might not look so plain to a person who is lot acquainted with
or handwriting. Therefore WRITE VERY CAREFULLY. IF possible IT,
have the list typewriter, 70 much the better.
GOOD NEWS is going on eight years old. It has a large cir
cuauon in every state in the Union, and it also goes to several foreign
countries. 1t has long ago passed the experimental stage and has become
a established institution. Over 10000 people arr eagerly waiting tor ats
arrival each month.
Send remittance by registered letter. express or postohnee money
order, and make all orders payable to:
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And the Restoration Of Israel.

For several years / have been
1rying to convince people that the
city Of Jerusalem would be de-
livered from the hands Of the
Turk, and that the Children of
Israel would be restored to their
w land and re-established as a
nation. I have contended all a.
long that no other promise in the
Bible is so oft repeated or SO
much emphasized as this.
But the people laughed at me
and shook their heads and said:
mo, that will never be. All
those promises you r talking
about have only a spiritual mean
.ng-they refer to something
away up in the skies after we are
al dead and gone. They don t
refer to the literal earthly Jews
1t all, and when Jerusalem is
mentioned it means a spiritual
city up among the clouds some
where"
That's the way they talked.
And they we're just as certain as
anything that / was a plum fool
tor getting such notions in my
mead. They were actually afraid
I would 90 to hell for trying to
leach people that the Bible was
Ialking about the earth instead OF
some visionary place up IN the
ahles.
But now what are the wise
sky" people going to say? !
wonder if they will undertake to
grove that the British, French
and Italian armies are just bags
Il air, and that the city of Jeru.
>alem which they captured on the
10Th Of December is suspended uE
n the clouds by a paper string
Z wonder if they will contend that
ne pledge given to the Jews by
he British government aiaf
agreed to BY all the other allies
was merely the Man IN the Moor
Hnllcring down a rain-barrelq
No sir, they may just as wei
Try up their "sky' racket ane
get down to earth. The things
IRE happening right here.
First, let me give you a few
'"erses from the various prophet
10 show how well they all agre'
about the literal restoration O.
Israel, and then | will prove t.
You by extracts from the secula
Good news. [volume] (Boomer, N.C.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-01

press-the papers and magazines
Of to-day-that this prophecy is
now being literally fulfilled right
before our eyes.
Now here is a colu7c or two
of quotations from the various
pro phets, and I don't want you
to go and skip over these verses,
either. ! want you to read them
just as carefully as you would
read the newspaper account Of
your Aunt Sally's wedding. Cali
IN all your family and 1--WE or six
Of the neighbors and read these
verses to them in about a ten
horsepower voice. And you'd
better have your Bible handy.and
look 'em up to see that / amt
lynn about it:
And it shall come to pass in that
day that the Lord shall set his hand
again the second time to ecoye the
remnant of his people, which shall be
left, from Assyria, and from Egypt,
and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elan, and from Shinar,
and from Klamath, and from the Is
lands of the sea. And he shall set UP
an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts Of Israel, and
gather together the dispersed OF
Judah from the four n of the
earth.-Isaiah 11:11-12.
The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them; and the
desert shall rejoice and blossom as
the rose.-Isaiah 35:1.
Thy watchmen shall lift up the
voice: with the voice together shall
they sing: for they shall see eye te
eye, sing together, ye waste places
OF Jerusalem: for the Lord hath com
forted his people, he hath redeemed
Jerusa4em--Isaiah 1888.
For a small moment have l for.
saken thee; but with great mercies
will / gather thee. In a little wratf
I hid my face from thee for {
moment; but with everlasting kind
ness will I have mercy on thee, saitf
the Lord, thy Redeemer.-Isaiaf
54S7-8.
And they shall build the old wastes
| and they shall raise up the formel
de~solations, and they shall repair th'
waste cities. the desolations Of man!
| generations. And their seed shall b.
known among the Gentiles, and the'
offspring among the people: all tina
see them shall acknowledge them tha
they are the seed which the Lord hat
| blessed.-Isaiah 61:4-9.
But be ye glad and rejoice foreve
IN that which I create: for behold,
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and he
people a joy,-Isaiah 65: 8.
In those days the house Of Juda
shall walk with the house Of lsfae
and they shall come together out c
the land of the north to the land the
I have given for Ar inheritance unit
your fathers.-Jer. 3:18.
.rt ~
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Continued sn Page 4.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Allies Will
Retain Offensive

We have the offensive. We shall. in
all human probability, retain it until
inc END OF the war. When our Ameri-
can army is ready all three of the Al
he'd armies will be able to deliver ST.
multareous thrusts on their own fronts
Before that day the German will inevi-
ta5ly retire at least behind the Meuse
and the Scheldt, possibly to his own
frontier, shortening and also improy-
ing ms position. Until that day comes
we shall continue to deal local blows
harvest local profits, but it will always
be possible by reference to the man to
calculate pretty accurately the possible
extent of any single success.
Just now Foch has in two operation,
taken advantage of wholly vicious DO
sltlcns into which the Germans had mt
themselves as prelimnaries to their
grand offensives, now adjourned with
out date. He has taken his profit from
German mistakes and from the acc
dental weakness of German nositinns
which were not intended to be defensive
positions at all. A much more serious
problem will be before us when the Ger
man is at last in his true defensive no.
sition.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
No Sudden Sweep
To the Rhine

Since the element of surprise mas re-
turred, 1t IS safe to foresee that we
shall be able to turn him out Of. tha.
position. But each time we shall find
him IN new positions, until one Of two
things happens-either his man power
fails or the military spirit of his army
IS destroyed. In either case we shall
then return to the old-fashioned war
Of movement, but it will be after the VIC
tory has been achieved and an uninter
rupted march on Berlin is before US.
1t is worth while to think for mo-
ment Of the long months when Grant
and Lee stood facing each other in long
trenches about Petersburg, south Of
Appomattox. There one had a real
forecast Of the war to-day, and the dis
appointments Of 1864 are likely to re-
turn in 1918, and even in 1919. if ono
expects too mucn in brief period Of
time. There is 10 be no sudden transi-
ton, no sudden sweep to the Rhine aud
beyond the Rhine; we have got to bat
ter the German out Of one position af
ter another-ouJ Of the Hindenburg
line, the line of the Scheldt and the
Meuse, the line cf the Ardcnnes. the
Moselle and the Ncsges-before we an
proach the line of the Rhine. which 10
strongest of ell, and behind that we
may expect other lines, while between
each series of positions there viii be-
intermediate defensive positions.
| do not believe the German defence
will endure through successive defeats
Obviously the morale will break down
and IN the presence of inevitable de-
feat on the military side the statesmen
VIII endeavor, even at huge price. to
avoid the fatal consequences Of jnvasio,
and ravage. But it is essential NOW
to recognize that we are ONLY pattjno
our feet on the first stretch of the road
to Berlin.
We are going to pass through peri5d
after period Of attack, pursuit and an
proach to new positions. with rev stag
nation. 1t is more essential than ever
before that soldiers should be trained
in all the lessons Ct contemporary war
fare. Neglect Of these lessons now VIII
bring the most terrible burden of cas-
ualtles upon our young American army.
The belief that the war Of position is
over and the Napoleonic warfare of
restored will mean the sacr
fee Of hundreds OF thousands of Amer
leans unnecessarily We are certain OF
victory now. but we have still to regu-
late the price in human life to be pail
for victory, and we can regulate it only
by multiplying the instruction based
upon four years Of experience in the
warfare OF position. in the only kind
of warfare possible to-day or likely to
be possible in any future that can now
be foreseen-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
German Retreat to Hindenburg Line
Will Mean a Deliberate Refusal
of Battle, a Resignation of the
Offensive, in Order to Avoid
Defeat and Prolong War
By FRANK II. SlMONDS
Author of ''The World War;" "They Shall Not Pass"

The active phase of the Third Battle of
the Somme was over on Monday, August
70, when the British fourth army was
halted on approximately the line of the
old Somme front Of July /, 1916, the
front facing Chaulnes and Roye from
which Foch had launched Fayolles army
at the beginning of the first battle of
the Somme. Thirty thousand prison
ers and seven hundred and fifty cannon
captured, the Paris-Amiens- Boulogne
railway cleared, the Montdidier salient
pinched out-these were the immediate
fruits Of the first Allied offensive in the
campaign of 1918, which in itself demon
strated that the initiative had passed
from Ludendorff to the Allied command
er in chief.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Decisive Battle Will Be Adjourned to
1919 by Manoeuvre-Wa of Move
ment Not Reached and Napo- :.
leonic Strokes Unlikely-Road
to Berlin Is Long


the West front, there seemed to be the
possibility Of return to open warfare,
to the warfare of movement Of the older
days Evidently the Germans expected
it. Obviously the Allies feared it. And
yet within a period Of week the Ger
man wave was halted before new posi-
tions. The old war movement was over
and trench warfare was on again.
The reason was obvious. German pur-
suit had outrun heavy artillery and even
light artillery. 1t had outrun its provi-
sions, while the Allied commanders were
able to provide reserves and artillery in
new position, and against this position,
hastily improvised as it was, the Ger
man infantry, unsupported by artillery,
could not make progress.
Here, then, it would seem, was a final
answer to the theory that the war of
positions was a temporary stage. There
had been preparation and attack, and,
for the first time, pursuit, but at the
end there had been resumption Of the
earlier situation, new positions, new stag
nation, and the attempts of the Germans
to break down the new positions were SO
costly they had soon to be abandoned.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
..-- March sgazyys Au.. >.
blow in front Of Paris as in the earlier


blow in front Of Paris as in the earlier
time. "'..-:
1t is impossible to undertake an often
sive from Nancy when the German will
be able to Undertake with superior num-
bers an offensive from Noyon, barely
fifty miles from Paris. When America
is ready the German will have to aban-
don his Paris menace. because he will
himself be threatened in his home terri
tory. But for the present year the
threat will hardly be grave. He can, if
he chooses, refuse battle and retreat to
the old Hindenburg line, from which he
can man@uvre, not with his troops but
with his statesmen, seeking not a Ger
man peace but peace which will leave
the military leadership in Germany, with
chance to claim that the present war
of aggression has added provinces as
has each Prussian war with few eXcep-
tions since Frederick the Great tore up
that other scrap Of paper, the Pragmatic
Sanction, and stole Silesia from Maria
Theresa century and a half ago.
The present IS perhaps good time to
pass in review the history Of offensive
warfare in the current struggle. All
the great nations were surprised in a
measure-and in a very large measure
by the sudden arrival of stagnation
and trenches in 1914 Certain observers
in each of the various armies had fore
seen something Of what would happen,
but none had made his voice heard and
no general staff had prepared to meet
the situation.
Between the close Of the campaign of
1914, with the termination of the First
Battle Of Ypres, and the Battle of Cam
brai, three years later, offensive war
fare was never able to pass beyond the
second of what may be called the four
stages in warfare Of positions: those of
preparation, attack, pursuit and march
of approach.
The object lessons which might have
served in each instance were not recog-
nized. All through this period a grow
ing tendency was manifest toward con-
centration Of artillery and of material
upon the preparation, at the sacrifice OF
the element of surprise, which alone
could make possible considerable vic
tory, bringing with it pursuit and for
the moment, and for the moment only.
and within very restricted limits, re-
turn to the old continued war cf move
ment.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

Louis XIV, will be left in possession of
certain conquered provinces of his foes.
In the spring the German undertook
to obtain an unlimited victory, German
peace on all fronts, with the domination
of Europe as the natural consequence of
the victory he sought. That victory has
escaped him. He has used up his human
material, and both in numbers and in
quality of troops the advantage is pos
scssed by his foe at the present moment
and will rapidly increase. But he can,
by retirement which will not surren-
der territory Of any Importance, avoid a
possible disaster this year, stave off the
full development of Foch's offensive
until next year and employ the time
gained in endeavoring to win the war
by a peace offensive which will leave
him some profit.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Cambria and
Its Lesson

On the German side the gas attack of
1915 temporarily laid the road open TO
Ypres, but in all four cases the chance
was missed. By contrast in Champagne
in September, 1915, and Verdun, Febru-
AIRY, 1916, at the Somme in the British
operation of July and in the French cam
pagn on the Asne in 1917, the surprise
was not sufficient to disorganize the
whole system Of defence before reserves
could intervene. and an effort on the
part of the assailant to institute a pur-
suit after only a partial reduction of the
enemy's line led to colossal casualties
and ultimate failure.
1t was not until the tank attack at
Cambria, 1917, that the element of sur
prise was even temporarily made use Of
Up to this time both sides had been mul-
tiplying their artillery preparations,
with ever lengthening periods of bonn
bardment, which served as an advertise
ment to the enemy Of the direction in
which the attack was coming and gave
him the opportunity to prepare line
after line behind his front. But at
Cambria there was only a brief artil-
lery preparation; the tanks went in and
cleared the wire entanglements, and the
British troops had before them a seven
mile gap through which, had reserves
been available, they might have ad-
vanced to Cambria.
The chance was lost. But the lesson
remained. The Germans were the first
to apply it. Tried first on the Russian
front above Riga, with the tanks left
out, but with brief intensive lombard
ment it brought immediate success.
Tried again on a very wide front in Pi-
cardy on March 2l, it produced the great
est single success in line breaking on the
Western front. The British line was
broken on front Of forty miles. The
defending army was SO disorganized that
it was incapable of defending supported
positions until reserves could intervene
and the German advance became true
pursuit over more than thirty miles OF
undefended country.
Here at last, and for the first time on |
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
A Successful!
Maneuvre

Hindenburg's reasoning was in sub
stance this: II cannot afford the men for
another Somme battle this year and the
enemy is preparing to resume the strug
gle. But if l retire twenty miles to
good positions it will take him all sum-
mer to arrive before the new positions
with his communications, heavy artillery
and other machinery He will not be
able to attack the new line this year. but
will be compelled to attempt an offensive
on either side, where the new line re-
joins the old, that is, in Flanders and on
the Aisne. He will thus attack nv
fanks, when l retire my centre. but by
retiring my centre and devastating the
ground before it | shall be safe from an
attack there and can concentrate men
and guns on my fanks and break the
attacks of the foe
This was exactly what happened. The
retreat to the Hindenburg line ended the
fighting between Arras and the Scissors
region for the year. Haig made a brief
effort in front of Arras, which conceded
with Nivelle's Aisne offensive. But Nj
velle's attack was wrecked because the
Germans were able to concentrate men
and guns on this flank. A similar fate
overlook Hsig's main offensive Of the
summer and autumn in Flanders for the
same reasons. Meantime Hindenbure
disposed of his Eastern difficulties for
the time being and was prepared to re-
sumo the Western battle this spring.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
A Refusal
of Battle

German retreat, then, viii bc dc
hberatc refusal of battle, formal and
unmistakabc resignation of the often
s'vc, a return to Hindcnburg's strategy
Of 1917, with the realization that it is n
retreat without hope Of later return
to the offensive. The German will aban-
don a strategy which is based upon an
effort to obtain decision by one terrific
campaign in favor of strategy which
seeks TO avoid defeat by prolon2ing the
war until exhaustion compcls all Of the
conbatants tn stop. and William n. Ike
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25

tails because it seems to me there
ought to be a more general understand
ing OF what is to be expected in the i'm
meciate future. The possibility Of
great captures of armies or return
TO war of the Napolconic sort is slight.
Our enemy has too many reserves, too
many prepared positions behind his
present front, to be in danger of disas-
Ter TINS year, and probably next
disaster of the sort that France suf-
Tered IN the opening weeks of 1870 and
Prussia at Jena in 1906.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
Napoleonic Strokes
Unlikely

But If the German is driven from the
coast of Flanders he will presently be
found standing on the line of the
Scheldt. If he is driven from Cham
pagne he will be found in position be-
hind the Meusc The whole country
behind him is cut and scanned with
switch lines and cross lines, constitut
ing alternative positions. No single
blow that one can now forecast can be
more than thrust which compsls the
evacuation Of one line for another
There will be flight and a pursuit
between the two, with the capture Of
prisoners and material. but in eacn
case the victor VIII presently encoun-
ter the vanquished in a new position
and have to begin all over again
dwell upon these rather dull de-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
The Parallel
With the Marne

In the following week there was slow
but marked forward movement south of
Chaulnes as Debenys first army, Hum
bert's third army, and finally the French
tenth army beyond the Disc moved up in
line and in turn reoccupied the old posi-
ton of July, 1916. At the moment when
this article is written, on Monday, Au-
gust 19, the line from the Somme to the
Aisne, from scissors to Chaulnes, coin
cides almost exactly with the familiar
line of two years ago, and the change.
that have taken place in the past week
are the logical consequences of the ini-
tal victory on August and the follow
ing three days.
The parallel with the events at the
Marne is exact: all that happened after
July 19, when Mangin's thrust above
scissors was checked, was the natural and
inevitable consequence of the initial gain;
the Germans had to retire to the Vesle
between scissors and Rheims, because
Mangin's thrust had rendered the inter
Eening country untenable; in the same
fashion, Hutier and Marwitz were com
PEELED to retire along their entire front
because Of the successes of the British
south Of the Somme and toward Chaulnes.
In the same way, because the Ger
man f1anks along the Disc and the Somme
held, the British advance was obliged to
halt as the Allied advance in the Marne
salient had been compelled to halt be-
cause of the success of Boehn in defend
ing the fanking positions about scissors
and north of Rheims.