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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25
FUEL FAMINE
IN PROSPECT

A fuel famine of a sort that will
bring actual distress and suffering is
in prospect for North Dakota for next
winter unless concerted effort is made
by all the people of the state to avoid
This is the statement of Thomas
Allan Box, secretary of the State
Council of Defense who is in Fargo
comforting with Chairman NJ. A. Bald
win, of the Cass county council.
Secretary Box also event over the
situation with Dean E. J. Babcock, of
the state university school of mines,
who presented to him data concerning
the fuel needs and resources of North
Dakota.
Dean Babcock, like Secretary Box,
is frankly alarmed and urges the
people of North Dakota to awaken
and make determined effort to help
themselves now, while there is vet
time to provide sufficient fuel for the
winter.
Only by concerted action now, Sec
rotary Box thinks, will it be possible
to take the proper steps to avert a
fuel famine in North Dakota the COM
ing winter.
Inasmuch as the United States
needs all its energy to win the war,
he believes that the people of the
state should at once do all they can,
so as not to need assistance. Secre-
tary Box also holds that self-reliant
movement to save the situation in and
for the state will be the best way of
calling the attention of the federal
fuel administration to the gravity of
the situation. g.:
lam convinced that the people of
North Dakota fail to realize the true
situation of the fuel situation" Sec
rotary Box said last night. "Dean
Babcock advises the people of the
state to secure at least 70 per cent
of the coal they will require for the
coming winter and have it housed
before the middle of September. Aft
er that date he advises every possible
effort to secure the remaining 80 pre-
cent from our own Ignite Mines"
North Dakota's Ignite output in
creased 80 per cent in 1917 over 1916,
Secretary Box says, and it looks as
though it would be impossible to in
crease the 1918 output moer than 80
per cent over that of 1917. There is a
shortage of labor, and consumers hold
back their orders until it is nearly
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

The Times-Record has been receiv-
ing number of new subscriptions the
past few days. If you want to take
advantage of the old rate before the
raise goes into effect now is the time
to get busy. We are mailing out
statements of indebtedness to the pa
per in accordance with government
orders and if you will kindly respond
with check it will save US the regret
of removing wour name from the
mailing list.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

Friday evening the Rev. and Mrs
Naeseth entertained the members of
this years confirmation class, togeth-
err with their parents, at the parson-
age on West Fourth street. A three
course dinner was served at small ia
bles placed in the rooms and on the
spacious porch. The class of nine
remembered Mrs. Naeseth with pair
of cut glass bud vases and a dainty,
hand painted plate.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

Robert Kee, who has been very sick
for the past two weeks at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. T. B. Swartout, is
reported some better and that he is
able to sit up a little now. This will
be good news to his many friends in
the city and county.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25
DEM0CRATSELECT
COUNTY COMMITTEE

The democratic precinct commit
teemen for Barnes county met at the
court house in accordance with law
Wednesday, July II and perfected the
county organization for the coming
two years. There were two factions
represented in the meeting-the ms
and outs-and it was a tie vote for
the election of chairman, Frank San
ford winning out on a draw. The fol-
lowing is the organization as elected:
Chairman-Frank Sanford.
Secretary-A. S. Sigurdson.
Treasurer-Louis Noltimier.
State Committeeman, 18th District
Turner More, Wimbledon.
State Committeeman 38th District,
L. N. Kuhry, Oriska.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

FOR RENT - Furnished rooms in
modern house. Normal student pre-
fered. Board and room if wanted.
Phone 504J.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

Did you write 20 your soldier, AZ
you promised to write. this week?
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-25

emunerative position tAnt or business .p.e
fyou will enroll plan for attend
competent hold position win not only
thousands 81
aspiring
favorable conditions you nothing b -
vesugae that for
Bismarck, N. d. -
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
THE BIG FIGHT

Walter Thomas Mills and his kind are still at
it-sti keeping their eyes so closely upon the
profiteer the reactonary and the captain OF prlv-
eqe at home that they cannot the horrible fire
sweeping over from the land of the worlds most
rapacious of profteers, the most stand-pat Of re-
dictionaries and the most greedy captain of privi-
lege Germany's autocracy.
Yes. there are profteers in this country.
There are men who would plumber. There are
men who would rob graves. There are men who
would steal and murder. There are men who prey
upon the weaker There are those who wax tat
upon special privilege. There are autocrats
among us.
There are pro6teers, autocrats and special
privilege seekers in the ranks of the socialist
party probably fewer there than in other poll
teal parties because it is small minority party.
There are profteers, autocrats and special
privilege seekers in all organizations Of human
beings, in churches, clubs, in all places where hu-
man beings dwell.
They should be fought They should be torn
up by the root and cast out All right thinking
persons agree upon that. Mills and his ilk are
not alone in opposition to human pirates that prey.
But at this particular time the house of civil
lization is on fire. Flames are leaping high and
higher The whole fabric of liberty and democ-
racy is threatened There is nothing in all the
world so important as this fire raging westward
from the Rhine. Beside that fire all petty squab-
bles over reactionary politics, petty profteering
and Wall street bankers pale into insignificance.
After we have beaten the Hun we easily
enough can take care of the profteer and the home
grown variety of autocrat. But if the Hun beats
US we can do nothng-but submit to the inordin-
ate greed of the Berlin brand of profteers and
the savage brutality of the Potsdam autocrat.
The big fight we have to fight is the one
against these, not against the puny profteers and
autocrats in our midst. The nation must direct
the whole power Of it's forces against the bay
onets and bombs of the Germans. Any person
who interferes with the delivering Of that blow
aids the enemy, and by the same token is dis
loyal American and a traitor. There are two
places, in either of which these war-obstruction-
lists rightly belong. One is Germany, the other
I is penitentiary.
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lage of stone houses with towering

lage of stone houses with towering
stone chimneys (
We landed just before dark in a
so-called rest camp" just outside an
old stone barracks filled with other
troops. We were in conical squad
tents, ten men to tent, with low
wooden platforms to sleep on. The
boards did not seem so hard when
first wentuto bed-especially as l had
to sleep on the desk Of the transport
several nights on the way over, while
on guard-but during the night they
progressed through the ten degrees OF
! at least fifteen degrees beyond the
scale! And 1t was as cold as poor
relations welcome.
Next day Twas assigned to fatigue
detail, and, with more than 800 other
men, went down in motor-trucks to
the depot quarteFmastef's. wharf,
where we "rested" all morning level
I ing off the site, and all afternoon NOV
ing lumber. We went down by diff
ferent route, and saw several mil
lion things l wanted to tell you about,
but have since forgotten. There was
a one-legged Trench soldier wearing
a croix de guerse;r= women in fine
white starched caps of4lace or linen;
forests" of an acre or two of trees,
carefully planted in rows; park
with a street car line running around
it like Fairmont Park, Philadelphia;
camp of French Algerian troops in
red fezzes and bright blue uniforms;
row of one-story wooden buildings
with amusement devices in them, like
an American country fair; beautiful
park, apparently made from an an
cient fort, with narrow terraces held
up by huge stone walls, the road zig
tagging down from one terrace to an
other all the way to the level of the
wharves, reminding me of the parks
around Lake Washington, Seattle.
We didn't work very hard at the
| wharf, and had lot of fun There
was a coal-yard across the street, so
we grew blacker and blacker revert
! ing from Caucasian to Ethiopian, in
few hours undoing all the evolu-'
ton of past epochs There were many
funny things to watch too,-a drove
' of men trying to talk to girls from a
, French munition plant next door:
! girls dressed in overalls strapped
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21

closely about dainty ankles, jumpers
and slippers of cloth or leather thrust
inside of wooden sabots long line
of men carrying crOss-shaped pieces
of timbre from one place to another,
while a slightly exhilerated soldier
beat time with a shovel and hummed
at the top of his voice the Wedding
March from Lohengrin, under the i'm
preston that it was funeral dirge;
and old peddler ladies making their
prices do acrobatic stunts. g..
Back we went that evening to the
"rest camp" to find that we were to
leave early next morning. So we roll
ed around on the boards all night,
pretending. to sleep, and rolled right
IN out at $3.50 a. m. We got up in
the dark, got more breakfast than we
could eat, rolled our, heavy marching
order, and were hiking back down the
road by 1880 a. M We passed num-
Der of mothers taking young girls to
communion, dressed in white dresses
and wearing beautiful white, filmy
wells like brides west.
Arriving down at the water front
again, we were loaded on a train,
forty of us with our equipment in a
cattle car twenty feet long. There
were wooden benches in the car, eight
Of them holding five men each by dint
Of considerable squeezing, with our
equipment piled up in the middle OF
The car against one of the doors. to-
,ether with big three days rations
of corned beef, bread, baked beans,
tomatoes and jam. We rode in there
Quarter of page). 1t was not as bad
as it sounds, as the engine got tired
every little while, and we could get
off and stretch ourselves. '-. .
At first the country was billy, and
stony in places, but apparently very
fertile. There were fields of grain.
Of hay, surrounded by the banks and
hedges; there were diaries, and graz
ing lands covered with cattle, and
there weer many fine horses. l should
think horse-raising must be a prin-
cipal occupation there, as l have
never seen so many horses of uni
Iformly high quality anywhere l have
been in the States. Gradually the coun-
try changed into the vineyard cOun-
try where we are now, and which l
will try to describe next time.
} morning we were marched
through an American base city to
some stone barracks, where we got
breakfast, and were loaded into trucks
and hauled out here to this pretty lit
tie village, where We are billeted
around. | will tell you all about that
next time, too. rs.
must tell, you, though, that my
wife is out of luck, as / have found
a French sweetheart already. l don't
know her name yet, but she sat on
my knee for an hour today, and she
can speak a little French and l can
speak fair English, we got along
famously. She is about two years old,
with the prettiest black hair and eyes
you ever saw, and very proud of a
new dress with lace on 1t.
1t is too dark to write any more
Your brother,
Mont McCOnkey.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
irish POLICY
IS ATTACKED

London, June 21.-Earl Curzon's
speech in the house of lords last night.
Immediately seized up in the lobby as
al admission of breakdown in the
governments Irish policy. indicating.
present at least. of, any attempt to in
troduce q home rule bill, Is treated in
the mornings newspapers sensational
development and is made the theme of
sharp comment.
Home rule Is dead; Irish conscrip.
ton is dead" says the radical Daily
News, "and the whole Irish policy of
the government has fallen crumbling
to the ground.
From the opening to the close Of
this last wretched chapter in the his
tory of the Irish question, the govern.
ment has been consistently vacillaiing
and dilatory. Out of 1t all one result
has emerged, black and unmistakable
the destruction of the power of the
constitutional party and the enthrone.
ment Of the anarchy of the Sim Fem"
The unfonist- Morning Post says:
THE government once more has
burned it's fingers very badly by
mixture of rashness and inconsist.
ency What will be the effect of this
AFFECT surrender to the intransig-
eance of Irish discomfort and the ar.
rogance OF the Irish Catholic hierarchy
remains to be seen. Every new de-
partment and experiment in the Irish
policy brings US back to the bedrock
fact-thte necessity and the Inevitable
ity of the maintenance OF the union"
The rigidly partisan newspapers
are hardly less severe
Irish priests and bishops have
played leading part in killing both
home rule and CONSUMPTION" says the
Daily Express. 4 At Il y
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LETTERS FROM
SOMEWHERE"
IN FIR A nee
FROM MONT McCONKEY.

Where l leave J the censor has
cut something :out of the paper
American Expeditionary Forces,
80 May { }, 1918. =
Dear Babe:
We reached a French port just a
week ago this morning, and did not
land until Tuesday afternoon The
harbor is almost (The censor left out
over half page here) ancient and
honorable appearance, moving under
sail with unexpected speed, and little
chug- chugging motor boats darling
around like w4tefbugs. @ s-s
The regiment was marched on to
an English barge about 300 p NJ,
last Tuesday; we cheered goodbye to
the crew of our, transport, and were
landed at quartermaster wharf. We
wore both blouses and Overcoats, and
carried our guns and heavy marching
order; believe me, after couple of
weeks doing nothing but lie in bunk,
1t was damned hot work hiking up a
quarter mile hill! Little French kids
ran alongside of u.s.. the band played
occasionally, French soldiers saluted,
and our tongues hung out further and
further, until at the end of half hour
hike we had few minutes rest.
can't begin to tell you the interesting
things we passed,-old ladies wash
ing clothes on the stone floor of a
porch. and hanging them over bushes
to dry, gardens hanging on steep hill
sides by the eyebrows, droves of mil
itary police, myriads Of dirty little
boys begging for cigarettes, two in
credibly old men breaking stone on
the road, and many welcoming signs,
Commerce de Wins"
The country back of the city is cut
up into little fields of one to two acres
each, surrounded by banks of earth
surmounted by hedges. thought at
first these were to permit flooding the
land, the way they do alfalfa fields
in Arizona, but they are only fences.
The houses are punched, a number of
farmers living together in tiny vii
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
GERMAN ATROCITIES

Of course our Teutonic friends tell US, eve
yet, these German atrocity stories are exaggel
ated, BUT, let US read the kaiser's own officis
statement issued under Berlin date line Tn
kaiser might fib about other things, but surel
we may rely upon him to tell the truth abou
himself and his own:
Berlin, June 6-The official state
ment from German general headquarters
says
There were successful raids on Red
Cross hospitals behind the American
lines in Picardy on the 10Th ult. Enemy
nurses were compelled to retire to cellars
and caves, carrying such of their wound
ed patients as they were able to save.
Civilians and babies in surrounding priv
ate houses met sanguinary losses from
the bombs of our airmen.
"On the morning of the 3Oth press
ing our great successes earlier in the
week, when hospitals back of the British
lines were bombed with losses among
staffs and patients of many score, we
attacked successfully Canadian hosp-.
tai. Large Red Cross signs made the
target plain for our uneering bombers.
An American surgeon, performing an
operation, was among the killed.
ION the night of the 31st our gallant
airmen made surprise attack on British
hospitals which had been bombed on the
10Th, inficting severe losses on sisters
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81 FOR THE RED CROSS.

At the lawn party given at the
home of Mrs. Ed Morck on Tuesday
afternoon 81 was made from the sale
of refreshments. The affair was CIV
en- fr the members OF the Child Con-
servation league, and the afternoon
was spent doing refugee work. Mrs.
Morck was assisted by Mesdames
Elmer Carter and RoSbert Mackin.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
poL,r,cAL RALLY.

A record breaking crowd attended
the political rally at the Palace thea
ire last evening to hear P. D. Norton
Johnson and Ingles loyalty candidates
at the coming primary election. me
speeches we're given In an out.spoken
manner and proved most effective.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21

and patients, and retiring to base with
out casualty. The aim of our heroic fliers
was made certain by flare lighted by an
imperial ace at great personal risk.
"While attacking hospitals at Will
ers-Cotterets, where five women nurses
and canteeners were killed, German avia-
tors were treacherously fired upon by
French aces. Five German machines
were maliciously destroyed"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
A FINE PRECEDENT

Inc OCuCSMdH county COuNCL VI ueleIlSe Ids
established precedent which would be we'll for
the state council to follow in the interests of har
mony, propriety and good citizenship.
The Stutsman county council has re-
solved "That no person who is under
indictment by the federal grand jury or
by the grand jury of any state, or who
has been held to trial, on charges of dis
loyalty to this country, or sedition under
the laws of the United States, or of any
state, shall conduct, hold or be permitted
to speak at any gathering or public meet
ing in Stutsman county; and further,
that no person who owns or has charge
of any building, meeting place or public
hall, shall knowingly lease or rent such
place to any such person or permit any
such person to address any gathering on
his said premises"
Nonpartisan league representatives present
at the time these resolutions were adopted OPP
posed them on the grounds that the council was
interfering with the freedom of speech guaran-
teed by the constitution. ..r..
Grave crimes have been committed in the
name of freedom of speech. Free speech has done
much to handicap the United States government
in the prosecution of this war. There is higher
right than that of any individual and that is the
right of the state and the nation.
The national constitution is liberal docu-
ment. In times of peace one may go to any ex-
tent in criticizng the national administration and
its policies. Little harm usually results from such
criticism These are not peace times, and many
things which we could do when we were at peace
IL that 1r,0 o.ofV No
cannot eat all the wheat bread we want we can
not have all the sugar we would like; we should
not eat as much meat as our appetites may call
for. We must pay more when we ride on rail-
way train we pay so per cent more for letter
postage; we pay at least 40 per cent more for the
bare privilege of existing.
Are these infringements on our constitution
al rights? NO! And yet, if we were not at war
there would be no excuse for any Of these tighter
restrictions or heavier burdens. We would be
quite within our rights in protesting against them.
The war imposes new responsibilities upon all
of u.s. The safety and the lives of the men we
have sent over seas to fight for us is in our keep
ing. We can win this war only by working all
together toward one end.
When any man has so far stepped aside from
his common duty as to be indicted by jury OF
his peers for sediton or espionage, he may not
be guilty until lawfully convicted, but the citizen
protests against having this man exhibited before
his eyes as public speaker, in political cam
paign in which Americanism should be the only
issue, and where a man, with even faint of dis
loyalty, has no business. -.... e..
The North Dakota council of defense has done
MANY things which have shown patriotic and a
progressive and constructive spirit actuated by
genuine Americanism. Let it do this one thing
more, and the state of North Dakota, which, above
all else now, must have harmony, will rise up and
pronounce it blest.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
CHAIRMAN W, S. S. DRIVE.

C. R. Robertson Of Cummins Thor
berg, Theis Co., has been named as
city chairman of the War Savings
Stamp drive which commences next
Friday. Mandan's quota is placed at
sl25,0GO, while that of the county IS
placed at $550,000 or per capita OF
800
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
MANDAN NEWS
DAUGHTER BORN.

A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Agaton Larson the first of the
week. All concerned are doing nicely.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
The money has been turned over to
the Mandan chapter.
LEAVE FOR MONTANA.

Mrs. H. E. Haggerman and daugn'
ter, Marie left Wednesday for White
Sulphur Springs, Mont, or Visit WIN
tehir son and brother, Eddie. VINO 10
practising law at that place.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
Mas aircHIE RETURNS.

Mrs. Earl Richie and daughter re-
turned Thursday from Ladysmltn'
wis. where they spent six weeks with
relatives. They visited with lrlenos
in Minnesota en- route home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
INJURED ANKLE.

MRS. w. B. Aiken of Fargo sustain
ed a severe injury to- her ankle when
alighting from train here the first
OF the week. 1t was necessary for her
to stay here for several days before
continuing to her home.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
RETURN sFRom IA INQUIRE.

home Tuesday evening from LaMure,
where sohe had held the psition of
teacher of music in the public school
few months
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
MRS. SULLIVAN RETURNS.

Mrs. John Sullivan and son return
ed the first of the week from New
York city. where they spent the win
ter months.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG.

The members of the Workmen lodge
held their regular meeting Thursday
evening with the dedidation OF a serv'
ice flag bearing eight stars the feature
of the meeting. The hall was most
appropriately decorated for the occa'
sion "'5 rt
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
WE ARE SAVING

One thing this war has brought home to
Americans is that we must save more money, and
that more of US must save our earnings, than was
done before the war. We must save, not only
for ourselves, but for the perpetuation of civi-
zation and the honor of our country In other
days many postponed the acquiring of the saw
ing habit because they saw no "rainy day" close
at hand.
Now, however, all is different, and every
American knows that he must save of his money
so that there may be no "rainy day" of defeat
for our cause. This has been proven in the Lib
erty loan campaigns, the thrift stamp drives and
gifts for war charities. We have invested sew
eral billion dollars of our savings to win the war.
But that has not interfered with our own per-
sonal "rainy day" saving efforts.
deposits in our savings banks have been on
the increase so that today these combined deposits
represent $1O,OO0,000 more than the entire amount
of actual money in the United States" says Myron
T. Herrick who has spent years persuading peo-
pie into thrifty pathways.