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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-27

British Army Headquarters in France March 27.
From the average of casualties in the various German
units as given by prisoners one arrives at the conclus-
ion that the German emperor has lost 90 per cent OF
these since he gave the signal for the advance
Pl The Germans last night continued their furious
fslaught southwestward from Ham against the allied
defense in the region of Roye and Noyon having slow
ed down in their patent attempt to cut through the Brit
sh line further north where such desperate resistance
was offered
Hard fighting occurred last night about the town
of Albert Large enemy forces pushed forward toward
the place. but at last accounts the British were holding
them doggedly at this possible gateway to Amens.
The conflict In the sector around Roye and Noyon
appears to be of great Importance from the many ind
cations that the German higher command is attempting
to split the allied front there and start rolling up pro-
cess either way.
The official British statement Of yesterday said it
had been established that than seventy German
divisions had been engaged in this battle The usual
estimate of the present strength of German division
I12OOO men, so that loss of 80 per cent would
casualties in of 100000 for the Germans in less
than week of fighting.
London, March 27-The zone of open warfare Is
continuing to enlarge the entente forces fall back
under the enormous weight OF the German numbers,
says Reuters correspondent at British headquarters IN
his dispatch today. 1t is clearly established the
dispatch adds that the present offensive is the great
main effort of the Germans and that it has not been as
successful they anticipated the enemy being long
way behind his time table and having failed to break
through and begin rolling up tactics.
The Germans are now pushing against the British
line with the full pressure of their masses They have
thrown in their reserves more rapidly than they intend
ed it is declared and are therefore wearing themselves
down, although naturally firing the defense in the
process.
The general feeling the correspondent reports. is
that the days of trench warfare are definitely passed
Counting the Loot
Amsterdam, March 27-The German newspapers
are already counting the German gains.
cit is self-evdent' ~ says The Cologne Volks Zei-
tng, that after what now happening can no long
conclude peace on the terms which we were ready to
accept a week ago. The enemy must be brought to i
submissive spirit and forced to grant everything re
need in the future especially IN colonies and raw ma
terials.
Assaults Break Down.
British Army Headquarters IN France, March 81
CONTINUED on page a.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
Doing Without
 Ones Private Car

ID RECTOR M'ADoo has denied
 O a request made of him by Mrs.
 Cornelius Vanderbilt. She wished to
 visit her husband, colonel with the 1O3d engineers, stationed at Camp -'Wadsworth, Spartanburg, s. C., and asked that her private car be hauled from New York to the camp.
 The thought of travelling in an or dinary Pullman was so irksome to the lady's spirit that when her first request was denied she telegraphed Mir. McAdoo offering to pay forty fares. She was politely but firmly in- formed that private cars were for bidden under a special ruling and no exception would be made in her favor.
 Iris well. Mrs. Vanderbilt may be an estimable woman, but this is no time to coddle ourselves, no matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
ROCHE ArRoCITY PROVED

From the Louisville Courier-JournaL
 The Courier-Journal the other day pub lished report of his Investigations of German atrocities made by the man. ager of the Flint, Mich, Board of Con- merce, just back from the war fronts of France. These included the case of young American soldier captured by the Huns, who because he was an American, cut his throat. Confirmation of this now comes in dispatch from Camp Mclean. Ga:
 One of the officers of the camp stated that heretofore he had doubted tho Ger man atrocities. Fighting men," he said, usually act together on some mode of fighting to which they adhere. In this instance the German raiders did commit Apache atrocities on the body of an American soldier" Then he exhibited a letter from an officer in the company to which the butchered American be- longed. One part of the letter reads:
 Some of these bright days we shall find ourselves in the trenches The - infantry is. as usual, ready. and. be- lieve me, we are going to get even for the 20 men we lost, especially for the poor devil whose throat was cut from car to ear and shot 12 times in the back God help the Huns our men lay their hands on."
 It is not surprising that there is a growing feeling that the Boches should not be treated like soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Press Supports W. s. S. Campaign
 had occasion to look over a large batch of daily and weekly papers of Alabama today" said John Sparrow, and I was gratified to note that every one of them contained some reference to the war savings campaign in Alabama some of them carried ads boosting war savings stamps These were do- mated by patriotic citizens. In others there were interesting news items about the sale of baby bonds and thrift stamps. This certainly indicates wide spread intrest in the governments great effort to conserve labor and material and raise money and teach our people thrift at the same time. I am inclined to believe that the Alabama state com mittee is leading those in other southern states in thrift work among the col ored people. Be that as it may, I am certain that our southern states con- mittee has this branch of the work bet ter and more systema tically organized. If the campaign in Alabama accom- plishes nothing else than the making of thrift popular among the negroes, It will have accomplished something that will stand for years, and contribute to the prosperity of the state. It is doing great deal more than that, however; 1t is uniting all classes of our people, making better citizens, more ardent pa- triots."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
Let Every Man Keep at Work

ID RESIDENT FRANK J. HAYES of the United Mine Work of America has ordered the idle miners in the Br mngham district to work pending investigation and adjustment of their alleged grievances.
 This accord with the policy that has been urged by AgeHerad No with the fire of patriotism burning in his should be willing stop work No who realizes the gravity of the situation confronting his country should be willing to sacrifice single hours effort when his work is contributing directly to winning the
 It especially unfortunate that there has been during the past days much talk of stopping work here not only among the miners but among other workmen whose entire
 time needed carry at full capacity the nations featuring and transportation.
 grievance enough this time justify anyone quitting work Employers and employees alike should let love of country guide their actions Any little differences be adjusted The main thing is to keep gong keep produc ion at noch make everything hum and let the people of the United States know that Alabama in this to win that the of this state devoted to their countr and will keep up their maximum effort.
 Now that the miners have been ordered back to work let there be further time lost here The machinery exists for presenting and adjusting grievances and if there be differ opinion about what right let them be hreshed out in orderly and decent way.
 But by all keep at work and work with vim in the meantime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21

1t is breakfast time, or the hour of 6 for tea-morning or afternoon the mayor tells the returned exiles with the same feryor, the same unmistakable sheer ity, that they, too, are true soldiers of France. that their moral resistance uti- der alien rule has been one of Frances greatest victories.
 There is strange thrill as that crowd rises to sing the "Marse1llaise."
 From tho Casino the repatriates pass on in scattered groups to find their ho- tels and lodging houses. One night is passed in Evian. time enough to see two new convoys land open-eyed in the honis country.
 Some of them go to hospitals; less than half have relatives and friends to go to-; the lonely remnant Is passed to far-off parts of France. A few come back to France skilled in war trades and are sent to the industrial towns. But there is a lonely remnant of nearly 600 daily, whom the government passed on to the projects of the departments which have borne least of the direct burden of the war,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
IN NO MANS LAND

out our wounded. A good many Of our trenches were directly enfladed; shells burst just behind the parapet, when they didn't burst on it. It was at about this point in my breaking-in that received blow on the head-and thanked God for the man who invented the steel helmet. All of sudden we halted, making ourselves as small as could be. In tho rapidly thinning mist ahead of us men were moving. They were stretcher- bearers. The odd thing was that they were carrying their wounded away from, instead of toward us. Then it flashed on us that they were Huns. We had wandered into No Mans Lana. Almost at that moment we must have been spotted, for shells commenced falling at the end of the trench by which we had entered. Spreading out, so as not to attract attention, we com menced to crawl toward the other end. Instantly that also was closed to us, and curtain of shells started drop- ping behind us. We were trapped. With perfect coolness--a coolness which, whatever I looked, did not share--we went down on our hands and knees, wriggling our way through the corpses and shell holes in the direction of where our front line ought to be. After what seemed an age. we got back. Later we registered the guns. and onp of our officers, who had been laying in wire, was killed in the process.
 On the way out. when we had como to part of our journey where the ten- sion was relaxed and we could be less cautious, I saw a. signaling officer ly- ing asleep under a blackened tree. I called my majors attention to him, saying: Look at that silly ass. sir. He'll get something that he doesn't want if he lies there much longer."
 My major turned his head, and said briefly, Poor chap, he's got it
 Then I saw that his shoulder blade had burst through his tunic and was protruding. He's been coming out walking freely and feeling that the danger was over. just as we were. when the unlucky shell had caught him. His name must have been writ ten on .it' our men say when that hap pens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
FRANCE WELCOMES HER EXILES

Lewis G. Gannett, in Leslie's.
 WINERY day, in some little village or
 r concentration town in Belgium.
 one of the long trains is filled with
 exiles from the deserted towns of France close to the present battle front. Then
 begins the three days journey across
 Luxemburg and Germany to Switzerland
 and France. The trains cross the Swiss
 border from Germany at various hours;
 but they are routed to arrive at Evian
 twice day; at 40s in the afternoon. and
 at JAS in the morning.
 Then comes the welcome home-and in
 it America shares. Eight big American
 fore the station. and a group of young ambulanciers waits, grinning American grins, to help the very old and the very
 young out of the trains. The six or seven hundred people pour out of the
 trains; they shout, 'svive la France;"
 they cheer, hysterical with joy. Six
 triumphant trumpeters greet them with a blare of welcome; and the answering
 shout somehow catches at your throat as you listen. The crowd pours out on to the street; and the trumpeters lead the way forward. their lusty tunes drawing
 the strange procession after them. Bent old men and women whose backs were straighter when the Germans invaded their country the time before, in 1S7O try to march erect, looking out of misty eyes at this strangely happy land of France. Small boys and girls, after three almost sleepless night on the train. hop and skip as If they had just opened their eyes on a Christmas morn. There are men on crutches who refuse to ride in 1 ambulances; there are old women stoop- ling under huge sacks; there are nuns and priests. women Yn Paris hats-three years old, to be sure, but unmistakably I from Paris, and women with shawis wrapped about their heads. Crowds :, gather to greet them, and people run Ito windows to wave their handker-
 chiefs; and other people march alonx with the queer throng to the Casino,
 almost mile from the station.
 1 At the Casino comes the grand re- ception. The repatriates sit on low benches at long, improvised board tables E-with room for 700 persons; and coffee Rand bread are served them by the women tof Evian. The band plays. and the mayor rises, in full evening dress. with his 1, silk hat in his left hand. and make | his speech of welcome. And this hap pens whether your watch says 7;s0. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21

how many millions we possess. The order against the use of private cars was made to serve practical pur- pose in expediting railroad traffic, particularly the shipment of freight, including fuel and food for which peo- pie in many parts of the country were suffering.
 In these days and times, when the war is demanding sacrifices of us and causing not few of us to be deprived |of the modest comforts and the sim pie pleasures to which we had become accustomed, the spectacle of wom- an of great wealth clinging to the luxury of private car and protesting against the hard necessity of travel ing as ordinary mortals do is, to say the least of it, poor example of patriotism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
Creamery Industry
 Continues to Grow

1NHE creamery industry of Mis-
 J sissippi has grown so large
 that it is beginning to attract atten-
 tion in all parts of the country. Bir- |mingham has been drawing large
 part of it's butter supply from Missis- sippi for several years past, but now that the dairy industry in our neigh boring state has increased so rapidly Lionel c. Mulholland, the government marketing agent, who is stationed at the Agricultural and Mechanical col
 lege. Is kept busy working up new
 interest in dairy products.
 The Mississippi creamery exhibit
 that will be made in Birmingham
 early in the spring will show the scope of recent development. North ern cities are used to dairy exhibits, but as the creamery is compara- lively new venture in this section the forthcoming display here will be something of novelty. A special feature is being made of cottage"
 cheese, and it is proving decidedly profitable.
 Alabama's fine grazing lands should be inviting to dairy farmers, and with la reasonable amount of energy a great butter making industry could be built up here within few years. The United States department of agriculture is organized for practical cooperation with local dairymen, and Tiff an enthusiastic movement were started for developing butter produc- tion in Alabama in a short while it
 would be adding largely to the wealth jof the state.
 Certain it is that Mississippi's ex- ample is worth following
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
HARRURY

f-u9 By Louise Driscoll, in Poetry. All the men of Harbury go down to the
 sea in ships, The wind upon their faces. the salt upon their lips. The little boys of Harbury when they afe
 laid to sleep. Dream of masts and cabins and the
 wonders of the deep. {. The women folk of Harbury have eySs
 like the sea, Wide with watching wonder. deep wifh
 mystery. I'd like to be sa Harbury on the Jud1-
 ment Day. When the word is spoken and the sea k
 wiped away, And all the drowned fisher boys. win
 seaweed in their hair, Rise and walk to Harbury to greet tic
 women there. They tell mo that in Paradise the fiel3s
 arc green and still, With pleasant flowers everywhere th9t
 all may take who will, And four great rivers flowing trc3,
 out the throne of God. That no one ever drowns in and souls
 may cross dryshod. n I think among those wonders the{e
 Will me men like me Who miss the old salt danger of tue
 n e tt ses' s:Jss s.Sss sl.sS <.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
Posterity's Debt
 to the Cameraman

PHOTOGRAPHERS have played a < heroic and usfAll part in the war. Not only have army cameramen proved invaluable in observation work over the enemy's lines, but the news paper photographers have given to us through the medium of the press and the motion picture a wonderfully graphic ana accurate comprehension If ssab the War means, how it is be- srs fought ana what manner of men gre -aring it's frightful burdens.
 The imaginative person can read a well written piece of description and get fairly vivid and lasting impress sion, but the motion picture arrests the attention of all, from the most profound intellectuals to the little child. Furthermore, it offers proof that cannot be disputed of crimes charged against Germany and her allies. The camera can be made to lie under expert manipulation-the trick movie shows that-but the war pie lures are the real thing.
 We who are thousands of miles away from the front can sit comfort ably in theatre and watch clumsy "tank" lumber through shell craters, cross trenches and lunge onward to rout the Huns from their carefully perpared positions. We can see the airmen beginning their flights which may end in death-or decoration. Thousands of soldiers, thousands of guns, great and small, horses, mules, wagons-the vast panorama of war as it is waged on the modern scale can be viewed for a trifling sum, thanks to the development of the mo- tion picture camera and the daring of photographers who risk their lives to get the actual process of war. These men have been under fire time and again and many have paid for their zeal with their lives.
 
 From historical point of view the photographic records of this war the official films taken under gov ernment authority and preserved for the future-are priceless. They will show to after generations, as nothing else could, what the allies endured and achieved for democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21

Lieutenant Coningsby Dawson, in
 Good Housekeeping.
 MlY major told me that T was to UWlf be ready at S:90 next morning
 to accompany him up front to register the guns. In registering guns you take a te1ephonist and linesemen with you. They lay in line from the battery to any point you may select as the best from which to observe the enemy's country. This point may be two miles or more in advance of your battery. Your battery is always hidden and out of sight, for fear the enemy should see the flash of the firing; con- sequently the officer in charge of the battery lays the guns mathematically. but cannot observe the effect of his. shots. The officer who goes forward can see the target; by telephoning back his corrections, he makes himself the eyes of the officer at the guns.
 It had been raining when we crept out of our kennels to go forward. Everything was dim, and clammy, and spectral. At the hour of dawn one isn't at his bravest.
 We entered a trench. Holes were scooped out in the side of it just large enough to shelter man crouching. Each hole contained a sleeping soldier who looked as dead as the occupant of catabomb. Some of the holes had been blown in; all you saw of the late occupant was a protruding arm or leg, At best there was horrid sim- ilarity between the dead and the liv- ing. It seemed that the walls of the trenches had been built out of corpses, for one recognized the uniforms of Frenchmen and Huns. They were built out of them. though whether by de- sign or accident it was impossible to tell. We came to a group of men, do- ing some repairing; that part of the trench had evidently been strafed last night. They didn't know where they were, or how far it was to the front line. We wandered on, still laying in our wire. The colonel of our brigade joined us, and we waded on together.
 The enemy smelling was growing more intense as was always the way on the Somme when we were bringing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
An Investment of
 Far-Reaching Value

10HE Howard college campaign
 G for raising $150,000 in the Bir- mingham district is progressing well, and it is believed that, with nearly half the sum sought already sub scribed, the total will be raised with lin the next week or two.i The more people consider what well-equipped college means to city the quicker they will be to respond to appeals for financial aid for institutions like Howard.
 The two colleges in this city-How- ard and Birmingham-will be greatly enlarged in time and each of them should have a "last word" in educa- tion. There is room here not only for these two colleges, but for others that may be projected in the years to come.
 What Birmingham is especially in- ] terested in for the moment is the ef- fort to make tie $50, ,0OO-campaign success. Any business man or property owner who contributes to the Howard college fund will be making an investment of far-reaching bene- 1 fit. And prosperous citizens who are broad-visioned will be glad to sub scribe.
 It would be encouraging indeed, to the committee if several large sums
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
GERMAN "roBACcO,
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 German tobacco must be fearful and wonderful thing these war times. It is said to be compound of dried hops, fennel leaves, mint, verbena, wild oats. heather and bulrushes, and colored with extracts of elderberries, fruit skins and Pernambuco wood. If the Germans are smoking that mixture a great many of their bad dreams may be explained, per- haps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
LIKE M,LukE SAYS

The difference between a man and a dog is that if you pat man on the back he is liable to get big head.
 The man who never allows his nose to project more than an inch or so from
 his face seldom has a black eye.
 A bachelor is usually modest enough to believe that he shouldn't disappoint a whole lot of girls just to make one girl happy.
 If a lawyer is a married man he doesn't have to go into court to have most of
 his objections overruled. When mans children can't think up any more embarrassing questions to ask
 him, his wife starts in. Prodigal sons and umbrellas that you
 lend always return home busted. The average man would rather take something for it than take care to pre- vent it.
 A girls hand is girls hand. But you get a different sensation when your sweetheart holds your hand than you do when manicure girl holds it. A man will button up an undershirt an outer shirt and two coats and have goose pimples on his chest in cold
 weather But woman will wear an in. visible waist and have prickly heat on her chest in cold weather. Don't condemn woman because she thinks more of her poodle than she does
 Of her husband. Perhaps there's q req son.
 The indescribabIe dainty aroma tina clings to the girl you are counting Is
 one of Dan Cupid's best allies. But five years of married life will surround hel
 with an aroma of strong lye soap, fried onions and stale coffee. If you want everybody to know ycul business in small town with fourth
 class postoffice do all your correspond
 ing on post cards.
 | The man who wants divorce if his wife wants to spend dollar on clothe: for herself is the same fellow whs wants divorce because his wife is no as well dressed as other women. ! You can always make your wife obey
 you by telling her to do as she pleases
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-21
Twenty Years of Progress

Ut seems good to be back among old friends after an absence of more than 20 years" said J. Q. Cohen, who will be remembered by members of the Bir- mingham bar who lived here during the eighties.
 "I am now living in New York, and of course, used to big things, but Blr- mingham's remarkable development strikes me almost as miraculous I can hardly believe my eyes as I walk the streets in the downtown district, and the Highlands seem almost like castles in the air, yet they are mighty real and beau