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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19
INVESTIGATION |
OF ORIGIN OF
fires STARTED
Many Evidences Of Incen.
diaris1n Have Been Re-
ported, to Officials.

St. Paul, Oct. 19.-State and gov
ernment officials are conducting sep
arate investigations of suspicious in
cidents connected with the recent for
est fires which swept Minnesota, it
was learned upon good authority at
the state capitol today. It is under
stood that the Investigations which
are now under way are to determine
whether 'incendiaries actually started
the series Of terrible fires. or whether
they took advantage of natural condi-
Itions to spread the flames. =
1t has been reported that many, evil
dences Of incendiarism have been OBJ
tanned by forest wardens, home
tguardsmen and volunteer workers but
no formal announcement has been
made.
There will not be any special ses-
sion of the legislature to appropriate
aid for the stricken district. Governor
Burnquist today repeated his recent
statement that the state has. adequate
funds which are available, Tor immsdi-
ate use: !. "A --.SE, = .
! Rafn& Isl falling in the devastated
region. Small fires have been extin-
guished. r.,
Federal Dam, Mimi. Oct. 1s.-w
T. Cox. state forester, issued a state
ment here early this afternoon in
which he declared that the blame for
the Minnesota forest fires must be
borne by the state legislature. Re.
duced appropriations. making efficient
forest patrol work impossible .renabled
the flames to cause such historic de-
vastation, he said. ,.55@lIst:
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

T., announcing his reply, Secretary
Lansing also made public the Official
text Of the Austro- Hungarian note. 1t
follows:
Legation OF Sweden, washington,
d. c., Oct. Z, 1918. ~
''- "(Translation.)
'Excellency:
"BX order Of my government I have
the nOr confidentially to transmit
herewith to you the following COM
municatiOn of the imperial and royal
government OF Austria Hungary to
the president OF the United States Of
America:
1.-the Austro- Hungarian monarchy
which has wagcd war always and
solely as q defensive war and repeat
edly given documentary evidence of
its readiness to stop the shedding of
blood and to arrive at q just and hon
orable peace, hereby addresses itself
to his lordship, the president of the
United States of America and offers to
conclude with him and his Allies an
armistice on every front on land, at
sea and in the air and to enter immc-
diately upon negOtiatiOns for peace
for which the IA points in the message
Of President Wilson to congress Of
January s, 1918 and the fOnrSpoints
contained In President Wilson'S ad.
dress or February IL, 1918, should
serve as foundation and in which
the viewpoints declared by President
Wilson in his address Of Sept. ~, 1918
will also be taken into account I
..Be pleased to accept, etc.
(Signed) NV. A. f.. Ekengren.
Ellis excellency, Mr.. Robert Lans-
] ing, secretary Of state of the United
States, Washing sE54
~ Is
Must Return to Autonomy. q.
Amsterdam, Oct. 19.--. Hungary
must return to it's autonomy q and
complete independenc declared the
draft Of an address to King Charles
which was read at the conclusion of
the sitting Of the lower house OF the
( Hungarian parliament. says q Buda-
pest dispatch. IA + H f ~ d z.
I international currenth based on the
noble principles of President Will
son's points,. the address adds.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

EARTHQUAKE is RECORDED,
st. Louis, Mo-, Oct ~ Earth
quake tremors were recorded on the
seismograph at the st. Louis univer-
sity last night from 1923 to 11:05 p.
m. The distance was estimated at
1900 miles almost due south, probab bly,
In South America. B, d
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

Reports to tho public
health service from IS states show
influenza is on the increase In most
parts OF the country.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-19

washington-Alien Property Gus
todian Palmer made further disclos-
ures Of the efforts OF Count Won Bern
storn and other German agents to
prevent the manufacture and ship
ment Of munitions to the Allies.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18
BIG WAR PROFITS
! ARE BEING MADE
GREAT BRITAIN is COMPLAINING
OF COSTS OF MUNITIONS

LONDON, March (Correspon.
dence of the Associated Press)-The
British Ministry of munitions has been
charged by acQmmitee of the House
OF Commons with wasting public funds
through failure to adopt elementary
precautions in awarding contracts
for war supplies. The expenditure of
the Munitions department were in
vestigated by committee on National
Expenditures.
In its report the committe charged
that the department had no adequate
system of estimating or controlling
prices of munitions, that it did not
properly limit profits to the contrac-
tors nor regulate the use of labor and
material.
| According to the committee the min
istry of Munitions has expended about
100 900 900 pounds in the erection and
equipment of national factories in
grants to private firms and in supply
ing buildings and equipment to them.
Investigations by accountants have
/ have corrected some of the methods
that were alleged to be wastful In
this way 100000 pounds were saved
by a reduction in the price of cOrdite.
Reductions in the contract prices of
ammunition following technical in
vestigations of costs, resulted in the
saving of 35,OOO9OOO pounds in two
years In one contract for gun equip
ment. it is asserted. accountants EN-
ployed by the munitions department
reduced the contractors profit by 2,
900 900
Great sums of money, have been
spent in extending the munition fact
Orries while others which could pro-
duce the same commodity have been
left idle for lack of material and la
Dor. There is continual waste of
labor, material and money in the con-
struction of factories which compete
with each other" said the committee.
while their production could have
been obtained at infinitely lower cost
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18
OLD Hoss SALE
WOULD DIVIDE WORLD INTO
TWO HOSTILE TRADING CAMPS

NEW YORK, April 17-Statesmen
of Hungary hesitate to adopt the Ger
man plan for closer commercial re-
lations between Germany and Austria
Hungary because of the chance that
the Entente nations will 1etaliate by
adopting similar plan of giving pre-
ferential consideration to one another,
to the exclusion of Austria-Hung
This would permantnantly divide
the world into two hostile camps
it was asserted in Budapest letter
to the Cologne Gazette. 1T maye be
doubtful declared the writer, whether
the enemy states in the west could
be forced to recognize fixed CONNER
cial status between Germany and
Austria without themselves insisting
upon the right to give preferential
treatment to one another. Even if it
were possible, by forcing all our enc
mics to their knees, to preserve the
policy of preferential treatment among
the Central Powers, the neutral sta
ties certainly would oppose such a
plan"
Hungarian industrial. commercial
and labor classes were disinclined to
effect an economic approachment with
Germany by means of a traffic union
or preferential tariff treaty, asserted
the Budapest correspondent. This
was partly based on the ground that
it was not practicable and would re-
suit in a clash of interests. irritation
and lessen the sympathy now eX's-
ting between the Central Powers.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18
RESTAURANT KEEPERS DENY
BEEN Fleeing PUBLIC

LONDON, March 17.-Proprietors OF
the fashionable restaurants in what
is known as the West End have been
busy writing letters to the newspa-
pers in an effort to counter act the
criticism that they are Fleeing the
now partly-rationed public. The griev
ance of the public is that they are
charged as much and sometimes more
for the smaller dishes than they paid
for the larger ones before the days
of compulsory rationing Nor have
the eating places made allowance for
the fact that they no longer serve SUI
gar and butter. Increased wartime
cost of labor and table wear is given
by hte restaurant proprietors as justi-
fication for their action.
The head of one of the most eX-
pensive Strand hotels, popular with
Americans, takes the line that the
gross profits are less than in prewar
days. The increased cost of labor
and material has, he says, made neces-
sary the extra charges for less food.
He deals exhaustively with the subject
in a letter to the papers, and gives a
table which shows that table-linen
and other articles have been trebled
in price since the war.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18
GERMAN INVENTIVE SCHOOL
HAS BEEN FOUNDED

COPENHAGEN, March ia Ger
man institute of inventions has been
founded at Giessen. 1t is intended to
foster Geran creative technical work
by the selection and promotion of per-
sons endowed with inventive talent.
Prizes are to be offered for the solu-
ton of important problems.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18

by concentration of labor and mechan
les in certain places and using them
in their full capacity.
II is stated that prices in this fourth
year of the war are still REALLY de-
termined by bargaining and manufac,
turers are out to get as much profit as
they can. They favor collective bar
gaining" in which prices are deter
mined by the whole trade by the cost
of profitable production in the factory
which produces most extensively.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-04-18
DIXIE FLYER in
DITCH EARLY TODAY
SEVERAL INJURED BUT NONE Sc
RIOUSLY IN ACCIDENT

ATLANTA, April 18.-Saveral mem
bers of the crew were injured and the
passengers shaken up when the Dixie
Flyer, Chicago to Jacksonville, was
wrecked at Winnings, Ca, early to-
day. Most of the train left the rails
and narrowly escaped plunge down
a steep embankment. Spreading rails
are believed to have been the sause.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
FOR THE SIGNAL CORPS

One asnect of the construction OF the
new army environments, aVlatloh iielas,
naval bases and other goVe e ZEN 49, Vs.
projects to which attention has not peeh
called is that of electric communication.
Every one of these places must ne ~
constant contact with Washlhg TON, anu y
it must at least be possible to estao-
fish contact between any two OF the sta-
tions This involves a very heaVy pro-
gram of construction, enlargement ana
Inflated operation, on the paTt VI lei9
oranh and telephone companies.
one of the biggest undertakings mas
heen in connection with the toll sWltch1
hoard'' at Washington, through which all
long distance calls, both incoming anu
since February is now being made here'
and will when complete make the capa-
city of this board 220 per cent OF WhaC
it was in the month mentlohed; AZ oilo
same time a great deal OF local sWltch,
board and cable work has been caIied
for by the heavy increase IN mler-oe-
partment calls. ..a4
in most cases some few miles from the
nearest city has necessitated the install
lation of long cables containing from my
to a hundred pairs of wires. putting tpe
canp switchboard in contact with the
national telephone and telegraph system
at the city In addition to all this per-
manent work, temporary faclhtleS haq 10
be furnished the contractors engaged IN
construction work. The demand upon the
resources of the companies in the way OF
RECEIVERS. transmitters, batteries, and
other items of small equipment can bet
ter be imagined than described.
The whole record of emergency work
in establishing the communications which
we have specifically mentioned, as Wen as
those for aviation fields, bridge and wa
ter supply guards, manufacturing plants
engaged in special war work railroads
involved in the movements of troops,
coast defense projects, etc, has been
highly creditable one. The work of the
,yaFAr, f0es
touches the war at every point, and it
is a striking tribute to the science OF
communication that q country so vast
as the United States can be so closely
knit together by it's hundreds of thous-
ands of miles of wire and by the appl-
cations of wireless as wei.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
AWFUL INDICTMENT
OF GERMAN NATION

The United States government, in the
current issue of THE Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore, gives it's first I'M
qualified statement of what it thinks of
Germany and the Germans. This. one of
the most sCathing arraignments of one
nation by another ever printed, appears
in recruiting advertisement over the
signature of the chief signal Officer OF
the avia ton section of the Signal Corps,
and has the approval of the secretary OF
war.
you are an American" this statement
reads in part, and all that you are ana
all that you hope to be reflects to the
credit of a democracy
The Walls of Americas wrath are open
ed in the paragraph which follows:
THAT democracy" the advertisement
continues, sis being assailed by the most
damnable foe that ever fired a cannon,
that ever drove home a bayonet, that ever
ravaged neutral state, that ever sunk
and children in lifeboats that ever cru
Gifted and castrated enemy soldiers, that
ever cut the right hands off boy children
in captured territory, tina ever raped
women by thousands. that ever lived to
fasten its demon clutches on the throat OF
civilization.
Almighty God viii not permit the I'M
leashed hellishness of Kaiserism to en-
gulf the world. No sane thinking man
can conceive of an all-wise and aI-loving
supreme Deity permitting our section OF
the world to come under German lead
ership-the stencil of the universe-but
now-not tomorrow-right now. Almighty
God needs the help of trained men,"
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
REMOUNT NEWSIES

A severe wind storm, which came up
very Unexpectedly Friday night, totally
destroyed one of the corral buildings
and damaged several others on the
reservation. Especially did the stu
dents of the horseshoers' school and the
veterinary corps suffer from the wind
as it completely destroyed several of
the tents. The total damage is esti-
mated at about $4,000.
Tonsolitis seems to..be very popular
among a few of the fellows for the past
week or two as several of them have
been confined to quarters as result.
Weather like we are now having
makes bathing very unpopular, espe-
cially when we have to walk two hun
bred yards, half nude, through the
snow and mud Before and after be-
ginning on the ordeal. In fact, show
ers are SO uncommon until it seems
that passes ore now issued before one
can enjoy that privilege. Sergeants
Hill and Kirkpatrick were unaware of
this until last night when upon finish
ing their bath and feeling very intoXi-
Gated from the effects, they started
back to the Llrracks through the cold
wind arrayed in nothing but bath
robes, when they were halted by a
guard and ordered to produce a pass.
While Tommy Hills teeth were cha
tering the accompaniment, Bobby
Kirkpatrick succeeded in explaining to
the sentry tina he was not aware of
the new orders in regard TO baths as
it had been some time since ~ had
taken one. The guard then explained
that it was his mistake as he thought
they were German spies, disguised as
women, trying to beat it in without
pass,
If tongue fighting, lip gas, ear fry
ing and the mess menu at the Remount
could win the war a peace conference
would be held here next week.
Pop" Sherman, the ~canteen man.
has converted his store into restau-
rant and it has proven to be the most
popular rendezvous on the reserVa-
ton.
The office force has expanded to
such an \extent in the past few days
that it was necessary to find a new
site for Lieut.. Farquhar's medical OF
flee, SO it has been decided TO pitch d
pun tent inpShe I. c. Corral
SERGT. r. D. JENNINGS
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
elbow! BLOW! COME
AND GO"

A terrific rain and wind storm struck
Camp Hancock Friday evening last caus-
ing great havoc, destroying some build
ings but sparing the lives of ALL
A Knights of Columbus building, and
the new Y M. c, A. building near Gen
eraI Logans headquarters, both of which
were under construction were completely
demolished. The large tent used by the
Y, NJ. c. A. near the Ammunition Train
was also destroyed and it's contents scat
tered over several square miles The Y
M. G. A, tent at the Remount Station
was overturned but quickly put to rights
The two immense entertainment tents
handled by the Fosdick Commission were
torn to shreds The one especially looks
very much like ruined cathedral 'some-
where in France" Pianos We're over
turned, the stage destroyed, and it win be
some time before entertainments can be
given.
The tent of the Military Police sergeant
at the corner of Wheess and Wrights-
boro road was completely DESTROYED. Hum
dreds of soldiers tents and a few belong
lnGS to officers were also overthrown
Many of the men in the middle of the
night gathered such of their belongings
as We're accessible. and moved into the
mess halls or the Y. M. C. A buildings
and made themselves as comfortable as
possible for the remainder of the night
The atmosphere was very much colder in
the early morning, but within a few hours
the soldiels' tents were restored to nor
NAL.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
MOTOR MECHANICS AND
I'M. C. A.


The Motor Mechanics is an entirely new
organization in military history. The reg
iments now being formed at Camp Han
cock number three and are composed of
skilled men taken by selection from the
National Army environments and en-
listed from civil life. The plans of selec-
ton were worked out to the greatest de-
tail with the one point in view of gath
ering the most expert mechanical skill
Of the entire country. These men are to
be employed in present aeroplane, ma
chine-gun and tank-monster warfare.
They were compelled to stand a most
most skilled could pass.
Their present status might be classed
as post graduate training. They are I'M
deTgoing a most intensive training in all
the arts of lotest warfare methods.
Camp Hancock was selected as the mob
ilization center for thees new regiments. =
Quietly they irifted into camp, without
blare of band or hurrah of comrades. and
before our eyes rose the tents of of the
First, Second and Third Motor Mechanic
Regiments. These regiments were Or
ganiZed from specialists and machinists
brought from many of the camps and can
tonments throughout the States. There
are men in camp from almost every state
in the union and even from islands in
the Pacific. In one squad in the Second
Motor Mechanic Regiment, the eight men
comprising the squad, each one is from
a different state. Surely the strength and
unity OF this great American union ls no
better emphasized than in a hasty survey
OF these regiments.
These men, coming as they did, from
camps that are not so fortunate as to
possess the health records that Camp
Hancock does weer placed in quarantine
from six to twelve days, and in this dis
agreeable position the Army Y. NJ c. A.
came to their help and tried to make life
and living bit more pleasant.
Buildings No. n and No. 70 placed men
among these fellows in order to supply
them a. writing material games, read
ing ma and what not. Thousands of
sheets of paper. and envelopes were dis
tributed among this eager. grateful, let
er-Writing crowd of men. During the day
we would load a WheelbarroW with writ
ing material and games and supply the
companies with our supplies as far as
possible. We were not permitted to cross
the guard line but a call would bring
swarm of men to the line who would
receive with outstretched hands every
thing we could give. It was surprising,
too, how many of the men asked and
read the tracts and pamphlets. That was
a feature of the work not experienced to
any extent up to that date.
The men and officers are of an unusual
ly high stamp. Many of the enlisted men
are National Army men although quite
few are transferees from Regular
Army outfits. Everywhere you go in the
Motor Mechanic Regiments one will meet
smiling face. Grumbling and dissatis-
faction are one of the things not heard
Appreciation and cooperation are the
slogan words.
Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-16
HUMAN EFFICIENCY

What is my efficiency? Am I fifty per
cent efficient in my work, or am work.
ing up to candlepower and giving my
employer full 100 per cent efficiency?
Here is food for reflection. Many of us
are prone to complain of our lack of
recognition on the part of our boss" or
don't think we are receiving proper COM
pensation for the work that we are do
ing AT such times, when q spell of
gloom casts its shadow before US, 1t is
time to sit up and take notice of our
actual working conditions.
The man who gets into rut and stays
there, and who for years will plod along
in the same job, and who is generally
bewailing his lot, will. upon investiga-
ton be found to invariably follow the
paths of least resistance and let well
enough alone. When through with the
days work one is tired and naturally
wants rest and recreation, but few
minutes can be spared to thinking over
the the work of the day and trying to
determine where mistakes have been
made and where conditions could have
been bettered. If this is done a new
interest will be awakened the next morn
ing and we will set about to correct our
errors and put into effect such ideas as
we think will be for the Improvement Of
the work in hand, and thereby aid in
bringing our efficiency up to the stands
ard.=Southern Engineer,