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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Labor
1T OYALTY LABOR WEEK" begins

& VI ALLY LABOR w EEK" begins
to-day. Under the auspices ci
the American Alliance for Labor
and Den ocracy, organized labor will hod
demonstrations throughout the country
tor the purpose of arousing spirit of
greater unity and enthusiasm for Amer
ica's cause.
The backbone of the newspaper dealers
strike IN New York City is broken, accord
ing 10 latest reports at the time The Ne
we" went to press, many of the strikers
having accepted the terms of the pub
fishers.
Ten thousand girls, members Of the
international Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, quit work in this city for an s.:
ger cent increase in wages for piece work
ers and 81 week for week workers, also
a forty-nine hour week.
The Commercial Telegraphers of America
nave set April % aside as open organi'
zatlon" day. An attempt will be made to
organize all the telegraph operators Of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph sys'
tens. They have given notice to the com
panies that any attempt to punish en-
ployes for joining will be followed by an
order for general strike
Between 1000 and 1,50O weavers IN
Philadelphia have struck FOR Is per cent
advance in wages and changed working
conditions.
Streetcar service in ST. Louis has been
completely halted. The striking motor
men and conductors are demanding IN
creased wages, revision of working hours
ana dlscontinuance of alleged unfair dis
cflmlnation in favor Of women conductors
The 1920 longshoremen who quit WON
on the piers of the Southern Pacific Steam
snip Company voted to submit their grey
ances to the local adjustment board OF Tue
United States Shipping Board.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

young man."
well, mother, didn't know it mvself
until yesterday. I never saw him with a
uniform on before. "--Yonkers Statesman.
Mrs. A-Are you troubled much in
your neighborhood with borrowing?
Mrs. B.-Yes, a good deal NV neigh
bors never seem to have anything I want.
Transcript.
"Hi, Bill! Here comes a gas wave"
THANK heavens! This toothache's al
most KILN me."-Cartoons Magazine.
He--Are you fond of indoor sports?
She-Yes, if they know when to go home.
Tiger
My son has some grit in him, can tell
YOU" said father. "Been eating war
bread, I supnose Liverpool Post.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

served to heighten the morale Of n. ::
fantry, who, as one correspondent wr,. ~
"Chuckled to-day when he was to,a
the barrage came right slap down =. INV ~
Dutchman the minute he started to oct e.. 'ae
" lille the artillery commander chucki.a ssa'
he showed reports that our barraye w w,
beaten the German barrage bv ~: haa
seconds" i1y
The glory Of these short bouts won. :.
the artillery, but the men in the trena.' "
were the ones to face the supreme to..
In the words Of one dispatch:
"Thc men conducted themselves we'll d..
the enemy bombardment Several wonns yong
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
/ rance

TT is France, however, that in point of
Il space receives the most attention in
magazines of the moment. "Why France
Wants AlsaceLorraine," in "The Worlds
Work. is not so new as the account of an
Allied dream easily pictured in the title,
"Bordeaux-Odessa versus Berlin Bagdad"
What is suggested is railroad roughly
following the 45th parallel from Bordeaux
to Odessa, crossing the Berlin-Bagdad
route at Belgrade, and implying a stretch
of territory favorable to the Entente that
would sever the Mitteleuropa scheme at
the waist.
Other views of France at war may be
found in Francis B. Sayre's article on
the Y. NJ. c. A. at the front, in "Harp-
er's,' and in Octave Forsant's chronicle
in "The Atlantic" Excepting School Under
Fire A Record from Rheims which ends
with this comment:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
y Few Miles Long, but It's Front Held by Sammie>

ME United States is now holding a
sector of the Western front under
battle conditions-not big Sec
tor, but real one. The official admission
o TINS fact-suspectede ever since the Ger
mans on November 13 reported the pres
ence OF American soldiers near the Rhine
~ssrne canal. in Lorraine-gives pause.
hack~of-the-ines stories by press CORE
spondents are now thing of the past:
the picture of American troops in battle
with Germans changes from imagination
to reality
Under what conditions, then, and where
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Germany

or number of articles directed at
~ Germany as point of vision per-
haps the most notable this month is the
first of q series in "The Worlds Work"
by John r. Rathom, editor of "The Provi-
dence Journal" telling of German in
trigue III this country unraveiled by the
staff of that energetic paper. In this ac-
count is given the radio message sent
from Berlin to the German Embassy at
Washington ordering the publication of
an advertisement warning passengers
against sailing on Entente boats--the
now famous Lusitania warning. The orig
inal message was as follows
From Berlin Foreign Office
To Botschaft. Washington
$50. (44-W( Welt nineteenth fifteen
warne 175 20 l stop IT'S l 2 stop durck
622 stop 10 z Is stop Tx Il 3 6.
Translated from page, line and word"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

Of this war, nor is it difficult to understand
why we have enlisted in it.
1T is war fer the fulflmcnt of that
prayer for new birth of freedom, not only
tor our own, but for all the nations of The
earth-the Allied nations, the neutral ma
tons, yes, and even for Germany itself. Let
US nope that this war will not cease until
that prayer is answered."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

they initiate the cries of animals, whistle,
sing and accompany themselves by beating
with their forks on their mess plates. And
that makes a drol contrast with the very
grave and serious appearance Of these big
fellows, in their long coats, which recall
those worn by Javert and Jean Vatican.
"The big Americans smile, roll their eyes,
and, happy to talk about things which
even the mention of makes one more hope
fui, tell these little fellows that, for certain
holidays, their government is going to send
them turkey and sweet potatoes But this is
only promise yet without confirmation.
"They dream of that promise in eating
their daily ration. In the evening they eat
it in the dusk, their feet muddied, their
mess platters in their hands, out in the cold
and the fog
Intimate Pictures Of the War
1 Locked Country
Now that the men are in the trenches,
what do things look like? The last week
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

night visit to the American sector for
"The New York World" Soon after pass
ing dugout, popularity known as the
"Waldorf," the party entered the commu-
nication trench, where appeared again
the old enemy, mud:
thousands Of duckboards are require
20 floor the liquid mud at the bottom Of
every trench. Again and again in the course
of our promenade we plunged into water
and mire up to thighs. Some trenches
have been wholly untenable. We traversed
one which engineers had put in commission
only the night before. The firing trenches
in little better condition.
"The major gave US brief description of
the lay of the land. The trenches at this
point form rounded salient SO that the
Germans, whose observation facilities, owing
to the high ground back of them, are better
Than ours, are able to enflade certain parts
o. line. The ground on which the OPP
POSING lines laid is quite fiat and at
places marshy it is impossible to dig
trenches. Liaison' patrols unite the open
spaces
"A man needs to be good swimmer for
that work. the major said. Some of these
sWamps are regular lakes"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
The Americans Have Carried On
l In Fine Style

Under. such conditions within the last
week, American infantry, brilliantly sup
ported by American artillery, have
ciashed repeatedly with the enemy, sus-
tanning casualties, yes, but inhcting losses
equally as large, if not larger. Particu-
larly striking was the twenty minute
"strafing" that the Sammies gave Fritz
one evening, tearing up a large section
of front line trench and probably break
ing up local attack. AS one correspond
ent wrote:
ut was very lively and spectacular
affair. The bombardment extended over a
considerable area, and for a time the whole
sky was lit up with the flash and flicker of
guns and the play Of rockets of all colors-
red, white green. and yellow-as our infan-
trv or that of the enemy sgnalled back,
Give us barrage,' Don't give US barrage,'
or gas shells coming"
Indeed, one French artillery officer.
who served at Verdun, praised the work
of certain American batteries as "almos.
perfect" This good work, incidentally.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
ln The American MAGAZINES

ME- monthly magazines for Febru-
h AIRY are unusually full of good war
articles, though a few, such as
"The American Magazine" lean some
what to the idea of the margarine bust
ness as usual seeming as yet not will
ing to admit that the biggest interest to
the reading public is the war.
Russia
y Ok views of the Russian middle.
Il which ever finds new and undaunted
interpreters, one may turn with profit to
the February issue of "Munsey's." in
whicn Frederick Austin Ogg, of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, asks and answers
may angles of the question, "Is Russia
in Dissolution?" In "Hearst's" Charles
Edward Russell defines a "Bolshevik."
having had excellent opportunity to gather
material while With the American mission
in Russia last summer. Something more
picturesque is "Miss Americana" from
the hand of Olive Gilbreth, starting in
serial form in "Harper's" William Hard
lightly dramatizes the Bolshevik attempt
10 Split the German in the "Metropoli-
tan, giving the narrative of an imagined
lnterAlhed Conference at London, "a
project leveled at two possibilities which,
1t Is submitted. can never be attained sep
arately: First, to drive a wedge of genu-
inely democratic truth into Germany; and.
second to lay the tentative foundations
OF genuinely democratic international
order "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

"The result of the investigations that I
made shows that during the thirty months
that the schools were open thirty-sevcn
shells fell upon the school buildings. and
two Of them went through the roof-luckily
while the children were absent-into the
rooms where the sessions were held every
day. More than thousand projectilcs of all
cailbres fell within space of less than 100
metres from the schools. in which space they
Killed seventy-siX grown persons and eight
children who never attended school. Not a
SINGLE teacher or pupil was wounded"
Away From the War
THOSE who fee war discussion or find
a time for other matters will find excel
lent diversion in Meredith Ncholson's "Chi-
cago" ("The Valley of Democracy"O, in
this months issue of "Scribner's" Champ
Clark's biography begins in "Hearst's,"
while "Harper's" is publishing the let
tiers of James Whitcomb Riley. In the
American" one finds Harold Bell Wright's
first magazine article, war throb, en-
titled 1.-The Sword Of Jesus The inter
csting personality section of this maya
zine is frightened by intimate views Of
Edison and the famous Mayo brothers of
Rochester, Mimi, who have made it a
pleasure to occupy the operating table.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
A Smile or Two

I'M 1HY, daughter, you never told
w me before that you loved this
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

in the "World Almanac for 1915 this
read: Warn Lusitana passenger(s)
through press not voyage across the At
lantic."
The same magazine contains an illumi-
mating article by J. B. W. Gardner, war
expert of "The New York Times" show
ing how Germany is already planning the
next war. Closely related to this is Frank
II. Simonds's account Of "Germany's Sec
ond Peace Offensive" which failed at
Brest-Litovsk, to be found in "Thc Review
of Reviews" Secretary Lansing's article
in "Munsey's' on "Our Present Foreign
Relations compliments the foregoing.
The Neutrals
4 est to view Of the starving neu-
trails, pictured by Edwin Bjorkman in
both Scribner's" and "The Worlds
Work" 1t is not a cheerful picture. AS
friend Of the author remarked last July
in Christiania, awe have nothing but
the cruX of the peculiar situation which
the war has created in the small northern
countries. To them the war has come
carrying fortune in one hand and famine
IN the other They have never been richer
in the one thing supposed to be capable
of procuring everything else. They have
never been so poor in all those things that,
under normal circumstances, make money
worth having"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Intimate Pictures Of the War
l Locked Country

Now that the men are in the trenches.
what do things look like? The last week
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
J WISCONSIN
CITIES DENIED
New POST
OFFICES

Washington, D. Give proposed
post office buildings in Wisconsin, au-
thorized by congress, come under Sc
cretary McAdoo's order providing that
no new post-ofice buildings shall be
placed under contract or constructed.
According to the treasury department
these were to be at Madison, Mineral
Point, Oconto, Rhinelander and Tomah
The McAdoo order does not prevent
the completion of post-offica buildings
for which contracts have been let. If
citizens of the towns adversely affect
ed can show, to the satisfaction of As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury
Moyle, that the public building is an
absolute and urgent necessity, its con
struction may be permitted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
TOGOON
CASH BASIS

In order to save bookkeeping and
other lines of waste, the business
men of Neillsville are agitating the
question of all going on to
cash basis. A meeting has been held
at which practically all lines of bust
ness agreed to do this. Another
meeting will be held Thursday night
to perfect the arrangements. There
are many advantages in this system,
and no one with credit emitting
him to be trusted at the stores need
suffer, as such can get short term
loans at the banks. This will not
compel the other business men to do
the loaning. 1t will put our local
traders more nearly on a par with
mail order houses which demand their
money in advance, much of it two
weeks or more in advance. When
the cash system once gets started,
it will work all right. Neillsville Repor-
ter-Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
ACOSTLY
KAISER

at is costing Germany an enormous
price to keep the kaiser on his throne"
says The Chicago Post. Owe know
something Of the price in human loss
es on the battlefeIds. These red trag-
edies men and women bear bravely. In
spite Of the machine ike horror of
modern conflict, there remains an aura
IF glory about the work Of the soldier
and the sacrifice of life is mitigated
by the sense Of the heroic. But when
war reaches searching and avid fingers
into business and homes, taking food
from children and invalids, stripping
bare all comforts and decencies and
reducing life to its most primitive con
ditions, it is difficult to make it ap-
pear glorious and to quicken the pa
5riotic response. = When the
German people realize that these hard
ships are not necessary for the pres
ervation Of the empire, but are the
price Of maintaining the HohenzoIlern
dynasty on its autocratic throne, we
wonder will it be possible even to bride
their patriotism into further 'volun-
tary surrenders.'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
SI(iEE:L.

Albert Budde shipped a car load Of
hay to Milwaukee last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jensan and family of
Rudolph spent Sunday here.
Mr.. Hansen is back from Sheridan
where he has been spending a week
Wilmer Larson has returned to
Camp Grant after spending few days
| at the home Of his parents here.
William Ericsson has returned to
Merrill where he will again be en-
| ployed.
Miss Lillian Larson left last week
COR Mosinee where she is employed at
the DR.. Jackson home.
Mrs. Pete Oleson and two sons ar
lived home on Monday from Black
River Falls visiting with relatives and
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Anderson entertain
ed a number of friends at a dinner
at their home on Sunday.
Charley Blomquist left on Monday
for Rockford, Illinois, where he will
be employed this winter.
Miss Esther Anderson left on Sat
'lrday morning for Tomahawk, after
a pleasant weeks visit with relatives
here.
Fred Crunstedt has returned to Mer-
rill where he will again be employed.
Kellner where he will spend the winter.
Kellner where he vii spend the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Hills have
returned to their home at Bellvedere,
ILL.,, after spending some time with re-
latives here.
A basket social was held at the E.
Kronholm home on Friday night. A
large crowd was in attendance.
Mike Adams is employed at Auburn
dale.
Miss Mary Anderson departed on
Friday noon for Chicago, Illinois,
where she is employed after spending
the holidays with relatives here.
Miss Agda Lindstrum is home from
Veedum to spend a couple of weeks.
Carl Kronholm is visiting with re-
latives and friends at Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
Mr.. Hansen was pleasantly surpris-
ed by large number of his friends
on Saturday night at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Anderson
Rhine Staven has returned to Camp
Grant after spending a few days with
home folks.
Mrs. Arthur Burgeson left on Mon
day for Duluth, Minnesota, where she
will visit with relatives for a length
Of time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10

| Charley Anderson and Oscar Nickel
son left last week for Bessener, Mich.
where they have secured employment.
Misses Elsa and Signie Anderson
have returned to Grand Rapids, where
they will again be employed.
John Castle who has been employ
ed in Minnesota is spending the week
with friends here.
Eric Pearson departed on Monday
for Arpin where he will visit with
relatives for few days while enroute
to his home in Rockford, ILL.,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Pearson entertain
ed at dinner party at their home on
New Years day.
Miss Gusta Hills has returned to
Bellvidere, Illinois where she is en-
ployed after spending a two weeks
vacation at the home of her parents
here.
Joe Marach has secured employment
at Grand Rapids.
Albert Johnson has returned to his
home at Grand Rapids, Michigan, after
a pleasant visit with friends here.
Victor Nicholson left on Thursday
for the northern part Of the state,
where he will again be employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Kronholm ar
rived here on Saturday noon from
Bagley, Minnesota, where they have
been spending few months and will
visit with relatives here for some lit
tie time.
Miss Edith Worlund left on Mon
day morning for Grand Rapids, where
she is attending high school.
A large number from Rudolph at
tended the basket social held here on
Friday night.
Misses Hulda Henricson and Caro-
line Larson left On Sunday for Grand
Rapids, where they are attending train
ing school.
George Forslund is home from
Grand Rapids where he has been
spending some time.
Albert Swetz has returned to Camp
Grant after pleasant visit with re
latives and friends here.
Robert Berg has returned to his
home in Grand Rapids, after spending
his two weeks vacation at the E. Berg
home.
Mrs. A. Carlson entertained num-
Der Of ladies for an afternoon coffee
at her home on Monday afternoon.
Frank Krause left on Wednesday
for Auburndale, where he will saw
lumber.
Miss Sophia Lindstrum has returned
to New London after having spent a
two weeks vacation at the Lindstrum
home.
Miss Amelia Schrodel has return |
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
PRICES Of
BRAN Reduced

1t has been announced by the Food
Administrator that the price of bran
to the wholesaler will be SO per cent
of the cost of wheat at the mill IF
the price of bushel of wheat to the
miller is 1920, the bran will be sold
at about $2785 ton to the dealer.
We understand that this new order
took effect January first, and con-
tracts made three or four months in
advance become invalid. The purpose
of the action by the Food Administra-
ton is to bring some relief immedi-
ately from the high prices of feeds
and to make it unnecessary to ma
terially advance the prices of market
milk. 1t is hoped also that the re-
duction of the prices of bran will
cause other feeds to be cheaper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
WEAKER BEER
BREWEDINLOCAL
BREWERY
Alcoholic Strength Reduced From 81
To "a Per Cent.

Drinkers of beer will soon discover
if they use the beverage in any guam
tity, that it hasn't the kick it ulster"
By proclamation of President Wilson
all beer brewed after June 1st is to con
tain but 21a per cent of alcohol. In
accordance with this proclamation the
Grand Rapids Brewing Co. is now max
ing beer containing only 21a per cent
alcohol instead of 3A per cent as has
been customary All beer will now be
what was called "small beer" in days
gone by and those who drink for the
"kick" will have to drink more to get
results.
By the presidents proclamation the
manufacturers of malt liquors are pro-
hibited from using more than 70 per
cent of the average amount of foods,
fruits, food materials and feeds used
by them during the year just ended.
No person shall use any food, fruits,
food materials or feed in the
production of malt liquor unless he Sc
cures license to do so and complies
with rules laid down by the govern
ment to control the production of such
liquor and its alcoholic contents, and
no person shall import any such liquor
unless under license to be issued by
the treasury department.
The food bill provided for the pro-
hibition of the use of foodstuffs in the
production of distilled spirits for bev-
erage purposes, and the use of food
stuffs for the production of distilled
drinks was stopped last September.
There is, however, in the country
from two to three years supply of
whiskey, brandy and gin and other
distilled liquors. The food bill pro-
vides that these liquors can be COM
Wandered by the government if re-
quired for purposes of manufacture
of alcohol for munitions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
NiCCABEES
INSTALL
OFFICERS

The Womans' Benefit Association Of
the Maccabees held a meeting Friday
evening at which time the following
officers were installed:
COMMANDMENTS Schwenk.
Lieut.. Com.-1Irs. E. Bassett.
Past Com.-Mrs. A. c. Otto
Chap.-Mrs. Chambers.
Record Keeper-Mrs. Palmatier.
Fin. Auditor-Mrs. Blackburn.
F Lady at Arms-Mrs. Colby.
Sargent-Mrs. Gets.
Sentinel-Mrs. Fahrner.
Picket-Mrs. Kruger.
Capt. of the Guard-Mrs. Bogie.
Following the installation a social
good time was enjoyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10

Of THE WAR

Was the subject Of Judson G. Rose
6usE's talk at the Congregational
Eurch Sunday evening. That large
church audience room was filled with
IN appreciative audience, who enjoy
ed Mr.. Rosebush's talk immensely. His
presentation of that subject was ably
handled and 10 one was disappointed
n his excellent view Of the world sit
uation as presented by the speaker
Mr.. Rosebush received many compi-
nents ON his able address.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-01-10
NONAr'S
CLUB MEETS

The Woman's Club held the first
meeting Of the new year at the home
Of Mrs. Henry Demitz, on Monday ev-
ening. Fifteen members were present
and the meeting a very enjoyable one.
The evenings work comprised papers
by Mesdames Drumb and Fisher on
Mary Heaton Worse and Eleanor Hal
lowell Abbott. The hostess served very
delicious refreshments at the close Of
ne program and a social hour was
spent after which the club adjourned.