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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-31
Two Days Only
NO CHARGE FOR EXAMINATION

DR.. Mellenthin ID a regular graduate
In medicine and surgery and IN licen-
sed by the state of North Dakota. He
visits professionally tho more import
ant towns and cities and offers 10
all who call on this trip consultation
and examination free, except the ex-
pense Of treatment when desired
According to his method Of treat
ment he does not operate Tor chronic
appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers of
stomach. tonsils or adenoids.
He has to his credit many wonder
full results In diseases Of the stomach,
liver, bowels, blood, skin, nerves,
heart, kidney. bladder, bed-wetting,
catarrh, weak lungs. rheumatism,
sciatica. leg ulcers and rectal all
ments
II you have been ailing for any
length Of time and do nor get any
better, do not fail to call, as improper
measures rather than disease are
very often the cause of your long
standing trouble.
Remember above date, that exami-
nation on this trip will be free and
that his treatment is different.
Address: 1886 Boston Block, Minnea-
polls. MINI.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-31
Just 70 Ourselves.

It Is hard to be really Just to our
selves. A great many Of US are more
lenient with our own faults than with
those Of other people, while not few
censure themselves far more harshly
for q false step than they would think
Of censuring another. What we should
strive for is to be neither too exacting
not too lenient where our shortcomings
are concerned. but to give ourselves
the benefit Of simple justice.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1918-10-31
Coming to
Bismarck
DR.. Meuenthin
SPECIALIST
FOR HIS SEVENTH YEAR IN
NORTH DAKOTA
DOES NOT USE SURGERY
VIII be at
MCKENZIE HOTEL, WEDNESDAY,
and THURSDAY NOV. 2O-2l
Office Hours: 9 A. NJ. to 4pM

Office Hours: 9 A. NJ. to- p M
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
MYSTERY SHIP" FROM
RUSSIA STILL GUARDED
Sailors, However, Have Freedom of
City on Pacific Coast-Govern-
ment Not to Hold Vessel.

A PACIFIC PORT. January 2.-whi1e
the Russian steamer Shilka, regarded
as a mystery ship" for some time aft
er her arrival here from vladivostok
under bolshevik control, is still close
ly guarded by police and federal off,
GERS. the sailors are now allowed the
freedom Of the city.
Government officials, 1t was said to-
day. have decided there is no reason for
OBTAINING the steamer and she is now
taking cargo of pig iron for the re-
turn voyage. When the Shilka arrived
here last month " was reported she had
brought 100000 in gold for the de-
tense OF the Industrial Workers of the
World now awaiting trial at Chicago
and for time it was thought she might
be informed.
Sailors Of the Shilka's crew have been
buying merchandise heavily for sale on
their own account when they again
reach Vladivostok. Their rubles have
been accepted by local merchants as
having value of 10 cents. One sailor
purchased twenty pals OF women's
shoes. retailing for $40. He said they
would sell in Russia for $50 a pair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
PLANS RUSHED TO PUT
END TO FREIGHT TIE-UP
Coal Given Preference Over Passen-
gers-Assistant Director General
Smith Is Busy With New Duties.

NEW YORK, January alfred H.
Smith. president Of the New York Cen
trail railroad. today assumed his du-
ties as assistant director general of
railroads for the eastern section of the
country. and his plans for relieving
congestion on all lines, especially near
New York. were put into effect Ship
ment of coal was given preference over
passenger traffic, in an effort to re-
lieve the coal famine here and in New
England. The Pennsylvania railroad
tubes under the Hudson river will soon
be used for freight as well as passenger
traff1c to rush coal to Long Island and
points served by the New Haven lines
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad uses
the pennsylvania station in Manhattan
Tor Its passenger traffic. the change
necessftating a revision of the sched-
ules OF both roads. In order to pro-
mote better movement of freight in
New. England Mr.. Smith has decided to
use the new He'll Gate bridge route.
A further material reduction In. the
passenger service on the eastern rail-
roads may be expected in a few DAVIS
according to the present plans.
The break in the cold wave yester-
day caused railroad officials and fuel
administrators to regard the loca, fuel
situation more hopefully. Although
40 Slllk SCdTCe To-Day, Reeve
Schley, the county fuel administrator.
said that the supply at tidewater was
larger and that distribution was i'm
proving.
.While there was still much discom-
tort In all parts of the city, the suf-
fering in the poorer sections was con
siderably abated. One result O., the
cold has been to overcrowd hotel din
ing rooms. Many families, whose cook
lng apparatus was put out of com
mission or whose apartments were TOO
chilly for comfort. have Temporarily
deserted their homes for the hotels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
too MUCH LUMBER
SENT HENRY PARK
Surplus Material for Tempo
rary Building Not Ordered
and Not Needed.

The cantonment division of the War
Department shipped from various mills
a lot OF unnecessary lumber for the
temporary buildings in Henry Park, at
9Th and B streets.
The Secretary of War, in referring
the matter to the controller of the
Treasury, does not Indicate that any
body blundered in ordering this lum-
Der. But he does admit that there was
an excess not ordered and not needed
for the buildings"
The contract under which these build
ings are being constructed provides that
the contractor shall be reimbursed for
actual net expenditures for material
used in the work.
The contractors have paid the charges
for freight and hauling of this excess
lumber.
Controller w. W. Warwick, in his rul-
ing, says:
Il am of opinion that 1t is permissible
to make such adjustments in the reim-
bursement accounts as will make the
amount paid for material correspond
to the value of the material actually
used in the work. basing such value
on the mill price plus average freight
and hauling charges"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
MEN PAST THE MIDDLE AGE
PROVE THEY ARE USEFUL
Chicago Report Shows Over 1900
Above Forty-Five Years Old
Profitably Employed.

CHICAGO. January Men past mid
die age have demonstrated that they
have not finished their usefulness. ac-
cording to the first annual report of
the employment bureau of the Employ
ers' Association of Chicago. made pub
lie today.
During 1917, the first year of it's ex-
istence, this bureau procured positions,
without charge for $40 men who were
past the age of forty-five. The aggre-
gate salaries paid to the men during
the year amounted to more than ST.
1000. The bureau Is visited daily by
more than 1000 men above middle age
who are in search of employment
Ninety per cent of the men sent out to
fill positions during the last month
have been employed at salaries rang
ing from $45 to $3.50 month. the re-
port says
1--WE have proved that gray hairs in
dictate the age of discretion" said Vic
tor Z. J. Cannon, manager of the bu-
reau. Our work has been so success
full that it is now taking on a national
scope. Employers throughout the
country have become interested in 1t
and are beginning to realize that 1t is
a civic economy to make old men SELF
supporting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
ARE CALLED UNJUsTIFIABLE.
Pope Benedict's View Of Raids on
padua and Trevise.

ROME. January Pope Benedict,
according to the osservatore Romano.
in addition to sending expression Of re-
gret and sympathy to the Bishops OF
Padua and Treviso, has drawn the at
tention Of the governments of the CEN
trail empires and of the Austrian en-
peror to the raids over those cities.
The Pope exhorted them to abstain In
the future from such acts. which, while
attaining no military end. make inno-
cent victims and damage churches and
art treasures and, consequently, are
unjustifiable by international law.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
German Declarstion 0. K'd,

ROTTERDAM. January Matthias
Erxberger OF the clerical party, Fried
rich Ebert Of the socialist party and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
Cows? No! A Tree? No!
What Are They Then?

Nothing here
what you think it is. All
camouflage. The most.
x
amazing pictures you
ever saw In the January
Ladies' Home Journal.
Spend IS cents on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02

been liberal why It went into the courts
to deprive certain citizens of their old
yearly Nat rates and compel them to-
accept instead a rate fxed upon a linn
tied number of calls. Many citizens
thought this step on the part of the
company was no less than violation
of its contracts and an act of dishonor.
CHARLES NJ. CAMPBELL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
CALLS PHONE RATE
BOOST EXCUSE Nil
"Too Much Business" Says
Charles Campbell, FIimsy
Pretext Of Company.
To the Editor Of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Permit me on behalf of the thousands
Of telephone subscribers in Washington
to set out certain pertinent facts in
connection with the proposed new rates
Of the Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company that believe will be of
general interest. They have been ascer-
tanned largely from official sources.
| Tho Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company was incorporated July
2. 1888, succeeding the National Capital
Telephone Company, which, was con-
solidated by the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company with the
company controlling the state of Mary
land The capital stock Of the new
company was placed at $3.50. 600,
afterward increased to $13,000.0o0. OF
this amount the public utilities COM
mission in its findings May g. 1917. de-
cided that the proportion of said cap
ital based upon a fair value of the
property of the telephone company
within the District Of Columbia on De-
cember 81. 1916. is $6.7S3.932.48 (page
I'D.
The taxes charged OF in the COM
pany's balance sheet for 1916. for both
outside and inside the District Of Co
lumbia, are $101.379.66. The proper
tionate amount due the District under
the rate applicable to the property of
citizens at $3.50 per 500 on the above
valuation Of the company's property
within the District-to wit, $1o1. 1885
would about equal the payment by. the
company upon tie whole of its prop
erty. The company's payment of taxes.
outside of its real estate, is based upon
a per cent charge upon the company's
gross receiptS-an apparently unjust
method. It amounted this year to only
$77.96O.
That this rate Of taxation is not
thought to be burdensome by the COM
pany in return for the valuable fran
chises given 1t by the District is shown
by the fact that it pays annually to tie
New York Telephone Company AZ per
cent on the gross receipts in addition
to the dividend on It's stock. for assum--
ing '.the burden of financing and de-
veloping the local company" The
commission says this will be a matter
Of consideration Gin fixing. the rates
hereafter"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02

In Japan. cord serves every purpose
OF fastening. SO the people have no
use for buttons. or for buckles. or
hooks and eyes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-01-02
Under New York Control.

The local company is controlled by
the New York Telephone Company
through its Intermediary, the Bell Te1e-
phone Company of Pennsylvania. The
extent Of control is: 1.-THE Bell Telephone
Company Of Pennsylvania SIS. New
York Telephone Company 3s.5." (Fourth
annual report Public Utilities Commits
sion. page 204.) At stockholders meet
ings each share Of stock has one vote.
The Pennsylvania company casts 1884
and tho New York company $4,000
votes. The remaining thirty-five shares
are assigned to directors, FIVE shares
each. to permit them to qualify. page
2o5.)
A copy of the construction account
furnished by the local company to Con-
gress In the Investigation held March
8 to June 10. 1888. included the following
item: Cost of franchise. license, right
Of way, good will, etc. $30S.462S5." The
commissions comment on this, at page
10, is: There is no evidence that the
telephone company or its predecessor
ever paid the government anything for
franchises or right of way"
It was brought out at the hearing
that for Ave years the old local stock
holders were paid no dividends. This
total Of 80 per cent was put back into
the assets. After this long, barren pc
Rod the local stockholders were offered
stock In the Bell Telephone Company
Of. Pannsylvania at about 800 of this
for $66.6S for that-a further shrink
ago Of a3 1-3 per cent
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

Western front. The Allies asert that
Germany long since violated the provision,
of the armistice by removing all choice
troops to the West. Moreover, while the
Boshevist peace apparently wipes out a
battle line $50 miles in length, even Ger
many admits as yet the difficulty of OBJ
tanning immediate material assistance
from Russia, owing to the dsorganizeG
state of transportation.
Why Germany Is Banled
\ GAIN, the return of thousands of
1 prisoners from Russia is not alto
gether joyfully awaited in the Cen
trail Powers, owing to the contagion of
! Bolshevism. Meantime internal disorders
continue in Russia in manner to indicate
that Bolshevlst power is not on the wane
Red guard terrorism is reported in Fin
land No wonder the Berlin "Tageblatt"
remarks in a baffled manner: eve have
peace with Russia because there is no Rus
sian army, but it is a peace devoid of ANY
solid basis and without agreement"
For Those Who Speculate
ITO any one seeking to trace more SUBJ
4 tie relations between the Russian
peace" and other developments the fol-
lowing is submitted:
At this writing. the latest dispatches
from Germany report that the Bolshevist
order for rehabilitation was recalled three
hours after it was sent out, and that the
German press, much disturbed, character
lied the move as a "sham manpuvre."
| Or, if one has a taste for anti-Bol-
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

Rada at Brest-Litovsk represented ga
non-existent authority"; and the asser-
tion of Russian diplomats at Wash
lngton that the so-called peace treaty
is fictitious and purely military in it's
character, arranged with the double OBJ
Ject of affording benefits to Germany and
removing the possibility Of revolution in
Austria-Hungary, for which purposes the
latter power was represented in the
Ukrainian Rada.
Austria Free From Menacino
NeighbOrs
HOWEVER commentators may differ.
Il u the facts of the week demonstrate
that Germany has taste of peace, that
Austria, recently on the brink of revolu-
tlon, presumably because Of demand for
peace, is now celebrating with flags the
removal of the great Slav menace. This
fact and the Italian Situation leave the
field clear for those who argue that Aus
tria-Hungary now has less reason than
ever to make a separate peace, for the
reason that all ma jor threats against her
sovereignty are removed
Lonely Run7ania
THE fate of Rumania alone needs fur
ther definition. Berlin is reported to
nave sent an ultlmatum to Rumania de-
manding that peace negotiations COM
mence On the other hand, Rumania re-
lterates her intention to fight to the last
with the Allies, though London reports
indicate that England would not blame
Rumania now for making a separate
peace.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

proXlmation of the moderate conditions
laid down by the Allies governments"
Then on the day that the Bolsheviki
declared peace, President Wilson made
his "four principles speech, while
Premier Lloyd George and ex-Premier
Asquith the following day also replied
to Won Hertling and Czernin.
MIR. Wilson and Mr.. Asquith agreed
that there was difference between the
speeches of Won Hertling and Czernin
Mr.. Lloyd George disagreed.
Lloyd George Under Fire
In THE same meeting at which he made
a his statement Lloyd George refused to
disclose the decisions of the recent Paris
council on the ground that to do so would
reveal military secrets to the enemy. In
this connection he was heckled regarding
the command of the British army, mat
ter which does not concern America.
But he was also questioned about the
right of the Supreme War Council to send
the reply it did to Hertling and Czernin.
In the end, however, he won out
Nevertheless, President Wilson's latest
speech helped endanger the sest of the
Premier of England because of these de-
velopments in the last two months:
l. The consistent adherence of Lloyd
George to the Knockout" policy.
2. The growth of a large Wilson follow
ing in England, including labor and Mr.
Asquith.
j. The surprising fact that the Supreme
War Council, which last fall at Paris re-
fused to discuss anything but military
measures, took upon itself without appar-
ent announcement executive political au-
thority enough to render an adverse replv
to Hertling and Czernin.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
With the Opfin7ists

v Ell the myth of an early end to the
u-boat persists. Jellicoe predicts
the end of the menace by August A new
"unsinkable" liner is announced, and "new
devices to smash tho submarine are re-
ported in London. 1t is also estimated
that there are now only thirty U U-boats ia
the war zone. Then, too, exports in 1917
totalled S746,0o0oo0, the largest ever.
The pesslmists are not lacking, among
them cambridge Colby, of the Shipping
Board, and English naval critics, who
scan Americas 1918 plans and warn Eng
land not to expect too much
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
In Terser Vein
A Better Programme

ME labor question, more fully dis
cussed elsewhere in The Review. pre-
sents this week many interesting angles.
VI these the drive to enroll 1000 skilled
mechanics to build ships presses most for
immediate attention, but the finding of
President Wilson's Mediation Commission
IS no less important. In this connection
one, may also note labor loyalty week."
difficulties with shipbuilders, and the
presence Of an English labor mission CO.
operating with American labor leaders.
BOI0
bolo Pacha, charged with treason. is
found guilty after iifteen-minute delib-
GRAFTON of the court and sentenced IA
death by d Paris court martial. So ends
case which, rumor said, would make or
break Premier Clemenceau. Its bearing
on Joseph Caillaux, also under arrest is
also significant
P0IificS-LOyaIfy-Suffrage
1t is not often that prediction caucus
OF politicians will deal in politics, LOYALTY
and suffrage with equally pleasing results.
The national committee of the Repub
llcan party, meeting in ST. Louis. drops
the candidacy of John T. Adams for
chairman when letter of his expressing
pro-German syrpathies is read to leading
members of the committee. Will H. Hays.
OF Indiana, is chosen chairman
This convention. as well as that of
Democratic National Ccmmueemen in
Washington, indorses suffrage To cap
this news, a poll Of the Senate shows the
need Of only three votes for suffrage
victory.
Colonel ROoseveItS Condition
After severe illness following two
operations Colonel Roosevelt climbs the
convalescent grade at satisfactory rate.
Traffic Relief
Warm weather and sunshine break the
fuel embargo, first in the South and final
ly in the Northeast, and permit Director
McAdoo to give priority to grain ship.
ments in the West pending the good be-
havior of the weather
Speaking of "EmbaIn1ed Beef
President Wilson orders an investiga-
tlon of the much discussed Hog Island
shipyard contracts, to determine if there
has been any criminal misuse of money
in project which, estimated 10 cost s21,-
600, 900, cost twice that amount.
Uneasy Rests the
Abdul Hamid, ex-Sultan of Turkey,
dies. and Feng Kwo-chang, President of
China, bitterly reproaching himself for
the country's political trouble. says he is
ready to quit.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17
The WorId's AmaSjms Beauty

His worlds amazing beauty would make
It's cry
Aloud; but something in it keeps lis dumb.
Beech forests drenched in sunny fields
where shaking rays and shadows hum
The unrepeated aspects of the sky,
Siouds III their lightest and their widest moods,
Bare shapes of hills, June grass in flower,
The sea in every hour,
Slopes that one January morning flow
Unbrokenly with snow
Peaks piercing heaven with motions sharp and
harsh,
Slow-movng flats, gray reed and silver marsh
flock of swans i'm flight
Or solitary heron Tapping home,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

fare III tne open. Possessings unity OF
plan, the President and Mr.. Baker CON.
tlnue to hold the advantage. The es-
sence Of the arrangement is altering
frontal and flank attacks on the Admin
istration's critics.
Mr.. Baker Holds the Line
nURING the first of the week Mr..
- Baker holds the line, reorganizing
the general staff into four main divisions.
Mr.. Bakers ''shock troops" are Senator's
Thomas Q. Glass and James.
The Flank Attack
M EANTIME President Wilson goes
around the end" by calling in
congressional leaders to show that he
should be given the power asked in the
new Dill, which would give him blanket
authority over the war bureaus. Mr..
Wilson is so successful that it is pre-
dlcted that the war cabinet bill will never
reach the Senate.
Mr. Baker then bears the brunt of at
tack once more on the ground that his
reorganization of the General Staff
keeps Surveyor General Stettinius in
an advisory capacity only. Moreover.
IN making a confidential report to the
Senate Military Committee EIr. Baker ;s
again questioned regarding his hopes
OF landing 100000 men in France this
year.
Since the advantage lies with unified
command, rs the Allies we'll know, it is
interesting to note this week the first
conference of Republican Senator's since
the United States entered the war. \
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

Orchards of pear and cherry turning white,
Low apple trees witt, rosy budden boughs,
Streams where young willows drink and COWS,
Eartll's rich ploughed Ioam
Thinking darkIy forward to her sheaves,
Water in autumn spotted with yellow leaves,
Light running overland,
Guis standing still above their images
On strips OF shining sand
While evening in haze of green
Half hides
The calm recedng tides
What in THE beauty we have in these
Keeps uss still silent? Something we have moi
seen!
f in he
New-York tribune., 1918-02-17

IIc ukraine kaQa
presents a number
of contradictory as
poets, clear, perhaps,
to Bolshevist minds
alone.
There is the ces-
sion to the Ukraine
Of a portion of Po-
land; the Bolshevist
statement that the
peace making del
egation from the